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Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Hello, gentlemen. What's going on charts? Someone's a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. That's it has been a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: Full our listeners didn't take time away from the show,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna break down every game fantasy style. We'll
Speaker 1: give you a letter grade on every player, which we do,
Speaker 1: and we also give you our rationale for reach grade,
Speaker 1: so you can decide if you're on board or not
Speaker 1: with ourt thinking. And then a few minutes from now,
Speaker 1: we'll give you nine eyes upon whom you can take
Speaker 1: a chance. These are players that are often on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire, Guys you would not normally start, but you
Speaker 1: can this week. Later on, we'll answer three tough questions.
Speaker 1: And last week I said it was gonna be the
Speaker 1: last week of premature speculation because the bye weeks were
Speaker 1: over and we're gonna need all the time we could get.
Speaker 1: But I forgot we had the Thanksgiving games. So now
Speaker 1: with the extra time afforded to us, with three games over,
Speaker 1: premature speculation is back. Oh yeah, you quickly figure. Yes,
Speaker 1: a bit of a dynasty twist to it too, though, right,
Speaker 1: well necessarily if you if you that's the way you
Speaker 1: want to go with it, you could, but that's sound.
Speaker 1: I'll leave that up to you. Okay, well that's how
Speaker 1: I interpreted the homework, but we'll get to that later. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will get to that later. We will start, however,
Speaker 1: with oh, let me mention this maybe as the as
Speaker 1: before we dive right into matchups in Cleveland. Pittsburgh's coming
Speaker 1: up first. Adam Feeland's status is going to go. It
Speaker 1: appears it's going to be unknown going into the Monday
Speaker 1: night game. The advice that I have is make another plan.
Speaker 1: One of those viable plans can be to d it
Speaker 1: out all the way to Monday night and pick up
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon the Vikings have given up. They rant and
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns allowed twenty third and wide receiver yardage allowed.
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon generally available in leagues. She could pick up
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon now uh and have him ready to swap
Speaker 1: in for Adam theland But overall, broadly, I think you
Speaker 1: need to have a backup plan ready to go theland owners,
Speaker 1: and at this point you probably do because it's been
Speaker 1: five weeks of this nonsense. Get well soon. Let's dive
Speaker 1: into the matchups. Cleveland taking on Pittsburgh Scott. Even with
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt getting a lot of work in this offense,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb has remained very vital. He's getting plenty of carries,
Speaker 1: in fact, averaging twenty three carries in the games with
Speaker 1: with Kareem Hunt, how do you like him in this
Speaker 1: matchup against Pittsburgh? I still like chubbing this matchup. As
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Kareem Hunt is is getting them all attended.
Speaker 1: Twelve touches a game, Nick Chubb twenty two to twenty
Speaker 1: seven touches a game. They're just feeding their running back
Speaker 1: right now and it's making it's making the offense run
Speaker 1: smoother than than put in Mayfield's hands the whole time.
Speaker 1: Chubb has twenty plus touches in all but one game
Speaker 1: this year and is averaging a hundred twenty five total
Speaker 1: yards in those games. I still have an A grade
Speaker 1: on him. I don't blame me. I have a C
Speaker 1: grade on Hunt though, because he's getting that receiving work.
Speaker 1: He's averaging five catches per game in those three in
Speaker 1: the three games, he's played forty five to seventy seven
Speaker 1: yards in all three and he's had ton touches in
Speaker 1: each game. So he's viable in this as a C grade.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we told you you were gonna get
Speaker 1: out of Kareem Hunt and he was coming back. We're like, look,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get four, five, six, seven ish catches, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get yards, and you're gonna he's gonna give
Speaker 1: you a chance of touchdowns. We also thought the Browns
Speaker 1: would be like eight and three. At least the fantasy
Speaker 1: side is working out for that, okay, So in the
Speaker 1: passing game, Baker Mayfield is gonna be for me. Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: has been stingy, holding six of the last eight eight
Speaker 1: quarterbacks they faced under two hundred yards and wrecking up
Speaker 1: eleven interceptions on those, but Mayfield has seemed to turn
Speaker 1: the corner with eight total touchdowns in the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: and he managed three touchdowns just despite lowyard. It's just
Speaker 1: two weeks ago against the same Steelers team and he
Speaker 1: gets David Njoku back. The offenses look better since then,
Speaker 1: So I'm giving Mayfield a soft B. That's what we
Speaker 1: call it. Okay, b uh Landry, who is the alpha
Speaker 1: in this receiving corps, gets an A grade for me.
Speaker 1: He's completely overtaken OH b J as the lead dog
Speaker 1: in this pound I guess dog pound here. Over his
Speaker 1: last four games, he's averaging over seven catches per game
Speaker 1: and scored five times, including at least one touchdown in
Speaker 1: all four games. For the last four OH b J
Speaker 1: B grade he had ten targets and I'm gonna air
Speaker 1: quote that for radio because if you watch that game
Speaker 1: against the Steelers that he had ten targets, Mayfield was
Speaker 1: not close to him on half of them. So if
Speaker 1: Mayfield can get him on target, uh his targets on targeted,
Speaker 1: his targets on target, O b J could have a
Speaker 1: better day. And remember he was tackled at the one
Speaker 1: on one as well. He almost scored. So uh he's
Speaker 1: top fifty yards in sixth straight and averages five catches
Speaker 1: per game in those. Uh, he's safer each week than
Speaker 1: people give him credit for because we expect these huge
Speaker 1: blow up games. But he is getting you, you know,
Speaker 1: five for fifty or so. It's not great. Nobody took
Speaker 1: ode Odell Beckham hoping for five, I know. But when
Speaker 1: we're talking about starting him against the Steelers in week
Speaker 1: thirteen here, you can expect the five for fifty hope
Speaker 1: for a little more. I'm giving him a B grade there.
Speaker 1: And Joeku in his first game back, I'm still sitting
Speaker 1: on the bench, just just for now. He has three
Speaker 1: catches in all but one game under with Mayfield under center,
Speaker 1: but this is his first week back, and the Browns
Speaker 1: had barely targeted the tight end at all this year,
Speaker 1: maybe because Ninjo who has been out, but outside of
Speaker 1: a two touchdown Will Disley game and a and a
Speaker 1: big Hunter Henry game, the Steelers have basically shut own
Speaker 1: head ends all year. On the other side, I think
Speaker 1: Invention the almost the entire team against the Browns with
Speaker 1: Duck Hodges at quarterback. Uh, Juju is gonna be out.
Speaker 1: He's likely somewhere. Yeah, I like Duck Hodges, but not
Speaker 1: in this matchup. Juju is gonna be out, which is
Speaker 1: bad for the whole off. Is that the revenge duck
Speaker 1: for Joe Hayden? Well wait wait it is. It is
Speaker 1: the Duck Hodges sounded Now you just heard the Duck
Speaker 1: Hodges version. This is the revenge duck version. He's a
Speaker 1: faster um It's it's technically exactly the same. It's really
Speaker 1: it's just a context. You know, the listeners and Captain
Speaker 1: Cipher this themselves. But you know, we needed a sounder
Speaker 1: for revenge when there's a revenge matchup, like when Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry plays the Dolphins or whatever. Right, so we need
Speaker 1: But what's the sound of revenge? It's something like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I don't know. That's from a movie. I
Speaker 1: got that. The only I've only have here's the the
Speaker 1: only other thing I have on the button bar. Is
Speaker 1: this that's not revenge. It reminds me a die hard
Speaker 1: and there's some revenge aspects and dying. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of revenge. It's way better than a duck. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna throw it. I kind of like the revenge
Speaker 1: dot revenge. You control the board. So boy, well, I
Speaker 1: do have Mason Hodges on the bench. It is a
Speaker 1: benefit that he's not Mason Rudolph. I mean that's a
Speaker 1: good side, but the bad side is the Steelers are
Speaker 1: top ten. It gets quarterbacks in almost every category, especially
Speaker 1: over the last five weeks. Uh do do Obviously on
Speaker 1: the bench, he's likely somewhere driving a hundred four miles
Speaker 1: with the concussion while using his film, different film to
Speaker 1: film it. Uh. James Washington is the only one I
Speaker 1: might consider, but I'm still not because he went duck
Speaker 1: hunting with Duck Hodges. Do you see that? That's amazing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's there's a connection there. I didn't know that Duck
Speaker 1: Hodges got his name because he was a duck hunter
Speaker 1: until this week National duck Caller. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was just some quirky name him
Speaker 1: that people you know, national champion duck color. I had
Speaker 1: no Does he take him down with footballs? That would
Speaker 1: be impressive, that would be that would be really impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the really left in this matchup. We've got to
Speaker 1: be done. No, well, like twenty eight minutes into this
Speaker 1: right now, but we talked about revenge ducks for eight
Speaker 1: of them. So I would have given Benny Snell a
Speaker 1: S grade if James James Conner didn't decide to start
Speaker 1: to get healthy and want to get in. So maybe
Speaker 1: he gets the C grade if he goes. I think
Speaker 1: he does. I think Benny Snell is actually pretty good
Speaker 1: play this week, Yeah, I I do. If James Conner
Speaker 1: stays out, he's not playing. James Connor is not playing,
Speaker 1: and even if he does, he's doubtful. Even if he
Speaker 1: does play, start how many plays does he get? Six?
Speaker 1: Don't get him started with James Conner fish he's going
Speaker 1: to be a Ram. Yeah. It probably a lot of hatred,
Speaker 1: but understandably l a the Rams take on the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Now for the Rams side, the entire passing game is
Speaker 1: a complete disaster. Behind Jared Goff a tree. Tip of
Speaker 1: the hat. Tip of the hat to our frequent co
Speaker 1: host Matt Harrison, who pegged this thing in the preseason
Speaker 1: and has been riding out his advice all season on
Speaker 1: avoiding basically all parts of the Ram passing game. He
Speaker 1: saw this coming in a way that nobody else did
Speaker 1: that I know. Of What do you think about this
Speaker 1: opportunity against Arizona. All right, I was gonna start with
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, but we'll start with the passing game. And
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup gonna give him a B. And of course
Speaker 1: every one of these receivers is yes, Jared Goff is
Speaker 1: his quarterback. You know that's the asterisk in all this.
Speaker 1: But Arizona has allowed eleven touchdowns. Slot receivers Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: and Danny Amndla alone combined for seventeen catches, two seven
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. I'm still giving Cooper Cup a
Speaker 1: B despite Jared Goff. Just insert by the way, despite
Speaker 1: Jared Goff after each one of these receivers eleven. Most
Speaker 1: NFL teams haven't given up eleven wide receivers touchdowns period.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have given up a love into the slot
Speaker 1: receiver almost as many tight end touchdowns that they We'll
Speaker 1: get to that in a second. Um Robert Woods again,
Speaker 1: despite Jared Goff, I'm gonna give him a see a
Speaker 1: good candidate to see more targets. If Gerald Everett can't play,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a second. And Arizona has
Speaker 1: allowed a league high twenty nine passing touchdowns, shockingly less
Speaker 1: than half of gone to wide receivers. But Byron Murphy
Speaker 1: and Patrick Peterson aren't much of a concern sad that
Speaker 1: Pat Pete isn't these days, so I'm still gonna give
Speaker 1: the Woods to see um. But what is the concern
Speaker 1: is Jared Goff yet again. And that's why Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: is on the bench because he's the deep ball guy.
Speaker 1: And Goff's completion percentage on passes of twenty yards or
Speaker 1: more is under thirty percent. It's like it's like twelve
Speaker 1: or forty. It's something incredibly awful. So I got Cooks
Speaker 1: on the bench way to boom or bust and Gerald Everett.
Speaker 1: Here's the analysis if you don't know, the most catches
Speaker 1: allowed to tight ends, the most yards, the most touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So that's what the Cardinals have surrender to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: But he's been very limited. Uh, he was limited on Friday,
Speaker 1: has not practiced all. Well, you gotta add Higby. I
Speaker 1: think in almost any league, just because you might, Higby
Speaker 1: would be more enticing TV top ten tight ends. So
Speaker 1: if they rule out ever, if they rule out Evert
Speaker 1: on Sunday, this is a late afternoon game, we should
Speaker 1: say we're mentioning early in the show. But it's a
Speaker 1: four o'clock Eastern start. Yes, So if they rule out Everett,
Speaker 1: where would you rank Higby? See top five. He's not
Speaker 1: Kelsey and I think he's a tight end one in
Speaker 1: that he's a top twelve option. I don't see how
Speaker 1: he's not like that. That's pretty pretty impressive for a
Speaker 1: Tyler Higby. But anyway, Jared Goff, though still on the bench,
Speaker 1: we won't get into that. And Todd Gurley, I didn't
Speaker 1: give him an a in this one. Thirty one touches
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, practically a bell cow again.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are top twelve and rushing yards allowed to
Speaker 1: running backs, and over the last four games, Arizona is
Speaker 1: allowing ten catches and eighty yards per game through the
Speaker 1: air to running backs with top girl is and anymore
Speaker 1: this year. He finally was getting targeted in the passing
Speaker 1: game last year. But yeah, last week last week, sorry, um,
Speaker 1: but help that they were down by a billion early.
Speaker 1: This is this is probably the girly game of all
Speaker 1: girly games. Is gonna be this game, even though he's
Speaker 1: kind of been hot lately. Anyway, over to the Arizona side,
Speaker 1: who also has been hot as Kyler Murray uh total
Speaker 1: five touchdowns across two recent meetings with the forty niners
Speaker 1: and uh so Kylin Roe's getting drafted what six rounds
Speaker 1: before Lamar Jackson in the pre season, so we won't
Speaker 1: talk about that. But I think Lamar laid out a
Speaker 1: pretty nice blueprint globile quarterback in shred the Rams. So
Speaker 1: I think just a B from Murray though, because I'm
Speaker 1: not in love with the past catchers Christian Kirk just
Speaker 1: to see when healthy. Kirk has commanded percent of the
Speaker 1: Cardinals target share, but over the last two weeks he's
Speaker 1: run eight five percent of his routes from the boundaries,
Speaker 1: not the slot. Only interesting the st He'll still see
Speaker 1: a ton of Jalen Ramsey, who isn't as shut down
Speaker 1: as he has been, but still Ramsey has not allowed
Speaker 1: a touchdown in his coverage this season, and Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: I have on the bench held under fifty yards and
Speaker 1: six of his last eight games draws a tough match
Speaker 1: matchup in Nickel Roby Coleman, who only allowed one touchdown
Speaker 1: this season, and that was to Chris Godwin in Week four.
Speaker 1: So I got old fits on the bench unfortunately, and
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, the only running back worth talking about on
Speaker 1: this team, has averaged over five yards per carrys since
Speaker 1: the trade to Arizona. The Rams are good against the run.
Speaker 1: They've only allowed three running backs to top a hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards on the year, Christian McCaffrey in week one,
Speaker 1: Chris Carson in Week five, and mark Ingram last week.
Speaker 1: But the one correlation is all those running backs have
Speaker 1: very mobile quarterbacks like Kenyan has with Kyler Murray, McCaffrey
Speaker 1: had Cam Newton in week one, not not Kyle Allen.
Speaker 1: And the Rams have also conceded at least five catches
Speaker 1: and or a receiving touchdown to running backs in fourth straight.
Speaker 1: So I got a b on Kenyan Drake. Alright, Sorry
Speaker 1: that was very long, and I know in fact, you
Speaker 1: know what, Let's say we normally do three matchups here,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break instead, we'll we'll push San
Speaker 1: Francisco Baltimore into our next segment. San Francisco Baltimore is
Speaker 1: a signature matchup with all kinds of intrigue into that game.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about that when when we come back
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Speaker 1: host and I will provide three quarterbacks, to running backs,
Speaker 1: and three receivers who we believe are startable this week,
Speaker 1: and unique situations for unique reasons, beginning with Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. After taking Mitch Trubisky last week,
Speaker 1: even though we had two touchdowns, little two touchdowns, I
Speaker 1: need a bit of a lay up here, so I'm
Speaker 1: taking Jacksonville's Nick Foles at home versus the Bucks. It's
Speaker 1: quite simple. Tampa is allowing forty two pass attempts per game,
Speaker 1: the highest clip in the league, and prior to the
Speaker 1: Falcons game last week, the Bucks had allowed multiple passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns in eight straight games. In five of those eight games,
Speaker 1: they allowed at least three passing touchdowns. Foals doesn't get
Speaker 1: it done, though, it's Gardener menshown. I'll tell you that's
Speaker 1: right back to Gardner minsh All right, Scott, I'm sticking
Speaker 1: with the Sam Donald train. Gave an a grade this week.
Speaker 1: Actually has seven touchdowns in the last two weeks, averaging
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards, and those He's even tacked on
Speaker 1: a couple of Russian touchdowns in the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals had given up multiple touchdowns and allowed
Speaker 1: an average of over three hundred yards per game in
Speaker 1: three games. Were to holding on dead head and duck
Speaker 1: caller last week and he made out with a girl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: way to go, Sammy boy. Just one. I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, kidding in New York. One In New York,
Speaker 1: if you go to Jersey, usually they come in a
Speaker 1: six pack. They might send the Jets over to Hoboken
Speaker 1: to celebrateing, not Manhattan. Andy Dalton was benched as the
Speaker 1: league leader in completions. How Bengals is that? Now he's
Speaker 1: Now now he's back and he gets the Jets. Now,
Speaker 1: I know the Jets just shut down Derek Carr and
Speaker 1: I don't care. In the month prior to that, the
Speaker 1: Jets got rocked for twelve touchdowns by four guys who
Speaker 1: had been on the bench at some point this year,
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew R. Fitzpatrick, Daniel Jones, and Dwayne Haskins. Twelve
Speaker 1: touchdowns from those guys. Andy Dalton's the best quarterback out
Speaker 1: of this group. I fully expect they solid game from
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Let's go to the running back position, Brian
Speaker 1: I got Green Bay's Jamal Williams at the Giants. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mention Green Bay wide receivers in this very quickly.
Speaker 1: Since Week five, this is seven games a Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packer wide receiver has caught at least fat five passes
Speaker 1: only four times in the last seven games. It's been
Speaker 1: Davante Adams three times and then Alan's Art once. Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams is arguably the best receiver on that team outside
Speaker 1: of Davante Adams. Last week, Williams saw eight targets to
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. Is one He actually outtouched Aaron Jones last
Speaker 1: week and the Giants are one of four teams that
Speaker 1: haven't surrendered surrendered to receiving scored a running back, but
Speaker 1: they've allowed some big, some massive catch totals to the position.
Speaker 1: Minnesota running backs at seven catches, New England backs had thirteen.
Speaker 1: The Bears backs had twelve last week. So Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: doesn't have a big game, and so is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Will talk about this more. Yeah, you will, uh member
Speaker 1: three quarterback this week? Scott Who's gonna take a chance
Speaker 1: of me? Running back? I'm going with Miles Sanders. It
Speaker 1: looks like Howard's going to be out again and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the Sanders a gi show, and Sanders out
Speaker 1: snapped him by a ton last week. Sanders has at
Speaker 1: least three catches in seven of the last eight games,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna get you some PPR points and he's
Speaker 1: at least thirteen touches in those games, averaging over five
Speaker 1: yards per touch. The Dolphins, if they're not good. They're
Speaker 1: allowing second most total yards per game to running backs
Speaker 1: and also the most attempts and most rushing yards. It's
Speaker 1: it's just a smash spot for Sanders. The worst run
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL is the Carolina Panthers, and so
Speaker 1: we're gonna take Darius Guys for a breakout game coming
Speaker 1: up here. Last week he got more carries and Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson and Wendell Small but of course, but for Peterson,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, knee lingering, knee and toe injuries
Speaker 1: have really hobbled him. He's been running at about two
Speaker 1: and a half yards per clip over the last couple
Speaker 1: of games. This is all setting up for the big
Speaker 1: breakout game for Darius Guys here. Running backs have scored
Speaker 1: in seven straight games against the Panthers. In their last
Speaker 1: five games, they've given up ten running back touchdowns on
Speaker 1: four rushing yards per game and five and a half
Speaker 1: yards per carry. If Guys is going to get the
Speaker 1: majority of the work, I love him in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the receivers. Brian, you know I gotta
Speaker 1: get grimy with the tight end by you. New York's
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. I should say Caden Smith,
Speaker 1: who might be Will Smith's son lately Leaven will Smith's
Speaker 1: son can do well against the Packers, who are allowing
Speaker 1: seven catches per game to tight ends over the last
Speaker 1: five games. Darren Waller, Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, and Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard alone have combined for five touchdowns and no, Kayden
Speaker 1: Smith is not any of those guys. But Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: ruled out, Rett Ellison ruled out, Golden Tate is out,
Speaker 1: and talk about this game more. But Caden Smith five
Speaker 1: catches in a touchdown last week. I bet he repeats
Speaker 1: that performance this week as well. I'm going with Jack Doyle.
Speaker 1: I'm staying on the tight end U boat here, buddy.
Speaker 1: We got Eric hebron Now out for the season. Uh. Hooper,
Speaker 1: Henry Kelsey into Joeku all had great games against Wow.
Speaker 1: I lost my train of thought here against the Tennessee Titans. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: Indie tight ends have average six point four catches on
Speaker 1: nine point two targets and nearly seventy yards per game
Speaker 1: when Hilton is limited or out. And that's all you
Speaker 1: brown this week. Um, it's a good when Doyle, you
Speaker 1: put Doyle and Ebron together, you've got tight end five
Speaker 1: and it's there in terms of their fantasy production. If
Speaker 1: Doyle's gonna get all of Ebron's production, and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get most of it, I don't think. Uh,
Speaker 1: Molly Ali Cox. What is that guy's moli ai. I
Speaker 1: don't think all the Ali action for he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of gotta get a lot of work suddenly
Speaker 1: in that offense. My take a chance on me receiver
Speaker 1: is an actual wide receiver d D. Westbrook against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: the league's worst secondary by a mile. In the last
Speaker 1: five games, no team has surrendered more scores or fantasy
Speaker 1: points to opposing wide receivers. And Westbrook runs out of
Speaker 1: the slot. And that's really important here because Up was
Speaker 1: trolling out their fourth slot wide receiver. Now a guy
Speaker 1: named Mike Evans, a converted safety. He's way too slow
Speaker 1: to hang with D. D. Westbrook, who's got four three speed,
Speaker 1: and I think Westbrook clicks for at least one long
Speaker 1: touchdown in this game. I like it. Thank you. Let's
Speaker 1: move on to some of our matchups, including San Francisco
Speaker 1: and Baltimore, a fascinating matchup between two great defenses and
Speaker 1: two offenses that generally fantasy owners can rely upon. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the San Francisco side, and I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with the running game here, where Tevin Coleman just gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. He's averaged only twenty nine rushing yards
Speaker 1: and twenty six receiving yards per game and scored just
Speaker 1: one touchdown over his last month of games. It's not
Speaker 1: been great for Tevin Coleman, and and that's been with
Speaker 1: Matt Brita out and by the way, and there's a
Speaker 1: chance Brita is gonna play in this game, or even
Speaker 1: a likelihood he plays in this game, and that just
Speaker 1: muddies the water unfortunately for him. Although you wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to start Brita if even if he does go, who knows,
Speaker 1: any play could be his last. It's noting here that
Speaker 1: San Francisco used to be have the highest run percentage
Speaker 1: in the league for about the first half of the season,
Speaker 1: but that's really changed lately and now they're down to
Speaker 1: the ninth highest on the season, so they're they're really
Speaker 1: much more of a balanced offensive attack of late. The
Speaker 1: Ravens are the opponent. They've been victim of some garbage
Speaker 1: time rushing stats lately, but I still held their running
Speaker 1: backs to just three point eight yards per carry and
Speaker 1: just two scores in the last six games. So that's
Speaker 1: why Tevin Coleman is just a C grade here. And
Speaker 1: we're not going to start Brita or most diret Those
Speaker 1: guys need much easier matchups. Let's go to the passing game,
Speaker 1: where Jimmy Garoppolo gets a C grade. He notched a
Speaker 1: career best pass rating of a hundred forty five against
Speaker 1: the Packers last time we saw him. He's completed over
Speaker 1: seventy his passes and four of the past five games,
Speaker 1: which is downright breezy and in magnitude. He's thrown multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in four the past five games, which is downright
Speaker 1: mahomes e in. But the Ravens have dominated opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: ever since they got Jimmy Smith back from injury and
Speaker 1: added in Marcus Peters. They've been rule since Week nine.
Speaker 1: They're allowing an average of just two d eight passing
Speaker 1: yards and zero point five touchdowns also known as half
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game. None of garoppolos receivers have a
Speaker 1: positive matchup in this game, and let's talk about those now,
Speaker 1: beginning with Deebo Samuel, who has been red hot since
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders injury with ten yards per catch, but most
Speaker 1: often faced Marcus Peters has been great, and the Ravens
Speaker 1: give up just four point seven yards per pass attempt
Speaker 1: that second lowest. I think that takes the deep all
Speaker 1: away from Deebo Samuel. He's just a C grade. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders has not been the same since his rib injury,
Speaker 1: and this is again a very tough matchup. Baltimore is
Speaker 1: only allowed one wide receiver score in the last five games.
Speaker 1: He will see a lot of Marlon Humphrey got hurt
Speaker 1: against the Rams, but came back into that game and
Speaker 1: should play here. And he just held Cooper Cup the
Speaker 1: thirty five scoreless yards. So Emmanuel Sanders is on the
Speaker 1: bench in this one. The only other guy worth mentioning
Speaker 1: is George Kittle. He slumps to an unusual B grade here.
Speaker 1: The Ravens have only allowed one tight end touchdown over
Speaker 1: the last six weeks and haven't allowed a tight end
Speaker 1: to top thirty four yards during those six weeks. It's
Speaker 1: it's just this simple. The Ravens defense is awesome. Now
Speaker 1: let's go to the other side and let's begin with
Speaker 1: the fantastic storyline of Lamar Jackson, who will talk about
Speaker 1: in a little more detail later on in this show.
Speaker 1: It is a testament to Lamar Jackson's ungodly fantasy prowess
Speaker 1: that he is still getting an A grade from me.
Speaker 1: In the face of all of this. The ranked number
Speaker 1: one against the pass. They ranked number three in passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed. Lamar Jackson loves his tight ends. The Niners
Speaker 1: ranked number one in tight end yards allowed. They've given
Speaker 1: up one tight end touchdown since Week two. Now, who cares?
Speaker 1: Your one angle is San Francisco has allowed to fifty
Speaker 1: yard rushing performances in the last three weeks, and also
Speaker 1: Brian him who cares? Who cares Lamar Jackson? Then the
Speaker 1: rules also apply. I mean, the Patriots are great defense
Speaker 1: and Lamar touchdowns and absolutely so I still have an
Speaker 1: A grade on Lamar Jackson. Mark Ingram also gets an
Speaker 1: A grade. Since his week gate by, he's averaging total
Speaker 1: yards and one point three touchdowns per game despite getting
Speaker 1: fifteen touches per game, and since Week eight, opposing lead
Speaker 1: backs of average a hundred sixteen total yards and almost
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game against the forty nine. So the
Speaker 1: fot Nanders pass defense has remained very stout. The run
Speaker 1: defense has been has been a little softer lately, so
Speaker 1: I think mark Ingram, who's mostly performed in every game
Speaker 1: like all year, stays as an A grade a couple
Speaker 1: other guys. I want to mention Mark Andrews. It gets
Speaker 1: a B grade here. Andrews has scored three times over
Speaker 1: the past three weeks, but it's only registered two catches
Speaker 1: in three of the last five, and that's always kind
Speaker 1: of the issue for him is volume because Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: just doesn't pass that much, and then when he does,
Speaker 1: he passes to three different tight ends and is set receivers.
Speaker 1: San Francisco is arguably the top tight end defense in
Speaker 1: the league, as I mentioned outlined earlier, so Andrews just
Speaker 1: gets a B grade here. Marcus Brown scored twice last week,
Speaker 1: but this is a far tougher matchup. No wide receivers
Speaker 1: topped eighty eight yards against San Francisco since all the
Speaker 1: way back in Week two. Brown spends his time running
Speaker 1: from the slot or right side of the field. That
Speaker 1: gives him brutal matchups with quick Kawan Williams and Richard Sherman.
Speaker 1: So just to see great on Marcus Brown in this game,
Speaker 1: and that wraps up a tricky but fascinating game to
Speaker 1: watch on Sunday morning. Let's go to our next matchup,
Speaker 1: which is Philadelphia taking on Miami. Scott for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they will maybe get all Sean Jeffrey
Speaker 1: and Nelson Agilar back, and it's against Miami, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of temptation to play those guys. What do
Speaker 1: you think I'm I'm not playing. I don't trust the
Speaker 1: hill catch all the balls again sent his way. Nelson
Speaker 1: Aglar drops more balls in a Hernia specialist. And also
Speaker 1: he hasn't topped forty two yards or scored with al
Speaker 1: Shan on the field this year, So no thanks when
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey doesn't score. He's been pretty mediocre this year.
Speaker 1: Um it's it would be real nice if he could
Speaker 1: play a team allowing the most touchdowns to watch receivers
Speaker 1: this year. That would be convenient, including five in just
Speaker 1: the last two games in Miami. So I am giving
Speaker 1: Jeffrey a B a B grade, as as Wentz, his
Speaker 1: main guy, who I'm giving a soft Can I do that?
Speaker 1: Given A just keep trying. I'm giving an A grade.
Speaker 1: Amongst starting quarterbacks, only Sam Donald in his first game
Speaker 1: back from mono and Brian Hoyer failed to toss multiple
Speaker 1: touchdown passes against the Dolphins. So I think it's in
Speaker 1: the cards for Wentz. Who's now got Jeffrey and Aglar back,
Speaker 1: and it's it's looked bad for Wentz for a few weeks,
Speaker 1: but he's been playing without offensive lineman, without wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and here comes to Dolphins. Man. I really hope he
Speaker 1: bounces back now. And when he had Jeffrey and al
Speaker 1: early in the season, me at fourth straight multiple touchdown games.
Speaker 1: So Earth's gets an A grade and got it gets
Speaker 1: a C grade because that offense really does funnel through
Speaker 1: the tight end. I think there's enough work for everyone
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, though, Uh Miami's okay against the tight ends.
Speaker 1: They're they're pretty decent against tight ends, but since week ends,
Speaker 1: since Week one, no tight end his top sixty yards
Speaker 1: against them. But it's zach Ertz and Dallas Goddard who
Speaker 1: are getting like twenty targets a game right now. Um uh,
Speaker 1: Earth's is the main target. He's top ninety yards in
Speaker 1: three straight so that's why he gets the air. Doesn't
Speaker 1: go Dallas Goddard, Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, or it has
Speaker 1: been limited, but I think he does go on On
Speaker 1: the other side, the only one I can start is
Speaker 1: is Davante Parker, and he's been solid, very solid for
Speaker 1: quite quite a while. A lot of people aren't realizing
Speaker 1: he's top fifty yards in all but two games this year.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. He has at least five grabs in
Speaker 1: five of the last six, has ten or more targets
Speaker 1: in three straight. Uh. He's scored in half of his
Speaker 1: last eight games, four of his last eight games. DeVante Parker.
Speaker 1: If we said here's the receiver's DeVante Parker has been
Speaker 1: better than for the last like six weeks or eight
Speaker 1: two months, it would be like Julio Jones and Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it'd be crazy. I'm going to bet he's
Speaker 1: scored more Fantasy points and say Karon Barkley in the
Speaker 1: last month. Yeah, I bet that's true. Dawnt, Yeah, do that.
Speaker 1: But that's it okay for them. In that event, Let's
Speaker 1: start thinking about next segment already, when we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Tampa Bay taking on Jacksonville and whether or not
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Speaker 1: up next, Fantasy Football Weekly. As I mentioned Tampa Bay Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you about Ronald Jones and whether or not
Speaker 1: this is shaping it's more of a Godwin blow up
Speaker 1: game or the Evans blow up game. They never happened
Speaker 1: in the same game. It's one or the other. We'll
Speaker 1: try to decipher that when we come back to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. You are listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and my co host are Scott Fish and
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Speaker 1: Radio app. I'm very happy to say Tampa Bay takes
Speaker 1: on Jacksonville's I alluded two moments ago Brian Jacksonville's run
Speaker 1: defense is hot, garbage edge and Ronald Jones is getting
Speaker 1: all the work. Is this the breakout game for Ronald Jones?
Speaker 1: I think, so I gotta be on him. Uh and
Speaker 1: I do. I'll get give Peyton Barber received because you
Speaker 1: said that run defense for Jacksonville has gone entirely south.
Speaker 1: But I do like Jones a whole lot more. Over
Speaker 1: the last four games, he has forty five carries to
Speaker 1: Barbers twenty six. Jones has seventeen targets to Barber's for
Speaker 1: he's taken the lead role in that backfield. But again,
Speaker 1: this is a great matchup for both. Over the Jaguars
Speaker 1: last three games, opponing opposing running backs have totaled five
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four rushing yards in three five rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns and three games. That has produced six individual running
Speaker 1: backs who are top twenty four worth almost any fantasy
Speaker 1: format in three games. So they're both very startable, but
Speaker 1: you gotta like Jones a lot more in this one.
Speaker 1: Peyton barr has been dropped in many leagues, and understandably
Speaker 1: given the season he's had and especially lately, He's a
Speaker 1: guy you could pick up and start in a pinch
Speaker 1: this way in deeper leagues for sure, definitely. And you
Speaker 1: alluded to the Mike Evans Chris Godwin like Who's who
Speaker 1: um based very alternate, just randomly, like who has the
Speaker 1: big game? And this time it's Mike Evanstern based Mike
Speaker 1: Evanstern based on that, but science also says this is
Speaker 1: a game for Evans because elite boundary receivers have done
Speaker 1: just fine against A. J. Booyer, the loan standing cornerback
Speaker 1: after the Jalen Ramsey trade. Um Courtland Sutton six catches,
Speaker 1: sixty two yards, two touchdowns, d J. Moore had six
Speaker 1: nine one, Michael Thomas eight for eighty nine, DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: eight forty eight one. Even A. J. Brown popped off
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville last week for four five and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So in a for Mike Evans, just a B for
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, though he'll avoid Booyer in the slot, but
Speaker 1: that means he draws the better corner at least for
Speaker 1: this season, in d J. Hayden, who hasn't allowed a
Speaker 1: touchdown in coverage all season long, and he held the
Speaker 1: very comparable Tyler Boyd to five catches for fifty five
Speaker 1: yards on fourteen targets. Just a B for Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: No Tampa Bay it and is worth mentioning finally, we're
Speaker 1: not even gonna go there, by the way, and I
Speaker 1: was guilty of it. I bought into the O j
Speaker 1: Howard is dead to us, Let's go to Cameron bread narrative.
Speaker 1: Oh god, zero zero catches last week. Sorry, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: he's too much a roller roller coaster, boom bust options.
Speaker 1: So Jameis Winston though not so much, not in a
Speaker 1: level grade just to be just because that run defense
Speaker 1: we mentioned is so bad for Jacksonville. They might funnel
Speaker 1: all of their offense through the run, but in the
Speaker 1: true talent of the team is at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: Though for Tampa Bay and the Jaguars have allowed multiple
Speaker 1: passing scores in three of their last four games, but
Speaker 1: the ceiling just isn't as high for Winston in this one.
Speaker 1: It feels so just to be over to the Jaguar side.
Speaker 1: Just a B for Leonard four Nette. He's been playing
Speaker 1: great as of late, but the Bucks have basically been
Speaker 1: the worst opponent for running backs when it comes to
Speaker 1: fantasy football. Only five running backs have registered double digit
Speaker 1: PPR performances all year against Tampa Bay, but three of
Speaker 1: those backs had big games, and they were Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, and Todd Gurley. Leonard for Nett is certainly
Speaker 1: in that mix of B for him still based on volume,
Speaker 1: but in a for DJ chark Um, even though he's
Speaker 1: a bit of a roller coaster ride as well. Over
Speaker 1: the past five weeks, opposing wide receivers are averaging more
Speaker 1: than sixteen catches, two hundred yards and two whole touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game against Tampa Bay. And needless to say, number
Speaker 1: one receivers have gone berserk, but there's been plenty of
Speaker 1: meat on the bone for the number two. And that's
Speaker 1: why Deeed Westbrook was going to take a chance on
Speaker 1: me wide receiver chart and Nick Foles was might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me quarterback. What about Chris Conley, I said,
Speaker 1: Chris con Oh, Chris Conley, Conley, Chris the Chris Conley,
Speaker 1: Chris Connolly desk over here, And I'm telling you once
Speaker 1: again and I and I he didn't have a blow
Speaker 1: up game last week, but at like sixty yards I
Speaker 1: should have mentioned in him. I think he should get
Speaker 1: a C grade in this matchup. Chris Connley, consider it done.
Speaker 1: Chris Conley, appreciate that. Let's go to Washington taking on Carolina.
Speaker 1: Not a lot to talk about on the Washington side,
Speaker 1: although Gary Darius Guys was might take a chance, I
Speaker 1: mean running back, and I love him in this game.
Speaker 1: If Adrian Peterson is active for the game, and I
Speaker 1: think he will be. Um, he's got the knee and
Speaker 1: the ankle injuries and the toe injuries. Um. But the
Speaker 1: Panthers run defenses so bad, as I articulated earlier and
Speaker 1: talking about Darius Guys, that you can start Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: here too in a pinch. The only other starting grade
Speaker 1: I've got is Terry McLaurin with a see no touchdowns
Speaker 1: or one hundred yard games since Dwayne Haskins took over.
Speaker 1: By the way, let's talk Dwayne Haskins. The Redskins are
Speaker 1: gonna be burning another first round draft pick on the
Speaker 1: quarterback position in five months, right, I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins is not the answer here. He looks to
Speaker 1: me like a backup caliber quarterback to my eyes to
Speaker 1: this point, unless something changes anyway. It could. He's still young,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't see a lot here. He's
Speaker 1: asket case. That's not bad. I might remember that um
Speaker 1: McLaren got twelve targets last week, which was a season high,
Speaker 1: and that part is promising. It's even more promising considering
Speaker 1: that the Panthers have a lot of the second most
Speaker 1: yards and receptions per game to opposing receivers over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. But he'll see a lot of cornerback
Speaker 1: James Bradbury, who usually travels with the opponent's best wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He's good, but he has also struggled lately, giving up
Speaker 1: his first score of the year last week. And so
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an automatic shoutout for Terry McLaurin here.
Speaker 1: He's got a chance and he gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Carolina. You notice start Christian McCaffrey. We
Speaker 1: want to even expand on that. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: passing game though. Kyle Allen, their quarterback, gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: Now last week, after every two weeks ago, well, I've
Speaker 1: been back up three weeks ago. Kyle Allen played a
Speaker 1: great game. We were talking about how Kyle Allen looked
Speaker 1: like he was sort of fitting into the mold of
Speaker 1: an NFL starting quarterback. Then two weeks ago, he looked
Speaker 1: terrible and everybody dropped him and he was the worst
Speaker 1: thing that ever happened. Then last week, when nobody in
Speaker 1: the right mind would have started him, he looks great again.
Speaker 1: And gets a very good Saints defense. Now I understand
Speaker 1: he's playing the Redskins by reputation the two when Redskin
Speaker 1: sounds like an easy opportunity for Kyle Allen and this
Speaker 1: passing it, but in reality they've mostly handled their quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Over Washington's last six games, only one quarterback has generated
Speaker 1: a viable fantasy start. The other five average ridged two
Speaker 1: d four passing yards and zero point six passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's it. So Kyle Allen has just got a C
Speaker 1: grade here and d J. Moore just has a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's topped eleven yards per reception and four straight he
Speaker 1: continues to be a down field factor. His matchup those
Speaker 1: is tricky this week. Washington has quietly been a top
Speaker 1: ten defense against opposing receivers in terms of yards and
Speaker 1: receptions and touchdowns allowed over the last five weeks and
Speaker 1: more months. Runs most of his routes on the side
Speaker 1: of the field that Quinton Dunbar is on, and he's
Speaker 1: one of the better young cornerbacks in the league. So
Speaker 1: just to be grade on d J. Moore, Curtis Samuel
Speaker 1: gets a C grade because he's on the other side
Speaker 1: of the field where he gets well, it was Josh Norman.
Speaker 1: Now it's rookie Jimmy Moreland. Now Moreland had his first
Speaker 1: ever start last week. He allowed four of five passes
Speaker 1: in his coverage to be completed, and that's why Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel is startable here. And lastly, Greg Olsen, averaging more
Speaker 1: than five catches per game over the last four weeks
Speaker 1: in Washington, has given up three tight end touchdowns over
Speaker 1: their last two games, so he gets a C grade
Speaker 1: as well. We all need tight ends. We've talked about
Speaker 1: a lot of fantasy viable tight ends that are on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire so far already this week there's only
Speaker 1: like five truly viable Titans with holding onto all eGain,
Speaker 1: that's probably true. Let's go to our last match of
Speaker 1: this particular segment, which is the New York Jets taking
Speaker 1: on the Cincinnati Bengals. Those people who drafted Levy on
Speaker 1: Bell have been waiting a long long time for a
Speaker 1: big payoff. Scott Fish, I think it's finally coming. Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell a big game here. Yeah, I have him
Speaker 1: with an A grade here. Ten running backs have hit
Speaker 1: the fifteen touch mark against the Bengals, and that's a
Speaker 1: really low bar. For fifteen touches. Those ten backs averaged
Speaker 1: a hundred thirteen yards and scored seven touchdowns. The trend
Speaker 1: is in the right direction as well, as they just
Speaker 1: allowed Josh Jacobs and Benny Snell over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: in back to at games. And Bell also gets you
Speaker 1: that receiving work. He's averaging over twenty touches a game.
Speaker 1: Uh in the passing game. I I already gave Sam
Speaker 1: Donald a with my take on and I'm giving Robbie
Speaker 1: Anderson and a grade here as well. I'm a little
Speaker 1: worried about the Anderson Crowder thing as I dug deeper.
Speaker 1: I'm still giving Crowder a C. But when those two,
Speaker 1: when one of those two hit thirty five yards receiving,
Speaker 1: the other one doesn't, it's always either or. In fact,
Speaker 1: only once this season have both of them had more
Speaker 1: than eight Fantasy PPR points in the same game. Only once,
Speaker 1: So you're only getting one or the other basically every game.
Speaker 1: So I'm going with Anderson. I'm going with a deep target.
Speaker 1: Three deep target wide receivers against the Bengals in recent
Speaker 1: weeks have topped eighty yards, and two of the three
Speaker 1: scored and Anderson scored in back to back, so I'm
Speaker 1: giving it to him. Crowder generally gets a bunch of
Speaker 1: gets more targets and more receptions, so I'm still giving
Speaker 1: the C grade. Maybe you can hope for an okay day.
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin, I'm giving a B. He scored six touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his last seven games, and he plays of the snaps.
Speaker 1: The Bengals have given up three touchdowns to tight ends
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks, and three tight ends that
Speaker 1: went over fifty yards. Uh, and that's not counting the
Speaker 1: no show from basically from Vance McDonald um. On the
Speaker 1: other side, Andy Dalton was your take on you like
Speaker 1: him this week? I like I like Tyler Boyd because
Speaker 1: Dalton's back. Boyd averaged over six catches per game, in
Speaker 1: over ten targets per game, and nearly seventy yards per game.
Speaker 1: With Dalton in at quarterback, he only scored once once,
Speaker 1: but he now matches up against a team allowing the
Speaker 1: third most touchdowns to watch receivers in the NFL. Like
Speaker 1: him here, I'm benching effort. I'm sorry, he's top thirty
Speaker 1: yards just once this season. Now, it doesn't even he
Speaker 1: doesn't not even be mentioning. Yeah, let's let's walk past
Speaker 1: that to Jill Mixon, who I think has a bad
Speaker 1: matchup here. I'm giving him a C grade because he's
Speaker 1: probably going to get the volume. But over the last
Speaker 1: five weeks, the Jets having a out a single rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown and only Leo for net was was able to
Speaker 1: top thirty five yards rushing. Jets run defense is elite
Speaker 1: two point six yards per carry over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: His volume, his fifteen plus touch volume, is what might
Speaker 1: get him that C grade. Otherwise it's it's rough. No,
Speaker 1: I have no problem just having a bench grade. And
Speaker 1: I thought about it. Bell cor running backs are just
Speaker 1: guys that get that many touches. I don't know he needs.
Speaker 1: Like he had a thirty touch game a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago and he did well there. If you told me
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon's get thirty touches, then I'm in. That's probably
Speaker 1: what I would take Meason one in the passing game.
Speaker 1: How can the Bengals not see how good he Isn't
Speaker 1: that well? I answered my question that it's just the
Speaker 1: same team that bench to the league leader in completions
Speaker 1: to go to their untested rookie. David Montgomery scored on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Chicago is the easiest running back schedule for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. Brian, give me your thoughts on
Speaker 1: David Montgomery going forward and whether whether or not you
Speaker 1: think he's going to be fantasy viable the rest of
Speaker 1: the way, given the easy schedule, given the fact that
Speaker 1: we've got a touched on out of him, there's no
Speaker 1: basically you know, no other running back other than Tree
Speaker 1: Colon who gets a couple of a couple of carries
Speaker 1: every now and again. What are your thoughts on David
Speaker 1: Montgomery going forward? Well, off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: I don't have the schedule in front of me, but
Speaker 1: you said it's favorable, banging on the that that they
Speaker 1: cut Mike Davis a long time ago, and not that
Speaker 1: he was ever a factor even though he technically started
Speaker 1: the season for the Bears, took the first snap and
Speaker 1: everyone was panicking the up ticket production. It took a
Speaker 1: dip for Montgomery uh previous weeks, but last week it
Speaker 1: was way up, and based on the favorable schedule, he's
Speaker 1: cannot drop below a flex worthy player, especially when you
Speaker 1: think about teams like the Bengals and who else is
Speaker 1: dead in the water. They're gonna stop trotting out their
Speaker 1: bell cows. I believe, you know, just give some scrubs
Speaker 1: some run. The Bears are still clinging to some playoff life,
Speaker 1: so they'll ride Montgomery. And you know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of tread in those tie because they weren't he was
Speaker 1: getting misused for the most part early on in the year,
Speaker 1: which was basically not getting used whatsoever. So yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: write uh Montgomery to the playoffs with some confidence. I've
Speaker 1: got a troubling statin David Montgomery. Here. Your bottom three
Speaker 1: running backs and yards after contact, yards after contact tells
Speaker 1: me a lot about a running back. Bottom Klein Balage
Speaker 1: goes without saying. Second from the bottom, David Johnson, third
Speaker 1: from the bottom, David Montgomery, and it it has. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you if you think about David Montgomery broken tackles, Uh,
Speaker 1: he remember the preseason? What's insane is that was four college?
Speaker 1: I know he was super, he was profoball focused, his
Speaker 1: most elusive running back. Last year they hit a little
Speaker 1: harder than the NFL. They just a little little faster,
Speaker 1: a little faster, a little harder. It's just it's not
Speaker 1: the same. It isn't the same. Um, when do we
Speaker 1: come back. Let's answer three tough questions together. Why don't
Speaker 1: we me you the panel of experts. Let's well, I
Speaker 1: will dole out three mind bending questions. You try to
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Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson. Now, let's roll up our sleeves with
Speaker 1: three tough questions. Guys, listeners who encourage you to play along,
Speaker 1: try to go to me a question number one? I
Speaker 1: got the wrong cheat and paper. Here we go. Let's
Speaker 1: question number one. Is Rashad Penny going to be this
Speaker 1: year's Ron Dane? A player who out of nowhere posts
Speaker 1: a monster playoff run, guiding his owners to a championship?
Speaker 1: Brian Well, most playoffs start Week fourteen, so I'll exclude
Speaker 1: the week this week's match up with Minnesota, which is
Speaker 1: very tough for Seattle running backs, and looking forward from
Speaker 1: week fourteen. Weeks fourteen through sixteen, it's at the Rams
Speaker 1: at Panthers and then the Cardinals at home. I talked
Speaker 1: about the Rams in the first segment. Only three running
Speaker 1: backs have topped one hundred rushing yards against them all season,
Speaker 1: but one of them was Chris Carson, and by the way,
Speaker 1: has been fumbling a lot. And that's the reason we're
Speaker 1: talking about Rashad Penny right now, Um. And then at
Speaker 1: Carolina week fifteen primo matchup there and Arizona also very
Speaker 1: soft against the run, unlike years past. Now, Rashad Penny
Speaker 1: is not proven to not piece beast off because fourteen
Speaker 1: carries last week was his career high. He had double
Speaker 1: digit carries just three other times in his entire short
Speaker 1: two year career. I'm not convinced he is of bell
Speaker 1: cow bell cow caliber, bell cow cow, ian bell and
Speaker 1: cow caliber. Okay, now, brown cow bell cow Um. Chris
Speaker 1: Carson is outside of the phone balls, and he's still
Speaker 1: a better running back. So I just don't see the
Speaker 1: Seahawks riding Penny like a bell cow, even in this
Speaker 1: favorable schedule. So I'm gonna say, no, he's not this
Speaker 1: year's roun Dame, all right, Scott, I think it's possible.
Speaker 1: It happens every year. We've mentioned this on shows before.
Speaker 1: It happened with Tim high Tower, it happened with as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Ron Dane and c J. Anderson last year.
Speaker 1: If Carson's fumbles continues, maybe the Rams in Week fourteen.
Speaker 1: They have allowed a hun six toll yards per game
Speaker 1: five touchdowns to run backs for the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Panthers you you mentioned earlier, and they're terrible against Cardinals
Speaker 1: Week sixteen. They're allowing a ton of receiving gamework to
Speaker 1: running backs and Penny's good in that area as possible. Weirdly,
Speaker 1: early in the season, before the season, I thought it
Speaker 1: was Jordan Wilkins. I thought Jordan Wilkins was going to
Speaker 1: be the guy to take over from mc layton the season, jury, injury, whatever.
Speaker 1: Now it's looking maybe it's Jonathan Williams. So I think
Speaker 1: Penny's a viable candid. I think Jonathan I'm gonna go with, yes,
Speaker 1: Penny can be that guy. The year was two thousand six.
Speaker 1: Ron Dane, a stone cold bust with the Giants and
Speaker 1: the Broncos, finds himself on the Texans. The Texans need
Speaker 1: him early in the season, and he starts three games
Speaker 1: for the Texans and he's awful, and he gets benched
Speaker 1: for guys like Wally Lundie and Jamille Cook. Then in
Speaker 1: Week twelve, Ron Dane gets another chance. He pounds the
Speaker 1: Raiders fore yards, almost all of it in the second half.
Speaker 1: Some Wise, fantasy owners pick him up Week thirteen. Why
Speaker 1: that's this very week of two thousand six yards of pounding.
Speaker 1: That seems a little excessive that in week thirteen as
Speaker 1: the starter, he wasn't even the starter that game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Week thirteen, he's the starter nine nine yards and two
Speaker 1: scores for Ron Dane, powering his owners into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Then Week fourteen, one hundred one yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: for Ron Dane. That Week fifteen, the playoff bomb drops
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty eight yards and two scores from Ron
Speaker 1: Dane in the playoffs of two thousand six now week sixteen.
Speaker 1: As it turns out, as a little reminder here, um,
Speaker 1: he actually injured his ankle in pregame warmups and that
Speaker 1: didn't end up playing in that game. Yeah, which you
Speaker 1: don't hear. That happened very often. And that was basically
Speaker 1: the end of it for Ron Dane for career. He
Speaker 1: only played parts of one more season and then that
Speaker 1: was it. But that was the run for Ron Daane.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks usually used one workhorse and and you know,
Speaker 1: but not a ways last season we saw Mike Davis
Speaker 1: get a hundred twelve carries, Rashad Penny got eighty five.
Speaker 1: Together they got what Carson had a very close to
Speaker 1: what Carson had. They can use, they can use multiple backs,
Speaker 1: and together with the fact that Carson has been a
Speaker 1: successful workhorse there, I think he's too good to be
Speaker 1: kicked to the curb completely, which is what would have
Speaker 1: to happen for Rashad Penny to go Ron Dane. The
Speaker 1: correct answer is no. Tough question number two, Should Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan's owners just drop him out? Right? Scott, No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so. I mean early in
Speaker 1: the season. He started the year with sixth straight three
Speaker 1: yard games. Um might have been seven straight sixth straight
Speaker 1: and uh in five of those he had multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: at the time he got injured. Much like you mentioned
Speaker 1: with Dalton earlier, he was leading the NFL and completions
Speaker 1: and attempts when he got injured. Um, he had a
Speaker 1: little trouble there. When he got back in Atlanta's defense
Speaker 1: like started to step up, but Atlanta's de defenses back
Speaker 1: to being Atlanta's defense over last week or still and uh,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan over the last couple of weeks. Those attempts
Speaker 1: are back up forty six two weeks ago, fifty this last, this,
Speaker 1: just yesterday. I think he's gonna get that. He was
Speaker 1: averaging forty three attempts per game when he was leaving
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think those attempts are gonna stay in
Speaker 1: the fifty range. I think he's going to need to throw,
Speaker 1: and I think he's got a lot of more multiple
Speaker 1: touchdown games coming coming up the stretch. Al Right, Brian,
Speaker 1: should Matt Ryan be dropped? I'm gonna drop Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: in one quarterback leagues, um, starting next week. He's got
Speaker 1: Caroline at home, then at San Francisco, and then Jacksonville
Speaker 1: at home. Starting with Carolina next week. Yeah, Carolina. That
Speaker 1: run defense is brutal. We've talked about brutal in a
Speaker 1: bad way. And Ryan had three eleven and one in
Speaker 1: the first meeting between the Falcons and the Panthers. Respectable,
Speaker 1: but he had Austin Hooper and a healthy Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: Those two are not guaranteed to be healthy next week.
Speaker 1: And then at San fran and week fifteen, that's so
Speaker 1: an awful matchup. I'm like, we're not even getting to
Speaker 1: weeks sixteen with Matt Ryany's re quarterback with those two
Speaker 1: upcoming opponents. So Fish made some great points, but I'm
Speaker 1: still it's not an easy decision, But I am dropping
Speaker 1: that Ryan. You know it's in sheer volume. That's all
Speaker 1: Ryan really has going for miss volume. Now the running
Speaker 1: game has been so bad they have no choice but
Speaker 1: to pass. But to the points that we've made here,
Speaker 1: two of the next three teams up for the Falcons
Speaker 1: are horrible run defenses. And if if Ryan's not passing
Speaker 1: forty eight times he threw fifty on Thanksgiving Night, then
Speaker 1: I don't know what I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: value that he brings. I think you can find other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with a better schedule, more reliable than Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to drop him, like you can
Speaker 1: find other help. Tough question number three, Should Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: be the first player we could? We're codifying a conversation
Speaker 1: from last week. By the way, we threw this out
Speaker 1: casually last week, should Lamar Jackson? And then, by the
Speaker 1: way went berserk after last week's show, should Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: be the first player taken in fantasy drafts next year?
Speaker 1: I want to preface this real quick with a revenge
Speaker 1: angle with Jacks. We should never overlook the revenge duck
Speaker 1: making his first appearance of the show. So those who
Speaker 1: don't remember in the draft it was the um, it
Speaker 1: will be in this word of the Browns, Bills, Uh No, Browns, Jets,
Speaker 1: Bills and Dolphins who passed on Lamar Jackson in favor
Speaker 1: of another quarterback, favor another carback. So L Jacks and
Speaker 1: we will back to that. So he's played the Browns
Speaker 1: twice and the Dolphins since then. In those three games,
Speaker 1: he has eight passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns. And
Speaker 1: he plays the Browns twice every year. This wait untill
Speaker 1: he plays the Bills and the Jets too. But anyway,
Speaker 1: L Jacks is breaking fantasy football right now. He is
Speaker 1: tied for the league lead in passing touchdowns with twenty four.
Speaker 1: The passing yardage is not there, but he is easily
Speaker 1: inside the top ten quarterbacks right now. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to running the ball at fifty plus yards and
Speaker 1: six rushing touchdowns, he's easily a top ten running back.
Speaker 1: I'm standalone running numbers. So last week I said no
Speaker 1: way first overall, first round maybe, but there's so much uncertainty.
Speaker 1: It's only Christian McCaffrey, right, that's the one guy you contemplate.
Speaker 1: But he's a running back, and you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: get those guys later in the draft. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get Lamar Jackson later in the draft. It's not Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: it's not Josh Allen. I'm going one one L Jacks.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna be alone him. This is
Speaker 1: the this is the vic argument from like two thousand four,
Speaker 1: two five, only he's giving more rushing yards and he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna add with more touching rushing touch Johns and
Speaker 1: he's already got more passing yards. I think it's very viable.
Speaker 1: I I had some of the stuff Brian said. I
Speaker 1: was going to mention how this is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a down year for quarterback scoring and in comparison
Speaker 1: to historically. Yeah so so L Jackson is that far
Speaker 1: above everybody this year, So it makes it look even
Speaker 1: more absurd. But also my last little point is fantasy
Speaker 1: is supposed to be fun, and honestly, there's there's nothing
Speaker 1: more fun than having Lamar jack sin or as I
Speaker 1: think you should start being called insta Win. I believe
Speaker 1: it's called him that before UH start calling him that
Speaker 1: because it's just fun to have him on your team.
Speaker 1: So with everything Brian said and that, yes, why not,
Speaker 1: I'm always nervous about taking running backs early anyway, you
Speaker 1: guys know what I feel about that. Remember, going into
Speaker 1: this last draft, there were four guys that were the
Speaker 1: lock four running backs. Three of the four have disappointed
Speaker 1: and pretty significantly this year. Only Christian McCaffrey has lived
Speaker 1: up to the billing. And mostly Christian McCaffrey was not
Speaker 1: being the first player taken. It was mostly Sae Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: Robin Kamara or Ezekiel Elliott. Um, you guys already hit
Speaker 1: on a lot of my talking points, but I want
Speaker 1: to mention one thing that's different compared to him and
Speaker 1: Mike Vick or Cam Newton or for old timers, Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Jackson gets designed runs. These other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: were mostly scrambling, and they would scramble for a se
Speaker 1: in touchdown season or a six touchdown season or an
Speaker 1: eight touchdown rushing season right and then the next year,
Speaker 1: because these weren't designed runs, they would have two touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the ground or three touchdowns on the ground, and
Speaker 1: that destroy their fantasy value. That's not the case for
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. It's the designed the fact that he's running
Speaker 1: designed runs all the time that makes him impervious virtually
Speaker 1: to these bad games because of a flags don't do
Speaker 1: what the arm does, and he doesn't have to get
Speaker 1: it by happenstance, by you know, getting into trouble and
Speaker 1: then scrambling and then maybe or maybe not scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And his past catchers aren't adapting because they're all coming
Speaker 1: up together, like his tight ends and wide receivers are
Speaker 1: all drafted within the last two to three years. It's
Speaker 1: like this whole thing is just yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: scary to watch in a fun way. Oh, it's so
Speaker 1: much fun. Correct answer, Yes, I think. In fact, I
Speaker 1: think there's I think that's gonna be a universal consensus
Speaker 1: almost that Lamar Jackson by next do August will be
Speaker 1: pick one one. Hey, McCaffrey will be pick one too.
Speaker 1: So in an auction, you have to be the first
Speaker 1: one to just max bid to get Lamar Jackson. That's
Speaker 1: gonna never know. I don't know, but that's that's some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that will be fun to talk about
Speaker 1: on this show. Come next August, um let's work in
Speaker 1: one more matchup. Green Bay takes on the New York Giants. Brian,
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers, in his three good games this year,
Speaker 1: he has been quarterback one. In his eight other games,
Speaker 1: he's been quarterback thirty seven. There's only thirty two teams, Brian.
Speaker 1: Is this gonna be the great game for Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: or is this going to be the dismal game for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. It has to be a great game for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. I gotta give him an A. Considering the
Speaker 1: Giants have conceded seven straight top ten finishes to opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: The only two quarterbacks who failed to total multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: all season were rookies Dwayne Haskins and Kyler Murray, giving
Speaker 1: Rodgers an A. But the only other past catcher that
Speaker 1: gets an A from me is Dvante Adams. The Giants
Speaker 1: have allowed the third most touchdowns to wide receivers, and
Speaker 1: comparable receivers have blown up against the GM MANA Maarty
Speaker 1: Cooper one oh six and one and then had eighty
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown in the second game. Mike Evans
Speaker 1: one ninety and three, Kenny Golladay one three and two,
Speaker 1: and Allen Robinson recently one thirty one and one. I'm
Speaker 1: giving Davante the a. He's my number one ranked wide receiver.
Speaker 1: This week will be his first touchdown of the year.
Speaker 1: He'll score on Sunday, I believe. Imagine having him, Mike
Speaker 1: Williams and Robert Woods as your starting three wider resiver
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns receiver. Robert Woods, Ok, you got me there, um,
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard, I was close to you using as my
Speaker 1: take on wide receiver. You can throw a dart with him.
Speaker 1: But I mentioned in the last seven games a Green
Speaker 1: Bay wide receiver has hit five catches once like four.
Speaker 1: It's it's off something like that. But I like the well,
Speaker 1: I like Jamal Williams more out of the running backs.
Speaker 1: Let me get to Aaron Jones. Gonna give him a
Speaker 1: c And by the way, Jimmy Graham dead didn't do
Speaker 1: anything on his birthday. Dead to me, Aaron Jones and
Speaker 1: it match up to Aaron Jones. Well, it wasn't that good,
Speaker 1: but it was his birthday. But Aaron Jones see just
Speaker 1: to see, I'll just say, see's charge, don't worry. Was
Speaker 1: outtouched eighteen to thirteen by Jamal Williams last week hasn't
Speaker 1: topped thirteen carries. He's the Dallas game and week five
Speaker 1: and making matters worse. Outside of the misusage, the Packers
Speaker 1: lost starting right tackle Brian Blaga to a sprain mcl
Speaker 1: and since the Giants acquired defensive tackle Leonard Williams, their
Speaker 1: run defense has been based out. Over the last two games,
Speaker 1: they're barely allowing over two yards per carry. So just
Speaker 1: to see for Jones, but I like Jamal Williams in
Speaker 1: the past game here. I think he outside he could
Speaker 1: be the top receiver on the team this week outside
Speaker 1: of Davanta Adams. Even better than Adams. Now, Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: had that massive blow up receiving game like a month ago.
Speaker 1: It was Arizona. I'm trying, I don't remember who they
Speaker 1: were playing um and then since then they've they don't
Speaker 1: even thrown them anymore. Yea, even he looked like he
Speaker 1: was just he was the second coming of Marshall fall
Speaker 1: out of the backfield and now the package don't even
Speaker 1: throw him, didn't take it was eight targets for even
Speaker 1: though they were getting blown out last week, Green Bay
Speaker 1: in San Francia. Eight targets for Williams, one for Jones.
Speaker 1: It's just grost the floor is te extra better. He
Speaker 1: ended by guillotine league run. I got knocked out of
Speaker 1: my guillotine league last week, and no small part because
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers or Aaron Jones doing nothing brutal. You
Speaker 1: know who has been knocked out of guillotine leagues plenty
Speaker 1: of times as anyone that's had sa Quon Barkley on
Speaker 1: the roster over the last six games, held under seventy
Speaker 1: five yards for six straight now rushing yards that is,
Speaker 1: one touchdown during that span. This has to be a
Speaker 1: get right game though, for Sae Kwon. According to Football Outsiders,
Speaker 1: Green Bay is ranked against the run and they have
Speaker 1: yielded the third most red zone touches to running backs
Speaker 1: and gold to go scenarios. So I'm gonna get Barkley
Speaker 1: and a man you can almost sabotage. Troup doesn't come
Speaker 1: through this game. Maybe we'll talk about that next week.
Speaker 1: Hopefully not. We won't talk about Golden tat a whole lot.
Speaker 1: He's been ruled out with the concussion. Sterling Shepard in
Speaker 1: gonna give him the b should run the slot he
Speaker 1: will now because Ted has been ruled out and he
Speaker 1: had success in the in Daniel jones first two starts
Speaker 1: when Tate was still on suspension, Shepard had seven for
Speaker 1: a hundred and one and then seven for seventy six
Speaker 1: and his two games manning the slot alone, but not
Speaker 1: an ideal matchup for slot receivers. Traumont Williams is legit
Speaker 1: and held Keenan Allen to just three catches for forty
Speaker 1: yards a few weeks ago, so just to see for Shephard,
Speaker 1: I'm torn on Darius Slayton, but I'm going to put
Speaker 1: him on the bench. Green Bay yielding the second fewest
Speaker 1: targets to wide receivers, so not enough volume there for
Speaker 1: me with him, I mentioned, and take on Evan Ingram's
Speaker 1: ruled out. Rhett Ellis in the backup ruled out that
Speaker 1: made Caden Smith. Might take a chance of the receiver
Speaker 1: tight end eligible if you're desperate out there. But in uh, lastly,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones on the bench for me and this one.
Speaker 1: The Packers are yielding under thirty one pass attempts per game.
Speaker 1: That is not a lot at all, and even though
Speaker 1: Green Bay has allowed multiple passing scores and three of
Speaker 1: their last five. I cannot trust Daniel Jones, especially without
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Speaker 1: Oakland takes on Kansas City guys easy a for Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs at the second most rushing yards to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs on a league worst five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs potentially sitting on a gigantic game here, um,
Speaker 1: and really they're even worse than that. Over the last
Speaker 1: four games, running backs are averaging thirty touches for two
Speaker 1: hundred thirteen yards and one point a touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. So Jacobs had a brutal matchup last week,
Speaker 1: bounces back here with a very nice game. I believe.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the passing game. Derek Carr in explicably
Speaker 1: blank last week, has been a other than that has
Speaker 1: mostly been a very safe starter this year in Kansas
Speaker 1: City sees an average of thirty six passes per game.
Speaker 1: So maybe if all malone will get Derek Carter some
Speaker 1: fantasy viability here. The chief secondary has improved, but over
Speaker 1: the last month, every opposing quarterback has scored and they've
Speaker 1: all topped three hundred yards and or thrown multiple touchdowns,
Speaker 1: So I think car gets this gets close to three
Speaker 1: hundred here. I want to believe so anyway, Tyrone Williams
Speaker 1: super disappointing, had those five straight touchdown games to start
Speaker 1: the season, hasn't and is now not scored for a month.
Speaker 1: He's averaging just forty three yards on three catches over
Speaker 1: the last month. He'll be tested against cornerback chart Various Ward,
Speaker 1: who has improved dramatically and is yielding just seventy pass
Speaker 1: rating of just seventy two in his coverage and has
Speaker 1: not allowed to score since week number four. So he's
Speaker 1: just got a C grade. Darren Waller only has a
Speaker 1: C grade as well. The Chiefs have allowed seven receptions
Speaker 1: to opposing tight ends each to the last three weeks
Speaker 1: to go along with a pair of scores, and Waller
Speaker 1: had six catches in the first meeting, so I like
Speaker 1: him here. The problem, of course, as everybody knows, and
Speaker 1: I think in particular Brian Johnson has been chagrined by
Speaker 1: the lack of touchdowns for Darren wall Fabian Moreau has
Speaker 1: got more touchdowns than he does on the season. I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's super disappointing. Just he's found the end zone in
Speaker 1: only two games all year. You're right, Fabian row is
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Reds against Foster. More serious questions,
Speaker 1: those guys related. I mean, normally a tight end and
Speaker 1: a cornerback do not have the same d N A
Speaker 1: right to be built. You know, for those positions, what
Speaker 1: you usually get as a Travis Kelsey and a was
Speaker 1: a Jason right, both big bodied guy. Jason Kelsey, the
Speaker 1: tight end brother would be the bully. And that brother,
Speaker 1: oh god, he was the guy pinning down the wait
Speaker 1: Foster was pinning down Fabian Moreau and farting in his
Speaker 1: face because that's what older brothers due to younger brothers. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you would know. Let's go to the Kansas City side
Speaker 1: of this. For Patrick Mahomes and Tyree Hill and Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: they are all obvious A grades, So we're not gonna
Speaker 1: spend much time in any of those three. Since we
Speaker 1: three non Finley quarterbacks have averaged three two passing yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns against Oakland, Travis Kelsey has a great
Speaker 1: opportunity against the Raiders defense that's allowed the second most
Speaker 1: tight end scores eight of them who else do we
Speaker 1: like besides Mahomes, Hill and Kelsey. Sammy Watkins logs in
Speaker 1: with a C grade and kind of a if not
Speaker 1: now when kind of game for Sammy Watkins. He averages
Speaker 1: s eight targets over the last month. He's turned eight
Speaker 1: targets into forty three yards per game. That's it and
Speaker 1: by the way, scoreless yards per game. UM listener to
Speaker 1: the show Tom Roller told me today, Sammy Watkins in
Speaker 1: his scoring system, has as many points in Week one
Speaker 1: as he's got the entire rest of the year. I
Speaker 1: was just going to make that assumption that he probably
Speaker 1: has outscored the non week one games in Week one, Yes, unreal.
Speaker 1: The ultimate high cell moment that no one took advantage
Speaker 1: of it was right then, because who nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: give up on Sammy Watkins after that with Hill getting hurt,
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Hills out right, so nobody wanted to give
Speaker 1: him up right then? Um. Watkins is a nice match
Speaker 1: up against cornerback Nevin Lawson. In five games, Lawson has
Speaker 1: surrendered a massive hundred thirty passer rating in his coverage
Speaker 1: and he also allowed touchdown last week. So Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: gets a sea here. Let's go to the running backs
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Damian Williams has been ruled out, and
Speaker 1: that brings both Lashawn McCoy and Darryl Williams up to
Speaker 1: see grades here. I think McCoy is gonna get the
Speaker 1: majority of work, but we will see Darryl Williams as
Speaker 1: well McCoy. Over the last three games Oakland, Oakland's opposing
Speaker 1: running backs have have averaged a hundred sixty three total
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown per game. If we're gonna split
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty three total yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game between McCoy and Williams, there and they're both
Speaker 1: see grade, so eight yards and half a touchdown out
Speaker 1: of each. A coin flips chance that a touchdown on each.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a C grade for Williams and McCoy.
Speaker 1: And then there are three games without Damian Williams. They're
Speaker 1: split is almost exact. Yeah, touch wise, touch wise, that
Speaker 1: sounds right. Um, we don't have any hands. I saw
Speaker 1: you typing furiously to get to the bottom of our
Speaker 1: mereau broke. We don't know, We cannot identify. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're just because I can't find anything. That's probably
Speaker 1: true that if they were, they you would probably know.
Speaker 1: Although maybe same mother, different father. Can't that you can't
Speaker 1: rule that out. We don't know, and maybe they're not
Speaker 1: talking about that. Tennessee the same say, maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 1: dive deeper. Well, fish does this matchup? If you can
Speaker 1: get me on the past, that would be fantastic. Yeah, quickly,
Speaker 1: Tennessee takes on Indianapolis Scott. Derrick Henry has been amazing
Speaker 1: and it's starting to feel a lot like last year
Speaker 1: where Derrick Henry pounded the opponent December opponents into submission.
Speaker 1: I think we may see some more of that here.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Derrick Henry? You see travels? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't. He's I don't even know that he's worth
Speaker 1: talking about anymore. He's just you can't grade. He's twenty
Speaker 1: plus touches, he's you know, a hundred and fifty plus
Speaker 1: yards in two straight averaging like eight yards of carry,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns eached the last two. No, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who he plays. You can't bench him at this point anyway.
Speaker 1: Onto Tannehill in the passing game. Tannehill has been really
Speaker 1: good too. Hack of a trade there for the for
Speaker 1: the for the Titans with Miami there, Tannehill has thirteen
Speaker 1: touches in his five starts and sticking over and he's
Speaker 1: Q three in that stretch over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: which is which is crazy. Uh. He gets a Colts
Speaker 1: defense who has allowed nearly three yards and two scores
Speaker 1: to Nick Foles and Deshaun Watson in each of the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Uh. Only Joe Flacco failed to score
Speaker 1: a touchdown on the Colts and was benched the following year.
Speaker 1: You're so bad you can't throw a touch up past
Speaker 1: the bench and people forget Tannehill as a converted wide
Speaker 1: receiver from college. Yeah, just be hitting a stride. You
Speaker 1: know it took five years, six years. No, Uh, Brown
Speaker 1: is the guy, like more than Davis. Corey Davis his
Speaker 1: top fifty yards just once and scored just once with
Speaker 1: Tannehill under center. As good as Tannehill has been in
Speaker 1: as many Fantasy point is, he's generating none of it
Speaker 1: going to Corey David. No. No, A. J Brown's getting
Speaker 1: it though, because he's had sixty yards and our scored
Speaker 1: in four of the five with Tannehill top fifty yards
Speaker 1: three three times, scored twice. I give him. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a B grade. I do have Humphries on the
Speaker 1: bench though. Keenan Allen was the only slot guy to
Speaker 1: top fifty yards against the Colts in eleven games. That's
Speaker 1: that's crazy. And Humphreys is only top that twice in
Speaker 1: his eleven games. So he's on the bench. I have
Speaker 1: John on the bench. Walker being on I R made
Speaker 1: me think about it for just a second. But they're
Speaker 1: just not passing the tight ends. Uh, they're not completing
Speaker 1: enough passes to the tight ends. He's targeting him six
Speaker 1: to seven times, but um, it's just not there. On
Speaker 1: the other side. Uh, you know, t Y Hilton Note
Speaker 1: is making me bench basically the whole passing game. You know.
Speaker 1: I think Zach Pascal had one good game with Hilton Note,
Speaker 1: but that that puts the bench Doyle, well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna get to it. If I'm starting anyone, it's
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle. Uh he I'm probably downgrading him from a
Speaker 1: B to a CEE. I had him as a B
Speaker 1: with Hilton and now I think it's more of a C.
Speaker 1: I think that offense is gonna be tough to run,
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to run it through Williams.
Speaker 1: He'll have a little tougher time, but the Titans have
Speaker 1: allowed three straight lead backs over a hundred yards. Williams
Speaker 1: has two straight over a hundred yards, and they really
Speaker 1: like him. They're getting give him him twenty touches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm giving him a B grade. All right, that was
Speaker 1: an easy one. I think it's still the case that
Speaker 1: the Colts have not won a game since drafting t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton. When t Y Hilton did not play every while,
Speaker 1: that was because they've lost last week. I read that
Speaker 1: very so I think that that still holds true. Charges
Speaker 1: take on the Denver Broncos final matchup of this segment.
Speaker 1: For the Chargers, this has been a passing game that
Speaker 1: has been largely very bad and very inconsistent, and now
Speaker 1: they get a good Denver secondary. Do you dare start
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and members of this passing offense, Brian, I'll
Speaker 1: dive into his receivers and we'll get two Rivers and
Speaker 1: what I had Start him or not. But it's not
Speaker 1: off to a good start. With Keenan Allen, who had
Speaker 1: four catches for eighteen yards when these teams first met
Speaker 1: this season, has been held under seventy five yards in
Speaker 1: his last three games in Denver where his game is
Speaker 1: getting played. So just to see for Keenan Allen, Mike Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to give him a SEA
Speaker 1: is because he's so do right he's been doing. He
Speaker 1: had six catches for seventy four yards in the Week
Speaker 1: five game. That's startable, that's sea level side production. Five
Speaker 1: for sixty five and a touchdown last year in Denver
Speaker 1: probably a tougher matchup last year, that definitely a B.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna give him a C and hopefully
Speaker 1: all through the universe and get him in the end zone.
Speaker 1: So a CEE for Mike Williams. Kind of a gut
Speaker 1: shot call, but what are you gonna do? Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: Almost a CE for him, but I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a B just because he is one of the elite
Speaker 1: tight ends in the league outside of Herbs Smith and
Speaker 1: Kyl Rudolph, who each caught a touchdown in the Week
Speaker 1: eleven second half epic melt down by the Broncos. Denver
Speaker 1: had not allowed are They allowed just one touchdown to
Speaker 1: tight ends and that came in Week four. Henry is
Speaker 1: averaging eight targets per game since returning from injury, so
Speaker 1: I will give him a B. Here. I was gonna
Speaker 1: mention his past performance, but he hasn't played Denver since
Speaker 1: October of seventeen, so no point in that really. And
Speaker 1: then Philip Rivers, though, even though three starting grades for
Speaker 1: his past catchers, that doesn't mean they're all going to produce.
Speaker 1: It just means they all have the potential to produce.
Speaker 1: I got Rivers on the bench. The Broncos have slender
Speaker 1: surrendered multiple passing touchdowns in consecutive games, but Josh Allen
Speaker 1: only through a hundred and eighty five yards. And then
Speaker 1: the other game was that epic second half collapse in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis that was here in Minneapolis, that is basically an anomaly.
Speaker 1: Before those two games, Denver had allowed just one quarterback
Speaker 1: to top one passing touchdown all year, and only two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks managed the top two fifty passing yards. So Rivers
Speaker 1: on the bench, Melvin Gordon not on the bench, and
Speaker 1: give him a B averaging twenty touches twenty plus touches
Speaker 1: over the last three games. Bell cow status is back.
Speaker 1: Not an ideal matchup, though Denver has ran top ten
Speaker 1: against the run by football outsiders and outside of Leo
Speaker 1: four nets two five yard outbursts against the Broncos. Only
Speaker 1: one other running back has topped ninety yards against Denver.
Speaker 1: It was Devin Singletary against the Bills last week. Real quick,
Speaker 1: I guess how many touchdowns Melvin Gordon Melvin Gordon has
Speaker 1: rushed for against the Broncos in his career. I'm gonna guess. Well,
Speaker 1: it's obviously a lot or a little. Um six or seven, seven,
Speaker 1: six or seven games? Well, yeah, it's probably been about
Speaker 1: seven games. I'm gonna guess like one close zero zero
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, one total touchdown called a touchdown. The last
Speaker 1: time he topped seventy rushing yards against the Broncos was October.
Speaker 1: But still gonna give Gordon to b for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: But and then Austin Ekeler when these teams met in
Speaker 1: Week five, he had fifteen catches for parts. That was
Speaker 1: that was first game back by the way um and
Speaker 1: the outside of that game, only two loan backs have
Speaker 1: managed to three catches against the Broncos and Denver has
Speaker 1: only surrendered has a surrendered one receiving score of the
Speaker 1: position since Week four. Uh so, yeah, I'll give Keler
Speaker 1: a c in PPR but just barely over to the
Speaker 1: Denver side. This will be quick. Courtland Sutton. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him a c might give him a be if
Speaker 1: he actually had a quarterback. He had four catches ninety
Speaker 1: two yards in a touchdown in the first game. The Chargers, though,
Speaker 1: are likely to get back all World safety Durwin James,
Speaker 1: who has play at all season long and will be
Speaker 1: good in his first game back. He'll be a little rusty.
Speaker 1: But even without James, um I was gonna call him
Speaker 1: San Diego. I can still not used call him l A.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles was already clamping down on opposing wide receivers
Speaker 1: over the last four games. They had not surrendered a
Speaker 1: score to the position, and no wideout has even hit
Speaker 1: the seventy receiving yard mark in those four games. So
Speaker 1: just to see for Sutton. Not gonna mention any other
Speaker 1: wide receivers for the Broncos with Brandon Allen as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: I will mention, Noah fant do do we think Brandon
Speaker 1: Allen is gonna start this game? I heard Drew Lock might,
Speaker 1: but Andrew Lock has been taking first team STAPs. Could
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I just want to get your no, No, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should thank you for bringing that up, and it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning for sure. But yeah, they're both not uh
Speaker 1: can have very and you know he's not gonna have
Speaker 1: a good game, is Noah fan even though he's been
Speaker 1: a target hog since the Mannie Sanders trade. If Derwin
Speaker 1: James comes back, that foe is even worse for fans.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Chargers allowed the third fewest PPR
Speaker 1: points per target last season with a healthy Derwin James.
Speaker 1: I have to thank Mike tag Lear for that stat.
Speaker 1: But even without James, it's been a bad matchup for
Speaker 1: tight ends. Since Week four l A, the l A
Speaker 1: Chargers have only allowed one tight end touchdown and it
Speaker 1: went to Travis Kelsey. Recently, they also limited Darren Waller
Speaker 1: to be three catches for forty yards and week ten,
Speaker 1: so I got fans on the bench, go grab Caden
Speaker 1: Smith or Tyler Higbee much better options this week and
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen on the bench. Philip Lindsay, though in A,
Speaker 1: has outtouched Royce Freeman thirty two to thirteen over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. When Lindsay had a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: seven combo yards and a touchdown in the first meeting,
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman stole fift touches in that game. You have
Speaker 1: those touches to Philip Lindsay and we got an a.
Speaker 1: The charters have allowed at least one running back touchdown
Speaker 1: in seven straight games. Our final set of matchups are
Speaker 1: coming up next, and our final premature speculation of the
Speaker 1: year also coming off. I figured one out. We got
Speaker 1: one all right, you've got a premature speculation ready to go.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that you'll like you get three
Speaker 1: of them coming at you. These are players that you
Speaker 1: don't want to pick up this week, that everybody else
Speaker 1: is gonna be trying to pick up next week. Courtesy
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Speaker 1: Premature Speculation might be the most popular segment on this show.
Speaker 1: It's just one week of you, guys, we think you
Speaker 1: should pick up this week that other people will be
Speaker 1: trying to pick up next week. But they're already on
Speaker 1: your team. Begin Bryan Johnson, who's hitting the time machine
Speaker 1: for you. This is more like who you'll be picking
Speaker 1: up next season. Because I got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a dynasty Empire angle. This is where I thought we
Speaker 1: were going to. So I also did that, which you
Speaker 1: should be playing on Safe leagues dot Com by the way.
Speaker 1: But it's Dallas. Is Blake Jarwin tight end. Obviously, he's
Speaker 1: been sharing time with Jason Witten all season, the decrepit
Speaker 1: old Jason Win. Even though he had a good game
Speaker 1: last week. Whatever, Dallas tight ends are averaging six catches,
Speaker 1: fifty seven yards and exactly one half of a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. Jarwin has scored half of the Cowboys tight
Speaker 1: end touchdowns. Remove Witten from the equation next year and
Speaker 1: you got a top ten tight end in Blake Jarwin.
Speaker 1: All right, So mine is gonna be Andy Isabella. Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald might be playing his last season, we don't know yet,
Speaker 1: but Andy Isabella is gonna grow with Kyler Murray. His
Speaker 1: snaps have been ticking up. He has seventy five plus
Speaker 1: yards in two of the last three weeks. Uh. And
Speaker 1: come next week, maybe you're in a league where you
Speaker 1: can drop your kicker of defense and pick up one
Speaker 1: of those speculative guys because you'll be done playing for
Speaker 1: the season if you're not a contender. So Andy Isabella
Speaker 1: throw him on your roster. Um the player with the
Speaker 1: easiest remaining schedule at tight end or the team I
Speaker 1: guess with the easiest remaining schedule is Cleveland. Who's coming
Speaker 1: back David and Joku. David and Joe Wu is coming back.
Speaker 1: They get Cincinnati Arizona and then Baltimore, and actually Baltimore
Speaker 1: is the one thing they're not awesome at is against
Speaker 1: the tight end. So Cincinnati Arizona Baltimore, you could be
Speaker 1: starting David and Joe Wu probably comes back this week.
Speaker 1: You let him knock the rust off this week, and
Speaker 1: then you pick him up for that Cincinnati Arizona games.
Speaker 1: And now you've got somebody. You've got a startable tight
Speaker 1: end when most of the time most of don't have
Speaker 1: a starting tight end. It's a waste land. It is
Speaker 1: a bit of a waste land out there, for sure.
Speaker 1: The Monday night game we're gonna do Monday night and
Speaker 1: Sunday night. The Monday night game is Minnesota taking on Seattle.
Speaker 1: And this one is a little bit thorny because of
Speaker 1: the Adam Feeland situation. He did not really practice and
Speaker 1: meaningfully all week leading up to this game. He will
Speaker 1: probably be a true game time decision, and if you
Speaker 1: if you don't know otherwise, I think you're probably you're
Speaker 1: probably in a very tight spot with him. If you
Speaker 1: had to pivot from Feeling, you could go to Josh Gordon,
Speaker 1: who'll talk about later, who's got a startable grade OLDA
Speaker 1: B C. Johnson would be his primary backup and would
Speaker 1: play his role in the offense. You could try him
Speaker 1: if you wanted to. If Feeland does go, it's a
Speaker 1: great matchup because the Seahawks are in great flux at
Speaker 1: the slot cornerback position because they waived Jamaar Taylor and
Speaker 1: they used to back up A Keen King in that
Speaker 1: position last week. Keen King is allowed every single throw
Speaker 1: in his coverage this year to be completed. So if
Speaker 1: Feeland is able to go, it's a pretty strong matchup
Speaker 1: for him, and I would have a I got a
Speaker 1: factor in the possibility that he has a setback into
Speaker 1: his grade. I'll give him a C grade because of
Speaker 1: the setback scare. But if he doesn't have the setback,
Speaker 1: and from you can tell me he wouldn't have a setback,
Speaker 1: I'd give him a much higher grade and probably an
Speaker 1: A grade. Now for Stefon Diggs on the other side,
Speaker 1: he is an all or nothing guy in these games
Speaker 1: when Theeland doesn't play. I think he's got a nice
Speaker 1: matchup here, though, because will mostly see Trey Flowers. He's
Speaker 1: a converted safety. He's on the slower, bigger side among
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and takes this so slippery. I think Diggs can
Speaker 1: scirm his way free for potentially a very good game here.
Speaker 1: And I've got to be grade on Diggs, but I'll
Speaker 1: note that he does have these games where he just
Speaker 1: disappears when when Theeland doesn't play. If teams just decided
Speaker 1: to take him away at all costs, that could be
Speaker 1: the end of Diggs. He doesn't usually break those kind
Speaker 1: of games up. While we're staying with the passing game,
Speaker 1: let's mention Kirk Cousins. I I like him obviously a
Speaker 1: lot more. With Adam Feeling, he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: With Theeeland, he gets a C grade without Feeling. Over
Speaker 1: the last seven games, Kirk has average two yards and
Speaker 1: two point six touchdowns, which is great. He's strowing multiple
Speaker 1: touchdowns in six of the past seven games. Seattle secondary, though,
Speaker 1: was improving quite a bit um and they're they're actually
Speaker 1: pretty good at this stage. But Cousins just got done
Speaker 1: beating too solid defenses in Dallas and Denver, so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily rule that out. From week four forward. Seattle
Speaker 1: is allowing less than one touchdown past per game. That's it.
Speaker 1: Are you buying into the primetime narratives? Still, we're Kirk
Speaker 1: Struggles in primetime? He said, I mean, just just be
Speaker 1: Dallas in primetime to two games ago. I'm not uh kurt.
Speaker 1: For Kyle Rudolph on fire with five touchdowns over his
Speaker 1: last five games. The Seahawks have been one of the
Speaker 1: worst tight end defenses. They ranked bottom five in tight
Speaker 1: end receptions and yards allowed, and they just allowed nineteen
Speaker 1: receptions to the Eagles tight ends last week nineteen. So
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph gets a C grade in this one too.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Seattle side easy. A grade for
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. His peers that have faced the Vikings have
Speaker 1: been really effective. Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford Carson, It's Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers good quarterbacks like Russell Wilson. They average three
Speaker 1: hundred sixteen yards and two point six touchdowns against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: He's got strong matchups all over the field. A grade
Speaker 1: for him and an A grade for his two starting receivers,
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett in DK Metcalf. Minnesota's a bottom five secondary
Speaker 1: in yards and receptions and touchdowns allowed to wide receivers
Speaker 1: over the last five weeks, and Tyler Locket will mostly
Speaker 1: get Mackenzie Alexander out of the slot. He's been their
Speaker 1: best cornerback, but that is not a high bar to clear,
Speaker 1: and he's still allowing of the passes in his coverage
Speaker 1: to be completed, So Tyler Lockett gets an A DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1: Big bodied receivers like Metcalf almost always get extensive coverage
Speaker 1: by Xavier Rhodes, and that is a green light for
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. Rhodes is playing at the lowest level of
Speaker 1: his career, allowing eighties six percent of the passes in
Speaker 1: his coverage to be completed. He ranks one among cornerbacks
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus Xavier Rhodes x Xavier as he
Speaker 1: likes to call himself now um even Josh Gordon is
Speaker 1: in the mix for many of these same reasons he
Speaker 1: would draw. Trey Wayne's also on a down year, he
Speaker 1: gets a C grade. Jacob Hollister, their tight end is
Speaker 1: also startable with a B grade. Minnesota's the most targeted
Speaker 1: team for tight ends at ten per game and their
Speaker 1: twenty nine and tight end receptions allowed. They did give
Speaker 1: up just their first tight end touchdown of the season
Speaker 1: last week to something called Troy Fumagali Hollister averaging almost
Speaker 1: seven targets per game, so he's very safe in this
Speaker 1: one as well, even if he doesn't get the score.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to the fascinating part of this
Speaker 1: matchup between the Vikings and the Seahawks, and that's at
Speaker 1: the running back position, where I've got C grades on
Speaker 1: both Chris Carson and Rashad Penny. For Carson, he had
Speaker 1: the two fumbles last week and then basically didn't see
Speaker 1: the field again, and Penny ran like crazy. We don't
Speaker 1: know what the plan is for the Seahawks on this,
Speaker 1: but we're either case. The Vikings are a good run defense.
Speaker 1: Whether or not Linval Joseph comes back and his status
Speaker 1: is up in the air as well. He's their run
Speaker 1: stuffing defensive aligneman, but they haven't even missed him. In
Speaker 1: the two games he missed, they bottled up Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: and Philip Lindsay, so the only two runners that have
Speaker 1: done Only two runners have done anything against the Vikings
Speaker 1: all year, and one of them needed a ninety one
Speaker 1: yard run to get there. So I got Carson and
Speaker 1: Penny just on C grades and you're rolling the dice
Speaker 1: on the usage on both of those guys. Let's get
Speaker 1: to our final match up here, which is a Sunday
Speaker 1: night er, New England taking on Houston. Yes, so Tom
Speaker 1: Brady has not been great recently. Over the last five games,
Speaker 1: he's averaging two in thirty nine yards and he's throwing
Speaker 1: just five touchdowns, but the Texans are allowing three more
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in five last seven, and it's it's just
Speaker 1: a good matchup. It feels like a get right matchup.
Speaker 1: It feels like a get right matchup. So I gave
Speaker 1: him a B grade. I'm giving edelman An a grade
Speaker 1: ten plus targets in six trade. He's his main guy.
Speaker 1: The questionable thing is the New or Dorset are they
Speaker 1: gonna play It? Sounds like dor they're both on the
Speaker 1: right side of questionable Dorset cleared protocol, so he should
Speaker 1: be back if the New doesn't go. I'm giving USIG
Speaker 1: grade to Dorsett, who has scored at five touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his eight games. If snow goes his first game was okay,
Speaker 1: his second game was great, and then his third game
Speaker 1: got injured. I tend to lead more to the second game.
Speaker 1: I think he's a C grade. Uh, White Michelle, I'm
Speaker 1: giving him both Seas. Their snap percentage have dropped nearly
Speaker 1: ten percent each since Rex Burkehead came back, and their
Speaker 1: numbers have dwindled. But this is a bottom six run
Speaker 1: defense of the Texans that just got crushed by Marlon
Speaker 1: mark Ingram and Gus Edwards and Jonathan Williams. So I'm
Speaker 1: giving him both C grades. On the other side, Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson given him a B grade. It's a tough us
Speaker 1: this week. It happened with Lamar Jackson too. Uh. Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback, has five rushing touchdowns. Maybe he can get
Speaker 1: it there. The last quarterback to face the paths to
Speaker 1: have two was over two fifteen yards was Week one.
Speaker 1: The B grade is basically rushing, so I'm giving Hopkins
Speaker 1: and Fuller both C grades. Hopkins gets Gilmour who's shutting
Speaker 1: everyone down, but it's still the Jay Hopkins, Fuller gets mccordy,
Speaker 1: and Fuller is questionable. He might be, he might be limited.
Speaker 1: Mccordy has the speed to run with him, and the
Speaker 1: Paths have only allowed one wide receiver touchdown this year.
Speaker 1: I'm just hoping Fuller can get deep for one. I
Speaker 1: don't think you should mention because he has that explosive
Speaker 1: high ceiling. I'm benching the other guys though, bad bad,
Speaker 1: bad defense. It's a bad matchup for the Runners. And
Speaker 1: Darren Fells isn't scoring touchdowns anymore. And that's all he
Speaker 1: was giving you before, exactly was scoring touchdowns. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're dead in this game. Yeah, I think you're probably
Speaker 1: right about that. This is like the second actual team
Speaker 1: the Patriots are playing this season though, Yeah, it's true twice,
Speaker 1: the Giants, the Redskins, Scott. Yes, you've you have put
Speaker 1: together a sabotage drop. And for people and listeners who
Speaker 1: don't know, the sabotage drop is something that we've quasi invented.
Speaker 1: We've been to the term anyway. The ideas you drop
Speaker 1: a high profile player, a player's name familiar with the
Speaker 1: intent for somebody else to do two things. One use
Speaker 1: up a waiver priority or a bunch of fab to
Speaker 1: go get that guy and then go start him mistakenly
Speaker 1: because you know that player is not somebody that you
Speaker 1: you would ever be starting. So who is your sabotage
Speaker 1: drop candidate? You might get shocked by this, but it's
Speaker 1: a guy who forty nine percent of his fantasy points
Speaker 1: came in three weeks. Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers. All three
Speaker 1: of those games were against bottom nine past defenses at
Speaker 1: the time they played. Now the left the Giants this week.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start him this week and then drop him
Speaker 1: on Monday. Right. The thing this is after the Giants game,
Speaker 1: drop him for fantasy playoffs because Washington has only allowed
Speaker 1: the average of two eighteen yards passing in a total
Speaker 1: of seven touchdowns over the last six weeks. They flipped
Speaker 1: the script on past defense. Then he gets Minnesota. You know,
Speaker 1: in the last time Aaron Rodgers through for more than
Speaker 1: yards in Minnesota seven years ago, the last time he
Speaker 1: threw multiple touchdowns in Minnesota over five years ago. He
Speaker 1: does not play well here and Chicago top five against quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I know, blow did blow? Yeah, those are baups drop
Speaker 1: the Vikings secondary, dost know. I want to be able
Speaker 1: to start him against Minnesota in that epic which should
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