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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It is week number five,
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Speaker 2: Joining me today Matt Harrison and Thorne Eistrom. Hey boys
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Speaker 2: We're gonna break down all the games, letter grades, and
Speaker 2: all the players will have. Take a chance on me.
Speaker 2: With the nine players that you can start this week
Speaker 2: that you would not normally start. We'll give you the
Speaker 2: three tough questions, including what to do with DeVante Adams?
Speaker 2: Is this a chance to strike right now? And premature
Speaker 2: speculation later in the show Thor Let's start with you,
Speaker 2: my man, Cleveland Browns taking on the Washington Commanders for
Speaker 2: the Browns, and this feels like an opportunity to get
Speaker 2: this passing game going in a way that it really
Speaker 2: hasn't all season. What's your level of optimism for Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 2: Amari Cooper and the other pass catchers.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give Watson a c even with a really
Speaker 5: good matchup. It's sort of hard to go over that
Speaker 5: the decimated Browns offense only gain two hundred and forty
Speaker 5: one total yards last week against the Raiders.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have some guys back.
Speaker 5: Watson had one hundred and seventy six yards in that game,
Speaker 5: but I wanted to point out an eighty two year
Speaker 5: touchdown to Amari Cooper was called back because a holding.
Speaker 5: This is a really good matchup versus Washington. The Commanders
Speaker 5: have allowed the most pass touchdowns in the second most
Speaker 5: fantasy points two opposing quarterbacks. But Watson does not yet
Speaker 5: have a two hundred passing yard game, as you guys know,
Speaker 5: and just not a high threshold, not a hi high threshold,
Speaker 5: and neither is five yards per attempt, which he has
Speaker 5: not crossed either yet to this point, so I have
Speaker 5: to give him a SEA based on that. Jerome Ford,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him a C as well. Nick Chubbs
Speaker 5: nearing his return, but this is another week of bel
Speaker 5: Kyle work for Ford. Eighty five yards and twelve fantasy
Speaker 5: points last week for mister Ford.
Speaker 3: Heavily used in the passing game.
Speaker 5: Ford ranks third in running back targets in the NFL,
Speaker 5: averaging five of those per game. Solid matchup for him too.
Speaker 5: Commanders allowed the second highest yards per carry. Washington has
Speaker 5: specifically struggled with elusive running backs like four But because
Speaker 5: of my pessimism about the Browns offense, I'm gonna keep
Speaker 5: him out a sea. Amari Cooper, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 5: a B despite that disastrous start to.
Speaker 3: The season that he has had so far.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he currently currently ranks number three on the Browns
Speaker 5: on the team in receptions for Amari Cooper less than
Speaker 5: eight fantasy points in three of his first four games.
Speaker 5: But this is the map presumably that should get him
Speaker 5: off the ground. Commanders have allowed six wide receivers to
Speaker 5: score fifteen plus fantasy points this year. Give him a
Speaker 5: bee on that one.
Speaker 3: Jerry Judy.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him a C. He's been targeted seven
Speaker 5: times or less. I'm sorry, he's been targeted seven less
Speaker 5: times than Amari Cooper, but he has two more catches
Speaker 5: house he.
Speaker 2: Doesn't drop all the passes that come his way.
Speaker 5: He does not drop down indeed, averaging twelve point three
Speaker 5: more yards per game than Cooper. Judy is tied for
Speaker 5: the team lead with three red zone targets as well.
Speaker 5: It's worth pointing out and the Commanders have allowed the
Speaker 5: six high six most PPR points two boundary wide receivers
Speaker 5: this year. David and Joku. I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 5: bee if he plays. Did not practice on Thursday, so
Speaker 5: it is if he that is looking iffy right now.
Speaker 5: But he is going to get targets if he does
Speaker 5: in deep play, so keep your.
Speaker 3: Eye on that.
Speaker 5: Jayden Daniels is a must start at this point. Is
Speaker 5: an obvious a number one in the NFL with twenty
Speaker 5: three point four Fantasy points per game for the rookie,
Speaker 5: just absolutely insane. Brian Robinson, I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 5: b RB seventeen and fantasy points per game, averaging eighteen
Speaker 5: half touches and ninety four total yards per game. The
Speaker 5: Browns run defense is allowed the second highest yards after
Speaker 5: contact per attempt and the fourteenth most rushing yards per game.
Speaker 5: Robinson should be able to break some tackles here and
Speaker 5: put up some stats. Terry McLaurin canna give him a
Speaker 5: be leads the NFL in air and team air yard
Speaker 5: percentage at fifty seven percent, and Jayden Daniels obviously first
Speaker 5: a Reid rank their rate with McLaurin number seven, so
Speaker 5: I'm going to give him a bee. Zach Ertz a
Speaker 5: see cut fifteen of sixteen targets through four weeks. He's
Speaker 5: currently the tight end eleven in Fantasy. Has not gotten
Speaker 5: in the end zone yet though, but this is another
Speaker 5: game where he is going to get a lot of looks.
Speaker 5: Four catches and forty and a half yards per game
Speaker 5: opposing tight ends have done to the brown so far,
Speaker 5: but with no tight touchdowns, that's basically Ertz his average
Speaker 5: stat line this season.
Speaker 2: The we do want to keep an eye on the
Speaker 2: knee injury for Brian Robinson. He's officially listed as a
Speaker 2: game time decision, and if he can't go, Austin Eckler
Speaker 2: is available for this game. He's cleared the concussion protocol,
Speaker 2: and so I wonder if Eckler becomes Robinson and Jeremy
Speaker 2: McNichols becomes Eckler, if Brian Robinson doesn't go, I know,
Speaker 2: you know, could be, but Eckler could be sitting on
Speaker 2: a really big, potentially a big usage game here for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Daniel's been looking at those high percentage targets so
Speaker 5: far this season, and obviously Eckler is a guy that
Speaker 5: converts those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, does Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to mention this about Daniels. With the amazing
Speaker 2: start that he's had. The first two games, it was
Speaker 2: all short stuff and that helped build this huge completion
Speaker 2: percentage that Jaden Daniels has had. But the next the
Speaker 2: last two games, he's aaron out downfield. Daniels right now
Speaker 2: is sitting at the seventh most completions of more than
Speaker 2: fifteen yards, and almost all of them in the last
Speaker 2: two weeks. So, you know, I love the cliff Kingsbury was.
Speaker 2: He was cautious early, built some confidence. Now it's it's
Speaker 2: you know, Bob's away.
Speaker 3: You're seeing a really quick evolution there. You know.
Speaker 5: In Daniels his first game, he ran, ran, ran, which
Speaker 5: is obviously a strength of his game. But then yeah,
Speaker 5: the last couple of games where the passing has improved,
Speaker 5: it's been some of that shorter stuff, but you have
Speaker 5: gradually seen that uptick in the downfield throws. Daniels' other
Speaker 5: superpower coming out outside of this scrambling, it was the
Speaker 5: downfield throwing. He's an absolute assassin downfield. That is going
Speaker 5: to be the next part of his game that starts.
Speaker 3: To flower out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait to see how that works out
Speaker 2: for him, and extremely optimistic at this point. Matt Let's
Speaker 2: transition over to the Bills taking on the Texans. For
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, it's been two out of the last three
Speaker 2: weeks have been major fantasy bummers, guillotine assassins. This matchup
Speaker 2: against the Texans, to me, he has got some danger
Speaker 2: signs in it. What you how are you feeling about
Speaker 2: a bounce back here? For Josh Allen, it is a
Speaker 2: strange matchup.
Speaker 6: The Texans have allowed the fifth fewest passing yards but
Speaker 6: the fifth most passing scores.
Speaker 2: After allowing the fewest passing scores last year across the
Speaker 2: whole league.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm gonna give Josh Allen an a I
Speaker 6: think that he's still gonna get back and bounce back
Speaker 6: in a big way this week.
Speaker 4: I like him here.
Speaker 6: Dalton Kincaid the better of the two Dalton tight ends here.
Speaker 6: Houston has been good against the tight end thus far,
Speaker 6: but the best one they faced was Cole Comet. So
Speaker 6: I'm going to give kin Kaid to Bee because i
Speaker 6: think he's probably the best receiving option. With Khalil Shakir out,
Speaker 6: that leaves Keon Coleman and Mac Hollins as the presumed starters.
Speaker 6: Coleman and Hollands both ran routes on approximately eighty percent
Speaker 6: of Allen's dropbacks last week, and Kurtis Samuel probably take
Speaker 6: Shakir's place in the slot most often, where he'll most
Speaker 6: often see the best matchup against Jalen Petrie. But I'm
Speaker 6: not going to start any of those wide receivers. I
Speaker 6: don't want to start any of those in a matchup
Speaker 6: like this. James Cook gets a solid b though. On paper,
Speaker 6: the Texans look good against the run, but in the
Speaker 6: last two weeks, Aaron Jones tagged them for one hundred
Speaker 6: and forty eight total yards in a score, and last
Speaker 6: week Travis Etn and Tank Bigsby combined for one hundred
Speaker 6: and fifty total yards. Problem is, James Cook isn't scoring
Speaker 6: or sorry, when he's not scoring, he's not producing at all.
Speaker 6: And the Texans have only allowed three total running back
Speaker 6: touchdowns through the first four games.
Speaker 4: So that's why it's just a bee.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna oppress you for a second on Josh Allen. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: hold on, due Dalton. First, dude, we haven't hit on Kinkaid.
Speaker 4: No, I did?
Speaker 2: You did? Okay? So you have only one letter grade
Speaker 2: that's on Kincaid. So Josh Allen's still an A when
Speaker 2: you have no letter grade on any of his receivers
Speaker 2: and you've got what was it a be on Kincaid.
Speaker 6: I got to be on Kinkaid to be on Cook,
Speaker 6: and I think Allen's just buoyed by the rushing yard.
Speaker 4: Still, okay, all right, all right?
Speaker 6: C J. Stroud and Nico Collins they get a grade.
Speaker 6: Scott Fish passed on this stat to us last week.
Speaker 6: Nico Collins has seventeen plays of fifteen plus yards. No
Speaker 6: other wide receiver in the league has done that more
Speaker 6: than nine times this year.
Speaker 2: You don't say, yeah, is Nico Collins nine Dynasty gold
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 4: I think he is.
Speaker 6: Actually, I just traded him in my dynasty league this week.
Speaker 6: I needed a quarterback and I traded him for Jordan
Speaker 6: Love in a super flex league.
Speaker 4: I think I got good.
Speaker 2: Value in super flex Yess, that's plausible.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Bills are a middle of the pack pass defense, so
Speaker 6: I like those guys, and I like Stefan Diggs. The
Speaker 6: Bills run zone coverage at the ninth highest clip in
Speaker 6: the NFL. Diggs is torching zone coverage to the tune
Speaker 6: of zero point four to three PPR Fantasy points per
Speaker 6: route run, and he's running about twenty routes per game
Speaker 6: into zone. So we're looking at a minimum of ten
Speaker 6: points for Diggs on those zone coverages.
Speaker 4: So a B grade for Diggs. Tank Dell.
Speaker 6: He's still working back from chest and hand injuries that
Speaker 6: had him miss last week. It looks like he's trending
Speaker 6: towards going, but I think i'd rather bench Dell this
Speaker 6: week just in case. The Bill's slot corner Tarren Johnson,
Speaker 6: looks like he'll be returning from injury this week. He
Speaker 6: was one of the better slot corners last season, allowing
Speaker 6: only two hundred fourteen yards in his coverage over seventeen
Speaker 6: games last year.
Speaker 2: And the outside corners, by the way, also great. Christian
Speaker 2: Benford and Rasul Douglas to me are second only to
Speaker 2: Sauce Gardner and DJ Reid in terms of cornerback tandems.
Speaker 6: Well, Colin, I'll talk a little bit about them later
Speaker 6: in the show. Schultz remains the inferior Dalton tight end
Speaker 6: and should stay on your bench unless he sees more
Speaker 6: than three catches or thirty four yards in a game,
Speaker 6: which are his season highs. Joe Mixon not expected to
Speaker 6: go this week. Damian Pierce practiced in a limited fashion.
Speaker 6: He might go, but it's probably another week of cam
Speaker 6: Akers and Daria Goombawala and if pierces in then it's three.
Speaker 6: And last week it was a straight time share between Acres,
Speaker 6: who had twenty six snaps and a goomble Walle who
Speaker 6: had twenty seven. Acres had more rushing attempts thirteen to two,
Speaker 6: but at Goomblewle had four targets to Acres zero, and
Speaker 6: Dare scored the touchdown. The Bills present a great matchup too,
Speaker 6: because they're allowing the most running back combo yards in
Speaker 6: the league at one hundred and eighty per game. If
Speaker 6: you have to start one, I think it's a goomble walle.
Speaker 6: Because the Bills have allowed the second most receptions to
Speaker 6: opposing runners with twenty eight through four games. I'd rather
Speaker 6: keep them all on the bench, But if I gotta
Speaker 6: start one, it's dare a goombawalle.
Speaker 2: All right, stuck. Baltimore taking on Cincinnati an important game
Speaker 2: in terms of divisional standings here, and let's begin with
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry just destroying defenses in back to back weeks.
Speaker 2: You know that Ravens offensive line with all the new parts,
Speaker 2: the new tackles. The first couple of weeks, the new
Speaker 2: parts weren't working very well. Then they got on the
Speaker 2: same page and they're just crushing. And for Derrick Henry,
Speaker 2: he's got to get that big head of steam going
Speaker 2: vertically when that line is opening up those holes. It's
Speaker 2: just dominating. Cincinnati seeing the fourth highest run rate against them.
Speaker 2: So another gigantic volume game coming from Henry. In their
Speaker 2: four games, the Bengals have allowed no less than one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten total yards and or two touchdowns to
Speaker 2: opposing runners. So in obvious a great for Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2: I think he's my running back two this week, Let's
Speaker 2: go to the passing game, Lamar Jackson. These negative game
Speaker 2: scripts have hurt him a lot. Just fifteen and eighteen.
Speaker 2: He passes the last two games with Derek Henry running
Speaker 2: wild and compounding matters. Cincinnati has seen the seventh fewest
Speaker 2: passing attempts, but Jackson's posted passing touchdowns in every game
Speaker 2: and rushing touchdowns in consecutive games. Two weeks ago, Jackson's
Speaker 2: closest comparable runner, Jayden Daniels, posted thirty nine rushing yards
Speaker 2: and a score against Cincinnati. So I've still got an
Speaker 2: a grade on Lamar Jackson, but just the C grade
Speaker 2: on Za Flowers and nobody else is going to register
Speaker 2: a letter grade. This is much like the Josh Allen
Speaker 2: discussion Matt Baltimore's low passing output killing Jay Flowers. Baltimore
Speaker 2: ranks thirty first in pass attempts to wideouts. Flowers is
Speaker 2: going to see a lot of cocksure cornerback cam Britt Taylor.
Speaker 2: He ranks his Pro Football Focus as fifty third ranked cornerback.
Speaker 2: He's already allowed two passing touchdowns in his coverage and
Speaker 2: an opposing passer rating of one hundred and seventeen. I
Speaker 2: wish there was more volume, but I can only get
Speaker 2: you to a C grade on Za Flowers. Then there's
Speaker 2: the tight ends. I don't think I've overreacted, but I
Speaker 2: have dropped Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely in all of
Speaker 2: my combined leagues that had them. They're just getting basically
Speaker 2: no work in the passing game. Likely has run ten
Speaker 2: and thirteen routes the last two weeks. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's it. Andrews even worse, ten and six routes the
Speaker 2: last two weeks and no catches combined. They've only been
Speaker 2: targeted five times the past two games. The Bengals haven't
Speaker 2: allowed a touchdown to a tight end, yet none of
Speaker 2: top thirty eight receiving yards. There's nothing to like here.
Speaker 2: Andrews and Likely are on the bench. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go to the Cincinnati side. Jamar Chase obvious eight. Let's
Speaker 2: just get that out of the way. I also like
Speaker 2: T Higgins with a B grade. Last week, his second
Speaker 2: game back from injury, Higgins saw his target share explode
Speaker 2: to thirty four percent, so I can assume he's back
Speaker 2: to being a reliable and maybe even sometimes explosive starter.
Speaker 2: The Ravens pass defense, which has been great for years,
Speaker 2: has been unusually susceptible this year. They've given up big
Speaker 2: games to Rashi, Rice Davante, Adams and even second bananas. Cavante, Turpin,
Speaker 2: Jalen Tolbert, Keon Coleman have all done well. So I
Speaker 2: like Higgins here as well. And did we figure out
Speaker 2: what second banana even means? I think last week we
Speaker 2: might have talked about this, what what does it mean
Speaker 2: to be a second binan?
Speaker 4: I felt like it was a state fair show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it was.
Speaker 4: It was way back then.
Speaker 2: It was a while ago. Second banana. We don't know
Speaker 2: why second banana.
Speaker 4: I mean the top banana. You got that one right.
Speaker 2: No, I'd prefer to be the top panay.
Speaker 6: You want to be the top banana. You don't want
Speaker 6: to start at the bottom of the bunch and.
Speaker 2: Work your way up. Yeah, I guess so other members
Speaker 2: of the passing game. Cincinnati's tight ends are a four
Speaker 2: way mess and we're but we're going to keep watching
Speaker 2: the development of Eric All and I think we're going
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit more about him later in
Speaker 2: the show. But none of them register letter grades at
Speaker 2: this point. Let's talk Joe Burrow. Ravens shutdown Josh Allen
Speaker 2: last week, which makes Burrow feel a little bit tricky here,
Speaker 2: But the prior three quarterbacks to face Baltimore averaged three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen yards and one one point three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: That's terrific. The Ravens have been far easier to pass
Speaker 2: upon than run upon, and it's reflected by the thirty
Speaker 2: seven pass attempts they're seeing every game that is the
Speaker 2: third most so on sheer volume. I still like Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow in this game. Be great on him. Now, let's
Speaker 2: go to the thorniest part, Zach Moss and Chase Brown.
Speaker 2: M It looks like we're at a roughly fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty time share here between Moss and Brown. Brown coming
Speaker 2: off his best game as a pro, including pivotally pivot, pivot, pivotally,
Speaker 2: pivotally two carries from inside the five yard low, something
Speaker 2: that he had never touched the ball in his entire
Speaker 2: NFL career from inside the five before last week, and
Speaker 2: he turned those carries into touchdowns.
Speaker 6: Wow, they gave him a chance and he converted. Yeah,
Speaker 6: never gave him a chance before.
Speaker 2: Among runners. With Chase Brown's twenty nine carries. Chase Brown
Speaker 2: ranks number one in yards per carry at six point three,
Speaker 2: and he's number one in yards after contact at four
Speaker 2: point five. Brown's running great now, Mosses look good too,
Speaker 2: but this is a brutal matchup for both guys. The
Speaker 2: Ravens of the league's best run defense allowing just forty
Speaker 2: two rushing yards per game and a minuscule two point
Speaker 2: seven yards per carry. No opposing runner has top forty
Speaker 2: five yards against Baltimore, and it took Isaiah Pacheco fifteen
Speaker 2: carries to get to those forty five yards. Neither bought
Speaker 2: Moss nor Brown are likely to see anywhere near fifteen carries,
Speaker 2: So I've just got C grades on those guys. Hey,
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Speaker 2: take a chance on me. Nine players you would not
Speaker 2: normally start. Most of these guys available on the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you who they are when we come back
Speaker 2: to Fantasy Football Weekly. Nine players not normally in your
Speaker 2: starting lineup. Let's find some help on the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: We begin with Matt Harrison. Your quarterback is Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: He's not even like projected. We don't know if he's
Speaker 2: gonna We don't know if he's gonna start. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say he does just by reading the tea leaves. It
Speaker 2: doesn't look like Anthony Richardson is gonna go. He's been
Speaker 2: limited all week with what they're calling an oblique injury now,
Speaker 2: but it was called a hit pointer last week, and
Speaker 2: Flacco's taking all the first team reps in practice. It's
Speaker 2: one of those rare cases, though, in which it's really
Speaker 2: not a huge step down to start your healthy backup
Speaker 2: over your injured starter. So it seems like it would
Speaker 2: be wise for Flacco to get the start here against
Speaker 2: a Jacksonville defense that's one of the worst pass units
Speaker 2: in the NFL. They're bottom seven and completions yards and
Speaker 2: touchdowns allowed to oppose in quarterbacks. And by the way,
Speaker 2: when Flacco came in, he just started chucking it. Last
Speaker 2: week twenty six attempts in relief, one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: eight yards, two touchdown passes, no picks.
Speaker 4: Let's go Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: I love that he got just got the ball to
Speaker 2: his receivers. I mean, Michael Pittman, Josh Downs. Those guys
Speaker 2: became could become instantly fantasy viable when Joe Flacco's your quarterback. Yes,
Speaker 2: not asking too much?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 4: Not asking it out a lot?
Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna ask Thorn Eistrom, who's your take a
Speaker 2: chance on me? Quarterback?
Speaker 3: Take a chance on me?
Speaker 5: Quarterbacks Geno Smith against the Giants this week. Gino has
Speaker 5: eighteen fantasy points in three of four games this year
Speaker 5: and three hundred passing yards and two of his last three,
Speaker 5: which is good for quarterback eight in fantasy points per
Speaker 5: game this year. Had the career high three hundred and
Speaker 5: ninety five yards on Monday Night, completing seventy two point
Speaker 5: three percent of his attempts. And this is a very
Speaker 5: good matchup against a bad Giants defense. Giants have allowed
Speaker 5: the sixth highest passer rating in the NFL this year.
Speaker 2: Deontay Banks is a massive liability. Of course, he's allowed
Speaker 2: a he's tied for the leagu high and four touchdowns
Speaker 2: allowed through four games. In his coverage, Gino Smith should
Speaker 2: be in the ms warily, but the MVP conversation through
Speaker 2: four weeks.
Speaker 5: He's going to keep putting up numbers. Yeah, Ryan Grubb,
Speaker 5: Oh love, Ryan Grove. Yes, what a big upgrade from
Speaker 5: Shane Waldron to Ryan Grubb. Yes, and that transitions me
Speaker 5: to Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: My take for Fack, that was professional right there, charge
Speaker 2: Bud and coincidental. Despite Shane Waldron, it has been steady
Speaker 2: incremental progress for Caleb Williams. Coming off a game with
Speaker 2: just six and completions. I need Shane Waldron to get
Speaker 2: put more air in the ball. Too many short passes. Look,
Speaker 2: I understand you're trying to build confidence in your young
Speaker 2: passer and everything else, but let's start airing it out
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 4: Still.
Speaker 2: Williams is completing just thirty one percent of his passes
Speaker 2: over ten yards, So I understand the reluctance here, but
Speaker 2: this is your opportunity, Carolina. On the schedule, they're allowing
Speaker 2: the tenth most passing yards per attempt, so hopefully we're
Speaker 2: going to get more downfield passing from Caleb Williams Oliver's
Speaker 2: receivers healthy. Finally, Carolina is the only team that has
Speaker 2: allowed multiple passing touchdowns in every game this year. Let's
Speaker 2: get a multiple passing touchdown game from Caleb Williams.
Speaker 6: Charge if you stay right like like you've been on
Speaker 6: take a chance. I mean, you've been pretty hot this year.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I think that this is the last.
Speaker 6: Time you'll be able to acquire Caleb Williams and I
Speaker 6: might tell you.
Speaker 2: A little bit later in Okay, good, I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to that. I'm also looking forward to hearing about your
Speaker 2: take a chance on your running back.
Speaker 6: Speaking of injured Colts, Jonathan Taylor out this week. He's
Speaker 6: dealing with an ankle sprain, which means Trey Sermon gets
Speaker 6: the start against the Jags defense that is also bad
Speaker 6: against running backs, especially through the air, where they have
Speaker 6: allowed the fourth most receptions and the third most receiving yards.
Speaker 6: They're giving up one hundred and thirty eight total yards
Speaker 6: per game to the position. That pretty much all goes
Speaker 6: to Trey Sermon this week.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm with you a nice plug and play
Speaker 2: running back that you can start this week, Trey Sermon
Speaker 2: sor you're taking chance at me running back.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Raiders running back Alexander Madison against
Speaker 5: the Broncos. Yep, Antonio Pierce, who just got a show
Speaker 5: cause from the NCAA. The NCAA loves doing that to
Speaker 5: sitting NFL head coaches. They wait for the punishment. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: what he's banned for like nine years ago. He's not
Speaker 5: going back. He's not going back. But he suggested that
Speaker 5: it was earlier this week that it's time to start
Speaker 5: considering some backfield changes. And then on Friday, Pierce strongly
Speaker 5: suggested that Zamir White will be out for this game
Speaker 5: against the Broncos. Been listed as doubtful, which in the
Speaker 5: NFL means out by you go back years and years
Speaker 5: and years. Madison behind Zamir White has been averaging six
Speaker 5: point one touches per game, but he's been very good
Speaker 5: in that small sample. Madison is averaging over five yeards
Speaker 5: per carry and has scored three touchdowns. Unlimited touches usage
Speaker 5: is gonna spike this week if Zamir is indeed out.
Speaker 5: This is not the best matchup, but the volume will
Speaker 5: be there again. In particular, if Zamir is out, the
Speaker 5: Raiders run game gets stuffed at the highest rate in
Speaker 5: the NFL, and the Broncos defense has the six highest
Speaker 5: stuff rate in the NFL. But the Raiders might, from
Speaker 5: a game planning perspective, might figure that the ground is
Speaker 5: more advantageous than the air to try to attack this
Speaker 5: Broncos defense. And if Alexander Madison's the one guy standing there,
Speaker 5: he is going to get a ton of touches.
Speaker 2: I like that This Denver defense very good. It's really
Speaker 2: they're very good. So they've allowed thirteen to nine and
Speaker 2: seven points the last three weeks. If you like, I
Speaker 2: don't care who you're playing, although Baker Mayfield and the
Speaker 2: Bucks are in that mix.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really impressed. And the bronc you know, just
Speaker 5: on this the other side of it. They did take
Speaker 5: Brisee Hall totally out of that game last week. No,
Speaker 5: it is in bad conditions, of course, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: But it's a very good run defense as well, in
Speaker 5: addition to being a good pass defense. But Madison's going
Speaker 5: to get the touches, and he's been playing well.
Speaker 2: Green Bay running back Emanuel Wilson's been playing well and
Speaker 2: he's catching juicy matchup. The Rams are had lasted rushing
Speaker 2: yards allowed at one hundred and sixty five rushing yards
Speaker 2: allowed to your game. That is a ton. They're also
Speaker 2: second to last in yards per carry at five Los
Speaker 2: Angeles rings twenty eighth, and run defense win rate. They're
Speaker 2: so bad against the run that non starting running backs
Speaker 2: against them are doing well, including Rosawn Johnson's touchdown last week.
Speaker 2: Amari de Marcado rolled up forty six yards against them,
Speaker 2: and against Detroit, both Gibbs and Montgomery got paid, so
Speaker 2: depth running backs able to get something done against the Rams.
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson honestly looking just as good as Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 2: I prefer Jacobs, of course, who's probably going to get
Speaker 2: more work here, but Wilson's getting plenty of work as well.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to our receivers. Matt who you got?
Speaker 6: I went with two colts, so why not go with
Speaker 6: the third? Josh Downs, he's also a cult. He was
Speaker 6: finally healthy last week and resumed his duties in the
Speaker 6: slot and made a d Mitchell an afterthought. Downs will
Speaker 6: see Jerry and Jones almost exclusively in his coverage, allowing
Speaker 6: a seventy nine percent completion percentage on balls in his
Speaker 6: coverage for an average of fourteen yards per reception.
Speaker 4: And the Jags as a whole.
Speaker 6: Have allowed the thirst third most receptions and yards to
Speaker 6: opposing wide receivers.
Speaker 2: All right, thor your receiver take a chance from you receive.
Speaker 5: Sticking with the Raiders, going with Trey Tucker in this
Speaker 5: game against the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Back to back big games, Fat Tray Tucker.
Speaker 5: Back to back, Yeah, and last week's he had the
Speaker 5: six touches for forty four total yards with the touchdown.
Speaker 5: DeVante Adams, of course, is out again. Tucker was on
Speaker 5: the field for eighty five percent of the snaps last week.
Speaker 5: That was up from sixty percent in Week two. The
Speaker 5: Raiders also throw the ball sixty four percent of the time,
Speaker 5: that is the fourth highest rate in the NFL. Of course,
Speaker 5: game scripts heavily play into that. Yeah, but that might
Speaker 5: hear again right if they fall behind the Broncos.
Speaker 3: So the speedster Tucker, and that's.
Speaker 5: His special sauce is that speed should get targets again,
Speaker 5: particularly with the Raiders wanting to avoid Patrick Surtann in
Speaker 5: this one, Tucker is going to get Riley Moss. Moss
Speaker 5: been playing a little bit better in recent weeks, but
Speaker 5: he's still allowed to sixty four percent catch rate, ninety
Speaker 5: three passer rating on the season. A decent matchup here
Speaker 5: for Trey Tucker if you need a flyer.
Speaker 2: I have so much respect for Trey Tucker that when
Speaker 2: I was analyzing this matchup for I'm asking myself, is
Speaker 2: Patrick Sir Tan for sure going to be on Jacoby
Speaker 2: Myers in this one? But Noavante Adams or do they
Speaker 2: try to take away the deep threat that Tucker's got
Speaker 2: because that guy's just breaking open defenses right now.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, extremely extremely explosive. He gave problems to Power five
Speaker 5: teams when he was at Cincinnati in college. Those really
Speaker 5: good Luke Fickel Cincinnati teams made the playoff one year.
Speaker 3: Explosive, explosive player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that was my That's my only hesitation, and
Speaker 2: it'll probably be Sirtan on Jacoby Myers and then he's dead. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Sirtan is doing to opposing great razy here. It
Speaker 2: is stupid like Mike Evans sitting on like two catches
Speaker 2: for twelve yards. I mean it is Sir Tan's having
Speaker 2: a or not for Aiden Aiden Hutchinson. Sir Tan would
Speaker 2: be my defensive MVP at this stage of the season. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: wide receiver two two at well is my take chance
Speaker 2: of meat wide receiver.
Speaker 3: I like that one.
Speaker 2: Green Bay Star cornerback jay Or Alexander may not go
Speaker 2: again in this game. He's got the groin injury. But
Speaker 2: even when he was playing, the Packers secondary look bad.
Speaker 2: Number two receivers have trucked this secondary in every game.
Speaker 2: It was Jordan Addison last week. Before that, it was
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins. Before that it was Alec Pierce, and before
Speaker 2: that it was DeVonta Smith. The last two weeks, to
Speaker 2: to out Well has run eighty three percent and ninety
Speaker 2: one percent of the team's routes. He's heavily involved in
Speaker 2: this offense to to out Well. Nice sneaky play Jordan
Speaker 2: Winnington as well. Well, we'll talk more about that when
Speaker 2: we get to the matchup. Speaking of matchups, let's go
Speaker 2: back to them. You just outlined many Raiders in this game,
Speaker 2: so let's let's go Raiders Broncos. You've already told us
Speaker 2: about Alexander Madison, and I know you like him. Let's
Speaker 2: resume with the rest of the passing game here. For
Speaker 2: the Raiders, Thoor.
Speaker 5: Gardner Minshew, keep him on the bench in this one
Speaker 5: KB thirty one and fantasy points per game. Did nothing
Speaker 5: against the Browns last week, and this is a brutal,
Speaker 5: brutal matchup against that vicious Broncos defense in particularly the past.
Speaker 5: Keep Gardner Minshew on the bench. If you can mentioned
Speaker 5: before about Zamir White probably going to miss this game.
Speaker 5: DeVante Adams definitely is going to miss this game with
Speaker 5: the hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: Hams ring injury. The Rabbit quotes there, why I have
Speaker 2: injured my handstring picking up this phone right here?
Speaker 5: How so that elevates Jacoby Myers two again, Air quotes
Speaker 5: the wide receiver one designation on the depth chart. But
Speaker 5: of course he's the number two option behind Brock Bauers.
Speaker 5: And this is a horrible matchup. Charge mentioned before the
Speaker 5: Patrick Surtan and what are the Broncos going to do
Speaker 5: with him here? He's going to erase one side of
Speaker 5: the field, I mean, no matter where. Among cornerbacks in
Speaker 5: the NFL who have had over one hundred coverage snaps
Speaker 5: this year, Cirtan is number four in both tight window
Speaker 5: throw rate and in average yards of separation the least.
Speaker 5: And of course he's just been a racing of run
Speaker 5: that he faces. Brock Bowers is an obvious must start
Speaker 5: with a. He is going to get all those manufactured
Speaker 5: touches near the line of scrimmage and then try to
Speaker 5: go berserker breaking tackles. Moving over to the Broncos Bonicks.
Speaker 5: Of course you have to keep him on the bench.
Speaker 5: Twelve he would twelve for twenty five for sixty yards
Speaker 5: against the Jets. He did throw his first touchdown pass,
Speaker 5: so how about that. Congrats to bow on that cord. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Bonix is minus fifty four point four pass epa dead
Speaker 5: last among quarterbacks, so yeah, keep him on the bench.
Speaker 5: Javonte Williams give him a seed. He had a mini
Speaker 5: breakout against the Jets. Was one of the only offensive
Speaker 5: guys in that game that had a decent game season
Speaker 5: high eighteen touches end to season high eighty total yards.
Speaker 5: This is a good matchup to build momentum off of that.
Speaker 5: The Raiders defense is coughed up fifteen point five plus
Speaker 5: fantasy points too opposing running back ones in all four
Speaker 5: games so far this season. Only other guy to talk
Speaker 5: about on the Broncos side is Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give him.
Speaker 4: A see here.
Speaker 5: He scored almost twenty nine Fantasy points the last two weeks.
Speaker 5: Was targeted nine times against the Jets. But of course
Speaker 5: all he had the three catches for sixty yards and
Speaker 5: a touchdown with the one big catch there is where
Speaker 5: he got the value back.
Speaker 3: Sutton is get this one.
Speaker 5: Sutton is the only player in the NFL with one
Speaker 5: of its team's red zone targets.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but of course you know the the Broncos offense
Speaker 5: caveats apply.
Speaker 4: Is it one of one?
Speaker 5: Nice Sun's gonna keep seeing the targets. But Bonnick has
Speaker 5: all kinds of problems completing passes beyond ten yards down
Speaker 5: the field, So those apply, and no other Bronco pass
Speaker 5: catchers worth starting for those reasons or even considering.
Speaker 2: Uh, what great did you give on a sudden season.
Speaker 3: I'm going to see on some it sounds right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would do the same thing. There's
Speaker 2: an early Sunday game. Oh that is a nine to
Speaker 2: eastern kickoff. I gotta go get our guests western Yes,
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Speaker 2: London correspondent knows so much about football in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to find out what Colin's got to
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Speaker 2: is time to go across the pond, Jets taking on
Speaker 2: the Vikings that we've got, We've got our London correspondent,
Speaker 2: Colin mccotney, ready to break down this game.
Speaker 6: Ay Collin, Jeez and kisses and allou to you Chochytis
Speaker 6: Colin mccochney and backstreets back Chotchy boy.
Speaker 2: Oh hi Colin great to hear from you again.
Speaker 6: Got a bag a few apples and pairs with them
Speaker 6: strikers to get y'all sorted.
Speaker 4: For the fan foot.
Speaker 6: The Flying Metal Birds be rock solid with the tiny
Speaker 6: fizzy pop Natic battle Boys at Old York this week.
Speaker 2: I think you're talking about the Jets and the Vikings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I can do some translating here.
Speaker 2: Colin don't speak fluid Cockney.
Speaker 5: He said hello to everyone, and he's about to do
Speaker 5: the matchup between the Jets and the Vikings in Old
Speaker 5: York on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Got you nice try Thundy, Clever Mike.
Speaker 6: And a Gypsy's kiss, swearing Aaron on a sea shanty,
Speaker 6: smashing chest hair, hedges on Billy's beans.
Speaker 4: Blimey, he's a worker in a colony.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He said that Aaron Rodgers is getting a C grade
Speaker 5: in this game. The Vikings have seen the most passing attempts, completions,
Speaker 5: and yards against their defense this season, mostly because every
Speaker 5: team has been in garbage time and trailing by multiple scores.
Speaker 5: But Rogers has been held under three hundred yards in
Speaker 5: every game he's played since Week fourteen of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 5: and has only thrown for multiple touchdowns twice in his
Speaker 5: last ten games.
Speaker 2: I would never have guessed that translation. Wow, that's brilliant
Speaker 2: of you. Thor all right, Colin, so maybe uh what
Speaker 2: about the running game?
Speaker 6: Oh nah, Carrot and Lizard are a pair of Jimmy
Speaker 6: choosers and they're locked in a basin of gravy, smurfs
Speaker 6: and flying lions like a dumpster diving.
Speaker 5: What he's saying is Garrett Wilson and ELM Lazar gets
Speaker 5: secretes as well. Both of their average depth of targets
Speaker 5: this year has been hovering around eight, which is about
Speaker 5: half of what guys at the top of that list
Speaker 5: are averaging. Matchups against Shaq Griffin and Byron Murphy are
Speaker 5: about average, and the Vikings have allowed the most wide
Speaker 5: receiver yardage so far this year at two twenty one
Speaker 5: per game, but again, much of that obviously is garbage time.
Speaker 6: Conky two thousand is a Jammy Jodger and ready to
Speaker 6: for a pint foggy underwearing a proper belting for him.
Speaker 5: Tyler Conklin, what Colin's saying, Tyler Conklin is worthy of
Speaker 5: a sea as well. Conklin has seen fourteen targets the
Speaker 5: last two weeks and the Vikings have been bottom ten
Speaker 5: against tight ends in every category or including giving up
Speaker 5: touchdowns to George Kittle and Tucker Craft in the last
Speaker 5: two weeks.
Speaker 2: Now about the running backs for the Jets.
Speaker 6: A greasy fleece and a Mickey mouse in your blouse.
Speaker 6: Tough to jam tart on those nobbies because Jimmy the
Speaker 6: lemon merchant is selling pairs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's talking about Breese Hall and Braylen. Allen.
Speaker 5: Hall is still a startable with a see, he said,
Speaker 5: But Allen is on the bench because of the leads.
Speaker 5: The Vikings a belt. No one is running against them.
Speaker 5: But they're also a very they're very good win opponents
Speaker 5: do try Vikings, allowing an eighth best in the NFL
Speaker 5: three point nine yards per carry and only two total
Speaker 5: touchdowns to the position this year. Hall is still getting
Speaker 5: two thirds of the snap so he's still worth the
Speaker 5: start here. But this is a tough matchup, according to Colin.
Speaker 2: How about the Viking side, Colin.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Sammy the submarine captain make Coppin oily rag on
Speaker 6: a Sheffield Wednesday.
Speaker 4: But blimey, no utter brothers can deny.
Speaker 3: Well, you guys all heard what he said.
Speaker 2: But it's so obvious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Sam Darnold faces his toughest test of the year
Speaker 5: so far, but CON's it'll give him a C grade.
Speaker 5: That Jets are top five in completions and yards allowed
Speaker 5: to the quarterback position, but they haven't faced great competition
Speaker 5: yet in the last three weeks Will Levis, Jacoby Brissett
Speaker 5: and our boy bon Knicks. So advantage goes to Donald
Speaker 5: in his second Jets revenge game. In his first Jets
Speaker 5: revenge game well with the Panthers, Donald had two hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy nine yards and a touchdown through the air
Speaker 5: and on the ground.
Speaker 6: I love it, Okay, gotta be proper, no two ways
Speaker 6: about it. Jetty, jeff and Saucy Steve are top choice
Speaker 6: in disson and even the smolly bums can do two
Speaker 6: plus two and nail a cat to a door.
Speaker 5: He's saying that Justin Jefferson probably still has an advantage
Speaker 5: on Sauce Gardner, weirdly sas Gardner's passer rating and coverage
Speaker 5: this year has been a not good one hundred and
Speaker 5: thirty seven point nine. Still, it's a tough matchup according
Speaker 5: to Colin, and it's Jefferson getting as low as possible
Speaker 5: grade and that's a be according to Colin for this game.
Speaker 5: Going to George, he was also talking about Jordan Adison. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and he said to give Addison a se grade and
Speaker 5: to keep Naylor on the bench for this game when
Speaker 5: Addison faced his zone coverage. He's averaging zero point six
Speaker 5: points per route run and the Jets flipped his zone
Speaker 5: about sixty nine percent of the time.
Speaker 6: Cols and Coke Thundythaw get out your dustbin lids and
Speaker 6: grab a lump of ice. There's a fisherman's daughter for
Speaker 6: old Jonesy in the bathtub.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's obviously talking about Aaron Jones here. The Jets
Speaker 5: to face one good running back that this year, and
Speaker 5: that was Jordan Mason in Week one. Mason went off
Speaker 5: in that game for one hundred and fifty two total
Speaker 5: yards and a touchdown. Lesser running backs Tony Pollard managed
Speaker 5: one hundred and two total yards against them, and Javonte
Speaker 5: Williams found his way to eighty total yards best game
Speaker 5: of his season. Jones is averaging one hundred and sixteen
Speaker 5: total yards per game. Colin says it's a solid b
Speaker 5: for him in what seems like a tough matchup, but
Speaker 5: according to Colin, is not actually a tough matchup.
Speaker 6: Smashing good time thor and Charchy boy, pretty ponies in
Speaker 6: a Scotch missed, funky Parliament and roast pig eaton mutton
Speaker 6: rub it Ye.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Colin, Well done, my man. That's the kind
Speaker 2: of breakdown that you can only get from Colin mccochney
Speaker 2: on Fantasy Football Weekly. Great to have him on the
Speaker 2: show again. We'll transition to Carolina taking on the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: My voice sounds so American right now. Let's start with
Speaker 2: Chewba Hubbard. By the way, this Bear's defense is good,
Speaker 2: and I think we're gonna take a little the air
Speaker 2: out of the Andy Dalton's steam here. As good as
Speaker 2: he's looked the last couple of weeks, I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: with Chewba Hubbard. The way to beat the Bears is
Speaker 2: on the ground, and Hubbard should get a healthy workload here.
Speaker 2: He has looked far better this year than in previous seasons.
Speaker 2: I love the way he's running in two Dalton starts.
Speaker 2: Chewba Hubbard third in rushing yards per game at one
Speaker 2: hundred and nine, and he's averaging almost six yards per carry.
Speaker 2: Good enough for fourth amongst starting running backs over these
Speaker 2: last two weeks. And Chicago's been hit hard by opposing
Speaker 2: runners the past couple of weeks, allowing four touchdowns to
Speaker 2: opposing runners the last two weeks. Jonathan Taylor smoked him
Speaker 2: for one hundred and thirty five totally yards, and then
Speaker 2: Kyrad Williams put up hundred for last week. Chuba Hubbard
Speaker 2: solid B grade for him. Then let's go to the
Speaker 2: passing game, and I want to start with Deontay Johnson
Speaker 2: because understanding why I'm nervous about Dalton Hell, you have
Speaker 2: to understand why I'm nervous about Deontay Johnson in a
Speaker 2: potentially brutal matchup against star cornerback Jalen Johnson. Jalen Johnson's
Speaker 2: currently PFF's ninth highest rated cornerback, but he's probably even
Speaker 2: better than that. The passer rating on throws into Jalen
Speaker 2: Johnson's coverage is forty. That's it. He's given up zero
Speaker 2: touchdowns this year and just three touchdowns the last three seasons,
Speaker 2: and the average game in Jalen Johnson's coverage is just
Speaker 2: two catches for twenty six yards. In this Johnson on
Speaker 2: Johnson's sword fight advantage. Jalen, you can't say that on
Speaker 2: Radio Justice. You cannot do that on Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get canceled.
Speaker 2: Xavier leget comes out of the C grade surging sense
Speaker 2: Adam Thielen's IR stint last week thirty seven routes, nine targets,
Speaker 2: eight catches, all career highs. Xavier Lagets basically DK metcalf
Speaker 2: and build, and that can be a tricky matchup, even
Speaker 2: for a fairly large cornerback like Tyreek Stevenson, who I
Speaker 2: think is going to see him a lot in this game.
Speaker 2: Stevenson's six foot, two hundred and four pounds, so I
Speaker 2: mean he's by cornerback standards, he is a sturdy dude.
Speaker 2: He's also a pretty good cornerback. He's allowing just a
Speaker 2: fifty eight percent completion rate, but not exactly the shutdown
Speaker 2: level that we have with Jalen Johnson. So I see
Speaker 2: Xavier Lagette as a high risk, high reward dart throw
Speaker 2: in this game and a C grade on him. So
Speaker 2: where does that leave Andy Dalton? Just to see grade
Speaker 2: if I've got CE grades on Deontae Johnson and Xavier
Speaker 2: Legette that's all I can do for you. Difficult matchup
Speaker 2: for Andy Dalton against a surging Chicago pass defense. Chicago
Speaker 2: allowing just one hundred and ninety four passing yards and
Speaker 2: half of one passing touchdown per game. They've blanked Matthew
Speaker 2: Stafford and Anthony Richards in the past two weeks. Chicago
Speaker 2: ranks number one and fantasy points allowed to corner quarterback.
Speaker 2: So I still love what Dalton's done, but this is
Speaker 2: a brutal matchup and I've only got a C grade
Speaker 2: on him. All right, let's go over to the Chicago side,
Speaker 2: where first we begin with this. I was I was
Speaker 2: not exactly right about DeAndre Swift last week, all right.
Speaker 2: I gave you all the metrics last week and how
Speaker 2: bad DeAndre Swift had been basically the worst starting running
Speaker 2: back in the NFL, and I predicted that he would
Speaker 2: lose time to Roshawn Johnson, who did score a touchdown.
Speaker 2: But then, of course, Swift reverses all of that and
Speaker 2: looks awesome in the game dominates last week, and now
Speaker 2: he faces a team that's allowed the most fantasy points
Speaker 2: to runners.
Speaker 4: He heard the show.
Speaker 2: I think he did it motivated by my ill will
Speaker 2: towards him. The three non Vegas opponents to face Carolina
Speaker 2: have averaged one hundred and eighty rushing yards and three
Speaker 2: score to runners. So I like DeAndre Swift here, and
Speaker 2: now maybe I'm over correcting. So now I've got an
Speaker 2: A grade on on DeAndre Swift. Maybe I shouldn't go
Speaker 2: that far, but man, the matchup is beautiful for him here,
Speaker 2: so hopefully he can live up to the A grade
Speaker 2: I've got. And DeAndre Swift, let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams was might take a chance on me quarterback,
Speaker 2: So I must like some of the receivers here, specifically
Speaker 2: DJ Moore, who runs overwhelmingly from the left side of
Speaker 2: the field, where he's expected to see a lot of
Speaker 2: cornerback J. C. Horn, who is physical enough to challenge more.
Speaker 2: Horne was very good last year and decent this year.
Speaker 2: He's allowing a sixty percent completion rate and twenty five
Speaker 2: yards per game in his coverage. Those are good numbers.
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen's return eats a little bit into Moore's volume,
Speaker 2: but Moore remains the safest play among the Bears wide receivers.
Speaker 2: He's getting almost double the targets of any other Bears
Speaker 2: wide out. So I've got a B grade on DJ Moore.
Speaker 2: I've got a C grade in Rome of Dunes eight Now.
Speaker 2: Two weeks ago, we got a one hundred yard game
Speaker 2: out of a Jonsay. Somebody's like game on. We all
Speaker 2: put him in our lineups last week against the Rams
Speaker 2: battered secondary, and we got one catch for ten yards.
Speaker 2: Second tier wideouts are crushing the Panthers. Rashid Shaheed seventy
Speaker 2: three yards in a touchdown, Quentin Johnson two touchdowns, Trey
Speaker 2: Tucker ninety six yards in a score, Jacoby Meyers sixty
Speaker 2: two yards in a score.
Speaker 4: So I'm rolling.
Speaker 2: The dice on the bounce back for Roma Dunesay originally
Speaker 2: had him as a bench I' putting him in a
Speaker 2: C grade here. Not gonna get too panicked about last
Speaker 2: week's terrible game out of Rome Adunza. Hopefully that will
Speaker 2: not be the case here. Keenan Allen's on the bench.
Speaker 2: He did return to action last week, but just three
Speaker 2: targets for seven air yards. He saw over half of
Speaker 2: his play from the slot where he's gonna face Panthers'
Speaker 2: cornerback Troy Hill. He's allowed eight catches in his coverage
Speaker 2: this year, but in its all short stuff, Hill's only
Speaker 2: giving up sixteen scoreless yards per game. So I can't
Speaker 2: put a letter grade on Keenan Allen here. And lastly,
Speaker 2: cole Comet, he returned to full time starter status and
Speaker 2: on volume alone in the tight end wasteland that we're in,
Speaker 2: he is a plausible play against a middle of the
Speaker 2: pack Panthers defense. Yeah, so just a B grade on
Speaker 2: Cole Comet. I think we've got If I got this
Speaker 2: thing out timed out right, everybody should be going to break.
Speaker 2: I think we should roughly in this ballpark. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, remember I'm getting the y s from bretton
Speaker 2: sure go to break here. When we come back. Arizona
Speaker 2: Cardinals taking on the San Francisco forty nine ers. Thundy
Speaker 2: four will give us an update on that.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty good nickname. Where'd you get that?
Speaker 2: What we should expect from the Arizona Cardinals, and what
Speaker 2: will hopefully be a bounce back performance, all to be
Speaker 2: it against a much tougher defense. When we return the
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Speaker 2: This is a game we call three tough questions. You
Speaker 2: can play along.
Speaker 3: Try to go three and number one.
Speaker 2: Should you proactively trade for DeVante Adams now or wait
Speaker 2: to see where he lands. We begin with Matt Harrison,
Speaker 2: whether or not.
Speaker 6: You believe he has a legit hamstring injury right now,
Speaker 6: and I kind of do believe that the hamstring is
Speaker 6: a little okay, that's strike one for me. Because of
Speaker 6: his trade request, I think it costs you a little
Speaker 6: bit more to trade for him right now too. I
Speaker 6: think that's strike too. The rumored team are the Saints,
Speaker 6: where he'd be the number two behind a Lave, the Jets,
Speaker 6: where he'd be the number two behind Garrett Wilson, and
Speaker 6: the Cowboys, where he'd be the number two behind Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 6: That's strike three for me. The only way that Adams
Speaker 6: values Skyrockets is if he's traded to Kansas City. But
Speaker 6: that's not going to happen because then they're in the
Speaker 6: same division. Do not trade for Devonte Adams.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we've got to know thor should you proactively
Speaker 2: trade for Davonte Adams now or wait and see where
Speaker 2: he lands.
Speaker 5: So what I would do is send a low ball
Speaker 5: to low ball offer to his owner. I'd kick the tires,
Speaker 5: but I would only make the trade if the price
Speaker 5: is pretty cheap. There is not great precedent for mid
Speaker 5: season trade of wide receivers to immediately post huge numbers
Speaker 5: with their new teams.
Speaker 2: The reported connections to the Saints and the Jets, to me,
Speaker 2: feels like a lazy narrative by reporters who are just going, oh,
Speaker 2: we played with Derek Carr before, he played with Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers before, and you know, honestly, Rashigia heat's really good.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Saints need him, and they're always
Speaker 2: in cap hell, so I don't even know how viable
Speaker 2: the Saints could possibly be. Sure the Jets could use
Speaker 2: him a.
Speaker 4: Lot of times.
Speaker 2: It's also not even up to Devonte Adams, right, I mean, sure,
Speaker 2: he needs to agree to a new deal with whatever
Speaker 2: team he gets dealt to, But Raiders don't have to
Speaker 2: necessarily put him somewhere where he absolutely wants to go.
Speaker 2: So I don't like that part. I love buying low
Speaker 2: on great players who are abnormally undervalued, And so to
Speaker 2: Thors's point, maybe you throw out the low ball offer.
Speaker 2: But here's my big worry on this. When does he
Speaker 2: get traded? Trade deadline still three weeks away week eight?
Speaker 2: So when does he get traded? Is it this week
Speaker 2: or is it next week? Or is the week after that?
Speaker 2: Or is it rolling into week number eight? For Pete's sake?
Speaker 2: And is he going to have this hamstring injury for
Speaker 2: that long? And then, to Thors's point, once he does
Speaker 2: get traded, what's the acclamation period after that? So am
Speaker 2: I looking at not playing Devonte Adams for a month?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: By the way, he's thirty one and maybe washed, Maybe
Speaker 6: he's just done.
Speaker 2: I like he's washed. I'll tell you why. That Raider's
Speaker 2: upset win and bald some more. Dude looked awesome. So
Speaker 2: I don't think he's watched yet. But I mean for Dynasty,
Speaker 2: for Keeper, I think that's a totally valid consideration. The
Speaker 2: end is coming for Adams and is it soon? Totally
Speaker 2: valid so overall, I can't trade for a guy that
Speaker 2: I don't know can start for a month. So we're on. No,
Speaker 2: let's not proactively trade DeVante Adam.
Speaker 3: Now tough question number two.
Speaker 2: Would you rather roster Tennessee wide receiver Calvin Ridley or
Speaker 2: seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbs an other word Calvin
Speaker 2: or Hobbs. We begin with thor.
Speaker 5: Well, I haven't told you guys this, but Colin mccochney
Speaker 5: actually introduced me to Thomas Hobbs's work over the summer.
Speaker 2: No kidding, round it, Yes, it doesn't extremely well round Yeah.
Speaker 4: You hang out with Colin in the summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did, Yeah a little bit. Yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 3: some advanced scouting, et cetera.
Speaker 5: And as we all know, Hobbes is best known for
Speaker 5: his sixteen to fifty one book Leviathan, in which he
Speaker 5: founds on influential formation of social contract theory, considered to
Speaker 5: be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Yes,
Speaker 5: my philosophy on Ridley is to hold him Okay, right now,
Speaker 5: He did nothing the last two games, but those were
Speaker 5: those game scripts. Both got wonky in games that were
Speaker 5: decided by sixteen or more points. I still love Ridley's game,
Speaker 5: and cross your fingers, maybe we'll get a Will Levis
Speaker 5: benching to help him.
Speaker 2: Out, all right, Matt Calvin or Hobbes.
Speaker 6: Well, I was kind of disappointed that you didn't include
Speaker 6: the naturals Roy Hobbes or Agent Hobbs played by Dwayne
Speaker 6: the Rock Johnson in The Fast and the Furious movies.
Speaker 6: But I don't want Calvin at all, so it's definitely Hobbes.
Speaker 6: His quarterback situation is amongst the worst in the league.
Speaker 6: I can count on two fingers the amount of times
Speaker 6: any Titans wide receiver has had more than three receptions
Speaker 6: this year in a game. It's happened twice. That's two fingers.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 6: You have a much better chance at a one catch
Speaker 6: for nine yard game getting anything of value for him.
Speaker 6: And Ridley's one good game this year came in the
Speaker 6: game that nobody started him against the Jets' secondary.
Speaker 4: So give me Hobbs all day long.
Speaker 2: I am also going to quote Hobbs's Leviathan, were you
Speaker 2: hanging out with mccognity too, I did not at the
Speaker 2: same time you were there, though he never even mentioned it.
Speaker 2: Here's your quote. Worst of all continual fear and danger
Speaker 2: of violent death, the life of a man solitary, poor, nasty,
Speaker 2: brutish and short, which sounds like Matt Harrison and engagingly
Speaker 2: by the way, now, quoting Calvin, I find my life
Speaker 2: is easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations. That's howd
Speaker 2: like Will Lovis right there. Easy he has had. Calvin
Speaker 2: Ridley has had one good game and three mortifying games
Speaker 2: where he has finished his wide receiver forty eight, wide
Speaker 2: receiver seventy seven, and wide receiver seventy six. And unfortunately,
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph didn't even help last week when he played effectively.
Speaker 2: That whole game didn't help him at all. It won't catch,
Speaker 2: and Brian Callahan says he's gonna go back to Will
Speaker 2: Levis after this week's bye. And it's the bye. Let's
Speaker 2: just dump Ridley. Let somebody else roll the dice on
Speaker 2: that once a month good game you're gonna get out
Speaker 2: of Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 3: Tough question number three.
Speaker 2: With Rashi Rice out going forward is Chiefs wide receiver
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy most commonly going to be a wide receiver one,
Speaker 2: a wide receiver two, a flex or a bench level
Speaker 2: player Matt.
Speaker 6: So far, he's only been targeted three and a half
Speaker 6: times per game and on thirteen percent of his routes run,
Speaker 6: which includes Rashie Rice's almost being out for the entire
Speaker 6: game last week. Yeah, he didn't do much more in
Speaker 6: that game. He's been a complete decoy so far. He
Speaker 6: needs to basically double his targets per game to become
Speaker 6: Fantasy relevant.
Speaker 4: Justin Watson is going to to be involved.
Speaker 6: Juju Smith Schuster is going to be involved, Sky Moore
Speaker 6: and Mikole Hardman are going to be involved. This sounds
Speaker 6: exactly like the twenty twenty two team before Rashie Rice
Speaker 6: came to the NFL. It's almost all the same guys
Speaker 6: that year. Juju had five targets per game, Marquez Veldez,
Speaker 6: Scantling and Hardman had four targets per game. Watson and
Speaker 6: Kadarius Tony had two targets per game. It's going to
Speaker 6: be way more frustrating than anyone wants to imagine. He's
Speaker 6: going to be a bench grade almost exclusively for.
Speaker 2: Me, all right, thor with Rashi Rice out going forward,
Speaker 2: his Chiefs wide receiver Xavior Worthy most commonly going to
Speaker 2: be a wide receiver one wide receiver two flex or bench.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mahomes just distributes the ball so even Lee. So
Speaker 5: I see Worthy as a decent wide receiver three and
Speaker 5: twelve team leagues the rest of the years. Some weeks
Speaker 5: he'll be more than that some weeks last. But I
Speaker 5: think it's a flex value overall.
Speaker 2: Losing an offense's most productive player Rashie Rice. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I'm including Patrick Mahomes in this. When I
Speaker 2: say that Rashee Weiss was the Chief's most productive player
Speaker 2: is never a good thing. Defenses had to account for
Speaker 2: the insane abilities that Rashi Rice had. Oh nobody outside
Speaker 2: of Deebo Samuel can turn a six yard slant pattern
Speaker 2: into a twenty six yard game like Rashi Rice could.
Speaker 2: Now defenses don't have to account for that. They're going
Speaker 2: to roll more coverage to Travis Kelce, more coverage to
Speaker 2: a potential game breaker like Xavier Worthy. Now we know
Speaker 2: Worthy's one of the fastest players in the history of
Speaker 2: the league. Never play this position, So we've got this
Speaker 2: perception that Xavier Worthy it's like bombs away on these
Speaker 2: deep passes. Get this. It's been the exact opposite.
Speaker 4: So far.
Speaker 2: Worthy has been thrown to fifteen times he has one
Speaker 2: catch longer than four yards. That's it.
Speaker 5: Worthy, He wasn't great down in the field of Texas either,
Speaker 5: it's me manufacturing the touches for him and then the
Speaker 5: Jets get turned on with the yards after the catch.
Speaker 3: That's his game.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: That is his game. And if he did score a
Speaker 2: touchdown a week one exactly that way, and maybe it's
Speaker 2: maybe he's going to do some of that. He's never
Speaker 2: caught more than two passes in a game so far
Speaker 2: and it's only been a month. I get that, and
Speaker 2: arguably you know he will get better, but he's totally
Speaker 2: touchdown dependent. Man was talking about the low volume we
Speaker 2: hate low volume touchdown dependent players. I love you brought
Speaker 2: up MVS.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 2: He's MVS right now at this stage his career. And again,
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy might get better down the road, and I
Speaker 2: hope he does, but right now is a very raw
Speaker 2: rookie just running vertical go routes and trying to turn
Speaker 2: short passes into long gains. Lethal for your fantasy team.
Speaker 2: Most often, he is going to be a bench player.
Speaker 2: We'll find out what letter Grady's gonna get in just
Speaker 2: a moment when we break down that game a little
Speaker 2: later in this show. Speaking of breaking down games, let's
Speaker 2: go to the Arizona Cardinals taking on the San Francisco
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers. Thundy Foor. We thought the Cardinals were
Speaker 2: sitting on a big, big game last week against Washington
Speaker 2: did not materialize. I'm fascinated to think to find out
Speaker 2: what you how you feel about the Cardinals this week.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start with giving Kyler Murray a great a B.
Speaker 5: He went thermon nuclear against a bad secondary back in
Speaker 5: Week two, but of course the good matchup last week
Speaker 5: not so much. The other three games combine, Murray is
Speaker 5: averaging outside of the week to one is averaging thirteen
Speaker 5: point three fantasy points per game.
Speaker 3: Pretty tepid.
Speaker 5: And that those three games right there, you put that
Speaker 5: with the season long fantasy points of quarterbacks would rank
Speaker 5: quarterback twenty four.
Speaker 3: Not the best there.
Speaker 5: This is a very tough matchup against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 5: tough pass defense. Forty nine Ers are allowing the tenth
Speaker 5: lowest epa per dropback. But I'm gonna give Kyler a
Speaker 5: B in a game that where the points could be there.
Speaker 5: His running back James Connor is a must start a
Speaker 5: Marvin Harrison Junior. I'm gonna give him a B wide
Speaker 5: receiver sixteen Fantasy points per game, and he is getting
Speaker 5: targeted a strong twenty eight point eight percent of the
Speaker 5: first reads and that hot. Here's the interesting thing, this
Speaker 5: small sample, of course, but it's interesting, and it's notable
Speaker 5: that hops to thirty four point three percent against single high.
Speaker 5: The forty nine ers run a ton of single high.
Speaker 5: The forty nine ers have help posing boundary. Wide receivers
Speaker 5: are the fifth lowest PPR points per target, but keep
Speaker 5: in mind their coverage tendency that could facilitate for Mervin
Speaker 5: Harrison Junior. So there's data points on both sides of it.
Speaker 5: I you know, end up going with a B because
Speaker 5: of all those factors. Michael Wilson the other receiver there.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him a C wide receiver sixty five
Speaker 5: in fantasy so far, but only one red zone target
Speaker 5: this season.
Speaker 3: Not a great matchup.
Speaker 5: Wilson only has zero point eight zero yards per route
Speaker 5: run versus single high.
Speaker 3: Mentioned the forty nine ers play a lot of that.
Speaker 2: Greg Dorge, surprise, you're even at a sea on Michael Wilson.
Speaker 2: I tried a darth Row on Wilson last week in
Speaker 2: one of my fantasy leagues, and he almost got me
Speaker 2: cut in my guillotine life.
Speaker 5: I felt like I had to go and see on
Speaker 5: either him or Dortch and Doortsch. I'm giving him the bench,
Speaker 5: you know, and if you have to bench Wilson, I
Speaker 5: certainly you could do that. But Doorsch hasn't had more
Speaker 5: than eight PPR points in any game since Week one.
Speaker 5: This is a bat matchup for him as well. Trey
Speaker 5: McBride is an a, of course if he plays. He's
Speaker 5: officially questionable recovering from the concussion that kept him out
Speaker 5: last week, but was a full participant in Thursday's practice,
Speaker 5: suggesting he'll play. Of course, he's a must start if
Speaker 5: he does, moving to the forty nine ers brock Perty,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him an a despite the fact that
Speaker 5: he's been quarterback fourteen and fantasy points per game only
Speaker 5: one good fantasy game this season. It's going to be
Speaker 5: two after Sunday. He's getting one here. This is a
Speaker 5: tremendous matchup. Arizona's given up the second highest yards per
Speaker 5: attempt to opposing quarterbacks and party ranks first. Despite the
Speaker 5: fantasy I'll put so far Perty ranks first in the
Speaker 5: NFL and completion percentage over expected and third in expected
Speaker 5: Fantasy points. Those are going to materialize this week in
Speaker 5: this matchup. Jordan Mason is a no brainer start at
Speaker 5: a five hundred and four yards and three touchdowns from scrimmage.
Speaker 5: He has been tremendous this year. The two receives. I
Speaker 5: struggle with the two receivers with the forty nine ers
Speaker 5: in part because of George Kittle status, which which I'll
Speaker 5: talk about in a second. But I ended up going
Speaker 5: with bees on both Ayuk and Deebo Samuel because of
Speaker 5: my uh, you know all the factors here. Ayuk, he
Speaker 5: had the slow start after the holdout, has had the
Speaker 5: slow start to this point wide receiver sixty seven and
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game. I do think a breakout is coming,
Speaker 5: and it absolutely could be this week. I still he
Speaker 5: ranks number five in separation and number one in route
Speaker 5: win rate despite the you know the play so far,
Speaker 5: and he gets Sean Murphy bunning in this game. Sean
Speaker 5: Murphy Bunning, get this. He he's allowing a ninety point
Speaker 5: nine percent catch.
Speaker 4: Rate so far.
Speaker 5: You throw the ball at Sean Murphy buddying the receivers
Speaker 5: coming down with that ball, So it sets up well
Speaker 5: for AUK. But you know it's it's been you know,
Speaker 5: a touch and go so far. Deebo Samuel, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give him a B as well. I think in this
Speaker 5: game you're either gonna get Samuel going nuclear if Ayuk
Speaker 5: is as out of it as he has been the
Speaker 5: first couple of games, or it's it's gonna be the
Speaker 5: breakout game, which is that would debo.
Speaker 2: Breakouts coming, but maybe I just want it to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's one or the others. So you know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna give Deeba the B two. He's wide receiver
Speaker 5: seventeen and Fantasy points per game so far, two point
Speaker 5: four to seven yards per route run is awesome, twenty
Speaker 5: seven point three first percent first read share is great
Speaker 5: as well. Arizona's allowed the fourth highest PPR points to
Speaker 5: the boundary wide receivers. But I'm splitting the difference with
Speaker 5: these two guys. And then but if George Kittle was out,
Speaker 5: I would upgrade both to A's talk about Kittle on
Speaker 5: the second first one to mention Juwan Jennings, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give him a see after the nuclear game against the Rams.
Speaker 5: Jennings had three catches for eighty eight yards against the Patriots,
Speaker 5: played fifty seven percent of the snaps. He remains in
Speaker 5: flex consideration for this matchup, but keep in mind he's
Speaker 5: only had seven plus targets in three games since the
Speaker 5: start of the twenty twenty two season, and the same
Speaker 5: volume is never going to be there.
Speaker 2: The game that we had that he exploded with two
Speaker 2: weeks ago, correct, correct, And then of course George Kittle
Speaker 2: is a must start if he plays.
Speaker 5: He has the rib injury, did not take part in
Speaker 5: Thursday's practice for the forty nine ers, but very crucially
Speaker 5: he returned Friday, which is always a really good indication,
Speaker 5: and he's a must start, of course, a if he plays.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go to the Miami Dolphins taking on
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. Matt on the Dolphins side, this
Speaker 2: offense looked completely broken last week. I think Tyler hunter
Speaker 2: Lee threw for like seventy eight yards and then on
Speaker 2: Monday they're like, oh yeaholutely, it's Tuesday. Rob were absolutely
Speaker 2: bringing Tyler Huntley back. They cut Tim Boyle ough this offense,
Speaker 2: you'd and the Patrons defense isn't half bad. Are there
Speaker 2: any starters here.
Speaker 4: You pretty much just did my matchup for me.
Speaker 2: Charge We're good.
Speaker 6: Huntley threw the ball twenty two times last week for
Speaker 6: only ninety six yards. He ran eight times for forty
Speaker 6: yards and to score. I don't know what to do
Speaker 6: with the Dolphins offense when he's in. I guess Huntley,
Speaker 6: if you're just reliant on the quarterback running.
Speaker 2: Game, well, no you can't start.
Speaker 4: No, you can't.
Speaker 6: He's like a grade lower than a sea, which would
Speaker 6: be a bench Tyreek Hill. I told you to bench
Speaker 6: him last week and I was.
Speaker 2: Right, nicely done.
Speaker 6: He had four catches for twenty three yards this week.
Speaker 6: I'll give him a C grade because the matchup this
Speaker 6: week against the Pats is way better than the one
Speaker 6: against the Titans last week. New England has allowed the
Speaker 6: fourth most receptions in the fifth most yards to opposing
Speaker 6: wide receivers, so he'll could break one, just like we
Speaker 6: were talking about in the three tough questions match up there.
Speaker 6: I won't put Jalen Waddle in the lineup though, even
Speaker 6: though he had thirteen more yards than Hill last week.
Speaker 6: He stays on the bench. He doesn't have the breakaway
Speaker 6: ability that Hill does on every play and I think
Speaker 6: it'll take that to make a good wide receiver week.
Speaker 6: With Huntley at quarterback, Devon a Chan, he gets a
Speaker 6: C grade two and I don't even like it that much.
Speaker 6: Last week, a Chan basically split touches with Jalen Wright.
Speaker 6: The Pats have been decent against the run, allowing the
Speaker 6: ninth fewest rushing yards per game at only eighty three
Speaker 6: per game, and it looks like Raheem Mostert might return
Speaker 6: for this one, so that might muddy up the backfield
Speaker 6: even more and we might see a three headed monster
Speaker 6: back there. On the other side, it's Ramandre Stevenson or
Speaker 6: is it Antonio Gibson.
Speaker 2: If Stevenson fumbles again, I know the answer to that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: gotta stop fumbling.
Speaker 6: There are some hints this week that Gibson could see
Speaker 6: more time if Remandre doesn't fix that fumbling issue. Let's
Speaker 6: hope he can hold on to the ball again. It's
Speaker 6: the Dolphins team that's given up a minimum of seventy
Speaker 6: yards to a single runner in every game so far,
Speaker 6: and they've allowed the most total touchdowns to the running
Speaker 6: back position at eight. So I'll give Rimandre Stevenson a B.
Speaker 6: All right, Gibson stays on the bench. But this could
Speaker 6: get pretty wonky if Stevenson fumbles in this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've got Stevenson on your roster, go get
Speaker 2: Gibson just to make sure you've got that squared away.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Probably.
Speaker 6: The Dolphins, by the way, have allowed the fewest running
Speaker 6: back receptions in the league. That keeps Gibson on the bench.
Speaker 6: The passing game is all on the bench. Miami has
Speaker 6: been great against the pass or terrible against the run,
Speaker 6: however you want to slice it either way. Opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 6: are averaging fifteen completions for one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 6: yards and zero point seventy five passing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 6: I want to come up with a new grade. It's
Speaker 6: a super bench for everybody in the passing game.
Speaker 4: On New England, you.
Speaker 2: Know there are sports that it is a locker room
Speaker 2: in turmoil right now. In New England. They're satisfaction with
Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett. But wisely they're not bringing Drake May in
Speaker 2: to suffer behind this offensive line that's all beat up.
Speaker 2: You've got three linemen out. It's just the whole thing
Speaker 2: is just disease. And I think they're being smart by
Speaker 2: not bringing in Drake may to just get abused in
Speaker 2: that offense.
Speaker 6: The locker room might be in turmoil because all of
Speaker 6: them are not going to be on the team within
Speaker 6: a year or two.
Speaker 2: There's that too. When we come back, Green Bay Packers
Speaker 2: at the Los Angeles Rams, Jordan Love looked spectacular in
Speaker 2: the second half of last week's game. Find Out which
Speaker 2: members of the Packers passing offense you can start when
Speaker 2: we return. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A big block
Speaker 2: of matchups for you, beginning with Green Bay taking on
Speaker 2: the Rams. I want to start with don Tavian Wex
Speaker 2: coming off a big game. Three members of the Rams
Speaker 2: secondary are on IR and they might have the worst
Speaker 2: starting cornerback in the league, Tredavius White, who is allowed
Speaker 2: a league worst four touchdown passes in his coverage. Deep
Speaker 2: downfield receivers are murdering the Rams, and Wis is the
Speaker 2: Packers downfield specialist, averaging fifteen yards per target. You remember
Speaker 2: Jamison Williams posted a big game against the Rams. Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 2: Jwan Jennings all blew up. It's a great opportunity.
Speaker 3: Love.
Speaker 2: Dontavian Wicks with an A grade in this one. Also
Speaker 2: with a B grade Jayden Reid, he runs from the
Speaker 2: slot read will get almost one hundred percent coverage from
Speaker 2: cornerback Quinton Lake. Lake is the team's best healthy cornerback.
Speaker 2: He put on Ross Saint Brown on a quiet game
Speaker 2: in Week one, and then he held Keenan Allen in
Speaker 2: check last week. But Reid is a special talent and
Speaker 2: he's still a safe starter in basically any game that
Speaker 2: Jordan Love is starting. So I've got a B grade
Speaker 2: on Jayden Reid. Romeo Dobbs not expected to play here.
Speaker 2: Bau Melton Thor is a plausible start. If you need
Speaker 2: a dart throw guy bou Melton will get a lot
Speaker 2: of starting reps in this game.
Speaker 5: Guy's got four to three speed, very good feed, very
Speaker 5: good route runner.
Speaker 3: Rutgers is in the house.
Speaker 2: Rutgers is showing up in the house. I already mentioned
Speaker 2: Tredavius White as one cornerback they can get abused. Kobe
Speaker 2: Durant's the other one. He's not much better. He ranks
Speaker 2: his Pro Football Focuses cornerback one hundred and one, only
Speaker 2: three guys below Kobe Durant. So Bo Melton showing up
Speaker 2: with a C grade in this one. Tucker Kraft very
Speaker 2: startable here a B grade, Luke Musgrave is dead to us.
Speaker 2: The dominating tight end usage now going to tougher Kraft
Speaker 2: running eighty six percent of the tight end routes. The
Speaker 2: Rams have allowed the eighth most fantasy points to tight ends,
Speaker 2: and every opposing tight end is topped at least thirty
Speaker 2: four yards against the Ram Rams. Tucker Graft comes out
Speaker 2: of the B grade. Obviously with all of these A,
Speaker 2: B and C grades, I love Jordan Love here a
Speaker 2: grade through ve neary four hundred yards last week, almost
Speaker 2: ald in one half. And for all the reasons that
Speaker 2: I like the receivers, I love Jordan Love as well.
Speaker 2: And earlier I told you Emmanuel Wilson was might take
Speaker 2: a chance on me. Josh Jacobs A grade with a
Speaker 2: massive game incoming. Rams again, as I'll mention again, dead
Speaker 2: last and rushing yards allowed one hundred and sixty five
Speaker 2: yards per game. Let's go to the Rams side where
Speaker 2: I've just got a smattering of starters for you. Two
Speaker 2: to two at well was my take a chance to
Speaker 2: me wide receiver. Also, Jordan Whittington, running from the slot,
Speaker 2: takes over the Cooper cup roll and routes. He led
Speaker 2: the team and routes run last week, and as a
Speaker 2: positive matchup against Green Bay slock cornerback Keyshawn Nixon, who
Speaker 2: has already allowed two touchdowns in his coverage. He comes
Speaker 2: in with a C grade and DeMarcus Robinson also with
Speaker 2: a C grade. He's got he's a little banged up,
Speaker 2: but expected to play in this game. As I mentioned
Speaker 2: when I broke down two to two at Wells opportunity
Speaker 2: during take a Chance on Me, the Packers secondary struggled
Speaker 2: against wideouts. They're allowing the seventh most fantasy points, the
Speaker 2: tenth most receiving yards, the sixth most touchdowns of the position,
Speaker 2: and if Jay or Alexander can't go, I like it
Speaker 2: even more for DeMarcus Robinson in this game. Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: It's all C grades there. Matthew Stafford also C grade
Speaker 2: in this one, still hesitant to give him a higher
Speaker 2: grade than that because the Rams have six offensive linemen
Speaker 2: on injured reserve. Stafford is only through two scores this
Speaker 2: year and hasn't top two hun or twenty four yards
Speaker 2: since the opener, when he's still had Cooper Kuppen at
Speaker 2: least for a while. Pokinakua in that game. Kyron Williams
Speaker 2: has been a very safe starter. But I am worried
Speaker 2: about these six offensive linemen on injured reserve. But Williams
Speaker 2: keeps finding ways to be productive, and that probably continues
Speaker 2: against a middle of the pack Packers run defense. The
Speaker 2: three opposing runners with at least twelve carries against Green
Speaker 2: Bay have averaged one hundred and two rushing yards and
Speaker 2: another thirty four receiving yards. So I'm keeping an a
Speaker 2: grade on Kyron Williams, who just keeps finding ways to
Speaker 2: be productive. All right, Let's go to our next matchup Thorpe.
Speaker 2: That's the New York Giants taking on the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 2: It's almost certainly Devin Singletary out of this game. He's
Speaker 2: listed a doubtful time. Tyrone Tracy is your probable starting
Speaker 2: running back for the Giants.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna give Tyrone Tracy a see. I think
Speaker 5: he's a pretty intriguing dart throw here, especially in PPR leagues,
Speaker 5: but even just in general. With Singletary almost assuredly out,
Speaker 5: I had Tyrone Tracy ranked number five in the last
Speaker 5: running back class among running backs, ahead of Blake Koran.
Speaker 5: By the way, in my draft rankings nine point seven
Speaker 5: to seven ras On Tracy four four eight wheels. I
Speaker 5: camped him to Miles Sanders. Last year, Tracy had eighty
Speaker 5: eight point zero PFF grade for a bad produced team.
Speaker 3: Get this.
Speaker 5: He was number one in the last class inn elusive
Speaker 5: rating end yards after contact. That was his second year
Speaker 5: playing running back. Former Iowa receiver. He has a natural
Speaker 5: feel for running. Bouncy This for my scouting report. Bouncy
Speaker 5: juiced up wide base slasher with better vision and instincts
Speaker 5: than expected runs with tempo. Has a knack for timing
Speaker 5: cutback lanes to free himself into open grass.
Speaker 3: That's where he hits the Jets.
Speaker 5: I like Tyrone Tracy's game a lot and one other
Speaker 5: thing I was going to say the Seahawks in this game,
Speaker 5: particularly to the matchup. They allowed the sixth highest success
Speaker 5: rate two gap runs with Devin Singletary back there over
Speaker 5: sixty percent of his runs. Devin Singletary's work gap. Tracy
Speaker 5: has not gotten a lot of usages this year. He's
Speaker 5: going to win this game, so I think he is
Speaker 5: startable as a flex. Daniel Jones keep him on the bench,
Speaker 5: even though he looked good against the Cowboys last week.
Speaker 3: You got a bench him.
Speaker 5: Seattle has a good pass defense outside of the one
Speaker 5: aberration against here at Goff and the Lions there.
Speaker 3: And then of course no Molik neighbors so which is
Speaker 3: really sad.
Speaker 5: No Singletary as well, so neighbors out Wandale Robinson. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna give him a be He looked great last game
Speaker 5: one Dale, you know, getting all those targets this week,
Speaker 5: he's going to be a wide receiver one that game
Speaker 5: I mentioned last week, eleven catches for seventy one yards,
Speaker 5: got a lot of manufactured touches, but also had some
Speaker 5: nice intermediate catches in traffic. And not only that, but
Speaker 5: Robinson is currently tied with a Monro Saint Brown, Nico Collins,
Speaker 5: and Aaron Jones for the second most red zone targets
Speaker 5: in the entire NFL. He also runs fourth in targets
Speaker 5: and fifth in receptions and Jandiale. Robinson also leads the
Speaker 5: NFL in percentage of team's third down targets. He is
Speaker 5: going to get a metric ton of targets in this game.
Speaker 2: So will. But it's all short stuff. I looked at
Speaker 2: up yes, twenty four of his twenty five receptions are
Speaker 2: from seven yards or less for sure. That's you know,
Speaker 2: that's the only that's the only knack I knock. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: of course, yeah, Robinson, but going to get a lot
Speaker 2: of targets.
Speaker 5: I'm going to upgrade Darius Slayton to a see if
Speaker 5: you need a desperation play in the flex. Three catches
Speaker 5: for fifty six yards against the Cowboys and is the
Speaker 5: deep guy you know in particular, and with all the
Speaker 5: guys that Giants have out neighbors out but Jones stinks
Speaker 5: throwing deep, so you have to give that caveat. Moving
Speaker 5: over to the Seahawks, Gino Smith was might take a
Speaker 5: chance on me. Quarterback Kenneth Walker. I'm gonna give him
Speaker 5: a B.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 3: He look good like he looked good, and he showed
Speaker 3: that he was healthy.
Speaker 5: And this is also a pretty solid matchup. Giants run
Speaker 5: defense allows the most missed tackles per attempt, Walker number
Speaker 5: three in forced miss tackle rate. And that was his
Speaker 5: special sauce at Michigan State that that's been part of
Speaker 5: his game in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Is well. Should matchup well here.
Speaker 5: The receivers and the passing game of Seattle's what I
Speaker 5: love so much.
Speaker 3: This week DK metcalf He's sitting on a big game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had the hand injury and was limited on Thursday,
Speaker 5: but on Friday he was taken off the injury report.
Speaker 3: He is a full go, must start a.
Speaker 5: I'm also going to give Jackson Smith and Jig but
Speaker 5: A in this matchup wide receiver thirty three in Fantasy
Speaker 5: so far, but he has been look been much better
Speaker 5: and look much better in Ryan Grubbs system. Going back
Speaker 5: to our grub against waldering conversation, JSN is going to
Speaker 5: absolutely light up Cordel Flott the the nickel corner across
Speaker 5: from him. Cordell Flott has given up an eighty one
Speaker 5: point three percent catch rate and one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: eight point four passer rating on targets tip. This is
Speaker 5: the JSN game, Tyler Lockett. Keep him on the bench.
Speaker 5: Not as good of a matchup for him. Giants play
Speaker 5: a lot of single high Gino looks elsewhere versus single high.
Speaker 3: This is JSN and DK game.
Speaker 5: Noah, Fan, I'm gonna give him a c tight end
Speaker 5: twenty two in Fantasy points per game. Decent matchup here
Speaker 5: for owners who need a tight end streamer. The Giants
Speaker 5: pass defense has allowed the ninth most catches two tight
Speaker 5: ends and tenth most receiving yards to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 2: All right, well done, Let's go over to Indianapolis and
Speaker 2: the Jaguars. Matty gave us three Colts as take a
Speaker 2: chance with me players, Joe Flacco being one of them,
Speaker 2: although Anthony Richardson technically questionable for this shirt looks like
Speaker 2: a game time decision.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Flacco, sermon and downs, where might take a chance
Speaker 6: on me players? And I find these three to be
Speaker 6: quarrelsome for the Jags, And as Thomas Hobbs says.
Speaker 4: We find three principal causes of quarrel.
Speaker 6: First competition, secondly diffidence, and thirdly glory.
Speaker 4: Michael Pittman gets an A grade.
Speaker 6: If Flacco plays right theah exactly, Michael Pittman, I'll downgrade
Speaker 6: him to a B. If Richardson miraculously goes. And also
Speaker 6: Alec Pierce gets a C grade in this one. Eight
Speaker 6: different wide receivers have topped ten PPR points against the
Speaker 6: Jags so far through four games.
Speaker 4: That's it for the Colt side.
Speaker 6: I started everybody, all right, Travis ETN or Tank Bigsby
Speaker 6: ETN got dinged up on the shoulder last week and
Speaker 6: will likely that questionable tag into Sunday.
Speaker 4: I do think he suits up for this one.
Speaker 2: You think Bigsby taken off the injury list as I
Speaker 2: want to note that because you know what, dudes looked
Speaker 2: really really good. Hey, I don't know if you saw
Speaker 2: the fifty ish yard run that he reeled up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Tank Bigsby probably gets a little bit
Speaker 6: more work than ETN this week. Problem is, the Colts
Speaker 6: have not given up a running back touchdown since Week one,
Speaker 6: and they were able to stifle the Bears and Steelers
Speaker 6: rushing attacks over the last two weeks, and they're probably
Speaker 6: more similar to the Jaguars running attack than the other
Speaker 6: ones that they've faced. I'd prefer to leave all your
Speaker 6: Jags backs on the bench, but if you have to
Speaker 6: start one, it's probably Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence gets a B grade. In what I think
Speaker 6: could develop into a passing shootout. The Colts have allowed
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams and Justin Fields. You know, two former former
Speaker 6: and current Bears quarterbacks. They both passed for more than
Speaker 6: three hundred yards in the past two weeks against them.
Speaker 6: So passing against the Colts is the path of least resistance.
Speaker 6: Brian Thomas and Christian Kirk. They're getting starting grades too.
Speaker 6: I mentioned it last week that the Jags have been
Speaker 6: targeted Brian Thomas a lot more in zone coverages while
Speaker 6: the Colts play eighty percent zone coverage, third most in
Speaker 6: the NFL. Kirk was involved a lot more last week
Speaker 6: against Houston zone. He managed a touchdown in the process too,
Speaker 6: So both get starting grades this week. Thomas gets a BEE,
Speaker 6: Kirk gets a C and a bonus starting grade for
Speaker 6: Evan Angram if he actually returns this week, Oh.
Speaker 2: Please do God. He's killing me. I've drafted him in
Speaker 2: so many leagues.
Speaker 6: He's been limited in practice all week. He's missed the
Speaker 6: last three weeks with a hamstring injury. But he's trending
Speaker 6: more positive this week than they mentioned in the past.
Speaker 6: The Colts are bottom five in receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 6: to opposing tight ends. If Ingram goes, I'm gonna give
Speaker 6: him a B grade right out of the gates.
Speaker 2: I don't think you said if you would start Anthony
Speaker 2: Richardson if he did, if he is able to go
Speaker 2: in this game, based on what we had seen before,
Speaker 2: it's not clear that he's a starter.
Speaker 6: I think I'd give Richardson a C grade in this
Speaker 6: one is a good matchup. The Jags are terrible against
Speaker 6: the pass and the run, so but I have a
Speaker 6: little nervous that Richardson might not make it through.
Speaker 4: The whole game. I know.
Speaker 2: I think it's a high risk, high reward play on
Speaker 2: Richardson for sure. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Coming up,
Speaker 2: Premature speculation will jump in the FFW time machine. Give
Speaker 2: you some players to pick up today that other players
Speaker 2: will be trying to pick up tomorrow, and they'll already
Speaker 2: be on your team. Find out who they are when
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Speaker 2: a bit we call premature speculation. We give you players
Speaker 2: that you'll want to pick up now that other people
Speaker 2: will be trying to pick up next week, but they're
Speaker 2: already on your team. We begin with Matt Harrison, who's
Speaker 2: your premature speculation player.
Speaker 6: Mine's more of a trade for than a pickup, but
Speaker 6: you may you might be able to in some leagues
Speaker 6: pick up the Bears passing game, specifically Caleb Williams or
Speaker 6: any of the wide receivers. Roma Dunza and Keenan Allen
Speaker 6: are both hovering around eighty percent ownership Caleb Williams about
Speaker 6: sixty percent in redraft leagues. Here's why Church already gave
Speaker 6: it to take a.
Speaker 4: Chance on me.
Speaker 6: Grade for Caleb Williams this week against Carolina, then Jacksonville's
Speaker 6: terrible d in week six, then a bye out of
Speaker 6: the by Washington in week eight, Arizona in week nine,
Speaker 6: New England in week ten, Green Bay week eleven, Minnesota
Speaker 6: week twelve. They haven't been that great against the pass either.
Speaker 6: They are all mostly positive matchups for quarterbacks and wide
Speaker 6: receivers until week seventeen against Seattle. All right, so the
Speaker 6: Bears might go off here. I like some offensive firepower.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Thor, your premature speculation player.
Speaker 3: You teased it earlier in the show.
Speaker 5: I'm going with Bengals tight end Eric All, my boy, Iowah,
Speaker 5: haw guys in the house. This is the time to
Speaker 5: get Eric Hall. He's owned in like one percent of
Speaker 5: leagues or something like that. This is a guy who
Speaker 5: could be startable down the stretch. All the signals are
Speaker 5: there for a player that I really like. So Eric
Speaker 5: All last week played a career high fifty nine point
Speaker 5: seven percent of the offensive snaps, and among all tight
Speaker 5: ends in the NFL. Get this, All ranks number four
Speaker 5: in yards per route run, number one in targets per
Speaker 5: route run, and number two in first downs per route run.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Ok.
Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously a smaller sample for him, but all the
Speaker 5: signs are there. And keep in mind he is coming
Speaker 5: off of torn ACL less than one calendar year ago.
Speaker 5: He tours ACL in October last year for Iowa. One
Speaker 5: of the reasons why he fell to the fourth round.
Speaker 5: When Joe Burrow starts looking his way more often, lookout
Speaker 5: All is the slick, pass catching tight end that the
Speaker 5: Bengals offense has been crying out for since Burrow got there.
Speaker 5: A couple of notes from my Fantasy Life Sleeper Rookie
Speaker 5: tight End column over this summer about Eric Hall All
Speaker 5: is a sleek athlete with size, speed, and quick feet.
Speaker 5: Had he been able to test during the combine, he
Speaker 5: would have run in the high four fours or low
Speaker 5: four fives, which would have placed some number two among
Speaker 5: all testers at that position group. All threatens the seam
Speaker 5: at alarming speed and can also slam on the breaks
Speaker 5: in koreem back to balls. Prior to the ACL tear
Speaker 5: last October, All ranked number one among all FBS tight
Speaker 5: ends and yards per route run, and that was for
Speaker 5: an abomination of an Iowa offense. All spears the ball
Speaker 5: outside of his frame led Iowa and receiving in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: He led the entire Iowa team in receiving in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty three, despite playing in less less than half the
Speaker 5: season because of that injury. The very yeah, very good
Speaker 5: at changing direction, very slick with that, knows how to
Speaker 5: leverage his speed and hit the jets to outrace defenders.
Speaker 5: He will lower his pads and muscle for extra yards
Speaker 5: available to him. Only fell in the draft because of
Speaker 5: those medical questions, But the last sentence I had in
Speaker 5: that scouting report, he'll be a fantasy steal if his
Speaker 5: body is up for it. It very clearly is he
Speaker 5: is going to keep getting on the field more and
Speaker 5: more and more, and he's going to get targets because
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 2: Pick him up right now, eric All, Cincinnati tight end.
Speaker 2: I've got a tight end as well, David and Joku.
Speaker 2: We all need tight ends, right so eric All is
Speaker 2: an option. David and Joko walks into it. He had
Speaker 2: missed basically the whole season with an ankle injury, suffering
Speaker 2: in Week one, expected to hit the field against Washington.
Speaker 2: Washington hasn't played a functional tight end all year. The
Speaker 2: closest they've seen is Mike Kaseki. He put up forty
Speaker 2: seven yards last year. Reminder, David and Joko was tight
Speaker 2: end six available right now in sixty five percent of
Speaker 2: ESPN leagues. I think you can go pick up David
Speaker 2: and Joko and you potentially got one of the ten
Speaker 2: best tight ends going forward, maybe available in your league.
Speaker 2: Let's go to our final two matchups, beginning with the
Speaker 2: Saints taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. Huh, I've already
Speaker 2: done it once, but I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was not exactly right about Alvin Kamara. He's looked great,
Speaker 2: but this is a very tough matchup against one of
Speaker 2: the league's best run defenses. No back his top forty
Speaker 2: six yards against Kansas City, and that includes Derek Henry,
Speaker 2: B Jon Robinson, JK. Dobbins. None of them top forty
Speaker 2: six yards. Kansas City ranks fifth best in yards after contact. Now, fortunately,
Speaker 2: of course Kamara elite receiver, and that's gonna help keep
Speaker 2: him at the B grade that I've got him on.
Speaker 2: He ranks fourth and running back receptions and second in
Speaker 2: running back receiving yards. Kansas City middle of the pack
Speaker 2: that way, So you're still starting Alvin Kamara with a
Speaker 2: B grade. And then I've got C grades for members
Speaker 2: of the passing game who you care about in including
Speaker 2: Chris Olave in a very tricky matchup against eleague cornerback
Speaker 2: Trent McDuffie, who typically shadows the opposing team's best receiver,
Speaker 2: that's Chris Olave. He has held Flowers, Jamar Chase, Drake London,
Speaker 2: and Quinton Johnston to averages of thirty seven scoreless yards.
Speaker 2: That's how good Trent McDuffie is. You can't really Benjo Lave,
Speaker 2: but expect very diministry turns here and just a C
Speaker 2: grade on him. Rashidzi Heed's one of the favorites on
Speaker 2: this show and shed should not see McDuffie. But his
Speaker 2: matchup against Jalen Watson, the other cornerback, isn't great either.
Speaker 2: Watson also hasn't allowed of touchdown yet this year, but
Speaker 2: is giving up a more palatable forty yards in his coverage.
Speaker 2: Shad runs from the slot sometimes and that gives him
Speaker 2: a spot for some success, Chiefs having have had some
Speaker 2: trouble there out of the slot, and that keeps Shaheed
Speaker 2: startable with a C grade. Derek Carr, I've got Sea
Speaker 2: grades on his receivers, SE grade on car Kansas City
Speaker 2: has seen four good passers in four games. They've given
Speaker 2: up one, two, one and one touchdown. I think you're
Speaker 2: looking at one, maybe two touchdowns out of Derek Carr.
Speaker 2: Very little upside in a tough matchup for him, and
Speaker 2: let's go to Kansas already touched on Xavier Worthy with
Speaker 2: Rice out Hollywood Brown out, that leaves Worthy as just
Speaker 2: a very important role. But as we discussed in three
Speaker 2: tough questions, just so inconsistent. The receptions are very very short.
Speaker 2: He's got to turn a short catch into a long
Speaker 2: gain and he may end up seeing Saints cornerback Marshaun
Speaker 2: Lattimore and Vlatimore's awesome. He's given up one touchdown in
Speaker 2: three years in his coverage, so I can't start Xavier
Speaker 2: Worthy here, but if he is a desperation dart throat
Speaker 2: in a touchdown dependent role, that is it. I've got
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey with a B grade. He sparked to life
Speaker 2: last week after Rashi Rice left. But the Saints know
Speaker 2: that the Chiefs passing offense goes through Travis Kelcey and
Speaker 2: they'll work hard to take him away, and that does
Speaker 2: worry me here. Two weeks ago, the Saints got murdered
Speaker 2: by Dallas Goddard when he was the only healthy receiver
Speaker 2: because the Eagles were short three receivers in that game.
Speaker 2: So maybe they can do the same with Travis Kelcey
Speaker 2: what the Eagles did with Dallas Goddard. I've got a
Speaker 2: B grade on Kelsey, but that's a lot of optimism
Speaker 2: for a guy who hasn't looked very good in three
Speaker 2: out of four games so far this year. And staying
Speaker 2: with the passing game, I'm keeping Jujus Smith Schuster justin
Speaker 2: watching sky more all on the bench. You know, I
Speaker 2: don't even think I really need to expand on why
Speaker 2: those guys are on the bench. You know who else
Speaker 2: is on the bench? You know I usually do the
Speaker 2: Chiefs matchups. I don't think I've ever had Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: of the bench grade. What I've got a bench grade
Speaker 2: Mahomes in this game. His last game with more than
Speaker 2: two passing touchdowns was Week seven of last year. He
Speaker 2: hasn't scored a rushing touchdown in thirty straight games, and
Speaker 2: since Week eight of last year, Patrick mahomes average finish
Speaker 2: is quarterback sixteen. Now we've taken his best, most productive
Speaker 2: receiver off of the field, and I just don't see
Speaker 2: enough productivity here. I think he's got unprecedented downside in
Speaker 2: the history of Patrick Mahomes never been more pessimistic about
Speaker 2: his ability to perform in any one game than this one.
Speaker 2: And I hope I'm eating my words. I hope next
Speaker 2: week I am saying I was wrong. But I'm putting
Speaker 2: a bench grade on Patrick Mahomes. Kareem Hunt comes in
Speaker 2: with a C grade. Carson Steeles fumbled his way out
Speaker 2: of this equation, but Kerrie but ceh Clyde Edwards Hilaire
Speaker 2: is now practicing and available to come off ir He's
Speaker 2: expected to be in the rotation here. The Saints got
Speaker 2: smoked by Saquon Barkley and actually Tyler Algier last week,
Speaker 2: but and they're giving up four point eight yards per carry.
Speaker 2: And that's the only reason when in this committee that
Speaker 2: I've got a C grade on Kareem Hunt. He got
Speaker 2: fourteen carries last week and we're gonna hope that that continues.
Speaker 2: Our final matchup for Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott will start out with him. I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: him a beam. He's been quarterback eight and fantasy points
Speaker 5: per game so far, but this is not a good
Speaker 5: matchup for him. The Steelers have allowed the eleventh fewest
Speaker 5: passing yards per game and the seventh lowest passer rate.
Speaker 5: The Steelers also get heat on the quarterback, as you
Speaker 5: guys know right that way, so there may be less
Speaker 5: downfield throwing in this game for Dak. With the receivers,
Speaker 5: of course, Ceede Lambs must must start a Jalen Tolbert
Speaker 5: is going to get a see here because Brandon Cooks
Speaker 5: is out again. Tolbert is wide receiver fifty eight and
Speaker 5: fantasy points per game. He's no better than a flyer
Speaker 5: in this spot though, because since CD Lamb is deployed
Speaker 5: out of the slot, that means that Tolbert is going
Speaker 5: to be drawing mister Joey Porter Junior. But I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give him a see just on the potential volume there.
Speaker 5: Jake Ferguson, I'm also going to give him a see.
Speaker 5: Tight end five and fantasy points per game, top three
Speaker 5: in first read share en yards per game among tight ends.
Speaker 5: But Ferguson has not drawn a red zone target yet
Speaker 5: and this is not a good matchup. The Steelers are
Speaker 5: awesome against opposing tight ends. Pittsburgh is top five in
Speaker 5: least receiving yards allowed and yards per reception allowed to
Speaker 5: tight ends. Rico Dowd of the last one on the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him a see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got a huge uptick and work in. Zeke's
Speaker 2: kind of dead in this offense for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Donnald has had either eleven or two touches the past
Speaker 5: three games. I think that that might be going up
Speaker 5: here though, when the game scripts are going for him.
Speaker 5: In those three games between fifty six to sixty one,
Speaker 5: yards from scrimmage and all three of those games. Finally
Speaker 5: scored a touchdown against the Giants last week, and on
Speaker 5: the season he has out snapped Zeke Elliott one hundred
Speaker 5: twelve to seventy nine. Again, I expect a bigger discrepancy
Speaker 5: of that going forward. Yeah, that makes Doubtle a moderate floor,
Speaker 5: low ceiling type flex option for at least for this week,
Speaker 5: because the Steelers defense, of course, has given up the
Speaker 5: second fewest running back fantasy points this season, so not
Speaker 5: the best matchup. Moving over to the Steelers, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give Justin Fields an a starting to trust that guy
Speaker 5: more and more and more. Went absolutely nuclear in the
Speaker 5: loss to the Colts last week. Three hundred twelve yards
Speaker 5: and a touchdown passing with fifty five more rushing yards
Speaker 5: and two touchdowns on the ground. That's what he's the
Speaker 5: konomic code guy Fields. He's also number two in the
Speaker 5: NFL so far and highly accurate throw rates, mister Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: Yes, and Justin Field.
Speaker 5: Justin Fields number nine in fantasy points per dropback. And
Speaker 5: this is a better matchup, I think than it appears
Speaker 5: on the surface. The Cowboys is Micah Parsons and DeMarcus
Speaker 5: Lawrence have both been ruled out for this game. Lawrence
Speaker 5: is gonna miss at least four weeks. Have to be
Speaker 5: in placed on I ar Naja Harris. I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: him a bee he's gonna get He's gonna.
Speaker 3: Get a big workload.
Speaker 5: With both Jalen Warren and Cordero Patterson already ruled out, Harris,
Speaker 5: did we have to mention he got surprisingly stymied against
Speaker 5: the Colts as the entire offense was funneled through Justin Fields.
Speaker 5: In that game, Harris had thirteen carries for nineteen yards.
Speaker 5: He did salvage things somewhat with three catches for fifty
Speaker 5: four yards. Harris has still not gotten into the end
Speaker 5: zone because he keeps getting vultured by mister Justin Fields.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys do have a middle of the road run defense, though,
Speaker 5: and you have the volume, so those two things are
Speaker 5: going in his favor. But because of those vultured touchdowns
Speaker 5: with Fields, gonna give Harris a bee and then George Pickens,
Speaker 5: we're gonna give him an a wide receiver thirty eight
Speaker 5: and fantasy points per game so far, but he was
Speaker 5: a huge benefactor of Justin Fields's improvement throwing the ball.
Speaker 5: Last week, Pickens, at his first hundred plus yard game
Speaker 5: of the season, saw eleven targets when his previous season
Speaker 5: high was seven.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Currently number three in the NFL and team air yard percentages.
Speaker 5: George Pickens and I think a huge game is coming
Speaker 5: here again. Dallas runs a ton of single high coverage
Speaker 5: versus single high get this. Pickens has a fifty two
Speaker 5: point six first read share, which is absolutely dumb, and
Speaker 5: over three yards per route run, which is absolutely sterling.
Speaker 5: And lastly, Pat Fryermuth, We're gonna give him a beam.
Speaker 5: He's coming off a strong game as well, receiving five
Speaker 5: catches for fifty seven yards and a touchdown on the
Speaker 5: season tight end seven and fantasy points per game Friar
Speaker 5: Moose targets share increases to twenty points seven percent against
Speaker 5: single high coverage like Dallas runs and Dallas's mediocre defending
Speaker 5: tight ends. They've given up the thirteenth most yards per
Speaker 5: reception two tight ends this year.
Speaker 2: I think Dallas gets smoked in this game. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: gonna get smoked. I think so too. Arthur Smith redemption, Yeah,
Speaker 2: good for you man. You know, you know, we spent
Speaker 2: a lot of airtime ripping him last year and what
Speaker 2: do you do the Falcons. The fact that he has
Speaker 2: turned around justin Field's career. Good good on Arthur Smith.
Speaker 5: The game plans have been super clever. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 5: using his skill set.
Speaker 3: Well.
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