WEBVTT - Calvin and Hobbes 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:07.240 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.920 source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.600 Now along with the guys. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.800 From guatine leagues dot com, here's your host, Paul Judge. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.959 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It is week number five, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.720 already a bloodbath for some people. If you started basically 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.320 any bucker Falcon, you've got a gigantic lead. And if 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.440 you were playing against any bucker Falcon, you need to 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:36.559 make up some ground. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:37.360 Yeah. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.519 Joining me today Matt Harrison and Thorne Eistrom. Hey boys 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:47.239 repeat blackho oh yeah again so much. They demanded that 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:48.360 you come back again. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.680 Fact by popular demand, demand is real. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.000 Maybe you never left. Maybe you've been in the studio 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.600 the whole time, just waiting a whole week. Yeah, I'm 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.880 back and do another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:00:59.279 That's it. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.640 We're gonna break down all the games, letter grades, and 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.080 all the players will have. Take a chance on me. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.240 With the nine players that you can start this week 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.240 that you would not normally start. We'll give you the 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.200 three tough questions, including what to do with DeVante Adams? 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.560 Is this a chance to strike right now? And premature 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:21.720 speculation later in the show Thor Let's start with you, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:27.440 my man, Cleveland Browns taking on the Washington Commanders for 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.200 the Browns, and this feels like an opportunity to get 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.600 this passing game going in a way that it really 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.240 hasn't all season. What's your level of optimism for Deshaun Watson, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.039 Amari Cooper and the other pass catchers. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.800 I'm gonna give Watson a c even with a really 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.720 good matchup. It's sort of hard to go over that 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.559 the decimated Browns offense only gain two hundred and forty 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.320 one total yards last week against the Raiders. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:50.520 They're gonna have some guys back. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.320 Watson had one hundred and seventy six yards in that game, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.280 but I wanted to point out an eighty two year 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.000 touchdown to Amari Cooper was called back because a holding. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.840 This is a really good matchup versus Washington. The Commanders 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.200 have allowed the most pass touchdowns in the second most 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.280 fantasy points two opposing quarterbacks. But Watson does not yet 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.440 have a two hundred passing yard game, as you guys know, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.079 and just not a high threshold, not a hi high threshold, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.720 and neither is five yards per attempt, which he has 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.000 not crossed either yet to this point, so I have 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.320 to give him a SEA based on that. Jerome Ford, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.400 I'm gonna give him a C as well. Nick Chubbs 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.240 nearing his return, but this is another week of bel 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.040 Kyle work for Ford. Eighty five yards and twelve fantasy 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:27.600 points last week for mister Ford. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.360 Heavily used in the passing game. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.960 Ford ranks third in running back targets in the NFL, 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.119 averaging five of those per game. Solid matchup for him too. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.400 Commanders allowed the second highest yards per carry. Washington has 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.560 specifically struggled with elusive running backs like four But because 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.680 of my pessimism about the Browns offense, I'm gonna keep 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.040 him out a sea. Amari Cooper, I'm gonna give him 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.160 a B despite that disastrous start to. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.480 The season that he has had so far. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.239 Yeah, he currently currently ranks number three on the Browns 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.360 on the team in receptions for Amari Cooper less than 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.880 eight fantasy points in three of his first four games. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.000 But this is the map presumably that should get him 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.639 off the ground. Commanders have allowed six wide receivers to 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.760 score fifteen plus fantasy points this year. Give him a 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:08.600 bee on that one. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:09.320 Jerry Judy. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.680 I'm gonna give him a C. He's been targeted seven 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.839 times or less. I'm sorry, he's been targeted seven less 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.360 times than Amari Cooper, but he has two more catches 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:18.040 house he. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.920 Doesn't drop all the passes that come his way. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.440 He does not drop down indeed, averaging twelve point three 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.000 more yards per game than Cooper. Judy is tied for 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.040 the team lead with three red zone targets as well. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.440 It's worth pointing out and the Commanders have allowed the 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.799 six high six most PPR points two boundary wide receivers 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.600 this year. David and Joku. I'm gonna give him a 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.200 bee if he plays. Did not practice on Thursday, so 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.560 it is if he that is looking iffy right now. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.960 But he is going to get targets if he does 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.040 in deep play, so keep your. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.280 Eye on that. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.200 Jayden Daniels is a must start at this point. Is 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.720 an obvious a number one in the NFL with twenty 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.760 three point four Fantasy points per game for the rookie, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.680 just absolutely insane. Brian Robinson, I'm gonna give him a 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.880 b RB seventeen and fantasy points per game, averaging eighteen 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.720 half touches and ninety four total yards per game. The 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.480 Browns run defense is allowed the second highest yards after 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.200 contact per attempt and the fourteenth most rushing yards per game. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.600 Robinson should be able to break some tackles here and 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.400 put up some stats. Terry McLaurin canna give him a 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.120 be leads the NFL in air and team air yard 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:22.560 percentage at fifty seven percent, and Jayden Daniels obviously first 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.520 a Reid rank their rate with McLaurin number seven, so 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.520 I'm going to give him a bee. Zach Ertz a 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.600 see cut fifteen of sixteen targets through four weeks. He's 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.560 currently the tight end eleven in Fantasy. Has not gotten 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.919 in the end zone yet though, but this is another 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.440 game where he is going to get a lot of looks. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.760 Four catches and forty and a half yards per game 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.839 opposing tight ends have done to the brown so far, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.480 but with no tight touchdowns, that's basically Ertz his average 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.520 stat line this season. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.680 The we do want to keep an eye on the 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.279 knee injury for Brian Robinson. He's officially listed as a 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.400 game time decision, and if he can't go, Austin Eckler 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.960 is available for this game. He's cleared the concussion protocol, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.719 and so I wonder if Eckler becomes Robinson and Jeremy 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.600 McNichols becomes Eckler, if Brian Robinson doesn't go, I know, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.200 you know, could be, but Eckler could be sitting on 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.560 a really big, potentially a big usage game here for sure. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:13.880 Yeah. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.719 Yeah, Daniel's been looking at those high percentage targets so 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.000 far this season, and obviously Eckler is a guy that 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:19.719 converts those. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:20.760 Yeah, does Yeah. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.760 I want to mention this about Daniels. With the amazing 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.440 start that he's had. The first two games, it was 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.279 all short stuff and that helped build this huge completion 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.360 percentage that Jaden Daniels has had. But the next the 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.680 last two games, he's aaron out downfield. Daniels right now 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.840 is sitting at the seventh most completions of more than 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.840 fifteen yards, and almost all of them in the last 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.880 two weeks. So, you know, I love the cliff Kingsbury was. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:48.120 He was cautious early, built some confidence. Now it's it's 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:49.239 you know, Bob's away. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.080 You're seeing a really quick evolution there. You know. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.920 In Daniels his first game, he ran, ran, ran, which 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.520 is obviously a strength of his game. But then yeah, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.760 the last couple of games where the passing has improved, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.560 it's been some of that shorter stuff, but you have 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.960 gradually seen that uptick in the downfield throws. Daniels' other 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.720 superpower coming out outside of this scrambling, it was the 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.800 downfield throwing. He's an absolute assassin downfield. That is going 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.560 to be the next part of his game that starts. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:12.840 To flower out. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.560 Yeah, I can't wait to see how that works out 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.720 for him, and extremely optimistic at this point. Matt Let's 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.200 transition over to the Bills taking on the Texans. For 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.280 Josh Allen, it's been two out of the last three 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:29.960 weeks have been major fantasy bummers, guillotine assassins. This matchup 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.440 against the Texans, to me, he has got some danger 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.159 signs in it. What you how are you feeling about 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.159 a bounce back here? For Josh Allen, it is a 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.160 strange matchup. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.440 The Texans have allowed the fifth fewest passing yards but 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.080 the fifth most passing scores. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.680 After allowing the fewest passing scores last year across the 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:46.200 whole league. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.960 Yeah, so I'm gonna give Josh Allen an a I 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.560 think that he's still gonna get back and bounce back 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:52.599 in a big way this week. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:54.120 I like him here. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.360 Dalton Kincaid the better of the two Dalton tight ends here. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.560 Houston has been good against the tight end thus far, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.880 but the best one they faced was Cole Comet. So 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.760 I'm going to give kin Kaid to Bee because i 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.679 think he's probably the best receiving option. With Khalil Shakir out, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.360 that leaves Keon Coleman and Mac Hollins as the presumed starters. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.559 Coleman and Hollands both ran routes on approximately eighty percent 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.200 of Allen's dropbacks last week, and Kurtis Samuel probably take 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.400 Shakir's place in the slot most often, where he'll most 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.320 often see the best matchup against Jalen Petrie. But I'm 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.280 not going to start any of those wide receivers. I 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.120 don't want to start any of those in a matchup 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.000 like this. James Cook gets a solid b though. On paper, 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.800 the Texans look good against the run, but in the 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.320 last two weeks, Aaron Jones tagged them for one hundred 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.760 and forty eight total yards in a score, and last 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.760 week Travis Etn and Tank Bigsby combined for one hundred 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.760 and fifty total yards. Problem is, James Cook isn't scoring 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.080 or sorry, when he's not scoring, he's not producing at all. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.680 And the Texans have only allowed three total running back 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.280 touchdowns through the first four games. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.600 So that's why it's just a bee. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.440 I'm gonna oppress you for a second on Josh Allen. Yeah, well, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.200 hold on, due Dalton. First, dude, we haven't hit on Kinkaid. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:04.720 No, I did? 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.160 You did? Okay? So you have only one letter grade 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.240 that's on Kincaid. So Josh Allen's still an A when 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.720 you have no letter grade on any of his receivers 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.120 and you've got what was it a be on Kincaid. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.160 I got to be on Kinkaid to be on Cook, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.120 and I think Allen's just buoyed by the rushing yard. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.880 Still, okay, all right, all right? 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.840 C J. Stroud and Nico Collins they get a grade. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.120 Scott Fish passed on this stat to us last week. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.600 Nico Collins has seventeen plays of fifteen plus yards. No 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.640 other wide receiver in the league has done that more 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.600 than nine times this year. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:44.200 You don't say, yeah, is Nico Collins nine Dynasty gold 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:44.920 right now. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:45.600 I think he is. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.800 Actually, I just traded him in my dynasty league this week. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.240 I needed a quarterback and I traded him for Jordan 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:53.520 Love in a super flex league. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:54.200 I think I got good. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.240 Value in super flex Yess, that's plausible. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.000 Absolutely. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.560 Bills are a middle of the pack pass defense, so 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.200 I like those guys, and I like Stefan Diggs. The 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.040 Bills run zone coverage at the ninth highest clip in 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.440 the NFL. Diggs is torching zone coverage to the tune 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.880 of zero point four to three PPR Fantasy points per 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.360 route run, and he's running about twenty routes per game 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.800 into zone. So we're looking at a minimum of ten 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:24.040 points for Diggs on those zone coverages. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.120 So a B grade for Diggs. Tank Dell. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.240 He's still working back from chest and hand injuries that 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.439 had him miss last week. It looks like he's trending 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.320 towards going, but I think i'd rather bench Dell this 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.800 week just in case. The Bill's slot corner Tarren Johnson, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.320 looks like he'll be returning from injury this week. He 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.760 was one of the better slot corners last season, allowing 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.920 only two hundred fourteen yards in his coverage over seventeen 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:46.920 games last year. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.440 And the outside corners, by the way, also great. Christian 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.640 Benford and Rasul Douglas to me are second only to 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.800 Sauce Gardner and DJ Reid in terms of cornerback tandems. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.880 Well, Colin, I'll talk a little bit about them later 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.880 in the show. Schultz remains the inferior Dalton tight end 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.679 and should stay on your bench unless he sees more 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.920 than three catches or thirty four yards in a game, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.400 which are his season highs. Joe Mixon not expected to 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.200 go this week. Damian Pierce practiced in a limited fashion. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.440 He might go, but it's probably another week of cam 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.920 Akers and Daria Goombawala and if pierces in then it's three. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.000 And last week it was a straight time share between Acres, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.559 who had twenty six snaps and a goomble Walle who 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.120 had twenty seven. Acres had more rushing attempts thirteen to two, 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.400 but at Goomblewle had four targets to Acres zero, and 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.160 Dare scored the touchdown. The Bills present a great matchup too, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.280 because they're allowing the most running back combo yards in 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.600 the league at one hundred and eighty per game. If 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.520 you have to start one, I think it's a goomble walle. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.800 Because the Bills have allowed the second most receptions to 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.280 opposing runners with twenty eight through four games. I'd rather 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.400 keep them all on the bench, But if I gotta 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.160 start one, it's dare a goombawalle. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:04.080 All right, stuck. Baltimore taking on Cincinnati an important game 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.880 in terms of divisional standings here, and let's begin with 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:12.440 Derrick Henry just destroying defenses in back to back weeks. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.880 You know that Ravens offensive line with all the new parts, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.640 the new tackles. The first couple of weeks, the new 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.680 parts weren't working very well. Then they got on the 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.240 same page and they're just crushing. And for Derrick Henry, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.200 he's got to get that big head of steam going 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.840 vertically when that line is opening up those holes. It's 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:36.920 just dominating. Cincinnati seeing the fourth highest run rate against them. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.800 So another gigantic volume game coming from Henry. In their 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.559 four games, the Bengals have allowed no less than one 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.000 hundred and ten total yards and or two touchdowns to 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.440 opposing runners. So in obvious a great for Derrick Henry. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.800 I think he's my running back two this week, Let's 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.960 go to the passing game, Lamar Jackson. These negative game 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.920 scripts have hurt him a lot. Just fifteen and eighteen. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.199 He passes the last two games with Derek Henry running 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.920 wild and compounding matters. Cincinnati has seen the seventh fewest 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.880 passing attempts, but Jackson's posted passing touchdowns in every game 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.559 and rushing touchdowns in consecutive games. Two weeks ago, Jackson's 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.400 closest comparable runner, Jayden Daniels, posted thirty nine rushing yards 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.120 and a score against Cincinnati. So I've still got an 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.800 a grade on Lamar Jackson, but just the C grade 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.040 on Za Flowers and nobody else is going to register 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.040 a letter grade. This is much like the Josh Allen 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:36.160 discussion Matt Baltimore's low passing output killing Jay Flowers. Baltimore 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.800 ranks thirty first in pass attempts to wideouts. Flowers is 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.880 going to see a lot of cocksure cornerback cam Britt Taylor. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.520 He ranks his Pro Football Focus as fifty third ranked cornerback. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.120 He's already allowed two passing touchdowns in his coverage and 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.520 an opposing passer rating of one hundred and seventeen. I 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.280 wish there was more volume, but I can only get 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.280 you to a C grade on Za Flowers. Then there's 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.640 the tight ends. I don't think I've overreacted, but I 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.640 have dropped Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely in all of 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.439 my combined leagues that had them. They're just getting basically 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.720 no work in the passing game. Likely has run ten 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.280 and thirteen routes the last two weeks. Oh my god, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.280 that's it. Andrews even worse, ten and six routes the 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.880 last two weeks and no catches combined. They've only been 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.440 targeted five times the past two games. The Bengals haven't 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.480 allowed a touchdown to a tight end, yet none of 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.400 top thirty eight receiving yards. There's nothing to like here. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.400 Andrews and Likely are on the bench. All right, let's 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.880 go to the Cincinnati side. Jamar Chase obvious eight. Let's 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.400 just get that out of the way. I also like 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.360 T Higgins with a B grade. Last week, his second 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.040 game back from injury, Higgins saw his target share explode 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.960 to thirty four percent, so I can assume he's back 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.040 to being a reliable and maybe even sometimes explosive starter. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.080 The Ravens pass defense, which has been great for years, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.840 has been unusually susceptible this year. They've given up big 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:04.840 games to Rashi, Rice Davante, Adams and even second bananas. Cavante, Turpin, 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.840 Jalen Tolbert, Keon Coleman have all done well. So I 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.400 like Higgins here as well. And did we figure out 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.280 what second banana even means? I think last week we 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.240 might have talked about this, what what does it mean 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:15.920 to be a second binan? 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.679 I felt like it was a state fair show. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:18.560 Yeah, maybe it was. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:19.400 It was way back then. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.480 It was a while ago. Second banana. We don't know 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:22.440 why second banana. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.880 I mean the top banana. You got that one right. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.520 No, I'd prefer to be the top panay. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.360 You want to be the top banana. You don't want 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.200 to start at the bottom of the bunch and. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.960 Work your way up. Yeah, I guess so other members 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.120 of the passing game. Cincinnati's tight ends are a four 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.120 way mess and we're but we're going to keep watching 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.120 the development of Eric All and I think we're going 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.880 to talk a little bit more about him later in 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.920 the show. But none of them register letter grades at 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.560 this point. Let's talk Joe Burrow. Ravens shutdown Josh Allen 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.880 last week, which makes Burrow feel a little bit tricky here, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.800 But the prior three quarterbacks to face Baltimore averaged three 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.520 hundred and fifteen yards and one one point three touchdowns. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.520 That's terrific. The Ravens have been far easier to pass 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.480 upon than run upon, and it's reflected by the thirty 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.440 seven pass attempts they're seeing every game that is the 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.560 third most so on sheer volume. I still like Joe 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.320 Burrow in this game. Be great on him. Now, let's 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.520 go to the thorniest part, Zach Moss and Chase Brown. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.640 M It looks like we're at a roughly fifty to 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.320 fifty time share here between Moss and Brown. Brown coming 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:33.239 off his best game as a pro, including pivotally pivot, pivot, pivotally, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.040 pivotally two carries from inside the five yard low, something 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.480 that he had never touched the ball in his entire 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.560 NFL career from inside the five before last week, and 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.480 he turned those carries into touchdowns. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.040 Wow, they gave him a chance and he converted. Yeah, 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.520 never gave him a chance before. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:55.520 Among runners. With Chase Brown's twenty nine carries. Chase Brown 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.840 ranks number one in yards per carry at six point three, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.520 and he's number one in yards after contact at four 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.360 point five. Brown's running great now, Mosses look good too, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.480 but this is a brutal matchup for both guys. The 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.760 Ravens of the league's best run defense allowing just forty 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:18.200 two rushing yards per game and a minuscule two point 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.160 seven yards per carry. No opposing runner has top forty 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.320 five yards against Baltimore, and it took Isaiah Pacheco fifteen 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.880 carries to get to those forty five yards. Neither bought 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.000 Moss nor Brown are likely to see anywhere near fifteen carries, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:37.800 So I've just got C grades on those guys. Hey, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.840 it's never too late to doin a Gullantine league and 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.360 paid contests now available at Guillotine league dot com. If 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.960 you've been patiently waiting to join a guillotine league for 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.800 prized leagues, this is your chance. 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We don't know if he's 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.200 gonna We don't know if he's gonna start. I'm gonna 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.600 say he does just by reading the tea leaves. It 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.160 doesn't look like Anthony Richardson is gonna go. He's been 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.800 limited all week with what they're calling an oblique injury now, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.840 but it was called a hit pointer last week, and 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.600 Flacco's taking all the first team reps in practice. It's 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.160 one of those rare cases, though, in which it's really 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.320 not a huge step down to start your healthy backup 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.320 over your injured starter. So it seems like it would 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.520 be wise for Flacco to get the start here against 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.520 a Jacksonville defense that's one of the worst pass units 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.919 in the NFL. They're bottom seven and completions yards and 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.040 touchdowns allowed to oppose in quarterbacks. And by the way, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.120 when Flacco came in, he just started chucking it. Last 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.480 week twenty six attempts in relief, one hundred and sixty 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.720 eight yards, two touchdown passes, no picks. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.080 Let's go Joe Flacco. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.240 I love that he got just got the ball to 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.280 his receivers. I mean, Michael Pittman, Josh Downs. Those guys 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:41.080 became could become instantly fantasy viable when Joe Flacco's your quarterback. Yes, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:42.080 not asking too much? 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:42.359 Is it? 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:43.760 Not asking it out a lot? 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.760 No, I'm gonna ask Thorn Eistrom, who's your take a 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:47.680 chance on me? Quarterback? 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:48.560 Take a chance on me? 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.840 Quarterbacks Geno Smith against the Giants this week. Gino has 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.960 eighteen fantasy points in three of four games this year 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.359 and three hundred passing yards and two of his last three, 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.040 which is good for quarterback eight in fantasy points per 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.960 game this year. Had the career high three hundred and 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.840 ninety five yards on Monday Night, completing seventy two point 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:08.719 three percent of his attempts. And this is a very 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.760 good matchup against a bad Giants defense. Giants have allowed 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.040 the sixth highest passer rating in the NFL this year. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.280 Deontay Banks is a massive liability. Of course, he's allowed 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.720 a he's tied for the leagu high and four touchdowns 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.760 allowed through four games. In his coverage, Gino Smith should 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.800 be in the ms warily, but the MVP conversation through 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:27.720 four weeks. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.000 He's going to keep putting up numbers. Yeah, Ryan Grubb, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.680 Oh love, Ryan Grove. Yes, what a big upgrade from 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.000 Shane Waldron to Ryan Grubb. Yes, and that transitions me 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:37.920 to Caleb Williams. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.600 My take for Fack, that was professional right there, charge 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:46.560 Bud and coincidental. Despite Shane Waldron, it has been steady 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.639 incremental progress for Caleb Williams. Coming off a game with 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.280 just six and completions. I need Shane Waldron to get 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.879 put more air in the ball. Too many short passes. Look, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.880 I understand you're trying to build confidence in your young 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.280 passer and everything else, but let's start airing it out 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:02.800 a little bit. 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:03.879 Still. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.720 Williams is completing just thirty one percent of his passes 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:08.919 over ten yards, So I understand the reluctance here, but 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.520 this is your opportunity, Carolina. On the schedule, they're allowing 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.400 the tenth most passing yards per attempt, so hopefully we're 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.360 going to get more downfield passing from Caleb Williams Oliver's 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.280 receivers healthy. Finally, Carolina is the only team that has 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.440 allowed multiple passing touchdowns in every game this year. Let's 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:28.960 get a multiple passing touchdown game from Caleb Williams. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.359 Charge if you stay right like like you've been on 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.160 take a chance. I mean, you've been pretty hot this year. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:33.840 Thank you. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.040 I think that this is the last. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.000 Time you'll be able to acquire Caleb Williams and I 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:39.960 might tell you. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.600 A little bit later in Okay, good, I'm looking forward 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.560 to that. I'm also looking forward to hearing about your 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:45.639 take a chance on your running back. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.920 Speaking of injured Colts, Jonathan Taylor out this week. He's 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.160 dealing with an ankle sprain, which means Trey Sermon gets 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.960 the start against the Jags defense that is also bad 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.720 against running backs, especially through the air, where they have 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.560 allowed the fourth most receptions and the third most receiving yards. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.000 They're giving up one hundred and thirty eight total yards 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.480 per game to the position. That pretty much all goes 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:07.760 to Trey Sermon this week. 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.240 All right, I'm with you a nice plug and play 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.119 running back that you can start this week, Trey Sermon 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.040 sor you're taking chance at me running back. 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.240 I'm gonna go with Raiders running back Alexander Madison against 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.040 the Broncos. Yep, Antonio Pierce, who just got a show 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.520 cause from the NCAA. The NCAA loves doing that to 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.440 sitting NFL head coaches. They wait for the punishment. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.840 what he's banned for like nine years ago. He's not 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.800 going back. He's not going back. But he suggested that 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.160 it was earlier this week that it's time to start 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:41.000 considering some backfield changes. And then on Friday, Pierce strongly 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.480 suggested that Zamir White will be out for this game 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.080 against the Broncos. Been listed as doubtful, which in the 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:48.800 NFL means out by you go back years and years 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:52.320 and years. Madison behind Zamir White has been averaging six 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.880 point one touches per game, but he's been very good 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.080 in that small sample. Madison is averaging over five yeards 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.520 per carry and has scored three touchdowns. Unlimited touches usage 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:03.840 is gonna spike this week if Zamir is indeed out. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.560 This is not the best matchup, but the volume will 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.000 be there again. In particular, if Zamir is out, the 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.080 Raiders run game gets stuffed at the highest rate in 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.440 the NFL, and the Broncos defense has the six highest 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:15.840 stuff rate in the NFL. But the Raiders might, from 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.560 a game planning perspective, might figure that the ground is 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.919 more advantageous than the air to try to attack this 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.280 Broncos defense. And if Alexander Madison's the one guy standing there, 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:25.760 he is going to get a ton of touches. 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.600 I like that This Denver defense very good. It's really 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.840 they're very good. So they've allowed thirteen to nine and 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.639 seven points the last three weeks. If you like, I 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:37.760 don't care who you're playing, although Baker Mayfield and the 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:38.920 Bucks are in that mix. 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.480 Yeah, that's really impressed. And the bronc you know, just 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:43.800 on this the other side of it. They did take 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.000 Brisee Hall totally out of that game last week. No, 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.240 it is in bad conditions, of course, et cetera, et cetera. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.480 But it's a very good run defense as well, in 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.679 addition to being a good pass defense. But Madison's going 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.280 to get the touches, and he's been playing well. 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.040 Green Bay running back Emanuel Wilson's been playing well and 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:01.040 he's catching juicy matchup. The Rams are had lasted rushing 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:05.359 yards allowed at one hundred and sixty five rushing yards 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:08.080 allowed to your game. That is a ton. They're also 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:12.360 second to last in yards per carry at five Los 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:16.080 Angeles rings twenty eighth, and run defense win rate. They're 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:20.200 so bad against the run that non starting running backs 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.720 against them are doing well, including Rosawn Johnson's touchdown last week. 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:28.600 Amari de Marcado rolled up forty six yards against them, 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.679 and against Detroit, both Gibbs and Montgomery got paid, so 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.240 depth running backs able to get something done against the Rams. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.479 Emmanuel Wilson honestly looking just as good as Josh Jacobs. 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:40.360 I prefer Jacobs, of course, who's probably going to get 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.600 more work here, but Wilson's getting plenty of work as well. 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:45.160 All right, let's go to our receivers. Matt who you got? 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:47.439 I went with two colts, so why not go with 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.600 the third? Josh Downs, he's also a cult. He was 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:53.000 finally healthy last week and resumed his duties in the 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:56.360 slot and made a d Mitchell an afterthought. Downs will 0:23:56.359 --> 0:24:00.240 see Jerry and Jones almost exclusively in his coverage, allowing 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.199 a seventy nine percent completion percentage on balls in his 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.680 coverage for an average of fourteen yards per reception. 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:09.119 And the Jags as a whole. 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:12.520 Have allowed the thirst third most receptions and yards to 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:14.000 opposing wide receivers. 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:17.080 All right, thor your receiver take a chance from you receive. 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:19.760 Sticking with the Raiders, going with Trey Tucker in this 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:20.880 game against the Broncos. 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.360 Back to back big games, Fat Tray Tucker. 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.480 Back to back, Yeah, and last week's he had the 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.400 six touches for forty four total yards with the touchdown. 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:31.479 DeVante Adams, of course, is out again. Tucker was on 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.120 the field for eighty five percent of the snaps last week. 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:36.480 That was up from sixty percent in Week two. The 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:39.480 Raiders also throw the ball sixty four percent of the time, 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:41.600 that is the fourth highest rate in the NFL. Of course, 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:43.880 game scripts heavily play into that. Yeah, but that might 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:46.359 hear again right if they fall behind the Broncos. 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:48.480 So the speedster Tucker, and that's. 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:51.240 His special sauce is that speed should get targets again, 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:54.440 particularly with the Raiders wanting to avoid Patrick Surtann in 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:58.280 this one, Tucker is going to get Riley Moss. Moss 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:00.040 been playing a little bit better in recent weeks, but 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.560 he's still allowed to sixty four percent catch rate, ninety 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.600 three passer rating on the season. A decent matchup here 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:06.960 for Trey Tucker if you need a flyer. 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:09.560 I have so much respect for Trey Tucker that when 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:12.959 I was analyzing this matchup for I'm asking myself, is 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.240 Patrick Sir Tan for sure going to be on Jacoby 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:19.880 Myers in this one? But Noavante Adams or do they 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.600 try to take away the deep threat that Tucker's got 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:26.240 because that guy's just breaking open defenses right now. 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:26.400 For sure. 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:30.200 Yeah, extremely extremely explosive. He gave problems to Power five 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:32.560 teams when he was at Cincinnati in college. Those really 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:35.160 good Luke Fickel Cincinnati teams made the playoff one year. 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:36.879 Explosive, explosive player. 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:39.560 Yeah, it's that was my That's my only hesitation, and 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.760 it'll probably be Sirtan on Jacoby Myers and then he's dead. Yeah, 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:45.879 but Sirtan is doing to opposing great razy here. It 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.439 is stupid like Mike Evans sitting on like two catches 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:51.000 for twelve yards. I mean it is Sir Tan's having 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:54.320 a or not for Aiden Aiden Hutchinson. Sir Tan would 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:58.080 be my defensive MVP at this stage of the season. Yeah, uh, 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:00.359 wide receiver two two at well is my take chance 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:01.240 of meat wide receiver. 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:01.920 I like that one. 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:04.520 Green Bay Star cornerback jay Or Alexander may not go 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:07.280 again in this game. He's got the groin injury. But 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:09.800 even when he was playing, the Packers secondary look bad. 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:14.080 Number two receivers have trucked this secondary in every game. 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:17.080 It was Jordan Addison last week. Before that, it was 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.879 DeAndre Hopkins. Before that it was Alec Pierce, and before 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.880 that it was DeVonta Smith. The last two weeks, to 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:25.959 to out Well has run eighty three percent and ninety 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.320 one percent of the team's routes. He's heavily involved in 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:31.600 this offense to to out Well. Nice sneaky play Jordan 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:33.400 Winnington as well. Well, we'll talk more about that when 0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:36.199 we get to the matchup. Speaking of matchups, let's go 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:40.399 back to them. You just outlined many Raiders in this game, 0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:43.480 so let's let's go Raiders Broncos. You've already told us 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:46.600 about Alexander Madison, and I know you like him. Let's 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:49.000 resume with the rest of the passing game here. For 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:50.000 the Raiders, Thoor. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.760 Gardner Minshew, keep him on the bench in this one 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:55.560 KB thirty one and fantasy points per game. Did nothing 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:57.639 against the Browns last week, and this is a brutal, 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:00.960 brutal matchup against that vicious Broncos defense in particularly the past. 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:03.600 Keep Gardner Minshew on the bench. If you can mentioned 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.640 before about Zamir White probably going to miss this game. 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:09.840 DeVante Adams definitely is going to miss this game with 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:11.200 the hamstring injury. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:15.280 Hams ring injury. The Rabbit quotes there, why I have 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:20.480 injured my handstring picking up this phone right here? 0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:25.040 How so that elevates Jacoby Myers two again, Air quotes 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:27.760 the wide receiver one designation on the depth chart. But 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:30.520 of course he's the number two option behind Brock Bauers. 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:33.560 And this is a horrible matchup. Charge mentioned before the 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:35.960 Patrick Surtan and what are the Broncos going to do 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:38.359 with him here? He's going to erase one side of 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.280 the field, I mean, no matter where. Among cornerbacks in 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:43.520 the NFL who have had over one hundred coverage snaps 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:46.159 this year, Cirtan is number four in both tight window 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:50.119 throw rate and in average yards of separation the least. 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:52.160 And of course he's just been a racing of run 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:55.320 that he faces. Brock Bowers is an obvious must start 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.880 with a. He is going to get all those manufactured 0:27:57.920 --> 0:27:59.800 touches near the line of scrimmage and then try to 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:03.680 go berserker breaking tackles. Moving over to the Broncos Bonicks. 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:05.200 Of course you have to keep him on the bench. 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:07.639 Twelve he would twelve for twenty five for sixty yards 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:10.639 against the Jets. He did throw his first touchdown pass, 0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:13.440 so how about that. Congrats to bow on that cord. Yeah, 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:17.160 Bonix is minus fifty four point four pass epa dead 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:20.080 last among quarterbacks, so yeah, keep him on the bench. 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:22.320 Javonte Williams give him a seed. He had a mini 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:24.400 breakout against the Jets. Was one of the only offensive 0:28:24.400 --> 0:28:26.320 guys in that game that had a decent game season 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:29.560 high eighteen touches end to season high eighty total yards. 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:31.879 This is a good matchup to build momentum off of that. 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.240 The Raiders defense is coughed up fifteen point five plus 0:28:35.280 --> 0:28:38.280 fantasy points too opposing running back ones in all four 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:40.800 games so far this season. Only other guy to talk 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:42.760 about on the Broncos side is Courtland Sutton. 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:43.920 I'm gonna give him. 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:44.400 A see here. 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:48.240 He scored almost twenty nine Fantasy points the last two weeks. 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:51.520 Was targeted nine times against the Jets. But of course 0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:53.840 all he had the three catches for sixty yards and 0:28:53.960 --> 0:28:56.360 a touchdown with the one big catch there is where 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:57.280 he got the value back. 0:28:57.520 --> 0:28:59.040 Sutton is get this one. 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:00.920 Sutton is the only player in the NFL with one 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:02.920 of its team's red zone targets. 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:03.200 Wow. 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:06.880 Yeah, but of course you know the the Broncos offense 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:07.720 caveats apply. 0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:10.040 Is it one of one? 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:14.160 Nice Sun's gonna keep seeing the targets. But Bonnick has 0:29:14.200 --> 0:29:16.800 all kinds of problems completing passes beyond ten yards down 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:20.160 the field, So those apply, and no other Bronco pass 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.040 catchers worth starting for those reasons or even considering. 0:29:22.800 --> 0:29:25.200 Uh, what great did you give on a sudden season. 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:26.600 I'm going to see on some it sounds right. 0:29:26.640 --> 0:29:29.200 Yeah, I think I would do the same thing. There's 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:32.440 an early Sunday game. Oh that is a nine to 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:36.080 eastern kickoff. I gotta go get our guests western Yes, 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:40.400 in the green room. Colin mccochney, he's coming our longtime 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:44.960 London correspondent knows so much about football in the NFL. 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:48.080 I can't wait to find out what Colin's got to 0:29:48.120 --> 0:29:50.880 say about the Jets taking on the Vikings. 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It 0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:34.760 is time to go across the pond, Jets taking on 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:40.600 the Vikings that we've got, We've got our London correspondent, 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:43.600 Colin mccotney, ready to break down this game. 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:47.840 Ay Collin, Jeez and kisses and allou to you Chochytis 0:30:47.920 --> 0:30:51.400 Colin mccochney and backstreets back Chotchy boy. 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:54.200 Oh hi Colin great to hear from you again. 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:57.520 Got a bag a few apples and pairs with them 0:30:57.640 --> 0:30:59.800 strikers to get y'all sorted. 0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:00.560 For the fan foot. 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:04.959 The Flying Metal Birds be rock solid with the tiny 0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:10.240 fizzy pop Natic battle Boys at Old York this week. 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:12.480 I think you're talking about the Jets and the Vikings. 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:14.800 Yeah, and I can do some translating here. 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:16.200 Colin don't speak fluid Cockney. 0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:18.520 He said hello to everyone, and he's about to do 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:20.720 the matchup between the Jets and the Vikings in Old 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:21.680 York on Sunday. 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:25.320 Got you nice try Thundy, Clever Mike. 0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:29.160 And a Gypsy's kiss, swearing Aaron on a sea shanty, 0:31:29.680 --> 0:31:32.920 smashing chest hair, hedges on Billy's beans. 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:35.600 Blimey, he's a worker in a colony. 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:36.560 Yeah. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:38.920 He said that Aaron Rodgers is getting a C grade 0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:42.480 in this game. The Vikings have seen the most passing attempts, completions, 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:45.400 and yards against their defense this season, mostly because every 0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:48.320 team has been in garbage time and trailing by multiple scores. 0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:50.720 But Rogers has been held under three hundred yards in 0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:54.360 every game he's played since Week fourteen of twenty twenty one, 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.840 and has only thrown for multiple touchdowns twice in his 0:31:57.920 --> 0:31:58.840 last ten games. 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:02.160 I would never have guessed that translation. Wow, that's brilliant 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:05.760 of you. Thor all right, Colin, so maybe uh what 0:32:05.840 --> 0:32:06.720 about the running game? 0:32:07.200 --> 0:32:11.040 Oh nah, Carrot and Lizard are a pair of Jimmy 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:15.360 choosers and they're locked in a basin of gravy, smurfs 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.800 and flying lions like a dumpster diving. 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:21.200 What he's saying is Garrett Wilson and ELM Lazar gets 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:24.240 secretes as well. Both of their average depth of targets 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:26.400 this year has been hovering around eight, which is about 0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:28.920 half of what guys at the top of that list 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:32.640 are averaging. Matchups against Shaq Griffin and Byron Murphy are 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.280 about average, and the Vikings have allowed the most wide 0:32:35.280 --> 0:32:37.560 receiver yardage so far this year at two twenty one 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:40.320 per game, but again, much of that obviously is garbage time. 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:44.800 Conky two thousand is a Jammy Jodger and ready to 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:48.560 for a pint foggy underwearing a proper belting for him. 0:32:49.560 --> 0:32:52.760 Tyler Conklin, what Colin's saying, Tyler Conklin is worthy of 0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:55.800 a sea as well. Conklin has seen fourteen targets the 0:32:55.880 --> 0:32:58.120 last two weeks and the Vikings have been bottom ten 0:32:58.120 --> 0:33:00.880 against tight ends in every category or including giving up 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.400 touchdowns to George Kittle and Tucker Craft in the last 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:03.880 two weeks. 0:33:04.240 --> 0:33:06.880 Now about the running backs for the Jets. 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:09.640 A greasy fleece and a Mickey mouse in your blouse. 0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:13.280 Tough to jam tart on those nobbies because Jimmy the 0:33:13.360 --> 0:33:15.040 lemon merchant is selling pairs. 0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:17.800 Yeah, he's talking about Breese Hall and Braylen. Allen. 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:20.280 Hall is still a startable with a see, he said, 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:22.920 But Allen is on the bench because of the leads. 0:33:22.920 --> 0:33:25.560 The Vikings a belt. No one is running against them. 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:27.960 But they're also a very they're very good win opponents 0:33:28.000 --> 0:33:31.080 do try Vikings, allowing an eighth best in the NFL 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:33.880 three point nine yards per carry and only two total 0:33:33.920 --> 0:33:36.800 touchdowns to the position this year. Hall is still getting 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:38.960 two thirds of the snap so he's still worth the 0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:41.720 start here. But this is a tough matchup, according to Colin. 0:33:41.840 --> 0:33:43.640 How about the Viking side, Colin. 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:48.160 Yeah, Sammy the submarine captain make Coppin oily rag on 0:33:48.200 --> 0:33:49.520 a Sheffield Wednesday. 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:52.880 But blimey, no utter brothers can deny. 0:33:53.520 --> 0:33:55.200 Well, you guys all heard what he said. 0:33:55.240 --> 0:33:56.080 But it's so obvious. 0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:58.840 Yeah, Sam Darnold faces his toughest test of the year 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.320 so far, but CON's it'll give him a C grade. 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:04.120 That Jets are top five in completions and yards allowed 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:07.320 to the quarterback position, but they haven't faced great competition 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.520 yet in the last three weeks Will Levis, Jacoby Brissett 0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:13.600 and our boy bon Knicks. So advantage goes to Donald 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:16.680 in his second Jets revenge game. In his first Jets 0:34:16.719 --> 0:34:19.520 revenge game well with the Panthers, Donald had two hundred 0:34:19.520 --> 0:34:21.600 and seventy nine yards and a touchdown through the air 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:22.360 and on the ground. 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:25.680 I love it, Okay, gotta be proper, no two ways 0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:29.320 about it. Jetty, jeff and Saucy Steve are top choice 0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:32.600 in disson and even the smolly bums can do two 0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:34.520 plus two and nail a cat to a door. 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:38.000 He's saying that Justin Jefferson probably still has an advantage 0:34:38.040 --> 0:34:42.160 on Sauce Gardner, weirdly sas Gardner's passer rating and coverage 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:44.160 this year has been a not good one hundred and 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:47.520 thirty seven point nine. Still, it's a tough matchup according 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:49.800 to Colin, and it's Jefferson getting as low as possible 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:52.560 grade and that's a be according to Colin for this game. 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:57.880 Going to George, he was also talking about Jordan Adison. Yeah, 0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:01.000 and he said to give Addison a se grade and 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:03.160 to keep Naylor on the bench for this game when 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:06.479 Addison faced his zone coverage. He's averaging zero point six 0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:09.239 points per route run and the Jets flipped his zone 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:10.919 about sixty nine percent of the time. 0:35:11.080 --> 0:35:16.360 Cols and Coke Thundythaw get out your dustbin lids and 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:20.080 grab a lump of ice. There's a fisherman's daughter for 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:21.759 old Jonesy in the bathtub. 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:25.880 Yeah, he's obviously talking about Aaron Jones here. The Jets 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:28.040 to face one good running back that this year, and 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.359 that was Jordan Mason in Week one. Mason went off 0:35:30.360 --> 0:35:31.919 in that game for one hundred and fifty two total 0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:35.280 yards and a touchdown. Lesser running backs Tony Pollard managed 0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:38.000 one hundred and two total yards against them, and Javonte 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.239 Williams found his way to eighty total yards best game 0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:42.800 of his season. Jones is averaging one hundred and sixteen 0:35:42.840 --> 0:35:45.320 total yards per game. Colin says it's a solid b 0:35:45.520 --> 0:35:48.160 for him in what seems like a tough matchup, but 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:51.040 according to Colin, is not actually a tough matchup. 0:35:51.040 --> 0:35:55.320 Smashing good time thor and Charchy boy, pretty ponies in 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:58.920 a Scotch missed, funky Parliament and roast pig eaton mutton 0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:00.200 rub it Ye. 0:36:00.719 --> 0:36:03.399 Thank you, Colin, Well done, my man. That's the kind 0:36:03.400 --> 0:36:06.279 of breakdown that you can only get from Colin mccochney 0:36:06.600 --> 0:36:09.360 on Fantasy Football Weekly. Great to have him on the 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:14.239 show again. We'll transition to Carolina taking on the Chicago Bears. 0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:18.600 My voice sounds so American right now. Let's start with 0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:21.920 Chewba Hubbard. By the way, this Bear's defense is good, 0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:23.279 and I think we're gonna take a little the air 0:36:23.320 --> 0:36:25.839 out of the Andy Dalton's steam here. As good as 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:27.960 he's looked the last couple of weeks, I'm gonna start 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:30.400 with Chewba Hubbard. The way to beat the Bears is 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:33.399 on the ground, and Hubbard should get a healthy workload here. 0:36:33.600 --> 0:36:36.960 He has looked far better this year than in previous seasons. 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:39.720 I love the way he's running in two Dalton starts. 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:43.319 Chewba Hubbard third in rushing yards per game at one 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:46.560 hundred and nine, and he's averaging almost six yards per carry. 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:49.200 Good enough for fourth amongst starting running backs over these 0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:52.320 last two weeks. And Chicago's been hit hard by opposing 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:55.920 runners the past couple of weeks, allowing four touchdowns to 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:58.880 opposing runners the last two weeks. Jonathan Taylor smoked him 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:00.440 for one hundred and thirty five totally yards, and then 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:02.920 Kyrad Williams put up hundred for last week. Chuba Hubbard 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:06.080 solid B grade for him. Then let's go to the 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:08.200 passing game, and I want to start with Deontay Johnson 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:11.000 because understanding why I'm nervous about Dalton Hell, you have 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:13.560 to understand why I'm nervous about Deontay Johnson in a 0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:19.719 potentially brutal matchup against star cornerback Jalen Johnson. Jalen Johnson's 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:24.200 currently PFF's ninth highest rated cornerback, but he's probably even 0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:28.360 better than that. The passer rating on throws into Jalen 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:32.880 Johnson's coverage is forty. That's it. He's given up zero 0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:37.280 touchdowns this year and just three touchdowns the last three seasons, 0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:40.440 and the average game in Jalen Johnson's coverage is just 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:43.759 two catches for twenty six yards. In this Johnson on 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:49.239 Johnson's sword fight advantage. Jalen, you can't say that on 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:53.680 Radio Justice. You cannot do that on Deontay Johnson. 0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:55.160 You're gonna get canceled. 0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:59.880 Xavier leget comes out of the C grade surging sense 0:38:00.160 --> 0:38:05.480 Adam Thielen's IR stint last week thirty seven routes, nine targets, 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:10.840 eight catches, all career highs. Xavier Lagets basically DK metcalf 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:12.960 and build, and that can be a tricky matchup, even 0:38:13.000 --> 0:38:15.719 for a fairly large cornerback like Tyreek Stevenson, who I 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:17.320 think is going to see him a lot in this game. 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:20.000 Stevenson's six foot, two hundred and four pounds, so I 0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:23.040 mean he's by cornerback standards, he is a sturdy dude. 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:25.520 He's also a pretty good cornerback. He's allowing just a 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:30.000 fifty eight percent completion rate, but not exactly the shutdown 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:33.200 level that we have with Jalen Johnson. So I see 0:38:33.640 --> 0:38:37.640 Xavier Lagette as a high risk, high reward dart throw 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:40.840 in this game and a C grade on him. So 0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:43.279 where does that leave Andy Dalton? Just to see grade 0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:45.600 if I've got CE grades on Deontae Johnson and Xavier 0:38:45.680 --> 0:38:47.760 Legette that's all I can do for you. Difficult matchup 0:38:47.760 --> 0:38:51.960 for Andy Dalton against a surging Chicago pass defense. Chicago 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.560 allowing just one hundred and ninety four passing yards and 0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:58.520 half of one passing touchdown per game. They've blanked Matthew 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:01.640 Stafford and Anthony Richards in the past two weeks. Chicago 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:05.960 ranks number one and fantasy points allowed to corner quarterback. 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:09.000 So I still love what Dalton's done, but this is 0:39:09.040 --> 0:39:11.120 a brutal matchup and I've only got a C grade 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:16.520 on him. All right, let's go over to the Chicago side, 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:22.360 where first we begin with this. I was I was 0:39:22.440 --> 0:39:26.440 not exactly right about DeAndre Swift last week, all right. 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:28.439 I gave you all the metrics last week and how 0:39:28.480 --> 0:39:31.400 bad DeAndre Swift had been basically the worst starting running 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:33.719 back in the NFL, and I predicted that he would 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:36.080 lose time to Roshawn Johnson, who did score a touchdown. 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:39.360 But then, of course, Swift reverses all of that and 0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:42.839 looks awesome in the game dominates last week, and now 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.720 he faces a team that's allowed the most fantasy points 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:46.280 to runners. 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:47.160 He heard the show. 0:39:47.360 --> 0:39:50.040 I think he did it motivated by my ill will 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:55.280 towards him. The three non Vegas opponents to face Carolina 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:59.680 have averaged one hundred and eighty rushing yards and three 0:39:59.719 --> 0:40:03.400 score to runners. So I like DeAndre Swift here, and 0:40:03.440 --> 0:40:05.480 now maybe I'm over correcting. So now I've got an 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:08.600 A grade on on DeAndre Swift. Maybe I shouldn't go 0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:12.319 that far, but man, the matchup is beautiful for him here, 0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:15.040 so hopefully he can live up to the A grade 0:40:15.040 --> 0:40:18.000 I've got. And DeAndre Swift, let's go to the passing game. 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:20.520 Caleb Williams was might take a chance on me quarterback, 0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:23.080 So I must like some of the receivers here, specifically 0:40:23.200 --> 0:40:26.680 DJ Moore, who runs overwhelmingly from the left side of 0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:28.799 the field, where he's expected to see a lot of 0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:32.239 cornerback J. C. Horn, who is physical enough to challenge more. 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.520 Horne was very good last year and decent this year. 0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:38.319 He's allowing a sixty percent completion rate and twenty five 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:40.400 yards per game in his coverage. Those are good numbers. 0:40:42.280 --> 0:40:46.080 Keenan Allen's return eats a little bit into Moore's volume, 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:49.280 but Moore remains the safest play among the Bears wide receivers. 0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:52.600 He's getting almost double the targets of any other Bears 0:40:52.600 --> 0:40:55.239 wide out. So I've got a B grade on DJ Moore. 0:40:55.360 --> 0:40:57.399 I've got a C grade in Rome of Dunes eight Now. 0:40:57.520 --> 0:41:00.000 Two weeks ago, we got a one hundred yard game 0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:02.120 out of a Jonsay. Somebody's like game on. We all 0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:05.560 put him in our lineups last week against the Rams 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:10.040 battered secondary, and we got one catch for ten yards. 0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:16.240 Second tier wideouts are crushing the Panthers. Rashid Shaheed seventy 0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:19.359 three yards in a touchdown, Quentin Johnson two touchdowns, Trey 0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:22.279 Tucker ninety six yards in a score, Jacoby Meyers sixty 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:23.320 two yards in a score. 0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:25.080 So I'm rolling. 0:41:24.880 --> 0:41:27.280 The dice on the bounce back for Roma Dunesay originally 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:28.520 had him as a bench I' putting him in a 0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:32.200 C grade here. Not gonna get too panicked about last 0:41:32.239 --> 0:41:35.759 week's terrible game out of Rome Adunza. Hopefully that will 0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.200 not be the case here. Keenan Allen's on the bench. 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:40.959 He did return to action last week, but just three 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:44.239 targets for seven air yards. He saw over half of 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:46.440 his play from the slot where he's gonna face Panthers' 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:50.200 cornerback Troy Hill. He's allowed eight catches in his coverage 0:41:50.239 --> 0:41:53.239 this year, but in its all short stuff, Hill's only 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:55.879 giving up sixteen scoreless yards per game. So I can't 0:41:55.880 --> 0:41:59.720 put a letter grade on Keenan Allen here. And lastly, 0:42:00.560 --> 0:42:04.200 cole Comet, he returned to full time starter status and 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:06.759 on volume alone in the tight end wasteland that we're in, 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:09.600 he is a plausible play against a middle of the 0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:16.840 pack Panthers defense. Yeah, so just a B grade on 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:19.759 Cole Comet. I think we've got If I got this 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:22.120 thing out timed out right, everybody should be going to break. 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:26.560 I think we should roughly in this ballpark. Yes, okay, 0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:28.720 all right, remember I'm getting the y s from bretton 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:31.760 sure go to break here. When we come back. Arizona 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:35.400 Cardinals taking on the San Francisco forty nine ers. Thundy 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:37.759 four will give us an update on that. 0:42:37.960 --> 0:42:39.680 That's a pretty good nickname. Where'd you get that? 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:43.200 What we should expect from the Arizona Cardinals, and what 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:45.160 will hopefully be a bounce back performance, all to be 0:42:45.280 --> 0:42:48.040 it against a much tougher defense. When we return the 0:42:48.040 --> 0:43:09.160 Fantasy Football Week, it's time for three tough questions. Our 0:43:09.239 --> 0:43:13.359 number two Fantasy football Weekly Paul Chargion, Matt Harrison, Thor 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:15.640 and Eystrom. You can follow us on Twitter if you 0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:17.799 are a glutton for punishment and you want a lot 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:20.600 of dumb stuff coming your way. At Paul Chargian, at 0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:25.120 explosive output from Matt, and at Thor Ku Rock chalk. 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:25.640 Rock Chock. 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:28.360 This is a game we call three tough questions. You 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:28.919 can play along. 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.160 Try to go three and number one. 0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:37.520 Should you proactively trade for DeVante Adams now or wait 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:40.440 to see where he lands. We begin with Matt Harrison, 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:41.879 whether or not. 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:45.439 You believe he has a legit hamstring injury right now, 0:43:45.480 --> 0:43:49.080 and I kind of do believe that the hamstring is 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:52.960 a little okay, that's strike one for me. Because of 0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:55.040 his trade request, I think it costs you a little 0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:57.799 bit more to trade for him right now too. I 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:00.600 think that's strike too. The rumored team are the Saints, 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:03.279 where he'd be the number two behind a Lave, the Jets, 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:05.600 where he'd be the number two behind Garrett Wilson, and 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.040 the Cowboys, where he'd be the number two behind Ceedee Lamb. 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:10.560 That's strike three for me. The only way that Adams 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:13.520 values Skyrockets is if he's traded to Kansas City. But 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:15.040 that's not going to happen because then they're in the 0:44:15.080 --> 0:44:18.240 same division. Do not trade for Devonte Adams. 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:21.200 Okay, so we've got to know thor should you proactively 0:44:21.200 --> 0:44:24.120 trade for Davonte Adams now or wait and see where 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:24.720 he lands. 0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:26.840 So what I would do is send a low ball 0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:29.960 to low ball offer to his owner. I'd kick the tires, 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.040 but I would only make the trade if the price 0:44:32.120 --> 0:44:34.919 is pretty cheap. There is not great precedent for mid 0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:37.920 season trade of wide receivers to immediately post huge numbers 0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:38.880 with their new teams. 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:43.120 The reported connections to the Saints and the Jets, to me, 0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:46.200 feels like a lazy narrative by reporters who are just going, oh, 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:48.080 we played with Derek Carr before, he played with Aaron 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:51.279 Rodgers before, and you know, honestly, Rashigia heat's really good. 0:44:51.320 --> 0:44:53.520 I don't think the Saints need him, and they're always 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:56.120 in cap hell, so I don't even know how viable 0:44:56.160 --> 0:44:59.359 the Saints could possibly be. Sure the Jets could use 0:44:59.480 --> 0:45:00.799 him a. 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:01.239 Lot of times. 0:45:01.280 --> 0:45:04.719 It's also not even up to Devonte Adams, right, I mean, sure, 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:07.240 he needs to agree to a new deal with whatever 0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:10.880 team he gets dealt to, But Raiders don't have to 0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:14.359 necessarily put him somewhere where he absolutely wants to go. 0:45:14.960 --> 0:45:18.200 So I don't like that part. I love buying low 0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:22.360 on great players who are abnormally undervalued, And so to 0:45:22.600 --> 0:45:24.600 Thors's point, maybe you throw out the low ball offer. 0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:27.360 But here's my big worry on this. When does he 0:45:27.400 --> 0:45:31.879 get traded? Trade deadline still three weeks away week eight? 0:45:32.200 --> 0:45:33.839 So when does he get traded? Is it this week 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:36.359 or is it next week? Or is the week after that? 0:45:36.719 --> 0:45:39.319 Or is it rolling into week number eight? For Pete's sake? 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:42.360 And is he going to have this hamstring injury for 0:45:42.400 --> 0:45:46.200 that long? And then, to Thors's point, once he does 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:50.319 get traded, what's the acclamation period after that? So am 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:53.040 I looking at not playing Devonte Adams for a month? 0:45:53.160 --> 0:45:53.319 Oh? 0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:56.000 By the way, he's thirty one and maybe washed, Maybe 0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:56.560 he's just done. 0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:59.080 I like he's washed. I'll tell you why. That Raider's 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:01.640 upset win and bald some more. Dude looked awesome. So 0:46:01.680 --> 0:46:04.280 I don't think he's watched yet. But I mean for Dynasty, 0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:07.680 for Keeper, I think that's a totally valid consideration. The 0:46:07.880 --> 0:46:12.280 end is coming for Adams and is it soon? Totally 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:16.239 valid so overall, I can't trade for a guy that 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:18.640 I don't know can start for a month. So we're on. No, 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:21.200 let's not proactively trade DeVante Adam. 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:24.040 Now tough question number two. 0:46:24.320 --> 0:46:29.560 Would you rather roster Tennessee wide receiver Calvin Ridley or 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:36.680 seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbs an other word Calvin 0:46:37.400 --> 0:46:40.040 or Hobbs. We begin with thor. 0:46:40.680 --> 0:46:43.759 Well, I haven't told you guys this, but Colin mccochney 0:46:43.800 --> 0:46:46.959 actually introduced me to Thomas Hobbs's work over the summer. 0:46:46.760 --> 0:46:51.719 No kidding, round it, Yes, it doesn't extremely well round Yeah. 0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:53.360 You hang out with Colin in the summer. 0:46:53.560 --> 0:46:56.040 Yeah I did, Yeah a little bit. Yeah, yeah, we're 0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:57.879 some advanced scouting, et cetera. 0:46:58.040 --> 0:47:00.239 And as we all know, Hobbes is best known for 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:02.560 his sixteen to fifty one book Leviathan, in which he 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:06.520 founds on influential formation of social contract theory, considered to 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:09.239 be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Yes, 0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:12.479 my philosophy on Ridley is to hold him Okay, right now, 0:47:12.800 --> 0:47:15.000 He did nothing the last two games, but those were 0:47:15.280 --> 0:47:17.719 those game scripts. Both got wonky in games that were 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:20.799 decided by sixteen or more points. I still love Ridley's game, 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:23.520 and cross your fingers, maybe we'll get a Will Levis 0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:24.480 benching to help him. 0:47:24.320 --> 0:47:30.240 Out, all right, Matt Calvin or Hobbes. 0:47:31.239 --> 0:47:33.440 Well, I was kind of disappointed that you didn't include 0:47:33.480 --> 0:47:36.640 the naturals Roy Hobbes or Agent Hobbs played by Dwayne 0:47:36.680 --> 0:47:39.000 the Rock Johnson in The Fast and the Furious movies. 0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:42.240 But I don't want Calvin at all, so it's definitely Hobbes. 0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:45.080 His quarterback situation is amongst the worst in the league. 0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:47.920 I can count on two fingers the amount of times 0:47:47.960 --> 0:47:51.800 any Titans wide receiver has had more than three receptions 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:55.320 this year in a game. It's happened twice. That's two fingers. 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:55.879 That's right. 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:58.680 You have a much better chance at a one catch 0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:01.719 for nine yard game getting anything of value for him. 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:04.160 And Ridley's one good game this year came in the 0:48:04.200 --> 0:48:07.120 game that nobody started him against the Jets' secondary. 0:48:07.200 --> 0:48:08.560 So give me Hobbs all day long. 0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:13.160 I am also going to quote Hobbs's Leviathan, were you 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:16.239 hanging out with mccognity too, I did not at the 0:48:16.239 --> 0:48:18.719 same time you were there, though he never even mentioned it. 0:48:19.920 --> 0:48:24.160 Here's your quote. Worst of all continual fear and danger 0:48:24.280 --> 0:48:29.960 of violent death, the life of a man solitary, poor, nasty, 0:48:30.320 --> 0:48:34.000 brutish and short, which sounds like Matt Harrison and engagingly 0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:39.879 by the way, now, quoting Calvin, I find my life 0:48:39.960 --> 0:48:44.480 is easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations. That's howd 0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:48.760 like Will Lovis right there. Easy he has had. Calvin 0:48:49.320 --> 0:48:54.520 Ridley has had one good game and three mortifying games 0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:58.000 where he has finished his wide receiver forty eight, wide 0:48:58.040 --> 0:49:03.320 receiver seventy seven, and wide receiver seventy six. And unfortunately, 0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:06.640 Mason Rudolph didn't even help last week when he played effectively. 0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:09.080 That whole game didn't help him at all. It won't catch, 0:49:09.280 --> 0:49:11.919 and Brian Callahan says he's gonna go back to Will 0:49:12.000 --> 0:49:16.080 Levis after this week's bye. And it's the bye. Let's 0:49:16.120 --> 0:49:18.920 just dump Ridley. Let somebody else roll the dice on 0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:21.919 that once a month good game you're gonna get out 0:49:21.920 --> 0:49:22.840 of Calvin Ridley. 0:49:24.120 --> 0:49:26.799 Tough question number three. 0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:31.440 With Rashi Rice out going forward is Chiefs wide receiver 0:49:31.640 --> 0:49:35.080 Xavier Worthy most commonly going to be a wide receiver one, 0:49:35.480 --> 0:49:38.520 a wide receiver two, a flex or a bench level 0:49:38.560 --> 0:49:39.840 player Matt. 0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:42.840 So far, he's only been targeted three and a half 0:49:42.920 --> 0:49:45.839 times per game and on thirteen percent of his routes run, 0:49:46.000 --> 0:49:49.359 which includes Rashie Rice's almost being out for the entire 0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:51.960 game last week. Yeah, he didn't do much more in 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:55.160 that game. He's been a complete decoy so far. He 0:49:55.239 --> 0:49:57.919 needs to basically double his targets per game to become 0:49:57.960 --> 0:49:58.960 Fantasy relevant. 0:49:59.000 --> 0:50:01.120 Justin Watson is going to to be involved. 0:50:01.080 --> 0:50:04.000 Juju Smith Schuster is going to be involved, Sky Moore 0:50:04.040 --> 0:50:06.800 and Mikole Hardman are going to be involved. This sounds 0:50:06.840 --> 0:50:10.399 exactly like the twenty twenty two team before Rashie Rice 0:50:10.480 --> 0:50:13.840 came to the NFL. It's almost all the same guys 0:50:13.880 --> 0:50:17.080 that year. Juju had five targets per game, Marquez Veldez, 0:50:17.120 --> 0:50:20.600 Scantling and Hardman had four targets per game. Watson and 0:50:20.680 --> 0:50:23.799 Kadarius Tony had two targets per game. It's going to 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:27.399 be way more frustrating than anyone wants to imagine. He's 0:50:27.440 --> 0:50:29.880 going to be a bench grade almost exclusively for. 0:50:29.960 --> 0:50:33.320 Me, all right, thor with Rashi Rice out going forward, 0:50:33.360 --> 0:50:35.880 his Chiefs wide receiver Xavior Worthy most commonly going to 0:50:35.920 --> 0:50:39.280 be a wide receiver one wide receiver two flex or bench. 0:50:39.560 --> 0:50:42.120 Yeah, Mahomes just distributes the ball so even Lee. So 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:44.600 I see Worthy as a decent wide receiver three and 0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:46.520 twelve team leagues the rest of the years. Some weeks 0:50:46.560 --> 0:50:48.320 he'll be more than that some weeks last. But I 0:50:48.360 --> 0:50:50.360 think it's a flex value overall. 0:50:50.560 --> 0:50:53.960 Losing an offense's most productive player Rashie Rice. And by 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:56.680 the way, I'm including Patrick Mahomes in this. When I 0:50:56.680 --> 0:50:59.640 say that Rashee Weiss was the Chief's most productive player 0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:04.560 is never a good thing. Defenses had to account for 0:51:04.600 --> 0:51:09.720 the insane abilities that Rashi Rice had. Oh nobody outside 0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:12.480 of Deebo Samuel can turn a six yard slant pattern 0:51:12.520 --> 0:51:15.920 into a twenty six yard game like Rashi Rice could. 0:51:16.680 --> 0:51:19.360 Now defenses don't have to account for that. They're going 0:51:19.440 --> 0:51:22.560 to roll more coverage to Travis Kelce, more coverage to 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:25.920 a potential game breaker like Xavier Worthy. Now we know 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:28.319 Worthy's one of the fastest players in the history of 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:30.960 the league. Never play this position, So we've got this 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:34.680 perception that Xavier Worthy it's like bombs away on these 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:38.480 deep passes. Get this. It's been the exact opposite. 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:38.879 So far. 0:51:39.480 --> 0:51:43.800 Worthy has been thrown to fifteen times he has one 0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:48.200 catch longer than four yards. That's it. 0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:51.000 Worthy, He wasn't great down in the field of Texas either, 0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:53.319 it's me manufacturing the touches for him and then the 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:55.640 Jets get turned on with the yards after the catch. 0:51:55.680 --> 0:51:56.200 That's his game. 0:51:56.320 --> 0:51:56.640 That's it. 0:51:56.680 --> 0:51:58.440 That is his game. And if he did score a 0:51:58.440 --> 0:52:01.080 touchdown a week one exactly that way, and maybe it's 0:52:01.160 --> 0:52:03.120 maybe he's going to do some of that. He's never 0:52:03.120 --> 0:52:04.839 caught more than two passes in a game so far 0:52:04.880 --> 0:52:06.279 and it's only been a month. I get that, and 0:52:06.360 --> 0:52:09.600 arguably you know he will get better, but he's totally 0:52:09.680 --> 0:52:13.200 touchdown dependent. Man was talking about the low volume we 0:52:13.280 --> 0:52:17.239 hate low volume touchdown dependent players. I love you brought 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:18.080 up MVS. 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:18.400 Matt. 0:52:18.840 --> 0:52:22.120 He's MVS right now at this stage his career. And again, 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:24.200 Xavier Worthy might get better down the road, and I 0:52:24.200 --> 0:52:27.359 hope he does, but right now is a very raw 0:52:27.520 --> 0:52:30.279 rookie just running vertical go routes and trying to turn 0:52:30.320 --> 0:52:34.840 short passes into long gains. Lethal for your fantasy team. 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:38.800 Most often, he is going to be a bench player. 0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:41.120 We'll find out what letter Grady's gonna get in just 0:52:41.160 --> 0:52:42.799 a moment when we break down that game a little 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:45.440 later in this show. Speaking of breaking down games, let's 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:47.480 go to the Arizona Cardinals taking on the San Francisco 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:51.560 forty nine Ers. Thundy Foor. We thought the Cardinals were 0:52:51.560 --> 0:52:54.160 sitting on a big, big game last week against Washington 0:52:54.280 --> 0:52:57.719 did not materialize. I'm fascinated to think to find out 0:52:57.719 --> 0:52:59.560 what you how you feel about the Cardinals this week. 0:53:00.239 --> 0:53:02.360 I'm gonna start with giving Kyler Murray a great a B. 0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:05.440 He went thermon nuclear against a bad secondary back in 0:53:05.480 --> 0:53:07.919 Week two, but of course the good matchup last week 0:53:08.239 --> 0:53:11.520 not so much. The other three games combine, Murray is 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:14.400 averaging outside of the week to one is averaging thirteen 0:53:14.440 --> 0:53:16.000 point three fantasy points per game. 0:53:16.040 --> 0:53:16.720 Pretty tepid. 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:19.480 And that those three games right there, you put that 0:53:19.520 --> 0:53:22.160 with the season long fantasy points of quarterbacks would rank 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:23.239 quarterback twenty four. 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:24.680 Not the best there. 0:53:24.840 --> 0:53:27.520 This is a very tough matchup against the forty nine ers, 0:53:27.560 --> 0:53:29.960 tough pass defense. Forty nine Ers are allowing the tenth 0:53:30.040 --> 0:53:33.400 lowest epa per dropback. But I'm gonna give Kyler a 0:53:33.400 --> 0:53:35.520 B in a game that where the points could be there. 0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:38.640 His running back James Connor is a must start a 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:41.959 Marvin Harrison Junior. I'm gonna give him a B wide 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:45.080 receiver sixteen Fantasy points per game, and he is getting 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:47.520 targeted a strong twenty eight point eight percent of the 0:53:47.520 --> 0:53:50.840 first reads and that hot. Here's the interesting thing, this 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:53.640 small sample, of course, but it's interesting, and it's notable 0:53:53.880 --> 0:53:57.239 that hops to thirty four point three percent against single high. 0:53:57.800 --> 0:54:00.560 The forty nine ers run a ton of single high. 0:54:01.160 --> 0:54:04.160 The forty nine ers have help posing boundary. Wide receivers 0:54:04.160 --> 0:54:06.560 are the fifth lowest PPR points per target, but keep 0:54:06.600 --> 0:54:10.240 in mind their coverage tendency that could facilitate for Mervin 0:54:10.239 --> 0:54:12.640 Harrison Junior. So there's data points on both sides of it. 0:54:12.719 --> 0:54:15.240 I you know, end up going with a B because 0:54:15.239 --> 0:54:18.160 of all those factors. Michael Wilson the other receiver there. 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:20.640 I'm gonna give him a C wide receiver sixty five 0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:23.840 in fantasy so far, but only one red zone target 0:54:23.840 --> 0:54:24.320 this season. 0:54:24.600 --> 0:54:25.640 Not a great matchup. 0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:30.120 Wilson only has zero point eight zero yards per route 0:54:30.160 --> 0:54:31.319 run versus single high. 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:33.319 Mentioned the forty nine ers play a lot of that. 0:54:33.680 --> 0:54:36.280 Greg Dorge, surprise, you're even at a sea on Michael Wilson. 0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:38.799 I tried a darth Row on Wilson last week in 0:54:38.840 --> 0:54:40.719 one of my fantasy leagues, and he almost got me 0:54:40.760 --> 0:54:41.719 cut in my guillotine life. 0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:43.160 I felt like I had to go and see on 0:54:43.160 --> 0:54:45.800 either him or Dortch and Doortsch. I'm giving him the bench, 0:54:46.880 --> 0:54:48.480 you know, and if you have to bench Wilson, I 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:51.319 certainly you could do that. But Doorsch hasn't had more 0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:53.480 than eight PPR points in any game since Week one. 0:54:53.760 --> 0:54:56.080 This is a bat matchup for him as well. Trey 0:54:56.160 --> 0:54:58.520 McBride is an a, of course if he plays. He's 0:54:58.520 --> 0:55:01.839 officially questionable recovering from the concussion that kept him out 0:55:01.920 --> 0:55:04.840 last week, but was a full participant in Thursday's practice, 0:55:04.840 --> 0:55:07.120 suggesting he'll play. Of course, he's a must start if 0:55:07.120 --> 0:55:09.520 he does, moving to the forty nine ers brock Perty, 0:55:09.560 --> 0:55:11.600 I'm gonna give him an a despite the fact that 0:55:11.640 --> 0:55:14.560 he's been quarterback fourteen and fantasy points per game only 0:55:14.600 --> 0:55:17.400 one good fantasy game this season. It's going to be 0:55:17.400 --> 0:55:19.960 two after Sunday. He's getting one here. This is a 0:55:19.960 --> 0:55:23.200 tremendous matchup. Arizona's given up the second highest yards per 0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:26.520 attempt to opposing quarterbacks and party ranks first. Despite the 0:55:26.560 --> 0:55:28.640 fantasy I'll put so far Perty ranks first in the 0:55:28.719 --> 0:55:32.360 NFL and completion percentage over expected and third in expected 0:55:32.400 --> 0:55:35.040 Fantasy points. Those are going to materialize this week in 0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:38.360 this matchup. Jordan Mason is a no brainer start at 0:55:38.440 --> 0:55:41.480 a five hundred and four yards and three touchdowns from scrimmage. 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:43.800 He has been tremendous this year. The two receives. I 0:55:44.080 --> 0:55:46.040 struggle with the two receivers with the forty nine ers 0:55:46.040 --> 0:55:48.160 in part because of George Kittle status, which which I'll 0:55:48.200 --> 0:55:50.279 talk about in a second. But I ended up going 0:55:50.320 --> 0:55:53.360 with bees on both Ayuk and Deebo Samuel because of 0:55:53.400 --> 0:55:57.520 my uh, you know all the factors here. Ayuk, he 0:55:57.600 --> 0:55:59.320 had the slow start after the holdout, has had the 0:55:59.320 --> 0:56:01.799 slow start to this point wide receiver sixty seven and 0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:05.280 fantasy points per game. I do think a breakout is coming, 0:56:05.560 --> 0:56:09.360 and it absolutely could be this week. I still he 0:56:09.440 --> 0:56:12.520 ranks number five in separation and number one in route 0:56:12.880 --> 0:56:15.200 win rate despite the you know the play so far, 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:17.959 and he gets Sean Murphy bunning in this game. Sean 0:56:18.040 --> 0:56:20.880 Murphy Bunning, get this. He he's allowing a ninety point 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:22.400 nine percent catch. 0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:23.560 Rate so far. 0:56:23.880 --> 0:56:25.920 You throw the ball at Sean Murphy buddying the receivers 0:56:25.960 --> 0:56:27.960 coming down with that ball, So it sets up well 0:56:27.960 --> 0:56:30.320 for AUK. But you know it's it's been you know, 0:56:30.320 --> 0:56:32.640 a touch and go so far. Deebo Samuel, I'm gonna 0:56:32.640 --> 0:56:35.400 give him a B as well. I think in this 0:56:35.480 --> 0:56:38.760 game you're either gonna get Samuel going nuclear if Ayuk 0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:40.160 is as out of it as he has been the 0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:42.440 first couple of games, or it's it's gonna be the 0:56:42.800 --> 0:56:45.160 breakout game, which is that would debo. 0:56:45.320 --> 0:56:47.239 Breakouts coming, but maybe I just want it to. 0:56:47.320 --> 0:56:49.680 Yeah, yeah, it's one or the others. So you know, 0:56:49.880 --> 0:56:52.120 we're gonna give Deeba the B two. He's wide receiver 0:56:52.200 --> 0:56:55.040 seventeen and Fantasy points per game so far, two point 0:56:55.040 --> 0:56:57.120 four to seven yards per route run is awesome, twenty 0:56:57.120 --> 0:57:00.279 seven point three first percent first read share is great 0:57:00.280 --> 0:57:03.000 as well. Arizona's allowed the fourth highest PPR points to 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:06.239 the boundary wide receivers. But I'm splitting the difference with 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:09.440 these two guys. And then but if George Kittle was out, 0:57:09.440 --> 0:57:11.719 I would upgrade both to A's talk about Kittle on 0:57:11.760 --> 0:57:14.120 the second first one to mention Juwan Jennings, I'm gonna 0:57:14.160 --> 0:57:17.120 give him a see after the nuclear game against the Rams. 0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:20.200 Jennings had three catches for eighty eight yards against the Patriots, 0:57:20.360 --> 0:57:23.840 played fifty seven percent of the snaps. He remains in 0:57:23.840 --> 0:57:26.840 flex consideration for this matchup, but keep in mind he's 0:57:26.880 --> 0:57:29.440 only had seven plus targets in three games since the 0:57:29.480 --> 0:57:32.080 start of the twenty twenty two season, and the same 0:57:32.160 --> 0:57:33.200 volume is never going to be there. 0:57:33.200 --> 0:57:35.280 The game that we had that he exploded with two 0:57:35.280 --> 0:57:38.320 weeks ago, correct, correct, And then of course George Kittle 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:39.600 is a must start if he plays. 0:57:39.640 --> 0:57:41.920 He has the rib injury, did not take part in 0:57:41.960 --> 0:57:44.960 Thursday's practice for the forty nine ers, but very crucially 0:57:45.200 --> 0:57:48.040 he returned Friday, which is always a really good indication, 0:57:48.400 --> 0:57:50.280 and he's a must start, of course, a if he plays. 0:57:51.800 --> 0:57:54.520 All right, Let's go to the Miami Dolphins taking on 0:57:54.520 --> 0:57:57.120 the New England Patriots. Matt on the Dolphins side, this 0:57:57.160 --> 0:58:01.000 offense looked completely broken last week. I think Tyler hunter 0:58:01.080 --> 0:58:03.840 Lee threw for like seventy eight yards and then on 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:07.040 Monday they're like, oh yeaholutely, it's Tuesday. Rob were absolutely 0:58:07.040 --> 0:58:11.120 bringing Tyler Huntley back. They cut Tim Boyle ough this offense, 0:58:11.560 --> 0:58:14.160 you'd and the Patrons defense isn't half bad. Are there 0:58:14.160 --> 0:58:15.000 any starters here. 0:58:15.280 --> 0:58:17.000 You pretty much just did my matchup for me. 0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:19.080 Charge We're good. 0:58:19.760 --> 0:58:22.040 Huntley threw the ball twenty two times last week for 0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:24.640 only ninety six yards. He ran eight times for forty 0:58:24.680 --> 0:58:27.160 yards and to score. I don't know what to do 0:58:27.200 --> 0:58:30.600 with the Dolphins offense when he's in. I guess Huntley, 0:58:30.640 --> 0:58:34.280 if you're just reliant on the quarterback running. 0:58:33.960 --> 0:58:35.520 Game, well, no you can't start. 0:58:35.920 --> 0:58:36.960 No, you can't. 0:58:37.000 --> 0:58:40.480 He's like a grade lower than a sea, which would 0:58:40.480 --> 0:58:43.240 be a bench Tyreek Hill. I told you to bench 0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:44.520 him last week and I was. 0:58:44.560 --> 0:58:45.439 Right, nicely done. 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:47.600 He had four catches for twenty three yards this week. 0:58:47.640 --> 0:58:50.360 I'll give him a C grade because the matchup this 0:58:50.400 --> 0:58:52.240 week against the Pats is way better than the one 0:58:52.280 --> 0:58:54.680 against the Titans last week. New England has allowed the 0:58:54.720 --> 0:58:57.320 fourth most receptions in the fifth most yards to opposing 0:58:57.320 --> 0:59:00.720 wide receivers, so he'll could break one, just like we 0:59:00.760 --> 0:59:03.640 were talking about in the three tough questions match up there. 0:59:04.040 --> 0:59:06.800 I won't put Jalen Waddle in the lineup though, even 0:59:06.840 --> 0:59:09.320 though he had thirteen more yards than Hill last week. 0:59:09.480 --> 0:59:11.840 He stays on the bench. He doesn't have the breakaway 0:59:11.840 --> 0:59:14.600 ability that Hill does on every play and I think 0:59:14.640 --> 0:59:16.959 it'll take that to make a good wide receiver week. 0:59:17.160 --> 0:59:21.320 With Huntley at quarterback, Devon a Chan, he gets a 0:59:21.480 --> 0:59:24.120 C grade two and I don't even like it that much. 0:59:24.480 --> 0:59:27.440 Last week, a Chan basically split touches with Jalen Wright. 0:59:27.960 --> 0:59:30.440 The Pats have been decent against the run, allowing the 0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:33.280 ninth fewest rushing yards per game at only eighty three 0:59:33.360 --> 0:59:37.440 per game, and it looks like Raheem Mostert might return 0:59:37.520 --> 0:59:39.640 for this one, so that might muddy up the backfield 0:59:39.720 --> 0:59:42.200 even more and we might see a three headed monster 0:59:42.320 --> 0:59:46.280 back there. On the other side, it's Ramandre Stevenson or 0:59:46.360 --> 0:59:47.720 is it Antonio Gibson. 0:59:47.880 --> 0:59:50.840 If Stevenson fumbles again, I know the answer to that, Yeah, 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:52.000 gotta stop fumbling. 0:59:52.040 --> 0:59:54.160 There are some hints this week that Gibson could see 0:59:54.200 --> 0:59:58.000 more time if Remandre doesn't fix that fumbling issue. Let's 0:59:58.040 --> 1:00:00.160 hope he can hold on to the ball again. It's 1:00:00.200 --> 1:00:03.000 the Dolphins team that's given up a minimum of seventy 1:00:03.080 --> 1:00:05.880 yards to a single runner in every game so far, 1:00:06.440 --> 1:00:08.960 and they've allowed the most total touchdowns to the running 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:12.480 back position at eight. So I'll give Rimandre Stevenson a B. 1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:16.560 All right, Gibson stays on the bench. But this could 1:00:16.560 --> 1:00:19.640 get pretty wonky if Stevenson fumbles in this one. 1:00:19.720 --> 1:00:22.280 Yeah, if you've got Stevenson on your roster, go get 1:00:22.320 --> 1:00:24.800 Gibson just to make sure you've got that squared away. 1:00:24.880 --> 1:00:25.680 Yeah. Probably. 1:00:25.720 --> 1:00:27.960 The Dolphins, by the way, have allowed the fewest running 1:00:27.960 --> 1:00:30.440 back receptions in the league. That keeps Gibson on the bench. 1:00:30.960 --> 1:00:33.919 The passing game is all on the bench. Miami has 1:00:33.960 --> 1:00:37.320 been great against the pass or terrible against the run, 1:00:37.360 --> 1:00:40.720 however you want to slice it either way. Opposing quarterbacks 1:00:40.720 --> 1:00:45.479 are averaging fifteen completions for one hundred and seventy five 1:00:45.560 --> 1:00:49.720 yards and zero point seventy five passing touchdowns per game. 1:00:50.680 --> 1:00:53.160 I want to come up with a new grade. It's 1:00:53.200 --> 1:00:56.760 a super bench for everybody in the passing game. 1:00:57.360 --> 1:00:59.360 On New England, you. 1:00:59.320 --> 1:01:01.480 Know there are sports that it is a locker room 1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:05.000 in turmoil right now. In New England. They're satisfaction with 1:01:05.080 --> 1:01:08.280 Jacoby Brissett. But wisely they're not bringing Drake May in 1:01:08.320 --> 1:01:11.160 to suffer behind this offensive line that's all beat up. 1:01:11.520 --> 1:01:14.439 You've got three linemen out. It's just the whole thing 1:01:14.520 --> 1:01:16.840 is just disease. And I think they're being smart by 1:01:16.880 --> 1:01:19.480 not bringing in Drake may to just get abused in 1:01:19.520 --> 1:01:20.160 that offense. 1:01:20.360 --> 1:01:22.640 The locker room might be in turmoil because all of 1:01:22.680 --> 1:01:24.520 them are not going to be on the team within 1:01:24.560 --> 1:01:25.240 a year or two. 1:01:26.480 --> 1:01:29.000 There's that too. When we come back, Green Bay Packers 1:01:29.040 --> 1:01:32.440 at the Los Angeles Rams, Jordan Love looked spectacular in 1:01:32.480 --> 1:01:35.200 the second half of last week's game. Find Out which 1:01:35.360 --> 1:01:37.680 members of the Packers passing offense you can start when 1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:48.520 we return. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A big block 1:01:48.560 --> 1:01:50.960 of matchups for you, beginning with Green Bay taking on 1:01:51.000 --> 1:01:53.439 the Rams. I want to start with don Tavian Wex 1:01:53.520 --> 1:01:56.120 coming off a big game. Three members of the Rams 1:01:56.120 --> 1:01:59.440 secondary are on IR and they might have the worst 1:01:59.440 --> 1:02:02.160 starting cornerback in the league, Tredavius White, who is allowed 1:02:02.160 --> 1:02:05.960 a league worst four touchdown passes in his coverage. Deep 1:02:06.000 --> 1:02:09.600 downfield receivers are murdering the Rams, and Wis is the 1:02:09.640 --> 1:02:14.720 Packers downfield specialist, averaging fifteen yards per target. You remember 1:02:14.840 --> 1:02:18.040 Jamison Williams posted a big game against the Rams. Marvin Harrison, 1:02:18.160 --> 1:02:21.000 Jwan Jennings all blew up. It's a great opportunity. 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:21.640 Love. 1:02:21.760 --> 1:02:25.760 Dontavian Wicks with an A grade in this one. Also 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:28.360 with a B grade Jayden Reid, he runs from the 1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.080 slot read will get almost one hundred percent coverage from 1:02:31.160 --> 1:02:35.360 cornerback Quinton Lake. Lake is the team's best healthy cornerback. 1:02:35.800 --> 1:02:37.800 He put on Ross Saint Brown on a quiet game 1:02:37.840 --> 1:02:39.760 in Week one, and then he held Keenan Allen in 1:02:39.840 --> 1:02:43.040 check last week. But Reid is a special talent and 1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:46.520 he's still a safe starter in basically any game that 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:48.360 Jordan Love is starting. So I've got a B grade 1:02:48.400 --> 1:02:51.439 on Jayden Reid. Romeo Dobbs not expected to play here. 1:02:52.560 --> 1:02:56.080 Bau Melton Thor is a plausible start. If you need 1:02:56.120 --> 1:02:59.280 a dart throw guy bou Melton will get a lot 1:02:59.280 --> 1:03:00.640 of starting reps in this game. 1:03:00.720 --> 1:03:03.080 Guy's got four to three speed, very good feed, very 1:03:03.080 --> 1:03:03.880 good route runner. 1:03:04.120 --> 1:03:05.240 Rutgers is in the house. 1:03:05.480 --> 1:03:07.760 Rutgers is showing up in the house. I already mentioned 1:03:07.760 --> 1:03:10.560 Tredavius White as one cornerback they can get abused. Kobe 1:03:10.600 --> 1:03:12.880 Durant's the other one. He's not much better. He ranks 1:03:12.880 --> 1:03:17.360 his Pro Football Focuses cornerback one hundred and one, only 1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:20.920 three guys below Kobe Durant. So Bo Melton showing up 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:23.680 with a C grade in this one. Tucker Kraft very 1:03:23.720 --> 1:03:28.040 startable here a B grade, Luke Musgrave is dead to us. 1:03:28.440 --> 1:03:31.520 The dominating tight end usage now going to tougher Kraft 1:03:31.600 --> 1:03:34.320 running eighty six percent of the tight end routes. The 1:03:34.400 --> 1:03:37.000 Rams have allowed the eighth most fantasy points to tight ends, 1:03:37.160 --> 1:03:39.760 and every opposing tight end is topped at least thirty 1:03:39.800 --> 1:03:42.840 four yards against the Ram Rams. Tucker Graft comes out 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:46.280 of the B grade. Obviously with all of these A, 1:03:46.440 --> 1:03:48.560 B and C grades, I love Jordan Love here a 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:51.520 grade through ve neary four hundred yards last week, almost 1:03:51.560 --> 1:03:53.600 ald in one half. And for all the reasons that 1:03:53.640 --> 1:03:55.960 I like the receivers, I love Jordan Love as well. 1:03:56.480 --> 1:03:59.200 And earlier I told you Emmanuel Wilson was might take 1:03:59.240 --> 1:04:02.640 a chance on me. Josh Jacobs A grade with a 1:04:02.680 --> 1:04:06.640 massive game incoming. Rams again, as I'll mention again, dead 1:04:06.760 --> 1:04:09.480 last and rushing yards allowed one hundred and sixty five 1:04:09.600 --> 1:04:12.120 yards per game. Let's go to the Rams side where 1:04:12.120 --> 1:04:15.280 I've just got a smattering of starters for you. Two 1:04:15.280 --> 1:04:16.920 to two at well was my take a chance to 1:04:17.000 --> 1:04:20.520 me wide receiver. Also, Jordan Whittington, running from the slot, 1:04:20.720 --> 1:04:24.280 takes over the Cooper cup roll and routes. He led 1:04:24.320 --> 1:04:26.160 the team and routes run last week, and as a 1:04:26.160 --> 1:04:29.920 positive matchup against Green Bay slock cornerback Keyshawn Nixon, who 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:32.439 has already allowed two touchdowns in his coverage. He comes 1:04:32.440 --> 1:04:35.720 in with a C grade and DeMarcus Robinson also with 1:04:35.720 --> 1:04:37.440 a C grade. He's got he's a little banged up, 1:04:37.440 --> 1:04:40.200 but expected to play in this game. As I mentioned 1:04:40.200 --> 1:04:43.680 when I broke down two to two at Wells opportunity 1:04:43.760 --> 1:04:46.760 during take a Chance on Me, the Packers secondary struggled 1:04:46.760 --> 1:04:50.240 against wideouts. They're allowing the seventh most fantasy points, the 1:04:50.360 --> 1:04:53.920 tenth most receiving yards, the sixth most touchdowns of the position, 1:04:54.200 --> 1:04:56.720 and if Jay or Alexander can't go, I like it 1:04:56.760 --> 1:05:01.040 even more for DeMarcus Robinson in this game. Matthew Stafford. 1:05:01.480 --> 1:05:04.680 It's all C grades there. Matthew Stafford also C grade 1:05:04.720 --> 1:05:08.360 in this one, still hesitant to give him a higher 1:05:08.360 --> 1:05:12.040 grade than that because the Rams have six offensive linemen 1:05:12.080 --> 1:05:15.760 on injured reserve. Stafford is only through two scores this 1:05:15.880 --> 1:05:17.680 year and hasn't top two hun or twenty four yards 1:05:17.720 --> 1:05:19.840 since the opener, when he's still had Cooper Kuppen at 1:05:19.920 --> 1:05:23.400 least for a while. Pokinakua in that game. Kyron Williams 1:05:23.440 --> 1:05:25.680 has been a very safe starter. But I am worried 1:05:25.680 --> 1:05:29.320 about these six offensive linemen on injured reserve. But Williams 1:05:29.400 --> 1:05:32.200 keeps finding ways to be productive, and that probably continues 1:05:32.240 --> 1:05:36.200 against a middle of the pack Packers run defense. The 1:05:36.280 --> 1:05:39.800 three opposing runners with at least twelve carries against Green 1:05:39.880 --> 1:05:43.200 Bay have averaged one hundred and two rushing yards and 1:05:43.200 --> 1:05:46.240 another thirty four receiving yards. So I'm keeping an a 1:05:46.360 --> 1:05:49.240 grade on Kyron Williams, who just keeps finding ways to 1:05:49.280 --> 1:05:52.440 be productive. All right, Let's go to our next matchup Thorpe. 1:05:52.520 --> 1:05:55.000 That's the New York Giants taking on the Seattle Seahawks. 1:05:55.080 --> 1:05:58.800 It's almost certainly Devin Singletary out of this game. He's 1:05:58.800 --> 1:06:02.640 listed a doubtful time. Tyrone Tracy is your probable starting 1:06:02.720 --> 1:06:03.960 running back for the Giants. 1:06:04.040 --> 1:06:06.600 Yeah, I'm gonna give Tyrone Tracy a see. I think 1:06:06.600 --> 1:06:10.480 he's a pretty intriguing dart throw here, especially in PPR leagues, 1:06:10.480 --> 1:06:13.480 but even just in general. With Singletary almost assuredly out, 1:06:13.720 --> 1:06:16.160 I had Tyrone Tracy ranked number five in the last 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:18.600 running back class among running backs, ahead of Blake Koran. 1:06:18.640 --> 1:06:21.080 By the way, in my draft rankings nine point seven 1:06:21.080 --> 1:06:24.240 to seven ras On Tracy four four eight wheels. I 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:28.200 camped him to Miles Sanders. Last year, Tracy had eighty 1:06:28.280 --> 1:06:31.360 eight point zero PFF grade for a bad produced team. 1:06:31.800 --> 1:06:32.160 Get this. 1:06:32.320 --> 1:06:34.360 He was number one in the last class inn elusive 1:06:34.440 --> 1:06:37.360 rating end yards after contact. That was his second year 1:06:37.400 --> 1:06:41.200 playing running back. Former Iowa receiver. He has a natural 1:06:41.200 --> 1:06:44.360 feel for running. Bouncy This for my scouting report. Bouncy 1:06:44.440 --> 1:06:47.680 juiced up wide base slasher with better vision and instincts 1:06:47.680 --> 1:06:50.600 than expected runs with tempo. Has a knack for timing 1:06:50.640 --> 1:06:52.880 cutback lanes to free himself into open grass. 1:06:53.080 --> 1:06:54.240 That's where he hits the Jets. 1:06:54.240 --> 1:06:57.480 I like Tyrone Tracy's game a lot and one other 1:06:57.520 --> 1:06:59.520 thing I was going to say the Seahawks in this game, 1:06:59.560 --> 1:07:02.320 particularly to the matchup. They allowed the sixth highest success 1:07:02.400 --> 1:07:05.560 rate two gap runs with Devin Singletary back there over 1:07:05.600 --> 1:07:09.360 sixty percent of his runs. Devin Singletary's work gap. Tracy 1:07:09.400 --> 1:07:11.600 has not gotten a lot of usages this year. He's 1:07:11.600 --> 1:07:13.840 going to win this game, so I think he is 1:07:14.160 --> 1:07:17.400 startable as a flex. Daniel Jones keep him on the bench, 1:07:17.400 --> 1:07:19.800 even though he looked good against the Cowboys last week. 1:07:19.920 --> 1:07:20.720 You got a bench him. 1:07:20.800 --> 1:07:23.160 Seattle has a good pass defense outside of the one 1:07:23.200 --> 1:07:25.480 aberration against here at Goff and the Lions there. 1:07:25.920 --> 1:07:28.760 And then of course no Molik neighbors so which is 1:07:28.800 --> 1:07:29.360 really sad. 1:07:29.560 --> 1:07:34.360 No Singletary as well, so neighbors out Wandale Robinson. I'm 1:07:34.360 --> 1:07:36.560 gonna give him a be He looked great last game 1:07:36.640 --> 1:07:39.360 one Dale, you know, getting all those targets this week, 1:07:39.400 --> 1:07:41.800 he's going to be a wide receiver one that game 1:07:41.840 --> 1:07:44.680 I mentioned last week, eleven catches for seventy one yards, 1:07:44.840 --> 1:07:47.120 got a lot of manufactured touches, but also had some 1:07:47.200 --> 1:07:50.880 nice intermediate catches in traffic. And not only that, but 1:07:50.960 --> 1:07:54.160 Robinson is currently tied with a Monro Saint Brown, Nico Collins, 1:07:54.200 --> 1:07:56.560 and Aaron Jones for the second most red zone targets 1:07:56.560 --> 1:07:59.880 in the entire NFL. He also runs fourth in targets 1:08:00.080 --> 1:08:03.240 and fifth in receptions and Jandiale. Robinson also leads the 1:08:03.320 --> 1:08:06.320 NFL in percentage of team's third down targets. He is 1:08:06.320 --> 1:08:08.400 going to get a metric ton of targets in this game. 1:08:08.440 --> 1:08:10.760 So will. But it's all short stuff. I looked at 1:08:10.800 --> 1:08:14.120 up yes, twenty four of his twenty five receptions are 1:08:14.120 --> 1:08:16.640 from seven yards or less for sure. That's you know, 1:08:16.680 --> 1:08:19.439 that's the only that's the only knack I knock. Excuse me, 1:08:19.600 --> 1:08:21.920 of course, yeah, Robinson, but going to get a lot 1:08:21.960 --> 1:08:22.479 of targets. 1:08:22.560 --> 1:08:25.400 I'm going to upgrade Darius Slayton to a see if 1:08:25.400 --> 1:08:28.280 you need a desperation play in the flex. Three catches 1:08:28.280 --> 1:08:30.479 for fifty six yards against the Cowboys and is the 1:08:30.560 --> 1:08:33.320 deep guy you know in particular, and with all the 1:08:33.320 --> 1:08:35.799 guys that Giants have out neighbors out but Jones stinks 1:08:35.800 --> 1:08:38.559 throwing deep, so you have to give that caveat. Moving 1:08:38.640 --> 1:08:40.920 over to the Seahawks, Gino Smith was might take a 1:08:41.000 --> 1:08:43.640 chance on me. Quarterback Kenneth Walker. I'm gonna give him 1:08:43.640 --> 1:08:43.800 a B. 1:08:44.120 --> 1:08:44.360 He did. 1:08:44.439 --> 1:08:46.160 He look good like he looked good, and he showed 1:08:46.160 --> 1:08:46.840 that he was healthy. 1:08:46.960 --> 1:08:50.000 And this is also a pretty solid matchup. Giants run 1:08:50.040 --> 1:08:54.160 defense allows the most missed tackles per attempt, Walker number 1:08:54.160 --> 1:08:56.360 three in forced miss tackle rate. And that was his 1:08:56.439 --> 1:08:59.080 special sauce at Michigan State that that's been part of 1:08:59.080 --> 1:08:59.760 his game in the NFL. 1:08:59.840 --> 1:09:01.519 Is well. Should matchup well here. 1:09:01.880 --> 1:09:04.400 The receivers and the passing game of Seattle's what I 1:09:04.400 --> 1:09:05.000 love so much. 1:09:05.000 --> 1:09:07.720 This week DK metcalf He's sitting on a big game. 1:09:07.840 --> 1:09:10.679 Yeah, he had the hand injury and was limited on Thursday, 1:09:10.680 --> 1:09:13.040 but on Friday he was taken off the injury report. 1:09:13.120 --> 1:09:15.080 He is a full go, must start a. 1:09:15.479 --> 1:09:17.280 I'm also going to give Jackson Smith and Jig but 1:09:17.520 --> 1:09:20.479 A in this matchup wide receiver thirty three in Fantasy 1:09:20.560 --> 1:09:23.080 so far, but he has been look been much better 1:09:23.080 --> 1:09:25.559 and look much better in Ryan Grubbs system. Going back 1:09:25.600 --> 1:09:28.840 to our grub against waldering conversation, JSN is going to 1:09:28.880 --> 1:09:32.320 absolutely light up Cordel Flott the the nickel corner across 1:09:32.360 --> 1:09:34.720 from him. Cordell Flott has given up an eighty one 1:09:34.760 --> 1:09:37.320 point three percent catch rate and one hundred and twenty 1:09:37.320 --> 1:09:40.640 eight point four passer rating on targets tip. This is 1:09:40.680 --> 1:09:43.479 the JSN game, Tyler Lockett. Keep him on the bench. 1:09:44.479 --> 1:09:46.120 Not as good of a matchup for him. Giants play 1:09:46.160 --> 1:09:49.000 a lot of single high Gino looks elsewhere versus single high. 1:09:49.040 --> 1:09:50.599 This is JSN and DK game. 1:09:50.920 --> 1:09:52.960 Noah, Fan, I'm gonna give him a c tight end 1:09:53.000 --> 1:09:56.000 twenty two in Fantasy points per game. Decent matchup here 1:09:56.040 --> 1:09:58.360 for owners who need a tight end streamer. The Giants 1:09:58.400 --> 1:10:00.880 pass defense has allowed the ninth most catches two tight 1:10:01.000 --> 1:10:03.839 ends and tenth most receiving yards to opposing tight ends. 1:10:04.080 --> 1:10:07.320 All right, well done, Let's go over to Indianapolis and 1:10:07.400 --> 1:10:10.240 the Jaguars. Matty gave us three Colts as take a 1:10:10.320 --> 1:10:12.800 chance with me players, Joe Flacco being one of them, 1:10:12.800 --> 1:10:16.040 although Anthony Richardson technically questionable for this shirt looks like 1:10:16.040 --> 1:10:17.080 a game time decision. 1:10:17.520 --> 1:10:20.240 Yeah, Flacco, sermon and downs, where might take a chance 1:10:20.280 --> 1:10:22.280 on me players? And I find these three to be 1:10:22.360 --> 1:10:25.680 quarrelsome for the Jags, And as Thomas Hobbs says. 1:10:26.320 --> 1:10:28.679 We find three principal causes of quarrel. 1:10:29.000 --> 1:10:34.040 First competition, secondly diffidence, and thirdly glory. 1:10:34.920 --> 1:10:36.400 Michael Pittman gets an A grade. 1:10:36.400 --> 1:10:39.759 If Flacco plays right theah exactly, Michael Pittman, I'll downgrade 1:10:39.840 --> 1:10:43.080 him to a B. If Richardson miraculously goes. And also 1:10:43.160 --> 1:10:45.320 Alec Pierce gets a C grade in this one. Eight 1:10:45.320 --> 1:10:48.560 different wide receivers have topped ten PPR points against the 1:10:48.640 --> 1:10:50.879 Jags so far through four games. 1:10:51.240 --> 1:10:52.439 That's it for the Colt side. 1:10:52.479 --> 1:10:56.879 I started everybody, all right, Travis ETN or Tank Bigsby 1:10:56.920 --> 1:10:59.200 ETN got dinged up on the shoulder last week and 1:10:59.240 --> 1:11:02.559 will likely that questionable tag into Sunday. 1:11:02.640 --> 1:11:04.639 I do think he suits up for this one. 1:11:05.040 --> 1:11:07.479 You think Bigsby taken off the injury list as I 1:11:07.520 --> 1:11:11.719 want to note that because you know what, dudes looked 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:15.240 really really good. Hey, I don't know if you saw 1:11:15.320 --> 1:11:17.559 the fifty ish yard run that he reeled up. 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:20.040 Yeah, I think Tank Bigsby probably gets a little bit 1:11:20.080 --> 1:11:23.000 more work than ETN this week. Problem is, the Colts 1:11:23.000 --> 1:11:25.439 have not given up a running back touchdown since Week one, 1:11:25.880 --> 1:11:28.400 and they were able to stifle the Bears and Steelers 1:11:28.479 --> 1:11:32.080 rushing attacks over the last two weeks, and they're probably 1:11:32.200 --> 1:11:34.960 more similar to the Jaguars running attack than the other 1:11:35.000 --> 1:11:38.240 ones that they've faced. I'd prefer to leave all your 1:11:38.360 --> 1:11:40.760 Jags backs on the bench, but if you have to 1:11:40.800 --> 1:11:43.200 start one, it's probably Tank Bigsby. 1:11:43.360 --> 1:11:43.679 Wow. 1:11:44.360 --> 1:11:47.120 Trevor Lawrence gets a B grade. In what I think 1:11:47.160 --> 1:11:50.120 could develop into a passing shootout. The Colts have allowed 1:11:50.400 --> 1:11:54.960 Caleb Williams and Justin Fields. You know, two former former 1:11:55.000 --> 1:11:57.960 and current Bears quarterbacks. They both passed for more than 1:11:58.000 --> 1:12:00.840 three hundred yards in the past two weeks against them. 1:12:00.920 --> 1:12:03.880 So passing against the Colts is the path of least resistance. 1:12:04.720 --> 1:12:07.800 Brian Thomas and Christian Kirk. They're getting starting grades too. 1:12:07.840 --> 1:12:09.720 I mentioned it last week that the Jags have been 1:12:09.760 --> 1:12:13.639 targeted Brian Thomas a lot more in zone coverages while 1:12:13.680 --> 1:12:17.439 the Colts play eighty percent zone coverage, third most in 1:12:17.479 --> 1:12:20.360 the NFL. Kirk was involved a lot more last week 1:12:20.400 --> 1:12:23.320 against Houston zone. He managed a touchdown in the process too, 1:12:23.640 --> 1:12:26.120 So both get starting grades this week. Thomas gets a BEE, 1:12:26.240 --> 1:12:29.040 Kirk gets a C and a bonus starting grade for 1:12:29.080 --> 1:12:31.760 Evan Angram if he actually returns this week, Oh. 1:12:31.680 --> 1:12:33.920 Please do God. He's killing me. I've drafted him in 1:12:34.000 --> 1:12:34.599 so many leagues. 1:12:34.640 --> 1:12:37.000 He's been limited in practice all week. He's missed the 1:12:37.080 --> 1:12:39.559 last three weeks with a hamstring injury. But he's trending 1:12:39.600 --> 1:12:41.799 more positive this week than they mentioned in the past. 1:12:42.240 --> 1:12:45.560 The Colts are bottom five in receptions, yards and touchdowns 1:12:45.560 --> 1:12:48.920 to opposing tight ends. If Ingram goes, I'm gonna give 1:12:49.000 --> 1:12:50.679 him a B grade right out of the gates. 1:12:50.880 --> 1:12:52.880 I don't think you said if you would start Anthony 1:12:52.960 --> 1:12:55.920 Richardson if he did, if he is able to go 1:12:56.080 --> 1:12:58.559 in this game, based on what we had seen before, 1:12:58.720 --> 1:13:00.400 it's not clear that he's a starter. 1:13:00.560 --> 1:13:02.680 I think I'd give Richardson a C grade in this 1:13:02.720 --> 1:13:05.240 one is a good matchup. The Jags are terrible against 1:13:05.280 --> 1:13:07.720 the pass and the run, so but I have a 1:13:07.720 --> 1:13:10.439 little nervous that Richardson might not make it through. 1:13:10.320 --> 1:13:11.160 The whole game. I know. 1:13:12.840 --> 1:13:14.800 I think it's a high risk, high reward play on 1:13:15.000 --> 1:13:18.639 Richardson for sure. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Coming up, 1:13:18.760 --> 1:13:22.880 Premature speculation will jump in the FFW time machine. Give 1:13:22.880 --> 1:13:26.439 you some players to pick up today that other players 1:13:26.600 --> 1:13:29.400 will be trying to pick up tomorrow, and they'll already 1:13:29.400 --> 1:13:31.080 be on your team. Find out who they are when 1:13:31.080 --> 1:13:43.559 we come back. Final segment, Fantasy Football Weekly. Thank you 1:13:43.560 --> 1:13:47.280 for joining us. Reminder new Guillotine Leagues starting all the time. 1:13:47.320 --> 1:13:50.400 Guillotine leagues dot com drafts almost every day. Play for 1:13:50.439 --> 1:13:53.920 free with your friends, play for free with strangers, or 1:13:54.080 --> 1:13:56.799 play four prizes, no matter how you want to play. 1:13:56.840 --> 1:13:59.240 We've got leaks for you, and there's still fourteen weeks 1:14:00.080 --> 1:14:05.559 of chopping action at ganteen leagues dot com. This is 1:14:05.600 --> 1:14:09.000 a bit we call premature speculation. We give you players 1:14:09.040 --> 1:14:12.120 that you'll want to pick up now that other people 1:14:12.200 --> 1:14:14.720 will be trying to pick up next week, but they're 1:14:14.720 --> 1:14:18.320 already on your team. We begin with Matt Harrison, who's 1:14:18.320 --> 1:14:20.120 your premature speculation player. 1:14:20.800 --> 1:14:23.600 Mine's more of a trade for than a pickup, but 1:14:23.720 --> 1:14:25.439 you may you might be able to in some leagues 1:14:25.479 --> 1:14:28.400 pick up the Bears passing game, specifically Caleb Williams or 1:14:28.439 --> 1:14:31.360 any of the wide receivers. Roma Dunza and Keenan Allen 1:14:31.400 --> 1:14:35.000 are both hovering around eighty percent ownership Caleb Williams about 1:14:35.000 --> 1:14:38.680 sixty percent in redraft leagues. Here's why Church already gave 1:14:38.720 --> 1:14:39.080 it to take a. 1:14:39.120 --> 1:14:39.600 Chance on me. 1:14:39.720 --> 1:14:44.600 Grade for Caleb Williams this week against Carolina, then Jacksonville's 1:14:44.640 --> 1:14:47.160 terrible d in week six, then a bye out of 1:14:47.160 --> 1:14:50.639 the by Washington in week eight, Arizona in week nine, 1:14:50.720 --> 1:14:54.200 New England in week ten, Green Bay week eleven, Minnesota 1:14:54.240 --> 1:14:56.880 week twelve. They haven't been that great against the pass either. 1:14:57.320 --> 1:15:01.000 They are all mostly positive matchups for quarterbacks and wide 1:15:01.000 --> 1:15:06.840 receivers until week seventeen against Seattle. All right, so the 1:15:06.840 --> 1:15:10.160 Bears might go off here. I like some offensive firepower. 1:15:10.200 --> 1:15:10.559 I like it. 1:15:10.560 --> 1:15:10.920 All right. 1:15:11.640 --> 1:15:14.120 Let's go to Thor, your premature speculation player. 1:15:14.439 --> 1:15:15.880 You teased it earlier in the show. 1:15:15.920 --> 1:15:19.639 I'm going with Bengals tight end Eric All, my boy, Iowah, 1:15:19.640 --> 1:15:21.920 haw guys in the house. This is the time to 1:15:21.920 --> 1:15:23.880 get Eric Hall. He's owned in like one percent of 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:26.320 leagues or something like that. This is a guy who 1:15:26.560 --> 1:15:29.840 could be startable down the stretch. All the signals are 1:15:29.880 --> 1:15:31.720 there for a player that I really like. So Eric 1:15:31.760 --> 1:15:34.000 All last week played a career high fifty nine point 1:15:34.040 --> 1:15:37.200 seven percent of the offensive snaps, and among all tight 1:15:37.280 --> 1:15:40.000 ends in the NFL. Get this, All ranks number four 1:15:40.080 --> 1:15:43.160 in yards per route run, number one in targets per 1:15:43.280 --> 1:15:46.760 route run, and number two in first downs per route run. 1:15:46.800 --> 1:15:47.040 Wow. 1:15:47.240 --> 1:15:47.360 Ok. 1:15:47.479 --> 1:15:50.840 Yeah, obviously a smaller sample for him, but all the 1:15:50.880 --> 1:15:53.400 signs are there. And keep in mind he is coming 1:15:53.400 --> 1:15:56.439 off of torn ACL less than one calendar year ago. 1:15:56.720 --> 1:15:59.479 He tours ACL in October last year for Iowa. One 1:15:59.520 --> 1:16:01.519 of the reasons why he fell to the fourth round. 1:16:01.880 --> 1:16:04.800 When Joe Burrow starts looking his way more often, lookout 1:16:05.120 --> 1:16:07.800 All is the slick, pass catching tight end that the 1:16:07.800 --> 1:16:10.639 Bengals offense has been crying out for since Burrow got there. 1:16:11.280 --> 1:16:14.200 A couple of notes from my Fantasy Life Sleeper Rookie 1:16:14.240 --> 1:16:16.840 tight End column over this summer about Eric Hall All 1:16:16.960 --> 1:16:19.519 is a sleek athlete with size, speed, and quick feet. 1:16:19.760 --> 1:16:22.360 Had he been able to test during the combine, he 1:16:22.400 --> 1:16:24.320 would have run in the high four fours or low 1:16:24.400 --> 1:16:26.880 four fives, which would have placed some number two among 1:16:26.920 --> 1:16:29.880 all testers at that position group. All threatens the seam 1:16:29.920 --> 1:16:33.759 at alarming speed and can also slam on the breaks 1:16:33.800 --> 1:16:36.479 in koreem back to balls. Prior to the ACL tear 1:16:36.560 --> 1:16:39.800 last October, All ranked number one among all FBS tight 1:16:39.880 --> 1:16:41.920 ends and yards per route run, and that was for 1:16:41.960 --> 1:16:45.320 an abomination of an Iowa offense. All spears the ball 1:16:45.360 --> 1:16:48.679 outside of his frame led Iowa and receiving in twenty twenty. 1:16:48.920 --> 1:16:51.559 He led the entire Iowa team in receiving in twenty 1:16:51.600 --> 1:16:54.240 twenty three, despite playing in less less than half the 1:16:54.280 --> 1:16:58.000 season because of that injury. The very yeah, very good 1:16:58.000 --> 1:17:00.680 at changing direction, very slick with that, knows how to 1:17:00.760 --> 1:17:03.480 leverage his speed and hit the jets to outrace defenders. 1:17:03.720 --> 1:17:06.040 He will lower his pads and muscle for extra yards 1:17:06.080 --> 1:17:09.120 available to him. Only fell in the draft because of 1:17:09.120 --> 1:17:11.439 those medical questions, But the last sentence I had in 1:17:11.479 --> 1:17:13.960 that scouting report, he'll be a fantasy steal if his 1:17:14.000 --> 1:17:16.479 body is up for it. It very clearly is he 1:17:16.560 --> 1:17:17.960 is going to keep getting on the field more and 1:17:17.960 --> 1:17:20.000 more and more, and he's going to get targets because 1:17:20.000 --> 1:17:20.200 of that. 1:17:20.600 --> 1:17:23.800 Pick him up right now, eric All, Cincinnati tight end. 1:17:23.960 --> 1:17:26.240 I've got a tight end as well, David and Joku. 1:17:26.360 --> 1:17:28.360 We all need tight ends, right so eric All is 1:17:28.360 --> 1:17:31.400 an option. David and Joko walks into it. He had 1:17:31.439 --> 1:17:34.080 missed basically the whole season with an ankle injury, suffering 1:17:34.080 --> 1:17:37.519 in Week one, expected to hit the field against Washington. 1:17:38.080 --> 1:17:40.200 Washington hasn't played a functional tight end all year. The 1:17:40.240 --> 1:17:42.160 closest they've seen is Mike Kaseki. He put up forty 1:17:42.200 --> 1:17:45.040 seven yards last year. Reminder, David and Joko was tight 1:17:45.120 --> 1:17:49.720 end six available right now in sixty five percent of 1:17:49.960 --> 1:17:52.160 ESPN leagues. I think you can go pick up David 1:17:52.200 --> 1:17:54.000 and Joko and you potentially got one of the ten 1:17:54.040 --> 1:17:57.879 best tight ends going forward, maybe available in your league. 1:17:58.200 --> 1:18:00.800 Let's go to our final two matchups, beginning with the 1:18:00.800 --> 1:18:03.799 Saints taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. Huh, I've already 1:18:03.800 --> 1:18:05.080 done it once, but I'm gonna do it again. 1:18:06.280 --> 1:18:06.600 I was. 1:18:09.520 --> 1:18:12.840 I was not exactly right about Alvin Kamara. He's looked great, 1:18:13.080 --> 1:18:14.840 but this is a very tough matchup against one of 1:18:14.880 --> 1:18:18.400 the league's best run defenses. No back his top forty 1:18:18.400 --> 1:18:22.200 six yards against Kansas City, and that includes Derek Henry, 1:18:22.320 --> 1:18:25.719 B Jon Robinson, JK. Dobbins. None of them top forty 1:18:25.720 --> 1:18:30.080 six yards. Kansas City ranks fifth best in yards after contact. Now, fortunately, 1:18:30.120 --> 1:18:33.200 of course Kamara elite receiver, and that's gonna help keep 1:18:33.280 --> 1:18:35.200 him at the B grade that I've got him on. 1:18:35.560 --> 1:18:38.360 He ranks fourth and running back receptions and second in 1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:41.439 running back receiving yards. Kansas City middle of the pack 1:18:41.520 --> 1:18:44.000 that way, So you're still starting Alvin Kamara with a 1:18:44.040 --> 1:18:46.360 B grade. And then I've got C grades for members 1:18:46.400 --> 1:18:48.720 of the passing game who you care about in including 1:18:48.880 --> 1:18:52.360 Chris Olave in a very tricky matchup against eleague cornerback 1:18:52.400 --> 1:18:57.280 Trent McDuffie, who typically shadows the opposing team's best receiver, 1:18:57.520 --> 1:19:04.040 that's Chris Olave. He has held Flowers, Jamar Chase, Drake London, 1:19:04.280 --> 1:19:08.960 and Quinton Johnston to averages of thirty seven scoreless yards. 1:19:09.000 --> 1:19:12.559 That's how good Trent McDuffie is. You can't really Benjo Lave, 1:19:12.800 --> 1:19:15.320 but expect very diministry turns here and just a C 1:19:15.520 --> 1:19:18.400 grade on him. Rashidzi Heed's one of the favorites on 1:19:18.479 --> 1:19:21.960 this show and shed should not see McDuffie. But his 1:19:22.040 --> 1:19:25.240 matchup against Jalen Watson, the other cornerback, isn't great either. 1:19:25.360 --> 1:19:27.960 Watson also hasn't allowed of touchdown yet this year, but 1:19:28.160 --> 1:19:30.920 is giving up a more palatable forty yards in his coverage. 1:19:31.400 --> 1:19:34.479 Shad runs from the slot sometimes and that gives him 1:19:34.760 --> 1:19:38.880 a spot for some success, Chiefs having have had some 1:19:38.960 --> 1:19:41.519 trouble there out of the slot, and that keeps Shaheed 1:19:41.600 --> 1:19:44.160 startable with a C grade. Derek Carr, I've got Sea 1:19:44.200 --> 1:19:47.040 grades on his receivers, SE grade on car Kansas City 1:19:47.040 --> 1:19:49.960 has seen four good passers in four games. They've given 1:19:50.080 --> 1:19:53.200 up one, two, one and one touchdown. I think you're 1:19:53.240 --> 1:19:56.280 looking at one, maybe two touchdowns out of Derek Carr. 1:19:56.400 --> 1:19:59.200 Very little upside in a tough matchup for him, and 1:19:59.280 --> 1:20:03.880 let's go to Kansas already touched on Xavier Worthy with 1:20:04.040 --> 1:20:07.720 Rice out Hollywood Brown out, that leaves Worthy as just 1:20:08.400 --> 1:20:11.720 a very important role. But as we discussed in three 1:20:11.720 --> 1:20:16.559 tough questions, just so inconsistent. The receptions are very very short. 1:20:16.640 --> 1:20:18.760 He's got to turn a short catch into a long 1:20:18.840 --> 1:20:22.240 gain and he may end up seeing Saints cornerback Marshaun 1:20:22.320 --> 1:20:27.240 Lattimore and Vlatimore's awesome. He's given up one touchdown in 1:20:27.520 --> 1:20:31.160 three years in his coverage, so I can't start Xavier 1:20:31.200 --> 1:20:34.360 Worthy here, but if he is a desperation dart throat 1:20:34.360 --> 1:20:38.160 in a touchdown dependent role, that is it. I've got 1:20:38.200 --> 1:20:41.000 Travis Kelsey with a B grade. He sparked to life 1:20:41.080 --> 1:20:44.320 last week after Rashi Rice left. But the Saints know 1:20:44.760 --> 1:20:47.600 that the Chiefs passing offense goes through Travis Kelcey and 1:20:47.640 --> 1:20:49.719 they'll work hard to take him away, and that does 1:20:49.800 --> 1:20:52.719 worry me here. Two weeks ago, the Saints got murdered 1:20:52.720 --> 1:20:55.559 by Dallas Goddard when he was the only healthy receiver 1:20:55.640 --> 1:20:58.000 because the Eagles were short three receivers in that game. 1:20:58.080 --> 1:21:01.360 So maybe they can do the same with Travis Kelcey 1:21:01.640 --> 1:21:04.200 what the Eagles did with Dallas Goddard. I've got a 1:21:04.280 --> 1:21:06.840 B grade on Kelsey, but that's a lot of optimism 1:21:06.880 --> 1:21:08.920 for a guy who hasn't looked very good in three 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:12.240 out of four games so far this year. And staying 1:21:12.240 --> 1:21:14.679 with the passing game, I'm keeping Jujus Smith Schuster justin 1:21:14.720 --> 1:21:17.600 watching sky more all on the bench. You know, I 1:21:17.680 --> 1:21:19.519 don't even think I really need to expand on why 1:21:19.560 --> 1:21:21.639 those guys are on the bench. You know who else 1:21:21.720 --> 1:21:23.720 is on the bench? You know I usually do the 1:21:23.800 --> 1:21:28.200 Chiefs matchups. I don't think I've ever had Patrick Mahomes 1:21:28.200 --> 1:21:30.519 of the bench grade. What I've got a bench grade 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:33.519 Mahomes in this game. His last game with more than 1:21:33.560 --> 1:21:37.320 two passing touchdowns was Week seven of last year. He 1:21:37.400 --> 1:21:40.880 hasn't scored a rushing touchdown in thirty straight games, and 1:21:40.920 --> 1:21:44.560 since Week eight of last year, Patrick mahomes average finish 1:21:44.800 --> 1:21:48.760 is quarterback sixteen. Now we've taken his best, most productive 1:21:48.800 --> 1:21:52.679 receiver off of the field, and I just don't see 1:21:52.800 --> 1:21:57.800 enough productivity here. I think he's got unprecedented downside in 1:21:57.840 --> 1:22:02.520 the history of Patrick Mahomes never been more pessimistic about 1:22:02.560 --> 1:22:06.000 his ability to perform in any one game than this one. 1:22:06.040 --> 1:22:08.200 And I hope I'm eating my words. I hope next 1:22:08.200 --> 1:22:11.679 week I am saying I was wrong. But I'm putting 1:22:11.720 --> 1:22:15.000 a bench grade on Patrick Mahomes. Kareem Hunt comes in 1:22:15.040 --> 1:22:18.439 with a C grade. Carson Steeles fumbled his way out 1:22:18.479 --> 1:22:22.880 of this equation, but Kerrie but ceh Clyde Edwards Hilaire 1:22:23.000 --> 1:22:25.360 is now practicing and available to come off ir He's 1:22:25.400 --> 1:22:28.040 expected to be in the rotation here. The Saints got 1:22:28.080 --> 1:22:31.599 smoked by Saquon Barkley and actually Tyler Algier last week, 1:22:31.640 --> 1:22:33.960 but and they're giving up four point eight yards per carry. 1:22:33.960 --> 1:22:36.400 And that's the only reason when in this committee that 1:22:36.479 --> 1:22:38.639 I've got a C grade on Kareem Hunt. He got 1:22:38.680 --> 1:22:42.120 fourteen carries last week and we're gonna hope that that continues. 1:22:42.640 --> 1:22:47.240 Our final matchup for Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers. 1:22:47.479 --> 1:22:49.519 Dak Prescott will start out with him. I'm gonna give 1:22:49.560 --> 1:22:52.160 him a beam. He's been quarterback eight and fantasy points 1:22:52.160 --> 1:22:54.760 per game so far, but this is not a good 1:22:54.760 --> 1:22:57.639 matchup for him. The Steelers have allowed the eleventh fewest 1:22:57.680 --> 1:22:59.960 passing yards per game and the seventh lowest passer rate. 1:23:00.360 --> 1:23:02.559 The Steelers also get heat on the quarterback, as you 1:23:02.600 --> 1:23:04.719 guys know right that way, so there may be less 1:23:04.720 --> 1:23:07.880 downfield throwing in this game for Dak. With the receivers, 1:23:07.920 --> 1:23:11.479 of course, Ceede Lambs must must start a Jalen Tolbert 1:23:11.560 --> 1:23:13.479 is going to get a see here because Brandon Cooks 1:23:13.479 --> 1:23:15.840 is out again. Tolbert is wide receiver fifty eight and 1:23:15.880 --> 1:23:18.839 fantasy points per game. He's no better than a flyer 1:23:18.920 --> 1:23:21.839 in this spot though, because since CD Lamb is deployed 1:23:21.840 --> 1:23:24.080 out of the slot, that means that Tolbert is going 1:23:24.120 --> 1:23:26.800 to be drawing mister Joey Porter Junior. But I'm gonna 1:23:26.800 --> 1:23:29.280 give him a see just on the potential volume there. 1:23:29.479 --> 1:23:31.599 Jake Ferguson, I'm also going to give him a see. 1:23:31.920 --> 1:23:34.719 Tight end five and fantasy points per game, top three 1:23:35.000 --> 1:23:37.679 in first read share en yards per game among tight ends. 1:23:37.840 --> 1:23:40.559 But Ferguson has not drawn a red zone target yet 1:23:40.600 --> 1:23:42.880 and this is not a good matchup. The Steelers are 1:23:42.920 --> 1:23:46.120 awesome against opposing tight ends. Pittsburgh is top five in 1:23:46.280 --> 1:23:49.840 least receiving yards allowed and yards per reception allowed to 1:23:49.880 --> 1:23:52.200 tight ends. Rico Dowd of the last one on the Cowboys, 1:23:52.240 --> 1:23:53.360 I'm gonna give him a see. 1:23:53.520 --> 1:23:56.160 Yeah, he got a huge uptick and work in. Zeke's 1:23:56.280 --> 1:23:58.280 kind of dead in this offense for sure. 1:23:58.400 --> 1:23:58.599 Yeah. 1:23:58.640 --> 1:24:00.880 Donnald has had either eleven or two touches the past 1:24:00.880 --> 1:24:02.640 three games. I think that that might be going up 1:24:02.680 --> 1:24:04.639 here though, when the game scripts are going for him. 1:24:05.560 --> 1:24:08.240 In those three games between fifty six to sixty one, 1:24:08.360 --> 1:24:11.280 yards from scrimmage and all three of those games. Finally 1:24:11.320 --> 1:24:13.880 scored a touchdown against the Giants last week, and on 1:24:13.920 --> 1:24:16.519 the season he has out snapped Zeke Elliott one hundred 1:24:16.560 --> 1:24:19.440 twelve to seventy nine. Again, I expect a bigger discrepancy 1:24:19.479 --> 1:24:22.559 of that going forward. Yeah, that makes Doubtle a moderate floor, 1:24:22.680 --> 1:24:25.439 low ceiling type flex option for at least for this week, 1:24:25.600 --> 1:24:27.640 because the Steelers defense, of course, has given up the 1:24:27.680 --> 1:24:30.760 second fewest running back fantasy points this season, so not 1:24:30.800 --> 1:24:33.240 the best matchup. Moving over to the Steelers, I'm gonna 1:24:33.240 --> 1:24:35.479 give Justin Fields an a starting to trust that guy 1:24:35.560 --> 1:24:38.040 more and more and more. Went absolutely nuclear in the 1:24:38.120 --> 1:24:40.719 loss to the Colts last week. Three hundred twelve yards 1:24:40.720 --> 1:24:43.960 and a touchdown passing with fifty five more rushing yards 1:24:43.960 --> 1:24:46.680 and two touchdowns on the ground. That's what he's the 1:24:46.720 --> 1:24:50.120 konomic code guy Fields. He's also number two in the 1:24:50.160 --> 1:24:54.080 NFL so far and highly accurate throw rates, mister Justin Fields. 1:24:54.120 --> 1:24:55.840 Yes, and Justin Field. 1:24:56.040 --> 1:24:59.800 Justin Fields number nine in fantasy points per dropback. And 1:25:00.000 --> 1:25:02.160 this is a better matchup, I think than it appears 1:25:02.200 --> 1:25:05.760 on the surface. The Cowboys is Micah Parsons and DeMarcus 1:25:05.840 --> 1:25:08.639 Lawrence have both been ruled out for this game. Lawrence 1:25:08.680 --> 1:25:10.600 is gonna miss at least four weeks. Have to be 1:25:10.640 --> 1:25:14.080 in placed on I ar Naja Harris. I'm gonna give 1:25:14.160 --> 1:25:16.519 him a bee he's gonna get He's gonna. 1:25:16.280 --> 1:25:17.200 Get a big workload. 1:25:17.240 --> 1:25:21.360 With both Jalen Warren and Cordero Patterson already ruled out, Harris, 1:25:21.360 --> 1:25:24.719 did we have to mention he got surprisingly stymied against 1:25:24.720 --> 1:25:28.439 the Colts as the entire offense was funneled through Justin Fields. 1:25:28.560 --> 1:25:31.200 In that game, Harris had thirteen carries for nineteen yards. 1:25:31.240 --> 1:25:34.040 He did salvage things somewhat with three catches for fifty 1:25:34.040 --> 1:25:36.320 four yards. Harris has still not gotten into the end 1:25:36.360 --> 1:25:39.120 zone because he keeps getting vultured by mister Justin Fields. 1:25:39.280 --> 1:25:41.639 The Cowboys do have a middle of the road run defense, though, 1:25:41.680 --> 1:25:43.479 and you have the volume, so those two things are 1:25:43.479 --> 1:25:46.040 going in his favor. But because of those vultured touchdowns 1:25:46.040 --> 1:25:49.040 with Fields, gonna give Harris a bee and then George Pickens, 1:25:49.080 --> 1:25:51.320 we're gonna give him an a wide receiver thirty eight 1:25:51.320 --> 1:25:53.760 and fantasy points per game so far, but he was 1:25:53.800 --> 1:25:57.200 a huge benefactor of Justin Fields's improvement throwing the ball. 1:25:57.280 --> 1:26:00.000 Last week, Pickens, at his first hundred plus yard game 1:26:00.120 --> 1:26:03.200 of the season, saw eleven targets when his previous season 1:26:03.280 --> 1:26:04.120 high was seven. 1:26:04.320 --> 1:26:04.719 Wow. 1:26:04.760 --> 1:26:08.320 Currently number three in the NFL and team air yard percentages. 1:26:08.360 --> 1:26:10.559 George Pickens and I think a huge game is coming 1:26:10.600 --> 1:26:13.640 here again. Dallas runs a ton of single high coverage 1:26:13.840 --> 1:26:17.479 versus single high get this. Pickens has a fifty two 1:26:17.520 --> 1:26:21.320 point six first read share, which is absolutely dumb, and 1:26:21.520 --> 1:26:25.400 over three yards per route run, which is absolutely sterling. 1:26:25.800 --> 1:26:28.320 And lastly, Pat Fryermuth, We're gonna give him a beam. 1:26:28.479 --> 1:26:30.800 He's coming off a strong game as well, receiving five 1:26:30.880 --> 1:26:33.240 catches for fifty seven yards and a touchdown on the 1:26:33.280 --> 1:26:36.160 season tight end seven and fantasy points per game Friar 1:26:36.240 --> 1:26:39.240 Moose targets share increases to twenty points seven percent against 1:26:39.240 --> 1:26:43.080 single high coverage like Dallas runs and Dallas's mediocre defending 1:26:43.120 --> 1:26:45.559 tight ends. They've given up the thirteenth most yards per 1:26:45.560 --> 1:26:47.080 reception two tight ends this year. 1:26:47.160 --> 1:26:49.000 I think Dallas gets smoked in this game. Yeah, they're 1:26:49.000 --> 1:26:53.439 gonna get smoked. I think so too. Arthur Smith redemption, Yeah, 1:26:53.520 --> 1:26:56.000 good for you man. You know, you know, we spent 1:26:56.080 --> 1:26:58.280 a lot of airtime ripping him last year and what 1:26:58.280 --> 1:27:00.559 do you do the Falcons. The fact that he has 1:27:00.600 --> 1:27:03.599 turned around justin Field's career. Good good on Arthur Smith. 1:27:03.640 --> 1:27:06.000 The game plans have been super clever. Yeah, and they're 1:27:06.080 --> 1:27:06.920 using his skill set. 1:27:06.960 --> 1:27:07.120 Well. 1:27:07.240 --> 1:27:10.800 I love it. I love it. Reminder Guillotine Leagues starting now. 1:27:10.880 --> 1:27:12.560 You can get into a private league for free. You 1:27:12.600 --> 1:27:14.760 can get into a public league for prizing or for 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:18.759 free your choice. Guillotine leagues dot com. 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