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Speaker 1: Go retire for the rest of your life. We have
Speaker 1: a couple of We've got four teams on buy, so
Speaker 1: we've got a little extra breathing room into the show,
Speaker 1: which I think is great. We'll get to all of
Speaker 1: the matchups fantasy style, take a chance on me, the
Speaker 1: five Tough Questions, premature speculation, and which should be a
Speaker 1: little longer lightning round at the end of the show
Speaker 1: as well, plenty to get to. We begin diving right
Speaker 1: into our matchups with the Jaguars at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: Matt for the Jaguars. Last time we saw them, it
Speaker 1: was UM a less than ideal scenario with UM with
Speaker 1: a loss to the Jets. What do you think this
Speaker 1: week is they travel to Pittsburgh. Well, if you, sir
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, and you're not playing in London, you suck.
Speaker 1: That's just it. In his last eight games played in
Speaker 1: the United States, he's averaging two five yards and is
Speaker 1: only thrown for six touchdown passes. If he's not in London,
Speaker 1: he's not worth playing. And he's on the bench this week.
Speaker 1: Marquis Lee is also hurt, and and that means Alan
Speaker 1: Hearns is on the bench as well. Lee hasn't practiced
Speaker 1: this week with a rib injury. He's more doubtful than
Speaker 1: questionable to play, and the Steelers have allowed the second
Speaker 1: fewest receptions and yards to wide receivers this season. That
Speaker 1: leaves Hearns on the bench as well. I'm not chasing
Speaker 1: the Marcedes Lewis three touchdown game from a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. So the only guy on the Jaguars that
Speaker 1: you got to talk about is Leonard four nett. I
Speaker 1: gave him a B grade this week. Over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, the Ravens and Bears running backs average six
Speaker 1: point oh yards per carry against the Steelers. Four Nets
Speaker 1: had at least six team carries in every game this
Speaker 1: season and a scored in every game. He's an every
Speaker 1: week starter now. But I think we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: him later in the show. Uh another running back to
Speaker 1: talk about, Levan Bell. We really don't need to talk
Speaker 1: about him. He's an easy in this game. Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade. And I know Jacksonville's
Speaker 1: defenses look legit, especially against the past, but let's remember
Speaker 1: it is legit against the past. They've faced Tom Savage,
Speaker 1: Josh McCown, Ryan Mallett and Joe Flacco in ten of
Speaker 1: the sixteen quarters they've played so far. Okay, not exactly
Speaker 1: a murderers row of quarterbacks there, But if you rewind
Speaker 1: the clock all the way to week five of last year,
Speaker 1: so one calendar year from this week, week five, the
Speaker 1: Jaguars on average allowing zero point eight touchdown passes per game.
Speaker 1: And you know that's if a full sixteen sixteen quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in there. Okay, alright, so I mean I don't think
Speaker 1: it's all fluke. Okay, would you like to wait? But um,
Speaker 1: I still got Roethlisberger as a B. He's got great
Speaker 1: home road splits in there at home this week, Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: I'm actually giving an a to Brown's chirping a little
Speaker 1: a bit, and he's frustrated on the sidelines, and I
Speaker 1: don't care that the Jaguars are currently the top defense
Speaker 1: against wide receivers. DeAndre Hopkins was the only really good
Speaker 1: wide receiver they faced this year. Even with Tom Savage
Speaker 1: soft tossing him the ball for the first two quarters,
Speaker 1: he still managed fifty five yards in a touchdown. Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown's a head and shoulders get above and squeaky wheel
Speaker 1: gets the grease if you're good enough player. Yeah Squeaky
Speaker 1: Wheels get the grease and and Antonio Brown frustrated, mouth
Speaker 1: and off. He needs more action than he got last
Speaker 1: week and he's gonna get it. So at the same time,
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster and Martevis Bryant I got them on
Speaker 1: the bench. A. J. Bouyer and Jalen Ramsey are very
Speaker 1: very good. They're two shut down corners and if you're
Speaker 1: not Antonio Brown, you're just not going to beat them. Um.
Speaker 1: Kind of a bonus take a chance on me player
Speaker 1: is Jesse James, who I'm giving a C grade to.
Speaker 1: The Jags have allowed the ninth most yards and the
Speaker 1: tenth most receptions to tight ends this season. That's kind
Speaker 1: of their weakness in the passing game. Uh, he's gonna
Speaker 1: need to be a touchdown scorer to be relevant, so
Speaker 1: you have to be pretty desperate to play him. But
Speaker 1: he's kind of a take a chance on me C
Speaker 1: grade tight end. Green Bay takes on Dallas Brian and
Speaker 1: Time Montgomery doubtful. Uh of doubtful players do not play
Speaker 1: in the game, so we'll assume he's not going to
Speaker 1: go in this one. What do you think of the
Speaker 1: Green Bay backup running backs here, well, it's Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: and Jamal Williams. Jamal Williams who was the guy who
Speaker 1: came in first when Montgomery went down last week and
Speaker 1: was ahead of him on the head of Jones on
Speaker 1: the depth chart all preseason. When Montgomery was hurt got
Speaker 1: injured on like his first carry, right, But he's been
Speaker 1: practicing all week and full, so he will play. But
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones looks like the starter for now, so he's
Speaker 1: the guy to own. Uh. Dallas is rank against the
Speaker 1: run according to Football Outsiders d v O a UH.
Speaker 1: Brian Beluga and I dated back to your are both
Speaker 1: questionable for Green Bay. That don't you say? Brian Beluga?
Speaker 1: I like that, what is it whatever? But Beluga is
Speaker 1: way better. I'm sure. I'm sure he never heard never
Speaker 1: has a big guy growing up and everything. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he never heard nobody ever saying Offe's baby at him.
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know, but I think you gotta have
Speaker 1: a four year old to know that. I'm guessing. And
Speaker 1: probably Blaga and are both questionable. That'll hurt the running
Speaker 1: game if they don't play. I think they're they're both
Speaker 1: slated to play, which would be the first time they've
Speaker 1: played together since like Week one or something. All right, well,
Speaker 1: that will certainly help Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. Jones
Speaker 1: is the better play this week, but don't give up
Speaker 1: on Jamal Williams just yet. He was a hit on
Speaker 1: the depth chart all along, so he definitely could. He'll
Speaker 1: be probably the likely goal line back in this game,
Speaker 1: with Jones getting more work between the twenties, but both
Speaker 1: get to see start against the Cowboys. Over the passing game,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is an easy a. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is a rematch of the divisional playoff game last year. Well,
Speaker 1: these teams have played each other three times in the
Speaker 1: last two years, so we got a lot of track
Speaker 1: record between Packers and Cowboys. Ye, going for it. Tony
Speaker 1: Baby has an injured knee. I think yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a good one. That was good. Poet, don't even know it?
Speaker 1: All right? Where was I I am very very long?
Speaker 1: I think you were. Yeah. Let's focus on the most
Speaker 1: recent matchup. Rogers had three five yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 1: against Dallas and the playoffs. The Cowboys have allowed multiple
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and three straight three straight games. Their whole
Speaker 1: defense is questionable. Right now, you're starting Aaron Rodgers. Duh,
Speaker 1: you're also starting Jordy Nelson. He gets an A. He
Speaker 1: missed the playoff game last year. But Dallas has allowed
Speaker 1: five wide receiver touchdowns already, so you probably should start
Speaker 1: the wide receiver leader in touchdowns in this game. Nelson.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb and give him a B borderline A start.
Speaker 1: Slot receivers have fared well against Dallas. Cooper Cup had
Speaker 1: five catches for sixty yards and a touchdown, Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: went nuclear with thirteen for one, nine in a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and Sterling Shepard caught seven passes against Dallas. So Cobbs
Speaker 1: and easy A or I'm sorry B almost an A.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams not so easy here hasn't been ruled out yet,
Speaker 1: hasn't been ruled in yet. Yeah, we should know today,
Speaker 1: should not today. It has to happen before he gets
Speaker 1: on the plane. And that which is if if it's
Speaker 1: a typical team flight that the teams usually fly around
Speaker 1: lunchtime on Saturday. So yeah, we're gonna I think we'll
Speaker 1: know about Adams if he plays. Where are you great amount?
Speaker 1: He's he's a B if he plays kind of plane
Speaker 1: if he plays, if he sits Toronomo, Allison borderline B
Speaker 1: as well, probably a C plus. Allison hasn't gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of run in his career, but he has ten
Speaker 1: plus PPR points in the four of the five games
Speaker 1: he's seen at least four targets, So he gets four targets.
Speaker 1: He's a PPR helper. So if you're an Adams owner,
Speaker 1: a certainly trying squat on Allison. If you can. Martella
Speaker 1: is Bennett, I'm going to give him a C. Revenge game.
Speaker 1: It is a revenge game. It is uh. Jared Cook
Speaker 1: and Richard Rogers combined for seven catches, a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: seven yards and two touchdowns in that playoff game. Dallas
Speaker 1: really hasn't been tested by tight ends at all this year,
Speaker 1: but Bennett has underwhelmed. But he's sixth among tight ends
Speaker 1: and catches, so he's startable in this one. And Lemit
Speaker 1: I'll mention this about Bennett. Aaron Rodgers this week came
Speaker 1: out and said they got to get it more involved early.
Speaker 1: He's the most targeted packer. He's been too involved. He's
Speaker 1: been terrible. And I was the guy who went to
Speaker 1: war for Bennett throughout the preseason. I'd like I think
Speaker 1: he can be a top five tight end. I think
Speaker 1: he finishes my number four tight end. In the preseason,
Speaker 1: he's been a wreck. They've thrown plenty of passes to him.
Speaker 1: You've got to catch a ball. If you follow Martellis
Speaker 1: Bennett on Twitter, you'll know he's a guy who would
Speaker 1: totally be into the revenge angle too. Yeah, well, that's
Speaker 1: probably totally his style. I don't know. I'm worried about
Speaker 1: that bomb. He loves to hear about how you how
Speaker 1: he affects your fantasy football team exact. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: would love that everybody tweet him. Baltimore takes on the
Speaker 1: I gotta go to the Cowboys still. Oh sorry, jeez,
Speaker 1: Love of God, So Chop chop man, you're the one
Speaker 1: who's in again. We started singing, baby Blua. That coldn't
Speaker 1: help me at all. Ezekiel Elliott is an a. We
Speaker 1: don't need to go further into that one does. Briant
Speaker 1: also in a des leads all wide receivers and targets
Speaker 1: from inside the ten yard line. He had nine for
Speaker 1: you and two in the playoffs last year. Julio Jones
Speaker 1: and aj Green are both top the hundred yards against
Speaker 1: green Bay, so Deads could do the same benching the
Speaker 1: other wide receivers. I'm gonna bench Jason Witten. He could
Speaker 1: be a desperation see play. He's cooled off significantly. Um
Speaker 1: green Bay has just allowed twelve catches in a hundred
Speaker 1: and six yards at tight ends all season, so he's
Speaker 1: I'm put them on the bench. And Dak Prescott gets
Speaker 1: to be multiple touchdowns and three straight games had three
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards and three touchdowns in the playoff game,
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. Green Bay hasn't seen more than
Speaker 1: thirty pass attempts from an imposing quarterback this year. Well
Speaker 1: in one of four games. I'm sorry, one of four games,
Speaker 1: but Dac might not breach that watermark. This feels one
Speaker 1: of the gaze game. But I'm still giving him a B.
Speaker 1: I love z I love Zeke, my number two running
Speaker 1: back this week. You've loved Zeke from the loved him
Speaker 1: from the beginning. Now Baltimore taking on the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: There's only one Ravens player with a starting grade, and
Speaker 1: that's Alex Collins averaging eight yards per carry. Probably gets
Speaker 1: a chance here to be the true workhorse back. But
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, the workhorse back it's maybe a dozen carries
Speaker 1: and not the hand in the ball more care. One
Speaker 1: of the problems he fumbles too much so and that
Speaker 1: he's least like one fumble away from hitting the hitting
Speaker 1: the bench. Oakland is a mediocre run defense, are giving
Speaker 1: up four point two yards per carry. No opposing runners
Speaker 1: rushed for a touchdown against Oakland, but Collins has done
Speaker 1: enough to earn the opportunity to get a bunch of carries.
Speaker 1: He won't stay at eight yards per carry, but he's
Speaker 1: worthy of a start. Here. Let's talk about the other
Speaker 1: running backs. Terence West goes on the bench four carries
Speaker 1: last week, which he turned into negative seven yards. So
Speaker 1: Terence West, I think the only question is you know
Speaker 1: you're not gonna play him. The only question is are
Speaker 1: you gonna drop him out right? Which I would understand
Speaker 1: if you did. Buck Allen is your past catching specialist,
Speaker 1: and Chris Thompson did kill the Raiders one fifty receiving yards.
Speaker 1: But every other team is averaging just thirty two receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and that's almost exactly what Buck Allen is giving you
Speaker 1: on averages thirty two receiving yards, and that's not good enough.
Speaker 1: There's also no possible way that Church will give Buck
Speaker 1: Allen a starting grade for the rest of his career.
Speaker 1: Maybe not. Uh, we have a bad we have a
Speaker 1: bad history. Uh. Joe Flacco on the bench. In the
Speaker 1: twenty games since the start of last year, he's managed
Speaker 1: more than one touchdown pass six times. That's it. He's
Speaker 1: averaging one hundred fifty passing yards per game this year.
Speaker 1: That's it. Oakland's the middle of the pack, right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack for past defense. But Flacco
Speaker 1: is only startable against the dregs of the league, and
Speaker 1: that is not Oakland right now. Jeremy Macklin isn't getting
Speaker 1: enough targets. Mike Wallace also not getting enough targets. Finally
Speaker 1: put up a good game last week, but his previous
Speaker 1: three games were awful, single digit yardage games. So they're
Speaker 1: all out. Let's go to the Oakland side. Quarterback is
Speaker 1: probably not going to be David carl though they haven't
Speaker 1: ruled him out of this game, but the original diagnosis
Speaker 1: on his fractured back was a month so I even
Speaker 1: though we practiced all week, I can't imagine him playing
Speaker 1: in this game. Will assume it's EJ Manuel for the
Speaker 1: purpose of our rankings here. His last one is a
Speaker 1: starter for EJ Manual three years ago. He hasn't thrown
Speaker 1: a touchdown in two years. Um, this isn't a great
Speaker 1: rape in secondary. But they just handled Trevor Simeon on
Speaker 1: the road last week, so there's that, and and maybe
Speaker 1: there's some opportunity here, But for EJ Manuel it's it's
Speaker 1: desperate desperation plays Only Michael Crabtree returns and Marie Cooper
Speaker 1: is back as well. Crabtree missed a game of the
Speaker 1: chest injury coverages for Baltimore is competent, not spectacular. They've
Speaker 1: got Brandon Carr and Jimmy Smith. Those guys will take
Speaker 1: Crabtree and Cooper respectively. Baltimore has allowed the fifth fewest
Speaker 1: yards to wide receivers. They just held in Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: to thirty or four yards and one tantrum. I've got
Speaker 1: C grades on Michael Crabtree and Marie Cooper. It would
Speaker 1: be B grades if if David Carr Derek Carr actually
Speaker 1: played in this one, but I don't think you will.
Speaker 1: Jared Cook startable four dump offs from e J Manuel
Speaker 1: He's gotten six, six and eight targets the past three games.
Speaker 1: If you're in a pinch at tight end, maybe you
Speaker 1: deactivated Gronk and now you're trying to find somebody to
Speaker 1: go with. Jared Cook would be your starter here. Baltimore
Speaker 1: only one game removed from letting Marcedes Lewis get the
Speaker 1: three touchdowns against them, so maybe there's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: Jared Cook here. And lastly, Marshall Lynch. After facing the
Speaker 1: last two weeks the number one team against the run
Speaker 1: and the number four team against the run, he now
Speaker 1: gets number twenty seven and number thirty two the next
Speaker 1: two weeks. This is number twenty seven and Baltimo has
Speaker 1: been especially filmthropic at the goal line, giving up three
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns in the last two weeks, and rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: should go to Marshawn Lynch. E j Manuel obviously doesn't
Speaker 1: help matters any but Lynch is still run hard. They
Speaker 1: just haven't given him the ball enough and the Raiders
Speaker 1: have inexplicably been way behind in a couple of games,
Speaker 1: and that's been frustrating as well. I feel like they
Speaker 1: were trying to save him for the playoffs. Yeah, already
Speaker 1: the playoffs are now now now they need to start working.
Speaker 1: I think there's some truth to that. Um, this should
Speaker 1: be a tighter game. You know, Ravens don't blow anybody out,
Speaker 1: so I think there's I think for those that are
Speaker 1: giving up on Marshawn Lynch, don't do it yet. I've
Speaker 1: got a B grade on him for this game. Do
Speaker 1: you think David Carr should have gotten the start over
Speaker 1: to Jay Manuel. I would rather have David Carr. I
Speaker 1: think it's his work on the NFL network has been
Speaker 1: very good. Uh, he is a he's let's just say
Speaker 1: it's got a face for TV for David Carr. M
Speaker 1: when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting lineup will tell you
Speaker 1: who they are when we come back. Change your mine
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Speaker 1: chance on me in the background. Those are some screeching vocals.
Speaker 1: Those really are. It's the antithesis of the original. I
Speaker 1: believe take a chance to me. Nine players not normally
Speaker 1: in your starting lineup will begin at the quarterback position. Matt,
Speaker 1: I've got Jacoby Brissette. In the last two weeks, Jared
Speaker 1: goff torch the Niners for two yards and three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer through for three fifty seven yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The Niners defense has faced a league high twenty one
Speaker 1: rushing attempts by quarterbacks this season, and Brissette is averaging
Speaker 1: just under five yards per carry. And the last time
Speaker 1: Brissette was at home facing a winless team, that was
Speaker 1: two weeks ago against the Browns, where he had two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty nine yards and a touchdown through the air
Speaker 1: and added two rushing scores. And I believe that was
Speaker 1: year take a chance on me that week. I think
Speaker 1: I think it was Brian. It was last week. I
Speaker 1: only called four touchdowns for Deshaun Watson. Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: it wrong. I'm sorry, you should have said five. I apologize.
Speaker 1: So I'm on a bit of a hot streaker quarterback here. Uh,
Speaker 1: it could come to an end the Josh McCown at
Speaker 1: the Browns. Now, technically McCown can seek revenge on about
Speaker 1: that's right. That's seven seven teams for the record. But
Speaker 1: he spent a lot of time in Cleveland. He did,
Speaker 1: so this is the ripest untapped revenge on Josh mccount's docket.
Speaker 1: All right, and Cleveland just sucks. They've allowed nine passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four games, eleven total touchdowns to quarterbacks. McCown
Speaker 1: has a rushing touchdown already this year, so he is
Speaker 1: all but guaranteed to get you two fifty total yards
Speaker 1: and at least two touchdowns on Sunday. All right, where's
Speaker 1: your where's your five touchdown predictions? Now not from McGown.
Speaker 1: You stop Bryan Hoyer's upside against a bad defense. Two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he exploded against the Rams. Here comes an
Speaker 1: even worse past defense Indianapolis, a team that's allowed the
Speaker 1: third most passing yards. The Colts allow passing averages of
Speaker 1: almost three hundred yards one and a half touchdowns. This
Speaker 1: has the makings of a get right game for Brian Hoyer,
Speaker 1: or at least to perform better game for Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1: He is might take a chance in the quarterback. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position. Matt I got J
Speaker 1: D mckissic am I pronouncing that I said, I'm glad
Speaker 1: I am c J. Procis is trending towards out this week,
Speaker 1: and the team already lost Chris Carson for the season. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This leaves Thomas Rawls, who's done almost nothing in two years,
Speaker 1: who is also injured, and Eddie Lacey, who is well
Speaker 1: Eddie Lacey, that's the only other running back. Both Rawles
Speaker 1: and Lacey have been healthy scratches this year at various times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I entered mckissic, who ran for a touchdown and
Speaker 1: caught a touchdown past last week on only five touches.
Speaker 1: He easily slides into the third down back role. And
Speaker 1: if Lacey and Rawls looked like Lacey and Rawls, he
Speaker 1: could end up with even more touches. And the Rams
Speaker 1: have given up seven touchdowns the running backs this season.
Speaker 1: That's two more than any team in the league. So
Speaker 1: I like mckissic this week. All right, I've got Geovanni
Speaker 1: Bernard at home versus the Bills. Um, have you heard
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to be called Geo by the way,
Speaker 1: too bad? Anyways, geove Vanni has caught touchdowns and back
Speaker 1: to back weeks, Buffalo allowed eight catches two Jets backs
Speaker 1: and seven to the Ravens backfield. Both backfield saw double
Speaker 1: digit targets and change of pace. Backs have fared well
Speaker 1: against the Bills over the last two weeks. Stevin Coleman
Speaker 1: had nine for seventy nine rushing and caught four passes
Speaker 1: for sixty five yards. Before that, Jamal Charles had nine
Speaker 1: carries for fifty six yards and a touchdown. I think
Speaker 1: Bernard does well this week. I've got Wayne Gallman going
Speaker 1: up against the Chargers and essentially one half of work.
Speaker 1: Last week, Gallman set a giant season high in attempts
Speaker 1: and yards and that's all it took was a half.
Speaker 1: He also scored a touchdown and lead all backs and
Speaker 1: snaps last week, again only playing a half. Paul Perkins
Speaker 1: already ruled out of this one, dark was hurt. This
Speaker 1: week's opponents, the Chargers, the team allowing the most rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game and the fifth most rushing yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Four point eight. Wayne Gallman wide receiver. We got I'm
Speaker 1: going to the John two Vey special right here and
Speaker 1: going to Marvin Jones. Remember from a four touchdown you
Speaker 1: got the four touchdown game from Marvin Jones. That was awesome.
Speaker 1: H Kenny Golladay looks like he's gonna miss this game
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury, and so Marvin Jones gets to
Speaker 1: be the main outside receiver. And outside receivers have had
Speaker 1: a lot of success against the Panthers. H Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson, Chris Hogan, and Ted Ginn each either top
Speaker 1: to eight yards or scored against the Panthers. And free
Speaker 1: safety Kurt Coleman is out with a knee injury, so
Speaker 1: the over the top play goes to Jones, and I
Speaker 1: think that the Hill score. It's a nice sneaky angle,
Speaker 1: all right. Bryan's got Kenny Stills at home versus the Titans.
Speaker 1: Tennessee has allowed seven top twenty wide receiver performances in
Speaker 1: PPR so far this year, which is three more than
Speaker 1: any other team, and according to Football Outsiders, the Titans
Speaker 1: ranked thirty first against number two wide receivers, allowing more
Speaker 1: than seventy yards per game. Stills is basically a Boom
Speaker 1: er Bus play, but I'm calling Boom in this matchup.
Speaker 1: He has scored in ten of his last eighteen games
Speaker 1: and in four of his last five in Miami. I'm
Speaker 1: calling one on Sunday. Geron Brown is my guy. Since
Speaker 1: David Johnson went out the Cardinals have been forced to
Speaker 1: pass and pass a ton. Carson Palmer leads the league
Speaker 1: in pass attempts by a mile, and Giron Brown averaging
Speaker 1: ten targets per game, the same as Larry Fitzgerald. Here's
Speaker 1: the Eagles the defense. They've allowed nine different receivers to
Speaker 1: hit at least fifty five yards, So I feel safe
Speaker 1: as that is your minimum for Jeron Brown and the
Speaker 1: Eagles ranked thirty first in passing yards allowed to receivers
Speaker 1: and dead last in receptions to receivers. Geron Brown is
Speaker 1: our final take a chance on me, guy. Let's go
Speaker 1: right into the Yeah, let's go right into that game.
Speaker 1: Arizona takeing on Philadelphia. You know you were talking about
Speaker 1: how the Eagles have just been torched by a wide
Speaker 1: receivers this year. It's been slot right wide receivers that
Speaker 1: have been just absolutely killing him though, So why that's
Speaker 1: why Larry FitzGeralds and a um Sterling Shepherd at seven
Speaker 1: catches a hundred and thirty three yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen at five forty eight just the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Fitz ranks third in the league and targets
Speaker 1: and catches so he's an easy A. UM, you already
Speaker 1: talked about Jeron Brown. I have J. J. Nelson and
Speaker 1: John Brown probably on the bench because when John Brown returned,
Speaker 1: it just J J. Nelson's up snap percentage. So I
Speaker 1: think I'm leaving both of those guys on the bench.
Speaker 1: But Carson Palmer I have a C grade on um. Also,
Speaker 1: this is the first game in NFL history where the
Speaker 1: two starting quarterbacks are named Carson, and the second time
Speaker 1: in NFL history where two guys named Carson have played
Speaker 1: on the same field at the same time. Wow, we
Speaker 1: did not know that, Thank you. UM. Why would I have?
Speaker 1: And now who knows why the Cardinals line is Why
Speaker 1: do you know that? Maybe that's the better. That's the
Speaker 1: extensive deep research that we do here. Me and Tuve
Speaker 1: had some fun with some Pro Football Reference yesterday. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals line is still missing tackle d J. Humphries and
Speaker 1: guard Mike au Potty. Former Viking Alex Boone is also
Speaker 1: nicked up. But Palmer is second in the NFL and
Speaker 1: passing yards. Each game since David Johnson went down, Palmer's
Speaker 1: thrown for at least three five yards. The problem is
Speaker 1: that they can't score touchdowns. They've only mustered sixteen, seventeen,
Speaker 1: and eighteen points in the last three weeks, but I
Speaker 1: think they beat that this week against an Eagles defense
Speaker 1: that's not very good against the past. Andre Ellington, I
Speaker 1: gotta see for him in PPR. Ellington's had twenty two
Speaker 1: targets in the last two weeks. That alone means he's
Speaker 1: a viable PPR option. They've basically taken what David Johnson
Speaker 1: did through the air, compartmentalized what he did as a receiver,
Speaker 1: and just given that work to Andre Ellington and Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald to some degree to just keep throwing it short.
Speaker 1: Um he's He's leading the Arizona running backs and snaps
Speaker 1: over the last two week with a fifty seven percent clips.
Speaker 1: So we're leaving Kerwin Williams and Chris Johnson on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's get the name straight, the undead corpse of the
Speaker 1: tap dancing Nancy. Is that the name? Not? That is
Speaker 1: then on in a few weeks. I'm sorry you've missed it.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I got Carson Wentz with a
Speaker 1: C grade. Stafford had a huge day against Arizona in
Speaker 1: Week one, but since then, the Cardinals have given up
Speaker 1: two hundred eleven yards per game and only two total
Speaker 1: touchdown passes to the other quarterbacks they faced. Wentz has
Speaker 1: still never thrown for more than two touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: a game, making him a very high priced Mike Glennon.
Speaker 1: I have Alshon Jeffrey on the bench. Patrick Peterson Pat Pete,
Speaker 1: as Brian likes to call him, will lock down Alshon
Speaker 1: Jeffrey for this entire game. He has held each wide
Speaker 1: receiver that he shadowed this season to under fifty yards,
Speaker 1: although Marvin Jones and Des Bryant each scored a short
Speaker 1: touchdown on Peterson's watch. We're not going Nelson Aghilar Tory Smith,
Speaker 1: but we are going zach Ertz, who he gets a
Speaker 1: B grade. He's leading the league in tight end targets
Speaker 1: and receptions, averaging nine targets per game. He's on pace
Speaker 1: for over a hundred catches this season. We're only two
Speaker 1: weeks removed from Jack Doyle torching the Cardinals for eight
Speaker 1: catches and seventy nine yards. I think that's the low
Speaker 1: water mark for It's this week and la Garrett Blunt.
Speaker 1: I have a S grade on Wendells. Smallwood is expected
Speaker 1: to miss this game with a knee injury, which should
Speaker 1: leave Blunt as at bell Cow this week, Corey Clement
Speaker 1: and ken John Barner are expected to fill Smallwood's role.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott's the only back to top sixty eight yards
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals this season. One of the two scored,
Speaker 1: so La Garrett blunts just to see, just because he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a heavy workload when we come back. The
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Speaker 1: Brian and Chargers wide receivers have been pretty frustrating outside
Speaker 1: of Keenan Allen to a degree, But even then there's
Speaker 1: just a lot of balls to go around, and now
Speaker 1: we we also have headaches at tight end position. Help
Speaker 1: us make some some sense out of the passing game
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. Yeah, it's it's a tough matchup for
Speaker 1: the passing game. As bad as the Giants look, the
Speaker 1: secondary is still the most legit thing on that disgusting team.
Speaker 1: But how do you really feel, Giants fan? I'm giving
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen to be uh be generous. Jenkins has only
Speaker 1: taken seven snaps and slot coverage this season, so Alan
Speaker 1: and Dominique Rogers Camarady will be mixing it up. It's
Speaker 1: a slightly better matchup for Alan, who is top eight
Speaker 1: among wide receivers and target percentage and is basically a
Speaker 1: C start at worst when healthy like he is now,
Speaker 1: so enjoy it while he's healthy. I am benching Tyrone
Speaker 1: Williams and Travis Benjamin though my guy Tyrrell went off
Speaker 1: last week and Benjamin has had some early success, but
Speaker 1: the Giants having a loudy wide receiver to top seventy
Speaker 1: yards this season, so both of those guys are on
Speaker 1: the bench. For me, it is about the Eli Apple matchup,
Speaker 1: which is always exploitable. It is, but there's good, good
Speaker 1: safeties in New York too, So it's just I don't
Speaker 1: know why I would give Williams a desperation see in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues. If you need to start him, he would
Speaker 1: be the guy would lean to obviously over Benjamin, but
Speaker 1: he is He is startable as a C C level grade,
Speaker 1: but um tight ends more stortable. In this one, Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry and Antonio Gates. I didn't give Henry a C
Speaker 1: and Gates C plus B minus. Uh. Giants have been
Speaker 1: torched by tight ends this year, five tight end touchdowns
Speaker 1: in four games, touchdown in every game, five total. Gates
Speaker 1: has three targets inside the ten yard line as opposed
Speaker 1: to Henry's one. Gates has also seen five targets and
Speaker 1: back to back games, which equals ten targets, which equals
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry's target total for the season ten. So Gates
Speaker 1: is the stronger play. But either have a chance to
Speaker 1: score here and I'll get Philip Rivers the Sea in
Speaker 1: the revenge games in their revenge game, but the Giants
Speaker 1: haven't allowed more than two passing touchdowns at home since
Speaker 1: Week fifteen of when Cam Newton had five touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: since that game, New York has allowed up to passing
Speaker 1: up to two passing touchdowns only five times overall. But uh,
Speaker 1: for what it's worth worth, Rivers has three plus yards
Speaker 1: and going multiple touchdowns and three of his last four starts,
Speaker 1: so I will give him a C in this game,
Speaker 1: and then Melvin Gordon gets to b. The Giants run
Speaker 1: defense has not been as good as they were last year.
Speaker 1: They ranked thirty first in Football Outsiders d v o
Speaker 1: A against the run, so he was a squeaky will
Speaker 1: this week as well, so he should get some grease
Speaker 1: in this game. Over to the Giants, I'll start with
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. He'll get an A. His finger got fed
Speaker 1: up last week, but he's going to play. Uh. He
Speaker 1: honestly might be better catching the ball one handed, I think.
Speaker 1: And there is that right. If there's ever a player
Speaker 1: who who doesn't need a hand at wide receiver, it's
Speaker 1: usually he usually drops him with two hands. Without Jason Vrette,
Speaker 1: the Chargers have allowed at least one wide receiver touched
Speaker 1: on in every game. So you're given Beckham and easy
Speaker 1: a grade here, or I am I should say, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with Sterling Shepherd over Brandon Marshall. Here, Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills, and Benny Fowler, all slot receivers have scored
Speaker 1: on the Chargers. Faaler scored twice. Shepherd, among wider wide
Speaker 1: receivers with at least twenty five targets, is seventh in
Speaker 1: yards per target. He's also fourth in red zone targets
Speaker 1: among wide receivers. So he gets a B. I like it,
Speaker 1: and I'll still give Marshall a B here. Target totals
Speaker 1: of ten and eleven with catch totals of six and
Speaker 1: eight in his last two games. He needs Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: on the field. When Odell's on the field, Marshall's not
Speaker 1: half bad. He's showing signs of life and touchdowns will
Speaker 1: come eventually. I also give Evan and Gram starting grade
Speaker 1: just to see though he's second in targets among tight
Speaker 1: ends behind zach Ertz, and his catch totals have gone
Speaker 1: up from four to four to five to six. This
Speaker 1: is pretty much a neutral matchup. But tight end is
Speaker 1: such a waste land that you can consider starting Ingram
Speaker 1: this week. I kind of my number four tight end overall. Ram. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: I like I like him. I gonna like him better. Obviously,
Speaker 1: tight end is a waste Lam this week. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: let's give him a B for that? Why not Eli
Speaker 1: Manning to give him a B. He's almost a borderline
Speaker 1: A as well. He's been an elite fantasy option the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, with two passing yards and three total
Speaker 1: touchdowns last week three sixty six and three through the
Speaker 1: air the week before starting center West and rich Burke
Speaker 1: is out, which doesn't help his cause. But l A's
Speaker 1: secondary has been brutal with allowing a completion percentage north
Speaker 1: of sixty five, and then they have a six to
Speaker 1: one touchdown to interception ratio. And then finally the running
Speaker 1: game chart. Wayne Galman was gonna take a chance of
Speaker 1: me running back. He's a solid play this week. Shane
Speaker 1: Vereen still is not. I can't go there. No Jets
Speaker 1: take on the Cleveland Browns and the most disgusting matchup
Speaker 1: maybe of the year. You already mentioned Josh McCown as
Speaker 1: you take a chance, I mean quarterback and so and
Speaker 1: I had I had a starting grade on him as well.
Speaker 1: His of his receivers, like Austin Safarian Jenkins the best.
Speaker 1: The Browns have allowed the most receptions to tight ends
Speaker 1: and the second most touchdowns of tight ends. Safarian Jenkins,
Speaker 1: now available after his three game suspension, comes into the
Speaker 1: week averaging five targets per game. Robbie Anderson startable. He's
Speaker 1: gonna draw Jamaar Taylor, who ranks nine five among cornerbacks
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. Anderson's put up solid numbers the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, while Jermaine Curse has receded badly
Speaker 1: after a couple of good games at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, We'll take Robby Anderson as a starting grade
Speaker 1: with a C grade B grade on Bellew Paul coming
Speaker 1: off a career best one d sixty three yards grand
Speaker 1: and seventy five of those one sixty three. We're a
Speaker 1: little on the cheap side, but you should see close
Speaker 1: to twenty five touches, the same number he had last
Speaker 1: week with Matt Forte out again, and that is now official.
Speaker 1: The Browns have had a stout run defense this year.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly stout. They're only give you a three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: No posing back his top sixty six yards. Paul might
Speaker 1: need to cobble together sixty is rushing yards and fourty
Speaker 1: fifty receiving yards, which is a possibility for Paul, who
Speaker 1: is a capable receiver. Elijah McGuire splashed a little bit
Speaker 1: last week, but I just don't think there's enough scraps
Speaker 1: left over for McGuire to do much, and not against
Speaker 1: a shockingly good Brown's run defense. Let's flip over to
Speaker 1: the Cleveland side. Not a lot to talk about here.
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson gets a B grade, clearly the efety valve
Speaker 1: for rookie quarterback Deshaun Kaiser with a whopping fifteen catches
Speaker 1: the past two weeks, nearly all his values tied up
Speaker 1: into his PPR production, So know you're scoring system here,
Speaker 1: but Duke has scored a rushing touchdown surprisingly each of
Speaker 1: the last two games, which is infuriating to Isaiah Crowell owners.
Speaker 1: The Jets allow the fifth most receptions to running backs
Speaker 1: and giving a fifty five receiving yards per game to
Speaker 1: running backs, and Duke will get nearly all of that
Speaker 1: for the Browns. Isaiah Crowell also will be He's been
Speaker 1: a non factor in way too many games because the
Speaker 1: Browns are always playing from this big deficits or defense
Speaker 1: has been terrible, but that should change this week. The
Speaker 1: Jets should not get way up on the Browns, and
Speaker 1: Karl should see his first game as a real workhorse.
Speaker 1: Some optimistic you will. The Jets are allowing the seventh
Speaker 1: most rushing yards four and a half yards per carry,
Speaker 1: so Kroll, I know he's been frustrating, but I think
Speaker 1: you give him another chance here. And the entire Browns
Speaker 1: passing game is on the bench, and we're not going
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on this. But Kaiser
Speaker 1: was benched last week and the Jets passing defense is
Speaker 1: actually pretty good. They allowing the seventh fewest passing yards
Speaker 1: and only Derek Carr was able to crack two hundred
Speaker 1: twenty five yards. Kenny Britt's out in this game. You're
Speaker 1: starting receivers, and bonus points to you if you know
Speaker 1: who the Browns starting receivers are for this game, Richard
Speaker 1: Higgins and Ricardo Lewis Gross. Yes, the forty Niners and
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts have already talked about a bunch of
Speaker 1: players from this game in our take a chance on
Speaker 1: Me segment Matt Who's left? Well, we did talk about
Speaker 1: Hoyer and Brissette does take a chance of any quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on the On the Niner side, Pierre Garson Merritt's a
Speaker 1: B grade. Garsona has almost as many targets as the
Speaker 1: next two wide receivers on the depth chart combined. Uh
Speaker 1: and according to Evan Silva, Garson run of his routes
Speaker 1: at slot and left corners. Vante Davis plays right corner
Speaker 1: more often than not, so he gets to avoid the
Speaker 1: Vante Davis coverage. And I'm not even sure Vante Davis
Speaker 1: is that good anymore. He might not. Three years ago
Speaker 1: he was really good, But I'm with you, Carl those
Speaker 1: hide him giving a se even though he's questionable the
Speaker 1: hip injury, but all signs point him he'll play laying uh.
Speaker 1: We we think that Matt Brito will probably get more
Speaker 1: work than you think, though he had ten touches last
Speaker 1: week and it's a good matchup. But the injury is
Speaker 1: concerning enough for me that maybe he's taken out of
Speaker 1: the game for a myriad of reasons and Brita just
Speaker 1: gets more work. So I'll give. I'll give hide to
Speaker 1: see even though it should be a B or an
Speaker 1: A in this game just because of the injury. Consider
Speaker 1: that the Matt Brita tout right there a little bit
Speaker 1: of premature, premature speculation. Wow. Um, let's go to the
Speaker 1: other side where Frank Gore gets the long awaited the
Speaker 1: revenge game. It's a big revenge game week. Um. There's
Speaker 1: basically no one left in the San Francisco organization that
Speaker 1: was there when Frank was still there. Though the Niners
Speaker 1: have allowed only rushing yards to opposing running backs in
Speaker 1: three or four games, and the only team that's that
Speaker 1: they stopped was the post David Johnson Cardinals. So Frank
Speaker 1: Gore only gets a seed. It's it's his every week
Speaker 1: see for Frank Gore just because of the volume. Uh
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton and Dante Moncrief. I'm giving a c
Speaker 1: as well. Sammy Watkins, Robert Woods, and Jared Jeron Brown
Speaker 1: each top two hundred yards against the Niners defense so far,
Speaker 1: but Moncrief hasn't topped to forty four yards and sets
Speaker 1: three starts. I still think he's a little sneaky maybe
Speaker 1: for a touchdown here, and it's always been his bed.
Speaker 1: It's not volume, its scores, yes, and Jack Doyle, Oh
Speaker 1: Doyle has been rude out down so that many more
Speaker 1: passes go to the receivers in theory exactly. Final matchup
Speaker 1: of this segment Tennessee Titans taking on the Miami Dolphins. Um,
Speaker 1: we don't think Marcus Mariota is gonna play, but maybe
Speaker 1: on the bad hamstring. But if he doesn't go, it's
Speaker 1: a disaster scenario with Matt Castle at the helm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even if Mariota goes with the hamstring, you don't
Speaker 1: really want a one dimensional Marcus Mariotta on your fantasy team.
Speaker 1: Uh passing touchdown totals on the season of zero one,
Speaker 1: two and zeros Miami has ranked thirty first against the past.
Speaker 1: For football outsiders, it's a tough call. If he goes,
Speaker 1: it really depends who you have on your team. Is
Speaker 1: a backup, but you don't wanna be handcuffing matt Castle
Speaker 1: the markets Marita, So let's go under the assumption that
Speaker 1: Mariotta plays. If he does, I'll give Richard Matthews a B.
Speaker 1: He's averaging eight targets per game, while Eric Decker has
Speaker 1: totaled seven targets over the last two weeks and one
Speaker 1: number one wide receivers have done very well against Miami.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen had nine catches for a hundred yards and
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas had eight for eighty nine and one touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I'll give Matthews a B. I'll keep him at
Speaker 1: a sea level of Castle goes, but he might be
Speaker 1: the only starter of Castles under the under center. Eric
Speaker 1: Decker is on the bench. He's just been a non factor.
Speaker 1: Corey Davis is out. I got that right this week.
Speaker 1: He's he's oot uh, So he's on your bench as well.
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker, I'll give him a CE. His numbers are
Speaker 1: down this year, but he is one of eight tight
Speaker 1: ends with more than twenty five targets on the season. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Jets and Saints tight ends understandably didn't do much
Speaker 1: against Miami, but Antonio Gates and Hunter Henry combined for
Speaker 1: nine catches ninety one yards in a touchdown, So Walker
Speaker 1: is startable. Uh. Despite who starts a quarterback for the Titans,
Speaker 1: and for the running backs, look get de Marco Murray
Speaker 1: b and Derrick Henry see here. They should be leaned
Speaker 1: on in this game. Miami is only allowing three point
Speaker 1: two yards per carrying three games, but they have allowed
Speaker 1: a running back touchdown in each game and Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: had seven catches against the Dolphins. Alvin Kamara had ten,
Speaker 1: so uh. Both can do some damage out through the
Speaker 1: year as well. Over to Miami, Let's start with j J.
Speaker 1: I who It's been brutal start for him. I was
Speaker 1: high on him, high the most, I must admit, but
Speaker 1: I'm keeping the faith. I'm gonna give him a b Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's a great stat from Adam Spinks at the RB
Speaker 1: Scout on Twitter. Um the g I E is one
Speaker 1: of nine running backs averaging more than two point five
Speaker 1: yards per carry after after the potential tackle point where
Speaker 1: he could first be tackled, so the skills are still there. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm keeping the faith with the gy in a somewhat
Speaker 1: tough matchup. Tennessee hasn't allowed more than seventy six rushing
Speaker 1: yards are running back this year, but they've surrendered four
Speaker 1: total touchdowns at the position over the last three games.
Speaker 1: And this is a gis first real home game of
Speaker 1: the season where he scored seven of his eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year. Uh. To the wide receivers Jervis Landry Vante Parker,
Speaker 1: I'm giving them both an A mentioned it before, but
Speaker 1: Tennessee has allowed seven top twenty wide receiver perform wide
Speaker 1: receiver performances in PPR, so they're an easy start. Kenny
Speaker 1: Stills was might take a chance to me wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the same reason. Basically, Julius Thomas is just not
Speaker 1: interesting yet, so he is on the bench. They're not
Speaker 1: using him at all. And with that poorous secondary, Jake
Speaker 1: Cutler does get a B. Tennessee secondary has surrendered four
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in two straight games. Uh. They only managed
Speaker 1: to pick off Blake Bortles twice. Should have been like
Speaker 1: five interceptions. So they're just really bad here here. I
Speaker 1: I used to Jake Keutler's might take a chance for
Speaker 1: me quarterback last week, and that a little bit in
Speaker 1: my face. I liked him the week before that in
Speaker 1: an easy matchup that blew up in my face. Here's
Speaker 1: another easy matchup for ja. Everybody's gonna jump off this.
Speaker 1: Everybody's off at Jake Cutler right now. You just gave
Speaker 1: him a B grade, So now you know it'll be
Speaker 1: This is gonna be the ball game finally gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We'll find out we're actually gonna talk more Dolphins in
Speaker 1: a little bit, Tom, thank you for your patience. Hello Tom,
Speaker 1: I hate to hang up that long. Sorry Tom Ryan. Hello,
Speaker 1: yes hi, UM, I have thanks for taking my call. Um.
Speaker 1: I played Cooks, I'm the standard two quarterbacks and PPR
Speaker 1: week UM. I played Cooks and Gillis Lee in UH
Speaker 1: Thursday Nights game, UM and the other guy who playing Gaskowski.
Speaker 1: So I'm now losing to a kicker with anyway because
Speaker 1: you're but I have three players UH running back in
Speaker 1: a flex position. I have de Marco Murray, Carlos Hide
Speaker 1: and Pierre Garson. I'm playing Stefon Dames and my other
Speaker 1: UM receiving spot and UM not quite sure whould played
Speaker 1: between DeMarco and uh and Pierre Garson. We just talked
Speaker 1: about Pierre. Sounds like you're you're benching one of those
Speaker 1: three guys. He said, it sounds like, yeah, uh, so
Speaker 1: I would bench high just because of the injury factor
Speaker 1: here if he if he gets Nick dup at all,
Speaker 1: they're gonna lean heavily on you trust Murray. I don't
Speaker 1: trust Murray. Brian gave him a B grade. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not you. You guys like him a little more
Speaker 1: than I do in this one. Maybe you would rather
Speaker 1: put an injured Carlos hide in over Murray, easy matchup.
Speaker 1: He's not that injured. I don't any question about him going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would. Yeah, that's just me. So we
Speaker 1: have which we have a different we have different we
Speaker 1: both like. We all like Pierre Garson though. So there's that.
Speaker 1: Let's go Garson, Let's go Garzone. I think that's your
Speaker 1: that's your sure play. See a more call here, see
Speaker 1: if Aaron Jones is available. Ben Hello, hey guys again,
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Um. I'll be really quick. I got
Speaker 1: crab Tree and the Riddick PPR. Riddick is currently in
Speaker 1: my starting position. If if the guys side more towards
Speaker 1: a crab tree, Um, there's a people on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire right now, then I could easily drop Riddick for
Speaker 1: you guys mentioned crow l. I got McKinnon. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a good matchup for crow Well. I gotta b guy
Speaker 1: would be grade on him? Uh, I have Riddeck in
Speaker 1: a later matchup, and I'm giving him a bench grade.
Speaker 1: He's only had nine total touches in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's bad. He's just not getting the ball enough. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if Riddick is worthy of a bench spot.
Speaker 1: Even right now, you might be droppable. What would you guys?
Speaker 1: Kind of just ask really quick would what would you
Speaker 1: guys rather pick up mckinning, Collins or crow or like? Sure?
Speaker 1: I mean he's a lead back. He's effectively a workhorse
Speaker 1: running back on an NFL team instead of a spot starter.
Speaker 1: So to me, that's the clear angle. What's better a
Speaker 1: workhorse or a bell cow? Allow me to answer that fish.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's her. That's the answer. When we
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Speaker 1: get it on question number one. Well, Cam Newton's off
Speaker 1: the field transgression affect him on the field enough to
Speaker 1: harm his fantasy value, Matt, So he said something stupid
Speaker 1: in front of a whole bunch of media members, and
Speaker 1: many people in this country say stupid things, usually using
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Speaker 1: this show. This will literally blow over by next week
Speaker 1: when a ruling on the Zeke suspension comes down and
Speaker 1: everybody looks the other way at the new, shining new thing. No,
Speaker 1: this isn't going to affect him at all. Yeah, if anything,
Speaker 1: I think it helps him because it would make football
Speaker 1: is only escape and at least in the short term.
Speaker 1: Like Mass said, this will be old news eventually, so
Speaker 1: I will say no this. Uh. But he has a
Speaker 1: tough matchup in Detroit this week, so I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna help him that much. Correct answers, Yes, it
Speaker 1: will affect him. His play a quarterback was already so wobbly.
Speaker 1: He entered last week with a passer rating lower than
Speaker 1: brock Osweiler's last year. Does does Cam Newton care more
Speaker 1: about winning football games? Or does he care more about
Speaker 1: his popularity, his style, his pinage, his status as a performer. Remember,
Speaker 1: he wants to be a performer, not a football player.
Speaker 1: Now he's been publicly shamed and it's bad. Nobody is
Speaker 1: on his side, nobody. He lost his biggest national sponsor distractions.
Speaker 1: You would think at the NFL level the distractions wouldn't matter,
Speaker 1: but they do. They matter all the time. Here will
Speaker 1: talk about it. Even if they won't admit it when
Speaker 1: it's happening, they'll admit it after it happened. The reality
Speaker 1: is Cam Newton is a human being who cares about
Speaker 1: how he's perceived, and he's been perceived badly, and it
Speaker 1: will affect him on the field question number two. Will
Speaker 1: Will Fuller finished the season as a wide receiver, one
Speaker 1: wide receiver to flex or bench player, Brian, this is
Speaker 1: the first Will Will Will Will. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever don't. When I typed it, I'm like, that's weird.
Speaker 1: Will Many of do dues and stuff like that. We
Speaker 1: have that bats every now and again. Can we just
Speaker 1: cue the peacock real quick? From my premature speculation, Will
Speaker 1: Will follow a mon? Was that sweet sound? That's the
Speaker 1: sweet sound of of a premature speculation? Ringing the bank
Speaker 1: twice in one week? So Fuller exploded bank ring the
Speaker 1: bell anyway? All right? Uh, Fuller exploded out of the
Speaker 1: gates as a rookie. His three of his first four games,
Speaker 1: he had uh five catches for a hundred seventy yards,
Speaker 1: a hundred seven yards in a touchdown, four for one
Speaker 1: oh four, seven for eighty one and one. Then he
Speaker 1: got banged up in os Wiler settled in or settled out?
Speaker 1: I should say so. Deshaun Watson is a much better
Speaker 1: quarterback than Brock Osweiler. He will give the speedy Fuller
Speaker 1: a lot of time to separate because Watson is so mobile.
Speaker 1: But that'll give Fuller a high ceiling in a lot
Speaker 1: of games, but a very low floor, especially because Houston
Speaker 1: is not a pass eavy team. They ranked twenty eight
Speaker 1: and pass play percentage at so I don't see Fuller
Speaker 1: being consistent enough to be anything better than a flex
Speaker 1: play this year. Okay, yeah, I was gonna try to
Speaker 1: put him as a wide receiver V but I don't
Speaker 1: think that's gonna work out for a lot of the
Speaker 1: things that Brian mentioned. I think he's a flex player
Speaker 1: as well. He had over ninety targets last season with
Speaker 1: terrible quarterbacks. His injury this year was a collar bone
Speaker 1: that's not very likely to reoccur, so I think he's
Speaker 1: a flex player. He's a wide receiver too. We think
Speaker 1: of Will Fuller is a low volume guy because he
Speaker 1: only caught forty seven passes all of last year, But
Speaker 1: as you correctly mentioned, Matt ninety two targets, so they
Speaker 1: threw his way plenty of times, just a brock Osweiler
Speaker 1: was his quarterback, obviously far better quarterbacking this year, and
Speaker 1: Fullers a year older, presumably a better receiver. And Jandre
Speaker 1: Hopkins is on page for one targets. That's not sustainable.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a regression in Hopkins targets, and
Speaker 1: the only place for those targets to regress too is
Speaker 1: Will Fuller, and so he's going to be dramatically more
Speaker 1: involved in this offense than people think who are replaying
Speaker 1: last season. Davanni's hot question number three, Miami's low scoring
Speaker 1: team in the league. Are you buying low on Dolphins?
Speaker 1: Matt To steal a page from Dosek's Jake Butler looks
Speaker 1: like the most disinterested man in the world. He doesn't
Speaker 1: always put his hands on his hips when lining up
Speaker 1: in the Wildcat, but when he does, he does so
Speaker 1: with a potty lift. Uh. They'd be O N three
Speaker 1: right now if it weren't for the recently released Chargers
Speaker 1: kicker missing a field goal in their first game of
Speaker 1: the season. But still, Jarvis Landry is usually a good
Speaker 1: PPR helper. Davantae Adams was a guy that we were
Speaker 1: all looking at as a breakout campaign this year. J
Speaker 1: Gi simply isn't as bad as Brian mentioned in the matchup,
Speaker 1: and Matt Moore might be starting before this game is over,
Speaker 1: So I think it's time to buy low on the Dolphins. Okay,
Speaker 1: because Matt Moore is gonna because Matt Moore is gonna
Speaker 1: be starting. Say yeah, I'm I'm really just buying low
Speaker 1: on a Ji. Here one more stat from the at
Speaker 1: the RB scout um among running backs when it comes
Speaker 1: to percentage of carries where they face an extra unaccounted
Speaker 1: for defender in the box, um among when running backs
Speaker 1: face an extra defender in the boxers, I mean, I
Speaker 1: should rephrase, Jilly has the third highest percentage of runs
Speaker 1: where he sees an extra unaccounted for defender in the box,
Speaker 1: So he's going up against stacked boxes most of the time.
Speaker 1: Got a couple that with the fact that we talked
Speaker 1: about how he's among the leaders and yards per carry
Speaker 1: after the potential tackle point. It's very talented running back.
Speaker 1: Still I'm buying this week and hopes he has a
Speaker 1: good game, and then next week at the very least
Speaker 1: he should rip the Falcons and you can flip him
Speaker 1: then if you really want to. But Bilow and a
Speaker 1: GI's what I'm saying. Yep, Bilow, they played three road
Speaker 1: games because their Week one was going to be their
Speaker 1: home game, and this third road game was in London
Speaker 1: for Pete's sake. Now, the home games start to kick
Speaker 1: in two of the next three at home, five three
Speaker 1: the next five are at home. The biggest problem for
Speaker 1: Miami has been their offensive line. And while it's not good,
Speaker 1: remember the Dolphins are a week behind everybody else. And
Speaker 1: remember when the Giants, the Bengals and the Seattle offensive line.
Speaker 1: So those first few weeks of the season were so
Speaker 1: bad they couldn't score. But the offensive lines got better,
Speaker 1: as they tend to do, and now those teams are
Speaker 1: putting up points. That's the same situation Miami finds itself in.
Speaker 1: And of course, remember j Cutler came in off the
Speaker 1: couch in the middle of training camp. He can get better,
Speaker 1: and he probably will. Devanny's hot question number four. The
Speaker 1: only running back with a touchdown in every week of
Speaker 1: the season is Leo four Net. Now, nobody's suggesting he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a touch out in all sixteen weeks. But
Speaker 1: do you believe it's current level of fantasy output is sustainable?
Speaker 1: Brian Man, He is working hard this year so far.
Speaker 1: We just talked about how a Ji is third as
Speaker 1: the third highest percentage of carries with an extra defender
Speaker 1: in the box. Four Net is second, So he's working
Speaker 1: even harder than a gy is and he's doing it
Speaker 1: behind a mediocre line at best. He does have modest
Speaker 1: catch totals, which has helped him out a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I'm worried he hits the wall eventually for net only.
Speaker 1: At a hundred and twenty nine carries last year at
Speaker 1: l s U, he's currently on pace for three d
Speaker 1: and twenty right now. He is he is a freak,
Speaker 1: but I think he falls off just a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I don't think this output is sustainable. Tokay, with
Speaker 1: all the injuries that the wide receivers in Jacksonville, plus
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles being Blake Bortles, that team is solely reliant
Speaker 1: on handing the ball off the four net and playing
Speaker 1: good defense. And it kind of reminded me of the
Speaker 1: year a few years back where Christian Ponder was at
Speaker 1: the helm for the Vikings and they handed the ball
Speaker 1: off to Adrian Peterson over and over again and he
Speaker 1: tallied two thousand yards. That team was about running the
Speaker 1: ball and playing defense. The Jaguars about are about running
Speaker 1: the ball and playing defense. So I think he can
Speaker 1: sustain it. You are correct, you can also, I'll note this,
Speaker 1: and you hit many of my talking points. But also
Speaker 1: this the schedule super favorable on the ground, only three
Speaker 1: remaining games against teams that rank in the top half
Speaker 1: against the run. All the others are bottom half. And
Speaker 1: of those three remaining games with teams that rank in
Speaker 1: the top half against the run, none are in the
Speaker 1: top five. So there are like, you know, really tough
Speaker 1: stoppers necessarily. And then in November and December, you know
Speaker 1: those cold weather, bad weather games that seems perfect potentially
Speaker 1: for him, and he's the big body against warned down
Speaker 1: defenses that have played a dozen games or four teen games.
Speaker 1: Those things all seem to favor for net as well.
Speaker 1: He will sustain this level of fantasy output. Hot question
Speaker 1: number five. The bye weeks are upon us, particularly particularly
Speaker 1: in Dynasty and Empire leagues. Are you okay with owners
Speaker 1: and those kinds of leagues who don't start a kicker
Speaker 1: or a defense or a tight end because they don't
Speaker 1: want to make a difficult drop to fill that spot
Speaker 1: with a backup. Hopefully that makes sense. Dynasty and Empire league,
Speaker 1: is it okay to go to war in your starting
Speaker 1: lineup without a kicker or but with a bye week kicker, defense,
Speaker 1: or tight end Matt. You know, if you have a bench,
Speaker 1: you should be able to plan for these things. But
Speaker 1: I guess I'm okay. I have a middle of the
Speaker 1: road answer. I'm okay with it for a tight end
Speaker 1: if you don't want to drop a tight end, but
Speaker 1: I'm not okay with it for a kicker in defense.
Speaker 1: And furthermore, I like kicker in defense for re draft leagues,
Speaker 1: but I don't like them for Empire dynasty. I think
Speaker 1: we should get rid of them an empire and dynasty.
Speaker 1: They don't do anything for empire and DYNA. What answer
Speaker 1: your question, I'm going Brian Johnson on this five tough
Speaker 1: question and just saying whatever I want to say on
Speaker 1: the radio. All right, Brian, please do not go Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson on this question. Is hot, it's not tough. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it if I'm playing the person who's
Speaker 1: is leaving a starter with a zero. But ultimately, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, no, it is wrong. It
Speaker 1: messes with the competitive balance of the league and the
Speaker 1: integrity because if someone's basically giving up against you, they
Speaker 1: could affect the standings in a multitude of ways. So no,
Speaker 1: you should be forced to have a full compliant roster
Speaker 1: every week. So what if you're in like one of
Speaker 1: those weird six team by weeks and like your entire
Speaker 1: team for some weird scheduling purposes on by what do
Speaker 1: you do in that situation? Taxi squad? Then you can
Speaker 1: employ the taxi squad, which I feel like charge is
Speaker 1: about to talk about. No, I'm not because in every
Speaker 1: league's kind of taxi squad most well, okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think they should. If your dynasty league and and or
Speaker 1: Empire league is set up correctly, you don't have that
Speaker 1: many bench spots because dynasty leagues with big bench spots
Speaker 1: takes all the strategy out of it. And if you
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of bench spots, then you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have anywhere to go. And we don't want you
Speaker 1: dropping great players to change defenses in one week. So yes,
Speaker 1: we it's okay. We can live with it. We don't
Speaker 1: like it, but in a small roster league, we can
Speaker 1: live with it. Let's go to our final match up
Speaker 1: of this segment, which is, oh hey, it's me the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings taking on the Chicago Bears. The sound of
Speaker 1: flipping papers me getting to that page. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the Viking side of this one, and we'll begin at
Speaker 1: the running game with Ottavias Murray, who gets a C
Speaker 1: grade here. Chicago is the seventh ranked run defense in
Speaker 1: the league. They're giving up eighties six yards per game
Speaker 1: and average of just three point five yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and they've seen good runners better runners in Ottavias Murray,
Speaker 1: DeVonta Freeman, Leavy On Bell, Tie Montgomery. H. Murray is
Speaker 1: a pretty much a straight ahead plotting runner without a
Speaker 1: lot of moves. He'll only give it the Vikings offensive
Speaker 1: line can give them, and let's just hope that that's
Speaker 1: a touchdown plunge. He's startable in a pinch. I got it.
Speaker 1: I got a starting grade on him, but I love
Speaker 1: it here. I think this split is maybe sixty forty
Speaker 1: with Jerick McKinnon. Let's go to the passing game. It appears,
Speaker 1: not knowing who the quarterback is going to be, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming for our purposes it's going to be Kates Keenum.
Speaker 1: You can bump everybody up a little bit if it
Speaker 1: turns out to be Sam Bradford, only let's sell it Digs.
Speaker 1: He's gotta be grade and he's my favorite of the
Speaker 1: of the options for the Vikings. Only one team has
Speaker 1: allowed more than Chicago's six wide receiver touchdowns already this year,
Speaker 1: and since his moved to the outside, Diggs has become
Speaker 1: the Vikings goal line target when passing as well, Diggs
Speaker 1: will primarily line up against cornerback Marcus Cooper, who ranks
Speaker 1: fifty among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. What about Adam Theland.
Speaker 1: He leads the Vikings and targets and receptions and has
Speaker 1: had at least one twenty four yard play in every game,
Speaker 1: which is great, but he draws a tough match up
Speaker 1: against Chicago slot cornerback Bryce Callahan, who's probably their best
Speaker 1: cornerback overall. To this point, Callahan has seen Mohamed Sanu,
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys, Juju Smith, Schuster, and Randall Cobb and held
Speaker 1: those guys to an average of three receptions in thirty
Speaker 1: seven yards per game. Only Cob managed to score. I
Speaker 1: think your best angle here is that last year the
Speaker 1: Vikings scored from the slot in both matchups with the Bears.
Speaker 1: So maybe Adam Theland can can do a little something
Speaker 1: more than than the matchup would suggest. And then Kyle Rudolph,
Speaker 1: kay Keendom killing Kyle Rudolph basically in a nutshell under case,
Speaker 1: He's getting about half of the targets that Rudolph used
Speaker 1: to get when Sam Bradford was under Helm. The average
Speaker 1: Keendom game for Rudolph is three catches, thirty six yards,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns, and no red zone targets. But the Bears
Speaker 1: are without three linebackers. Danny Trevathan suspended, Nick Watkowski is
Speaker 1: out with a peck injury. Deral Freeman went on, I
Speaker 1: r without three starting linebackers, there's a chance that Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph's gonna get free in the middle, and they may
Speaker 1: target him more here. So he's c grade on Kyle Rudolph.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Bear side, where I've only got
Speaker 1: two starting grades and nothing in the passing game. I'm
Speaker 1: taking a hard pass on the Mitch Traubinsky lad offense
Speaker 1: until I see proof that he's ready for this level
Speaker 1: of competition, particularly against Mike Zimmer, who requires opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: to decipher. Byzantine looks at the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: and it's not like he's got this great stable of
Speaker 1: receivers who are gonna bail him out. Trabisky has got
Speaker 1: no help. The whole passing games on the bench. Ord
Speaker 1: and Howard demolished the Vikings last year with a two
Speaker 1: game total of three hundred thirty seven yards. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: But the Vikings run defense is a lot better this year.
Speaker 1: Their top five against the run and virtually every statistical category.
Speaker 1: Opposing running backs as a group are averaging just seventy
Speaker 1: one yards per game. And you don't have to respect
Speaker 1: the past with Mitch Robinsky. So I think the Vikings
Speaker 1: game plan to stop Howard, and so I've just got
Speaker 1: a B grade on Jordan Howard. Tarik Cohen gets a
Speaker 1: C grade. I don't think he takes a big step
Speaker 1: backwards for with Travisky will probably a safety valve option,
Speaker 1: but I'll need to do something special with the ball
Speaker 1: and a tough matchup. Vikings have been are a top
Speaker 1: five defense against pass catching running backs. They're only averaging
Speaker 1: twenty seven receiving yards per game two running backs, and
Speaker 1: this despite the fact that they've seen Theoretic and Levan
Speaker 1: bell to the best pass catching running backs in the
Speaker 1: legal already and they're still only giving up twenty seven
Speaker 1: yards per game. So Tarik Cohen is a only a
Speaker 1: C grade. When we come back our final set of matchups,
Speaker 1: including the Seattle Seahawks taking on the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you if you dare start Eddie Lazier Thomas
Speaker 1: Rawls when we return. You're distinctive Fantasy Football weekly on
Speaker 1: the fan. I don't want to make any promises, but
Speaker 1: this is shaping up as a big lightning round. I
Speaker 1: we you know, we've only had like two and three
Speaker 1: minutes for lightning round the past couple of weeks. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna have a nice, juicy lightning I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk and don't do it, everybody, don't do it. You'll
Speaker 1: have a chance to talk right now. Seattle takes on
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. Chris Carson goes on I R.
Speaker 1: Now they go to Thomas Rawls and or Eddie Lacey
Speaker 1: against the Rams is a bad run defense? What do
Speaker 1: you think of those two guys? I got them both
Speaker 1: on the bench. As I kind of mentioned in to
Speaker 1: take a chance on me segment, Mkissic is the guy
Speaker 1: that that I want out of this out of this team,
Speaker 1: and I just don't trust either Eddie Lacy or Thomas
Speaker 1: Rawles to get it done. What's your thought? I think
Speaker 1: Rawls is a lot better. I don't trust Lacy Rawls
Speaker 1: is one season removed from being awesome, and I think
Speaker 1: he's just got more talent than Lacey does. So I
Speaker 1: would roll the dice on Ralls. I think both are
Speaker 1: startable in a pinch, because the Rams run defense is
Speaker 1: that bad. It's what do you prefer, fat or fragile?
Speaker 1: What's your preference? Yeah, I mean I I can't overcome fat,
Speaker 1: but if you're healthy, you're not fragile. So you know
Speaker 1: that's kind of my it's kind of my you're healthy
Speaker 1: or not fragile. It's like it's it's not good. Rams
Speaker 1: run defense is bad. They rank in running back running
Speaker 1: back yards allowed. You know, their past defense isn't that
Speaker 1: good either. So that's why I'm giving Russell Wilson an
Speaker 1: A grade. This week and his first two weeks of
Speaker 1: this season, Wilson did basically nothing less than two hundred
Speaker 1: yards in each game recorded one total touchdown. In the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, Wilson's caught fire six passing touchdowns one
Speaker 1: rushing score while averaging three thirty four past yards per game.
Speaker 1: The Rams at the same time almost did the I
Speaker 1: identical thing to Russell Wilson. They gave up exactly a
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine passing yards in each of the
Speaker 1: first two weeks and allowed only one passing score, but
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, Brian Hoyer and Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: each roasted them for three total touchdowns apiece. One of
Speaker 1: those was a rushing score. Both those guys averaged two
Speaker 1: ninety two against them. So I like Russell Wilson a
Speaker 1: lot this week. Given Doug Baldwin a B as well
Speaker 1: miss practice earlier this week with the groin injury. They
Speaker 1: kind of had him as a a a decoy last week,
Speaker 1: but this week I think that he's better, uh and
Speaker 1: ready to go. The Rams have been fairly good against
Speaker 1: slot wide receivers so far this year, but Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: and Jamison Crowder were the best two they've seen, so
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin's up at a B. I even got a
Speaker 1: C grade on Paul Richardson and Tyler Lockett. The Rams
Speaker 1: have been giving up the farm to outside wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They have allowed fourteen completions of twenty yards or more
Speaker 1: this season. Richardson leads the team in twenty plus yard
Speaker 1: targets with five. Lockett has three and Jimmy Graham has four,
Speaker 1: so there's gonna be a lot of downfield throws. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham I gave a C grade two as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's taking a day off of practice every week for
Speaker 1: the last three so he's shown up questionable on your
Speaker 1: on your software for your for your fantasy league. But
Speaker 1: he's recorded at least sixty yards and back to back
Speaker 1: weeks the Rams held Jordan Read to six catches and
Speaker 1: forty eight yards, but he's the only good tight end
Speaker 1: they faced all year, So I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: the downside for Jimmy Graham. Over on the Ram side,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley gets an A. He leads the NFL and
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage and touchdowns. How about that? And the
Speaker 1: Seahawks are not your father's Seahawks run defense, Carlos Hyde
Speaker 1: and DeMarco Murray each top two hundred and fifteen yards time.
Speaker 1: Montgomery had ninety three total yards in a score. The
Speaker 1: only the only person that could really stop was the
Speaker 1: eight year old Frank Gore. But the passing game I'm
Speaker 1: putting on the bench. Jared Goff, this matchup looks like
Speaker 1: a girly one. Seattle has been more stout against the
Speaker 1: passing game. If you take out Aaron Rodgers three eleven
Speaker 1: yard game in Week one, the Seahaks have only allowed
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty passing yards per game in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, three total touchdowns. I'm not going Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 1: Robert Woods, or Cooper Cup, but if you're going to
Speaker 1: spot start one of them, Cup is the one that
Speaker 1: I like the most. He has the best matchup against
Speaker 1: slot corner Jeremy Lane, who's also dinged up, and he
Speaker 1: should play. But only three wide receivers have topped fifty
Speaker 1: yards against the Seahawks this year, and two of those
Speaker 1: were Packers. I cannot wait until Girly scores two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the game and Cup has one, So it would
Speaker 1: be two girls, two girls, two girls, one Cup. That
Speaker 1: would be That would be perfect. Yeah. Cooper Cup has
Speaker 1: been that guy who's been everybody rushed to get him
Speaker 1: after Week one and then he did nothing for every
Speaker 1: dropped him, and then he scored again. Last week, he
Speaker 1: go get him again and now he's gonna do nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop him again because you know every year
Speaker 1: there's that guy who just cycles through a dozen teams
Speaker 1: I get the feeling Cooper Cup is going to be
Speaker 1: that guy. I agree. Buffalo takes on Cincinnati Brian Lashawn
Speaker 1: McCoy has been dreadful for a couple of weeks. Now
Speaker 1: does he break out of the slump against the temp
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. He's gonna He's gonna have to work
Speaker 1: hard for it. I'm still gonna give him a B
Speaker 1: based on a volume alone, but no running back has
Speaker 1: topped eighty yards on the ground against the Bengals, who
Speaker 1: have also only allowed two rushing touchdown running back so
Speaker 1: far this year. They have been generous to backs through
Speaker 1: the air, though, as they've allowed eight catches per game
Speaker 1: to the position over the last three weeks. So there's
Speaker 1: some hope for Shady here. Not a whole lot more
Speaker 1: to talk about for Buffalo. I will give Charles Clay
Speaker 1: a desperation CEE. It's a bad matchup on paper. The
Speaker 1: Bengals have allowed ten catches the tight ends total this year,
Speaker 1: but they've also faced the Baltimore tight ends, the Texans
Speaker 1: tight ends, and the Browns tight ends, so not a
Speaker 1: lot of competition in that regard. So he gets the desperation.
Speaker 1: See because he's the only past catcher on that team
Speaker 1: right now, that's worth talking about. And then I'm putting
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor on the bench this week. Cincinnati's ranked eighth
Speaker 1: against the past according to Football Outsiders d v o A.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had three thirteen yards and three touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Bengals, but Joe Flacco, Deshaun Watson and the combo
Speaker 1: Deshon Kaiser and Kevin Hogan combined for just four d
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards and one passing touchdown between the three
Speaker 1: quarterback sets there Over to the Bengals, AJ Green gets
Speaker 1: a B. Damarius Thomas is the only wide receiver to
Speaker 1: top eighty yards against Buffalo, but Green is easily the
Speaker 1: same caliber as to Maryus Thomas's and Green has five
Speaker 1: to six inches under Dabus White and E J. Gaines
Speaker 1: he started cornerbacks for Buffalo. I'm putting the other wide
Speaker 1: receivers on the bench, though it is a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, Yeah, he blew up last week, uh tight
Speaker 1: end for the Bengals in in place of Tyler Eifer,
Speaker 1: But that was against the Browns. Uh. This is the Bills,
Speaker 1: and only one tight end has topped three catches against Buffalo.
Speaker 1: And not one tight end has top fifty yards all year.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is also on the bench. Buffalo was ranked
Speaker 1: third against the past according to Football Outsiders, and they've
Speaker 1: only allowed one passing touchdown all season. That was to
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan Joe Mixon. He gets the starting grade, but
Speaker 1: the lowest level one at a C. He has average
Speaker 1: twenty one touches over the last two weeks, but he's
Speaker 1: averaging just two point six yards per carry behind a
Speaker 1: very wobbly line and the Bills have only allowed two
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns running backs this year. They are far more
Speaker 1: generous through the year, and that is why Giovanni bernard
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on the running back nicely
Speaker 1: done in Kansas City takes on Houston in probably the
Speaker 1: toughest matchup for the Chiefs this year. Karee Munt is
Speaker 1: an A grade, but let's note that this is this
Speaker 1: is his hardest This is his hardest matchup. He leads
Speaker 1: the league in rushing yards by one hundred forty yards,
Speaker 1: which is a ton uh. He also shined in the
Speaker 1: Chiefs passing game. He's caught all thirteen of his thirteen targets,
Speaker 1: but Texans have held back saverages of just fifty two
Speaker 1: rushing yards, seventeen receiving yards, and no touchdowns over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. For what it's worth, last year when
Speaker 1: these teams played, Kansas City's Runners West and Ware combined
Speaker 1: for hundred six a total yards. So there's your glimmer
Speaker 1: of hope for Karee Hunt. He remains an a start
Speaker 1: because he's just that good also from the passing game,
Speaker 1: and a start for Travis Kelsey. He leads the team
Speaker 1: and targets. He's at one hundred yards and scored in
Speaker 1: two of the last three games. Kelsey takes on a
Speaker 1: Texans defense that's given up averages of six sketches, seventy
Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown to Gronk and de Laney Walker,
Speaker 1: which are relative comparables to Travis Kelsey. The last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks be great for Tyreek Hill. Like a lot
Speaker 1: of home run threat wideouts. Its feast or famine with Hill,
Speaker 1: and so far he's eaten well on the road and
Speaker 1: he's starved at home. This is a road game. He
Speaker 1: goes up against the Houston dec its secondary that's been
Speaker 1: susceptible to big plays, giving up over fifteen yards per completion,
Speaker 1: and Hell's gonna see a lot of lousy cornerback Jonathan Banks,
Speaker 1: who ranks at the position by Pro Football Focus. So
Speaker 1: I like Tyreek Hill in this one. Alex Smith is
Speaker 1: a C grade. You know, more and more it looks
Speaker 1: like Alex Smith's monster Week one was a bit of
Speaker 1: a mirage. He's settled back into more of a game manager,
Speaker 1: although a stronger armed game manager than what we had
Speaker 1: seen in the past. Um Meanwhile, when he's not, Houston's
Speaker 1: defense has been very good for everybody else except Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: They're giving up averages of just one passing yards and
Speaker 1: zero point three touchdowns per game. So what Brady did
Speaker 1: rip him apart. Everybody else has been humbled by this
Speaker 1: Houston secondary, and that probably includes Smith here C grade only.
Speaker 1: Let's flip over to the Houston's d. Deshaun Watson's turned
Speaker 1: into a guy that you can put an A grade
Speaker 1: on and feel okay about. He's turned to do a
Speaker 1: bona fi duel threat. We always knew the legs would
Speaker 1: be good, but he's actually and he by the way
Speaker 1: leading all quarterbacks and rushing yards. The arm has been
Speaker 1: pretty good too. Kansas City's rebuilt secondary has allowed the
Speaker 1: seventh most yards through the air, but they've also been
Speaker 1: vulnerable to quarterbacks who can run. They're allowing an additional
Speaker 1: twenty three rushing yards per game to quarterbacks, which is
Speaker 1: second to last in the NFL. Deshaun Watson's and A starts.
Speaker 1: You know, I like DeAndre Hopkins. He's gonna remain the
Speaker 1: primary focus of Houston's offensive attack as he goes up
Speaker 1: against the Kansas City secondary that has allowed one hundred
Speaker 1: yards and are a touchdown to opposing receivers in every
Speaker 1: game this year. Hopkins will line up all over the
Speaker 1: field and that's gonna be a huge advantage for him
Speaker 1: when he's not on Marcus Peters and he is on
Speaker 1: Terrence Mitchell or slack cornerback Philip Gaines. Although we saw
Speaker 1: last week on Monday Night Football, Marcus Peters gave up
Speaker 1: a touchdown on a really a nice play to Terrell Prior,
Speaker 1: so you can still you can still can get something
Speaker 1: done when you're on that side of the field. Will
Speaker 1: Filler gets a B grade because the absence of safety
Speaker 1: Eric Berry from the Kansas City secondary means that they're
Speaker 1: vulnerable to pure speed deep receivers like Fuller, Fuller's volume
Speaker 1: is always a bit of a question, but as we
Speaker 1: talked about last segment, it's better than most people think.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a boomer bus guy and that will
Speaker 1: probably remain here. But I like him against the Kansas
Speaker 1: City secondary. And then there's Lamar Miller C grade. He
Speaker 1: consistently touches the ball fifteen to twenty times. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna need all of those because the Kansas City run
Speaker 1: defense is very good. They've yet to allow eighty rushing
Speaker 1: yards to any runner they faced. They are, though, giving
Speaker 1: up four point three yards per carry, which is kind
Speaker 1: of a lot, and they've allowed the second fewest receiving
Speaker 1: yards running back. So Miller's not gonna help you there.
Speaker 1: Suggest a C grade for Miller. We'll take a break
Speaker 1: when we come back. Our final matchup Carolina Panthers at
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Do you trust Cam Newton Devin Funches to
Speaker 1: bounce back and have well have back to back strong games,
Speaker 1: I should say, and then premature spect elation and lightning
Speaker 1: round all of that coming in the final segment after
Speaker 1: this your distinct of Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the shell of Fantasy Football Weekly on
Speaker 1: the Fan, Paul Arch, Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison with you
Speaker 1: final matchup. He's coming up in a moment that will
Speaker 1: be the Panthers at the Lions. But first premature speculation.
Speaker 1: These are three players generally available on the waiver wire
Speaker 1: you can pick up now, one week of ahead of
Speaker 1: everybody else is looking to do. So, Matt, who you got?
Speaker 1: I'm staying Homer with it and going Michael Floyd, wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. He's back from his four game suspension. Lakwan
Speaker 1: Treadwell has been getting play at the outside wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: but he's not good. He's just not good, and he's
Speaker 1: not gonna suit up anymore. Now that Michael Floyd's back,
Speaker 1: plus the loss of Dalvin Cook and the hopeful return
Speaker 1: of Sam Bradford, means I think that this Viking offense
Speaker 1: is going to rely on a vertical passing game, which
Speaker 1: I think means three wide receivers are on the field
Speaker 1: a lot, and I think Floyd gets a lot of play.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, I am going Trent Taylor, rookie slot
Speaker 1: receiver for the San Francis ten targets last week, caught
Speaker 1: a touchdown the week before Aldrick Robbins had twelve targets
Speaker 1: last week, bringing on the targets for the Niners. But
Speaker 1: let me finish here, all right, Taylor is actually a
Speaker 1: bonus take on this week, potentially against the Colts, who's
Speaker 1: starting a slot corner Nate Harrison is out, leaving rookie
Speaker 1: Quincy Wilson to man the seam. So the good matchup
Speaker 1: this week, But then the yellow brick road continues down
Speaker 1: the schedule for Taylor. The following week he has Washington,
Speaker 1: were slot receivers Nelson Aglar scored and even Albert Wilson
Speaker 1: tops sixty yards against the Redskins. Following that is Dallas.
Speaker 1: We mentioned that was a very plus matchup for slot
Speaker 1: receiver Randall Cobb this week, and other slot receivers had
Speaker 1: fared well against the Cowboys, Cooper Cup, Larry Fitzgerald, Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepherd all with the the PPR points. The following week
Speaker 1: they have Philly who has also been flamed by slot receivers.
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd had seven catches for a hundred thirty three
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown. Keenan Allen had five for over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, and then after that game they
Speaker 1: had the Cardinals. Remember I mentioned that Taylor was just
Speaker 1: targeted ten times. That was against the Cardinals. Alright, So
Speaker 1: there you go, Trent Taylor, honey badger, not scaring anybody
Speaker 1: in the slot anymore. That's that's the thing in the past,
Speaker 1: Trent Taylor. I like it super deep. Mike Williams is mine.
Speaker 1: This was the first round draft choice by I think
Speaker 1: seventh overall picked by the Chargers UH this past draft
Speaker 1: and hasn't been available until recently practicing now and maybe
Speaker 1: active in this week's game. I think he's still listed
Speaker 1: as doubtful for this week, but it's there's a chance.
Speaker 1: We'll just say this chance he's coming around. This is
Speaker 1: your time to get him before he starts making waves
Speaker 1: as a as a player who is returning and big
Speaker 1: body is ideally suited for red zone use the downside
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams, So I think it's fair to mention
Speaker 1: is just all the depths and the number of targets
Speaker 1: that they've got to go around Keenan Allen, Travis, Benjamin
Speaker 1: Tyrrell Williams and Hunter Henry Antonio Gates and throwing in
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. There's a lot of you know, there's only
Speaker 1: so much ball to go around. I like Mike Williams
Speaker 1: as I like Meg Williams the athlete. I love the
Speaker 1: big body for goal line use. I I still think
Speaker 1: in bigger leagues he belongs on a roster, and I've
Speaker 1: rostered him in like my twenty team league. Um, but
Speaker 1: I do worry about that. That component of his game
Speaker 1: is all the different players that San Diego has to
Speaker 1: throw too. Let's go to this final matchup, Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: taking on the Detroit Lions. We finally got a good
Speaker 1: game from Cam Newton. Does he do it back to back? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm tempering my expectations there. It's also worth noting that
Speaker 1: center Ryan Khalil, who is the best Khalil on roster
Speaker 1: for the Panthers. Uh, He's missed the last three games
Speaker 1: of the neck injury and he's believed to be out
Speaker 1: again this week. Um. It's not the Patriots epically bad
Speaker 1: defense in front of Cam Newton either. Before that game,
Speaker 1: Cam was averaging a hundred and eighty nine passing yards.
Speaker 1: Her game against such blazingly awesome past defense is known
Speaker 1: as the forty Niners, Saints and Bills. That's not scary
Speaker 1: and he's not doing well, so the Lin's defense is
Speaker 1: not allowed a three yard passer this year. They've only
Speaker 1: given up four touchdown passes while tallying seven interceptions, So
Speaker 1: I only have a C grade on Newton. The wide
Speaker 1: receivers Devin Funchius and Kelvin Benjamin, giving them both very
Speaker 1: tepid SEA grades as well. Funcius is leading all wide
Speaker 1: receivers on the tight on the team with twenty five
Speaker 1: targets this season. He's averaging an additional five targets per
Speaker 1: game in the two weeks since Greg Olsen went down,
Speaker 1: so they've really turned to him in the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: It's likely both he and Benjamin get a little taste
Speaker 1: of the Darius Slay ride this week. Benjamin was sidelined
Speaker 1: earlier in the week with the knee injury, but returned
Speaker 1: to practice on Thursday. But whoever you consider the wide
Speaker 1: receiver one, that guy, Yeah, that guy might look forward
Speaker 1: to a ninety plus yard game like us Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: or Julio Jones have done in the last two weeks
Speaker 1: against Detroit. UH. The running backs, though, Christian McCaffrey, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B. Jonathan Stewart, I'm giving a C the
Speaker 1: Lion's last week side linebacker Paul Whirlo to an mc
Speaker 1: l last week, and they were already bad against the run.
Speaker 1: The saving grace for the Lions run stats has been
Speaker 1: that David Johnson and Dalvin Cook both went down with
Speaker 1: injury during during the game. Yeah, it's a great point.
Speaker 1: So uh, the other the only running back they've really
Speaker 1: stopped as Paul Perkins, and we all know about Paul
Speaker 1: Perkins Detroit his bottom ten in the league and running
Speaker 1: back receptions and receiving yards, which is why I like
Speaker 1: McCaffrey a little bit better over on the Lions side.
Speaker 1: Amir Abdula, I'm giving a C grade. He had a
Speaker 1: mild mild ankle injury last week against Minnesota, but he's
Speaker 1: expected to play. He's coming off the best game of
Speaker 1: his career. Looked better than he looked against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Twenty three touches last week against the Vikings, where he
Speaker 1: logged a hundred and nine total yards and scored no
Speaker 1: running back his top to fifty six rushing yards against
Speaker 1: the Panthers this year. Only Dion Lewis and Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: have recorded rushing touchdowns against them this year. That's why
Speaker 1: Abdula is only getting the C grade. THEO Rittic I
Speaker 1: affirmly on the bench. We talked about how he's just
Speaker 1: not getting play right now. Matthew Stafford I got a
Speaker 1: C grade on him. The stats are kind of expected
Speaker 1: for the Panthers defense. They held Brian Hoyer and Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor to under two under passing yards and no scores
Speaker 1: three total points in each of those games given up
Speaker 1: for the Panthers defense, But Drew Brees and Tom Brady
Speaker 1: were the the guys that they played the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Both of those teams scored thirty points. Drew Brees had
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes. Tom Brady had three or seven and two.
Speaker 1: What kind of quarterback is Stafford? I think he's somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle here. He probably he's probably like a
Speaker 1: two fifty and two kind of a game here. That's
Speaker 1: why he gets the C grade. That's that's B numbers
Speaker 1: two fifty and two. That's a good game, thank you well.
Speaker 1: I think one of those touchdowns goes to the Marvin Jones,
Speaker 1: who I talked about is might take a chance of
Speaker 1: a wide receiver like it. Golden Tate gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Tate ran seventy of his routes out of the slot
Speaker 1: last week, and the Panthers have allowed a slot wide
Speaker 1: receiver to score a touchdown in each of the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. Brandon Coleman and Danny Amondola did that, So
Speaker 1: he gets the B grade. Eric Ebron's on the bench.
Speaker 1: He was only on the field for of the snaps
Speaker 1: last week. He can be dropped. I think he can
Speaker 1: be dropped out right. One touchdown in his last year
Speaker 1: of football. For Eric Ebron. It is time for our
Speaker 1: by far, our longest lightning round of the year. You know,
Speaker 1: all the times that we're gonna play a C D
Speaker 1: C S we might get through this like three times,
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes of thirteen minutes of lightning round. That's amazing,
Speaker 1: three and a half times. We're told by Tony Um,
Speaker 1: here's the rules. You know, this works toughest question between
Speaker 1: two players, and only two players. We hang up on you.
Speaker 1: You listen to the response via the delay that comes
Speaker 1: through your radio. But we also will hear trades trades.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'd prefer that, actually prefer to hear your
Speaker 1: trade talk to be perfectly honest. All right, our first
Speaker 1: caller Eric Hello, half point PPRR, Grammar Rudolph, all right,
Speaker 1: I got Jimmy Graham this week. I'm I'm just afraid
Speaker 1: if if Keenum goes, then Rudolph's just not a player.
Speaker 1: Although if Bradford does go, it's a money in that game,
Speaker 1: money that game. You know he does go. I love
Speaker 1: him against those banged up line backers. The Chicago's got
Speaker 1: Michael your next, Michael Michael. I can't hear you, Michael Michael.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on hold. We'll go, We'll spin
Speaker 1: back around to Michael. Me'll take us off. Speaker. Eric Hello,
Speaker 1: Google PPR. Thomas Brown from Arizona Rawls or Jeron Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go with charges. Take a chance on me, Guy,
Speaker 1: Geron Brown, I don't know yet. Howard Hello, Hi guys
Speaker 1: Um Marchwn Lynch or Marshawn Lynch. It's a great After
Speaker 1: two punishingly difficult matchups, this one's much easier. In Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Mikey Hello, Hi, nonrn Or I'm sorry Cohen or who
Speaker 1: I think it was? Will Fuller, Okay, I'd go will
Speaker 1: Holler if it's not in PPR. Yeah, I agreed, Tom Hello,
Speaker 1: I have PPR Blacklijah McGuire, Eric Decker. Boy, we have
Speaker 1: bench grades on both guys. I would say McGuire if
Speaker 1: Forte sits, but I think he's playing, So I would
Speaker 1: roll the dice with Decker, with Corey Davis, how about
Speaker 1: if you drop Decker outright, pick up your guy Taylor,
Speaker 1: Taylor or Kenny Still Yeah, Jones, Marvin Jones, Right, and
Speaker 1: you can do better? Mark Hello, Yeah, PPR League, Mark Davis,
Speaker 1: Bryan or Marvin Jones. I'm sorry, who's the Mark Tavis,
Speaker 1: Mark Tavis, mar Jones. I'm going to Matt's guy. I
Speaker 1: had Bryant on the bench too, So yeah, there you go. Um,
Speaker 1: Michael will try you again. Let's see how it goes
Speaker 1: this time. Well, now Michael's just given up altogether. I
Speaker 1: think Brad you are next. Hello. That was offered Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham for Chris Holgans. Odell Beckham or what do you think,
Speaker 1: Brian Chris Hogan. He's totally legit. I would say, if
Speaker 1: you need a running back, if you're really probably for
Speaker 1: running back, do that deal. He was offered Odell though,
Speaker 1: so he would be losing Logan and Miller. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you can spare the I don't know it's a question, man,
Speaker 1: if you if you got to deep up running back bench,
Speaker 1: I'd do the deal. Yeah, if just an upgrade to Odell,
Speaker 1: I would. I would do again if you had a
Speaker 1: competent running back to fill that spot. Yep, Mike, Hello,
Speaker 1: digs are hill? Digs? Which which hill? Tyreek Hill? Tyreek Hill? Probably? Okay?
Speaker 1: Thank you? I think I like Tyreek Hill better in
Speaker 1: this matchup I gave him. Would be great. John, you're next.
Speaker 1: If we knew Bradford was gonna go, but it's Monday night.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna go back. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're an old. It's tough to play any Vikings this week. Really, John,
Speaker 1: your next? Hi? Uh? Both PPR Melvin Benjamin or Richard Man?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Okay? Oh Man? Mary? Yeah, it's you can't
Speaker 1: just start any of the receivers with Castle Town. If
Speaker 1: Mariota goes, I would go Matthews. But if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: I'll go Benjamin. Paul, You're next. Hi, straight up, trade
Speaker 1: Cam Newton for Marcus Mariota. I'd rather have Mariota in
Speaker 1: a landslide. As discussed earlier, I really think he the
Speaker 1: potential for him to unravel psychologically is here. I advised
Speaker 1: somebody on Twitter to watch Cam blow up against the
Speaker 1: Patriots and then trade him. Now is the time to
Speaker 1: trade Camp and I think it is too rob. Your
Speaker 1: next guys, bull PPR, Kemmy Watkins or Kelvin Benjamin Watkins
Speaker 1: or Benjamin I had Benjamin with a start grade and
Speaker 1: Watkins with a bench grade. We'll go there. Jesse, You're
Speaker 1: next battle of the take a chance on me, guys,
Speaker 1: full PPR. I've got n Detroit or I've got Jern
Speaker 1: Brown from Arizona. Who Brian gets to be the deciding
Speaker 1: factor Old PPR Jones isn't a high volume catch. John
Speaker 1: Brown is the ten targets a game. I would go
Speaker 1: lean Gern Brown and full PPR. I can agree, Dan
Speaker 1: your next half pay PPR uh either Richard Matthews or
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper Cooper again, I just you know until even
Speaker 1: if Mariota with a hamstring, I just too much, way
Speaker 1: too much risk there. And if it's matt Castle then
Speaker 1: all bets are off. Gosh, you're next, Yeah, Eli or
Speaker 1: bign okay Man. Ben's got the number one past defense going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll go Eli and Elis I I do
Speaker 1: like Big Ben this week, though he's got He's gonna
Speaker 1: pop off and have a big game, I think. But
Speaker 1: I think Eli is the safer play. His average home
Speaker 1: game over the last three years three hundred thirty five
Speaker 1: passing yards, two point eight passing touchdowns. You're arguing against
Speaker 1: your own advice. I'm pretty sure right now. But he
Speaker 1: faces the number one past defense in the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big Bill day that's allowed the number.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. Jackson was terrible against the run, the
Speaker 1: great against the pastor just gonna run Bell all day.
Speaker 1: That's my worry. Chad, you next Ellington or Joe? All right?
Speaker 1: What Jellington or Marvin? I'm assuming Marvin Jones, Yeah, Marvin Jones. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We love the concise questions, but you can't. You are
Speaker 1: allowed to give first names with your players. Rob your
Speaker 1: next uh PPR Arizona's Ellington or Jerk McKinnon. Ellington are
Speaker 1: full PPR. Especially again, they've carved out what David Johnson
Speaker 1: was doing through the air and they're giving all of
Speaker 1: that to Andre Ellington. He's averaging margets per game the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Brett, You're next, Jarvis Landry or Mark Davis,
Speaker 1: Brian PPR, Jarvis Landry and it's not close. Jim, you're next. Yeah, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm really frustrated with Brandon Marshall. Should I dropped him
Speaker 1: and pick up Sterling Shepard? Oh? This is the Giants
Speaker 1: question right here? Why do you think? Yes, Shepherd, Surgeon
Speaker 1: Marshalls not? I would Michael your next, mcclown. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what was again, Michael? I know you're trying. We just
Speaker 1: can't hear you. Cutler or McCown. I think you told
Speaker 1: him mcclown, which I like as well. That's that's a
Speaker 1: long standing bid here on the show. Yes, uh, if
Speaker 1: that is it, we'll take. We'll take mc take Cutler.
Speaker 1: We like, we like Coulor. We had as and Beesa
Speaker 1: for all his receivers. We're gonna take Cutler on this one. Brody, Hello, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: Dog Carton, h Jnan Adelman and Keenan Allen. That's the
Speaker 1: trade in a Dynasty League or Um, I'm sorry, Doug Martin,
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman and Um Marvin Jones for Keenan Allen in
Speaker 1: a Dynasty League trade. I like the Keenan Allen side
Speaker 1: a lot more. Okay, Matt, you are next hip full point,
Speaker 1: GPR or anything. I think that was Cohen Man. We're
Speaker 1: having a hard time hearing people. I think that was
Speaker 1: Cohen or Ellington. Oh, that's a coin flip. If I've
Speaker 1: ever heard one, I would go Cohen, I'd go Ellington.
Speaker 1: I'd go Ellington too. There's a chance that Travisky is
Speaker 1: gonna just destroy that whole offense. I see a lot
Speaker 1: of dump offs coing in that game, but I don't know. Billy.
Speaker 1: You're on the fan. Marshall or mixing PPR mix and
Speaker 1: had some wiggle the last couple of weeks. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: kind of down with it wiggling to two point six cards.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm I'm going Marshall, who's been targeted a
Speaker 1: lot more lately in a PPR league. I'll take Marshall.
Speaker 1: Jordan's your next standard league, Will Fuller or Brandon Marshall. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it's Will Fuller. Yeah, Darryl, you're on the
Speaker 1: fan cor the full point. It would be a slam
Speaker 1: dunk Duke. I'm still going Duke, though you'll see a
Speaker 1: ton of a ton of volume here. Tom, you're on
Speaker 1: the fan. Um, I'm very much in the first place,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably gonna stay there for at least in
Speaker 1: this a couple of weeks. Do I spend money on
Speaker 1: Luck and hold onto him, or do I stream quarterbacks
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: I would um, if you can, I would take I
Speaker 1: would take Luck. I mean, yeah, if you're telling me
Speaker 1: you don't need wins for the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: the roster spot's not gonna kill you. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: take Luck and but but wouldn't you be doing both.
Speaker 1: He would be stashing Luck and then stream roster spot.
Speaker 1: He's using up the roster spot on Luck that he
Speaker 1: would have used to stream quarterbacks in and out of
Speaker 1: what he said. So you're gonna take a zero for
Speaker 1: Luck the next few weeks, Well, yeah, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: start Luck. You canna start somebody else. It's just he
Speaker 1: doesn't have that spot I think available. But I don't
Speaker 1: think it means if you're gonna take a zero from
Speaker 1: Luck from several weeks that would change my answer. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do. I think they're not I think they're not
Speaker 1: utually exclusive. I think you take Luck and then you
Speaker 1: stream quarter right, Well, ideally, yes, Andrew Luck you guys
Speaker 1: are talking, uh, Confederate or General Mark, You're next Standard
Speaker 1: League mccaffy or Alex Collins, Ryan Standard, McCaffrey or Collins.
Speaker 1: I think Collins is the most carries for the Ravens
Speaker 1: and this one McCaffrey doesn't get any carries, especially in
Speaker 1: the red zone. I'm going to Collins Standard, Lee, Collins, Dan,
Speaker 1: you're next William Gollum or sure his last name is
Speaker 1: like Gollum. It's gonna have a precious game. No, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start, We're gonna stay, We're gonna start. Golman, He's
Speaker 1: might take a chance to me running back, he will
Speaker 1: get the vast majority of the work against the bottom
Speaker 1: ranked run defense in the NFL. Uh my, my college screener,
Speaker 1: says Doroth. I don't know if that's Dorothy or what
Speaker 1: that is. It sure is all right, Doroth high love
Speaker 1: the show, guys. Running back question touchdown heavy Jane for
Speaker 1: Green Bay or Balman for the Giants. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: going Jones this week. Really Yeah, I even split time
Speaker 1: with Williams. I'm saying that he's gonna split time with Williams.
Speaker 1: Colman is going to get all the world. I'm liking Jones. Alright,
Speaker 1: that's Jesse you are next. Yeah, another question for you,
Speaker 1: tight end. Do I go with Witten or do I
Speaker 1: go with Jesse James from Pittsburgh? Thank you. I put
Speaker 1: Whitten on the bench. It's just a tough matchup for
Speaker 1: the Packers, and Matt gave James a C grade. I
Speaker 1: just can't believe we talked to doroth No, Michael Hello
Speaker 1: Howell or for net non ppr um. I gotta keep
Speaker 1: starting for Net. Yeah, you never know what. The Jets
Speaker 1: they always find some way to frustrate the Powell owners
Speaker 1: out there. I believe that there's a chance come Sunday
Speaker 1: they're gonna pull a side galal Pole and say we
Speaker 1: want you to instead of playing football, we want you
Speaker 1: to spend today waxing Woody Johnson's dirigible. That could that
Speaker 1: could be a thing with the Jets. Tom, you are next.
Speaker 1: What just happened? Tom? Well, you got me on instead.
Speaker 1: I'm Jason. Sorry it says Tom here, but okay, Jason.
Speaker 1: Al Right, First of all, I like the show. I
Speaker 1: listened a lot of fancy podcasting. You guys are one
Speaker 1: of the most enjoyable shows. Thank you very much. Anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams if he goes or Golden Tape. I like
Speaker 1: Golden Tates in this matchup. I like the slot matchup
Speaker 1: for tape. Okay, thank you, scores Todd, you are next,
Speaker 1: Cam or a warrior, Okay, you better match up he does.
Speaker 1: I'm all the way I'm nervous about. I'm nearly nervous
Speaker 1: about Cam. David. You're next, uh full point PPR Carlos
Speaker 1: Hide or Makistics Carlos Hide. Good? Look this, Now, look
Speaker 1: what you've done. Mad mckissic is a changeup pace heiny
Speaker 1: runner who will if he's at best, He's a c. J.
Speaker 1: Procise replacement. That's it. I got a dollar bet with
Speaker 1: you that in fanball scoring mckissic will outscore Carlos Hyde.
Speaker 1: The Hid taken Eric, You're next, assuming Sam Bradford plays
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford or Andy Dalton. But you're not gonna know on.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna know on Bradford when you're
Speaker 1: gonna need to set Dalton lineup at noon? Going to
Speaker 1: start Andy Dalton this week? Find any almost virtually almost
Speaker 1: anybody else than Andy Dalton, Jacobe Burssette, Brian Hoyer, John
Speaker 1: McCown Josh mccow Cutler right, chat your next uh standard
Speaker 1: PPR PPR league looking for a black position Gallman or
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson, seem my Goldman again. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: what to Johnson is gonna give you, and it's not trivial,
Speaker 1: but it's not to me. It's PPR. I think he
Speaker 1: did say PPR in Yeah, I'm gall in on Golman.
Speaker 1: But if it's PPR, then just take to Johnson. Take
Speaker 1: anything less than full PPR will go Goldman. Dave, you're next.
Speaker 1: Two eyes dropped, Corey David to take up my growing No, No,
Speaker 1: Corey Davis will be back sooner. Caleb, Caleb, you're on
Speaker 1: the fan here you guys. How are you doing today? Good?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Um, I'm gonna looking for a flax flexo
Speaker 1: for this week. Warring ABU should go with Matthew. They're
Speaker 1: blood Richard Matthews like Eric blont I think that's easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you go blunt at home against Arizona. Get
Speaker 1: your touchdown to be happy. DJ You'll be our final
Speaker 1: call of one of our longest lightning rounds ever. Uh
Speaker 1: full point r Ron Drown or Wayne Goldman Child both
Speaker 1: of Mike take a chance of me. Guys, how are
Speaker 1: you going to choose? I'm gonna take Jern Brown with
Speaker 1: the consistency that he's given us. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Jern Brown. I like him a lot in this one. Um.
Speaker 1: As many of you know, our podcast through iTunes changed
Speaker 1: and now we've got a whole new feed, and that
Speaker 1: feed needs your votes and it needs your review is
Speaker 1: please spend some time if you would, If you listen
Speaker 1: to the show and you love it, especially if you
Speaker 1: like it, please go to iTunes rate and review the
Speaker 1: show because our old show, which have like sixteen hundred reviews,
Speaker 1: got torpedoed in this change. So for those of you,
Speaker 1: if you would take a moment to do that, we
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. And then you can hear the podcast
Speaker 1: there Tony posting the podcast like right now as soon
Speaker 1: as we are done. Thank you, Tony, appreciate all your work. Matt, Brian,
Speaker 1: good luck. Everybody will talk to you next week. I
Speaker 1: think ten o'clock start next week as well. Go for
Speaker 1: football at two thirty