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Speaker 1: I am your host, Paul Charchy, and my co host
Speaker 1: today are Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, what's up?
Speaker 1: At what point do we apologize to Mitch Rubisky about
Speaker 1: his Thursday night performance? Do we? We don't have to apologize. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't call bad. You're coming. It sounds like a
Speaker 1: happy trombone ski right there. What I what I'm really
Speaker 1: disappointed in is I've got this great, horrible trombone solo
Speaker 1: and I've only been able to use it one time
Speaker 1: because Mitch has been good. Come on, Mitch, I bring
Speaker 1: back this version of Mitch Robisky. He's got the vikings
Speaker 1: coming up. That's gonna be uh um. I think he's
Speaker 1: got chiefs and actors next week. Now we're here this year.
Speaker 1: We are here this year at Yeah, we're kind of
Speaker 1: always here. That's right, um, as always. We're gonna break
Speaker 1: down every game, well not the Thursday game that already happened,
Speaker 1: but I got a good feeling Mitch Robisky is gonna
Speaker 1: have a good game. We're gonna give you letter grades
Speaker 1: on every player, will give you our rationale for every grade,
Speaker 1: so you can decide whether or not you're on board
Speaker 1: with us. A few minutes from now, we're gonna give
Speaker 1: you nine guys upon whom you can take a chance.
Speaker 1: Many are available on the waiver wire. A little later on,
Speaker 1: we'll have three tough questions answered for you, and we'll
Speaker 1: run through all of the matchups. Get you ready for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Guys, what I what I always love is Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the playoffs that means this really counts. I need
Speaker 1: you to give your very best possible. Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: given the crap analysis are I feel like you were
Speaker 1: trying the rest of the year. Yeah, but now I
Speaker 1: really love getting that on Twitter. You really need this one.
Speaker 1: It's the playoffs. Gotta do better. Uh, let's jump. Let's
Speaker 1: jump right into the matchups. Our first matchup is with
Speaker 1: Brian Cincinnati taking on Cleveland. Cincinnati is your adopted squad.
Speaker 1: For Joe Mixon, it's been He's slowly gotten better over
Speaker 1: the course of the year too. Now to this point
Speaker 1: he's got my highest ranking of the entire season in
Speaker 1: this matchup. What do you think about Joe Mixon this week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of doing better, Joe Mixon has scored in four
Speaker 1: of his last six games, but not an ideal spot
Speaker 1: to stay hot this week. Over their last five games,
Speaker 1: Cleveland is holding opposing backs under one Combo yards per
Speaker 1: game and they've allowed just three total touchdowns over those
Speaker 1: five games to running backs. But you have to play
Speaker 1: mixing on volume. Malone's We'll give him a B here.
Speaker 1: Also gonna give Tyler Boyd b borderline A slot. Receivers
Speaker 1: James Washington and Alan Herns have scored against the Browns
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, and Tyler Boyd has scored
Speaker 1: in his last two games against the Browns. So boom,
Speaker 1: let's make it an A for my boy, Tyler Boyd,
Speaker 1: A J Green, John Ross, Auden Tate. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: these guys. Green won't play John Ross might. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to get at least sometime in this game.
Speaker 1: Tate definitely will, But I'm not starting any of these guys.
Speaker 1: That Browns have allowed just one boundary receiver to score
Speaker 1: over their last six games, and that was Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 1: The cordon or duo of Greedy Williams and Denzil Award
Speaker 1: is legit. So they're all on the bench. Boyd is
Speaker 1: the only wide receiver I'm playing. Tyler Eifert two touchdowns
Speaker 1: the last time he faced the Browns on December eleven.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna gas. Okay, he's been that long
Speaker 1: since he's seen the Browns. He's on the bench. He's
Speaker 1: dead to us. Andy Dalton on you give him a
Speaker 1: see multiple touchdown passes and six of his last seven
Speaker 1: games against the Browns. If Marcus Mariotta, Jared Goff, Brandon Allen,
Speaker 1: who's Jared Goff on the road? I believe Brandon Allen
Speaker 1: and Ryan Fitzpatrick can throw multiple touchdown passes against Cleveland
Speaker 1: this season. I think Dalton has a chance to over
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland side. Nick chob can give hi An a.
Speaker 1: The last running back to score through land or error
Speaker 1: against the Browns was mark Ingram in Week ten, so
Speaker 1: they've been kind of tough against the run since then.
Speaker 1: They've blanked the likes of Josh Jacobs, Benny Snell, and
Speaker 1: Levy on Bill. But opposing backs are still leading, are
Speaker 1: still averaging a hundred combo yards per game, so Chubb
Speaker 1: gets an A and Kareem Hunt will get a B.
Speaker 1: Opposing backs are averaging five plus catches against Cincinnati over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, and during that span Hunt has
Speaker 1: caught thirteen passes while Nick Chubb has just four catches,
Speaker 1: So easy hunt for B for hunch, maybe an A MPPR.
Speaker 1: Even I'm gonna haven't mentioned the wide receivers now, and
Speaker 1: the first one I'm gonna talk about his Jarvis Landry
Speaker 1: while he's the leading receiver sixty five catches, nine nineteen yards,
Speaker 1: five touchdowns for Landry, seven eight oh five and two
Speaker 1: for Beckham. Brutal uh. Cincinnati is the only team in
Speaker 1: the NFL with an opponent passing play percentage under fifty
Speaker 1: though that doesn't bode well for either of these guys
Speaker 1: or the passing game. Landry has been red hot, garnering
Speaker 1: ten plus targets and five of his last six. He's
Speaker 1: moved around quite a bit, but should still run primarily
Speaker 1: out of from the slot world see Darky's Dennard who
Speaker 1: has allowed just ten of eighteen passing for ninety yards
Speaker 1: and no touchdown. So he's good. I think he's truly
Speaker 1: a slot corner and whenever they try to play him
Speaker 1: elsewhere it doesn't work out. But in the slot, den
Speaker 1: Art is very good. Agreed and uh so this is
Speaker 1: a better matchup for Odell Beckham um probably one of
Speaker 1: the better matchups of the season four him. But again
Speaker 1: the volume is a concern, but opposing wide receivers are
Speaker 1: averaging under seventeen targets per game against the Bengals, not
Speaker 1: a lot of volume, but Robby Anderson had seven catches
Speaker 1: for a hundred and one yards last week. Beckham can
Speaker 1: do the same, one would think. David and Joku not
Speaker 1: activated yet, so we're not going to talk about him much.
Speaker 1: But he still has Arizona next week, so he's worth
Speaker 1: Mosterick and pick him up now for that Arizona matchup
Speaker 1: next week. You know you got a figure for those
Speaker 1: that are still allowed to make waiver moves. He'll be
Speaker 1: a hot waiver wire guy next week. So if you
Speaker 1: wanted Joku for free, effectively, go pick him up now.
Speaker 1: I should. I didn't mention though I gave a B
Speaker 1: to both Landry and Beckham and Baker. Mayfield also gets
Speaker 1: a B two eighty four and three and two fifty
Speaker 1: eight and four in the two games. Again since the
Speaker 1: last season. This is the first meeting, by the way,
Speaker 1: very late for a divisional the first divisional matchup. But again,
Speaker 1: how much will the Browns need to pass in this one?
Speaker 1: The Bengals understandably limited Sam Donald the combo of Duck Hodges,
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph and Derek cart in recent weeks, but they're
Speaker 1: still ranked thirty one against the past by football outsiders.
Speaker 1: Baker should do fine, but his ceilings a little caps here,
Speaker 1: just to be all right, Uh, Matt, let's move over
Speaker 1: to San Francisco taking on the Saints, as are two
Speaker 1: good defensive teams. And let's start with the forty Niners
Speaker 1: side of this one where he mostarred splashed big time
Speaker 1: last week. We're gonna talk about him in depth a
Speaker 1: little later. What do you think of where he mostred
Speaker 1: in the rest of the running game for the forty
Speaker 1: Niners in this matchup? So I was gonna say this
Speaker 1: is a really good reality game, but a pretty bad
Speaker 1: fantasy game for the most part. Here Um, I got
Speaker 1: all the running backs on the bench because it's Shannahannigans
Speaker 1: all over again. Touch leaders in the backfield over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks have been Brita, Brita, Coleman, Coleman, Mostart,
Speaker 1: and now Jeff Wilson is back involved again to most
Speaker 1: Are huge day last week was the only back in
Speaker 1: that span the topped eighty rushing yards for the Niners.
Speaker 1: No back has topped eighty three yards in the Saints
Speaker 1: all year, and they've only allowed one rushing score to
Speaker 1: running back in the last seven games. So they're all
Speaker 1: on the bench. Um, I don't really like much in
Speaker 1: the passing game either. I'm giving Jimmy Garoppolo a bench grade.
Speaker 1: Garoppolo has put up three big games this year. They
Speaker 1: were two against the Cardinals and one against Cincinnati. In
Speaker 1: his other nine games on the season, he's averaging two
Speaker 1: hundred six yards and one point one touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: So unless you had the number one overall pick last
Speaker 1: year or the number one overall pick this year, he's
Speaker 1: not doing We're very well against right, Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: should call him Jimmy three pretty much three good games. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Saints have allowed multiple scores to each of the
Speaker 1: last four quarterbacks they faced, and two of those four
Speaker 1: of top three yards. But I still don't think Jimmy
Speaker 1: g is getting it done. George Kittle, I am giving
Speaker 1: an A grade. Two Kittles topped eighty five yards or
Speaker 1: scored in five of his last seven and the Saints
Speaker 1: have given up four relevant fantasy days to tight ends
Speaker 1: in the last four weeks. So Kidles just an auto start.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders gets to see Deebo Samuels on the bench.
Speaker 1: Sanders led the team in targets and catches last week,
Speaker 1: but that was only six and four, respectively. He seems
Speaker 1: to be over the rib injury, but he's not over
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore, who he should draw shadow coverage from this week.
Speaker 1: On the Saint side, Michael Thomas easy a. I am
Speaker 1: giving an A grade to Alvin Kamara as well. And
Speaker 1: there's there's okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna get right into
Speaker 1: all the shade that needs to be thrown here alright. Um,
Speaker 1: he hasn't topped a hundred rushing yards all year. He's
Speaker 1: scored only twice, both in one game. Yes, on the
Speaker 1: positive side, running back has topped eighty total yards on
Speaker 1: the Niners, and six of the last seven weeks that'll
Speaker 1: be Kamara, and Kamara has seen reception totals of eight, ten, nine,
Speaker 1: and four in the last four weeks. Those are huge
Speaker 1: reception totals, and in PPR leagues, he's still just an
Speaker 1: auto start. I think he's an a start. Nobody in
Speaker 1: the in the playoffs right now is thinking about benching
Speaker 1: Alvin m Nobody's got Alan Camara in the playoffs because
Speaker 1: they're all out. Maybe, um, did you good job, Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: I'm only giving a C grade two. Over the last
Speaker 1: eleven games, the Niners are only allowing a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three passing yards and under a touchdown per game
Speaker 1: to opposing quarterbacks. The only quarterbacks who have burned the
Speaker 1: Niners over the last two months were the mobile Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson and the mobile Kyler Murray twice. Drew Brees mobility
Speaker 1: might be improved if he played with one of those
Speaker 1: hover around electric wheelchairs. I think that that might help him.
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, also on the bench, the Niners have been
Speaker 1: awesome against the tight end this year. Only two tight
Speaker 1: ends of top thirty two yards against them all year,
Speaker 1: and they've only allowed three scores to the position. Um,
Speaker 1: why can't um? Why can't Drew Brees be on what
Speaker 1: was the palm? The mall cop? Paul Blart mark mall cop? Yes,
Speaker 1: why can't he be on a segway? He could? I mean,
Speaker 1: are there specific rules in the NFL that state that
Speaker 1: you can't ride motorized vehicles? That's right? Show me in
Speaker 1: the in the rule book for the NFL where it
Speaker 1: says just been a sega. It just has to match
Speaker 1: the uniform. That's all they care about. Yeah, my kids
Speaker 1: are really good at those hoverboard things. Yeah, Breese might
Speaker 1: might do well in those. I think I'd break my back.
Speaker 1: Ravens taking on the Bills Another that we've You know,
Speaker 1: we're starting out with a lot of low scoring, tough defense,
Speaker 1: really good reality games this week that aren't gonna lend
Speaker 1: you a lot of fantasy points. And this is Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is a great reality game, and there aren't that
Speaker 1: many fantasy points to be had. So we're gonna do
Speaker 1: go through the charade with Lamar Jackson where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you all the reasons he should have a bad game.
Speaker 1: Then you're gonna start him anyway, are we gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him an a grade anyway. We have
Speaker 1: we don't have the time for this. Here are the
Speaker 1: reasons you should bench Lamar Jackson outright, and we'll never
Speaker 1: bench Lamar Jackson outright. The Bills ranked fourth and passing
Speaker 1: yards allowed, second in passing touchdowns allowed um. They are
Speaker 1: allowed the third fewest quarterback rushing yards, just eight rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game. Two of the past twenty seven quarterbacks
Speaker 1: of face Buffalo have scored a rushing touchdown. And I'm
Speaker 1: giving him an a grade anyway, because the rules just
Speaker 1: don't apply to Lamar Jackson right now. Uh, staying staying
Speaker 1: with the Ravens and maybe even the passing game. The
Speaker 1: only the only member the passing game that you can
Speaker 1: start here is Mark Andrews. It is a tough matchup
Speaker 1: though The Bills have allowed the second fewest receptions, yards
Speaker 1: and touchdowns to tight end basically the top tight end defense,
Speaker 1: and they basically are the top tight end defense. And
Speaker 1: Andrews only gets a be because he's been that good
Speaker 1: no no tight end his top sixty yards against the Bills,
Speaker 1: and only one tight end his top fifty yards, and
Speaker 1: that was John hu Smith. Who did it on one
Speaker 1: flukey long catch. So it's a brutal matchup and Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews probably deserves more like a C grade here, but
Speaker 1: he's been so good for much of the year, I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B. Anyway, it sounds like you're gonna
Speaker 1: play the players that got you there. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: hate that. Then Marquis Hollywood Brown averaging a pedestrian thirty
Speaker 1: six yards per game over the last six weeks. See,
Speaker 1: you need him to score, So Willie score? Answer no,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna get shadowed by trade Abous White, who
Speaker 1: is not allowed to touch down all season, so he's
Speaker 1: out to Where does that leave us? Mark Ingram? Over
Speaker 1: the last three games, the Bills are allowing fewer than
Speaker 1: fourteen rushing attempts, the fewest for only fifty seven rushing yards,
Speaker 1: fourth fewest. Last week, it was only the second time
Speaker 1: since Week four that mark Ingram did not have one
Speaker 1: rushing yards or a touchdown, and that was against a
Speaker 1: tough forty Niners defense. This is also a tough draw here,
Speaker 1: but mark Ingram usually gets it done, so he gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. Overall. It's it's tough if if Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is going to have a flop game. This is
Speaker 1: the one, but you're still starting. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Buffalo side. We've only got a couple of starting grades here,
Speaker 1: beginning with a C grade on Josh Allen. Over the
Speaker 1: past month, the Ravens are giving up ten and a
Speaker 1: half points per game. That's it. Only Patrick Mahomes has
Speaker 1: topped one touchdown against the Ravens, and while Josh allen
Speaker 1: rushing prowess is always a wild card, the Ravens have
Speaker 1: stymied other good rushers this year, like Kyler Murray and
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. The Ravens have allowed the third fewest quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing yards as well, So it's all it all, It's
Speaker 1: all bad for Josh Allen. The only other starting grade
Speaker 1: I've got is Devin Singletary. The Ravens defense much more
Speaker 1: vulnerable on the ground than through the air. Aside from
Speaker 1: shutting down Todd Gurley two weeks ago, the Ravens have
Speaker 1: allowed one hundred rushing yards or a touchdown to running
Speaker 1: back in each of their last four games, and Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary averaging eighteen touches since he's supplanted Frank Gore. So
Speaker 1: I think, but just between all the usage and the
Speaker 1: fact he can't pass on the Ravens, Singletary has got
Speaker 1: a reasonable chance at a good game here. We're not
Speaker 1: going to start John Brown in a brutal match of revenge.
Speaker 1: It is a revet. You're right, Revenge Stock. I forgot
Speaker 1: about their revenge dock. Thank you. Revenge Duck is back um.
Speaker 1: Over the last two weeks, he's averaging just thirty three
Speaker 1: yards on less than three catches per game. That's John Brown.
Speaker 1: But the important thing to know is since the Ravens
Speaker 1: got Jimmy Smith back from injury and traded for Marcus
Speaker 1: Peters and have had those two in the same backfield,
Speaker 1: basically nobody passes for anything. And that's the case there. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, just Lamar Jackson, you're toiling over starting him.
Speaker 1: Most people who own him probably have a bye, which
Speaker 1: is the silver line, which is absolutely great because they
Speaker 1: need that. By this week. They might like it's danger
Speaker 1: takes it. It could be. I mean, I just I
Speaker 1: really think if there's one game where Lamar Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: has the backgame is up and I'm stilliving him an
Speaker 1: a because he's just agreed, agreed. I'm just saying a
Speaker 1: lot of owners. Will they have a vibe most likely
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Speaker 1: It's called take a chance on Me. Nine players not
Speaker 1: normally in your starting lineup, many of whom are available
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire. My co host and I are
Speaker 1: going to provide three quarterbacks, to running backs, and three
Speaker 1: receivers we believe are unusually startable this week, beginning with
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson in the quarterback position. Who you got all right?
Speaker 1: We heard the revenge duck. Now I need the duck duck.
Speaker 1: The distinction very slept between those ducks, Devlin Duck Hodges
Speaker 1: At Arizona, this is quite simple. Arizona has surrendered the
Speaker 1: most passing touchdowns in the league with thirty one. They've
Speaker 1: surrendered three plus passing yunds in five straight games. Duck
Speaker 1: has turned the tables on the Hunters because he's got
Speaker 1: the gun. He's got a cannon, and the Cardinals have
Speaker 1: allowed sixty pass plays of twenty plus yards. Zero Ducks
Speaker 1: greater than Cardinals. I think if a real Duck and
Speaker 1: a real Cardinal got in a fight, oh, I take
Speaker 1: the Duck, I take the Cardinal. They are mean. That
Speaker 1: is a mean, mean bird. You should see the blue
Speaker 1: jays in my backyard. The Cardinal. Yeah, there mean to
Speaker 1: the jerks of the avion world, for sure, they are.
Speaker 1: You want to want to hear about another jerk? Sam
Speaker 1: Donald was a jerk last week against Since he really was.
Speaker 1: But he's the quarterback against the Dolphins, and that's basically it.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have been the slump buster uh for every quarterback.
Speaker 1: Multiple scores for each of the following fantasy studs, and
Speaker 1: I used that in print their quotation marks uh, Phil Rivers,
Speaker 1: Case Keenum Mason, Rudolph Baker, Mayfield, even let Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: get back in the positive. Last week, Donald's coming off
Speaker 1: a bad game against the lowly Bengals and the prior
Speaker 1: to games against Washington and Oakland. He was averaging over
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and three scores per game. I think
Speaker 1: Donald's probably on that again this week three three calling
Speaker 1: it all right. I'm now I'm wondering what are slump
Speaker 1: buster sound should be. I really hope Donald makes out
Speaker 1: all right this weekend. I think it's gonna Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: goes up against the Jets in that same game, and
Speaker 1: you know what this is, It's time for the revenge
Speaker 1: duck as Rand Fitzpatrick takes on the Jets. He faced
Speaker 1: the Jets in week nine two eight yards and three
Speaker 1: touchdowns for Mighty Stu Beard. Volume will be Fitzpatrick's friend.
Speaker 1: Since Week six, opponents are throwing thirty eight passes per
Speaker 1: game against New York. They're a great run defense. At
Speaker 1: Miami can't run at all, and they are a terrible
Speaker 1: past defense. And Stu Beard's the best thing going. When
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick throws thirty eight or more passes, he averages three
Speaker 1: one yards. Big game coming for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the take a chance, I mean running backs, Brian.
Speaker 1: I'm staying with the Steelers and going Jalen Samuel's at
Speaker 1: the same Arizona Cardinals of course, James Conner has been
Speaker 1: ruled out. Yes, Benny Snill will start, but Samuels will
Speaker 1: assume all of the third down work and could be
Speaker 1: in line for an expanded role if Pittsburgh somehow manages
Speaker 1: to fall behind, which isn't all that unrealistic. Um Arizona
Speaker 1: has been been a good matchup for pass catching backs
Speaker 1: as of late, outside of the Rams runners, who are
Speaker 1: rarely targeted. The Cardinals yielded catch totals of thirteen and
Speaker 1: twelve to the back fields of San Francisco and Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay in their last two games prior to the l
Speaker 1: A game. And then there's more receiving angles here. Juju
Speaker 1: looking kind of dicey. He's out, He's ruled out. Okay,
Speaker 1: my bad Vance McDonald's. Janlen Samuels might be a better
Speaker 1: tight end than Vance McDonald is. And we all know
Speaker 1: how tight ends do against the Arizona Cardinals. So changing
Speaker 1: Jylen Samuel's position, all right, don't get let Yahoo know,
Speaker 1: because they'll make anybody a tight end, or they did
Speaker 1: last year. They've done it several times. Uh, Matt, you
Speaker 1: take a chance to mere running back. I planted my
Speaker 1: flag in one of the Buccaneers running backs, and so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to decipher this one. So hear me out.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is still the starter, but Peyton Barber shows
Speaker 1: up and kills you ever so often like he did
Speaker 1: last week. But the Bucks have essentially split the backfield
Speaker 1: in games where it's close or where they're leading the
Speaker 1: line in this game is Bucks by three show, which
Speaker 1: should be one of those games. So what backs have
Speaker 1: had the most success against against the Colts in recent weeks. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's Derrick Henry, It's Carlos Hyde, alright, it's Leonard four
Speaker 1: net bigger back, It's Trey Edmonds. All four of them
Speaker 1: have the same thing in common there two pounds or more.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is two hundred pounds. Peyton Barber. There we go.
Speaker 1: If it's gonna be a close game, we're looking at
Speaker 1: both of these guys in the twelve to fifteen carry arrange.
Speaker 1: But Barber is gonna have the success. Okay, I like it,
Speaker 1: calling you shot um. I tweeted this earlier. I think
Speaker 1: last Sunday. There are approximately forty million Americans and Canadians
Speaker 1: who play fantasy football. I'm glad you kept the Canadians
Speaker 1: in there. Well, they count a boot. They There isn't
Speaker 1: one person who has successfully started either Peyton Barber in
Speaker 1: all the right weeks and benched him in all the
Speaker 1: right weeks, or Ronald Jones started him in all the
Speaker 1: right weeks. Nobody's broken it down like I just did.
Speaker 1: Right there. No, that's gonna be the angle right there,
Speaker 1: might take a chance to be running back has not
Speaker 1: scored a rushing touchdown in two years. That's Davanta Freeman.
Speaker 1: It's come to this. It was the the playoff game
Speaker 1: before the Minneapolis miracle. I think you're right, Um. The
Speaker 1: Panthers are the opponent this week. They've allowed a rushing
Speaker 1: score in eight straight games. They've given up nineteen running
Speaker 1: back touchdowns this year. Caroline has given up at least
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty two combo yards to their opponents in
Speaker 1: five of the last six games. What was the one
Speaker 1: game in the last six in which they did not
Speaker 1: give up one hundred fifty two yards? It was the
Speaker 1: Falcons Brian Hill and Brian Hill. Watch Brian Hill get
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. That I thought about that. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I should just go Brian Hill right now. But Freeman
Speaker 1: should get the majority of the work here is pedestrian.
Speaker 1: As he's been, he should get the majority of the
Speaker 1: work in a great matchup, Let's go to the receivers.
Speaker 1: Who's he to take a chance of me? Receiver, Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm staying in the desert in Arizona, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to the other sideline with Larry Fitzgerald. I can't move
Speaker 1: using letterally Fitzgerald as it take a chance and receiver
Speaker 1: for a while. He has provided he say four as
Speaker 1: of late with catch totals of eight, five and six.
Speaker 1: But there is potential for a ceiling here, especially if
Speaker 1: Arizona is playing from behind slot wish. Slot wide receivers
Speaker 1: have faredwell against Pittsburgh in the last three Landry Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry at six or seventy six, Tyler Boyd five for
Speaker 1: one oh one in a touchdown, and then it was
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry uh again or it was going you know
Speaker 1: back in time had four for forty three and one.
Speaker 1: Even Miami's Alan Hearns and Albert Wilson both scored from
Speaker 1: the slot against Pittsburgh not long ago. So let's gool
Speaker 1: Larry fits all right, I got a double bonus. Take
Speaker 1: a chance to me, wide receiver, here. But first I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you a question. Which one of these names
Speaker 1: does not belong here? Zach Pascal, Marcus Johnson, Donovan Reiners
Speaker 1: or Ashton duel in Um. All of them don't belong
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Three of them are coldswide receivers that
Speaker 1: received a target last week. The fourth is a kid
Speaker 1: from my son's soccer team. Okay, great Pascal is the
Speaker 1: obvious play with t Y Hilton officially out, but Marcus
Speaker 1: Johnson becomes interesting. He had six targets four receptions in
Speaker 1: fifty five yards last week, and this week he gets Tampa.
Speaker 1: The Bucks have allowed the most receptions and yards to
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the second most touchdowns in the league,
Speaker 1: with nineteen on the season through twelve games. Marcus Johnson
Speaker 1: is even in play in a deep league. I think
Speaker 1: we have to be very deep. But yes, bucket yours
Speaker 1: secondary has been strangely competent the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but I don't trust it alright. Our final take a
Speaker 1: chance of me player is a tight end. Not only
Speaker 1: is he a tight end, he is the tight end
Speaker 1: in that he has He's the highest scoring fantasy tight
Speaker 1: end over the last six weeks. And he's available in
Speaker 1: half of the league's That's Kyle Rudolph. Since Adam Feeland's injury,
Speaker 1: he has scored six touchdowns in six games. When he
Speaker 1: faced to troyd in Week seven, this week's opponent, five catches,
Speaker 1: fifty eight yards and a touchdown for Kyle Rudolph. Since
Speaker 1: that Rudolph touchdown in Week seven, the Lions have surrendered
Speaker 1: four more tight end touchdowns, including touchdowns to the likes
Speaker 1: of Foster Moreau, Ben Bronicker and Jasper horse Stead. If
Speaker 1: those guys can score on the Lions, why not Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph available in half of leagues? Those are solid NFC
Speaker 1: North splits splits right there, Brown and Jesper what's his stead?
Speaker 1: Yesper Harstead. Um, let's go to work. In one or
Speaker 1: maybe even two matchups into this segment. Denver taking on
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and Brian Drew Lock got his first
Speaker 1: start last week, looked quasi competent. What do you think
Speaker 1: about him this week against an inconsistent Houston Texans secondary. Well,
Speaker 1: first off, this is the battle of teams who paid
Speaker 1: Brock Oswiler to play football. That's a good point, but
Speaker 1: the Texans lost that one. By a wide margin by
Speaker 1: Start Cleveland. Like, huh picked up the tab because it's
Speaker 1: been a while. The official name on this show is
Speaker 1: brick Oss Wilder, so let's keep that straight my bed anyway. Uh,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Drew Lock. I got him on the bench,
Speaker 1: just rookie making his first road start. It's a it's
Speaker 1: it's better than neutral matchup. But let's see what we
Speaker 1: got here. Uh, let's go to his top receiver. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Courton and Sutton can give him a B. He's an
Speaker 1: automatic A with an a proven competent quarterback. Hopefully Drew
Speaker 1: Lock can prove to be that at some point. Because
Speaker 1: Courtlon Sutton is let. Houston has allowed the fifth most
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns on the season, but just two over
Speaker 1: the last four games. That's said, they haven't faced anyone
Speaker 1: quite like Sutton, so a safe B for Courtland here.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get kind of cute with Tim Patrick,
Speaker 1: but just again, with Drew Lock making his first start
Speaker 1: on the road, I'm gonna put him on the bench
Speaker 1: as well. As Noah Fant was out targeted by Jeff
Speaker 1: Human last week, and Fant can't block supposedly, and Drew
Speaker 1: Drew Locks probably need some blockers in this game, so
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. Houston has only allowed three tight
Speaker 1: end touchdowns all season. By the way, air Ebron, Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews Fant isn't quite in that company just yet. Uh.
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay, though does get a starting grade with a B,
Speaker 1: was actually out snapped by Royce Freeman last week, with
Speaker 1: Lindsay still had two x the touches, so I'm not
Speaker 1: too worried about that. And the Texans have been getting
Speaker 1: touched up by opposing backs recently over the last three weeks. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're allowing a hundred and thirty plus combo yards in
Speaker 1: every game to opposing running backs and six total touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the position during that span. So a safe B
Speaker 1: for Philip Lindsay here Over to the Houston side, and
Speaker 1: uh to the running backs Carlos Hide and Duke Johnson,
Speaker 1: this situation got pretty messy last week. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: both a sea here. Duke outtouched Tide fourteen to eleven
Speaker 1: total ninety yards in a touchdown. Hide had twenty two
Speaker 1: meaningless scoreless yards. So gross Hide looks tired to me.
Speaker 1: And then he does this a lot where he wears
Speaker 1: down Duke looks like he's got the fresher legs right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I might change my mind when I'm done with this
Speaker 1: analysis here because outside of a monster game by Leo
Speaker 1: four Nett in Week four against the Broncos, Denver had
Speaker 1: been shutting down opposing running backs all season, but they've
Speaker 1: kind of packed it in the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: Last week Black Backs, that's the Chargers running backs total
Speaker 1: the hundred seventy seven yards and uh, I get it.
Speaker 1: And Buffalo Backs had a hundred seventy nine combo yards
Speaker 1: of the week before no touchdowns there. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give both a sea here because Houston should dominate time
Speaker 1: of position. Um DeAndre Hopkins though another brutal draw after
Speaker 1: getting Stephon Gilmore last week. Gets Chris Harris, but he's
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. He can't go below a season on your bench.
Speaker 1: He still gotta start him. Well. Fuller going to give
Speaker 1: him a sea borderline b Denver has allowed seven wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns over the last six games. Kind of shocking.
Speaker 1: Fuller should be free from Harris uh shadow coverage, but
Speaker 1: per usual Fullers a boom or bust option. Uh, he
Speaker 1: will see a lot of Isaac Yam. Yes, the corner
Speaker 1: who has a career one of the six quarterback rating
Speaker 1: in his coverage. So a safe sea for will Fuller. Hey,
Speaker 1: Will Fuller, how about holding on in the ball? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about catching a pass? That would be nice, that
Speaker 1: would help as well. And Darren Fells he's on the
Speaker 1: bench three or less, three less targets and four straight games.
Speaker 1: He's irrelevant yet again. And Deshaun Watson, you give him
Speaker 1: a b here. Denver has allowed multiple passing touchdowns and
Speaker 1: three straight games. These these teams actually met in November
Speaker 1: of last year and Watson had two thirteen and two
Speaker 1: passing and thirty eight rushing yards. Probably a safe floor
Speaker 1: for him here. That does sound about right. Um Matt
Speaker 1: Indianapolis taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers already talked about
Speaker 1: several players from this game. Marlon Mack is going to
Speaker 1: be back in this one. Now, what we're not clear
Speaker 1: about is he's got the hand in We're not clear
Speaker 1: you know, just this mean he goes right back to
Speaker 1: being a workhorse or are they going to keep rotating
Speaker 1: guys that I think that makes us a little bit murky.
Speaker 1: It was a broken hand, so that the concern is
Speaker 1: ball security and pass catching both. Yeah, so um, we're
Speaker 1: probably looking at Marlon Mack who gets maybe half the touches,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna get Jordan Wilkins and Jonathan Williams.
Speaker 1: Wilkins replaced Williams last week who was benched. So I
Speaker 1: have all of these guys on the bench and this
Speaker 1: one um Tampa has allowed the fewest rushing yards in
Speaker 1: the league to the position and only five total touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the season, and with how murky this backfield looks
Speaker 1: this week, they're all on the bench. Jacoby Bursett, I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B grade to. The only quarterbacks that have
Speaker 1: not thrown multiple touchdown passes against the Bucks in the
Speaker 1: last ten weeks are Matt Ryan, who was replaced by
Speaker 1: Matt shab because the Falcons were up by a ton
Speaker 1: and the Jags quarterbacks Gardner Minshew and Nick Foles last week.
Speaker 1: And Minshew had one forty seven and one and a
Speaker 1: half of play, so you know, play that out. He's
Speaker 1: got about um. So Brissett's definitely in. Jack Doyle gets
Speaker 1: an A grade to Only the Cardinals have allowed more
Speaker 1: touchdowns to the tight end position, and we've seen this
Speaker 1: in the past. When one of those two tight ends
Speaker 1: goes out, the other one takes all the numbers, and
Speaker 1: you combine those two tight ends into a super tight
Speaker 1: end and they're good. By the way, t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: is out, Zach Pascal and Marcus Johnson where my code.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me wide receivers. Pascal's probably like
Speaker 1: a solid A A minus is B plus ish grade.
Speaker 1: I'm in on that. I picked him up. I'm starting
Speaker 1: him in a playoff game, yes, right, Um, I talked
Speaker 1: about the running backs for the Bucks, and take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. We don't need to. I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm starting Ronald Jones or Daria Ogun Boala. Peyton Barber
Speaker 1: just kind of gets a see. Mike Evans and Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin each get A grades. Evans is third in the
Speaker 1: league in targets inside the ten, but hasn't scored in
Speaker 1: four straight so some positive regression is due. And from
Speaker 1: the perimeter, both DJ Chark and DeAndre Hopkins each scored
Speaker 1: twice against the Colts in the last three weeks. Colts
Speaker 1: slot corner Kenny Moore is out for this game, so
Speaker 1: Godwin will be running it back up and a made
Speaker 1: up name from Charge Roland Milligan. Roland Milligan was burned
Speaker 1: by former undrafted free agent and also made up name
Speaker 1: Cliff Raymond for a forty yard score last week. Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston gets a B grade, mostly because I like his
Speaker 1: wide receiver so much. But no quarterback has topped three
Speaker 1: yards in the last six games against the Colts, and
Speaker 1: no quarterback has thrown for more than two touchdown passes
Speaker 1: since Week three against this team. But I just gave
Speaker 1: a grades to the wide receiver, so I got to
Speaker 1: give at least a B to Winston and a desperation
Speaker 1: D grade to O. J. Howard if you've got no
Speaker 1: one else. Howard had five catches on six targets last week,
Speaker 1: was on the field for seventy of the plays, and
Speaker 1: the Colts have allowed the ninth most receptions to the
Speaker 1: tight end position, So if you're really, really in a pinch,
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Speaker 1: we will break down more matchups, including the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: taking on the Minnesota Vikings, David Blow making a second
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Speaker 1: takes on the Minnesota Vikings. This one's uh. This one's
Speaker 1: a little bit thorny with a fair number of moving parts. Here.
Speaker 1: The quarterback for the Lions, as you probably saw on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: David Blow. Now his wide receivers have strongly positive matchups,
Speaker 1: so I'm not ruling out a decent game from him,
Speaker 1: despite being a second start rookie going up against Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 1: which doesn't on the face of it sound very promising,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be surprised if Kenny Golladay and Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones at decent games here. So I've got I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade to David blow Zimmer has faced four
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks this year. None have topped one touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: but they've all beat him two of them. Two of
Speaker 1: them have beaten the Vikings. Marvin Jones doesn't have any
Speaker 1: history against the Vicings. Oh it certainly did not score
Speaker 1: four times in the earlier matchup with the Vikings, and
Speaker 1: I think he's got I think he's got eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his last four against the Vikings. I believe yikes uh.
Speaker 1: He will see both Trey Waynes and Xavier Rhodes. Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones will um and they're both strong matchups. Based on
Speaker 1: his history this year, Jones we most more oftensee Xavier Rhodes, though,
Speaker 1: who is allowed over one hundred yards in his coverage
Speaker 1: and back to back weeks and was benched for a
Speaker 1: while last week. So Marvin Jones gets to be great.
Speaker 1: He was better when he was Xavier Rhodes and now
Speaker 1: that he's ex Xavier Rhoades, he used to be Xavier Roads.
Speaker 1: He's an ex Xavier Rhodes. You're right, he has an
Speaker 1: ex Xavier h Kenny golladays for him also be great.
Speaker 1: His his rookie quarterback hit him for a seventy five
Speaker 1: yard bomb in the second play of the game on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: but he still hasn't had more than four catches in
Speaker 1: a game in a month, which makes him very boom
Speaker 1: or bust. Over the last four games, Minnesota has allowed
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards per game to opposing receivers, including
Speaker 1: allowing four receivers to top the century mark. So Gala
Speaker 1: Day is still in play here and he could do
Speaker 1: well again. I've got him with a B grade. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running game where both Scarborough will get
Speaker 1: the start again and he's gotten nearly all the carries
Speaker 1: since he took over three weeks ago, but he gives
Speaker 1: you nothing through the air, So keep that in mind
Speaker 1: if you're a PPR league. I know the Vikings just
Speaker 1: got hammered by the Seahawks Runners, but that has been
Speaker 1: an aberration. Minnesota hasn't allowed running back to top seventy
Speaker 1: six yards in their five home games, and only Andy
Speaker 1: Janovic has scored a rushing touchdown in Minnesota this year.
Speaker 1: I don't even know who Andy Janovich is. A one
Speaker 1: yard gold line plunge for Andy Janovich fullback Broncos. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Minnesota side where Kirk Cousins gets a
Speaker 1: straight up A. Even without we believe Adam Theeland, who
Speaker 1: is unlikely to play, Cousins is thrown multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: four straight games and seven of the past eight games,
Speaker 1: most of them without Adam clan In that mix of
Speaker 1: games was his Week seven performance against Detroit, in which
Speaker 1: he threw for three hundred thirty eight yards and four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Every opposing quarterback except Dwayne Haskins, who does not count
Speaker 1: since Week seven, has blown up against the Lions, averaging
Speaker 1: three seventeen yards and three and a half touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity for Kirk Cousins, and that means
Speaker 1: I must like his receivers, and I do. That includes
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph, who is might take a chance of a
Speaker 1: receiver as I mentioned earlier, and he gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: Stephen Diggs gets a B grade. It's for Diggs. It's
Speaker 1: been all or nothing in these games. Without feeling in
Speaker 1: three of the past four games, Diggs has had fifty
Speaker 1: yards or less receiving, and then in the other one
Speaker 1: he went four five catches, hundred twenty one yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Fortunately, Diggs faces a familiar opponent in the Allions,
Speaker 1: who he pasted for seven catches a hundred forty two
Speaker 1: yards in the Week seven matchup. To try to struggle
Speaker 1: in pass coverage over the last three games, giving up
Speaker 1: two hundred thirty five yards per game to receivers, the
Speaker 1: second most over the last three weeks out of any team.
Speaker 1: So I do think dig shakes free here. He will
Speaker 1: get almost certainly shadow coverage from Darius Slay, But Darius
Speaker 1: Slay just isn't a shutdown cornerback anymore. He's good, but
Speaker 1: he's not a shut automatic, shutdown cornerback, and he's an
Speaker 1: ex Darius Slay Exterius Slay. I like it um now
Speaker 1: if you wanted to get really cute, and at this
Speaker 1: stage of the year, you don't need to because you're
Speaker 1: probably in the playoffs. But maybe the worst slot cornerback
Speaker 1: in the league is Justin Coleman, who has given up
Speaker 1: the most yards in coverage of any cornerback. He's their
Speaker 1: slock cornerback. You could try Olabes Johnson. I do think
Speaker 1: the Vikings that will move Steph Diggs into the slot
Speaker 1: to try to abuse Coleman with Digs in that matchup.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running backs. Dalvin Cook one percent
Speaker 1: will play. He's got the shoulder injury but isn't even
Speaker 1: on the injury report for the weekend. Cook smoked Detroit
Speaker 1: in the week seven meeting for one d forty two
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. But since then they got Mike
Speaker 1: Daniels back, and since getting their defensive tackle back, they
Speaker 1: have not allowed more than seventy five yards to a back.
Speaker 1: Cook has scored touchdowns in ten different games and Detroit
Speaker 1: is allowed five running back touchdowns in its last four weeks,
Speaker 1: many of them by the air, and Cook has become
Speaker 1: a big part of the passing game. Now there's a
Speaker 1: chance here that with the shoulder injury, Cook gets less work,
Speaker 1: and if he gets less work, that brings Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: in the conversation, I think he's startable with a C
Speaker 1: grade here because we don't know for sure how much
Speaker 1: work that Cook gets. And then also there's this the
Speaker 1: Vikings are thirteen point favorites. There's a chance they just
Speaker 1: get up by a lot. Could be a blowout. It
Speaker 1: could be a blowout. They could end up that. It
Speaker 1: could end up just resting Cook at some point and
Speaker 1: it turns into a Madison game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So I do have a C grade at Alexander Madison.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next matchup, that is Tennessee taking
Speaker 1: on the Oakland Raiders. Well, Derrick Henry is the easy
Speaker 1: part of this equation, right. I think the real question
Speaker 1: is what does he leave? What? How many leftover points
Speaker 1: are there for the passing game? Easy for Henry. I
Speaker 1: just want to mention really quick, he's playing out his
Speaker 1: rookie con tracked right now. So talk about motivation going
Speaker 1: into the fantasy play unrestricted free agent after this year. Yep,
Speaker 1: he's looking to get paid and he's doing a good
Speaker 1: job of that. Future Tampa Bay buccaneer possibly. Um. I
Speaker 1: do not like a lot of the past catchers for
Speaker 1: the Titans. Shockingly, UM, let's start with A J. Brown
Speaker 1: and Corey Davis. Davis is on the bench. Uh. First off,
Speaker 1: let me say opposing wide receivers are seeing less than
Speaker 1: eight team targets per game against the Raiders. Those are
Speaker 1: not numbers for opposing receivers and in that, in that,
Speaker 1: I mean, and if you're the Tennessee Titans, why pass? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean you've got Derrick Henry an unhealthy
Speaker 1: numbers are Davis's target total over the target totals over
Speaker 1: the last five games. It's gone from seven to six
Speaker 1: to five to three to two. Just drop him. He's worthless.
Speaker 1: He's probably dropbab Dynasty leagues at this point. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: will give A J. Brown a celough despite the low
Speaker 1: target total by opposing wide receivers. Oakland is one of
Speaker 1: eight teams that have allowed more than two thousand yards
Speaker 1: and at least twelve touchdowns to wide receivers. This here,
Speaker 1: so see for A J. Brown the number one receiver
Speaker 1: on that team. Adam Humphrey's not going to play. I
Speaker 1: believe I wasn't really gonna mention him anyway. He's been
Speaker 1: a huge disappointment, huge John new Smith. I have him
Speaker 1: on the bench, even with Delaney Walker on I R.
Speaker 1: Anthony Firkser might actually be the tight end to start,
Speaker 1: but you want to avoid this situation entirely. They're both
Speaker 1: on the bench. I will give Ryan Tannehill as see
Speaker 1: um even though it should be a Monster Henry game.
Speaker 1: Oakland has allowed multiple multiple touchdown passes and seven of
Speaker 1: their last nine games. The only quarterbacks who failed to
Speaker 1: do so where Ryan Finley and of course Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He did total to touchdown, so he didn't run one
Speaker 1: in so see it for Tannehill. But Tannehill has had
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns and everyone his starts. Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: problem is he's doing it on eighteen passes, nineteen passes,
Speaker 1: twenty passes. The low volume just caps Tannehill's upside because
Speaker 1: they just running Derrick Henry so well, and the low
Speaker 1: volume and the writings on the wall for that in
Speaker 1: this matchup for sure, um over to the Raiders who
Speaker 1: are underdogs at home. By the way, Josh Jacobs, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna if you're gonna break the show every time
Speaker 1: and alert listeners every time the Raiders are home underdogs.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that. That wasn't the case, at least for
Speaker 1: a few weeks when people thought the Raiders were good. Right,
Speaker 1: they had met Trick, they were the sixth seed in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and up until for a hot minute. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs has a shoulder injury. He is a game
Speaker 1: time decision at this point in appeared it's a broken shoulder.
Speaker 1: It's fractured. So DeAndre Washington go out and scoop him up.
Speaker 1: I was gonna give Jacobs a B if he plays.
Speaker 1: I'll give Washington a B. I suppose if Jacob sits.
Speaker 1: Over the last four games, Tennessee has allowed a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight combo yards and one and a half
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game to running backs, and Jacobs does way
Speaker 1: better at home. By the way, even though Oakland is
Speaker 1: a underdog. So just you got a monitor, Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: he must handcuff DeAndre Washington must add Washington in all
Speaker 1: leagues at this point. Really, who has been added a
Speaker 1: long time ago thanks to this show is Darren Waller.
Speaker 1: I should say drafted, not added. Waller is averaging over
Speaker 1: seventy yards per game over the last three weeks, and
Speaker 1: during that same span, both Travis Kelsey and Jack Doyle
Speaker 1: top seventy receiving yards and scored a touchdown against the Titans.
Speaker 1: Waller can do the same. Tyroll Williams, I was gonna
Speaker 1: bench him if it Dorry Jackson plays. But Dorri Jackson
Speaker 1: is going to miss this game. So despite not topping
Speaker 1: six targets in six straight games, Tyroll Williams, I'll give
Speaker 1: him a see, but you know what, he's really a
Speaker 1: great boomer bus Are you like a high ceiling play
Speaker 1: on fanball? In DFS, I would go out chase Tyroll
Speaker 1: Williams in a few lineups. But despite starting Tyroll Williams
Speaker 1: Derek Carr bench, come on, come on, it just hasn't
Speaker 1: come together. Car was eminently startable through the middle of
Speaker 1: the season and but just it's all, it's all feels
Speaker 1: like it's fallen apart and you need easier matchups At
Speaker 1: this stage, I think, yeah, there's um a couple of
Speaker 1: wet time for one more matchup to work in Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins taking on the New York Jets. Matt we already
Speaker 1: talked about this as a revenge game for Stu Beer.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the other members of the
Speaker 1: passing game and especially DeVante Parker. I think very highly
Speaker 1: of DeVante Parker because as far as Fitzpatrick's targets go,
Speaker 1: Parker has seventy seven targets for Stu Beard this year.
Speaker 1: No other wide receiver has more than thirty three, and
Speaker 1: he's seen double digit targets in four straight. In fact,
Speaker 1: since Preston Williams knee injury, Parker's top five in the
Speaker 1: NFL and targets receiving yards and air yards. So over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks. Uh, he gets the Jets defense
Speaker 1: that's allowed eight wide receiver touchdowns and that's the second
Speaker 1: most in the league over that span. A grade for Parker.
Speaker 1: Mike get Sicki gets a B grade. Gisicky has had
Speaker 1: six or seven targets in each of the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: In each of the last five games, a tight end
Speaker 1: has topped forty yards or scored versus the Jets. That
Speaker 1: includes Gisicky's six in Week nine. Um, we're not starting
Speaker 1: the running game though Patrick Laird is on the bench.
Speaker 1: He's a fourth string running back going against a team
Speaker 1: that hasn't allowed a runner to top forty four yards
Speaker 1: since Week eight, So we're not thinking about that in
Speaker 1: a playoff matchup. On the other side, the running back
Speaker 1: situation is a little tricky because Levy on Bell is
Speaker 1: a game time decision with an illness. I bet he goes,
Speaker 1: but you plan for Bellow Powell in his absence because
Speaker 1: if Bell doesn't go, Powell will be grade, but I
Speaker 1: think I think Bells will be grade to um. The
Speaker 1: Fins have had the most rushing attempts against them this year,
Speaker 1: as opponents are averaging twenty seven rushing attempts per game.
Speaker 1: That's a huge number. Bell put up a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one total yards in the first meeting on twenty
Speaker 1: five touches. Sam Donald was might take a chance and
Speaker 1: the quarterback means I like his wide receiver's Jamison Crowder.
Speaker 1: I'm giving an A grade to Robby Anderson. I'm giving
Speaker 1: a b um. No team has allowed more touchdowns to
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position than the Dolphins twenty one so
Speaker 1: far this year. The Dolphins have allowed nine touchdowns on
Speaker 1: nine slot targets this year, and Crowder's running from the
Speaker 1: slide um and I like Anderson because outside speedsters have
Speaker 1: burned the Fins over the last few weeks. John Brown,
Speaker 1: O'Dell and Alshon Jeffrey each had huge games against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And then Ryan Griffin. I'm even given a B two.
Speaker 1: He's had another seven targets last week. He faces a
Speaker 1: Dolphins team that's allowed the sixth most yards to the
Speaker 1: tight end position, So Griffin is available in a pinch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he is too, and I'm i gotta start
Speaker 1: with one of my playoff leagues. I'm starting Ryan Griffin.
Speaker 1: I think there's an opportunity here coming up. Next, we've
Speaker 1: answered three tough questions. You get to play a lot,
Speaker 1: try to go three and oh. We've crafted three absolute
Speaker 1: mind benders for you to try to play along with.
Speaker 1: It won't be easy to try to go three and oh.
Speaker 1: Three tough questions on Fantasy Football Weekly. Next, it's Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. I am pul Charchie in my co host
Speaker 1: and for this segment, panel of experts are Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: and Matt Harrison. Let's uh dig into three tough questions, guys.
Speaker 1: Traditionally we like to begin on a tough question. Number one.
Speaker 1: In redraft leagues, should owner who are in the consolation
Speaker 1: bracket be allowed to make waiver wire moves? Brian, I'll
Speaker 1: make this short and sweets. If there's anything on the
Speaker 1: line that you can win, I don't care. If it's
Speaker 1: a red balloon, then the answer is yes. If there's
Speaker 1: a punishment for the last place team, then the answer
Speaker 1: is yes. But otherwise no, I get like, yes, everyone
Speaker 1: should have a chance to play out the season. But
Speaker 1: just play out the season with the players you got
Speaker 1: and let the big boys play for the prize. But
Speaker 1: if there's anything on the line, yes, at all. But
Speaker 1: if there's not, no, just just sit it out and
Speaker 1: make best with what you got. So wait, but there
Speaker 1: is there's a consolation bracket, So there is a problem.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if there's a consolation brackets. Elation bracket
Speaker 1: is the questions and your answer is yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: assume there's a prize at the end of this braacket.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be a monetary prize. Why I can't
Speaker 1: it just be I know I won. Well, that's worthless
Speaker 1: in my opinion, that's worthless if there's no if there's nothing,
Speaker 1: if there's no picks, if there's if there's no, it's
Speaker 1: gonna brag about winning the consolation brack it. Come on,
Speaker 1: if that's if you're going to brag about that. But
Speaker 1: if there's a I brag about that before I brag
Speaker 1: about a red balloon. But you get the red balloon.
Speaker 1: I was I was gonna say penny instead of adonai. Okay, penny. No,
Speaker 1: So no is your answer. If there's no monetary value, No,
Speaker 1: so yes is the answer. If one one cent or
Speaker 1: more of value, then yes yes. If there's not, then no, Yes, Matt,
Speaker 1: my answer is similar, but I'll try to do it
Speaker 1: more eloquently. By default, that will happen. If there's a
Speaker 1: prideful Toilet Bowl trophy or anything on the line, you
Speaker 1: got to allow them to play, especially if it's a
Speaker 1: dinostair keeper league. For sure, you need to allow people
Speaker 1: to pick up. If you believe the flip side, and
Speaker 1: you do not believe people should be able to pick
Speaker 1: up any players once they're out of the top bracket
Speaker 1: in your playoff league. There should not be a consolation
Speaker 1: bracket in your playoff league at all. They should not
Speaker 1: be playing. You should just give him those weeks off
Speaker 1: and say, go play on fanball and play some dfs
Speaker 1: and win some money in the Crushed Church Championship. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's that's how I see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you you nailed the exact right. That is exactly the
Speaker 1: right answer. If if I if you're trying to crown
Speaker 1: a champion and you don't want some two win owner
Speaker 1: mucking up the waiver wire because he's trying to not
Speaker 1: get that Toilet Bowl trophy that actually looks like the
Speaker 1: toilet lid or whatever. They're trying to not get that
Speaker 1: thing and they don't want to hold it for a
Speaker 1: year or whatever, you know whatever that loser penalty is
Speaker 1: that they've got that. Don't have the consolation bracket at all.
Speaker 1: Don't have a loser penalty. But this question, there is
Speaker 1: a consolation bracket. What do you here there is? So
Speaker 1: the point is, if there is a consolation bracket, then
Speaker 1: people are playing for something. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a money It can pride counts. They're spun up by
Speaker 1: the fall. You know what we say. We always say
Speaker 1: this in face football, it's not about the money. If
Speaker 1: I were to ask you, tell me about tell me
Speaker 1: about your fantasy football championships. You'll go, oh, well, two
Speaker 1: thousand two, I had this team, and I went I
Speaker 1: started this he's and nine and oh and then I
Speaker 1: had this tough loss and I had marsh On Lynch
Speaker 1: and he powered me to blah blah blah. It's never well,
Speaker 1: I won four two bucks. It's not about the money
Speaker 1: that should be tell. The point being, if owners have
Speaker 1: something anything to play for, they get to make waiver
Speaker 1: wire moves tough question number two. For the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, San Francisco running back where he most start
Speaker 1: will be an RB one and r B two, A
Speaker 1: flex or a bench player. Matt, you know this one
Speaker 1: caused some severe damage to my pennial gland. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I can see, I can see it leaking out right now.
Speaker 1: I mean that helps me regulate my body's internal clock,
Speaker 1: circadian rhythms, and it helps me secrete melatonin, and it
Speaker 1: has some role in my sexual development, secreting two different ways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's that's all bad. Um. Most it's of bench grade,
Speaker 1: as is the whole Niners run game, because you can't
Speaker 1: figure out who the lead back is in any given week.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned before in the matchup, three different runners
Speaker 1: have led the team and touches in the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Brita gets dinged up a lot, but he also placed
Speaker 1: through it quite often. Tevin Coleman has been bad for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, but before that he was a
Speaker 1: pretty solid RB two. If you can tell me that
Speaker 1: both of those guys won't play at all for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year, I'd give most dire an r
Speaker 1: B two, But as is, he's a bench player. Bench Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this week it's a brutal matchup at New Orleans Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Next week at home, that's a good matchup, and then
Speaker 1: the Rams in week sixteen. That's almost a blocker for
Speaker 1: running backs. As Matt said, uh no, Loane running back
Speaker 1: really has popped off as a bell cow all season.
Speaker 1: On four occasions a San Francisco back has topped fifteen carries.
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman did it in weeks five, six, and seven,
Speaker 1: and then Rashima raheam moster did it last week when
Speaker 1: we had nineteen carries and Coleman only at five. If
Speaker 1: Matt Brita wasn't coming back, I might be changing my answer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now Bree is gonna come back and muck
Speaker 1: this all up again. And Brita is the best running
Speaker 1: back on the team skill wise in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, he will be the back. So I
Speaker 1: got most of on the bench too, all right, So
Speaker 1: most of its averaging six yards per carry six back
Speaker 1: to back seven yard per carry games coming into this.
Speaker 1: He just ravaged an excellent Baltimore defense. Tevin Coleman is
Speaker 1: not even a factor in this conversation anymore. If you've
Speaker 1: been paying attention. You've noticed diminishing snap count in four
Speaker 1: straight weeks and then ultimately benched in the second half
Speaker 1: of last week's game. Tevin Coleman is just not very good.
Speaker 1: He's not even a factor. So then that only really
Speaker 1: leaves us with Matt Brita to sweat. Now, Brita is
Speaker 1: good and maybe even the best back in the backfield,
Speaker 1: like Brian just said, but does it even matter because
Speaker 1: we all know what's gonna happen to Matt Breed to
Speaker 1: the moment he gets more than five or six touches
Speaker 1: in a game, he's dead. Most of the work is
Speaker 1: gonna go to wheheem Mostred by default pre dead. San Francisco,
Speaker 1: as a reminder, has the most rushing touchdowns in the league.
Speaker 1: They've got They lead the NFL in running back rushing
Speaker 1: yards total yards by their running backs. It's San Francisco
Speaker 1: as the lead back in a quality offense where he
Speaker 1: Mostred is going to be an RB two the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. Shanahanigans, man, oh yeah, it's I'm not
Speaker 1: saying there won't be your rotation. There will be some.
Speaker 1: Moster is the kind of player that you start and
Speaker 1: lose a fantasy playoff week because of or win or
Speaker 1: or really really lose. Tough question number three, assuming Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas is sitting at top pretty much everybody's cheat sheets
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position next August. Who will be
Speaker 1: wide receiver too? M Brian, who you got? I was
Speaker 1: so close to saying Mike Evans. He and Randy Moss
Speaker 1: the only two players in NFL history with a thousand
Speaker 1: yard seasons in the first six seasons in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's like a lock wide receiver ten guy. That being said,
Speaker 1: I want my first round wide receiver, in my top
Speaker 1: wide receiver to be the alpha receiver on that team.
Speaker 1: And Chris Godwin kind of MUCKs up that situation for
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, who doesn't have any competition at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position on this the way, is this answer about
Speaker 1: who it's honor? Who it is? I was saying almost
Speaker 1: as Mike Evans, And now I'm gonna get to Davante
Speaker 1: Adams is my wide receiver to He has no Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin type threat on his team. Quite the opposite situation
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. And yeah, he only has three touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the year. They have come in the last two games.
Speaker 1: He had sort of a slow start, but he had
Speaker 1: tough matchups at Chicago and he didn't score until Week ten. Well,
Speaker 1: he missed five games as well. I'm gonna assume he's
Speaker 1: healthy all of next season. He's seen double digit targets
Speaker 1: in every game since his return, at least six catches
Speaker 1: in every game, couple hundred yard games, and three touchdowns
Speaker 1: over his last two He'll be just fine going to
Speaker 1: next year. Rogers has enough gas in the tank. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams is my number two wide receiver alright, Matt, I'm
Speaker 1: going to bat for Amari Cooper again, who I predicted
Speaker 1: in our bold Predictions segment at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year would finish as the number one wide receiver overall.
Speaker 1: It's a kind of peacock. He's not going to finish
Speaker 1: number one overall. It's gonna be close, but he's he's
Speaker 1: number He's not. He's number three in most formats right now. Um,
Speaker 1: the how Boys have to move on from Jason Garrett, right,
Speaker 1: I imagine they bring in an offensive mind to help
Speaker 1: steer their young investments, as Dac and Cooper will both
Speaker 1: either sign big deals this offseason or get hit with
Speaker 1: the franchise and transition tags, Cooper's top ten and targets, yards, receptions,
Speaker 1: and receiving touchdowns. He's only twenty five years old. He's
Speaker 1: playing for one of the most talented offensive collections in
Speaker 1: the league, with a good offensive line Zeke Dack and
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup on the other side. Who's a beta receiver,
Speaker 1: not the alpha, but he's a good beta, right, he
Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't have the Godwin problem. You're absolutely right
Speaker 1: about that. So I like I like Mary Cooper quite
Speaker 1: a bit. That is the correct answer. Mary Cooper is
Speaker 1: going to be the I think will be the consensus
Speaker 1: number two next week or next year. Remember, he's he's
Speaker 1: been this good this year playing on half a leg.
Speaker 1: He's limping noticeably on every single play. That's been this
Speaker 1: way since the preseason when he had the bad foot.
Speaker 1: And Cooper is not too old. I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about the age drop off or the the or
Speaker 1: the can necessarily the camp hounding injuries of like a
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and it's finishing his fifth year and he's
Speaker 1: that's crazy, isn't it. Yeah, he came out so early.
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper is going to be wide receiver number two
Speaker 1: next year. Nicely done. Man. When you lose Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: you lose your precious garbage time though, so don't uh.
Speaker 1: Let's let's work in one more matchup, and I believe
Speaker 1: we are on the Carolina Panthers taking on the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: It's Carolina good run defense. Caroline is not a good
Speaker 1: run defense. Christian McCaffrey's an obvious and this one, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the passing game. Kyle Allen gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: I don't think the change it head coach really affects
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen much because Norv Turner and his son Scott
Speaker 1: Turner were responsible for developing Alan. They're still in the
Speaker 1: sidelines and there they were the play callers before they're
Speaker 1: gonna be the play callers now. Alan played his worst
Speaker 1: game of the year against these same Falcons three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: which does worry me. Frankly. The Falcon secondary improved dramatically
Speaker 1: over their Week nine by when they used Raheem Morris
Speaker 1: as their new secondary coach. Not only have they crushed
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, but they stymy Drew Brees twice since then.
Speaker 1: So just to see grade on Kyle Allen here and
Speaker 1: it's in part because I still want to be able
Speaker 1: to use DJ Moore. Over the past five games, d
Speaker 1: J Moore's average seven catches for a hundred three yards
Speaker 1: and has found paidired three times over those five games.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's defense has improved a lot, as I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: But why Do's are still succeeding Over the last five games,
Speaker 1: Atlanta's allowed three one yard receivers and four receiver touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and receivers are still getting a little something done here.
Speaker 1: So I've got a a middling sea on Kyle Allen,
Speaker 1: a straight up be on DJ Moore. Curtis samuel Is
Speaker 1: on the bench is a low volume, touchdown dependent receiver
Speaker 1: in a difficult, seemingly difficult matchup. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Atlanta side. Hold on one minute. Yes, you're burying the lead.
Speaker 1: Caroline is not going to get the ball in this
Speaker 1: game because of all the onside kicks the Atlanta is
Speaker 1: gonna just complete. They're never kicking off ever again, not
Speaker 1: have to There is that um I mentioned, And take
Speaker 1: a chance on me about how the Carolina the run
Speaker 1: defense is just awful. Carolina Jacksonville are your two terrible
Speaker 1: run defenses. DeVonta Freeman was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back. It's a lot thornier for the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the passing game. Let's talk about Matt Ryan. Normally,
Speaker 1: I cautioned fantasy owners about relying on a quarterback against
Speaker 1: the Panthers because Carolina's got the worst run defense and in
Speaker 1: in league, so they don't even bother to throw. But
Speaker 1: the Falcons and DeVonta Freeman have been so inept that
Speaker 1: it's not a guarantee. He probably isn't gonna go like
Speaker 1: full blown workhorse on this, so I still think Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan could end up with a decent game here. Um
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has scored at least one touchdown against Atlanta
Speaker 1: in eight straight matchups, and you'll likely score here too,
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be surprised we were just one touchdown
Speaker 1: like he threw against Carolina three weeks ago. So I've
Speaker 1: just got a C grade on Matt Ryan. Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: In his last nine meetings with the division riseing rival
Speaker 1: rival Panthers, Jones has had at least sixty yards and
Speaker 1: or a touchdown, but he hasn't very been explosive games,
Speaker 1: and he always seems to draw Um Bradbury, which has
Speaker 1: been a tougher matchup for him. The Panthers defense has
Speaker 1: fallen a part of the last four weeks, allowing a
Speaker 1: hundred seventy four passing yards per game to receivers, including
Speaker 1: one hundred yard performance in three of the last four.
Speaker 1: If Julio Jones were healthy, I'd give him an A,
Speaker 1: but instead he just gets a B grade here. And
Speaker 1: that brings us to Calvin Ridley, who crushed Carolina for
Speaker 1: eight catches, one forty three yards, and a touchdown three
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Meanwhile, the Panthers secondary has been in a
Speaker 1: free fall over the last four weeks, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: and well, you know, Julio goes so Ridley probably is
Speaker 1: going to see cornerback Dante Jackson, who's just an above
Speaker 1: average quarterback. But that was the same guy that he
Speaker 1: beat for the for his big game three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So Calvin Ridley a B grade. Austin Hooper is coming back,
Speaker 1: I'll remind I'll remind listeners, Austin Hooper was the number
Speaker 1: one scoring tight end when he suffered his knee injury.
Speaker 1: He was a top ten wide receiver time nine, So
Speaker 1: he goes right back into being viable. Here is a
Speaker 1: B grade assuming he's going to get a full complement
Speaker 1: of plays, which I think he will. He missed the
Speaker 1: first meeting due to his knee injury, should return here.
Speaker 1: Caroline is allowing nearly sixty yards per game to tight
Speaker 1: ends over the last three weeks, and Fantasy relevant tight
Speaker 1: ends have fared well against the Panthers. Big games to
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, George Kittle, even Cameron Brat o J. Howard
Speaker 1: combined for a good game. So we'll give it B
Speaker 1: grade to Austin Hooper. All right. Every week, did you
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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Arizona Cardinals. Benny Snell
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Speaker 1: d f S. Let's dive back into the matchups. Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers taking on the Arizona Cardinals. Brian Benny Snell will
Speaker 1: get the vast majority of carries against Arizona. What do
Speaker 1: you think of this opportunity for him? With James Conner out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a very safe b for Benny Snell. Over their last
Speaker 1: five games, Arizona has allowed a hundred seventy two combo
Speaker 1: yards and one point two touchdowns per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. But the receiving yards from those combo yards
Speaker 1: most should go to Jalen Samuels might take a chance
Speaker 1: of me running back, and you know what, he'll probably
Speaker 1: see a few added targets because Juju Smith Schuster has
Speaker 1: been ruled out, and you know Deante Johnson's I'll mention
Speaker 1: James Washington in a minute. Outside of Juju and James Washington,
Speaker 1: I'm not sold on any Pittsburgh wide receiver, but James
Speaker 1: Washington definitely get to be here. With Juju out, Washington
Speaker 1: will man the slot where he will avoid Pat Pete.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, who is still the best cornerback for what
Speaker 1: it's worth, still a shell of his former self, but uh,
Speaker 1: it's just an all around great matchup for wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Though Arizona has surrendered the third most catches and third
Speaker 1: most yards to the wide receiver wide receiver position on
Speaker 1: the season, and over the last four weeks, Arizona has
Speaker 1: surrendered the third most yards to wide receivers and the
Speaker 1: only played three games over the last four week They've
Speaker 1: had their boy. So I will give Deonte Johnson a
Speaker 1: dart throat see in this one, but he's more of
Speaker 1: a flyer in daily on fanball dot com. If he
Speaker 1: asked me, I wouldn't trust him and redraft Um. What
Speaker 1: you can trust is the opposing tight end against the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. Basically, any tight end that faces Arizona is
Speaker 1: an automatic a start. That said, Vance McDonald just gets
Speaker 1: a B four targets across Ducks two starts at quarterback.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little worried about Vans McDonald, but he's
Speaker 1: a safe. He thinks Jalen Samuel's gonna steal all this
Speaker 1: touch And there's Nick Finnett, to who Pro Football Reference
Speaker 1: has him dubbed his baby gronk for some reason. They
Speaker 1: need to scrub that from their site. The Arizona has
Speaker 1: surrendered the second most catches and the most yards and
Speaker 1: the most touchdowns to tight end, So safe b for
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald. Duck Hodges might take a chance on the
Speaker 1: quarterback for very obvious reasons. Over to the Arizona side,
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake the softest of seas for Kenyon here, nine
Speaker 1: two combo yards is the high water or mark for
Speaker 1: an opposing running back against the Steelers this year, who
Speaker 1: have also just allowed to running back touchdowns over their
Speaker 1: last nine games. Drake is strictly a volume play. We're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about David Johnson, will briefly mentioned
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk another very soft Sea has been running the
Speaker 1: majority of his routes from the right side, where he'll
Speaker 1: see a lot of the rejuvenated Joe Iron Hayden, who
Speaker 1: was allowing just a catch rate in his coverage on
Speaker 1: the season. He's doing He's looking great. Larry Fitzgerald, though,
Speaker 1: was a much better matchup in the slot. Slot receivers
Speaker 1: have been doing well. That's why he was might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me wide receiver. And lastly, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: I got on the bench in one quarterback leagues. I
Speaker 1: will start him in super flex though, but Murray's probably
Speaker 1: still banged up in a very tough matchup. Pittsburgh ranks
Speaker 1: fourth against the past by football Outsiders. They are third
Speaker 1: in sack rate, and let's just put it this way.
Speaker 1: The Steelers held la Mark Jackson to a hundred sixty
Speaker 1: one passing yards and one passing touchdown. L Jackson did
Speaker 1: have seventy rushing yards, but it took him fourteen carries
Speaker 1: to get there. Murray only has fifteen combined carries over
Speaker 1: his last three games. So bench for Kyler Murray go
Speaker 1: with ste Beard or I think I think you can
Speaker 1: find so I do I'd rather have done or a
Speaker 1: lot of other quarterbacks. And now you mentioned that the
Speaker 1: Steelers defense being so good, and it it really is.
Speaker 1: And for all the talk about Mike Tomlin is a
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year candidate, which is legitimate talk, most
Speaker 1: of it focuses on what how he's been able to
Speaker 1: win despite his quarterback people are talking and running back.
Speaker 1: You lost Levi on bell To that was a season ago. Um,
Speaker 1: I think the more I think it's the defense, it's
Speaker 1: it's the defense. Well, now we're really going over the
Speaker 1: lost Franco Harris too, So it's the defense that I think.
Speaker 1: Overcame Franco Harris and that was tough. It was a
Speaker 1: tough loss. Jack Ham, Jack Lambert, Me and Joe Green.
Speaker 1: Really very impressive work by Mike Domblin. Uh, the defense
Speaker 1: has been very impressive. The Chargers take on the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: Matt and the Chargers running backs have a great opportunity
Speaker 1: against what is turning into one of the two worst
Speaker 1: run defenses in the NFL and the jack Jaguars. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: Brian said before, it's uh lack versus the lack backs
Speaker 1: and its lack versus Jack and Jack Without Jack Jack,
Speaker 1: Myles Jack Jack is out, no Jack for Jack for
Speaker 1: the lack backs. Um. The Jags have allowed six point
Speaker 1: one yards per carry over the last four games and
Speaker 1: seven rushing touchdowns to the running backs in that span.
Speaker 1: They and and as I mentioned, they lost Miles Jack
Speaker 1: to i R this week. Eckler still deserves starts in
Speaker 1: PPR leagues, as he's had thirteen touches in each of
Speaker 1: his last two weeks and has had at least eighty
Speaker 1: yards or a score in eleven of twelve games this year.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, I'm giving a B grade two hasn't top
Speaker 1: seventy one yards since Week three, and that's bad, but
Speaker 1: he's had at least eleven targets and four of his
Speaker 1: last six games, and double digit targets is pretty bankable.
Speaker 1: And Jacksonville is just a middle of the pack past
Speaker 1: defense and their best corners are on the outside. Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry gets a B grade as well. Sixty nine nice
Speaker 1: yards or scored in five of his last seven games,
Speaker 1: and he's slotted in most lineups. Don't worry about the
Speaker 1: crappy game yet. Against the Broncos last week that was
Speaker 1: that was nothing. Philip Rivers is on the bench, though
Speaker 1: the upside seems to be gone. Hasn't topped two touchdown
Speaker 1: passes since Week one, only one yard game in his
Speaker 1: last five. Similarly, the Jags haven't allowed a three hundred
Speaker 1: yard passers since Week four and only two quarterbacks of
Speaker 1: top two touchdown passes. The upside here is two fifty
Speaker 1: and two and that's the upside. Do you buy into
Speaker 1: the Tyrod Taylor talk that that Rivers is at risk
Speaker 1: of a potential in game benching. I think the organization
Speaker 1: respects him too much um for them to bench him
Speaker 1: at all the season. The season's lost for the for
Speaker 1: the Chargers. I think that they let him play it
Speaker 1: out the rest of the year, and I think Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers retires at the end of the season, calling you
Speaker 1: shot hip. Leonard Fournett gets a B grade, averaging over
Speaker 1: seven receptions per game in the last five weeks. What's
Speaker 1: more shocking that Leonard four Nett has not missed any
Speaker 1: time or even shown up on an injury report this year,
Speaker 1: or that he's turned into a receiving superstar this year.
Speaker 1: How about this, He trails only Christian mccau free and
Speaker 1: running back targets any trails only the off fore mentioned
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler and Christian McCaffrey in running back receptions unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He's like Matt Qorte. Now, if he were scoring any touchdowns,
Speaker 1: it would be a whole different deal. He'd be dominating
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues. But he's not scoring. He's going to be
Speaker 1: a super interesting guy to forecast next year. Um The
Speaker 1: Chargers have allowed the eighth most receptions and the sixth
Speaker 1: most receiving touchdowns to opposing backs this season. That's why
Speaker 1: he's getting a B grade even though he's only scored
Speaker 1: three times this year. Gardner Minshew is on the bench,
Speaker 1: and you know how I feel about Senior Stash, but
Speaker 1: even I can't play him in this game. Over the
Speaker 1: last nine games, the Chargers are averaging only a hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety four passing yards allowed per game and just
Speaker 1: over one touchdown per game. That doesn't get better with
Speaker 1: a healthy Derwin James and Casey Hayward in the defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: That's why DJ Chark is only getting a C for me.
Speaker 1: D D. Westbrooks getting kind of a desperation see chart.
Speaker 1: Will probably match up with Hayward, who's only allowed two
Speaker 1: D fifty eight yards in coverage all year according to
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, on only twenty catches. Chargers past defense
Speaker 1: is pretty good, but they're a bit susceptible to the
Speaker 1: slot wide receivers, so Westbrook is in play. Slot corner
Speaker 1: Desmond King has allowed eight six of the passes thrown
Speaker 1: in his coverage to be completed. That makes d D
Speaker 1: Westbrook sort of viable here, It is sort of viable.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the next year's ranking for Leonard four Net.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you somebody that bugs me about
Speaker 1: fantasy experts this last offseason for with four Net, all
Speaker 1: the fans, you guys like what, he's never healthy. I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't put him in my top ten. He's never
Speaker 1: healthy anymore. And you know it's he's he's just too
Speaker 1: it's just too much risk. Now everybody's gonna overreact to that.
Speaker 1: Now this year, it's all gonna be Now won't even
Speaker 1: matter anymore. We won't even be talking about that storyline
Speaker 1: that narratives will be dead one year later. Because so
Speaker 1: many people, even just just regular drafters, not even fantasy experts,
Speaker 1: so many drafters. All they can do is replay last year.
Speaker 1: It's just so, what's what's the amount of time that
Speaker 1: you need in order to get a good sample size?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it like three years? I don't Well, no,
Speaker 1: there is. How about this, there's no such things sample size?
Speaker 1: How about that there's no viable sample size in the
Speaker 1: NFL because by the time sounds like the title of
Speaker 1: this podcast podcast, it could be by the time you've
Speaker 1: established your true viable sample size, you're now aging out
Speaker 1: to the point that you've become old and you're not
Speaker 1: as good and the sample size isn't true anymore. It
Speaker 1: seems like we've breached the space time continuum. Here. Where's
Speaker 1: our time machines effect? It's right here. And if you're
Speaker 1: curious about what it would sound like if there was
Speaker 1: a duck on the time machine, it would be like that.
Speaker 1: I can't blame. At the same time, it's really weird.
Speaker 1: Two together, Quick to the future. Good job, Brian Redskins
Speaker 1: take on the Packers, be grades for the running back
Speaker 1: acts for the Redskins. Adrian Peterson. Uh, you know, let's
Speaker 1: start with Darius because I think that's the bigger story.
Speaker 1: He had the sixty yard run last week, scored a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, which is great and I think we
Speaker 1: called that on the show if I may Peacock for
Speaker 1: a moment. However, he did his damage last week on
Speaker 1: nineteen snaps. That's it. This is still Adrian Peterson's backfield,
Speaker 1: who is only one hundred forty two yards away for
Speaker 1: moving into fifth place all time in rushing yards. He
Speaker 1: led the Redskins backs in plays and carries last week,
Speaker 1: finished with ninety nine yards and a touchdown last week,
Speaker 1: and he goes up against the Packers defense that ranks
Speaker 1: twenty five in rushing yards in yards per carry allowed.
Speaker 1: Three straight lead runners have topped one total yards against
Speaker 1: the Packers, and Adrian Peterson still the lead runner there,
Speaker 1: but Darius Guys also gets a be because he's been dynamic.
Speaker 1: The Packers have given up big games to multiple running
Speaker 1: backs several times this year, and there is still a
Speaker 1: scenario out there where Geist is the lead back that
Speaker 1: maybe this is the game that Bill Callahan changes everything
Speaker 1: up and they give the ball to Darius Guys. Now,
Speaker 1: the hope is that the Green Bay Packers don't stake
Speaker 1: a big lead and then the running game evaporates because
Speaker 1: you get nothing out of the passing game. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: you're not starting any part of the Washington passing game
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They've been shut out. Dwayne Haskins have
Speaker 1: been shut out in every game but one, so we're
Speaker 1: not touching any part of that. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Green Bay side of this equation, starting with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: who gets a B grade. Aaron Rodgers this year has
Speaker 1: been a boom or bust fantasy quarterback. In his four
Speaker 1: boom games, he ranks as quarterback number one. In his
Speaker 1: other eight games, he ranks his quarterback thirty seven matt
Speaker 1: how many teams are in the NFL, not thirty seven two.
Speaker 1: So in his other eight games, Aaron Rodgers is worse
Speaker 1: than there are numbers of starting quarterbacks in the NFL,
Speaker 1: like worse than Jeff Driskell. Yes, a him against Washington
Speaker 1: feels feels like a boom, but it's actually potentially a
Speaker 1: sneaky bust. Since early October, the average passing game against
Speaker 1: the Redskins two hundred twenty seven yards and one point
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Those are very modest numbers. Five of the
Speaker 1: past seven quarterbacks to face the Redskins have thrown zero
Speaker 1: or one touchdown that's it. I love a sneaky bust B.
Speaker 1: It's a sneaky bust B grade on Aaron Rodgers. Davante Adams, though,
Speaker 1: gets an A. Over the last three games, Adams has
Speaker 1: been able to weather the ups and downs of Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers to produce either one yards or a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: over the last seven games, Washington secondary has allowed just
Speaker 1: one receiver to top just seventy six yards, which is
Speaker 1: very impressive. However, they have given up multiple receiver scores
Speaker 1: in two of the past three games, and I think
Speaker 1: Adams will find the end zone here. He's been very
Speaker 1: hot on the touchdown department in the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: Speaking of receivers, I've got a C grade on Alan Lazard,
Speaker 1: who runs half his plays on the easy side of
Speaker 1: the field against rookie Jimmy Morland, who has taken over
Speaker 1: for the sense bench to Josh and Norman. By the way,
Speaker 1: Josh Dormans still making like nineteen million dollars this year, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: In his two games as a starter, Jimmy Moreland has
Speaker 1: allowed nine of eleven passes to be completed, making Lazard
Speaker 1: and all or nothing shot. If you need that kind
Speaker 1: of player in your in your lineup, and let's go
Speaker 1: to the running game where Aaron Jones has been a
Speaker 1: total disaster. So if you think back, like a month ago,
Speaker 1: he has that epic game against the Chiefs where he
Speaker 1: ends up skilled with like a hundred receiving yards and
Speaker 1: just mowing down Chiefs on the ground and through the air,
Speaker 1: and we're like, finally they've learned how to use Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and unlock the talent of Aaron Jones. Since then,
Speaker 1: total tail spin for Aaron Jones. Three of his last
Speaker 1: four games have produced fewer than forty total yards. That's terrible.
Speaker 1: And he has not scored in a month. He hasn't
Speaker 1: carried the ball more than thirteen times in seven straight games.
Speaker 1: And the Redskins are sneaky good against the run. They
Speaker 1: just held Christian McCaffrey in check, they having allowed one
Speaker 1: hundred yard rusher all season. I have a C grade
Speaker 1: on Aaron Jones, and frankly it ought to be it
Speaker 1: ought to be a bench But I just said, IM
Speaker 1: an inherent believer in jones talent and think he could
Speaker 1: emerge at any game. There's a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: are very angry at their radio or podcast device right now, going, Oh,
Speaker 1: Aaron Darren Jones is one of the guys who got
Speaker 1: me here. I don't did he, but did he get
Speaker 1: you there? In the last month, he got you some
Speaker 1: wins early in the season, he did. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: better options for you to play than Aaron Jones. One
Speaker 1: of them is on his own team. That's Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: who was out gained Aaron Jones one hundred forty seven
Speaker 1: to sixty nine in combo yards the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: That is a doubling rough doubling of combo yards. He's
Speaker 1: also averaged five targets over the last seven games. The
Speaker 1: Redskins have given up some big receiving days to runners
Speaker 1: including Dalvin Cook and Christian McCaffrey and Devin Singletary and
Speaker 1: Brandon Bolden James White. Um So, I think we're I
Speaker 1: think we're looking at a pretty good receiving game from
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams, who gets a B grade here and a
Speaker 1: C grade in non PPR leagues. Jamal Williams is the
Speaker 1: second best receiver outright on that team outside Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: I think that's true. It's to nobody else, it's not Gerontoo, Allison, Marquees,
Speaker 1: Valdez scant Links, not him, Jimmy Graham. I don't know, God,
Speaker 1: that guy disappeared, remember when he was wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: cool relevant like week one? I mean, not as Minnesota guys,
Speaker 1: but wouldn't it be cool if the Packers signed Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown right now? I don't think they can. I think
Speaker 1: I think the you know, the guys who are not rostered.
Speaker 1: Deadline is already passed. I don't get off the plane
Speaker 1: and get right back on anyway, no kidding. Our final
Speaker 1: set of matchups are coming up next, including Seattle taking
Speaker 1: on the L. A. Rams. What do you do with
Speaker 1: Chris Carson and Rashad Penny? We'll tell you when we
Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Final set of matchups coming including the Sunday Night,
Speaker 1: the Monday Night games, and then Chiefs and the Patriots
Speaker 1: coming up. But let's begin with the Seattle Seahawks traveling
Speaker 1: to the L. A. Rams Brian Last week on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: we saw both Rashad Penny and Chris Carson carve up
Speaker 1: a really good Vikings run defense. They face another good
Speaker 1: run defense here. What should our What should the people
Speaker 1: in Seattle listening to us on kJ R think about
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny and Chris Carson in this one? Before I
Speaker 1: get to them real quick, these teams didn't meet already
Speaker 1: in week five, so all reference to that points in
Speaker 1: that game two meetings last year sixty seven and sixty
Speaker 1: four points these teams get together, so game stack, game
Speaker 1: stack might be right. So in the week five meeting, um,
Speaker 1: Chris Carson definitely led the way over a Shot Penny,
Speaker 1: but they did combine for thirty six touches and a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus combo yards. But the Rams run
Speaker 1: defense has showed up a lot, and as we all
Speaker 1: know now, it's essentially a fifty fifty time split between
Speaker 1: Carson and Penny. And Carson supposedly let Penny score the
Speaker 1: touchdown last week. I don't know how much like like that.
Speaker 1: He's like taking me out so ra shot can go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was there was some of that. It was Carson
Speaker 1: subbed himself out. Okay. So over the last four weeks, though,
Speaker 1: opposing running backs are averaging thirty plus opportunities against the Rams.
Speaker 1: That's rushes and targets, but they're not doing anything with them.
Speaker 1: During that same four game stretch, the Rams are allowing
Speaker 1: less than three and a half yards per carry and
Speaker 1: twenty nine receiving yards per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: So I gotta see on both Carson and Penny, and
Speaker 1: Carson had like three more three four more touches, and
Speaker 1: Penny last week, I get him the slight edge if
Speaker 1: I had to choose one, but it's not a good
Speaker 1: look for either this week. What wasn't a good look
Speaker 1: was Tyler Lockett last week, nowhere to go but up
Speaker 1: right after zero catches. I heard from a guy on
Speaker 1: Twitter in a guillotine league. He needed zero points seven
Speaker 1: points from Tyler Lockett on Monday Night. One catch there's
Speaker 1: actually he really needed was one catch for even negative
Speaker 1: three yards would have been a win. One catch for
Speaker 1: negative three yards would have been a win for him.
Speaker 1: And he's in a bad beat. That's a bad beats,
Speaker 1: a very bad beat. Actually, he could go nowhere sick
Speaker 1: in that one. And he's been sick for three weeks
Speaker 1: a shin injury. He's banged up. He actually had negative
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards in the first meeting. So if he
Speaker 1: he didn't catch and he passes, he would end up
Speaker 1: doing worse. But he had four catches for fifty one
Speaker 1: yards any touchdown in the first meeting. Jalen Ramsey was
Speaker 1: not on the Rams. Then Ramsey might shadow lock It
Speaker 1: in the slot, which would not bode well for lock It.
Speaker 1: They're saying there's a potential for that. Lockett has scored
Speaker 1: in three straight games against the Rams. But just to
Speaker 1: see for him here, because I think Ramsey gives him
Speaker 1: the shadow treatment, and Lockett's looking banged up. He's not
Speaker 1: looking as good as he was earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: So call him Decalf Metcalf. You know Decalf Metcalf is Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the bad version, the uncalfeated vision. Okay, that's also
Speaker 1: a booger. Mcc was calling him on Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: But what is he trying to? Yeah, okay, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think you never know, you never know. But anyway, um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a be assuming that Ramsey shadows
Speaker 1: lock It. But if Ramsey shadows Metcalf, Metcalf's in trouble.
Speaker 1: Metcalf has been a very reliable option as of late,
Speaker 1: averaging five catches, sixty yards and half a touchdown over
Speaker 1: his last six games. But not an ideal spot outside
Speaker 1: of the four wide receiver touchdown surrender to the Ravens
Speaker 1: kind of an anomaly. The Ravens have conceded just one
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdown over their last six games, and only
Speaker 1: one opposing wide receiver has topped one hundred yards all year.
Speaker 1: That was Chris Godwin. So you know what I'm just
Speaker 1: going to be for Decalf, dk Metcalf as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: He gets a c as long as as well as
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, and so does Jacob Hollister. The Rams have
Speaker 1: not allowed tight end touchdown since Week seven, and since
Speaker 1: then only one tight end as topped forty five yards.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, will disially in. Luke Wilson combined
Speaker 1: for five catches for nine yards when these teams met
Speaker 1: back in Week five, so it is worth a fair amount,
Speaker 1: so Hauser probably c Plus, I know you won't let
Speaker 1: me do that, but I just did it. Uh. And
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in a to and four passing with thirty
Speaker 1: two rushing yards in the first meeting, totaled seven passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns against the Rams and two games last season. The
Speaker 1: main concern is Jalen Ramsey, of course, since his acquisition,
Speaker 1: non Lamar Jackson quarterbacks have averaged only two thirty yards
Speaker 1: and one touchdown since the Ramsey trade. Wilson is probably
Speaker 1: a little more Lamar than Non though, but a littlettle
Speaker 1: more Lamar than none. Now over the Rams side and
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley two rushing touchdowns in the first game kind
Speaker 1: of a shocker. Just fifty one yards on fifteen carries.
Speaker 1: That would be believable. Sadly, in Curly's previous three games
Speaker 1: against Seattle, though, dating back to last year, dominated eight
Speaker 1: total touchdowns. So he has ten touchdowns in his last
Speaker 1: four games against the Seahawks. But of course he was
Speaker 1: a different player back then. Malcolm Brown wasn't vulturing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Seattle has the only allowed one running back touchdown over
Speaker 1: the last three games, and Nick Chubb is the only
Speaker 1: loan running back who is able to top sixty nine
Speaker 1: yards rushing. That is not nice. So just a C
Speaker 1: for Todd Gurley. I will give Cooper Cup a very
Speaker 1: solid B. Nine catches, a hundred and seventeen yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the first game. Here is two games
Speaker 1: against Seattle last year. He had six for nine and
Speaker 1: one in the first meeting, but left with the concussion.
Speaker 1: Second game, he had five for thirty nine, tore his
Speaker 1: A c L mid game, so he was going off
Speaker 1: in those games where he got hurt. So B for Cup,
Speaker 1: B for Robert Woods. Uh just five for forty eight
Speaker 1: in the first meeting, but as thirty eight targets over
Speaker 1: his last three games, he will see Shaquille Griffin a
Speaker 1: lot to Seattle's top corner. So soft be for Woods,
Speaker 1: I gotta be inch on Brandon Cooks one nine in
Speaker 1: the first meeting, just four catches on six targets and
Speaker 1: two games since returning. Actually a plus match up against
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers, who could be burned deep. But I don't
Speaker 1: trust Jared Goff's accuracy. Tyler Higbee Jerald Everett. There's two
Speaker 1: scenarios here. Everett plays, Everett sits. If every plays, I'll
Speaker 1: give him a see Ben Higby, Okay, if every six
Speaker 1: Higby gets a B. Over the last two weeks, opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends are averaging thirteen catches ninety four yards of
Speaker 1: one whole touchdown against Seattle. When these teams met in
Speaker 1: Week five, Higby and Gerald Edward combined for ten catches
Speaker 1: a hundred eighty three yards. He's that was all general,
Speaker 1: Gerald Everard. That was a huge Gerald Everard game. That's right,
Speaker 1: So if you plays that really MUCKs the situation up. Though,
Speaker 1: then Jared Goff real quick a C three and one
Speaker 1: in the first game, top three hundred yards in both
Speaker 1: meetings last season. He's at home. I'll give him a
Speaker 1: sea whatever. Alright, let's go to the Giants taking on
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Matt Eli Manning at the helm of the Giant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one's Monday Night. He looks to get at least
Speaker 1: one more start in his long and storied career because
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is in a walking boot this week and
Speaker 1: he's unlikely to go. Before Ryan Fitzpatrick's explosion against the
Speaker 1: Eagles last week, they had kind of figured out how
Speaker 1: to play past defense, and the prior five weeks they
Speaker 1: had held opposing quarterbacks two d eighty nine yards per
Speaker 1: game in less than a touchdown. And it wasn't some
Speaker 1: bad quarterbacks, it was Doc. It was Josh Allen, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and Russell Wilson and that girl. Some good pastors there, yep.
Speaker 1: So I'm still giving Eli a bench grade though, because
Speaker 1: he's Eli Manning. Um Golden Tates supposedly on track to
Speaker 1: play on Monday Night Football, which just muddies the waters
Speaker 1: for Darius Slayton and Sterling Shepherd. They're all on the bench.
Speaker 1: Davante Parker is the only wide receiver to top sixty
Speaker 1: one yards in the last five games against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and Eli's yards per attempt is a terrible six point
Speaker 1: two yards and his passes of over twenty yards is
Speaker 1: only seven point nine percent, which is a full point
Speaker 1: worse than Marcus Mariota. For what it's worth, Shepherd was
Speaker 1: Eli's favorite target in Week one six for forty two,
Speaker 1: but that's probably the ceiling there. Evan Engram is trending
Speaker 1: in the right direction to play. He's getting a B
Speaker 1: grade because the theme of this is Eli doesn't throw
Speaker 1: a very fair down field, which bodes well for Ingraham,
Speaker 1: who saw twenty two targets in Eli's two starts that
Speaker 1: included eleven for one sixteen and one in Week one
Speaker 1: six for forty eight and Week two, so it's a
Speaker 1: decent floor. And Sea Kwan gets a B grade as well.
Speaker 1: Um The Eagles have allowed the tenth most receptions to
Speaker 1: the running back position and they haven't faced Sa Kwan
Speaker 1: or the Giants this year. But se Kwon did face
Speaker 1: them last year. He had one forty one and two
Speaker 1: scores in the first game to nine and a score
Speaker 1: in the second game. That's numbers seem unreal for the
Speaker 1: stake Kwon Barkley We've had this year. It does, but
Speaker 1: he's still You're still firing up sa konof. But it's
Speaker 1: a tough it's a tough matchup for him that maybe
Speaker 1: it's not as tough. I think it's tough. On the
Speaker 1: other side, Miles Sanders gets a B grade. Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: still limited with the shoulder injury, and if he does
Speaker 1: suit up, I suppose that dropped Sanders to a C H.
Speaker 1: The Giants have given up three huge games to backs
Speaker 1: this year, Dalvin Cook, Zeke Elliott and Chase Edmonds, but
Speaker 1: have been pretty good mostly outside of that. Sanders had
Speaker 1: a career high twenty two touches last week and top
Speaker 1: tw hundred total yards and scored. J G. I doesn't
Speaker 1: scare anybody. He's not even in the in the in
Speaker 1: the mentionable station, Carson Wentz, I'm giving a B grade.
Speaker 1: Three of the last five quarterbacks to face the Giants
Speaker 1: have thrown for at least three touchdown passes in the
Speaker 1: other two were too bisky. And and Sam Donald each
Speaker 1: had over two thirty one sing score and both of
Speaker 1: them added a rushing score. And Wentz is uh, he's
Speaker 1: got the ability to do a rushing score here. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a good matchup. I'm in on Wentz, I'm
Speaker 1: in on Alshon Jeffrey two, He's an A grade. It
Speaker 1: looks like Nelson Aguar may miss this game with a
Speaker 1: knee injury, which only frees up more targets for al Shan.
Speaker 1: Last week he returned from an injury in a big way,
Speaker 1: sixteen targets, nine receptions, one seven and one. Finally, the
Speaker 1: tight end, Zach Ertz gets an A. Dallas Goddard gets
Speaker 1: a B. The Giants have been good against the tight
Speaker 1: end this year, but they faced no one at all.
Speaker 1: The best tight end they faced all year is either
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph or Jason Witten. They faced nobody. Arts is
Speaker 1: averaging ten and a half targets per game over the
Speaker 1: last four. Godard's averaging seven targets per game over the
Speaker 1: last three. Fire them both up. Alright, deal, and our
Speaker 1: final game is Kansas City taking on the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots and For Patrick Mahomes, it's it was barely an
Speaker 1: A grade and it really vastly between A and B
Speaker 1: for a long time here. I gave him the A
Speaker 1: because I think he's completely healed from his ankle and
Speaker 1: his knee injuries, and the mobility unlocks a lot of
Speaker 1: his passing upside. But it's still tons of caution here
Speaker 1: against the Patriots defense that is not locked down other
Speaker 1: quality passers like Ben Roethlisberger in Week one, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, Lamar Jackson. Those guys passed for an average
Speaker 1: of two hundred sixteen yards and zero point five touchdowns,
Speaker 1: so there's no guarantees. But it's still Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: nobody be surprised to do for three and three, including me,
Speaker 1: so he still gets an A grade. Travis Kelsey obviously
Speaker 1: a grade. Over half of the Patriots passing touchdowns allowed
Speaker 1: have gone to tight ends. Travis Kelsey definitely in play
Speaker 1: here again. Tyreek Hill sums to a B because he's
Speaker 1: gonna draw Stephan Gilmore, who is arguably the league's best
Speaker 1: cornerback and frankly a defensive m VP candidate. For Stephan Gilmore,
Speaker 1: is there a defensive end of here just defensive player
Speaker 1: of the year. I think it's just defensive player of
Speaker 1: the year. Gilmore almost always shadows and Tyreek Hills the
Speaker 1: obvious guy to shadow here, so it's and he's averaging
Speaker 1: a scoreless thirty four yards per game in his coverage,
Speaker 1: so it's a brutal matchup for Tyreek Hill. Then we
Speaker 1: go to the running game. It's gonna be a two
Speaker 1: man backfield in Kansas City between Darwin Thompson and Leshawn McCoy.
Speaker 1: The two Williamses have been ruled out of this game.
Speaker 1: Last week we got our first long look at Darwin
Speaker 1: Thompson and to me, he passed the eye test and
Speaker 1: looked far more electric than Leshawn McCoy. The Patriots, though,
Speaker 1: are not an ideal matchup, but the run defense has
Speaker 1: been un characteristically wobbly of late. Over the last five games,
Speaker 1: they have allowed one hundred thirty nine total yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing runners. So if we call that one
Speaker 1: in thirty nine seventy for Darwin Thompson seventy for Lashawn McCoy,
Speaker 1: if it isn't even split, they both get basically see
Speaker 1: grades here. Somebody gets a touchdown out of this thing,
Speaker 1: and it's not necessarily Leshawn McCoy, by the way, he
Speaker 1: has scored him back to back games, so he probably
Speaker 1: would get a goal line opportunity. But I'll mention the
Speaker 1: Patriots have given up one rushing touchdown all years, so
Speaker 1: there probably isn't a goal line opportunity to be had
Speaker 1: here at all. Can go more? A little more love?
Speaker 1: Real quick? Yeah? How much more love do you need
Speaker 1: than its averaging a scoreless thirty four yards per game
Speaker 1: in his coverage recent in the last month. About the
Speaker 1: last month, Odell Beckham, Mariti Cooper DeAndre Hopkins. If you
Speaker 1: combined for ten catches Tyreek Hills an amazing player, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you have to be careful here. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to the New England side. We begin with the
Speaker 1: running game with Sony Walkman, Kansas City allowing the seventh
Speaker 1: most carries for the second most yards and five point
Speaker 1: one yards per carry. Fire up, Sony Walkman. Put the batteries,
Speaker 1: the double A batteries and you're Sony Walkman. You are.
Speaker 1: And by the way, back then it took like six
Speaker 1: double A batteries to work your cassette player. I really
Speaker 1: liked the auto reverse on the Sony Walkman that would
Speaker 1: start playing the other side of the table flip. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to flip it right, it flipped itself. He
Speaker 1: crushed Kansas City in the two games last year as well.
Speaker 1: He gets a B grade. James White gets a B
Speaker 1: grade because this is this is the fascinating thing about
Speaker 1: James White this year. In the games in which they're trailing,
Speaker 1: he's been fantastic, So I think he's got an opportunity here.
Speaker 1: He averages a hundred thirty one yards and one and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns, and games that they're trailing, he gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. Tom Brady has thrown zero or one
Speaker 1: touchdown in five of seven games. Kansas City has allowed
Speaker 1: zero or one touchdown in eight of their games this year,
Speaker 1: So I think you're just getting zero or one touchdown
Speaker 1: against a good, a good past defense from Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: and he just gets a C grade. And the only
Speaker 1: receiver you dare start is Julian Edelman, who's now commanded
Speaker 1: double digit targets in a career high seven straight games
Speaker 1: and is averaging eighty three yards on eight catches per
Speaker 1: game with three scores in that span. He remains startable
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