WEBVTT - Playoff Positioning 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.799 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.080 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:23.759 advice dot com. Here's your host. Welcome to the final 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.840 regular season edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. The playoffs are 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.520 looming ahead, and we are here to help you get 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.159 the best possible playoff positioning for your team. For some 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.239 of you, that means turning a three seed into a 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.479 one seed. For some of you, that means turning a 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.880 team that's out of the playoffs into the playoffs. I 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.320 like it. Yeah, that is the voice of Scott Fish. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.760 My other co host today, Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, it's 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.160 very very is this is this officially nut cutting time? 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.920 And if so, what nut? And who cuts nuts? Seriously, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:03.760 who's sitting around cutting nuts? That you cut the shells, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.080 not the nuts, right, and you crack the shells, you 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.480 don't cut them. I mean, imagine if you took something 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.640 a little fever to a wall, knocking some you'd lose 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.360 a finger before long. We've got plenty to get to 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.200 over the course of this show, including nine players not 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.880 normally starting lineup. I've got a stone cold winner at 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:24.840 tight end for you that you're gonna hear and take 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.120 a chance and he later. We'll answer three tough questions 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.520 and letter grades for all the notable players in all 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.440 the games, beginning with the Saints taking on the Jets. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.880 Alvin Camara coming back, perfect timing for those people that 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.920 were languishing for a month without Alvin Kmara. And we 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.360 probably don't even have mark Ingram to muck up the works. Yeah, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.240 Alvin Kimara walking pretty much right into a fantasy Fonzie 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.520 in this matchup against the Jets, especially with mark Ingram 0:01:52.600 --> 0:02:00.680 unlikely to play COVID COVID uh so yeah, and a 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.680 for camera, the Jets have allowed the most fantasy points 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.760 of opposing running backs. It's pretty simple here. And they 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.079 also uh they as in the Saints might get left 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.840 tackle Tehran Armstead back who hasn't played us since Week nine, 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.680 was played in just one game since week nine, so 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.480 if he comes back, that bodes well for camera. But 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.639 he gets an easy day, easy a either way. Uh. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.720 The wide receiver situation not so easy. Uh. Deonte Harris 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.320 was looking really good, but he's not suspended. Um, and 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.959 we're gonna talk about that's the thing that goes that 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.280 slingers all the way back to like last summer, right, 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.480 and then you know they finally rule on it now. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.440 Kind of weird, And I mean we'll talk about the 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.560 who's throwing the ball quote unquote gonna throw the ball 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.960 for the Saints in a second. So Trey Kwan Smith 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.359 and Marquess Callaway, I got them both on the bench. Uh, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.120 neither one has really distanced distanced themselves as a wide receiver. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.960 One Harris was doing that, but again he's suspended. So uh. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.080 Even though the Jets are holding opposing wide receivers wy 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.120 lesson twelve catches wondering, wondering segyards per game, it's really 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.400 because they're so easy to run on. So long story 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.560 short benching the wide receivers, I am gonna heave a 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:12.480 harpoon at Nick Finette. Though tight end Nick Finett caught 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.960 three or four targets for forty eight yards last Thursday 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.160 from Taysom Hill, the Jets are allowing more than five 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.040 catches sixty four yards per game to tight ends. They've 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.080 surrendered three touchdowns to the position over the last two games. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.800 The Jets have so Nick Finette, especially a daily Dart. Uh, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.399 he's worth a harpoon. Uh you know a C dart 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.000 relate to call them here. And lastly for the Saints, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.840 Taysom Hill, can you give him a B but be warned. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.960 I mean he could go completely belly up, as we 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.480 all know, he could throw. It's one or the other. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.280 It's really one or the other. I'm leaning towards the 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.000 other because it's the Jets, because it's the Jets who 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.080 have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in eight straight games, with 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.240 the most recent performances going to Gardner Minshew and Tyrod Taylor. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.040 Rod Taylor, I'm sorry, you know, Taysom Hill almost on 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.600 par with those guys as a passer, but of course 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.240 most dangerous on the ground, easing the only one opposing 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.520 quarterback has seen more than four rush attempts against the Jets, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.720 and it wasn't Josh Allen who who faced on recently. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.920 He had just two rush attempts. So not a lot 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.480 of you know, mobile quarterbacks on tape against New York 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.480 with Tarrod Taylor. Tyrod Taylor had thirty yards on two 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.440 carries just two weeks ago. So Taysom Hill probably a 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.520 pretty good game here. Yeah, he's his own guy in 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.240 that I got, I got need to bacon the risk 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.400 of him potentially just yeah, he's got the foot injury, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.359 but they took him off the injury part on Friday, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.440 so fully healthy, fully mobile. I'm in on Taysom Hill's 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.960 big time against the Jets. There are not a lot 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.400 of Jets to be into this week, but Ty Johnson 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.880 they're gonna give him a see based on expected volume. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.880 Michael Carter still on I R Tevin Coleman has been 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.279 ruled out with a concussion, so THI Johnson should be 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.440 the guy. The Saints are a brutal matchup though for 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.800 running backs, both on the ground and uh in the 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.040 in the air. They're allowing less than ninety eight combo 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.760 yards per game to the position that second fewest. But 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.400 Johnson should see fifteen and twenty catches, I guess unless 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:05.359 Austin Walter, yes, steals some touches, which you might, but 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.800 he's on the bench. Walter is, but I'll give to 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.480 see the Tye Johnson. Elijah Moore, I will give him 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.600 a see if he plays. He's been questionable with a 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.400 quad injury. Twelve targets last week, so um. The concern 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.560 with Zack Wilson coming back quarterback out the window. He 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.960 was looking Elijah More his way. I think Jack Wilson 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.760 played the best game of his career last week. He 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.279 looked a lot better. Uh. Spoiler alert, He's gonna be 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.200 on the bench of those zat Wills and his Elijah 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.159 More A see if he plays. If he does not, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.479 I'll give Jameson Crowder a see Crowder on the bench 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.599 though if More If Moore does play, Crowder saw six 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.599 targets last week, caught four of them for sixty something yards. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.680 That's double digit PPR points, So he's viable if More 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.200 is out. But if More plays again, Crowder on the 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.440 bench and Zach Wilson bench. But hopefully better days ahead 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.760 for Zack. Jaguars take on the Titan Scott. We're gonna 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.039 do a deep dive a little later in this show 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.880 on James Robinson, but let's not. He's coming off of 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.480 pretty tough game and now he goes up against a 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.000 shockingly competent Titans run defense over the past I don't know, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.040 six weeks or so. Yeah, and and Robinson is actually 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.640 the guy who had a hundred plus hard day against 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.279 that defense. But right before that five or six games 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.960 stretch where they haven't allowed it back to top seventy 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.320 rushing yards. Uh. Right now, it's a banged up version 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:27.080 of Robinson, who's was inexplicably benched last week after a 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.440 fumble that he didn't even lose. Right, this bumble two 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.479 games in a row hasn't lost him before that. He 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.160 hadn't fumbled in twenty three games. It's not even an 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.719 issue for him. But Herbert Meyer needed to send a 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.760 message we don't recover our own fumbles on this team. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:47.599 And I'm going to categories this as a sneaky squeaky 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.800 wheel game for him because I think urban Meyer took 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.680 a ton of heat from that, and other teammates spoke out. Yeah, 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.599 this week, I think Robinson actually gets his I have 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.280 a C grade on him. You could talk me into 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.400 a BE just on the amount of volume, but I 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.640 am worried at how much the Titans have improved over 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.400 the last half a season. So I have a C 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.400 grade on him. Um, I'm not gonna gonna be somewhere 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.280 in between a B and a C. Okay, Alright, In 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.760 the past game I have on the bench, Trevor Lawrence 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.560 looks terrible. I rewatched that game. He's throwing it at 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.720 people's feet. His accuracy is horrible, just terrible. He throws 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.200 the least catchable pass of any NFL starter. I agree 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.360 with that statement. Were you watching that game, it was 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.360 it was gross. You might say Treadwell's got fourteen targets 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.040 in the last two games. You know nobody's saying that. Yeah, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.920 I saw him picked up in a couple of leagues. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.040 A third of his yards in the last two games 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.160 came off of one play where the defender drop fell 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:47.360 fell down. So no bench the entire passing game. Uh, 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.239 it's just Robinson with a grade on that side. Over 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.880 on the other side, Tennessee Titans, Ryan Tannehill on the bench. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:58.480 I'm sorry, just to multiple touchdown passing games this season, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.960 just too after being so efficient over the last couple 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.640 of years. Uh, he's rushed for a touchdown in five 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.120 separate games, but you can't count on those, and he's 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.200 had a ton of low yardage day days. The Jags 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.920 d has been really, really improved. We've talked about that 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.000 on the show for a few weeks now. Um Stafford 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.600 let them up last week, but before that they had 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.440 they had held the previous five guys um four of them. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.239 Four of the previous five guys under two hundred yards, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.080 so they're there. I have Tan Hill on the bench 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.040 passing game, however, I think you can make some work 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.160 out of it if he concentrates his passes, which he does. Basically, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.920 two guys Julio Jones will be back and he gets 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.600 Shaquille Griffin who will likely be back. So I only 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.280 have a C grade on Julio Jones, mostly because he's 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.120 a forty to sixty yard guy this year, but he 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.640 has that explosive upside and is shown in one game 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.719 this year and a J. Brown is not there, so 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.360 they might lean on him a little more um. And 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.040 also players that got eighteen players have gotten six targets 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.680 against the Jags, twelve of them top two hundred yards 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.000 or scored um and the end four of the other 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.280 one's top sixty yards. So like, if he's gonna get 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.319 six or more targets, it's possible, It's possible he reaps 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.160 the day. Uh Nick Nick Westbrook Keene, I have a 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.000 C grade on him too. I think if she Gil 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.240 Griffin takes Julio, he's gonna have some open time out there. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.600 I've just listed off what some wide receivers do with 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.000 six plus targets. I think both Julio and him gets 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.360 six plus targets. He has twelve targets in the last 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.959 two games. I have a secret I kind of like 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:34.600 him here you can, you can make a good case. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.520 Then he's safer than Julio Jones. He gets red zone 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.840 targets to uh in the running game, Jeremy mc nichols 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.600 is likely to be back, which I think. I think 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.880 it bites into Hilliard is what it does. I think 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.839 Devon Deonta Foreman still gets his fifteen plus touches on 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.600 the ground and a little bit of receiving, just a 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.880 tiny bit, just enough to get him the volume. See 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.800 for me, um, they've a lot. The Jaguar have been 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.719 pretty good against the run this year, but they've given 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.200 him a hundred plus rushing yards in three straight And 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.800 I think the game script here helps Foreman, so C 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.199 grade for him. Yeah, he's built for goal line use 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.400 and the others really on. That's what I had written down, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.600 goal line use and you know, playing with the lead 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.880 Foreman startable in a pinch. Cowboys take on Washington, and 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.560 I've moved Zeke up to a C grade from the 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.720 bench he was at after we learned that Tony Pollard 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.679 has a torn planter fascia, and apparently it's the best 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.200 case scenario is the tear, the complete tear, and he 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.280 may actually play on it. But still you gotta figure 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.640 that that's going to have a pretty significant effect on 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.080 Pollard's running game and total usage. So even if he 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.480 does play, So we'll start Zeke here with a C grade, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.840 but only a C grade heel e se Kiel Elliott 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.199 because Washington ranks number one in total yards allowed to 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.720 runners at just ninety three total yards. And if that 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.920 and if he's gonna split that like I don't know, 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.280 seventy with Pollard, you know we're knocking him down to 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.720 like sixty yards. Now. The good news is Washington has 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.120 allowed to touchdown in nine different games. So your best 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.480 hope here is for a score for Zeke, which could happen. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.440 And that's why I'm keeping him with the C grade. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.120 Nine times I did that manually. Don't have access to 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.640 the brain bar You gotta be the backup button barrow 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.520 guy over there. Down. That's that's very important key work 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.880 over there. Let's go to the passing game. Starting with 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.920 C D Lamb, he gets a Washington defense that has 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.040 allowed at least ninety yards or a score to the 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:37.040 opposing number one receiver in four consecutive games. Ceedee Lamb 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.400 is clearly the number one receiver for Dallas. With the 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.280 return of Michael Gallup, Lamb is playing much more from 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.480 the slot, and that's where he's gonna find. Danny Johnson, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.040 who has been handling slot duties for Washington over the 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.640 past couple of games. He's given up a passer rating 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.200 of one two in his coverage, and Lamb has a 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.360 positive matchup, has a positive matchup on the rest of 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.240 the cornerbacks as well if he doesn't line up in 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.640 the slot. So on a grade like usual on Ceedee 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.600 Lamb everybody else, though, I've bumped down to C grades 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.520 because Washington's past defense has improved a lot, and particularly 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.080 against none number one receivers for Marii Cooper. Over the 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.479 four game win streak, Washington's allowing the fifth fewest receptions 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.960 and eleventh fewest yards per game, and non number one 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.080 receivers are averaging fewer than two receptions in twenty three 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:29.240 yards over the last four games, so Cooper just the 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.480 C grade did it with Gallup for really all of 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.440 the same reasons. Let's talk about also see grad. Let's 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.400 talk about Dalton Sheltz, who comes into the C grade 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.440 almost when b here. He's playing nineties six percent of 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.760 the snaps since Blake Jarwin went down, and he's averaging 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.360 seven targets, four catches fifty yards over that span, which 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.400 is pretty good. Washington's allowing healthy five catches and fifty 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.760 eight yards per game to tight ends and they've given 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.000 up the seventh most red zone targets to the position. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.320 So Shelt's got a decent chance of scoring in this one. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.320 Still only have the C grade on him because he 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.080 really hasn't had hasn't been a consistent fantasy producer even 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.640 with Jarwin out. All right, let's go to the other 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:12.400 side for Washington. During this four game win streak, Antonio 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:17.800 Gibson has been a monster, averaging twenty seven touches for 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.480 one hundred seven yards and almost a score per game. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.520 I think you can safely expect more high volume from 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.400 Gibson and particularly JD mkiss. It can't go and we 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.720 won't know he's shaping It was a game time decision. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.400 Opposing backs against Dallas who gets seventeen carries or more 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.600 are averaging one hundred total yards and zero points six 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.400 touchdowns per game, and in two career matchups with Dallas, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.319 Antnio Gibson has totaled forty carries for two hundred forty 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:51.720 three yards and four touchdowns in two games. Dallas, typically 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.319 pretty stingy against running backs, have only allowed eighty two 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.160 rushing yards per game and six rushing scores per game, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.640 so it's not an easy matchup. But on sheer volume 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.800 and keeping in a grade like he's a bell call 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.560 and a workhorse combined. Something. Oh, I like that? Could 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:10.040 he here's your there's it's a sleigh bell maybe or 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:15.600 I don't know it's here. That might be the answer 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.040 for Antonio Gibson. Let's go to the passing game. You 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.960 know what I didn't mention. I did not mention Dak 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.840 Prescott's great. I'm sorry about that. Back to Prescott for 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.680 just a second. Uh, I'd be great on Dak Prescott 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.480 if we rolled together Lamb and the sea grades they 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.880 gave to Cooper and Gallop and sheltz Um. This is 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.960 again an improved red skin. Sorry, formerly Redskins now Washington 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.440 defense over the past five games, Washington allowing just two 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.400 three passing yards at one point four touchdowns. So I 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.360 can't get him quite up to the A grade i'd 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.720 like to give. Dac and disappointed me last week too. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:47.880 I have an A grade on him. Last week. You 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.840 didn't do much, all right, So now back to the 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.080 back to the Washington passing game. Terry McLaurin has been 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.800 very hit and miss, which is weird because the bit 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.920 of the story and McLaurin up until this year had 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.040 been he'd been very safe, but this year very hit 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.360 and miss, and I worry a lot in this game. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.280 On the plus side, opponent's number one receivers have generally 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.480 fared well against Dallas, including recent good games from Tyreek 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.160 Hill and Hunter Renfro. Cowboys allowing an average of one 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.040 touchdown per game to wide out since Week six. And 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.560 I guess if there's one touchdown to go around, who 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.760 else would get it but Terry McLaurin. So I've got 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.560 to be great on him here, but just be aware 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.320 of the dud games that have surrounded much of his season. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.400 And I mentioned J. D. McKissick Earlier's got the concussion. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.240 He looks like he's a trending towards a game time 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.960 decision or some maybe something on Saturday or Sunday when 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.760 we'll learn more. If you believe the Cowboys are gonna 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.200 get head by a lot and he's active when Washington 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.720 is losing is when you can play McKissick. So if 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.800 you like Dallas in this game, give a C grade 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.240 to McKissick. And Um, it turns out Ricky Seals Jones 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.520 has a decent chance of going in this game. Did 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.640 you just leave it up to the listeners to grade him? 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.360 Do I give him a see if you if you 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.360 if you think, if you think Dallas is going to 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.960 be ahead, I usually don't take it, but I did. Um, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.560 Ricky Seals Jones is probably gonna go. He sits tenth 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.200 among tight ends and red zone targets despite only seeing 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.200 thirty four total targets on the year, so they thrown 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.760 to him a ton in the red zone, which I love. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.880 Dallas is a plus match for tight ends. They're giving 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.640 up the eleventh most Fantasy points per game to the position. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.440 So I've got a C grade on Ricky Seals Jones. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.280 I'm keeping Taylor Heinike on the bench, He's um, He's 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.240 been a middling producer. Plus, Dallas's past defense has improved 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.080 a lot, allowing per game averages of just two hundred 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.080 forty three yards and zero point eight touchdowns over the 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.160 past six weeks, and they've shut down far better passers 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.120 than Heineke lately. Kirk Cousins, Matt Ryan, Patrick Mahomes just 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.400 not enough good targets for Heineke as well. The last 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.040 four or five weeks, we've been saying, go grab Logan 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.800 Thomas for this amazing stretch. Now Ricky Seals Jones stays 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.120 the same. If Steals Stones doesn't go, are you thinking 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.080 about John Bates? No, I will give you next sake it. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.520 I will give you the sneaky, awesome tight end to 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.440 pick up. The opportunity is golden and he is available 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.560 in your lead. Is gonna play though, so he's gonna go. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.040 But regardless, we'll tell you who that is when we 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.639 come back to take a chance of me after this 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.879 Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a segment we 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.600 call take a chance. I mean not nine players and 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.720 not normally in your starting lineup. We'll tell you who 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.960 they are. Beginning at the quarterback position and Scott Fish. Yeah, 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.159 I'm going with Jimmy Garoppolo, who seems to be a 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.800 staple of this some reason. I was just realizing as 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.800 I was looking at it. Over the last five the 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.720 be Thols are allowing an average of two seven yards 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.879 and two scores to opposing quarterbacks. Incomes to forty niners 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.240 who over the last month or averaging nearly thirty points 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.360 per game. There's an employed implied total of fifty year. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.960 I just I just like Jimmy g in this matchup 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.440 for a score two and probably somewhere around two yards. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.479 All right, you're take a chance of any quarterback, Brian. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.879 The Texans are going back to rookie Davis Mills at quarterbacks. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.880 I'm rest of the just find out what you got 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.879 in him, to make sure you know if he is 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.760 a plausible starter going forward, no doubt. And he's got 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.639 the Seahawks at home this week, which is a pretty 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.080 good matchup over the last three weeks. Colton McCoy, who 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.000 was just Colton McCoy and didn't have DeAndre Hopkins through 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.000 three yards and two passing touchdowns, and Jimmy Garoppolo just 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.520 did that last week without Deebo Samuel and Jimmy g 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.160 is not all that great, So why not Davis Mills 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:56.080 and over Seattle's last five games, opposing quarterbacks are averaging 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.800 forty pass attempts per game. It feels like a spot 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.280 where Mills will throw at forty plus times. Seattle also 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.879 just lost safety Jamal Adams for the season with a 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.120 shoulder injury. Bellow safety Quandre Digs very questionable to play 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.399 with the calf injury. So I'm kind of feeling to 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.000 shootout in Houston. I'm liking Davis Mills and you'll find him. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.080 You know you've on this on the daily sites for sure, 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.600 no doubt. Baker Mayfield was not playing well before the 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.440 bye week, but he was also dealing with shoulder, foot, knee, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:27.560 and groin injuries. So presumably coming out of this bye week, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.800 you'd like to believe two weeks between games that he's 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.280 in much better shape right now. And you'll remember early 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.680 in the season through the first handful of games, he 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.280 was actually pretty good when he was healthy. He gets 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.639 the Ravens this week, and this is a wobbly past 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.960 defense allowing per game averages of two hundred eighty passing 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.800 yards and one point seven passing touchdowns over the past 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.440 six games. If Baker Mayfield is gonna get to eighty 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.240 and two touchdowns, I'm in and nuts. Remember the Ravens 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.120 are now without cornerback Marlon Humphrey, their best cornerback who's 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.680 lost for the season. Baker Mayfield, I like it. Let's 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.520 go to the running back position. Your take a chance 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.240 of me runners. I'm staying with the San Francisco forty 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.800 Niners and I'm going with Jeff Wilson. He practiced in 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.239 full the last couple of days. Him and jama Ja 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.960 Michael Hasty are the only two healthy running backs for 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.720 the forty Niners going into this game. And Jeff Wilson 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.159 had four games with fifteen plus touches last year, a 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.240 few of them in the twenties. He had a twenty 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.040 touch game just a couple of weeks ago when Elijah 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.479 Mitchell was out. I think he takes back that starting 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.840 role for this game with Mitchell out. Agreed, Brian, you 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.520 take a chance of me runner. I'm going with the 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.399 Seattle's Rashad Penny at Houston just talked about this game. Now. 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.000 Um Alex Collins likely to make his return. But Rashad 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.800 Penny was a first round pick about three years ago, 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.760 and he's healthy. He's never been healthy, but he's finally healthy. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.800 He essentially split work with Adrian Peterson last week, who 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:53.160 just looks and Peterson. There's reports that Peterson won't even 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.199 be active for this game. Yeah, and he shouldn't be. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.359 And don't read into the three carries for eighty yards 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.359 and a touchdown from Travis Homer that came on a 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.680 fake punt. So I feel it's a gut feel. Shot 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.640 Penny is gonna be the lead back all it can 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.680 be against. Shot Penny has given you no statistical analysis 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.639 to suggest he's any good. I swear there's been like 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:14.280