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Speaker 1: today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Hello, yes, AHOI.
Speaker 1: I guess do we even have a show today? I
Speaker 1: think everybody's injured. Everybody's injured, and it's all the wide
Speaker 1: receivers is the weird thing. Normally we're like, hey, go
Speaker 1: draft wide receivers for all the safety they bring. It
Speaker 1: didn't work out this year. Not yet. Well maybe maybe
Speaker 1: for those folks who did the Gainesville they're feeling all right,
Speaker 1: they're probably feeling just fine. Can we bring back the
Speaker 1: Todd Heap Memorial Injury Report? I would like just for
Speaker 1: this week. I know, just for this week. I miss
Speaker 1: I missed that and I'm Todd Heap always on it
Speaker 1: renamed the James Conner at this point, it really should.
Speaker 1: For sure. There's lots to get too of the show.
Speaker 1: We will break down every single matchup Fantasy style with
Speaker 1: letter grades on every meaningful player, we will provide premature speculation.
Speaker 1: That's where we give you three players that we believe
Speaker 1: will be hot pickups next week that you're going to
Speaker 1: go grab this week, plus three tough questions you get
Speaker 1: to play along. See if you can go three and
Speaker 1: O and nine players upon whom you can take a chance.
Speaker 1: These are non starters, many of whom are available on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire that we think have matchups worth exploiting
Speaker 1: this week, So lots to get to. Let's dig into
Speaker 1: the matchups, beginning with the Rams taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. I don't love this game, Fro. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start on the offensive side for the Rams. I
Speaker 1: don't love this game. For Jared Goff. I don't like
Speaker 1: him on the road against the solid Eagles secondary. That's added,
Speaker 1: pieces like slayh and Jones this offseason actually have mens
Speaker 1: grade on Wow. Yeah, yeah. I I like a lot
Speaker 1: of ands, mostly because I like a lot of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: better than him. This week, I'm still giving him B
Speaker 1: grade to his would be his his safety blanket. Over
Speaker 1: the last two years, Robert Woods, year after year under appreciated.
Speaker 1: Did you know he has top seventy yards in two
Speaker 1: thirds of his games over the last two seasons. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised. Yeah, the touchdowns are a different story. And
Speaker 1: at least five receptions in those two So basically two
Speaker 1: thirds of the time you're looking at like twelve fantasy
Speaker 1: points without you're playing that yardage only league. Are you
Speaker 1: where touchdowns don't count? Yeah? Yeah, he gets some, he
Speaker 1: gets a few. There are people who play that. I
Speaker 1: don't understand what you know, Why would you not want
Speaker 1: points on the most exciting playing football. That's crazy talk,
Speaker 1: you know, talking to those guys are like, anybody can
Speaker 1: score a touchdown sometimes weird. I'd rather play touchdown only
Speaker 1: than I would yards. Yeah, at least that's they think.
Speaker 1: It's very pure. Yeah, be grade on Woods. He's the
Speaker 1: safe guy he and he can't explode at times. Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade two. Don't love the matchup
Speaker 1: against Robie Coleman, who has been talking some trash this week,
Speaker 1: calling uh the Rams offense all window dressing. Now, remember
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman played for the Rams and for two years
Speaker 1: in practice faced off against Cooper Cup directly exactly. Those
Speaker 1: two know each other intimately, and that's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the most fascinating battles from this weekend. Yes, that
Speaker 1: or Xavier Rhodes and Adam Theland might be out there,
Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna go. Yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: not really a tough matchup there. I'm keeping I'm keeping
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson on the bench. Higby. Unfortunately, it sounds like
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett isn't gonna go, which would make me like
Speaker 1: Higby more. But the sample size isn't good and he's
Speaker 1: playing what Higby has done this year so far. In
Speaker 1: the first game didn't didn't look great. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna go to cupping Woods. Logan Thomas produced last week.
Speaker 1: But Higby is not a touchdown score, and that's what
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles give up to tight ends. Higby only
Speaker 1: has five touchdowns in his entire career year at this point,
Speaker 1: so as a touchdown dependent I don't I don't like
Speaker 1: it there. I have him on the bench. Malcolm Brown,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade too. He's the only one
Speaker 1: I like. And here's why I'm giving him the C grade.
Speaker 1: Acres has to be better than he looked the other night.
Speaker 1: He can't be worse. And Darryl Henderson was banged up,
Speaker 1: played limited. He'll play more this week. He'll get more
Speaker 1: passing game reps. The reason I like Brown, yeah, he will.
Speaker 1: Brown gets the goal line stuff and Brown is seemingly
Speaker 1: the lead back. Uh. The Eagles held Washington's run game
Speaker 1: to basically nothing except for a few touchdown plunges. So
Speaker 1: I got a C grade on Brown this week. Over
Speaker 1: on the Eagles side passing game, it is tough to
Speaker 1: like what we saw at once last week. It's really tough.
Speaker 1: Not so much his fault. The offensive line was in tatters.
Speaker 1: They were going up against four first round picks across
Speaker 1: and Lane Johnson was out and he'll be back. But
Speaker 1: I will say all eight of Carson Wentz to sacks
Speaker 1: last week, he held out of the ball for longer
Speaker 1: than four seconds. Four seconds. That's it's very gallant. But
Speaker 1: he's got to be smarter than that. Absolutely, and I
Speaker 1: think that will be a spot where he bounces back
Speaker 1: and he's got his past catching Miles Sanders back. So
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade. Um Last week, the Rams
Speaker 1: held dock under control, but uh, and they've only allowed
Speaker 1: three passers over two hundred and seventy yards in their
Speaker 1: last seventeen games, but once led the league in air
Speaker 1: yards and attempts last year. Last week, he's throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: Uh and the Rams allowed five plays of twenty plus
Speaker 1: yards last week, so there might be some deep plays
Speaker 1: available for Rigor or the Deshaun Jackson, UH, Dallas Goddart
Speaker 1: and zach Ertz. I'm giving the rare double tight end
Speaker 1: double a grade to wown for Goddard. Yes, I I
Speaker 1: think that this is You're not just You're not just
Speaker 1: following up last week's big game. No, he was good
Speaker 1: last year, he was good at the n last season. Two.
Speaker 1: Um last week's the Rams did shut down Dalton and Schultz,
Speaker 1: which which sounds kind of more like an Old West
Speaker 1: Buddy Cop TV show. Yeah, but I think we got
Speaker 1: whiskey there at the old office every once in a while. Right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But Goddard and there are the two main guys. They
Speaker 1: combined for sixteen targets last week. They played the similar
Speaker 1: amount of snaps. They're both going to be heavily involved,
Speaker 1: especially with Rigor and Djacks a little alien, especially Regor
Speaker 1: alien Jalen reagor excuse me, I still have eight grades
Speaker 1: on them for for the tight ends. They're out there.
Speaker 1: They're going to see seven, eight, nine targets each. Al Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm buying arts. I'm not. I'm not necessarily. You don't
Speaker 1: think they're both top ten tight ends this week? No, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: I I would bet against that. Alright, they're top ten
Speaker 1: tight ends all last season, they're both top ten times.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, I mean, Arth certainly was. Goddard finished finished
Speaker 1: in the top twelve in totality. But the bid on
Speaker 1: on Goddard always has been good game and then games
Speaker 1: were just doesn't get enough balls his way, and then
Speaker 1: good game and then he doesn't get enough. So it's
Speaker 1: the highs and the lows with Goddard, and they're very
Speaker 1: hard to pursue. This is the off week, alright, I'm
Speaker 1: not necessarily, but I just wouldn't to me and feel
Speaker 1: like you In one of those fantasy football coins, I
Speaker 1: have him ranked. Let's move on which way? Too much? Right?
Speaker 1: Too much? Jalen Reagor. I am giving a hesitant C grade?
Speaker 1: Is that a C minus? Matt does that? It's not
Speaker 1: it's a C grade, all right. He's coming off injury,
Speaker 1: but he led the team in wide receiver snaps. He
Speaker 1: only pulled in the one catch for fifty five yards,
Speaker 1: but he averaged he average thirty four yards uh air
Speaker 1: yards per target last week. He gets some deep passes
Speaker 1: um over to the run game. Uh Sanders, I'm giving
Speaker 1: a B grade to should be back against the team
Speaker 1: who allowed one touchdowns one touchdown over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: on the ground and another touchdown in over fifty yards
Speaker 1: through the air last week. I think he takes the
Speaker 1: rollback from Boston Scott, who I put back on the bench.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Atlanta takes on Dallas Matt Now, the
Speaker 1: Atlanta of defense was bad. I think there's a nice
Speaker 1: opportunity from when the Dallas defense was so hot either.
Speaker 1: So what do you make of the Falcons as they
Speaker 1: go into this game? This is what you call a
Speaker 1: help shoot game. Stack. You put everybody in this game
Speaker 1: because this one's going to be I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get to seventy points in this game as a combined total. Uh.
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, he gets a B grade. Gurley only saw
Speaker 1: the field of the snaps last week, but he did
Speaker 1: make them count with four point oh yards per carry
Speaker 1: and a rushing score. If the Falcons can keep it close,
Speaker 1: expect that snap count to increase for Gurley. That's good. Uh,
Speaker 1: and his old teammate Malcolm Brown just torched this defense
Speaker 1: last week, so you know Malcolm Brown's calling Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: Hey man, I know how to beat these guys. Just
Speaker 1: cut right through hill. Yeah, sure, that's totally how it works.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, he gets an a. Jared Goff just dinked
Speaker 1: and dunked his way to four two yards against this
Speaker 1: defense last week, and Maddie Ice through for four fifty.
Speaker 1: So I think four hundred yards is in the cards
Speaker 1: for Maddie Ice this week, which means Julio Jones and
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley are both easy a's. Even Russell Gauge, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B gauge. Jones and Ridley each tallied twelve
Speaker 1: gets last week. While I don't see Gauge keeping up
Speaker 1: with the Joneses or the Ridley's all season long, twelve
Speaker 1: targets is something significant and it should not be ignored.
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst, I'm even giving a B grade to Hurst
Speaker 1: only had five targets last week, but this matchup is
Speaker 1: significantly better. Specifically since linebacker Layton vander ash He just
Speaker 1: went to the I R and he was one of
Speaker 1: the guys who helped cover the tight end. And get this,
Speaker 1: in the seven games that vander ash missed last season,
Speaker 1: tight ends average eleven targets, seven point eight receptions and
Speaker 1: seventy yards against the Cowboys defense. So it's a really
Speaker 1: nice matchup for Hayden Hurst over to the Dallas side,
Speaker 1: Zekes and a Dax and A even though offensive tackle
Speaker 1: Cameron Irving is headed to i R. In two career
Speaker 1: meetings with the Falcons, Deck has never thrown a touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: but odd he has run one in in both of
Speaker 1: the games, so we got that going. And if you
Speaker 1: want to give an NFL comp to a guy kind
Speaker 1: of like Deck, it's probably Russell Wilson, who just had
Speaker 1: an awesome game against the Falcons last week. Three two yards,
Speaker 1: four touchdowns and only fouri in completions. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: decks in and so are his receivers. Amari Cooper's an a.
Speaker 1: Let it be known that he's still the alpha in Dallas.
Speaker 1: With fourteen targets against Jalen Ramsey, that was a lot.
Speaker 1: I did not expect that. And you compare that to
Speaker 1: eleven total targets for Gallop and Lamb combined, and Lamb
Speaker 1: had more than Gallop. Yeah, so I'm still giving Gallop
Speaker 1: and Lamb a bee because this should be a shootout
Speaker 1: in this game. I like that you're going that that
Speaker 1: hard with seedee Lamb. I think this has got some
Speaker 1: breakout game to it right here. Absolutely, Lamb played the
Speaker 1: slot and uh that's where Tyler Lockett just ran wild
Speaker 1: for eight catches and yards last week. The Gallop had
Speaker 1: fifty yards last weekend, but had that forty seven yard
Speaker 1: or called back on the phantom Jalen Ramsey like I
Speaker 1: sold it soccer style offensive pass interference, which was so
Speaker 1: savvy by Ramsey, by the way, But it was absolutely
Speaker 1: a BS call for Gallup Um. The Falcons have allowed
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty seven yards per game to the
Speaker 1: position over the last year and a game. And then
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin, we got to mention him. He heads to
Speaker 1: I R what is with what is feared to be
Speaker 1: a torn a c L. But we're not ready to
Speaker 1: pick up Blake Bell or Dalton Schultz at this point,
Speaker 1: so let's just start all the wide receivers and ze
Speaker 1: bell dozer. The Bell dozer. It wasn't really that's so lame,
Speaker 1: so lame. It was probably his nickname in like sixth
Speaker 1: grade football quarterback in Oklahoma really turned tight end. Look
Speaker 1: at how it's worked out for Logan Thomas. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about him later. To Giants take on the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: in Chicago. For sake, Kwon Barkley owners last week couldn't
Speaker 1: have gone worse to his offensive line could not hold
Speaker 1: a block for one second, not one second. It was absurd.
Speaker 1: Barkley I thought was borderline heroic in getting to like
Speaker 1: six yards on the game through on the ground. Chicago
Speaker 1: has a decent front four, but you know nobody Goldman that.
Speaker 1: And when he faced Chicago last year, Barkley was okay,
Speaker 1: not great. And I think this is the worst defense
Speaker 1: than last year's. Adrian Peterson just ran through this defense.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson on three days of Lions practice powered his
Speaker 1: way through the Bears. To be fair, Adrian Peterson knows
Speaker 1: the Daryl Bevil offense. Adrian Peterson is the Daryl Bevil offense.
Speaker 1: I guess so so I like Sae Kwon Barkley here
Speaker 1: in a bounce back game. I think people are too
Speaker 1: far down on him from six yards. Yes, I am
Speaker 1: boldly predicting he will be better than six yards. He
Speaker 1: might even double his yard. Yes, a little bit like
Speaker 1: how everybody right now, which is they had bought Browns
Speaker 1: on the cheap after a brutal Week one matchup. That's
Speaker 1: how we're gonna feel about the Giants. I think this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity to buy low on Giants and say
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley with a B grade. The passing game to
Speaker 1: me is very intriguing, and I've got B grades on
Speaker 1: key players here, including Daniel Jones. It feels like a
Speaker 1: tough matchup, but there are all these holes in the
Speaker 1: Bear secondary that he can exploit, like slot cornerback busted
Speaker 1: screen door he still yes, uh had second start rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback Jalen Johnson and journeyman safety to Sean Gibson. These
Speaker 1: are all subpar players in that Bear secondary. If Jones
Speaker 1: is miserable, offensive line can just give him two and
Speaker 1: a half three seconds to throw the ball. I think
Speaker 1: he performs well here, and I especially like Darius Slayton.
Speaker 1: Get this Darius Slayton stat he has more touchdowns were
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns than any player since Week five of last year. Wow,
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton. That doesn't surprise me because ten led the
Speaker 1: NFL last year. Um, he surprised everybody, including me with
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns on Monday night, and this is a
Speaker 1: far easier matchup. He was on the field for eight
Speaker 1: percent of the Giants plays last week, more than any
Speaker 1: other player, so Darius Slayton asserting himself to be the
Speaker 1: future of the Giants receivers. Here. He ran sixty percent
Speaker 1: of his plays from the left side of the field.
Speaker 1: That puts him on second start. Rookie cornerback Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: he gets a grade. Evan Ingram gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: I love that he got seven targets last week. I
Speaker 1: hate that it resulted in two catches for nine yards.
Speaker 1: But the Bears defense allow the fifth most catches the
Speaker 1: tight end last season, and they gave up the big
Speaker 1: game to t J Hawkinson last week. Several bounce off
Speaker 1: his hands and he was he was wide open in
Speaker 1: that zone. I mean like, it could have been way better. Yes,
Speaker 1: it could have been better, and I think it will
Speaker 1: be beginning this week. Sterling Shepherd gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: Mostly running from the slot. Shepherd will draw a journeyman
Speaker 1: cornerback buster screen. Last week's screen got rocked by a Hamstrong,
Speaker 1: Danny Danny Amendola. So I liked the chances for Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepherd and then on the bench Golden Tate expected to
Speaker 1: return from his hamstring injury, but those aggravate easily, and
Speaker 1: he's got the toughest match up against cornerback Kyle Fuller.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the bear side, beginning with the running game.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery gets a B grade. If Benny Snell can
Speaker 1: top the century mark on five yards per carry against
Speaker 1: the Giants, then David Montgomery canto, so, I think there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity here. Montgomery had five yards per carry last week,
Speaker 1: which was best marking about half a season. So going
Speaker 1: back to last year, he looked healthy. The groin injury
Speaker 1: is not a factor. He gets a B grade here.
Speaker 1: But Tariko and is on the bench after just a
Speaker 1: nine touch outing last week and just two targets, which
Speaker 1: disappointed me and um, so I think we're gonna show
Speaker 1: a little caution on Tariko. And let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game, where it's time for dude, Happy Trombone Ski
Speaker 1: to two weeks in a row. This never happens. Happy
Speaker 1: Trombone Ski faces arguably the NFL's worst secondary last week,
Speaker 1: the Steelers receivers ran unabated through the Giant secondary, and
Speaker 1: I love the individual matchups for his receivers as I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about just a second. So I like Happy
Speaker 1: Trombone Ski this week. I like him last week and
Speaker 1: look what he paid off three touchdowns. Welcome to speaking,
Speaker 1: which Alan Robinson a grade here on a quest to
Speaker 1: get paid. He's posted at least seventy yards and are
Speaker 1: a touchdown in six of his last seven games going
Speaker 1: back to last season. He runs from all positions on
Speaker 1: the field and he's got the they're all good matchups
Speaker 1: at every spot on the field. He will either see
Speaker 1: inexperienced cornerbacks Corey Valentine or Darny Holmes, and when he's
Speaker 1: not facing those two, he gets veteran James Bradberry, who
Speaker 1: gave up two touchdowns in his coverage last week. It's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for Allen Robinson. Also for a grade
Speaker 1: for him, B grade for Anthony Miller. Running exclusively from
Speaker 1: the slot, he's gonna match up with Darny Holmes, a
Speaker 1: rookie in his second ever start, homes a lot five
Speaker 1: of the six passes in his coverage to be caught
Speaker 1: last week, and Miller posted a bunch of splash games
Speaker 1: at the end of last year. If you remember, this
Speaker 1: is a splash game spot for Anthony Miller. And the
Speaker 1: last thing I want to mention for the Bears, keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this rookie Darnell Moody that they've got.
Speaker 1: He's a quasi starter there. He's super fat. So there's
Speaker 1: not a team with a ton of speed. They need
Speaker 1: a speed downfield guy. Just keep him on your radar.
Speaker 1: We're not starting him yet, we're not even rostering him yet.
Speaker 1: It's a premature, premature, premature speculation. Just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on Darnell Moody. When we come back. Nine players upon
Speaker 1: whom you can take a chance. These are guys not
Speaker 1: normally in your starting lineup, guys that in many cases
Speaker 1: are available on the waiver wire. Will tell you who
Speaker 1: they are. If you're in a pinch at any position,
Speaker 1: you'll want to take a chance on these players. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Arch, Scott Fish, and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison with you. This is a segment we call
Speaker 1: take a chance on Me, the Royalty free version. We
Speaker 1: will give you three quarterbacks, three running backs, and three
Speaker 1: receivers upon whom you can take a chance because their
Speaker 1: matchups this week are downright delightful. We begin at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, Scott, I'm going to start with this up
Speaker 1: start first year player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. First
Speaker 1: year there, Tom Brady. Oh really, I think it's a
Speaker 1: good matchup for him. The only question is do they
Speaker 1: paul had early and does it become a running game
Speaker 1: day like he kind of did for Derek Carr last week. However,
Speaker 1: I like I like his weapons in here, and I
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady coming off a loss. I really like
Speaker 1: him coming off of three straight losses dating back to
Speaker 1: last year. I think he's gonna want to go out
Speaker 1: or maybe he's just a loser now. No, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna want to go out and prove something. He
Speaker 1: owned up to it last week after after the loss,
Speaker 1: and I think he wants to prove to his team
Speaker 1: that he's still got it. I've heard good things about Brady.
Speaker 1: The prospects are good. All right, let's go to Matt
Speaker 1: your take a chance. I mean quarterback I'm guessing is
Speaker 1: not ready to be in true rind in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. No, but he was one of the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who beat Tom Brady last year. That's Ryan Tannehill, who
Speaker 1: had a very Ryan Tannehill game last week against the
Speaker 1: decent Denver defense to forty nine and two scores. This week,
Speaker 1: he faces a significantly worst defense, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and
Speaker 1: he's at home. The Jags held up all right to
Speaker 1: the propped up corps of Philip Rivers last week, but
Speaker 1: twenty four ranked d v O A past defense is
Speaker 1: worse this year and not up to the challenge against
Speaker 1: the Titans. Over the past season plus a game, the
Speaker 1: Jags have allowed two sixty one yards per game, and
Speaker 1: last year Tannehill face the Jags once he threw for
Speaker 1: over two fifty with two passing scores. But get this,
Speaker 1: he's fleet to foot and scored two rushing touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Jaguars last year. Yes he is. Who's he gonna
Speaker 1: throw too? Um, I don't know, I forget which which
Speaker 1: kind of guys catch passes? Oh Church, put your pants
Speaker 1: back on. Who's gonna catch those passes? I'm using Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins as might take a chance of the quarterback against
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Kirk garbage time Cousins. Hey man, I did all works.
Speaker 1: For all the problems the Vikings encountered last Sunday, Kirk
Speaker 1: was not among them. The Vikings defense was so bad.
Speaker 1: The Vikings offense only ran forty four plays, and Cousins
Speaker 1: still managed to solid two hundred sixty yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Indies run defense is very good, and I expect the
Speaker 1: usual Dalvin heavy game plan to slant unusually toward Cousins.
Speaker 1: I think we have better volume this week than we
Speaker 1: normally get. In the opener, the Colts allowed Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: to post a one incompletion game one incompletion. He also
Speaker 1: threw three touchdowns against that rebuilt secondary. I like the
Speaker 1: opportunity here for Kirk Cousins to exploit former Viking teammate
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes in coverage, who looked absolutely brutal. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running back position. And which Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame are you gonna give us this week? I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give you. You're not going to Frank Gore. Maybe. Wait,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is on waivers and almost all leagues, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look that up as we speak now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Miles Gaskin. Here we go now, we're talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's only a rostered about ten percent of leagues. Uh.
Speaker 1: The thing I like about him is he played twenty
Speaker 1: five past players last week for the Dolphins, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are going to be behind my Buffalo and h
Speaker 1: Howard and Brada combined for eight past plays, which is
Speaker 1: a little shocking. Howard did get the goal line looks,
Speaker 1: but Gaskin played thirty nine snaps braid of fourteen Howard nine.
Speaker 1: It's clearly Gaskin's job. All that offseason high all that
Speaker 1: training camp hype about Gaskin has figured it out. Apparently
Speaker 1: they believe it, and they're going to have him in there.
Speaker 1: They'll be behind. He'll get a lot of the work
Speaker 1: I got him as a secret I think that sounds
Speaker 1: about right. All right, Matt, who's your take a chance
Speaker 1: of me running back? I got magical Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: Lord Frank Gordemort there it is he who shall not retire,
Speaker 1: much like Lord Voldemort. The Frank Gore revenge to her continues.
Speaker 1: It was Buffalo last week, now San Francisco where it
Speaker 1: all began, as Frank Gore's name back then was Tom Riddle.
Speaker 1: Last week. Yeah, you haven't read Harry Potter. Have you
Speaker 1: this is gonna be Harry Potter theme. Just justick back
Speaker 1: and relax. Okay, yeah, that's right. Last week Gore had
Speaker 1: six carries, the same amount of attempts that Lord Voldemort
Speaker 1: tad on Harry Potter's life. After his head coach Adam
Speaker 1: Wormtail Gaze has again cleared the way for the return
Speaker 1: of Gore. He placed lavy On bell On I r
Speaker 1: using the Cruciati's curse on him and leaving him in pain,
Speaker 1: while the Michael Perrine still nursing a sore ankle and
Speaker 1: visiting Mungo's Hospital for magical maladies. The only other runner
Speaker 1: on the roster is the newly signed Klin Bolage, who
Speaker 1: is definitely the Professor Quarrel of fantasy football. He failed
Speaker 1: a physical with the Jets only two weeks ago, negating
Speaker 1: a trade. He'll now unless he did, and now he's here.
Speaker 1: Last week, the Cardinals ran the ball against the Niners
Speaker 1: twenty two times for just under four yards a clip,
Speaker 1: and added another five receptions for their backs. Over the
Speaker 1: last seventeen games, the Niners have allowed nineteen carries per game.
Speaker 1: Those are pretty much all going to Gore. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get all the work. His wand has a phoenix feather,
Speaker 1: and his hore cruxes are spread all across the land.
Speaker 1: Go get him, Go get him. I take a chance
Speaker 1: on me. Which which house with Frank Gourbion? Is he
Speaker 1: a well, he's certainly Slytherin. Oh yeah, isn't Slytherin where
Speaker 1: the bad guys are? He's Lord Frank gordonmart He shall
Speaker 1: not retire. Okay, got it? Uh My running back is
Speaker 1: j D. Mcsuck itt used a huffle poff, That's what
Speaker 1: he is. I did not think it would come to this.
Speaker 1: I really didn't. But this is a unique opportunity, and
Speaker 1: I really hope that we're not talking about him down
Speaker 1: the road. Which Washington players saw the most snaps at
Speaker 1: running back last week? J D. McK sucket. No, it
Speaker 1: was not Peyton Barber. It was not Antonio Gibson or
Speaker 1: Adrian Adrian Peterson or Clinton Portis or John Riggins Terry Allen. Um.
Speaker 1: Cardinals allowed the seventh most receptions and receiving yards to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs last season, and they just allowed the
Speaker 1: forty Niners running backs to catch one hundred sixty two
Speaker 1: yards in passes and two touchdowns it's a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for him now taking over the Chris Thompson role for
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. So Jad McKissick might take a
Speaker 1: chance of me running back. Let's go to the receivers, Scott.
Speaker 1: All right, So I picked this guy once last year
Speaker 1: and he blew up that game. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out back to the I'm gonna go back to the
Speaker 1: well with Michael Thomas out. Do you think it's fair
Speaker 1: to assume that tray Kuan Smith gets at least three targets? Yes,
Speaker 1: he has twelve career games with three targets twelve games. Alright.
Speaker 1: In those twelve games, he has eight touchdowns. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: pretty good. That's really good. Alright, Just feed him, yeah,
Speaker 1: ust feed him. So he's gonna take a chance on
Speaker 1: me player. With Michael Thomas out, he's going to get three,
Speaker 1: four or five, six whatever targets on Monday night. And
Speaker 1: it's not like the Raiders are gonna offer a whole
Speaker 1: lot of you know, past defense against him either. Alright, Matt,
Speaker 1: who is your take a chance on me receiver? I
Speaker 1: need some pronunciation helped charge Marquis Valdi's scantalini. No Marquez
Speaker 1: Valdez scantling. I just like the way you said Marquees
Speaker 1: Valdez Scantling. Uh it was him, not Ellen Lazard, who
Speaker 1: was the second amongst the Packers wide outs in targets
Speaker 1: and yardage. Last week. He finished with ninety six yards
Speaker 1: in a score, including a forty six yarder on on
Speaker 1: a very bad Viking secondary of the Packers are yards
Speaker 1: went his way, and it should be noted that he
Speaker 1: had about a sixty one yard touchdown pass that fell
Speaker 1: out of his mits and another ten yard dropped past
Speaker 1: the Lions secondary. Is the way to make to drop
Speaker 1: past sound like a good thing. Hey, it's seventy more
Speaker 1: yards right there that he just left on the table
Speaker 1: if he could catch. He went back to practice this week.
Speaker 1: I know he did. The Lion's secondary is worse in
Speaker 1: worse shape than the Vikings are. And uh just I mean,
Speaker 1: look happy Trombone ski let a fourth quarter come back
Speaker 1: where he looked like Joe Montana with Justin Coleman, who
Speaker 1: has just sent to I R. And Desmond Trufefont is
Speaker 1: also out. Jeff Okuda's making his first start and he's
Speaker 1: gonna shadow Davante Adams in all likelihood leaving MVS with
Speaker 1: a combo of Armani or wari A and newly signed
Speaker 1: off the Cardinals practice squad Chris Jones. Okay, might take
Speaker 1: a chance of receivers to tight end. A lot of
Speaker 1: people need tight ends. There are several tight ends that
Speaker 1: have underperformed or are now out. George Kettle, George Kittle.
Speaker 1: So many tight ends injured that Goddard's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough probably will be. How about now, in fairness,
Speaker 1: you can say where was this last week? Chart Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas to be offball team. Logan Thomas is a converted
Speaker 1: quarter back turned athletic tight end, and in the opener
Speaker 1: he was targeted eight times and was second only to
Speaker 1: Terry mclaurina among Washington receivers and yards. He's um, he's tall,
Speaker 1: he's fast, he's athletic. The Cardinals had the worst tight
Speaker 1: end defense in history last year, and Kittle, George Kittle
Speaker 1: last week against the Cardinals was on his way to
Speaker 1: a good game before he got injured. So we'll try
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas. He does have some tight end history. He
Speaker 1: was a tough five tight end coming out of high
Speaker 1: school and then Virginia Tech. Converted him into a quarterback,
Speaker 1: which apparently so much Michael Vicken exactly. Let's go to
Speaker 1: our next matchup, which is Carolina taking on take a
Speaker 1: chance on me quarterback Tom Brady. What do you like
Speaker 1: from the Carolina offense? If anybody including this is a
Speaker 1: sneaky game and sneaky tough game for Christian McCaffrey. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to call it, but this
Speaker 1: is the TV versus TV in TV Bowl. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: I like that TP three. We'll call it TV three
Speaker 1: of three. There there it is let us here against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Bridgewater had four touchdowns and three fourteen yards.
Speaker 1: Did you know that that's a way different team in
Speaker 1: a way different offense. So the Bucks defense is supposedly
Speaker 1: improved this year. It seems like it's hard to tell
Speaker 1: based on the Saints rolling them up, but they do
Speaker 1: have a tough run defense. Um, Teddy isn't gonna throw
Speaker 1: more than thirty attempts once again here, so I still
Speaker 1: have him on the bench. Uh. I am putting DJ
Speaker 1: more in though, despite having a bigger Fantasy day. Uh.
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson. Anderson played less snaps and was out targeted
Speaker 1: by D j Moore. He was still the main guy,
Speaker 1: big play for Anderson's game, and the Bucks didn't give
Speaker 1: up any of those last week, and they didn't give
Speaker 1: up a lot of those last year. So more is
Speaker 1: the safer bet for me. C grade there. I'm putting
Speaker 1: the rest of the receiving game on the bench. That's
Speaker 1: the only part I can trust of it. Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: I'm still giving him an A grade, even though it's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup against a great Tampa Bay defense. I
Speaker 1: just think his asking game work, which Tampa Bay has
Speaker 1: been known to allow, is gonna get him there. So
Speaker 1: I still have the A grade on Christian McCaffrey. I
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's just look, Tampa is just
Speaker 1: an impossibly good run defense, and you you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're just you're hoping for touchdowns or air yards, all right.
Speaker 1: On the other side, we already talked about Brady Godwin.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's going to be out. He's still
Speaker 1: in the protocol, he's practicing limited. Bruce arians calls him doubtful.
Speaker 1: Let's assume he's out. That would put Justin Watson in
Speaker 1: the slot. You know, Brady and him don't quite have
Speaker 1: the connection that he has with Evans, who is now
Speaker 1: fully practicing and healthy, and Dante Jackson is going to
Speaker 1: be out for Carolina. The whole receiving game is gonna
Speaker 1: get some upgrades. I'm giving Evans a being. I'm giving
Speaker 1: Scotty Miller a C grade, who has had that drum
Speaker 1: beat since the off season with Tom Brady, and it
Speaker 1: showed last week with what Steven targets. Uh, So I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a C grade. Howard and Gronk I just
Speaker 1: don't know how to trust at this point, so I
Speaker 1: have them on the bench. I just have him on
Speaker 1: the bench. Gronk outs towered by nearly twice and he
Speaker 1: was fifty four to thirty something. So Gronk, it did
Speaker 1: seem Gronk was on the field. People are dropping Gronk outright.
Speaker 1: He just didn't hit the targets. But it was one
Speaker 1: week his first game back after missing a year. That
Speaker 1: seems like an overreaction to me. Yeah, alright, isn't week
Speaker 1: one just full of overreactions? Right now? That's kind of
Speaker 1: what we did the run game. I have an A
Speaker 1: grade on Ronald Jones and a C grade on Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette and let me let me explain this. How do
Speaker 1: you get to a C grade on a guy who's
Speaker 1: on the field of the Snaps last week. I think
Speaker 1: I think he was I think he was rusty. He
Speaker 1: had only been there three days. He's going to have
Speaker 1: a full another week. And I think there's a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of touches to be had here because and
Speaker 1: this is a stat from Mike teg Lean Fantasy Pross,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, you know, credit where credits due. The
Speaker 1: lowest amount of touches running back Scott against the against
Speaker 1: the Panthers last year, twenty nine. They're so bad. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty touches here, four running backs, and Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette is probably gonna see ten, twelve, fifteen of those,
Speaker 1: and Ronald Jones will be in the twenty five range
Speaker 1: or whatever. So I'm giving an aid to Jones and
Speaker 1: I'm giving the seat of four net. It makes sense.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a team that Panthers giving ghost
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns last year, and they gave up three to
Speaker 1: Josh Jacob last week. Unbelievable touches they give her. San
Speaker 1: Francisco takes on the Jets Matt and for San Francisco
Speaker 1: with all the problems I've had with their receivers, are
Speaker 1: shuffling the deck for Jimmy Garoppolo again. George Kittle is out,
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk expected to make his NFL debut. What are
Speaker 1: your prospects for the passing game for the forty Niners
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Garoppolo? Not good, Bob, I'm only getting we're
Speaker 1: talking to But okay, I've only given Jimmy Garoppolo a
Speaker 1: C grade. Uh. And they did give up the most
Speaker 1: fantasy points to a quarterback last week. Is Josh Allen
Speaker 1: did his thing. They also had the eighth most passing
Speaker 1: attempts against them last year because they have a good
Speaker 1: run defense, bad past defense. Problem is almost all the
Speaker 1: receivers are hurt. Uh. Brandon Aiyuk looks like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play like you mentioned, but Kendrick Borne and Trent Taylor
Speaker 1: led the Niners wide receivers last week with five targets
Speaker 1: and two catches a piece. That's not good. And George
Speaker 1: Kittle is out, which means Jordan's red. It's it's just
Speaker 1: girls he's got. I think Jordan Reid is a sneaky
Speaker 1: play here. We don't know the Cattles out. He's out
Speaker 1: them out. Um. The Niners did sign Mohammed Sanu on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Daddy Mohammed Sanu that Um. Yeah, So anyway, I think
Speaker 1: what he targets in this game, what Garoppolo targets is
Speaker 1: the running backs. That's why I'm giving Raheem most to see.
Speaker 1: You said, there's the targets running back. Yeah, but Jerick
Speaker 1: McKinnon and Tevin Coleman are getting a little bit more
Speaker 1: passing work, so they're kind of desperation plays. I just
Speaker 1: don't like this game at all. From from any standpoint,
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of Atlanta Dallas. It's a game no
Speaker 1: stack here except for Frank Gore of course. Uh. Most
Speaker 1: are did get two thirds of the rushing attempts last week.
Speaker 1: That's nearing Belkhouse status. Um. The Jags gave up the
Speaker 1: ninth most receptions to running back. Sorry, the Jets gave
Speaker 1: up the ninth most receptions to running backs last year,
Speaker 1: and Zack Moss and Devin Singletary combined for eight catches
Speaker 1: thirty nine and a score through the air. But Jerick
Speaker 1: McKinnon was heavily involved had six touches last week. Kevin
Speaker 1: Coleman's heavily involved. I'm just remembering are running for seventy
Speaker 1: yards touchdown reception you can give raheems to be. The
Speaker 1: Jets are still a very good The one thing they
Speaker 1: do is an organization top to bottom. Well, stop the run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. So most of it's my favorite play on
Speaker 1: the Niners. And and that's really about it. I don't
Speaker 1: even like Garoppolo that much on the Jet side. Frank
Speaker 1: Gore's might take a chance on me. Runner Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: I have him on the bench. The Niners only allowed
Speaker 1: two thirty yards and a score through the air to
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray last week. Kyler put up good numbers, but
Speaker 1: it was on the ground. And if you believe Sam
Speaker 1: Donald can really run like Murray, which I don't. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Niners do have trouble dealing with running quarterbacks. But
Speaker 1: Donald was only topped eleven rushing yards twice in his
Speaker 1: care here, so no, that's not happening. Jamison Crowder injured
Speaker 1: his hamstring on Wednesdays. He's out. I got Brashad Peerman
Speaker 1: as a c because Crowder is not going. They don't
Speaker 1: have anybody else to throw to. Denezel Mims, Chris Hogan
Speaker 1: and Chris Herndon are the other. This week, Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: did just hit I R and his backup a Kello
Speaker 1: Witherspoon is in the concussion protocol. That kind of opens
Speaker 1: things for Breshad Pereman. Um DeAndre Hopkins from the outside
Speaker 1: last week had four teen catches for hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one yards, so Pereman might be in line for one
Speaker 1: of those just high volume. Jamison Crowder like games. He's
Speaker 1: a good dart throw in daily, but I got herned
Speaker 1: in on the bench over the last year and a game.
Speaker 1: The Niners are only allowing thirty three yards per game
Speaker 1: to the tight end position. That's not enough to get
Speaker 1: get it done. Not good, but I just think there's volume.
Speaker 1: Herndon finds his way to a decent game here. It
Speaker 1: could be. This is just a gross game, and I
Speaker 1: spent too much time on it, so please take it away. Well,
Speaker 1: I will take it away and we'll take it into break.
Speaker 1: When we come back. We'll talk about the two most
Speaker 1: disappointing teams from week one, and they face each other,
Speaker 1: the Vikings and the Colts. Both defenses looking very exploitable.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of fantasy opportunity with these two teams.
Speaker 1: Will tell you who you can start and who you
Speaker 1: have to bench when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: Matt Harrison shocked Fantasy Scott Fish with you. It's time
Speaker 1: to dive back into some matchups, including the Vikings and
Speaker 1: the Colts. On the Viking side of the ball, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins was might take a chance on me quarterback. I
Speaker 1: like him with a B grade this week, and I
Speaker 1: love Adam feeling. He's about all they've gotten the passing game.
Speaker 1: He drew thirty two percent of Kirk cousins targets in
Speaker 1: the first game without Stefon Diggs, and I think that
Speaker 1: holds here as well. He's got an extremely favorable matchup
Speaker 1: against cornerback Rock yah Sin, who has been one of
Speaker 1: the worst starting cornerbacks since being drafted last year, allowing
Speaker 1: nearly seventy of his passes in his coverage to be completed.
Speaker 1: I like feeling a lot a great I also loved
Speaker 1: that song in the eighties by Falco rock Me Ah
Speaker 1: Yass and Davis. Yeah, Yeah, that was the one. You
Speaker 1: really stretched it out and did a good job. Thank
Speaker 1: thank you trying to work on that. If we won't
Speaker 1: start any other parts of the Vikings passing game, let's
Speaker 1: go to Dalvin Cook, who gets a B grade. Cook's
Speaker 1: rushing should contribute to eight decent but not explosive outing
Speaker 1: against a surprisingly good Indie run defense. Last week, undrafted
Speaker 1: nobody James Robinson produced a couple of good runs early,
Speaker 1: but then he tapped out at sixty three yards. Only
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has hit one hundred rushing yards against Indy
Speaker 1: since Week fifteen of two thousand seventeen. Is a good
Speaker 1: This is a sneaky good run defense. But no team
Speaker 1: has given up more receptions to opposing running backs since
Speaker 1: the beginning of last year than the Colts. And I
Speaker 1: think Cook could finally get himself to god not finally,
Speaker 1: but get himself to a good again against it through
Speaker 1: the air. Alexander Madison is on the bench, even though
Speaker 1: he had a very nice game last week, but again,
Speaker 1: I think this is a much tougher run defense. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the indie side, where Michael Pittman is likely out,
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle out, Trey Burton out. This whole passing offense
Speaker 1: is gonna flow through t Y Hilton and Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: and the backs, and I like those guys a lot.
Speaker 1: Let's start with t Y Hilton, who faces a rebuilt
Speaker 1: secondary that allowed four wide receiver touchdowns last week. He'll
Speaker 1: most often see rookie cornerback Cameron Danzler, or would have,
Speaker 1: but Dandlers have been ruled out of this game game,
Speaker 1: so that means they got to force a less ready
Speaker 1: rookie Jeff Gladden ee into duty for her his first
Speaker 1: NFL start against t Y Hilton A grade. T Y
Speaker 1: Hilton also borderline A grade, but technically be for Paris Campbell.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you need something in between those two grades,
Speaker 1: but there is nothing between those two grades. Paris Campbell,
Speaker 1: by premature speculation player last week, ended up leading the
Speaker 1: team in targets, receptions, and receiving yards last week. He
Speaker 1: runs almost exclusively from the slot, where he will see
Speaker 1: Mike Hughes most commonly Hughes last year was bad. They
Speaker 1: thought he might be better year off the A c L. No,
Speaker 1: he was a disaster last week. All six of the
Speaker 1: targets thrown in his coverage last week were complete and
Speaker 1: he gave up a touchdown. I love Paris Campbell this week,
Speaker 1: and he is available in many leagues. When we go
Speaker 1: to the running Oh well, let's stay with the passing
Speaker 1: game in Philip Rivers, who played like garbage last week.
Speaker 1: But the Vikings pass defense was even worse. They gave
Speaker 1: up forty three points, thirty one first downs, five or
Speaker 1: twenty two yards last week. Rivers and his two receivers
Speaker 1: I think are going to do very very well. All right, Next,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running game. Jonathan Taylor gets an
Speaker 1: A grade with Marlon mack out. He'll be the starter.
Speaker 1: He's going to get most of the work and he
Speaker 1: will catch passes as well. The rebuilt Vikings run defense
Speaker 1: was inconsistent last week. They gave up five yards per
Speaker 1: carrying one hundred yards to the three Green Bay runners.
Speaker 1: I think Taylor gets plenty of work and we'll get
Speaker 1: near the five yards per carry and near the one
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Niheem Hines was a surprise Fantasy star last
Speaker 1: week with a couple of touchdowns. He gets a few
Speaker 1: more targets here, but the Vikings have been awesome against
Speaker 1: pass catching backs. In their last twenty one games, the
Speaker 1: Vikings have allowed only one runner to catch five or
Speaker 1: more passes. Even last week when the Vikings gave up,
Speaker 1: gave up the five or twenty two yards only thirty seven.
Speaker 1: We're through the air two Packers running backs. So just
Speaker 1: the C grade a Nahime hind All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to our next matchup, which is Denver taking on the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Scott. Yeah, so I'm gonna start on the
Speaker 1: Denver side in the passing game. Here, I have Drew
Speaker 1: Lock on the bench against a really good Pets Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: defense and especially secondary. Did you know they held eleven
Speaker 1: quarterbacks under two hundred yards last year. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's it's not very many yards. I think. I think
Speaker 1: that's where we're looking for Drew Lock, especially if Sutton
Speaker 1: doesn't play. I'm actually gonna go at this if as
Speaker 1: long as assuming Sutton does not go, uh even if
Speaker 1: he does go, he's gonna face off against Joe Hayden.
Speaker 1: So well that the Joe. He's not the Iron had anymore.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not. He's still good, but he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not what he was. Yeah, he's not the name
Speaker 1: he was. I guess I don't know, Uh, Jerry Judy. Uh.
Speaker 1: If Sutton doesn't go, I'm giving him a C grade.
Speaker 1: Runs most of his routes from the slot, which should
Speaker 1: be is this spot where he can some hey against
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh secondary. But it's mostly about his snap percentage
Speaker 1: and the amount of targets he's going to see if
Speaker 1: Sudden sets out nose, same deal. Give him a C grade.
Speaker 1: I considered a be but they really held down have
Speaker 1: an ingram last week. Fant leads the tight ends in
Speaker 1: yards after the catch per reception, a stat he leading
Speaker 1: tight ends last year and which I thought he looked
Speaker 1: awesome on Monday night. By the way, you know who
Speaker 1: was number two last year in yards after the catch?
Speaker 1: John Oh Smith? Of course he was. Of course, of
Speaker 1: course it was John Smith. Why did you guess somebody else?
Speaker 1: I don't know what was I think yards after the
Speaker 1: catch per reception? Uh? So C grade on Fant. I'm
Speaker 1: given a C grade on Gordon even though they just
Speaker 1: held se Quon Barkley to six yards just because Lindsay's out,
Speaker 1: Gordon's going to be out there all the time, and
Speaker 1: he's He's not bad in the passing game. He's averaged
Speaker 1: over eight yards per reception three times in his career.
Speaker 1: He's are three seasons in his career. What do you
Speaker 1: think about Royce dropped the piano Freeman. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's getting get enough volume against the very stingy defense,
Speaker 1: especially with the piano in his hands. In piano will
Speaker 1: get harder, yes, yeah. On the other side, I'm giving
Speaker 1: Big ben an a Uh. He's in a really decent
Speaker 1: spot this year. He looked to rusty at first, but
Speaker 1: it came together later. He's got all his all his weapons.
Speaker 1: Von Miller's out as we know from before the season,
Speaker 1: so that that pass rush isn't there. They only sack
Speaker 1: tan Hill once last week. Uh and uh A J.
Speaker 1: Bowie boy, you might be out. Yeah yeah, wow, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you do bj do juju. The connections the thing,
Speaker 1: it's the thing. Uh. Denver shutdown A J. Brown last week.
Speaker 1: I understand that, which could be good for Deonte Johnson
Speaker 1: who had ten targets and what would be the Corey
Speaker 1: David's role is. So I like Deonte Johnson, I do. I.
Speaker 1: I actually gave them both B grades, but I have
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson with the slightly higher grade. Juju didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of yards, but he got those touchdowns. Deonte
Speaker 1: might get the volume. I have James Washington on the
Speaker 1: bench and Chase Claypool who they call Did you hear
Speaker 1: his nickname? The Juju said it in the press conference.
Speaker 1: They called him Maple Trod because he's from Canada. On
Speaker 1: Maple Trod, that's pretty good. Yeah, I like that. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you see that awesome catch he had
Speaker 1: down the right side and a man and he made
Speaker 1: those in college. To this kid is not a fluke,
Speaker 1: no man. Steelers are so good speculative ad right there.
Speaker 1: If he's available, and yeah, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's available in Dynasty League. They split they split the
Speaker 1: wide receiver three snaps, so they're they're out. Ebrons on
Speaker 1: the bench for me too. He didn't do anything last week, too,
Speaker 1: May Miles to feed uh. This week Connor is completely
Speaker 1: in Uh. He is going to play, so he and
Speaker 1: snell Man. Broncos were top five against running backs fantasy
Speaker 1: points allowed, but allowed the fifth most Russian attempts, which
Speaker 1: means they give up a lot of Russian attempts. Uh.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry same thing last week, a lot of Russian attempts,
Speaker 1: and that allowed him to go over a hundred. Connor
Speaker 1: is the better back in the passing games. So I
Speaker 1: gave Connor the C grade and I have smelled on
Speaker 1: the bench and it's going to be a We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk more about those two next segments. All right, I'll
Speaker 1: find out that's it for that matchup. I believe that
Speaker 1: is it? All right? Um, very very briefly, do you
Speaker 1: guys believe the Browns we saw on Thursday night is
Speaker 1: the real Browns somewhere in the middle between their two games?
Speaker 1: The easy answer isn't it. That's you know what that
Speaker 1: schedule is, so it see a lot. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of that Thursday Night Brown's team. I think
Speaker 1: we might check in a few. You only get to
Speaker 1: play the Bengals so many times a year. The other
Speaker 1: time the like five more weeks, they're gonna look great.
Speaker 1: And that other game we like him there too. Uh.
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Speaker 1: what is the appropriate level of concern for Austin Ekeler owners? None? Some?
Speaker 1: Or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? Scott, It's
Speaker 1: really unfair to ask that Josh Kelly question to me.
Speaker 1: That's excuse me. Uh So, I guess I'll say some.
Speaker 1: Kelly is really good and it's impossible to watch him
Speaker 1: in week one and not realize that that he just
Speaker 1: looked that good. Um. Once they got inside the ten,
Speaker 1: Kelly had three of the team's four carries inside the ten.
Speaker 1: Uh he's the bigger back, He's probably gonna be the
Speaker 1: goal line back. Here's what's crazy about this. Kelly only
Speaker 1: played eighteen snaps to Ekeler's fifty. They made the most
Speaker 1: of those. Yeah, but Kelly got sixty yards on that small,
Speaker 1: small samp count snap count, and he got four over
Speaker 1: four years, four yards after content contact, where Eckler only
Speaker 1: got about two yards after contact. Uh, he's gonna see
Speaker 1: increasing loads throughout the season. So I'm gonna say some
Speaker 1: answer some matt on. It's Week one, it's Austin Ekeler.
Speaker 1: We know Austin Ekeler is good. Austin Ekeler had Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon on his team last year and still finished as
Speaker 1: the number seven back in Fantasy football. One of the
Speaker 1: common themes in Week one, though, was split backfields, as
Speaker 1: it was each player's first taste of real action this season.
Speaker 1: So are we dropping Aaron Jones who only had fifty
Speaker 1: pent of the snaps, or are we dropping Chris Carson
Speaker 1: or Todd Gurley who had less than half the snap
Speaker 1: who recommend there there's there's a steam. Not not sure
Speaker 1: that's what dropping to the free agents head Eckler snuck
Speaker 1: one touchdown in last week. We wouldn't even be talking
Speaker 1: about this at all. You shut up. Me and Brian
Speaker 1: had this over Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams now me
Speaker 1: and you're gonna know by the way you do not
Speaker 1: love him. People talking about sabotage dropping players. I love
Speaker 1: that the sabotage drop is be just because everybody knows
Speaker 1: it now, which is fantastic. But we're not executing sabotage
Speaker 1: drops in September. The sabotage drop is guillot and league.
Speaker 1: While that is true, it's a little you can you
Speaker 1: can pull it off there, all right. What is the
Speaker 1: appropriate level of concern for Austin Elin Ekeler owners The
Speaker 1: answer is some. He is a very good player still
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna lose his job, But everything else
Speaker 1: is bad news. First, his offense look bad and was
Speaker 1: unable to produce many points against the same Bengals defense
Speaker 1: that the Browns just destroyed. Team lost their starting center,
Speaker 1: Mike pouncey um, and we had hoped that with Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon gone, that Eckler's role would expand into Melvin Gordon's.
Speaker 1: But no, it's Josh Kelly that is not only taking
Speaker 1: over the Melvin Gordon role but might be better than
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. So there is some concern here, but not
Speaker 1: a bowl loosening level of existential drive and my bowels
Speaker 1: can stay good. Yeah, should Michael Thomas owners trade now
Speaker 1: or stand Pat Scott? Wait? Wait wa, well that again.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to Scott. He had better answers again,
Speaker 1: it only happens. I have a feeling I'm going to
Speaker 1: get this one one wrong, though, But I feel like
Speaker 1: trading Michael Thomas at this point would be selling low.
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly how long he's going to be out.
Speaker 1: I think even the worst case scenario is probably he'll
Speaker 1: be back for week seven. After the week six by
Speaker 1: uh my my. My theory on this is you stand
Speaker 1: Pad because then you get him for the end of
Speaker 1: the season and you can pick up guys on the
Speaker 1: waiver wear like this Paris Campbell guy last week. You know,
Speaker 1: like you can pick up guys like this. If somebody
Speaker 1: were to have recommended Paris, yeah, during the church speculation, yes,
Speaker 1: you would have known. They All they have to do
Speaker 1: is listen to our sage advice for wide receivers to
Speaker 1: pick up weekly to to fill the five week up,
Speaker 1: and then they have Michael Thomas for the Ford if
Speaker 1: you trust us. If you don't trust us, Matt Glad
Speaker 1: you're still listening and Michael Thomas owners trade now our
Speaker 1: stand pad people have decided I don't trust you anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm shutting this show off. UM, I know you think
Speaker 1: it's BS charge, but they're talking about him still possibly
Speaker 1: playing on Monday night. It is a Monday night game,
Speaker 1: so you're not going to start him this week. But
Speaker 1: he is going to Las Vegas this weekend. And Vegas, Baby,
Speaker 1: they have the best spas in the world. Plus they
Speaker 1: have oxygen bars, shrimp Cocktail, the Blue Man Group, all
Speaker 1: of which are clinically proven to heel high ankle sprains.
Speaker 1: So there's no way I'm gonna overreact on Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: right now, considering he's going to be completely healed by
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. This could go either way. High ankle sprains
Speaker 1: are the worst injury for fantasy players, But the people
Speaker 1: don't normally go to Vegas. That's a great Um, you're
Speaker 1: often better off just having a player like Tears a
Speaker 1: c L. So he's out and you just know he's out,
Speaker 1: and you know he can't depend on him, and you
Speaker 1: can start making other plans. The high ankle sprain is
Speaker 1: frustrating because every week it's a game time decision. And
Speaker 1: then if the player does play on the high ankle sprain,
Speaker 1: now he plays poorly on the highnkle sprain. It happens
Speaker 1: all the time, and it doesn't heal while you're playing
Speaker 1: on it. So now you've got now the next week
Speaker 1: it's not right, and the next week it's not right.
Speaker 1: See also say Kwon Barkley from last year, Now he
Speaker 1: could rest it, and really, your best case scenario for
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, the best possible thing can happen is he
Speaker 1: does not play for two or three weeks and comes
Speaker 1: back fully healthy. In that case, the best possible scenario
Speaker 1: is they I are him, Yeah they are three. I agree,
Speaker 1: I are him, and then I can even just stash
Speaker 1: him on I all that can replace him. Maybe that
Speaker 1: would be perfect in my mind, but that doesn't here
Speaker 1: to be what they're going to do. They're gonna play
Speaker 1: this thing out and play some games with them. And
Speaker 1: what happens if he needs to miss Highchael sprains a
Speaker 1: three to five week injury. What if he needs to
Speaker 1: miss four weeks on this thing? And it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's a bad one. What if it's four weeks now,
Speaker 1: it's week five and they're looking at a week six
Speaker 1: by that means he comes back in week seven. This
Speaker 1: there's a non zero chance Michael Thomas either does not
Speaker 1: play until week seven or plays hobbled and ineffectively through
Speaker 1: two weeks seven. I don't like any of those scenarios.
Speaker 1: I think you can still trade for him for a
Speaker 1: good player. I bet if you offered him for, say
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, that's you're gonna get that level of talent
Speaker 1: back for Michael Thomas because of the name recognition, And
Speaker 1: that's why we are trading Michael Thomas. Can I have
Speaker 1: a counterpoint here? Fine, he only runs four yards down field? One?
Speaker 1: At what point will Benny now emerges the Steelers workhorse back?
Speaker 1: Never mid season or he already is the workhorse back? Scott,
Speaker 1: Come on, I am going mid season because I do
Speaker 1: think James Connor just he has injuries every week and
Speaker 1: they're always different injuries. And Benny Snell looked pretty good
Speaker 1: all that off season hype was real. He looked better
Speaker 1: than Connor when when he was out there. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that they're giving up on Connor yet. That's
Speaker 1: why I gave Connor the C grade this week with
Speaker 1: the passing down work. But I think by mid season
Speaker 1: we're gonna see Benny Snell turn into the one A
Speaker 1: of that and if there's an injury, he's the workhorse. Alright.
Speaker 1: Matt uh Scott took most of the wind out of
Speaker 1: my sales, but I'll disagree with him on one point.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be a one A, one B situation.
Speaker 1: That's not Mike Tomlin's way. Benny Snell takes this job.
Speaker 1: It's Benny Snells the role with so is that never
Speaker 1: mid season or he already is the work is the
Speaker 1: workhorse back. Now you are correct, and you hit a
Speaker 1: vy salient point. Mike Tomlin has always loved his workhorse backs.
Speaker 1: Lavy on Bell before that, Richard menden Hall before that,
Speaker 1: Willie Parker, all guys that were workhorse backs for that
Speaker 1: for for Mike Tomlin. And that's the way he wants
Speaker 1: to go with us. And as pig headed as Mike
Speaker 1: Tomlin has been about trying to make James Conner into
Speaker 1: a workhorse, by now he's got to know James Conner
Speaker 1: can't be a workhorse back. It's so obvious, and they've
Speaker 1: got to know that Benny Snell looks better than James Conner.
Speaker 1: The only thing I have with it is Benny still
Speaker 1: has like between college and the pros, like career catches,
Speaker 1: like all those other backs he listed could catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Benny Snell doesn't matter. He's going to already is and
Speaker 1: it's going to start this week, even with James Conner back.
Speaker 1: You watch Benny Snell, it's gonna have more carry there.
Speaker 1: It is already the lead back. This is James Conner's
Speaker 1: final year in Pittsburgh's contract runs out. They're they're moving
Speaker 1: on to Benny Snell right now. James Connor will probably
Speaker 1: get reinjured. So the game Detroit takes on green Bay.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson surprise star for the Lions last week. What
Speaker 1: do you think about the running game for the Lions
Speaker 1: against a pretty bad run defense for Green Bay? Matt
Speaker 1: Um Well, the run defense, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: pretty bad or if they were just playing pre event.
Speaker 1: Run defense were terrible last year, and Dalvin Cook had
Speaker 1: a good game. He had a good game, but it
Speaker 1: was all in like, hey, we're gonna back off fifteen
Speaker 1: yards and hope you don't beat us for a quick touchdown.
Speaker 1: I will mention that defensive tackle Kenny Clark left the
Speaker 1: game last week with a groin injury, and when the
Speaker 1: Vikings were still kind of in the game, they started
Speaker 1: running the rock right up the middle where Kenny Clark
Speaker 1: usually said. Clark has been ruled out for this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think that that plays well for Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: gets the A gap and B gap runs. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: giving both DeAndre Swift and Adrian Peterson C grades this
Speaker 1: week for that only only are all that lead up.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they're gonna split carries and carry on.
Speaker 1: Johnson is gonna get of the snaps and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be annoying. So let's talk about Swift for just a second. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: I like Peterson better than you do, but that's not
Speaker 1: the Swift. So Swift drops the game winning touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: he sure did. He's in his first start as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna make go out of their way
Speaker 1: to give Swift opportunities to get confidence back and make
Speaker 1: sure he gets the ball in high percentage spots so
Speaker 1: that he can You know this, this this game losing
Speaker 1: catch of his doesn't weigh on him too much. You
Speaker 1: know what the problem is with that, though, Church. I
Speaker 1: think the game script is gonna get out of control
Speaker 1: for Detroit. Their def about firable and they might have
Speaker 1: to abandon the running game. That's why they're only sees.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. I'm giving him a SE grade. It could
Speaker 1: be a b uh. In last year's meeting with Mike
Speaker 1: Petton's defense, Stafford only managed two scoreless yards. The Packers
Speaker 1: defense allowed less than two fifty per game last year,
Speaker 1: just over one passing score per game, and with Golladay
Speaker 1: likely out, it just looks bad and I think gets
Speaker 1: to see uh t J. Hockenson. I am giving a
Speaker 1: C grade to only five targets last week, which is
Speaker 1: a bit disappointing considering Golladay's absence. He did catch all
Speaker 1: five of them for fifty six yards in a score though,
Speaker 1: and the Packers have allowed five tight end receptions for
Speaker 1: fifty six yards over their past seven team games, so
Speaker 1: it seems like it's gonna work out. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. Golladay not gonna go again this week
Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury, Marvin Jones and Quintez c Fess.
Speaker 1: I'm giving them both C grades this week. Fifth rounder
Speaker 1: c Fis led the team with ten targets last week,
Speaker 1: and I guess it counts as a homecoming of sorts
Speaker 1: since he attended Wisconsin, so homecoming game. Uh for the
Speaker 1: deep throwing stafford. It's notable that Cifas had thirty five
Speaker 1: percent of the area yards against Chicago last week, and
Speaker 1: that should keep up until Golladay returns. Jones has scored
Speaker 1: four times in his last four meetings with the Packers.
Speaker 1: He put up a few clunkers in their two for
Speaker 1: seventeen and one catch for eight yards in a score
Speaker 1: in two of those four games. I like him a
Speaker 1: lot less with Coliday off the field. I like my
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones to be the second most important receiver on
Speaker 1: the field to draw the best coverage away from him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that that's true. Over on the Packers side,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, I'm giving him a B. He only saw
Speaker 1: the field on his Packers snaps last week, compared to
Speaker 1: forty one for Jamal Williams. Well A. J. Dillon and
Speaker 1: Philip Irvin were mixed in. What this tells me is
Speaker 1: that this is a split backfield, and while the stats
Speaker 1: were still good, it's still troubling for those rostering Jones
Speaker 1: that he's getting just over half of the snaps. Now.
Speaker 1: He did get twenty touches last game, and I expect
Speaker 1: a similar game script for this game. It's just gonna
Speaker 1: be really hard for me to go better than a
Speaker 1: be on him the rest of the season. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and Davante Adams getting a grade. If you thought the
Speaker 1: Vikings secondary is bad, look up the Lions. It's worse.
Speaker 1: Um since Matt Patricia has become the coach of the Lions.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is averaging nine yards per game against the Lions,
Speaker 1: and Adams has topped ninety yards and scored in every
Speaker 1: matchup against Matt Patricia's Lions defense, and all banged up
Speaker 1: with the injuries in that secondary, it's a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for Aaron Jones. I did highlight Marquez Valdez scantling as
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me, but Allen Lazard startable
Speaker 1: to um. Lazard top sixty yards and scored in both
Speaker 1: meetings with the Lions last season, and everything I said
Speaker 1: about MVS applies to Allen Lazard as well. Just saying
Speaker 1: somebody's take a chance of me wide receiver Alan Lazard
Speaker 1: from last year last week. If you would have done
Speaker 1: Marquees Veldez Scantling last week, I would have given you
Speaker 1: a double peacock. Thank you. I can give myself a
Speaker 1: double peacock. Whington takes on Arizona and already already mentioned
Speaker 1: a couple of players I like. On the Washington side
Speaker 1: of this. Logan Thomas was might take a chance of me.
Speaker 1: Receiver j D. Mcsuckett was my take a chance of
Speaker 1: me running back. I've had a C grade on Peyton Barber,
Speaker 1: who's basically now like Garrett Blunt on a worst team.
Speaker 1: He's touched totally touchdown dependent Arizona, Arizona's run defense Garret
Speaker 1: on a worst team. Arizona's run defense performed pretty well
Speaker 1: against the forty nine yer Backs last week, which is
Speaker 1: no small feet because that's a very good running team.
Speaker 1: Um Barbara found the end zone against the Cardinals last
Speaker 1: season on a great for him three point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry. I think in a pinch you could start
Speaker 1: him and just keep your fingers crossed for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: But that's all you're gonna get. The only receiver you
Speaker 1: care about for Washington outside of Logan Thomas is Terry McLaurin. Yes, McClure,
Speaker 1: nicely done. He's supposed at least fifty yards already touchdown
Speaker 1: every time he has seen at least seven targets, which
Speaker 1: is very likely to continue to continue in this game.
Speaker 1: McLaren runs predominantly from the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: which puts him on Drake Kirkpatrick, who, yes, he's still
Speaker 1: in the league. Dray Kirkpatrick that, yeah, you may hit
Speaker 1: for good reason with a very positive matchup for him.
Speaker 1: Be great for Terry McLaurin. Let's go to the Arizona side.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is an obvious A grade. We'll just keep
Speaker 1: moving on with other parts of the passing game, including
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray also in a grade. That improvisational running of
Speaker 1: his is your your game winning wild card every week,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be tough to bench regardless of opponent,
Speaker 1: especially considering what he just did to the awesome Niners
Speaker 1: defense last week. Last year, Washington allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: quarterback rushing yards. His arms gonna chip in some help
Speaker 1: against the bad Washington secondary cornerbacks. Ronald Darby, Jimmy Moreland,
Speaker 1: and Fabian Moreau are all bottom tier talents, and DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins alone could power Kyler Murray to a very good game.
Speaker 1: I like it when you think that some cornerbacks are bad.
Speaker 1: Your voice changes this a little bit. It's Fabian Moreau.
Speaker 1: We got to emphasize how bad they are. Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: gets a C grade after zero receptions last week. I
Speaker 1: think they I believe that they'll actively work to get
Speaker 1: Christen Kirk more involved to get the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands in this game, somewhere between him and DeAndre Hoppy,
Speaker 1: somewhere between the two. That's right. Um. He runs overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: from the right side of the field, where Kirk will
Speaker 1: match up with Ronald Darby, which is a very plus
Speaker 1: matchup for him. Darby brutal last year and last week
Speaker 1: he gave up eighty one yards in his coverage last week.
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold with a C grade. Where's Brian? Where is Brian?
Speaker 1: He got rocked, but Washington got rocked by the Eagles
Speaker 1: tight ends last week, so we're gonna give a flyer
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold here as well. In the running game, Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake it's a B did not do much last week,
Speaker 1: but it was against a very good Niners run defense. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: he's averaging nineteen touches per game since he's been a Cardinal,
Speaker 1: so you know the volume is going to be there.
Speaker 1: But which Washington defense will he see? Will he see
Speaker 1: last year's defense that was extremely leaky and allowed the
Speaker 1: third most fantasy points back? Where is he gonna get
Speaker 1: the version from last week that limited Philadelphia's backs to
Speaker 1: a total of seventy six yards air and ground. The
Speaker 1: Eagle's offensive line is incredibly beat up, so I'm not
Speaker 1: totally sold on this. Clearly the Red Sorry, the Washington
Speaker 1: football team a better helmets, the Red Helmets, better team,
Speaker 1: a better defense this year, but not so much that
Speaker 1: I think you'll want to be starting or want to
Speaker 1: assume that they're automatically as good as they looked last week.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, it's the B grade. I'm putting Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: on the bench. I know he's scared a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: but he's only on the field for one third of
Speaker 1: the snaps and it's just the eight touches are just
Speaker 1: not enough to be fantasy reliable. I keep an eye
Speaker 1: on him. I think that he's gonna eat more into
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake's workload. As this season wears, it could very
Speaker 1: well be where now he's a good player. He's a
Speaker 1: good player. When we come back, Buffalo taking on Miami,
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to our matchups, including Buffalo taking on
Speaker 1: Miami and Scott. If you say anything bad about Zach Moss,
Speaker 1: you can just leave now Scott back. Oh, come back, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll come back. Uh. Josh Allen threw the ball a
Speaker 1: lot last week. I think I think that if we
Speaker 1: are doing year thirty six of Fancy Football Weekly, where
Speaker 1: in this room still talking about Jack Boss, Josh Allen's
Speaker 1: six attempts might still beet his career high. I think
Speaker 1: that I think that that's possible. Um, he not just
Speaker 1: his first three yard game, which I was surprised by,
Speaker 1: I mean not super surprised. But the thing is he's
Speaker 1: playing Miami. Who Cam Newton just made the blueprint right
Speaker 1: of how to play against Miami. Just run the ball
Speaker 1: fifteen times for seventy five yards, only throwout nineteen times.
Speaker 1: Allen's like, that's me. You just did what I normally do.
Speaker 1: So I I gave Allen an a grade because I
Speaker 1: think I think he think he gets a lot of
Speaker 1: rushing yards and maybe some goal line carries because he's
Speaker 1: their goal line back. I think we need to start
Speaker 1: talking about Josh Allen as a top three dynasty quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's already top six, so I mean, like going into
Speaker 1: this season, he was already like six or whatever there
Speaker 1: with the Momes and the Jacksons. Almost now I'm not
Speaker 1: quite there yet either, but I mean, if he starts
Speaker 1: passing for three yards along with the Russian, then he's
Speaker 1: his main guy. Digs I'm given a C grade to
Speaker 1: even though it is a mean Howard is back and
Speaker 1: healthy and uh he's been digged up with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Only played snaps last week, which isn't very much, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's going to be, you know, a
Speaker 1: bigger participant this week. I just think that Digs in
Speaker 1: Brown both get the C grades. They both should just
Speaker 1: get just get enough work to be startable, and you're not.
Speaker 1: You're probably not benched him anyway, not against not against Miami. Yeah, Beasley,
Speaker 1: He's going to be the odd man out of snaps.
Speaker 1: Alan's not going to throw that much. I have SEA
Speaker 1: grades on both Singletary and Moss were going to him.
Speaker 1: Stop it? Yeah, why did you mislead our list? Like
Speaker 1: the snapshare shows a clear advantage for Singletary, you got
Speaker 1: more pass game work, but Moss took everything once they
Speaker 1: got down close, and oh man, I I was very mad.
Speaker 1: Zack Moss was wide open for a second touchdown and
Speaker 1: I yelled at the screen yep. And that's why I
Speaker 1: do like Moss, because he's got that t D upside.
Speaker 1: But you don't like him enough to get him a
Speaker 1: better grades. Is there something better than a C? But
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not quite a beat like C prime. If
Speaker 1: if Singletary got less snaps and less work between the
Speaker 1: twenties last last week, I would probably have Moss ranked higher.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know what to trust yet, so
Speaker 1: I gave him both C grades. On the Miami side,
Speaker 1: I'm benching almost everything. Parker is sounding like he's going
Speaker 1: to be out. If he's out, my boy Preston Williams
Speaker 1: gets travious white. I hate that matchup. So I got
Speaker 1: him on the bench. Kasecky, we talked about this, that
Speaker 1: it might be the breakout I mean a bounce back.
Speaker 1: I mean him. Yeah, seven targets last week for the
Speaker 1: tight end playing against Buffalo, there's a opportunity. I gave
Speaker 1: him a C grade. He only had eight catches for
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards in two games last year, which which
Speaker 1: was rough. But you know, if if Parker is out Kaseki,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a se grete he could he could
Speaker 1: get the work on Gaskin was my take a chance
Speaker 1: on me player. Clearly I don't like Fits. You know
Speaker 1: how many touchdown Fits had it against the Bills last
Speaker 1: year in two games too, That's it. I got that
Speaker 1: on the bench. Yeah. Too bad about Devonte Parker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, all you know for all the
Speaker 1: you know, the way I finished last year was hopefully
Speaker 1: rolling with the momentum this year, that's not going to
Speaker 1: be the case. Jacksonville takes on Tennessee Matt and Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew through one in completion last week. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's really really good in three touchdowns and you know me,
Speaker 1: I love Gardner Minshew, you do. He's on the bench. Um,
Speaker 1: he met these types last year and managed two d
Speaker 1: four yards and two scores. Drew lock put up to
Speaker 1: sixteen and one last week. It feels about right for
Speaker 1: two is just above two. By the way, he only
Speaker 1: had three in completions twenty two twenty five week one
Speaker 1: last year, so maybe he's just a week one guy
Speaker 1: that he's a j Clemens Week one original um considering
Speaker 1: Minshew was sacked on four of his twenty four dropbacks
Speaker 1: last week. That offensive line is bad and they have
Speaker 1: the lowest implied Vegas point total of only sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half this week. I'm just benching this offense, including
Speaker 1: DJ Chark, who only had three targets last week. And
Speaker 1: while it's clear he to us he's the best wide
Speaker 1: receiver on the team, well, yeah, because he is the
Speaker 1: best WI, it's not clear to the Jaguars for some reason,
Speaker 1: who are rotating five wide receivers on a pretty even rotation. Now,
Speaker 1: Chark got the most. He was on the field for
Speaker 1: of the snaps, but why is he off the field?
Speaker 1: That's pretty normal or any for any top receiver. I
Speaker 1: will say. I will say I I heard that they
Speaker 1: were moving Laviska around a lot to make mismatches and
Speaker 1: that's why he was so involved last week. But who
Speaker 1: knows that they might do that, you know throughout the season.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Chennault, he had more targets with four, and
Speaker 1: Keel and Cole had more targets with five. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: all those got there. I'm not with you. I'm not
Speaker 1: with you on the chart thing. I'm I'm with me
Speaker 1: on it. James Robinson and Chris Thompson both are on
Speaker 1: the bench. It's a full Jaguars bench in I favored
Speaker 1: Thompson as the Jaguars are nine point road underdogs. Meeting
Speaker 1: game script could dictate more of the past catching back
Speaker 1: on the field a little bit more. Still, Robinson had
Speaker 1: all sixteen of the carries last week, but only managed
Speaker 1: under four yards per carry with them and catch was amazing.
Speaker 1: Now that's great, It's not gonna help for this week.
Speaker 1: Only one back is topped eighty yards against Tennessee in
Speaker 1: their last six games on the Tennessee side. Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: is an easy a Ryan Tannehill was might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Quarterback A. J. Brown is out with
Speaker 1: a bone bruise this week, which means Corey Davis gets
Speaker 1: a Sea gray and it might have been a little
Speaker 1: bit better if he didn't have a hamstring injury that
Speaker 1: he's been working through this week. It was his first
Speaker 1: one yard game last week since Week ten, and he's
Speaker 1: only topped eighty yards once in his prior twenty three outings.
Speaker 1: He's not very consistent obviously, well, he's consistently bad. He's
Speaker 1: consistently mediocre. In in six career meetings with the Jags,
Speaker 1: he's never scored. His high yardage total is forty four yards.
Speaker 1: Corey Davis, I mean, you got You're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to decide. Was Week one a total mirage or is
Speaker 1: he somehow turned the corner late in his career a
Speaker 1: little bit like I don't like Davante Parker. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know that is not usually where it happens.
Speaker 1: It's like a Sammue Watkins with Buffalo Good Week one
Speaker 1: Buffalo might be there's one more player we have to
Speaker 1: mention charge you think I don't know, and it's the receiver.
Speaker 1: It's John H. Smith. Oh yeah, baby, you want to
Speaker 1: play a sound now, Um, you're figuring out which sound.
Speaker 1: There's this because he scored a touchdown last week, had
Speaker 1: a beautiful bubble screen on like the second play of
Speaker 1: the game. So there's that. Smith had seven targets last week,
Speaker 1: a feat he only managed once last year, which means
Speaker 1: which means they've figured it out throughout the off season
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh yeah, it's seven targets per game
Speaker 1: to John new Smith. Now every time in John WUS
Speaker 1: career that he's had exactly seven targets he's scored. You
Speaker 1: would take a hundred plus targets. Say the Jags allowed
Speaker 1: the eighth most tight end touchdowns last year too, So
Speaker 1: John U. Smith giving him a B. It's closer to
Speaker 1: an A though, I think as I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be in line for more than seven targets, a
Speaker 1: j Brown out and Corey Davis, as you mentioned, the
Speaker 1: hamstring that pats and games gonna funnel largely through John
Speaker 1: NU Smith, who's standing up on almost every play. He's
Speaker 1: a super sneaky Draft Kings play. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: cheap if you're building the draft kids people deaf Draft
Speaker 1: Kings people don't listen to the show clearly, or they
Speaker 1: would know absolutely no better. Baltimore taking on Houston will
Speaker 1: try to zip through this matchup because Lamar Jackson does
Speaker 1: not need any explanation. Here's my number one ranked quarterback
Speaker 1: this week, and Mark Andrew's obvious A as well. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit trickier for the h for some of
Speaker 1: the other players, but not a lot. Marcy's Brown gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. He had a big Week one and
Speaker 1: it's probably going to continue against a terrible Houston secondary
Speaker 1: that just got picked clean by Patrick Mahomes. Um. He
Speaker 1: goes up against quarterback Bradley Roby, who is good and
Speaker 1: that's the only reason he's not an a. Roby's got
Speaker 1: the speed necessary to keep up with Brown. Um. But
Speaker 1: he did yield five catches on a score and week one,
Speaker 1: so I think Brown is gonna be just fine. And Um.
Speaker 1: Then we go to the running backs. Now, mark Ingram
Speaker 1: was on the wrong side of the snaps in Week one.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna flip this script and get mark
Speaker 1: Ingram back involved in this one, just to make sure
Speaker 1: defenses know that there's both guys are still a viable
Speaker 1: opport option for both for this offense. And if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then I think he's sitting in a nice
Speaker 1: game and be great here. He put up seventy five
Speaker 1: combo yards and two receiving scores in the two Ravens
Speaker 1: meetings with Houston last season. The Texans have given up
Speaker 1: fourteen scores to running backs in their last eight games,
Speaker 1: so they're giving up about two a game over the
Speaker 1: course of the last half season. I think mark Ingram's
Speaker 1: gonna find his way to the end zone here, and
Speaker 1: then J K. Dobbins saw Baltimore's only two carries inside
Speaker 1: the five, and he's scored on both of them. It
Speaker 1: looks like that. I don't I still think both guys
Speaker 1: are viable at the stripe. I don't think that's art. Now.
Speaker 1: Dobbins has been a changing of the guard. J K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins is going to be awesome. Dobbins is wish Zack
Speaker 1: Moss would have done. You shut up, Za, Can I
Speaker 1: remind you Zack most scored a touchdown likee Uh, Houston,
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Houston gives up touchdowns here. I still
Speaker 1: think it's the j K. Dobbins is absolutely startable. Uh
Speaker 1: and they stopped They lost their run stuffer free agent
Speaker 1: DJ Reader in the off season, and we saw what
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards, a layer did to this Houston run defense
Speaker 1: last week. Then on the Houston side, the lowest grade
Speaker 1: I've ever given to Shaun Watson coming into a game. No,
Speaker 1: he is a C and he's my twentieth ranked quarterback
Speaker 1: this week, which sounds absurd for any quarterback as good
Speaker 1: as he is. But you know, Baltimore's past defense is awesome,
Speaker 1: and he posted a miserable outing against Baltimore last year.
Speaker 1: No scores either through the ground or via the air.
Speaker 1: He threw for one sixty nine yards and he ran
Speaker 1: for twelve yards. That was his game against Baltimore last year.
Speaker 1: And he had Hopkins last year and that was with
Speaker 1: the A Right, that was with DeAndre Hopkins. Now over
Speaker 1: the Ravens. What about on the ground. You might be saying,
Speaker 1: I think that Deshaun Watson is going to run on
Speaker 1: the ground. You might be saying, yeah, is he going
Speaker 1: to run on the ground? Chart Why no, he's not.
Speaker 1: Past Ravens twenty five games, they've given up one quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown and seven quarterback rushing yards per game. That's
Speaker 1: over the last twenty five games. That is a large
Speaker 1: sample size. Well, they practice against l Jack's every day,
Speaker 1: so they know what to do. Absolutely, Um, stay with
Speaker 1: the passing game. Will Fuller just gets a C grade here.
Speaker 1: The good news is that Fuller emerged as the clear
Speaker 1: go to receiver and that ends the good news portion
Speaker 1: of the Will Fuller discussion right there. This is a
Speaker 1: brutal matchup. No receivers hit one hundred yards against the
Speaker 1: Ravens and almost excuse me, a year they hammered the
Speaker 1: Browns passing game last week, and since the beginning of
Speaker 1: last year, wide receivers have failed to score any touchdowns
Speaker 1: at all in half of the Ravens games. Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: is on the bench. He's nursing an injury and again,
Speaker 1: brutal matchup. We're not going to start him. What about
Speaker 1: David Johnson? What about him? Duke Johnson may not play
Speaker 1: in this game, so he might get a large workload
Speaker 1: Houston has. I'm sorry, um, let's see you. Johnson got
Speaker 1: almost all the snaps in the opener that probably continues here.
Speaker 1: But he's had just one rushing one hundred yard rushing
Speaker 1: game in his last thirty one starts. You can run
Speaker 1: on the Ravens a little bit easier than pass on
Speaker 1: the Ravens. And they're gonna try to get David Johnson going,
Speaker 1: but the game script is gonna turn against him quickly.
Speaker 1: And it's only a C grade for me. David Johnson.
Speaker 1: Tough game coming up for Houston. By the way, Houston
Speaker 1: is going to be in contention with the Jaguars to
Speaker 1: lose out that division. Yeah, this is I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: it's not a very good team. When we come back
Speaker 1: premature speculation. Three players that you will want to pick
Speaker 1: up and now that everybody else is gonna be trying
Speaker 1: to pick up next week. But they're already on your
Speaker 1: team because you heard premature speculation on Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Final segments Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchie and Guillotine Leagues
Speaker 1: dot Com, Matt Harrison Shocked Fantasy and Scott Fish with you.
Speaker 1: This is a segment we can premature speculation. These are
Speaker 1: guys that are available on the waiver wire in most
Speaker 1: leagues that we believe you should pick up now one
Speaker 1: week before everybody else is going to try to pick
Speaker 1: them up. Scott, who should we pick up? Now? How
Speaker 1: about I turn on my mic. That'll work. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start with Jalen Reagor, who so many people drop. His
Speaker 1: roster ship has gone into the twenties undertent Now, he
Speaker 1: only had four targets reeled one in for fifty five yards,
Speaker 1: but as I mentioned earlier, he led the NFL in
Speaker 1: yards per target. With Lane Johnson back, Carson Wentz is
Speaker 1: gonna have a little bit more time to throw and
Speaker 1: catch him deep, and he's gonna get healthier with that
Speaker 1: shoulder over the season. So I like him. Matt, you're
Speaker 1: prettymature speculation player. Is you need a difference maker at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position? You need to tag a viola ste
Speaker 1: Beard through three picks in week one. He faces another
Speaker 1: tough test in Buffalo this week, and Scott already said
Speaker 1: that it's looking bad. After that. It's Jacksonville on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: a primetime game. What better way to start your quarterback
Speaker 1: in his new team against a SEC defense in the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. And if you and if to it does
Speaker 1: look good or he looks bad. They now have ten
Speaker 1: days to make corrections and change the offense in between
Speaker 1: that Thursday night game and the Week four game. So
Speaker 1: I like to as a pickup. I think he starts
Speaker 1: next week. All right. My premature speculation player is La
Speaker 1: Michael p Ryan, Yes, Lamer, is it la miracle? The
Speaker 1: miracle Love miracle? Is it really is? I mean his
Speaker 1: brother Isma, So you're probably right it is a miracle.
Speaker 1: We'll go with that. Um, he's got an easy path
Speaker 1: to the starting job in New York for the Jets.
Speaker 1: Laby On bells on I R. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if Lavian Bell is good anymore. Frank Gore was brutal
Speaker 1: last year, and he's a year older. Thank you. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Michael Pierryan is going to be very likely
Speaker 1: be active this week. He's been nursing an ankle injury
Speaker 1: but expected to play, and he could be your starter
Speaker 1: by next week if he looks better than Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: which is not that hard to do. He could be
Speaker 1: the starter next week on an NFL team, not a
Speaker 1: very good NFL team. What kind of runner is the
Speaker 1: Michael p Ryan, you might be asking. He's strong, he's physical,
Speaker 1: He's not elusive, but he is a little shifty. He
Speaker 1: can catch him, pass block, just okay. Speed. He's not
Speaker 1: a special runner, but he might be the best runner
Speaker 1: run the Jets. That is a possibility that I liked
Speaker 1: it when you did the air quotes when talking about
Speaker 1: the Jets and NFL team. That's right, the verbal air quotes. Right.
Speaker 1: I must have heard that as a nickname in college
Speaker 1: at some point and it just start flipped in me.
Speaker 1: I was you made you made me question myself for
Speaker 1: a second. Let's go to the Monday night game, scott
Speaker 1: New Orleans taking on Oakland. Yeah. So, uh. The date
Speaker 1: December eleven, two, two thousand six, team age seven and
Speaker 1: the stats seven yards, no touchdowns, three interceptions. His drew
Speaker 1: last game without Michael Thomas. Yeah, he had a bad
Speaker 1: one that game. I don't think it's gonna be that
Speaker 1: bad this week as he plays a team that just
Speaker 1: allowed two and seventy yards to teddy Bridge. So I
Speaker 1: do have a C grade on Breeze. It's it's not
Speaker 1: as good as if Thomas was in there. I'm giving
Speaker 1: a B grade to Sanders. He should get a decent
Speaker 1: amount of volume and they're gonna move around a lot
Speaker 1: so just to get him open. I really I really
Speaker 1: like cooking this game. He got a ton of targets
Speaker 1: last week and Michael Thomas played almost the fall game,
Speaker 1: so it's not like uh so now with Thomas out,
Speaker 1: he should see more targets and revenge game conserrators. So
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, Alvin Kamara, I'm giving an A grade.
Speaker 1: I think that this team goes heavy run run game
Speaker 1: with without Michael Thomas, So I have an A grade
Speaker 1: of Kamara. He's gonna get the passing game work. Um,
Speaker 1: we might even get one of those rare ten ten
Speaker 1: target games for coming from this one this week. And
Speaker 1: I actually have a C grade on Murray too. He
Speaker 1: doesn't play as much, but he got fifteen carries last
Speaker 1: week and in a run running head be your game.
Speaker 1: I think that he could get that amount of work
Speaker 1: again on the other side with Rugs out and against
Speaker 1: the Saints. I don't like anything, really. I don't like
Speaker 1: car I don't like any of the receivers. They split
Speaker 1: too much. I mean, Agla is getting snaps. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I do like Darren Waller, who got eight targets
Speaker 1: last week. He's if he's gonna get eight of cars
Speaker 1: thirty targets last week, if he's gonna get that level,
Speaker 1: give me an give me probably an A grade on wallet.
Speaker 1: And Brian Edwards showed nothing last week. Yeah, and Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs the off season hype about I want sixty catches,
Speaker 1: he got six targets target. Yeah, he's he's getting it.
Speaker 1: It's happening, guys. Um it was an obvious smash spot
Speaker 1: this week. It's a little tougher this week. But concerned
Speaker 1: he gets those targets. I have an A grade on
Speaker 1: him because he's gonna get a ton of work. I'm
Speaker 1: with him, all right, Let's go to New England taking
Speaker 1: on Seattle. Uh. The The Patriots didn't even ask Cam
Speaker 1: Newton to pass in a one sided game. They will
Speaker 1: need his arm at some point against a much better
Speaker 1: Seattle Seattle team, you think. And that's why all the
Speaker 1: running backs I kind of have lumped together. Um, well,
Speaker 1: let's just start. I gotta I gotta bench grade for
Speaker 1: every running back but one. Okay, Sony Michelle has a
Speaker 1: bench grade. He led the team with ten touches last week,
Speaker 1: but he's Sony Walkman Michelle, and he looked bad. James
Speaker 1: white had eight touches. He's on the bench. Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: he's on the So has Rex burke Head with seven touches,
Speaker 1: and JJ Taylor with five touches. The only running back
Speaker 1: you can start is Cam Newton, who had fifteen rushing
Speaker 1: attempts last week, as many as Sony and white Head combined,
Speaker 1: and the second most rushing attempts in his career. Church,
Speaker 1: would you like to make a peacock noise because you
Speaker 1: called it in the preseason that Bill Belichick's just gonna
Speaker 1: run that. Why not run him? Why not run him?
Speaker 1: He gets a B grade because the Patriots are just
Speaker 1: running like the the single wing or the wishbone offense.
Speaker 1: From now on. Worth noting that Lamar Jackson ran fourteen
Speaker 1: times against the Seahawks last year for a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixteen yards in a score, and Kyler Murray had ten
Speaker 1: carries for sixty seven yards in a score on the
Speaker 1: ground over his two games against the Seahawks last year.
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman is the only other player that's getting a
Speaker 1: starting grade. He's getting a B. Edelman led the team
Speaker 1: with seven targets last week, and Russell Gauge grabbed nine
Speaker 1: catches from one fourteen from the slot last week against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Uh and kill Harry's on the bench, h
Speaker 1: no deal. Scary fumbled out of the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone last week. You like that nickname through the
Speaker 1: end zone. That puts him squarely in Bill Belichick's doghouse there.
Speaker 1: He did manage six targets, but the Pets they're not
Speaker 1: going to throw him the ball enough. And Devin Assisi
Speaker 1: only had ten snaps in week one. That's bad on
Speaker 1: the Seahawks side. Chris Carson is getting a C grade,
Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah, he scored twice in the receiving game.
Speaker 1: And I'm a little nervous that Carlos Hyde vultured a
Speaker 1: goal line touchdown, but I'd still like Carson enough. That
Speaker 1: was that was garbage time. The problem is the Patriots
Speaker 1: have been an epic run defense for a long time.
Speaker 1: While Jordan Howard did manage to hit pay dirt last
Speaker 1: week against the Patriots, before that, it was Gus Edwards
Speaker 1: as the only running back to score in that's right,
Speaker 1: the only one, and prior to that it was Brandon Bolden. Yes,
Speaker 1: that Brandon Bolden, who's on the Patriots, right, he was
Speaker 1: at some point not on the Patriots. He played one
Speaker 1: year in Miami and scored two touchdowns on the ground
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. It's crazy. So four rushing touchdowns against
Speaker 1: them in the last twenty one games. Russell Wilson gets
Speaker 1: a B. The Pats defense good against the past, but
Speaker 1: there's a few threads to pull. Last season, they allowed
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty passing yards per game over the
Speaker 1: first eight weeks to over the last eight, and rushing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have had fine days against them. To Lamar and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen roughed them up on the ground over a
Speaker 1: few games last year. Even Stu Beard ran one in.
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett and dk Metcalf both get b grades. Both
Speaker 1: had eight targets last week, both top ninety yards and
Speaker 1: normally um Metcalf had six of the team's are yards.
Speaker 1: Normally that would bump him up, but he gets Stephan
Speaker 1: Gilmour on the outside while Tyler Lockett hangs in the slot.
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen and the tight ends are on the bench.
Speaker 1: Four targets, two targets, one target between them. It's a
Speaker 1: mess that doesn't surprise me. About stupid, I mean, Alan
Speaker 1: Lamar Newton Russ fits, but he did lead his team
Speaker 1: in rushing last year. He did. Let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup that we'll find all of them on the Yes,
Speaker 1: Kansas City taking on the Sandy former team formula from
Speaker 1: San Diego. Dring names today, I know. Actually that's my
Speaker 1: fault that I put San Diego on the sheet. Just say,
Speaker 1: Josh Kelly's Chargers, you did? You put Sandygo did is
Speaker 1: on my sheet? Now? The Southern California Chargers in this
Speaker 1: Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes, Tyree Hill, and Travis Kelsey are
Speaker 1: all obvious is. And I'm not gonna spend much time
Speaker 1: out of here um except to say that Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: worries me the most out of this group only because
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks of the Charges are all stone cold elite
Speaker 1: and but still it's Tyreek Hill and you're gonna start
Speaker 1: him anyway, and I've still got an A grade on him. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only other member of the passing game that Merritt's
Speaker 1: discussion is Sammy Watkins, who of course went off in
Speaker 1: the opener, just like last year. And I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna go the whole season without scoring again. But
Speaker 1: I'm not starting him here either because again, Charges cornerbacks
Speaker 1: are really really good. And he combined for three catches
Speaker 1: and thirty four yards total in the two games against
Speaker 1: the Chargers a season ago. That's it. My man love
Speaker 1: for Clyde Edwards h layer is unabated. He is a
Speaker 1: rock solid A grade, my favorite chief of the week.
Speaker 1: I like him more than anybody in the passing game.
Speaker 1: He averaged seven half yards per carry on runs that
Speaker 1: weren't inside the five yard You saw the inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line. They got all got blown up at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. He had nowhere to go the
Speaker 1: rest of the field seven and a half yards per
Speaker 1: carry in the opener. Only Peyton Barber had more red
Speaker 1: zone carries during the opening week than Clyde Edwards Laire.
Speaker 1: In addition UH, they added UH. The Chargers added Linvald
Speaker 1: Joseph in the off season. He's a run stuffer and
Speaker 1: he did hold Joe Mixon in check last week. But
Speaker 1: it's a whole different story to try to do it
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Solid A grade for Clyde Edwards Hilaire.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Chargers side where Austin Ekeler gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. I am troubled by Ockler for all
Speaker 1: the reasons we described earlier in the show um. Last
Speaker 1: year against Kansas City he posted a combined fourteen carries
Speaker 1: for seventy yards and seventeen catches for a hundred fifty one.
Speaker 1: I would take those air yards again here, but Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor barely threw to him at all last week, and
Speaker 1: he in his Historically he doesn't throw too his running backs.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs having allowed it back to top seventy five
Speaker 1: rushing yards in their last five games, including the playoffs,
Speaker 1: going back to last year, then we should talk about
Speaker 1: Josh Kelly. He got three of the four carries inside
Speaker 1: the ten yard line, including the five yards score last week.
Speaker 1: He's startable here with a C grade. Kansas City is
Speaker 1: allowed just two touchdowns to backs in their last seven games,
Speaker 1: so I don't love him in this one, but I
Speaker 1: think he is startable with a C grade. As for
Speaker 1: the passing game, Tyrod Taylor looked very unimpressive to me, um,
Speaker 1: but I still think you can start Hunter Henry, who
Speaker 1: is my favorite of his receivers. The Chiefs conceded the
Speaker 1: third most receptions and fifth most yards to opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends last week or last year, and Jordan Aiken scored
Speaker 1: against him last week. So I like Hunter Henry here.
Speaker 1: Who don't I like Keenan Allen. Yes, he has scored
Speaker 1: in his last three full games against the Chiefs, but
Speaker 1: he runs from the slot more than half the time,
Speaker 1: and that puts him up against honey batcher Tyron Matthew,
Speaker 1: and that is a brutal matchup and I don't like
Speaker 1: that for Keenan Allen. Uh My Williams was some way
Speaker 1: more involved in the passing game than I expected last
Speaker 1: week with the injuries that he had, and I thought
Speaker 1: he looked very good at some acrobatic catches. But it's
Speaker 1: a very tough matchup against a good secondary CE grade
Speaker 1: for him. They're gonna have to pass a lot in
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