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Speaker 1: Frank Snaffle. I am Greg Sauceman. What's happening, Reggie? Happy
Speaker 1: Thursday to your bud. Are you ready for some football
Speaker 1: Thursday night? Alex Sam? Are you still ready for some football? Man? Alex?
Speaker 1: I am. We got a big one tonight divisional matchup
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and Indianapolis called a great way to start
Speaker 1: off week twelve. Before that, great, I just sleep last night, Buddy.
Speaker 1: Some great Man watched. Now, how did I watch? Last night?
Speaker 1: I watched a couple episodes and Mr Robot that I
Speaker 1: caught up and watch a Nick game, which was fun
Speaker 1: for a while. And then somebody in my group it
Speaker 1: was fun for a long while they were hanging in there.
Speaker 1: One of my group friends said, Wow, who are these knicks?
Speaker 1: And then I was like, the same knicks as always.
Speaker 1: I get out to a big lead and blow it
Speaker 1: of course right. That was also if the Knicks ever
Speaker 1: go up ten points in the fourth quarter in game,
Speaker 1: bet on the other team of Man easily every time.
Speaker 1: And then I ended my night watching the series premiere
Speaker 1: I started it last night. I wound up watching Succession,
Speaker 1: which I've been wanting to watch. What is the Succession?
Speaker 1: It's an HBO program that that's through season two now. Um,
Speaker 1: but I thought I've been waiting the whole wedding thing
Speaker 1: because my time was taken up. So I thought it
Speaker 1: was a show that Judy would like. Because we watched it,
Speaker 1: she didn't fall asleep. She enjoyed. We're good, all right?
Speaker 1: Is that the barometer? As long as Judy doesn't fall
Speaker 1: asleep rains, it's a pretty good show. Well, for like
Speaker 1: I thought, I knew I would like it, but I
Speaker 1: thought I've been waiting to watch it with her because
Speaker 1: I think it's so she would like as well. Already
Speaker 1: she was in alright, fair enough. I believe that this
Speaker 1: is a show that Blondo Doblino and his wife at
Speaker 1: your wedding, we're telling King of myself to watch. I
Speaker 1: believe it. You know, you got to promote the brand, obviously.
Speaker 1: I also want to watch Watchman. Haven't gotten to that yet.
Speaker 1: I heard that's very good. As heard it's awesome, A
Speaker 1: big Linden Law fan, not a not a junior show.
Speaker 1: And I watched that. I was trying to just catch
Speaker 1: one robot before I start Watchman. But that's the next
Speaker 1: thing to queue. All right, Yeah, I would like to watch,
Speaker 1: uh Watchman as well. I have heard good things. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the movie. But Greg, there's so many things going on.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay up to Dayton basketball, trying to
Speaker 1: get ready for week twelve, trying to watch all the
Speaker 1: wrestling content that's going to have you had all these things, Aaron,
Speaker 1: Netflix and Amazon. I don't have time to watch it anymore.
Speaker 1: Disney Plus just came out, so I don't want to watch.
Speaker 1: Greg does not like superheroes. I'm trying to watch the
Speaker 1: X Men animated series on Disney, plus Spider Man animated series.
Speaker 1: There's just there's too much going on. There was a
Speaker 1: great basketball game on late last night between the Clippers
Speaker 1: and saw that. This morning, I was sleep there was
Speaker 1: so much. There's just a lot going on, so much
Speaker 1: going on, and that includes Thursday night football. Tonight, good
Speaker 1: game between the a f C South Houston Texans and
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. This one is in Houston. Will have
Speaker 1: a cover. We'll break it down a little bit later
Speaker 1: on the program. I don't really know what we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to add. We've been talking about this one for
Speaker 1: a while with the running backs. We'll let you know
Speaker 1: what the what the line is, what the total is, uh,
Speaker 1: and some props that we like come up a little
Speaker 1: bit later on. We also have Virginia Podcast rejoining the
Speaker 1: program this week. She will be on toward to twenty pm.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're watching live here on Pluto TV channel five seventeen.
Speaker 1: Do you want the edge, Frank, what do you do
Speaker 1: you get? That's right, you get on the grid. Indeed,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate wherever you're watching and thank you for
Speaker 1: its tuning in. We we'll we get on our show
Speaker 1: with what I mentioned to you this morning as you
Speaker 1: walked in here earlier and I was like, Frank, did
Speaker 1: you did you know that mohamedson new in Philip doors
Speaker 1: Set didn't practice yesterday? He's like, wow, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: putting worst. You should be right here what you were like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I knew about Snow. I didn't realize about doors Set.
Speaker 1: This is pretty big news. Yeah, it is because this
Speaker 1: Patriots offense has already been limited big time so far
Speaker 1: this season. And now you know Mohammed Sanu didn't practice yesterday.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens today. I haven't seen the Patriots
Speaker 1: practice before it yet. Philip or said, I saw some
Speaker 1: of that news later on last night, but you know,
Speaker 1: he left with a concussion. He's dealing with concussion symptoms. Now.
Speaker 1: Edelman is a little bit banged up, but he's you know,
Speaker 1: he should be good to go. But ultimately that could
Speaker 1: open up some opportunity Greg because they need pass catchers
Speaker 1: on this team. They haven't been able to run the
Speaker 1: ball effectively. I think this should lend itself to the
Speaker 1: arrow pointing up for James White, we could see more targets,
Speaker 1: although his targets have been pretty consistent so far this season.
Speaker 1: But there's two names specifically. I know there's one that
Speaker 1: you really like a lot that we will talk about
Speaker 1: when it comes to the leftover segment. Yeah, there is
Speaker 1: some some stuff going on with the Patriots when it
Speaker 1: comes to the leftovers when you get to that after
Speaker 1: the break, But they're I certainly believe it's worth mentioning
Speaker 1: also over the next hour, Frank, I know you are
Speaker 1: your rankings are published, and I know they're done, but like,
Speaker 1: are they published, They're not done yet, They're they're they're
Speaker 1: currently being worked on. Well, I wanted to work through
Speaker 1: it with you because as you walked in, I had
Speaker 1: a bunch of running back questions. A lot of guys
Speaker 1: in similar tears. I've been waiting on Jalen Samuels versus
Speaker 1: Boscarborough for a while. I wanted to add Darius Skye
Speaker 1: to that mix. Um. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: running back conversation that we we have to have. We
Speaker 1: have to try to figure out, Um, where they rank,
Speaker 1: how do you rank them? We want to answer the
Speaker 1: people's questions, but we know you have them when it
Speaker 1: comes to both Scarborough when it comes We've talked a
Speaker 1: lot about both this week and I know we will
Speaker 1: all of a bow lever, you know, stuff aside. There's
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, right, like how high it's
Speaker 1: too high when it comes to ranking both Scarbrough this
Speaker 1: week also, it is a conversation worth having. I also
Speaker 1: want to get into Devin Singletary as well, because I
Speaker 1: know he's in the top twenty of a lot of
Speaker 1: rankings and I gotta see where you have him there.
Speaker 1: So I want to spend a lot of today talking
Speaker 1: about the leftovers, Yes, getting a Thursday night football talking
Speaker 1: Virginia for sure. I want to dive into these rankings
Speaker 1: here on our final bye week and see what we
Speaker 1: can do. Alright, sure, yeah, I mean it all makes
Speaker 1: sense to me trying to figure out where to put
Speaker 1: some of these guys. I mean, there's very specific situations
Speaker 1: Greg that you know. I was talking to a few
Speaker 1: of the guys downstairs about this, the close Alex Possano
Speaker 1: as well. There's a lot of running back situations that
Speaker 1: you don't really know what's going to happen based on
Speaker 1: the injury report so far. Right, So when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Steelers, and I tweeted this out last night, drink.
Speaker 1: We knew that the Cincinnati Bengals defense was really bad,
Speaker 1: but did you know that they were this bad? Greg?
Speaker 1: They have allowed a hundred yard rusher or a rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns to running back in every single game this season.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are really bad. The problem is when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Steelers, normally they don't run a committee,
Speaker 1: but normally they have a running back that they can
Speaker 1: depend on as well. So is it gonna be Janilen
Speaker 1: Samuel's IS's gonna Benny Snell? Is it going to be
Speaker 1: Trey Edmonds? So there's a lot of names in the
Speaker 1: mix there. The Eagles situation, we got to talk about that. No,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, is he gonna be the guy again? Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard has banged up, he hasn't practiced. So there's just
Speaker 1: a few back fields here, Greg that are pretty tough
Speaker 1: to rank this week, just because we don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on with the injuries. We'll get into that and
Speaker 1: hit up with the leftovers when we returned to the
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Speaker 1: banned at the wedding, Oh, this is one of them.
Speaker 1: A chance in hell? Sorry, budd, I noticed that you
Speaker 1: didn't play any Do you remember, right, Man? I told
Speaker 1: you that was band What else is on the band list?
Speaker 1: I'm interested in the band list, Greg, the bandlist you
Speaker 1: want to know? Yeah? Do you remember? That was no village? People? People?
Speaker 1: For sure? People didn't even get a Y M C
Speaker 1: A in there coming slide of any sort. I did
Speaker 1: notice there was no There was a little sad, a
Speaker 1: little sad about that. There was a journey. Don't stop believing, right,
Speaker 1: make sure there's perfect first dance song, Greg, It's so inspirational.
Speaker 1: It's usually I feel like I hear it a lot
Speaker 1: at the end. Um. Yeah, that has been there was
Speaker 1: any bar that I've ever ended up at at the
Speaker 1: end of the night has always closed the night with
Speaker 1: don't stop believing there was no There was no sweet
Speaker 1: Caroline so tired that oh yeah, yeah, I mean, is
Speaker 1: that just because you're tired of or like a red
Speaker 1: Sox thing combination of both. I didn't want to hear it,
Speaker 1: all right, And here's the controvert. There was none of
Speaker 1: this either. It was although I would have been interested
Speaker 1: to hear the band kick A bought me a trumpet
Speaker 1: for my birthday, and I said, I played four years
Speaker 1: in high school. I haven't played the trumpet in It's
Speaker 1: a great gift. She's a She's a really she's a
Speaker 1: really good gift giver. But now I need to learn
Speaker 1: where I can play, because if I play in my apartment,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get kicked. We have a holiday party, com Dude,
Speaker 1: I haven't picked up a trumpet in ten years, Danny,
Speaker 1: would you like to see Frank play the trumpet and
Speaker 1: play Baby Shark at the holiday party? Eventually, I would
Speaker 1: like to learn how to play baby That was one
Speaker 1: of the first to have about two weeks. That's not
Speaker 1: enough time, Greig. I have to learn how to just
Speaker 1: play the thing in general. That's a trumbe all right,
Speaker 1: this is trumpet. Would have Alex te bone he can
Speaker 1: play the trumbone. That's fine, will you trumon? Yes? Wow,
Speaker 1: I think you should do that for sure. I would
Speaker 1: love to play a duo with Alex. But at first
Speaker 1: I need to learn how to play the trumpany maybe
Speaker 1: next years a party, maybe by next year. Um. And
Speaker 1: also this is the controversial one, oh shout was not
Speaker 1: allowed to be played. Put my hands up right obviously
Speaker 1: for winning crash as a wedding staple. Um. Already, so Greg,
Speaker 1: laying down the law. These songs will not be played
Speaker 1: at my wedding. Right. I guess let's just start making
Speaker 1: a list, right, I mean, you have a while, a
Speaker 1: little while, like a year and a half, you know,
Speaker 1: you have some time? And man, yes, some time. Alright. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's get back to fantasy football, and let's let you
Speaker 1: know who was left on the waiver wire and weren't
Speaker 1: picking up. It's time with the leftovers. Still didn't get
Speaker 1: your fill from the waiver wire? More the BFFs has
Speaker 1: your leftovers? Watch this? Never mind, give me a whole
Speaker 1: lot of it. Alright, it's time born the left thow
Speaker 1: who is left on the waiver wire and worth picking
Speaker 1: up in frank we begin where we begun the shows
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and in particular to kill Harry, and
Speaker 1: to kill Harry definitely interesting. You see how much he
Speaker 1: played last week, forty percent of the snaps. But look
Speaker 1: at Philip Dorsett can't go. He played forty six percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps. Mohammed Sanu was on the field for
Speaker 1: fifty five percent of the snaps, So they really do
Speaker 1: have a rotation at the wide receiver position. Outside of
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman played eighty nine percent of the snaps, but
Speaker 1: between Jacobe Meyers and kill Harry and Mohammed Sanu and
Speaker 1: Philip door Set, they have been rotating those guys in
Speaker 1: and out Greg And I almost wonder if Sanu was
Speaker 1: playing through that ankle injury last week during the game
Speaker 1: and that's why he played those limited snaps. But ultimately
Speaker 1: definitely have interest here in nkil Harry. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna drop any of the running backs that
Speaker 1: I just picked up this week, but you know, among
Speaker 1: the wide receivers that we talked about the other day,
Speaker 1: you Harry probably has as much upside, if not more
Speaker 1: than any of those names that we mentioned, especially if
Speaker 1: some new or Philip Dorset can't go. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely interested. All right, I'm also interested as well. How
Speaker 1: are he's gotta think of the slack is the first
Speaker 1: round pick they obviously had the thoughts for him, was
Speaker 1: an activist, first came back and a couple of catches
Speaker 1: last week. He's gonna be a major part of the
Speaker 1: offense this week if and when potentially and or Set
Speaker 1: are out Frankie, well a man, does that end? Big
Speaker 1: Ben Watson, Ben Watson, Greg. The past two games for
Speaker 1: Ben Watson, he has played eighty percent and one of
Speaker 1: the snaps respectively, and he's running a lot of routes
Speaker 1: as well. There was only four targets last week. But
Speaker 1: this goes back to what I was just saying about
Speaker 1: how the past catchers for the Patriots are banged up.
Speaker 1: I would expect more James White, more Edelman. You know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is gonna lean on the guys that he
Speaker 1: trusts most, but ultimately, I ain't somebody to throw the
Speaker 1: ball here, Greg, So look, we're trying to find tight ends.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have struggled Big time against tight ends so
Speaker 1: far this season as well. I think Ben Watson makes
Speaker 1: some sense as a streaming tight end if if one
Speaker 1: or both of these guys are out, you know, if
Speaker 1: Snow plays off, Torset plays, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard for him to make the most of that opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. Unfortunately, I've been been watching guy this week.
Speaker 1: We'll see, Man, we'll see. I'm desperate for a title.
Speaker 1: I'm desperate at the tight end position. Right. Other players, uh,
Speaker 1: that may have been left over on your waiver wire
Speaker 1: that you should consider potentially picking up this week. Um,
Speaker 1: I was about to say Zach Pascal, but we assume
Speaker 1: that Toy is going to play tonight, So that one
Speaker 1: kind of doesn't make sense. But other players that do
Speaker 1: potentially make sense. Well, I go to Tennessee where Corey
Speaker 1: Davis and A. J. Brown. They're out there in a
Speaker 1: lot of leagues, Frankie, Tennessee's off the by. They're facing
Speaker 1: Jacksonville at home this week. Where did they give to
Speaker 1: the Tennessee wide receivers Corey Davis and A J. Brown. So,
Speaker 1: I know Corey Davis has been dealing with an injury.
Speaker 1: He did practice yesterday full participant. He was dealing with
Speaker 1: a hip injury. He was inactive in week ten and
Speaker 1: then they had to buying week eleven, so it looks
Speaker 1: like he's good to go. I do have interest in
Speaker 1: Corey Davis and A J. Brown here, Greg, because the
Speaker 1: upcoming schedule right, maybe not week twelve and week thirteen,
Speaker 1: but you're talking about looking forward to the fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 1: and the other day when we were talking about waiver
Speaker 1: wire ads, I brought up Ryan Tannehill. He has been
Speaker 1: very consistent from a fantasy perspective. But Greg, that's schedule
Speaker 1: from Week fourteen through sixteen, the Oakland Raiders, the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: and the New Orleans Saints. Those are plus matchups for
Speaker 1: wide receivers so far this season. So if you're asking
Speaker 1: me which one, I would actually probably lean with A. J. Brown.
Speaker 1: He seems to have a better rapport with Tannehill so far.
Speaker 1: He's been the playmaker for this team. I understand that
Speaker 1: they spread the ball around like John H. Smith has
Speaker 1: been involved, Adam Humphreys has been involved. But those matchups
Speaker 1: are very good and I would lean towards A J.
Speaker 1: Brown just because he's been a little bit more consistent
Speaker 1: than Corey Davis. If we're being honest, I agree A J.
Speaker 1: Brown is probably the wide receiver that I would go
Speaker 1: with as well over Corey Davis. I don't really want
Speaker 1: to do it. You have to. You have to A J.
Speaker 1: Brown facing off against the Jacksonville Jaguars other players that
Speaker 1: are out there, and I think I don't know your
Speaker 1: wife receiver rankings, but I think this guy is probably
Speaker 1: above both of those. Roy Russell gauge for the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons great, great, great matchup against Tampa Bay Bucks mine,
Speaker 1: so the snaps haven't necessarily been consistent for him. He
Speaker 1: is the third wide receiver. You know, they've been doing
Speaker 1: a little bit more running over the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks because they've been playing with those positive game scripts here, Greg,
Speaker 1: But how can you argue with the matchup going up
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay. I mean there there is there's no
Speaker 1: other like whatever exaggeration you want to make about how
Speaker 1: bad the Bucks secondary actually is, it's even worse than that. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we like Calvin Ridley, We love Julio Jones. Obviously. This
Speaker 1: week I heard the guys on the Fantasy Football Frenzy
Speaker 1: talking about how they have Calvin Ridley ranked inside their
Speaker 1: top twelve this week, and it's really hard to argue
Speaker 1: with that, but I do like Russell Gauge more than
Speaker 1: the Titans wide receivers. You know, if if the Pats
Speaker 1: guys were out, I probably would rank Nikkil Harry higher,
Speaker 1: But as of now, I will rank Russell Gauge higher
Speaker 1: than Nikil Harry of the snatch last week for Gauge
Speaker 1: the week before that sixty two percent. So again, when't
Speaker 1: they go to three wide receivers sets, He's the one
Speaker 1: who's in there playing slot wide receiver and that buck
Speaker 1: secondary is just so bad. I almost wonder Greg that
Speaker 1: if the Falcons get off to an early start here
Speaker 1: and that defense looks as good as it has the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, then they might just lean on
Speaker 1: Brian Hill again in the second half like they have
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. So that is something in
Speaker 1: the back of my mind might limit some of the
Speaker 1: upside for like those peripheral pass catchers. But ultimately, really
Speaker 1: do like, really, really like Julio Russell Gauge an interesting name, obviously,
Speaker 1: with a really good matchup. Alright, those are the wide
Speaker 1: receivers that I think are worth throwing out there. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to look for some running backs that could be.
Speaker 1: Frank Gore's out there. You know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: nihe Hines was picked up in enough league's But again,
Speaker 1: the Texans allowed the most receptions for game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. So I understand it's gonna be a committee tonight.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be messy, But they've allowed some big, chunk
Speaker 1: chunk plays to receiving running backs, and I think ninety
Speaker 1: Hinds can make some place tonight. What about Benny Snell.
Speaker 1: James Connor is not gonna be out there. Betty Snell
Speaker 1: is looking it looks like he could potentially return my
Speaker 1: tom and said earlier this week he's excited about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just look, if you're gonna if you're gonna pick
Speaker 1: up Benny Snell, are are you gonna be able to
Speaker 1: start him this week? I mean you'd want to against
Speaker 1: the Bengals, right, but headed running back by committee of
Speaker 1: my league starting Duke Johnson, Oltavia's Murray the running back.
Speaker 1: I would use both of those players over Benny Snell
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Speaker 1: is in the house with the inside Injuries report. Virginia,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Not too much? Another busy week of injuries, always, always,
Speaker 1: always injuries. We appreciate you joining us here today. I
Speaker 1: want to begin on a selfish level, and I want
Speaker 1: to begin not at all when we give what we
Speaker 1: have it on Sunday night, and that was with the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs Tyree hillo Damian Lazy. They both left
Speaker 1: this game early. Tyreek Hill hurt hamstring gaming. Williams looked
Speaker 1: like hurt his ribs. They want to buy this week,
Speaker 1: which is really good timing what will happen next week though,
Speaker 1: so definitely a good time for them to have the buy. UM.
Speaker 1: Neither of these injuries looks overly serious, but UM, you know,
Speaker 1: if they were playing this week, I would expect both
Speaker 1: of them to probably not play. UM. For Tyree Hill,
Speaker 1: we're showing a mild hamstring strain after he underwent an
Speaker 1: m r I. UM optimal recovery time is two weeks now.
Speaker 1: He was a high injury risk even before this hamstring strain. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, because of his injury earlier in this season,
Speaker 1: that sc joint dislocation, and his history of injuries. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna still be a high injury risk next week,
Speaker 1: even though he's supposed to hit his optimal recovery time
Speaker 1: heading into week thirteen. UM also worth noting that he
Speaker 1: has a history of these lower body kind of soft
Speaker 1: tissue muscular strains. Also had a hamstring injury in seventeen
Speaker 1: and a quad strain in UM didn't miss any games
Speaker 1: with either of those injuries, but this is something he
Speaker 1: has battled before, so I think we'll most likely see
Speaker 1: him in Week thirteen, but he's going to be continue
Speaker 1: to be a high injury risk. UM for Damian Williams.
Speaker 1: They're calling his injury a rib injury. X rays were negative,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't seem like there's any rib fractures. But
Speaker 1: I am concerned that there's a cartilage injury, which can
Speaker 1: often be a lot more painful than a rib fracture.
Speaker 1: Is UM. If that's the case. If it's a mild
Speaker 1: cartilage fracture, cartilage injury, optimal recovery time is three weeks UM.
Speaker 1: If it's a more serious one, it may take him,
Speaker 1: honestly until the end of the regular season until it
Speaker 1: starts to feel better. UM. A lot of it is
Speaker 1: about pain management, UM, getting an injection before the game. UM.
Speaker 1: But every time he takes a big hit, you know
Speaker 1: it could be the end of his day very quickly.
Speaker 1: So unfortunately, I'm going to be concerned about Williams UM
Speaker 1: probably for the next month or so at least, even
Speaker 1: if he is playing through that rib injury. So looks
Speaker 1: like Tyreek Hill should be good to go after the
Speaker 1: bye week. Continue to be a risk just because of
Speaker 1: everything he's dealt with in terms of the soft tissue
Speaker 1: injuries and the fact that you know he still did
Speaker 1: have that shoulder injury earlier. On in the season, we
Speaker 1: spoke about the leftovers. Greg. If Darryl Williams is out there,
Speaker 1: based on this news on Damian Williams, then I think
Speaker 1: Darryl is someone that you should be looking at as well. Virginia,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about two Indianapolis Colts. We
Speaker 1: know that Marlon Mack is not going to play tonight,
Speaker 1: dealing with a fracture in his hand, where you know,
Speaker 1: scurrying trying to figure out what this Colts running back
Speaker 1: by committee is going to look like. How long is
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack expected to miss? And please update us on
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton. It looks like he is going to
Speaker 1: be good to go for tonight. You know what was
Speaker 1: the original diagnosis from inside Injuries? You know when was
Speaker 1: his healthy to return date? Yeah, so from Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: um suffered a metacarpal fracture and underwent surgery after Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna play tonight. Um. Our algorithm is showing
Speaker 1: a seven week Optimore recovery time. UM. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to miss that much time. I think he'll
Speaker 1: return sooner than that, but the fracture will not be
Speaker 1: healed by then. UM. That means he will probably have
Speaker 1: to wear a brace or a cast on his hand,
Speaker 1: and that's going to affect his ball security. It's gonna
Speaker 1: affect his um pass catching and his blocking ability. So
Speaker 1: a lot of it's gonna have to do with, you know,
Speaker 1: how much pain is he in when the doctor says
Speaker 1: it's safe enough for him to return, UM, and then
Speaker 1: how well can he perform because it's certainly gonna hurt
Speaker 1: his production. So they're just going to have to decide,
Speaker 1: you know, even at you know, is it worth having
Speaker 1: him out there? UM? I think the soonest will probably
Speaker 1: see him his week fourteen. That might still be a
Speaker 1: bit optimistic given his injury. UM t Y Hilton. Our
Speaker 1: algorithm has been showing all along a Grade two moderate
Speaker 1: calf string UM earliest we've been saying he should return
Speaker 1: his week thirteen. So I really don't think he should
Speaker 1: play tonight, although they're saying he's a game time call
Speaker 1: and he's got a good chance of playing, especially given
Speaker 1: you know, it's the Thursday night game. UM, every day
Speaker 1: counts in this situation, and so he's a high risk
Speaker 1: of re injury. UM. You know, he even admitted himself
Speaker 1: that he thought the injury could be season endings. This
Speaker 1: is clearly pretty serious. Um, he really should give himself
Speaker 1: ten days and wait until week thirteen to return. If
Speaker 1: he does that, his injury risk should move from high
Speaker 1: risk to elevated. UM. But cap strains are just so
Speaker 1: tough to recover from. So I'm worried about him if
Speaker 1: he plays tonight, Greg, I'm with Virginia here, I do
Speaker 1: worry about t Y Hilton. We said yesterday on the
Speaker 1: show that if he plays, you have to get him
Speaker 1: in your lineup just because this Texans secondary could be
Speaker 1: taken advantage of, and t Y Hilton has a great
Speaker 1: history of dominating unbelievable. But it's just a really tough
Speaker 1: situation because you don't want to start off your fantasy
Speaker 1: week with t Y Hilton in your lineup. He ends
Speaker 1: up reinjuring himself and then next thing you know, you
Speaker 1: have a zero or a two for twenty and something
Speaker 1: like that, and that's how you get your week started.
Speaker 1: So it's a very volatile situation, very very low floor,
Speaker 1: but very high ceiling based on what Hilton has been
Speaker 1: able to do against that well, even saying all week
Speaker 1: with Hi Hilton that if he plays tonight. He has
Speaker 1: the potential obviously to go bonkers, but he also has
Speaker 1: a potential to leave early and re injure himself. It's
Speaker 1: a risk that I think you have to weigh and
Speaker 1: see if it's worth taking. We're talking us here from
Speaker 1: Inside Injuries Virginia. We give you a double here with
Speaker 1: the Colt, so I want to do the same with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Earlier this week, dan Quinn was like, hey,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper DeVante if anyone feeling good about them, And
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper is ruled out and Demante Freeman did not
Speaker 1: practice yesterday, what can you tell us is the latest
Speaker 1: on those two Falcons? So Hooper is dealing with an
Speaker 1: mc L sprain um our algorithm. Is UM given us
Speaker 1: a grade to so moderate sprain um The minimum optimal
Speaker 1: recovery time for this is three weeks, So we're saying
Speaker 1: he shouldn't return until week thirteen at the earliest, UM.
Speaker 1: And so actually we think it's good news that he
Speaker 1: has already been ruled out this week. If he waits
Speaker 1: until week thirteen or week fourteen, UM, I think they've
Speaker 1: got the Thursday game next week, so that actually will
Speaker 1: be a little early for him to return. UM, so
Speaker 1: he'll still be a high risk of you plays next week,
Speaker 1: but we don't think this should be an injury that
Speaker 1: extends past week fourteen. UM. For Devonte Freeman, he's dealing
Speaker 1: with a mid foot spring. UM. I think it's likely
Speaker 1: a Liz Frank injury, which you know you have to
Speaker 1: treat those very carefully. He didn't practice yesterday. UM. I
Speaker 1: just saw on Twitter that they he wasn't seen out
Speaker 1: there today. So to miss practices after already missing one game, UM,
Speaker 1: definitely not starting the week off right. So I think
Speaker 1: they hold him out uh this week and then hope
Speaker 1: they can get him back for their next game. Um.
Speaker 1: He's another player that was already a high injury risk.
Speaker 1: He had a foot injury last year and then of
Speaker 1: course he had that nice sprain and growing surgery. So
Speaker 1: I think the Falcons are going to be pretty careful
Speaker 1: with him. Um, given everything his body has been through
Speaker 1: in the last year, and based on where they're at, Greg,
Speaker 1: you know, why would they rush back Devantay free You
Speaker 1: know they still have a chance at whatever six seven wins,
Speaker 1: and you know Austin Hooper likely back at some point.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that they're really going to be
Speaker 1: rushing back either one of these players, Virginia. Let's keep
Speaker 1: the theme alive of asking you about teammates and Juju
Speaker 1: Smith shoes and James Conner. Connor reinjured that shoulder and
Speaker 1: he left early last week on Thursday Night Football. He
Speaker 1: has had more time to recover, but we haven't seen
Speaker 1: him at practice so far this week, and the Juju
Speaker 1: already looking doubtful for this week. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: think that he's officially been ruled out but not expected
Speaker 1: to play. Should we expect Juju Smith Schuster back in
Speaker 1: week thirteen? I know that he's dealing with both a
Speaker 1: knee injury and a concussion yep. Um, So all reports
Speaker 1: on Jiuju have been you know, he's not going to
Speaker 1: play this week. Um, just the combination of clearing concussion
Speaker 1: protocol and also being able to test out his knee
Speaker 1: and making sure it's you know, he can make it
Speaker 1: through the game without reinjuring. It probably isn't gonna happen
Speaker 1: within a week, but our algorithm is saying that by
Speaker 1: week thirteen, we think he'll be ready um to come back. Now,
Speaker 1: always worth noting that it's just nearly impossible to predict
Speaker 1: how long a player is going to take to recover
Speaker 1: from a concussion. UM. But if we're just looking at
Speaker 1: his knee injury, two weeks should likely be enough time
Speaker 1: for him. UM. For James Conner, you know, early on
Speaker 1: when he originally was hurt, they called it an AC sprain.
Speaker 1: They made it seem pretty minor, and then of course
Speaker 1: he went on to miss two weeks, UM, which is
Speaker 1: not really normal with an a with a milder AC sprain.
Speaker 1: Most of the time running backs can play through it.
Speaker 1: They might not make it through the game. UM. A
Speaker 1: lot of it is about pain management, but most of
Speaker 1: the time they're okay. So I think this is either
Speaker 1: much more serious AC spreen or there's something else going
Speaker 1: on in his shoulder that they haven't told us about. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he returned last week but wasn't able to
Speaker 1: finish the game, didn't practice yesterday. UM, we're actually now
Speaker 1: showing that he should miss at least three weeks after
Speaker 1: aggravating his shoulder injury. UM. Anytime a player suffers an aggravation,
Speaker 1: the recovery time is going to be much longer. Last time,
Speaker 1: three weeks wasn't enough so we're now showing that he
Speaker 1: should miss a lot more time and unfortunately, he's probably
Speaker 1: going to be a high injury risk for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Well, Greg, as if we couldn't get
Speaker 1: worse news. On the Pittsbury Steelers, things were already bad.
Speaker 1: Their offense is limited with Mason Rudolph, but it's not
Speaker 1: looking good specifically for James Connor. Looks like he might
Speaker 1: have came back too soon. Should expect them to be
Speaker 1: out a couple of weeks. I don't think he plays
Speaker 1: this week. Obviously. Two major names we have to ask
Speaker 1: you about that seemed like legit question marks, and I
Speaker 1: want to make sure we get him in before we
Speaker 1: hit the break. George Kittle and Tyler Lockett out there
Speaker 1: in the NFC West. Locket left the game two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: George Kittle hasn't played in a few weeks. They both
Speaker 1: seemed very, very questionable at best for Sunday. What can
Speaker 1: you tell us about them? Yeah, So, George Kittle UM
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee injury. He was hurting week nine.
Speaker 1: Um looks like he hyper extended his knee. This can
Speaker 1: cause a few different things. The most extreme diagnosis would
Speaker 1: be a torn a c L, but don't think he
Speaker 1: suffered that. UM. Outside of that, there's concern for a
Speaker 1: milder knee sprain or a bone bruise um. In his case,
Speaker 1: the m r I showed minor ailments, so we don't
Speaker 1: really have a queer diagnosis, but I'm suspecting there's a
Speaker 1: bone bruise um. If that's the case, the optimal recovery
Speaker 1: time is around four weeks, so I don't think you
Speaker 1: should play this week, but by week thirteen he could
Speaker 1: be ready to come back. UM. Tyler Lockett, Um, this
Speaker 1: was a scary situation. He ended up spending a couple
Speaker 1: of nights in the hospital, all because of significant swelling
Speaker 1: in his lower leg um. The concern here is compartment syndrome,
Speaker 1: which is when swelling and the muscles gets to a
Speaker 1: dangerous level and it can cause damage to blood vest
Speaker 1: blood vessels and the muscle tissue. UM. Thankfully he avoided
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario. Seems to be doing okay, but this,
Speaker 1: you know, is still pretty painful and UM likely dealing
Speaker 1: with a bone bruise to a shin. So he didn't
Speaker 1: practice yesterday. UM. They were saying there's a chance he
Speaker 1: was going to practice today, but I haven't seen yet
Speaker 1: if he's out there, um, and so our algorithm is
Speaker 1: showing that he should wait until week thirteen or fourteen
Speaker 1: to return. Alright, So some ominous news there on George
Speaker 1: Kittle and Tyler Lockett. Obviously, you know, big name players
Speaker 1: that we need to show up as we get up
Speaker 1: for the fantasy football playoffs. Lockett has been so awesome
Speaker 1: all season long. Same thing with George Kittle. Seemed like
Speaker 1: he was finally starting to come around and then he
Speaker 1: suffered that knee injury. So look, if George Kittle can't go,
Speaker 1: our man Greg Ross Dwelly back in the mix, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start rust Willie over over Watson. So it's just
Speaker 1: coming down. Good luck, buddy, Jennys Akers. We appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again next week. Our sounds good, guys,
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Speaker 1: sports Grid TV. Frank Thursday Night Football Tonight, Colts and Texans.
Speaker 1: As I just said, Coults are a three and a
Speaker 1: half point dog or worth three and a half points
Speaker 1: Earli tonight. Has that changed? It has not changed. The
Speaker 1: spread for this game is current with the Texans laying
Speaker 1: three and a half points greg and the total at
Speaker 1: forty five and a half. What do you think? Where
Speaker 1: do we want to start? Do we want to break
Speaker 1: it down by position for fantasy purposes or perspective? What
Speaker 1: do you want to do? So? I don't think either
Speaker 1: good position in my position so much because where are
Speaker 1: we twelve? Right? Like everybody kind of knows where we're at.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you know you're starting to Shaun Watson
Speaker 1: if you own them like it's nothing crazy, of course,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about certain positions where they're
Speaker 1: there are a question marks. We talked about hilting the lots,
Speaker 1: but not even there. I want to start on the
Speaker 1: Houston side of the ball, specifically with Carlos Hide, because
Speaker 1: you asked me a really good question earlier, all right
Speaker 1: before the show started, and that says, do I start
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide tonight? Where do I wait for? Both Scarborough
Speaker 1: on Sunday Carlos Hide in the mix with Jalen Samuel's
Speaker 1: Darius guys. These kind of names I was naming earlier,
Speaker 1: they're all he's packed together this week. I know you've
Speaker 1: been working on your running back rankings, so what say you? So?
Speaker 1: I currently have Carlos Hide as RB twenty four, having
Speaker 1: five spots lower than the consensus rankings on Fantasy pros.
Speaker 1: The reason being the Cults have actually been pretty good
Speaker 1: against the runs so far this season. They're allowing just
Speaker 1: over four yards per carry. Uh, It's easier to beat
Speaker 1: the Colts with receiving backs. You know, they've allowed the
Speaker 1: fourth fourth most reception so far, so I think Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson is interesting tonight. The Colts have only allowed three
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns to running backs so far this season. Earlier
Speaker 1: on when these two teams met. Both Duke and Carlos
Speaker 1: Hyde were limited to under sixty total yards each. So
Speaker 1: we know that Carlos Hyde is really gameflow dependent, Greg.
Speaker 1: You know, when the Texans are playing with the lead,
Speaker 1: you can look at his game log. In games that
Speaker 1: the Texans win, those are the games where Carlos Hyde
Speaker 1: has performed better. In games that they've lost, obviously playing
Speaker 1: from behind negative game script, they have more Duke Johnson
Speaker 1: on the field. That was the case last week. He
Speaker 1: played fifty nine per cent of the snaps. He had
Speaker 1: six carries and two targets. Carlos Hyde Salvage his day,
Speaker 1: only played cent of the snaps, had that you know,
Speaker 1: long touchdown run late in the game. Nine are sixty
Speaker 1: five yards and a touchdown. But if he didn't get
Speaker 1: that long touchdown run, we were looking at a very
Speaker 1: bad game from Carlos Hide last week. I don't feel
Speaker 1: great about Carlos Hides tonight, Greg, So I have more
Speaker 1: of a low n RB two high end flex option.
Speaker 1: That's you know where he's been for most of the season.
Speaker 1: But if you're asking me between him, Bo Scarborough Darius Guys,
Speaker 1: I have both Guys and Bo Scarborough ranked ahead of
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide reason being the matchup, Gregg, I like the
Speaker 1: match up for those guys more. The matchup is better
Speaker 1: for those guys. Like you said, Carlos Hide is so
Speaker 1: dependent on that game flow and so dependent on being
Speaker 1: able to stay in the game, which means the Texans
Speaker 1: have a lead. They've really they've really struggled through the
Speaker 1: years over the Indianapolis Colts. I think there might be
Speaker 1: more of that tonight, which means Carlos Hide doesn't beco
Speaker 1: an afterthought, but doesn't become the focal point of the
Speaker 1: offense that you need him to be. We have a
Speaker 1: word of will Fuller tonight. So I was just looking
Speaker 1: at up during the break and I really don't see
Speaker 1: any will Fuller news. It's just he's questionable for tonight.
Speaker 1: I think you know that changes target share for DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: You know I tweeted about that last week. Drink that
Speaker 1: when Will Fuller has been on the field this year,
Speaker 1: we see the targets share for specifically Hopkins, Duke Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Darren Fells go down tremendously. We also saw Darren
Speaker 1: Fells not really do much last week for the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans coming back from the bye, but I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything in terms of will Fuller. Even if he plays,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't I'm not gonna get him in
Speaker 1: my lineup personally. It's one of those, you know. I
Speaker 1: think it's a volatile situation as well, similar to t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton where he could be back but could end
Speaker 1: up re injury himself. I don't necessarily want Kenny Stills
Speaker 1: in my lineup either. I think tonight is a lot
Speaker 1: of you know who you're starting, right, Deshaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I like the over on DeAndre Hopkins receptions tonight. You
Speaker 1: see the prop for that at the Vanduel Sports Book.
Speaker 1: At six and a half, he has at least eleven
Speaker 1: targets in five straight games. On the other side, Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette Greig. The last time he faced the Texans earlier
Speaker 1: on this year, he threw for over three hundred yards
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. I actually like Jacoby Brisset a decent amount.
Speaker 1: You have me as myke QB thirteen. This is gonna
Speaker 1: surprise some people. I'm I'm just very bullish on the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with good matchups this week. I have Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald and Jacoby Brissette all inside of my top
Speaker 1: thirteen quarterbacks. They are ahead of Jimmy Garoppolo, they're ahead
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady, they're ahead of Nick Foles. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm trusting the matchups here, and you know, if we're
Speaker 1: talking about props, Jacoby Brissetts number tonight for passing yards
Speaker 1: greg two thirty three and a half. That's really low, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Houston Texans are allowing an average of
Speaker 1: two nine passing yards per game. That's the fourth most
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They've given up a ton of passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns as well. They've given up twenty two passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: that's fifth most in the NFL. That is the way
Speaker 1: to attack this Houston Texans defense. They don't have much
Speaker 1: pass rush no more. Jadaeveon Clowney, J J. Watt out
Speaker 1: for the year. I think Jacoby Brisset is going to
Speaker 1: have success in it. Colts are a team that want
Speaker 1: to run the football. Though Hill and shout me back
Speaker 1: expect you running be able to play as well. But
Speaker 1: they're their game plan is to run the football down
Speaker 1: the other team's throats. That has been saying, that has
Speaker 1: been that's what they want to do. So That's what
Speaker 1: they did against the Kansas City Chiefs, right. And I
Speaker 1: think this is where the mastermind of Frank Wright comes
Speaker 1: into play, greg because I think that they attack a
Speaker 1: team's biggest deficiency, and when it comes to the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: that is their secondary and throwing the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: specifically to wide receivers. Now, hopefully te Wy Hilton is
Speaker 1: good to go, looks like he's gonna try and suit up,
Speaker 1: but you know, targeting those outside wide receivers and and
Speaker 1: wide receivers down the field, that is the way to
Speaker 1: attack this Houston Texans defense. And I think Frank Reich
Speaker 1: is going to know that and realize that and also
Speaker 1: the past catching running backs. So that's why I do
Speaker 1: expect Niheim Hins to be involved that have him as
Speaker 1: a low n RB three. He's more of a flex play.
Speaker 1: Now we've got a three headed running back by committee
Speaker 1: tonight between Jonathan Williams and Jordan Wilkins and Nieheim Hines,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think that they're gonna mix it
Speaker 1: up between Jonathan Williams and uh and Wilkins on early downs.
Speaker 1: But I do think that that Nieheim Hinds is in
Speaker 1: in play for let's say eight to ten touches tonight.
Speaker 1: I really do. I think that they're going to try
Speaker 1: and utilize him in the past game. So there is
Speaker 1: a league where I am starting him. And now when
Speaker 1: I say flex play, do not put him in your
Speaker 1: flex because Thursday night football you want him. You want
Speaker 1: that flexibility for for Sunday. Right, So if you want
Speaker 1: to start Niheim Hines while he is a flex play
Speaker 1: in theory, put him in is your r B to
Speaker 1: leave that flex option open for Sunday, just so that
Speaker 1: it gives you some flexibility. Greg, Absolutely, you're that's extremely
Speaker 1: extremely important to do to be smart, to be able
Speaker 1: to put those players UM in the running back or
Speaker 1: wide re super position rather the flex You don't want to.
Speaker 1: You want to leave yourself options. It's all about that flexibility.
Speaker 1: That's why you need to be smart about that. Um
Speaker 1: anything else where tonight. Look, I think we've hit on it.
Speaker 1: I'll just run through you know where I have these
Speaker 1: cults running backs ranked just in case you know people
Speaker 1: are wondering. I have Jonathan Williams at RB twenty nine,
Speaker 1: so a mid flex play. I have him just behind
Speaker 1: Terrico and and Brian Brian Hill just ahead of let's
Speaker 1: ta Vious Murray and Royce Freeman of Niheim Hines at
Speaker 1: RB thirty five, and then I have Jordan Wilkins at
Speaker 1: RB forty. So you know, they're all three of these
Speaker 1: running backs are separated by eleven spots, so they are
Speaker 1: pretty close in my rankings. Trying to hedge a little
Speaker 1: bit here, I think we you know, we gotta talk
Speaker 1: about the tight ends a little bit here as well, Greg.
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron has been playing more recently. Him and Jack
Speaker 1: Doyle basically ran the same amount of routes last week
Speaker 1: and earlier on in the season, Eric Ebron scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown against this Houston Texans defense. So if Ebron ghost tonight,
Speaker 1: which looks like he's going to play, I do like
Speaker 1: him a little bit more than Doyle. You know, you
Speaker 1: heard him turping a little bit a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and he has been more involved than Doyle since he
Speaker 1: made those comments about his role in the offense. So
Speaker 1: if I'm just if I'm picking the game, Greg, I'll
Speaker 1: lean with the Texans. I'll lean with the over. But
Speaker 1: the plays that I really like most are Jecoby Brisset
Speaker 1: over his passing yards and DeAndre Hopkins over on his
Speaker 1: six and a half receptions. Alright, tho's the problems that
Speaker 1: Frankie really likes tonight. You can get in the game,
Speaker 1: of course, vandals, it's book or wherever you place your
Speaker 1: bachelor's and night football tonight. Right, let's dive into your rankings.
Speaker 1: What are you having the most trouble with at this moment?
Speaker 1: So it was just one of some of those running
Speaker 1: back situations that we were talking about earlier. Right, I
Speaker 1: want to like Jalen Samuel's. This match up against the
Speaker 1: Bengals is a prime time one. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: you know, you want to start your running backs against
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. But as of now, we don't really
Speaker 1: know who the go to guy is going to be
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jalen Samuel's caught a bunch of
Speaker 1: passes last week. They were playing from behind for a
Speaker 1: lot of that game against the Browns. But Frey Edmonds
Speaker 1: has been active the past couple of weeks. He's had
Speaker 1: a role as an early down runner. Benny Snell. It
Speaker 1: seems like they like him as an early down runner
Speaker 1: between the tackles. A bigger guy doesn't really have breakaway speed,
Speaker 1: but I think someone that they envisioned that they can
Speaker 1: use uh in short yard situations. He kind of fits
Speaker 1: the mold as that type of running back. So I
Speaker 1: think right now this kind of ranking the Steelers running
Speaker 1: backs has been a tough situation. Greg, I know that
Speaker 1: you own Jalen Samuels. Are you expecting him to be
Speaker 1: the lead guy for the Pittsburgh Steelers here or are
Speaker 1: those other guys gonna have a role as well? The
Speaker 1: other guys are obviously gonna have a role, um as
Speaker 1: someone that has owned the startered Jalen Samuels a lot
Speaker 1: this season, a lot of being a relative term of course. Um,
Speaker 1: it's frustrating. We see Tradmans got the first carry the game, right.
Speaker 1: Its frustrating you see Benny Snell be very very involved.
Speaker 1: But I think the key to Jalen Samuel's is Dowdy
Speaker 1: Johnson and Judicith Schuster are most likely also being out
Speaker 1: this week. I think Deontay Johnson practiced in full yesterday,
Speaker 1: but he's still in concussion protocols. Got to clear the protocols.
Speaker 1: He might he might do it because they've had ten
Speaker 1: days off, that's right, so he might clear the protocol. Heck,
Speaker 1: the Patriots think Philip dore Set might clear the protocol
Speaker 1: and that's within six days. But that's what makes me
Speaker 1: most bullish, I would say on Samuel's the fact that
Speaker 1: at the wide receivers they're gonna have to rely on
Speaker 1: him in that role in what maybe the most complete
Speaker 1: games when they dumped it off in fifteen times, right,
Speaker 1: So they are the other running Max. That's why I
Speaker 1: wrote up Manny Snell earlier. They're going to be involved.
Speaker 1: It's only a question of how involved are they going debate.
Speaker 1: I want to go to the wide re stivers Frank
Speaker 1: for a moment here. Robert Woods still hasn't returned to
Speaker 1: l A's facility. We don't know what's wrong. We don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on with him. The dropable. No, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't drop Robert Woods because the last time we saw
Speaker 1: him he actually was more involved than pretty much ever
Speaker 1: and you know he closed in on a hundred yards
Speaker 1: in that game. So personally, I wouldn't drop Robert Woods.
Speaker 1: This Ram's offense has not been good, not what we
Speaker 1: were expecting obviously coming into the season. But personally I
Speaker 1: am not dropping Robert Woods. But I do recognize that
Speaker 1: even if he plays this week, it is a really
Speaker 1: really tough matchup. I think outside of Todd Gurley and
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, you don't really want to start any other
Speaker 1: Rams against his Ravens defense. I Roundpoor has just reported
Speaker 1: that James Thrash and Um, there's the other right now,
Speaker 1: Derek Um, Derek Brooks. There he goes. Derrek Brooks and
Speaker 1: James Trash have ruled on the suspensions for Marky's pouncy
Speaker 1: and four Miles Garrett. Mark East penalty was suspended for
Speaker 1: three games. Now he's suspended for two games. Load of
Speaker 1: the suspension by one game. For Miles Garrett, he was
Speaker 1: suspended in definitely. Now he is still suspended indefinitely. His
Speaker 1: uppeal has denied the suspension was completely upheld. The latest
Speaker 1: on him is he's accusing Mason Rudolph of using a
Speaker 1: rocket story racial slur. No one has heard about that
Speaker 1: prior to him saying this kind of sounds like Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett to be anything that will work. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: a really ugly situation. Obviously when everything went down a
Speaker 1: week ago today on Thursday Night football, smacking a guy
Speaker 1: with his own helmet, I mean, come on, Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: and now you have you have this to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if that were the case, it doesn't it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody could say anything to you on the field,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that it's going to justify, you know,
Speaker 1: taking someone else's helmet off and smacking them over the
Speaker 1: head with it. So who knows at this point you
Speaker 1: know what was said? Uh, I'm sure that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that are set on the football field
Speaker 1: that you know, obviously people don't want to hear. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, you never want to see it go that
Speaker 1: far in terms of racial slurs. But you know, these
Speaker 1: these guys are it's the heat of the moment. They're
Speaker 1: trash talking each other. It still doesn't justify, you know,
Speaker 1: taking someone else's helmet off and beating them with it. Overall,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. I saw that, you know,
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph's lawyer came out and had like a comment
Speaker 1: about it. Just an ugly situation all around for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: the Browns, the NFL in general. It's just what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Greg? Like the Colts plus three and a
Speaker 1: half tonight Frankie, Well, you're on the Colts. Look, I
Speaker 1: would not want to bet the side I heard Gabe
Speaker 1: talk about that earlier on today. I would take the over.
Speaker 1: I like those props more than anything. Greg spring Snaffle,
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Speaker 1: sports Crade. Get on the grid. So what did happen?
Speaker 1: What did Here's what you missed on the BFFs. You
Speaker 1: know that Mohammed Sanu and Philip Dorsset didn't practice yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he's like, wow, I'm trying to putting words right here.
Speaker 1: What you were like? Wow, I knew about Snow, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize about doors Set. This is pretty big news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is because this Patriots offense has already been limited
Speaker 1: big time so far this season. And now you know
Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu didn't practice yesterday. We'll see what happens today.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the Patriots practice report yet, Philip or said,
Speaker 1: I saw some of that news later on last night.
Speaker 1: But you know, he left with a concussion. He's dealing
Speaker 1: with concussion symptoms. Now Edelman's a little bit haanged up,
Speaker 1: but he's you know, he should be good to go.
Speaker 1: But ultimately that could open up some opportunity, Greg, because
Speaker 1: they need pass catchers on this team. They haven't been
Speaker 1: able to run the ball effectively. I think this should
Speaker 1: lend itself to the arrow pointing up for James White,
Speaker 1: we could see more targets, although his targets have been
Speaker 1: pretty consistent so far this season. But there's two names specifically.
Speaker 1: I know there's one that you really like a lot
Speaker 1: that we will talk about when it comes to the
Speaker 1: leftover segment. Greg, Yeah, there is some some stuff going
Speaker 1: on with the Patriots when it comes to the leftovers.
Speaker 1: When he gets to that after the break, but they're
Speaker 1: I certainly believe it's worth mentioning also over the next
Speaker 1: hour Frank, I know you are. Your rankings are are published,
Speaker 1: and I know they're done, but like are they published,
Speaker 1: They're not done yet, They're they're they're currently being worked on. Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to work through it with you because as
Speaker 1: you walked in, I had a bunch of running back
Speaker 1: questions a lot of guys in similar to tears. I've
Speaker 1: been waiting on Jalen Samuels versus Bullis Garborough for a while.
Speaker 1: I wanted to add Darius Skye to that mix. Um.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of running back conversation that
Speaker 1: we we have to have. We have to try to
Speaker 1: figure out, um, where they rank, how you rank them,
Speaker 1: want to answer the people's questions, but we know you
Speaker 1: have them when it comes to Boa Scarbrow when it
Speaker 1: comes We've got a lot about both this week, and
Speaker 1: I know I available all of a bow lever, you
Speaker 1: know stuff aside, there's a lot to talk about, right
Speaker 1: like how high is too high when it comes to
Speaker 1: ranking boascar Brow this week, and also it is a
Speaker 1: conversation worth having. I also want to get into Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary as well, because I know he's in the top
Speaker 1: swety of a lot of rankings and I gotta see
Speaker 1: where you have him there. So I want to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of today talking about the leftovers. Yes, get
Speaker 1: in the Thursday night football talking to Virginia for sure.
Speaker 1: I want to dive into these rankings here on our
Speaker 1: final bye week and see what we could do. Alright, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it all makes sense to me trying to
Speaker 1: figure out where to put some of these guys. I
Speaker 1: mean there's very specific situations, Greg, that you know. I
Speaker 1: was talking a few of the guys downstairs about this,
Speaker 1: the close alex Osano as well. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: running back situations that you don't really know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen based on the injury report so far. Right, So,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Steelers, and I tweeted this
Speaker 1: out last night, drink, we knew that the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: defense was really bad, but did you know that they
Speaker 1: were this bad? Greg. They have allowed a hundred yard
Speaker 1: rusher or a rushing touchdown to running back in every
Speaker 1: single game this season. The Bengals are really bad. The
Speaker 1: problem is when it comes to the Steelers, normally they
Speaker 1: don't run a committee, but normally they have a running
Speaker 1: back that they can depend on. As well, So is
Speaker 1: it gonna be Janleen Samuels, is gonna Benny Snell? Is
Speaker 1: it going to be Trey Edmunds. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of names in the mix. There