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Speaker 1: regular season edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. The playoffs are
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Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, that is the voice of Scott Fish.
Speaker 1: My other co host today, Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, it's
Speaker 1: very very is this is this officially nut cutting time?
Speaker 1: And if so, what nut? And who cuts nuts? Seriously,
Speaker 1: who's sitting around cutting nuts? That you cut the shells,
Speaker 1: not the nuts, right, and you crack the shells, you
Speaker 1: don't cut them. I mean, imagine if you took something
Speaker 1: a little fever to a wall, knocking some you'd lose
Speaker 1: a finger before long. We've got plenty to get to
Speaker 1: over the course of this show, including nine players not
Speaker 1: normally starting lineup. I've got a stone cold winner at
Speaker 1: tight end for you that you're gonna hear and take
Speaker 1: a chance and he later. We'll answer three tough questions
Speaker 1: and letter grades for all the notable players in all
Speaker 1: the games, beginning with the Saints taking on the Jets.
Speaker 1: Alvin Camara coming back, perfect timing for those people that
Speaker 1: were languishing for a month without Alvin Kmara. And we
Speaker 1: probably don't even have mark Ingram to muck up the works. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kimara walking pretty much right into a fantasy Fonzie
Speaker 1: in this matchup against the Jets, especially with mark Ingram
Speaker 1: unlikely to play COVID COVID uh so yeah, and a
Speaker 1: for camera, the Jets have allowed the most fantasy points
Speaker 1: of opposing running backs. It's pretty simple here. And they
Speaker 1: also uh they as in the Saints might get left
Speaker 1: tackle Tehran Armstead back who hasn't played us since Week nine,
Speaker 1: was played in just one game since week nine, so
Speaker 1: if he comes back, that bodes well for camera. But
Speaker 1: he gets an easy day, easy a either way. Uh.
Speaker 1: The wide receiver situation not so easy. Uh. Deonte Harris
Speaker 1: was looking really good, but he's not suspended. Um, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that's the thing that goes that
Speaker 1: slingers all the way back to like last summer, right,
Speaker 1: and then you know they finally rule on it now.
Speaker 1: Kind of weird, And I mean we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: who's throwing the ball quote unquote gonna throw the ball
Speaker 1: for the Saints in a second. So Trey Kwan Smith
Speaker 1: and Marquess Callaway, I got them both on the bench. Uh,
Speaker 1: neither one has really distanced distanced themselves as a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: One Harris was doing that, but again he's suspended. So uh.
Speaker 1: Even though the Jets are holding opposing wide receivers wy
Speaker 1: lesson twelve catches wondering, wondering segyards per game, it's really
Speaker 1: because they're so easy to run on. So long story
Speaker 1: short benching the wide receivers, I am gonna heave a
Speaker 1: harpoon at Nick Finette. Though tight end Nick Finett caught
Speaker 1: three or four targets for forty eight yards last Thursday
Speaker 1: from Taysom Hill, the Jets are allowing more than five
Speaker 1: catches sixty four yards per game to tight ends. They've
Speaker 1: surrendered three touchdowns to the position over the last two games.
Speaker 1: The Jets have so Nick Finette, especially a daily Dart. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's worth a harpoon. Uh you know a C dart
Speaker 1: relate to call them here. And lastly for the Saints,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, can you give him a B but be warned.
Speaker 1: I mean he could go completely belly up, as we
Speaker 1: all know, he could throw. It's one or the other.
Speaker 1: It's really one or the other. I'm leaning towards the
Speaker 1: other because it's the Jets, because it's the Jets who
Speaker 1: have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in eight straight games, with
Speaker 1: the most recent performances going to Gardner Minshew and Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: Rod Taylor, I'm sorry, you know, Taysom Hill almost on
Speaker 1: par with those guys as a passer, but of course
Speaker 1: most dangerous on the ground, easing the only one opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback has seen more than four rush attempts against the Jets,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't Josh Allen who who faced on recently.
Speaker 1: He had just two rush attempts. So not a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, mobile quarterbacks on tape against New York
Speaker 1: with Tarrod Taylor. Tyrod Taylor had thirty yards on two
Speaker 1: carries just two weeks ago. So Taysom Hill probably a
Speaker 1: pretty good game here. Yeah, he's his own guy in
Speaker 1: that I got, I got need to bacon the risk
Speaker 1: of him potentially just yeah, he's got the foot injury,
Speaker 1: but they took him off the injury part on Friday,
Speaker 1: so fully healthy, fully mobile. I'm in on Taysom Hill's
Speaker 1: big time against the Jets. There are not a lot
Speaker 1: of Jets to be into this week, but Ty Johnson
Speaker 1: they're gonna give him a see based on expected volume.
Speaker 1: Michael Carter still on I R Tevin Coleman has been
Speaker 1: ruled out with a concussion, so THI Johnson should be
Speaker 1: the guy. The Saints are a brutal matchup though for
Speaker 1: running backs, both on the ground and uh in the
Speaker 1: in the air. They're allowing less than ninety eight combo
Speaker 1: yards per game to the position that second fewest. But
Speaker 1: Johnson should see fifteen and twenty catches, I guess unless
Speaker 1: Austin Walter, yes, steals some touches, which you might, but
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. Walter is, but I'll give to
Speaker 1: see the Tye Johnson. Elijah Moore, I will give him
Speaker 1: a see if he plays. He's been questionable with a
Speaker 1: quad injury. Twelve targets last week, so um. The concern
Speaker 1: with Zack Wilson coming back quarterback out the window. He
Speaker 1: was looking Elijah More his way. I think Jack Wilson
Speaker 1: played the best game of his career last week. He
Speaker 1: looked a lot better. Uh. Spoiler alert, He's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the bench of those zat Wills and his Elijah
Speaker 1: More A see if he plays. If he does not,
Speaker 1: I'll give Jameson Crowder a see Crowder on the bench
Speaker 1: though if More If Moore does play, Crowder saw six
Speaker 1: targets last week, caught four of them for sixty something yards.
Speaker 1: That's double digit PPR points, So he's viable if More
Speaker 1: is out. But if More plays again, Crowder on the
Speaker 1: bench and Zach Wilson bench. But hopefully better days ahead
Speaker 1: for Zack. Jaguars take on the Titan Scott. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do a deep dive a little later in this show
Speaker 1: on James Robinson, but let's not. He's coming off of
Speaker 1: pretty tough game and now he goes up against a
Speaker 1: shockingly competent Titans run defense over the past I don't know,
Speaker 1: six weeks or so. Yeah, and and Robinson is actually
Speaker 1: the guy who had a hundred plus hard day against
Speaker 1: that defense. But right before that five or six games
Speaker 1: stretch where they haven't allowed it back to top seventy
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Uh. Right now, it's a banged up version
Speaker 1: of Robinson, who's was inexplicably benched last week after a
Speaker 1: fumble that he didn't even lose. Right, this bumble two
Speaker 1: games in a row hasn't lost him before that. He
Speaker 1: hadn't fumbled in twenty three games. It's not even an
Speaker 1: issue for him. But Herbert Meyer needed to send a
Speaker 1: message we don't recover our own fumbles on this team.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to categories this as a sneaky squeaky
Speaker 1: wheel game for him because I think urban Meyer took
Speaker 1: a ton of heat from that, and other teammates spoke out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this week, I think Robinson actually gets his I have
Speaker 1: a C grade on him. You could talk me into
Speaker 1: a BE just on the amount of volume, but I
Speaker 1: am worried at how much the Titans have improved over
Speaker 1: the last half a season. So I have a C
Speaker 1: grade on him. Um, I'm not gonna gonna be somewhere
Speaker 1: in between a B and a C. Okay, Alright, In
Speaker 1: the past game I have on the bench, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: looks terrible. I rewatched that game. He's throwing it at
Speaker 1: people's feet. His accuracy is horrible, just terrible. He throws
Speaker 1: the least catchable pass of any NFL starter. I agree
Speaker 1: with that statement. Were you watching that game, it was
Speaker 1: it was gross. You might say Treadwell's got fourteen targets
Speaker 1: in the last two games. You know nobody's saying that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw him picked up in a couple of leagues.
Speaker 1: A third of his yards in the last two games
Speaker 1: came off of one play where the defender drop fell
Speaker 1: fell down. So no bench the entire passing game. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just Robinson with a grade on that side. Over
Speaker 1: on the other side, Tennessee Titans, Ryan Tannehill on the bench.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, just to multiple touchdown passing games this season,
Speaker 1: just too after being so efficient over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. Uh, he's rushed for a touchdown in five
Speaker 1: separate games, but you can't count on those, and he's
Speaker 1: had a ton of low yardage day days. The Jags
Speaker 1: d has been really, really improved. We've talked about that
Speaker 1: on the show for a few weeks now. Um Stafford
Speaker 1: let them up last week, but before that they had
Speaker 1: they had held the previous five guys um four of them.
Speaker 1: Four of the previous five guys under two hundred yards,
Speaker 1: so they're there. I have Tan Hill on the bench
Speaker 1: passing game, however, I think you can make some work
Speaker 1: out of it if he concentrates his passes, which he does. Basically,
Speaker 1: two guys Julio Jones will be back and he gets
Speaker 1: Shaquille Griffin who will likely be back. So I only
Speaker 1: have a C grade on Julio Jones, mostly because he's
Speaker 1: a forty to sixty yard guy this year, but he
Speaker 1: has that explosive upside and is shown in one game
Speaker 1: this year and a J. Brown is not there, so
Speaker 1: they might lean on him a little more um. And
Speaker 1: also players that got eighteen players have gotten six targets
Speaker 1: against the Jags, twelve of them top two hundred yards
Speaker 1: or scored um and the end four of the other
Speaker 1: one's top sixty yards. So like, if he's gonna get
Speaker 1: six or more targets, it's possible, It's possible he reaps
Speaker 1: the day. Uh Nick Nick Westbrook Keene, I have a
Speaker 1: C grade on him too. I think if she Gil
Speaker 1: Griffin takes Julio, he's gonna have some open time out there.
Speaker 1: I've just listed off what some wide receivers do with
Speaker 1: six plus targets. I think both Julio and him gets
Speaker 1: six plus targets. He has twelve targets in the last
Speaker 1: two games. I have a secret I kind of like
Speaker 1: him here you can, you can make a good case.
Speaker 1: Then he's safer than Julio Jones. He gets red zone
Speaker 1: targets to uh in the running game, Jeremy mc nichols
Speaker 1: is likely to be back, which I think. I think
Speaker 1: it bites into Hilliard is what it does. I think
Speaker 1: Devon Deonta Foreman still gets his fifteen plus touches on
Speaker 1: the ground and a little bit of receiving, just a
Speaker 1: tiny bit, just enough to get him the volume. See
Speaker 1: for me, um, they've a lot. The Jaguar have been
Speaker 1: pretty good against the run this year, but they've given
Speaker 1: him a hundred plus rushing yards in three straight And
Speaker 1: I think the game script here helps Foreman, so C
Speaker 1: grade for him. Yeah, he's built for goal line use
Speaker 1: and the others really on. That's what I had written down,
Speaker 1: goal line use and you know, playing with the lead
Speaker 1: Foreman startable in a pinch. Cowboys take on Washington, and
Speaker 1: I've moved Zeke up to a C grade from the
Speaker 1: bench he was at after we learned that Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: has a torn planter fascia, and apparently it's the best
Speaker 1: case scenario is the tear, the complete tear, and he
Speaker 1: may actually play on it. But still you gotta figure
Speaker 1: that that's going to have a pretty significant effect on
Speaker 1: Pollard's running game and total usage. So even if he
Speaker 1: does play, So we'll start Zeke here with a C grade,
Speaker 1: but only a C grade heel e se Kiel Elliott
Speaker 1: because Washington ranks number one in total yards allowed to
Speaker 1: runners at just ninety three total yards. And if that
Speaker 1: and if he's gonna split that like I don't know,
Speaker 1: seventy with Pollard, you know we're knocking him down to
Speaker 1: like sixty yards. Now. The good news is Washington has
Speaker 1: allowed to touchdown in nine different games. So your best
Speaker 1: hope here is for a score for Zeke, which could happen.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm keeping him with the C grade.
Speaker 1: Nine times I did that manually. Don't have access to
Speaker 1: the brain bar You gotta be the backup button barrow
Speaker 1: guy over there. Down. That's that's very important key work
Speaker 1: over there. Let's go to the passing game. Starting with
Speaker 1: C D Lamb, he gets a Washington defense that has
Speaker 1: allowed at least ninety yards or a score to the
Speaker 1: opposing number one receiver in four consecutive games. Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: is clearly the number one receiver for Dallas. With the
Speaker 1: return of Michael Gallup, Lamb is playing much more from
Speaker 1: the slot, and that's where he's gonna find. Danny Johnson,
Speaker 1: who has been handling slot duties for Washington over the
Speaker 1: past couple of games. He's given up a passer rating
Speaker 1: of one two in his coverage, and Lamb has a
Speaker 1: positive matchup, has a positive matchup on the rest of
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks as well if he doesn't line up in
Speaker 1: the slot. So on a grade like usual on Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb everybody else, though, I've bumped down to C grades
Speaker 1: because Washington's past defense has improved a lot, and particularly
Speaker 1: against none number one receivers for Marii Cooper. Over the
Speaker 1: four game win streak, Washington's allowing the fifth fewest receptions
Speaker 1: and eleventh fewest yards per game, and non number one
Speaker 1: receivers are averaging fewer than two receptions in twenty three
Speaker 1: yards over the last four games, so Cooper just the
Speaker 1: C grade did it with Gallup for really all of
Speaker 1: the same reasons. Let's talk about also see grad. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Dalton Sheltz, who comes into the C grade
Speaker 1: almost when b here. He's playing nineties six percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps since Blake Jarwin went down, and he's averaging
Speaker 1: seven targets, four catches fifty yards over that span, which
Speaker 1: is pretty good. Washington's allowing healthy five catches and fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards per game to tight ends and they've given
Speaker 1: up the seventh most red zone targets to the position.
Speaker 1: So Shelt's got a decent chance of scoring in this one.
Speaker 1: Still only have the C grade on him because he
Speaker 1: really hasn't had hasn't been a consistent fantasy producer even
Speaker 1: with Jarwin out. All right, let's go to the other
Speaker 1: side for Washington. During this four game win streak, Antonio
Speaker 1: Gibson has been a monster, averaging twenty seven touches for
Speaker 1: one hundred seven yards and almost a score per game.
Speaker 1: I think you can safely expect more high volume from
Speaker 1: Gibson and particularly JD mkiss. It can't go and we
Speaker 1: won't know he's shaping It was a game time decision.
Speaker 1: Opposing backs against Dallas who gets seventeen carries or more
Speaker 1: are averaging one hundred total yards and zero points six
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game, and in two career matchups with Dallas,
Speaker 1: Antnio Gibson has totaled forty carries for two hundred forty
Speaker 1: three yards and four touchdowns in two games. Dallas, typically
Speaker 1: pretty stingy against running backs, have only allowed eighty two
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game and six rushing scores per game,
Speaker 1: so it's not an easy matchup. But on sheer volume
Speaker 1: and keeping in a grade like he's a bell call
Speaker 1: and a workhorse combined. Something. Oh, I like that? Could
Speaker 1: he here's your there's it's a sleigh bell maybe or
Speaker 1: I don't know it's here. That might be the answer
Speaker 1: for Antonio Gibson. Let's go to the passing game. You
Speaker 1: know what I didn't mention. I did not mention Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's great. I'm sorry about that. Back to Prescott for
Speaker 1: just a second. Uh, I'd be great on Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: if we rolled together Lamb and the sea grades they
Speaker 1: gave to Cooper and Gallop and sheltz Um. This is
Speaker 1: again an improved red skin. Sorry, formerly Redskins now Washington
Speaker 1: defense over the past five games, Washington allowing just two
Speaker 1: three passing yards at one point four touchdowns. So I
Speaker 1: can't get him quite up to the A grade i'd
Speaker 1: like to give. Dac and disappointed me last week too.
Speaker 1: I have an A grade on him. Last week. You
Speaker 1: didn't do much, all right, So now back to the
Speaker 1: back to the Washington passing game. Terry McLaurin has been
Speaker 1: very hit and miss, which is weird because the bit
Speaker 1: of the story and McLaurin up until this year had
Speaker 1: been he'd been very safe, but this year very hit
Speaker 1: and miss, and I worry a lot in this game.
Speaker 1: On the plus side, opponent's number one receivers have generally
Speaker 1: fared well against Dallas, including recent good games from Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill and Hunter Renfro. Cowboys allowing an average of one
Speaker 1: touchdown per game to wide out since Week six. And
Speaker 1: I guess if there's one touchdown to go around, who
Speaker 1: else would get it but Terry McLaurin. So I've got
Speaker 1: to be great on him here, but just be aware
Speaker 1: of the dud games that have surrounded much of his season.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned J. D. McKissick Earlier's got the concussion.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's a trending towards a game time
Speaker 1: decision or some maybe something on Saturday or Sunday when
Speaker 1: we'll learn more. If you believe the Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: get head by a lot and he's active when Washington
Speaker 1: is losing is when you can play McKissick. So if
Speaker 1: you like Dallas in this game, give a C grade
Speaker 1: to McKissick. And Um, it turns out Ricky Seals Jones
Speaker 1: has a decent chance of going in this game. Did
Speaker 1: you just leave it up to the listeners to grade him?
Speaker 1: Do I give him a see if you if you
Speaker 1: if you think, if you think Dallas is going to
Speaker 1: be ahead, I usually don't take it, but I did. Um,
Speaker 1: Ricky Seals Jones is probably gonna go. He sits tenth
Speaker 1: among tight ends and red zone targets despite only seeing
Speaker 1: thirty four total targets on the year, so they thrown
Speaker 1: to him a ton in the red zone, which I love.
Speaker 1: Dallas is a plus match for tight ends. They're giving
Speaker 1: up the eleventh most Fantasy points per game to the position.
Speaker 1: So I've got a C grade on Ricky Seals Jones.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping Taylor Heinike on the bench, He's um, He's
Speaker 1: been a middling producer. Plus, Dallas's past defense has improved
Speaker 1: a lot, allowing per game averages of just two hundred
Speaker 1: forty three yards and zero point eight touchdowns over the
Speaker 1: past six weeks, and they've shut down far better passers
Speaker 1: than Heineke lately. Kirk Cousins, Matt Ryan, Patrick Mahomes just
Speaker 1: not enough good targets for Heineke as well. The last
Speaker 1: four or five weeks, we've been saying, go grab Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas for this amazing stretch. Now Ricky Seals Jones stays
Speaker 1: the same. If Steals Stones doesn't go, are you thinking
Speaker 1: about John Bates? No, I will give you next sake it.
Speaker 1: I will give you the sneaky, awesome tight end to
Speaker 1: pick up. The opportunity is golden and he is available
Speaker 1: in your lead. Is gonna play though, so he's gonna go.
Speaker 1: But regardless, we'll tell you who that is when we
Speaker 1: come back to take a chance of me after this
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a segment we
Speaker 1: call take a chance. I mean not nine players and
Speaker 1: not normally in your starting lineup. We'll tell you who
Speaker 1: they are. Beginning at the quarterback position and Scott Fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Jimmy Garoppolo, who seems to be a
Speaker 1: staple of this some reason. I was just realizing as
Speaker 1: I was looking at it. Over the last five the
Speaker 1: be Thols are allowing an average of two seven yards
Speaker 1: and two scores to opposing quarterbacks. Incomes to forty niners
Speaker 1: who over the last month or averaging nearly thirty points
Speaker 1: per game. There's an employed implied total of fifty year.
Speaker 1: I just I just like Jimmy g in this matchup
Speaker 1: for a score two and probably somewhere around two yards.
Speaker 1: All right, you're take a chance of any quarterback, Brian.
Speaker 1: The Texans are going back to rookie Davis Mills at quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I'm rest of the just find out what you got
Speaker 1: in him, to make sure you know if he is
Speaker 1: a plausible starter going forward, no doubt. And he's got
Speaker 1: the Seahawks at home this week, which is a pretty
Speaker 1: good matchup over the last three weeks. Colton McCoy, who
Speaker 1: was just Colton McCoy and didn't have DeAndre Hopkins through
Speaker 1: three yards and two passing touchdowns, and Jimmy Garoppolo just
Speaker 1: did that last week without Deebo Samuel and Jimmy g
Speaker 1: is not all that great, So why not Davis Mills
Speaker 1: and over Seattle's last five games, opposing quarterbacks are averaging
Speaker 1: forty pass attempts per game. It feels like a spot
Speaker 1: where Mills will throw at forty plus times. Seattle also
Speaker 1: just lost safety Jamal Adams for the season with a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Bellow safety Quandre Digs very questionable to play
Speaker 1: with the calf injury. So I'm kind of feeling to
Speaker 1: shootout in Houston. I'm liking Davis Mills and you'll find him.
Speaker 1: You know you've on this on the daily sites for sure,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Baker Mayfield was not playing well before the
Speaker 1: bye week, but he was also dealing with shoulder, foot, knee,
Speaker 1: and groin injuries. So presumably coming out of this bye week,
Speaker 1: you'd like to believe two weeks between games that he's
Speaker 1: in much better shape right now. And you'll remember early
Speaker 1: in the season through the first handful of games, he
Speaker 1: was actually pretty good when he was healthy. He gets
Speaker 1: the Ravens this week, and this is a wobbly past
Speaker 1: defense allowing per game averages of two hundred eighty passing
Speaker 1: yards and one point seven passing touchdowns over the past
Speaker 1: six games. If Baker Mayfield is gonna get to eighty
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns, I'm in and nuts. Remember the Ravens
Speaker 1: are now without cornerback Marlon Humphrey, their best cornerback who's
Speaker 1: lost for the season. Baker Mayfield, I like it. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position. Your take a chance
Speaker 1: of me runners. I'm staying with the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners and I'm going with Jeff Wilson. He practiced in
Speaker 1: full the last couple of days. Him and jama Ja
Speaker 1: Michael Hasty are the only two healthy running backs for
Speaker 1: the forty Niners going into this game. And Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: had four games with fifteen plus touches last year, a
Speaker 1: few of them in the twenties. He had a twenty
Speaker 1: touch game just a couple of weeks ago when Elijah
Speaker 1: Mitchell was out. I think he takes back that starting
Speaker 1: role for this game with Mitchell out. Agreed, Brian, you
Speaker 1: take a chance of me runner. I'm going with the
Speaker 1: Seattle's Rashad Penny at Houston just talked about this game. Now.
Speaker 1: Um Alex Collins likely to make his return. But Rashad
Speaker 1: Penny was a first round pick about three years ago,
Speaker 1: and he's healthy. He's never been healthy, but he's finally healthy.
Speaker 1: He essentially split work with Adrian Peterson last week, who
Speaker 1: just looks and Peterson. There's reports that Peterson won't even
Speaker 1: be active for this game. Yeah, and he shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: And don't read into the three carries for eighty yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown from Travis Homer that came on a
Speaker 1: fake punt. So I feel it's a gut feel. Shot
Speaker 1: Penny is gonna be the lead back all it can
Speaker 1: be against. Shot Penny has given you no statistical analysis
Speaker 1: to suggest he's any good. I swear there's been like
Speaker 1: two games in his career has been healthy, and he
Speaker 1: looks fantastic on Sunday. I believe that is true. And
Speaker 1: it's not hard to look fantastic as a running back
Speaker 1: against the Texans who are allowing a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: three combo yards and one point to five touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to running back. That the opportunity is there, You're
Speaker 1: right about that. I'm going to Cuba Hubbard as he
Speaker 1: takes on the Falcons. They fired their offensive coordinator Joe Brady,
Speaker 1: mostly because he didn't run enough. Remember Matt Rules saying
Speaker 1: he wants to run the ball thirty to thirty five times. Well,
Speaker 1: if Cam Newton was my quarterback, I wouldn't want him
Speaker 1: to pass either. I would want to run the ball
Speaker 1: as much as possible, both with Cam and with Chuba
Speaker 1: Hubbard doing it. During his five starts this year, Hubbard
Speaker 1: averaged eighteen rushes eighty three yards. If those eighteen rushes
Speaker 1: are going to be more now that Joe Brady's gone
Speaker 1: May maybe he's got hundred hundred yard upside. And he
Speaker 1: ran for a touchdown in eighty two yards against Atlanta
Speaker 1: already once this year. So Juba Hubbard is my choice.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Scott and your receiver. Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: with Josh Reynolds. He's he's been pretty on fire the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, playing most of the snaps. He's
Speaker 1: got that rapport with Jared Goff. This week he came
Speaker 1: out they want Jared Goff to take more twenty plus
Speaker 1: yard shots, that more shots deep down the field. He
Speaker 1: was actually near the top of the league in that
Speaker 1: category just a couple of years ago with McVeigh um
Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds been the deep ball guy the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Three targets over twenty yards against the Bear Bears, three
Speaker 1: more against the Vikings. He has three receptions over twenty
Speaker 1: five yards UM and HISS. His average average yards per
Speaker 1: reception is twenty yards. I think just a few deep plays,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it. Brian, your take chance on me
Speaker 1: receiver now. I was gonna go with the Chargers Jalen
Speaker 1: Guighton before Keenan Allen was ruled out. Keenan Allen now
Speaker 1: ruled out, I'm certainly still going with Jalen Guiton, who
Speaker 1: caught all four of his targets last week for nine
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. It's still to be determined if
Speaker 1: Mike Williams is gonna play in this game. That will
Speaker 1: make this very much a lay up. Take a chance
Speaker 1: on me play with. The Giants are top five in
Speaker 1: targets yielded and touchdowns allowed to wide receivers. I might
Speaker 1: a should have went deeper with Josh Palmer, but Jalen
Speaker 1: Guiton Josh Palmer can become very viable this weekend against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Austin Hoopers might take a chance of me
Speaker 1: player and I love this opportunity. Now. Normally Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: is part of a three man Cleveland rotation at tight
Speaker 1: end with David and Joku and Harrison Bryant out this week.
Speaker 1: That means what I'm out, Hooper is going to get
Speaker 1: all the work. So allow me to tell you what
Speaker 1: in Joku, Bryant and Hooper together look like this year.
Speaker 1: If you give all of their average production to just Hooper,
Speaker 1: your average game is six catches, seventy two yards and
Speaker 1: half a touchdown. Who else is almost exactly six catches
Speaker 1: seventy two yards and half a touchdown t Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1: You've got Travis Kelsey in usage for the Cleveland tight
Speaker 1: ends if you roll them into one guy, and that's
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. This weekend, plus the Ravens allowed the second
Speaker 1: most yards and the fourth most touchdowns too, tight ends.
Speaker 1: What a DFS play Austin Hooper is. If you're struggling
Speaker 1: at tight end, Darren Waller, whatever, Austin Hooper, that's the point.
Speaker 1: If you've got Darren Waller, this is your pivot guy,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. So safe to say, across your leagues you've
Speaker 1: been a Hooper Scooper. I've been jumping through hoops Cooper Scooper,
Speaker 1: I like Whoper I do. It is pretty good. Good
Speaker 1: Falcons take on the Panthers, Brian, we can just dispense
Speaker 1: with the Kyle Pitts A plus plus. It's Fantasy phone
Speaker 1: z right there for you. We're gonna have an in
Speaker 1: depth edition of Fantasy Football Weekly to the off season. Yes,
Speaker 1: will be a very civil conversation. Of course, this would
Speaker 1: be a good one. We'll start with the sooner you
Speaker 1: acknowledge that I was right on this, the sooner we
Speaker 1: can just well, there's still a lot of season to play.
Speaker 1: First off, but yes, we'll get Pits has not lived
Speaker 1: up to his a DP, but neither of thirty of
Speaker 1: the forty players that were drafted before him either. But
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get into that. Now. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into the Panthers and Tuba Hubbard. You'll take a chance
Speaker 1: to be running back charge. I also like a Mira Abdullah.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a c uh. In Week twelve,
Speaker 1: when Christian mccaffee went down, Abdullah had twenty seven snaps
Speaker 1: to the eleven from Cuba Hubbard. So in PPR against
Speaker 1: a team like the Falcons throw a dart at a
Speaker 1: mirab dula. I know I am in a deeper league,
Speaker 1: so to see for him, just to be for d J. Moore,
Speaker 1: the only wide receiver or tight end who matters on
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers at this point. But far and away,
Speaker 1: I've seen the most targets from Cam. Newton has notched
Speaker 1: the most yards, touchdowns, and first down conversions from Cam.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are allowing a healthy fourteen catches a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty yards one point to five touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: to wide receivers more only at four catches for fifty
Speaker 1: nine yards when these teams first met in Week Gate,
Speaker 1: but still B grade for him, Robbie Anderson on the
Speaker 1: bench and Cam Newton. It's really going one way or
Speaker 1: the other. With Cam, it's like he's gonna go off
Speaker 1: or he's gonna go sit on the actual bench. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut it right down the middle of him,
Speaker 1: a B play it safe. I don't want he see,
Speaker 1: well you can, I'm leaning. I'm leaning see they're gonna
Speaker 1: lean on the run game more so than not, I
Speaker 1: would think, And it could that could be Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: I don't know it could be Cam. Now keep in
Speaker 1: mind he got benched in their last game. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: looked really good bench three times last year. He's so
Speaker 1: that's the frustrating thing. P J Walker should be starting
Speaker 1: this game for Carolina and he's Unfortunately he's not. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to see he's probably the best passer on
Speaker 1: the team, oh, for sure. Over to the he's the best.
Speaker 1: P J Walker is the best passer in this game.
Speaker 1: And that's including Matt Ryans thrown out of the way.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench. One six yards, one touchdown, two
Speaker 1: interceptions when these teams first met. He's just god awful. Uh,
Speaker 1: Corrill Cordarrell Patterson is not, though I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a B yet thirty five rushing yards, thirty seven receiving
Speaker 1: yards in the first meeting, did catch a touchdown. Carolina
Speaker 1: is very tough on running backs and wide receivers alike.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to consider Patterson, but the guy's unicorny
Speaker 1: really can't. I'm only benching him in one league, and
Speaker 1: it's a guy team league where I'm in the finals
Speaker 1: and I have like five stud running backs ahead of Patterson.
Speaker 1: He gets a B and Kyle Pitts still gets to
Speaker 1: see brutal matchup on paper for tight ends. Pitts is
Speaker 1: a wide receiver of courts. Of course Carolina treated him
Speaker 1: as such in the first meeting. Gil Morris shadowed him
Speaker 1: in that game. Calvin really did not play in that
Speaker 1: In that game, Calvin Ridley certainly not playing in this game.
Speaker 1: Pitts had his worst performance as a pro, just two
Speaker 1: catches thirteen yards, not afacking a monster game, But talent
Speaker 1: and opportunity is still there. So a C for Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts and uh Russell gauge out through a ce dart
Speaker 1: at him in PPR as well, go to a bank
Speaker 1: b All right, Scott, all right, he missed, he missed
Speaker 1: the first meeting. Um, yeah, well, Kyle Pitts is gonna
Speaker 1: get like triple quadruple team because he's just such an
Speaker 1: amazing talent. Though the Scott Fish I co signed the
Speaker 1: b on Russell gage. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: more matchups for you, including forty nine ers taking on
Speaker 1: the Bengals. We've already talked about some of the forty
Speaker 1: niners that Scott Fish likes, including Jimmy Garoppolo, Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 1: How much upside do you have from guys like Brandon
Speaker 1: Au and what do you expect from Deebo Samuel if
Speaker 1: he plays on the groin injury a huge conundrum for
Speaker 1: fantasy owners. We'll talk about that when we come back
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. It is the final segment of
Speaker 1: our number one a Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a
Speaker 1: two hour operation. We're here to get you ready for
Speaker 1: the fantasy playoffs. Your final playoff positioning potentially on the
Speaker 1: line in this week's game. Almost everybody's got some kind
Speaker 1: of movement. Almost nobody's locked into a particular spot quite yet,
Speaker 1: probably not. We both agree, Scott that the last spot
Speaker 1: in your playoffs should be awarded to not the team
Speaker 1: with the next best record, but it should be awarded
Speaker 1: to the team with the most points or potentially the
Speaker 1: team with the best all play record that something like that,
Speaker 1: because in this we're a better indicator of a great
Speaker 1: team instead of schedule schedule luck. Because you your team
Speaker 1: can't play defense, it's not it's not your fault. If
Speaker 1: your opponents have scored a lot of points. Your fantasy
Speaker 1: team doesn't play defense. So yeah, be creative with that
Speaker 1: last spot and think about it for next year. If
Speaker 1: you haven't already set that up. Let's go to some
Speaker 1: of our matchups, beginning with the forty Niners taking on
Speaker 1: the Bengal Scott. For the forty Niners, you already talked
Speaker 1: a lot about Jeff Wilson at the running back position.
Speaker 1: Are probable starter? Is Jamichael Hasty a possible play here
Speaker 1: or not? I think I think he could be a
Speaker 1: dart throw if you're in a serious bind. I don't
Speaker 1: have a starting grade on him. But keeping keep in mind,
Speaker 1: the forty Niners give their running backs thirty touches a game,
Speaker 1: and it very well could be twenty for Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 1: and Jamichael Hasty might be able to do something with
Speaker 1: the ten he gets. But I have him as the
Speaker 1: second end of of of those two, and I don't
Speaker 1: have a starting grade on him in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Might take a chance on me. Quarterback was Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: I liked him for two and a couple of scores.
Speaker 1: That's I don't know where it's gonna go. But I
Speaker 1: have an a grade on kill because I think it's
Speaker 1: obvious at this point he's just playing like a beast.
Speaker 1: Uh Deebo Samuel. If he goes, I have an A
Speaker 1: grade on him if he goes, because he's just been
Speaker 1: too efficient and productive, and I don't think they will
Speaker 1: risk him if he's not good to go. I think
Speaker 1: with that groin injury he can. If he can go,
Speaker 1: he will go. All right. I see the concern in
Speaker 1: your face. Groin injury plus the Dalvin Cook thing from
Speaker 1: the other night, that's probably your Your concern is he
Speaker 1: he could blow up? Okay, I'll give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: I'll give him a B grade out of that concern.
Speaker 1: How's that sound? Dalvin Cook's groin isn't in his shoulders though? No,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Dalvin Cook situation of should I start them,
Speaker 1: could they reinjure? Could they leave? Type of situation. Fine,
Speaker 1: I'll give him a B grade. I I still think
Speaker 1: if he's going, he's probably gonna be a top ten guy.
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk, I'm giving a B grade either way, if
Speaker 1: Debo goes or he doesn't. The top receiver against the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and this is if Debo doesn't go has top ninety
Speaker 1: yards and back to back and they've the Bengals have
Speaker 1: allowed five receivers to top eight yards and or scoring
Speaker 1: just the last two. Uh so even if even if
Speaker 1: Debo goes, I think the second receiver can get some
Speaker 1: work here. Yuk himself his top to eighty five yards
Speaker 1: and three of his last five, and he's consistently seen
Speaker 1: six plus targets even with Diebo Samuel, he was starting
Speaker 1: to see that starting about the midway point. So I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Ayuke. On the other side,
Speaker 1: I have a C grade on Joe Burrow. Only one
Speaker 1: quarterback his top two fifty yards on and that was
Speaker 1: all the way back in Week one. That was a
Speaker 1: long time ago. That was almost a false season ago.
Speaker 1: That includes five quarterbacks under two hundred yards. They've allowed
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns and back to back. But given the way
Speaker 1: this defense has held down quarterbacks and Burrows two injuries,
Speaker 1: which supposedly he's been fine with this week in practice,
Speaker 1: the best I can give him as a C grade
Speaker 1: because this is one of the better offense with the
Speaker 1: most weapons that the NS will have played this season.
Speaker 1: So C grade on Burrow. Higgins I'm giving an A
Speaker 1: grade too. He's just too hot. He's turned into the
Speaker 1: player that he was last year, and Jamaar Chase has
Speaker 1: fine has kind of taken a backseat. Yeah, and if
Speaker 1: you look at the early season stats, the targets and receptions,
Speaker 1: and they were going, they were going Higgins way. Chase
Speaker 1: was just getting the big touchdowns, and we talked about
Speaker 1: that earlier in the year. Those big touchdowns aren't coming anymore.
Speaker 1: And Chase's best output in the last five weeks is
Speaker 1: fifty two yards. He scored twice in that stretch. The
Speaker 1: upside is there. So I have a B grade on
Speaker 1: on Chase and a grade on Higgins because I think
Speaker 1: he's going to get the bulk of the work. I
Speaker 1: have Tyler Boyd on the bench, just two and consistent,
Speaker 1: only top sixty yards four times this year. Now we
Speaker 1: get to the running game. Joe Mixon has been dinged
Speaker 1: up and sick this week. He was digged up last week.
Speaker 1: He came back in and scored touchdown. He played the
Speaker 1: rest of the game, but he's been He's been with
Speaker 1: an illness this week. I have an A grade on
Speaker 1: Mixing if he goes, because I think that means he's
Speaker 1: over his illness, and and so over the last five
Speaker 1: weeks are surprising the fourth worst against fantasy running backs,
Speaker 1: allowing seven rushing touchdowns in those five games. Mixing himself
Speaker 1: has nine straight games with a touchdown. I probably could
Speaker 1: have phrased that to get a nine times out there,
Speaker 1: but anyway, Yeah, but keep on an injury and iron
Speaker 1: that injured, that that illness, because if he doesn't go,
Speaker 1: pren becomes interesting in this spot. I would give him
Speaker 1: a C grade or maybe even a B grade just
Speaker 1: because of pure a ton of volume in a high
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, it's just recently they're giving up so
Speaker 1: many touchdowns to running backs. But that's all I have
Speaker 1: for that. Ravens take on the Browns, and on the
Speaker 1: Ravens side, I want to start with Devon Freeman. Browns
Speaker 1: allowing one fifteen total yards per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: That is the sixth fewest. I don't love this matchup.
Speaker 1: Freeman though, averaging seventeen touches per games since taking over
Speaker 1: as the starter, and had seventeen touches last time he
Speaker 1: played the Browns two weeks ago, but he only that
Speaker 1: only equaled sixty total yards, his second lowest output as
Speaker 1: a starter. I don't love him here, but just on volume,
Speaker 1: we'll give a C grade to DeVonta Freeman. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the receivers now, Marcus Brown comes in with a
Speaker 1: B grade. After scoring six times in the first seven games,
Speaker 1: We're all like Markue's Brown, every week starter touchdown machine.
Speaker 1: He's now been held scoreless for a month. He'll face
Speaker 1: speedy cornerback Denzel Ward primarily this week, who's held opponents
Speaker 1: to just twenty five yards per game in his coverage Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Brown tangled with the Browns for a one yard game
Speaker 1: in the last matchup and a score uh two in
Speaker 1: two meetings last year. And Ward played every snap of
Speaker 1: the one yard game, so he could do a little
Speaker 1: something here. Also monitor Cleveland cornerback Greg Newsome, who suffered
Speaker 1: concussion and practice. If he misses this game, you could
Speaker 1: bump Marquis Brown up to an A I'm keeping I'm
Speaker 1: putting a shot bateman on the bench at a massive
Speaker 1: decrease in playing time the past two weeks, Apparently the
Speaker 1: team has decided they don't think he's ready yet, and
Speaker 1: we're seeing a lot more of Sammy Watkins and Devin DuVernay,
Speaker 1: so he's out. Mark Andrews comes in with a B grade.
Speaker 1: Over the last five weeks, Andrews has seen a position
Speaker 1: leading forty seven targets, and in his last match up
Speaker 1: against Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, Andrews caught four
Speaker 1: of ten targets for sixty five yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Browns are kind of the middle of the pack tight
Speaker 1: end defense, giving up the nineteenth most fantasy points on
Speaker 1: the year. But if you look at just the last
Speaker 1: five weeks, they've been the seventh easiest matchup for tight ends.
Speaker 1: So maybe trending the better direction here. So b grade
Speaker 1: on Mark Andrews. If I were to ask you, guys
Speaker 1: and listeners without don't look it up just top of
Speaker 1: your head, how many games has Lamar Jackson had a
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown in this year? And don't answer a lot? Three?
Speaker 1: How about one? That one game with a rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: for Lamar Jackson this year in that and he has
Speaker 1: exactly one touched on by lance or air in nine
Speaker 1: different games this year, nine times touchdown, only one touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's depressing. He does have two hundred yard games, two
Speaker 1: hundred yard passing game, rushing games, yes, that's I mean
Speaker 1: that certainly helps. Um it's three straight underwhelming fantasy games
Speaker 1: from Lamar Jackson, including a game against these same Browns
Speaker 1: two weeks ago when they held him to just one
Speaker 1: hundred sixty five passing yards and sixty eight rushing yards
Speaker 1: and one score. Cleveland comes out of its by allowing
Speaker 1: just one hundred seventy five passing yards per game over
Speaker 1: the last three That is awesome past defense. C grade
Speaker 1: on Lamar Jackson, and that is it. He's at this point,
Speaker 1: he's lost the benefit of the doubt. I can't put
Speaker 1: him on the bench because the rushing numbers keep him
Speaker 1: fantasy startable, but the passing numbers just aren't good enough.
Speaker 1: Your grades, they're basically chopping my gig league right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I bought that your team. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Cleveland side. You Mary called Baker Mayfield was might
Speaker 1: take a chance, I mean quarterback Austin Hooper was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me receiver. That leaves us with
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry. You want to monitor his knee injury here.
Speaker 1: He's coming into this game as a game time decision.
Speaker 1: You know my touchdowns Jarvis Landry has on the season
Speaker 1: zero he has He has commanded at least eight targets
Speaker 1: in four of the last six games, and he is
Speaker 1: the best of the available receivers. Assuming he plays for
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Didn't have like like last year in Miami,
Speaker 1: have like a hundred and ten catches and he didmember that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: remember that. I remember that season very well. Um Baltimore
Speaker 1: could He'll go up against Baltimore's Tavon Young and the
Speaker 1: slot he gives up a seventy catch rate. So I've
Speaker 1: got to see great and Jarvis Landry just for sheer volume,
Speaker 1: he'll probably find his way to like fifty six to
Speaker 1: receiving yards. Will be scoreless there, So see great on
Speaker 1: Landry your dart throw. Here is Donovan People's Jones, a
Speaker 1: guy we mentioned on this show a lot who never
Speaker 1: quite seems to produce to the level we would like.
Speaker 1: He's shown flashes in the last month, producing a three
Speaker 1: game stretch in which he averaged eighty six yards and
Speaker 1: he scored three times. Baltimore Secondary has allowed four one
Speaker 1: yard receivers in their last three games that are now
Speaker 1: without Marlon Humphrey for the rest of the season, So
Speaker 1: an opportunity there. Let's go to the running game. Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: In his last game against this team two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: he put up sixteen rushing yards and two yards per carry,
Speaker 1: both his lowest numbers since his rookie year in any
Speaker 1: one game. Baltimore's run defense is fantastic, allowing only seventy
Speaker 1: two rushing yards per game, fourth fewest on just three
Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry to opposing running backs. Chubbed
Speaker 1: just to be here, and I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on Kareem Hunt. Will try to get something more done
Speaker 1: through the air a little bit, but this is also
Speaker 1: very again, very tough team to run upon, and I
Speaker 1: don't expect a lot there. And he was held to
Speaker 1: just twenty yards and two point nine yards per carry
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, so only the C grade on Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: Our final set of matchups is the Seahawks taking on
Speaker 1: the Texans. Brian, you already told us that you like
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny in this game, but let's flip it over
Speaker 1: to the passing game. What do you think about Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson coming off a nice outing, Yeah, Penny might take
Speaker 1: a chance of me running back. If I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: one from Seattle, it is him to the passing game
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson gonna give him a B. He has
Speaker 1: not looked great or even really that good since coming
Speaker 1: back from injury, but he has top two thirty passing
Speaker 1: yards with two passing touchdowns and back to back games,
Speaker 1: Houston has allowed the third most passing yards, but just
Speaker 1: seventeen passing touchdowns, which is less than one and a
Speaker 1: half per game. That said, the Texans have allowed the
Speaker 1: most rushing touchdowns the quarterbacks. Wilson still a threat on
Speaker 1: the ground, so after all that, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a B. As well as both of his wide receivers
Speaker 1: dk Metcalfe and Tyler Lockett. The Texans are allowing these
Speaker 1: second most receptions in the third most yards per game
Speaker 1: to opposing receivers over the last five weeks. Lock It's
Speaker 1: been not pretty good over the last to two games
Speaker 1: three catches for ninety six yards and last week seven
Speaker 1: catches for sixty eight and a touchdown. Hopefully he can
Speaker 1: stay consistent. Gerald Everett though brutal touchdown last week yeah
Speaker 1: and almost resulted in interception. He also lost two fumbles.
Speaker 1: I think he's in the doghouse basically, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't trust him to get enough playing time in this one.
Speaker 1: They might lean on Will dis Lay a little more
Speaker 1: at tight end for the Seahawks. So Gerald Everett is
Speaker 1: on the bench over to the Texans side, Brandon Cook's
Speaker 1: gonna give him a B. He's seen a thirty percent
Speaker 1: target share when Davis Mills is at quarterback. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: have been somewhat tough against wide receivers lately, recently holding
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams and Terry McLaurin below their standards. But I
Speaker 1: mentioned and take a chance to me, they will definitely
Speaker 1: be without starting safety Jamal Adams and likely without their
Speaker 1: other safety Conjre Digs. So a B for Cooks based
Speaker 1: on volume alone. Nico Collins, I don't expect expect mud
Speaker 1: from him. He's on the bench, but it's still a
Speaker 1: good dynasty stash. Now, normally we don't talk about Texans
Speaker 1: tight ends, but for good reason because Brevin Jordan's and
Speaker 1: Pararell Brown last week combined for six catches on nine targets.
Speaker 1: Sadly they're not one person. But Brevin Jordan's might not
Speaker 1: play in this game. If he does not, Farrell Brown
Speaker 1: walks into a matchup against the third easiest team against
Speaker 1: tight ends, that is the Seahawks allowing six catches sixty
Speaker 1: three yards per game to the position, So Farrell Brown
Speaker 1: keep an eye on him. If Brevin Jordan's is ruled out.
Speaker 1: Davis Mills might take a chance of me quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think open the ball at least forty times in this game.
Speaker 1: And uh, lastly, of the running backs, we don't really
Speaker 1: talk about the Texans running backs much. Rex Burkhead is
Speaker 1: starter inefficient. That's it is a lot of volume against
Speaker 1: a bad un But David Johnson might take a chance
Speaker 1: back this week though so but Johnson's not getting much either.
Speaker 1: He was hurt. Lastly, I don't know, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not recommending I'm start of Texans running back. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you're on a pinch, if you're in
Speaker 1: a pinch deep league, in a pinch, then I think
Speaker 1: you could go rexperg That's probably it. A couple of
Speaker 1: quickies for you between now and the end of this
Speaker 1: segment where and I want the exact spot where Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup will be drafted in fantasy leagues next year. I
Speaker 1: want the round and position Scott round one, sixth spot, Brian, yeah,
Speaker 1: six or seven and probably going to be wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: I would think overall draft, I mean, it's gonna go,
Speaker 1: It's gonna go Jonathan Taylor. Then Javonte Williams than A J. Dillard,
Speaker 1: like all the all the ones people love. Davante Adams
Speaker 1: might go before some leagues, but I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: go three. I think you got the first two right
Speaker 1: and the night GE's gonna go Cooper Cup three. In
Speaker 1: part because the running back position burned so many people
Speaker 1: last year, there's gonna be a great willingness to pivot
Speaker 1: next year to go to wide receiver, and it'll be
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup when we come back. Plenty more matchups and
Speaker 1: three tough questions. Play along is our panel of experts,
Speaker 1: try to go three and Oh. It's Fantasy Football Weekly,
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, our number two. I'm Paul Charchy and
Speaker 1: my co host or Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. You
Speaker 1: can follow Scott at Scott Fish twenty four on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Brian is at b t x J on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: I am at Paul Charchy. In Tough Question number one
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, Aaron Jones will outscore A. J.
Speaker 1: Dillon by a a lot, be a little, or see
Speaker 1: no no no. Dylan will outscore Jones. What do you think, Scott, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll start by ruling out a lot. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think unless there's an injury, either one of these
Speaker 1: guys is going to outscore the other by a ton um.
Speaker 1: Just because Dylan has been gained so much more work recently,
Speaker 1: it would almost require missing time. Although Dylan got more
Speaker 1: work in week twelve after jones one game absence, Jones
Speaker 1: wasn't a percent. The bye week is probably gonna help
Speaker 1: that Jones has a proven track record for, you know,
Speaker 1: being efficient to the goal line in a much smoother pastor.
Speaker 1: He just looks like a much smoother pastor. Even though
Speaker 1: Dylan can catch, he just isn't a smooth and doesn't
Speaker 1: isn't as efficient, doesn't get as much production from it.
Speaker 1: Even if they split more down the middle, middle, down
Speaker 1: the stretch, I still Jones outscores him, not by a lot,
Speaker 1: but just a little. So I'm going a little, a little,
Speaker 1: all right, Brian. For the rest of the season, Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones will outscore a j Dillon by a lot a little,
Speaker 1: or Dylan will out score Jones. Yeah, Fish took most
Speaker 1: of my talking points he mentioned. In Week twelve, Dylan
Speaker 1: outscored Jones by a lot in that game. Jones was
Speaker 1: kind of a surprise active in that one, and and
Speaker 1: the Packers kind of controlled that game against the Rams,
Speaker 1: so they didn't really need to push Jones to a
Speaker 1: certain extent. So Packers are on there by I still
Speaker 1: think they go Dylan. I'm sorry, Jones is the lead back.
Speaker 1: They'll certainly mix in A. J. Dillon a lot. He's
Speaker 1: he's proven able to play at a very high level.
Speaker 1: But I'm with Fish in that Jones will outscore Dylan
Speaker 1: by a little bit. You guys hit all my talking
Speaker 1: points pretty much here, and it is the correct answer
Speaker 1: is Aaron Jones will outscore A. J. Dillon by a
Speaker 1: little um. But I think it's it's really really close.
Speaker 1: And I think this is a hard question if you
Speaker 1: go back, I think it was weeks ten and eleven
Speaker 1: or eleven and twelve when they were both healthy. Last
Speaker 1: it was fourteen touches to fifteen touches for Dylan and Jones.
Speaker 1: It was that close. And Dylan is viewed as a
Speaker 1: cold weather mutter, as evidence by last year's Tennessee game
Speaker 1: in the plus three stuff. Yes, twenty one carries in
Speaker 1: that game, um, but also really salient to this topic
Speaker 1: because Dylan's improvement as a receiver. He's caught thirteen passes
Speaker 1: the past three weeks. But but to Scott's point, he
Speaker 1: didn't as natural of a receiver as Jones is. So
Speaker 1: I'm still giving the edge to Jones by a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's healthy, he's a proven special talent, and he's the
Speaker 1: better receiver, and he still gets more snaps and touches.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is a little tough question number two.
Speaker 1: If se Kwam Barkley posts a dug this week against
Speaker 1: the hapless Chargers run defense, do you sabotage drop him
Speaker 1: next Tuesday? And for listeners that are maybe new to
Speaker 1: the show, the sabotage drop is when you drop a
Speaker 1: brand name player early in the week for the express
Speaker 1: purpose of having somebody use up waiver equity and then
Speaker 1: start somebody who's ultimately going to hurt them. That's the
Speaker 1: premise of the sabotage drop. Say Kwon Barkley next week, Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he drops a dud against the Chargers on Sunday,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of a sabotage drop it
Speaker 1: will be, because this is the best matchup Barkley's got
Speaker 1: on the rest of the schedule. But yeah, if he
Speaker 1: drops a dud, I'm dropping Barkley for sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Giant season is lost. Not to say that Dave
Speaker 1: Gettleman uh Indoor, Joe Judge, the head coach are gonna
Speaker 1: do the right thing because they're pretty much gonna get fired,
Speaker 1: I think. But they should shut down Barkley for their
Speaker 1: mainder of the year, especially if he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: good game against the Charger is something. There are many
Speaker 1: things clearly wrong with that franchise. So yeah, if he
Speaker 1: if he doesn't go off against you know, even if
Speaker 1: he has a good game against the Charge I almost
Speaker 1: got part. I think you should. I think you really should.
Speaker 1: I think that makes more of sabotage drop. So either way, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sabotage dropping, say Kwon Barkley, unless I'm like super
Speaker 1: desperate running back. But overall yet, Scott, No, no, because
Speaker 1: unless you're in a ten team league or a league
Speaker 1: with twelve roster spots, you're not finding better running back
Speaker 1: options out there, and you're neither your league mates that
Speaker 1: we're talking about starting guys like p Ryan and and
Speaker 1: Wilson and Hasty and we just talked about Burkehead maybe
Speaker 1: being a start and you're gonna they're not producing what
Speaker 1: Barkley is even in Barkley's dud's game, You're not. You're
Speaker 1: you're only helping your opponent to you know, not have
Speaker 1: to start Burkhead and being able to get s Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1: The whole point of your sabotage drop is again to
Speaker 1: make an opponent use waiver wire equity. Would that happen
Speaker 1: if you dropped Sae Kwon Barkley? How much weaver wearing
Speaker 1: money do people have left at this point in week four?
Speaker 1: Answer is yes? And then would this pert? Would somebody
Speaker 1: who picks him up then feel compelled to start Barkley
Speaker 1: and he'll all really hurt them? Answer? Yes? The last
Speaker 1: this the Chargers are your last good spot. The rest
Speaker 1: of the schedule is straight brutality for the Giants. There
Speaker 1: are no positive matchups left. In fact, every single team
Speaker 1: left is in the top quarter in fantasy points allowed.
Speaker 1: Two opposing running backs. We don't know when, if ever,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones will return to help the offense, and at
Speaker 1: some point they may just shut down massive parts of
Speaker 1: their wide receivers since these guys can never get healthy
Speaker 1: and this is pro football. Focus is ranked run blocking
Speaker 1: line and that's not going to help Barkley either. Answer. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're taking a chance on guys like Penny Tough. Question.
Speaker 1: Appropriate level of concern for James Robinson is it? None? Some? Alright?
Speaker 1: Bowl loosening level of existential dread Scott, He's the best
Speaker 1: player on the team. Urban took a bunch of heat
Speaker 1: this week. We've mentioned it. I mentioned this already. I
Speaker 1: think it's a sneaky, squeaky wheel game. I think they
Speaker 1: give him a lot more work going forward. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think that's the way this goes. However, this offense
Speaker 1: doesn't move the ball very well. And as far as
Speaker 1: coaching goes, urban Meyer makes Matt Naggy look like Andy
Speaker 1: Reid like. Urban Meyer is not good. So for those factors,
Speaker 1: not the production on the field, but for those factors,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say some, Okay, some alright, Brian, appropriate level
Speaker 1: of concern for James Robinson? None? Some or blowed? Are you?
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of the benching of running backs after
Speaker 1: they fumble, like they're doing it on purpose, like putting
Speaker 1: them in the corner, like with the dunce cap, like
Speaker 1: you'll learn your lesson never to fumble again. Urban was
Speaker 1: like Belichick doesn't, so it's got to work for me too.
Speaker 1: It's just such a tired practice. I'm so anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: at some two and it's really just because not because
Speaker 1: of the disciplinary reasons that I fear that urban Meyer
Speaker 1: might bestow upon James Robinson moving forward. It's just the
Speaker 1: offense is pretty bad and Robinson is the best player.
Speaker 1: He does have two promising matchups starting next week with
Speaker 1: the Texans and then the Jets in week sixteen. So
Speaker 1: but still not I'm not blown on Jay rob not
Speaker 1: a little, but just some some concern for him. Um,
Speaker 1: here's your average game for James Robinson going all the
Speaker 1: way back to week six. Week six was a long
Speaker 1: time ago. That's the middle of October. Ten carries forty
Speaker 1: three yards, zero point four touchdowns. That's it for James Robinson,
Speaker 1: and he chips in almost nothing as a receiver. Ten
Speaker 1: carries forty three yards. That's terrible. Heel injury is an
Speaker 1: ongoing problem for him. And if you just watch James
Speaker 1: Robinson run the ball, you can tell that foot is
Speaker 1: bothering him. He's not running with the same Gusto that
Speaker 1: he used to run with. Jaguars have the twenty six
Speaker 1: ranked run blocking offensive line by Pro Football Focus. No
Speaker 1: help coming there. Second lowest scoring overall offense at just
Speaker 1: fifteen points per game for Jacksonville, and defenses don't have
Speaker 1: to sweat the passing game because they don't have one.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence having a dismal season so far. And lastly,
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Darryl Bebel's usage of Robinson is downright dispiriting.
Speaker 1: The correct answer blowed. Oh man, I can feel it
Speaker 1: in my insides, a bowl loosened level of existential dread
Speaker 1: every time I think of starting that might that I'm
Speaker 1: not ruling it out. That is possible. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Lions taking on the Broncos. Scott T. J. Hockinson
Speaker 1: not expected to go in the game. Your player, your
Speaker 1: offensive player the week is Jared Goff. Yes, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did not see that coming. I actually I have
Speaker 1: golf on the bench. I know it's crazy, but I
Speaker 1: just think he's not going to produce much. He's thrown
Speaker 1: for under two hundred and twenty yards and over half
Speaker 1: his games. Jared Goff, Uh, yeah, you had a good
Speaker 1: game last week. That's good for Jared Goff. The Broncos
Speaker 1: are are are allowing opposing quarterbacks in average of two
Speaker 1: or in thirty five yards, barely over a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: about one interception per game. That's that's probably the ceiling
Speaker 1: for golf in this one. I am going to give
Speaker 1: a couple of starting grades here though. With Hawkinson out,
Speaker 1: I had my take a chance on me player be
Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds. I love his rapport with Goff and what
Speaker 1: he's done recently. Golf can throw for two hundred and two.
Speaker 1: Receivers can have okay days yeah maybe yeah, eighty yards
Speaker 1: for each and maybe a score for one of them. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm on Ross St. Brown, the sun God, who is
Speaker 1: the leading receiver wide receiver for the Lions. As I
Speaker 1: said before the season, it just wasn't very fairly start.
Speaker 1: I got the call red. Not for fantasy, though. I
Speaker 1: have a C grade on him. Uh. He's on the
Speaker 1: field like a the time he gets six. He had
Speaker 1: twelve targets last week, but he's getting six plus targets
Speaker 1: a game. I think with Hawkinson out, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to lean on Brown and Reynolds. They have no other options,
Speaker 1: So I can see a ten plus target a six
Speaker 1: to ten plus target game for both Reynolds and Brown
Speaker 1: in this one. So I have C grades. They might
Speaker 1: just get their own volume. Maybe they get you a score.
Speaker 1: In the Running Game, Jamal Williams is placed on the
Speaker 1: COVID list on Friday, which means it's it's he's vaccinated.
Speaker 1: So he could have a negative test Saturday. Maybe they
Speaker 1: test him that day and maybe you can play, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty unlikely he's gonna go. We're looking at a
Speaker 1: stack of Jamaar Jefferson and Uh, Godwin Iguay Beiqway. I
Speaker 1: think EU come to this. Yeah, it would be the
Speaker 1: one that gets the majority. He had a lot more
Speaker 1: snaps than uh than Jamar Jefferson last week he played.
Speaker 1: He's played the backup role more or maybe and watch
Speaker 1: what this is gonna happen. They're gonna promote Cuztown Cuts
Speaker 1: Town University Golden Bear product, Craig Reynolds off the practice
Speaker 1: squad and he is gonna vulture touchdown, so that everybody
Speaker 1: out Sunday is like, who is Craig Reynolds. That's probably
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. If you like anyone in this game,
Speaker 1: it's probably Godwin Equabiquay. But I have them both, all
Speaker 1: three of them on the bench, even if they bring
Speaker 1: up Craig Reynolds to matchup anyway. But you heard Craig
Speaker 1: Reynolds here. If he's touchdown on the other side, Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: I have him on the bench, don't worry. I can
Speaker 1: tell by your side. He hasn't had a multiple score
Speaker 1: game in five weeks. They mainly lean on their run game.
Speaker 1: Just what they should do with with those running They
Speaker 1: have talented receivers. The problems, Teddy, the problems in Jerry Judy.
Speaker 1: It's not Sutton either, receivers Tim Patrick. But Sutton hasn't
Speaker 1: topped forty yards in the last five weeks since Judy cast,
Speaker 1: so he's on the bench. Jerry Judy, I do have
Speaker 1: a B grade on He's got thirty targets since returning
Speaker 1: that six per game. Unfortunately, he hasn't scored at all
Speaker 1: this year and he's averaging just fifty five scoreless yards.
Speaker 1: He's had a couple of eight yard days. Only a
Speaker 1: B grade because it's the Lions. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 1: It's the matchup, uh, the opposing top receiver against the
Speaker 1: Lions this year averages one hundred and eleven yards. That's
Speaker 1: the average of the top receiver against the Lions. Most
Speaker 1: of them went over a hundred obviously with that average,
Speaker 1: So B grade on Jerry Judy, Uh for the tight
Speaker 1: ends Fanton Albert Oh I have on the bench. They're
Speaker 1: monopolizing each other and most of their work is at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and they don't get yards after
Speaker 1: the catch like it's think it's a perfect storm of
Speaker 1: of I don't know, terrible nous. Uh with the running game.
Speaker 1: B grade on Javonte Williams and a C grade on
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, who I do think goes. I know they
Speaker 1: were splitting the work very evenly before Melvin Gordon was
Speaker 1: out on injury. I think now they start to lean
Speaker 1: more and more towards Javonte Williams after what they saw
Speaker 1: the Lions have been. I hope you're right, but this
Speaker 1: sounds like wishful fantasy guy talk. He's coming in ding
Speaker 1: dup too well, I know, but Gordon played. Gordon practiced
Speaker 1: all week, and you know this is gonna I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be way more frustrating than fantasy owners
Speaker 1: want to believe. I like the Denver Beat writer who
Speaker 1: said Gordon practicing, which is good news, and it was like, right,
Speaker 1: I want Gordon to be healthy. You like good for
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Contract next year? We want
Speaker 1: Bell Cou Javonte Williams every week and Gordon said this
Speaker 1: week he wants to come back next year to the Broncos.
Speaker 1: No welcome. Sorry, he will not be the two over
Speaker 1: Javonty won't be the two overall, but he'll be that
Speaker 1: under uh Lions have given up twelve scores to a
Speaker 1: given up touchdowns to twelve different running backs this year,
Speaker 1: so I I have starting grades on both those guys,
Speaker 1: all right. When we come back, Raiders take on the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: The trickiest play of the entire week is Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: We will give you the vast range of possible outcomes.
Speaker 1: I'm Patrick Mahomes and we were just talking Broncos and
Speaker 1: Broncos receivers. Of course, I think we all want to
Speaker 1: pay our respects to to Marrius Thomas. Legends, four consecutive
Speaker 1: top twelve PPR finishes from among all positions, the guys,
Speaker 1: just the absolute Legends. Rest in peace to Marius Thomas
Speaker 1: and for your fantasy necessities for this weekend. Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: When we come back, what in the world to do
Speaker 1: with him? He's tortured your fantasy team for the better
Speaker 1: part of six weeks. We'll tell you what to expect.
Speaker 1: We return, It's Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you. We continue on through the matchups
Speaker 1: of week number fourteen, Raiders at Chiefs. I want to
Speaker 1: start with the running game of the Raiders and Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: who did nothing when these teams met ten weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Sorry in Week ten, but the Raiders are playing from
Speaker 1: behind throughout that game and got completely smoked in the
Speaker 1: second half, so you know, the running game was never
Speaker 1: really a factor. Jacobs is sitting on a high volume
Speaker 1: game and all probability here because Kenyan Drake's out and
Speaker 1: Jalen Rochard is likely to miss the game with COVID,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna see a lot of Josh Jacobs in
Speaker 1: this game. Casey is a good run defense. Only Javonte
Speaker 1: Williams last week was able to top eighties six rushing
Speaker 1: yards and it took Javonte Williams twenty three carries to
Speaker 1: get there. But Casey is allowing the eighth most receptions
Speaker 1: and the third most receiving yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. And I think Josh Jacobs will help chip
Speaker 1: in some through the air mileage for you as well.
Speaker 1: Seven different backs of top five catches against Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and I think Jacobs is going to get to that
Speaker 1: five catch mark and potentially over that. So B grade
Speaker 1: on Josh Jacobs is somewhat random. I haven't fully fact
Speaker 1: checked this, but Jacobs is only one month older than
Speaker 1: Nagy Harris. I believe. Yeah. Wow. Let's go over to
Speaker 1: the passing game, and I want to start with receiver
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro has been very consistent and with Waller out
Speaker 1: of the lineup last week, he saw double digit targets
Speaker 1: for the first time this year. Notched his second consecutive
Speaker 1: one hundred yard game last week. He has now scored
Speaker 1: or hit one hundred yards and four of the last
Speaker 1: five games. He's been highly startable ever since the Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs situation. Renfro tagged k C for a touchdown in
Speaker 1: Week ten. Slot corner led Jarius Snead gives up a
Speaker 1: seventy six percent catch rate and a passer rating of
Speaker 1: one hundred seven, and he gave up his fourth score
Speaker 1: of the year last week. So Hunter Renfrow comes in
Speaker 1: with a solid be here. Foster Moreau was a popular
Speaker 1: pivot at tight end last week. I liked him last
Speaker 1: week and he was he was bad. Well, it wasn't bad.
Speaker 1: He isn't throw to him. I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you go back to the well a little bit here. Um.
Speaker 1: And on the season, the Chiefs are allowing the eighth
Speaker 1: most fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends. They've
Speaker 1: been better lately, though, allowing the second fewest fantasy points
Speaker 1: to tight ends over the past five weeks. In the
Speaker 1: Week ten meeting, Waller healthy then was targeted seven times,
Speaker 1: but turned him into just twenty four scoreless yards. I've
Speaker 1: got a C grade on Foster Moreau because who else
Speaker 1: do you even throw to start a Renfro? It's an
Speaker 1: It might be Derek Carr if those are the receiver
Speaker 1: grades I've got. Um, I like Derek Carr, just to
Speaker 1: see level here. Since the Rugs tragedy, the Raiders passing
Speaker 1: game just hasn't been the same. Who knew Henry Ruggs
Speaker 1: on the limited usage he was getting was so pivotent.
Speaker 1: He kept the top off, he kept a safety DP
Speaker 1: that That's exactly it, I think, further complicating matters, No,
Speaker 1: Darren Waller here, Car's track arket against the Chiefs is solid,
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in three straight games, including his two d
Speaker 1: sixty one yard two touchdown game in Week ten against
Speaker 1: this same team. But the chief secondary has become really good.
Speaker 1: Remember how terrible the Chiefs were at the start of
Speaker 1: the season to reverse completely. Since Week six, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have per game averages of just two hundred twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown pass per game. That's it, Derek
Speaker 1: Carr c grade. Now let's go to the toughest call
Speaker 1: of the entire week, I think by a mile, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: and what do you do with him? So when these
Speaker 1: teams met in Week ten, Mahomes went berserk, throwing for
Speaker 1: four hundred yards and five touchdowns. But in the five
Speaker 1: games surrounding the Raiders game, he's averaging two hundred eighteen
Speaker 1: yards and zero point four touchdowns. How bad is two
Speaker 1: eighteen yards and zero point four touchdowns the only starting
Speaker 1: quarterback over that same span with worse than two hundred
Speaker 1: eighteen yards and zero point four touchdowns is Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: That's it. The only quarterback worst than Mahomes. And on
Speaker 1: top of everything else, the Raiders secondary has been on
Speaker 1: the whole awesome this year except for the Mahomes game
Speaker 1: in Week ten. So this is why it's so hard.
Speaker 1: I think Mahomes and Trevor Lawrence have more combined commercials
Speaker 1: than passing touchdowns this season. You may be correct about that.
Speaker 1: Vegas ranks number two in pass rush by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: They've got the excellent cornerbacks Casey Hayward and impressive rookie
Speaker 1: Nate Hobbs. Three of the fast past five quarterbacks to face,
Speaker 1: the Raiders haven't even hit one passing yards. I went
Speaker 1: between a B and C grade on Patrick Holmes for
Speaker 1: a long time. What could you do in this instance?
Speaker 1: Because I'm a man about it, we go whole letter grades,
Speaker 1: and I decided on a B grade for Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He is my eleventh ranked quarterback this week. Tyree Hill
Speaker 1: faced the Raiders secondary in Week ten. Torched him for
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in that game, and they gave up five
Speaker 1: in the game. Um, but here's the funny thing. They
Speaker 1: they found ways to get him not on Casey Hayward,
Speaker 1: primarily because they ran him in the slot a lot,
Speaker 1: and they could do that again here. That puts Tyree
Speaker 1: Hill up against Nate Hobbs, and Hobbs is pretty good.
Speaker 1: But it also puts him up against safety Jonathan Abram
Speaker 1: and that's where he'll roasted this team. And if they
Speaker 1: can get that Abram matchup again. I like Hill, I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on him, but he has also
Speaker 1: struggled significantly over the past six weeks. He's had dud games,
Speaker 1: so there is some caution here and that's why you
Speaker 1: only have the B grade on Tyreek l Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: coming off a down game. He smoked the Raiders in
Speaker 1: Week ten like everybody else did um and the Raiders
Speaker 1: have struggled defending tight ends their thirty feet and Fantasy
Speaker 1: points allowed to the position, including consecutive top twelve finishes
Speaker 1: by opposing tight ends. When a grade on Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: in this game, let's talk about Clyde Edwards a layer.
Speaker 1: Over the last five games, the Raiders are allowing one
Speaker 1: hundred fifty total yards per game to opposing running backs,
Speaker 1: which if put over the whole season, would be six
Speaker 1: and most starters are doing most of the damage. Starters
Speaker 1: alone are averaging over one total yards in a score
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. I like Clyde Edwards, a layer who's conceiving,
Speaker 1: who was seeing more and more playing time as he
Speaker 1: gets healthier and now really should be at full health.
Speaker 1: We've got a B grade on Clyde Edwards, a layer
Speaker 1: in this matchup. I like him. Here Giants take on
Speaker 1: the Chargers, Brian, there is not much left of this
Speaker 1: Giant's offense. Let's start with say Kwon Barkley. We talked
Speaker 1: as we alluded to in the last segment, this feels
Speaker 1: like the last great chance to start say Kwon Barkley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was put on the injury report this week with
Speaker 1: an ankle issue, so does monitor that. But he he's
Speaker 1: likely to play, and if he does, it's a good matchup.
Speaker 1: I'll give him a B. If Barkley suits up, the
Speaker 1: the Chargers are allowing more than forty combo yards and
Speaker 1: one whole touchdown per game to posing running back. So
Speaker 1: B for Barkley. And if for some reason he does sit,
Speaker 1: Davante Booker an easy CE for him, who will fill
Speaker 1: in as the starting running back if Barkley is out.
Speaker 1: Speaking of out, Darius Tony is out at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd is questionable, but pretty much just always rule
Speaker 1: out Sterling Shepherd if he's questionable at this point in
Speaker 1: the week. So that leaves us with Kenny Golladay and
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton talking about the Giants wide receiver is just
Speaker 1: incredibly depressing and you don't have to do it. They're
Speaker 1: both They're both on the bench, Golladay and Slayton. Chris
Speaker 1: Harris likely to play. He's on the COVID reserve list
Speaker 1: UH as of now, but he should play. Assante Samuel
Speaker 1: should make his return. He missed last week with a
Speaker 1: non COVID issue. So Golladay slating on the bench. Evan
Speaker 1: ingram I will give him a see if the Chargers
Speaker 1: have surrendered the second most touchdowns to the tight end
Speaker 1: position at nine. But Mike Glennon is your quarterback, not
Speaker 1: like Daniel Jones is any better, but I mean just
Speaker 1: he's probably a little better. But if you're starting positive
Speaker 1: matchups that we we we keep thinking, well, this is
Speaker 1: a positive matchup, it never materializes for him. Go get uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just go be a Hooper Scooper or even
Speaker 1: baby for Faroh Brown even like it's the better options
Speaker 1: in Evan Ramount there. Okay, that's enough for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Over to the Chargers side, Austin Ekeler, easy a here
Speaker 1: the Giants are allowing plus combo yards per game. Easy
Speaker 1: a for Eckler, sadly an easy bench for Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: who has been ruled out with the virus. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a great matchup for him. The Giants are top five
Speaker 1: and targets yielded and touchdowns allowed. Two wide receivers. So
Speaker 1: if Mike Williams play is he gets an a very
Speaker 1: good games in two of his last three, but for
Speaker 1: whatever reason he's ruled out. Well, Jalen Guytons might take
Speaker 1: a chance to be wide receiver before anyone was ruled out,
Speaker 1: But now Keenan Allen out. If Mike Williams is out,
Speaker 1: Jalen Guiton gets an A. I guess, but maybe we'll
Speaker 1: go under the presumption that Mike Williams I don't think
Speaker 1: not playing helps Guy, and I think Guy probably right.
Speaker 1: So a Guyton uh a very solid sea. And then again,
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer, keep that keep that name of mind. Rookie
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer could be very viable. If Williams sits so
Speaker 1: h you're still gonna want to start whatever healthy pass
Speaker 1: catchers are out there for the Charges. Let's put it
Speaker 1: that way. Against the Giants, including Jared Cook at tight end.
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried about Donald Parham stealing some targets
Speaker 1: from Cook, but Cook is okay, well, I hope so
Speaker 1: I got him in a ton of a ton of
Speaker 1: best ball leagues. I would much rather have par him
Speaker 1: score over Cook, but a good matchup. It's allowing five
Speaker 1: and a half catches nearly six yards per game to
Speaker 1: the tight end and Justin Herbert, I mean he's great.
Speaker 1: Obviously depends on the availability of Mike Williams, but even
Speaker 1: if Williams is out, you still gotta love the air Bear,
Speaker 1: and this one I'll give him just a safe be
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Good quarterbacks have fared well against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford, Patrick Mahomes still a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: I guess, and Tom Brady uh combined to average two
Speaker 1: four yards and two and a half passing touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Is here so air Bear could do the same.
Speaker 1: Bills take on the Bucks. Scott and we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: out last week's game. Don't care anything about what happened
Speaker 1: the Cold Wind game. First, we're throwing out last week's
Speaker 1: Monday perfect. All right, to talk to me about the
Speaker 1: Bills in this offense and what you like against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: So earlier I mentioned this this game is to you
Speaker 1: off off I said, this game is basically all a's
Speaker 1: maybe a few bees. So I went and checked. This
Speaker 1: game has two quarterbacks in bull of our top five,
Speaker 1: three wide receivers in both of our top fifteen, and
Speaker 1: two tight ends in both of our top six, and
Speaker 1: a running back in both of our top five. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot to like here. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot to like here. On the Bills side, my number
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks, number one quarterback for the week actually uh,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen a grade uh thrown out last week's game,
Speaker 1: but before that, before last week, he had multiple scores
Speaker 1: and nine of his last ten. The Bucks started the
Speaker 1: season poor against quarterbacks, have held down passing numbers decent recently,
Speaker 1: but those quarterbacks were Jalen Hurts, justin fields, Trevor Simmey
Speaker 1: and Tyler Hanicky, Daniel Jones just some pure TOSSI tossers
Speaker 1: right there, just really good quarterbacks. They've held down um
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, Wentz and Ryan managed to throw
Speaker 1: for about three each Bucks to he is healthier, but
Speaker 1: Allen's still getting the grade. Three hundred plus and a
Speaker 1: couple of scores. I think, uh Digs a grade reminds
Speaker 1: remains the only wide receiver you can start with con
Speaker 1: and in my opinion, the other three just monopolize each
Speaker 1: other too much. None of the other three are even
Speaker 1: finding their ways to way to fifty yards very often.
Speaker 1: So the top receiver against the Bucks has had a
Speaker 1: hundred plus and or scored in four the last five
Speaker 1: five games, and Digs himself has scored in six of
Speaker 1: the last seven before that Monday night game. He also
Speaker 1: sees nine targets per games, So a grade on Stefon
Speaker 1: Dicks be great. On Dawson Knox, despite saying I was
Speaker 1: throwing out the Monday night game, He's still had six targets,
Speaker 1: a couple of jobs, one knocked out of his hands,
Speaker 1: but still they trusted him in that weather for six targets,
Speaker 1: which I kind of like they throw him in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Ye. This year he has scored nine times,
Speaker 1: which is a lot for that end, and has constantly
Speaker 1: looked too in the red zone, just like he's he
Speaker 1: gets fired with light level looks in the red zone.
Speaker 1: But he's missed a few games to which more impressive
Speaker 1: bucks or bottomed against tight ends. Although it's been more
Speaker 1: like death by a thousand paper cuts a ton of
Speaker 1: twenty to fifty yard days by multiple tight ends on
Speaker 1: the same team, Knox gets basically all tight ends. So uh,
Speaker 1: all the running backs around the bench, though, I will
Speaker 1: say last week's Moss output, they weren't gonna have bright
Speaker 1: in there. He's a pass catcher. They were not going
Speaker 1: to have him in there for that that you know,
Speaker 1: windy snowy game, that that wasn't going to be his game.
Speaker 1: I think he comes back for this one. If you're
Speaker 1: really in a pinch, maybe, But I have a bench
Speaker 1: grade on him. Over to the Tampa Bay side, a
Speaker 1: grade on Tom Brady. He's my number three quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think he's like your number four or five. It's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It pivots on Tradabus White not you know,
Speaker 1: being out now exactly and exactly without him. That takes
Speaker 1: a that takes a really key element of this Buffalo
Speaker 1: passing game off the field. We didn't. It didn't matter
Speaker 1: last week because nobody threw against Buffalo, but will this
Speaker 1: week and then this game has an implied total in
Speaker 1: the mid fifties. It's it's scheduled to be a shootout.
Speaker 1: Like the Bucks. The Bills have held down a lot
Speaker 1: of qbs like Ben Roethlisberger, Jacoby Brissett, Hi Uchi, Davis Mills,
Speaker 1: Tannehill too much, Reevor Madam, Mike White, went Simeon like
Speaker 1: they've the guys. They've held down their Their entire schedule
Speaker 1: has been a cupcake QB schedule. Treevious White now out.
Speaker 1: Brady has just two games where he failed to have
Speaker 1: multiple scores this year. He has finished as a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback for the week seven times, so I have
Speaker 1: him in my top five once again. Godwin A grade.
Speaker 1: This is a much meteor matchup than I thought. It was.
Speaker 1: All the eight grades A grade for Godwin. Without Trenevious wedding,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have covered him anyway. He would have been
Speaker 1: on Evans on the outside. He wouldn't have covered Godwin
Speaker 1: in this slot. Probably are most of the time, but
Speaker 1: the Bills have played one game without Tevious White, and
Speaker 1: that was the crap fest last Monday night. So we
Speaker 1: don't even have any data point on what it's like
Speaker 1: to pass against this team without Jadeveous White this year.
Speaker 1: Um that said, they've only the Bills have only allowed
Speaker 1: three wide receiver touchdowns all year and no one yard receivers.
Speaker 1: That's concerning. But last week Godwin had activated god mode
Speaker 1: against Atlanta Antonio brown Out. The targets really really funneled
Speaker 1: to Godwin and Evans. Brashad Perriman has taken on that
Speaker 1: wide receiver three role. He has overtaken Tyler Johnson, but
Speaker 1: he's doing nothing with it. All the targets are going
Speaker 1: to Evans and Godwin. So and A on god Godwin,
Speaker 1: be on Evans. He's getting the targets yard, He's not
Speaker 1: getting Godwin's targets yards and receptions. But he's got ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns on there. He's got twenty three with Brady in
Speaker 1: two years. That's where he scores. He's got high odds
Speaker 1: of scoring here. Speaking of high odds of scoring, yeah,
Speaker 1: Gronk House a grade. It's just obvious to this point though,
Speaker 1: like he's he was tight end too before he left.
Speaker 1: I think he's tight end too again now after he's
Speaker 1: back from his injury. His worst game was four catches
Speaker 1: for fifty five yards, which is like, that's that's best.
Speaker 1: A B grade. His his floor is a B grade
Speaker 1: and he's got tight end one upside every game. Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette A grade. He leads all running NFL running backs
Speaker 1: and receptions, which of course we obviously knew that was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Receiving leader for running backs. He has at
Speaker 1: least six catches in each of the last four games,
Speaker 1: basically a lock for sixteen twenty five touches. With that
Speaker 1: reception total receptions coming in, I got an A grade
Speaker 1: on him. Yeah, that makes it. It makes sense. Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette has been money for I don't know three four
Speaker 1: weeks and really most of the year. Going back to Gronk,
Speaker 1: it's like a reverse homecoming. He used to murder the
Speaker 1: Bills when he's with the Patriots because he's from buffal
Speaker 1: Like just monster games like weekend and week every time
Speaker 1: he faced Buffalo. When we come back, two matchups left
Speaker 1: the Sunday night here in the Monday night here Rams
Speaker 1: taking on the Packer, sorry, Bears taking on the Packers.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you what to expect from David Montgomery and
Speaker 1: how many points do you need to do? You need
Speaker 1: a calculator to try to figure out how many points
Speaker 1: Davante Adam is going to score in this game. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that when we come back. Final segment Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly coming up. The final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: our last chance to get you ready to improve your
Speaker 1: playoff positioning. Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: with you. The Sunday night game is Bears taking on
Speaker 1: the Packers. Let's talk about David Montgomery. Came into the
Speaker 1: week hobbled, came out of the week not on the
Speaker 1: injury reports, should be in a good spot here. In
Speaker 1: four career games against Green Bay, David Montgomery averages a
Speaker 1: solid seventeen touches for ninety two yards, and he has
Speaker 1: scored in two of the four games. But I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a little more activity than that, in
Speaker 1: part because Justin Fields is back under center, and he
Speaker 1: average is just twenty passes per game, the lowest of
Speaker 1: any starting quarterback in the league. And if that means
Speaker 1: that he's gonna have that low of a volume, it
Speaker 1: means Montgomery's got to have more touches than just seventeen
Speaker 1: per game. Green Bay, though, is a good run defense.
Speaker 1: No back has hit triple digits all year, and they've
Speaker 1: only given up one rushing touchdown in their last four games.
Speaker 1: So be great and David Montgomery. I like the volume,
Speaker 1: I don't love the matchup here. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game. Darnel Mooney is about the only guy worth
Speaker 1: talking about. Packers allow the fourth highest average depth of target,
Speaker 1: which is salient for him because Darnel Mooney is very
Speaker 1: fast and the deep connection with the big arm at
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is tantalizing. But the Packers secondary likely or
Speaker 1: maybe gets back Jr. Alexander and Kevin King to bolster
Speaker 1: a defense that has allowed some big games without them.
Speaker 1: But if they're back, I'm nervous on Mooney and I've
Speaker 1: just got the C grade on him. Alan Robinson's expected
Speaker 1: to make his return from it, this long standing hamstring injury. Boo.
Speaker 1: I know, right at bad time to be coming into
Speaker 1: free agency for Allen Robinson. Um, I just don't think
Speaker 1: I'd worry that he's not going to get the full
Speaker 1: workload here. I have a league with pretty sharp people
Speaker 1: and he's not even rostered right now. Dang, that says
Speaker 1: a lot. Justin Fields is on the bench as well.
Speaker 1: It's a difficult matchup against the good secondaries. I mentioned Jr.
Speaker 1: Alexander Kevin King patent potentially coming back. Fields struggled in
Speaker 1: this matchup in week six, throwing for a meager one
Speaker 1: hundred seventy four yards and completing barely half his passes.
Speaker 1: He ran for forty three yards in that game. And
Speaker 1: that's your only hope for fantasy relevance here for Justin
Speaker 1: Fields is on the ground. Five different quarterbacks have run
Speaker 1: for at least thirty two yards against the Packers. Thirty
Speaker 1: two is not even that much. In the three games
Speaker 1: prior to fields injury, Matt Naggie allowed him to run
Speaker 1: eight times, eleven times and eight times, so that's really important.
Speaker 1: This is where the fantasy points can come from for
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is on the ground. I've got a bench
Speaker 1: grade on him, but you could hope that he gets
Speaker 1: another eight three eleven rushes and he could turn that
Speaker 1: into forty or fifty yards him up to a sea eight,
Speaker 1: eight and eleven That averages out to nine times over
Speaker 1: the three course. Why you don't say how nice. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go over to Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers and Davante
Speaker 1: Adams are obvious as they are my number one ranked
Speaker 1: players at their respective positions. How about going a little
Speaker 1: deeper into the depth chart. MVS is a possible dart
Speaker 1: throw here because the Bears have got one good cornerback,
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson, and he'll travel with Davante Adams. They let
Speaker 1: him shadow if there's an opposing number one receiver who's
Speaker 1: really good. He's shadowed in the past. That puts MVS
Speaker 1: on some combination of Already Burns, Xavier Crawford, and our
Speaker 1: old friend kendallville Door. These guys at best rank one
Speaker 1: hundred thirty eighth at the cornerback position by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: That's the high water marks even that many corners. I
Speaker 1: know you don't think there would be that many cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: So MVS gets a C grade for me. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the running game, and I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be frustrating for a lot of people. So now
Speaker 1: fully healthy, does Aaron Jones return to his lead back role.
Speaker 1: We alluded to this earlier in the show. A J.
Speaker 1: Dillon's usage was climbing to the point that they were
Speaker 1: at an even split last time they were both healthy.
Speaker 1: What's more, Dylan's look good over the last three games
Speaker 1: as the primary back. He's earned plenty of time share here.
Speaker 1: Only one runner his top eighty one rushing yards against
Speaker 1: Chicago all year, and over the past five weeks they've
Speaker 1: only given up seventy six rushing yards per game and
Speaker 1: twenty five receiving yards per game. So if there's only
Speaker 1: a hundred total yards Aaron Brown to go around, and
Speaker 1: if Dylan and Jones are gonna split that in half,
Speaker 1: I can only give them C grades and Aaron, you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones was a first round pick, but I can
Speaker 1: only get from a C grade in this one because
Speaker 1: of the time share and Chicago is much harder to
Speaker 1: run upon than pass. Let's go to Monday night game,
Speaker 1: Rams taking on the Cardinals. Brian for the Rams passing game.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford has been pretty inconsistent as a passer, but
Speaker 1: mostly he's ended up with pretty good Fantasy box scores.
Speaker 1: What do you think about him in this matchup against
Speaker 1: and frankly pretty good Arizona secondary Yes, speaking of Fantasy
Speaker 1: box scores, Stafford had a fantasy box score against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals in Week four. These teams met once already the
Speaker 1: season divisional rivals. Of course, this will be the second meeting.
Speaker 1: In that first meeting, Stafford had two yards and two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. Kind Of feels like a somewhat safe floor
Speaker 1: for him here, especially considering Andy Dalton just through through
Speaker 1: for two scores in the rain against the Cardinals last week.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give Matt Stafford b uh, mostly because
Speaker 1: he has Cooper Cup. Uh. Not gonna give cup and
Speaker 1: A though he's working through a toe injury a very
Speaker 1: firm B here, Scott show a B. He's always has
Speaker 1: a potential. Of course, these teams first met. He did
Speaker 1: only have five catches for sixty four yards, probably his
Speaker 1: worst game of the season now, but I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's still a very strong play. The Cardinals have allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth most wide receiver touchdowns of that this season.
Speaker 1: But that said, the Cardinals are bottom eight and catches
Speaker 1: and bottom four in yards, and that's in terms of
Speaker 1: the most bottom, so I'm not good. Most are the
Speaker 1: bottom eight in terms of the most, so like not
Speaker 1: a good thing for Cooper Cup. The top eight in
Speaker 1: top eight fewest yards. So they are What the Cardinals
Speaker 1: are is a pretty bust but don't break, Bend but
Speaker 1: don't break. They are a a a break but don't bend.
Speaker 1: They are a break but don't bend defense something like that.
Speaker 1: They're not a cake matchup, that's for sure. We'll put
Speaker 1: it that way, and that's why Van Jefferson and Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. Both get a sea. Since O. B J's arrival,
Speaker 1: Jefferson has out targeted Beckham Beckham eighteen and has put
Speaker 1: up better numbers than O. B J, scoring in back
Speaker 1: to back games Van Jefferson, that is. Beckham did score
Speaker 1: last week as well, though, and it's worth knowing that
Speaker 1: Beckham did face the Rams of this year earlier as
Speaker 1: a member of the Cleveland Browns, had five catches for
Speaker 1: seventy nine yards. But just to see for both of
Speaker 1: those guys, Tyler Higbee, he's on the bench, he's the
Speaker 1: fifth wheel in this offense. Just four catches for thirty
Speaker 1: six yards in the first meeting. So bench and Higgby
Speaker 1: go grab go scoop scoop yourself some hooper Hooper Scooper.
Speaker 1: And lastly, for the Rams, Darryl Henderson should make his return,
Speaker 1: and Sean McVeigh made it clear that Henderson will be
Speaker 1: the lead back if he is active, even though he
Speaker 1: was active last week. So let's just pause on this
Speaker 1: for a second. This is the Monday night game, it
Speaker 1: is we are probably there's a good chance we won't
Speaker 1: know Henderson's status at kickoff on Sunday. Now what do
Speaker 1: you do. He's trending towards playing. I mean, if you've
Speaker 1: got you gotta be in a premium. He was active, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. I'm going under the prem minition. He
Speaker 1: will play. Hopefully you have Sony Michelle and Ross her
Speaker 1: as well alongside Henderson, but I'll give Henderson the B
Speaker 1: and Michelle will get to be uh if Henderson is inactive.
Speaker 1: But let's hope Henderson does play. Arizona allowing four point
Speaker 1: seven yards per carry. That is good for Henderson, but
Speaker 1: the Cardinals have allowed just five total touchdowns to running
Speaker 1: backs all year, that second fewest. That is bad. I
Speaker 1: will note that Henderson did have a hundred plus combo
Speaker 1: yards when these teams first met in Week four, so
Speaker 1: that should be a safe floor for Henderson if he goes.
Speaker 1: But he will, all right, that's it. For the Rams
Speaker 1: over to the Cardinal side James Conner Just to see here.
Speaker 1: With Chase Edmonds expected to make his return, that kind
Speaker 1: of puts Connor back in the goal line change of
Speaker 1: pace role, one would think, and goal line touchdowns aren't
Speaker 1: easy to come by against the Rams, who have only
Speaker 1: allowed three rushing scores to running backs since Week four.
Speaker 1: So just to see for James Connor, I am benching
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds that we got to see what we have
Speaker 1: there and we know it's usually not much. Here's here's
Speaker 1: what you got is no touchdowns. You can say that
Speaker 1: for sure. That's almost a given for sure. So he
Speaker 1: is on the bench and Deando how begins close to
Speaker 1: being on the bench, but he is. He should be
Speaker 1: healthier than last week. He did score last week, But
Speaker 1: just to see. For DeAndre Hopkins. The Rams have struggled
Speaker 1: against wide receivers as of late, allowing the ninth most
Speaker 1: catches and yards per game to the position over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. But Hopkins likely to draw shadow coverage
Speaker 1: from Jalen Ramsey, who allows just thirty two yards per
Speaker 1: game in his coverage and has just allowed two touchdowns
Speaker 1: all season long, and as a Cardinal Hopkins numbers aren't
Speaker 1: great against the Rams. He's averaging just five receptions for
Speaker 1: fifty one yards, but that's double digit PPR points, hopefully
Speaker 1: a floor for him. Here. Christian Kirk, the last wide
Speaker 1: receiver will mention for the Cardinals, gonna give him a C. Again,
Speaker 1: the Rams allowing the ninth most catches and the ninth
Speaker 1: most yards per game to the position over the last
Speaker 1: five weeks. He should not get shadow coverage from Ramsey,
Speaker 1: so to see for Christian Kirk, zach ERT's gonna give
Speaker 1: him a B. Arts wasn't on the Cardinals when these
Speaker 1: teams first met, but Max Williams did have a great game.
Speaker 1: He had six catches for sixty six yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He finished top six among tight ends this week. Uh,
Speaker 1: and what what's more? Opposing tight ends I've seen the
Speaker 1: seventh most targets against the Rams and uh, any tight
Speaker 1: end and I'm sorry, opposing tight ends haven't seen less
Speaker 1: than five targets in any game against the Rams, so
Speaker 1: they're heavily heavily utilized. So I like Arts here can
Speaker 1: give him a B. And lastly, Kyler Murray your son's
Speaker 1: favorite player, Scott, what's up? Ian Fish? My friend gonna
Speaker 1: give Kyler Murray an A. The Rams aren't an ideal matchup,
Speaker 1: but they are one of ten teams with an opponent
Speaker 1: passing play percentage of six or higher. Recently, l A
Speaker 1: has surrendered three hundred plus yards and two passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the likes of Jimmy Garoppolo and Davis Mills. Uh.
Speaker 1: And in the first meeting, Kyler Murray through for two
Speaker 1: sixty eight and had two touchdowns. Also added thirty nine
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. So uh, safe B floor, But I'm shooting
Speaker 1: for the A upside. He gets the A grade here.
Speaker 1: That sounds about right. Wow, that was a lot of
Speaker 1: guys to talk about. It should be a good, good
Speaker 1: game and that's the Monday night game. Well, we'll see
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