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Speaker 1: to Week number eight. Fantasy players. Some of you already
Speaker 1: in a big hole if you went up against DeShawn Watson.
Speaker 1: I was worried going into that matchup that Watson would
Speaker 1: um would be overshadowed by a running game that I
Speaker 1: thought would be very successful. And the running game was,
Speaker 1: but Watson went absolutely berserk. I thought they might rest
Speaker 1: him with the chest injury. Didn't matter. My co host today,
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Speaker 1: to get to. Over the course of the show, will
Speaker 1: do three hot questions. We will take a handful of calls,
Speaker 1: maybe even before Lightning round, which might happen as well.
Speaker 1: We will also give you premature speculation nine players upon
Speaker 1: whom to take a chance. And let's dive into the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Jaguars, another early Saturday game. I know
Speaker 1: some of you got screwed on this deal with Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon last week. Yeah, yeah, just go set your Saturday
Speaker 1: lineup right now for Saturday morning and a clock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the alarm clock. I tweeted that to literally set
Speaker 1: because we saw this on Saturday, so like midday Saturday,
Speaker 1: when Melvin Gordon was going to be a game time decision,
Speaker 1: I said, look, you're Melvin Gordon owner, it's not crazy
Speaker 1: to set your alarm clock for seven o'clock so you
Speaker 1: know if he's in or out, um and that as
Speaker 1: it turned out, that would have probably been a good move.
Speaker 1: But I know some of you got burned on this.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that won't be the case here, Scott. Let's jump
Speaker 1: into Eagles taking on the Jaguars. Jack for all the
Speaker 1: problems that Jaguars have. Defense is still pretty good and uh,
Speaker 1: London is a great place for Bortles, so again, it's
Speaker 1: got a good London track Lewis last year. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'll start on the eagle side with Wentz in that
Speaker 1: passing game. The Jaguars have been pretty tough, but they
Speaker 1: are missing going to be missing three corner three, three
Speaker 1: defensive backs for this one, two of them that didn't
Speaker 1: even make the trip, including a j Bowie boy. Excuse me. Uh,
Speaker 1: Wentz has at least two hundred and seventy five yards
Speaker 1: and multiple touchdowns in four straight The Jags have held
Speaker 1: everyone but Mahomes under two thirty five. They're barely allowing
Speaker 1: passing yards, but Mahomes had three hundred, Prescott had two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Brady had two touchdowns. I think it's an okay matchup
Speaker 1: for Wentz here. I gave him a B grade in
Speaker 1: the passing game. Jeffrey also gave a B grade. The
Speaker 1: Jags allowing the fewest receiving yards and just the second
Speaker 1: fewest receiving touchdowns to wide receivers this year. It's pretty
Speaker 1: pretty tough. But since returning from injury, he has at
Speaker 1: least seventy yards and at least one touchdown in three
Speaker 1: of those four games, and he's averaging over ten targets
Speaker 1: a game, seven catches in each. The only dud was
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. I think he's going to be solid here.
Speaker 1: I I give him a B grade. I very close
Speaker 1: to him in A grade. But I think this Jags
Speaker 1: defense still going to be pretty tough C grade for
Speaker 1: with all those defensive back injuries. I think that he's
Speaker 1: gonna you know, and the third string against lot corners,
Speaker 1: the third string slot corner. I like Nelson game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only problem is is insanely low, like seven yards
Speaker 1: per catch rate he's got. He's got five games under
Speaker 1: forty five yards and in all those games he had
Speaker 1: like four or five six seven catches. You know, it's
Speaker 1: that's the problem there. Cole Beasley from the slot a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago had a really good game, so
Speaker 1: I did get agg egg RC grade. I think he's
Speaker 1: startable arts A grade. The Jags have held down most
Speaker 1: of the tight ends they faced, but allowed Kelsey to
Speaker 1: explode on them. The difference, he was the only tight
Speaker 1: end to see over five targets on the Jags. Art's
Speaker 1: is Averagina eleven per game. He's gonna have no trouble.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have no trouble at all for a small
Speaker 1: Wood and Clement. Uh small Wood is he's starting and
Speaker 1: he's out snapping. Clement so and he's getting goal and works.
Speaker 1: So although the Jags are top ten against running backs
Speaker 1: this season, they are bottom half in the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Uh so recently they're not quite as good their number
Speaker 1: one against backs in the receiving game. That's tough. I
Speaker 1: do like Smallwood for a C grade and Clement for
Speaker 1: a bench grade. Though the last three running backs to
Speaker 1: play the Jags all topped eighty seven yards. Right, that's good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a caveat there. It took twenty two carries,
Speaker 1: and over the last two years, no Eagles back has
Speaker 1: had more than eighteen carries. That's the problem. Ya, small
Speaker 1: was not going to get that, but he's going to
Speaker 1: get the majority. He's barely startable, but I did give
Speaker 1: him se grade. On the Jag side, London, Blake Bortles
Speaker 1: has eight touchdowns in the last three games in London.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have a lot of multiple touchdowns and or
Speaker 1: three hundred yards to three of the last four quarterbacks
Speaker 1: they played. It would be just like the NFL for
Speaker 1: portals to look just dreadful. Then show up for this
Speaker 1: you your Super Bowl champion Eagles, and then have a
Speaker 1: big game. Exactly. That's I gave him a C grade
Speaker 1: because he could be benched by halftime, or he could
Speaker 1: be London Blake Bortles. Uh, Cole I benched killing Cole Westbrook.
Speaker 1: I also benched. His numbers have gone down every week
Speaker 1: since Week four for Cole, four games under forty five
Speaker 1: yards in the last five chart, seven targets out of
Speaker 1: nowhere last week. But he's still bench. We can't trust him.
Speaker 1: I'm giving a SEA grade to Donte Moncrief. Weirdly, Blake
Speaker 1: Bartles has targeted his big receiver, whether it be the
Speaker 1: tight end or a big receiver, in most of those
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns in London, and uh, he's a mon Creef
Speaker 1: has had thirty three targets in the last four games
Speaker 1: over seventy five yards, and three of them kind of
Speaker 1: craped the bat against Dallas. But Phil is allowing the
Speaker 1: third most receptions and fifth most yards to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I think mon Creeve is playable here all right. As
Speaker 1: for Hide and yelled in I had this flipped, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna flip it again right here. With reports that
Speaker 1: Hyde might see six of the touches, I'm flipping over
Speaker 1: to I think I might flip to Bench and both
Speaker 1: honestly until I see what I think you showed against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I was going to give Hide a bench
Speaker 1: and yelled in a see because through the through the
Speaker 1: area the Eagles can be you know, played against. But
Speaker 1: I'm just benching now with these new reports that Hides
Speaker 1: canna see more work. Yeah, and for Hide now you can't.
Speaker 1: You don't really want to start him against a great
Speaker 1: Eagles run defense, maybe the best in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: his first game back, we don't know how much the
Speaker 1: playbook even knows and ever what his usage will be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then he gets to buy. Then he gets Leonard for
Speaker 1: Net coming back. And this is why I've been saying,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a real scenario out there where you
Speaker 1: could just drop Hide or try to trade Hide maybe
Speaker 1: come now, you know you know that's there? Is that right?
Speaker 1: I mean? The Fortnet thing is still a huge, huge
Speaker 1: question mark. And if Fortnette doesn't come back, well, then
Speaker 1: Hide becomes a quasi flex player every week. Who knows,
Speaker 1: But I gotta believe for net by now after after
Speaker 1: two weeks from now, he's got to be ready, right,
Speaker 1: you think you'd think Let's move on Brown's taking on
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Brian Um expected a lot more from the
Speaker 1: Browns against a terrible Tampa secondary last week, and now
Speaker 1: they get another bad secondary. Do you feel better about
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield this week? And do you think he improves
Speaker 1: upon a mediocre performance last week? Yeah, you would hope.
Speaker 1: So these teams didn't meet in Week one with the
Speaker 1: Browns entirely different team. Tyrod Taylor started that game. Carlos
Speaker 1: Hide was on the team. They were also playing in
Speaker 1: the tail end of a hurricane. Literally that's you never
Speaker 1: think whatever hit Cleveland, but yeah I did. So let's
Speaker 1: start with you know, Hide obviously gone. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Nick Chub real quick. Hide had twenty two carries in
Speaker 1: that Week one game against pitt Pittsburgh, but since then,
Speaker 1: only one other opposing running back has top to eleven
Speaker 1: carries against the Steelers. UH teams are running under thirty
Speaker 1: five percent of the time against them. Game scripts do
Speaker 1: not favor backs on the ground. Chubb actually had twenty
Speaker 1: one yards on three carries in the opener, so if
Speaker 1: you extrapolate that seven yards per carry, he gets fifteen.
Speaker 1: But he's only in a flexi level play for me
Speaker 1: because of the volume, it's not gonna be their fifteen
Speaker 1: carries is very ceilings. So just to see for him, Uh,
Speaker 1: you think could be a game for Duke Johnson, but
Speaker 1: it is not. He's on the bench. The Steelers have
Speaker 1: given up a league low three point five catches and
Speaker 1: only twenty one receiving yards per game to running backs.
Speaker 1: Duke Onie Mustard twenty five combo yards in the first
Speaker 1: meeting on one catch, so he's on the pine Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry complete opposite. He is in with an A grade
Speaker 1: fifteen targets in week one. Only Adam Feeland has logged
Speaker 1: more games with at least ten targets and the ten
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns the Steelers have allowed, which is a lot,
Speaker 1: six have gone to spot Seavers and Landry had a
Speaker 1: great game in the opener, so he's a safe, safe play.
Speaker 1: Antonio Callaway. Though he's on the bench. He's had frying
Speaker 1: panhans of late, lots of drops, only two targets last week.
Speaker 1: Just mentioned that Landry saw fifteen targets in the first meeting.
Speaker 1: All the other Cleveland wide receivers combined for only eight
Speaker 1: targets in that first game. Callaway had just one, So
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. But David and Joku another a
Speaker 1: for Cleveland. Pittsburgh has allowed the most receptions, the sixth
Speaker 1: most yards, and been tied for the seven most touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to tight ends. The Ravens tight ends total ten
Speaker 1: catches for ninety nine yards against the Steelers, and Joco
Speaker 1: was in a smash spot here this week. I can't
Speaker 1: I can't argue that by any means. And then Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a conservative sea here. But you
Speaker 1: love Njoku, you love Landry. Mayfield is startable h posing
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks passing forty one times per game against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: So Mayfield will be thrown in this one. Over to
Speaker 1: the Steelers side. A lot of good stuff to talk about,
Speaker 1: starting with James Conner, who Cleveland steamer the Browns one
Speaker 1: for a hundred ninety plus combo yards to touchdown. Uh
Speaker 1: No Levy on Bill yet again. And here's one great
Speaker 1: stat I found on Twitter from Graham Barfield. Connor is
Speaker 1: averaging over five yards per carry on seventy seventeen point
Speaker 1: five percent of his attempts when facing a stacked box.
Speaker 1: Levan Bell is averaging three point two yards per carry
Speaker 1: over the last two years when facing stack box stack
Speaker 1: box on sevenercent of his carry So basically, Connor is
Speaker 1: just as good as Levy on Bill, there's a stead
Speaker 1: he wasn't. I I talked to somebody at the Friday
Speaker 1: Football Feast yesterday yesterday. Excuse me who was selling Connor
Speaker 1: on the cheap because he, you know, he firmly believed
Speaker 1: that Bell is gonna come back and take his job.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why would that happen? He's playing every bit
Speaker 1: as well, if not better than Bell ever played, So
Speaker 1: why would the team suddenly up end their depth chart?
Speaker 1: And if you remember I did that in the past
Speaker 1: when Bill was suspended in D'Angelo Williams was playing very well.
Speaker 1: Everyone thought when Bill came back it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a timeshare. But nope, Bill, they don't timeshare. No, they
Speaker 1: never timeshare. And Connor's your starter when Bell comes back.
Speaker 1: Connors a starter for a team that never time sharrees
Speaker 1: agreed can today Antonio Brown obviously your starter and your
Speaker 1: fans lineup easy A worth mentioning starting quarterback E J.
Speaker 1: Gaines is out for Cleveland and free safety da Marius
Speaker 1: Randall questionable to play. So easy A for Brown, I'll
Speaker 1: give out Juju Smith Schuster a b uh. He will
Speaker 1: be facing the latest three names slot cornerback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: Brian Body Calhoun. Does he have to change his last
Speaker 1: name like Lake Calhoun anymore? But Juju has average seven
Speaker 1: catches and a hundred thirty one yards over his last
Speaker 1: two against Cleveland. Very safe B grade as uh vans
Speaker 1: McDonald will get as well. He missed the first game
Speaker 1: between these two teams with Jesse James had sixty yards
Speaker 1: in that game. Cleveland has given up the seventh most
Speaker 1: catches to tight ends. So Vance is in a good
Speaker 1: spot and Big Ben gets an A at home. That's simple.
Speaker 1: This is actually his uh first home game against Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Those missed the last two because of injury. But for
Speaker 1: what it's worth, in that last meeting, three seventy nine
Speaker 1: and three might be a safe floor for Ben in
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah. I like I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: I think he I've got him at quarterback number six
Speaker 1: six this week. Yeah, I'd like been a lot in
Speaker 1: this game. Uh, let's I'm gonna try to squeeze in
Speaker 1: the Redskins taking on the Giants. Let's start with Adrian Peterson. Um,
Speaker 1: I've been I've every week. I'm kind of more and
Speaker 1: more surprised. I not that I thought he wouldn't be good.
Speaker 1: I just figured by now we'd be hurt, dinged up
Speaker 1: things that have just somehow gone off the rails. Nope,
Speaker 1: he's He's been terrific. H New York has given up
Speaker 1: a touchdown to a running back in all seven of
Speaker 1: their games. One way or now. They're not all rushing
Speaker 1: but mostly rushing. They rank eleventh and rushing yards allowed
Speaker 1: eleventh and rushing yards per carry, which is pretty good.
Speaker 1: And Chris Thompson's still not right. And even if Chris
Speaker 1: Thompson goes, he's a game time decision. APS got forty
Speaker 1: one out of the forty five team rushing attempts the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. A beast b great on Adrian. Don't
Speaker 1: forget no more snacks, Harrison. So those nobs. That's a
Speaker 1: great point. That's you're absolutely right. That's very fair point,
Speaker 1: by the way, about Matt. About Matt Harrison, our co host.
Speaker 1: We should start calling him Snack Harrison with one s. Oh.
Speaker 1: I like that Snack Harrison Harrison. All right, Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: it's snap because he's one t snat Harrison. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing Chris Thompson. Let me just one other
Speaker 1: running back mentioned here. I think he might play, but
Speaker 1: before the injury, he was trending in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about starting him here. The Giants pass defense
Speaker 1: broadly has been very good, and they're giving up just
Speaker 1: forty three receiving yards through the air two runners. So
Speaker 1: let's just wait and see. On Chris Thompson, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: get him dropped in some leagues. This is the wrong
Speaker 1: time to drop him. He's coming back, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to start him here. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: C grade on Alex Smith. Giants pass defense has been
Speaker 1: beating up pretty badly over the last three weeks, but
Speaker 1: that was against Cam Newton, Carson Wentzon, Matt Ryan. Those
Speaker 1: are elite level quarterbacks. Alex Smith is not playing at
Speaker 1: that level, especially with his receivers all banged up. Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder won't play. Paul Richardson's a maybe Elia Apple is
Speaker 1: gone and Grant Haley will fill in. Brian, what is
Speaker 1: Grant Haley? Yeah, it's just he's just some guy. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a thing now, all right, So you'll get
Speaker 1: him Grant. I had Alex Smith as a as a
Speaker 1: bench before the trade. I've got him as a C
Speaker 1: grade right now. Paul Richardson, if he goes, you could
Speaker 1: throw a dart here and gamble that he plays in that.
Speaker 1: The Giant secondary discombobulated in its first game without Eli Apple.
Speaker 1: Apple played one side of the field, So if Grant
Speaker 1: Haley is going to play that side, they can just
Speaker 1: put Paul Richardson on that side every play if they
Speaker 1: want to. They could be way more combobulated without Eli Apple.
Speaker 1: It could be additioned by subtraction. That is possible. Actually,
Speaker 1: I looked up Eli's uh uh every I looked up
Speaker 1: all of his His coverage numbers on Pro Football focuses
Speaker 1: are actually pretty good. He was actually having a pretty
Speaker 1: good season. I think he's only given up one touchdown
Speaker 1: in his coverage all year. Um. Lastly, Jordan read on
Speaker 1: the bench to what a massive disappointment he's been. If
Speaker 1: I had told you guys at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season that through eight weeks he had play healthy and
Speaker 1: playing every single week. What kind of numbers do you
Speaker 1: think you would have gotten out of Jordan Reed? Way
Speaker 1: better ones and far better. Right might be outscoring him
Speaker 1: right now, or it's got to be pretty close watch.
Speaker 1: I think it is probably pretty close between those guys.
Speaker 1: Jordan read right now as we enter a week eight,
Speaker 1: has one touchdown two hundred sixty eight yards and by
Speaker 1: the way, that's forty yards of game forty. That's it.
Speaker 1: It's been. It's been a disaster for Jordan Reid. We're
Speaker 1: gonna put him on the on the bench. The Giants
Speaker 1: have been great against tight ends all season. They've given
Speaker 1: up just four receptions to the position per game. They've
Speaker 1: only given up one tight end score all year. Flipping
Speaker 1: quickly to the Giant side, sat Kwon Barkley has a
Speaker 1: tough match up against Washington, the team that just held
Speaker 1: Zeke to their second lowest rushing total of his career.
Speaker 1: No back has top sixty one yards on the ground
Speaker 1: against them worst over the past three games. They've held Zeke,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara, and mark Ingram four outstanding RB
Speaker 1: ones to a total of one thirty rushing yards. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: So se Kwan is gonna have to do it. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have to find a way into the endzone, which
Speaker 1: is done in almost every game, and it's been a
Speaker 1: series of torutal matchups. I'm tired of saying this for
Speaker 1: Barkley for once. I want to just have an easy
Speaker 1: matchup and even coast through. But this is not going
Speaker 1: to be a testament to Peterson because he's running so
Speaker 1: well that are able to control the clock and running
Speaker 1: might be part of it. All right, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the passing games C grade and Eli Manning dreadful and
Speaker 1: his two matchups against Washington last year. Get this against
Speaker 1: the Redskins last year. One hundred thirteen yards. One hundred
Speaker 1: thirty two yards. That's a starting NFL quarterback, terrible Redskins
Speaker 1: of the twelfth ranked secondary. It's not great, and Josh
Speaker 1: Norman is awful, but it's a It's a lot better
Speaker 1: than what we saw against Atlanta last week. Eli's averaging
Speaker 1: just one touchdown per game, and aside from Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of positive matchups among his receivers.
Speaker 1: Just to see grade here. Odell Beckham sums to a
Speaker 1: C grade as well. Against Washington, He's average one hundred
Speaker 1: six receiving yards and one touchdown over the last five games,
Speaker 1: which I love. Redskins defense has allowed at least two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty passing years and or multiple touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: every game. Um, actually, I don't think I sho meant
Speaker 1: to have him as a SEA. Wait a minute, and
Speaker 1: I think I need to have him up as an
Speaker 1: A or B hanging. I'm double checking my notes on this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's an A. Sorry A grade on Oldell
Speaker 1: Beckham had him slott in the wrong place. I'm like
Speaker 1: reading this, going, this is all good news for Beckham.
Speaker 1: The whole thing's good night. What am I talking about?
Speaker 1: Redskins best cornerback Quinn Dunbar is missing practice with a
Speaker 1: mysterious nerve ailment and he may not go and so
Speaker 1: Beckham potentially getting backup work behind him at the cornerback position.
Speaker 1: So I Beckham a start C grade and I think
Speaker 1: this one is correct for Sterling Shepherd. Shepherd accounts of
Speaker 1: Eli Manning's passing yards five reception seventy three yards on average.
Speaker 1: This is a This is significant for an offense that
Speaker 1: passes a lot more than any other team in the league.
Speaker 1: The Redskins starting slack corner Fabium Row suffering ankle injury
Speaker 1: and Sunday, and if he doesn't go, Sterling Shepherd could
Speaker 1: have backup coverage on him too. Then lastly, Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: quiet last week in his first game back. Redskins rank
Speaker 1: in the top half of the league and yards fantasy
Speaker 1: points allowed to tight ends through six games, though they
Speaker 1: have not allowed a single tight end to go for
Speaker 1: fifty yards. I've just got a C grade and Evan Ingram.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be cautious on on Ingram in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Um Sterling Shepard could could will vault up to a
Speaker 1: B start if we If Fabian Moreau is out. Washington
Speaker 1: has allowed five wide receiver touch shows last like two
Speaker 1: or three weeks, and part of Josh and Norman has
Speaker 1: given up almost hey like half of them. He's a
Speaker 1: disaster out there. He's all He's all name and reputation.
Speaker 1: At this point, when we come back, nine players not
Speaker 1: normally in your starting lineup, take a chance on us
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Speaker 1: chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup.
Speaker 1: Three quarterbacks, three on the backs, three receivers. We begin
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Scott got turned on Mike. I
Speaker 1: have mitched Robinsky. I actually really sneakily like both the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this game. But Mitch Dusk, that's you really
Speaker 1: should have gone with the other quarterback in this game
Speaker 1: because you sneak here. Everybody's got Robinsky already. Alright, you
Speaker 1: should have gone Donald on this one. You want me
Speaker 1: to go Donald? They do, because that's the nature of
Speaker 1: this bit is I think they're mostly guys. Alright, just
Speaker 1: pick up off the waiver, all right, Sam Donald, Then
Speaker 1: let's go with him the bat. The Bears have been
Speaker 1: torched two weeks in a row by Brady and Brock
Speaker 1: over six d and fifty combined yards, three touchdowns. They
Speaker 1: all multiple touchdowns in five of their seven games. They
Speaker 1: do leave the league in interceptions with eleven. That's how
Speaker 1: many Donald has. But Donald has three straight multiple touchdown games,
Speaker 1: and he just recorded his second and third best yardage
Speaker 1: days in his in his you know short career. So
Speaker 1: I see, I think that's the more in there. You got.
Speaker 1: Whisky is inside my top ten this week. I like
Speaker 1: hell has frozen over. We have to find the Mitch
Speaker 1: Dubisky sound right now. There's no said, there's no there's
Speaker 1: none of their anymore. There's no sad Trombotsky. We've moved
Speaker 1: on all right. Hell of an audible at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage there, Scott, Yeah, that was well done. I
Speaker 1: got Case Keenum at Kansas City. Uh. Four of the
Speaker 1: six quarterbacks to face the Chiefs so far have notched
Speaker 1: at least three forty passing yards and one touchdown. But granted,
Speaker 1: Keenum was not one of those four quarters sportless as
Speaker 1: I recall, yeah that I'm just gonna chocolate up to
Speaker 1: being a little rusty. He has looked better as of late.
Speaker 1: He didn't need to throw a lot in last week's
Speaker 1: were out of Arizona, and Emmanuel Sanders did vulture a
Speaker 1: passing touchdown from him. We'll go with that, Tony there
Speaker 1: that past first passing vulture touchdown history. But it was
Speaker 1: two games prior. Case was well over three hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards and had two touchdowns in each and posing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: throwing over forty three times per game, we expect Broncos
Speaker 1: to be chasing points. So Keenum is my guy? What
Speaker 1: did Odell Beckham do to Eli Manning owners a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago? That can happen? Derek Carr goes up
Speaker 1: in in Indianapolis and I'll acknowledge the car wasn't good
Speaker 1: the last time we saw him but before the bye.
Speaker 1: But he's been a serviceable fantasy quarterback in four of
Speaker 1: oakland six games. And in those four games, get this
Speaker 1: the average game for Derek Carr three hundred thirty eight
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown and a half. That doesn't seem right.
Speaker 1: So if you can pick in two thirds of his games,
Speaker 1: he's given you an average of three d thirty eight
Speaker 1: yards and one and a half touchdowns. Will this be
Speaker 1: one of his good games? Well? Probably it's against Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: And prior to facing Derek Anderson last week, the Colts
Speaker 1: had allowed three straight huge passing performances, with opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: averaging three hundred thirty two yards and two and a
Speaker 1: half touchdowns per game. And what about the loss of
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper? You might be thinking, I say, who cares?
Speaker 1: Ask any fantasy owner, how reliable Amari Cooper was. Who
Speaker 1: cares Derek Carr take a chance on me? Like, let's
Speaker 1: go to our running backs. I have Trent and Kennon
Speaker 1: in that same game. I'm loving this game for some reason.
Speaker 1: For some reason, hit five targets last week. Keep your's
Speaker 1: four catches for sixty nine nice yards and Paul's five
Speaker 1: to ten touches from last week are gone. I expect
Speaker 1: Cannon to see you know, ten twelve touches and he's
Speaker 1: great in the receiving game. The Bears have allowed seven
Speaker 1: catches for fifty five yards in a touchdown per game
Speaker 1: over the last five. Over the last three. All right,
Speaker 1: I got Ronald Jones at Cincinnati. Now, I'm no Internet doctor,
Speaker 1: but Peyton Barber is wearing down. He's been questionable all week,
Speaker 1: just finally got a practice in yesterday. Already at seventy
Speaker 1: five carries on the season, that's half of his career total.
Speaker 1: So his durability is not yet proven. And uh so
Speaker 1: I'm liking Barbara to get more opportunities in this game
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, who are allowing a hundred nine yards
Speaker 1: per game on the ground to running backs. At five
Speaker 1: point yard five plus yards were carry and opposing backs
Speaker 1: are averaging more than six and a half catches and
Speaker 1: fifty five yards through the year. Jones has always been
Speaker 1: pegged solely as a two down back. He is a
Speaker 1: two down ball. He had a fifteen yard reception last week,
Speaker 1: and he caught three passes the game before, so there's
Speaker 1: some hope in the passing games. So I got Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones in a high school ring affair. Raight He Mostard is,
Speaker 1: you're probable starting running back for the forty niners this week.
Speaker 1: He's the last two games he's posted on rushing yards
Speaker 1: not bad. Matt Brida just can't finish a game. He
Speaker 1: keeps trying to play, keeps getting hurt. And even if
Speaker 1: Brita is active in this game, it doesn't mean he's
Speaker 1: going to be the starter. They want to rest up Brita,
Speaker 1: and if that that may mean zero carries for Brita
Speaker 1: or a much diminished workload. Most importantly for Rahee Mostard.
Speaker 1: He goes up against Carolina, the worst team against the
Speaker 1: run all year long, giving up the most rushing into Arizona. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals starts with c That's all he got to
Speaker 1: go on and why that just happened? I am I'm
Speaker 1: totally not combobulated right now. Arizona ranks dead last and
Speaker 1: rushing attempts, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns allowed. I love Raheem mostart.
Speaker 1: If they rule out Matt Brida, he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: my top ten this week. If they rule Breed out.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's this music putting us to sleep, and maybe
Speaker 1: that is part of it. We are I can barely
Speaker 1: take a chance on our wide receivers. We got Taylor Gabriel.
Speaker 1: I really really love him that I've liked him all season, really,
Speaker 1: but I really like him this week. He's gonna He's
Speaker 1: gonna get a good matchup against Buster Screen if he's healthy,
Speaker 1: which it sounds like he might not be, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a backup in this lodge. The Jets allow
Speaker 1: the seventh most fantasy points to wide receiver this year,
Speaker 1: and eleven different receivers have topped a hundred yards and
Speaker 1: or scored. Five slot receivers have topped seventy yards on
Speaker 1: the Jet. I'll admit, like Ceiling Tate Landry, they're good ones,
Speaker 1: but this is a good matchup for Taylor Gabriel alright,
Speaker 1: I got New Orleans Ben Watson at Minnesota. Basically any
Speaker 1: warm body at tight end against Minnesota. I tried to
Speaker 1: tout Chris Herndon on this show last week. Was met
Speaker 1: with some resistance, but hopefully I won't bound a lot,
Speaker 1: not a lot of resistance. We can check the tape
Speaker 1: on that one. Watson's in a great spot against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: allowing more than five and a half catches and seventy
Speaker 1: yards per game to the position, and despite only having
Speaker 1: three tight or three touchdowns of tight ends, the Vikings
Speaker 1: have yielded the fourth most red zone targets to the position.
Speaker 1: Watson is third on the scenes and red zone targets,
Speaker 1: which doesn't sound all that impressive, but it's not bad
Speaker 1: considering his teammates are Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: who leads the Buccaneers receivers in snaps after Mike Evans?
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is number one? Who is your number two
Speaker 1: receiver in snaps for Buccaneers receivers? I know the answer?
Speaker 1: Should I just say? Because it's Adam Humphries. It is
Speaker 1: Adam Humphries. Is it's not Chris Godwin, It is not
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson. It is Adam Humphries who plays out of
Speaker 1: the slot, and that means that he's going to face
Speaker 1: a Cincinnati defense in complete disarray, not only playing poorly
Speaker 1: by the way, there aren't twenty nine and passing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: but most importantly, they're starting slack corner Darky's dennerd out.
Speaker 1: So that means that Adam Humphreys is going up against
Speaker 1: backup slot corner Tony McRae. A fantastic opportunity for Adam Humphries.
Speaker 1: So this week Sundays Humped in Sunday is hump Day
Speaker 1: for Adam Humphries. Let's dive back into some matchups Jets
Speaker 1: and Bears. You just we already talked about half of
Speaker 1: the players in this Matthew Scott, So we already know
Speaker 1: that you love the Jets quarterback. You love one of
Speaker 1: the Jets receivers, baring back as well. Yeah, so we've
Speaker 1: talked about we've talked about a couple of these guys already,
Speaker 1: but let's let's jump into the Jets. How about not
Speaker 1: liking most of his passing game despite liking Donald It's
Speaker 1: one of those things that it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where you know quin Quincy noon one. Once he left
Speaker 1: a slot, he's kind of disappeared. Uh. Jordan Matthews just
Speaker 1: joined the team. Robbie Anderson maybe, but he just has
Speaker 1: one game over forty five yards. He had that huge one,
Speaker 1: but one game over forty five yards and curse, he's
Speaker 1: super inconsistent. Uh. Slock guys, slock guys against the Bears
Speaker 1: thirty six yards, nine yards, thirty six yards, fifty nine yards,
Speaker 1: thirty six yards. They actually haven't been that great outside
Speaker 1: of Cobbs one big week. So I don't love any
Speaker 1: of them. I'm kind of benching them all. Herndon, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a c Four Cans could have. Starting tight ends
Speaker 1: have scored against the Bears. Herndon scored in two straight.
Speaker 1: He had seven targets last week, two scores off the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Um, all those tight ends in those
Speaker 1: four weeks were between five and fifty yards. Three catches,
Speaker 1: probably going to get a score as well. So uh.
Speaker 1: In the running game, Cannon was my take home. I
Speaker 1: still like crow well because I think he's going to
Speaker 1: get enough touches to be viable here. Despite the Bears
Speaker 1: not allowing a rushing touchdown, they've given three through the air,
Speaker 1: so cannon again. But but he should get just enough
Speaker 1: volume to uh to be start where the I can
Speaker 1: see him getting fifteen seventeen eighteen touches here that that's
Speaker 1: startable in my book. All right. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Travisky was no longer my take com so, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to give a B grade to him, and I
Speaker 1: would consider even higher, maybe even an A grade. It's
Speaker 1: it's very close right on that edge. B plus. If
Speaker 1: you will, I will. You're allowing it this year? That's awesome, um,
Speaker 1: only because you pivoted. Okay, okay, okay. Jets have allowed
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in five of the last six games, and
Speaker 1: they're not all studs. Tannehill Portals Keenom's drought ended with
Speaker 1: them over twenty six fantasy points to each of the
Speaker 1: last three. Travisky is averaging four touchdowns per game over
Speaker 1: the last three. He's on such such a hot streak.
Speaker 1: He's also a top ten running back lately too. He
Speaker 1: has at least three fifty yards passing, at least forty
Speaker 1: five yards rushing, and multiple touchdowns in each of those
Speaker 1: three straight games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy. What is
Speaker 1: the happy trombone? Sound like Tony. All right, Burton, I'm
Speaker 1: giving it all your inner John Philip Sousa, Uh take
Speaker 1: ume was Gabriel. I really really love him this week.
Speaker 1: If Robinson does not play Anthony, Miller becomes a sneaky grade.
Speaker 1: I I don't. I don't love him if he does,
Speaker 1: though Robinson I would give a C grade. If he
Speaker 1: does play Burton, I give a B grade to the
Speaker 1: Jets are middle of the road against tight ends, but
Speaker 1: Ebron touched them a couple of weeks ago, and and
Speaker 1: Burton us four receptions in four last five games, four targets,
Speaker 1: and all those games for few yards and three of
Speaker 1: those games. Uh, at least uh Cohen love him this week.
Speaker 1: He has at least seven catches, at least one touchdown,
Speaker 1: at least sixty nine nice receiving yards in each of
Speaker 1: the last three games. He's averaging over a total yards
Speaker 1: in that span. Uh. It's a great matchup for Cohen. Howard, However,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade two and barely because if
Speaker 1: you take away the high double birthday game, Uh, the
Speaker 1: Backs have not been been very good unless they get
Speaker 1: over twelve attempts and you're gonna need that from Howard.
Speaker 1: He's not getting third down usage. I think he's barely startable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. I like calling a lot better,
Speaker 1: I like coming a lot better going forward. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: considered an A grade for Cohen, but I didn't go
Speaker 1: that high. I was. Yeah, I think I think heniled
Speaker 1: it just right. When we come back, Andy Dalton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they that Ald offense late an egg for us and
Speaker 1: what looked like a great matchup and not only got
Speaker 1: another great matchup? Do you trust your Bengals find out
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Speaker 1: Mind how many traumbones just to smooth seventy six? You
Speaker 1: know it would have been the same with seventy Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been. Seventy seven have been too many.
Speaker 1: Seventy five would have been too few. John Philip Susan
Speaker 1: knew just how many traumbones for that piece. There was
Speaker 1: a five year scientific study to figure it out. Bucks
Speaker 1: take Yeah, how does he handle so many bones once?
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you. Bucks take onto the Bengals. Let's
Speaker 1: start on the buck in here side. I it's another
Speaker 1: in a series of easy matchups for Jamis Winston. It is.
Speaker 1: And the best part about Winston in the past game
Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay is their defense is so bad that
Speaker 1: they're just um. Let me just mention Winston's uh pass catchers,
Speaker 1: then we'll get to his grade. I'm giving Mike Evans
Speaker 1: an a targeted eleven times by Winston last week. Top
Speaker 1: the hundred yards opposing wide receivers are averaging yards in
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game against the Bengals, more specifically number
Speaker 1: ones I've gotten it done against since he's starting. In
Speaker 1: Week one, t Y Hilton touchdown, John Brown touchdown, Devon
Speaker 1: Funch's touchdown, Julio Jones nine for one step no touchdown. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you guys sit no touchdown for him, and we won't
Speaker 1: count Miami in this discussion. But an Antonio Brown touchdown,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill touchdown. So I like Evans here. I don't
Speaker 1: like the Sean Jackson he's on the bench because Adam
Speaker 1: Humphrey's was charges take a chance of me wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and there's no way Scott or myself are benching. Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: who I'm giving a B two, has school in four
Speaker 1: of six games at least five catches and four of
Speaker 1: his last five, and despite having his BI already, he's
Speaker 1: tied for the lead in touchdowns from inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line with Michael Thomas, and then two other players
Speaker 1: will be shocking in the stat They're tied for touchdowns
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line t Y Hilton and James White,
Speaker 1: with Chris Godwin and Michael Thomas. Well, the reason for
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton is because Andrew Luck can't throw further
Speaker 1: than ten yards, so that's why take it easy on Luck.
Speaker 1: And since he has ranked number it is ranked twenty
Speaker 1: seven thingst number two wide receivers by Football Outsider, So
Speaker 1: I love Godwin this week. I also like O. J. Howard.
Speaker 1: He gets to be The Bengals have allowed seven different
Speaker 1: tight ends to notch fifty yards indoor a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: it's no surprise they've allowed the second most catches and
Speaker 1: touchdowns to the tight end positions, So easy B for
Speaker 1: Howard but I still have Bread on the bench because
Speaker 1: he's second fiddle in that game. UH if you miss,
Speaker 1: take a chance and we have to go back in
Speaker 1: uh podcasts. But I have paid barbera on the bench,
Speaker 1: and Ronald Jones as might take a chance on me
Speaker 1: running back and then uh Jameis Winson to circle back
Speaker 1: to him. He gets an A because I love Godwin
Speaker 1: Evans and Adam Humphreys so much, and over to to
Speaker 1: since the almost straight a's uh will be one B here,
Speaker 1: Let's start with Joe Mixon. Over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: two running backs have touched the ball for Cincinnati, Joe
Speaker 1: Mixing fifty six touches, Mark Walton eight, mixing straight Bell cowing.
Speaker 1: Opposing running backs are averaging plus touches against the Bucks,
Speaker 1: who again will be without Vinny Curry and much more importantly,
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy will miss this game again, So Mixing in
Speaker 1: an amazing spot as is a J Green again A
Speaker 1: for him. Tampa Bay is one of two teams surrender
Speaker 1: at least sixteen catches to wide receivers and have allowed
Speaker 1: a one one yard receiver and four of their last six.
Speaker 1: So easy A for Green, easy A for Tyler Boyd.
Speaker 1: Slot receivers have just slayed the Buccaneers this year. Juju Taylor,
Speaker 1: Gabriel Gabriel, Jarvis, Landry Nelson Aglar even topped eight yards
Speaker 1: with a touchdown. So Tyler Boyd in a great spot.
Speaker 1: M J. Stewart is the is the bucks slock cornerback
Speaker 1: getting destroyed in his rookie year. And some people were
Speaker 1: saying genre us might be a good dark thrill. I
Speaker 1: might have been one of those people a few hours ago.
Speaker 1: But he is out, not go there. Uh c j Uzoma,
Speaker 1: I can give him a B borderline A. The Bucks
Speaker 1: have loved the third most catches and second most touchdowns
Speaker 1: the tight ends, so Zuma is certainly startable. And Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton he obviously after all those pass catching grades. Uh
Speaker 1: don't you want to hear some shocking good news? Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle at practice today? What no way? But see if
Speaker 1: he was fully healthy he would miss practice. I'm not
Speaker 1: buying it. I'm not buying it. When that injury went down,
Speaker 1: I'm like, just saw his leg off. Now just amputate.
Speaker 1: It's over. Is that practice problem is there? Monday night game?
Speaker 1: So you know you're you really can't you can't do
Speaker 1: much in terms of trying to guess if he's gonna
Speaker 1: go and if he does, what his snap kind of
Speaker 1: would be. But this would suggest that at worst you're
Speaker 1: you'll be starting him next week. It's an interesting spot
Speaker 1: to make an Ivory pivot. Possibly, Yeah, you could pick
Speaker 1: up Chris Ivory, Chris Ivory and then making night night.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that, angle Buck. Here's another
Speaker 1: game where it's kind of a start everybody game, Broncos
Speaker 1: taking on the Chiefs. Uh. We already talked about some
Speaker 1: of the players in here, but let's starting with case Keenum,
Speaker 1: who was Bryant's take a chance on me quarterback. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of his receivers. I've got a
Speaker 1: B grade on Emmanuel Sanders. The Chiefs surrender a ton
Speaker 1: of passing yards. You already know that, but actually they're
Speaker 1: only giving up fifty seven percent of their passing yards
Speaker 1: to whiteouts. They're getting killed by tight ends and running
Speaker 1: backs out of the backfield as much as anything else.
Speaker 1: Sanders only had five catches for forty five yards when
Speaker 1: these teams met in Week four. They B grade on
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, C grade on Damarius Thomas. The Chiefs again
Speaker 1: they're giving up a lot more to running backs and
Speaker 1: tight ends, and he hasn't topped sixty six yards in
Speaker 1: five straight games against the Kansas City Chiefs. He has
Speaker 1: scored once in his last seven games against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: That's to Marius Thomas. The trends aren't great. And though
Speaker 1: this feels like a juicy matchup, and it is for
Speaker 1: some other people like Philip Lindsay with an A grade
Speaker 1: and my number four ranking at the running back position,
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman has been ruled out. Ah, do I love it?
Speaker 1: Career game coming against the Kansas City team that's giving
Speaker 1: up over yds on the ground and a league wars
Speaker 1: seventy three yards through the air to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: This is a fantastic opportunity for him to write the ship.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get a ton of looks both
Speaker 1: on the ground and through the air. This is um
Speaker 1: And even if the Chiefs take a big lead, which
Speaker 1: they usually do in every game, I think they've been
Speaker 1: a heading like eight four of their plays they've played
Speaker 1: with the lead. Fine, you know, Philip Lindsay, They'll just
Speaker 1: throw to Philip Lindsay, So one way or another, Lindsay
Speaker 1: sitting out of potentially gigantic game. Also as they take
Speaker 1: a chance, I mean candidate DeVante Booker, who's actually got
Speaker 1: more targets and receptions than Lindsay has. He will get
Speaker 1: a lot more use now that Royce Freeman has been
Speaker 1: ruled out. He is definitely startable available in of leagues.
Speaker 1: Go get Davante Booker if you're in a pinch, give
Speaker 1: him a start this week, especially in PPR leagues. Last
Speaker 1: guy I want to mention Jeff Hireman, is their tight
Speaker 1: end available in every league in America. There isn't a
Speaker 1: smile league fanball too very cheap. Chiefs have allowed the
Speaker 1: second most yards, the eighth most receptions, and the seventh
Speaker 1: most Fantasy points to the tight end position three times
Speaker 1: already an opposing tight end to top seventy five yards.
Speaker 1: Jeff higher Men is startable this week with a C
Speaker 1: grade going over to the chief side. Obviously, Mahomes, Hunt
Speaker 1: and Kelsey obvious A grades my number one, two and
Speaker 1: one ranked players at their positions. Let's spend a second
Speaker 1: on Tyreek Hill, who lines up all over the field,
Speaker 1: but he spends most of his time in the slot,
Speaker 1: which gives him a tough matchup against the one remaining
Speaker 1: really good Bengals corner Chris Harris Jr. Hill was limited
Speaker 1: to fifty four yards against Denver in week number or
Speaker 1: did catch nine passes but only turn into fifty four yards.
Speaker 1: So I've just got to be great on Tyreek Kill
Speaker 1: one of his lower grades of the year, and a
Speaker 1: cautious CE grade on Sammy Watkins. Um he's only getting
Speaker 1: sixteen per cent of Patrick Mahomes targets. That's just not
Speaker 1: enough volume. And I love his matchup. He goes up
Speaker 1: against the aged and ineffective Adam pac Man Jones, but
Speaker 1: it's I just need to get more catches. I've got
Speaker 1: a C grade on him because the matchup is so positive,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that you can trust him to
Speaker 1: turn his three or four targets into much of anything
Speaker 1: meaningful fantasy wise. Snaps like a game. Yeah, there's that
Speaker 1: too for Watkins, right he's on the field. At least
Speaker 1: they just never throw to him. What does Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: know that the rest of us don't. Next matchup, Seahawks
Speaker 1: taking on the Lions, Scott. I loved Chris Carson in
Speaker 1: this game before the Snacks Harrison trade, but what do
Speaker 1: you think about what do you think about him? Now?
Speaker 1: You just got there. He just got there. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: see how limited those snaps are for snacks. He might
Speaker 1: play the whole game, who knows. But I still I
Speaker 1: still like it because the Lions have just been terrible
Speaker 1: all us to stand there though. He doesn't have to
Speaker 1: really learn any play that snacks just got to be snacks. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: the Lions have allowed at least a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: total yards to running back seeing every single game this
Speaker 1: year and over, it's such a good matchup. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: still have Carson. I had Carson with an A grade.
Speaker 1: I still am going to leave it there for now.
Speaker 1: But it's it's tep it. It's it's there's a little
Speaker 1: there's a little more concerned there, Davis. I'm on the bench.
Speaker 1: I know that his snaps are close to Tart Carson,
Speaker 1: but he's not getting the touches. And the second running
Speaker 1: back for Seattle has only had one Okay Fantasy Day
Speaker 1: this entire year. It's the lead dog that gets it.
Speaker 1: So Carson with a U in the passing game, I'm
Speaker 1: giving Wilson a B game a B grade. The lines
Speaker 1: have allowed multiple touchdowns two qbs in all but one
Speaker 1: game this year. Wilson the same, But it's more about
Speaker 1: this time of year for Wilson. He's notoriously Yeah, in
Speaker 1: two thousands sixteen his run started Week nine. Last year
Speaker 1: it was week seven, it was week ten, was week seven.
Speaker 1: His rook year, it was week eight. This isn't just
Speaker 1: like a one year thing too. This is his entire
Speaker 1: career he starts at this point, so I really like
Speaker 1: it for him. His floor, his rushing floor has been
Speaker 1: low this year. He hasn't rushed over twenty five yards yet,
Speaker 1: but that also goes up in the second half of
Speaker 1: the year. I think this is a good matchup for it. Um.
Speaker 1: This defense just allowed seven hundred total yards and five
Speaker 1: touchdowns to Brady and Brock over the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: so I'm giving Baldwin and Lockett B grades because of that. UM.
Speaker 1: The Lions maybe top ten against wide receivers on the season,
Speaker 1: but over the last three weeks they're dead last in
Speaker 1: fantasy points allowed and they only played two games, and
Speaker 1: earlier in the season they played the Jets, the forty
Speaker 1: niners without Goodwin, the Patriots without Edelman or Gordon. There's
Speaker 1: a reason they were ranked so high. It's not because
Speaker 1: they were good, it's because of the matchup. So B
Speaker 1: grades for both Lockett and Baldwin. Over the Lions side. Stafford,
Speaker 1: I'm given a B grade even though the Legion of
Speaker 1: Boom is gone. And but they're like top three, top
Speaker 1: five this year on page Look at the quarterbacks the
Speaker 1: Seahawks exactly they are. They faced the easiest quarterbacking schedule
Speaker 1: of any team in the NFL. It's kind of just like,
Speaker 1: why what I said about the On the other side,
Speaker 1: the Lions defense, you face some easy matchups and you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna look good. The over under fifty makes
Speaker 1: me really like a little bit of a shootout in
Speaker 1: this game. And Stafford's thrown from multiple touchdowns in five straight.
Speaker 1: The Lions are averaging the totals of all the Lions
Speaker 1: games this year over fifty points per game on average
Speaker 1: for the total, so I think they're gonna hit it.
Speaker 1: I give Tate Golden Tate. He's disappeared a little bit
Speaker 1: over less a couple of weeks. Seattle's been giving up
Speaker 1: a few good slot weeks. But it's a revenge game,
Speaker 1: which was yeah, I was like that or revenge game
Speaker 1: for Golden Tape be grade for Goladay. Weirdly, not only
Speaker 1: does he leave the team in the yards in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks on the season, he has just two
Speaker 1: fewer yards than Golden Tate and the same amount of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He said, he's right there, right there with him. Marvin Jones,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a C grade. I considered bench. He's in fact,
Speaker 1: I wrote he's the third fiddle. It's really what he is. Um,
Speaker 1: but he is averaging three catches per game, He's getting
Speaker 1: seven targets games, and uh, the three games where the
Speaker 1: Lions average thirty points per game, he really did show up.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him. You know, where he scored
Speaker 1: over third where they scored over thirty points, I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a cee. Uh. Benching Roberts, I don't trust that
Speaker 1: at all. No Detroit tight end has gone over fifteen
Speaker 1: yards this this season until last week. That's a fluke.
Speaker 1: Roberts was a fluke last week. Carry On Johnson, huge
Speaker 1: game in a perfect storm against Miami. Miami is just terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible against running backs. But I do like Johnson this
Speaker 1: week with Riddick out, I'm bench blunt. Uh. He has
Speaker 1: an opportunity for a touchdown, but that's all you can expect.
Speaker 1: I still think it's a two to one split. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see four. Four out of the last
Speaker 1: six lead backs against the Seahawks have topped a hundred
Speaker 1: total yards, and those players scored five total touchdowns. I
Speaker 1: think that's the range for carry on near a hundred
Speaker 1: maybe a score. R um let's let's Golden takes a
Speaker 1: free agent after this year. Let's assume he's somewhere else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where's your preseason ranking on Kenny Golladay? Are you really
Speaker 1: asking me this one? I'm asking you because I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a huge Golladay hunk. That's probably why you're
Speaker 1: right now. Definitely, definitely top twenty four. That's it. It's
Speaker 1: you can go, oh, I thought you were gonna tell
Speaker 1: me top twelve. One. I haven't dug into it, but
Speaker 1: it's like saying instinct the question. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: dynasty wise, he is a top twenty five asset at
Speaker 1: wide receiver right now. Um, but yeah, he it's gonna
Speaker 1: be close. He's gonna threaten top twelve for Me's gone.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to work in one quick call. Hi, Tim,
Speaker 1: thanks to your patience. Jeez, yeah, we don't want to
Speaker 1: hear your leaf blower. Sorry about that. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: a guillotine question for you, all right, somebody in a
Speaker 1: guillotine league. I love it, unlike all three of us.
Speaker 1: First of all, I love the league, so it's great
Speaker 1: format for everybody's loving it's so great idea charts really
Speaker 1: love fantastic My question, And I've got a few players
Speaker 1: here to go through. Um, I've been listening to the
Speaker 1: entire show, but so at running back, I plan to
Speaker 1: start James Conner and Philip Lindsay. Receiver will be Ja
Speaker 1: and Antonio. I'm between Emmanuel Sanders, Sa Kwan and carry
Speaker 1: on and Chris Goodwin for my flight. What do y'all think?
Speaker 1: A lot of good players right there. Normally it's all day,
Speaker 1: but this week is it's a brutal matchup. I still
Speaker 1: don't think you can bench them though, Like I'm off
Speaker 1: Kwan any kind of daily format. This is you don't
Speaker 1: want to pay his price, but man, it's Sanders. It's
Speaker 1: Sanders or Quan. But I gotta go with the what
Speaker 1: you'd expect to still be guaranteed touches and a bad matchup.
Speaker 1: But I lean Kuan barely over Saders. I just can't bend. Partly,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it. That's my thought too.
Speaker 1: I I've been riding them all year, so your opinion.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tim, Good luck in your guarantine league. It's
Speaker 1: a blast, isn't it. It's so much It's so much fun. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right. We'll take a break when we come back.
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Speaker 1: be caught off guard with any late breaking news. Although
Speaker 1: we don't really have anybody that's coming into that game
Speaker 1: as a game time decision either, so hopefully, of course,
Speaker 1: at this time last week we know Melvin Gordon was
Speaker 1: going to be a game time decision. But we knew
Speaker 1: he was questionable, but didn't didn't really think he wouldn't go,
Speaker 1: So you know, I just let's get that squared away.
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Speaker 1: American version, Let's let's dive into hot question number one.
Speaker 1: With Will Fuller done for the year, once Kiki Cutie returns,
Speaker 1: probably after the bye, is he a wide receiver one?
Speaker 1: A wide receiver to a flex or a bench Kiki
Speaker 1: Cutie Scott, I'm gonna go with a wide receiver too,
Speaker 1: based on just the volume of the wide receiver two
Speaker 1: kits in that offense right now. Uh. He had six
Speaker 1: for fifty one in a touchdown in the one game
Speaker 1: without Faller, the game that Fuller left in the third
Speaker 1: quarter A couple of games ago, he had eleven for
Speaker 1: one or nine, but nine targets after nine he was
Speaker 1: targeted nine times. There you go, nine times nine times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he was targeted nine times eight catches for eighty
Speaker 1: two yards in those two and a half quarters after
Speaker 1: Faller left. I think he's going to continue to see
Speaker 1: eight to ten targets when he comes back, if he
Speaker 1: stays healthy. All right, Yeah, I don't have much to add.
Speaker 1: I got wide receiver two as well. I'm just looking
Speaker 1: ahead at the schedule. Broncos next week can't stop anyone
Speaker 1: on the ground or through the air. But then the
Speaker 1: remaining matchups Redskins, Titans, Browns, Colts, Jets, Eagles, all those
Speaker 1: are more of a plus matchup for receivers and they
Speaker 1: are for running backs, so they're all great matchups for Cutie.
Speaker 1: So wide receiver two, I really struggled because he's right
Speaker 1: on the edge of wide receiver too and flex. For
Speaker 1: me to be a wide receiver too, he's got to
Speaker 1: be roughly a top twenty receiver most weeks or better.
Speaker 1: Our top twenty, our twentieth receivers are guys. You know,
Speaker 1: this week we're in the Robert Woods and Emmanuel Sanders
Speaker 1: ranked area k CT is just not there. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I've got a flex on him, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that I think he's gonna be really good. And two,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put numbers on all the players on all
Speaker 1: the teams that Brian just said down the stretch, here's
Speaker 1: where those teams rank. Fantasy points allowed to wide receivers
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year for the Texans and
Speaker 1: Kiki Quti twenty second, four, eight, twenty six, and twenty eight.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just gonna be a series. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the one one that sounded good Indianapolis
Speaker 1: was that eight their secondaries degrading before very eyes. The
Speaker 1: high numbers are good. Fort Yeah, high numbers are good.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is giving up the twenty eight most fantasy points
Speaker 1: to wide receivers, so it's all positive for him, but
Speaker 1: I I can't quite get him into my top twenty
Speaker 1: or top twenty four. Correct answer, Here's here's another point
Speaker 1: for your flex hamstring injurys Linger and he's been in
Speaker 1: and out. So how many examples of that do we need?
Speaker 1: Question number two. Everybody's talking about Amari Cooper's value in Texas,
Speaker 1: but what about Jordy Nelson's value in Oakland for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. Is Jordy a wide receiver? One
Speaker 1: wide receiver to flex or bench? So I struggled to
Speaker 1: think to come up with what Jordy Nelson was when
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper was on the team, and I looking back,
Speaker 1: he had scored in three of the last four games,
Speaker 1: so I guess he was a fix player. Really probably.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking a super long time about where Amri's
Speaker 1: three point seven targets are gonna, right, and those are
Speaker 1: bloated by two games of double digit targets. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think I'm gonna say Nelson was
Speaker 1: a flex player, and his value doesn't really change because
Speaker 1: he's the third most targeted player on that team, behind
Speaker 1: Jared Cook and Jalen Richards. So if anyone's gonna still
Speaker 1: get more targets, it's gonna be Martavis Bryant, probably Cook,
Speaker 1: and probably be short. I think Jordy just stays as is,
Speaker 1: and I'll give him a very very generous flex Creed
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, kind of the same flex in good
Speaker 1: matchups is what I wrote down. I mean, they've trailed
Speaker 1: in all but one game by midway through the third,
Speaker 1: and trailed early in the fourth and that other one,
Speaker 1: so playing catchup was already factored in. This offense isn't
Speaker 1: gonna be good. Lynches out to the offense is probably
Speaker 1: gonna stall more. I barely, barely, barely. Think he's a
Speaker 1: fletch flex play and really just good matchups. You guys
Speaker 1: are dead wrong. Oh boy, we'll start with your bad math.
Speaker 1: First of all, Cooper was getting five and a half
Speaker 1: targets per game, thirty two targets in six games, and
Speaker 1: that and at least hyperpose. At least half of those
Speaker 1: are gonna go to Jordy Nelson, right half of the
Speaker 1: five and a half. So let's throw a couple of
Speaker 1: targets at Jourdy right now. He already has fifty more
Speaker 1: Fantasy points than a Marie Cooper, so he was already
Speaker 1: better than a Mari Cooper. To your point you made earlier,
Speaker 1: the team's behind all the time and passing all the
Speaker 1: time through sheer volume. He's going to do well rest
Speaker 1: of the schedule. Only two tough matchups. The rest of
Speaker 1: them are jaw droppingly easy San Francisco, Indie Chargers Chiefs.
Speaker 1: And listen to his playoff run for Jordy Nelson Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver,
Speaker 1: and then wraps up. If you play weeks seventeen, you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Kansas City. I'm telling you we're going to have A
Speaker 1: and B grades on Jordy Nelson in a lot of
Speaker 1: the remaining matchups again two bad ones, seven or eight
Speaker 1: really positive matchups the rest of the year schedule, But
Speaker 1: I didn't want to take up that much time. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a wide receiver to the rest of
Speaker 1: the way, vans Hot. Question number three, now that Byron left,
Speaker 1: which is calling plays for the Cardinals, will he boost
Speaker 1: David Johnson's fantasy value a little, a lot, not at all,
Speaker 1: or does it actually go back words? So you got
Speaker 1: four options, a lot, a little, not at all, or
Speaker 1: does it go backwards? Scott, by the way, it is
Speaker 1: three point seven receptions per game. Uh, this is really
Speaker 1: tough for me because he was averaging forty seven yards
Speaker 1: per game and twenty three receiving yards a game. That's
Speaker 1: seven yards of game. He if he gets up to
Speaker 1: seventy rushing yards per game in thirty five receiving per game,
Speaker 1: that's a fifty percent increase and that's easily doable. I
Speaker 1: mean easily doable. Increase the touchdowns he did have five
Speaker 1: touchdowns and what seven games, so that that's not as repeatable.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm gonna go with a lot because I think
Speaker 1: is probably the floor on his increase. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a lot too because left Which said
Speaker 1: he's gonna mirror Bruce Arians usage, and they fell together
Speaker 1: David Johnson. And honestly, as long as you don't mirror
Speaker 1: anyone but Mike McCool you could mirror like a twenty
Speaker 1: year old Stone college kid using David Johnson and Madden
Speaker 1: and the ice gonna his production is gonna go way up.
Speaker 1: Johnson will be on the edges way more, will be
Speaker 1: utilize the way he should. And uh, the schedule is
Speaker 1: gonna help him out a lot. I won't dive into it,
Speaker 1: but it is very meaty, So a lot, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot see Mike McCoy. Uh, David Johnson will be
Speaker 1: aided a lot by sanity returning to the coaching staff
Speaker 1: under Byron Leftwich. Now, in fairness, we don't anything about
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. He's never had an NFL play
Speaker 1: call at this level. He's never been an offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: This thing could go badly, but we're just assuming it
Speaker 1: can't go any worse than what Mike McCoy did to
Speaker 1: David Johnson. I hope he runs it up the middle
Speaker 1: on his very first the fantasy they will, they'll blow up.
Speaker 1: The schedule is so favorable fantasy points allowed. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you the teams. I'm just gonna tell you
Speaker 1: the fantasy points allowed rankings for the remaining teams on
Speaker 1: the schedule for David Johnson twenty three, thirty one, twenty five, sixteen, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty nine, twenty six. Dear lord, none of them below fifth.
Speaker 1: They're all below, They're all an They're on the bottom half.
Speaker 1: He won't see a top half defense and fantasy points
Speaker 1: allowed to running backs all year. It's a fantastic opportunity
Speaker 1: for David Johnson by low send out some trade offers,
Speaker 1: shake things up in your league, and let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Raiders, Brian Colts. Uh feels like
Speaker 1: another in a series of just easy, easy matchups every week.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's an easy matchup for the Colts.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the cold side already told you,
Speaker 1: like I always, I like Derek Carr on the other side.
Speaker 1: But talk to me about the cold side and Aarondrew
Speaker 1: luck and if this string of amazing performances are going
Speaker 1: to continue, yeah they should. And think of it this way.
Speaker 1: Andrew Andrew Luck is gonna have all his toys back
Speaker 1: when it comes to t Y Hilton. Jack doil is
Speaker 1: coming back back. Andrew Luck himself was had to be
Speaker 1: a little The rust is shaking off with every week.
Speaker 1: So Andrew Luck gets an A in this matchup. Because
Speaker 1: I love Ti t Y Hilton, he gets an A.
Speaker 1: Oakland is allowing seventy six yards per game to number
Speaker 1: one wide receivers. Seattle wide receivers total three touchdowns against
Speaker 1: the Raiders in Week six. Guys like Jeron Brown and
Speaker 1: David Moore were scoring. So Hilton's great play. But I'm
Speaker 1: not playing any other wide receiver for indeed, it's as
Speaker 1: two modeled between Chester Rogers and Ryan Grant. They're all
Speaker 1: on the bench. But Eric Ebron still on a good play.
Speaker 1: Given him a be Even with Jack Doyle's return. Oakland
Speaker 1: has allowed to tight end touch on two of their
Speaker 1: last three games. And Ebron seems to be the guy
Speaker 1: in the red zone for Andrew Luk and then uh
Speaker 1: talking to running backs real quick for the Colts. Marlon
Speaker 1: Mack looked great last week. I can give him a B.
Speaker 1: He was questionable to play, but practicing full yesterday. He
Speaker 1: should be good to go, and as long as he's
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup. Nineham Hines and Jordan Wilkins are
Speaker 1: not relevant, so they are on the bench. Over to
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Got a lot of c's looks like my
Speaker 1: high school report card. Here, Doug Martin will start with
Speaker 1: him and gets to see, how did you get I
Speaker 1: don't know, I studied hard. The Colts have allowed more
Speaker 1: than four point five yards per carry over the last
Speaker 1: five games, but Oakland ranks dead last in the NFL
Speaker 1: and yards created before the contact point one point eight.
Speaker 1: So Martin is not good and he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: work hard, so just to see the volume should be there.
Speaker 1: But that's the only reason he gets a starting grade. Actually,
Speaker 1: like Jayley Michard Moore in PPR, he gets to see
Speaker 1: despite already having his by he ranks top ten among
Speaker 1: NFL running backs and targets, catches and receiving yards, so
Speaker 1: he is certainly viable in PPR, maybe even in standard UH.
Speaker 1: Jared Cook always viable. He gets an opposing tight ends
Speaker 1: have posted monster numbers against the Colts, so Cook is
Speaker 1: in your lineup easily. Jordy Nelson is a wide receiver too.
Speaker 1: I guess I had to see on him as a Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: volume coming, a lot of volume coming. Uh. The Colts
Speaker 1: secondary is banged up, and we respect Oakland to be
Speaker 1: chasing points. And for that reason, Martevis Bryant now the
Speaker 1: other starter on the boundary. It gets to see. Uh,
Speaker 1: secondary receivers have done very well. Comparable secondary receivers Terrell Prior, Cordurell, Patterson,
Speaker 1: Will Fuller, I'll have scored against the Colts in recent weeks.
Speaker 1: So Bryant is a nice hail Mary play. What do
Speaker 1: you think about I talked about this with p A
Speaker 1: yesterday on the feast. What do you think about my
Speaker 1: fan ball DFS play of car to Martavis Bryant in
Speaker 1: a big tournament like the twenty dollar tournament. We have
Speaker 1: fan ball account slash radio. Yeah, what do you think about?
Speaker 1: That is a cheap hook up? Absolutely, Brian came incause
Speaker 1: that trade went down y salary. I love Yet you
Speaker 1: cleared up a lot of cap space and you said
Speaker 1: that's how I get That's how I get tat Gurley
Speaker 1: in my line up. Our kareem hunt into my might
Speaker 1: have high ownership and something like that. You will and
Speaker 1: uh and and Derek Carr you'll take a chance to
Speaker 1: the quarterback for that very reason. And that is the
Speaker 1: end of that chapter. It is the end of that chapter.
Speaker 1: Let's um, let's try to work in one more matchup,
Speaker 1: Ravens taking on the Panthers. That's me. Hold on, I
Speaker 1: gotta go to the right page. Here we go. Let's
Speaker 1: start on the Baltimore side. In the passing game. Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco throwing forty three times per game. You don't think
Speaker 1: of the Ravens as being this past happy offense. We
Speaker 1: think of them as a conservative organization. Everything else. Nope,
Speaker 1: already three times per game. Joe Flacco, with all that volume,
Speaker 1: he usually ends up with decent maybe not explosive stats,
Speaker 1: but decent stats. This week he plays against the Carolina
Speaker 1: defense that's allowed exactly two touchdown passes in five straight games.
Speaker 1: And I think there's another two coming for Joe Flaco.
Speaker 1: I think this is the same guy that through yards
Speaker 1: in the game last year. How about that? Right, it's
Speaker 1: a there's a very different offense. And if I think
Speaker 1: he's got two touchdown passes coming, I gotta like John
Speaker 1: Brown right your angle. Here is a deep hook up.
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty yards per catch. Which is ridiculous. Caroline
Speaker 1: is allowing the fourth most receptions of twenty yards are
Speaker 1: more so the deep poke up coming for John Brown
Speaker 1: like him be grade also, And by the way, Flacca
Speaker 1: was a B grade as well. Michael Crabtree C grade.
Speaker 1: He gets more targets actually than Brown does. It's a
Speaker 1: hit and MS Panthers defense've had some good games. They
Speaker 1: actually did a nice job against A. J. Green and
Speaker 1: Julio Jones. But I think it's um It's maybe on
Speaker 1: the tougher side of the matchup for Crabtree, but just
Speaker 1: through sheer volume, I think he ultimately gets something done here.
Speaker 1: He'll run the overwhelming majority of of play against inconsistent
Speaker 1: cornerback Dante Jackson. Who else do we like? Alex Collins
Speaker 1: has a B grade in this one, even though, uh,
Speaker 1: even though they're giving up over four point six yards
Speaker 1: per carry, which is a lot opposing running backs, they're
Speaker 1: only rushing eighteen times a game, fourth fewest against the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and so volume may not be the friend to Alex Collins.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned earlier, again, everything seems to go
Speaker 1: through Flacco's arm right now, So Mynie Collins actually catch
Speaker 1: a couple of passes which you will do per game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Carolina kept Phillies committee in check last week, but they've
Speaker 1: given up big games to opposing lead backs in each
Speaker 1: other game. So I think Collins is still very startable
Speaker 1: here with a B grade, but he doesn't get a
Speaker 1: ton of volume and Bunk Allen is on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Carolina side. Cam Newton's toughest matchup
Speaker 1: of the year. If you're ever gonna bunch Cam, this
Speaker 1: is it. We had a guy this morning. We told
Speaker 1: him Mayfield over Cam. Yeah, I've got Cam way down
Speaker 1: at quarterback number sevent You probably have another quarterback on
Speaker 1: roster that I like, bar Um. The Ravens secondary is awesome.
Speaker 1: They ranked number two in passing yards allowed, number three
Speaker 1: in passing touchdowns allowed. And what's more, Newton isn't likely
Speaker 1: to rush for a score. The Ravens haven't given up
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown to a quarterback in twenty five straight games.
Speaker 1: So Cam Newton's brutal to start this week. Let's go
Speaker 1: staying with the passing game. The only other guys who
Speaker 1: can consider starting or Devin Funches, who has hit the
Speaker 1: one hundred yard mark just once in his last thirty
Speaker 1: nine games. How does it? How does any number one
Speaker 1: receiver only get one hundred yard game once in thirty
Speaker 1: nine games. You know what you're gonna get from him.
Speaker 1: It's sixty yards a decent chance of a touch down.
Speaker 1: He's scored him three the past four games. Um, and
Speaker 1: it is a touchdown that could salvage his game. The
Speaker 1: Ravens give up the second fewest yards to receivers, but
Speaker 1: they are giving up one touchdown per game to the position.
Speaker 1: So if there's gonna be one touchdown catch to be
Speaker 1: had here, it'll go to Funches. So we'll try him
Speaker 1: at a see grade. Greg Olsen has been miserable since
Speaker 1: his return, but the Ravens have had some difficulty with
Speaker 1: tight ends, allowing the most receptions eleventh most yards at
Speaker 1: tight ends. They hadn't given up a score to a
Speaker 1: tight end until last week. Um, I've got to barely
Speaker 1: see grade on greg Olsen only because he's a tight
Speaker 1: end and the position so thin. Really. Lastly, Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: also his toughest matchup of the year. Baltimore is allowed
Speaker 1: the fewest fantasy points to running backs. They ranked fourth
Speaker 1: in yards per carry. They've only given up two rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns all year, and they lead the league in the
Speaker 1: fewest receiving yards, the fewest catches, and the fewest touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to running backs. There is no angle of positive
Speaker 1: positivity for Christian McCaffrey from a matchup standpoint none. He's
Speaker 1: a guy he's gonna struggle mightily that you're alluding to,
Speaker 1: but by Low on him after this game, I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be like his third or fourth straight
Speaker 1: bad game potentially, And you're right, this might be your
Speaker 1: by Low moment. It's just been a series of tough
Speaker 1: matchups for Christian McCaffrey. We'll take a break. When we
Speaker 1: come back. Another set of matchups for you, including Packers
Speaker 1: taking on the Rams. Is there anybody to bench in
Speaker 1: this game? Can you go right back to Geronimo Allison.
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Speaker 1: take on the Rams, Scott and you know, yeah, start everybody.
Speaker 1: But I've gotten a ton of questions about Geronimo Allison
Speaker 1: in particular, and I want to know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: I I like him here, Yeah he has. He has
Speaker 1: at least sixty yards and twelve and a half PPR
Speaker 1: points in all four games that he's played this season.
Speaker 1: The second receiver, the second receiver for the Packers has
Speaker 1: had at least six targets in every game this season,
Speaker 1: and he has at least five catches in three of
Speaker 1: his four games. I think this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: shootout with that fifty six and a half over under.
Speaker 1: So Allison is the guy I actually like more than Cobb.
Speaker 1: I gave Allison a B grade. I gave cop a
Speaker 1: C grade. I don't know if he's going to play exactly.
Speaker 1: He practiced fully. He's questionable, but he practiced fully. Here's me,
Speaker 1: here's my concerns. Will he play? And he hasn't top
Speaker 1: thirty yards since Week one, Heelan and Sanders had good
Speaker 1: games in the slot against the Rams. Everyone else disappeared. Uh, Cobb,
Speaker 1: I mean watch it. I want available in a lot
Speaker 1: of leagues. Yeah, I want pieces in the shootout, but
Speaker 1: he's barely a C grade for me. Adams is an obviously,
Speaker 1: and so is Rogers. I mean Rivers, Will some Keendom,
Speaker 1: Cousins all had great Fantasy days. Even Carr had three
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Teams have to keep up, and Adams is
Speaker 1: the top option. Both A grades there. Jimmy Graham I
Speaker 1: gave a C grade to he has twenty targets and
Speaker 1: a hundred eighty yards over the last two weeks. But
Speaker 1: those twenty targets he only averages five and a half
Speaker 1: per game with Cobb and Allison in so he expected
Speaker 1: drop here. Um, yeah, even though it's going to be
Speaker 1: a shootout, I expect to drop so. Uh. The Rams
Speaker 1: their teenthins tight ends, but that's partially due to huge
Speaker 1: games against Kittle and Cook all the others. No otherwise,
Speaker 1: no other tight end had over twenty five yards except
Speaker 1: for those two. So I'm a little hesitant there. The
Speaker 1: running game. I'm benching it because how many times at
Speaker 1: Green Bay running back his top sixt yards this year
Speaker 1: rushing one just once and they only have two rushing touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's a wreck. Yeah, here's at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm done guessing when Mike McCarthy will play Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: I'm going to wait for him to play Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: a bunch and then I'll react to it. I'm done
Speaker 1: guessing ahead of Yeah, the Rams are allowing four point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry to running max, which is seventh worst,
Speaker 1: but everyone abandons the run against them, so nobody can
Speaker 1: rack up enough yards. Uh. On the on the Ram side,
Speaker 1: I got a's on everyone. Cup is doubtful and very
Speaker 1: very very unlikely to play, so I'm benching him. But
Speaker 1: I got I I don't even know that I need
Speaker 1: to go through it. But Reynolds I'm benching as well,
Speaker 1: just to put that out there. He has two targets
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks with Cup out, which I
Speaker 1: thought you'd do more. Yeah, it's not happy. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're starting Girley Cooks Woods Golf. They're all a grades great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's all Yeah, No, no more really needs to
Speaker 1: be said, all right. Forty nine take on the Cardinals. Brian,
Speaker 1: I love where Hee most. He was might take a
Speaker 1: chance to me running back. We talked about him earlier,
Speaker 1: A great chance of going here. Even if Matt Breed
Speaker 1: is active, I don't think he's gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of work in this game as they try to finally
Speaker 1: get him healthy. No, you know they bread forced himself
Speaker 1: on the field last week, lasted about five carries. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so Monster, it's a great play either way. And bread A,
Speaker 1: if he is active, I think you gotta air on
Speaker 1: the side of caution and sit him if you ow.
Speaker 1: And I said, we'll say he's on the bench regardless
Speaker 1: of being active or not. Let's go to the already
Speaker 1: when was already one of my favorite players, and now
Speaker 1: he is my favorite player. George Kittle say, this man
Speaker 1: wants to score for his fantasy owners. He doesn't care.
Speaker 1: Did you see that last team? Did you see this?
Speaker 1: For those who didn't hear this, While his touchdown was
Speaker 1: getting reviewed, he was picked up on micro whatever saying Tara,
Speaker 1: I gotta get this one from my fantasy owners. He
Speaker 1: didn't know it for himself. He didn't want it for
Speaker 1: the forty niners. He wanted it for his fancy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these teams have met a few weeks ago. By the way,
Speaker 1: I Kidi had five catches for eighty three yards. That's
Speaker 1: a safe floor here. He gets an A for me.
Speaker 1: Brual matchup, though Arizona has been great against the tight
Speaker 1: end positions. But that's the only thing, haven't They haven't
Speaker 1: faced a lot of good tight ends. Jordan Reid had
Speaker 1: four for forty eight and a touchdown. Tyler Higbee managed
Speaker 1: to score. Yeah, if you're counting up Matt Lacos as
Speaker 1: a competition at the tight end position, then they're tough.
Speaker 1: Kid will gets the A mark, he's Goodwin gets the opposite.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench. He's gonna draw Pat Pete. It's
Speaker 1: that simple. I don't like good Win in this game.
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson not expected to play, not that you're contemplating
Speaker 1: starting him, but here's a sneaky play. A bonus take
Speaker 1: com is Trent Taylor, who had seven catches for sixty
Speaker 1: one yards in a touchdown when these teams made a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. And slot receivers have been doing very
Speaker 1: well against the Cardinals because Pat Pete will not travel there.
Speaker 1: Manny Sanders six for one oh two and a touchdown,
Speaker 1: Adam thieland eleven fore and one. Granted Trent Taylor is
Speaker 1: not those guys, but then target totals for slot receivers
Speaker 1: and games before that, Doug Baldwin coming off injury saw
Speaker 1: seven targets, Taylor Gabriel saw ten. So Trent Taylor is
Speaker 1: gonna be involved in this game. So he gets a
Speaker 1: CEE for me. But CJ be Third is on the bench.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go into that too much. More over
Speaker 1: to day, Uh the Cardinals side, David Johnson, gonna give
Speaker 1: him an a here, managed to score twice in the
Speaker 1: first meeting, despite the fact that Mike McCoy was employed
Speaker 1: by the Cardinals at the time. But uh, San Francisco
Speaker 1: allowing a hundred and thirty combo yards and one and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns for games to run per game to
Speaker 1: running backs left, which is gonna get Johnson involved? Wan
Speaker 1: this one a plus for me actually with David Johnson,
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk and give him a see he's starting to emerge.
Speaker 1: At least seventy five yards and or a touchdown in
Speaker 1: three of his last five games, had three catches for
Speaker 1: eighty five yards in a touchdown in the first meeting.
Speaker 1: The Niners have allowed four wide receiver touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last three games, and they could still be without Richard Sherman.
Speaker 1: So Kirk is viable and so is Larry Fitzgerald. Just
Speaker 1: to see for him though. He was quiet in the
Speaker 1: first meeting, but he wasn't near on uh PPR leagues.
Speaker 1: He's tough to sit. So he just gets a C
Speaker 1: for me, as does Ricky Seals Jones. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: tight ends. Just you actually sounded constipated saying his name.
Speaker 1: Ye R s J was targeted six times in the
Speaker 1: first meeting. Did not catch a pass though, but the
Speaker 1: usage was there, and uh, Jimmy Graham has put put
Speaker 1: a big numbers against San fran and Uh so rs
Speaker 1: J is viable in a depleted tight end landscape, but
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen on the bench. Let's wrap up this sigment
Speaker 1: with Vikings and Saints on Sunday night. From the Vikings side,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of passing from Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: in this game. Saints are the best run defense and
Speaker 1: the Vikings offensive line just isn't up to the challenge
Speaker 1: of trying to maintain a running game that, in fairness
Speaker 1: has been good the last two weeks, but won't be
Speaker 1: here Vikings Uh Saints giving up just two point eight
Speaker 1: yards per carry to opposing running backs number one in
Speaker 1: the league, forty seven yards per game to opposing running
Speaker 1: backs number one in the league. So tons, and by
Speaker 1: the way, that's why Lottavias Murray's on the bench in
Speaker 1: this game. I don't think he's gonna get enough work here.
Speaker 1: Your only hope is a goal line run from Lottavia's Murray.
Speaker 1: You're playing for touchdowns, and we can't say for sure
Speaker 1: that that's going to happen. This game goes through Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins armed. I believe the Vikings will be playing from
Speaker 1: behind due to the injuries that they've got, and Kirk's
Speaker 1: gonna have to throw to keep up. And the Vikings
Speaker 1: throw the third most times per game anyway, And so
Speaker 1: I've got an a grade on Kirk if not if
Speaker 1: only through volume, if nothing else. Although the Saints secondary
Speaker 1: has improved over the last three games, giving up two
Speaker 1: d seventy yards and one scored per game over the
Speaker 1: last three, but Cousins will get there on volume. I
Speaker 1: expect passes in this one. Adam Theland a great matchup.
Speaker 1: I had a good matchup last week, great matchup this
Speaker 1: week too. He draws slot cornerback P J. Williams, who's
Speaker 1: one of the worst at his position. He is allowing
Speaker 1: a quarterback passer rating of one hundred forty six against him.
Speaker 1: P J. Williams, and he's going to cover Adam Theeland,
Speaker 1: the hottest receiver in football. I love I love Theland's
Speaker 1: opportunity here. Stefan Diggs gets the flip side of that
Speaker 1: and potentially very tough matchup again. He gets Marshawn Lattimer,
Speaker 1: who typically shadows the opponent's best outside receiver. Lattimer got
Speaker 1: roasted in the opener in Week one, but since then
Speaker 1: he's been much better. Get this, Lattimer's averaging twenty nine
Speaker 1: yards per game in his coverage. That's it. So Diggs
Speaker 1: is only a beast start in this game. Um Eli
Speaker 1: Apple should not be a factor. I don't think this
Speaker 1: early in the game. Then, Kyle Rudolph. Saints have surrendered
Speaker 1: only one touchdown to a tight end all year, and
Speaker 1: since Week one they haven't allowed any tight end to
Speaker 1: reach even thirty yards. So Cal Rodolph sums down to
Speaker 1: a C again. I think only through volume. Do I
Speaker 1: like him here, and ideally if he played a different position,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be startable. But again, you gotta basically start
Speaker 1: every plausible tight end and fantasy. So I give him
Speaker 1: a C grade here. Saint side so many people that
Speaker 1: I like against the injury depleted Vikings. Anthony Barr has
Speaker 1: been ruled out of this game. I don't think Xavier
Speaker 1: Rhodes is gonna go. I think the warm up they'll
Speaker 1: try to see what the ankles like uh on on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But even so, this is it's it's a super dicey
Speaker 1: start here. Michael Thomas is an A grade no matter what.
Speaker 1: He's an A plus grade if Xavier Rhodes can't go,
Speaker 1: and if we like Thomas that much, obviously Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is an A grade here as well. Um and one
Speaker 1: of the key reasons Anthony Barr is not gonna play.
Speaker 1: And if without Anthony Barr, that means Alvin Kamara, who
Speaker 1: would normally be covered by Bar, their fastest of their linebackers,
Speaker 1: doesn't have that. Trent Cannon just put up seventy yards
Speaker 1: on the Vikings through the air last week, much of
Speaker 1: that coming after Anthony Barr was out, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: do the same things coming Comari's potentially sitting on a
Speaker 1: very big game. He's got an A grade as well.
Speaker 1: While we're talking running backs, mark Ingram gets a B
Speaker 1: grade because the Vikings is just a straight up run
Speaker 1: defense is good and Linval Joseph should come back. In
Speaker 1: the last three outings, the Vikings have only given up
Speaker 1: fifty six yards on the ground per game. Only Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley is top fifty nine yards individually against the Vikings
Speaker 1: all season long. So I've just got a B grade
Speaker 1: on mark Ingram in one of his toughest assignments of
Speaker 1: the year. Back to the passing game for a minute,
Speaker 1: Tray Kwon Smith will draw Trey Waynes and a speed
Speaker 1: versus speed matchup. I don't think he gets a lot
Speaker 1: of receptions here, but he could turn one of them
Speaker 1: into a long game. It's a high risk higher word play.
Speaker 1: A C grade on Trey Kwan Smith, a C grade
Speaker 1: on Cameron Meredith because the Vikings are without their slack
Speaker 1: cornerback Mike Hughes and his backup Mackenzie Alexander might be
Speaker 1: forced to go outside and play Michael Thomas. If Xavier
Speaker 1: Rhodes can't play, and I don't think Xavier Rhode is
Speaker 1: gonna play, so Cameron Merrit a sneaky start as well,
Speaker 1: and Ben Watson was to take a chance on me
Speaker 1: tight end that Brian told you about earlier. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. Premature Speculation our final
Speaker 1: matchup of the day, and your phone calls in lightning round.
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Speaker 1: player who we think you should pick up now that
Speaker 1: will be a hotter waiver wire pick up next week,
Speaker 1: but he's already on your roster because you're a week ahead. Scott,
Speaker 1: who you got? You know, we kind of talked about
Speaker 1: this a little bit with Jordy Nelson, But I think
Speaker 1: Martavis Bryant, who's only eight percent ESPN, It's possible you've
Speaker 1: gotten him. You've got him already, but the numbers on
Speaker 1: the sites don't show that you do. So who his
Speaker 1: schedule is on REO, with that Pittsburgh Cincinnati, Denver playoffs
Speaker 1: schedule and a lot of other great matchups, I put
Speaker 1: down Martavis Bryant all right. My prespect is a little
Speaker 1: more for the Dynasty end or super flex crowd. But
Speaker 1: I'm going New York Giants Kyle because quite simply, Eli
Speaker 1: Mann cooked and Uh from the University of Richmond, smaller school,
Speaker 1: big body quarterback picked in the fourth round. The guys
Speaker 1: are gonna see what they have in him, and there
Speaker 1: are a couple of good spots coming up. Uh next
Speaker 1: week at San Francisco could be a viable start for
Speaker 1: Kyle or the following week at home against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Is any good we'll find that. I mean what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it's we'll think the weapons New York has and why
Speaker 1: don't they trade from I don't know what are we
Speaker 1: allowed to do? Dynasty ones now? Guess yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw it out. Chris Chris Warren of Oakland. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, Chris war next year, get him. Stashum and
Speaker 1: I are yeah yeah, because Martin and Binch, I don't
Speaker 1: know they're not back start back. He might be peewee
Speaker 1: football prospects too. If you need him, yes, I do, Yeah,
Speaker 1: contact Jiffanni. Bernard is due to come back as early
Speaker 1: as next week, and you want to have You want
Speaker 1: to have the handcuff in this deal if nothing else,
Speaker 1: and then Bernard likely Mixing is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: run as a workhorse right now. I think they want
Speaker 1: to work Mixing. The want to work Bernard in once
Speaker 1: he's healthy, which could be as soon as next week.
Speaker 1: When reports start showing up on Wednesday of next week
Speaker 1: about how Bernard has returned to practice, other people are
Speaker 1: gonna go swoop up, swoop him up, and you want
Speaker 1: to go get him. Now, let's do our final matchup, Scott.
Speaker 1: It's the Monday Night or Patriots against the Bills. As
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier in the show, Sony Michelle shockingly practicing.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you want to you want to
Speaker 1: start a here, No, But luckily this is it feels
Speaker 1: like a game where you have several potential pivots or
Speaker 1: at least a pivot or two if you can go
Speaker 1: get Ivory right. Um for on the path side, I
Speaker 1: still gave Brady and a I think they're going to
Speaker 1: get ahead the bull the Bills. The Bills defense has
Speaker 1: been pretty good against against quarterbacks, but Brady has at
Speaker 1: least three hundred yards and our multiple touchdowns in every
Speaker 1: game except for except for that Lion's dud um And
Speaker 1: if you look look deeper in the numbers against the Bills,
Speaker 1: I mean Cousins and Rogers just barely missed three hundred
Speaker 1: Flacco rivers and luck all had three touchdowns. I'm fine
Speaker 1: with Brady. Hey grade A grade for Gordon. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for your reaction on that, because I yeah, pent the
Speaker 1: snaps last week, last two weeks ago, and not just
Speaker 1: his first hundred yard game over seventeen yards per catch
Speaker 1: with the Pats, sixteen targets over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: He's the main guy there. B grade for Edelman, Uh,
Speaker 1: mainly because I don't think this becomes a shootout. I
Speaker 1: think the Pats get up and then they hold it
Speaker 1: down own Um. He's average ade eight targets over and
Speaker 1: over five catches per games. Since return returning, scored in
Speaker 1: two straight um Hogan, I am benching now. His only
Speaker 1: two games came in his two good games came in
Speaker 1: complete shootouts, and I don't think this is a shootout.
Speaker 1: Gronk B grade on the night side, he's gronk. On
Speaker 1: the bad side, he's been limited. Uh, he missed last
Speaker 1: week randomly. He tends to be very injury concerned. It's
Speaker 1: Monday night and the Bills have been very tough against
Speaker 1: height ends. I if you can, I would almost put
Speaker 1: him in your flex and possibly consider guys like him
Speaker 1: and Michelle. Get him in your flex so you can
Speaker 1: possibly pivot to Ivory, who might get the start over there.
Speaker 1: If McCoy doesn't go, James White A grade just if
Speaker 1: Michelle doesn't go, especially just a definite eight grade. He
Speaker 1: has seven touchdowns this season and his averaging over ten
Speaker 1: targets per game in the last four, which is unreal bottom.
Speaker 1: Buffalo sits bottom ten of NAY points allowed to running
Speaker 1: backs and has given up an average of a three
Speaker 1: rushing yards to opponent to opposing backfields over the last
Speaker 1: four games. So a grade there. If Michelle does play,
Speaker 1: I think I would give him an A grade. I
Speaker 1: think I would. Yeah, we don't even know how much
Speaker 1: runn he'd get on that knee if I need very
Speaker 1: Oh man, I I wouldn't start him, though, I'd only
Speaker 1: put him if you can pivot. That's the only way,
Speaker 1: the only start him as you can pivot to somebody
Speaker 1: else on the Monday night, or if he doesn't go
Speaker 1: like Chris. I but but James Wedge is the one
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not even remotely concerned of because of his
Speaker 1: passing game work. On the Buffalo side, I'm sitting everyone
Speaker 1: I've reased the only one that possibly could get a
Speaker 1: C grade for me if we know McCoy's out, which
Speaker 1: we don't at this moment. But otherwise I'm mentioned everyone
Speaker 1: all right, and we don't need to say anything more
Speaker 1: about Buffalo bills than that it is time for lightning round.
Speaker 1: That means one question among two players. One question among
Speaker 1: two players. You will be able to listen to your answer,
Speaker 1: probably on your radio, so zoom. We go through the quickly.
Speaker 1: A lot of times have already moved on to the
Speaker 1: next the next person in line by the time you're
Speaker 1: listening for an answer. Ben, you are first. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: he'll be quick. This is gonna be rough. The standard
Speaker 1: scoring non PPR, I guess Barner or hide. I guess
Speaker 1: Kenyan Barner or I would go hide. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: go hide because if Michelle does play, Barner might not
Speaker 1: even see the I think from guaranteed touches. Dan, you're next.
Speaker 1: I have both PPR and non PPR. Do I consider
Speaker 1: starting Mostart over Um McCaffrey. Yes, if they rule Breed out,
Speaker 1: for sure, definitely would. And even so, if you're in
Speaker 1: two different leagues, I might split it in half and
Speaker 1: cover your bases. But frankly, most it's got way more
Speaker 1: upside problems. You may not hear about breed until later
Speaker 1: because that's late. It's a late game. That's a good point.
Speaker 1: You got a bank on McCaffrey. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I see I've play Moster. Yeah, but I I I'm
Speaker 1: a high risk guy. Ryan Hello, Yes, JAYL Rohard or Booker,
Speaker 1: uh Richard Safer. He's got He's seven catches and there's
Speaker 1: seven at least not a big He's got a great matchup.
Speaker 1: But man, it's DeVante Booker. I just can't do it.
Speaker 1: Is some great talent If it's PPRS, Shard is it
Speaker 1: PPR standard. Oh, we don't know because he's gone. Ron Ryan. Now,
Speaker 1: Hello Ryan, he going it? Say it again? Goliday or
Speaker 1: lock it Holiday? Lock it? Okay, I mean lock it
Speaker 1: because they're less matals defeat on that offense than Orange Detroit.
Speaker 1: John your next as we need Troubinsky or a rod Um.
Speaker 1: It's Rogers Love Rogers my number two quarterback this week
Speaker 1: and a fantastic matchup. Hello Diana, Hi, guys, this whole question.
Speaker 1: I'm going against Bryan's garbage team and I have to
Speaker 1: choose between c Ja Bathard or Alex Smith. Brian, you
Speaker 1: should answer it. Then you can't. Brian can't answer it.
Speaker 1: Scott Fish Bowl where I failed to start Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: by the Lake because I went to a hockey game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. What should Diana do? I think I had
Speaker 1: Bethard rated higher this week, but Alex Smith has a
Speaker 1: far better matchup. Yeah, that's that's pretty ugly. I'd go
Speaker 1: beth just hoping for some rushing yards. Is that far
Speaker 1: that makes sense to get points per first time? Brian? Please? Phil? Hello?
Speaker 1: Hey there, Um, would you chance wrong or I'm blinking?
Speaker 1: But the tight end from the Bear story tray Burton easily. Yep,
Speaker 1: ty Burton. Burton's correct, Yeah, the wrong thing, it's all.
Speaker 1: It's all. The difficulty of course here is that he's
Speaker 1: Monday night, so we don't know his status and you've
Speaker 1: got to make a call sooner than that. But it's Buffalo, right,
Speaker 1: hold on, I lock and Phil, what's yeah? I'm actually
Speaker 1: hanging out, but sorry if I hung up on you,
Speaker 1: I apologize. Bron statline historically against Buffalo is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's lunacy looking at that game. Long those games and Buffalo, baby,
Speaker 1: let's try Emily Hello, Hi, Yeah, finitely from Jacksonville. Again,
Speaker 1: it was Golliday or Sterling Shepherd. Brian, I think you're
Speaker 1: up on this one. Yeah, we're waiting on news of
Speaker 1: the Washington slot corner. Right he's out. What was his
Speaker 1: Nameabi and Moreau. If he is out, it's Shepherd with
Speaker 1: a bullet, but I would probably en Gala day otherwise, Brian. Hello, Yeah,
Speaker 1: full point Golden Taper Johnson, Golden Tate with a really
Speaker 1: juicy matchup this week, like like him a lot at
Speaker 1: the revenge game hadn't sound as much as I was hoping.
Speaker 1: But let's see here. I think I can go to Joe. Hello, Joe, Hi, Hi, Dan,
Speaker 1: Rudolph or Joko. Oh if this is coming to me,
Speaker 1: I have been joking with my tight end one. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go, Bill. Your next PPR Travis Kelsey or
Speaker 1: Robert Wood. It's Kelsey or Robert Kelsey. Three straight over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards against Denver and that's going to continue.
Speaker 1: He is fantastic. Yeah, that's nice, Rod. Hello, the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. Question half point PPR Ingram or Michelle.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the healthy back. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't have a reoccurring knee problem. So I
Speaker 1: would I would take Ingram over Michelle rest of the way,
Speaker 1: which I think is a reasonable way to go. Andy, Hello,
Speaker 1: you guys, half point PPR shub or do I go
Speaker 1: with like faced out? Sorry? Al right, Andy, I don't,
Speaker 1: so we'll go with somebody else. Go with you? You're next,
Speaker 1: Tim Well, yes, half point GPR. Hold onto Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: or Pip All right, Oh my gosh, this is such
Speaker 1: a good week for potentially Ronald Jones. But I still
Speaker 1: can't even start him because I'm not sure. I'd probably
Speaker 1: I'd probably go with Charches prespective Geo. Okay, Kevin your next, Kevin?
Speaker 1: All right? So see the deal is if you try
Speaker 1: to listen to it on the radio, it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you gotta just you can't listen to the
Speaker 1: radio while you're on hold. Natalie, Hello, Hello, Standard Lead,
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett or Sterling Shepherd. Okay, Uh, lock it regardless
Speaker 1: of the Washington's Lot Corner status, unlock it. I like
Speaker 1: our three female callers today, and a reminder we've got
Speaker 1: we've got chick chat coming next week to your opener,
Speaker 1: I think is next week. I think it's chick chat
Speaker 1: next week. All female callers were already looking forward to that. Paul,
Speaker 1: you're next. We'll stick list the locker questions half point
Speaker 1: GPR Locke or Alice. I'm sticking with locket here, although
Speaker 1: I liked the Ellison matchup a lot, and I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of points to be had there, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock it's what's not to like about the
Speaker 1: lock It's done all season, Mikey, and it is a
Speaker 1: good matchup. Mike. You next, Hi, Uh, Standards League Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin or Dortan Howard? All right? Is this mine? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's yours standard. You said, I guess, I guess Howard's
Speaker 1: the safe play Andrew your next? Agreed? If I could
Speaker 1: listen online, I'd like to listen online. Listen online. Uh,
Speaker 1: I got cousin or mahomes homes every week but barely,
Speaker 1: but it is mahomes. It's mos number one. Can't bench homes.
Speaker 1: Although again, I think Kirk is sitting on a really
Speaker 1: nice game Taco your next. Hey, guys, a non PPR.
Speaker 1: Another Locke question, lock it or dirty? Locket? And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm Jordy Guy. I've suddenly turned into Jordy Guy out
Speaker 1: of this Crow. Every single caller has lock it on
Speaker 1: their team. It does seem that way, doesn't it. Nobody
Speaker 1: likes playing him, even in a good matchup. Pop drop
Speaker 1: and lock it? Uh, Josh your next standard leaf or Gordon? Oh,
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon easily for me? Yeah, agreed. Uh, We're We're Crow. Well,
Speaker 1: it's got Chicago. They haven't given up a rushing touchdown
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