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Speaker 1: Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, night chart happy Football Festivus fellas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: football Festivus is not Week sixteen Christmas week. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's week one. Right. You know was celebrating, right? Did
Speaker 1: you say? Righting me ow? Yes? Good. I don't understand
Speaker 1: the reference set an old sign field reference. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Super troopers haven't seen it. Okay. Over the course to today,
Speaker 1: we're going to break down every game fantasy style. We're
Speaker 1: in regular season mode. Finally, that means we're not gonna
Speaker 1: bother telling you which teams going to win. We're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you which players are gonna help your fantasy team win.
Speaker 1: You'll hear letter grades for every meaningful fantasy player and
Speaker 1: irrationale for why we feel that way. We will also
Speaker 1: answer three tough questions. We'll give you nine players upon
Speaker 1: whom you can take a chance, and we'll jump into
Speaker 1: a time machine to identify the players everybody's going to
Speaker 1: be looking for on the waiver wire next week, but
Speaker 1: you've already picked him up this week. Blam. Oh, we
Speaker 1: should name it like the time machine, the time machine,
Speaker 1: uh segment or something. We should come to some time
Speaker 1: machine thing for this speculation. It's called premature speculator. We
Speaker 1: can't be better than that name. I forget it, No,
Speaker 1: I was, I was unclear at what you were thinking here. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: let's become We get with just some quick reaction to
Speaker 1: the Thursday night game, and we'll touch on it on
Speaker 1: and off a little bit throughout the show. But mostly
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the disappointment that I have
Speaker 1: in the usage of David mc humery. I thought was looked,
Speaker 1: I thought looked really good on all seven of his touches.
Speaker 1: Super frustrating. Do you guys believe that this is going
Speaker 1: to be indicative of the way Montgomery is going to
Speaker 1: be used long term? Well, the offense didn't do a
Speaker 1: very good job for Chicago. That's just so uh. They
Speaker 1: might have to make some changes here, although it was
Speaker 1: interesting hearing Al Michael's and Chris collins Worth talking about
Speaker 1: Mike Davis and how he's the best route runner of
Speaker 1: all the running backs on the team and they got
Speaker 1: Tariko in there, So what's like, Mike Davis obviously has
Speaker 1: a role in this offense and that makes me a
Speaker 1: little nervous. Took like forty snaps in the slot. Yeah
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, that was a lot of Cohen's usage,
Speaker 1: didn't you know he wasn't on the field in place
Speaker 1: of Montgomery so much it was all Mike Davis. And
Speaker 1: even if say Montgomery was on the field the whole
Speaker 1: game with Mitch truebiscus your quarterback who cares sad and
Speaker 1: they're not moving the ball and regardless of the running back. Yeah, no, kidding,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a lost opportunity. For sure. We will
Speaker 1: touch on some other aspect to that game as they
Speaker 1: may come up with the charts. I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: similar to if there's a Thursday game where a guy
Speaker 1: goes off and you're chasing points. This is the rare
Speaker 1: opposite where if you had Davante Adams or if you
Speaker 1: had Aaron Rodgers, or you had some of those guys
Speaker 1: that you expected big numbers out of. These guys just
Speaker 1: didn't deliver. So now you might have to adjust some
Speaker 1: of your fantasy UH lineups to try to score more points.
Speaker 1: You might need a few more home run hitters if
Speaker 1: you got some zeros, and that's a great point. You
Speaker 1: might need to go high risk, high reward if if
Speaker 1: you want to try to make up for that for
Speaker 1: any Bears losses that you had. And for that matter,
Speaker 1: the Packers didn't do much either, so you know, Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones huge disappointment as well. All right, let's jump into
Speaker 1: the matchups, beginning with the Rams taking on the Carolina Panthers. Matt,
Speaker 1: this is uh, this is a game with about ten
Speaker 1: starters in it, most all of the obvious Rams. Why
Speaker 1: don't we Why don't we begin there? And the Rams?
Speaker 1: I do want to start with the Rams because I'm
Speaker 1: downgrading the entire Rams offense a full letter grade for
Speaker 1: two reasons. Not one starter played a snap in the preseason.
Speaker 1: There's going to be rusted there. Yeah, there was last year.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that first half of Week one of
Speaker 1: last year? They played the Raiders and and just kind
Speaker 1: of scuffled around uh second. The Rams lost guard Roger
Speaker 1: Saffold and center John Sullivan this offseason noted a lineman
Speaker 1: Joseph note Boom and Brian Allen are now anchoring the
Speaker 1: center of that line. They have a combined on career
Speaker 1: offensive snaps and those two lineman face a pretty tough
Speaker 1: task this week against Carolina line including Gerald McCoy and
Speaker 1: Brian Burns as good additions to that front. Seven. So
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, I'm giving a C grade and I know
Speaker 1: you have him ranked really high. So here's the reason
Speaker 1: people are starting to compare Jared Goff to Drew Brees
Speaker 1: as Goff has the big contract, he's tied to Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh for years, and Goff might be the new Drew
Speaker 1: Brees because Goff's passer rating goes from one sixteen at
Speaker 1: home to eighty two point seven on the road, and
Speaker 1: last year in five outdoor road games, he averaged two
Speaker 1: d twenty seven passing yards, one touchdown and one point
Speaker 1: four interceptions. He was bad on the road. They leaned
Speaker 1: on Todd Gurley all the time and he didn't play
Speaker 1: like huge, awesome, awesome defenses either. It was the Raiders
Speaker 1: the Seahawks and the forty Niners involved in those three
Speaker 1: and three of those five. So there we go. Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade. Cooper Cups getting like
Speaker 1: C plus. I know we don't do pluses, but we
Speaker 1: don't do Roberts. I'm only giving up grade too as well.
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera's Tanther's defense ran zone coverage at the seventh
Speaker 1: highest rate last year, and according to Evans Silva, Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks has the fourth highest yards per target against zone coverage.
Speaker 1: The Panthers allowed the fifth most passing touchdowns last season,
Speaker 1: and it was perimeter speed receivers that burned them the most.
Speaker 1: It was Beckham, al Shan, Golladay, Ridley Godwin. They all
Speaker 1: torched that secondary for big fantasy plays. And actually like
Speaker 1: Cup the most out of these guys on Fanball this
Speaker 1: week because he's only because the Anthers haven't settled in
Speaker 1: on a slot corner yet and it's gonna be some
Speaker 1: combo of Ross, Cockrell and j V and Elliott. Woods.
Speaker 1: Only has a question, Cup, though, is to me all
Speaker 1: about snap? Is you gonna run ten plates? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna run twenty? I bet he goes full full boar.
Speaker 1: I bet he's in um. Woods had only three scores
Speaker 1: in the first ten weeks last season. Then Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: got injured and they moved him to the slot. He
Speaker 1: scored four times in the last six games without Cup,
Speaker 1: saw his targets, receptions, and yards per game all tick
Speaker 1: up significantly. I'm worried the Cooper Cup back in that
Speaker 1: offense moves Robert Woods to the outside and he's not
Speaker 1: as good Todd Gurley. I'm giving a B grade to
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown and Darryll Henderson are on the bench. Presumably
Speaker 1: this is the best shape of the season you're going
Speaker 1: to get out if you got him. Sure, Let's consider
Speaker 1: the twelve games where Gurley was healthy last season. His
Speaker 1: six Roads starts, he averaged twenty four touches, a D
Speaker 1: and thirty five yards and two total scores per game,
Speaker 1: only a few fewer touches and yards per game, but
Speaker 1: only scored one per game at home. So they lean
Speaker 1: on him on the road. Uh, let's go to the
Speaker 1: Panthers side. Christian McCaffrey easy a due it averages almost
Speaker 1: seven receptions per game and nothing. Nothing about Jordan's scarlet
Speaker 1: scares me. Behind him, Cam Newton, I'm giving a C grade.
Speaker 1: It's not the injury that concerns me. It's a rebuilt
Speaker 1: offensive line and Aaron Donald. Uh. It seems like a
Speaker 1: game where North Turner will probably try to scheme to
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands quickly, which should
Speaker 1: mean a lot of running and short passes. Running with
Speaker 1: McCaffrey not running for cam ye hopefully not. Newton was
Speaker 1: already the thirty second ranked quarterback and average depth of
Speaker 1: target last year at seven point six and immediate games
Speaker 1: after injuries over the past three years, Newton has attempted
Speaker 1: over forty passes, both times short passes all day long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this counts is coming off injury, and if
Speaker 1: it was a preseason injury, that probably counts. I think
Speaker 1: that benefits DJ more more because DJ Moore's average depth
Speaker 1: of target was nine point six yard. Curtis Samuel was
Speaker 1: twelve point two. So More gets the B grade, Sam
Speaker 1: gets the sea. Uh. If you had the Bears or
Speaker 1: Packers land eggs, Samuel's probably your home run deep threat
Speaker 1: for the touchdown because the Rams gave up an NFC
Speaker 1: high fourteen receptions or forty yards or more last season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although it keep to leaving back really changes that second
Speaker 1: area Ton that does help. He's gonna match up against
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel too, and then finally Greg Olsen. He gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. He's healthier than the second year tight
Speaker 1: end Ian Thomas, and he fits into the short passing
Speaker 1: pretty well. Another guy playing all he's healthy, play him
Speaker 1: all he's out. You don't have many chances to do
Speaker 1: that a game that will not feature nearly as many starters.
Speaker 1: Washington takes on Philadelphia, Brian and on the Washington side
Speaker 1: outside of Darius, guys, is there anybody to start? Not? Really? Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about guys. Speaking of playing him all he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he bawled in that category, So rollout, guys. Uh, he
Speaker 1: said to see the line share of carries, but he's
Speaker 1: running behind a very battered O line. The Eagles did
Speaker 1: allow more than four and a half yards per carrying eighteen,
Speaker 1: but game script is not going to favor guys in
Speaker 1: this one, and Chris Thompson is set to soak up
Speaker 1: all the pass catching work and Adrian Peterson still warm
Speaker 1: enough body, so just to see for guys in his
Speaker 1: uh official debut, really um, But then the litany of
Speaker 1: bench players case Keenum on the bench. H Thirty six
Speaker 1: year old Donald penn Is playing left tackle. Hasn't played
Speaker 1: the position in since. Next to him is Eric Flowers.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Eric Flowers, former Giants fan? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least let's not re visit that. So that's like
Speaker 1: the most revolving doors left side of the of an
Speaker 1: offensive line in the NFL. For the wide receivers, Paul
Speaker 1: Richardson and Terry McLaurin are on the bench. So is
Speaker 1: Trey Quinn. I was close to giving Fishers boys see
Speaker 1: here because case Keenum has shown an affinity for his
Speaker 1: slot receivers Adam Feeling, Manny Sanders. He even made Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin fantasy relevant in tween with the Rams with over
Speaker 1: a hundred targets. But he's on the bench. Uh, and
Speaker 1: so is Jordan Reid suffered another concussion in the preseason.
Speaker 1: But he might play, but I don't. I don't want
Speaker 1: him to play. At some point. I think everybody wants
Speaker 1: him to go. Andrew lock on the bed, all right,
Speaker 1: how about the eagle side. Let's talk about guys who matter,
Speaker 1: all right. Carson Wentz gets an as multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his last three starts against Washington, um Philly might take
Speaker 1: their foot off the gas in the second half. That's
Speaker 1: the only concern with wins. He gets the A, so
Speaker 1: does Art's Zack ERTs. That is has eighty receiving yards
Speaker 1: and four of his last five against Washington, and there's
Speaker 1: basically no chance in hell anyone would bench za Urates.
Speaker 1: So I don't know why I'm even talking about it anymore.
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey gets a be popped up on the injury
Speaker 1: report with a biceps issue, but should be fine. He
Speaker 1: won't be shadowed by Josh Norman. Not like that really,
Speaker 1: ma yep and Wentz will throw multiple touchdowns in this game,
Speaker 1: and Jeffrey a likely recipient. He did go for five
Speaker 1: catches fifty nine yards in a touchdown when these teams
Speaker 1: met lately. In their last meeting late last season, DeShawn Jackson,
Speaker 1: I'm putting him on the bench, has a broken finger.
Speaker 1: Wasn't gonna play, but I was gonna try and play.
Speaker 1: He's always a high risk, high reward, low volume homecoming
Speaker 1: and revenge game. That Jackson. Wow, thanks Matt, you took
Speaker 1: my next bullet. You're so funny over there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if he sits, sorry, I don't care. And j j
Speaker 1: arthega white Side. I'll tell you what, Yeah, white Side,
Speaker 1: he's he would be a if Deshan Jackson doesn't go
Speaker 1: in particular, but even if he does, J j Arthega
Speaker 1: white Side would be a tantalizing dart throw. See I
Speaker 1: never I never typed that out or right out. It's
Speaker 1: always Jaws or j j W had a little brain
Speaker 1: fart there, But yeah, Jaws would be in line for
Speaker 1: a significant run if d jack sits and Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, I'm just giving both the sea. Philly did
Speaker 1: carry the ball twenty nine times and thirty times in
Speaker 1: both meetings against Washington, but this is gonna be like
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty split. This might be a revisitation of
Speaker 1: what we saw in the Bears backfield basically on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: So just sees for those guys and that's it. Watch
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard get twenty touches in this game. Just make
Speaker 1: everybody upside. He's going to see more worse he'll be
Speaker 1: see He'll see more carries and Sanders in this game.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised a little bit like Montgomery, you know,
Speaker 1: just coaches just are so risk averse. They just they
Speaker 1: want to go with their veterans who they know and trust.
Speaker 1: And even if they made that draft pick and they're
Speaker 1: invested in the success of that rookie man, it takes
Speaker 1: a lot to get those guys onto the playing field
Speaker 1: in many situations really quick though. If read Sits don't
Speaker 1: play Vernon Davis either, it's an awful matchup. Philly is
Speaker 1: like top five and yeah, just don't do it. Falcons
Speaker 1: take on the Vikings. This one is a little bit
Speaker 1: tricky because the status of Stepan Diggs true game time
Speaker 1: decision coming for Stefon Diggs, and if he doesn't go,
Speaker 1: it hurts everybody. Everybody basically drops a whole letter grade
Speaker 1: because the Vikings receivers after him. It really tails off.
Speaker 1: And in games that Stefon Diggs has missed, Adam Feeling
Speaker 1: gets twenty fewer yards, he drops down a letter grade.
Speaker 1: If they can't pass to Theeeling as well, where else
Speaker 1: they gonna go? Ola BC Johnson, No, Josh Dockson, Come on,
Speaker 1: Josh Docs, right, I mean, everybody gets hurt. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to pretend for our purposes that Diggs is playing.
Speaker 1: But if he's not, know that everybody else goes down
Speaker 1: a letter grade here, I've got a I've got a
Speaker 1: A grade on feeling for now he's gonna see a
Speaker 1: fair amount, I believe, at least it appears this way
Speaker 1: of Isaiah Oliver cornerback with a lot of passer rating
Speaker 1: one one and his coverage last year. Oliver is one
Speaker 1: of the bigger and slower corners in the league, and Feeling,
Speaker 1: of course super slippery. Now they may move some Feeling
Speaker 1: into the slot some and if they do that, he
Speaker 1: gets demonte Kazi, who is unusually lead footed for a
Speaker 1: slot cornerback. So I think Theeeling can succeed either place.
Speaker 1: I hope he's good, just so we can say demonte
Speaker 1: Kazi exactly. And if if it turns out the dig
Speaker 1: doesn't Diggs doesn't go, then just they're gonna throw two
Speaker 1: bodies on Feeling. So again frustration there for me personally,
Speaker 1: not only is a Viking fan life long, but also
Speaker 1: because I'd like to get this thing straight. We don't
Speaker 1: know about Diggs. If they both go, both Diggs and
Speaker 1: Feeling are roughly in a grade um. And if it
Speaker 1: is Diggs dugment trufun only plays one side of the field.
Speaker 1: They can just flip Diggs on the other side of
Speaker 1: the field and just hangle Obis Johnson out to dry
Speaker 1: on Desmond Trufon. If they want to do that, let's
Speaker 1: go to Cousins then. So Falcon safety is healthy this
Speaker 1: year after missing last year um and so that I
Speaker 1: don't think it makes any sense to regurgitate last year's
Speaker 1: terrible numbers for the secondary of for Atlantic, because they're
Speaker 1: all better now. Vikings offensive line was rebuilt in the
Speaker 1: off season and looked far better in pass blocking than
Speaker 1: run blocking. I've got a B grade on Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: in this in this one C grade on Kyle Rudolph,
Speaker 1: who scored when these teams met in twenties seventeen. But
Speaker 1: I don't see an obvious reason to expect a big
Speaker 1: game here. Last year, despite all the injuries, the Falcons
Speaker 1: were still a very good tight end defense and which
Speaker 1: should be at least that good this year. And then
Speaker 1: there's Dalvin Cook. The new look Vikings offensive line really
Speaker 1: struggled with run blocking in the preseason, but maybe it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Atlanta is all of the most running back
Speaker 1: receptions last year. They all the most running back receptions
Speaker 1: the year before that, the most the year before that,
Speaker 1: and the most the year before that. Think about it, geez,
Speaker 1: Dan crowning pay. It's a team that's just letting that happen.
Speaker 1: The almost scheming to let running backs catch passes. They
Speaker 1: do have to face Alvin Kamara and Christian McCaffrey, but
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's four tough games. Dalvin Cook is
Speaker 1: a competent pass catcher. I think he's at the level
Speaker 1: of those guys, but he's good enough and he should
Speaker 1: have should get quite a few receptions in this one,
Speaker 1: um and all if you give you know, if you
Speaker 1: give Dalvin Cook in just a crack, you could get
Speaker 1: the eighty four yard touched on. Like we saw in
Speaker 1: the preseason, he is an A grade with digs in
Speaker 1: a B grade without. Let's go to the Falconside, which
Speaker 1: has got a little more clarity on less. Julio Jones
Speaker 1: doesn't play, Yeah, but he's gotta come on. He's playing.
Speaker 1: By all accounts that you know their negotiations have gone better.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go. So let's start with Julio Jones, who
Speaker 1: has been frustrated by Mike Zimmer and the three matchups
Speaker 1: against Mike Zimmer's Vikings Leo Jones average line four catches,
Speaker 1: fifty four yards, zero touchdowns. That's it. That's Xavier Roads
Speaker 1: right there. That's some Xavier Roads right there. Now, I
Speaker 1: think there's some question about which version of Xavier Roads
Speaker 1: were gonna get. Is it the Pro Bowl guy that
Speaker 1: was around two and three years ago, or is it
Speaker 1: guy who disappointed and was inconsistent last year and then
Speaker 1: look terrible in this one preseason game earlier this year.
Speaker 1: So you know, I still think there's some room for
Speaker 1: doubt about Xavier Rhodes on this and so I've got
Speaker 1: to be grade on Julio Jones. Opposite him is Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: Fascinating matchup there as much as Rhads and Julio Jones
Speaker 1: are physical versus physical cornerback receiver matchups. Calvin Ridley is
Speaker 1: all speed. He's a four three eight speed guy. Trey
Speaker 1: Waynes for three one speeds fast, seven hundreds of a
Speaker 1: second faster for Trey Waynes. It's speed on speed. So
Speaker 1: I think those guys get neutralized pretty well by the
Speaker 1: Vikings starters. I've got a C grade on Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: Trey Waynes didn't start backwards though. When he was getting
Speaker 1: clocked running those well that none of the cornerbacks do
Speaker 1: usually run. They should probably make corners start backwards. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see that Austin Hooper is doesn't score a
Speaker 1: lot anyway. Vikings given three tight end touchdowns in their
Speaker 1: last twenty seven games. That's it, just to see grade
Speaker 1: on Austin Hooper and lastly DeVonta Freeman. In the last
Speaker 1: two seasons, the only one hundred yard rushing games against
Speaker 1: Minnesota came on a single untouched like ninety yard Kalin
Speaker 1: ballage run against Miami and then Jordan Howard on the
Speaker 1: final game of last year when the Vikings had pretty
Speaker 1: much packed it in. The Vikings run stuff for Lynval
Speaker 1: Joseph missed the entire preseason, but rest assured he is
Speaker 1: going to go in this one. Freeman could catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Vikings are the middle of the pack um defense in
Speaker 1: terms of past catchers. Uh so maybe Freeman gets a
Speaker 1: little something done that way through the air. So b
Speaker 1: grade Devanta Freeman. There you go, guys. Um I should
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Speaker 1: Chance on Me. That's what it is. Matt's face was.
Speaker 1: I'm sure mine was quite similar. Yeah. When these three
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Speaker 1: Let's take a chance on Are we not getting played
Speaker 1: to play this on the radio? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Let's start at the quarterback position. Brian Johnson, who is
Speaker 1: you take a chance? I mean quarterback? All right? He
Speaker 1: was my final sleeper of the preseason because of his
Speaker 1: favorable start. And it starts this week in Arizona. And
Speaker 1: that's Matt Stafford of the Detroit Lions. Of course, Arizona
Speaker 1: will be without both starting cornerbacks Patrick Peterson and Robert Alford,
Speaker 1: Bill roll Out, Tremaine Brock who was on his fifth team,
Speaker 1: uh journeyman and second round rookie Byron Murphy. Marvin Jones
Speaker 1: has four inches and fifteen pounds at least on both
Speaker 1: of these scrubs, Baby Tron. Kenny Golladay has like six
Speaker 1: inches and thirty pounds on these guys, they're just gonna
Speaker 1: dominate the red zone. And uh yeah, Matt Stafford, man,
Speaker 1: I'm listening, all right, Matt, who should take a chance
Speaker 1: on me? Quarterback? Let's go with Andy Dalton and this
Speaker 1: is a garbage time special. Seattle is fourteen and o
Speaker 1: in September home games under Pete Carroll. Yeah, in similar
Speaker 1: garbage time fashion. Last year in a in a road
Speaker 1: game in Seattle, Nick Mullins torched the Seahawks defense for four,
Speaker 1: fourteen and two. And Dalton has actually been really really
Speaker 1: good in September road games as well. In his last
Speaker 1: seven September road games, Andy Dalton is averaging passing yards
Speaker 1: and over two touchdowns per game. What you found the effect?
Speaker 1: What the thin little strip of effective Andy Dalton September
Speaker 1: road games by the way, Bengals too, and oh against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks in this decade, and I recall that time.
Speaker 1: I've heard that stat this week, but one of those games,
Speaker 1: and I remember, because it's sung stung close to home
Speaker 1: on a multiple fantasy teams that a dr touchdown to
Speaker 1: Aja Green was taken back and it should not have been.
Speaker 1: And I'm still mad about that. If we add in
Speaker 1: that new coach, Zach Taylor was a coach of the
Speaker 1: Rams last year and he's very familiar with this defense,
Speaker 1: that's all you really need to know, all right, Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly listening to that. It's a two quarterback play.
Speaker 1: Come on, it is Nick Foles goes up against cancer.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I'd rather start Nick Foles. The
Speaker 1: Chief's defenses in major flux, with the new defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: a bunch of new faces to replace last year's dubious group.
Speaker 1: Full's best target d D. Westbrook works from the slot,
Speaker 1: and we'll face competent quarterback Kendall Fuller, but nothing more
Speaker 1: than that, and actually Fuller took a pretty big regression
Speaker 1: last year. On the outside. Marcus Lee and Chris Connelly
Speaker 1: get to face two of the shakier starting cornerbacks in
Speaker 1: the league for Shot Breland and something called char Various West. Okay,
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, you take a chance, I mean quarterback. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position, Brian, I have Tennessee's
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis, who was at Cleveland UM, although he's been
Speaker 1: battling a foot injury all preseason and hasn't played at all. Really,
Speaker 1: Derek Henry will start this game, but he is going
Speaker 1: to flop big time. Check out his splits last year.
Speaker 1: So Tennessee is five and a half point underdogs. Okay,
Speaker 1: last year they're underdogs ten times and favorites six times.
Speaker 1: In the underdog games. Henrietta eleven carries for forty four
Speaker 1: yards and under half a touchdown per game. In the
Speaker 1: six games where their favorites, he had seventeen carries for
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards and over and over eight touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. They are big time underdogs in this game,
Speaker 1: and they are going to lose in Cleveland's over Cleveland's
Speaker 1: final nine games, opposing running backs average more than five receptions.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a d On Lewis game.
Speaker 1: He's gonna outperform Derrick Henry. Here, you kind of convinced
Speaker 1: me on that one. I like it. That's a bold call,
Speaker 1: saying Dion Lewis over Derrick Henry. Alright, Matt, who is
Speaker 1: like a chance? I mean running there's a bold call too,
Speaker 1: But I hate it. I don't even want to start him,
Speaker 1: but you can start time Montgomery, I am I'm doing.
Speaker 1: If you're in like a twenty team PPR league team league,
Speaker 1: I might have to play him. Montgomery should get snaps
Speaker 1: Spelling Levy on Bell for the Jets. The Bills gave
Speaker 1: up the tenth most receptions to running backs last year,
Speaker 1: and last year is a member of the Packers. Montgomery
Speaker 1: had two catches for fifty six yards. Okay, uh C J. Anderson.
Speaker 1: Going back to this Cardinals game, which we all think
Speaker 1: the Lions are gonna romp in over over the twelve
Speaker 1: years of Darryl Bebble's time as an offensive coordinators team's
Speaker 1: average thirty rushes per game. Carrien Johnson is not going
Speaker 1: to get thirty rushes. C J. Anderson will be a
Speaker 1: big part of the game plan against arguably the worst
Speaker 1: run defense in the league. The Cardinals allowed the most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to opposing runners last year and gave up
Speaker 1: at least one rushing touchdown in each of the final
Speaker 1: six games of last year. C J. Anderson, I think
Speaker 1: my number one running back on the week's carry on Johnson,
Speaker 1: c J Anderson. Some mop up is gonna be good
Speaker 1: enough to make him a flex player for your team.
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Let's look at some of the
Speaker 1: guys who catch passes. Beginning. We got some wide receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends for you. Brian, who you got? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a tight end and I'm doubling down on
Speaker 1: the garbage time I'm expecting in Cleveland. So I got
Speaker 1: another Titan, and it's Delaney Walker. Matt's boy. He looked
Speaker 1: pretty good in preseason. He looks like he's back fully healthy.
Speaker 1: He's probably the healthiest he will be all year, and
Speaker 1: Cleveland has been a great matchup for tight ends for
Speaker 1: years now. Last year they conceded six catches, sixty yards
Speaker 1: and nearly half a touchdown per game to the position.
Speaker 1: So Delane, he's going to clean up in garbage times. Okay,
Speaker 1: Matt who is your receiver slash tight end? Sticking with
Speaker 1: the Jets, Jamison Crowder uh Sam Donald targeted slot wide
Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends from the slot on sixty percent
Speaker 1: of his throws last season. Adam Gaze's offense in Miami
Speaker 1: targeted the slot a ton too. Both Cutler and Tannehill
Speaker 1: worked the slot at over a fifty percent clip. Remember
Speaker 1: how good Jarvis Landry was in Miami. With Chris Herndon
Speaker 1: on suspension, newcomer Jamison Crowder should see a ton of targets.
Speaker 1: There were only six instances where a wide receiver had
Speaker 1: ten or more targets against the Bills last season. Four
Speaker 1: of those six were slot wide receivers. Adam Feeling went
Speaker 1: for one oh five, Jeronimo Allison went for eighty, and
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman did it twice, had nine for one oh
Speaker 1: four and seventy and a touchdown in the other game,
Speaker 1: Crowder is gonna get ten targets. He's gonna have good game.
Speaker 1: All right. I'm going with Richard Higgins. He's the other
Speaker 1: starting receiver for the Cleveland Browns. Everybody wants a part
Speaker 1: of the Brown's offense, but nobody wants one of the
Speaker 1: starting wide receivers. Why not? And here's Odell Beckham, who
Speaker 1: acknowledges he's not healthy in this game. And if a
Speaker 1: Dory Jackson shadows, and he usually is a shadow corner,
Speaker 1: if he's shadows Odell Beckham, that puts Malcolm Butler on
Speaker 1: Richard Higgins. Butler was brutal last year, allowed seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his coverage and a quarterback rating of a hundred
Speaker 1: hundred three. Richard Higgins is absolutely startable this week. And
Speaker 1: there you go. You take a chance on me. Glad
Speaker 1: not to have to hear that song again. Geez, that
Speaker 1: is it. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup
Speaker 1: upon whom you can take a chance. So, like you promised,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna play that again. I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: make that promise and we're not gonna play it again today.
Speaker 1: That part I can tell you for listeners to give
Speaker 1: us some royalty free to take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: I asked that, like kind of listener, kind of listener
Speaker 1: just make their own version of of take a chance
Speaker 1: on me, their own cover version. No, what if we
Speaker 1: sing at acapella that I brought that up to. What
Speaker 1: if While I'm talking, Matt's humming the ABA version of
Speaker 1: take a chance? I mean, so we're kind of in
Speaker 1: a box with our royalty free take a chance on
Speaker 1: me music. We need we need to learn these rules. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's work in a couple other matchups. Buffalo takes on
Speaker 1: the Jets. Matt, you already talked about a couple of Jets.
Speaker 1: But let's go to the Buffalo side of this thing.
Speaker 1: Is there an opportunity for um for any Buffalo Bills?
Speaker 1: A team that, frankly, most people don't have on their roster.
Speaker 1: I got two starting grades. Number one is Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: He gets a C grade. He was a top five
Speaker 1: quarterback over the final six weeks the last season. However,
Speaker 1: much of that was based solely on rushing. He only
Speaker 1: threw for two hundred thirty yards twice last season in
Speaker 1: twelve starts, had multiple touchdowns in only two games. Allen
Speaker 1: only did play the Jets once last year. Had a
Speaker 1: very forgettable day through the air, but had nine rushes
Speaker 1: for a hundred and one yards and a score on
Speaker 1: the ground. That's what you're hoping for with Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: The Jets defense did allow twelve different quarterbacks to throw
Speaker 1: from multiple scores last year. Uh John Brown is probably
Speaker 1: his best target. In the final six weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: Allen threw deep balls in almost twenty of his plays,
Speaker 1: and Brown is the deep threat. Last year, his average
Speaker 1: depth of target was sixteen point one yards. That was
Speaker 1: playing with Joe Flacco and noted downfield specialist Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: The Jets allowed the second most yards to wide receivers
Speaker 1: last season, and eight different wide receivers top to hunder
Speaker 1: against the Jets last year, so Brown gets to see
Speaker 1: as well. Everybody else on the Buffalo side is on
Speaker 1: the bench. The running backs Frank Gore, Devin Singletary, t J. Yelden.
Speaker 1: Jets had a middle of the pack run defense last year,
Speaker 1: but they got an offensive improvement with C. J. Moseley,
Speaker 1: who anchored the second best run defense in the league
Speaker 1: last season. We don't know how this split is gonna
Speaker 1: work out either. It's probably gonna be mostly single. Terry's
Speaker 1: probably the change of pay with the Elden getting the
Speaker 1: third down work. It's it's probably bad a guy. I
Speaker 1: like Cole Beasley. He's on the bench, but he's a
Speaker 1: stash on a deep roster. But there's not a ton
Speaker 1: of situations where you be starting him in week one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Jets side. Levy on
Speaker 1: Bell obvious A. Bills gave up twenty one total scores
Speaker 1: two running backs last year, the second most in the league.
Speaker 1: I already told you about time Montgomery's gonna take a
Speaker 1: chance on me back. There might be enough to go around.
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson. I'm giving a C grade to should draw
Speaker 1: shadow coverage from trade Davious White. He's one of the
Speaker 1: better cover corners in the league. But Anderson did post
Speaker 1: seventy six yards in a score against White last year,
Speaker 1: So there's the silver lining. Sam Donald I got as
Speaker 1: a bench grade, though I mean I gave Anderson and
Speaker 1: Crowder and Montgomery some love. He's almost worthy worthy of
Speaker 1: a C. But no, not this week. I don't think
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Speaker 1: Kansas City takes on Jacksonville. These seems met last year
Speaker 1: and as you guys may recall, only game Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: did not throw a pass touchdown pass in and I
Speaker 1: ran one in salvaging a day Fantasy day. But this
Speaker 1: was the only team just to shut him out. And
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's not trivial. There's uh, there's let's start
Speaker 1: with let's start with let's start with that. For all
Speaker 1: the problems jackson Will had last year, and I think
Speaker 1: fantasy owners, you know, tend to remember a lass season
Speaker 1: the five only the five wins, But it wasn't the
Speaker 1: defense fault. They ranked number two in passing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: number two in passing touchdowns allowed, and their defense might
Speaker 1: be better this year with the addition of defense eve
Speaker 1: End Josh Allen and selected seventh in the draft, you
Speaker 1: would think that they would have poured draft picks into
Speaker 1: their offense, but they didn't do that. In janetal Bille,
Speaker 1: they improved an already epic defense. So yeah, that's um,
Speaker 1: that's something we're gonna have to try to figure out
Speaker 1: before too long here. And I think Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: going to be somebody that is only a B grade.
Speaker 1: This would probably this might be the only B grade
Speaker 1: that we give to Patrick Mahomes all year. This might
Speaker 1: be it um staying with the passing game. Newly minted
Speaker 1: multi millionaire Tyreek Hill, No, he is also just a
Speaker 1: B grade. No secondary allowed fewer scores to wide receivers
Speaker 1: than Jacksonville seven last year, and they surrendered him easily
Speaker 1: one thirty three yards per game to the position. That's
Speaker 1: the fourth fewest. Tyrek should expect to see shutdown corner
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey and shadow coverage. She gave up just two
Speaker 1: catches to Hill last time they met, so I you
Speaker 1: got to be cautious with Hill now. Granted, nobody would
Speaker 1: be surprised if Patrick Mahomes through for two yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and Tyreek Hill with making might be grade
Speaker 1: sound ironic, but the Jaguars defense is totally legit. Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey gets an A grade. Jaguars are a good tight
Speaker 1: end defense last year, but Kelsey proved too much to
Speaker 1: handle it. He posted a one yard game, which was
Speaker 1: nineteen more yards and any other tight end put up
Speaker 1: on Jacksonville last year did not score in that game,
Speaker 1: though Miles Jack posted the third lowest passer rating allowed
Speaker 1: in his coverage and his speed is gonna be great
Speaker 1: in shadowing Kelsey and I think that's another tough matchup.
Speaker 1: So Kelsey, I'm still giving an a grade in part
Speaker 1: because he's a tight end and he's you know, in
Speaker 1: with the few tight ends are out there, I think
Speaker 1: he's still a grade worthy. Let's go to the running backs,
Speaker 1: where it's a little bit thornier, well, the whole things
Speaker 1: thorny city really, Uh, let's start with Damian Williams. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna see a ton of of Leshawn
Speaker 1: McCoy in this game. Only one week in Kansas City, right, Um,
Speaker 1: eight to ten touches for Lashawn McCoy Is that southing about? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's enough. That a lot, but that is a lot.
Speaker 1: That's a huge thing in in in what you could
Speaker 1: get out of Damian Williams. Unfortunately, the Jaguars allowed the
Speaker 1: ninth fewest rushing yards last year, the ninth fewest rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: seventh fewest receptions, to running backs and sixth fewest receiving
Speaker 1: yards per running back. So I mean it's all bad here,
Speaker 1: real sounds on the bench. I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on on Damien Williams. I've got a bench grade on
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy just because I don't think the eight to
Speaker 1: ten touches is enough to get him where you need
Speaker 1: him to go. And we'll talk more about Lashawn McCoy
Speaker 1: a little later as well. Let's go to the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: side of note. Left tackle Cam Robinson is not expecting
Speaker 1: to play in this game, and that is a big
Speaker 1: loss when we saw how bad that Jaguars line was
Speaker 1: last year without Cam Robinson. So hopefully this is just
Speaker 1: a one game thing for him. Leonard Fournette would otherwise
Speaker 1: be looking at a pretty solid game, and he still
Speaker 1: might be. Kansas City gave up the seventh most rushing attempts,
Speaker 1: the fifth most rushing yards, the sixth most rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game to running backs, and five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That's what Kansas City was giving up. So I still
Speaker 1: like Leonard Fournette here. He'll get virtually all the work.
Speaker 1: And last year when Leonard Fournette did not play in
Speaker 1: the meeting between these two teams. T J. Yeldon went
Speaker 1: off for a buck twenty two gross. If t J.
Speaker 1: Yeldon can do it running behind no line, I think
Speaker 1: for nett Ken as well. A grade for Leonard four.
Speaker 1: Nett already talked about Nick Foles might take a chance
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. He gets a B grade here. Let's
Speaker 1: go to his number one wide receiver, D D. Westbrook
Speaker 1: The chief secondary allowed fourteen receptions and one hundred seventy
Speaker 1: two yards per game to opposing receivers last season, fifth
Speaker 1: most in both categories, and I don't see any reason
Speaker 1: to suggest they're going to be better now. Slot cornerback
Speaker 1: Kendall Fuller regressed badly and coverage last season. As I
Speaker 1: alluded to earlier, he gave up a one D ten
Speaker 1: passer rating in his coverage. That's the guy that's gonna
Speaker 1: be on D. D. West Westbrooks, so I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be okay here. Now, I will note this,
Speaker 1: they brought in Honey Badger, who plays this hybrid safety
Speaker 1: role where they'll also cover guys in the slot that
Speaker 1: might that might be a problem for D. D. West
Speaker 1: So I've got to be grade on him. We're not
Speaker 1: for honey badger. I'd give him an A on D D.
Speaker 1: Westbrook And then here's your dark throw, Chris Connolly. It's
Speaker 1: a revenge game for Chris Connolly. Yeah, I started Mark Kisley.
Speaker 1: It's his first game back off a c L missed
Speaker 1: all of last year. Chris Connelly a terrific matchup against
Speaker 1: lead footed cornerback Brishot Brelan. Connolly is a four three
Speaker 1: speed guy. Brian is a four six guys like six
Speaker 1: three to He's a big Connolly is a crazy for
Speaker 1: six slowgas slogan. Obviously absolutely yea. So Connolly is your
Speaker 1: your official dark throw. Let's go to Tennessee taking on
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. Brian, you already gave us some members
Speaker 1: of the Tennessee Titans that you like in this matchup.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can. I don't think I can
Speaker 1: go with I don't think I can go with their
Speaker 1: quarterback though, Marcus Mariota. No, he's on the bench. Uh,
Speaker 1: he could get benched in real life. So can we
Speaker 1: have Ryan Tannehill breathing down your neck bad guy in
Speaker 1: your fantasy lineup? And I don't want Corey Davis or
Speaker 1: A J. Brown in my fantasy lineup either. Really, the
Speaker 1: key is well, Tennessee is gonna be gonna be without
Speaker 1: their starting left tackle who's suspended, um Taylor Lawan, and
Speaker 1: then they're starting right tackle is bad and coming off
Speaker 1: a A C L tear in December, and that Cleveland
Speaker 1: front seven is carrocious. So Mario is not gonna have
Speaker 1: time to give the ball downfield. So Corey Davis a J.
Speaker 1: Brown on the bench to J. Sharp Is actually was
Speaker 1: a starter opposite Cory Davis. So Adam Humphreys might be
Speaker 1: the one wide receiver I would start if I had to,
Speaker 1: but I'm still not doing that. Um, you know I'm
Speaker 1: not starting Derrick Henry either. Put him on the bench.
Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier in the games where Tennessee is
Speaker 1: the underdog, he's averaging more than fifty yards less and
Speaker 1: half a touchdown less per game, and he hasn't played
Speaker 1: all preseason. He has not gotten acclimated to the new offense. Um,
Speaker 1: I got him on the bench. Uh, that's that easy.
Speaker 1: And that's why Dion Lewis is might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me running back, and Delaney Walker was might take
Speaker 1: it ancew me receiver. I think the majority of targets
Speaker 1: in garbage owner will be funneled to those guys underneath.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you on that, all right. How about
Speaker 1: the Cleveland side, A little different story. On this side,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield will give him an A. UM. How much
Speaker 1: better is Baker Mayfield than Eli Manning? You ask I can?
Speaker 1: I can answer that last season, even though apparently I
Speaker 1: asked it. I can also answer it. Last season, Eli
Speaker 1: through the fourth most passes of twenty plus yards down field,
Speaker 1: but registered a lowly eighties six passer rating. Mayfield, who
Speaker 1: started in week four when he started playing, attempted seventy
Speaker 1: deep balls, third most, but he had a hundred and
Speaker 1: seven passer rating. And there's this highlight reel going around
Speaker 1: like the greatest hits of the incompletions from Eli. Todell
Speaker 1: beg him and it is. It's horrifying to watch. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna change for O. B J who gets an
Speaker 1: A as well. I heard he's practicing today. He'll be fine.
Speaker 1: But don't worry about the injuries. Uh, we're hearing about.
Speaker 1: Tennessee secondary allowed the seventh most touchdowns to wide receivers
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, Malcolm Butler is just awful. Allowed
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns in seven eight yards in his coverage last year,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna eat. Although I think that Dorry Jackson's
Speaker 1: gonna shadow I'll be j a lot. And again I
Speaker 1: think for Chard Higgins is the sneaky play there. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: well I'm gonna I was gonna mention you'd take a
Speaker 1: chance to me wide receiver. I'm hearing no shadowing for Dory,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. But Jarvis Landry, I almost want to
Speaker 1: bench him as well, but give him a ce. But
Speaker 1: this is a tough matchup. Logan Ryan is legit and um,
Speaker 1: this is just the game where Baker's targets are gonna
Speaker 1: be funnel to the outside. So I'll give Landry the sea.
Speaker 1: But uh, I would love to give him a minus
Speaker 1: if I could, but I know I cannot. Let's go
Speaker 1: to one more pass catcher, David and Joeku, a guy
Speaker 1: you probably have to start, um, but he's in a
Speaker 1: bad spot. Tennessee was bottom ten and catches and yards
Speaker 1: allowed to tight ends and the only surrendered two touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the position last year. I'd go find the Darren
Speaker 1: Waller owner right now and offer David and Joku and
Speaker 1: try to make a trade all this. I think everybody's
Speaker 1: on Darren Waller now I think that, But I think
Speaker 1: you could. I think you'd trade and Joker for him.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could. I think you could anyway,
Speaker 1: keep the try and then Nick Chubb finally get and a.
Speaker 1: Tennessee was the middle of the pack against the run
Speaker 1: when it comes to d v O A. But they
Speaker 1: only surrendered seven total touchdowns and running backs. That's not good.
Speaker 1: But it's just too tempting to pick on that awful
Speaker 1: secondary of the Titans. Sorry, that doesn't make sense. Scratch that,
Speaker 1: Dontrell Hilliard. That bullet was in the wrong place. And
Speaker 1: I was just gonna mention Dontrell Hilliard is on the bench,
Speaker 1: but he'll be involved and he should be rostered in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues. We're gonna talk more about Dontrell Hilliard later
Speaker 1: in the show. All right, let's go to Indianapolis taking
Speaker 1: on the Chargers. Matt, it's our first game with Jacobe Brissette.
Speaker 1: Do you dare start him right out of the gate?
Speaker 1: I toyed with using him as might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback as the Chargers are missing Derwin James,
Speaker 1: but they're not missing Joey Bosa or Melvin Ingram right,
Speaker 1: so Brissettes on the bench. Uh, Brissette held the ball
Speaker 1: on average of two point nine seven seconds before he
Speaker 1: threw it. That ranked the fifth most time in the league.
Speaker 1: That's not a good thing with Joey Bosa and Melvin
Speaker 1: Ingram breathing down. You're not although in fairness, he's got
Speaker 1: maybe the best of God protecting him now. I have
Speaker 1: very high hopes for him this season, just not this game.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you on that. Um t Y Hilton.
Speaker 1: I gave a C grade two Paris Campbell Devon Funcius
Speaker 1: on the bench, Hilton matches up with Casey Hayward, one
Speaker 1: of the better cover corners in the game. The Chargers
Speaker 1: allowed the second fewest receptions in the fifth fewest yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers last year. That's why Hilton only gets
Speaker 1: the C. H. Tight ends Eric Ebron and Jack Doyle
Speaker 1: both getting a C grade. Bursette targeted the tight end
Speaker 1: copiously in seventeen is Doyle average six receptions per game.
Speaker 1: Frank Reich runs two tight end sets thirty four percent
Speaker 1: of the time, which was the third most in the league.
Speaker 1: I think both of them can eat Doyle is the
Speaker 1: possession guys to target him more in PPR leagues. Ebron
Speaker 1: is the rare tight end vulture. I'd use him more
Speaker 1: in non PPR Big DFS tournaments. There is Eric Ebron
Speaker 1: chiming in from the three yard line right there. That's him. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Marlon Mack. I'm giving a B grade to
Speaker 1: Mack is morphed into a bell cow running back, and
Speaker 1: it really happened over the final month of the season
Speaker 1: last year. In the last five games, Mac averaged five
Speaker 1: yards per carrying a touchdown per game on the ground,
Speaker 1: but also his average passing routes run went from thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half early in the season to twenty three
Speaker 1: point three in the final month. This means bye bye
Speaker 1: Niheim Hines and the Chargers gave up the fourth most
Speaker 1: receptions to the running back position last year. So Marlon
Speaker 1: Max kind of teetering on almost an A there, but
Speaker 1: he's still getting a B. Philip Rivers on the other side, Uh,
Speaker 1: he gets a C grade. I'm nervous about the offensive line,
Speaker 1: who are still missing left tackle Russell o'kung. All five
Speaker 1: starters now rank as a sixty one or below out
Speaker 1: of a hundred in PFF's ratings. That's a D minus
Speaker 1: to a failing grade for every member of their offensive
Speaker 1: line that's starting this week. And a stat from chart.
Speaker 1: In games without Gordon last year, Rivers averaged sixty three
Speaker 1: fewer yards and one point three fewer touchdowns. It's if
Speaker 1: it's bad for the offense, it's bad for the offense.
Speaker 1: Sure is Austin Ekeler. Let's talk about him. He's getting
Speaker 1: a B grade. I gave Justin Jackson the bench grade,
Speaker 1: and the three games without Gordon last year, Eckler outtouched
Speaker 1: Jackson nearly two to one. In the preseason, Eckler out
Speaker 1: snapped Jackson nearly two to one. This seems like a
Speaker 1: two to one split in Neckler's favor, and it's a
Speaker 1: better split for the pass catching running back, as the
Speaker 1: Colts surrendered the second most receptions to opposing running backs
Speaker 1: last year. If Gordon was playing, Eckler would still be
Speaker 1: startable in this time. Uh Keenan Allen, I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a B grade. Mike Williams is hitting your bench. Rivers
Speaker 1: time in the pocket will be short, which means he's
Speaker 1: going to target Allen the most. Allen ran out of
Speaker 1: the slot fifty six percent of the time last year
Speaker 1: and had had the lowest average depth of target out
Speaker 1: of all receivers last year at only nine point four.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams was at fifteen point six. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: have time to throw to him downfield. Finally, Hunter Henry,
Speaker 1: I'm giving an a grade two. For as good as
Speaker 1: the Colts were against wide receivers, they were the opposite
Speaker 1: against tight ends last year. The Colts allowed the most
Speaker 1: receptions and yards to the tight end last season. He's
Speaker 1: totally back and healthy. He's gonna be a huge part
Speaker 1: in this offense. I got and Henry all these like
Speaker 1: I love it. I man, I hope you're right. I
Speaker 1: hope you're right. You know, for all of us that
Speaker 1: rolled the dice on Hunter Henry maybe three tight end
Speaker 1: in the bree season, I'd love to see him come back.
Speaker 1: I want to touch on a couple of quick hitters
Speaker 1: with you guys relating to the Packers the Packers offense.
Speaker 1: They won the game, but the offense only put up
Speaker 1: ten points. Aaron Jones in particular looked uh troubling, mostly
Speaker 1: because it was almost an even split on time share.
Speaker 1: Jamal Bleep and Williams not interested in that guy. What
Speaker 1: is your level of concern on Aaron Jones? They were
Speaker 1: underdogs right Matt Lafleur's offense in Tennessee last year. Brian
Speaker 1: just told us about it. He doesn't give the ball
Speaker 1: to his bell cow running back when he's an underdog,
Speaker 1: so watch out for that. If the Packers are not favored,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones might be on your bench now. I wonderful
Speaker 1: they'll be favorite against the Vikings next week. This might
Speaker 1: there might be an opportunity to buy low on Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones at some point here pretty soon. And uh, it
Speaker 1: may have that process may have already started. Coming up next,
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Speaker 1: three and oh tough question number one. Redskins head coach
Speaker 1: J Gruden says that his offense will go through running
Speaker 1: back Darius Guys for this season. Will guys be and
Speaker 1: RB one and RB two, a flex or a bench
Speaker 1: player on the whole every week will be a little
Speaker 1: bit different on the whole. Will he be an RB one,
Speaker 1: RB two flex or bench player? Brian? Alright, so technically
Speaker 1: he's not a rookie, but he is a rookie. Um,
Speaker 1: and all rookie quote unquote workhorse backs hit the wall
Speaker 1: most do, jumping from twelve games in college to sixteen
Speaker 1: games in the pro. In the pros now speaking well,
Speaker 1: I said most um. Now speaking of games real ones, Uh, guys,
Speaker 1: hasn't played one since college. In speaking of college, you
Speaker 1: know we saw moreries once and he actually in the
Speaker 1: two seasons prior had less combined carries than the two
Speaker 1: plus seasons. So he is not proven to be durable whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Throw in the crap line. Adrian Peterson still good enough
Speaker 1: to you know, steal some work from him, and Chris
Speaker 1: Thompson gonna take all the receiving work. I'm going bench
Speaker 1: is going on, right, I can't trust him. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have a good game or two, hopefully early on. It's
Speaker 1: probably not gonna be this week. I gave him a
Speaker 1: see but once he does, you sell high strike wild
Speaker 1: iron is hot. That's my story. Be Matt. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be negative Matt today. He won't be on any of
Speaker 1: my teams this year. And that's dude. Of everything. Brian said,
Speaker 1: left tackle Trent Williams out, Adrian Peterson, case Keenum or
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins under center. I don't believe coach speak at
Speaker 1: this time of year either, So whatever Jay Gruden says,
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. He's on my bench. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's better than that. There's also you got you
Speaker 1: hit most of the negatives on Darius guys, but not
Speaker 1: all of them. Let me give you two more the
Speaker 1: negative game scripts that are gonna packed him. Actually every week,
Speaker 1: let's say bad Washington defense and an offense is gonna
Speaker 1: score no points, and he averaged less than one reception
Speaker 1: per game in college. Brian alluded to the fact that
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson will be the past catching back. I believe
Speaker 1: that is true. And while Gary Darius Sky doesn't have
Speaker 1: just stone hands. But he's not Chris Thompson, who's really
Speaker 1: gifted that way. You're all all that together, um, and
Speaker 1: the only thing really working for guys is that he's
Speaker 1: the starter. But he's the starter on probably the NFL's
Speaker 1: worst or second worst offense, and more often than not,
Speaker 1: that puts you on the bench. Dumb question Number two.
Speaker 1: Chief's head coach Andy Reid says that it's a timeshare
Speaker 1: with Shawn McCoy and Damian Williams for this season. Will
Speaker 1: the Shawn McCoy be an RB one, an r B two,
Speaker 1: a flex or a bench player? Matt didn't. I just
Speaker 1: mentioned that I don't believe anything coaches say at this
Speaker 1: time of year. I believe you did. Yeah, and do
Speaker 1: you read? Has never gone running back by committee. He's
Speaker 1: not going to go running back by committee. And people
Speaker 1: seem to forget how bad Lashawn McCoy was last year.
Speaker 1: Is the sole lead dog running back on a team
Speaker 1: that wanted to run the ball and had a rushing
Speaker 1: quarterback with him. It's not like the upgrade to the
Speaker 1: better offense doesn't come with a cost. He's splitting time
Speaker 1: with Damian Williams at very best fifty fifty and Darwin
Speaker 1: Thompson is still involved. They like Williams too, They signed
Speaker 1: him to a deal at the end of last season.
Speaker 1: Recois on your bench, all right, Brian, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to disagree. I don't care what he did with Buffalo
Speaker 1: last year or the year before the year before that.
Speaker 1: He actually had good years of Buffalo. Buffalo blows the city.
Speaker 1: The team actually have been to the city. I don't
Speaker 1: remember it well. The beer is strong there that there's that,
Speaker 1: but it Bills Mafias any indication, yes it is. I
Speaker 1: missed my twenties, But anyway, where was I going? Shady?
Speaker 1: I remember right to watch Bill's Ions a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago on Friday night preseason, so depressed about having
Speaker 1: to do this right. But Shady, you look good. And
Speaker 1: everyone remembers Devin Singletary stole the touchdown from distance in
Speaker 1: that game and he got all the pub the following day. Whatever,
Speaker 1: but whatever. Andy Reid was watching that game too, and
Speaker 1: he liked what he saw, and he loves la Shawn
Speaker 1: McCoy like a son. Essentially season game watcher, Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: he's been scouting McCoy for years, just waiting for this
Speaker 1: and uh, he went out and got him. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take some time, but he's gonna get more carries than
Speaker 1: Damian Williams Uh probably a quarter of the way through
Speaker 1: the season, and then finished as an RB two overall
Speaker 1: for the Casey Chiefs. The last time McCoy played with
Speaker 1: Andy Reid was twenty twelve, seven years ago. Seven years ago.
Speaker 1: That year, he had a two rushing touchdown season, two kikes.
Speaker 1: That's it for Lashawn McCoy that year, and then he
Speaker 1: got shipped off to Buffalo Purgatory Um. Last year, Lashawn
Speaker 1: McCoy ranked five the fifth at running back by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus last season, fiveth from the bottom. His yards
Speaker 1: per carry have plummeted over the last two years, down
Speaker 1: to three point to last year. He's not elusive, he's
Speaker 1: got anymore. He's got middling speed at this stage of
Speaker 1: his career, and he doesn't bring any power anymore. In fact,
Speaker 1: from the power standpoint, get this. On his third his
Speaker 1: last thirteen carries from inside the five yard line, he
Speaker 1: has scored twice. The power is not there. He's not
Speaker 1: effective at the stripe anymore. You roll all that together,
Speaker 1: and while I do believe that there will be opportunities
Speaker 1: for him to do something in an offense, it's gonna
Speaker 1: score forty points and you know most weeks you'll be
Speaker 1: in the thirties and forties. That's enough to give him
Speaker 1: some opportunity. He's just not that good anymore and at
Speaker 1: best he is going to be a flex player. Would
Speaker 1: you rather have Lashawn McCoy or Darius Guiss McCoy because
Speaker 1: the offense I would I would rather have and that's
Speaker 1: why he's a Flexidi's guys, was a bet. You don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be rejuvenated at all now that he's
Speaker 1: healthy and on a good team. He's well, he's thirty one.
Speaker 1: How do you rejuvenate yourself thirty one? I know that's
Speaker 1: getting there, But go to one of those European think
Speaker 1: tanks and European crypto chamber, cryro chamber. That's what he needs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like just like Antonio Brown. Question number three, speaking
Speaker 1: of given the chaos surrounding Antonio Brown over the course
Speaker 1: of the season, will Tyrrell Williams being a wide receiver
Speaker 1: one wide receiver to flex or bench Brian, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there's about a fifty percent chance that Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: just totally goes off the reservation right, and then it's
Speaker 1: it's all said and done. So I'm gonna this is
Speaker 1: a tough one. We should be talking about Darren Waller instead. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you've talked enough about Darrenier if you could ever steer
Speaker 1: a conversation toward Darren Waller. Yes, but Tyrell flashed for
Speaker 1: the Chargers in the past, but he always played second
Speaker 1: and third fiddle to Keenan Allen and Antonio Gates or
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry, whoever the tight end was. He did play
Speaker 1: a major role in when Keenan Allen was hurt for
Speaker 1: most of the year, saw nineteen targets and turned into
Speaker 1: sixty nine nice catches for a thousand plus yards and
Speaker 1: seven scores. And with the Brown situation and the fact
Speaker 1: that Williams is the number two wide receiver, I think
Speaker 1: a hundred plus targets or immortal lock and he can
Speaker 1: put similar numbers to the those numbers he put up
Speaker 1: in twenty six. Albeit he's on the Raiders now and
Speaker 1: not the Chargers. I think he will be a solid
Speaker 1: flex play this season. Okay, I told you it was
Speaker 1: negative Matt today, emphatic benching. I don't care that he
Speaker 1: could be the wide receiver one on an offense with
Speaker 1: a bad QB and somehow Nathan Peterman looming with a
Speaker 1: terrible offensive line, a coach who wants to take the
Speaker 1: game back to the nineties. It's just a bad offense overall.
Speaker 1: And guess who the wide receiver one on that offense
Speaker 1: was last year? Jordy Nelson. How did that work out?
Speaker 1: He finished forty nine in Fantasy points for what the
Speaker 1: majority If we're going in each oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is this is going to be a disaster in Oakland
Speaker 1: all year. You don't want anything to do with Tyrelle Williams.
Speaker 1: I'll go Darren Waller, but not Tyrelle Williams. Good lord,
Speaker 1: you know you too. You're Darren Waller. I get the
Speaker 1: feeling that, especially you, Brian, you could be you could
Speaker 1: be in You could be in court and you could
Speaker 1: they could swear you in and you would steer the
Speaker 1: conversation from the prosecution because you'd be a defendant towards
Speaker 1: Darren Waller. Well, I uses my sleeping like the second
Speaker 1: week and you kind of rolled your eyes at me
Speaker 1: at the time and that look where're at Darren Waller's ald,
Speaker 1: So help you Waller cannot prove any I roll I
Speaker 1: can't do it. The biggest advantage I think you get
Speaker 1: with Tyrolle Williams is his own teams and teams ineptitude.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are gonna be playing behind in almost every game,
Speaker 1: and they just volume alone is going to be a
Speaker 1: friend to him. You know, I think Brian, you mentioned
Speaker 1: a hundred potential hundred targets potentially going his way. That
Speaker 1: sounds about right. Also working his favor, Antonio Brown's contract
Speaker 1: is guaranteed on Monday. That means because will beyond roster
Speaker 1: on Monday, and all all all vested veterans, if you're
Speaker 1: on roster on Monday, you are guaranteed your contract. That
Speaker 1: means the wheels can come off beginning Tuesday. For Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: That's all it's got to take. It could happen. That's
Speaker 1: another fact that works in his favor. You can do whatever,
Speaker 1: even Brown do whatever he wants after Monday. Williams has
Speaker 1: a history of being a downfield threat. He's got height
Speaker 1: and speed to get under passes. Granted, Derek Carr is
Speaker 1: also a very bad downfield passer, so I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how many of those are going to connect, but there
Speaker 1: are going to be times when you're going to want
Speaker 1: the garbage and Tyroll Williams is going to deliver. We'll
Speaker 1: help you find those times as a flex start. There
Speaker 1: might be carbage time this year, carbage time. There's going
Speaker 1: to be carbage time. Let's work in another matchup, Baltimore
Speaker 1: taking on the Miami Dolphins. The Baltimore side of this
Speaker 1: is pretty interesting, the Miami side not so much. Where
Speaker 1: do you want to start with Baltimore? Lamar Jackson of course, yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: but my number two ranked quarterback for this week. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't get in a. He gets an at really
Speaker 1: because Miami allowed the third most quarterback rushing yards last year,
Speaker 1: including two d and thirty two josh Allen alone, who
Speaker 1: also totaled five passing touchdowns in those two games. So
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson A and just the quick heads up. L
Speaker 1: Jacks squares off with Kyler Murray next week. That will
Speaker 1: be to the running game or to continue with the
Speaker 1: running game. I should say mark Ingram too gets an
Speaker 1: a as well. Miami gave up the second most rushing attempts,
Speaker 1: third most rushing yards, and fourth most rushing touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to opposing running backs last season and after you.
Speaker 1: I thank fanball writer Parker Leach for this stat um
Speaker 1: so Ingram average twelve carries per game with the Saints
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, that's perfect because running backs who received
Speaker 1: at least twelve carries against Miami averaged eighty one rushing
Speaker 1: yards on five yards per carrying more than half a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. Mark Ingram and a Justice Hill, I'm
Speaker 1: tempted him, go for it. I will, I will see.
Speaker 1: Although Gus Edward, you want this, give me another rookie
Speaker 1: thing you wanted. Edwards, I got bench on paper. I'm
Speaker 1: speaking to it. So Hill on the bench. Keep your
Speaker 1: eye on him, though, Adam in your league if he's available,
Speaker 1: just know that. But Jim Harba said he'd ride the
Speaker 1: hot hand, and Hills hands look pretty hot and lots
Speaker 1: of other stuff too. But he's on the bench this week,
Speaker 1: as are all the wide receivers. Miles Boykin is the
Speaker 1: one you'd be interested in, but that also means he
Speaker 1: probably draws Avian Howard, who's the one player in Miami.
Speaker 1: But actually it sells excels at what he does. So
Speaker 1: Boykin on the bench, Mark Andrews, this guy is going
Speaker 1: to be a pain in everyone's a this year. The
Speaker 1: guy can play his average of eleven yards per target
Speaker 1: trails only O. G. Howard among all players with at
Speaker 1: least fifty targets over the past two seasons all players players. No, really,
Speaker 1: I'm that correct, alight. I gotta like receivers its side ends.
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but sadly Andrews never saw more than fifty
Speaker 1: of the snaps in a single game last year, and
Speaker 1: if that carries over this year, it's trouble. But it's
Speaker 1: a great matchup. Miami will have nine tight end touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year or second most, so I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: c over to Miami. Kenyan Drake gets a see he
Speaker 1: quote unquote get a lot of touches, but a lot
Speaker 1: of touches in Miami could be like nine on their
Speaker 1: scale of a lot of touches nine times times you
Speaker 1: might touch the ball. This is a tough defense nine times.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's good to have that back. Yeah. Baltimore
Speaker 1: allowed three and a half yards per carry in a
Speaker 1: league three point nine yards per target to running back,
Speaker 1: so they can't get it done on the ground or
Speaker 1: through the air. Just to see for Drake. No Kalin
Speaker 1: Blage talk today no, Well, here, I'll give you a talker.
Speaker 1: Drop him or trade him. Trade him now, trade him
Speaker 1: now while he's got some level of perceived value. Calin
Speaker 1: Blage is bad and he's on what is probably going
Speaker 1: to be one of the two worst offenses in the NFL. True,
Speaker 1: what's not bad is Baltimore secondary, especially since they went
Speaker 1: out and got Earl Thomas the place safety. So Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker, Preston Williams on the bench. I like Wilson
Speaker 1: and Preston Williams your guy charge though season long, long,
Speaker 1: long term, not this week, though it this week. Preston
Speaker 1: Williams gonna be fascinating next seasonally, must add in Dynasty
Speaker 1: he's available in your leak. And then lastly Stu Beard,
Speaker 1: Ryan Patrick. It's gotta be bench to bench, but watch
Speaker 1: him go off for four hundred. Watch at this time
Speaker 1: last year heading into Week one, we were telling you
Speaker 1: to Ben try and Fitzpatrick and then he went into
Speaker 1: New Orleans and through four touchdowns, so in like four
Speaker 1: yards yeah right right now, yet way way better receivers then,
Speaker 1: and a better overall team to work with. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: We're back in moments with more of the matchups. You
Speaker 1: need to set your lineups, including the Giants taking on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. What to do with some of those fringe
Speaker 1: guys in that matchup? We'll tell you if you dare
Speaker 1: start guys like Sterling Shepherd. When we come back. It
Speaker 1: is a regular season edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. We're
Speaker 1: breaking down each of Sunday and Monday's NFL games fantasy style.
Speaker 1: We'll put letter grades and all the players explain who
Speaker 1: we like, who we don't like, and most importantly, why
Speaker 1: we do or don't like them, and then you can
Speaker 1: decide do you think we're Are we right? Are we wrong?
Speaker 1: You get to make your own decisions. You can get
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Speaker 1: my co host Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Giants taking on the Dallas Cowboys, and I'll start
Speaker 1: on the Giant side. Obviously, say kran Barkley gets an
Speaker 1: obvious A grade. I'm not even gonna spend extra time
Speaker 1: on that, but do know that he's had a lot
Speaker 1: of success in his short career against the Giants anyway. Uh, sorry,
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys anyway. Let's go to the passing gave me.
Speaker 1: Eli Manning gets a C grade here. He actually posted
Speaker 1: two decent games against the Cowboys last year, which shocked me.
Speaker 1: I was fully prepared to just tell everybody to bench
Speaker 1: Eli two yards and three hundred yards in the two
Speaker 1: matchups last year. In those games, he threw the ball
Speaker 1: forty four and forty one times. And if he's going
Speaker 1: to play from behind again, which I think is gonna
Speaker 1: be the case here, he's gonna just just through sheer volume.
Speaker 1: He could be Fantasy relevant. He might have had a
Speaker 1: receiver named O'Dell Beckham last year. That does help. Yeah, said,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that, but who does he have? Was
Speaker 1: healthy in those games, and you're probably gonna say that
Speaker 1: nobody scored in both of those games. That's right. I
Speaker 1: expect Eli to force feed Evan Ingram a lot in
Speaker 1: this game. He also topped four receptions in forty yards
Speaker 1: in each of the four career games he's had against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, so they have schemed him into those games.
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram gets a B grade in this one. And
Speaker 1: then there's the odd case of Sterling Shepherd, the restarting
Speaker 1: receiver nobody wants. He's not even on the injury report.
Speaker 1: You know, he went down in the preseason and everybody's like, well,
Speaker 1: that's that for Sterling Shepherd. He's still a go to
Speaker 1: receiver on this team. Now, Grant, I've just been shut
Speaker 1: down in five straight games against the Cowboys. But he's
Speaker 1: never been the go to receiver either. That's always been
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. He will mostly be playing from the outside.
Speaker 1: He used to be more of a slot guy. They're
Speaker 1: gonna move him a lot outside here, and actually that's
Speaker 1: also bad news because then he goes up against Dallas
Speaker 1: is two solid outside cornerbacks Byron Jones and hidobe A Woozy.
Speaker 1: He needs volume to cobble together a decent game, but
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd could get there. And I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: C grade for this game. Let's flip it over to
Speaker 1: the Dallas side. Can you start z Heck? Yeah you can,
Speaker 1: even if he's only going to get half of the
Speaker 1: work and Tony Pollard earned by the way through great
Speaker 1: preseason play. I think Tony Pollard earned half of the
Speaker 1: work in this game, and I think he gets half.
Speaker 1: You don't believe the rep even if it's twenty five reps.
Speaker 1: They could all be snaps, or they probably they probably
Speaker 1: touches the probably know right, or half of them could
Speaker 1: be touches. Give me twelve to fifteen touches for Zeke
Speaker 1: and I will give you an A grade. And here's why.
Speaker 1: The Giants defense, oh my, they allowed an opposing runner
Speaker 1: to either score or post one hundred or more yards
Speaker 1: rushing and receiving in fifteen of their sixteen games last year,
Speaker 1: and they lost Landon Collins and Olivier Vernon. This could
Speaker 1: be the NFL's worst defense the Giants. I think Zeke
Speaker 1: doesn't need more than about ten twelve fifteen touches to
Speaker 1: end up with a very meaningful game. And if there
Speaker 1: are any goal line carries to be had, they ain't
Speaker 1: going to Tony Pollard. So you're predicting for Zeke twelve
Speaker 1: carries about four hundred fifty yards and eight touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly it. Yes, that is precisely yet, so let's
Speaker 1: go to Tony Pollard. Then I've still got a starting
Speaker 1: great on Pollard. I think Pollard could easily end up
Speaker 1: getting the same kind of twelve fifteen, eighteen sort of
Speaker 1: touches in this game. And honestly, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: look good in the preseason, and the Giants defense is
Speaker 1: so bad that he could score from distance here. So
Speaker 1: see great and Tony Pollard. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: I love Dak Prescott in this matchup. Love it. He
Speaker 1: obliterated the Giants secondary in the regular season finale last year.
Speaker 1: Three hundred eighties, seven passing yards, four touchdowns for Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott last time these teams met, and that was in
Speaker 1: the regular season finale, So it's even recently at that
Speaker 1: he's playing motivated to this year. He's playing for money.
Speaker 1: You want, you can't argue with that no better motivated. Absolutely, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, with zeke sub status up in the air,
Speaker 1: I think, you know they without the game planned with
Speaker 1: Zeke maybe being there maybe not. I think they had
Speaker 1: a past heavy game plan in mind and they might
Speaker 1: even just keep to that. So I still like Dac
Speaker 1: a lot. A great for dak A Marie Cooper also
Speaker 1: gets an A. Um, you know, if you're gonna try
Speaker 1: to have to stop Zeke at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: that'll free up A Marie Cooper's for some downfield shots.
Speaker 1: And he runs the majority of routes on the right
Speaker 1: side of the field, where he has a glorious matchup
Speaker 1: against rookie cornerback DeAndre Baker making his first ever start.
Speaker 1: So Amari Cooper should have a very good game here
Speaker 1: and at like Michael Gallup, who gets a B grade,
Speaker 1: he looked terrific in the preseason. Looks like he's ready
Speaker 1: to make that sophomore leap that a lot of elite
Speaker 1: receivers make. He'll work against Genora's Jenkins and everybody knows
Speaker 1: the name Genorris Jakobs. They think he's good. He's not good.
Speaker 1: He gave up seven touchdowns in his coverage last year
Speaker 1: and a passer rating of one nine gallops downfield prowess
Speaker 1: really only needs the one deep connection and I think
Speaker 1: it's coming. Let's go to our next matchup, Matt Cincinnati
Speaker 1: taking on Seattle. You already made a case earlier in
Speaker 1: this show against all odds to start Andy Dalton, and
Speaker 1: you liked it, didn't you. Um No, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd and a grade. Actually, man's the slot in
Speaker 1: former Rams coach Zack Taylor's new offense. That's the same
Speaker 1: role the Cooper Cup. Ad Cup went for six for
Speaker 1: nine and one in the first matchup against the Seahawks
Speaker 1: defense last year, had five catches in the second matchup
Speaker 1: and tore his a c L in the middle of
Speaker 1: that game. So it was it was. It was looking good.
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor knows how to scheme the slot and with
Speaker 1: a j Green out, Tyler Boyd looks to be in
Speaker 1: a good spot here, especially if they're in catchup mode.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon is the only other Bengal that you need
Speaker 1: to really mention. He gets a C grade. Only three
Speaker 1: running backs top two hundred yards and scored against the
Speaker 1: Seahawks last year. That was Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, and
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. They're good. They're good. So was Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: but seat only gave up eight rushing touchdowns to backs
Speaker 1: last year. Game script probably favors the Bengals needing to
Speaker 1: pass on this one, and g O should be in
Speaker 1: the mix for some targets as well. On the Seahawks side.
Speaker 1: A grade for Russell Wilson. The Bengals allowed the third
Speaker 1: most passing yards and the fifth most passing touchdowns last year.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, they yielded the second most rushing attempts to
Speaker 1: the quarterback position to Tyler Lockett's getting an A grade.
Speaker 1: Lockets scored on one of every five point seven targets
Speaker 1: last year, which is insane. It's completely unsustainable, but he's
Speaker 1: basically the only healthy starting wide receiver. DK Metcalf and
Speaker 1: David Moore both might go, but are both dinged up.
Speaker 1: Lockett looks to run most of his rout side of
Speaker 1: the slot this year. Last year, he caught twenty six
Speaker 1: of twenty nine targets from the slot had five touchdowns
Speaker 1: from the slot last year. Uh, let's talk about Chris Carson.
Speaker 1: He gets an A grade as well. Carson ended the
Speaker 1: season as the second best fantasy runner. From Week thirteen on.
Speaker 1: He led the NFL in rushing attempts over the final
Speaker 1: five weeks and the Seahawks beat Reporters keep talking about
Speaker 1: how Pete Carroll thinks he's the best pass catcher on
Speaker 1: the team, About that he barely caught any passes last year,
Speaker 1: But funny enough, Rashad Penny only caught five passes all
Speaker 1: last year. The Bengals have allowed the fourth most receiving
Speaker 1: yards per game to opposing runners. Chris Carson's in for
Speaker 1: a really good game here. I like him on a
Speaker 1: fanball a lot too. He's my number three ranked running
Speaker 1: back this week, Chris Carson. We're gonna talk about one
Speaker 1: more receiver. His name's Will dis Lee in a later segment. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll come back to that in a moment. Uh Detroit
Speaker 1: takes on Arizona, Brian. We've already talked about a variety
Speaker 1: of Detroit players over the course of this show. But
Speaker 1: carry on. Johnson is my top ranked running back this week.
Speaker 1: I'll give him an a then thank you to give
Speaker 1: him a beat. Just why would you do that? Well,
Speaker 1: you already mentioned we're a little worried about c. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson stealing some carries. No, no, no, there's there's plenty
Speaker 1: to go around. Yeah, I'm giving me carry on. The
Speaker 1: Arizona allowed twenty rushing touchdowns for running backs last year.
Speaker 1: Ball I know I did. I said, ay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Only two other teams allowed more than fifteen,
Speaker 1: by the way, um and thanks you, George. We all
Speaker 1: know Detroit wants to run the ball thirty plus times
Speaker 1: a game, like Darryl Bevil has been doing throughout his career.
Speaker 1: Everything checks out on paper. They're little concerned. C. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson takes some work, Thy Jansen, Ty Johnson will uh
Speaker 1: mixing in third down, but carry on gets any moving on.
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay Marvin Jones, I'm giving him a B. I
Speaker 1: love him both, but I just know who's gonna go off.
Speaker 1: So but they're both very startable in this game. We
Speaker 1: mentioned both starting corners are out, Pat Pete and Robert
Speaker 1: Alford Goaldy and Jones are just way bigger than these guys.
Speaker 1: Jones is available and probably two thirds of leagues and
Speaker 1: he's absolutely startable this week, definitely, And uh Danny Amndla
Speaker 1: maybe he's a viable dart throw in PPR or a
Speaker 1: punt play in daily on fanball dot com if you
Speaker 1: choose to go for a minimum price. Wide receiver could
Speaker 1: factor him. But I got him gonna on the bench
Speaker 1: for the sake of redraft leagues as I do t J.
Speaker 1: Hockinson not even gonna start. Jesse James is listened as
Speaker 1: the starter, So Hockinson owners are gonna have to be patient.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench this week. But Matt Stafford might
Speaker 1: take a chance on the quarterback because that Arizona secondary
Speaker 1: is just it's not what it should be over the
Speaker 1: Arizona side. David Johnson, I'm gonna give him a be
Speaker 1: but that might be generous. Uh, it's a borderline c
Speaker 1: So these teams have played. This will be the third
Speaker 1: straight year they've seen each other. And that's much to
Speaker 1: the chagrin of David Johnson because in seventeen he broke
Speaker 1: his hand and missed the whole year. He broke in
Speaker 1: the opener. Last year, he had fifteen carries for forty
Speaker 1: nine yards and eight catches for twelve yards. Unbelievable. How
Speaker 1: do you get eight catches for twelve yards? That's it
Speaker 1: really is. Well, he and se Kwon Barkley could discuss,
Speaker 1: you know, but anyway, it's all about Snacks Harrison acquired
Speaker 1: him last year. They were allowing before they acquired him,
Speaker 1: they were having six yards per carry. After they allowed
Speaker 1: less than four. So it's a tough matchup for DJ.
Speaker 1: But you gotta startom by the way the Snacks Harrison
Speaker 1: trade for all, don't don't for all the things that
Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman has done wrong, and there's plenty. Giving up
Speaker 1: the best run stuffing defensive lineman for a fifth round
Speaker 1: pick is the dumbest of his career. God, would they
Speaker 1: love to have him back. That's saying something. That is
Speaker 1: saying a lot and made some That's Brian just his
Speaker 1: his mood went from up here to like under the floor.
Speaker 1: Hurt Brian. I'm sorry interrupted continue. Larry Fitzgerald didn't give
Speaker 1: him a b I want fresh legs fit see in
Speaker 1: my line up this week? Uh. He only just a
Speaker 1: slot corner for Detroit. Justin Coleman concedes just four inches
Speaker 1: and forty pounds on Larry Fitzgerald and Darius Lay. He
Speaker 1: has the same size advantage, probably won't travel to the
Speaker 1: slot anyway, So Fitzgerald gets a B. Probably an A
Speaker 1: grade almost, but I'll stick with the B. Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: though he's on the bench, he will see Darius Slay
Speaker 1: and his usage in the preseason has been kind of peculiar.
Speaker 1: He hasn't I've seen a lot of snaps alongside Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: so you gotta wait and see what we have with Kirk.
Speaker 1: I would not start him this week. And then speaking
Speaker 1: of Kyler Murray, he just gets to see this week
Speaker 1: and the Lions. They did allow multiple touchdown passes to
Speaker 1: ten of sixteen quarterbacks last but only Deshon Kaiser was
Speaker 1: able to crack twenty rushing yards and that was in
Speaker 1: Week seventeen. So you're probably thinking they didn't face any
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks though, right, Mitch Rubiski, Cam Newton, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Dak Prescott, They're all those are all mobile
Speaker 1: quarterback and they all were held under twenty rushing yards
Speaker 1: Kyler and people were freaking out preseason one Kyler Murray game,
Speaker 1: if he does that, it's possible. I'm worried. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's this might be. At the time, they just wait
Speaker 1: kicked back and wait on Kyler Murray and then he
Speaker 1: gets Baltimore next week the Baltimore and then you trade
Speaker 1: for him because somebody's gonna be very frustrated with Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray potentially. All right, let's go to San Francisco and
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in our final matchup of this particular segment.
Speaker 1: George kill is an obvious A and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on him. But let's
Speaker 1: go to the rest of the passing game led by
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. It's his first regular season game since his
Speaker 1: eight c L tear. You mix that together with a
Speaker 1: wildly and consistent preseason, Mix that together with all the
Speaker 1: turmoil at the wide receiver position for the nine years
Speaker 1: in the preseason, and I don't sounds like quite a cocktail.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can start Garoppolo here. I've
Speaker 1: got a C grade on him only because the matchup
Speaker 1: with Tampa is pretty compelling, and George Kittle alone makes
Speaker 1: Garoppolo I think startable, But that's only at a C level.
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis U is now no longer on the injury reports,
Speaker 1: so that's good news there, and each of his last
Speaker 1: six games of last year, Pettis saw no less than
Speaker 1: five targets, and he scored four times in those six games,
Speaker 1: and that includes the Week twelve match up with this
Speaker 1: very opponent, the Bucks, in which he's put up seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards in a touchdown. Now, inexplicably, Tampa is trotting
Speaker 1: out last year's triumvirate of cornerbacking incompetence, including Carlton Davis,
Speaker 1: who Pettis burned for his score last year. If I
Speaker 1: felt better about Garoppolo, Dante Pettis would be an A grade,
Speaker 1: but instead I've got a C grade on him, just
Speaker 1: because it's Garoppolo's first game. Back then to the running game, Yes,
Speaker 1: you find a peculiar This game starts at three fifteen
Speaker 1: Central by the four Eastern a little bit. Yeah, although
Speaker 1: maybe it's just for the San Francisco fan base who
Speaker 1: will just be Caroline are playing. I don't have an
Speaker 1: answer for that writing game. Tevin Coleman has got a
Speaker 1: nice opportunity here, and so does Matt Brita. I've got
Speaker 1: B grades on both guys because Tampa allowed the most
Speaker 1: running back touchdowns last year and they're without elite run
Speaker 1: stuffing defensive lineman Gerald McCoy, who they let walk Tampa
Speaker 1: also allowed a touchdown and or one hundred rushing yards
Speaker 1: to a back in all seven of their last games
Speaker 1: to end last year. Tevin Coleman also has had a
Speaker 1: lot of personal success well with the Falcons against the Bucks,
Speaker 1: scoring four times in his last three games against them.
Speaker 1: So I like Coleman. But here's the catch. Breed is
Speaker 1: there too, and when healthy, he's just playing better than
Speaker 1: Coleman at his position. And I'm giving him a B
Speaker 1: grade because I think for all the same reasons I
Speaker 1: like Coleman, I'm gonna like Brida, and I think Breed
Speaker 1: is a better back. So take that. Take it next.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Let's go to the Tampa side,
Speaker 1: now led by Bruce Arians. I would feel better about
Speaker 1: all of them if the offensive line wasn't brutal for
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and it looked terrible in the preseason. I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about that part of it. Still. Mike evans Is
Speaker 1: does get an A grade here, and in obvious a
Speaker 1: grade that does not does not need a lot of
Speaker 1: uh of explanation. But let's note this. He is battling
Speaker 1: illness and his listit is questionable as we look at
Speaker 1: the rest of the passing game. Let's go to Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: I love the upgraded head coach to Bruce arians Um,
Speaker 1: but the Niners are dramatically improved defensive line in the
Speaker 1: off season, particularly their acquisition of DeFord. They put a
Speaker 1: pick into first round pick into Nick Bossa, who I
Speaker 1: think is going to play in this game at least situationally,
Speaker 1: assuming his his ankle is all right. Winston has a
Speaker 1: positive matchups all over the field, including Mike Evans, who
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, but also Chris Godwin who gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. De Sean Jackson and Adam Humphreys left one
Speaker 1: hundred seventy four vacant targets available for Godwin to soak up,
Speaker 1: and he'll run from the slot where he draws Kwan Williams,
Speaker 1: who in proved dramatically over the course of last year.
Speaker 1: But Godwin has a sizeable size advantage of four inches
Speaker 1: and twenty five pounds on Williams and might be able
Speaker 1: to use that to get to some space. Be great
Speaker 1: and Godwin and O. J. Howard also the B grade.
Speaker 1: All those vacant targets I mentioned earlier also helped O. J.
Speaker 1: Howard here um he was terrific before injury ended his
Speaker 1: season in Week eleven last year and should pick up
Speaker 1: right where he left off. Bruce Arians doesn't have the
Speaker 1: history with the tight end at all, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it matters. I mean, O. J. Howard's really good
Speaker 1: and Bruce Arians never really had great tight ends. Well,
Speaker 1: if you look back to Heath Miller in Pittsburgh, he
Speaker 1: Miller had a fantasy viable career. So say Evans is
Speaker 1: actually too sick to play, I think you gotta go
Speaker 1: add Breshad Perryman and you start him with confidence. Yeah
Speaker 1: if if well, if you can almost start, think you
Speaker 1: can ever started with no Well, but let me just
Speaker 1: mention this as well. Peyton Barber a nice, potentially nice matchup.
Speaker 1: He scored in four the last six games last year,
Speaker 1: and the Niners allowed a rushing score in each of
Speaker 1: the last six games last year. But the Tampa offensive
Speaker 1: line guys are just not convinced they can do enough
Speaker 1: to help Barber here, and I've just got a C
Speaker 1: grade on him. Our final topics are ahead. When we
Speaker 1: provide you with three guys we will believe, we believe
Speaker 1: will be the hot waiver wire pickups next week. These
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Speaker 1: think that are available in the waiver wire you should
Speaker 1: pick up now before everybody else who wants him. Next week,
Speaker 1: I begin with Brian Johnson. Who is your pre spec
Speaker 1: guy this week? Tampa Bay running back Dare Ogun, one
Speaker 1: of the fantasy gyms that has emerged from the preseason.
Speaker 1: Ogun bally will open the season, is Tampa Bay's third
Speaker 1: down back, and as we all know, Tampa Bay is
Speaker 1: going to be playing from behind a lot um. Favorable
Speaker 1: game scripts are in the future, and it's very feasibly
Speaker 1: eats into the carries of the very average Peyton Barber
Speaker 1: and vastly inferior Ronald Jones. Alright, Matt, who's your guy?
Speaker 1: Will dis Lee of the Seattle Seahawks. No one's healthy
Speaker 1: in Seattle, just Tyler Lockett and Will Disley. After targeting
Speaker 1: lock at twenty five times, Wilson will have to go
Speaker 1: to dis Ley at some point. Uh dis Lee took
Speaker 1: the league by storm last season with three for one
Speaker 1: oh five and one in Week one. Scored again in
Speaker 1: Week two, then missed the rest of the season with
Speaker 1: a knee injury. He's back, He's healthy. It's will dis
Speaker 1: Lee my premature speculation back is is also a third
Speaker 1: down back. Like Brian mentioned don Trelle Hilliard. Everybody wants
Speaker 1: a part of the Browns offense. Here's your chance to
Speaker 1: get be get this year's version of guts of not
Speaker 1: Gus Johnson Edwards, not Gus Edwards, Duke Johnson. Last year's
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson roll in Cleveland is now Dontrelle Hilliard and
Speaker 1: if anything were to happen to Nick Chubb, Trell Hilliard
Speaker 1: my premature speculation player. Let's get back to our matchups,
Speaker 1: beginning with Pittsburgh taking on the New England Patriots. James
Speaker 1: Conner gets an A grade. He's looked like the full
Speaker 1: time bell cow back in Pittsburgh a camp, taking almost
Speaker 1: every snap with the first teamers and the Patriots Achilles
Speaker 1: Heal his past catching running backs, they were bottom ten
Speaker 1: and receiving yards allowed and receptions to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: Connor had five or more receptions and six of thirteen
Speaker 1: games last year. Big Ben's getting an A. Uh. He's
Speaker 1: thrown for three d plus and multiple scores in eight
Speaker 1: straight games against New England. That's crazy awesome stat from
Speaker 1: Evan Silva to No. Eight team played more manned defense
Speaker 1: than Bill Belichick's Patriots. Sports Info solution credit had Ben
Speaker 1: with thirty five to ten touchdown to interception racy against
Speaker 1: man versus thirteen to fifteen against zone. So he likes
Speaker 1: the man defense, So the Pats play a lot of man.
Speaker 1: That means uh. Pro Football Focus is top rated corner
Speaker 1: from eighteen Stephon Gilmore. It's probably playing jujuice, so I
Speaker 1: only gave him a C. Yeah, if they held him
Speaker 1: to four catches for forty yards last year on ten targets, uh.
Speaker 1: Juju saw double digit targets in six of the last
Speaker 1: seven games in eighteen. Even if if Gilmore doesn't follow him,
Speaker 1: he gets j C. Jackson or Jason mccordy. Those guys
Speaker 1: are both really good too, um, and that's why I
Speaker 1: have Dante montcrieff and James Washington on the bench. Vance McDonald,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a B grade too, though McDonald finished as
Speaker 1: a top twelve tight end while splitting snaps with Jesse
Speaker 1: James last year finished third in yards after the catch
Speaker 1: among tight ends, and if Jujus lockdown, Vance is the
Speaker 1: next best target on the team. He did score in
Speaker 1: the meeting last year as well. On the Patriots side,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady getting a C grade. Brady has been held
Speaker 1: under three hundred yards in only one passing, scoring each
Speaker 1: of the last two matchups with Pittsburgh, and center David
Speaker 1: Andrews is going to be out. The Pittsburgh defense is
Speaker 1: a bit reborn too. It's not gonna be an easy
Speaker 1: matchup here, agreed Julian Edelman. I gotta B grade on
Speaker 1: Edelman average nine targets, six catches and seventy one yards
Speaker 1: in games where Josh Gordon also played last year, and
Speaker 1: he's had at least seven catches in each of his
Speaker 1: last four meetings with Pittsburgh and topped ninety yards and
Speaker 1: three of those four. Josh Gordon, I'm only given a
Speaker 1: CEE though he's more of a dart throw. We don't
Speaker 1: quite know how he's gonna be. Came into camp a
Speaker 1: little bit late, didn't see many snaps with the preseason team.
Speaker 1: Uh Sony Michelle and James White. They're the running backs
Speaker 1: on that team. They're both get Now those are the
Speaker 1: only two. Yeah, they're both getting. They're both getting C grades.
Speaker 1: It's possible that both of these guys return numbers in
Speaker 1: a given week. But this matchup sucks. Uh White lad
Speaker 1: the team in targets last year. He was bottled up
Speaker 1: in the game against them. He had seven targets but
Speaker 1: only five catches for twenty five yards. The Steelers allowed
Speaker 1: the second fewest reception to opposing backs last year and
Speaker 1: an average of only thirty two yards per game through
Speaker 1: the air to opposing backs. Sony Michelle ran the ball
Speaker 1: for fifty nine scoreless yards in the prior matchup last year,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers held opposing runners to the seventh fewest
Speaker 1: rushing yards last year. They're good defense. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough for them. They added Devin Bush in the middle right,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna make it all that much more difficult.
Speaker 1: I believe Brian Houston taking on New Orleans has feels
Speaker 1: like a lot of potential fantasy starters here. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: start with the running game for Houston. Duke Johnson gets
Speaker 1: to see New Orleans gave up the second fewest rushing
Speaker 1: attempts and the fewest rushing yards last season, only three
Speaker 1: point two yards per carry. That's pretty brutal, but the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins is doubtful to play. That's a
Speaker 1: plus for Duke, and the Saints did allow the second
Speaker 1: most receiving touchdowns for running back, so he gets to
Speaker 1: see DeAndre Hopkins gets in a duh, but he is
Speaker 1: shadowed by Marshall. He will be shadowed by Marshawn Latimer,
Speaker 1: who suffocated in coverage as a rookie. Struggled at times
Speaker 1: last year though, so either way, this will be a
Speaker 1: tough matchup for him. The premier wide receiver cornerback matchup
Speaker 1: of the week A good one to watch. I got
Speaker 1: all the other receivers on the bench, Will Fuller, Kenny Stills,
Speaker 1: ki Qt. Fuller's coming off the a c L. You
Speaker 1: really want to see what you got there with those guys.
Speaker 1: The floor is way too low for with all three,
Speaker 1: so we're on the bench. Deshaun Watson, I'll give him
Speaker 1: a B. I'm really nervous about this front seven and
Speaker 1: that offensive line despite the trade for learning Mee Tunsil.
Speaker 1: He's just he's pretty new to the team and Uh,
Speaker 1: Watson's gonna be running for his life. But he has
Speaker 1: his legs, he has Hopkins. You're gonna start him. I'll
Speaker 1: give him a B borderline c though over the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Side album. Kamara just to be here. Very tough matchup.
Speaker 1: Houston did not allow more than eighty two rushing yards
Speaker 1: to any running back last season. They also surrendered the
Speaker 1: second I'm sorry in Additionally, two opposing running backs cracked
Speaker 1: forty receiving yards against the Texans all year class season.
Speaker 1: So not a great spot for Kamara. But you're definitely
Speaker 1: gonna bench bench him. And for those reasons, I have
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray on the bench. He'll be started with in
Speaker 1: most weeks. He'll be flex. He'll have some flex appeal,
Speaker 1: but the Saint it not this week. Michael Thomas though,
Speaker 1: who Yeah, I'm gonna give him the fantasy FANSI to
Speaker 1: a He'll see a mixture of Bradley Roby and Jonathan
Speaker 1: Joseph and coverage. Roby underachieved as a starter with the
Speaker 1: Broncos last year, allowing a hundred and sixteen quarterback rating
Speaker 1: in his coverage. Jonathan Joseph is just old. This is
Speaker 1: the thirteenth year in the league. Thomas is gonna go
Speaker 1: off big time. He has to be your number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I would imagine this week or you know
Speaker 1: he is. I think yes, he is number one. And
Speaker 1: Jared Cook he gets an A as well. Last year,
Speaker 1: the Texans allowed the second most tight end yards and
Speaker 1: the third most tight end touchdowns. Drew Brees has not
Speaker 1: had a good tight end since Jimmy Graham. Sorry, Kobe Fleaner,
Speaker 1: remember whenever it was so hot for cold Innermobile oh
Speaker 1: Man and Drew Brees. The between Jared Cook and Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: and of course Album Kamara. He gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: This is gonna this is a great spot for him,
Speaker 1: all right. I get the spectacle Denver Oakland, Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: This is the game everyone wants to watch now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it on Monday Night. Is the second of the two games.
Speaker 1: We begin with the passing game. Joe Flacco with a
Speaker 1: B grade, which says a lot. But here's your Raiders
Speaker 1: in organizational disarray, their secondaries influx, they get zero pressure
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks, and they allowed the most passing touchdowns last year.
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco B grade. Emmanuel Sanders goes along with that
Speaker 1: for a B grade. He'll work out of the slot,
Speaker 1: where he'll face LaMarcus Joiner, former free safety with very
Speaker 1: little game experience at cornerback. I like him. I like
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton. Most often, he'll face returning cornerback Darryl Worley,
Speaker 1: who surrendered five scores a season ago that was the
Speaker 1: fourth most of any cornerback. And Sun's got a huge
Speaker 1: size advantage over Worly, with a delta of four inches
Speaker 1: and twenty pounds over Worly. I think Sutton can use
Speaker 1: that to his advantage. So we'll start those two. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running game. You guys know I feel
Speaker 1: about Philip Lindsay. I love him, and he faces a
Speaker 1: Denver run defense that gave up one nineteen rushing yard
Speaker 1: per game last year's second most, including one hundred seven
Speaker 1: to Philip Lindsay last year and almost eight yards per carry. Look,
Speaker 1: I know everybody's all hot for Royce Freeman, and they
Speaker 1: really want Royce Freeman to go win this thing and
Speaker 1: go dethrown Philip Lindsay. Not me, not even remotely interested.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Lindsay more like lukewarm for Freeman.
Speaker 1: Can't bet there are people that are very hot for
Speaker 1: for Freeman. I'm giving Freeman a C grade in this
Speaker 1: one to Lindsay by the way of B grade if
Speaker 1: I didn't say it out right, I'm giving Freeman a
Speaker 1: C grade just because there should be plenty of touches
Speaker 1: to go around against an Oakland team that gave up
Speaker 1: the second most rushing yards, third most rushing attempts per game,
Speaker 1: so I think, and by the way, almost five yards
Speaker 1: per carry. So I think Freeman could still get something
Speaker 1: done here even if Lindsay does get most of the work,
Speaker 1: which he should get most of the work. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Oakland side. I'm gonna save the worst for last.
Speaker 1: Start with the running game, Josh Jacobs. The Broncos gave
Speaker 1: up the fourth most rushing attempts and the sixth most
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game to a posing running backs, and
Speaker 1: last year these same Broncos love three different raiders backs
Speaker 1: to score Marshaw Lynch, Jalen Richard and Doug Doug Martin
Speaker 1: and Martin and over one hundred yards. So I think
Speaker 1: you can start Josh Jacobs with a certain amount of
Speaker 1: confidence here. Don't like the offensive line, don't like the
Speaker 1: rest of the offense, and all the other things, all
Speaker 1: the other chaos, but man running the ball would solve
Speaker 1: a lot of problems for these Raiders, and they're gonna try.
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders do not score a touchdown in
Speaker 1: this game. That's it's not even a bold prediction of Waller.
Speaker 1: What about Darren Waller? Waller probably catch Jacobs, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's just go right to Darren Waller. So crazy athlete,
Speaker 1: enormous size four or five speed. He walks into the
Speaker 1: cleats of Jared Cook, who posted a career year in
Speaker 1: Oakland last season. The Broncos gave up the seventh most
Speaker 1: yards to tight ends last year. But here comes Vic Fangio.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to shore that up and they'll
Speaker 1: they won't be as leaky to tight ends. But I
Speaker 1: still have a B grade to Darren Waller, and I
Speaker 1: think he's as likely as anybody to lead the team
Speaker 1: even targets and receptions. How does that feel, Brian? Are
Speaker 1: you loving that? Alright? Good? Now, let's go to the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Antonio Brown expected to play um, although there's
Speaker 1: far too many hours between now and Monday, honestly to
Speaker 1: know for sure if he's gonna make it to Monday
Speaker 1: as a starter, but as of this moment, we think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play as a human. I don't expect Brown
Speaker 1: to have anywhere close to full snap count Oaks. He
Speaker 1: missed so much time in the preseason and a brand
Speaker 1: new team has no real chemistry and timing with the
Speaker 1: rest of this offense. I think it's limited snaps for
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. And when he's on the field, I think
Speaker 1: he gets shadowed by outstanding cornerback Chris Harris. So I
Speaker 1: pour all that together and I got barely a C
Speaker 1: grade on Antonio Brown only out of respect for his
Speaker 1: past accomplishments. He could just put him on the bench.
Speaker 1: Tyrolle Williams is the only guy I want to mention
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown likely to only have those I think.
Speaker 1: I think somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty plays or less,
Speaker 1: f Antonio own Tyroll Williams becomes the go to wide receiver.
Speaker 1: But now they get the problem is when he's on
Speaker 1: the field, maybe Chris Harris, you know, follows him around,
Speaker 1: and that wouldn't be great either. So I roll out
Speaker 1: all together. I gotta see grade on Tyroll Williams. Maybe
Speaker 1: because Oakland just falls behind by so much so early,
Speaker 1: they throw the ball a lot, and you just get
Speaker 1: get garbage time out of Tyroll Williams. That's probably your
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