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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchi and my co host today
Speaker 1: are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, gentlemen, what's up.
Speaker 1: Excited to be on the last show of Stop It,
Speaker 1: Stop It, It's gonna be It's all gonna be fine,
Speaker 1: Gonna get out of here, Scott Fish. Yes, we're gonna
Speaker 1: want any of that negativity in this. Spound about this,
Speaker 1: and I think the only real game that's in doubt
Speaker 1: right now is Buffalo Tennessee. We talked about it last week.
Speaker 1: Let's just spend a second reiterating some of the best
Speaker 1: way to handle the possibility of a last minute game cancelation.
Speaker 1: We discussed it last weekend with the provisional player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can do the provisional player. And that was something
Speaker 1: that Ryan McDowell, I know, suggested on Twitter, where you
Speaker 1: put on your league's message board. For instance, if you
Speaker 1: have Derrick Henry, yes, who's by the way, put him
Speaker 1: in your flex spot, not in your running back spot,
Speaker 1: you have maximum flexibility. So let's say that he's in
Speaker 1: your flex spot and I have how about Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: as the wide receiver that I have as my provisional
Speaker 1: starter in case Derrick Henry's game does not go So
Speaker 1: if the Tennessee game is canceled, then Justin Jefferson's stats
Speaker 1: get put in by my league manager. Commission will need
Speaker 1: to manually make that adjustment. That's all fine. You posted
Speaker 1: on the message board, so everybody knows that you've designated
Speaker 1: that before Justin Jefferson plays his game, and that's something
Speaker 1: it's not too late to do that for this week
Speaker 1: in your league. You can definitely make this decision now, Commissioners,
Speaker 1: this is the way to handle this. It is the
Speaker 1: most fair way. There's no thing fair about managers having
Speaker 1: to guess whether or not there will be a game
Speaker 1: on Camesday, right game Monday or Tuesday or canceled. You
Speaker 1: know that's not evaluating the skill of a manager. So
Speaker 1: that's the way you certainly want to handle it. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that game in just a moment. A reminder,
Speaker 1: the segments that we love to get to will happen
Speaker 1: over the course of the show, including premature speculation where
Speaker 1: we give you three players to pick up this week
Speaker 1: that people will wish they had picked up this week,
Speaker 1: but it's actually next week. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: three tough questions you can play along, try to go
Speaker 1: three and ow and nine players upon whom you can
Speaker 1: take a chance. But let's get to that Buffalo Tennessee
Speaker 1: game delayed. We don't we believe and hope that it's
Speaker 1: going to go off, So you know, let's just cover
Speaker 1: it like it is, like it will be played, because
Speaker 1: we still want to give people advice on this. Do
Speaker 1: you think Hank Williams Jr. Is making a Tuesday night
Speaker 1: football song right now? Yeah? So now this game is
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, it could get canceled. So, um, I think
Speaker 1: it's probably going to go, but it's not quite. But
Speaker 1: it's not quite fifty fifty, but it's close. Um So
Speaker 1: in my mind, there's four players I think you should start,
Speaker 1: and they're the four players I gave A grades too
Speaker 1: in this scenario. The other players I think they're just
Speaker 1: a little bit too risky with the possible cancelation. But
Speaker 1: the A players have that elite upside that I think
Speaker 1: that you should probably still keep them in your lineup,
Speaker 1: and that starts with Josh Allen. Uh. Titans aren't particularly
Speaker 1: good against the past, allowing two sixty nine yards per
Speaker 1: game this season, and they gave up three touchdowns to
Speaker 1: each of the last two quarterbacks they faced, which were
Speaker 1: Minshew and Cousins, not necessarily the cream of the crop
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Uh. Stephan Diggs is the other
Speaker 1: A grade on the buffalo side. The last team the
Speaker 1: Titans face was digs old team, the Vikings, and rookie
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson had his coming out party against Jonathan Joseph
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Butler. So I think Diggs is an elite
Speaker 1: play this week as well. Now, John Brown and Cole Beasley. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's so, that's a different story. Brown is still dealing
Speaker 1: with the calf injury. It looks bad well. He reaggravated
Speaker 1: it on Wednesday, and he was limited on Friday noticely,
Speaker 1: noticeably hobbling and some of the video that we've seen.
Speaker 1: I think he's on the bench for sure. Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: was on the injury report earlier in this week, but
Speaker 1: he dropped off the injury report. He's worth a c
Speaker 1: start if you need it, I guess, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that there's a scenario where I'm starting Cole Beasley here.
Speaker 1: I do like Gabriel Davis fill in. If it turns
Speaker 1: out that Brown is inactive and you need to make
Speaker 1: a last minute pivot, that's the guy to pivot do.
Speaker 1: My say is, if you're if you're playing Brown, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be playing Brown at all. You should find somebody
Speaker 1: else who's playing on Sunday. Anyway. Devin Singletary and Zack Moss,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them both Sea grades if Moss goes,
Speaker 1: but single Arry bumps up to a B. If Moss
Speaker 1: is out again and Zack Moss is still dealing with
Speaker 1: that toe injury, he's got to be trending more positive
Speaker 1: after sitting again last week, and this game getting delayed
Speaker 1: gives him an extra two days to sit, so that's nice. Plus,
Speaker 1: the Titans are allowing five point nine yards per carry
Speaker 1: right now, and that's absolutely unheard of. And they currently
Speaker 1: have four members of the defense on the I R
Speaker 1: COVID list, including defensive tackle da Kwon Jones and defensive
Speaker 1: end Jeffrey Simmons. Let's hope most of those extra couple
Speaker 1: of days are enough to get Moss to a spot
Speaker 1: where he can play well. Of course you think that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I buried the lead. This is
Speaker 1: the Zach Moss versus John new Smith bull right, It
Speaker 1: is right here. It's the Paul Charchian bull right. In
Speaker 1: this game, let's talk about John new Smith. Let's go
Speaker 1: right there. There's nobody else for the for Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: to pass too. In this game, Corey Davis out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Corey Davis is on ir COVID and Smith is averaging
Speaker 1: sixty yards and a score per game. The Bills are
Speaker 1: allowing eight catches for ninety yards per game to the
Speaker 1: tight end position. John new Smith solid A grade in
Speaker 1: this game. I don't like any of the wider eivers.
Speaker 1: Though A. J. Brown is still on the bench. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you could start him still with the
Speaker 1: he has a couple of days and White in all
Speaker 1: probabilitious probability hit that. I get that. But if he's
Speaker 1: on the field, I think I'm playing him in that match.
Speaker 1: If you have that luxury, have having this game on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and possibly get by the way, go see if
Speaker 1: you can trade for Derrick Henry or A J. Brown
Speaker 1: right now, Yeah, you should your chance. I will mention
Speaker 1: that outside of A J. Brown and Corey Davis, who's
Speaker 1: not playing, Calif Raymond has the most targets of any
Speaker 1: of the remaining Titans receivers. He did have three catches
Speaker 1: for a hundred and eighteen yards against the Vikings in
Speaker 1: the last game they played. And if you're winning one
Speaker 1: of those weird leagues that mandates that you start a
Speaker 1: Titans wide receiver, I think Calif Raymond is the safest
Speaker 1: play Derrick Henry. He gets an A grade out Outside
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in the NFL, no one touches the ball
Speaker 1: per game more than Derrick Henry, who's combining for thirty
Speaker 1: rushing attempts plus targets per game. So he's in A grade.
Speaker 1: And I missed Ryan Tannehill. So let's get to him,
Speaker 1: only giving him a CE. I was going to give
Speaker 1: him a B, but as receivers are just not there,
Speaker 1: and so this is this is like less than a B,
Speaker 1: but more than a C. I would call it C prime.
Speaker 1: How about C prime. We're gonna call it. We'll call
Speaker 1: a C. That's a straight CE. Tannehill's averaging two and
Speaker 1: two the Bills are allowing to nine four and two.
Speaker 1: It should be high scoring if this goes off with
Speaker 1: an over under a forty nine, So Tannehill is startable.
Speaker 1: Miami takes on San Francisco. I thought we'd get more
Speaker 1: production out of the Miami offense last week, Scott, but
Speaker 1: as it turns out, no, uh, you know, we and
Speaker 1: Bryan Tannell only got that rushing touchdown. I was nervous
Speaker 1: about that. Instead he gets to It's a what seems
Speaker 1: like could be a tougher matchup, but still with all
Speaker 1: the defensive injuries for San Francisco, maybe there's a little
Speaker 1: something to be done here for Miami. Yeah, you might
Speaker 1: think they're San Francisco is really really banged up. It
Speaker 1: does concern me that Flora's waited until Tuesday to and
Speaker 1: now that uh Fitzpatrick was going to be the starter
Speaker 1: once just the fact that he has to make the announcement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick is going to be the starter. I think two
Speaker 1: a time is coming. San Francisco has held all four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks they faced. Is it almost two o'clock? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did high to myself. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: give credit for that. We're not gonna We're not gonna
Speaker 1: reinforce that kind of behavior on this show. San Fran
Speaker 1: good defense against the past. They've against everything. Really, They've
Speaker 1: held the two key the four qbs they faced under
Speaker 1: two or thirty yards and have only allowed three passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in those four games. They're allowing under six yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, which is which is really darn good. That fits. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I have fits on the bench. I have almost the
Speaker 1: entire Dolphins team on the bench. Honestly, I have Parker
Speaker 1: as a c star because he just gets the volume
Speaker 1: and he's he's he's uh, he's just a Study's clearly
Speaker 1: established himself as the top dog in that offense with
Speaker 1: team catches in the last two weeks. Um, it does
Speaker 1: sound like Richard Sherman. He hasn't practiced all week. He's
Speaker 1: going to be a game time decision. They said he
Speaker 1: could go even without practicing. But I'm a little worried there.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't either be hobbled against Parker or he
Speaker 1: Parker won't have to face him. Preston and Ford are
Speaker 1: on the bench for me. The Preston Preston Williams Man.
Speaker 1: I love him, but he's his snaps went from down
Speaker 1: to six. He's just drop here and I think I
Speaker 1: think he's still recovering or something from the a c
Speaker 1: L last year. Uh Ford Ford had nine targets twice
Speaker 1: in his last three games. It's no okay matchup against
Speaker 1: mar Taylor, but he's a little tough to trust, especially
Speaker 1: against his secondary, even even though it's banged up. Gasicky
Speaker 1: no thanks, I mean one catch each the last two
Speaker 1: weeks is shockingly inactive the last two weeks. One catch games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did grab a touch on one of them, I think,
Speaker 1: But the four in areas allowing just twenty six yards
Speaker 1: per game to the tight end, that's it's not a
Speaker 1: good spot for him. And and the San Francisco Runday
Speaker 1: Rundy only one runner over sixty yards and that took
Speaker 1: twenty one carries. That Gascon no out. That's a long
Speaker 1: way to say bench everyone, except for partly, sorry for
Speaker 1: wasting your time there. Garoppolo named the starter, given him
Speaker 1: a B grade because Dolphins are bottom ten against fantasy quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones should return this week. He's been practicing in fall,
Speaker 1: so he should return. But it's still been bad even
Speaker 1: with him, so so the last three quarterbacks they faced
Speaker 1: averaged three d fifty yards and two touchdowns. So it's
Speaker 1: a good spot for Jimmy Garoppolo, even though he hands
Speaker 1: them off a ton. I'll mention we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Garoppolo in more detail later in the show. Alright, A
Speaker 1: grade for Kittle because he's George freaking Kittle. I do
Speaker 1: have I do have Samuel on the bench. He's been
Speaker 1: dealing with an illness. Uh that he's questionable for this game.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are allowing over ten yards per target to
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I think he's just a little more risky
Speaker 1: with his first game back. I trust you just a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I can see. I can see having
Speaker 1: the preference either way, but I gave you a C grade.
Speaker 1: He he plays mostly on the left, which means he
Speaker 1: could face up against Xavian Howard, but they both move
Speaker 1: around a lot, so maybe they'll try to move aok
Speaker 1: away from Howard. Maybe Howard will shot who knows uh
Speaker 1: most and Jet most that is questionable. Uh, if he
Speaker 1: does go, I have a B grade on Mostart he's
Speaker 1: going to take most of the work. If he doesn't go,
Speaker 1: I have a B grade on Jet. I have Jet
Speaker 1: on the bench. If Moster goes basically how it goes,
Speaker 1: you want you want the starter in that in that offense.
Speaker 1: Although oftentimes this run offense has been able to support
Speaker 1: two fantasy backs, it has, it has, I just don't
Speaker 1: know what the share is gonna be. Uh, the way
Speaker 1: they were using Mostart early in the year lends me
Speaker 1: to believe that if most Are can go, he's going
Speaker 1: to be the man. And uh, Miami gave up huge
Speaker 1: days to James Robinson and Chris Carson. If most of
Speaker 1: it is out, I mean, if most Are plays the
Speaker 1: RBS with thirteen plus touches against Miami, both top two
Speaker 1: hundred yards and both scored two touchdowns. So there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of of Raheemostard owners who are gonna
Speaker 1: be skittish about putting him back in the lineup. And
Speaker 1: that's a mistake. Yeah, I'm not. Whichever one starts, get
Speaker 1: them in your lineup. Agreed. Las Vegas takes on Kansas City.
Speaker 1: We've got a I've been between an A and a
Speaker 1: B grade on Josh Jacobs for a while. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go be grade because there you have to
Speaker 1: be madly enough to pick one or the other that
Speaker 1: happened to know that there's something between an A and
Speaker 1: a B grade when trading scales. When when you do
Speaker 1: the A, B, C, D E F G. You ever
Speaker 1: hear anybody go and and half be and half A
Speaker 1: and half B B and a half see no, your
Speaker 1: kids not go to school. Josh Jacobs has struggled since
Speaker 1: his Week one domination over Carolina, since then, averaging just
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards per game total. He has His last
Speaker 1: three matchups have been against very tough defenses, though, and
Speaker 1: there is hope for him against the Chiefs, ranked thirty
Speaker 1: against the run by Football Outsiders, giving a five yards
Speaker 1: per carry. I think the biggest question and the reason
Speaker 1: I am giving Josh Jacobs a B grade is the
Speaker 1: game script is going to turn against him sooner or later.
Speaker 1: And while he's still a bigger factor in the receiving game,
Speaker 1: I think at some point the rushes are going to
Speaker 1: dry up. Are you saying you would never give anybody
Speaker 1: a B plus grade? Church? Not on this show? If I,
Speaker 1: if I, if I were the six options this week,
Speaker 1: we're going with B plus graded wide receivers today. What
Speaker 1: this show just Jefferson, was that this show. No, that
Speaker 1: was not this show. That was an entirely different show
Speaker 1: in which one can give pluses and minuses. Were I
Speaker 1: a school teacher, I would give pluses and minuses. Continuing,
Speaker 1: thank you, Brian. Darren Waller average seven catches and eighty
Speaker 1: three yards in the two blowout losses against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: last season, so maybe he's gonna get some mop up
Speaker 1: duty here as well. Kansas City prob bably deploys Tyrone
Speaker 1: Matthew on Waller, who is always a tough matchup. But
Speaker 1: while he's got nine inches on Honey Badger, So if
Speaker 1: the Raiders are playing from behind, is expected if figure
Speaker 1: Waller is gonna get a bunch of dumpops and that
Speaker 1: makes him valuable for a B grade Hunter Renfrow comes
Speaker 1: into a C grade. Normally, I don't like slot receivers
Speaker 1: against Kansas City because they get Tyron Matthew. But as
Speaker 1: I just said, Tyron Matthew's gonna be on Waller, so
Speaker 1: I think Renfro is going to have lesser coverage, and
Speaker 1: I think he's a plausible spot start here. Uh, Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs expected back Bryan Edwards not clear about that yet,
Speaker 1: and but either way, these rookies have been deprived of
Speaker 1: so much playing time due to injuries. I don't think
Speaker 1: you want to start them, nor Derek Carr against a
Speaker 1: very good past defense. Let's go to the Kansas City side.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey, the radar all a
Speaker 1: grades obviously, and I'll just touch on a couple of
Speaker 1: items for these guys. The Raiders rank twenty seven in
Speaker 1: coverage and pass rush by Pro Football Focus. It's a
Speaker 1: shame this game isn't played in Las Vegas because with
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is going to do it as a hapless
Speaker 1: slat cornerback. The LaMarcus Joiner is a felony in every
Speaker 1: state except Nevada. The iron footed Joiner has allowed seventy
Speaker 1: percent of his passes in coverage to be completed. With
Speaker 1: Joiner busy on Hill, Travis Kelsey is gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of coverage from linebacker. I think it's Kyle Littleton
Speaker 1: in his first and he's the worst tight end defender
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus. Would an iron footed player
Speaker 1: be a good kicker? Yeah, you know, I think that
Speaker 1: would help. Maybe iron considerate, Maybe he should nick that's
Speaker 1: his fruit? Still, uh, Kelsey put up seven catches for
Speaker 1: hundred seven yards on average at his last four against
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and those are great numbers. Let's talk Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire. After a Night's first week on the ground,
Speaker 1: the rushing has tapered off a bit, just thirty eight,
Speaker 1: sixty four and sixty four scoreless rushing yards, but after
Speaker 1: being held catch less since in week one, he has
Speaker 1: put up some solid receiving numbers. And Las Vegas ranks
Speaker 1: dead last against the run by football outsiders, and they've
Speaker 1: yielded the fourth most targets and fourth most receptions to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs. So I figured the Chiefs get ahead early,
Speaker 1: they're gonna run plenty. There'll still be some dump off
Speaker 1: stuff to Clyde Edwards a layer and he gets an
Speaker 1: A grade. Sammy Watkins is the only other guy worth
Speaker 1: note he is a C grade. He's tied in receptions
Speaker 1: with Tyreek Hill, so he's getting plenty of use, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't turn it into much and he does nothing
Speaker 1: after the catch. If you're looking for five, five catches,
Speaker 1: fifty yards, no touchdowns, Sammy Watkins is your guy. He's
Speaker 1: gonna see Trayvon Mullins and Nevin Lawson on the outside.
Speaker 1: They've given up one touchdown so far. All right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players
Speaker 1: not normally in your starting lineup. We will tell you
Speaker 1: who they are that you can pick up. And you know,
Speaker 1: may need to make a lot of pivots, last minute
Speaker 1: pivots to make up for those Bills and Titans. These
Speaker 1: guys will be valuable this week, very very valuable. Take
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Speaker 1: welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A segment week call, Take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your
Speaker 1: starting line at Many of these guys available on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. They've got great matchups. Will tell you who
Speaker 1: they are, beginning at the quarterback position and Scott Fish right,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm starting with Teddy Bridgewater. You may remember,
Speaker 1: right before the season started, I said, maybe we got
Speaker 1: this guy ranked too low because everything's shaping up for
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater to throw it underneath all these weapons. And
Speaker 1: we had him twenty nine, maybe he'd be in the
Speaker 1: mid teens. Here we are. She's QB eighteen right now.
Speaker 1: He's throwing a ton of game two D three hundred
Speaker 1: yards passing in most games. Now he gets the Falcons
Speaker 1: with five defensive backs out of the game. Unbelievable. Also,
Speaker 1: Falcons team that already the worst past defense in the
Speaker 1: league with five defensive backs at one point they were
Speaker 1: playing linebackers as safeties last week. That's unreal. And they've
Speaker 1: allowed four touchdowns to every quarterback they fit well technically,
Speaker 1: full Sterbisky combined for four but four touchdowns each week
Speaker 1: to the quarterback position. Yeah. So that defense allowing three
Speaker 1: three passing yards per game as well, it's it's just terrible.
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. Get him in Teddy bridge Water. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: you take a chance and the quarterback is I don't
Speaker 1: feel nearly as positive as Scott Fish does about his guy,
Speaker 1: but I got Daniel Jones, and let's be honest, This
Speaker 1: has been a disaster for Jones so far this year,
Speaker 1: He's twenty second and passing yards per game. He's only
Speaker 1: thrown two passing touchdowns on the season. If his offensive
Speaker 1: line has been brutals, top running back out Sterling Shepherd out,
Speaker 1: but then walk the Cowboys, whose secondary might as well
Speaker 1: be wearing boots and spurs. The Cowboys have allowed eleven
Speaker 1: touchdown passes in the last three weeks. They've allowed three
Speaker 1: of the four quarterbacks they faced to top two seventy yards. Now,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are probably looking at Danny Dimes as the
Speaker 1: get right game, but you know Danny Dimes is looking
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys the same way. For Kirk Cousins, the
Speaker 1: problem for him from a fantasy standpoint is less about
Speaker 1: ability and more that he just doesn't pass enough. Like
Speaker 1: He's are dead last and pass attempts averaging per game.
Speaker 1: But here comes the Seahawks averaging double that number, literally
Speaker 1: fifty passes per game. They're seeing fifty. That's virtually unheard up.
Speaker 1: So this could game could be the rare exception for
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins where he throws often enough to produce a
Speaker 1: very good statistical game. Every quarterback to face Seattle has
Speaker 1: top three fifteen yards and all of them have scored.
Speaker 1: Seattle has allowed nine touchdowns to quarterbacks. The emergence of
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson gives Cousins a critical second threat beyond Adam
Speaker 1: Feeling and Seattle be without elite safety Jamal Adams in
Speaker 1: this game. Take a chance and me continues with the
Speaker 1: running back position. Scott, you know, I'm going I didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of good options in my matchups this week,
Speaker 1: but I'm going with it doesn't have to be your matchups. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you took a guy from my matchup, but that is true.
Speaker 1: That is true. But I'm going to Damian Harris, who
Speaker 1: I'm shocked to find out is still just thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent rostered. I don't know. My theory behind it is
Speaker 1: people hate New England backs because it's a good theory.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I can think of. Hypothesis proven.
Speaker 1: He only played twenty three snaps last week. However, he
Speaker 1: carried the rock on seventeen of those twenty three snaps.
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle is still out. He's the guy to own there.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have given up a hundred and twenty plus
Speaker 1: yard days to Derrick Henry and James Conner before holding
Speaker 1: down Ronald Jones to seventy three and Frank Gore to
Speaker 1: thirty six. I guess, but Harry has probably lands between
Speaker 1: those two pairings. Um so I got him in my
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. By the way, Damien Harris
Speaker 1: has never not had a hundred yards in a Monday
Speaker 1: night football game that he's played in. That's a great point.
Speaker 1: That's a great one. That's that streak will may very
Speaker 1: well continue. It might. I need the research of this.
Speaker 1: Let's continue. Take a chance on the segment or running
Speaker 1: back Matt I got Chase Edmunds of the Cardinals last week.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake got a little dinged up towards the end
Speaker 1: of the game. Edmunds came in on the final drive
Speaker 1: of the game. Of the final eight plays where the
Speaker 1: Cards needed to score quickly, four of them ended with
Speaker 1: the ball and chase Edmunds hands. That includes a nine
Speaker 1: yard run, a twelve yard pass, a goal line carry
Speaker 1: that was stuffed, and then a second and goal line
Speaker 1: carry that resulted in a touchdown. And I've been saying
Speaker 1: it for a long time. Are we sure Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: is good? Almost all of his fantasy points came in
Speaker 1: two games last year. This week he gets to go
Speaker 1: visit the Jets. And the last time Chase Edmunds played
Speaker 1: a game at MetLife Stadium six yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's not bad. It was against the Giants, but you
Speaker 1: know he really likes that stadium. Uh. This Jets team
Speaker 1: has allowed a hundred and fifty two total yards per
Speaker 1: game to the running back position. And if the splits
Speaker 1: or anything like last week where Drake had thirteen touches
Speaker 1: and Edmunds have nine, or if it starts skewing towards
Speaker 1: Edmunds a little bit more at seventy eight yards for
Speaker 1: Edmonds in this game and he catches more passes than Drake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm hearing. I'm hearing from a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are trying to trade four Chase Edmonds right now
Speaker 1: in advance of what a possible perceived change to the
Speaker 1: starter status Kenyan Drake. In my mind, you know he
Speaker 1: failed in last week's juicy matchup, here comes another one.
Speaker 1: If he fails in this one, time to make the change.
Speaker 1: By the way, remember in the preseason Cliff Kingsbury said
Speaker 1: we have two start starter worthy running backs on our
Speaker 1: roster Chase Edmonds and Eno Benjamin. It might be the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I've got Brian Hill, by the way, going up against
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, who are allowing one hundred sixty total yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns per game to running backs. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley seeing over half the snaps, but Brian Hill
Speaker 1: has a better yards per carry by two yards and
Speaker 1: has twice as many receptions. Two of Brian Hill's best
Speaker 1: career games have come against Carolina, as he has posted
Speaker 1: a line of sixty two yards and a touchdown and
Speaker 1: another one of eight carries a hundred fifteen yards against
Speaker 1: his division rival. I like Brian Hill as a depth
Speaker 1: play this week against the Panthers. Take a chance on
Speaker 1: me now moves to the wide receiver position, Scott, So
Speaker 1: I have Tim Patrick. He had a huge day last week,
Speaker 1: which makes me regret him dropping him before the season
Speaker 1: in every dynasty league, and I'm pretty sure that's why
Speaker 1: he did it, and that's to get you back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the number one stat here is that I dropped him.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna go off this week again. Tim Patrick
Speaker 1: is very revenge minded that way, just to spur me.
Speaker 1: Spurned me the Paths have allowed the third most touchdowns
Speaker 1: to wide receivers and they're going to be without stuff
Speaker 1: on Gilmore this week. Uh, he had quite a connection
Speaker 1: with Rippion. Even if it does end up being Drew Lock.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that kJ Hamdler is out and
Speaker 1: no Fantas trending towards out as well bodes well for
Speaker 1: him to see a decent amount of volume. Agreed, Okay,
Speaker 1: this one's a little deeper. I got Curtis Samuel of
Speaker 1: the Panthers as a wide receiver. It's hard to trust
Speaker 1: the guy who's averaging only four and a half targets
Speaker 1: per game. When you add in that he's getting three
Speaker 1: rushing attempts per game, he's suddenly quite interesting. That's seven
Speaker 1: and a half touches per game. That's on par with
Speaker 1: what Robby Anderson and d J. Moore are doing. Plus
Speaker 1: last year, and we talked about this a lot in
Speaker 1: the preseason, Curtis Samuel had an average depth of target
Speaker 1: of fifteen point one. Now that's significantly shrunk this season
Speaker 1: under Teddy Bridgewater. But of Falcons are the worst team
Speaker 1: in the league against deep balls. They lead the league
Speaker 1: and allowance of catches over twenty plus yards with twenty
Speaker 1: one already this year. So Curtis Samuel going down the seam,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get some long passes in this game. Um,
Speaker 1: we're doing some quarterback wide receiver hookups, right. You had
Speaker 1: Bridgewater Scott at Bridgewater, Yeah a Samuel, you had Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: I'll take Golden Tate going up against Dallas and another
Speaker 1: languishing receiver who we think could have a breakout game.
Speaker 1: Just thirty four yards per game for Golden Tates so far.
Speaker 1: The entire Giants offense has just three touchdowns so far.
Speaker 1: That's awful. This is really just about this matchup. Dallas
Speaker 1: is allowing one four yards per game to receivers, that's
Speaker 1: seventh most. They've allowed the most wide receiver scores with nine,
Speaker 1: including multiple wide receiver scores in three straight games. And
Speaker 1: Tate has an extremely favorable one on one matchup in
Speaker 1: the slot against Jordan Lewis, who has already given up
Speaker 1: four scores from the slot this year. That's terrible. It's
Speaker 1: Golden Tate might take a chance of the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: By the way, the slot wide receiver who win against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last week. He threw a touchdown pass, so
Speaker 1: play right there. That should count right there. I I
Speaker 1: totally agree that was a hell of a pass by
Speaker 1: the lady. By the way, Yeah who knew? Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 1: Did you see his quote after the game on that
Speaker 1: He said he felt like he pitched, but it was
Speaker 1: a laser. I'll give him that. Uh, Matt. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Arizona taking on the New York Jets. You've already
Speaker 1: touched on and we have already touched on some of
Speaker 1: these players. But for Arizona, this offense really starts and
Speaker 1: stops at the quarterback position. Kyler Murray having a fantastic
Speaker 1: fantasy season, and we should mention that there was a
Speaker 1: presumed positive test on the Jets today. They haven't said
Speaker 1: that they're going to postpone this, but it's possible that
Speaker 1: this one could get moved to Monday, but you know,
Speaker 1: you never know. Let's start with Kyler Murray. He's an
Speaker 1: A grade. If you took away all of the passing stats,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is the thirteenth best running back in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: He has more rushing yards and the same amount of
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns as Alvin Kamara. How about that azing DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins he gets an A grade. Eleven and a half
Speaker 1: targets per game is third in the league, nine point
Speaker 1: eight receptions, his first yards per game is sixth. He's easy.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, I'm giving him a C grade. I'm putting
Speaker 1: Andy Isabella on the bench though only five targets last
Speaker 1: week for Kirk as he's been hobbled by an injury,
Speaker 1: but he's not on the injury report this week, and
Speaker 1: he did catch a touchdown last week when Kirk is
Speaker 1: in play. Isabella just doesn't get enough playing time here.
Speaker 1: And they're in eighteen routes last week. And the Jets
Speaker 1: defense has been better against the past simply because it's
Speaker 1: been so much easier to run on them this year.
Speaker 1: So they haven't seen a ton through the air yet
Speaker 1: this year. Um, we can talk about Chase Edmonds, who
Speaker 1: is might take a chance on me, but let's talk
Speaker 1: about Kenyan Drake. The Jets have allowed the seventh most
Speaker 1: yards and the fourth most touchdowns to running backs this year.
Speaker 1: The matchup for Drake was better last week and he
Speaker 1: let us all down. And if you want to talk
Speaker 1: about boom games for Rake, and if you describe a
Speaker 1: boom game as either a hundred yards and a score
Speaker 1: or two scores in a game. He's had five booms
Speaker 1: in his last thirty four games. That means he's making
Speaker 1: a lot more boom booms on the floor than scoring
Speaker 1: points and Cliff Kingsbury starting to figure that out. I'll
Speaker 1: give Drake a B, but it's he's getting closer to
Speaker 1: the bench. Joe Flacco, he's on the bench on the
Speaker 1: jet side. He's starting at quarterback this week. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to mention that. But and first round tackle McKay
Speaker 1: Beckton looks like he's gonna miss this week too. With
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones rushing at Flacco's blindside, Cardinals defense is like
Speaker 1: my favorite defense this week. I do want to mention
Speaker 1: that Joe Flacco does like to target the tight end.
Speaker 1: We've known that about him his entire career. So is
Speaker 1: Chris Herndon in't play. No, He's averaging three catches for
Speaker 1: nineteen yards per game. But this is the Cardinals, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: They've been a lot better this year, only allowing forty
Speaker 1: seven yards to the position per game. Jamison crowd about
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder, who seems matchup proof he is. I'm only
Speaker 1: giving him a C grade. Today um ten targets in
Speaker 1: his return last week. Yeah, the Cards have been great
Speaker 1: against wide receivers this year. Uh, They've only allowed two
Speaker 1: wider sivers to top sixty yards and only two wide
Speaker 1: receiver scores in four games. And then finally, the running
Speaker 1: back position just got messier with Levy on Bell looking
Speaker 1: like he's coming back from i R this week. You know,
Speaker 1: Frank Gore and Michael Perrin have carved out such an
Speaker 1: awesome role in that backfield, They've earned extra time. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the truth is Gaye hates Bell. He's gonna give him
Speaker 1: the start. He's gonna give him ten carries, which is
Speaker 1: not enough to start Bell and not enough to start
Speaker 1: anybody else on this offense. So until Adam Gaze has fired,
Speaker 1: which should probably be soon, Levy on Bell in the
Speaker 1: Jets running game is out of your lineup. All right?
Speaker 1: I think I agree. I think I agree with all
Speaker 1: of that. It's uh, we won't we won't. Bank I
Speaker 1: have an update on Golden Taide passing for you one
Speaker 1: for one with a twenty three yard touchdown. All right,
Speaker 1: maybe that's how Golden Tate's gonna work out my for
Speaker 1: my ticket, and I probably should have used Tate as
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me quarterback. I'm doing it
Speaker 1: all wrong, that's right. When we come back, we will
Speaker 1: continue working through matchups, including Cincinnati taking on Baltimore. Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon uber hot last week? What are we expect in
Speaker 1: a much tougher matchup with Baltimore. If you want to
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Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and
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Speaker 1: and Matt Harrison is at Explosive Output. Cincinnati takes on Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon enters this game red hot after his breakout
Speaker 1: performance last week, but a much much tougher assignment this
Speaker 1: time around, and he's just a B grade here. Baltimore
Speaker 1: is ranked second against the run by Football Outsiders they're
Speaker 1: giving up just three point nine yards per carry. That said,
Speaker 1: opposing backs have had nice receiving days against the Ravens
Speaker 1: in recent weeks. Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, Antonio Gibson, j D.
Speaker 1: Mcsuckett all posted meaningful fantasy games just through the air alone.
Speaker 1: Mixing is not the second coming of Larry centers. But
Speaker 1: he is a capable receiver who could come down with
Speaker 1: four or five passes to augment his day, and that's
Speaker 1: how he gets to a B grade. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow with in with three straight three yard games,
Speaker 1: He's completing sixty six percent of his passes, which is
Speaker 1: great for a rookie. But Scott Fish on passes over
Speaker 1: twenty yards, he's one for two, one for twenty two.
Speaker 1: To be at sixty six percent, knowing that he's missed
Speaker 1: on twenty one of twenty two deep balls, the rest
Speaker 1: of him must be like all completed everything under that
Speaker 1: on the But Baltimore is a brutally tough past defense
Speaker 1: unless they're facing Patrick Mahomes. You already know this, so
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting a lot here from Burrow. Burrow's best
Speaker 1: and favorite target is Tyler Boyd and slow receivers have
Speaker 1: had some success against the Ravens, So a C grade
Speaker 1: for Joe Burrow and let's go to Tyler Boyd. He
Speaker 1: was held to just thirty six scoreless yards in the
Speaker 1: two meetings against Baltimore last year. That is it. They'll
Speaker 1: face one of the league's better slock corners, Marlon Humphrey,
Speaker 1: who has yielded just two scores in his last fourteen games.
Speaker 1: But slow receivers as a unit have done okay. Jarvis Landry,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Randall Cobb All averaged five catches for sixty
Speaker 1: five yards. So a C grade on Tyler Boyd. If
Speaker 1: you're if you're cold, five catches for sixty five scoreless yards,
Speaker 1: that's how you get a C grade. That's Tyler Boyd.
Speaker 1: Tee Higgins is also a C grade who he's as
Speaker 1: sending for sure, And to me it looks like Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow's number two target. I think a j Green's out
Speaker 1: at this point, running primarily from the outside. He's gonna
Speaker 1: see Anthony Everett and Marcus Peters at cornerback. Those two
Speaker 1: are better than Higgins, but because he's got such a
Speaker 1: big size advantage, I could see it possible like box
Speaker 1: out touchdown for Tee Higgins in this game, so maybe
Speaker 1: as a as a touchdown dependent dart throw a C
Speaker 1: grade for te Higgins And as I mentioned, A J.
Speaker 1: Green's is on the bench because the lack of production,
Speaker 1: the difficult matchup, and he just doesn't pass the eye test.
Speaker 1: He looks unengaged, slow and ineffective. A J. Green dead
Speaker 1: to us until further notice. Let's go to the other
Speaker 1: side for Baltimore Lamar Jackson, and obviously against the Bengals
Speaker 1: and last year's two meetings he ran for two hundred yards,
Speaker 1: so obviously we're gonna keep starting him. Now. Hed Come
Speaker 1: does come into this game questionable with a knee, but
Speaker 1: everybody expects him to play and if even if the
Speaker 1: knee holds back the rushing. He threw the ball really
Speaker 1: well last week and has for most of the season,
Speaker 1: so we're going to continue to do. Given a grade
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson, his favorite target, of course is Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: who clocks in with a B grade. The Bengals have
Speaker 1: allowed at least five catches and seventy yards to comparable
Speaker 1: tight ends Hunter Henry and zach Ertz in recent weeks,
Speaker 1: and the game script could be a concern for Andrews
Speaker 1: if Baltimore takes an early lead, but by then Andrews
Speaker 1: probably has his numbers. Andrews averages only four targets per
Speaker 1: game when the Ravens lead at halftime, but hardy eight
Speaker 1: targets when they trail or tied at a half, so
Speaker 1: game script could work against him here. Still, Andrews looked
Speaker 1: really good in his his couple of big plays last week.
Speaker 1: Marcus Brown came about one inch away from scoring a
Speaker 1: touchdown last week after connecting anent of his targets from
Speaker 1: to Brown in the first two games. Lamar Jackson's completed
Speaker 1: just forty of his argets to Brown the last two weeks. Still, Brown,
Speaker 1: you know what you're getting here. You're asking for a
Speaker 1: home run. He runs most often from the right side
Speaker 1: of the field, where he will face Darius Phillips, who
Speaker 1: has not yielded a score yet. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that's gonna be an easy matchup, and I've got just
Speaker 1: a C grade on him. The Cincinnati secondary pretty near good.
Speaker 1: McKenzie Alexander's played well. William Jackson is very good. It's
Speaker 1: a tricky matchup for Marcus Brown. It's kind of the
Speaker 1: running backs. Man, what a freaking mess this has turned
Speaker 1: out to me. Mark Ingram has become a touchdown dependent runner,
Speaker 1: offering very little else. He's become Jordan Howard. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good way to put it. He's become Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: Touchdowns in two of his three games, which is great,
Speaker 1: but that's all he's giving you. He did score in
Speaker 1: both games against Cincinnati last season. He's handled six of
Speaker 1: the last seven carries in the red zone, but he
Speaker 1: has failed to reach double digit carries in three straight games.
Speaker 1: And it's just you know, a double digit if you're
Speaker 1: not if you're getting eight carries, if you don't get
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Mark Ingram's kell has better stats than him
Speaker 1: on the season, No, for sure. Um so just to
Speaker 1: see great on mark Ingram. I do think a touchdown
Speaker 1: is possible here, but he needs more usage and it's
Speaker 1: all worse for j K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards will
Speaker 1: get less usage and don't get goal line carries there
Speaker 1: on the bench. We've said it now for three straight shows.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards looks like the best runner on eye test
Speaker 1: of the three of them, but really they're not getting
Speaker 1: enough work. Let's go to our next matchup, which is
Speaker 1: Carolina taking on Atlanta. Matt He told us she liked
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. Uh, we already talked about Uh, Curtis Sammy Samuel,
Speaker 1: So that leaves uh, that leaves a couple of key players.
Speaker 1: Let's stay with the passing game. Tell me what you
Speaker 1: think about d J. Moore, who is underperformed to this point. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm giving d J. Moore and Robby Anderson a grades
Speaker 1: in this one. The Falcons will be missing five of
Speaker 1: their top six defensive backs and almost six with A. J.
Speaker 1: Terrell just coming back. In this game, starters Darky's Denard
Speaker 1: Deamonte Kazi, Keian O'Neil, Jalen Hawkins, and Ricardo Allen all
Speaker 1: look like they're going to be out, which leads the
Speaker 1: Falcons with devastated Kendall Sheffield, Isaiah Oliver, and Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly favorite Bleedy Ray Wilson rays backs Uh the game
Speaker 1: on baby. His defense was already allowing three three passing
Speaker 1: yards and three point three touchdowns per game, including two
Speaker 1: hundred five yards per game to opposing wide receivers, and
Speaker 1: both More and Anderson rep rank in the top twenty
Speaker 1: in targets and yards per game among wide receivers in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They're both easy as by the way, is
Speaker 1: a quick while We're not just on Robbie Anderson. Were
Speaker 1: we We were all so wrong on Robby Anderson. And
Speaker 1: it seems so obvious now that Adam Gaze had painfully
Speaker 1: diminished his value. I think it's where else everybody who
Speaker 1: leaves Adam Gaze becomes significantly. But weird thing about Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: As you watch in for the Jets crossing routes, you
Speaker 1: can do more that he can do, way more than
Speaker 1: the Jets. Let us know. But I guess Sam Donald
Speaker 1: All Pro quarterback in three Just watch whoever the new
Speaker 1: head coaches. You can't which to watch the Trevor versus
Speaker 1: Donald et al Right, Ian Thomas Um Normally I wouldn't
Speaker 1: mention him. He's only averaging two catches in seven yards
Speaker 1: per game, but I'm gonna give him a desperation See
Speaker 1: this week, the Falcons have allowed a touchdown to every
Speaker 1: top tight end they faced this year. Greg Olsen had one,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham had to, Dalton Schultz, and Bob Tanyan and
Speaker 1: An Tania And by the way, I had three, so
Speaker 1: with injuries to the safety's Ian Thomas is going to
Speaker 1: be open and Mike Davis giving him a B grade
Speaker 1: as well. Davis is averaging just under eight targets per
Speaker 1: games since starting over taking over the starting role, and
Speaker 1: the Falcons are allowing eight and a half receptions and
Speaker 1: sixty three yards and just under a touchdown per game
Speaker 1: through the air alone. Tomposing backs and we can call
Speaker 1: Atlanta good against the run, but that's just because it's
Speaker 1: so easy to pass on them. On the other Brian
Speaker 1: Hill was charches, take a chance on me runner, and
Speaker 1: I'm giving Todd Gurley in a grade in this game.
Speaker 1: Gurley snap snap right, was limited to only thirty eight
Speaker 1: offensive snaps, but he still saw seventeen touches last week
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, which means he's getting the ball handed
Speaker 1: to him on nearly half of the plays where he's
Speaker 1: on the field. That's a good rate. So give me
Speaker 1: a guy who's got that, especially against the Panthers run
Speaker 1: defense who's given up two touchdowns per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. Calvin Ridley, he's he disappeared from the statuet
Speaker 1: last week in a very good matchup. Disappeared from the injury.
Speaker 1: I was about to say his ankle injury is not
Speaker 1: on the injury report anymore. He might not be a
Speaker 1: D percent, but he's good enough to go. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a B in this one. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be easy for them to run, and I'm just a
Speaker 1: little nervous that he could reaggravate that ankle. But Julio
Speaker 1: Jones is going to miss this game with that lingering
Speaker 1: hamstring injury, and Ridley's target total of thirteen in Week
Speaker 1: three when Julio was out is probably very safe on
Speaker 1: the even on that bum ankle. I'm gonna give Russell
Speaker 1: Gauge a see as well. Gauge is actually averaging almost
Speaker 1: the same amount of receptions as Ridley and Jones on
Speaker 1: a per game basis five point three for Ridley, five
Speaker 1: for Jones, four point eight for Gauge. He's right in there.
Speaker 1: The Panthers are allowing seventy the passes thrown to the
Speaker 1: slot to be caught this year, and Oh Lama day, Zakias,
Speaker 1: you're gonna sing it, Scott, Oh Lama day. There you go. Uh.
Speaker 1: He could get a desperation start to He's logged sevent
Speaker 1: of the snaps and situations where Julio is not on
Speaker 1: the field, Hayden Hurst gets to see if Jones is out.
Speaker 1: If he does happen to play, I'd probably leave him
Speaker 1: on the bench. Though the Panthers have done a great
Speaker 1: job against the tight end this year. They held Waller
Speaker 1: to forty five yards, Hunter Henry only managed five for
Speaker 1: fifty and the Tampa tight ends combined for one catch
Speaker 1: and eleven yards. Finally, Matt Ryan is a B. He's
Speaker 1: fourth in the league and passing yards in fourteenth and
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. The matchup does favor the run here to
Speaker 1: the panther Is are way weaker against the run, but
Speaker 1: dinged up weapons That downgrades Maddie Ice from an A
Speaker 1: to a B. And if if he and Thomas scores
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph week six marked down the touchdown maybe. So
Speaker 1: final matchup of this segment is Denver taking on New England.
Speaker 1: We've got about three minutes. You'll need to be fairly
Speaker 1: tidy with this one. Let's try it. Uh Rippion is
Speaker 1: or Lock is probably on the bench. I can't do
Speaker 1: it even without Gilmore. It's just too tough of matched up.
Speaker 1: They're gonna clamb down on him. Patrick was my take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Fant is really really doubtful, likely out.
Speaker 1: Lindsay I can't start in his game back, So now
Speaker 1: we're left with Jerry Judy and Melvin Gordon. Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade to Judy is now top
Speaker 1: fifty yards and all four games Hamdler is gonna be out,
Speaker 1: Fans gonna be out. No Gilmore, Uh, Tyreek Kill, Tyler, Lockett, Hunter,
Speaker 1: Renfrell all top sixty yards and scored from the slot
Speaker 1: against the Paths. I'm giving a Judy a C grade,
Speaker 1: but it's a plus matchup for him and an uber
Speaker 1: confidence at C grade plus. I think sixty yards is
Speaker 1: probably his floor, so I would guess sixty plus yards,
Speaker 1: Like I said, a C grade, definitely a plus getting
Speaker 1: him into your flexes. Melvin Gordon, I'm giving a B
Speaker 1: grade if it's a little risky with Lindsay coming back,
Speaker 1: but Denver leaned on the running game with ripping in.
Speaker 1: Gordon has eighteen plus touches in three games this year,
Speaker 1: all three running backs to top fourteen touches. Also topped
Speaker 1: eighty yards against New England Runde, which is allowing four
Speaker 1: point three six yards per carry. They're not as good
Speaker 1: as they were last year against the run. So I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Gordon. On the other side, Stidham.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the game last week? Start him or Stidham?
Speaker 1: I got stid him on the bench. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the running game here and just say I had
Speaker 1: Harris for my take. Com Uh, take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back from my take a chance on me
Speaker 1: running back White. I am giving the C grade to
Speaker 1: He caught seven passes last week. I'm we're that all
Speaker 1: three were with Hoyer, all seven were with Hoyer, and
Speaker 1: he saw no targets from Stidham. He can in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. You have to do to throw a White
Speaker 1: Just throw the ball like five yards. I would like
Speaker 1: to think you could do that. That's why I'm giving
Speaker 1: him the C grade he's got. He's the past catching back.
Speaker 1: He should get some against this Denver defense. I'm giving
Speaker 1: Sea grades crazily enough to both Edelman and Harry. Harry
Speaker 1: saw three red zone targets when Stidham came in. He
Speaker 1: might he might save you with the touchdown. Um and
Speaker 1: he's going up against five ft nine, eight eight pound
Speaker 1: corner slot corner moving outside Bryce Callaghan. That's a five
Speaker 1: inch thirty seven pound difference. And Edelman he usually just
Speaker 1: gets enough volume and a J Booye is out, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a se grade. That that all
Speaker 1: makes sense, I think, and Nikkil Harry to boom or
Speaker 1: bus for him. For sure. It's not the sexiest. It's
Speaker 1: not the sexiest matchup, but I like you. I like
Speaker 1: finding out that he's got a what did you say?
Speaker 1: He's got a five thirty seven pound advantage over a
Speaker 1: slot corner movie outside. That's that's pretty compelling. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty compelling. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly,
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Speaker 1: We begin with wait, wait, tough question number one. We're
Speaker 1: at the quarter mark of the NFL season and Clyde Edwards,
Speaker 1: a layer has one touchdown. Will he finish with a
Speaker 1: six or fewer touchdowns? Be seven to nine touchdowns or
Speaker 1: see double digit touchdowns. I'll begin with Scott. Oh you
Speaker 1: always begin with Scott. That's because I like Scott better.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be seven to nine. I just don't
Speaker 1: even feel comfortable about it. Just based historically on what
Speaker 1: Kansas City running backs have done the last couple of
Speaker 1: years with the home momes at the helm Um All so,
Speaker 1: they got some really really plus matchups against Las Vegas
Speaker 1: and Carolina, Las Vegas twice. In Carolina coming up, Dot
Speaker 1: offense scores a ton, he's gaining seventy of the running
Speaker 1: back opportunity share, He's getting over nine of the red
Speaker 1: zone touches, I think he finds a way to get
Speaker 1: six in in the last twelve games. So seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: Matt Scott kind of hit it, but let me expand
Speaker 1: on it. He gets the Raiders this week, they're allowing
Speaker 1: two touchdowns per game. That's two. He gets Caroline and
Speaker 1: week nine they're allowing two touch touchdowns per games. Two more.
Speaker 1: He gets the Raiders again. In week eleven, we're up
Speaker 1: to six, and then he gets Miami and week fourteen
Speaker 1: they're allowing one and a half. That's seven and a
Speaker 1: half right there. So now where he's at eight and
Speaker 1: a half and half, all he has to do is
Speaker 1: score twice in the other eight games, and he's a
Speaker 1: double digit score So he's gonna score double digit touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So you've got I've cracked the code. Okay. To answer
Speaker 1: this question, largely, you need to know what's going on
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line because that's where the easy
Speaker 1: touchdowns come from. Who was on the list of Chiefs
Speaker 1: touchdown scorers from inside the five Well, it's Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, Anthony Sherman, Tackle, Eric Fisher, and Patrick Mahomess.
Speaker 1: Running one who's not on that list Clyde Edwards, A
Speaker 1: laire regression. So will he get carries inside the five
Speaker 1: or not? He has not had any carries inside the
Speaker 1: five since week one when he got six. Can he
Speaker 1: be effective inside the five? Well, we don't really know
Speaker 1: because all six of the carries he got inside the
Speaker 1: five and week one we're all blown up at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and he was looking at two defenders
Speaker 1: at the handoff. So I don't really know yet. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen Andy Reid try to run Clyde Edwards a
Speaker 1: Laire wide inside the five, which I think would be
Speaker 1: better for his skill set. Hasn't even done that yet.
Speaker 1: Now his Clyde Edwards layers diminutive size I don't think
Speaker 1: helps him in this scenario, but it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: he absolutely can't get those inside the five touchdowns. He's
Speaker 1: going to break some longer touchdowns. Don't we all think
Speaker 1: he's going to break long touchdowns? Yes, at least so
Speaker 1: to this next week, He's going to score on some receptions.
Speaker 1: He's got room to become a better football player. He's
Speaker 1: he's only four games into his NFL career. You roll
Speaker 1: all that together and he will get more touchdowns, But
Speaker 1: he's too far behind the eight ball to get to
Speaker 1: double digit scores, and the correct answer is B seventh
Speaker 1: to nine touchdowns. Tough question number two. Justin Jefferson has
Speaker 1: exploded on the scene over the past two weeks. Would
Speaker 1: you rather have Jefferson or his teammate Adam Feeling on
Speaker 1: your roster? Matt, Oh, you you went to me even
Speaker 1: though Scott got it right. I'm gonna say both, not really. Well,
Speaker 1: if he only went to you when I get it wrong,
Speaker 1: then um, I still have feeling higher. Um Feeling had
Speaker 1: eight or more targets in seventeen of the thirty games
Speaker 1: that he and Kirk Cousins have played together. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he's a little bit more trusted in the red zone,
Speaker 1: scoring nineteen times in cousins tenure. And I just don't
Speaker 1: know if Justin Jefferson is a red zone threat as
Speaker 1: of yet. He broke one really long, beautiful touchdown in
Speaker 1: week three. The explosiveness is there, but I feel like
Speaker 1: he might have to break them from deep in order
Speaker 1: to score. And I think feelings just a little more
Speaker 1: trusted down by the stripe. Okay, yeah, I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I I have feeling still just a little bit ahead,
Speaker 1: but I I love both, especially in this matchup this week.
Speaker 1: Um uh. Basically, Feeling is second in the NFL and
Speaker 1: percentage of his team's targets, which nearly thirty three percent.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks, it's been a little closer, but
Speaker 1: Feeling still seems to be the guy Kirk trust the most.
Speaker 1: But I think they're both great. Feeling, but you're answering, Really,
Speaker 1: this is a risk reward question, which liking teammate would
Speaker 1: you rather have? Justin Jefferson or Adam Feeling. Feeling is
Speaker 1: damn good and we know he's good. He's proven it
Speaker 1: multiple times, Jefferies, Jefferson has had two really really good games.
Speaker 1: I am going to swing for the fences. Jefferson is
Speaker 1: ProFootball focus, is top rated wide receiver. He leads the
Speaker 1: league and receptions of twenty or more yards and he's
Speaker 1: done it all in two weeks. All of his catches
Speaker 1: of twenty more yards have coming two games. How much
Speaker 1: further back is Adam Feeland though he might just be
Speaker 1: he might just be the second coming of Randy Moss
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. We don't we don't know. It's it's the
Speaker 1: right now. This is a coin flip question, and Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is Kirk Cousins is this quarterback Kirk isn't. For
Speaker 1: whatever defects Kirk has, he is a very good downfield passer.
Speaker 1: He leads the NFL in yard per completion and it's
Speaker 1: not close. Unlocking the deep passing game feels better suited
Speaker 1: for Justin Jefferson. Tough question number three. Antonio Gibson's role
Speaker 1: in the Washington offense is expanding every week going forward.
Speaker 1: Will Gibson be a running back to a flex or
Speaker 1: a bench player Scott So running back to so top
Speaker 1: twenty four running back in this injury laden year doesn't
Speaker 1: seem too hard. Um. He has an absolutely brutal weeks thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 1: but it's okay. Before that Week sixteen he gets Carolina,
Speaker 1: which is great. Uh. Basically I see all but two
Speaker 1: or three games him as a a guy. I'm going
Speaker 1: to give us startable grade two. Uh. Like you said,
Speaker 1: his snaps are going up, His past game work is
Speaker 1: going up. Ron Rivera Rivera just said this week that
Speaker 1: Gibson needed a preseason to get used to playing running
Speaker 1: back and that he's now more confident and wheels are
Speaker 1: going to come off the preseason phases over I believe
Speaker 1: is what he said. So now they're going to take
Speaker 1: the wheels off. He's got Kyle Allen, his quarterback from
Speaker 1: Carolina who throw to Christian McCaffrey. So basically what I
Speaker 1: think is Gibson it's gonna get all the work now
Speaker 1: and he's basically going to be Christian McCaffrey last year now.
Speaker 1: So um, really, so you should have said the number
Speaker 1: one running back overall should have been in there. So
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I have to go with RB
Speaker 1: two given by options, all right, I didn't think anybody
Speaker 1: would go RB one if I threw it out there.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should have added that at an option you
Speaker 1: can't go off the board. It's allowed to it's allowed
Speaker 1: to do that. I have found a very low success
Speaker 1: rate going off the board, very low. RB two matt
Speaker 1: Is Antonio Gibson going forward and RB one a flex
Speaker 1: or a bench player. I think you're talking about gibbage
Speaker 1: time chart some gibbage gibbage time again. Do you think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be more or less gibbage time with Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen or maybe Alex Smith as an upgrade it over
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins that offense might be better that there might
Speaker 1: be less gibbage time. Oh no, it's not that much better. Uh.
Speaker 1: Gibson has forty four rushing attempts on the year. By
Speaker 1: the way, thirty four of them have come when Washington
Speaker 1: is losing. He's gained a hundred and seventy yards and
Speaker 1: scored three times in the in the in the rushing
Speaker 1: attempts where they're losing, they're always losing. Exactly twenty five
Speaker 1: of his rushing attempts have come when Washington is losing
Speaker 1: by ten points, over half of his rushing attempts. So
Speaker 1: much gibbage. There's so much gibbage on this team. I
Speaker 1: he's at RB two. Okay, that was a very very
Speaker 1: circuitous route to get the RB two. Uh. Seventeen touches
Speaker 1: last week for Antonio Gibson his highest yet as a
Speaker 1: young player at fairly new to the position. He's got
Speaker 1: room to grow and ultimately dominate the touches here, and
Speaker 1: there's just no threat for his carries. The team cut
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson because they knew they had their new running
Speaker 1: back in Gibson. Over the past two weeks, he's had
Speaker 1: four carries inside the five yard line and he's scored twice.
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber over the last two weeks, he's had one
Speaker 1: and he got stuffed. This offense. I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit better under Kyle Allen, which you sort of
Speaker 1: alluded to, and just more than anything else. But Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: you watch him play, you pass the eye test. That
Speaker 1: kid's got a little electricity to him. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's Barry Sanders, but he's got a last his prime
Speaker 1: and that that makes him the best play. We should
Speaker 1: probably rename that Washington team to the Washington Gibson's right,
Speaker 1: but I mean, go ahead, seems normal. If it's like
Speaker 1: the drink, then yes, because that's a team that makes
Speaker 1: you want to hit the bottle. That Gibson. Isn't it
Speaker 1: a Gibson, the with the gin and the that's a gimlet.
Speaker 1: That's a gimlet, gimlet Gibson. I drink gimlets and watch
Speaker 1: Gibson play. That's fine. I do that. We'll we'll let
Speaker 1: that go. And he is an RB two. Guess I
Speaker 1: think you guys did a very good job, except you've
Speaker 1: got most of it wrong. We go back to our matchups,
Speaker 1: beginning with Philadelphia at Pittsburgh for Philadelphia once again, short
Speaker 1: receivers they've ruled out to show Jackson, all Sean, Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: and I feel like every week we're talking about the
Speaker 1: same thing here. Unfortunately, it's a tough spot for Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz in his passing game. The the quarterback that ranked
Speaker 1: thirty inaccuracy this year, Dwayne Haskins was benched. The quarterback
Speaker 1: who was ranked thirty first and accuracy, Travisky was benched.
Speaker 1: The quarterback who ranks thirty second inaccuracy, actually by a
Speaker 1: good five percentage place. Carson Wentz still the starter, though
Speaker 1: he's nearly twin Here's actually a shocking stat. Nearly twenty
Speaker 1: percent of his passes are graded not catchable. Man. That's terrible.
Speaker 1: And he hasn't thrown a game too. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: him an A grade here. I got him on the bench,
Speaker 1: I have, I have Ward and high Tower and all
Speaker 1: the wide receivers on the bench. I barely even gave
Speaker 1: Earth's a C grade against a really good Pittsburgh defense
Speaker 1: that's been top five against tight ends. He just might
Speaker 1: get the volume. With Goddard out and all these wide
Speaker 1: receivers out, it might be there for him. C grade
Speaker 1: for Earth's and I don't even love that. I'm giving
Speaker 1: Sanders and Miles Sanders a C grade. He came back,
Speaker 1: took back all the snappers of the snaps in each
Speaker 1: of his games this year, so he's gonna get all
Speaker 1: the work. I know st Kwon Barkley had a terrible
Speaker 1: six yard performance against the Steelers, but he got a
Speaker 1: bunch of air yard. He got a bunch of six
Speaker 1: for sixty through the air. And Sanders is great there.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving him a C grade because he'll get passing.
Speaker 1: It work to get there. So C grades for Earths
Speaker 1: and Sanders. On the other side, I have some really
Speaker 1: good grades and and I feel like that they're just
Speaker 1: going to destroy Philadelphia this week. I have an A
Speaker 1: grade on Big Bend. Uh. Eagles will be without Avante Maddox,
Speaker 1: which their secondary already wasn't good, and now they're down
Speaker 1: at starting cornerback. Uh. They still have Slay out there.
Speaker 1: They have Nicole Robie Coleman. They haven't been as great
Speaker 1: as you'd think this year. Juju will get Nico Coleby,
Speaker 1: Roan Nickel, Roby comb In Krom but he hasn't been
Speaker 1: good this year. Is I just mentioned and Juju has
Speaker 1: pad Ben's eye. He's getting the touchdowns. I think it's
Speaker 1: a two headed beast here with Juju and Deonte. Deontay's game,
Speaker 1: the targets in the yards. I got them both with
Speaker 1: A grades. I think Ben's just gonna throw it all over.
Speaker 1: I have Washington on the bench and I'm giving Claypool
Speaker 1: a C grade here. We wanna talk about him later
Speaker 1: in the show, but he's gonna go up against work
Speaker 1: working against converted safety Jalen Mills, who runs a four
Speaker 1: six one Claypool four four two, And we mentioned this
Speaker 1: with Nick kill Harry. He has four inches and nearly
Speaker 1: fifty pounds on Jalen Mills. His snapshat keeps going up.
Speaker 1: I think this is the week he finally definitely overtakes
Speaker 1: James Washington and a big play could be in the
Speaker 1: cards with that matchup. So ce grade on Claypool Ibron,
Speaker 1: I gave a B grade two. I know I know
Speaker 1: he's nursing a groin right now, which sounds really weird
Speaker 1: as I say it out loud. Uh Kittle destroyed the
Speaker 1: Eagles last week. Higby had three touchdowns. Even Logan Thomas
Speaker 1: had like thirty sum yards in a touchdown. Be gray
Speaker 1: it on Ibron. He might be a little limited. There's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mounts to feed. But I'm still
Speaker 1: getting a good grade and a B grade on Connor.
Speaker 1: I'm not even I don't love it that much because
Speaker 1: just two running backs of that over ninety two yards
Speaker 1: in the last twenty games. Geez. Against the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: they're they're actually pretty good against the run. So I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B grade Dame because he'll get passing game work.
Speaker 1: And that's why I have the wide receiver so uped is.
Speaker 1: I think it's a passing game, all right, Rams taking
Speaker 1: on the Washington football team. We begin with the running
Speaker 1: game for the Rams, which got more convoluted this week
Speaker 1: with Cam Acres officially off the injury report. So now
Speaker 1: what do you do. It's a disaster scenario for all
Speaker 1: of the running backs here, and the same thing to
Speaker 1: do really is to sit this out. And I am
Speaker 1: putting bench grades on all three of the Rams running
Speaker 1: backs because you can't know who's going to get the ball.
Speaker 1: I think the only way you can know is if
Speaker 1: two of them are out, probably so, and this might
Speaker 1: be your last best chance to move on from these guys,
Speaker 1: because I think you're looking at a season long headache
Speaker 1: trying to guess. Just ask the Henderson owners who rolled
Speaker 1: into last week thinking they had an amazing matchup only
Speaker 1: to see Malcolm Brown, who wasn't even having that good
Speaker 1: at game, dominate the number of carries. His hands were
Speaker 1: actually hot, they were warm, barely, they're warm hands. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game with Jared Goff gets a
Speaker 1: C grade. It's tough to trust him after last week's
Speaker 1: inexplicable dud. Goff's two critical receivers, Robert Woods and Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: have favorable matchups. We'll talk about them in a second.
Speaker 1: Golf's got another excellent prospect in Gerald Higbee. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about him in a second too. So let's get to
Speaker 1: those guys. Cooper Cup B grade. He's posted eight yards,
Speaker 1: a touchdown or both in three straight weeks. He also
Speaker 1: leads the rams and targets over that span. Washington secondary
Speaker 1: has only allowed one receiver to top seventy yards and
Speaker 1: one reception touchdown this year. Uh, he's only Uh, he's
Speaker 1: got a deep. He's got a favorable matchup against diminutive cornerback.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Moreland, who ranks eight at the position by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Fox guess B grade for Cooper Cup. Robert Woods
Speaker 1: also gets a B grade. Prior to last week's dud,
Speaker 1: Robert Woods had either one yards or a touchdown in
Speaker 1: three consecutive games. Washington has only allowed one receiver top
Speaker 1: seventy yards as I mentioned earlier, so an explosive game
Speaker 1: probably not coming here, but he will see dominutive quarterback
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby, which is a mismatch for Woods. Strength. Then
Speaker 1: there's Tyler Higbee, who's been had the one great game
Speaker 1: and three total duds where he's killed his fantasy owners.
Speaker 1: This looks like a boom game for Tyler Higbee. Washington
Speaker 1: has surrendered the eleventh most catches, the eleventh most yards
Speaker 1: to tight ends, and the second most touchdowns to opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends with five already. Uh touchdowns are paramount for
Speaker 1: Higbee as his ceiling is entirely dependent on scoring and
Speaker 1: so Washington's red zone struggles against position are a very
Speaker 1: positive sign here, and he's gonna face off against linebacker
Speaker 1: Kevin Pierre. Lewis was allowing an eight five percent catch
Speaker 1: rate in his coverage. Tyler Higbee b grade. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Washington side. We already spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time talking about in Tonio Gibson, why we like him,
Speaker 1: and we like him in this game. His total yardage
Speaker 1: output is increased in every game so far, and the
Speaker 1: way to beat the Rams on the ground. And I
Speaker 1: don't think Ron River and Scott Turner gonna ask Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen to go beat the pass rush of Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: in the coverage of Jalen Ramsey in this game, I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see a lot of Antonio Gibson here. Ezekiel, Elliott,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, Devin Singletary averaged one hundred twenty six total
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown against the Rams. Same those are
Speaker 1: Those are good numbers for Gibson, who gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Terry mclard gets a B grade even with tough shadow
Speaker 1: coverage from Jalen Ramsey because he's always good in almost
Speaker 1: every scenario, no matter the coverage, and I think this
Speaker 1: is a quarterback upgrade for him. Terry mclauren. Now, what
Speaker 1: people near Washington have been telling me is that the
Speaker 1: main reason for the benching, in addition to the inaccuracy
Speaker 1: of Haskins, which is brutal is. They just couldn't even
Speaker 1: run a full They couldn't run the full playbook that
Speaker 1: haskins limitations were such that there were a whole swass
Speaker 1: of the field that they couldn't even throw too. And
Speaker 1: I believe Kyleen will open up the field little bit
Speaker 1: that might help Terry McLaurin a bit. He gets the
Speaker 1: B grade here. And the only other guy you might
Speaker 1: be tempted to play is j. D. Mcsuckett, who has
Speaker 1: been surprisingly active, but the Rams have limited far better
Speaker 1: receiving backs like Devin Singletary and Ezekiel Elliott and Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders who combined to average three catches and thirty eight
Speaker 1: receiving yards. So those are going to gibbage time anyway.
Speaker 1: Those are gibbage time. That's right. They're going to Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: at least we certainly hope. So anyway, all right, let's
Speaker 1: work in one final matchup into this segment. It's Jacksonville
Speaker 1: taking on Houston. Matt James Hollywood. Robinson given him an
Speaker 1: A grade in this game, averaging nineteen touches per game
Speaker 1: in a hundred and eleven total yards, plus the Texans
Speaker 1: are giving up the farm to Opposing backs Clyde, Connor
Speaker 1: and Dalvin each top two hundred yards in the ground
Speaker 1: and scored. The three Ravens backs combined for one hundred
Speaker 1: seventy six rushing yards. Gardner minshew, I'm only going to
Speaker 1: give us C grade two, and and that's against an
Speaker 1: O and four Texans team. They held Mahomes, Lamar big Ben,
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins all under three yards and Mahomes was
Speaker 1: the only one to get to the three touchdown pass mark. However,
Speaker 1: the Texans have allowed the passes against them to be
Speaker 1: completed and they've yet to intercept the ball this season.
Speaker 1: I just fear that the Texans defense is due for
Speaker 1: a big bounce back after firing Bill O'Brien this week
Speaker 1: and putting Romeo Cornell in charge. D J. Chark, giving
Speaker 1: a B grade two, finally had a good week last
Speaker 1: weekend with eight and two on nine targets. I'm still
Speaker 1: a bit nervous that the fact that Chark isn't even
Speaker 1: in the lead for targets in his own group of
Speaker 1: wide receivers. He did miss a game, but on average
Speaker 1: Keelan Cole's averaging five point eight per game, Chark is
Speaker 1: averaging five point three la Visca Channault and Chris Conley
Speaker 1: are each averaging five targets per game. This is a
Speaker 1: strange wide receiver by committee. I hate it. I wish
Speaker 1: Chark got to nine targets every game. Maybe he will.
Speaker 1: Uh Chennault and Cole I am leaving on the bench. Um.
Speaker 1: When you factor in Channault's two and a half rushing
Speaker 1: attempts per game, that's good. But this matchup just isn't great.
Speaker 1: The Texans are only allowing a hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 1: per game to the wide receiver position, and if you
Speaker 1: split that three to four ways, it's pretty messy. And
Speaker 1: she Alts also nursing a hamstring injury, but he's got
Speaker 1: that juicy matchup against Vernon Hargreaves, who's so bad. It's
Speaker 1: not that juicy. They're only giving up a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards to wide receivers. I don't know. I I
Speaker 1: like n Alt in this, assuming the injury lets him,
Speaker 1: lets him go in your full strength, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that. That's watch Houston give up ten points this week.
Speaker 1: Dr Bill O'Brien's gun watch, I don't think. So let's
Speaker 1: go to the Houston side. I got David Johnson and
Speaker 1: I got Duke Johnson. Both Johnson's are on your bench
Speaker 1: in this one. Yeah, the Jaguars are a weird, weird
Speaker 1: run defense. In Week one, they held the Colts backs
Speaker 1: in check on the ground, but gave up seventeen catches
Speaker 1: for a hundred and forty two yards through the air.
Speaker 1: In Week two, they shut out Derrick Henry and they
Speaker 1: gave up zero running back receptions. In Week three, they
Speaker 1: made Miles Miles Gaskin look good, but it took him
Speaker 1: twenty seven touches to get to nine. And then in
Speaker 1: week four they gave up the farm to Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: So what is this? It all comes back to both
Speaker 1: of these running backs are averaging less than four yards
Speaker 1: per carrying under fifty yards per game, so they're both
Speaker 1: not to be trusted. Deshaun Watson. I'm giving an A
Speaker 1: grade to every quarterback the Jags have faced has either
Speaker 1: put up three yards or multiple scores, but not at
Speaker 1: the same time. I am giving Will Fuller a B.
Speaker 1: He seems to be the most consistent wide receiver. Plan
Speaker 1: was an instant replay away from a second touchdown last week.
Speaker 1: He's still hovering right around v catches per week and
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards per game, which is not the normal
Speaker 1: will Fuller. We're due for a big will Fuller game, um,
Speaker 1: and the Jags haven't allowed a wide receiver to top
Speaker 1: ninety yards this season, although they have allowed three touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the position in the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: leaving Cooks and Stills on the bench because they just
Speaker 1: don't get as much play as Fuller. But I am
Speaker 1: putting Randall Cobb in giving him a c Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: had the nine dr game on seven catches from the slot.
Speaker 1: Adam Humphries and Paris Campbell each did well from the
Speaker 1: slot as well, and there's some weakness there, so Cobb
Speaker 1: could be the touchdown score. Inexplicable that they didn't use
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb against the Vikings in the slot. Yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of weird. Uh. And finally, Jordan Aikins and Darren Fells.
Speaker 1: Aikin's We've said it all along. He looks good, he
Speaker 1: passes the eye test, he looks like a player. He's
Speaker 1: got a pass a concussion He's got a pass a
Speaker 1: concussion test now after a rough hit by Harrison Smith
Speaker 1: last week. If he does come back. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a C if he doesn't come back. Darren Fells
Speaker 1: gets the C grade because the Jags are allowing seventy
Speaker 1: three yards per game to the tight end position, which
Speaker 1: is fourth most in the league, and they've already allowed
Speaker 1: three touchdowns to tight ends in four games this year.
Speaker 1: A very comprehensive breakdown. Thank you, Matt. Appreciate that. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we've got more match ups for you,
Speaker 1: including Indianapolis taking on Cleveland. Scott will tell you what
Speaker 1: to make of Jonathan Taylor, who's not seeing the ball
Speaker 1: nearly as much as we thought he would in a
Speaker 1: tricky matchup with Cleveland, and I read Hot Offense will
Speaker 1: tell you what to do with your Browns as well
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt and de Ernest Johnson. That'll be a fascinating one.
Speaker 1: You'll want to stay tuned to Fantasy Football Weekly for
Speaker 1: that breakdown, plus premature speculation coming up near the end
Speaker 1: of the show will tell you three players you can
Speaker 1: pick up now that other people are going to try
Speaker 1: to pick up next week. Stay tuned Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: bucking back Fantasy foot Fall Weekly breaking down every game
Speaker 1: fantasy style for you, including Indianapolis taking on Cleveland Scott.
Speaker 1: The Indianapolis passing game has been stinky. I think Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers looks like he's on his last legs and arms. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this one? T Y Hilton,
Speaker 1: one last start man? T Y Hilton is really starting
Speaker 1: to look like a j Green out there? He is,
Speaker 1: isn't he awfully feeble? Awfully old? The Browns are allowed
Speaker 1: in three passing touchdowns per game and have allowed over
Speaker 1: thirty points in three of their four games. So you
Speaker 1: think that's big. That'd be great for Rivers, right, I
Speaker 1: think I think this is the game that slows down
Speaker 1: for both offenses. Rivers has not top thirty attempts in
Speaker 1: the last three games, so that's why he's not getting
Speaker 1: those yards or touchdowns. He's only had one touchdown the
Speaker 1: last three games. It's just it's just terrible. I have
Speaker 1: him on my bench here, um because the games that
Speaker 1: we're big for the Browns, the high scoring ones were
Speaker 1: Lamar Jack's and Dak Prescott and Joe Burrow, and I
Speaker 1: don't think Rivers is anywhere near those guys anymore. So
Speaker 1: I have him and the entire passing game on the bench.
Speaker 1: I want none of them. With even mo Ali Cox
Speaker 1: he ran seven routes last week, that's a total. He
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown that saved you. But with Burton's back, yeah,
Speaker 1: he ran seven team routes. He it's all. It's a
Speaker 1: mishmash now. I don't want their wide receivers, nothing but
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. I'm gonna give us c to grade too.
Speaker 1: I know that Jordan Wilkins and new Hem Hines each
Speaker 1: carried the ball nine times last week nine times, and
Speaker 1: the week before that, Jordan Wilkins carried the ball nine times,
Speaker 1: and the week before that Jordan will could carry them
Speaker 1: all nine times. It seems times it feels like that's
Speaker 1: about when it gets a week. Um, So I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going anywhere. I think that's just what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do. The Browns d has held all runners under
Speaker 1: fifty five yards, but they've averaged eight catches for sixty
Speaker 1: six yards through the air to running backs over the
Speaker 1: last three And Jonathan Taylor is getting a decent amount
Speaker 1: of pass game work. Um, you would think that helps Hines,
Speaker 1: but his receptions have gone down a little bit, and
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Taylor's getting it. I think that he's gonna
Speaker 1: get four teen plus touches, which gives him the se grade.
Speaker 1: And just to know, on Jonathan Taylor, nine of his
Speaker 1: final twelve games are against bottom ten against the run teams,
Speaker 1: So don't give up yet. He's got some schedule coming up. Boy.
Speaker 1: You know, when Marlon Mack went out in Week one,
Speaker 1: I really thought that that was going to crystallize a
Speaker 1: ton of work for Jonathan Taylor, and that Naim Hines
Speaker 1: would be one of these guys you could flex in
Speaker 1: most weeks because he was gonna get five six catches
Speaker 1: a game, and he was gonna run the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: another four or five times and you can get you
Speaker 1: to a decent number most weeks. None of that's really
Speaker 1: materialized at all. Right, So on the other side, Mayfield,
Speaker 1: I'm given a C two. The Colts are crushing opposing
Speaker 1: and fantasy quarterbacks, but when you look at the qbs
Speaker 1: they've faced, it's it's a mishmash of crap, Like there's
Speaker 1: a mishmash of crap. The bigger the Mayfield has been
Speaker 1: lights out and he's far better than the other the
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks they've faced. So I'm gonna give him a
Speaker 1: C grade. Here, Oh b J, I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: B grade. Unlike previous years, Oh b J is the
Speaker 1: target hog. This year he seems reinvigorated. It's usually been
Speaker 1: Landry that's the target hog, but not this year. So far,
Speaker 1: he has six targets in every game and four plus
Speaker 1: catches and fifty nine plus yards and three straight. Doesn't
Speaker 1: sound amazing, but it's mid level consistency and he's got
Speaker 1: that high upside. So I'm giving him a B grade.
Speaker 1: I'm giving Landry an uncomfortable C grade. He catches three
Speaker 1: to five balls again, he gets you forty to fifty yards.
Speaker 1: I almost wanted to bench him. He's got He's gotten
Speaker 1: a matchup against Kenny Moore, who has held all three
Speaker 1: slot guys he's faced under sixty five yards. That's what
Speaker 1: you're going to get. Three or four catches, six fifty
Speaker 1: six yards, that's what you're getting with Landry. Uh. The
Speaker 1: tight ends. No culture culture great against the tight end.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the running game. This is fascinating.
Speaker 1: It's not to me for this game. I think it
Speaker 1: slows down. The Cults have played thirty six regular season
Speaker 1: games under Matt Ever flows the DC for the Colts.
Speaker 1: They've allowed one yard rusher in those thirty six games. Alright,
Speaker 1: but Darius Leonard out, Actually all three line all three
Speaker 1: starting linebackers maybe out for this game. Darius Leonard is out.
Speaker 1: Bobby Ocherry, Ocher Prairie or whatever his name is. He's
Speaker 1: got a thumb injury. He's out with the he's had surgery.
Speaker 1: E J. Speed. Might play, might not play. That's a
Speaker 1: big difference. And they hold you. They hold you down
Speaker 1: to the stripe to only five touchdowns from running backs
Speaker 1: in the last year and a half. I I I
Speaker 1: do think it's a Hunt game. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much we can trust to Ernest Johnson in this one.
Speaker 1: Hunt is averaging five point five yards per game, and
Speaker 1: we know he's good in the past game. The concerned
Speaker 1: as his injury. If his injury gets him off the
Speaker 1: field into Ernest Johnson needs to play and and they
Speaker 1: get ahead, that's where Ernest Johnson is going to get
Speaker 1: his points. I don't feel comfortable starting him, though. I'm
Speaker 1: giving Hunt the b I'm keeping Arnest on the bench.
Speaker 1: So d Ernest is a fascinating story. He went to
Speaker 1: a school I did not even know existed called South Florida,
Speaker 1: not to be confused with Florida Southern South Florida USF.
Speaker 1: The Bulls come on the bulls South Florida. This is
Speaker 1: South Florida, not Florida Southern so um which most uf
Speaker 1: ufs must be Florida by the way. Dernis Johnson, former
Speaker 1: player on my a F team, really yes, he was
Speaker 1: an a A guy at South Florida. D Ernest Johnson
Speaker 1: was their lead running back. Now he was so much
Speaker 1: better than everybody else. He was also used as a
Speaker 1: wide receiver often then because he was the most talented
Speaker 1: guy on the team, they would pitch him the ball
Speaker 1: as halfback. He threw the ball out of the halfback
Speaker 1: option all the time, and he's thrown thirty yard lasers
Speaker 1: all over the field. Then, because that wasn't enough, he
Speaker 1: was also the kick returner. He did everything, and I
Speaker 1: thought he looked all right last week. And he's got
Speaker 1: an iron right foot and can kick really well. It's
Speaker 1: not anyway there. Do you do trust Johnson? I do
Speaker 1: because I would give him a sea grade. Because these
Speaker 1: linebackers are all off with the Colts. I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be running yards to be had here and it'll
Speaker 1: catch the ball as well. Alright, final matchup of this
Speaker 1: segments Minnesota taking on Seattle for the Vikings. It's I
Speaker 1: already used Kirk Cousins as may take a chance on
Speaker 1: me quarterback. I like him. His receivers Adam Feeland and
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson have a grades. The Seahawks have been unfathomably
Speaker 1: bad against receivers, allowing three hundred thirties six yards per
Speaker 1: game to the position. That's by far the most in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They've also allowed to receive the top one
Speaker 1: hundred yards every week. They've allowed seven one hundred yard
Speaker 1: performances in four games, and both Theland and Jefferson are
Speaker 1: candidates to go over one under fire them both up,
Speaker 1: fire both up. Jefferson has the most catches of twenty
Speaker 1: plus yards in the league with eight. Theland has found
Speaker 1: the end zone in three of the past four games. Also,
Speaker 1: they may not. They may be without cornerbacks Shaquille Griffin
Speaker 1: in this one as well. Uh that is that's the
Speaker 1: only those are the only members of the passing game
Speaker 1: that I do wanted to trifle with. Though we're not
Speaker 1: going to old B. C. Johnson at the tight ends.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Dalvin Cook, who gets a B grade. Here,
Speaker 1: Seahawks are allowing the fewest rushing attempts for the second
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards per game, just forty six rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game allowed. That's it. That includes games against Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott and Todd Gurley. Cook has seen his total touches
Speaker 1: increase in every game, but Seattle sees the most passes
Speaker 1: in the fourth fewest rushing attempt So I just don't
Speaker 1: know the volumes here for Dalvin Cook to get to
Speaker 1: an A grade, but absolutely startable with a B and
Speaker 1: nothing I would say would stop you from starting him anyway.
Speaker 1: For Alexander Madison, we need to find Primrose matches, matchups,
Speaker 1: and this is not one of them. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Seattle side where Russell, Wilson, DK, metcalf and I'll
Speaker 1: lock It are all obvious. A's Russell's my number one
Speaker 1: ranked quarterback, metcalfs and my number two ranked wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and lock It is my number six ranked wide receiver
Speaker 1: as well. And I don't think those guys really we
Speaker 1: even have to spend much time talking about why they
Speaker 1: would be obvious. A choices uh in the but don't
Speaker 1: give don't forget the guy I mentioned last week, David
Speaker 1: Moore shut up with a touchdown last week. I like
Speaker 1: him here as another easy matchup against a very thin
Speaker 1: Vikings secondary that may be missing at least one cornerback.
Speaker 1: Starting cornerback in this game. David Moore. He's an ascending
Speaker 1: talent who Russell Wilson this week said is due for
Speaker 1: a breakout. To that chart there the Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: And if you need a guy on your bench for
Speaker 1: one of those Monday or Tuesday players, if you want
Speaker 1: to pivot David Moore, Mike might give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of time. I like it. Also in the receiving game,
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen, somebody I don't normally like. I like him here.
Speaker 1: He's been more involved in the Seattle passing game the
Speaker 1: past two weeks, and Minnesota has struggled against f letic
Speaker 1: tight ends. We'll try Greg Olsen with a C grade
Speaker 1: as well, and then lastly, Chris Carson a grade. Vikings
Speaker 1: are allowing the third most rushing attempts the fifth most
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game to opposing running backs. A lot
Speaker 1: of that damage is really coming from bell cows like
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones and Jonathan Taylor. And Derrick Henry who have
Speaker 1: averaged nine rushing yards and one and a half touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That is Chris Carson obvious Bell cow here as well.
Speaker 1: The Vikings ranked thirty one in run defense by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus. All right, we'll take a break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, Premature Speculation. We're gonna give you three guys
Speaker 1: to pick up this week that everybody's gonna be trying
Speaker 1: to pick up next week. But they're already on your
Speaker 1: roster because you use that time machine sound that we
Speaker 1: just heard their premature speculation coming up in the final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. In Moments, final segment of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Scott Fish and Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison with you at Paul Charchi and at Scott Fish
Speaker 1: twenty four and at Explosive Output. Premature Speculation is a
Speaker 1: fan favorite for this show where we give you three
Speaker 1: players that other people will be trying to pick up
Speaker 1: next week that we want you to get in on
Speaker 1: a week early. Scott, who is your premature speculation player?
Speaker 1: I am going there with that that guy that had
Speaker 1: that toe tapping first catch in the NFL on the
Speaker 1: sidelines in Week one and then a week or two later,
Speaker 1: you had that big eight r touchdown. They call him
Speaker 1: maple Tron on the team because he's from Canada. That's
Speaker 1: a jujuice in the Schuster calls him. I'm going to
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool six ft four two thirty eight pounds four
Speaker 1: four to forty awesome matchup this weekend. People are going
Speaker 1: to see it. His snap percentage and routes run have
Speaker 1: increased exponentially week after week. He overtook James Washington in
Speaker 1: snaps last week. Uh, Deonte Johnson and Jujuice Smith Schuster
Speaker 1: aren't always the picture of health. I think Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: shows up this week and I think he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of weeks in him this year. Couldn't agree more
Speaker 1: love Chase Claypool. That kid is going to be a
Speaker 1: ball or already is Matt Who's your premature speculation player?
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson is only forty owned in ESPN leagues and
Speaker 1: you might as well pick him up now. He had
Speaker 1: six carries for nine yards last week. Nice, Actually not
Speaker 1: that nice. After Eckler went down. It is a four
Speaker 1: to six week injury for Eckler. And while I believe
Speaker 1: that Josh Kelly is likely the a back. The Clippers
Speaker 1: like to use two backs and Jackson is the other one.
Speaker 1: Schedule coming up becomes incredibly favorable. After the Saints get
Speaker 1: this week, they get the Jets, whose run defense has
Speaker 1: regressed significantly, then the Dolphins, Jaguars, and Raiders in the
Speaker 1: next three weeks all bottom ten against the run. Pick
Speaker 1: up justin Jackson right, mine is Jimmy Garoppolo. Now, a
Speaker 1: lot of listeners remember the playoff run and the nationally
Speaker 1: televised games playoffs who were all watching Jimmy Garoppolo didn't
Speaker 1: get used against the Vikings and have to, didn't get
Speaker 1: used against the Packers, didn't have to, and then he
Speaker 1: had a dud play a dud Super Bowl, and so
Speaker 1: like everybody thinks about that version of Jimmy Garoppolo. But
Speaker 1: let's take a better look at Jimmy Garoppolo through the
Speaker 1: entire second half of last year, when Deebo Samuel finally
Speaker 1: started to make an impact in that offense and become
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Garoppolo finished his quarterback eight
Speaker 1: from week eight forward quarterback eight, he was a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback, averaging two hundred sixty four yards and two
Speaker 1: point two touchdowns per game. I think he got to
Speaker 1: play the Cardinals twice in that span. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe that uh, you know, Debo is back, George Kittle
Speaker 1: is healthy, Brandon Aok looks like a massive playmaker, and
Speaker 1: that kid's only going to get better. Jimmy Garoppolo, And
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo was a good fantasy quarterback. He's going to
Speaker 1: be another good fantasy quarterback as this team rounds back
Speaker 1: into health. Just needs to get healthy. Yeah, but well
Speaker 1: they're they're basically there's an offense where he moastered back.
Speaker 1: That's that offense is back and click, and I want
Speaker 1: the quarterback two matchups to get to before we wrap
Speaker 1: up the show, including the Giants taking on the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones might take a chance on me quarterback, and
Speaker 1: Golden Tate was charged just take a chance on me
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I gave Tate a C grade in this game.
Speaker 1: I gave his running mate Darius Slayton a B. He
Speaker 1: basically plays the same position that Odell Beckham does. How
Speaker 1: did O'Dell do last week? All Right? Metcalf Ridley and
Speaker 1: Bob Woods all had nice days against this secondary from
Speaker 1: the outside too. So Slayton's a B. Evan and Graham
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade. Two tight ends are averaging
Speaker 1: six and a half receptions per game against Dallas and
Speaker 1: Ingram gets about eight targets per games. That works out,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys have allowed three touchdowns to the position
Speaker 1: this year. Uh the running back Davante Freeman, Wayne Gallman,
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis, or how about just none of them. H
Speaker 1: Freeman has a whopping two point seven yards per carry,
Speaker 1: so the Giants gave him the ball the most obviously. Well,
Speaker 1: Wayne Gallman, maybe he's sneaky good. He averaged five point
Speaker 1: two yards per carry and that's on the season, but
Speaker 1: he's only getting like five touches per game and Lewis
Speaker 1: and Land three touches last week. It's a decent matchup
Speaker 1: to they just all suck and they're splitting time. On
Speaker 1: the other side, there's a running back that doesn't suck.
Speaker 1: His name is Zeke. He's topped a hundred yards are
Speaker 1: scored in each of his last six games against the
Speaker 1: New York Giants and has had six catchers are more
Speaker 1: in each of the last three weeks. And the Giants
Speaker 1: are bottom ten against pass catching backs. Zeke is an
Speaker 1: easy A and Uh, it's time for the Fantasy art
Speaker 1: Vark chart. What a fantasy yard Vark. Let's hear what
Speaker 1: that sounds like. I had no idea that all sounds
Speaker 1: like the time of ship. Together. We are on the
Speaker 1: children's children's book here, Ardvark. Uh Doc gets the double
Speaker 1: A grade in the Fantasy Ardvark this week. He's averaging
Speaker 1: four or twenty two passing yards per game. He's thrown
Speaker 1: for four four and three touchdown passes in his last
Speaker 1: three meetings with the Giants. You know, I'll give Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper and a grade two. He's also on pace for
Speaker 1: like seven thousand yards. Yeah, it's ridiculous. He's thrown for
Speaker 1: like ninety seven yards in the last two weeks, an
Speaker 1: NFL record. Um Cooper a grade UH is top five
Speaker 1: and targets receptions and yards and hit eight yards and
Speaker 1: scored in both meetings last year. Michael Gallup and Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: I'm giving them both B grades in this one. I
Speaker 1: especially like Lamb, and I keep playing Lamb on on
Speaker 1: DraftKings and daily because I'm waiting for the blow up
Speaker 1: game to happen and I want to be on this
Speaker 1: when it does, and it's it might come this week.
Speaker 1: Uh juju Smith, Schuster and Cooper Cup each notched exactly
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards and scored from the slot. Uh and
Speaker 1: I believe Cup scored twice against Dallas. Gallup is a
Speaker 1: like a low B maybe like be adjacent as a grade.
Speaker 1: He's averaging six targets per game. Uh, that's not bad,
Speaker 1: but when you factor in that Dalton Schultz is averaging seven,
Speaker 1: that's a bit puzzling. Still, he avoids the giants best corner,
Speaker 1: James Bradberry, who should shadow Cooper, and he did record
Speaker 1: seven for one fifty two against the Giants in one
Speaker 1: game last year. Last guy to mention is that Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: The Giants have yet to allow a tight end touchdown
Speaker 1: this year and only three point eight receptions for thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards the position. They held Tyler Higby to twenty
Speaker 1: yards last week. Dalton Schultz only gets a c Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Chargers against the Saints, our final
Speaker 1: matchup for for the show. Justin Herbert can play man.
Speaker 1: The only caveat is a lot of time times we've
Speaker 1: seen rookie quarterbacks are and young quarterbacks they get you
Speaker 1: get three games of tape on them, and now defensive
Speaker 1: coordinators know all your tendencies and can start picking away
Speaker 1: at how you like to play. So I'm just showing
Speaker 1: a little bit of caution on Herbert. But man, these
Speaker 1: look good. Yeah, and it'll be better if Vladimer and
Speaker 1: Jenkins don't play, that will That said, the Saints weren't
Speaker 1: playing that great with them on defense anyway. Herbert has
Speaker 1: two plus yards in each game and the Saints are
Speaker 1: allowing three touchdowns per game to qbs on their way
Speaker 1: to being the fifth worst against the position, which is
Speaker 1: not something you would have expected. I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on Herbert either way, if Vladimer and Jenkins play
Speaker 1: or not, I have a B grade on him. I
Speaker 1: don't have any other wide receiver options except for Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen in three games with Herbert. Here are Allen's target
Speaker 1: totals ten, nineteen, and twelve. That is forty one targets
Speaker 1: in three games from justin Herbert. Add to the fact
Speaker 1: that Allen Lazarden Godwin both had great great games playing
Speaker 1: mostly from the slot. Uh, it's he's the only wide
Speaker 1: receiver you can trust. I got an A grade on him.
Speaker 1: I'll just move forward in the running game. August Scott
Speaker 1: wanted to believe that it was josh Kelly, Joshua Kelly's job.
Speaker 1: August Scott was all in Kelly. I don't remember August
Speaker 1: Scott talking a lot about it. August Scott loved Joshua Kelly.
Speaker 1: After Week one, Scott loved him even more. But this
Speaker 1: is he's fumbled in two straight games, which is not good.
Speaker 1: They did split carries, but he definitely had the the
Speaker 1: RB A role or whatever for them, even after Ekeler
Speaker 1: got hurt, which was like three snaps in, so we
Speaker 1: basically got a full game of watching their usage. Um
Speaker 1: As for the Saints, only Aaron Jones could get to
Speaker 1: eighty six yards and one just one touchdown. I mean
Speaker 1: that that's holding Aaron Jones down basically. So uh seriously,
Speaker 1: it takes eighteen plus touches for a back to even
Speaker 1: have an okay day against the Saints this year. So
Speaker 1: I I basically have both of him on the bench.
Speaker 1: If you have to throw a dart at one of them,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Kelly because he's gonna get the more usage.
Speaker 1: But I'm both on the bench. Uh. Hunter Henry A
Speaker 1: grade from Hunter. Henry Saints are second worst. They've allowed
Speaker 1: five touchdowns to tight ends they've allowed They allowed over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards to Waller. This is a great spot
Speaker 1: for Henry against his defense. On the other side, we
Speaker 1: got Breeze given a B grade to him. Chargers are
Speaker 1: fifth worst against qbs. Guess what the Saints are fifth
Speaker 1: worst against QB's. Chargers are sixth worst against QB's. Breeze
Speaker 1: might Floir with an A grade, especially with Melvin Ingram out,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna have some time to throw. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him a strong be here. If Thomas plays,
Speaker 1: he's getting a grade. Get him in because he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy. If he doesn't though, if he does play,
Speaker 1: Sanders and Smith around the bench. If he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: Sanders is going to get a C grade. He moves
Speaker 1: around a lot and Hayward doesn't travel, so uh he
Speaker 1: could get open track Kwon Smith. I mentioned this when
Speaker 1: I take on take a chance on me for him
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. He's now played in fourteen
Speaker 1: games where he's had three plus targets. He has ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns in those fourteen games. He scores when he gets
Speaker 1: through plus targets and he's and he's going to again
Speaker 1: C grade. I have Cook on the bench. He just
Speaker 1: hasn't been putting up that those kind of numbers and
Speaker 1: he's injured. As far as running backs, I got an
Speaker 1: A grade on Kamara fort Mike Davis tore up the
Speaker 1: Chargers rundy seven teen plus touches in every game, scored
Speaker 1: in every game, had like has like six seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: in four games. A grade Kamara, C grade on Murray.
Speaker 1: If Murray doesn't score, he still gets twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: touches for forty five to sixty five yards, but he
Speaker 1: has a chance to score. So yes, that falls right
Speaker 1: into the C category. Absolutely, a great job today, Scott Matt.
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