WEBVTT - Tell That To Saquon Barkley 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:05.400 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.400 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now, 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.640 along with the guys from fanball dot com, here's the 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:19.280 host for Fantasy Football Weekly. It is time for America's 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.040 longest running fantasy show, Fantasy Football Weekly and I Heart 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.680 Radio production. I am your host, Paul Charchy and from 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.760 fanball dot Com by coast today are Brian Johnson and 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:34.040 Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, night chart happy Football Festivus fellas. Yeah, 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.960 football Festivus is not Week sixteen Christmas week. It's uh, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.040 it's week one. Right. You know was celebrating, right? Did 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.839 you say? Righting me ow? Yes? Good. I don't understand 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.040 the reference set an old sign field reference. I don't know. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.720 Super troopers haven't seen it. Okay. Over the course to today, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.240 we're going to break down every game fantasy style. We're 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.520 in regular season mode. Finally, that means we're not gonna 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.960 bother telling you which teams going to win. We're gonna 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.120 tell you which players are gonna help your fantasy team win. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.480 You'll hear letter grades for every meaningful fantasy player and 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.200 irrationale for why we feel that way. We will also 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.400 answer three tough questions. We'll give you nine players upon 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.560 whom you can take a chance, and we'll jump into 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.760 a time machine to identify the players everybody's going to 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.720 be looking for on the waiver wire next week, but 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.640 you've already picked him up this week. Blam. Oh, we 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.120 should name it like the time machine, the time machine, 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.360 uh segment or something. We should come to some time 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.720 machine thing for this speculation. It's called premature speculator. We 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.480 can't be better than that name. I forget it, No, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:48.280 I was, I was unclear at what you were thinking here. Okay, good, 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.200 let's become We get with just some quick reaction to 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.560 the Thursday night game, and we'll touch on it on 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.600 and off a little bit throughout the show. But mostly 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.440 I want to talk about the disappointment that I have 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.120 in the usage of David mc humery. I thought was looked, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.280 I thought looked really good on all seven of his touches. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.560 Super frustrating. Do you guys believe that this is going 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.720 to be indicative of the way Montgomery is going to 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.360 be used long term? Well, the offense didn't do a 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:18.360 very good job for Chicago. That's just so uh. They 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.679 might have to make some changes here, although it was 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.799 interesting hearing Al Michael's and Chris collins Worth talking about 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.760 Mike Davis and how he's the best route runner of 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.320 all the running backs on the team and they got 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.840 Tariko in there, So what's like, Mike Davis obviously has 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.079 a role in this offense and that makes me a 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.359 little nervous. Took like forty snaps in the slot. Yeah 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.760 he did. Yeah, that was a lot of Cohen's usage, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.600 didn't you know he wasn't on the field in place 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.960 of Montgomery so much it was all Mike Davis. And 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.040 even if say Montgomery was on the field the whole 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.160 game with Mitch truebiscus your quarterback who cares sad and 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.000 they're not moving the ball and regardless of the running back. Yeah, no, kidding, 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.160 that's a that's a lost opportunity. For sure. We will 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.200 touch on some other aspect to that game as they 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.360 may come up with the charts. I wanted to mention 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.600 similar to if there's a Thursday game where a guy 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.600 goes off and you're chasing points. This is the rare 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.280 opposite where if you had Davante Adams or if you 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.960 had Aaron Rodgers, or you had some of those guys 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.800 that you expected big numbers out of. These guys just 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.960 didn't deliver. So now you might have to adjust some 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:24.320 of your fantasy UH lineups to try to score more points. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.480 You might need a few more home run hitters if 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.160 you got some zeros, and that's a great point. You 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.480 might need to go high risk, high reward if if 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.320 you want to try to make up for that for 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.440 any Bears losses that you had. And for that matter, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.000 the Packers didn't do much either, so you know, Aaron 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.360 Jones huge disappointment as well. All right, let's jump into 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.720 the matchups, beginning with the Rams taking on the Carolina Panthers. Matt, 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.720 this is uh, this is a game with about ten 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.880 starters in it, most all of the obvious Rams. Why 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.320 don't we Why don't we begin there? And the Rams? 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.240 I do want to start with the Rams because I'm 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.360 downgrading the entire Rams offense a full letter grade for 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.120 two reasons. Not one starter played a snap in the preseason. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.680 There's going to be rusted there. Yeah, there was last year. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.840 Do you remember that first half of Week one of 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.920 last year? They played the Raiders and and just kind 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.760 of scuffled around uh second. The Rams lost guard Roger 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.039 Saffold and center John Sullivan this offseason noted a lineman 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.560 Joseph note Boom and Brian Allen are now anchoring the 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.839 center of that line. They have a combined on career 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.159 offensive snaps and those two lineman face a pretty tough 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.680 task this week against Carolina line including Gerald McCoy and 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.920 Brian Burns as good additions to that front. Seven. So 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.240 Jared Goff, I'm giving a C grade and I know 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.320 you have him ranked really high. So here's the reason 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.640 people are starting to compare Jared Goff to Drew Brees 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.760 as Goff has the big contract, he's tied to Sean 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.760 McVeigh for years, and Goff might be the new Drew 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.120 Brees because Goff's passer rating goes from one sixteen at 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.960 home to eighty two point seven on the road, and 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.599 last year in five outdoor road games, he averaged two 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.599 d twenty seven passing yards, one touchdown and one point 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.080 four interceptions. He was bad on the road. They leaned 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.480 on Todd Gurley all the time and he didn't play 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.440 like huge, awesome, awesome defenses either. It was the Raiders 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.840 the Seahawks and the forty Niners involved in those three 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.559 and three of those five. So there we go. Brandon Cooks, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.400 I'm giving him a B grade. Cooper Cups getting like 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.960 C plus. I know we don't do pluses, but we 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.400 don't do Roberts. I'm only giving up grade too as well. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.200 Ron Rivera's Tanther's defense ran zone coverage at the seventh 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.640 highest rate last year, and according to Evans Silva, Brandon 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.279 Cooks has the fourth highest yards per target against zone coverage. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.240 The Panthers allowed the fifth most passing touchdowns last season, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.200 and it was perimeter speed receivers that burned them the most. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.240 It was Beckham, al Shan, Golladay, Ridley Godwin. They all 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.359 torched that secondary for big fantasy plays. And actually like 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.200 Cup the most out of these guys on Fanball this 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.960 week because he's only because the Anthers haven't settled in 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:02.560 on a slot corner yet and it's gonna be some 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:07.159 combo of Ross, Cockrell and j V and Elliott. Woods. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.400 Only has a question, Cup, though, is to me all 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.560 about snap? Is you gonna run ten plates? Is he 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.599 gonna run twenty? I bet he goes full full boar. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.120 I bet he's in um. Woods had only three scores 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.760 in the first ten weeks last season. Then Cooper Cup 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.960 got injured and they moved him to the slot. He 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.480 scored four times in the last six games without Cup, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.960 saw his targets, receptions, and yards per game all tick 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.880 up significantly. I'm worried the Cooper Cup back in that 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.760 offense moves Robert Woods to the outside and he's not 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.719 as good Todd Gurley. I'm giving a B grade to 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.520 Malcolm Brown and Darryll Henderson are on the bench. Presumably 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.520 this is the best shape of the season you're going 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.400 to get out if you got him. Sure, Let's consider 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.880 the twelve games where Gurley was healthy last season. His 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.080 six Roads starts, he averaged twenty four touches, a D 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.479 and thirty five yards and two total scores per game, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.839 only a few fewer touches and yards per game, but 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.720 only scored one per game at home. So they lean 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.599 on him on the road. Uh, let's go to the 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.760 Panthers side. Christian McCaffrey easy a due it averages almost 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:12.040 seven receptions per game and nothing. Nothing about Jordan's scarlet 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.080 scares me. Behind him, Cam Newton, I'm giving a C grade. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.239 It's not the injury that concerns me. It's a rebuilt 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.680 offensive line and Aaron Donald. Uh. It seems like a 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.080 game where North Turner will probably try to scheme to 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:26.920 get the ball out of his hands quickly, which should 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.920 mean a lot of running and short passes. Running with 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.000 McCaffrey not running for cam ye hopefully not. Newton was 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.920 already the thirty second ranked quarterback and average depth of 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.640 target last year at seven point six and immediate games 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.240 after injuries over the past three years, Newton has attempted 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.960 over forty passes, both times short passes all day long. Yeah, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.120 I think this counts is coming off injury, and if 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.360 it was a preseason injury, that probably counts. I think 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.680 that benefits DJ more more because DJ Moore's average depth 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.200 of target was nine point six yard. Curtis Samuel was 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.920 twelve point two. So More gets the B grade, Sam 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.560 gets the sea. Uh. If you had the Bears or 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.640 Packers land eggs, Samuel's probably your home run deep threat 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.000 for the touchdown because the Rams gave up an NFC 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.480 high fourteen receptions or forty yards or more last season. Yeah, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.280 although it keep to leaving back really changes that second 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.080 area Ton that does help. He's gonna match up against 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.600 Curtis Samuel too, and then finally Greg Olsen. He gets 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.040 a C grade. He's healthier than the second year tight 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.560 end Ian Thomas, and he fits into the short passing 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.880 pretty well. Another guy playing all he's healthy, play him 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.480 all he's out. You don't have many chances to do 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.320 that a game that will not feature nearly as many starters. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.200 Washington takes on Philadelphia, Brian and on the Washington side 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.000 outside of Darius, guys, is there anybody to start? Not? Really? Well, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.240 we'll talk about guys. Speaking of playing him all he's healthy, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.559 he bawled in that category, So rollout, guys. Uh, he 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.400 said to see the line share of carries, but he's 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.640 running behind a very battered O line. The Eagles did 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.160 allow more than four and a half yards per carrying eighteen, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.520 but game script is not going to favor guys in 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.720 this one, and Chris Thompson is set to soak up 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.439 all the pass catching work and Adrian Peterson still warm 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.520 enough body, so just to see for guys in his 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.440 uh official debut, really um, But then the litany of 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.400 bench players case Keenum on the bench. H Thirty six 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.840 year old Donald penn Is playing left tackle. Hasn't played 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.520 the position in since. Next to him is Eric Flowers. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.040 How do you feel about Eric Flowers, former Giants fan? Uh? Yeah, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.160 at least let's not re visit that. So that's like 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.120 the most revolving doors left side of the of an 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.600 offensive line in the NFL. For the wide receivers, Paul 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.079 Richardson and Terry McLaurin are on the bench. So is 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.680 Trey Quinn. I was close to giving Fishers boys see 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.559 here because case Keenum has shown an affinity for his 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.040 slot receivers Adam Feeling, Manny Sanders. He even made Tavon 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.400 Austin fantasy relevant in tween with the Rams with over 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.600 a hundred targets. But he's on the bench. Uh, and 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.679 so is Jordan Reid suffered another concussion in the preseason. 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.640 But he might play, but I don't. I don't want 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.040 him to play. At some point. I think everybody wants 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.800 him to go. Andrew lock on the bed, all right, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.960 how about the eagle side. Let's talk about guys who matter, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.959 all right. Carson Wentz gets an as multiple touchdowns in 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.920 his last three starts against Washington, um Philly might take 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.559 their foot off the gas in the second half. That's 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.160 the only concern with wins. He gets the A, so 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.480 does Art's Zack ERTs. That is has eighty receiving yards 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.319 and four of his last five against Washington, and there's 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.080 basically no chance in hell anyone would bench za Urates. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.800 So I don't know why I'm even talking about it anymore. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.480 Alshon Jeffrey gets a be popped up on the injury 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.280 report with a biceps issue, but should be fine. He 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.640 won't be shadowed by Josh Norman. Not like that really, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:33.719 ma yep and Wentz will throw multiple touchdowns in this game, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.960 and Jeffrey a likely recipient. He did go for five 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.560 catches fifty nine yards in a touchdown when these teams 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.280 met lately. In their last meeting late last season, DeShawn Jackson, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.600 I'm putting him on the bench, has a broken finger. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.199 Wasn't gonna play, but I was gonna try and play. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.199 He's always a high risk, high reward, low volume homecoming 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.640 and revenge game. That Jackson. Wow, thanks Matt, you took 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.880 my next bullet. You're so funny over there. But yeah, 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.439 if he sits, sorry, I don't care. And j j 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.120 arthega white Side. I'll tell you what, Yeah, white Side, 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.160 he's he would be a if Deshan Jackson doesn't go 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.360 in particular, but even if he does, J j Arthega 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.319 white Side would be a tantalizing dart throw. See I 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.120 never I never typed that out or right out. It's 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.680 always Jaws or j j W had a little brain 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.720 fart there, But yeah, Jaws would be in line for 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.800 a significant run if d jack sits and Miles Sanders 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.079 Jordan Howard, I'm just giving both the sea. Philly did 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.720 carry the ball twenty nine times and thirty times in 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.080 both meetings against Washington, but this is gonna be like 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.760 a fifty fifty split. This might be a revisitation of 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.040 what we saw in the Bears backfield basically on Thursday night. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.160 So just sees for those guys and that's it. Watch 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.840 Jordan Howard get twenty touches in this game. Just make 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.360 everybody upside. He's going to see more worse he'll be 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.439 see He'll see more carries and Sanders in this game. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.120 I wouldn't be surprised a little bit like Montgomery, you know, 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.000 just coaches just are so risk averse. They just they 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.320 want to go with their veterans who they know and trust. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.160 And even if they made that draft pick and they're 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.680 invested in the success of that rookie man, it takes 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.000 a lot to get those guys onto the playing field 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.840 in many situations really quick though. If read Sits don't 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.679 play Vernon Davis either, it's an awful matchup. Philly is 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.120 like top five and yeah, just don't do it. Falcons 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.480 take on the Vikings. This one is a little bit 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.000 tricky because the status of Stepan Diggs true game time 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.480 decision coming for Stefon Diggs, and if he doesn't go, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.720 it hurts everybody. Everybody basically drops a whole letter grade 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.200 because the Vikings receivers after him. It really tails off. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.800 And in games that Stefon Diggs has missed, Adam Feeling 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.000 gets twenty fewer yards, he drops down a letter grade. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.640 If they can't pass to Theeeling as well, where else 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.280 they gonna go? Ola BC Johnson, No, Josh Dockson, Come on, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:48.320 Josh Docs, right, I mean, everybody gets hurt. So I'm 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.920 going to pretend for our purposes that Diggs is playing. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.840 But if he's not, know that everybody else goes down 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.080 a letter grade here, I've got a I've got a 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.120 A grade on feeling for now he's gonna see a 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.880 fair amount, I believe, at least it appears this way 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.720 of Isaiah Oliver cornerback with a lot of passer rating 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.640 one one and his coverage last year. Oliver is one 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.600 of the bigger and slower corners in the league, and Feeling, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.280 of course super slippery. Now they may move some Feeling 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.040 into the slot some and if they do that, he 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.079 gets demonte Kazi, who is unusually lead footed for a 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.080 slot cornerback. So I think Theeeling can succeed either place. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.640 I hope he's good, just so we can say demonte 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.600 Kazi exactly. And if if it turns out the dig 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.840 doesn't Diggs doesn't go, then just they're gonna throw two 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.839 bodies on Feeling. So again frustration there for me personally, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.480 not only is a Viking fan life long, but also 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.360 because I'd like to get this thing straight. We don't 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.680 know about Diggs. If they both go, both Diggs and 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.120 Feeling are roughly in a grade um. And if it 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.240 is Diggs dugment trufun only plays one side of the field. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:50.959 They can just flip Diggs on the other side of 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.960 the field and just hangle Obis Johnson out to dry 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.040 on Desmond Trufon. If they want to do that, let's 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.680 go to Cousins then. So Falcon safety is healthy this 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.400 year after missing last year um and so that I 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.920 don't think it makes any sense to regurgitate last year's 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.600 terrible numbers for the secondary of for Atlantic, because they're 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.480 all better now. Vikings offensive line was rebuilt in the 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.520 off season and looked far better in pass blocking than 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.080 run blocking. I've got a B grade on Kirk Cousins 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.720 in this in this one C grade on Kyle Rudolph, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.000 who scored when these teams met in twenties seventeen. But 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.360 I don't see an obvious reason to expect a big 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.200 game here. Last year, despite all the injuries, the Falcons 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.520 were still a very good tight end defense and which 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.080 should be at least that good this year. And then 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.800 there's Dalvin Cook. The new look Vikings offensive line really 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.960 struggled with run blocking in the preseason, but maybe it 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.960 doesn't matter. Atlanta is all of the most running back 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.360 receptions last year. They all the most running back receptions 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.120 the year before that, the most the year before that, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.240 and the most the year before that. Think about it, geez, 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.680 Dan crowning pay. It's a team that's just letting that happen. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.800 The almost scheming to let running backs catch passes. They 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.720 do have to face Alvin Kamara and Christian McCaffrey, but 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.400 a little bit. It's four tough games. Dalvin Cook is 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.960 a competent pass catcher. I think he's at the level 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.960 of those guys, but he's good enough and he should 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.920 have should get quite a few receptions in this one, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.160 um and all if you give you know, if you 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.480 give Dalvin Cook in just a crack, you could get 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.240 the eighty four yard touched on. Like we saw in 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.640 the preseason, he is an A grade with digs in 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.680 a B grade without. Let's go to the Falconside, which 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.920 has got a little more clarity on less. Julio Jones 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.160 doesn't play, Yeah, but he's gotta come on. He's playing. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.840 By all accounts that you know their negotiations have gone better. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.400 He's gonna go. So let's start with Julio Jones, who 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.200 has been frustrated by Mike Zimmer and the three matchups 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.880 against Mike Zimmer's Vikings Leo Jones average line four catches, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.640 fifty four yards, zero touchdowns. That's it. That's Xavier Roads 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.040 right there. That's some Xavier Roads right there. Now, I 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.080 think there's some question about which version of Xavier Roads 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.400 were gonna get. Is it the Pro Bowl guy that 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.880 was around two and three years ago, or is it 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.320 guy who disappointed and was inconsistent last year and then 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.920 look terrible in this one preseason game earlier this year. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.400 So you know, I still think there's some room for 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.560 doubt about Xavier Rhodes on this and so I've got 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.040 to be grade on Julio Jones. Opposite him is Calvin Ridley. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:19.120 Fascinating matchup there as much as Rhads and Julio Jones 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.160 are physical versus physical cornerback receiver matchups. Calvin Ridley is 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.520 all speed. He's a four three eight speed guy. Trey 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:32.800 Waynes for three one speeds fast, seven hundreds of a 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.040 second faster for Trey Waynes. It's speed on speed. So 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.560 I think those guys get neutralized pretty well by the 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.720 Vikings starters. I've got a C grade on Calvin Ridley. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.720 Trey Waynes didn't start backwards though. When he was getting 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.640 clocked running those well that none of the cornerbacks do 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.720 usually run. They should probably make corners start backwards. I'd 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.880 like to see that Austin Hooper is doesn't score a 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.480 lot anyway. Vikings given three tight end touchdowns in their 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.680 last twenty seven games. That's it, just to see grade 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.480 on Austin Hooper and lastly DeVonta Freeman. In the last 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.040 two seasons, the only one hundred yard rushing games against 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.240 Minnesota came on a single untouched like ninety yard Kalin 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.359 ballage run against Miami and then Jordan Howard on the 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.760 final game of last year when the Vikings had pretty 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.600 much packed it in. The Vikings run stuff for Lynval 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.119 Joseph missed the entire preseason, but rest assured he is 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.400 going to go in this one. Freeman could catch the ball. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.720 Vikings are the middle of the pack um defense in 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.159 terms of past catchers. Uh so maybe Freeman gets a 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.320 little something done that way through the air. So b 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.200 grade Devanta Freeman. There you go, guys. Um I should 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.439 note everything charge available at fanball dot com. By going 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.760 to fanball dot com slash charts, you get instant access 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.480 to my free weekly rankings are free five thousand dollar 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.600 week one contest Play against Me our podcast, and it's 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.479 your portal to guillotine leagues as well again fanball dot 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.760 Com Slash Charge. Coming up next, It's a segment we 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.240 call Take a Chance on Me. Nine players who you 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.360 wouldn't normally start, but you can. This week. You are 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.119 listening to Fantasy Football Weekly and I Heart Radio production 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.639 Fantasy Football Weekly returns courtesy of I Heart Radio. I 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.080 am Paul Charchy in my Twitter account at Paul Charchy, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.320 and I am with Matt Harrison, you are Explosive Output, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.159 and Brian Johnson you are on Twitter at b t 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.720 x j x J. Nine players not normally in your lineups, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.080 many of whom are available on the waiver wire. It 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.080 is time for our very royalty free version of taking 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.800 Chance on Me. That's what it is. Matt's face was. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.960 I'm sure mine was quite similar. Yeah. When these three 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.919 sleeper quarterbacks running back to receivers hit pay dirt, you 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.320 pay us nothing. These are royalty from Take a Chance 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.080 on Me. That is the same amount we pay for 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.800 this version of the song right here. Definitely, positively, in 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.400 a very legally binding way. This song is not ABBA's classic. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.639 Let's take a chance on Are we not getting played 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.600 to play this on the radio? That's what I'm saying. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.000 Let's start at the quarterback position. Brian Johnson, who is 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.800 you take a chance? I mean quarterback? All right? He 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.240 was my final sleeper of the preseason because of his 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.840 favorable start. And it starts this week in Arizona. And 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.160 that's Matt Stafford of the Detroit Lions. Of course, Arizona 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.160 will be without both starting cornerbacks Patrick Peterson and Robert Alford, 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.399 Bill roll Out, Tremaine Brock who was on his fifth team, 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.840 uh journeyman and second round rookie Byron Murphy. Marvin Jones 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.600 has four inches and fifteen pounds at least on both 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.840 of these scrubs, Baby Tron. Kenny Golladay has like six 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.520 inches and thirty pounds on these guys, they're just gonna 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.680 dominate the red zone. And uh yeah, Matt Stafford, man, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.280 I'm listening, all right, Matt, who should take a chance 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.160 on me? Quarterback? Let's go with Andy Dalton and this 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.960 is a garbage time special. Seattle is fourteen and o 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.960 in September home games under Pete Carroll. Yeah, in similar 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.960 garbage time fashion. Last year in a in a road 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.800 game in Seattle, Nick Mullins torched the Seahawks defense for four, 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:32.960 fourteen and two. And Dalton has actually been really really 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.120 good in September road games as well. In his last 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.720 seven September road games, Andy Dalton is averaging passing yards 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.639 and over two touchdowns per game. What you found the effect? 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:47.080 What the thin little strip of effective Andy Dalton September 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:51.040 road games by the way, Bengals too, and oh against 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.920 the Seahawks in this decade, and I recall that time. 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.280 I've heard that stat this week, but one of those games, 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.800 and I remember, because it's sung stung close to home 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.800 on a multiple fantasy teams that a dr touchdown to 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.399