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Speaker 1: it is week number ten. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly
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Speaker 1: host today or Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Good morning, guys.
Speaker 1: Is that a tribute to the long lost Christian Peterson
Speaker 1: right there? Sure? Yeah? We like that, Um, we don't
Speaker 1: like Christians just like Yeah, he apparently don't hasn't been
Speaker 1: on the show in two years now because he won't
Speaker 1: come on the show too good for us. That's you know,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna say you're too good for us, then yes,
Speaker 1: that was the case. Church. You'll appreciate this, and it
Speaker 1: was something that connects with our fantasy football almost daily podcast.
Speaker 1: We did an appliance draft at lunch the other day.
Speaker 1: Was Christian. I could just do it out of my
Speaker 1: kitchen because all I've done is buying new appliances for
Speaker 1: the last year. I can tell you which ones you
Speaker 1: do not want to fall into. I can I can
Speaker 1: rank them, um, and the one you really don't want
Speaker 1: to fall into, other than the burning oven, I think
Speaker 1: would probably be the dishwasher. Take it from me, um
Speaker 1: Plenty to get to over the course of the show
Speaker 1: is our usual stuff. But I've got two things that
Speaker 1: I want to talk about before we got dive into
Speaker 1: our matchups and are take a chance on me and
Speaker 1: everything else? Number One, the news in Baltimore that Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco may miss an extended period of time there. I'm
Speaker 1: by this week coming out of the by the presumption
Speaker 1: is that Lamar Jackson will be the starter, but we
Speaker 1: don't know for sure. There are some reports saying, you
Speaker 1: know that r G three is technically the number two
Speaker 1: quarterback I guess on the depth chart, but they because
Speaker 1: they like the running that Lamar Jackson can do and
Speaker 1: all the hybrid stuff they've been utilizing him and for
Speaker 1: gadget place. But that doesn't mean that if they need
Speaker 1: an every damn quarterback they'd go to Jackson. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on acquiring either of the Ravens quarterbacks? So
Speaker 1: what this says to me is that the Ravens aren't
Speaker 1: quite ready to move on from Joe Flacco yet. The
Speaker 1: only reason you do not start the Lamar Jackson era
Speaker 1: and and go with Bobby three sticks Robert Griffin. The
Speaker 1: third is you're not ready to move on from Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco because you can easily go back from Griffin to Flacco.
Speaker 1: But if Lamar Jackson comes in and has a couple
Speaker 1: of good games, there's no turning back. So I think
Speaker 1: that they still have some legitimate loyalty to Joe Flack,
Speaker 1: which he very If Lamar Jackson does get in there Cincinnati, Oakland,
Speaker 1: Atlanta to start out, That's why I'm picking up Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: You guys are putting us in fantasy terms. I mean,
Speaker 1: I say, you know, my immediate response on Twitter was
Speaker 1: go get Lamar jack He was picked up everywhere within
Speaker 1: five minutes of Yeah, you have to, because uh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get from Lamar Jackson probably RB two running numbers
Speaker 1: like fifty yards rushing and a coin flips chance at
Speaker 1: at a at a touchdown, which is you know what
Speaker 1: you're getting when you're starting Keevin Coleman, right, and then
Speaker 1: all the passings just gravy. Basically, if he can throw
Speaker 1: for hundred ninety yards and a touchdown, that's just all
Speaker 1: bonus points. That's a that can be in sort of
Speaker 1: like Robert Griffin the third when he was before yeah, right,
Speaker 1: when he could actually run. So I'm I'm I'm actually
Speaker 1: pretty excited about Jackson. Um already had him, had had
Speaker 1: him statted from the beginning of the year in a
Speaker 1: couple of leagues. But there's a I highly recommend that
Speaker 1: people go out and get Lamar Jackson and see how
Speaker 1: this thing plays out. Robert Griffin and even if Robert
Speaker 1: Griffin were the game the first starter with Flacco out,
Speaker 1: does not mean Griffin will be the game too starter
Speaker 1: with with Flacco out. So let's get Lamar Jackson. Keep
Speaker 1: our fingers crossed that they go to the first round
Speaker 1: rookie next hypothetically, and this is the case for a
Speaker 1: lot of our listeners. You're down by fifty points after
Speaker 1: the crazy explosion of points that came on Thursday night. Guys,
Speaker 1: give some advice to those people that are already down
Speaker 1: by a wide margin. What do you do? Just hang
Speaker 1: it up, just talking out. Don't even try quit fantasy
Speaker 1: football altogether. I mean, yeah, it's just over. It's high risk,
Speaker 1: high reward guys. You you look at your wide receiver
Speaker 1: to wide receiver three and your flex plays, and you go,
Speaker 1: which guy has the crazy high upside but the crazy
Speaker 1: low floor, and and you try to just hit on
Speaker 1: a couple of those. It's it's got to be playing
Speaker 1: the same with the ones that were close. Like if
Speaker 1: you have two quarterbacks and one is fits and one
Speaker 1: is like Dalton has the higher upside. And I think
Speaker 1: throughout the show today, when we're going through the matchups,
Speaker 1: maybe we can use like some sort of sound or
Speaker 1: something like that to to signify some of these players
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem high upside while you're down by fifty.
Speaker 1: If you're down by fifty right now, that's that's how
Speaker 1: you're feeling Okay, the sad trombone play, We're gonna call it.
Speaker 1: We can do this. The vulture doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 1: We need that better, No, we really do. It'll come
Speaker 1: up with something. There's gonna be some amazing comebacks by
Speaker 1: teams though stories I think there will be. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: thing you're missing on is get try to hook up
Speaker 1: together quarterback wide receiver so that if your wide receiver
Speaker 1: goes off, he takes the quarterback with him, or vice versa.
Speaker 1: The quarterback goes off, he probably you know you've got
Speaker 1: something out of your out of your your receiver as well. Well,
Speaker 1: how about this too, If your quarterback is playing your
Speaker 1: opponent's wide receiver or vice versa, do you try to
Speaker 1: avoid those matchups? Well, yeah, I mean I think. Well
Speaker 1: let's so let's flip it over. Let's say you're protecting
Speaker 1: a fifty point lead, like because of a lot of
Speaker 1: our listeners are very savvy fantasy players, of course, so
Speaker 1: let's assume any of them are protecting a fifty point
Speaker 1: lead right now, flip it over for them and talk
Speaker 1: about what you do to make sure that you don't
Speaker 1: end up on the wrong side on Sunday. Well, super
Speaker 1: safe plays. If uh, if I'm the Drew Breese owner
Speaker 1: and my opponent's got Michael Thomas, I'm very happy having
Speaker 1: Drew Brees in my lineup because every Michael Thomas touchdown
Speaker 1: down to so that that's kind of how you play.
Speaker 1: You just you just go ultra safe and and you
Speaker 1: go for the guys that are lower. You look at
Speaker 1: receivers who catch a lot of passes and will give
Speaker 1: you your PPR points and not necessarily, say a Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett who needs to turn three receptions into a touchdown.
Speaker 1: If Tyler Lockett doesn't give you the touchdown, you're stuck.
Speaker 1: You want Jarvis Landry's of the world. You do you
Speaker 1: want Jarvis Landry. You want your safe plays right down
Speaker 1: the middle of the fairway if you're up by fifty points.
Speaker 1: All right, let's dive into the matchups, beginning with probably
Speaker 1: the least interesting one of the entire day, Bills taking
Speaker 1: on Jets. We have two new quarterbacks at home in
Speaker 1: all probability for this game at the entire day, try
Speaker 1: the entire year. While that could be too um, I've
Speaker 1: got Buffalo on the bench. Okay, as a team, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the team is on the bench. The Bills have not
Speaker 1: thrown a touchdown pass in three weeks. They have three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns on the season to sixteen interceptions. That's unbelievable. Also,
Speaker 1: the Bills running backs have not run for a touchdown
Speaker 1: since Week two. God, that's that's unreal. That's the worst
Speaker 1: offense maybe in the history of the league. It's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be in that conversation if they don't turn it around.
Speaker 1: And so let's flip it over to the Jet side.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowle and Elijah McGuire are my only starters on
Speaker 1: the Jets side, and they're barely starters like c minus starters.
Speaker 1: The Bills have allowed twelve touchdowns to running backs in
Speaker 1: nine games. That's the good part. The only problem is
Speaker 1: is now we're looking at a split timeshare backfield and
Speaker 1: only one back is top the century mark against them.
Speaker 1: I'm not excited about either, but either are available to
Speaker 1: be played. Uh. Josh McCown is starting for the Jets
Speaker 1: as quarterback. He's on the bench. The Bills are only
Speaker 1: allowing two or twenty five passing yards per game. That's
Speaker 1: tied for the third fewest in the NFL. Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: has an ankle injury, he may not go, and he
Speaker 1: was an account's favorite target last year. Quincy and None
Speaker 1: one Jermaine Curse are both on the bench as well,
Speaker 1: and none was pretty much moved to the outside now
Speaker 1: and Curses moved inside as the slot received around an
Speaker 1: almost full time basis. Yeah, but now with the change
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, so you under Darnald it was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, we just fed the slot over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. But now we're at McCown, so you know,
Speaker 1: McCown was not as slot oriented in the past. Thing
Speaker 1: I'm worried about is ann one matches up with tred
Speaker 1: Davis White, who's a well above average cornerback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: so he's on the bench, and then Chris Herndon, who
Speaker 1: scored in three of his last four, but that was
Speaker 1: all with Donald. I don't know the relationship between McCown
Speaker 1: and Herndon. Thank you sage like wisdom from Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and the Bills are only allowing four receptions in forty
Speaker 1: one yards per game to opposing tight ends, so it's
Speaker 1: not something I want to chase after here with Herndon. Um,
Speaker 1: I think overall the Jets are better. Honestly, the way
Speaker 1: that Donald had played for the last month. The whole
Speaker 1: offense is a little bit better with Josh McCown, even
Speaker 1: on zero reps for this year. I think the over
Speaker 1: under in this game is thirty seven, and I think
Speaker 1: i'd take the under. Scott Seahawks taking on the Rams.
Speaker 1: This is a surprisingly good Seahawks defense, and um, does
Speaker 1: this present any problems for the Rams. I'm just to
Speaker 1: hear what you have to think. I don't know. The
Speaker 1: last game they played one kind of the shootout actually, UM, Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Obviously you can tell by the score. She has almost
Speaker 1: won that game. It was it was touch and go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really did, and they did it on the ground
Speaker 1: with thirty four touches to running back. Say, I wonder
Speaker 1: if that's a little bit of the blueprint to hold
Speaker 1: the Rams down. UM, let's start with a running game
Speaker 1: instead here we usually start with the passing. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the running game. Uh. Carson has been questionable a week.
Speaker 1: It's likely he's going to play. If he doesn't, Mike
Speaker 1: Davis is a huge must play. Mike Davis has has
Speaker 1: been the starter twice this year, and he was RB
Speaker 1: six and RB eleven in those two starts, so he's
Speaker 1: a definite start if if not, Carson gets a two
Speaker 1: to one advantage in touches. Usually, So I meet Carson
Speaker 1: a B grade and Davis a C grade because I
Speaker 1: although there's a scenario out there which is tricky where
Speaker 1: Carson's active, but maybe they don't use them or they
Speaker 1: give them much reduced role. It's very it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to project here. You guys remember Penny, Yeah, that was funny. No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who you're talking. I think I
Speaker 1: think he plays a couple of shole team snaps every
Speaker 1: once in a while for a first rounder. Uh, kind
Speaker 1: of like Corderol Patterson for US for a while. Um
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson gave him a B grad's he's starting to
Speaker 1: heat up. He has seventy six rushing yards over the
Speaker 1: last three games. He only had forty two rushing yards
Speaker 1: in the first five games toital He's starting to add
Speaker 1: those rushing yards to his UH, to his uh, you know,
Speaker 1: inventory of points he's getting or whatever. It has potential
Speaker 1: for a good game script for for Wilson. I think
Speaker 1: it's possible they fall behind, very very possible they fall
Speaker 1: behind and have to keep catching up. So I have
Speaker 1: a B grade on Russell Wilson here. I give most
Speaker 1: of his receivers bs and seas as well. Baldwin looks
Speaker 1: like he's gonna play. I barely give him a B grade.
Speaker 1: He has seventy five plus yards in two of the
Speaker 1: last three. He's super inconsistent, but he's still the his
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's number one guy. It's a unsteady, unsteady B grade.
Speaker 1: He gets the best cornerback the Rams half too, though, Nickel,
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman and not. So I like his one on
Speaker 1: one matchup the East out of the group. You're you
Speaker 1: like Baldwin more than Baldwin jumps around. He's like he's
Speaker 1: normally a slock guy. But it's only like so he
Speaker 1: does jump around. Uh lock it B grade. I almost
Speaker 1: considered an age just because Marcus Peters is game destroyed constantly. Um,
Speaker 1: Baldwin being in is is the scary thing because with
Speaker 1: Baldwin out, Uh, he topped fifty yards in every game
Speaker 1: and scored in two of them. With Baldwin in, he
Speaker 1: hasn't topped three catches yet this season. That once, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's he's he's You've got to get the touchdown out
Speaker 1: to lock it, but it could happen in this game,
Speaker 1: and he's had six touchdowns in eight games, so it
Speaker 1: could definitely happen. I have a B grade, unlock it,
Speaker 1: a C grade on more barely it becomes very safe
Speaker 1: if Baldwin comes out. But he has five red zone
Speaker 1: targets in the last three weeks, scoring scoring in three
Speaker 1: of them, and Russell Wilson trusted him with the very
Speaker 1: last play the game last week, which tells tells me
Speaker 1: a lot about his trust and David Moore around the
Speaker 1: end zone. So C grade there, goff. Basically, I gave
Speaker 1: all a's to the Rams except for Cooks. I gave
Speaker 1: a B and I'll explain why a second, but Golf
Speaker 1: A grade. My only concern here is the Seahawks have
Speaker 1: not allowed its top twelve fantasy quarterback yet this season.
Speaker 1: It's shocking to me. Now they played a lot of
Speaker 1: garbage quarterbacks. That's exactly where I was gonna go, So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go over it. But yes, they played
Speaker 1: a lot of garbage, A lot of garbage quarterback. Um
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I lost my train of thought there, but
Speaker 1: I I really I stopped on your Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Golf had five has five hundred yard games
Speaker 1: and five multi touchdown games, and see has a lot
Speaker 1: of back to back touch multi touchdown games to quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna give him an a here, can I
Speaker 1: can I mention my my golf stat that I may
Speaker 1: have mentioned last week, But I just think it's so
Speaker 1: salient here, and it's playing itself about about Girly. When
Speaker 1: Girly only only scores one or zero rushing touchdowns, Jared
Speaker 1: Goff absolutely goes off. His average game when Gurley only
Speaker 1: has zero or one touchdowns is three fifty yards and
Speaker 1: three almost three and a half touchdowns per game. So
Speaker 1: if Gurly doesn't eat all the touchdowns, Golf gets them,
Speaker 1: so they're always going to score the points. So to me,
Speaker 1: it's always all about how good is Gurly going to be?
Speaker 1: Is the first question. Yeah, so, yeah, exactly, But I
Speaker 1: think Golf is startable either way. And he's a low
Speaker 1: a even in the for me in the in those
Speaker 1: other games, but he's made grade here. Wood's given a
Speaker 1: grade because he's the super consistent target leader. Five catches
Speaker 1: and seventy yards or more than those in eight straight games. Uh,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. I love Cup. I think this is a
Speaker 1: great spot for him. He gets justin Coleman, who plays
Speaker 1: off his slot receiver by six point eight yards. Why
Speaker 1: that's relevant is that when Russell Wilson targets Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and there's more than five yards cushion, he has a
Speaker 1: near perfect passer rating. Uh and uh, it's just a
Speaker 1: smash spots here. Eight team catches, eight yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He just if they do that, if they did that
Speaker 1: to Cup, He's gonna hit Cup all day long. Cooks.
Speaker 1: I give the B grade here too. Uh. Cup and
Speaker 1: Woods have scored fourteen and a a half Fantasy points more
Speaker 1: than fourteen and a half Fantasy points all but one
Speaker 1: time combined. Cooks has done it four of eight wakes.
Speaker 1: He does it every other week, and this is an
Speaker 1: off week for him, so that's that's kind of random.
Speaker 1: But he can get the two for fifty two. He
Speaker 1: could explode. He's still gonna be He's still startable. But
Speaker 1: he's the one that I'm most concerned about. Interesting. Robert
Speaker 1: Woods is another one of these safe right down the
Speaker 1: middle wide receivers. Right, you want your seventy yards and
Speaker 1: your six receptions and Woods chips in another ten. Here's
Speaker 1: your guy to help protect your fifty point lead from
Speaker 1: Brandon Cook exactly. He's the guy you need for the
Speaker 1: McCaffrey deficit correct correct or the Bendom deficit or the
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown deficit. Yes, anyway, but by the way, a
Speaker 1: Cup is scored in four straight, five of six where
Speaker 1: he played the full game. How about that? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: quietly Cup his like up. He was a top five
Speaker 1: red zone guy last year and this year in games play,
Speaker 1: So going forward, Cooper Cup top ten receiver because nobody's
Speaker 1: thinking that. But I bet if we look at his
Speaker 1: full game averages, I bet he's a top ten receiver
Speaker 1: in fantasy. Yeah. I think it's pretty close. I bet
Speaker 1: it's close right there. I bet quietly Cooper Cup is
Speaker 1: right around a top ten wide receiverate twelve team league.
Speaker 1: He's probably a wide receiver one. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Lions take on the Bears. Will tell you if the
Speaker 1: Lions offense is going to get back on track after
Speaker 1: last week's to backle when we return, this is take
Speaker 1: a chance on me? Is how about that? All right?
Speaker 1: This is very wow. This is how you a woman's woman.
Speaker 1: Maybe this would be in the background of some Come
Speaker 1: of age teenage eighties film, right during some some scene
Speaker 1: in which Mike Lanthony Hall is half naked, come on
Speaker 1: tripping over his underwear. Somedays take a chance on me, right, Well,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting lineup. All three of my guys are waiver
Speaker 1: wire players, and I think most of these are our
Speaker 1: guys that are available on the waiver wire. They've all
Speaker 1: got good upside. You're down by a lot. Think about
Speaker 1: these guys beginning eat the quarterback position, Scott uh So,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Marcus Mariota. Mariota has just one game
Speaker 1: over two yards on the season and failed to even
Speaker 1: get a touch on four of seven. That's what worries
Speaker 1: That's what worries me, Okay, but he has a similar
Speaker 1: skill set to Trabinsky, who had who had three and
Speaker 1: thirty two and two and eight one in one rushing
Speaker 1: against them. I think there's a lot of garbage time
Speaker 1: here and the pets on the rutor allowing just over
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and two touchdowns per game. So I
Speaker 1: like that angler. I actually think it's passing hasn't been
Speaker 1: half bad. Matt your quarterback. First off, I have to
Speaker 1: read a text message from my wife Melissa, who says, nope,
Speaker 1: not how you Thank God, well done Melissa. Yes, my
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Quarterback is Baker Mayfield, who's
Speaker 1: available and I think has some huge upside here. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Falcons have given up over three hundred yards passing
Speaker 1: to six of the eight quarterbacks they faced on the season,
Speaker 1: and three or more touchdown passes to five of those
Speaker 1: six quarterbacks. So five quarterbacks have topped three hundred and
Speaker 1: had at least three touchdowns. Amazing. That's nuts. Now, Baker
Speaker 1: hasn't topped the three hundred yard mark in the last
Speaker 1: four weeks, but he has thrown multiple touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: each of his last three. I like that streak to
Speaker 1: continue this week. I like him too. You know, Baker
Speaker 1: keeps having these easy matchups and he hasn't really exploited
Speaker 1: him yet. Maybe this is the one where it all
Speaker 1: comes together. Josh Rosen goes up against Kansas City and
Speaker 1: before last week's by he you may have not remembered,
Speaker 1: and I don't blame you. He's had his best game
Speaker 1: ever two hundred fifty two yards and two touchdowns for
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, Larry Fitzgerald finally healthy for the first time
Speaker 1: since September, and David Johnson has an awesome matchup through
Speaker 1: the air. The Kansas City secondary playing better middle of
Speaker 1: the pack anyway, but every opposing quarterback except Case Keenum
Speaker 1: has scored against them, and the Cardinals sixteen point underdogs
Speaker 1: are likely to be playing from behind and throwing constantly
Speaker 1: in this game. I love David Johnson by himself might
Speaker 1: power Josh Rosen to a huge game through the air.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position, Scott, I'm going
Speaker 1: way off for it here with a guy named Josh
Speaker 1: Adams for the Eagles. UH. Adams said. Adams lead the
Speaker 1: team and carries last week, you know, before the bye,
Speaker 1: and he has fifty of the team's running back to
Speaker 1: attempts inside the tent over the last two weeks. He's
Speaker 1: a bigger back. He average six point eight yards per
Speaker 1: carrying that game against Jacksonville, which is pretty good run defense. UH.
Speaker 1: Cowboys will be without Sean Lee and Sprawls. Darren Sprawls
Speaker 1: is already marked out. They know what they have in
Speaker 1: small Wood and Clement. I can see them giving Adams
Speaker 1: a legit shot here Okay, I've got Edo Smith of
Speaker 1: the Falcons going against Cleveland. He's due for about twelve
Speaker 1: ish touches in this game, splitting time with Tevin Coleman,
Speaker 1: but the matchup is just too juicy to pass on.
Speaker 1: The Browns are bottom ten and nearly every statistical category
Speaker 1: against opposing running backs. They're allowing an average of a
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two total yards per game to the
Speaker 1: position that's tied, and they're tied for the most rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed. The Falcons rank number eight in the NFL
Speaker 1: in yards created before contact, So they're opening holes and
Speaker 1: they're getting Edo open along the way. All right, I've
Speaker 1: got Spencer wear against Arizona, and I I like this
Speaker 1: one as much as I liked Duke Johnson last week, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I couldn't help but bring up, wait,
Speaker 1: it's not on here? Where is what happened? Did Tony
Speaker 1: take it with him? D I got two heavy carbons
Speaker 1: and I don't have a I don't have a peacock.
Speaker 1: But there it is. There's the peak. Where did the
Speaker 1: from the button bar? Oh? This is not cool. There
Speaker 1: it is there we go, thank you, uh Spencer? Where
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are gonna roll in this game. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned with Josh Rosen and backup runners, Spencer, where it's
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of run in this game. Arizona
Speaker 1: sees the most rushing attempts by a mile, thirty four
Speaker 1: per game. No chance Kareem Hunt gets thirty four carries
Speaker 1: in this game in a one sided blowout. Here's what
Speaker 1: some of the other backups have done against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman scored a touchdown. Alfred Morris put up ninety yards.
Speaker 1: These are all guys in a backup capacity. Rashad Penny
Speaker 1: put up a career high fifty yards, Teri Cohen's seventy yards,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown forty five yards, Chris Thompson hundred thirty yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. All backup running backs. Arizona ranks thirty
Speaker 1: one in rushing yards allowed per game. Every opponent except
Speaker 1: San Francisco scored a rushing touchdown against them. Spencer, Where
Speaker 1: let's go our final position receivers, Scott, Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with John Ross. I think it's an upside dart
Speaker 1: throw here. He's finally healthy, finally over that growing injury.
Speaker 1: Has been practicing all week. He had ten targets in
Speaker 1: the two games prior to missing missing time from that injury.
Speaker 1: Fastest receiver in the NFL, Bengals have been playing catch
Speaker 1: up with a J. Green out. All right, I've got
Speaker 1: a deep deep dart throw here. It's Brashad Paraman, the
Speaker 1: first round pick. That is deep. He's playing for Cleveland
Speaker 1: now he's only played three games. Uh. Antonio Callaway's playing
Speaker 1: time was cut significantly last week in the debut of
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens. Callaway only ran twenty nine routes.
Speaker 1: Pairman ran nineteen and out of all of the secondary
Speaker 1: receivers for Cleveland, Pairman led the team in targets with six.
Speaker 1: So the Falcons have allowed the seventh most receptions, third
Speaker 1: most yards and touchdowns to the wide receiver position. Pairman
Speaker 1: is a sneaky player on his outside. That is a
Speaker 1: deep fast receivers no hands, Yeah, there's that. I'm going
Speaker 1: with Maurice Harris wide receiver for the Redskins, Morris Mo Harris. Uh.
Speaker 1: He he should work mostly out of the slot, which
Speaker 1: is the bucks Achilles heel. They continue to start the
Speaker 1: absolutely dreadful M. J. Stewart, perhaps the worst starting cornerback
Speaker 1: in the NFL allowing He's allowing an almost perfect passer
Speaker 1: rating of one hundred forty eight in his coverage nice,
Speaker 1: which is almost unthinkable. Slot receivers Tyler Boyd, Juju Smith, Schuster,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, Nelson Aguilar all piled up at least eighty
Speaker 1: eight receiving yards on M J. Stewart four out of
Speaker 1: the five score touchdowns. Harris last week ten catches one
Speaker 1: D twenty four yards. He could go back to back.
Speaker 1: I know I don't have to pile on, but on
Speaker 1: that slot thing. They've allowed the most yards and most
Speaker 1: receptions to the slot in the NFL. There you go. Perfect.
Speaker 1: Maurice Harris is our guy. Um so that I think
Speaker 1: virtually all nine of those guys, so the exception of
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, I think eight of the nine are on
Speaker 1: waiver wires. Those are some deep sleepers and leeld Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right, and not I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Lions take on the Bears. Let's start
Speaker 1: on the Lions side where Matthew Stafford just got done
Speaker 1: absorbing ten sacks at the hands of the Vikings, and
Speaker 1: here comes Khalil Mack in the Bears defense. That ranks
Speaker 1: six in sacks in the NFL. Chicago sack Stafford seven
Speaker 1: times in the two games last year, and that was
Speaker 1: before Khalil mac got there. I'm worried about Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: health and and frankly his his entire future here. The
Speaker 1: Lions offense looked utterly discombobulated last week without Golden Tate.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it gets better this week. If Stafford
Speaker 1: is gonna be harried for the whole game, I've got
Speaker 1: him as a B grade, but it feels like now
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about it feels like more like a
Speaker 1: C grade for Matthew Stafford. Let's talk about his receivers.
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones in the first game without Golden Tate lad
Speaker 1: all the Detroit receivers in targets, receptions, and yards. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's going to be a sign and a glimmer
Speaker 1: of hope for Marvin. Jones has been pretty inconsistent this year.
Speaker 1: In two meetings with the Bears last year, he put
Speaker 1: up exactly eighty five yards, which is very solid. He
Speaker 1: scored once they'll see a lot of Prince of Mukamara
Speaker 1: was just the middle of the road cornerback B grade
Speaker 1: and Marvin Jones C grade, and Kenny Golladay. In two
Speaker 1: games against Chicago last year, he caught six passes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Colladay runs most of his routes from Kyle Fuller's side
Speaker 1: of the field, and that's not good. In five of
Speaker 1: the past six games, receivers have not topped forty one
Speaker 1: yards in Kyle Fuller's coverage. Only one has scored in
Speaker 1: the past six games. Kenny Golladay is just a C
Speaker 1: grade start. Going to the running game, carry On Johnson
Speaker 1: last week's out and was the first time Johnson was
Speaker 1: held under five yards per carry when he got among
Speaker 1: games of which got at least double digit rush attempts.
Speaker 1: The Bears have been very good against the run, especially
Speaker 1: the last two weeks without Khalil Mack who returns here.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowell Lashawn McCoy combined for thirty five rushing yards
Speaker 1: against the Bears. That's it. Tough matchup for carry On Johnson.
Speaker 1: Maybe chips in some help through the air. I've got
Speaker 1: a C grade on Carrie on Johnson and this one
Speaker 1: and theoretic on the bench. Bears are allowing the fifth
Speaker 1: fewest running backyards through the air, and only James White
Speaker 1: is topped even thirty yards through the air against Chicago
Speaker 1: all season long. Let's go to the bear side game
Speaker 1: gets a lot more promising because the one really good
Speaker 1: cornerback the Lions have, Darius Slay, is not going to
Speaker 1: play in this game. So as I look at Mr Biscuit, first,
Speaker 1: I looked at last week's game, and he barely even
Speaker 1: passed because it was Buffalo and they got to an
Speaker 1: early lead and they just ran the ball. But here's
Speaker 1: the problem for this week. That's exactly what teams are
Speaker 1: doing to the Lions. Detroit seeing the fewest passes per game,
Speaker 1: just twenty eight, and over the past two weeks, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins and Russell Wilson through just twenty two and seventeen
Speaker 1: passes against the Lions. It's hard to roll up decent
Speaker 1: fantasy stats if the volume just isn't there. And that's
Speaker 1: why I've only got to be great and Mitch Drabinsky,
Speaker 1: even with Darius Slay out, Let's go to the receivers.
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel is a b start for me I Adams
Speaker 1: to see until they ruled out Darius Slay. Strong speed
Speaker 1: advantage over All, the rest of the Lion's corners. Gabriel
Speaker 1: is very fast, and Slay is the fast corner they've got.
Speaker 1: In fact, these Canna have matchups against the iron footed
Speaker 1: Tease Tabor, something called Tease Tabor, who might be the
Speaker 1: slowest corner in the lead league. He is a four
Speaker 1: six seven forty yard dash corner. You almost never even
Speaker 1: see that. Incidentally, if he has an iron foot, maybe
Speaker 1: we should try him at kicker that they might want to.
Speaker 1: I like Taylor Gabriel, be start on, be great on him.
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson expected to come back for this game. I
Speaker 1: still prefer Gabriel because of that speed had manage. But
Speaker 1: Robinson's also startable in this matchup with a C grade. Again,
Speaker 1: Darius lay Out helps him too. And then let's go
Speaker 1: last part of the passing game for the Bears. Trey
Speaker 1: Burton has scored in five of the past seven games.
Speaker 1: Lions are middle of the pack tight end defense that's
Speaker 1: allowed touchdowns to the likes of Garrett Selleck, Jeff Swain,
Speaker 1: Lance Kendricks, and Ed Dixon. If those tight ends can
Speaker 1: score touchdowns against the Lions, so ken Trey Burton also
Speaker 1: a B start. Now let's look at the running backs
Speaker 1: for Chicago. Jordan Howard. Nearly half of his rushing yards
Speaker 1: have come in the fourth quarter in overtime, and that
Speaker 1: plays well if you believe the Bears will be running
Speaker 1: out the clock against the Lions this week, which I
Speaker 1: think they probably will. Now it's a little unfair, but
Speaker 1: aside from Dalvin Cook's seventy one yard dash, since the
Speaker 1: Lions got Snacks Harrison, all the rest of their runs
Speaker 1: they're giving up three point three yards per carry. That's it. Now,
Speaker 1: keep in mind this was a Lions defense that was
Speaker 1: giving up six yards per carry before Snacks Harrison. So
Speaker 1: again it's a little unfair to take Dalvin Cook's run away,
Speaker 1: but if you do, they're they're double as effective as
Speaker 1: a run defense. Jordan Howard has a B grade Trek Cohen.
Speaker 1: From weeks fourth through seven, Cohen was rocking it with
Speaker 1: seven or more receptions during those three games, and then
Speaker 1: he's had three or fewer receptions in the other five games,
Speaker 1: included the last two games in which he's had just
Speaker 1: two catches, and then his rushing members just haven't been there.
Speaker 1: The usage has been very peculiar for him. Um lines
Speaker 1: are middle of the pack against receiving running backs, so
Speaker 1: I've got Tree Cohen as a C grade for this
Speaker 1: game because the usage just hasn't been there lately, and
Speaker 1: I can't be sure that he's gonna get rushes or
Speaker 1: receptions anymore. It might be the first game in a
Speaker 1: long time I've had Tree Cohen ahead of Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: When we come back, plenty more matchups to get to,
Speaker 1: including Falcons Brown's. Matt already told you a couple of
Speaker 1: guys that he likes for that game. Will tell you
Speaker 1: if there's an anybody on the Falcons you don't want
Speaker 1: to start well. Tavin Coleman scored twice again. Find out
Speaker 1: when we come back this afternoon at two thirties. The
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Speaker 1: to the show Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Paul
Speaker 1: Church and Scott Fish Matt Harrison with you. We've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of matchups to get to, including a potential
Speaker 1: point orgy Falcons Browns. I mean, you don't think of
Speaker 1: the Browns as being a part of a high scoring game.
Speaker 1: But I think they can be year under. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: about that. I love all virtually everybody on the Falcons.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, where do you want to start? Matt Ryan? Sure,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Matt Ryan. He's my number three quarterback
Speaker 1: this week. Love them. I gave him an A grade.
Speaker 1: Each of the last six quarterbacks to face the Browns
Speaker 1: have either had two or more yards or multiple touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: and I think Matt Ryan can do both this week.
Speaker 1: Um Julio Jones obvious a he scored last week, faces
Speaker 1: a banged up Denzel Ward. I'm not scared of a
Speaker 1: banged up Denzel Ward. Calvin Ridley and Mohammed Sanu are
Speaker 1: even plays. There are Sea grades. Damarius Randall and e J.
Speaker 1: Gaines are both also hurt members of the Cleveland secondary.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna go making. Ridley and Snow
Speaker 1: both very viable and this I think Ridley could be
Speaker 1: sitting on a great game. Yeah. Austin Hooper, I'm giving
Speaker 1: a tepid Sea grade too, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: tight ends out this week. Travis Kelsey and Jared Cook
Speaker 1: each top nine yards and scored twice against Cleveland, but
Speaker 1: no other tight end has done anything against them, so
Speaker 1: it's no scores besides those two players the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. So Hooper, I'm I'm very tentative on I
Speaker 1: already talked about Edo Smiths might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me runner, and for very much the same reason. I
Speaker 1: like Tevin Coleman a lot this week. Although he split
Speaker 1: and carries, he gets about a C plus grade B
Speaker 1: minus somewhere in there. That's about where Edo Smith is.
Speaker 1: I already talked about how bad the Browns run defenses,
Speaker 1: So let's go over to the other side. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: might take a chance on the quarterback, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: is available in sixty of ESPN leagues. I think you
Speaker 1: have mostly roster six available, all right, you can pick
Speaker 1: him up. Jarvis Landry is in a grade. In the
Speaker 1: last two games, the Falcons have allowed almost five hundred
Speaker 1: receiving yards to opposing wide receivers. This includes a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four yards to the slot receiver Maurice Harris,
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty seven yards to the slot receiver
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd. Jarvis Landry sitting on a huge game and
Speaker 1: he's been super frustrating, and I know people are hesitant
Speaker 1: to put him in lineups. But for the law of God,
Speaker 1: this week do it if if not now win h
Speaker 1: Brishad Pereman was might take a chance on me wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I'm not in on the other Brown's wide receiver's callaway
Speaker 1: or any of the other guys. And David and Joku.
Speaker 1: He gets a C grade and Joku is topped. Fifty
Speaker 1: yards are scored in five of Mayfield six starts, but
Speaker 1: that sixth game was the goose egg in the awesome matchups.
Speaker 1: Similar to this, the Falcons have or did allow last
Speaker 1: week nine catches for ninety six yards to the Washington
Speaker 1: tight ends. So in Jocus in a good spot and
Speaker 1: Joku's got knee and rib injuries right now, and there's
Speaker 1: a game time decision. You want to watch his status. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he might be more out than in um. Moving on
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson A grade. Atlanta hasn't been able to stop
Speaker 1: pass catching running back since the Carter administration. Falcons have
Speaker 1: allowed the most receptions and third most receiving yards to
Speaker 1: opposing backs. And I've already allowed catch totals of nine,
Speaker 1: fourteen and fifteen two single opposing running backs already this year.
Speaker 1: I wanted to use Duke Johnson as might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me runner. You guys went I would have
Speaker 1: last week, and that's so obvious. You can't use him anymore. Well,
Speaker 1: and he's like owned in like seventy or eighty percent
Speaker 1: of leagues now correct last week it was. It sounded
Speaker 1: much much better on Monday, before all the waivers ran.
Speaker 1: He was a viable to take a chance, and that's right.
Speaker 1: But then everybody figured it out and then he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Alex Spencer Worth noting that Duke led all NFL running
Speaker 1: backs in sten and seventeen in yards per touch, something
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson evidently forgot along the way. Freddie Kitchens hasn't though,
Speaker 1: and Nick Chubb he gets a B grade two. Atlanta
Speaker 1: is allowing four point three yards per carry this season,
Speaker 1: and Chubb's carry toll just keeps going up, at twenty
Speaker 1: three carries last week, so he's a good play as well.
Speaker 1: Patriots take on the Titans Scott No, Rob Gronkowski. When
Speaker 1: you look at the inconsistent production, fantasy production we're getting
Speaker 1: from Tom Brady, Look at Gronk. He hasn't scored since
Speaker 1: whatever Week three or something. And here's Tom Brady who's
Speaker 1: you know, roughly quarterback fourteen in your league, right And
Speaker 1: I think it's fair and that's probably where I have
Speaker 1: about this week. I give him a B grade. The
Speaker 1: Titans are top ten for passing yards allowed, but five
Speaker 1: of those eight quarterbacks had multiple touchdowns and Brady over
Speaker 1: the last six games his top two hundred seventy yards
Speaker 1: in all of them, and he's averaging over two touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game in that span. I think he's got a
Speaker 1: pretty safe floor. That's why I like him as a
Speaker 1: B grade. Obviously, gronks out, so I got a grade
Speaker 1: on Gordon. Gordon finally broke out last week. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: had some really nice stuff to say about him this
Speaker 1: week about coming into early, staying lad, etcetera. A hundred
Speaker 1: thirty yards and a touchdown on ten targets last week.
Speaker 1: Since Joini New England, he's averaging eighteen yards per catch,
Speaker 1: and over the last four weeks he's averaging eight targets
Speaker 1: per game, four and a half catches and playing over
Speaker 1: of the snaps. This is a Malcolm Butler revenge game.
Speaker 1: He'll likely be on Gordon, but Butler has been terrible
Speaker 1: this year. I I love that matchup for Gordon, and
Speaker 1: I think I don't think Belichick needs to explain why
Speaker 1: Butler was benched in the Super Bowl anymore based on race.
Speaker 1: He's been really bad. I gave Edelman a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's averaging nine targets per game and volume miss king.
Speaker 1: With gronkout, he's probably gonna get even more middle of
Speaker 1: the middle of the field work. Um. That alone has
Speaker 1: propelled him to four of his last five games, or
Speaker 1: four of his five games this season over fifty yards
Speaker 1: and he's averaging five catches per game in those uh
Speaker 1: and I saw it B grade there. James White, He's
Speaker 1: a back. I like to give an A grade every
Speaker 1: week too. Pretty much. The Titans are great against pass
Speaker 1: catching running backs. But I think this is one of
Speaker 1: those spots where White will overcome how great the Titans
Speaker 1: had been against pass catching running backs. He's He's had
Speaker 1: at least seven catches and three the last five games.
Speaker 1: I can see that easily happening here. Michelle questionable. I'm
Speaker 1: a little hesitant, but I think games script could get
Speaker 1: them ahead. He could, he could get some good play.
Speaker 1: I have him with a C grade here. The Titans
Speaker 1: are allowing just three point three yards per carry over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks and just one running back to
Speaker 1: rush over seventy yards. But Michelle gets the starting role.
Speaker 1: He's had really good games, lots of usage, lots of
Speaker 1: good games. Yeah, so if if he's good enough to go,
Speaker 1: I give him a starting grade. Uh. On the other side,
Speaker 1: it's one of those weird weeks where I I kind
Speaker 1: of like the streaming quarterback, the naked Mariotta out there
Speaker 1: in DFS. I like playing Mariota, but I don't like
Speaker 1: most of his most of his team. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be spread around. Davis is the obvious guy
Speaker 1: to get a grade, but I don't have a starting
Speaker 1: grade on him. I have him just barely making a
Speaker 1: bench grade. H. I can see a C grade, but
Speaker 1: he's going to be shadowed by Stefan Gilmour, who last
Speaker 1: week and the third quarter switched over and shadowed your
Speaker 1: take on from last week MBS about MVS as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a good take a chance on the week Marquez.
Speaker 1: I should mention Marquez Valdes Scalding. Scantling did not have
Speaker 1: another catch after Gilmore switched over about that, so Belichick
Speaker 1: obviously realized needs stop him and he's gonna use Gilmore
Speaker 1: to try to stop Davis. That's why I don't like him.
Speaker 1: I don't like John u even though he was a
Speaker 1: great we We called that as a great uh pivot
Speaker 1: from Gronk next last week and Johnah scored a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but I had him on the bench. I have Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry on the bench because he's a backup. Now he's
Speaker 1: a clear back up, the clear backup. I do give
Speaker 1: Lewis a B grade. For five straight weeks, back has
Speaker 1: had fourteen or more touches against the Pats, every one
Speaker 1: of them topped eighty yards, and in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: Lewis is averaging nineteen touches per game and top two
Speaker 1: d total yards in both So be grade for Lewis
Speaker 1: not bad. Um. Dan Lewis could be and their schedules
Speaker 1: pretty easy the rest of the way. Dan Lewis could
Speaker 1: be a sneaky guy that a league winner two years
Speaker 1: in a row. Yeah, how about that? Maybe three? You've
Speaker 1: probably forgotten and I don't blame you, listeners. Patriots Titans
Speaker 1: is a rematch from the playoffs last year. Who remembers
Speaker 1: that I remember the Titans beating the Chief send that
Speaker 1: weird game. It was just a buy after that. I
Speaker 1: think for the Patriot it really was. Thirty five to
Speaker 1: fourteen was the final score of that game. And Brady
Speaker 1: rolled up three touchdowns in that one, didn't The Patriots
Speaker 1: played the Tennessee Titans in that freak blizzard. It warm, yeah,
Speaker 1: like fifty nine nothing, and everybody pulled all their players
Speaker 1: because it was crazy snowing, and if you pulled your Titans,
Speaker 1: you were exactly right. And then all the then they
Speaker 1: put up like I think it was fifty nine. I
Speaker 1: think it was nothing. I believe hold on, I'm scrolling here.
Speaker 1: It is right here. Could it have been October eighteenth though,
Speaker 1: of two thousand nine? Was there really a blizzard in
Speaker 1: October eighteenth of two thousand nine? And look outside? Tom
Speaker 1: Brady six touchdown passes in that game? How about geez?
Speaker 1: That's uh, that turned out well for them. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the phones for a minute. We'll work in a
Speaker 1: few collars. Ben, Hello, good morning all again. Did your call? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be kind of a pay in the rump.
Speaker 1: It's definitely non PPR. You're if you can pick my
Speaker 1: running backs, my flex position, I have the Browns running
Speaker 1: backs and and Zeke. Otherwise than for Flex Ridley and
Speaker 1: Tyrell Williams. I think Ridley has to be in Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley has to be in my number eight receiver
Speaker 1: this week. And you have both Brown's running backs and Zeke.
Speaker 1: And here's the funny thing. This is Zeke's toughest matchup
Speaker 1: of the Citizens. It's not this is not it's not
Speaker 1: obvious that Zeke has to go in. Now that said,
Speaker 1: it's standard scoring. Yeah, so if it's standard scoring, I
Speaker 1: think we're leaving Duke Johnson on the bench unfortunately. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're getting nothing for receptions, I think Duke's at
Speaker 1: the odd man out, Okay. And then if I can
Speaker 1: do in my league, it's touchdown heavy non PBR. And
Speaker 1: that's just um two of two of these four Chub
Speaker 1: and Zeke and Ridley and Edelman, it's almost the exact
Speaker 1: same lineup. Yeahs run, I think Edelman's out. You got
Speaker 1: three guys score touchdowns and Aleman generally doesn't. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think that's what I do. Thanks, Ben, appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: hot question number one. In many leagues, the trade deadline
Speaker 1: is happening very soon, if not in the next twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. Should teams that are mathematically eliminated from the
Speaker 1: playoffs be allowed to trade Scott? Absolutely, They have every
Speaker 1: right to play spoiler. They have every right to play
Speaker 1: within their in within the rules, to try to win
Speaker 1: their games, try to play their best. Uh. Leagues have
Speaker 1: rules against collusion, and if there's collusion, you reverse the trade.
Speaker 1: That's really the only thing you're worried about in this
Speaker 1: in this scenario here, Um, I know some leagues have
Speaker 1: rules about mathematically eliminated teams, but if there's no rule, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely you should be able to trade. Yeah. To add
Speaker 1: to that, fantasy is supposed to be fun and fantasy leagues,
Speaker 1: it's your job, leagues and commissioners, to devise ways to
Speaker 1: keep the losers of your league engaged in the league.
Speaker 1: Like one of one of our co workers at Fanball,
Speaker 1: his league requires the loser of the league to take
Speaker 1: the s A T s and report it, report the scores,
Speaker 1: Like you don't want to be the last place guy,
Speaker 1: so you want something to play for So I think
Speaker 1: that it's it's our job to make sure that everybody
Speaker 1: keeps playing. So yeah, they can trade all that and more.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked and how many leagues are like this where
Speaker 1: you know they don't they're so worried about this specter
Speaker 1: of collusion that freaking happen. It's so rare. People get
Speaker 1: all worked up about bad teams making trades with good teams.
Speaker 1: Let it happen. It's just, you know, that's it's you
Speaker 1: get to do that. That's part of the enjoyment of
Speaker 1: the league. And I hate these leagues to try to
Speaker 1: try to govern trades worst. And it's usually the commissioners
Speaker 1: usually problem number one, because that guy is on a
Speaker 1: power trader decided what's best for the league. So yes,
Speaker 1: it is teams that are mathematically ELIMINATEDUNS Like, you're really
Speaker 1: angry at commissioners, you know, because on Twitter, I keep
Speaker 1: getting this stuff. I gotta step in. I gotta step
Speaker 1: in on this trade. This team is one and seven
Speaker 1: and they're giving up their best player, and no, you don't.
Speaker 1: They give up your best player to try to build
Speaker 1: a roster that can get to the playoffs. Come on,
Speaker 1: question number two, lady, I bella here's likely to report
Speaker 1: next week, and James Connor is in the Concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: Considering Bell's likely cost of acquisition, are you buying Matt? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That Connor and the concussion protocol thing. It makes it
Speaker 1: interesting like somebody left the gate open right there. I
Speaker 1: want to know what the likely cost to acquire him,
Speaker 1: if it's if it's those RB two guys like Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard or Kevin Coleman. I think it's RB two is
Speaker 1: what it'll cost. That's clarify that into the question. That's
Speaker 1: what I would try to acquire Levy on Bell four. Now,
Speaker 1: note you can't acquire him from an owner that has
Speaker 1: both Bell and Connor. You can only acquire him from
Speaker 1: an owner that just has Bell, So you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get him in any other way. I
Speaker 1: think so yes is you're giving yes? Is the yeah.
Speaker 1: I would definitely try your yes, Scott, I would say
Speaker 1: you should. You could try, but I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get it. I think that's him is past past
Speaker 1: for people trying to get that bargain, because people now
Speaker 1: know he is reporting and now no, he's in the
Speaker 1: concussion Connors in the concussion protocol. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the trade you want to. Uh so, I
Speaker 1: guess my answer is, yes, you should try, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you're going to get it. Correct answers, No,
Speaker 1: here's your best case scenario. So your best case scenario
Speaker 1: looks like this. Ideally, for a belt Connor misses this
Speaker 1: week with the concussion protocol, they immediately inject Bell in
Speaker 1: on just a couple of days. Right, we think he's
Speaker 1: likely report like Tuesday of next week, so they on
Speaker 1: a handful of days, they're immediately inject him into the lineup.
Speaker 1: And he's awesome. He's so good and so much better
Speaker 1: than Connor that there's no debate going forward who the
Speaker 1: best running back is. And the Steelers decided to play
Speaker 1: Bell the rest of the year. That's what you're really
Speaker 1: hoping for, is a best case scenario. Also, their mindset
Speaker 1: is that they're gonna run the wheels off Bell because
Speaker 1: they're not keeping him next year. There I that's that's
Speaker 1: a possible. It's there are people that want to believe
Speaker 1: that is the best part of the best case scenario.
Speaker 1: But let's look at the more realistic scenarios like Connor's
Speaker 1: got ten days between games. In all probability, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be well out of the concussion protocol and he's your
Speaker 1: starter next week. But even then, in a second more
Speaker 1: probable scenario than the best case scenario, Connor misses maybe
Speaker 1: a game. Bell gets some action because he's only been
Speaker 1: on the team for a handful of days, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't get a workhorse. Vers does not get workhorse number
Speaker 1: of carries um he gets maybe I don't know half
Speaker 1: the carries or something, or the carries and he looks fine,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't look any better than Connor, and Connors
Speaker 1: looked great, And nobody in that side that organization hates Connor.
Speaker 1: They'll love Connor. What's not to like about the local
Speaker 1: kid who beat cancer and has been in every measurable
Speaker 1: way better than Levy On Bell, if you're going to
Speaker 1: have to give up a guy that you would start
Speaker 1: as your second running back, I need way, way more
Speaker 1: probability of success than just this pipe dream best case.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of really bad second running backs
Speaker 1: on TEA hot question number three should playoff bound fantasy
Speaker 1: teams burn a roster spot on Rex Burkhead, who's eligible
Speaker 1: to come off. I are in week number thirteen, Scott. Sure,
Speaker 1: if it's your last roster spot, sure, why not dash him? Uh?
Speaker 1: The old trope is the Patriots run the ball a
Speaker 1: ton more at the end of the season. I've never
Speaker 1: really looked into the data on that until now. In
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, weeks one through twelve, the average running back
Speaker 1: touches per game after week twelve thirty eight point five
Speaker 1: thirteen more touches per game in December games Uh, weeks
Speaker 1: thir team through seven tied roughly. Yes, all right, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: Thanks Thanksgiving Forward. In seventeen that same that same area
Speaker 1: one through twelve, thirty three touches per game Week thirteen
Speaker 1: and on forty one touches per game, they go eight
Speaker 1: to thirteen more running back touches per game in the
Speaker 1: last month and a half of the season. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm going, yes, dash it, just in case you never know.
Speaker 1: For all of that and more. Rex Burkhead is the
Speaker 1: red Savina Habanero of three hot questions. That's five hundred
Speaker 1: thousands Scoville heating units. That's a lot. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think you should definitely pick him up. He's never
Speaker 1: played more than twelve games in a season in his
Speaker 1: five year career though, and it's it's worth noting that
Speaker 1: he did play eight straight games last year, but he
Speaker 1: did miss Week sixteen, seventeen and their Divisional round playoff
Speaker 1: game before coming back in the conference championship in Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So while you're gonna put him on your roster, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get dinged up again. Here's my When I wrote
Speaker 1: the question out, my assumption is, well, yes, let's you know,
Speaker 1: I want I want a part of the Patriots running backs.
Speaker 1: But then I started looking into the schedule and what
Speaker 1: I will be saying to you Thanksgiving week. For Week
Speaker 1: thirteen against Minnesota, I think he gets a bench grade,
Speaker 1: presumably under the assumption Sony Michelle is the team. He's
Speaker 1: he's healthy, He's gonna be behind Michelle, and you're really
Speaker 1: you're you're hoping. You chips in a few receptions and
Speaker 1: gets a few carries against the Vikings. Don't like it.
Speaker 1: Week fourteen, I think he gets like a Rex Burkhead
Speaker 1: gets like a C grade against Miami. They're easy to
Speaker 1: run on, but Michelle is gonna get all the first
Speaker 1: runs at this thing. Um. And then I get to
Speaker 1: Week fifteen at Pittsburgh. Maybe a C grade here, but
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's the top five run back running back defense through
Speaker 1: the air and on the ground, so we might be
Speaker 1: a bench guy there too. Then I'm Week sixteen against
Speaker 1: Buffalo maybe a C grade. When those teams met in
Speaker 1: week eight, Cordell Patterson only got who was a leading
Speaker 1: running back with thirty eight yards um. Buffalo is actually
Speaker 1: a really pretty good run defense. I don't so I
Speaker 1: think we're looking at all bench and C grades from
Speaker 1: Rex burkehead unless somebody gets hurt, well Michelle or White
Speaker 1: gets hurt, and White never does. But if Michelle gets
Speaker 1: which is very possible, now everything changes, the whole script flips,
Speaker 1: and now he's an A and B guy most of
Speaker 1: those weeks. Yeah, yeah, I think that you have to
Speaker 1: look at the Patriots running back angle. As they get hurt,
Speaker 1: they cycle through guys, they go hot hands sometimes, and
Speaker 1: you just try to get a piece of it. If
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season people were avoiding James
Speaker 1: White because he looked like he was third or fourth
Speaker 1: on the depth chart, there, they're pretty happy having James White.
Speaker 1: Now you just get a piece or two of the
Speaker 1: Patriots running back stick it on the bench and see
Speaker 1: what happens. Um I do have yes, because it is
Speaker 1: only it only does cost you the last spot on
Speaker 1: your bench. And Sony Michelle's hurt a lot. If they
Speaker 1: they had they had a had a more solid running back,
Speaker 1: this would be a different story. But it's not. I
Speaker 1: don't think Rex Spurkhad is going to be the guy
Speaker 1: that that runs you to a championship. Barring injury. Washington
Speaker 1: takes on the Buccaneers. Hang on, I gotta flip pages.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing you have to know about Washington and
Speaker 1: why you should be trading away Adrian Peterson. Now. Their
Speaker 1: star left tackle Trent Williams is gonna miss UH at
Speaker 1: least two more weeks and maybe three more weeks after
Speaker 1: thumb sir jury. Both of their guards done for the year.
Speaker 1: They went on i R This week. They're right tackle
Speaker 1: Morgan Moses may not play because he's got a sprained
Speaker 1: MCL he had to leave last week's game. They could
Speaker 1: very well be short four of five running back as
Speaker 1: offensive lineman this week and going forward for the next month,
Speaker 1: they could be. They will be short three for sure,
Speaker 1: and then only at the bitter end are they only
Speaker 1: short two starting offensive lineman not to mention the end
Speaker 1: this season. Dallas, Philly, Jacksonville, Tennessee in Philadelphia, it's a
Speaker 1: great time to divest in Adrian Peterson for to somebody
Speaker 1: who doesn't pay attention to offensive lineman, like a lot
Speaker 1: of people, don't look at what Adrian did last week
Speaker 1: when these linemen went down nothing. All right, let's jump
Speaker 1: into the matchup more directly now, knowing that the offensive
Speaker 1: line is going to be a huge problem. Alex Smith
Speaker 1: just a sea level start, easiest matchup of his season,
Speaker 1: But I just think the offensive line makes him a
Speaker 1: dicey start here. Tampa's allowed multiple passing touchdowns to every
Speaker 1: non Nick Foles quarterback they've faced. I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: Smith had better receivers. I wish that he had a
Speaker 1: better offensive line. But maybe Jordan Reid will help, and
Speaker 1: Maurice Harris was might take a chance on the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And I do think he's a sneaky start, even with
Speaker 1: the offensive line woes. Jordan read a grade because I
Speaker 1: see a lot of fast dump offs coming from Alex
Speaker 1: Smith and that could reasonly that could fit the tight
Speaker 1: end position anyway. And Tampa Bay is allowed to tighten touchdown.
Speaker 1: In five of the last six games. They've given up
Speaker 1: the second most fantasy points to tight ends, so a
Speaker 1: nice start opportunity for Jordan. Read Also, they allow so
Speaker 1: many yards to slot and and tight positions, which inside inside,
Speaker 1: and that's where Jordan where you play sent snaps. Very nice. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running backs. By the way, Paul
Speaker 1: Richardson went on, I r if you missed that, you
Speaker 1: can drop him out right to go to the running back.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson's justice. See with the disastrous offensive line, he's
Speaker 1: a runner who can't make his own running lanes. The
Speaker 1: Buccaneers have a lot of fourteen touchdowns to running backs, though,
Speaker 1: so you're banking on a short touchdown to salvage Adrian's day.
Speaker 1: And that's why he gets a seat and not a
Speaker 1: bench grade. Um Vernon Davis is an actual If you
Speaker 1: are in a pinch at tight end like you've got
Speaker 1: gron and he looks like he's gonna miss another game,
Speaker 1: Vernon Davis saw a season high seven targets and five
Speaker 1: catches last week against Atlanta. As I mentioned earlier, Tampa
Speaker 1: dreadful against the tight end position. I've got a C
Speaker 1: grade on on Vernon Davis. Let's go to the Tampa side.
Speaker 1: A grade for my guy Stubird, Ryan Fitzpatrick. His average
Speaker 1: full game this year for Ryan Fitzpatrick a mind bending
Speaker 1: three hundred seventy yards and three point eight touchdown passes
Speaker 1: per game in his full games. The Redskins secondary is
Speaker 1: a lot of passing touchdowns in every game since the opener,
Speaker 1: and last week Matt Ryan just toyed with Josh Norman
Speaker 1: and Fabian Moreau cornerbacks for the Redskins, scoring four times
Speaker 1: in that game. Every good pass or to face the
Speaker 1: Redskins is throwing multiple touchdowns. Ryan Fitzpatrick will too. Mike
Speaker 1: Evans is an obvious a. I know he inexplicably only
Speaker 1: caught one pass on ten targets last week, but he
Speaker 1: bounces back just fine. Here. The Redskins have allowed an
Speaker 1: average of seven catches for nineties six yards to number
Speaker 1: one receivers. Let's go to Deshan Jackson. The downfield speed
Speaker 1: that he's got perfect for Fitzpatrick and his bombs away
Speaker 1: passing style. Josh Norman only plays one side of the field,
Speaker 1: so the Bucks can isolate Jackson against the slumping Josh
Speaker 1: Norman and utilize Jackson's massive speed advantage over Norman. I
Speaker 1: like Deshan Jackson and this one b great for him.
Speaker 1: Adam Humphries back to back really good games was Stu
Speaker 1: Beard and he gets a matchup against Redskins slot corner
Speaker 1: Fabian Moreau, who is slumping, allowing completions on twenty of
Speaker 1: the last twenty three passes in Fabian Moreau's coverage, including
Speaker 1: a touchdown last week. Adam Humphries C grade and that's
Speaker 1: it for the O. J. Howard. I gotta mention him.
Speaker 1: No tight end has gone over forty five yards against
Speaker 1: the Redskins this season, but Howard is top fifty three
Speaker 1: yards and all seven full games he has played. Howard
Speaker 1: has also scored four times in his last four games.
Speaker 1: Will definitely start O. J. Howard. He gets a B
Speaker 1: grade at the tight end position. For the running running backs, UM,
Speaker 1: we're on the bench. Peyton Barber broadly performing okay against
Speaker 1: bad defenses, struggling with good ones. The Redskins are pretty
Speaker 1: good run defense and occasionally they're an awesome run defense.
Speaker 1: He's top thirteen touches. Peyton Barber has just once since
Speaker 1: Week two. He's only scored one time all year. We're
Speaker 1: gonna put Peyton Barber on the bench. How we doing
Speaker 1: for time? We can work? Maybe we can work in
Speaker 1: one more matchup because it's Jags Colts. There can't be
Speaker 1: that much to talk about Ken there. Yeah, maybe that
Speaker 1: kind of Leonard Fournette gets a see Carlos Hyde and
Speaker 1: t J. Elden are on the bench, though, the risk
Speaker 1: of aggravating that hamstring injury during the game is the
Speaker 1: scariest proposition here. Still, the Cults have given up five
Speaker 1: point nine yards per carried to the Bills and Raiders
Speaker 1: running backs over the last two weeks, and they're giving
Speaker 1: up a ton of them through the air to running
Speaker 1: backs to Jalen or shot at eight catches last week,
Speaker 1: James White had ten A few games back. If I
Speaker 1: trusted the rotation where Yelden would be in play. But
Speaker 1: I don't trust the rotation at all. Right now, Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles is on the bench. In games where four net plays,
Speaker 1: Bordles is averaging forty fewer passing yards per game, which
Speaker 1: brings the passing game to a screeching halt for the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: as does Blake Bortles. Yeah, that's true. Keelan Cole d D.
Speaker 1: Westbrook and uh, the Dante Moncrief revenge game is all
Speaker 1: on the bench. Moncreefe actually leads the team in targets.
Speaker 1: So if you're absolutely forced to put a Jacksonville wide
Speaker 1: receiver in your lineup, it's Moncreef this week. But what
Speaker 1: league forces you to play a Jaguars wide receiver? Not
Speaker 1: very many. On the other side, Marlon Mack, I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade two and he's really the only starting
Speaker 1: grade I'm giving on Indie. If there's hope, it's the
Speaker 1: run game. The Jags have allowed and average of a
Speaker 1: hundred and four rushing yards over their last four games
Speaker 1: and are basically giving up a touchdown per game to
Speaker 1: a lead back. Mac has six point two yards per
Speaker 1: carry over his last three games, and he's the first
Speaker 1: Cult to run for back to back one hundred yard
Speaker 1: games since Josepha Die two thousand seven. That's going back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're going always back. Um, So, I like Mac is
Speaker 1: a C grade Andrew Luck he's a C minus bench grade. Jags. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jags are only allowing two hundred six yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's the least in the NFL. Luck averages forty three
Speaker 1: passing attempts per game, but opposing quarterbacks are only averaging
Speaker 1: thirty against the Jags. I do worry about the drop
Speaker 1: in volume. That something's got to give. They're not giving
Speaker 1: up touchdowns. Everything's gonna have to be really short, and
Speaker 1: I think that Luck, even if he gets to his
Speaker 1: forty three attempts, he's looking at maybe two sixty and one.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, he comes into this game with
Speaker 1: three or four touchdowns in five straight games, but he
Speaker 1: ben grade Jacksonville. Well, I understand that you're just up
Speaker 1: in my conviction to bench Andrew Luck when he needs
Speaker 1: to be benched. He just had this is the time
Speaker 1: you just had like a four touchdown game a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Um t Y Hilton's on the bench too.
Speaker 1: He played the last two weeks, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he was fully healthy. He only had five catches in
Speaker 1: fifty nine total yards and wins against Buffalo and Oakland.
Speaker 1: He's only targeted nine times in those two games. Nine times,
Speaker 1: and he probably draws the slam dunking Jalen Ramsey. Last
Speaker 1: year against Ramsey, when Hilton was fully healthy, to catches
Speaker 1: for twenty seven yards. Three catches for fifty one yards.
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle and Eric Ebron are on the bench as well.
Speaker 1: The Jags are allowing three and a half catches for
Speaker 1: forty one yards the tight end position. As a whole.
Speaker 1: They held Evan Engram and Gronk to under twenty yards.
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Arts were the only guys who did anything
Speaker 1: against the Jags. But Jack Doyle is not them, so
Speaker 1: they're on the bench too. I might buy t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton not low right. Nobody wants to start him against
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. He's done nothing as he's been working through
Speaker 1: this hamstring injury, but they just came up by and
Speaker 1: I want to believe the hamstring injuries better. Now, what's
Speaker 1: the rest of the season schedule on the Colts? Why
Speaker 1: don't I tell you about the playoffs schedule for the
Speaker 1: Colts right now? At Houston, then Dallas and then the Giants.
Speaker 1: That's okay, okay, t Y Hilton. But t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: might be your wide receiver three and you can plug
Speaker 1: him in the right matchup there. I just think he's
Speaker 1: cheap to buy right now. I might. I just always
Speaker 1: have the sense, you know, I always like to buy
Speaker 1: low on good players. T Y Hilton his values is low.
Speaker 1: Was it's been in a long time, forever maybe for
Speaker 1: maybe forever. Anybody else in that matchup we've done. That's
Speaker 1: it all right? I interrupted, So I wasn't sure when
Speaker 1: we come back, Saints take on the Bengals. You know
Speaker 1: to start pretty much all your Saints. But what do
Speaker 1: you do with Andy Dalton, Tyler boyd Ain't no A J.
Speaker 1: Green in this one. We'll tell you when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Harrison with you Saints teak on the Bengal. Scott and
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty obvious to start all your Saints
Speaker 1: in this match up. I'm origin and what you have
Speaker 1: to say about the Bengals, but you can start whichever
Speaker 1: side of the matchup you prefer. Well, I'll just start
Speaker 1: with the same saying you're I mean, you're right. I
Speaker 1: have a grades on Breeze, Thomas and Kamara. I mean
Speaker 1: the Bengals are bottom three against quarterbacks, running backs, watch
Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends, so that makes it pretty easy.
Speaker 1: I did give Trey Kawon Smith a C grade. Like
Speaker 1: him more than that really, well, he has a great matchup.
Speaker 1: He's only getting two to three catches per game, which
Speaker 1: makes him risky, but uh and I don't maybe not
Speaker 1: in this game though, Yeah, this is I feel like
Speaker 1: he's a safer C grade than when I take homed
Speaker 1: him last week and he saved you with a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Did I did give Ben Watson a C grade as well,
Speaker 1: just because it's a great matchup. He scored in two
Speaker 1: straight weeks and he has thirteen catches over the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, which surprised me. It didn't seem like he
Speaker 1: would had Does Brian not torn as Achilles? I might
Speaker 1: have benched him, but I'll put Watson in there with
Speaker 1: a sea mark. Ingram I did give a B to
Speaker 1: uh He it's mostly his three point six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Scare me be those de allowing five point four which
Speaker 1: is helpful. Um. Over the last five weeks, six running
Speaker 1: backs have had at least ten touches, five of them
Speaker 1: top eight yards. I think both of these guys are
Speaker 1: getting ten touches. Uh So, Ingram I gave a B.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Dalton I gave a B grade. Here.
Speaker 1: It's got the highest over under. Dalton's gonna have to
Speaker 1: keep up. But he is without a J. Green um
Speaker 1: and over the last three games, the Saints are allowing
Speaker 1: just on our three fifty passing yards and two point
Speaker 1: three touchdowns per games. So it made me really really
Speaker 1: want to go in on Dalton. But without a J. Green,
Speaker 1: his numbers just his yards per attempt, in yards per
Speaker 1: reception take So I'm I'm a little worried there, but
Speaker 1: he will be playing catchup Tyler Boyd. It's always it's
Speaker 1: always concerning what happens. We saw what happened with thelan
Speaker 1: with Diggs went out. Is Boyd? Don't think A J. Green?
Speaker 1: Is his injuries good for Boyd? It's not right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might not be, but you know it's good for
Speaker 1: Boyd going up against P. J. Williams. So he gets
Speaker 1: an a grade for me, But I'm not as confident
Speaker 1: as some of the other analysts out there. I want
Speaker 1: to see how he handles being a number one receiver,
Speaker 1: although from the slot, presumably they'll keep him in the slot, yeah,
Speaker 1: presumably to move him when he had success he's had
Speaker 1: running from the slot. Exactly for me, Joe Mixon is
Speaker 1: always a must start, but I tember my expectations here.
Speaker 1: Mixing is averaging just twelve touches per game and losses
Speaker 1: the Bengals are likely to fall behind. I still think
Speaker 1: he's very startable, especially with Geo likely out again. Uh,
Speaker 1: he should get that passing game work. I still give
Speaker 1: him a B grade and Usama. Uh he Goreo sagged
Speaker 1: in a great matchup last week. I know that, but
Speaker 1: given the catchup, given a j Green out, I gave
Speaker 1: him a C grade. Just barely agreed. Back to Trey Kwon,
Speaker 1: look at listen to what speed receivers I'm actual rattle
Speaker 1: up all the stats. Speed receivers have crushed the Bengals
Speaker 1: all year long. John Brown, Calvin Ridley, t Y Hilton,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson just last week daggering the Bengals. I think,
Speaker 1: Trey Kwan, it's a good start. I gotta be great
Speaker 1: out By the way John Brown in this matchup, wasn't
Speaker 1: I take a chance on me? Well, let's let's get
Speaker 1: it to him for next week? Already just saying, uh,
Speaker 1: Cardinals taking on the Chiefs. We've already alluded to this
Speaker 1: matchup several times, including take a chance on me on
Speaker 1: the Arizona side, Josh Rosen was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback, Plenty of volume coming in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald gets a C grade. Chief secondaries improved a lot.
Speaker 1: Kansas City surrendered just too wide receiver touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last six weeks, so the early narrative about the terrible
Speaker 1: Chief secondaries not coming true, at least to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Fitzgerald draws the Chief's best cornerback, Kendall Fuller,
Speaker 1: who mans the slot for Kansas City. Still, Fitzgerald's coming
Speaker 1: up back to back touchdown games, and he's seen eight
Speaker 1: or more targets in three straight games, so he's still
Speaker 1: absolutely startable here. So is Christian Kirk, who leads the
Speaker 1: team in receiving yards, and he's posted decent numbers for
Speaker 1: most of the last six weeks. Not explosive, just decent.
Speaker 1: He's gonna see mostly a vastly improved version of Orlando Scandrick,
Speaker 1: who is not allowed to touchdown in his coverage. Since
Speaker 1: the opener, I have a C grade on Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: The real angle here, though, and especially for DFS play
Speaker 1: David Johnson, Chiefs are gonna fall behind early and they're
Speaker 1: gonna throw to Johnson a lot. The Chiefs have allowed
Speaker 1: seven different running backs to gain over one hundred total yards.
Speaker 1: They are dead last in running back receiving yards. They
Speaker 1: are dead last in running back receiving touchdowns, their second
Speaker 1: to last in running back receptions. David Johnson is sitting
Speaker 1: on a massive PPR week eight thousand on fanball this week,
Speaker 1: UM and fanball dot com slash a bid. It gives
Speaker 1: you a chance to potentially auction for David Johnson as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to the chief side. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill all a starts. They do not require any
Speaker 1: elaboration whatsoever. Not neither neither does, and maybe especially UH does.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt because this is the worst run defense in
Speaker 1: the league. Kareem Hunt is my favorite play of all
Speaker 1: players across the board this week period end of stories,
Speaker 1: so much so that I even think Spencer wear Is
Speaker 1: might take a chance. I mean, guy is going to
Speaker 1: get fed in this one as well. And I've already
Speaker 1: seen from Twitter people are gonna start both and I'm
Speaker 1: totally fine with that. You can start Kareem Hunt and
Speaker 1: Spencer Wearing This matchup last guy. I'll mention Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: dealing with a foot issue. He's been a real the
Speaker 1: fush foot issue has been a recurring problem through his
Speaker 1: whole career. I don't think he's going to play in
Speaker 1: this game, and even if he does, it's a run
Speaker 1: focused game and I'm nervous about him for this one
Speaker 1: and he is on the bench. Next matchup, Chargers taking
Speaker 1: on the Raiders. Matt It's uh. It's the first time
Speaker 1: since week number two that Patrick Mahomes is not my
Speaker 1: number one ranked quarterback and it's because Philip Rivers is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Raiders have allowed the second most passing touchdowns this season,
Speaker 1: including multiple touchdown passes to seven of the eight quarterbacks
Speaker 1: they faced. Rivers is just a lock this week. He's
Speaker 1: an easy a only quarterback in the NFL with multiple
Speaker 1: touchdown passes every week of the season. He hasn't had
Speaker 1: the huge splash game though, that's the one drawback three
Speaker 1: touchdowns every week. He's super reliable. Though, Melvin Gordon getting
Speaker 1: an A. You like Kareem Hunt as your top play
Speaker 1: this week, you could argue that Melvin Gordon is right
Speaker 1: in the same wheelhouse. Say both grade and ten out
Speaker 1: of ten for me this week. Yeah, the Raiders are
Speaker 1: bottom five and rushing yards yards per carrying, rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to running backs. That puts Austin Ekeler in play
Speaker 1: in the similar vein that Spencer wears in play for
Speaker 1: a C grade for Austin Ekeler. Keenan Allen, I'm giving
Speaker 1: a B grade two. He had eight catches for ninety
Speaker 1: yards in the first meeting against the Raiders. He's one
Speaker 1: of only two wide receivers to hit the ninety yard
Speaker 1: mark against the Raiders this year. Game script may just
Speaker 1: not favor him because it's so easy to run on
Speaker 1: Oakland and they just haven't. Oakland's been all right against
Speaker 1: wide receivers, specifically uh Mike Williams and Tyrrell Williams. I'm
Speaker 1: giving them C grades as well, though Iyrrell had sixty
Speaker 1: six and Mike had forty five last time around against Oakland.
Speaker 1: None of the wide receivers out of those three scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the first meeting with the Raiders, though,
Speaker 1: but Tyrrell has four touchdowns in the last three weeks
Speaker 1: on only nine catches, and Mike has two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks on two catches. That's it's a
Speaker 1: pretty good duhver right now, Antonio Gates. I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a desperation d start. There is no star it is.
Speaker 1: It's for desperation. He only had two catches for nineteen
Speaker 1: yards in the first matchup, but his counterpart Virgil Green
Speaker 1: scored in that game. His ceiling is probably five targets.
Speaker 1: But the Raiders are bottom ten in yards and touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to the tight end position. Over on the Oakland side,
Speaker 1: it's pretty dismal. Jared Cook is on the bench. Cook
Speaker 1: has in top twenty yards and three of his last
Speaker 1: four The Chargers are allowing less than forty yards per
Speaker 1: game to the tight end over the last month. Jordi
Speaker 1: and Martevis Bryant are on the bench. Uh Chargers are
Speaker 1: top ten in reception and receiving yards allowed it to
Speaker 1: wide receivers, which means all the passing game is terrible.
Speaker 1: So Derek carrs obviously on the bench too. And the
Speaker 1: only guy that you can even think of starting on
Speaker 1: the Oakland side is Jalen Richard. He has the fifth
Speaker 1: most receptions among running backs this season. He's averaging five
Speaker 1: per game, and over their last four games, the Chargers
Speaker 1: are allowing seven and a half receptions and seventy three
Speaker 1: yards per game to opposing backs, So I could give
Speaker 1: Jalen Rashard to see. But that's about it. Doug Martin
Speaker 1: is a tough start. I used my number forty two
Speaker 1: running back. That's why I didn't even mention it. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. Just the game script is immediately going to
Speaker 1: go away from him. But get this, he's actually averaging
Speaker 1: five yards per carry since becoming the starter. It's not
Speaker 1: that he's been terrible, it's just the game scripts are
Speaker 1: always dead wrong for him. And I know he's five
Speaker 1: yards per carry since since the injury hunt. Go figure
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Speaker 1: get to our premature speculations. These are guys we think
Speaker 1: you should pick up now, one week in advance of
Speaker 1: everybody else making the move. Scott, Yeah, I'm I'm pulling
Speaker 1: an audible here. I'm going Royce Freeman all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on by this week. He's been dropped in enough
Speaker 1: leagues either owned Cincinnati, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Oakland, all
Speaker 1: bottom nine defenses against the run for his playoff run.
Speaker 1: There and every one of those teams allowing over a
Speaker 1: hundred thirty plus total yards per game, three of them
Speaker 1: five plus yards per carry. It's a good end of season. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's great. I've tried to acquire Rice Freeman in a
Speaker 1: few leaks. I've got Lindsay in a bunch of them,
Speaker 1: so that's been part of it. As I want that
Speaker 1: I could see starting both in some of these games.
Speaker 1: I've got the oozy c j Uzoma. He's had forty
Speaker 1: plus yards and or a touchdown in five of eight
Speaker 1: games this year, and that a J Green injury is
Speaker 1: lingering and looming over the since the offense Dalton through
Speaker 1: to his tight end six times per game in that
Speaker 1: eight game stretch where a J missed last year with
Speaker 1: five tight end touchdowns and Cincinnati as the third easiest
Speaker 1: remaining schedule for tight ends and the easiest schedule in
Speaker 1: the playoffs where they faced the Chargers, Raiders, and Browns,
Speaker 1: three teams who have allowed nine tight ends to go
Speaker 1: over fifty yards and fourteen tight end touchdowns in six weeks.
Speaker 1: Uh I had Lamar Jackson is my guy before this
Speaker 1: Flacco story as proof if you go to our Waiver
Speaker 1: Wire article, was there from tuesdaytas almost daily podcast. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. We were urging people on Tuesday to pick
Speaker 1: up Lamar Jackson because all we do is help you
Speaker 1: work a week ahead of time. If Lamar Jackson for
Speaker 1: some reason is still not rostered in your league, go
Speaker 1: get Lamar Jackson. And then as a pivot to that,
Speaker 1: since we've already taught if Jackson has been Let's go
Speaker 1: back to Rex Burkhead, who we talked about earlier in
Speaker 1: the show as somebody you can get now and stashed
Speaker 1: until week number thirteen when he comes on off i
Speaker 1: r final set of matchups be in with Cowboys taking
Speaker 1: on the Eagles, Um Scott, we saw Marie Cooper score
Speaker 1: in his very first game. Do you like him in Philly?
Speaker 1: A little? That's about all you're getting, uh? In the
Speaker 1: passing game, I'm gonna skip from boot Cooper back to
Speaker 1: Dak where I'm just benching Doc. I don't like him
Speaker 1: in this matchup. He's He's only top two fifty yards
Speaker 1: twice this season, Doc has and you only have ten
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in eight games. That's that's not good. That's
Speaker 1: not startable on a weekly basis. But Cooper. I did
Speaker 1: give a B grade to Um in the last three games,
Speaker 1: the Eagles having allowed a wide receiver over sixty five yards.
Speaker 1: That sounds bad, but in weeks one through five, ten
Speaker 1: different wide receivers had seventy five yards and or a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Blame Carolina wide receivers, Jacksonville wide receivers and a terrible
Speaker 1: Eli manning game. For how good the Eagles have looked
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. Uh, Cooper saw eight targets, and
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is going to be hell bent on
Speaker 1: proving that that trade was good, like getting that that
Speaker 1: public image narrative street there. All that first rounder was expensive.
Speaker 1: Ye all nine wide receivers with eight or more targets
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. Eight targets is how many Cooper had
Speaker 1: last week, had double digit Fantasy days. So B grade.
Speaker 1: They're benching Beasley because he saw just three targets with
Speaker 1: Cooper and Zeke Ellion, I'm only giving a B B
Speaker 1: grade too. He's he's just had one game over sixty
Speaker 1: five yards rushing in the last four games. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he he's making a little bit up on the receiving game.
Speaker 1: He had seven catches in one game, four catches and another.
Speaker 1: That's where he can make it up because the Eagles
Speaker 1: are allowing just under eight grabs and eighty six yards
Speaker 1: per game two runners over the last three games. I
Speaker 1: think that that might be. Actually where he gets his
Speaker 1: B grade is through the air somehow. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Carson wentz a grade. Wentzays at least two total yards
Speaker 1: and multiple touchdowns in five straight. The Cowboys have been stout. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh and but have allowed at least one quarterback
Speaker 1: touchdown in every game, and they're coming off a short
Speaker 1: week where they let Mariotta score three and Wentz has
Speaker 1: a new weapon, and hey, so B grade for alshon
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dallas is top three against wide receivers on the season.
Speaker 1: But let's take a closer look on that beat up
Speaker 1: Redskins wide receiving corps. The Titans, the Jaguars Seattle before
Speaker 1: Wilson got hot and Baldwin was out Carolina and a
Speaker 1: terrible ELI game like they've had just not good wide
Speaker 1: receivers when they've played in all Sean's five games. He
Speaker 1: has four touchdowns and his averaging just under nine targets
Speaker 1: per games seventy plus and three of them B grade there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nine targets per game, Golden Tate. I'm giving a speculative
Speaker 1: C grade, and I think I might be a little
Speaker 1: too low on there. I think he's gonna play outside,
Speaker 1: but now they have three three slot wide receivers. But
Speaker 1: just his talent level makes him definitely startable for me.
Speaker 1: Aglar goes to the bench with the Tate acquisition and
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. I'm giving him and I'm giving him an
Speaker 1: A grade. The Cowboys have allowed just two tight ends
Speaker 1: over forty five yards and just two tight end touchdowns
Speaker 1: this year, but Arts has a hundred plus and or
Speaker 1: a touchdown in five straight. He's averaging seven and a
Speaker 1: half catches ten at half targets per game. They can
Speaker 1: be as good as they want. It gets tight on
Speaker 1: some starting zach Ertz, no choice. Alright, Dolphins take out
Speaker 1: the Packers. I would normally tell you to just sit
Speaker 1: everybody around Brick Osweiler, which is normally the case, but
Speaker 1: I know who you're going for here. You do, yeah, Frank.
Speaker 1: We are going to give Frank or passing. I started
Speaker 1: with the passing game and Osweiler is on the bench.
Speaker 1: But I've got to see great in DeVante Parker. Only
Speaker 1: because the Packers have allowed the second most scores to receivers,
Speaker 1: including multi score games the Marquis go Doing and Josh
Speaker 1: Reynolds just in the last three weeks alone. So you
Speaker 1: know this is they're churning safeties for for for for
Speaker 1: Green Bay. It's a secondary influx right now. I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a couple of opportunities. So I've got
Speaker 1: a starting great in DeVante Parker and then Danny Amadola.
Speaker 1: If you just want your five catches for forty yards,
Speaker 1: just fine. You know I can see that. And if
Speaker 1: you need to be safe, if you're one of these people,
Speaker 1: you're up by fifty points because the Thursday night's game
Speaker 1: and you just want to get your five catch just
Speaker 1: forty fifty yards, Danny Amontola is probably your guy for that.
Speaker 1: Then let's go to the running game. Frank Gore b grade.
Speaker 1: In his past four weeks. He's averaging over fourteen carries
Speaker 1: per game, and of the four backs who have managed
Speaker 1: fourteen carries per game against the Packers, the average game
Speaker 1: ninety four rushing yards, five and a half yards per carry,
Speaker 1: and a touchdown per game. Frank Gore be great. Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake's on the bench. He has been out carried by
Speaker 1: Gore in every game since Week two. Man, if only
Speaker 1: somebody could have seen this at the preseason, I would
Speaker 1: like a peacock for that. Something something weird about Kenyan Drake.
Speaker 1: He's played nine games. He has four RB one games
Speaker 1: of nine. That's crazy. It's receiving the touchdowns. It is
Speaker 1: receiving in touchdowns. Packers, though, give up the seventh fewest
Speaker 1: receptions per game to opposing running backs and have only
Speaker 1: given up one are running back touchdown through the airs.
Speaker 1: That's where you need Drake to help you, and it
Speaker 1: isn't coming here. So he's on the bench. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Packers side. A bunch of A grades across
Speaker 1: the board, and the guy that I'm most excited about,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. I've got an A grade on him. I'm
Speaker 1: counting on my toma, babe. Can I tell you how
Speaker 1: this is? Just do the right thing, the right counting
Speaker 1: on Mike McCarthy to do the right he never does.
Speaker 1: This is from Graham Barfield. These are some Next Sense
Speaker 1: stats among running backs over the last two years with
Speaker 1: at least a hundred five carries. Aaron Jones is first
Speaker 1: in yards per carry, first in yards gained after defender
Speaker 1: closes within the yard, first in rushing yard Russia attempts
Speaker 1: Russia Russia's over ten yards, first in success rate, and
Speaker 1: second in first down second down first down rate. It
Speaker 1: should all come together, It should all come together. This week,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are giving up on twenty rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: It's the juiciest matchup of the season for Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: Insert Jamal Williams getting fifteen cars. God, I hope not.
Speaker 1: Let's just hope the usage is going the right way now.
Speaker 1: He had that critical fumble against the Patriots, but they
Speaker 1: went back to him at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: so I'm presuming he's not in the doghouse. A grade.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones a great. Aaron Rodgers obvious A grade. I
Speaker 1: am worried about the running game actually cannibalizing him stats
Speaker 1: more than I'm worried about the Dolphins, but nevertheless, even
Speaker 1: unlimited passes, he could still be fine. Deshaun Watson scored
Speaker 1: five times and throw the ball just twenty times against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins last week. Davante Adams obvious A grade, although
Speaker 1: we'll note that he's drawing shadow coverage from Xavian Howard
Speaker 1: in this game. Howard is not allowed more than thirty
Speaker 1: two yards in his coverage and over a month, but
Speaker 1: still Adams totally matchup Proof A grade opposite him. Marquees
Speaker 1: Valdez Scantling, My guy, I love I love this rookie.
Speaker 1: He has found the end zone or hit one hundred
Speaker 1: yards in four straight games. Only DeShawn Jackson averages more
Speaker 1: yards per reception than Marquees Valdez scant Link does, and
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard's gonna be on the other side of the
Speaker 1: field guarding uh Davante Adams. It's a great matchup against
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, who has been roasted by speed receivers like Markuees,
Speaker 1: Valdez Scantling this year be grade for him. Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: downgraded midweek and a hamstring. You want to avoid him
Speaker 1: at all costs. Hopefully you didn't draft him at all.
Speaker 1: And the last guy I'll mention Jimmy Graham Dolphins allowing
Speaker 1: uh wait, uh oh, I have the wrong text in here.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham is an a grade you can go to.
Speaker 1: I don't have I've got the wrong I pasted into
Speaker 1: I don't have the right text, and I've got Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones text in for by Jimmy Graham. He scored our
Speaker 1: top seven seventy six yards and five of his last
Speaker 1: seven games. I like that. Thank you very much for
Speaker 1: the assist. You can get the full not just Jimmy Graham.
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Speaker 1: Go to my player rankings so you learn about Jimmy Graham.
Speaker 1: Your matchup took too long because you said Marques Veldez
Speaker 1: Scantling three times, which you could have been worked. It
Speaker 1: could have been nine. Last matchup is Giants at forty nine.
Speaker 1: At least we don't have to talk about too many
Speaker 1: Giants or forty Niners now Quans and A. He's on
Speaker 1: pace to break the single season running back reception record
Speaker 1: held by Matt Forte uh He's on pace for one
Speaker 1: sixteen fourte had one O two and the Niners or
Speaker 1: bottom ten and receptions and receiving touchdowns allowed to running
Speaker 1: back Odell Beckham's in A. Niners have allowed to touch
Speaker 1: down to seven of our wide receiver in seven of
Speaker 1: their last nine games. Sterling Shepherds even a B slot
Speaker 1: wide receivers have torched the Niners Tate mvs. Marquees, Valdez, Scantling,
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald and theeling of all top two hundred yards against
Speaker 1: San Francisco from the slot. Evan Ingram is getting a
Speaker 1: bench grade, though he's been held to twenty five yards
Speaker 1: or less than four or five games this season is
Speaker 1: only two scores have come in garbage time. And I'm
Speaker 1: giving Eli a C though because if not now, when,
Speaker 1: and I liked Sae Kwan Odell and Shepherd as receiving options.
Speaker 1: So on the other side, Matt Brita's getting a B grade.
Speaker 1: The Giants have no snacks, and since there's no snacks
Speaker 1: for the Giants, the arts per carry average have gone
Speaker 1: from four point oh to oppose backs to four point
Speaker 1: nine yards per carry and they're allowing a hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen rushing yards per games since snacks Harrison left and
Speaker 1: Raheem Mostert now has a third elbow, So Matt Breed
Speaker 1: has got this job all by himself. Nick mullins, he's
Speaker 1: on the bench. I'm not chasing that scorecard from last week.
Speaker 1: The Giants have only allowed two hundred fifty two yards
Speaker 1: per game through the air this year. That's eleventh best
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and the Niners shouldn't need to pass
Speaker 1: to beat the Giants. I am giving George Kittle a
Speaker 1: B though Kittle is top seventy nine yards in six
Speaker 1: games this season. The Giants did hold zech ERT's under fifty,
Speaker 1: but he had seven catches forty three yards in a score.
Speaker 1: I think Kittle's almost on par with Earth's right now,
Speaker 1: so he gets a B grade. Marquis Goodwin and Pierre Garson,
Speaker 1: though they are on the bench. Garson only had five
Speaker 1: targets in Mullins debut. Goodwin had four, and they shouldn't
Speaker 1: need to pass to beat the Giants. That's it, all right.
Speaker 1: I'll note to our local listening audience of presumably Timberwolves
Speaker 1: fans um multiple reports, including from John Krasinski, saying Philadelph
Speaker 1: uh is finalizing a deal with Minnesota to wire Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler so that the hostage situation may be coming to
Speaker 1: an end. Casualties US fans, You mean we're not getting
Speaker 1: Joel Embiide or Ben Simmons in return? No, apparently apparently
Speaker 1: we are not. Uh, it's time for lightning round. You
Speaker 1: know the rules. One question between two players, one question
Speaker 1: between two players. That is uh, that is all you
Speaker 1: can do. Hold on a set, Um, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the calls, beginning with and thank you for your patients,
Speaker 1: all of you. I know you've all been on hold
Speaker 1: for over an hour. Andrew, Hello, Hello Standard League Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley or Jarvis Plandy. Oh wow, I really like Ridley
Speaker 1: this week, but standard mix Stan probably favors Readley, So
Speaker 1: Ridley next. Uh, Phil, you're next? Hey, guys, thanks much.
Speaker 1: Um would you go Breeze or Rivers? Rivers? I would
Speaker 1: go Rivers this week. Rivers is my number one quarter.
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried about Breeze in the outdoor game.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, Carl. Your next standard League Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: or Tony Michelle? All right, Uh, I think Michelle's gonna
Speaker 1: play you get to at least. Yeah, he's the early
Speaker 1: game active. Michelle's going, yeah, you gotta you have to
Speaker 1: play him. But I like to. Actually I like Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard in his batchroom as well. That's a different story. Tom,
Speaker 1: You're next. Yeah, Doleman and I have an opponent wide
Speaker 1: for Fever. I'm wondering if I'm putting too many ears
Speaker 1: on its baptis because I'm playing David Johnson. Do I
Speaker 1: play Fitzgerald? Where do I go with Fits and the
Speaker 1: Upside in New Orleans? Thank you for your show. I
Speaker 1: listened every week. Thank you. Tom Howe. You one of
Speaker 1: those teams down by fifty because it's uh Fits is far,
Speaker 1: far safer. But I really do like Trackwon Smith here. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really a floor, a safe versus upside. He's got Fits,
Speaker 1: his draws, the best coverage corner they've got Kendall Fuller,
Speaker 1: and I think all right, I would go. I'm safely
Speaker 1: on the tray quand side of this. Stacy, Hello, good
Speaker 1: morning or Ram defense. We're talking defenses. Uh, let's go Patriots?
Speaker 1: Yeah for this matchup? Yeah? Absolutely, thank you, Yeah, thank you. Chuck.
Speaker 1: I think I got Chuck Chuck him so oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I just hung up on Chuck and I think he
Speaker 1: might have been holding for like an hour. That's a
Speaker 1: hung Sorry, Chuck up, Chuck, that top, Chuck. Sorry, Chuck. Nick,
Speaker 1: you're next half point pprred Nick, I can't hear you, Nick.
Speaker 1: Are you talking to the speaker? Oh yeah, did you
Speaker 1: hear me? Now? A little bit? Allen? For whom half
Speaker 1: point PPR? We want the keenan Allen's. I would still
Speaker 1: take Allen's close. Absolutely. Uh. John in Boston, Hello, Hey guys,
Speaker 1: how you doing on at half point PPR? Um Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle or Mike David. If Chris Carson does not go,
Speaker 1: it's Mike Davis. Unfortunately, we don't get to see that
Speaker 1: decision till the later games, so you're gonna see Sony
Speaker 1: if he's if he's active, I'd go Sony. I think
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do, just because you're not
Speaker 1: probably not gonna have a definitive word on Chris Carson
Speaker 1: as a like absolutely unfortunately plan on Sony. Thanks Shahn,
Speaker 1: Greg Hello, Hello, Hi, got standard league flex position question?
Speaker 1: Edo Smith or Ljohn McCoy Smith. I don't even think
Speaker 1: it's close for me. We don't start any bills. That's it. Uh,
Speaker 1: Nick you are next? Nick? Nick? Hello, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna move on. Mark, You're next. Hey, guys, A great show. Um.
Speaker 1: PPR Gabriel Gabriel or who unlock it? Sorry? Sorry, okay,
Speaker 1: I like lock it better. I like them both. They
Speaker 1: both have both have potentially good games, but we'll take
Speaker 1: lock it Aaron, You're next. Hey, guys, think you're the call?
Speaker 1: I got that point. PPR. Baldin and Marlin Maw. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: the first guy, Baldwin Marlon Mack although not fully healthy,
Speaker 1: but Scott is the bald apologist over here. I'd still
Speaker 1: go Mack and I Okay, Kevin your next standard scoring
Speaker 1: Landerdon Cooks are Marquez Belz? I actually think I would
Speaker 1: actually go Stanling here? Alright? Not actually you think you
Speaker 1: got information on the Timberwolves trade for it's been reported
Speaker 1: Robert Covington and Diosuric all right, oh Bob, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he picks in that though it's it's it says it's
Speaker 1: a package deal. But they haven't reported picks. Really, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's coming? I don't know what's coming up next? What
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Speaker 1: with this? Yeah, we have we have early Gophers pregame.
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