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Speaker 1: Over the course of this show, will break down every
Speaker 1: match of fantasy styles we always do. We will play
Speaker 1: three tough questions. We will answer what to do with
Speaker 1: Cuba Hubbard a little later in this show, and we
Speaker 1: will also give you nine players upon who can you
Speaker 1: can take a chance. Let's roll up our sleeves immediately
Speaker 1: with Jacoby Broussett and the Dolphins offen. Dolphins might be
Speaker 1: the lowest scoring offense of the year. They are right
Speaker 1: now the lowest scoring offense. This may hold this season
Speaker 1: as they take on the Raiders. Yeah, this game, this game,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really low scaring battle here.
Speaker 1: Joe Kobe Prissett, the starter for the Miami Dolphins. This week,
Speaker 1: the Raiders held Ben and Big Ben and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: down to about two sixty five yards in a touch. Uh.
Speaker 1: You think of Brissette is a mobile quarterback? You kind
Speaker 1: of do. He's He's had his chops a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you may or may not be surprised to know
Speaker 1: he only averages fifteen yards rushing per start. He doesn't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't run as much as we might think, and
Speaker 1: he averages two hundred passing yards and one touchdown per start.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get a lot of a lot of stats.
Speaker 1: And when you have that low volume, you can't start Wattle.
Speaker 1: You can't, especially with will Fuller back. You can't start
Speaker 1: Wattle or Fuller or Parker. One of them might get
Speaker 1: you some stats, but you can't trust in any of them.
Speaker 1: I have them on the bench. I've sat on the
Speaker 1: bench as well. If you's couldn't have figured that out,
Speaker 1: I have Gasecki on the bench. The Raiders are actually
Speaker 1: top ten against tight ends, but mostly Gasecki and Derm
Speaker 1: might have been pulled into be used to block the
Speaker 1: line plays been terrible in Miami. Yeah, you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't start Kaseki. I do have a C grade on
Speaker 1: Gaskin though he's getting five plus targets a week. Um,
Speaker 1: you say that like it's a good thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean his his ten to fifteen touches might be what
Speaker 1: gets you there. It might be the only thing that
Speaker 1: can work in this offense. Brissett's little dump offs to
Speaker 1: him and he had a hundred sixty nine yards total
Speaker 1: yards last year against this writer's team, So I think
Speaker 1: there's a little bit optimism there. So I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a possibly a volume C grade. I think he gets
Speaker 1: some catches, he gets you some points. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, I am giving a B grade to Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: With Drake and Barber, um, you know, being the workhorses
Speaker 1: with uh, you know, and watching what they did last week,
Speaker 1: they were just they were they were terrible last week
Speaker 1: that the their yards per yards per rush were there
Speaker 1: was one territory, two for Barber and one for Drake carry.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, it's It's absolutely ridiculous. Derek Carr has
Speaker 1: been lighting it up. This might be a little better
Speaker 1: of a defense. The Dolphins have some good cornerbacks, so
Speaker 1: I'm only giving car B grade here, But he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to step it up in this one because the
Speaker 1: running game is not going to get it done with
Speaker 1: Jacob's likely out. However, with Rugs and Edwards and Renfro
Speaker 1: I mentioned those cornerbacks, Uh, they're all good, like Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard's good Byron Jones is good. We're talking. All three
Speaker 1: of their cornerbacks are top forty ranked by PFF, Like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's good. It's tough matchups for all of them.
Speaker 1: Renfro as the best matchup in the slot against Coleman.
Speaker 1: But I don't like any of them this week as
Speaker 1: like even a C start, I think it all goes
Speaker 1: to Waller. I think that's where Carr can do that.
Speaker 1: He's going to spread it around, but we might see
Speaker 1: another nineteen target Waller game. So I mean he's just
Speaker 1: an obvious A at this point. Yes, yeah, in the
Speaker 1: run game, I have Drake with a C and Barbara
Speaker 1: on the bench. Drake is only getting the C because
Speaker 1: he's got five catches, not targets. Five catches in each game.
Speaker 1: If and that's that's getting me, you know, five catches
Speaker 1: in forty yards just receiving, then he gets that's how
Speaker 1: Granted he got nine yards rushing last week, so I
Speaker 1: was gonna say he gets rushing, but we don't know
Speaker 1: think that's gonna count on that. He's gonna get the C.
Speaker 1: Great for me, but that's it for for this matchup, alright,
Speaker 1: not much, you know, not a lot to like in
Speaker 1: Dolphins Rangers. But we got that game out of the way, yes,
Speaker 1: right off the bat, which is very important. Go away.
Speaker 1: We have a better matchup, I hope with Bengals at Steelers. Brian,
Speaker 1: I don't know. And Bengal is gonna likely be without
Speaker 1: Tee Higgins in this game. There's a lot of likely without,
Speaker 1: Like I printed off my notes a couple of hours
Speaker 1: ago and they're already like marked up, like tons of
Speaker 1: ready in on my these notes right now. But we'll
Speaker 1: start with the Bengal side with players who will play
Speaker 1: uh In Joe Mixing just to see for Mixing though
Speaker 1: this week had a rough outing against the Bears last week,
Speaker 1: probably won't get any better against the Steelers. Are any easier,
Speaker 1: I should say. Pittsburgh has allowed the seventh fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards and sixth fewest receiving yards to running backs. Mixing
Speaker 1: basically didn't play last year, but he didn't play the
Speaker 1: Steelers in either game last year, but in his six
Speaker 1: career meetings prior, just one total touchdown. And now now
Speaker 1: t J. Watt is questionable for Pittsburgh and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's a huge With a growing injury that that'll be
Speaker 1: huge either way, So you want to keep your eye
Speaker 1: on what when it comes to Joe mixing and the
Speaker 1: passing game, which we'll get to you right now. As
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Te Higgins looks doubtful. He's like a positive
Speaker 1: doubtful though like the most positive a doubt doubtful can
Speaker 1: get apparently on the questionable side of doubt with the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. But we're just gonna assume he does not play. Uh,
Speaker 1: so he's on the bench, So we'll go to Jamar Chase,
Speaker 1: who I had a B grade on if Higgins played,
Speaker 1: and it certainly doesn't help Jamar Chase that Higgins is sitting.
Speaker 1: Does not give him extra attention for sure, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick with a B for Chase. He's paying off
Speaker 1: big time for those who butt uh the late summer
Speaker 1: like he felt a couple of rounds and after the
Speaker 1: drops in the preseason a touchdown of twenty plus are
Speaker 1: yards in each week for Chase. The Steelers have allowed
Speaker 1: the sixth most yards and third most receptions to wide
Speaker 1: receivers plus a touchdown in each game they played. Henry Ruggs,
Speaker 1: the third just had a hundred plus in a score
Speaker 1: last week, So I like chase his chances of replicating
Speaker 1: those numbers from Rugs. So again, Higgins out, Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: was gonna get his CEE. I guess I'm gonna bump
Speaker 1: Boyd up to a B. Now Pittsburgh has yielded the
Speaker 1: third most targets to wide receivers and Tyler Boyd generally
Speaker 1: gets a lot of those. From Ben Roethlisber, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: from Joe Burrow, Um, who you know, I gotta talk
Speaker 1: about autent tate now, I was gonna give Tyler Boyd.
Speaker 1: I don't think even when a dart throw autent tae
Speaker 1: though there is a good secondary Joe Hayden's going they're
Speaker 1: gonna get funnel to the past. I feel the Bengals
Speaker 1: aut not a takecom player, but he's a fringe take
Speaker 1: on player, maybe a daily Star super super super desperate.
Speaker 1: There you go, We'll go with that. And then lastly,
Speaker 1: for since Joe Burrow, just to see, um, he did
Speaker 1: play Pittsburgh last year before the season ending knee injury. Sadly,
Speaker 1: te Higgins went off in that game. Who's not playing
Speaker 1: in this game? So uh bur only had two yards
Speaker 1: and one passing touchdown. In that game. I think he
Speaker 1: can get to to forty and two in this one. Uh,
Speaker 1: now with Jamar Chase in the mix, but again Higgins gone. Uh.
Speaker 1: If t J. Watt is a go or no go,
Speaker 1: that's that's this huge for Burrow in this one. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with the sea. Over to the Steelers side,
Speaker 1: We'll start with Naji Harris, who did not play in
Speaker 1: one of the snaps last week. It's a tough matchup
Speaker 1: for Naji um the Bengals held Dalvin Cook and David
Speaker 1: Montgomery and check on the ground. Harris did see five
Speaker 1: targets last week. That's encouraging. I would expect him to
Speaker 1: top one hundred combo yards on this one with the
Speaker 1: potential for a touchdown, but just a very soft b
Speaker 1: for nausea. That's all the way from that was very intentional.
Speaker 1: Now Deonde Johnson was going to get an A, but
Speaker 1: now he's been ruled out. He is out. So James
Speaker 1: Washington becomes a really sneaky pickup inlay and dfs we
Speaker 1: we will get to him in Trey Wayne's uh, since
Speaker 1: his top corner is doubtful, so that that's a bump
Speaker 1: for all remaining wide receivers will start with Juju Smith Schuster,
Speaker 1: your your boy Charts has scored in three or four
Speaker 1: career home games against the Bengals, including last year's contest.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him a B with no Deonte
Speaker 1: Johnson and uh, he was going to be a C,
Speaker 1: as was Chase Claypool. Uh, I'm gonna give Claypool to
Speaker 1: be here fifty plus yards in both games against the
Speaker 1: Bengals last year. He scored twice in one of those games. Um,
Speaker 1: So with no Deonte Johnson, Claypool and Smith Shoester should
Speaker 1: see a significant bumping targets a B for both of
Speaker 1: them and James Washington another kind of bonus. Take home
Speaker 1: wide receiver here with a C grade no Deonta Clify.
Speaker 1: For those that might not listen to the show regularly,
Speaker 1: take com is recalled take a chance on Me. That
Speaker 1: is our our shortened version. Everyone knows that the most
Speaker 1: popular acronym in fantasy football, but they'll they'll learn it
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Speaker 1: acronym and fantasy football is blow and we'll get well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get blowed later and quickly. The tight ends not
Speaker 1: startable yet for me for Pittsburgh. Even though rookie Pat
Speaker 1: Friar Muth has appeared to have jumped he run on
Speaker 1: the depth chart. Fiarmuth is the only true rookie tight
Speaker 1: end we will discuss on the day show. And lastly,
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger. He'll never get higher than to see ever
Speaker 1: right for the remainder of this season. I mean, based
Speaker 1: what we've seen so far. No, he he looks cooked
Speaker 1: with no Deonte Johnson, he's got the peck injury. I
Speaker 1: kind of like the wide receiver still a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I got Ben on the bench. No, I don't
Speaker 1: blame you. They're far better cup, far better guys to play.
Speaker 1: Chargers take on the Chiefs, and I'm gonna start with
Speaker 1: the Chargers side by mentioning the Chiefs defense is in
Speaker 1: bad shape. Frank Clark is out for this game and
Speaker 1: that will help to both the running game and the
Speaker 1: passing game. Chris Jones is questionable chair various Award one
Speaker 1: of their starting corners also questionable for this game. Chargers
Speaker 1: are going to win this game and Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: gonna be under five hundred in a couple of days.
Speaker 1: That's coming up. Huh, let's start with the running game
Speaker 1: in Austin Ekeler. Chiefs are allowing one hundred thirty rushing yards.
Speaker 1: That's the third most and two rushing scores the most
Speaker 1: per game to opposing running backs, which is part of
Speaker 1: the A grade for Eckler. He caught all nine of
Speaker 1: his receptions last week. Remember after week one when he
Speaker 1: had no receptions and we were all worried that he
Speaker 1: gets nine the next week next week? Right, zero, I'd
Speaker 1: like it. Zero. Yeah. The Chiefs ranked thirty so far
Speaker 1: in running back receiving yards allowed. Sorry, that was last year,
Speaker 1: thirtieth last year allowed. They appeared to be better through
Speaker 1: that through a couple of games this year, but still
Speaker 1: a plus matchup for Eckler on the ground and through
Speaker 1: the air. Love Justin air Bear, who has played better
Speaker 1: than his box scores would suggest. In Week one he
Speaker 1: faced a very good Washington defense, still put up threety
Speaker 1: seven and in week two he had a couple of
Speaker 1: big play touchdowns that got reversed and he still posted
Speaker 1: three thirty eight yards and one was on a taunting
Speaker 1: call to right, one of the many awful taunting calls.
Speaker 1: It feels like Justin he is sitting on an explosive game,
Speaker 1: and this could be at the chief secondary has only
Speaker 1: been lightly tested with the passing of Baker Mayfield and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and they're still giving up an eye popping
Speaker 1: completion rate of seventy two, the fifth worst in the league.
Speaker 1: And here comes Air Bear with his seventy percent completion rate.
Speaker 1: This is a plus plus matchup for a Bear A grade.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen gets an A grade. Back to back one
Speaker 1: hundred yard games the first time since twenties seventeen. Minnesota
Speaker 1: cast off Mike Hughes awaits him in the slot. Hughes
Speaker 1: gives up four inches and twenty pounds. That is a
Speaker 1: sizeable mismatch in Alan's favor. Also, Mike Hughes is not good.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams gets a B grade, which we will upgrade
Speaker 1: to an A if char Various Ward does not play
Speaker 1: back to back games with double digit targets. For Mike
Speaker 1: Williams something that had never happened in his entire career before,
Speaker 1: and that kind of usage makes him a reliable starter
Speaker 1: like never before. I read how his A dot has
Speaker 1: basically been cut in half, but it's been absolutely more productive.
Speaker 1: He's got a good coachingverage. The target for those who
Speaker 1: do that is correct, Thank you very much. Well, I
Speaker 1: do think cornerback Legarius Sneed is good. Um, he can
Speaker 1: be avoided pretty easy by lining up on the other
Speaker 1: side of the field. And as I mentioned, our various
Speaker 1: word may not play so b and possibly in a
Speaker 1: grade for Mike Williams. Jared Cook is a sneaky tight
Speaker 1: end sleeper you may be able to pick up. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs have allowed ninety three yards per game to opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends, that is the second most in the league.
Speaker 1: Cook has gotten almost all of the tight end targets.
Speaker 1: He notched four red zone receptions in the two games,
Speaker 1: which could be a good sign for a possible touchdown here. Next,
Speaker 1: let's go over to the Kansas City side Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Hill and Kelsey. I'll get a grades, but I do
Speaker 1: need to point out some danger points for you. Over
Speaker 1: the past two years, Mahomes is averaged a mundane two
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen yards and one point three touchdown passes against
Speaker 1: the Chargers. That is Brisset level production. That's so that's weird.
Speaker 1: And with the return of elite safety Derwin James and
Speaker 1: promising rookie cornerback is Sante Samueldi. The Chargers are not
Speaker 1: a lay up at this point. Los Angeles has allowed
Speaker 1: the second fewest Fantasy points to quarterbacks, including goose egging
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott last week. It looks like Joey Bosa will
Speaker 1: not play though, after missing the entire week of practice.
Speaker 1: That does help Mahomes but again still have A grades
Speaker 1: and Mahomes, Hill and Kelsey, but not this usual the
Speaker 1: usual confidence we've had in the past. Then we turned
Speaker 1: our attention to Clyde Edwards, a layer to complete duds
Speaker 1: so far and needs to perform here against the Chargers
Speaker 1: team allowing a league worse rushing yards per game on
Speaker 1: five and a half yards per carry. This is a
Speaker 1: critical juncture for Clyde Edwards a Laire. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: more about him a little later in the show. He
Speaker 1: gets a C grade here. He he is still quasi
Speaker 1: active in the receiving game. I don't know, not as
Speaker 1: much as he should be. So maybe he's going to
Speaker 1: help out a little bit in that particular area. But again,
Speaker 1: deep dive coming up later in the show on Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards a Laire. We've been kind of ragged on Jacoby
Speaker 1: uh in this segment, but he did prest the bar
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Speaker 1: segment we call take a chance on Me. It's so
Speaker 1: great to have a great song to go take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Now. I ragged on this song in
Speaker 1: its debut at late last year's but it was it
Speaker 1: was that it was better than whatever we were rolling
Speaker 1: out before that. But it's growing on me every time
Speaker 1: great tune. I apologize for ragging on I think as
Speaker 1: well you should. This is nine players not normally and
Speaker 1: you're starting line up. Many of these guys are available
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire. Got great matchups this week. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you who they are, beginning at the quarterback position
Speaker 1: and Scott Fish. First off, I think we all missed
Speaker 1: the chipmunks. We can all admit that we missed the
Speaker 1: Chipmunks take a chance on me song. It's true. Yes,
Speaker 1: I never thought I never thought I would say it,
Speaker 1: But yes, that's that's the one that's still not miss Okay,
Speaker 1: I have Daniel Jones. The Falcons are the worst ranked
Speaker 1: team against quarterbacks. They've allowed eight passing touchdowns, and the
Speaker 1: Giants are designing runs for Jones, which is actually going
Speaker 1: to give him a nice floor. He has a two
Speaker 1: plus total yards and multiple scores in both games. And
Speaker 1: as I said in week one, if you remember, you
Speaker 1: have to keep in mind that for Atlanta, the front
Speaker 1: eleven on that defense is not very good. That is true,
Speaker 1: the front eleven. Yes, yes, Brian, you're take a chance
Speaker 1: to the quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo at home against the Packers.
Speaker 1: How should my guy from the past two weeks? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: started like is he always gonna be taking take ace?
Speaker 1: Might bake Trey Lance is gonna have to wait another week.
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston went off against Green Bay for five touchdowns
Speaker 1: in week one. Jared Goff at a decent showing in
Speaker 1: Lambeau last week with nearly two fifty passing yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. So Jimmy g has multi touchdown potential with
Speaker 1: his primary receiving options healthy like George Kittle and Diebo
Speaker 1: Samuel of course, and and virtually no running backs on
Speaker 1: the team. We'll talk about that a little later in
Speaker 1: the show. And Jameis Winston also ran for thirty seven
Speaker 1: yards and Gop had forty six against Green Bay and
Speaker 1: Jimmy g just as mobile as those guys, if not
Speaker 1: more so. I'm like in Garoppolo sitting on a big game.
Speaker 1: I think it could be just find Kevin King is
Speaker 1: all you have to do at the Packers fans pulling
Speaker 1: their hair out over his play. Jared goff Is might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterback you just alluded to him,
Speaker 1: and unlikely top ten fantasy quarterback right now thanks to
Speaker 1: a unique recipe that remains in play for the Lions
Speaker 1: and awful defense creating ongoing negative game scripts. His offensive
Speaker 1: line is pretty good, so he's got time to scan
Speaker 1: the field, and even with shaky receivers, he's getting a
Speaker 1: lot of help from his tight ends in his running backs.
Speaker 1: And here comes a Baltimore defense a shell of its
Speaker 1: former self, allowing the most passing yards in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and on Friday they had to rule out four defensive
Speaker 1: starters on the COVID list. This is a very plus
Speaker 1: matchup for Jared Goff potentially sitting on a big game.
Speaker 1: They're probably calling ed read write about now, want to
Speaker 1: let's go to the running back position. You're take a
Speaker 1: chance on me player. I am going with score Darryl
Speaker 1: Patterson Mark McNeil from from Twitter giving me that nickname
Speaker 1: score Darryl Patterson, Like, uh, he has a role in
Speaker 1: this offense. Was this last week? But I know right
Speaker 1: they're designing a lot of plays for him. He's only
Speaker 1: in a game about a third of the time, and
Speaker 1: he's touching the ball on a good high percentage. Of
Speaker 1: those giants they match up against. The Falcons are allowing
Speaker 1: nearly five point four yards per carrying over nine yards
Speaker 1: per reception to to running backs. Also, by the way,
Speaker 1: Gauge and Frank Darby r out. So basically, it's it's Pits,
Speaker 1: it's Redley, it's Patterson, and like all the Alata days,
Speaker 1: Achias like that's it on that. Yeah, I didn't think
Speaker 1: you pull that off. You're taking a chance of me
Speaker 1: running back Bryant. I have the decomposing zombie corps of
Speaker 1: James Conner at Jacksonville. Connor has not looked good this year,
Speaker 1: but the Jaguars have looked worse than James Connor has
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. Chase Edmonds is a guy you want
Speaker 1: for Arizona, but Connor is still going to factor, uh,
Speaker 1: probably heavily against the Jaguars team that allowed every Texan
Speaker 1: running back to score in Week one outside of Rex Burkhead,
Speaker 1: but all three other backs scored and last week uh,
Speaker 1: they surrendered one plus combo yards to Denver backs. And
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has also yielded the second most red zone and
Speaker 1: gold to go touches to running backs so far this year.
Speaker 1: So I think Connor sneaks into the end zone in
Speaker 1: this one. Could be I've got Latavius Murray against Detroit.
Speaker 1: Any warm body viable play against Detroit, And while I
Speaker 1: prefer Tyson Williams by a lot, but just for the
Speaker 1: sake of going farther down the depth chart, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Murray. He'll face a Lions team surrounding one fifty
Speaker 1: total yards per game to opposing backs that's ninth most
Speaker 1: and a staggering three running back touchdowns per game. The
Speaker 1: Lions are giving up by average. Uh, So you know
Speaker 1: if there's three to be had, even if Williams gets
Speaker 1: one or two of them, Maury could get the third.
Speaker 1: Murray had eighty three total yards and two scores when
Speaker 1: he played against Detroit last year as a member of
Speaker 1: the Saints. Let's go to the receivers, Scott, who's your
Speaker 1: take a chance on me? White out? My take a
Speaker 1: chance on me? Wide receiver is going to be Jillen reagor. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's going up against Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys giving a
Speaker 1: lot of passing or wide receiver production so far, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's gonna be a shootout on Monday Night
Speaker 1: with with an over under over fifty points. And the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have allowed ninety plus yards and or a
Speaker 1: score to four receivers in their two games, two in
Speaker 1: each game, and three of those scored. Uh. The one
Speaker 1: who didn't had a hundred eight yards. Also, the guy
Speaker 1: that plays in Rigors spot in the field went for
Speaker 1: five in a touch and seven for a touch in
Speaker 1: those two Wow. Alright, Brian, your take a chance to
Speaker 1: me receiver? Now he's Uh, he's a receiver, but he's
Speaker 1: not a wide receiver. He's a tight end and he
Speaker 1: plays for Arizona. But he's Minnesota's own Max Williams at
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. You think last week Max at Jack's was
Speaker 1: not a was not a fluke. It was not a fluke.
Speaker 1: Max with Jack's big Max attack. And that's with two
Speaker 1: exes on Jacksonville. And that's the University of Minnesota, of course.
Speaker 1: And I saw it was Goldie the Gopher sixty nine birthday,
Speaker 1: sixty nine, nice birthday the other day, So happy belated Goldie.
Speaker 1: But great matchup for Williams, finally living up to that
Speaker 1: second round draft capital from Baltimore from about I don't know.
Speaker 1: It feels like a decade ago at this point, but
Speaker 1: tight ends have faredwell against the Jaguars. Houston's Farrell Brown
Speaker 1: had four catches sixty seven yards in Week one in Denver.
Speaker 1: Tight ends combined for nine catches for sixty plus yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown against jackson Ville Jacksonville last week. So
Speaker 1: Max to the Max, Max and Jacks Sammy Watkins is
Speaker 1: not just for week one anymore. He leads all Ravens
Speaker 1: receivers and snap counts. He leads all Ravens receivers in
Speaker 1: routes run Mark Keys Brown entering this game hobble. This
Speaker 1: could be a big opportunity for Sammy Watkins to continue
Speaker 1: a solid start to the season. Um the Lions secondary
Speaker 1: so inept they're missing two starting cornerbacks in an already
Speaker 1: awful secondary. This is an opportunity for basically any carbon
Speaker 1: based life form who's on the field against the Lions,
Speaker 1: and Sammy Watkins counts as one of those. He is
Speaker 1: carbon based. Is carbon based? We are we are reporting
Speaker 1: here for the very first time. Let's work in a
Speaker 1: couple of matchups. Falcons against the Giants. Scott we already
Speaker 1: talked about We've already talked about a couple of falcons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we talked about score. Darrell Patterson. Uh, let's go
Speaker 1: with the other running back there, his backup running back.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, Mike Davis. He's actually still playing seventy of
Speaker 1: the snaps to Patterson's six, team plus touches in back
Speaker 1: to back games for Davis and ten catches in those
Speaker 1: two games to patterson seven. He's actually getting a decent
Speaker 1: amount of work both in the running game and passing game.
Speaker 1: Already told you the Giants are allowing five point four
Speaker 1: yards per carrying, nine yards per reception, give me a
Speaker 1: B grade on Mike Davis this week. I like him
Speaker 1: here in this spot. The Matt Ryan in the passing
Speaker 1: game washed Matt Ryan. That's that should be his nickname now.
Speaker 1: But still, somehow, somehow, I'm giving him a C grade.
Speaker 1: But honestly, you should probably find a better option. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a C minus here, all right.
Speaker 1: The secret than the Giants are allowing three hundred yards
Speaker 1: and two scores per game. That's why you like him.
Speaker 1: Uh the over unders like forty and a half, That's
Speaker 1: that's why you should like him. To um he had
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and two touchdowns last week. There's reasons
Speaker 1: to like him. He just looks really bad and I
Speaker 1: don't want him to give him a grade better than
Speaker 1: the see. I don't blame you, Kelvin Ridley. I got
Speaker 1: an A grade on He's gonna get James Bradbury. For
Speaker 1: the most part, Bradbury gave up four for forty nine
Speaker 1: to McClaren. Obviously McLaren had a bigger game that but
Speaker 1: that's what Bradbury gave up. Gave up ford for forty
Speaker 1: three to Sutton. He's he's given He's given up some
Speaker 1: chunks and Ridley. They can move around and he can
Speaker 1: avoid Bradbury at times. So twelve total receptions in his coverage.
Speaker 1: Bradbury is Ridley A grade. Russell gauges out Alamina Zakias
Speaker 1: is gonna gonna be in. I have a bench grade
Speaker 1: on Zakius, but also Frank Darby's out. Basically the only
Speaker 1: other guy in that offense is Kyle Pitts. He come.
Speaker 1: This could be This could finally be the A grade
Speaker 1: you so desperately want to have give and have him
Speaker 1: actually be made good on. Hey hey, now, I gave
Speaker 1: him an A grade in week one, but then the
Speaker 1: following week you gave Jake George Kittle and a grade
Speaker 1: against that same defense, and George Kittle did worst worst. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Giants have allowed the third most receptions, the third
Speaker 1: most touchdowns, and the fifth most arts to tight ends.
Speaker 1: They're allowing six plus catches and sixty plus yards and
Speaker 1: to score per game in each game. This isn't a
Speaker 1: new tread. Remember in two thousands seventeen they were terrible.
Speaker 1: They were terrible in two thousand set Well, when we
Speaker 1: talk about Cole Pits, apparently we're supposed to use historical
Speaker 1: tight end data. Is that all right? Boom roasted. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. I'm just messing around. I do have an
Speaker 1: A grade on cop Pits. Yeah, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 1: This feels like way more of a breakout. It really does.
Speaker 1: It really does. Previous A grade. Yeah, this is, you know,
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson's third game last year type stuff. All right over,
Speaker 1: how about the Giants side? Giants side? Daniel Jones was
Speaker 1: gonna take a chance on me player? Obviously if I
Speaker 1: like him, I like some players. He's going to be
Speaker 1: throwing too. I'm keeping ingram and the tight ends on
Speaker 1: the bench in his first game back, even though the
Speaker 1: Falcons let Gronkins Goddard score on them. I don't trust
Speaker 1: Angraman his first game back, but Shephard and got A.
Speaker 1: Shepherd leads the league in interceptions right now. It's hard
Speaker 1: not to like him. I have a B grade on him.
Speaker 1: I could be convinced into an A grad um. Atlanta
Speaker 1: has allowed multiple wide receivers to score in each and
Speaker 1: each game, and all of them had over forty nine yards.
Speaker 1: For Kenny Golladay. It might be a squeaky wheel gets
Speaker 1: the grease type of situation, or a squeaky mouse gets
Speaker 1: the cheese situation or what what whatever the saying is,
Speaker 1: because here's the interesting thing. Sixty second ranked Isay Oliver
Speaker 1: is going to be covering Shephard right and Slot Golliday.
Speaker 1: They just ruled out A. J. Terrell on Friday, putting
Speaker 1: five year journeyman five years, five teams journeyman T J. Green,
Speaker 1: who has played like twenty snaps this year. On Kenny Golladay,
Speaker 1: I know Kenny's, you know, dealing with little injury issues,
Speaker 1: but given the blow up blow up last week, I
Speaker 1: think the squeaky wheel thing, I'm going to give him
Speaker 1: a C grade for a cat. For a certain caliber
Speaker 1: of player, the squeaky wheel almost always gets the grease.
Speaker 1: And when you're paid seventy one million dollars, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you get greased. Yes, So C grade for him.
Speaker 1: In the running game, Booker's only averaging four touches of game,
Speaker 1: so let's ignore him. But se Kwon Barkley, this might
Speaker 1: be the first time back, it's the first time he's
Speaker 1: not on the injury report. Finally, he's had ten days rest.
Speaker 1: We knew it was going to be a slow start.
Speaker 1: His snaps went from to eight and now he's had
Speaker 1: ten days. Falcons are allowing a hundred forty two combo
Speaker 1: yards per game. You gotta imagine that all of that
Speaker 1: is going to Barkley. I have a B grade on
Speaker 1: Barkley just because a little hesitant. Still all right, I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think this is this could be
Speaker 1: the breakout game. Adrian Peterson as an example for a
Speaker 1: running back coming off a c L in his big
Speaker 1: his blow up season was his first three games were light,
Speaker 1: first two were light. He had a ten carry game
Speaker 1: in week one, a twelve carry game in week two,
Speaker 1: and then he touched the ball twenty nine times a
Speaker 1: week three. I remember, he can be the big the
Speaker 1: big change. So maybe that's gonna be it for Sae
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley. I remember you had like two hundred yards
Speaker 1: in the first three games, and then he had like
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred to end of the season. I think that's
Speaker 1: about right. Whatever was um, Brian, let's see if we
Speaker 1: can sneak in Cardinals Jags in like two and a
Speaker 1: half minutes. Let's do it. If you think we can't,
Speaker 1: then then we're gonna go to break What do you think?
Speaker 1: Let's go for it? Caler Murray. I'm giving him the
Speaker 1: fantasy Fonzie. A currently on pace for roughly seventy five
Speaker 1: total touchdowns as of right now. I guess that's a
Speaker 1: seventeen game pace as well. I don't have a Fonzie.
Speaker 1: I've got the Ard Park. But now now DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: game time decision with a rib injury, I'm still giving
Speaker 1: Murray the Fonzie regardless of Hopkins place. I like him
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, but you gotta keep your eye on DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins with the rib injury. Gonna give him in an
Speaker 1: A if he goes. Jacksonville is allowing more than two
Speaker 1: yards per game to wide receivers and Hopkins is one
Speaker 1: of the best in the world, so uh, not a
Speaker 1: lot to discuss here, but you gotta keep your eye
Speaker 1: on him. So hopefully he goes on Sunday. Now, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't go, I had starting grades on Rondale Moore, A, J. Green,
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk BBC, no Hopkins, then now it goes a B.
Speaker 1: Basically Green will see the most snaps and has shown
Speaker 1: some glimpses of the glory days, but more it looks
Speaker 1: like an absolute super star. But he's on the field
Speaker 1: the least of the three, and that's I mean again
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars, I'll start all three of these guys
Speaker 1: even if Hopkins is a go uh, Kirk my least favorite.
Speaker 1: But if no Hopkins, they all get bumped up. And
Speaker 1: I liked Max Williams as might take a chance of
Speaker 1: me receiver at tight end. And you like James Connors,
Speaker 1: you take it. But I like I like Chase Edmunds
Speaker 1: more than James Connor, So Edmonds gets to be Connor
Speaker 1: gets the take. Hom See, you gotta love your Cardinals
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars, you don't have to love a lot
Speaker 1: on the Jacksonville side. I will give James Robinson a C.
Speaker 1: Last week, his snapshare rose to seventy and his touch
Speaker 1: is nearly doubled. That was a relief uh for everyone
Speaker 1: who drafted him as a bell cow post e t
Speaker 1: N injury um. But the Cardinals limited Derrick Henry to
Speaker 1: fifty eight rushing yards in the opener, but then Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cooke just ran all over them last week. So give
Speaker 1: Robinson a safe C on you know, volume with some
Speaker 1: B potential, but it's a it's gonna be a coin
Speaker 1: flip if he has any six s or not uh
Speaker 1: nobes for any of the wide receivers and only giving
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones a starting grade, he gets to see fourth
Speaker 1: highest target share percentage among all wide receivers at thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent. Looking like an absolute draft day steel right now,
Speaker 1: Arvin Jones is h d J Shark does not. He's
Speaker 1: on the bench. Twelve targets in week one, just three catches.
Speaker 1: That's not good than just four targets for one catch.
Speaker 1: I think d J art just might not be any
Speaker 1: good and Lavish Chalt Trevor Lawrence, we gotta see some
Speaker 1: more before we need want to see Channel healthy as well,
Speaker 1: and maybe in a better matchup. Um speaking at better
Speaker 1: matchups Ravens and Lions Points School or coming. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you all the players you can start in this matchup
Speaker 1: when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you from Guillotine leagues dot com. You roll
Speaker 1: back into some matchups, including the Ravens taking on the Lions,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of guys we like here and
Speaker 1: some of them don't even require much elaboration, like Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson obvious a here. Marquis Brown has eight touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his last eight games going up against this paper thin
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions secondary missing two of its starting cornerbacks. Marcus
Speaker 1: Brown is an obvious A I believe as well, and
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins was might take a chance on me. Wide
Speaker 1: receiver Mark Andrews has been quiet, but a breakout game
Speaker 1: possibly coming here. George Kittle dropped four catches for seven
Speaker 1: eight yards on Detroit in Week one, and then Robert
Speaker 1: Tunyon posted fifty two yards in a score this past
Speaker 1: Monday Night, So good game likely coming from Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: in this one. The breakout game we want. Tyson Williams
Speaker 1: I meant into him earlier in the show, quietly on
Speaker 1: a having a really nice season. He's averaging six and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry. He leaves all NFL runners
Speaker 1: in average yard yards over expectation by next gen stats
Speaker 1: at two extra yards. Tyson Williams does the kids good appropriately.
Speaker 1: He's still getting more snaps and more carries than Murray
Speaker 1: as well as he should. Plus he catches passes that
Speaker 1: Murray isn't in this In this game. So far, he's
Speaker 1: hauled in five of six targets this year and receiving
Speaker 1: chops are valuable. If you look at what the Lions
Speaker 1: just allowed Aaron Jones to do for on them through
Speaker 1: the air. We want a piece of that. So there's
Speaker 1: Tyson Williams and a B grade for you. Lettavius Murray
Speaker 1: was might take a chance, I mean running back earlier
Speaker 1: he has a C grade in this game. Moving over
Speaker 1: to the Detroit side. Already told you Jared goff Was
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me quarterback, And I'll re
Speaker 1: mention Ravens just put four defensive players on their COVID list,
Speaker 1: so we like a lot of players here. I had
Speaker 1: a B grade on golf before they put all those
Speaker 1: players on the list, and I think I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: keep him with a B grade. But man, it's close
Speaker 1: to a grade B before. Yes's just a top ten
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback already, he's swimming in garbage. We made a
Speaker 1: joke about it, but I think this trade was good
Speaker 1: for both sides. Might turn out that way. T J.
Speaker 1: Hockinson's and obvious A grade here. By the way, Kansas
Speaker 1: City goes from Darren Waller to Travis Kelsey and now
Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson a murderer's row of tight ends and
Speaker 1: they're getting killed as well, and a probable negative game
Speaker 1: script will keep Hockinson active throughout this one. A grade
Speaker 1: for t J. Hockenson. Staying with the passing game, how
Speaker 1: about if we sprinkle in a little quintet c fist
Speaker 1: with the C grade throw a dart at him? Why not?
Speaker 1: He was your snap leader last week at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position by a wide margin and with tyrrell soft
Speaker 1: tissue Williams out. He runs primarily from the left side
Speaker 1: of the field, where he sees Anthony Aver a neutral matchup.
Speaker 1: A C grade for c fuss the Quinn Tasmanian devil
Speaker 1: nope uh DeAndre Swift gets a B grade here. He
Speaker 1: leads the league with sixteen targets, leads all runners in targets.
Speaker 1: He is second in receptions. He's third in receiving yards.
Speaker 1: His lone touchdown has come through the air as well,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be a big PPR helper in
Speaker 1: this game. Swift production will come easier through the air.
Speaker 1: The Ravens allowed the fourth fewest rushing yards to opposing
Speaker 1: backs and the fourth most receiving yards, so there's all
Speaker 1: about the receiving prowess of DeAndre Swift, and that's the
Speaker 1: B grade. And Jamal Williams can chip in here as well.
Speaker 1: Granted he's on the wrong side of the two third
Speaker 1: one third time share with DeAndre Swift, but when he's
Speaker 1: in the game, he's getting on the field and he's
Speaker 1: still touching the ball fourteen times a game. He's already
Speaker 1: had an eight catch game, and I just explained about
Speaker 1: how susceptible Baltimore is to pass catching back. So I
Speaker 1: like Williams as well with the C grade. In that game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's touching the ball nearly two thirds of his snaps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's not good good utilization. The Buccaneers take on
Speaker 1: the Rams and Tom Brady has been my number one
Speaker 1: ranked quarterback the past two weeks. Not this time, though, Scott.
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, it's this week. I actually have a
Speaker 1: B grade on Brady. I mean, they have nine passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns no rushing touchdowns yet over there for the Bucks. Uh.
Speaker 1: If Dalton can throw for two d two hundred plus
Speaker 1: yards on the Rams and Wentz can throw for two seven,
Speaker 1: you think Tom can throw for three hundred, you would think.
Speaker 1: But all kind aside, that's a really good defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: they we'll see how the I think they meet in
Speaker 1: the middle here. You know, the good offense, which is
Speaker 1: the good defense. I'm just giving a B grade Brady,
Speaker 1: and I assume that finally we might see some rushing points. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you never know. He has a lot of those one
Speaker 1: yard jump over Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. I have
Speaker 1: B grades on both. The ram have only allowed yards
Speaker 1: to receivers. Weirdly, Michael Pittman was of that, I don't
Speaker 1: know how that works, but only one receiving touchdown allowed.
Speaker 1: But and Jalen Ramsey, Darius Williams, David Long are all
Speaker 1: top forty ranked by PFF. But they're they're just gonna
Speaker 1: get enough targets in a shoot out like this that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a B grade. I feel they
Speaker 1: get there somehow, especially with Antonio Brown out for this game,
Speaker 1: likely out for this game. Uh Tyler Johnson and and
Speaker 1: uh Taylor Darton are going to get into the game
Speaker 1: a little more. But you can't start them. Gronk. I
Speaker 1: have an A grade on He's not going to score
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Again. I feel safe in saying that. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: I don't feel as safe as I should feel weirdly.
Speaker 1: But the Bears and Colts tight ends average six for
Speaker 1: sixty eight on the Rams, and I'd be very happy
Speaker 1: with that with Gronk, but I think he'll get more
Speaker 1: because he seems to be Tom's favorite target near the stripe.
Speaker 1: So still in a grade for Gronk because he's got
Speaker 1: that huge touchdown upside the Leo, g O and O
Speaker 1: Joe trilogy there they're on the bench. I mean Geo
Speaker 1: has four touches this season, Rojo has eleven. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's nothing for Netta has twenty nine touches. So if
Speaker 1: there was a guy, it might be him. But the
Speaker 1: Rams run the has been good. They're holding down every
Speaker 1: they hold held down Jonathan Taylor to basically nothing last week.
Speaker 1: He got a bench of them all. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, I got an a grade here. You have
Speaker 1: a banged up Darrell Henderson. If he goes, if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: it's Sony Michelle. They won't be able to run it
Speaker 1: all against this vaunted Bucks D. So Stafford's gonna have
Speaker 1: to light up a Bucks D that is allowing three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and two point five touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: By the way, Stafford himself is averaging three hundred yards
Speaker 1: and two point five touchdowns, so that seems like where
Speaker 1: he's gonna be. Cooper Cup is an obvious A. By
Speaker 1: the way, Peacock on that one in the preseason, I
Speaker 1: had that one right. Uh, he's he's a Stafford, he's
Speaker 1: Stafford's guy, He's Stephred's guy. Now you don't really need
Speaker 1: to do that. Uh. He's got a nice match up
Speaker 1: against Ross Cockrell ranked ninety one by PFF, and the
Speaker 1: Bucks are allowing two yards per game, which is good
Speaker 1: for the second most to wide receivers and the most
Speaker 1: receptions to wide receivers. So he's gonna get the A.
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is going to get the A going up
Speaker 1: against Carlton Davis. Um He's actually ranks pretty good by
Speaker 1: pretty pretty highly by PF, but a lot of it
Speaker 1: is a bunch of pass breakups and pick He still
Speaker 1: lets up yards. So um Amari Cooper blew up on
Speaker 1: him week one, Calvin Ridley blew up on him last week.
Speaker 1: Justin or Van Jefferson I have on the bench. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets a big play, but you can't count
Speaker 1: on it. He's as dart throwable as On and Tad
Speaker 1: and James Washington and like maybe a little more than
Speaker 1: those guys. Um, but I have a bench grade. But
Speaker 1: like Charge says, you know, he's he's he's dart throw
Speaker 1: a bowl. Uh. Tyler Higbie, I have c great on
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Allowed nine plus receptions to tight ends in
Speaker 1: each game, sixty five plus yards in each game. Feels
Speaker 1: like a solid spot. Higbie wasn't part of the game
Speaker 1: plan last week, Complete Dodd. I think he rebounds in
Speaker 1: the high scoring matchup this week. And Henderson and Michelle,
Speaker 1: if Henderson goes, your bunche in of both. If Henderson
Speaker 1: does not go, and it's all Michelle, you're mentioning him
Speaker 1: to uh. In the last two games, get this, You're
Speaker 1: gonna this is a charge stet, You're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: In the last two games that McVeigh has played the Bucks,
Speaker 1: he's dialed up twenty six run plays and a hundred
Speaker 1: and nineteen passed places, so expects the passing. No rams
Speaker 1: running back outside of those two have touched the ball,
Speaker 1: so you can't touch start any of them. Absolutely not
Speaker 1: all right? In our final matchup of this segment, and
Speaker 1: this hour will be the Colts taking on the Titans. Brian,
Speaker 1: we don't yet. We might not know until game time
Speaker 1: about who the cold starting quarterback is. Yeah, Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Parentheses ankles not singular to sprained angles. Never never heard
Speaker 1: of such a thing, and uh my my life basically,
Speaker 1: So let's you've had two sprayed angles at the same
Speaker 1: time I have. I guess I'm not surprised by that, sadly,
Speaker 1: but I still love be Fish. Anyway, We'll start with
Speaker 1: wins Um on the bench, even if he plays. You
Speaker 1: can't trust the guy with two sprained ankles unless his
Speaker 1: name is Scott Fish. You could always trust Scott Fish.
Speaker 1: If wins doesn't go, you think Jacob Easton was going
Speaker 1: to get the start, but you probably Well, they might
Speaker 1: run Hundley a little bit, but they're not gonna They're
Speaker 1: not gonna diddle be Eason and no way anyway you
Speaker 1: slice that you can't like the past game too much.
Speaker 1: I will give Michael Pittman to see if Wentz plays.
Speaker 1: I guess that's a good thing. If wins plays in
Speaker 1: this game, I'm not so sure. But Pittman had a
Speaker 1: huge day against Jalen Ramsey and the Rams last week,
Speaker 1: so why not against the Titans. I do have Zach
Speaker 1: Pascal on the bench though, despite having three touchdown receptions already,
Speaker 1: but uh, I just don't don't trust him with a
Speaker 1: Hobbily Wins or a Jacob Easton or Brett Hunley Webber's
Speaker 1: playing quarterback. You're not starting Zach Pascal. And I've got
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle on the bench as well. So far, opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends have totalled one catch on six targets against Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and Gerald Everett was one of them. And he's decent enough,
Speaker 1: He's a warm enough body, So uh, Doyle is on
Speaker 1: the bench. Jonathan Taylor probably you're only sure fire start
Speaker 1: for the Colts, but he's not a very strong one.
Speaker 1: UH leads the NFL and red zone touches, zero touchdowns,
Speaker 1: six carries inside the five yard line twelve zero yards
Speaker 1: for zero touchdowns. Obviously he likely will come around. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's got a shot against the Titans defense, who have
Speaker 1: gotten off to a slow start, allowing one d plus
Speaker 1: comboy yards or multiple UH scores opposing leadbacks in both games.
Speaker 1: Chris Carson had two goal line touchdowns last week, so
Speaker 1: hopefully Taylor can plunge over the goal line if he
Speaker 1: get gets the opportunity again, multiple opportunities again. We'll talk
Speaker 1: more about Taylor later in this show. And I almost
Speaker 1: used Nahem Hines as might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: running back, but I got him on the bench for
Speaker 1: this one. Quickly over to the Tennessee side, King Henry
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry gets an a yes on eight plus rush
Speaker 1: yards and the hat trick last week, but I'm most
Speaker 1: excited about the six catches her territory more than Kamara,
Speaker 1: more than uh Karen Jones. He's a receiving back now
Speaker 1: and in his last game against Indie, which was also
Speaker 1: in Indie last year, Henry had one seventy eight and
Speaker 1: three on the ground with with two catches in that game.
Speaker 1: So an easy a for Derrick Henry, Uh, pretty easy
Speaker 1: be for a j Brown didn't look so great last week,
Speaker 1: but he will play play. The Coast have allowed two
Speaker 1: one hundred yard receivers and have rendered five touchdowns of
Speaker 1: the position. For that reason, Julio Jones also gets to
Speaker 1: be uh. Anthony Feruser is out. He was gonna be
Speaker 1: on your bench anyway, and Ryan Tannehill borderline benchable just
Speaker 1: to see for for me for Tannehill. Where did you
Speaker 1: could be another King Henry game just one touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: This is a game we call three tough questions. Tough
Speaker 1: question number one, Derek Carr is leading the nf FELL
Speaker 1: in passing yards? Is that a trend or a mirage? Scott,
Speaker 1: It's a trend. It's a trend. It's gonna happen. This
Speaker 1: is rich Gannon two thousand to reincarnate. You remember that
Speaker 1: year very well. Yes, we all remember that year when
Speaker 1: he never threw for more than four thousand yards, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, that year's MVP candidate with
Speaker 1: or so. Las Vegas has the worst runback blocking line
Speaker 1: in the league and they are allowing the fourth highest
Speaker 1: pressure rate for past for blocking. Car has to throw
Speaker 1: and throw quickly and a lot to to stay in
Speaker 1: any games. Right now, his schedule toughens up for a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's got five five games against top ten
Speaker 1: defenses out of the next six, but after that they're
Speaker 1: all like bottom twelve for almost the entire rest of
Speaker 1: the season. I think he loads up there. I'm saying
Speaker 1: it's a trend. I'm saying he's gonna have to throw
Speaker 1: a lot this season, all right, Brian Derek Carr leading
Speaker 1: the all in passing yards trend or mirage, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going trend to. Last year, Car was eleventh in passing yards,
Speaker 1: but Las Vegas only threw the ball like cent of
Speaker 1: the time. That's a very low clip. Right now, they're
Speaker 1: throwing the ball nearly seventy percent of the time. I
Speaker 1: liked the wide receivers enough and Henry rugs, Brian Edwards, Hunter,
Speaker 1: Renfrell an absolute stud at tight end. Obviously, with Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: the defense is just bad enough to keep them throwing
Speaker 1: a lot, as are the running as the running games.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know if he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: passing yards leader, but he's got top five potential right now. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: you guys took all my talking points. This is a trend, Derek,
Speaker 1: even the rich Cannon point, even the Rich Cannon one man,
Speaker 1: I wanted to win m VP. I think he finished
Speaker 1: second that year. I don't think I could be I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. That was a while ago, Vegas. It's
Speaker 1: just a person perfect recipe for passing yards for the
Speaker 1: reasons you already mentioned, the negative game scraps, the dubious running,
Speaker 1: all the other stuff, and he leads the NFL and
Speaker 1: passing attempts. That that's going to continue, Derek Carr is
Speaker 1: good enough. Update. Rich Cannon did win that year. He
Speaker 1: did win that. He did tough sin number two. Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards a layer with two dud games trend or miurage, Brian,
Speaker 1: I think it's been so is the dud what's in
Speaker 1: question is that? What is what he's currently doing a trend, right,
Speaker 1: It's very much is it? Why do we've seen this
Speaker 1: year a trend? Or is that emerge? It's very much
Speaker 1: a trend essentially throughout his career. It's been a short career, granted,
Speaker 1: uh c e h has about three good games in
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen dud games and people were scratching their
Speaker 1: head when he was the first running back selected in
Speaker 1: the draft last year. He had like a third round
Speaker 1: grade by a lot of the quote unquote experts, But
Speaker 1: they seem to be right on this one. I'm going
Speaker 1: to trend on the dud the dud leyness of light
Speaker 1: Scott Edwards a layer with two dud games trend or mirage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this this thing is like a fifteen sixteen seventeen game
Speaker 1: trend is what this is at this point? He you
Speaker 1: know what, how long can we sit there and go
Speaker 1: majority running back carry's chair on a high scoring offense.
Speaker 1: It's gotta work and it just keeps not working, Like
Speaker 1: how long are we just going to keep buying into
Speaker 1: the narratives and not just watch what we see on
Speaker 1: the field, which is a back who looks kind of average,
Speaker 1: not even remotely as fast as we thought, and they're
Speaker 1: just not using him in the passing game like we hoped.
Speaker 1: He had no targets last week. Yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: is a trend. This might just be who he is,
Speaker 1: by the way, kind of like the third receiver on
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Right, it just doesn't happen. It should, it
Speaker 1: just doesn't. More like Clyde Edwards Despair. Oh boy, we
Speaker 1: got a new nickname. Nicknames right it's a uh I
Speaker 1: don't know. Oh that's it right there. I thought I
Speaker 1: could Clyde Edwards Despair. Since his debut game last year,
Speaker 1: he's top the modest rushing mark of seventy nine yards
Speaker 1: one time. He has scored in four of his NFL games.
Speaker 1: He's averaging three point three yards per carry this year,
Speaker 1: and over his past four teen games, almost a full season,
Speaker 1: he's somehow averaging seventeen receiving yards For a back who
Speaker 1: can catch, they just don't get him the ball. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier in this show previous hour, a juicy
Speaker 1: matchup with the Chargers right now. If he doesn't do
Speaker 1: anything here, I think it's time to start treating Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Despair as a benchable flex player at best. Imagine
Speaker 1: question number three. Imagine all the players, all the running
Speaker 1: backs that they could have drafted, like DeAndre Swift. Imagine
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift on the number three about to talk about
Speaker 1: right now, could have been drafted. That's a great point.
Speaker 1: This guy tough. Question number three. Appropriate level of concern
Speaker 1: for Jonathan Taylor none some or a bowl loosening level
Speaker 1: of existential dread blue ed known as blowed Scott. I
Speaker 1: just have son some on this, not son some. His
Speaker 1: next eight games are against defenses ranked in the bottom
Speaker 1: twelve against fantasy running back, so he should get back
Speaker 1: on track. He's getting nearly a fifty split of the
Speaker 1: receiving words with wear work, which we didn't really expect
Speaker 1: concerning how much how good Naim Hines was in that
Speaker 1: in that category last year. We expected more to fall
Speaker 1: into him. So it's hard to complain about nine targets
Speaker 1: in two games. Um. They also felt really behind in
Speaker 1: both games, which I don't think they'll be doing all season.
Speaker 1: Maybe this week without a quarterback, but I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll be fine behind. They'll have more positive game scripts
Speaker 1: to come in better matchups. I'm just some concern, okay, Brian.
Speaker 1: Is the appropriate level of concern for Jonathan Taylor. None
Speaker 1: so um or blowed. As much as I love saying blowed,
Speaker 1: blow d it's just some level of a concern for me.
Speaker 1: It's been a very slow start. It was a slow
Speaker 1: start for Taylor laster in his rookie year, but his
Speaker 1: his usage ramped up as the season went on. I
Speaker 1: think that happens this year. The line offensive line not
Speaker 1: as healthy as we would hope it would be as dominant,
Speaker 1: and that the past game isn't offering him much help
Speaker 1: so far. He's going to see a lot of stacked boxes.
Speaker 1: But again, the the guaranteed fifteen twenty, maybe even twenty
Speaker 1: five touches as the season wears on, only leaves me
Speaker 1: with some level of concern. Why would it be blow ed?
Speaker 1: I mean, granted, there's beloved and be love ed. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it's like Spanish, that's like it's an too, so
Speaker 1: I married an ax murder some people out there. We'll
Speaker 1: get it. Okay, I don't get that, but that's okay,
Speaker 1: uh okay, Well I won't get into it, but well,
Speaker 1: Nathan Taylor leads the NFL and red zone carries with twelve,
Speaker 1: hasn't scored yet, and as you guys have covered already.
Speaker 1: I think that seems unlikely to you know, he will
Speaker 1: end up scoring touchdown and zone carries like he's getting good.
Speaker 1: We want that. That's that's the usually the cheap, easy stuff,
Speaker 1: uncharacteristically wobbly offensive line that currently ranks twenty eight and
Speaker 1: run blocking by Pro Football Focus. Presumably Quentin Nelson will
Speaker 1: get better. Right now, Quinton Nelson, who is going to
Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame, ranks twenty nine among
Speaker 1: guards by Pro Football Focus too, Viking guardens remember coming
Speaker 1: off ankle leg injury that you figure that gets better
Speaker 1: as well. So I'm still gonna go with some I
Speaker 1: don't The whole offense worries me, but I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to loosen my bowels over Jonathan Taylor, and you're usually
Speaker 1: willing to get Let's get those most of the time.
Speaker 1: That's why it happens. It happens plenty around here. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our next matchup, which is the Saints taking
Speaker 1: on the Patriots, and start on the Saint side. To
Speaker 1: be grade for Alvin Kamara. I'd like to tell you
Speaker 1: that a massive bounce back from last week's disaster is coming,
Speaker 1: but I can't Belichick loves to take away what opponents
Speaker 1: want to do the most, and that's get Alvin Camara going,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's gonna happen, And you know
Speaker 1: that will mean that Jamis Winston is gonna have to
Speaker 1: sling his way to his Saints victory, and I don't
Speaker 1: like that happening either. No back is top fifty nine
Speaker 1: rushing yards against the Patriots, but they are giving up
Speaker 1: a middle of the pack four point six yards per carry,
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be some opportunity for Camaron, which is
Speaker 1: part of why he gets the B grade here. But
Speaker 1: we should know is that for years Belichick has been
Speaker 1: elite at stopping past catching backs through the air, and
Speaker 1: that's already happening this year. So I don't know that
Speaker 1: Camara is gonna chip in the usual help that he
Speaker 1: often does through the air. And also watch the health
Speaker 1: of State Saints center Eric McCoy Without him last week,
Speaker 1: that offensive line was brutal and if he's not able
Speaker 1: to go in this game, that's a big concern for
Speaker 1: Camara as well. Everybody else is on the bench. Let's
Speaker 1: just briefly touch on Jamis Winston and the rest of
Speaker 1: the receivers here, Winston is dead last, and pass attempts
Speaker 1: at just twenty two per game. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: you can't find fantasy relevancy on twenty two passing attempts.
Speaker 1: In fact, I went back and looked at Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: over the last four years. When facing a quarterback who
Speaker 1: throws twenty two or fewer passes, the average game is
Speaker 1: one hundred seven passing yards and zero point two touchdown
Speaker 1: passes per game. That kind of volume, you're not going
Speaker 1: to get there on that volume, especially against Belichick. They're
Speaker 1: all on the bench. Tony Jones also on the bench.
Speaker 1: Low usage last week, just three touches, and this is
Speaker 1: not a favorable matchup. Let's go over to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for Mac Jones in this game, and even
Speaker 1: though he has one touchdown pass on the season, I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B grade. Facing a depleted Saints secondary
Speaker 1: that just got picked apart by Sam Donald for three
Speaker 1: hundred yards and two touchdowns. They're missing cornerback Marshawn Latimer.
Speaker 1: That means the Saints starting corner acts are a bunch
Speaker 1: of replacement grade guys like rookie Paulson Adebo, the always
Speaker 1: burnable p J. Williams and Bradley Roby, who's gonna be
Speaker 1: making his second ever start for the Saints. I think
Speaker 1: Mac Jones looked good. He's completing seventy four percent of
Speaker 1: his passes as a rookie. That's nuts. Let's give him
Speaker 1: a B grade in this one. And that means that,
Speaker 1: like some of his receivers as well, Nelson Aguilar comes
Speaker 1: into a C grade. There are many times I'm safely
Speaker 1: going to tell you that Nelson Agilar is better than
Speaker 1: every opposing cornerback he's gonna see. But that is the case.
Speaker 1: Here is I just outlined for you guys. Jacoby Myers
Speaker 1: gets a C grade. Running from the slot. He's gonna
Speaker 1: face one of the league's most risk taking, burnable cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: P J. Williams perennial perennially when of Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is lowest ranked cornerbacks, and James White as a receiver,
Speaker 1: He's already seen the fourth most targets and the second
Speaker 1: most receptions among all running backs. Connecting on Twitter, eleve
Speaker 1: of thirteen tosses from Mac Jones. With Harris unlikely to
Speaker 1: get much traction on the ground in this game, I
Speaker 1: think White's gonna be on the field a lot, and
Speaker 1: last week Christian McCaffrey chipped in sixty five air yards
Speaker 1: against the Saints. I can see White going sixty five
Speaker 1: yards here. So now let's just talk about Damien Harris.
Speaker 1: Harris is looking at a tricky matchup. Loved his game
Speaker 1: last week. By the way, Saints run defense has been
Speaker 1: elite for years and remains so now only one back
Speaker 1: has topped one hundred yards in New Orleans last fifties
Speaker 1: six games, a staggered level of run domination. They completely
Speaker 1: stuffed Aaron Jones and the opener, and Harrison Harris does
Speaker 1: not chip in anything through the air. Um last thing
Speaker 1: I'll mention them, and it pains me to say it,
Speaker 1: but with John Who Smith and and Hunter Henry splitting action,
Speaker 1: we're just not getting enough usage for those guys. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: now there's a chance that John Who doesn't go in
Speaker 1: this game, and if that is the case, Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: becomes startable. But as long as both of them are going,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to pick our spots, and this is
Speaker 1: not one of them for those guys. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll work our way through a few more matchups, including
Speaker 1: Jets taking on the Broncos. Are there any Jets that
Speaker 1: you can start in this game? Find out against a
Speaker 1: tough Broncos. They might be a bench everybody game. We'll
Speaker 1: find out when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome
Speaker 1: back Fantasy Football Weekly. My name is Paul Charchy. I'm
Speaker 1: the host of the show. My co hosts are Scott
Speaker 1: Fish and Brian Johnson. You can get all my play
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Speaker 1: Encourage you to check that out, maybe as part of
Speaker 1: the show and you want to you want to break
Speaker 1: down deeper, breakdown on your guys, or if there's a
Speaker 1: player not on there, there should they should all be
Speaker 1: on there. But I'll give you charge his phone number
Speaker 1: and you can. That's right. I love that. That's that
Speaker 1: makes me so happy when people do that. You know
Speaker 1: what else makes me happy is when Justin Fields gets
Speaker 1: to take the fields time. And I'm very I'm optimistic
Speaker 1: for him in general, but I'm nervous about this particular
Speaker 1: matchup in this his first time out. Tell me what
Speaker 1: you think is Chicago takes on Cleveland? Scott, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: if you look at how much he runs the ball,
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, if you include the preseason games. He's running
Speaker 1: the like taking taking the ball and scrambling at a
Speaker 1: higher percentage than almost any quarterback does. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if he keeps that. Maybe not to that level,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be surprised if he has a bunch
Speaker 1: of designed runs he does runs at the goal like
Speaker 1: he did in Week one. The Browns are the third
Speaker 1: worst against fantasy quarterbacks so far, and they've allowed to
Speaker 1: touchdown in one of their rushing touchdown rushing touchdown Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Trod Taylor. Yeah, he fields this right right
Speaker 1: in that uh that Jalen hurts from last week's spot
Speaker 1: where you know, maybe he only gets a yards passing,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna get you sixty on the ground and
Speaker 1: maybe a touchdown, which you know, I was a little
Speaker 1: bit worried that because Fields is quote unquote the backup,
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't risk him to injury. But their third
Speaker 1: stringers Nick Foles. So I mean, you know, even if
Speaker 1: he were to like get hurt free fields or to
Speaker 1: get hurt on designed run plays, they can bring in
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. It's not a bad backup to go to.
Speaker 1: So I do think there will be a willingness to
Speaker 1: run him here. Yeah, that I I completely agree. In
Speaker 1: the amount he scrambles like he's showing that he's he
Speaker 1: gets a little more. I wouldn't say skittish, but he's
Speaker 1: shown that he he feels more comfortable scrambling instead of
Speaker 1: trying to stick and make a play like Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: or Russell Wilson do uh So I have a B
Speaker 1: grade on him. I have a B grade on Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: Targets came way down with fields in last week, only
Speaker 1: one catch for thirteen yards on three targets in the
Speaker 1: second half. There With fields, He's got the tougher cornerback
Speaker 1: matchup with Gavin Newsom, who generally plays the bigger guy
Speaker 1: because he's a bigger guy himself. He's only allowed two
Speaker 1: receptions in his coverage on the season, but Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: is ten times better than the players he's covered so far.
Speaker 1: So uh. Darnell Mooney, I had a B grade on
Speaker 1: him because I love the mass matchup, but he's he's
Speaker 1: dealing with a groin injury. I'm gonna drop him to
Speaker 1: a C. But I still really like the matchup. He's
Speaker 1: got seven plus targets and back to back games five
Speaker 1: plus catches and backed back the rounds. Browns have allowed
Speaker 1: twenty receptions for two and seventy five yards and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns to the opposing top receiver. Are the opposing speed receiver,
Speaker 1: I should say in the last two games, Tyrek Hill
Speaker 1: and Brandon Cooks. And that's kind of mooney spot. He's
Speaker 1: gonna go up against Denzel Ward because but is it
Speaker 1: mooney spot on a groin injury? The speed guy that is?
Speaker 1: That is why I'm dropping him from a B to
Speaker 1: a C. Alright, you're baking in some of that risk.
Speaker 1: He yeah, he played eight nine percent of the snaps
Speaker 1: in both games, but again growing injury. So let's let's
Speaker 1: let's put him at a See maybe Allen Robinson's B
Speaker 1: turns into a B plus. Then, um, he didn't even
Speaker 1: catch me on that one. Got the plus that got me?
Speaker 1: You got me distracted for a minute, all right? Not cool.
Speaker 1: Cole Commet is on the bench only one target last
Speaker 1: week after a nice week one. Uh. Similarly, the Browns
Speaker 1: gave up a huge Week one to Kelsey but shut
Speaker 1: down on tight ends last week. Uh. Montgomery B grade.
Speaker 1: The Browns are tenth against running backs allow allowing well
Speaker 1: under three yards per carry. That's terrible, under a hundred
Speaker 1: combo yards per game. But Monte is averaging over twenty
Speaker 1: touches per game. He's on the field all the time,
Speaker 1: and he was on the field a ton once fields
Speaker 1: came in last week. Um and mobile quarterbacks, as we know,
Speaker 1: often open open up some running lanes. So I gotta
Speaker 1: be grade on Montgomery Williams on the bench. He saw
Speaker 1: just four touches last week, and his snaps went way
Speaker 1: down once fields came in. I really dug into the
Speaker 1: snaps once fields came in to try to try to
Speaker 1: break this side down. On the other side, Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade. The Bears the middle of
Speaker 1: the pack against quarterbacks, but Chubb and Hunt might have
Speaker 1: a tough time running in this one, forcing Baker to
Speaker 1: pass more. Which is why I'm actually giving him. I
Speaker 1: like him more than you do. I I think he's
Speaker 1: that secondary has been terrible. There's only one touchdown this year, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chicago has allowed multiple passing touchdowns. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: go back to last year, and though you know, ten
Speaker 1: out of the last eleven games dating back to last year,
Speaker 1: they have allowed multiple passing touchdown and the secondaries worse
Speaker 1: right now, cornerback at all, maybe Jarvis Landry's got out
Speaker 1: for this game, and that would have been the most
Speaker 1: exploitable matchup on O B J is back. Um they
Speaker 1: have mentioned where it's like play count and a pitch
Speaker 1: counting snap snap. At most, he's half the snaps. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: so okay, I'll give I'll give Mayfield a B, but
Speaker 1: I think it goes all over the place. So I
Speaker 1: don't even like starting any of the receivers O b
Speaker 1: JNNA snap count. Uh, you know, Higgins and Schwartz and Donovan,
Speaker 1: people's jones. You can't start them. And they're doing that
Speaker 1: with their tight ends to exactly, We're pulling three tight
Speaker 1: ends all the time. This is the ridiculous thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: as far as they're ted ends, nearly forty five percent
Speaker 1: of Mayfield's targets are going to tight ends. And it's
Speaker 1: all over who is the target leader, who's the reception leader,
Speaker 1: who's the yardage leader? So I'm starting none of that
Speaker 1: passing game. I guess I'll give may feel to be
Speaker 1: because it feels like totality, It feels it feels like
Speaker 1: he'll push it. He'll get thirty yards to each each
Speaker 1: of the TED players, and Mayfield's playing well. It's just
Speaker 1: it's he's just fansky run heavy offense. That just his
Speaker 1: volume is always low and he's just not an explosive
Speaker 1: fantasy producer. But he's playing well. Yeah, Chubb, I gotta
Speaker 1: be grade on the Bears of only allowed three catches
Speaker 1: for thirty three yards in the past game, which is
Speaker 1: not very much at all for on the season, So
Speaker 1: it seems like you'd want Hunt out of this one.
Speaker 1: He's he's gotten a lot less touches and snaps um
Speaker 1: B grade on Chubb. Chub do you think Chubb gets
Speaker 1: twelve plus touches here? Okay, the last time Chubb had
Speaker 1: twelve plus touches and failed to have at least ninety
Speaker 1: yards in a score was December of When he gets
Speaker 1: twelve plus touches, he's giving you a score and he's
Speaker 1: going to do that here, So B grade for him.
Speaker 1: I started touch on Hunt in the middle of that.
Speaker 1: Somehow I'm still giving Hunt to C grade because he
Speaker 1: does get that, does get that passing game work. He
Speaker 1: just really hasn't yet and he is still getting you know,
Speaker 1: five to ten touches a game. I think he gets
Speaker 1: more like ten in this one. I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a see all right, that all sounds fair. Jets take
Speaker 1: on the Broncos. We talked about this in passing a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. Brian, are there any Jets that you
Speaker 1: start in this game? I wanted to give him Michael
Speaker 1: Carter a starting grade. Uh, tempting Coman's out. He is out,
Speaker 1: Not like you really care anyway. Both Carter and Ti
Speaker 1: Johnson kind of in a fifty fifty time share. But
Speaker 1: Carter looks better. He's the one who's getting targeted. But
Speaker 1: the Broncos a brutal matchup, allowing the second fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards and third fewest receiving yards running back. So Carter
Speaker 1: and Ti Johnson both on the bench. Tempted to bench
Speaker 1: Corey Davis, but I give him a c U totally
Speaker 1: nullified by New England last week. But he's pretty much
Speaker 1: like the top threat on the Jets. So that's what
Speaker 1: happens against the Patriots. Uh. Comparable boundary receivers like Kenny Galladate,
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton, Marvin Jones all went for at least double
Speaker 1: digit PPR points. So hopefully Corey Davis will get there
Speaker 1: with some hope for a touchdown, but unlikely not a
Speaker 1: C for Davis, James and Crowder doubtful, unlikely to make
Speaker 1: his season debut. Braxon Barrios led the team in targets
Speaker 1: last week. Elijah More two weeks for very Elijah More
Speaker 1: still in the mix. Uh, much heralded rookie, but you
Speaker 1: just can't trust Zach Wilson in his what four interceptions
Speaker 1: last week and his uh I think is his first
Speaker 1: road game will now they played in Carolina, but first
Speaker 1: West Coast game, so everyone else on the bench for
Speaker 1: the Jets, it's really just Corey Davis with a very
Speaker 1: soft sea. I'd like to make a case for Barrios
Speaker 1: for a dart throw because he's has five plus catches
Speaker 1: and back to back games and he's getting the target.
Speaker 1: I won't tate in the Washington and in Van Jefferson range,
Speaker 1: no no touchdown and upside for for burials. But h
Speaker 1: in PPR he might get you get you the ten
Speaker 1: plus points, so I don't hate that too much. Uh,
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton might get you to twenty plus points in
Speaker 1: this game meets all wide receivers and air yards over
Speaker 1: three hundred now he gets an a. Uh shockingly didn't
Speaker 1: score last week, but went off without Jerry Judy in
Speaker 1: the lineup. He is the alpha receiver there now. Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick's still very viable without Judy. He deserves to be
Speaker 1: and Patrick, I'm sure if he plays, he'll he'll go.
Speaker 1: I would think. Uh, the Jets secondary very unproven. They're
Speaker 1: coming off facing Mac Jones last week, so they haven't
Speaker 1: really faced a true test kJ Hammler chart this week.
Speaker 1: Not everything was lined up for him last week Anywan speaking,
Speaker 1: So he's gonna go off this week matchup, you know,
Speaker 1: but I said he was a great match up last
Speaker 1: week and it was. It was. He's a very viable
Speaker 1: dart throw too. I'm gonna bench him in seasonal, but
Speaker 1: in daily you might want to take a flyer on Hamdler. Uh,
Speaker 1: Fan Noah Fant has a very good matchup. He's been
Speaker 1: very reliable so far, double digit PPR points in back
Speaker 1: to back games. You should continue to produce against the Jets,
Speaker 1: who just allowed a combined six catches for seventy yards
Speaker 1: to Jano Smith and Hunter Henry last week. I love
Speaker 1: Fan with a B and Teddy Bridgewater gets a b
Speaker 1: as well, tied for the NFL lead in twenty plus
Speaker 1: yard pass attempt and I forgot. This is a revenge game.
Speaker 1: He was signed by the Jets but then traded when
Speaker 1: right after they drafted Sam Donald sixth round draft pick
Speaker 1: to the Saints. So I did too. I just want
Speaker 1: to realize that today. So a little bit of revenge
Speaker 1: angle for Teddy. And then lastly, Javonte Williams Melvin Rdon
Speaker 1: want the Javonte Williams breakout came to be right, It's
Speaker 1: still basically a fifty still basically a fifty fifty split.
Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time for Williams takes full control.
Speaker 1: If you take away Melvin Gordon's long touchdown run, He's basically,
Speaker 1: I say a crow l. Remember how many times it
Speaker 1: took away touchdown run Browns recorded in Williams is Peterson
Speaker 1: and Chester Taylor all over again, Broncos. Bronco's favored by
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, so you gotta like both backs here. Gordon
Speaker 1: Williams gets to be though. Gordon just to see Jets
Speaker 1: allowing one hundred sixty two combo yards per game to
Speaker 1: running back, and I think that I don't have the
Speaker 1: stat off top of my head. But if you take
Speaker 1: away Gordon's long run, it's like two point seven. Right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: that's not good. Yeah. Seahawks take on the Vikings Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett. All A's Vikings are allowing a
Speaker 1: crazy three hundred thirty one passing yards and three total
Speaker 1: touchdowns to opposing quarterbacks. It's a great opportunity. Lockett has
Speaker 1: largely moved out of the slot, which is new this year,
Speaker 1: and that puts him most often against an injured Bashad Brelan,
Speaker 1: who owns Pro Football Focus, is lowest cornerback ranking. He's
Speaker 1: one hundred and three out of one hundred and three
Speaker 1: cornerbacks rated. I wish you would have set out of one.
Speaker 1: It would have been better. DK Metcalf runs predominantly from
Speaker 1: the left side of the field, where he draws aged
Speaker 1: veteran Patrick Peterson, who has allowed six of seven targets
Speaker 1: to be caught in his coverage and gave up two
Speaker 1: touchdowns last week. All eight grades. Staying with the passing game,
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett gets a C grade here. He's been on
Speaker 1: the field a lot. He scored in Week one, mostly
Speaker 1: as a blocker. Though he's only seen four targets in
Speaker 1: two games. But the Vikings just allowed Max Williams to
Speaker 1: post career best numbers seven targets, seven catches, four yards,
Speaker 1: So I'm based on that. I think Gerald Evert in
Speaker 1: the tight end desperate landscape we have is gets a
Speaker 1: C grade. And lastly, Chris Carson. Vikings rebuilt defensive line
Speaker 1: supposed to be smothering opposing runners, but it's not really
Speaker 1: working out that way. They ranked twenty four and run
Speaker 1: defense by Pro Football Focus or giving up four and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry, and they were torched by
Speaker 1: another Bell cow back, Joe Mixon in the opener. Chris
Speaker 1: Carson gets almost all the work in these games. I
Speaker 1: see potentially a solid game coming. Um. You know, then again,
Speaker 1: maybe they just don't have to run that much because
Speaker 1: the passing is gonna come so easily. Here, look at
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds last week, got his game torpedoed on only
Speaker 1: three carries because they just didn't have to pass or
Speaker 1: didn't have to run because the passing was so easy.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Vikings or I think it's
Speaker 1: a little more interesting in this one. We'll begin with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins Since coming to Minnesota, Cousins has faced Seattle
Speaker 1: every year and average two four yards and almost two
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game. All three of his wide receivers have
Speaker 1: very positive matchups. Um Kirk scores touchdowns. He has scored
Speaker 1: in seven games. He has scored multiple touchdowns in ten
Speaker 1: of his last eleven games. Cousins doesn't normally win with volume,
Speaker 1: but he could end up with some extra passes because
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook is hobbled coming into this game. We'll talk
Speaker 1: more about that in a minute. A grade for Adam Feeling.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you did not listen to the preseason experts who
Speaker 1: were a cacophony of touchdown regression storylines for Adam Feeling,
Speaker 1: but not here on this show, because we talked about
Speaker 1: his proficiency near the stripe and we liked him here.
Speaker 1: He plays all over the field and his positive matchups
Speaker 1: at every opposing cornerback spot, whether it's Tray Flowers or
Speaker 1: d J. Reid or Ugo Amadi. Feeling hit this secondary
Speaker 1: for two touchdowns in the meeting last season. That's part
Speaker 1: of why he gets an A grade. Justin Jefferson gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. Like Feeling, he lines up everywhere as well,
Speaker 1: and he has positive matchups at every stop, especially when
Speaker 1: he sees Trey Flowers, who's giving up a pass rating
Speaker 1: of a hundred fifty five in his coverage. That's just
Speaker 1: three points off a perfect rating. And I know Jefferson
Speaker 1: has been the odd man out of the Vikings passing
Speaker 1: games so far, and I think Minnesota is going to
Speaker 1: intentionally try to get Jefferson Cooking with some extra passes
Speaker 1: in this one because he's been so quiet through the
Speaker 1: two games. Well, now let's talk about their leading receiver,
Speaker 1: k J Osborne. A tricky matchup in the slot though,
Speaker 1: with Ugo Amadia, converted safety who is never allowed a
Speaker 1: touchdown in his sixty one career coverage pass passes in
Speaker 1: his coverage um he's barely been tested this year, which
Speaker 1: is four targets. So I'm still giving the edge to
Speaker 1: Osbourne based on his high utilization so far and a
Speaker 1: C grade. So Dalvin Cook is really got me nervous
Speaker 1: for this. He comes in with a bulky ankle. He
Speaker 1: was clearly hobbled last week, and I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot more of Alexander Madison and some extra
Speaker 1: throws from Kirk Cousins in this one. So it could
Speaker 1: be a low utilization game and he could aggravate the
Speaker 1: ankle injury. Um, so there's that. Now. The Seahawks are
Speaker 1: allowing the most total yards to runners because Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: ran through this team last week. So it's a decent matchup.
Speaker 1: But I can only put a B grade on Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook and this thing could go haywire a few different ways.
Speaker 1: I know you kind of have to start him if
Speaker 1: he's active. A reminder, Alexander Madison came in for an
Speaker 1: injured Alley for an injured Dalvin Cook last year against
Speaker 1: Seattle top one yards. I'm giving Alexander Madison a C
Speaker 1: grade in this one because I think they do take
Speaker 1: some miles off of Dalvin Cook in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Madison already one of those must have handcuffs. And if
Speaker 1: you if you have Cook on roster and you don't
Speaker 1: have Madison, you're you are in a certain amount of trouble.
Speaker 1: Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next, including premature
Speaker 1: speculation where we tell you the guys to pick up
Speaker 1: this week that everybody else will be trying to pick
Speaker 1: up him next week. Final second Fantasy Football Weekly Paul
Speaker 1: Church and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. This
Speaker 1: is a segment week call Premature Speculation, where we give
Speaker 1: you three players to pick up this week that everybody
Speaker 1: else is gonna be trying to pick up. But next
Speaker 1: week we begin with Scott. Yes, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: You're gonna start out picking up Jeff Wilson, who's gonna
Speaker 1: come back in about a month, and you're gonna put
Speaker 1: him on I R. And then you're gonna pick up
Speaker 1: a shot Babman who's coming back after next week. Throw
Speaker 1: him on I R two. And then you're gonna pick
Speaker 1: up Van Jefferson, who I said is maybe a dark
Speaker 1: throw this week, but after this week he gets a
Speaker 1: shootout with the Cardinals who have a lot of lot
Speaker 1: he gets a shootout with the Seahawks, then he gets
Speaker 1: the Giants and Lions defenses. That's he's gonna be flex worthy,
Speaker 1: especially once we're starting to get into bye weeks. Your
Speaker 1: Premature Speculation player, Brian, I got a quick one for
Speaker 1: the super flex dudes and do debts out there. That's
Speaker 1: when you can play two quarterbacks. Of course, it's Ian
Speaker 1: Book rookie back for the New Orleans Saints. Now some
Speaker 1: people are mad that are quarterback hungry that they missed
Speaker 1: out on Davis Mills. But Ian Book could be the
Speaker 1: next Davis Mills. And by that, I mean just the
Speaker 1: warm body's gonna get benched at some point, I do,
Speaker 1: and Taysom Hill is not going to save their season
Speaker 1: at that point, I think they out of him. They
Speaker 1: want to see what they'll get out of ian Book,
Speaker 1: and hey, maybe Michael Thomas is making his return. Then
Speaker 1: I'm saying Ian Book could be the next man up
Speaker 1: for any team. I mean, he's not Jacoby Brissette at
Speaker 1: least he's We've yet to see what ian Book has
Speaker 1: to offer. So I'm going with a player who's dropped
Speaker 1: under fifty ownership despite being having an average draft position
Speaker 1: of the seventh round, Curtis Samuel Washington. He's coming off
Speaker 1: injured reserve next week, so you want to pick him
Speaker 1: up this week. His original groin injury dates back to July,
Speaker 1: so he really ought to be done with this thing.
Speaker 1: At the stage. He's reunited with his original head coach
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera and his offensive coordinator Scott Turner, so he
Speaker 1: should be able to hit the ground running. No this
Speaker 1: offense and literally hit the ground running. Assuming this this
Speaker 1: groin is healed and reminder. At the set and half
Speaker 1: of last season, he was a top twenty Fantasy wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel available for free right now, boom. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the matchups, beginning with the Eagles taking on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Scott Yeah, I'm gonna started the passing game
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Jalen Hurts had almost an A level game,
Speaker 1: only throwing for a hundred ninety yards and zero paste
Speaker 1: his yards on one play exactly. His rushing floor makes
Speaker 1: him a C grade every single week and sometimes a
Speaker 1: B grade just off of his rushing. Uh, this week
Speaker 1: should be more like Week one. The Cowboys have allowed
Speaker 1: the second most passing yards to opposing quarterbacks, with over
Speaker 1: three thirty in each game. I've already given you my
Speaker 1: take a chance on Me player with Jalen Reagor. I
Speaker 1: also like DeVonta Smith despite the tougher matchup with Trayvon
Speaker 1: digs Um. DeVonta Smith is fast enough and plays around
Speaker 1: enough that he should be able to get get around.
Speaker 1: If you don't remember from the take a chance on
Speaker 1: Me segment, the Cowboys have allowed four different receivers to
Speaker 1: get ninety plus yards and or a score in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Uh, it's just a great spot for Smith.
Speaker 1: Quest Watkins is on my bench, it's a potential shootout.
Speaker 1: He's We've mentioned a few dart throw type wide receivers
Speaker 1: or it's a it's a I have him on the bench,
Speaker 1: but like, he's another one you can convince me into
Speaker 1: a sea level dart throw start if you're missing Deonte
Speaker 1: Johnson or Antonio Brown or something like that. Dallas Goddard, Dallas,
Speaker 1: Dallas playing Dallas here. Wow, just realized that as I'm
Speaker 1: reading it. Dallas is fifth worst against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: are fifth worst against tight ends. But it should be worse.
Speaker 1: They gave up two touchdowns to Gronk and last week
Speaker 1: they had two touchdowns to tight ends called back, so
Speaker 1: it should actually be a lot worse. They've given up
Speaker 1: a lot about five plus catches in each week. I
Speaker 1: have a B grade on Goddard. Did you imagine if
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard was the fifth worst tight end on his
Speaker 1: own team, not having uh Miles Sanders. I'm giving a
Speaker 1: B grade two. He's not quite a bell cow, but
Speaker 1: four did nineteen touches a game is pretty good volume.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have kept rushing yard down, but they've allowed
Speaker 1: the third most receptions and fifth most receiving yards to back.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting a similar work gload three to five receptions. UM.
Speaker 1: He had two yards and two scores against Dallas last
Speaker 1: year in the two games, so it's it's a decent
Speaker 1: spot for him. B grade for him, a C grade
Speaker 1: for gainwell on the high on the higher level of it,
Speaker 1: he's a pass catching back that plays in two minute drills.
Speaker 1: They'll be playing from behind catch up. UM, he should
Speaker 1: get you know, five to ten touches, maybe ten touches
Speaker 1: and and that's worthy of a C grade. On the
Speaker 1: other side, let's go to Dak Prescott B grade. Here,
Speaker 1: Dak is barely throwing downfield, which makes me wonder if
Speaker 1: that labor m injury from right before the season might
Speaker 1: be playing in UM. The Eagles d allowing the fewest
Speaker 1: passing yards and touchdowns to quarterbacks, but they played Jimmy
Speaker 1: g and Mattie Ice. This game should give your give
Speaker 1: us a better idea. But his rushing and a likely
Speaker 1: hearts high scoring game, I'm giving Dak a B. Still,
Speaker 1: you could talk me into a SIE just because been
Speaker 1: a little worried, but I think it's gonna be high
Speaker 1: scoring and he should get enough uh in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Also Ceedee Lamb A grade Amari Cooper who got injured
Speaker 1: his ribs and weak ones but still played fine. In
Speaker 1: week two, he'll be playing Uh, don't worry about him.
Speaker 1: B grade there for Lamb, he playst in this lot
Speaker 1: is slated to see Darius Slay who's ranked number fourteen
Speaker 1: by PFF. Tough matchup, um, but he's the utilization. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but he gets. He gets lots and lots of volumes.
Speaker 1: Same with Cooper, Dallas, optimistic Hill go obviously he is
Speaker 1: gonna go. UM. Cedric Wilson's interesting here. Once once Gallup
Speaker 1: went out, Gallup played a hundred percent of snaps on
Speaker 1: the outside. Once Gallup went out, Wilson came in and
Speaker 1: played sev slot and Lamb and Cooper kicked outside. So
Speaker 1: we're talking about the slot guy here in Wilson. But
Speaker 1: guess what the Eagle slot guy, Avante Maddox who's ranked
Speaker 1: six by PFF. Too tough of a matchup. I'm benching him.
Speaker 1: H Els and Jarwin, I'm benching them. They held Kittle
Speaker 1: to seventeen yards and and this amazing Kyle Pits got
Speaker 1: a thirty one yards. Those tight ends are on the bench,
Speaker 1: Zeke and Pollard, I'll start with I don't know who
Speaker 1: I'll start with here, but the Eagles held down the
Speaker 1: Atlanta backfield and the current mess in San Francisco. It's
Speaker 1: tough to get a good read on the defense with that,
Speaker 1: but zek has run the fifth most routes around among
Speaker 1: running backs. He's actually gaining out there in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Uh five looks last week to four four to four
Speaker 1: looks to Pollard's one. Actually, uh Paular just looks like
Speaker 1: he was shot out of a cannon. Though. Um Zeke
Speaker 1: the better pass blocker, so he'll be in there more.
Speaker 1: And Zeke is playing eighty percent of his snaps eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the time. Pollard's only playing twenty snaps a game,
Speaker 1: but he's making those count. He touched the ball seven
Speaker 1: out of twenty in week one, sixteen out of twenty
Speaker 1: one snaps in Week two. I'm giving Zeke the B
Speaker 1: grade because he's the one out there, and Poullard the
Speaker 1: C grade because he gets good receiving yards. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Packers taking on the forty Niners, Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Aaron Jones and a Now we have
Speaker 1: to mention that left tackle for Green Bay Elkton Jenkins,
Speaker 1: who was really a right guard who was moonlighting as
Speaker 1: a center, was playing left tackle for He is unlikely
Speaker 1: to play this week, so the Packers line is pretty
Speaker 1: much in shambles. But I'm still gonna give Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: an a here. San Francisco is allowing the fourth most
Speaker 1: yards per carry five point oh and are the seventh
Speaker 1: worst run defense according to Pro Football Focus. San Francisco
Speaker 1: has also allowed the second most receptions to back, So
Speaker 1: a for Aaron Jones. Also in A for Davante Adams. Uh,
Speaker 1: San Francisco does not have great corners of Jason Rhett
Speaker 1: on I r talking about fifth round rookie Diamador Lenore. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's actually been pretty good, but Josh Norman has been terrible. Yes,
Speaker 1: and and the washed up Josh. He's definitely washed up
Speaker 1: at this point in his career. His career was pretty
Speaker 1: much over. So in A for Adams, and I'm giving
Speaker 1: Marquees Valdez Scandling a seat, even though we broke many
Speaker 1: hearts last week with zero catches. I just think they
Speaker 1: forced feed him in this game to make up for that.
Speaker 1: You have a hundred twenty eight yards last week, just
Speaker 1: didn't have a catch and one very quickly. One of
Speaker 1: my game leagues, a guy needed one catch for Marquez
Speaker 1: veld Scantling on Monday night to avoid the chopping block.
Speaker 1: He got thrown to four times, zero catches. I'm in
Speaker 1: that league, and thankfully I'm not that guy still alive.
Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan still still alive, but it's in a very
Speaker 1: slow start for him. Just to see, he's thirty first
Speaker 1: and targets among tight ends with a snap percentage of
Speaker 1: less than fifty percent for Tonyon. Uh. The Niners allowed
Speaker 1: a good game to t J. Hogginson in Week one,
Speaker 1: but last week they limited Dallas Goddard and Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: to a combined three catches for thirty scoreless yards. So
Speaker 1: kind of a coin flip for Tonyon. But he remains
Speaker 1: a must start in the tight end waste land, and
Speaker 1: you're definitely starting Aaron Rodgers in a This is a
Speaker 1: homecoming revenge game because if whoever doesn't remember the Niners
Speaker 1: selected Alex Smith over Aaron Rodgers, essentially the Packers played
Speaker 1: in San Francisco last year. Rodgers went for three five
Speaker 1: yards and four touchdowns in that game. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: an A to a a Ron. So he's now a
Speaker 1: a a ron uh and that is it for the
Speaker 1: Packers side. Now over to San Francisco. Trey Sermon is
Speaker 1: gonna be the starting running back. I'm not gonna dive
Speaker 1: too much into this situation. I'm not too excited about it,
Speaker 1: even though the Packers have allowed the fourth most rushing
Speaker 1: yards so far, just to see for Trey Sermon or
Speaker 1: not convinced will be the goal line guy yet, but
Speaker 1: he looks to be the starter this week. So it
Speaker 1: is Sermons season in that regard. Now, Deebo Samuel definitely
Speaker 1: gonna start him gets an A grade thirty six percent
Speaker 1: target share for Deebo. He's accounted for more than half
Speaker 1: of the receiving yards. The team is absolutely fantastic. The
Speaker 1: Packers secondary is allowed touchdowns to the likes of Deonte Harris,
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan, and Quintez Cevas. So love Deebo Samuel here
Speaker 1: he gets an A. I do not love Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench. He's basically getting out produced by
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings and Trent Sherfield. At this point, I'm buying
Speaker 1: on I'm not starting. I'm not starting him, but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm holding him and if he's out there, he should
Speaker 1: see an uptick and usage. One would hope it right now,
Speaker 1: looking like one of the biggest bus of the year
Speaker 1: so far, George Kittle off to a slow start too,
Speaker 1: but he will not bust in. This game has only
Speaker 1: seen nine targets so far this year, but Green Bay
Speaker 1: has yielded the third most red zone targets and the
Speaker 1: most goal to go touches two tight ends so far,
Speaker 1: so I'm giving Kittle an a here. He should blow
Speaker 1: up in a love Kittle so much loved Eebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: That's why Jimmy Garoppolo was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. All right, Let's go to our final matchup,
Speaker 1: the Monday night game Washington at Buffalo, and we'll start
Speaker 1: with the running game. For Washington, Antonio Gibson Um. He
Speaker 1: has a league high eighty four rushing yards after contact
Speaker 1: and his top ten and rushing attempts and rushing yards.
Speaker 1: He's been effective Um and this is a good chance
Speaker 1: against a middle of the pack Buffalo run defense to
Speaker 1: begin the season, and they rank eighteenth and tackling twenty
Speaker 1: three and overall rush defense. It's a nice opportunity for
Speaker 1: Gibson not chipping in through the air, though, and that
Speaker 1: brings us to j D. Mckissic. You're gonna be tempted
Speaker 1: to chase last week's big game for m. A A. Kissic,
Speaker 1: But this does not look like the right spot. Buffalo
Speaker 1: ranks number two and receptions two running backs number two
Speaker 1: and receiving yards to running backs, and they were great
Speaker 1: at it last year, and they've allowed one running back
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown in their last twenty games. So we're putting j. D.
Speaker 1: Mckissic on the bench. Kiss only had two snaps outside
Speaker 1: of the two minute trills as well. Great point, so
Speaker 1: he is on the bench. Let's go to the passing
Speaker 1: game where Taylor Heineke gets a C grade. Buffalo's defense
Speaker 1: throttle Jacoby Brissette and Ben Roethlisberger to this point, holding
Speaker 1: them to per game averages of just passing yards and
Speaker 1: half of one touchdown. Heineke's most important receiver, Terry mclaurin's
Speaker 1: gonna get shadow coverage from elite cornerback to Davious White,
Speaker 1: which is often a death sentence. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in a minute. Your best angle here is for rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns for Heinekeeeks. The Bills allowed seven quarterback rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year, third most, and five different opposing quarterbacks top
Speaker 1: thirty six rushing yards, and so you're hoping for some
Speaker 1: scrambling out of Heineken. That's just the C grade for
Speaker 1: him coming off a nice game last week. Back to
Speaker 1: McLaurin Buffalo allowing just one twenty seven yards per game
Speaker 1: to opposing receivers. That's six the fewest, and again, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of trade Avious White, and that
Speaker 1: is never an easy matchup. Although mclauren just beat James
Speaker 1: Bradberry fairly soundly last week, but this is still a
Speaker 1: tougher matchup than that. And I'm worried about McLaurin, who
Speaker 1: drops to just a B grade in this game. And lastly,
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas, the Bills have yet to allow a tight
Speaker 1: end touchdown while also surrendering the seventh fewest receptions two
Speaker 1: tight ends. Thomas currently falls into the middle of the
Speaker 1: tight end pact with the eleven target eleventh most targets,
Speaker 1: fourteenth most receptions he's um and he's suddenly competing with
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys and Dammy Brown for targets, which I don't love.
Speaker 1: And he didn't have to fight those guys last year.
Speaker 1: So Thomas, just to see grade in this game, We'll
Speaker 1: flip over to the other side now, beginning with Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: who has been inaccurate, completing just fifty six percent of
Speaker 1: his passes, and his his total yardage and touchdowns reflect
Speaker 1: that just two passing yards per game. UM. Here comes
Speaker 1: a very talented Washington defense with a great front four
Speaker 1: that can put a lot of pressure on opposing players.
Speaker 1: They've already put together six sacks, five hits, and twenty
Speaker 1: one hurries and two games, so that worries me. Your
Speaker 1: obvious hope here for Josh Allen is he's gonna run
Speaker 1: his way to a big game, just like Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: just ran through the Washington defense. Similarly, Fleet quarterbacks Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and and Jalen Hurts scored two rushing touchdowns apiece
Speaker 1: against Washington last year. So the B grade for Josh
Speaker 1: Allen is primarily because I think he's gonna run well
Speaker 1: in this game. He needs a big game. I mean
Speaker 1: he was going before Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson in most leagues,
Speaker 1: and those people are regretting that decision, right correct. Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs obvious A. I'm not gonna elucidate on that very much,
Speaker 1: although it is not a simp the simplest matchup of
Speaker 1: the world, but also the Washington secondary has been burned
Speaker 1: a bit so far. Cole Beasley gets starting grade. Working
Speaker 1: out of the slot he'll find journeyman Kendall Fuller. He's
Speaker 1: allowed eleven of fifteen passes to be completed in his coverage.
Speaker 1: You can start gold Beasley in a pinch. Devin Singletaries
Speaker 1: looked pretty good so far, topping six yards per carry
Speaker 1: in each game, and he's also seen at least two
Speaker 1: thirds of the snaps so far. So he gets a
Speaker 1: C grade. And we're not chasing Zack Moss's two touchdowns
Speaker 1: from last year. He was barely on the field and
Speaker 1: he's still only averaging three point three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Singletaries look better to this point. It's coming for Zack Moss,
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