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Speaker 1: and my co host today are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, Hey, Charge,
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Speaker 1: It certainly can be stressful. It's a big decision, right financially,
Speaker 1: usually the biggest decision you'll make every ten years or whatever.
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Speaker 1: going on here? I know we'll get weekly. We will
Speaker 1: have all the usual stuff that we get to over
Speaker 1: the course of the show, including premature speculation, three tough questions,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. We'll break down all of
Speaker 1: the games Fantasy Football Weekly style, with letter grades on
Speaker 1: every player. We begin with Pittsburgh taking on Atlanta. Scott
Speaker 1: nag Harris, I believe off the injury report on front. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna go. He's gonna go. So on this one.
Speaker 1: Everybody who picked up Jalen Warren and Benny Sneller in
Speaker 1: the week is like, darn it, Well, people had Jalen
Speaker 1: Warren on roster season things. Yeah, absolutely, that's absolutely about
Speaker 1: He's the best running back on the teams, produced about
Speaker 1: six Fantasy points this year, better than Nausea here well
Speaker 1: on the Steelers side. On the Steelers side, everyone's pretty
Speaker 1: much gonna get C grades for me. It's just such
Speaker 1: a great match up against the Falcons. But the Steeler's
Speaker 1: offense has been pretty anemic. So let's start with pick
Speaker 1: Kenny pick it. He only has one touchdown in the
Speaker 1: last four games and no multiple passing touchdown games. But
Speaker 1: the eyeball test is he looks pretty decently. He was
Speaker 1: making some throws. I thought the exact same thing last week,
Speaker 1: Like I I saw him looking poison making better. That
Speaker 1: was me And with Trevor Lawrence last year and earlier
Speaker 1: this year, he didn't look good last year Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: and this season we're like, oh, we can see the
Speaker 1: eyeball test change. Well, we'll talk more about Trevor Lawrence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw that, would pick it. Last week he looked
Speaker 1: really a lot better. Uh. He gets you some points
Speaker 1: on the ground too, and has a few scores that way.
Speaker 1: Atlanta has also allowed a couple of scores on the ground.
Speaker 1: Seven of the seven of eleven quarterbacks against the Falcons
Speaker 1: had multiple scores. On paper, it's the thirtisiest matchup for
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterbacks, but they've held the last three under hundred
Speaker 1: sixty passing yard. I still think I would lean towards
Speaker 1: the other side of how Atlanta has played most of
Speaker 1: the year, and I'm giving Picket a c but they're
Speaker 1: are many bye weeks. You might not consider it but
Speaker 1: uh Deante Johnson and George Pickens are also both getting
Speaker 1: cs because those targets are hyper focused to those two
Speaker 1: guys with five to six targets per game. Since the
Speaker 1: departure of Maple Tron, h Johnson sees slightly more volume.
Speaker 1: Picker the bigger plays. Uh Deante Johnson hasn't even scored
Speaker 1: this year, but it's a It's a decent spot in
Speaker 1: a decent matchup, and again bottom ten against basically every position,
Speaker 1: so I got se grades on both of them. UH
Speaker 1: Falcons also second worst against the slot this year, so
Speaker 1: that's good for Deonte Johnson and possibly Pat Firenmouth, who
Speaker 1: runs out of the first det Johnson touchdown of the year.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I can't get that bold. If
Speaker 1: pick It only throws one, it's probably more likely Pickens,
Speaker 1: but he might get to two here. Pat Firemouth consistently
Speaker 1: finding three to four catches thirty to forty yard days,
Speaker 1: but he's semi exploded for seventy five plus yards four times.
Speaker 1: His floor is basically a low end top twelve tight end.
Speaker 1: In a good matchup like this, maybe he starts to
Speaker 1: crack the top of that. But I do have a
Speaker 1: c grade on him Nagers. Sounds like he's gonna go. Um,
Speaker 1: All reports are he's gonna go. And the Falcons are
Speaker 1: bottom ten against runners, especially recently. The lead back the
Speaker 1: last three games hundred thirty in a score, HU score,
Speaker 1: Hudd score. Yeah, we'll take that. But it's Naga Harris
Speaker 1: behind this whole line, so expect eighty two and maybe
Speaker 1: a score that sounds more so. Again, I think Harris
Speaker 1: has played much better lately. Yeah, yeah, so I guess
Speaker 1: been hurt. Yes, let's look at the numbers. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's go over to the Falcons. I got Marriotta
Speaker 1: on the bench Sedons week four. The Steels have allowed
Speaker 1: multiple scores to a QB just three times, and that
Speaker 1: was Burrow Hurts and Alan Marriotta is nowhere near them.
Speaker 1: He's not getting as much in the rushing as you'd
Speaker 1: want him to as he was early in the season.
Speaker 1: He's a the top two passing yards three times, multiple
Speaker 1: scores only three times. He's just not getting done. Too
Speaker 1: much time on Marcus Mariota, but I do think there
Speaker 1: will be just enough for Drake London, who gets a
Speaker 1: B grade from here. The Steelers have allowed a top
Speaker 1: twelve wide receiver eight times. I'm just gonna talk over
Speaker 1: that music if you don't mind. Uh. This is a
Speaker 1: team that's second worst against the wide receiver position, allowing
Speaker 1: the fifth most receiving yards, second most receiving touchdowns. The
Speaker 1: secondary wide receivers have only had a high handful of
Speaker 1: sixty plus yard days. I don't even know who you'd
Speaker 1: pick out of that. So London gets to be bench
Speaker 1: the other guys in the running game. This is really long. Wow.
Speaker 1: Well that's why you gotta talk over it. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the running game. I have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Cordelle Patterson that he's still splitting with Algier, but it's
Speaker 1: starting to shift back to Patterson. Um, he only had
Speaker 1: six catches through ten weeks, but he's had five in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. We mentioned this a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He's actually starting to get some some pass catching.
Speaker 1: Mind you, only one back his top fifty yards on
Speaker 1: the volume. These guys are getting to Patterson like the
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen touch range. But Patterson through the air
Speaker 1: should get just enough for that C grade in this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems become a very very tricky start. Unfortunately, Washington
Speaker 1: takes on the Giants. Brian for Washington. We've got a
Speaker 1: situation where Antonio Gibson's dinged up into this game. Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson has been running better. Do you feel like this
Speaker 1: is one of the better opportunities for Brian Robinson this week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta be on Brian Robinson. I was assuming Gibson
Speaker 1: wouldn't go on Friday. They were showing some signs of
Speaker 1: optimism out of Commanders camp saying Gibson would go, but
Speaker 1: he's on the bench for me either way, I'll give
Speaker 1: Robinson the B. Since Week eate, opposing backs are averaging
Speaker 1: fifteen rushing yards per game against the Giants have totaled
Speaker 1: six touchdowns running backs have during that same span. So
Speaker 1: I think this really just feels And by the way,
Speaker 1: this is the first meeting between these two teams, the
Speaker 1: visional rivals, so we don't have any recent data to
Speaker 1: go back on, but this just feels like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a low scoring rockham Stock Yeah, so I like
Speaker 1: I like Robinson here with a b um. Also, like
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, he gets a b as well. Last week,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb became the first wide receiver to crack one
Speaker 1: yards against the Giants all season, but most of that
Speaker 1: was likely because corner of Doherty Jackson left with injury
Speaker 1: for New York. Jackson has already been ruled out for
Speaker 1: this game. Number two corner Fabian Moreau, Wait, is it Morrow?
Speaker 1: And I think we're getting that one right. Fabian Morrow
Speaker 1: questionable to play. Even if he does play, he's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna be a hundred percent McLaurin owns a massive
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent air yard shaff for Washington and has
Speaker 1: average seven catches for ninety five yards in his career
Speaker 1: against the Giant, so a safe B for him. Bench
Speaker 1: grade for Curtis Samuel, though over his last three games,
Speaker 1: Samuel is totaled just three catches for thirty eight scoreless yards.
Speaker 1: He actually has more rushing yards during that same span,
Speaker 1: with forty three and then a rushing touchdown. He's a
Speaker 1: better running back than he's a wide receiver. Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: is the rare Wentz dependent receiver. Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: to depend on him this late in the fantasy season,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. So he's on the bench. Logan Thomas
Speaker 1: is not, though I'll give him a see opposing tight
Speaker 1: ends are averaging more than five catches in sixty yards
Speaker 1: per game against New York. We will take that in
Speaker 1: the barn barn tight m waste land see for Thomas,
Speaker 1: but Taylor Heineke on the bench again. He's been a
Speaker 1: great game manager, but that feels like that will be
Speaker 1: his role in this one. Over to the Giant side.
Speaker 1: Not a ton to like here. We will continue to
Speaker 1: roll out Sae Kwon Barkley though he gets at me.
Speaker 1: The Giants expect the return of left tackle Evan Neil,
Speaker 1: which is huge for Barkley. He'll need it against the Commanders, though.
Speaker 1: Washington is allowing just sixty six rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: to running back since Week nine, and they have surrendered
Speaker 1: just one score to the position during that same span.
Speaker 1: Should be back this week to for the Commander's defense.
Speaker 1: So safe b for Barkley. Uh Darius Slayton, Richie James,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's nearly as safe as you do. Well.
Speaker 1: I think Barkley's, you know, based on the last couple
Speaker 1: of games and this this matchup, I think Barkeley's got
Speaker 1: like forty five yard downside rushing and you know, three
Speaker 1: catches thirty yards. He's still gonna get his twenty in
Speaker 1: this though, so I hope you're right. Well, if you want,
Speaker 1: I'm liking to be for Barkley, I'm not liking Darius
Speaker 1: Slayton and Richie James. Though rich James the top two
Speaker 1: wide receivers for the Giants at this point, they're on
Speaker 1: the bench. The Commanders have only allowed two wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns over their last six games. One of those scores
Speaker 1: went to Justin Jefferson, who is the only wide receiver
Speaker 1: to top one hundred yards against Washington during that span.
Speaker 1: And needless to say, Darius slat and Richie James are
Speaker 1: not Justin Jefferson, so bench for them, and Slayton may
Speaker 1: not even play in the game, so that makes it
Speaker 1: even worse. The whole passing game really on the bench.
Speaker 1: Daniel Bellinger might make his return at tight end, which
Speaker 1: is intriguing, but a bad match up Washington, only allowing
Speaker 1: around three and a half catches and three two yards
Speaker 1: of the game to tight ends. But you might want
Speaker 1: to pick him up if you're desperate at tight end,
Speaker 1: but don't play him this week. And Daniel Jones, it's
Speaker 1: all about the rushing with him, and I don't like
Speaker 1: his rushing prospects in this one. The Commanders have a
Speaker 1: lot of rushing touchdown to a quarterback and two of
Speaker 1: their last three, but they've also held Jalen Hurts under
Speaker 1: thirty rushing yards twice, so they kind of limit that
Speaker 1: aspect for mobile quarterback. So Jones on the bench, Dender
Speaker 1: takes on Baltimore and I've only got a couple of
Speaker 1: starters from the pathetic Denver offenses. You can imagine beginning
Speaker 1: with Lottavius Murray. With Melvin Gordon gone last week, two
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps went to Littavius Murray last week,
Speaker 1: the highest by any Bronco running back since ten. He
Speaker 1: has seen his yards per carry increase in three consecutive games,
Speaker 1: topping out at last week's seven point one. That's season
Speaker 1: high for Latavius Murray. There's gonna be a much tougher
Speaker 1: assignment though. Ravens are allowing the fourth fewest rushing yards,
Speaker 1: the sixth fewest rushing touchdowns, and since acquiring ro Kwan
Speaker 1: Smith Listen, which I believe is four games now for
Speaker 1: the Ravens, no back his top thirty yards. So just
Speaker 1: a c great on Latavius Murray and the all the
Speaker 1: other starter I've got. By the way, Jerry Judy probably
Speaker 1: may come back, but they're talking about if he does,
Speaker 1: he'd probably be on a pitch account if he does
Speaker 1: come back. So he's on the bench. So's Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: moved by the way he managed. Russell Wilson managed to
Speaker 1: finish as quarterback thirty three last week. He got one
Speaker 1: more towards the toilet total though, right, I think he's
Speaker 1: got he did. He got one more week more touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the number of toilets in his house. Jordan's love
Speaker 1: with that Christian Watson touchdown. Beat him out. You can
Speaker 1: do it, Russell. You could consider Courtland Sutton here. He's
Speaker 1: been a low and fantasy producer ever since Judy got hurt.
Speaker 1: He's haulding at least five catches and three straight games,
Speaker 1: averaging seventy four yards in that span. The promise he
Speaker 1: hasn't scored since Week four, which, by the way, was
Speaker 1: the only time Russell Wilson has thrown multiple touchdowns all season.
Speaker 1: Was that one game in Week four. If Judy returns
Speaker 1: and I say you just bench sudden outright, if Judy
Speaker 1: misses this game, then we could throw a c grade
Speaker 1: on him, and let's go over to the Baltimore side.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson taking completely off the injury port on Friday,
Speaker 1: which is great. He did come in with a quad
Speaker 1: injury um very close to a breakout game last week.
Speaker 1: For weeks and weeks, I've been telling you about how
Speaker 1: poorly his box scores have been. He's underperforming what you
Speaker 1: think he normally is. Last week he came an inch
Speaker 1: short of a rushing touchdown. Mark Andrews dropped a touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: so he almost filled the box score. Last week still
Speaker 1: is an average game since going all the way back
Speaker 1: to Week three, is just one eight five passing yards,
Speaker 1: less than one passing touchdown per game, sixty four rushing yards,
Speaker 1: and zero point one five rushing touchdowns per game. Denver
Speaker 1: is a very tough matchup for Lamar Jackson. Arguably the
Speaker 1: NFL's best past defense, ranking top three in passing yards,
Speaker 1: top three and touchdowns allowed, and p F grades Denver
Speaker 1: at number two in past defense and number seven in
Speaker 1: pass rush. They've got star cornerback Patrick certain who's awesome,
Speaker 1: and he would normally lock down the opponent's best receiver.
Speaker 1: But the Ravens do not do not have a best receiver,
Speaker 1: So I've only got a C grade on Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: in this game. BE grade for Mark Andrews normally is
Speaker 1: just a lock a here, But since his return, averaging
Speaker 1: just four catches for fifty yards, he has Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: hasn't finished as a top five tight end since Week six.
Speaker 1: That's painful in this in this landscape, that's crazy. Over
Speaker 1: the past two weeks, tight ends as a position against
Speaker 1: Denver averaging two catches for twenty two yards entire position.
Speaker 1: Denver's allowed one tight end touchdown in the last ten weeks.
Speaker 1: So Andrews B grade. J K. Dobbins will not play
Speaker 1: in this game. Kenyan Drake is irrelevant now that Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards is back. Since shipping away Bradley Chubb, the Broncos
Speaker 1: allowing one hundred fourteen rushing yards per game to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: That'd be seventh most on the season. They limit Derek
Speaker 1: They limited Derrick Henry to just fifty three yards, but
Speaker 1: other starting backs recently Josh Jacobs Donte Foreman each top
Speaker 1: the century mark. That's good news for Gus Edwards, who
Speaker 1: look healthy last week, and when he plays, he gets
Speaker 1: a bunch of work He's had double digit carries and
Speaker 1: at least fifty two rushing yards in every game he's played,
Speaker 1: so and I mean every game talking career here. So
Speaker 1: we'll take We'll take Gus Edwards with with a C
Speaker 1: grade in this game. When we come back, take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Maybe you're in a pinch for whatever reason, injuries,
Speaker 1: Maybe you had one of the two teams that are
Speaker 1: round by this week because rostered several of your players.
Speaker 1: We've got nine players upon whom you can take a
Speaker 1: chance when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Take
Speaker 1: a chance on me, Nine players not normally in your
Speaker 1: starting line up. Many of these players available on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire right now. I believe two and a half
Speaker 1: of my players are on the waiver wire right now.
Speaker 1: Find out who they are as we continue along. Take
Speaker 1: a chance of me beginning at the quarterback position in
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Might all depend on if you how sharp
Speaker 1: your league is or how deep or whatever. And if
Speaker 1: it does, it does everybody still paying attention in week three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So my first one is going to make. My quarterback
Speaker 1: is Trevor Lawrence. We just talked about him. Not only
Speaker 1: does his opponent, the Lions allow the seventh most passing
Speaker 1: yards and ninth most passing touchdowns. They've given up multiple
Speaker 1: scores to four the last five quarterbacks. They allow the
Speaker 1: most attempts, yards and scores on the ground to quarterbacks
Speaker 1: where Lawrence is very capable. Lawrence Lawrence himself has looked
Speaker 1: really good for most of the season's since after Week one.
Speaker 1: Week one was a little rough, but since then he's
Speaker 1: looked really good, especially recently with five scores in averaging
Speaker 1: over three total yards in each of the last in
Speaker 1: the last two games. I am dying over my decision
Speaker 1: in Mike in a guillotine league about Christian Kirk versus
Speaker 1: Tygreek Hill. Hill's got the brutal matchup. Both tackles are missing.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence comes in hot. It's the Lions. This is
Speaker 1: it's killing me, killing me right now. The Jaguars having
Speaker 1: freed Dan Arnold, did either. Once they do that, that
Speaker 1: well that everybody that's gonna dry up. There's no other
Speaker 1: yards to go around. He's definitely a better player than
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram will tell you that much. Now, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. Everybody's talking about it. What's the what's
Speaker 1: your quarterback? Short and sweet Derek Carr at home against
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Car Is thrown for multiple touchdowns and four
Speaker 1: straight the Chargers have surrendered multiple touchdown passes and back
Speaker 1: to back weeks. These teams met in week one, car
Speaker 1: at two and two, and that kind of feels like
Speaker 1: a safe floor and a suspected shootout. Mike White goes
Speaker 1: up against Minnesota. He has started three games in his career.
Speaker 1: Two of the three were massive ormans Is throwing three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in both and topping four hundred yards in one
Speaker 1: of them. The others start. The bad one was last
Speaker 1: year against the best secondary in football at that time, Buffalo.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are on the opposite end of the scale.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are yielding secondary that ranks dead last in
Speaker 1: passing yards allowed two per game, and every opposing quarterback
Speaker 1: has thrown a touchdown since Minnesota blank Aaron Rodgers in
Speaker 1: the season opener. There are positive matchups all over the
Speaker 1: field from Mike White's receivers, particularly with rookie at Caleb
Speaker 1: Evans trying to start and finish his first ever NFL
Speaker 1: game and finish. You had to get that in this
Speaker 1: for legal reasons. Let's go to the running back position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the l a Rams uh Kiren Williams.
Speaker 1: It's it's felt kind of gross to start a Rams
Speaker 1: running back for the last like all season. But in
Speaker 1: the run game, Seattle ranks bottom three and total yards
Speaker 1: allowed give up. They've given up an RB touchdown per game,
Speaker 1: along with four point seven two yards per carry. So
Speaker 1: if Williams gets those ten fifteen touches, he's he's probably
Speaker 1: likely to do decent amount with them. Even down to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. They continue to run it last week though,
Speaker 1: even in a negative game script because they can't pass
Speaker 1: the ball. They have no passing offense. So his snaps
Speaker 1: and touches have increased weekly since he came back from injury.
Speaker 1: Um Karen has seven targets or seven catches on eight
Speaker 1: targets in the last three games, so he's he gets
Speaker 1: points in that area too. Very contrarian. I like it, Bryan,
Speaker 1: you take a chance of me running back. I'm going
Speaker 1: with the backup forty Niners running back who everyone is
Speaker 1: assuming is Jordan's Mason, who has been active above Tyreon
Speaker 1: Davis Price, but that was before Elijah Mitchell got hurt
Speaker 1: and they had Christian McCaffrey active. A lot of times
Speaker 1: there's a special teams consideration in that to say is
Speaker 1: the better special teams player, But I think it's Tyring
Speaker 1: and Davis Price who's gonna service a backup for Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: who's been suffering from knee irritation. Uh, he's supposedly over that,
Speaker 1: but you really can't trust McCaffrey's held at this point.
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, David's Prices in line for at least
Speaker 1: ten twelve touches in this game. Not the best matchup
Speaker 1: against Miami, who's left the second few of the yards
Speaker 1: and yards were carried to opposing backs, but they have
Speaker 1: ye a bit healthy catch totals over the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: and that's Christian McCaffrey's bread and butter. But again, you
Speaker 1: never know what the knee and Davis Price I can
Speaker 1: catch a few balls if needed, and you might find
Speaker 1: yourself with a starting running back next week. You never know.
Speaker 1: It sounds like I don't want to predict injury for McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: but it's back to the same old wobbly kind of
Speaker 1: injury reports are him? So t d P are you
Speaker 1: down with TVP? No? But but you built a good
Speaker 1: GIU Creem Hunt goes up against Houston. Over his last
Speaker 1: three games, he's had seven touches, averaging seven touches and
Speaker 1: thirty one yards. It's been a brutal season for him,
Speaker 1: but Houston. It's all about the opponent here. The Texans
Speaker 1: allowing a league high one hundred seventy four yards and
Speaker 1: one and a half touchdowns per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: Similar under studies like Antonio Gibson, Kenneth Gainwell, Dantrelle Hilliard
Speaker 1: all have recently averaged seventy nine total yards. Hunt had
Speaker 1: fifty three scoreless yards against the Texans last season, in
Speaker 1: a game in which he actually outtouched Nick Chubb. Kareem Hunt,
Speaker 1: take a chance for me, run, Let's go to the
Speaker 1: receiver position. Scott, I am going back to the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: I think that offense is gonna have a good game.
Speaker 1: I think that that's gonna be a fun game to watch.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars Lions game. Just a high score and shootout.
Speaker 1: UH DA Jones double digit star Christian Kirk over Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know about that. We'll see. We'll find
Speaker 1: out later. Uh Double digit targets and back to back
Speaker 1: games before and after the bye, which I like that
Speaker 1: they came back after the bye and game double digit
Speaker 1: targets again. It's the third easiest matchup for wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Who just allowed seventy five plus yards and or scored
Speaker 1: a five different receivers in just the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and three of those were Giants. Somehow, I don't know
Speaker 1: how three giants got hit those possible Yeah, Brian, you're
Speaker 1: taking a chance for me receiver. I'm going to end
Speaker 1: with Foster Morrow against the Chargers. Opposing tight ends are
Speaker 1: averaging a hardy sixty two yards per game against lack.
Speaker 1: Morrow didn't see a target when these teams met back
Speaker 1: in Week one, but someone named Darren Waller caught four
Speaker 1: balls for seventy nine yards, and I feel like that
Speaker 1: Morrow can match that production. Randall Cobbs got a nice
Speaker 1: match up against Chicago here. Chicago has been terrible at
Speaker 1: defending the slot normally, they're awful slot cornerback Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 1: It would be your starter here, but he's not going
Speaker 1: to play. They've ruled him out. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: is he was so bad. He was allowing the most
Speaker 1: passing yards of any player in the league. So now
Speaker 1: they got to go into the depth chart behind him
Speaker 1: to undrafted rookie Jalen Jones. If you're on the depth
Speaker 1: chart behind the guy allowing the most passing yards in
Speaker 1: the NFL, that means you're probably really bad too. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: in the two games since Cobb has returned from injury,
Speaker 1: he's got a touchdown in one seventy four yards in
Speaker 1: the other game, charge what if he sat on the
Speaker 1: sideline writing notes, Okay, don't do that. Don't do that,
Speaker 1: learning learning what not to do by the example set
Speaker 1: by Kyler Gordon Jacksonville Scott. You've already picked apart this
Speaker 1: half ahead already, So what's left to talk about here?
Speaker 1: Travis e TN? Well, I can talk about e t N.
Speaker 1: Since Robinson was traded, e t N is averaging twenty
Speaker 1: four touches for a D four yards and a score
Speaker 1: in his three full healthy games. The Lion D Lion
Speaker 1: C is closer to the middle of the pack than
Speaker 1: you might think, but they've been gashed by larger workload
Speaker 1: backs and shootouts, which this is likely to be. They
Speaker 1: allow four point seven four yards per carry, so when
Speaker 1: they do run a lot they get a decent amount.
Speaker 1: The question is health. He's been cleared to play. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's everything seems like he's he could have came back
Speaker 1: in last week. I have a B grade on E.
Speaker 1: T N. I even considered in A but I'll leave
Speaker 1: it at a B for now, just in case of
Speaker 1: health and in case Hasty comes in more than we think.
Speaker 1: Hasty had more receptions last week than ETN has in
Speaker 1: a game all season. So that's something weird because we
Speaker 1: know we can we know he can catch you Cotton
Speaker 1: College later in college anyway. Uh. The the only other
Speaker 1: one we haven't talked about since Trevor Lawrence and Zay Jones,
Speaker 1: where my take a chance on me players Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: who I have an A grade on which you're now
Speaker 1: it is. It is the third easiest matchup for wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I already mentioned like somehow Giants wide receivers were even
Speaker 1: going off on the Lions. He's been targeted nine times
Speaker 1: or more in three straight, averaging a seven for seventy
Speaker 1: five and a score in those three. But mostly and scarily,
Speaker 1: the Lions have allowed the most fantasy points to the
Speaker 1: slot by a decent amount this season where Christian Kirk plays,
Speaker 1: So everybody's like, oh, why would you ever bench Tyreek Hill?
Speaker 1: Never been your studs. I have any grade there? Hey,
Speaker 1: grade there. Over on the other side, I have a
Speaker 1: B grade on Jared Goff at one of those rare
Speaker 1: weeks where I think you can start him. Jags have
Speaker 1: allowed three and plus total yards and or multiple scores
Speaker 1: in three straight game is slated to be a shootout,
Speaker 1: one of the highest scoring on the slate with fifty
Speaker 1: one and a half over under, and Golf himself averages
Speaker 1: nearly two six yards and two scores in domes this year,
Speaker 1: so so, and he's gonna be at home in a dome.
Speaker 1: Alman raw a grade just a target hog, averaging seven
Speaker 1: and a half catches in eighty eight yards over the
Speaker 1: last five, players with his level level of volume against
Speaker 1: the Jags have averaged eight for ninety and most of
Speaker 1: them scored. I mean, it's a grade for him. I
Speaker 1: probably could have just had automatic because he's the sun God. Uh.
Speaker 1: There actually hasn't been a lot of room for secondary
Speaker 1: receivers against this Jags team. Uh. And also starting you
Speaker 1: know what, let's let's just move on. Nobody's starting chart
Speaker 1: or Raymond or anybody. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: running game. The Jags are giving up under four yards
Speaker 1: per carry and it kind of shows in the back
Speaker 1: box scores. Only backs with fifteen plus touches have done
Speaker 1: much of anything against the Jaguars, and lines don't have
Speaker 1: a fifteen touch back on ross. They really don't. That's
Speaker 1: why I have Jamal Williams with a secret and I
Speaker 1: put Swift on the bench. The average stat line for
Speaker 1: those fifteen plus touchers is about ninety yards with a
Speaker 1: with a coin flip to score, but you need to
Speaker 1: get there. Luckily, Williams has touched that top that topped
Speaker 1: that touch mark in eight of the last nine games,
Speaker 1: so he's the one likely to get there. Andy's scoring
Speaker 1: like so just like them, So uh se gret on him.
Speaker 1: You can move me to a B. DeAndre Swift, I
Speaker 1: just can't trust still yet. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: great matchup against receiving backs, but he's not getting the work.
Speaker 1: He's still splaying with Justin Jackson. He's finally completely off
Speaker 1: the injury report, but the last time I thought that,
Speaker 1: he still didn't do anything. So I just need to
Speaker 1: wait to see it now. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift's draft position next August. It's gonna be fast,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be he's gonna be
Speaker 1: like seventh round flyer. But he's gonna be sitting on
Speaker 1: top of the depth chart. He's gonna be healthy. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be I will say, if you're really in a pinch,
Speaker 1: like Jags are bottom seven in most categories against receiving backs,
Speaker 1: they're really bad in that area. And that's DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 1: Cleveland takes on Houston, Brian there might be a storyline
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Yeah, quite the honor. I get
Speaker 1: to talk about Shawn Watson. Uh, quite simply he's on
Speaker 1: the bench. No one throws against the Texans. They don't
Speaker 1: need to. You run all over them. Wait and see
Speaker 1: what you got with Watson Houston allowing two and thirty
Speaker 1: yards in less than a passing touchdown per game. You
Speaker 1: don't start Watson in seasonal formats, maybe not even super flex.
Speaker 1: He's like a daily dart. You know people are gonna
Speaker 1: be off him. I don't want to talk about Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson anymore. He's on the bench. Nick Chubb is not, though,
Speaker 1: Uh he gets an a Texans allowing two running backs,
Speaker 1: you get at least twenty carries, and when Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: gets twenty carries, the Browns are undefeated by the way before,
Speaker 1: and no, when he doesn't, they're unfeeded. They don't win.
Speaker 1: So this seems like the game where you give Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb twenty five carries backs to get at least twenty
Speaker 1: carries against Houston have average one and sixty six rushing
Speaker 1: yards at one point eight touchdowns. They're just awful against
Speaker 1: the run. That's why Kareem Hunt was to take a
Speaker 1: chance of me running back charge. I'm with you there.
Speaker 1: Over to the wide receivers, Marii Cooper gets a b.
Speaker 1: A couple of concerns here. How well will Watson play?
Speaker 1: How much will you need to throw? Probably not a lot.
Speaker 1: The Texans have allowed the second fewest catches and the
Speaker 1: fewest touchdowns to wide receivers just four years, so I
Speaker 1: can't say bench Cooper, but keep your expectations in check. Uh. Sadly,
Speaker 1: that's why Donovan People's Jones is on the bench. I've
Speaker 1: been given to taking. For a second, Am I not
Speaker 1: correct that he's got much stronger home? Yes? Yet that
Speaker 1: is correct as well, So yeah, I might even bump
Speaker 1: Cooper down to a ce UH in a guill team league.
Speaker 1: He's benchable, but that's really what I don't blame you
Speaker 1: for that one, Um. You wanted bench David and Joku.
Speaker 1: You can't have nice things with David and Joku. It
Speaker 1: looked like he was Harson Bryant. Now he's out, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Joku ruled out. So Harrison Brian gets a C
Speaker 1: and a pretty good matchup. Opposing tight ends are averaging
Speaker 1: nearly fifty yards for him against the Texans, who have
Speaker 1: also surrendered a touchdown to the position and three of
Speaker 1: their last four games, So solid, solid sea for Bryant
Speaker 1: over to the Houston side. Not a lot to like here.
Speaker 1: I will give Damian Pierce a B though a couple
Speaker 1: of really bad matchups. He's been bad as of late,
Speaker 1: but this one is a little softer for him. The
Speaker 1: Browns allowing the sixth most rushing yards on the third
Speaker 1: highest yards per carried to opposing running backs. The Browns
Speaker 1: were also also surrendering a league high one point five
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game to the position, So don't give up
Speaker 1: on Piers just yet. He had I want to go.
Speaker 1: He had two brutal matchups he didn't do very well.
Speaker 1: This is an extremely soft spot for him to have
Speaker 1: a bounce back performance, Damian Pierce, I'm with you there.
Speaker 1: And over to the wide receivers, Brandon Cooks, Nico Collins,
Speaker 1: I'll give him both. The sea only one is probably
Speaker 1: gonna do something. The Browns are allowing one plus yards
Speaker 1: any touchdown per game to opposing wide receivers. If you
Speaker 1: haven't have both on roster, I do prefer Collins over Cooks.
Speaker 1: Over the last three weeks, Allen says out targeted Cooks
Speaker 1: eight team looks like the new wide receiver one in Houston.
Speaker 1: And lastly, Jordan Aikins Kyle Allen bench when we come back.
Speaker 1: What to do with Justin Fields one of the toughest
Speaker 1: calls of the weekend. He's healthy, he wants to beat
Speaker 1: the Packers. Finally, No, this is gonna be an opportunity.
Speaker 1: It looks like every bit like he's gonna play in
Speaker 1: this game. But do you dare start Justin Fields on
Speaker 1: the bad shoulder. We'll talk about it when we come
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Speaker 1: I love it. Green Bay takes on Chicago. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start on the green Bay side to build up a
Speaker 1: little drama. What to do with Justin Fields here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna start with maybe my most optimistic outlook I've had
Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers season. I love him this week this
Speaker 1: is but actually I'm gonna start with the receivers first,
Speaker 1: because when I tell you how much like the receivers,
Speaker 1: I think it will make more sense about why like
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers so much. Let's start with Christian Watson, improbably
Speaker 1: leads the NFL all players in touchdowns over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Over the last five weeks, the Bears have
Speaker 1: allowed the fifth most yards six most touchdowns to opposing whiteouts.
Speaker 1: Watson runs from all over the field, but will mostly
Speaker 1: see slumping quarterback Jalen Johnson when if if he's even
Speaker 1: on the field. UH. Once the crown jewel of the
Speaker 1: Chicago secondary, he's now just a guy allowing a passer
Speaker 1: rating of a hundred three and a p f F F
Speaker 1: ranking of sixty three. So I like Christian Watson with
Speaker 1: a B. Alan Lazard comes in with a B. Now
Speaker 1: Watson is kind of destroyed Lizard's fantasy production over the
Speaker 1: last three games, but I like this match up a lot.
Speaker 1: If Kendall Vildore, cornerback even goes in this game. He's
Speaker 1: allowed a perfect passer rating over the last uh last
Speaker 1: three weeks after our last three games, a perfect passer R.
Speaker 1: What are you going to retires? You can't say it,
Speaker 1: love kindle Vildor. It's such a good name, Vildor. I
Speaker 1: like that he's given up two touchdown, just gave up
Speaker 1: two touchdowns of the Jets receivers last week. Over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, the Bears have allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: yard six most touchdowns per game to opposing whiteouts. Lazard
Speaker 1: is scored in four or five games against the Bears.
Speaker 1: I like him here A lot of B grade on
Speaker 1: Lazard Randall Cobb was might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide receiver. So having said that about Watson, Lazard, Cob
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, they're all B grades. Aaron Rodgers, Hey, grade, Now,
Speaker 1: if you want a factor in the thumb and the
Speaker 1: possibility and I think he else you got a thumb
Speaker 1: and something else, maybe it don't bleak or something. If
Speaker 1: you want to factor that in again, you know the
Speaker 1: chancity ends up, you know, getting knocked out of the
Speaker 1: game or something, fine, then give him a B. But
Speaker 1: let me just mention again, Bears are gonna be without
Speaker 1: no less than three starters in their secondary, including both
Speaker 1: safeties and potentially another cornerback. He's throwing multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: five straight games against Chicago. Like all the receivers, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Aaron Jones be grade here. He posted
Speaker 1: his best game of the season in the earlier matchup
Speaker 1: with Chicago, one hundred seventy yards and two scores. Since
Speaker 1: trading away ro Kwan Smith and Robert Quinn, the Bears
Speaker 1: are giving up one hundred fourteen rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: and one and a half rushing touchdowns per game. Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones should lead the pack and potentially both of those,
Speaker 1: and you can start a J. Dillon. I almost used
Speaker 1: him as might take a chance and your running back here.
Speaker 1: He's very touchdown dependent, but he gets most of the
Speaker 1: work near the goal line. I just mentioned Bears give
Speaker 1: up a ton of rushing touchdowns. They've given up the
Speaker 1: second most rushing touchdowns in fact. So a J. Dillon
Speaker 1: with a very promising touchdown performance here I played in
Speaker 1: a league with him. Is he starting himself? He did
Speaker 1: not get to draft himself. Somebody took Aaron took j
Speaker 1: before could take a J. Dillon. If you would think
Speaker 1: if you're in the NFL playing fantasy, you'd find a
Speaker 1: way to draft yourself over you think so, especially last year,
Speaker 1: the girl who drafted A J. Dillon in that league
Speaker 1: played him against himself like that and he scored. I
Speaker 1: think he scored two touchdowns that gave that. That's a
Speaker 1: great story. So he was scoring on himself. Let's go
Speaker 1: to really, oh you don't say, um, maybe turn that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what are you gonna do with Justin
Speaker 1: fields medically cleared? He expected to start Will Matt eber
Speaker 1: Flews protect his shoulder and withhold the designed runs that
Speaker 1: are the only reason you're starting Justin Fields to begin with.
Speaker 1: He's missing his only reliable receiver, Darnell Mooney. The Packers
Speaker 1: past defense has been more vulnerable in recent weeks, but
Speaker 1: it's still they're pretty good. This is the player to
Speaker 1: me that's got more upside and downside than anybody on
Speaker 1: the entire slate this weekend. You know, if he if
Speaker 1: they give him design runs justin fields against a bad
Speaker 1: Packers run defense and bad tackling defense, Justin Fields could
Speaker 1: have another in a series of great games and he
Speaker 1: goes down on that shoulder and he could go out
Speaker 1: to you could get you could get three plays out
Speaker 1: of fifty seven rushing yards against the Packers last week.
Speaker 1: So that's the upside that it gives you. I've got
Speaker 1: the middle of the field b grade on Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. I don't know the road whatever.
Speaker 1: Uh so, but you know the A the a upside
Speaker 1: is there for Fields if he's allowed to run again.
Speaker 1: Not to be labor this point Bills. You know when
Speaker 1: when they had the elbow injury with Josh Allen, they
Speaker 1: didn't give any design runs. They protected their their quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: It's not clear how this is gonna go, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, and you don't know. You'll have to just
Speaker 1: weigh the risks here. I'm putting a B grade on
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. Uh, you can start one of his receiving options.
Speaker 1: Cold commit a very touchdown dependent fantasy producer. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 1: Packers have allowed six tight end touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: five weeks. So if there's ever a time to need
Speaker 1: a touchdown dependent tight end, this is it. CE grade
Speaker 1: on cold commit David Montgomery. I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on him. The game scripts very unlikely to tilt in
Speaker 1: the favor of Chicago's running game, but I think he's
Speaker 1: startable here for two reasons. One, I suspect the Packers
Speaker 1: are gonna rest of Andre Campbell one more week to
Speaker 1: get him to the bye. And then the second reason
Speaker 1: is the Packers just allowed the sixteenth most rushing yards
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, sixty three, most of
Speaker 1: it to Josh Jacobs. So when was it Josh Jacobs? No,
Speaker 1: it was to the Eagles. It was to the set
Speaker 1: of Eagles runners. Yes, when the Packers aren't allowing franchise
Speaker 1: records to be broken, they are still a matchup to
Speaker 1: target allowing the third most rushing yards and seventh most
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, and we're gonna leave Chase Claypool on the bench.
Speaker 1: He does not have more than two catches in any
Speaker 1: game as a member of the Bears. Tennessee takes on
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Scott. This is an opportunity, obviously for uh, for
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry against a Eagles run defense that has struggled
Speaker 1: lately but might get elephant time defensive tackle Jordan Davis back. True, true,
Speaker 1: but also in Derrick Henry's favorite volume backs have have
Speaker 1: done decently against the Eagles, and Henry gets lots and
Speaker 1: lots of carries, He's going to be able to wear
Speaker 1: them down a little bit. Uh. Listen, I still have
Speaker 1: an eight grade on Henry, and you're not benching Henry anyway.
Speaker 1: But eight backs had at least twelve carries on this
Speaker 1: Eagles team. Seven of them scored. Wow, uh, you go
Speaker 1: up one carry thirteen carries, Every single one of them
Speaker 1: had eighty plus yards. Every every running back all all
Speaker 1: uh nine backs that had thirteen carries. Um, no, sorry,
Speaker 1: all seven backs that at thirteen carries, everyone had eighty
Speaker 1: plus yards. And Derrick Henry gets basically double that, so
Speaker 1: um Tannehill is on the bench. Eagles their second toughest
Speaker 1: matchup for posing quarterbacks, and the game plan to beat
Speaker 1: the two, beat or even compete with the Eagles the
Speaker 1: last few weeks is just run the ball aton, which
Speaker 1: is what they have. They have the perfect offense for it.
Speaker 1: So I have Tannehill on the bench trailing Burks. I'm
Speaker 1: actually giving a C grade to I think he continues
Speaker 1: to build on what he's started doing the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Someone's got to get something for that offense.
Speaker 1: He's the big play guy. He's starting to get more volume.
Speaker 1: He has six plus targets in every game since returning.
Speaker 1: They want him more involved. They talked about that, and
Speaker 1: the top receiver against the Eagles has seventy five plus
Speaker 1: yards and or a score in four straight, so that
Speaker 1: could be Burkes this week. C grade over to the
Speaker 1: Eagle side. It's an A grade for Hurts and A J. Brown.
Speaker 1: I don't think I need to go over it at all.
Speaker 1: The revenge game for Brown, and he's been chippy on
Speaker 1: two Witter about it too. Well, No, when when the
Speaker 1: trade happened and stuff. He was really chippy about how
Speaker 1: they wouldn't pay him and all that. But let's go
Speaker 1: to Davanta Smith. Titans are allowing ninth most receptions, sixth
Speaker 1: most yards, and third most touchdowns to wide receivers because
Speaker 1: you can't run on them. You have to pass. You
Speaker 1: can't run. So in the last three games, Smith has
Speaker 1: seen target totals of eight, nine and nine, corresponding right
Speaker 1: with Goddard going down, so five plus catch average in
Speaker 1: that span. The yardage has been middling seventy eight. But
Speaker 1: with that volume and this matchup, I got a C
Speaker 1: grade on Davontae Smith. I'm still keeping the C grade
Speaker 1: on Miles Sanders. It's just such a good offense and
Speaker 1: they give him so much opportunity and he's the guy
Speaker 1: at the stripe. Outside of that, at the Times Titans
Speaker 1: rank top five and a ton of categories including rush
Speaker 1: yards allowed, yards per carry allowed, compoy yards allowed, touchdowns,
Speaker 1: pretty much everything. Uh, it's certainly not a good spot.
Speaker 1: You can't squeeze gain one for that pass catching. He
Speaker 1: probably expects sixty seventy yards and hope first or that's
Speaker 1: where you're probably gonna get out of Miles Sanders. So
Speaker 1: I gave him a C right there. Yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: little more optimistic, but it is a brutal match. I mean,
Speaker 1: the offense is so good that he's gonna have lots
Speaker 1: of opportunity to get that score. Miami takes on San
Speaker 1: Francisco and one of the most I think the most
Speaker 1: confounding to figure out games that we're gonna have on
Speaker 1: this whole slate. Brian, it's you've got it right now.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out if I'm starting Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: with an A grade from Scott earlier in this show,
Speaker 1: or Tyreek Hill in one of my guillotine leagues. This
Speaker 1: is a tricky spot. Tyreek Hill's got a brutal matchup
Speaker 1: and Miami's missing their two starting tackles. Talk to me, alright,
Speaker 1: We'll start with Tyreek Hill then, Um, Like you said,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough matchup. On paper, the forty Niners
Speaker 1: have allowed just one wide receiver touchdown over the last
Speaker 1: three games, but during that same span, the slot has
Speaker 1: been kind of a soft spot for the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Carter and Greg Dortch both posted good numbers against
Speaker 1: the forty Niners over their last three games. Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: runs definitely a third of his snaps from the slot.
Speaker 1: They could certainly bump up those numbers if they choose to.
Speaker 1: So I gotta be on Tarred Hill. He always carries
Speaker 1: that that a upside, but I don't know if he
Speaker 1: he hits it here. So just the b for Hill
Speaker 1: and Jalen Waddle just gonna give him a sea here.
Speaker 1: It's the same tough matchup for him. He's runs from
Speaker 1: the slot at times too, but I think he'll be
Speaker 1: on the outside a little more. So I like Hill
Speaker 1: a little more than Waddle. So just the sea for Waddle.
Speaker 1: Like the sicky he is on the bench. The forty
Speaker 1: Niners have allowed just two tight end touchdowns all season.
Speaker 1: That's an easy call and uh to tong go Biola
Speaker 1: give him a ce. The forty Niners have allowed just
Speaker 1: nine passing touchdowns all season, two over their last five games.
Speaker 1: It's just the forty Niners have a great defense. So
Speaker 1: you've gotta temper your expectations for the Dolphins offense. And lastly,
Speaker 1: I have to mention Jeff Jeff Wilson and you just
Speaker 1: mentioned charge the Dolphins without they're starting left tackle and
Speaker 1: right tackle, and with Raheem Mostert set to make his return.
Speaker 1: Just to see for Wilson, the forty forty Niners are
Speaker 1: allowing a legal fifty nine rush yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. San Francisco was also about the ninth
Speaker 1: viewest receiving yards to the position. UH So even with
Speaker 1: the with the return of return of mostart, Wilson still
Speaker 1: see the majority of the work. But a really tough
Speaker 1: match of matchups are just to see for him. A
Speaker 1: tough matchup on the other side, uh for running back
Speaker 1: starting with Christen McCaffrey. Just gonna give him a B
Speaker 1: here even though he's over the quote unquote knee irritation.
Speaker 1: Um we we mentioned Elijah Mitchell. He has been ruled out,
Speaker 1: so McCaffrey should see plenty of touches, but it's a
Speaker 1: tough matchup. Miami is allowed the second fewest yards and
Speaker 1: yards per carried to opposing backs, but they have yielded
Speaker 1: healthy catch totals to the very comparable Austin Ekeler and
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara. Recently they had seven and six catches respectively.
Speaker 1: So a B for McCaffrey, But it Tirian Tyrean I
Speaker 1: believe it's pronounced Davis Prices might take a chance of
Speaker 1: me running back. I think he sees ten to twelve
Speaker 1: touches in this game. People say I'm on the Jordan
Speaker 1: Mason side after after Garoppolo's yeah, we want to. I
Speaker 1: want to see again what he'd be like with a
Speaker 1: fall game, Garoppolo all looks. I think Mason was the
Speaker 1: special had the special team. Shanahan did say that earlier
Speaker 1: in this season that he Mason was starting over t
Speaker 1: DP because of special teams. Well, time will, but I'm
Speaker 1: going with t DP for now. I could be wrong
Speaker 1: and we shall find out. I'm hopefully not wrong about
Speaker 1: Brandon Aiyuk safe b for him. He has top sixty
Speaker 1: receiving yards or scored a touchdown in each of his
Speaker 1: last six games. Miamis has allowed the fifth few yards
Speaker 1: to wide receivers over the last five weeks to keep
Speaker 1: it mindly at their by during that time frame, but
Speaker 1: on the season, the Dolphins have surrendered the third most
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns on the red zone, and as five red
Speaker 1: zone touchdowns ranked fourth amongst all wide receivers. So I
Speaker 1: like him here with the b over to Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: If he to play with the quads amstring, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna go. If he goes, I still got
Speaker 1: him on the bench because I fear a decoy role
Speaker 1: is cleared fifty combo yards just one since injuring his
Speaker 1: hamstring in Week seven. Don't see a ton of upside
Speaker 1: here for him. There is upside for George Kittle. They'll
Speaker 1: give him a B. The Dolphins have allowed the third
Speaker 1: most fantasy points at tight ends, and they have also
Speaker 1: given up five plus catches and a touchdown to the
Speaker 1: position in each of their last three games and last year.
Speaker 1: I'll give Jimmy Garoppolois c. Miami owns the sixth highest
Speaker 1: opponent passing play percentage in the league, and I like
Speaker 1: the matchups enough for the primary weapons even without deebos So.
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy g gets a sea. He's him. I
Speaker 1: like him. I think a little bit more than you.
Speaker 1: All right, So, Christian Kirk or Tyrek Hill, what do you?
Speaker 1: Why are you picking? I still think it's Terry Kill,
Speaker 1: but just because just because he has that explosive, explosive potential,
Speaker 1: it's a guillotine league question, guillotine league only. Really, I'm
Speaker 1: going Hill too. Don't sit your studs. I don't know,
Speaker 1: go with Kirk right now. I'm going Kirk. Go with
Speaker 1: Kirk right now. We'll find out. We'll also find out
Speaker 1: the answer to three tough questions when we come back
Speaker 1: for our number two of Fantasy Football Weekly. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Guillotine
Speaker 1: Leagues dot Com, Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. Good to
Speaker 1: have you guys back our number two. We always start
Speaker 1: this hour with tough question number one. Trevor Lawrence just
Speaker 1: played the best game of his career rest of season.
Speaker 1: Is he a top five, top ten, top fifteen or
Speaker 1: worse fantasy quarterback? We'll begin with Scott Fish. I love
Speaker 1: watching good quarterback play, and I feel like he's looked
Speaker 1: really good recently, so I wanted this to be higher
Speaker 1: than it was. I put top fifteen because the next
Speaker 1: two weeks he gets really good matchups, especially this week
Speaker 1: because he's might take a chance on me player. But
Speaker 1: then the Fantasy playoffs, Fantasy Pros has ranked as the
Speaker 1: worst fantasy matchups. For the worst Fantasy playoff matchups schedule
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks, and I checked like ten different sites. They
Speaker 1: all said the same things, just bad and and Houston's
Speaker 1: the other one where the teams just run, they don't
Speaker 1: they don't have to pass um. So I feel like
Speaker 1: he's going to have probably three down games to end
Speaker 1: the season. I put him still in the top fifteen.
Speaker 1: I know guys like Deshaun Watson stuff might jump in.
Speaker 1: I think he's currently quarterback twelve or so. He's probably
Speaker 1: gonna drop a few spots a couple of good matchups.
Speaker 1: I have him top fifteen, like probably QB fifteen, Okay,
Speaker 1: QB fifteen. Trevor Lawrence right in there, coming off the
Speaker 1: best game of his career. Rest of season, Brian is
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence a top five fantasy quarterback, top ten, top
Speaker 1: fifteen or worse. I basically have nothing to add to
Speaker 1: what Scott said. I agree with with everything, but I
Speaker 1: will I will say I'll put him top ten if
Speaker 1: they free Dan who averages catch. Okay, so he said
Speaker 1: top fift that's what he said. But unlocked step sound
Speaker 1: When I talked about John Smith catches passes pass past
Speaker 1: this week? Does he does John nu Smith for a
Speaker 1: brief shining moment in the first like six games, the
Speaker 1: best three years rushing tight end of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was, you know, he was like tight end one,
Speaker 1: I had my moment and then it's all fizzled. Sense.
Speaker 1: Then you guys hit most of my most of my
Speaker 1: talking points here. But one thing you haven't talked enough
Speaker 1: about with Trevor Lawrence and where he's so developed is
Speaker 1: the accuracyous him last year, and rightfully so for it's terrible.
Speaker 1: Actually get this, Over his last three games, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: has completed seventy seven percent of his passes. That is
Speaker 1: an astounding improvement. Do you know how many games he
Speaker 1: had over seventy seven percent last year? None? None, none,
Speaker 1: Some of them are just like backshort older on the
Speaker 1: sideline to it like it's impressive and not coincidentally here
Speaker 1: the Jaguars one two of those three games with this
Speaker 1: high completion percentage. He's just a different guy. Credit him
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson for what they've been able to build there.
Speaker 1: You guys have already hit on many of the other
Speaker 1: sailing and things, but let me mention this. He's been
Speaker 1: a top ten fantasy quarterback in half his games this year.
Speaker 1: Top ten are better. He's currently quarterback eleven, so he
Speaker 1: doesn't have far to go to get up to quarterback ten,
Speaker 1: which I could easily see him Doing's one thing I
Speaker 1: didn't mention in mind is he's only faced two defenses
Speaker 1: in the ranks of the ones he plays in the flayoffs,
Speaker 1: he was QB twenty five and QB twenty seven those weeks. Well,
Speaker 1: the Dallas and Jets games are bad, but the next
Speaker 1: two are great, So that evens out. We're gonna put
Speaker 1: top ten. Whoa okay, tough question. Number two with Mike
Speaker 1: White at the helm is Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, one wide receiver to flex or bench
Speaker 1: player rest of the year, Ryan. Before I get to
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson among tight ends with at least seven catches,
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold second second in the yards per catch, Let's
Speaker 1: give him more looks Trevor Lawrence, He'll be top five
Speaker 1: before you even know it. But back to Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: So here, Garrett Wilson splits this year with Zach Wilson.
Speaker 1: Seven games with the Zach Wilson and four without. He
Speaker 1: averages five and a half targets with Zach Wilson. Ten
Speaker 1: without Zach Wilson, he has he have just forty five
Speaker 1: yards per game. Was Zach Wilson seventy seven, whether it's
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco or Mike White per game. Basically double the
Speaker 1: receiver with anybody but Zach. He scored zero touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his seven games with Zach Wilson's quarterback. He scored four
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his four games win Zack Wilson is out
Speaker 1: under center, and hey, I like the schedule moving forward
Speaker 1: at Minnesota this week. Great matchup at Buffalo next week
Speaker 1: could get tricky with the return of T Davious White,
Speaker 1: but the Bills aren't as nearly as tough as they
Speaker 1: were against the past as they were last year. Then Detroit,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and at Seattle. That's those are four out of
Speaker 1: five pretty good matchups. So I got wide receiver one
Speaker 1: restive way alright, that means wide receiver twelve. He finishes
Speaker 1: wide receiver twelve. Press. Why are you guys going so
Speaker 1: much bolder than I than this week? Same question for you,
Speaker 1: Scott with Mike White at the helm is Jets wide
Speaker 1: receiver Garrett Wilson a wide receiver one wide receiver too
Speaker 1: flex or bench for the rest of the season. See
Speaker 1: I I hate when this happens. It happened in the
Speaker 1: first question. Brand's like Yeah, that's a lot of what
Speaker 1: you and the same. I had the same stuff with
Speaker 1: you know, with Wilson, without Wilson, but I had him
Speaker 1: ending up right at the edge of twenty four by
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty four two twenty four, So I have
Speaker 1: wide receiver to it just has a lot of upside.
Speaker 1: Wilson's disappearances are Zack Wilson related. It seems like a
Speaker 1: few of the matchups are shootouts coming up. We just
Speaker 1: got to hope it continues. Um, we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: exactly know. Mike White favored Elijah Moore last year and
Speaker 1: he are We already saw a really good play last
Speaker 1: week and and you know more just have two catches
Speaker 1: last Yeah he did, but he did. He looked great
Speaker 1: with them, and who knows if he starts to get more.
Speaker 1: They had a connection last year. And Corey Davis is
Speaker 1: still there. There's I I just have twenty four. I
Speaker 1: can't go to one. I have him is a wide
Speaker 1: receiver two. Garrett Wilson rest of season right this week,
Speaker 1: right now, he's wide receiver nine this week and against
Speaker 1: the Vikings like him there most weeks. As I looked
Speaker 1: through the rest of the schedule, I'm asking myself, is
Speaker 1: he going to be an A, A B. He's going
Speaker 1: to be an A and a B the rest of
Speaker 1: the year Going forward, Jets have the easiest remaining passing schedule,
Speaker 1: plus matchups every week. Um White completed sixty seven percent
Speaker 1: of his passes in his couple of games last season.
Speaker 1: He completed seventy of his passes last week. I mean,
Speaker 1: dude might actually be pretty good. Garrett Wilson, I I
Speaker 1: was very close. I went through and started listing players
Speaker 1: to see if I can get him into wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: I can't quite do it. I think there's just too
Speaker 1: many proven veterans who are gonna be safer. But he
Speaker 1: was very close to wide receiver one. I've got wide
Speaker 1: receiver two. Him and Sauce Gardner are the reason my
Speaker 1: the Jets are my son's second favorite team. And uh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know this yet, but we're going to the
Speaker 1: Jets Vikings game this weekend. Oh you are. He doesn't
Speaker 1: know it yet though, Wow, well now he might he
Speaker 1: might when he hears that. That's a good idea. Tough
Speaker 1: question number three. Appropriate level of concern for Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: speaking of the Jets Vikings none Some or a bowl
Speaker 1: loosening level of existential dread. Scott, Yeah, I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: with some. I think the question is is Darrisa going
Speaker 1: to be back in a couple of games, because it
Speaker 1: seems like that's left tackle Christian der Yes, Christian dares
Speaker 1: that it seems like the last two weeks have been
Speaker 1: a little Derris related, with Dalvin Cook's numbers going down.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, he had scored five straight for scored
Speaker 1: in five straight games. Six scores in those five games
Speaker 1: went over a ten yards and three of those five. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say some. I think that Kocuh Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connell is going to be extra cautious with Darrissa and
Speaker 1: he'll miss this week, but after that he should be
Speaker 1: He should be okay, he should still be putting up
Speaker 1: RB one, r B two numbers. It's it's not blowed,
Speaker 1: It's it's just some Brian appropriate level of concern for
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. Is it none some or about a loosening
Speaker 1: level of existential dread? Well, I'm blowed on him this
Speaker 1: week based on the current state of the offensive line
Speaker 1: and the bad matchup against the Jets, But moving forwards
Speaker 1: got kind of alluded to this. I don't see myself
Speaker 1: benching Cook against the Lions, the Colts, the Giants, or
Speaker 1: especially the Packers. So he's at least the Sea in
Speaker 1: all of those games moving forward. So I'm at some
Speaker 1: as well, Uh we do. You may recall we asked
Speaker 1: this very question like week three of the season, when
Speaker 1: he started off very very slowly. Then he went on
Speaker 1: a scoring tear, effectively averaging a touchdown not tear it
Speaker 1: down per game for the next like six weeks um.
Speaker 1: And I've mentioned this several times before, say, usually do
Speaker 1: the Vikings matchups. His box scores are oftentimes bailed out
Speaker 1: by one big play, and that always worries me about
Speaker 1: a player. But where I think Cook is still safe
Speaker 1: at least after this weeks. This is a brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: His volume is so high, he has a lot of
Speaker 1: cracks at making that one big times. And you'r Dalvin Cookie,
Speaker 1: you still have a chance to make that one big play.
Speaker 1: Rest of the schedule after this is in my eyes,
Speaker 1: downright easy. And you know, Brian, you were saying he's
Speaker 1: not going to be benched, and it was I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be an A and a B grade most
Speaker 1: of those weeks, so my appropriate level of concern beyond
Speaker 1: a very tough matchup this week is none. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Jets Vikings perfect lead in, let's go right to it.
Speaker 1: Mike White was gonna take a chance at the quarterback.
Speaker 1: We already sung the praises of Garrett Wilson here, but
Speaker 1: let me just drill down on this matchup a little
Speaker 1: bit more granularly. I already told you he was my
Speaker 1: wide receiver nine for the this week, so that's an
Speaker 1: A grade. Minnesota allows the most yards to wide receivers
Speaker 1: two hundred per game, and Wilson runs from all over
Speaker 1: the field. He's got strongly positive matchups against slot cornerback
Speaker 1: Chandon Sullivan and rookie at Caleb Evans, who has been
Speaker 1: on the field for sixty three NFL passing downs. Ever,
Speaker 1: that's a strongly positive matchup for Garrett Wilson, A grade
Speaker 1: for him. I've also got a C grade on Elijah
Speaker 1: more Scolders scored a touchdown last week, just his first
Speaker 1: in the entire season, but his snap count remains the
Speaker 1: lowest of the Jets starting whiteouts, and he hasn't topped
Speaker 1: two receptions in a game since way back in Week four.
Speaker 1: Consider Elijah Moore a high risk dark throw against a
Speaker 1: struggling secondary. The sneakier play might be Corey Davis, the
Speaker 1: forgotten man of the Jets wideouts after losing a month
Speaker 1: to a knee injury. But his first game back last week,
Speaker 1: he had twice the snap count of Elijah Moore. Like
Speaker 1: all the Jets receiver, he runs from all parts of
Speaker 1: the field, and there's a strong matchup basically everywhere except
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson and so see great on Corey Davis, be
Speaker 1: great on Tyler Conklin in a revenge game. Brian Conklin
Speaker 1: has some strong individual matchups here. Harrison Smith safety has
Speaker 1: allowed the third most yards in coverage among all safeties.
Speaker 1: Linebacker Jordan Hicks has allowed the most yards among all linebackers,
Speaker 1: and those are guys that traditionally pick up opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: In recent weeks, Hunter Henry and Dawson Knox put a
Speaker 1: big games against Minnesota. I like Tyler Conklin a lot here.
Speaker 1: Be great. We've mentioned Conklin a few times in the past,
Speaker 1: saying this playoff stretch, he's very positive. Starting now, startable
Speaker 1: every week through Week seventeen. I'm with you. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running backs. It looks like Michael
Speaker 1: Carter won't play last week. Zonovan Knight got the majority
Speaker 1: of the volume and it looked pretty good. But Ty
Speaker 1: Johnson also factored in it was and was explosive in
Speaker 1: his his touches. I think they're both startable here. Night
Speaker 1: is safer for for PPR usage. The Vikings all the
Speaker 1: six most receptions to opposing running backs, and Mike White
Speaker 1: targeted his running backs seven times last week. It was
Speaker 1: like nine per game. The Vikings run defense is solid
Speaker 1: and of critical importance. They're getting back defensive tackle Dalvin
Speaker 1: Tomlinson this week or they expect to. That will help
Speaker 1: shut down the running game here. But still, I think
Speaker 1: in totality you could start Zonovan Knight and tie Johnson
Speaker 1: with see grades. Let's go to the Viking side of
Speaker 1: this game. Justin Jefferson a grade here, but um and
Speaker 1: a lot of talking, a lot of talking about his
Speaker 1: potential matchup with defensive Rookie of the Year favorite Sauce
Speaker 1: Gardner here, who's been fantastic for us. But keep in
Speaker 1: mind Gardner only plays one side of the field and
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson only runs twenty six percent of his plays
Speaker 1: on that side of the field, so that matchup is
Speaker 1: not even gonna be in play that often. A great
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson. Let's go to some others to talk about
Speaker 1: t J. Hockinson. I like a lot. Five catches in
Speaker 1: every game since five or more in every game since
Speaker 1: his trade in Minnesota, and he's finished as a top
Speaker 1: five tight end in three of those five weeks. He's
Speaker 1: got the most positive matchup of any of the Vikings receivers.
Speaker 1: The Jets have allowed the fifth most receptions to tight ends,
Speaker 1: the Jets having a lot of tight end scorrel season,
Speaker 1: which is a little odd, but they've played exactly one
Speaker 1: tight end of Hockinson's caliber all year. Very soft schedule.
Speaker 1: Hockinson should continue to roll here. A B grade on him.
Speaker 1: The other parts of the passing game I've got on
Speaker 1: the bench. Adam Feeland looked healthier last week than he
Speaker 1: had all season. I thought he looked very spry, but
Speaker 1: I can't quite get him onto the get him to
Speaker 1: a starting grade against a very good secondary. He runs
Speaker 1: predominantly from the sauce gardener side of the field, and
Speaker 1: actually the other cornerbacks are also very good, Michael Carter,
Speaker 1: and did you read also very good here? I can't
Speaker 1: put a starting grade on feeling, and I've got my
Speaker 1: first bench grade of for Kirk Cousins of the year.
Speaker 1: The Jets have blanked opposing quarterbacks and five of their
Speaker 1: last eight and in the other three games they've given
Speaker 1: up one passing touchdown in those games. But no New
Speaker 1: York's secondary elite and again Vikings will not have Cousins,
Speaker 1: will not have blindside left tackle Christian Darisaw in the game,
Speaker 1: which is a another cause for worry. And lastly, Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook um you know does he needs to get the
Speaker 1: big play, which we've talked about before. Jets are very
Speaker 1: good run defense, no back his top seventy eight yards
Speaker 1: since week five, and since Week five, opposing runners are
Speaker 1: averaging just three point seven yards per carry, just one touchdown.
Speaker 1: Your best hope is from some contributions through the air
Speaker 1: for Dalvin Cook Romandre Stevenson against the Jets a couple
Speaker 1: of times big receiving games in the last month. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's just in total volume. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give Dalvin Cook a B, but man, it was
Speaker 1: I really want to give him a see here because
Speaker 1: the Jets run defense is so good. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him a B. And I think there's a real chance,
Speaker 1: you know, I was very down and Cook last week.
Speaker 1: There's a real chance that you've got other options that
Speaker 1: might be safer than Dalvin Cook. If you've got starting
Speaker 1: grades on guys like Sonoman Knight and Ty Johnson Shore,
Speaker 1: there might be there might be you should have started
Speaker 1: James Cook over Dalvin Cook. Wow, as it turned out,
Speaker 1: that looks like we got a new RB one in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: I know he's looking really good. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fascinating guy for draft purpose as well. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Seattle takes on the Dying l A Rams. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you how many touchdowns Kenneth Walker will score and five
Speaker 1: we're expecting five I've been told, uh, And whether or
Speaker 1: not Gino Smith will remain hot against the Rams when
Speaker 1: we come back Fantasy Football, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charge and Scott Fish, Brian Johnson with you. I
Speaker 1: got a block of matchups for you, beginning with Seattle
Speaker 1: taking on the Rams. We have previously established Kenneth Walker
Speaker 1: is going to be the high scoring player of this week.
Speaker 1: With five touchdowns in Yeah, it's it's almost really weird
Speaker 1: that I gave him a B grade with the five.
Speaker 1: Doesn't know it really doesn't. He must fumble the ball
Speaker 1: like or something. Uh. Walker gets the top ten Rundy
Speaker 1: and most metrics including rushing yards, touchdowns, yards per carrying
Speaker 1: more Aaron Donald. Though no Aaron Donald last week is
Speaker 1: a little rough for Walkers yardage wise, but he still
Speaker 1: still score twice. He has nine touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: seven games since taking over for Penny, only failing to
Speaker 1: score in one game. He gets fifteen plus touches every week,
Speaker 1: averages twenty one touches in his fall games. That volume
Speaker 1: and potential is pretty good, even though a tough matchup,
Speaker 1: and he's been in a few of those games he's
Speaker 1: needed the touchdowns. So if he doesn't get him here,
Speaker 1: he gets down to a bet. I wonder if the
Speaker 1: Rams don't you they just I wonder if they just
Speaker 1: don't have a collapse game in them and this is it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be Gino Smith. I got an A grade
Speaker 1: on the Rams pass rush without Aaron Donald will help
Speaker 1: um loses on of that bite. Uh, it's on the
Speaker 1: heels of a three hundred plus yard data mahomes in
Speaker 1: a two hundred and sixty yard three score day to
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is where the Rams defense has been recently.
Speaker 1: Gino has multiple scores in all but two games this
Speaker 1: season and over three hundred total yards and three straight.
Speaker 1: He's been so so stable. Um Yeah, DK metcalf I
Speaker 1: got a B grade on seventy plus yards and or
Speaker 1: a score in seven to the last nine, four straight
Speaker 1: where he has been the target leader all of them. Uh.
Speaker 1: In all of them and by far, especially last week
Speaker 1: with fifteen targets, I was a little ridiculous B grade
Speaker 1: their C grade unlock it. He isn't too far behind
Speaker 1: with five plus targets in every game since the opener.
Speaker 1: His abilities for that big play, and he did. He
Speaker 1: has scored in four straight, which is as long as
Speaker 1: he keeps scoring great UH C grade on him. The
Speaker 1: volume is a little lower than d K, so I
Speaker 1: got him with a C grade on on that. Over
Speaker 1: to the other side, the only the only guy in
Speaker 1: the passing game I with his starting grade is Tyler
Speaker 1: Higbee with wall for it in there. Even Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: wasn't even throwing for two hundred yards. Um, they just
Speaker 1: can't move the ball, but it's the second easiest matchups
Speaker 1: for tight ends. And in the one John Walford game
Speaker 1: earlier this season, Tyler Habe eight catches seventy three yards.
Speaker 1: All right, I like it so and with the with
Speaker 1: the great matchup, I got a B grade on Habee
Speaker 1: and Karvin Williams was about to take a chance on
Speaker 1: me runner. The Charges take on Las Vegas, Brian, this
Speaker 1: is a Chargers offense that has been, in my eyes,
Speaker 1: much better with Keenan Allen, who's looked downright spry at times.
Speaker 1: What are your expectations for Los Angeles? Yeah, So we'll
Speaker 1: start with Justin Herbert, who have given a to He
Speaker 1: was averaging nearly two yards and three touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: with a healthy Keenan Allen so far. This is a
Speaker 1: stat thanks to Paul Churchy, and that's nearly a fifty
Speaker 1: percent increase in fantasy points from the non Keenan games.
Speaker 1: So an a for Herbert, who had to seventy nine
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns when these teams first met in Week
Speaker 1: one when Keenan Allen was healthy. So an a for
Speaker 1: Herbert and a for Keenan Allen. Las Vegas has allowed
Speaker 1: at least seventy five yards to an opposing wide receiver
Speaker 1: in four straight games. During that same span, slot receivers
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell and Christian Kirk both top seventy five yards
Speaker 1: and scored, so they had good games. Alan could easily
Speaker 1: do the same. Raiders slot corner Amik Robertson owns a
Speaker 1: pitiful one passer rating in his coverage, so the a
Speaker 1: for Keenan. Mike Williams has been ruled out. He will
Speaker 1: not make his return from that ankle injury, so I'll
Speaker 1: give Josh Palmer a see. Opposing wide receivers are averaging
Speaker 1: a healthy thirteen catches an hundred and sixty yards against
Speaker 1: the Raiders, so there should be enough meat on the
Speaker 1: bone for both Palmer and Alan and this one, and
Speaker 1: probably something left over for Gerald Everett he gets a see.
Speaker 1: The Raiders haven't allowed a touchdown to a tight end
Speaker 1: since Week five, when Travis Kelsey scored four of them,
Speaker 1: which is like four of the six tight ends the
Speaker 1: Raiders have allowed all year. But Everett did score one
Speaker 1: in Week one. He had fifty four yards as well,
Speaker 1: and with no Mike Williams, I like Everett here and
Speaker 1: again it's the tight end Wasteland. You're not benching Gerald Everett.
Speaker 1: He gets the scene. You're definitely not benching Austin Ekeler. Uh. Last,
Speaker 1: but certainly not least. He gets an A did not
Speaker 1: have a good game back in that Week one meeting,
Speaker 1: just seventy two scoreless combo yards on four catches, but
Speaker 1: he was vultured on a receiving touchdown. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you ever had a receiving touchdown Vulture by by
Speaker 1: Xander R. Vaff Hold on where's our vulture? We haven't.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from the vulture weeks. He's just vultering things.
Speaker 1: But the Raiders allowing one combo yards at one point
Speaker 1: two touchdowns per game to opposing back, So you're starting
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler obviously over to the other running back, the
Speaker 1: running back in all of Fantasy football RB one in
Speaker 1: the world, Josh Jacobs gets an a watch that calf
Speaker 1: injury though, But that's what they said last weekends, and
Speaker 1: we all saw what happened. The Chargers are allowing on
Speaker 1: three rushing yards on a league worse five point six
Speaker 1: yards per carry and one point four touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs. Jacobs didn't do much in the
Speaker 1: Week one matchup, but things are way way different now.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, if he go, If he goes, and he should,
Speaker 1: he gets an a as is Davante Adams. The Chargers
Speaker 1: have allowed four wide receiver touchdowns over their last three games,
Speaker 1: and Adams had ten catches, one yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the first meeting. And he has commanded double digit
Speaker 1: targets in four straight games. I don't see how that
Speaker 1: stops here. Now over to Mac Collins, might take a
Speaker 1: chance to me wide receiver who scored in his spiked
Speaker 1: game against the Seahawks. He's on the bench this week, though,
Speaker 1: has seen nearly thirty percent of the Raiders are yards
Speaker 1: since Darren Waller and hunter Renfroll went on i R.
Speaker 1: But it's been that's exactly what I thought. That was
Speaker 1: a lot of build up and then he's I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to get my my peacock in for my Mac
Speaker 1: Collins call last week. I'm still waiting on that. There
Speaker 1: are there's my bird. Uh. It's been rare for two
Speaker 1: wide receivers to go off against the Chargers this year.
Speaker 1: My money is on Adams. If a wide receiver is
Speaker 1: gonna go off for the Raiders in this one. And lastly,
Speaker 1: fostermorrow Was might take a chance on me receiver at
Speaker 1: tight end, of course, and Derek Carr might take a
Speaker 1: chance on the quarterback. There should be some points sward
Speaker 1: in this final matchup of this segment is Kansas City
Speaker 1: taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. Uh, Mahomes and Kelsey are
Speaker 1: obvious as let me just mention this. On paper, the
Speaker 1: Bengals look like a pretty good past defense. But get this,
Speaker 1: they have found their way to play against seven quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who are or were backups this year, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be eight when Jacobe Brisette rides pied and this week
Speaker 1: they're gonna have faced eight quarterbacks who are or we're backups.
Speaker 1: So I think this is kind of a paper tiger,
Speaker 1: and I'm not obviously you wouldn't benching Mahomes or Kelsey anyway,
Speaker 1: but it also makes you feel a little bit better
Speaker 1: about Juju Smith Schuster. In his return from concussion last week,
Speaker 1: he only played thirty eight percent of the snaps, and
Speaker 1: I get him a B grade because I didn't think
Speaker 1: he'd only play thirty eight percent of the snaps because
Speaker 1: he was back. Presumably he's gonna get the full workload here,
Speaker 1: so I'm back to putting a B grade on Juju.
Speaker 1: In the three games prior to his King cushion, he
Speaker 1: was averaging a hundred eight yards and he had scored
Speaker 1: twice in those three games. Cincinnati's secondary has surrendered at
Speaker 1: least seventy five yards to a receiver in four of
Speaker 1: the last five. Their best cornerback Chadobe E. Wusiers on
Speaker 1: I Are that means rookie backup Cam Taylor Britt is
Speaker 1: your starting cornerback and he gives up an eighty percent
Speaker 1: completion rate and he passer rating of in his coverage.
Speaker 1: Juju is a nice start here, and I'd even consider
Speaker 1: a little dart throw on Marquez Valdez scantling with McCole
Speaker 1: Hardenman gonna miss another game. MBS has posted Fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: games here and two of Hardman's three missed games, He's
Speaker 1: gonna draw a lot of Eli Apple and that is
Speaker 1: a decent matchup. Apples a gambler and MBS is a
Speaker 1: guy who can make big plays, so we'll give him
Speaker 1: a high risk, high reward C grade for MVNS. And lastly,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco in rare air for Chiefs running backs. Over
Speaker 1: his last three games, he's averaging eighteen touches for total yards.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen this since Kareem Hunts rookie year, Davian
Speaker 1: Williams playoff run he has something like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's been a long time. Jamal Charles, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The Bengals have struggled against opposing running backs lately,
Speaker 1: giving up one hundred forty one total yards and one
Speaker 1: point three touchdowns per game over their last four games,
Speaker 1: which would be eighth most and third most league wide, respectively.
Speaker 1: So solid B grade and Isaiah Pachaco. Let's go to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give out a grades to Joe Burrow, Tee
Speaker 1: Higgins and Jamaar Chase. We're gonna go right for us.
Speaker 1: Chiefs are a very good run defense and a very
Speaker 1: shaky past defense, and the game script should tilled heavily
Speaker 1: to the air. Kansas City sees the third most passes,
Speaker 1: thirty seven per game. That's the kind of volume that
Speaker 1: makes Joe Burrow an automatic start, particularly with Chase back.
Speaker 1: In Chase's two games against the Chiefs last year, he
Speaker 1: totaled three hundred twelve yards that's total domination. Chase and
Speaker 1: te Higgins run from the outside, where they both have
Speaker 1: strongly positive matchups against rookie cornerbacks Joshua Williams allows posing
Speaker 1: passer rating of one, and Trent McDuffie has only seen
Speaker 1: one fifty eight NFL coverage snaps in his entire career.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are really primo matchups for Higgins and Chase.
Speaker 1: So with Chase, of course, you're you're running some extra risk, right,
Speaker 1: maybe r injury, maybe reduced snap count, but still the
Speaker 1: upside is so high. I think you've got to have
Speaker 1: the A grade, and I'm starting Chase in my leagues.
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd gets a C grade here. His fantasy production
Speaker 1: was double in the games that Chase played in. He's
Speaker 1: got a neutral matchup against slack cornerback Lagarius Snead. But
Speaker 1: we've seen the Chiefs give up some big slot receiver
Speaker 1: games recently, including Christian Kirk's explosion a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So we'll try Tyler Boyd even though he has been disappointing,
Speaker 1: because Chase is back. And then lastly, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the running backs for the Bengals. Here, Joe Mixon's concussion status.
Speaker 1: As we're recording this, it's twelve hour. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't know yet, So we'll try to play this a
Speaker 1: couple of different ways. No matter what, it's a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for Mixing or some j p Ryan um Kansas
Speaker 1: City's run defense sees the fifth fewest rushing attempts, they
Speaker 1: allow the tenth fewest rushing yards. Two weeks ago, Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler petered out at eighty three yards on four yards
Speaker 1: per carry. And Austin Ekeler is really good. The only
Speaker 1: two backs that have scored touchdowns against the Chiefs. You
Speaker 1: have to go way back to week five. And what's more,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have become very good at stopping past catching
Speaker 1: backs as well. So I can't say he's gonna help
Speaker 1: you there either. If Mixing comes back, I'm only to
Speaker 1: put a C grade on him. But I'm also worried
Speaker 1: that p Ryan's looks so good. He's learned a place
Speaker 1: at the table. He's earned some extra carries here, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't blame you if you've benched Mixing, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep the C grade on him out of respect
Speaker 1: for the fact that normally he gets the vast majority
Speaker 1: of the work in the volume here. Now, if Mixon
Speaker 1: does not go, then I would consider p Ryan with
Speaker 1: perhaps a C grade in his place, because he won't
Speaker 1: have to share with Mixon. You get all the volume,
Speaker 1: and I'd actually, in that scenario'd probably feel a little
Speaker 1: better about p. Rhan with mixing because I know he's
Speaker 1: going to get almost all the work. There you go.
Speaker 1: When we come back premature speculation. There are still players
Speaker 1: for you to pick up in advance of the rest
Speaker 1: of your league. Find out who they are when we
Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: Paul Charge and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you.
Speaker 1: This is a segment we like to call free mature speculation.
Speaker 1: In three players that you'll want to pick up this
Speaker 1: week that other people be trying to pick up next week,
Speaker 1: but they're already on your team. Scott Fish, you go first.
Speaker 1: It's finally time. It's finally time. Jamison Williams is rostered.
Speaker 1: He is practicing golf. Says he looks fast. He gets
Speaker 1: a great matchup this week if he goes, but you
Speaker 1: probably don't want to start with even if he goes,
Speaker 1: But then he gets the Vikings next week. That's an
Speaker 1: equally decent matchup for Jamison Williams. It could turn out that,
Speaker 1: you know, they need another pass catcher in that offense.
Speaker 1: It could turn out that that deep, speed, elusive, slippery guy,
Speaker 1: uh could. I'm not saying he's gonna be a league winner.
Speaker 1: I'm saying get him on your roster just in case.
Speaker 1: All right, Jamison Williams the first of three premature speculation players. Brian,
Speaker 1: Who's next, I'll go future starting Packers quarterback Jordan's Love. Um.
Speaker 1: You might think this is a super flex player. I
Speaker 1: think he's been scooped up in most super flexed leagues.
Speaker 1: But I still think he's worth and add if you
Speaker 1: need to back up quarter back in one quarterback leagues.
Speaker 1: As soon as the Packers are out of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and that could be as soon as this weekend, Rogers
Speaker 1: will gladly take a seat. He's not going to demand
Speaker 1: to play. He's already no and uh yeah, we'll see
Speaker 1: what he already said something about as long as we're so.
Speaker 1: I think even if they if they lose to the Bears,
Speaker 1: they're definitely out. I think even if they win and
Speaker 1: other teams win, they might still be eliminated. There aren't
Speaker 1: buy in Week fourteen. Not ideal, but there's some decent
Speaker 1: matchups for the Packers starting in week fifteen. They got
Speaker 1: the Rams, who was a broken team at Miami. Not great,
Speaker 1: but there should be. They should be chasing points there.
Speaker 1: Then they have the Vikings at home in week seventeen.
Speaker 1: As of right now, the Vikings are a secondary to target.
Speaker 1: And you know it was only for like a quarter,
Speaker 1: but love in Christian Watson showed some chemistry and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm a believer in Jordan's love. He just hasn't that
Speaker 1: any chances obviously, so we're worth the bench spot if
Speaker 1: you got them. I'm really excited about Corey Davis, Jets receiver.
Speaker 1: I gave him a starting grade this week against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But I'd like to remind you Jets have the easiest
Speaker 1: passing schedule rest of season. And listen with Corey Davis
Speaker 1: was doing let's go wait, go back to the Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco era at the beginning of the season. Listen to
Speaker 1: what we were getting out of Corey Davis in those
Speaker 1: early games. Week one seventy seven yards, Week two eight
Speaker 1: three yards in a touchdown. Week three was not good
Speaker 1: week four seventy four yards in a touchdown, non Zack
Speaker 1: Wilson games. Corey Davis shows up, baby. Corey Davis went
Speaker 1: fifth overall in draft. That's amazing. Cooper Cup wins. Corey
Speaker 1: Davis played two games with Mike White last year. One. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's great stats. Thank you for pulling that up on
Speaker 1: quick demand. Very impressive work on your part. You know,
Speaker 1: would also be impressive when you break down Indianapolis and Dallas. Oh,
Speaker 1: let's do that. Uh, let's start with the passing game
Speaker 1: for the Colts. Let's just start here. Actually, Dallas leads
Speaker 1: the league in quarterback pressures sacks. They've allowed just twelve
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in twelve games, which is one of the fewest, uh,
Speaker 1: and the fewest passing yards. They've only allowed eleven wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns this year, and only two wide receivers over
Speaker 1: seventy five yards. So naturally, Matt Ryan's on the bench,
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell's on the bench, who had his role kind
Speaker 1: of usurped from Gelanni Woods by Gilanni Woods last week.
Speaker 1: So excited about the future for Johnny Woods. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: We've mentioned him a bunch of times on this show,
Speaker 1: but he's probably out with his shoulder injury this week.
Speaker 1: Kyle Granson was playing over him before that, and Kyle
Speaker 1: Granson was sick last week, so that's why. But I
Speaker 1: have them on the bench. Jopson's gonna play. Yeah, it's switched,
Speaker 1: but again, terrible matchup for him, So I have that
Speaker 1: on the bench. Is the biggest guy on the field
Speaker 1: when the huddle, bigger than him. Him and Ali Cox
Speaker 1: could hold hands and reach either side of the the
Speaker 1: end zone. I swear like the two pilots. Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: is like six five to fifty. He looks like a
Speaker 1: little kid. It's like the Raiders with fast guys. They
Speaker 1: have a type. They love wingspans down there in Indianapolis. Apparently,
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman is the only guy in the receiving game
Speaker 1: I've a starting grade on I have a C grade
Speaker 1: on him. Uh, he's gonna get that. He's got to
Speaker 1: get there on volume. It's just a tough matchup, but
Speaker 1: he gets six plus. He has six plus catches in
Speaker 1: three straight games. Really a bunch of games this year
Speaker 1: he has had six plus catches routinely see seven to
Speaker 1: ten targets. He leads the team in red zone targets.
Speaker 1: He should find his way there. One way or another.
Speaker 1: He just gets the volume four it C grade on
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman over to Jonathan Taylor. I'm still giving him
Speaker 1: an A grade, but it's not an automatic A grade.
Speaker 1: It's still in A grade though. Dallas does rank fifth
Speaker 1: against running backs, but a lot of that is due
Speaker 1: to the fact they've only allowed five running back scores.
Speaker 1: That's both rushing and receiving, only five running back scores
Speaker 1: and almost nothing in the past game. They shut down
Speaker 1: the path. But Jonathan Taylor's a runner. He's a runner.
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty one rush attempts for a hundred and
Speaker 1: six yards in a score since Jeff Saturday took over um.
Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys almost similarly allow a hundred five rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game, so it feels like that's about where
Speaker 1: where it's going to be. They allow over four and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry, so on Jonathan Taylor's volume,
Speaker 1: he should get that get there because both backs who
Speaker 1: had twenty plus rush attempts against the Cowboys had over
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five yards or more, so that's where
Speaker 1: we're looking at with Taylor, plus they won't be able
Speaker 1: to pass very well, so Taylor's got to do it
Speaker 1: over to the Cowboys side. Dak Prescott gets a B
Speaker 1: grade two fifty plus yards and multiple scores in four
Speaker 1: straight but it's not the best matchup. No quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: top two hundred yards on the Colts uh and six
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have been under two hundred yards, even car Hurtz
Speaker 1: and Heineke. However, in the last five weeks had multiple scores.
Speaker 1: They had yard dige totals of two eight, two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy six three in eight. You can expect Prescott
Speaker 1: to be in that for two range. A couple scores,
Speaker 1: that's B level. He can teeter on a level if
Speaker 1: he needs to. But um, they did hold down Mac
Speaker 1: Jones and Kenny Pickett. But I don't compare those two
Speaker 1: two Dak Prescott Ceedee Lamb. I got a B grade
Speaker 1: on tough matchup for wide receivers, Colts allowing the sixth
Speaker 1: fewest receptions, third fewest yards, second fewest touchdowns, with just
Speaker 1: six wide receiver touchdowns in twelve games. That's one every
Speaker 1: other game. That's not a good that's not good odds.
Speaker 1: So naturally, the other wide receivers like Michael Galup, who's
Speaker 1: been sick all week, is on the bench. He's had
Speaker 1: to he hasn't gone through practice. He's been doing it
Speaker 1: via zoom or whatever. So he hasn't even done practice
Speaker 1: this week. So I'm not gonna trust him in a
Speaker 1: tough matchup. But I have a B grade on Lamb,
Speaker 1: who's getting five plus catches in all but one game
Speaker 1: since the opener, averaging ten targets per game over the
Speaker 1: last The volume is gonna get him there. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get there. Dalton Schultz A grade. I love him this week.
Speaker 1: A grade. The Colts do allow are Colts rank eleventh
Speaker 1: worst against tight ends. They allowed the third highest catch rate,
Speaker 1: So if you throw to the tight end, they're catching it.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like near um. He has three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the last three games. In that span, this is
Speaker 1: the span since you know, the last three games with
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott. He also seen eight red zone targets
Speaker 1: in those three games. That's a lot of red zone
Speaker 1: looks for a tight end. Uh. He's averaging nearly five
Speaker 1: catches per games since Dak returned and east tight end
Speaker 1: five in that since Dak returned. So A grade on
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz, Zeki Elliott, and Tony Pollard. Actually had Pollard
Speaker 1: with the B grade here and Zeke with the C grade.
Speaker 1: I have it a little flip this week. Most people
Speaker 1: would say that's the order it should be in most weeks. Okay,
Speaker 1: well yeah, just on the eyeball test, right, Zeke has
Speaker 1: converted five of his eight attempts inside the five. He
Speaker 1: gets all most of the red zone work, um, and
Speaker 1: and that's what it's been there. They've been splitting touches
Speaker 1: the last two weeks since he came back. It did
Speaker 1: teeter a little more to Zeke last week and he
Speaker 1: got the two. He's had three scores in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Keeps you alive that way. But the Colts
Speaker 1: allowed the fourth most receptions and eighth most receiving yards
Speaker 1: to backs. It's a really good spot for you know,
Speaker 1: an explosive pass catching back. I wonder who that could be.
Speaker 1: And they're both getting fifteen fifteen touches each of the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. I'm going to go with the more
Speaker 1: explosive back the in the receiving game. Pollard used to
Speaker 1: be sorry, Zeke, you know in his early years, Oh,
Speaker 1: he had like seventy plus catches his second year, first years,
Speaker 1: first or second year. Absolutely, Yeah, staves feel like a
Speaker 1: long time ago. Now Brian new Orleans takes on Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara has been a straight up disaster and he's
Speaker 1: got another tricky matchup right here. Yeah, these teams first
Speaker 1: met in Week two, so we'll reference that game for sure,
Speaker 1: but starting with Kamara. He did not play in that
Speaker 1: that first meeting. But not a lot to be excited
Speaker 1: about here, borderline bench. But I don't not You're not
Speaker 1: gonna bench. I'm not gonna should have benched him for
Speaker 1: like most of the games this year. Hindsight is twenty,
Speaker 1: I still can't. I still can't give Kamara bench grade here.
Speaker 1: I'm give him a c UH mentioned vulture. That is
Speaker 1: the crow eating that somebody should do. Considering Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: has scored in one game this year. He scored in
Speaker 1: more games than Johnson. It's true, it's true, but I'm
Speaker 1: starting with the c still uh. Four Saints running backs
Speaker 1: combined for one and three scoreless combo yards in the
Speaker 1: Week two game against Tampa Bay. Sadly, that's probably Kamara's
Speaker 1: ceiling in this one. So a C and PPR. But hey,
Speaker 1: if you're playing standards still, I can't fault you for
Speaker 1: benching him there, but I'll roll with the sea over
Speaker 1: to Crystal Lavegan and give him a B. He had
Speaker 1: a modest five catches for eighty yards when these teams
Speaker 1: first met in Week two. Way back in those days,
Speaker 1: someone called Michael Thomas was the Saints wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: He had six catches for sixty five yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So hopefully those numbers transfer over to a LAVA against
Speaker 1: the Bucks, who, over their last three games have allowed
Speaker 1: two opposing wide receivers a top ninety yards while surrending
Speaker 1: through while surrendering three touchdowns to the position. So a
Speaker 1: B for a lave. But I've got all the secondary
Speaker 1: receivers on the bench, whether it's Jarvis Landry, Rashid Shahid, Marquez, Callaway,
Speaker 1: Trey Kwan Smith, they're all the same person basically, And
Speaker 1: un Joe worn, his cellphone might still be in the pads.
Speaker 1: Remember the kids out there are probably like, what is
Speaker 1: this guy talking about? Oh yeah, I remember that for sure.
Speaker 1: Horn He's awesome. He's good. He's really, really, really good.
Speaker 1: Joe soon one of the best corners in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Interdivisional rival. But you can't trust the secondary wide receiver
Speaker 1: on the Saints right now, especially with Andy Dalton at quarterback,
Speaker 1: so they're all on the bench as our Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: and Juwan Johnson. Johnson is just way too touchdown dependent
Speaker 1: in games he doesn't score. He's averaging less than four
Speaker 1: PPR points. And as for Taysom Hill, we all know
Speaker 1: the deal here. He's he's like a game of Russian Roulette.
Speaker 1: He's actually like the opposite of Russian Roulette. Where there's
Speaker 1: five bullets, there's one one chaper. So you do not
Speaker 1: want to play that game with Taysom Hill. He is
Speaker 1: on the bench, and obviously Andy Dalton is as well.
Speaker 1: Over to the buck side, Shod White, I gotta see
Speaker 1: on him, even if Leonard Fournette returns. It's a c
Speaker 1: either way. I'm not too concerned with four Nette. He's
Speaker 1: on the bench, but it's a tough matchup for White.
Speaker 1: The Saints are top twelve in the most yards per
Speaker 1: carry allowed to running backs, but they have surrendered the
Speaker 1: seventh fewest receptions and the fourth fewest receiving yards the position.
Speaker 1: The Saints also having allowed a running back touchdown in
Speaker 1: three straight games. Tampa's offensive line also took another big hit,
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about more in a minute. So just
Speaker 1: a safe sea for White here. I wanted to go be,
Speaker 1: but I cannot. I will put give a B to
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, though he has at least six receptions in
Speaker 1: eight straight and has scored in consecutive games. Coincide dentally,
Speaker 1: New Orleans slot corner Chris Harris has allowed six receptions
Speaker 1: and back to back weeks. So I like Godwin and
Speaker 1: this one who has also posted pretty good numbers across
Speaker 1: his career against the Saints. But Mike Evans has not
Speaker 1: done that. He hasn't surpassed seventy receiving yards against the
Speaker 1: Saints since ten has a long time ago. Marsha Latimer
Speaker 1: battle is real, No, I didn't. Evans has scored twice
Speaker 1: across his last seven games against New Orleans, and like
Speaker 1: you said, charge he has been He was fighting, like
Speaker 1: quite literally fighting Marsha On Lattimore and most of those games.
Speaker 1: And Lattimore might make his return from an abdomen injury.
Speaker 1: He's been out for quite some time. So I'll give
Speaker 1: Evans a see if Lattimore plays, but a B if
Speaker 1: Lattimore is out that that's a that's a big difference
Speaker 1: maker for both players on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: So monitor marsh On Lattimore's status going into this game.
Speaker 1: Either way. I have Julio Jones on the bench when healthy,
Speaker 1: which hasn't been a lot. He still has in top
Speaker 1: three catches in his six games played, so he's on
Speaker 1: the bench and not a great matchup, as are the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay tight ends New Orleans as surrender just one
Speaker 1: tight end touchdown all season. Are you done with your things?
Speaker 1: I gotta talk about Tom Brady, but I'm in no
Speaker 1: rush talk about I was just gonna say I missed
Speaker 1: what like for NET practice the last two weeks? What
Speaker 1: was your great on for NET? And Rashad White with
Speaker 1: as for NET? Bench either way and wait to see
Speaker 1: maybe bump him up to be if you can drop
Speaker 1: Leonard for NET. Yeah, we talked about the act to
Speaker 1: talk about it two weeks ago. He had no reason
Speaker 1: to have the backup running back on the league's worst
Speaker 1: rushing attack. And you know who else is borderline droppable?
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, who I have a bench grade on him
Speaker 1: right now. But if Marshall and Lattimore sits. I'll bump
Speaker 1: Brady up to a sea. But we mentioned the hit
Speaker 1: to the offensive line. No, Tristan Worth, you have three
Speaker 1: backups on that offensive line, He's gonna have no time back.
Speaker 1: I think we're talking backups to the backups at this
Speaker 1: point for at least two or week. Surprised about it.
Speaker 1: They could use you. Uh, it's not a good matchup
Speaker 1: on paper at all. Even with a good offensive line.
Speaker 1: New Orleans has surrendered just four passing touchdowns over their
Speaker 1: last five games, and during that same span, only one
Speaker 1: quarterback has been able to top two hundred passing yards.
Speaker 1: When these teams met back in week Week two, Brady
Speaker 1: managed just one passing yards and a touchdown, which was
Speaker 1: arguably his worst game of the season. His offensive line
Speaker 1: was in better shape then. We just said it's not
Speaker 1: in great shape now. So you can explore other options
Speaker 1: other than Tom Brady this week. I would roll out
Speaker 1: any of our take a chance on me quarterbacks. I
Speaker 1: think I think I haven't ranked twenty eight or twenty nine.
Speaker 1: I think I've changed my mind. I think you should
Speaker 1: start Kirk alright, you're you're back to that. You should
Speaker 1: If I listen to you too, you get my co
Speaker 1: host you gave Christian Kirk and a you gave tyrk
Speaker 1: hill Aby. Am I supposed to trust my co host
Speaker 1: on this show? Yeah? Okay, but done deal. You're well
Speaker 1: really you know we're talking Guillotine League again. You're all
Speaker 1: all great teams, Kirk, seems like the safer play with upside,
Speaker 1: and we're still still there's six teams left, just so
Speaker 1: relatively safe here. You still got your ff W coin right,
Speaker 1: I do uh steam it in the final moments here,
Speaker 1: Tyler Murray, Bye week, Patriots, Broncos, Bucks, what do you say?
Speaker 1: I just drop them out right right now? Do it
Speaker 1: in one quarterback league? Yeah? You can find something else.
Speaker 1: I can ye and go. I'm not Tom Brady. Thanks
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