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Speaker 1: history of this show, we have never had less concrete
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Speaker 1: of the more important weeks of it all. It is
Speaker 1: is the first week of the playoffs. Never there been
Speaker 1: a better week to have a first round by than
Speaker 1: this week. It's basically an if then episode of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly for your coders out there. If we will
Speaker 1: be you're gonna be hearing a lot of if this
Speaker 1: guy plays, if this quarterback is in, then this, If
Speaker 1: this defense isn't ravaged by COVID, then this. So brace
Speaker 1: for a lot of that. We're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: through all the games, including the games that have now
Speaker 1: moved to Monday and Tuesday night. Las Vegas and Cleveland
Speaker 1: is now Monday night, Washington, Philadelphia now Tuesday night, Seattle,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles now Tuesday night on Sunday. You're going to
Speaker 1: need to make some tough calls about Monday and Tuesday
Speaker 1: players whose status you don't know that you're hoping will
Speaker 1: clear the COVID protocols, but you're not gonna know. And
Speaker 1: mostly the answers I'm gonna be giving people are Start. Guys,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna play. Start all your Chiefs and Chargers,
Speaker 1: Go Start Travis Kelsey. Uh, we're gonna go through all
Speaker 1: the matchups. Of course, like always, no by weeks. This
Speaker 1: week three tough questions like we usually do. Let's begin
Speaker 1: with the Texans taking on the Jaguars my coast. I
Speaker 1: should mention Matt Harrison at Explosive out Put on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson at bat t x J on Twitter as well. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: well this one will be a quick one. Uh, I
Speaker 1: bet it with Ars, especially in the playoffs, where I've
Speaker 1: asked you guys, don't bore our listeners with players who
Speaker 1: are not on any playoff rosters. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear about Rex Burkhead this week. Well, since there's a
Speaker 1: lot of COVID people in uh in the protocol this week,
Speaker 1: you might need a few Texans and a few Jaguars.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the guys that you might need.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks is the obvious one. He gets a B
Speaker 1: grade here with Davis Mills back under the helm, Cooks
Speaker 1: was targeted copiously last week eleven targets eight for one
Speaker 1: oh one last week against Seattle. In his first meeting
Speaker 1: against the Jags, Cooks went for a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: two yards on five catches. Speaking of Davis Mills, hold
Speaker 1: on a minute, because the collective group that was here
Speaker 1: last week hammered take a chance on me, including Brian Johnson,
Speaker 1: who went three for three with Davis Mills. Take a
Speaker 1: chance on Penny Rashide Penny, which was a huge hit.
Speaker 1: And your third guy, do you remember Jalen Guyton, Yeah, Jalen,
Speaker 1: but that became too easy and I threw out Josh
Speaker 1: Palmer as a bonus. So I'll take three and a half.
Speaker 1: You can have the three and a half. The Hooper
Speaker 1: Scooper was a big hit last week. All feel free
Speaker 1: to continue the Scott Fish. We gotta throw out the
Speaker 1: Craig Reynolds. It wasn't take on, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of the guy before, but did not
Speaker 1: actually technically use him is just take a chance, I
Speaker 1: mean running back. Another guy that Scott Fish has mentioned
Speaker 1: a few times is Nico Collins, who just recorded his
Speaker 1: career best day last week against Seattle. Uh. The intriguing
Speaker 1: thing was ten targets he saw from Davis Mills and
Speaker 1: Collins gets to draw the worst of the Jags corners.
Speaker 1: That's Tyson Campbell, who's allowing a passer rating of one
Speaker 1: oh five in his coverage. No playoff team is starting
Speaker 1: David Johnson. Both quarterbacks in this game, Davis Mills and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence around the bench. So now onto the Jags
Speaker 1: you can start. Marvin Jones is the wide receiver you'd
Speaker 1: want to play if you needed a Jaguar. He only
Speaker 1: gets a seed. Bright side is the Texans have allowed
Speaker 1: the eighth most receiving yards to opposing wide receivers on
Speaker 1: the season. You're not dipping down to Lavisca Chenalta, Lakwan
Speaker 1: Treadwell territory here and James Robinson he gets a B plus.
Speaker 1: I think he's a good day here. That was not
Speaker 1: even subtle that he is a B grade. Oh whatever,
Speaker 1: you if you believe some of the reports, there was
Speaker 1: a bit of a schism between Robinson and urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: and he was limited in Wednesday's practice, but suddenly he's
Speaker 1: feeling a lot better on Thursday. The Texans are allowing
Speaker 1: the most rushing yards per game to opposing backs, the
Speaker 1: third most rushing touchdowns, and four point nine yards per carry.
Speaker 1: They're giving up a first down on basically every two runs.
Speaker 1: So you can start James rob Robinson with some confidence.
Speaker 1: Let's I I hope that they pound James Robinson and
Speaker 1: it turns out that the the guy that was limiting
Speaker 1: his reps was not Darryl Bubble, because it could be
Speaker 1: urban Meyer wasn't already pounding people with his foot, and
Speaker 1: that's why he's not there anymore. Nicely, that's it. That's it. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on to our next matchup, Cowboys taking on
Speaker 1: the Giants. Brian for the Cowboys, this running game is erect.
Speaker 1: We don't know for sure if Tony Pollard is going
Speaker 1: to try to play through the torn plant or fascia
Speaker 1: in his foot. Ezekiel Elliott has been bad and they
Speaker 1: actually gave more touches to Corey Clement last week. What
Speaker 1: do you do with this running game? Yeah, you pretty
Speaker 1: much just just start Zeke and I'll mention quickly the
Speaker 1: Giants and Cowboys did play in Week five. Will reference
Speaker 1: that game a couple of times here, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give Zeke a b. He had a hundred ten yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown rushing, caught two passes and a receiving
Speaker 1: touchdown in the first meeting. Will likely be without left
Speaker 1: tackle Tyron Smith in this game, though. That said, the
Speaker 1: Giants could be without Leonard Williams defensive end, which would
Speaker 1: be a big loss. But even when at full health,
Speaker 1: New York has allowed one plus rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: to the opposition. But like you said, you want to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on Tony Pollard. That'll that'll dim Zeke's
Speaker 1: prospects a little bit. But I'm still give as he
Speaker 1: could be here in a game that should be a
Speaker 1: positive game script for the running backs. For the Cowboys side,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, I very positive outlook for him. He gets
Speaker 1: an a. New York has been brutal against wide receivers lately,
Speaker 1: allowing the fourth most yards the position over the past
Speaker 1: two games. Lamb had eighty four yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the first meeting, and that's probably a solid floor
Speaker 1: projection for him in this one. So in a for
Speaker 1: cd uh, not an A for Mark Cooper, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him a B. He also did well in
Speaker 1: the first meeting. He had sixty yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the Week five game. He has also scored in
Speaker 1: his two previous games against the Giants, so he has
Speaker 1: very good past performance against New York. So would be
Speaker 1: for Cooper and a CEE for Michael Gallup. He did
Speaker 1: not play in the Week five game. He was injured then.
Speaker 1: But it's a good matchup and I'm just worried that
Speaker 1: the script could fall out of favor for the wide
Speaker 1: receivers or Dallas, but they all have potential here. But
Speaker 1: just to see for Gallop, Gallops look good. By the
Speaker 1: way he's gonna be. I think he's gonna get paid
Speaker 1: this office for sure. Where do we want him to
Speaker 1: end up? Kansas City would be a nice spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't thought that far, but I don't
Speaker 1: want him to be one of the other five guys
Speaker 1: in that rotation. Umari Cooper, just as a side note,
Speaker 1: looked as good as he's looked on the field since
Speaker 1: before he had the COVID and before that when he
Speaker 1: had the hamstring, so he had to go back almost
Speaker 1: two months. He looked downright, spry, and I'm optimistic about
Speaker 1: a big game for Marie Cooper here. Yeah, it could
Speaker 1: be a big game for Dalton Schultz. He had six
Speaker 1: catches for seventy nine yards in the first meeting between
Speaker 1: the Giants and Cowboys. And it's a decent matchup for
Speaker 1: tight ends. Uh. The Giants are alloting more than five
Speaker 1: catches and fifty yards per game to the position, so
Speaker 1: a double digit PPR floor is in place for Schultz
Speaker 1: and uh Dak Prescott and obvious a when all three
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the in the tight end gets starting grades.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's worth mentioning he had three plus yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns in the first game of the season
Speaker 1: between these two over to the Giant side. Not a
Speaker 1: whole lot to talk about other than season ticket holders
Speaker 1: supposedly getting a free medium soda at this game. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I read this on Twitter. It's fan appreciation days.
Speaker 1: If you spend you spent fifty grand on Worth Giants tickets,
Speaker 1: you get a free You don't even get a large Well, no,
Speaker 1: I think they're not allowed to sell large sodas in
Speaker 1: New York City. That makes sense, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's not. But over se Kwon Barkley, he
Speaker 1: gets to see Dallas has held the posing teams who
Speaker 1: under sixty five rushing yards in four of the last
Speaker 1: five games, and their defensive line. Dallas has has a
Speaker 1: significant advantage over the Giants offensive line. And this one
Speaker 1: is a very soft to see for Barkley, who got
Speaker 1: hurt in the first meeting only atune as. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: to see. Uh, just a bench, double bench for a
Speaker 1: sterling Shepherd and Kenny. That's just a bench, not a
Speaker 1: double bench. Can't have you never said you can't give
Speaker 1: a bench plus No, I know you can't because that
Speaker 1: gets you somewhere out of between bench and a C grade.
Speaker 1: There's no bench plus. Well, the double bench is fine
Speaker 1: because you can't extra bench. Somebody. I like how you're
Speaker 1: fine with the harpoon though what the don't even know
Speaker 1: what the harpoon means, So you're probably got the harpoon.
Speaker 1: Pass me, we got some harpoon, he used later in
Speaker 1: the show. But benching Golladay and Shepherd, despite it being
Speaker 1: a positive matchup on paper, Uh, we'll get to the
Speaker 1: quarterback situation in a second for the Giants. But Shephard
Speaker 1: and Gala Day combined for twelve Let's not get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation. It will only take a second when
Speaker 1: we do. But Shepherd Golliday combined for twelve targets last week,
Speaker 1: just four catches for forty two scoreless yards. So they're
Speaker 1: on the bench. So is whoever the quarterback is Mike Glennon,
Speaker 1: it could be Daniel Jones. Maybe either way you're benching then,
Speaker 1: But I will give Evan and Groom a see opposing
Speaker 1: tight ends or averaging nearly five catches sixty yards per
Speaker 1: game against Dallas. Ingram had four catches for fifty five
Speaker 1: yards in the first meeting, so double digit PPR points
Speaker 1: is possible. Listen, this is the ninth straight positive matchup
Speaker 1: on paper for Evan Ingram and he never comes through
Speaker 1: the tight end. Waste Land, you take ten points. He's
Speaker 1: not giving you ten points because he never does. Alright,
Speaker 1: Still giving a Patriots take on the Colts, and there's
Speaker 1: only a couple of guys to talk about. Damien Harris
Speaker 1: gets a b great exp acted to be recovered from
Speaker 1: his hamstring injury for this game. Colts are good run defense,
Speaker 1: but Harris read it. Good run defense is this year,
Speaker 1: including Buffalo before last week's by Indians, allowing the ninth
Speaker 1: fewest rushing yards eighth fewest rushing touchdowns to opposing backs.
Speaker 1: And Harris again uber hot before the injury, scoring eight
Speaker 1: times in his last eight games, a span over which
Speaker 1: he was averaging a whopping five yards per carry. So
Speaker 1: even in a tough matchup, Harris comes in with a
Speaker 1: B grade. We're gonna keep reminder Stevenson on the bench.
Speaker 1: He when Harris gets his the full workload that he gets,
Speaker 1: there's not enough left for Stevenson. And this is a
Speaker 1: trickier matchup than most. And the only other guy with
Speaker 1: the starting great is Mac Jones. He's top two hundred
Speaker 1: thirty yards once, just once in his last six games,
Speaker 1: and over the last month, the Colts have allowed the
Speaker 1: league's fewest passing yards just one seventy seven per game,
Speaker 1: despite facing far better quarterbacks Josh Allen and Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: And he's one of the league's worst deep passers by
Speaker 1: the way, where yards and touchdowns come. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm putting him on the bench, forget it. I've just
Speaker 1: talked to myself, Auto mac Jones, and all the receivers
Speaker 1: are on the bench too. If you've got the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you don't need Jacobe Myers, Nelson, Aguilar, Kendrick Born against
Speaker 1: a team that's given up the fewest receptions yards and
Speaker 1: second fewest touchdowns to opposing wide receivers, they're on the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Indianapolis side. Jonathan Taylor's an obvious a
Speaker 1: and I should mention here, not that you need any
Speaker 1: extrapolation on this, but the Patriots are actually shockingly easy
Speaker 1: to run upon, and they're brutally tough to pass on.
Speaker 1: They're allowing one hundred fifty four total yards per game
Speaker 1: to opposing running backs, that's fourth most, and through the air,
Speaker 1: they're giving up the fourth most receiving yards. And Taylor
Speaker 1: can catch a literally, you know, he chips in a
Speaker 1: couple of catches every game. Sure, uh Niahim Hines is
Speaker 1: not an option really in this game, and I don't
Speaker 1: think you're gonna need him here. The only other player
Speaker 1: I've got with the starting grade is Michael Pittman, and
Speaker 1: he's the only Colts I think, the only other cold
Speaker 1: outside of Taylor you'd ever consider starting in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but it is a bad matchup. Nobody has shut down
Speaker 1: wide receivers more consistently than New England over the last
Speaker 1: five weeks. Entire receiving positions are averaging seventy eight yards
Speaker 1: per game over the last five against New England. So
Speaker 1: if all of the Indian receivers are gonna get seventy
Speaker 1: eight yards, Pittman gets half. His one on one matchup
Speaker 1: is brutally tough against emerging star cornerback J. C. Jackson.
Speaker 1: He has a passer rating against him in his coverage
Speaker 1: of thirty nine. That's not that's not good. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: is on the bench for the reasons I think you've
Speaker 1: already already heard as we talked about the wide receivers
Speaker 1: here and you ken pick spots to start Wentz, this
Speaker 1: is definitely not one of them. Let's take a break
Speaker 1: when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
Speaker 1: players not normally in your starting lineup. It's a weird
Speaker 1: week and there's gonna be a bunch of different angles
Speaker 1: to start guys you would not normally start. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do our best to give you players we think are
Speaker 1: going to go with positive matchups, but it really who knows.
Speaker 1: I got a nice we're throwing darks. I got a
Speaker 1: nice weird angle coming up. You do, all right, Willie
Speaker 1: will stay tuned Fantasy Football Weekly to hear Brian's weird angle.
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A segment we like, he'll
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players who may or
Speaker 1: may not contract COVID between now and when you try
Speaker 1: to start them. True at the time of this, I
Speaker 1: got one that's not gonna get it. I'm well, he
Speaker 1: just came off the list. He's quarantine in a box. Well, Dolf.
Speaker 1: He just came off the list because he had it
Speaker 1: and recovered from it. Then, yes, probably saying now he
Speaker 1: just came up off the list because he was like
Speaker 1: a close contact and anyway, I don't know, we'll find
Speaker 1: out soon. All right, Let's go to the quarterback position, Matt.
Speaker 1: I got Jimmy G again. Third week in that's the
Speaker 1: third week probably for just for you. Yeah, Jimmy G
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks in week thirteen and two, that's when
Speaker 1: I used him. Fish used him last week against the
Speaker 1: Bengals to and two. We're going back to the well
Speaker 1: against the Falcons, who have faced maybe the easiest slate
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks I've ever seen this year. The notable names
Speaker 1: they faced, like Heineke Dimes, Zack Wilson, Simeon, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: and the Panthers awful trio of quarterbacks twice. Yeah. Still,
Speaker 1: they've allowed the third most passing scores in the league
Speaker 1: at two touchdowns per game, and have allowed the sixth
Speaker 1: most completion So Jimmy g will get two scores in
Speaker 1: this one. All right, Brian, you take a chance at me, quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm going to a toungo viola at home against the Jets.
Speaker 1: Miami won't have Jalen Waddle in this game. That well,
Speaker 1: not officially outs, not literally enough in the week that
Speaker 1: it's there's a chance he comes back for this. I
Speaker 1: think the odds already won't play, but hopefully he does.
Speaker 1: But even if he doesn't, I don't care. I like
Speaker 1: too against the Jets, And how can you not when
Speaker 1: the Jets have allowed these sixth most passing yards per
Speaker 1: game at two fifty four per and outside of Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill last week, New York has surrendered multiple passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: and eight straight games that includes the two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: two d seventy three yards they allowed to tah when
Speaker 1: these teams were submitting week eleven, and the Jets are
Speaker 1: already going to be without starting cornerback Justin Hardy. They
Speaker 1: could be without the other starting cornerback, Michael Carter the
Speaker 1: second so to a Tonga viola. Bear in mind, I'm
Speaker 1: an emotionally damaged Vikings fan. I'm pretty I'm as as
Speaker 1: are all Viking fans this season, aren't we all? Uh?
Speaker 1: And that's part of what's driving me to recommend Justin
Speaker 1: Fields on what it's currently Monday night. Well, hopefully that
Speaker 1: will hold. That will hold the all the Bears problems
Speaker 1: with COVID, Maybe they move that to Tuesday as well.
Speaker 1: Rutching yards can mitigate a bad passing game and feel
Speaker 1: just finally being allowed to run the ball. Over his
Speaker 1: last three full games, he's averaged seventy four rushing yards.
Speaker 1: That puts him You're you're basically starting running backs rushing
Speaker 1: numbers out of Justin Fields, and the Vikings have faced
Speaker 1: exactly two mobile quarterbacks. Kyler Murray ran for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson ran for a hundred twenty yards. Fields will
Speaker 1: also help through the air, because the Vikings cornerbacks are dreadful.
Speaker 1: No Viking cornerback ranks higher than one in coverage by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. Darnell Mooney can beat the Vikings deep.
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, if he's able to go, can win on
Speaker 1: routes and hands. Jachim Grant has turned into a factor.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways. Justin Fields can get helped
Speaker 1: through the air as well. I like him by ground,
Speaker 1: sea and air. Let's go to the I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to the sea part. Let's go to the running back position. Matt,
Speaker 1: I got somebody who's from Seattle. Oh nice, Maybe we
Speaker 1: just need to uh let Rashad Penny cook in a
Speaker 1: peacock to Brian against last Sound right there if you're
Speaker 1: live from Pugech sound so. In the last three years,
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny has had ten rushing attempts or more in
Speaker 1: five total games. He scored a touchdown in four of
Speaker 1: those five games, including two last week in a total
Speaker 1: of hundred and thirty seven yards. And Alex Collins was
Speaker 1: just put on the COVID list. Now this game is
Speaker 1: now Tuesday, but right now it's just Penny and DJ
Speaker 1: Dallas left on the roster. He's facing a Rams team
Speaker 1: that is missing a lot of people. According to COVID,
Speaker 1: and the Rams have allowed a touchdown to six running
Speaker 1: backs who have led their team in touches over the
Speaker 1: last seven weeks, so a touchdown is basically guaranteed for
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny here. All right, you know I mocked Penny
Speaker 1: last week. I can't do it now, so you know
Speaker 1: you guys shut me up on that. Brian, you take
Speaker 1: a chance at me running back? All right, weird COVID
Speaker 1: angle time. I'm going. I'm going back to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And no, not Miles Gascon. That's too easy. I'm going
Speaker 1: Salven Akhmed, the backup running back. Both have been activated
Speaker 1: as never easy, by the way, and more easier. That's
Speaker 1: part of the play here, like he just disappears at times.
Speaker 1: It gets benched or is this play is awful? So
Speaker 1: and and the speaking of awful, the Jets against running backs,
Speaker 1: they're allowing a hundred nearly a hundred eighty combo yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns per game, which is stunning. They're actually
Speaker 1: the worst team against any position out of every defense
Speaker 1: against any position, I believe, by a pretty large margin.
Speaker 1: Astronomical numbers. So Salvin Akhmed, there's gonna be enough to
Speaker 1: go around for him and this one again, and if
Speaker 1: Gascon disappears, you could have a top five running back
Speaker 1: on your hands. And we know, well, even if Gaskin
Speaker 1: doesn't disappear, just out of if you can get to
Speaker 1: eight touches on Salvin Akhmed, maybe that's enough. He'll get
Speaker 1: double digit touches. I just want to see Jared Doakes
Speaker 1: activated from the practice squall that they I forgot that
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson to look, there's a long laundry list of
Speaker 1: running backs, but I went with Akamed, So let's go Salvin.
Speaker 1: Donte Foreman is your leader among running backs for Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and he's the latest to go up against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: This is another really struggling run defense. You saw Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook roll up a monster game just in the first
Speaker 1: half against the Steelers last week. They're allowing the fourth
Speaker 1: most sushing yards and a league worse four point nine
Speaker 1: yards per carry. Two opposing backs and the starters over
Speaker 1: the last five weeks have all crushed the Steelers. DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 1: Austin Neckler, Joe Mixon, Devanta Freeman, and Dalvin Cook. And granted,
Speaker 1: dot Freeman is not nearly as good as those guys
Speaker 1: in general, but they averaged a hundred forties six total
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. So if even if he's half
Speaker 1: as good as those guys, Dot de Foreman sitting on
Speaker 1: potentially in eighty yard game, seventy five yard game and
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Matt, let's go to the wide receiver slash
Speaker 1: tight end position now as of this recording, I'm taking
Speaker 1: David in Joeku because as of now the Browns would
Speaker 1: be missing tight end Austin Hooper and Stephen Carlson on
Speaker 1: the COVID list, Harrison Bryant is questionable with an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: Plus Jarvis Landry is on the COVID list, and Cream
Speaker 1: Hunt is out. The old line is a mess. And
Speaker 1: right now, no Baker Mayfield, no case Keenum, it's Nick
Speaker 1: Mullins starting. And a great stat from Kent wy Rock
Speaker 1: in games which Nick Mullins had at least of the snaps,
Speaker 1: so these are his days. In San Francisco, George Kittle's
Speaker 1: averages were ten targets, six and a half receptions, nine yards,
Speaker 1: and half a score per game. All of those numbers
Speaker 1: are way better than Kittle's career averages, so Mullins likes
Speaker 1: to target the tight end and David and Joke Wu
Speaker 1: has the talent. We saw him go for a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine and one in a game against the
Speaker 1: Chargers this year. We all know the opportunity is here
Speaker 1: and this now he gets the one of the worst
Speaker 1: tight end defenses in the league. The Raiders are bottom
Speaker 1: five and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the tight
Speaker 1: end position, and they have allowed a touchdown to a
Speaker 1: tight end nine times in their last nine games. Brian,
Speaker 1: you'na take a chance and we're running back white receiver. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm going Buffalo's Gabriel Davis against the Panthers. Now, the
Speaker 1: Panthers's out Manny Sanders is out and the Panthers on
Speaker 1: a great matchup for why but Davis will not draw
Speaker 1: step on Gilmore. That will probably go to Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 1: We'll see most of that coverage. But this is really
Speaker 1: how good Gabriel Davis is when given an opportunity. He
Speaker 1: is second over the last six weeks and yards per
Speaker 1: route run only behind George Kittle, in ahead of Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: and in this this season, he is number eight in
Speaker 1: Fantasy points per target. He was eleventh last year. He
Speaker 1: just needs opportunities and he's gonna get him on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So if Gabriel Davis is out there, especially in a
Speaker 1: dynasty league, this guy is like top twenty wide receiver
Speaker 1: potential moving forward this season and next years. Rolling forward
Speaker 1: to next year, I'm going a J. Green against Detroit.
Speaker 1: It's Detroit, so maybe this is a little obvious. DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins is out. Green becomes the go to wide receiver
Speaker 1: for this passing offense and he's coming off his biggest
Speaker 1: game of the year. He runs This is really weird.
Speaker 1: A J. Green runs eight percent of his routes from
Speaker 1: one side of the field. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1: He is pegged to the right side of the field,
Speaker 1: which puts him up against journeyman cornerback Nickel Roby Coleman,
Speaker 1: who as of two weeks ago, was sitting on a
Speaker 1: couch like the rest of us. He's only because he's
Speaker 1: only playing for Detroit because of the loss of cornerback
Speaker 1: Jerry Jacobs, who was only playing because of the loss
Speaker 1: of Jeff Okuda, and now they're to Nickel Roby Coleman.
Speaker 1: Coleman's only played one game this year, but last year
Speaker 1: with the Eagles awful, allowing a passer rating of one
Speaker 1: twenty four in his coverage A J. Green's gonna eat
Speaker 1: him alive. I like that when players don't have a team,
Speaker 1: they just sit on a couch. Are always on the
Speaker 1: couch or on the street's street free agents, Yeah, sitting
Speaker 1: on the street. Pittsburgh is taking on the Titans. Will
Speaker 1: start on the Titan side. I told you I love
Speaker 1: Foreman as might take a chance of me running back.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the passing game that is
Speaker 1: languished for most of the last two months. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: giving Ryan Tannehill a C grade. He hasn't really had
Speaker 1: his full complement of weapons in a long time, which
Speaker 1: is somewhat excusing his average stat line of one yards
Speaker 1: and zero point eight touchdowns per game over the last
Speaker 1: six weeks. He's only good for his rushing ability. Yeah, Still,
Speaker 1: he's very accurate, and this matchup favors running over passing,
Speaker 1: So just to see, but you know, actually probably a bench.
Speaker 1: I'll give Julio Jones a B grade, though Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus has Julio's matchup against cornerback Cameron Sutton ranked at
Speaker 1: point four out of a hundred this week, Sutton allowed
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in his coverage last week in Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: Julio was a bit disappointing last week, but the Jaguars
Speaker 1: game was never in doubt for the Titans and they
Speaker 1: didn't need to throw, and Julio still led the team
Speaker 1: with six targets. Over on the Steeler side, Big Ben
Speaker 1: gets a B grade. Looking inspired in the comeback attempt
Speaker 1: last Thursday, faces a very similar secondary in Tennessee. They've
Speaker 1: allowed either two yards or multiple touchdown passes in ten
Speaker 1: out of thirteen games this season, and Roethlisberger is thrown
Speaker 1: for multiple scores and three of his last four. So
Speaker 1: you can fire up Big Ben. You're obviously firing up
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson with an A and Chase Claypool gets to
Speaker 1: be if you're super desperate for a wide receiver, you
Speaker 1: could throw a harpoon at James Washington. Uh. The Steelers
Speaker 1: receivers torched a similarly bad Vikings secondary last week. Uh
Speaker 1: They're those two secondaries are shockingly similar. The Titans have
Speaker 1: allowed the most yards and receptions to the wide receivers
Speaker 1: this year. Pat Friar muth He gets a C grade.
Speaker 1: Titans linebacker Jayn Brown is asked to cover the tight
Speaker 1: end most often, he allows a catch on eight eight
Speaker 1: percent of his targets, and Friar muth Is scored in
Speaker 1: six of his last seven. And then Naji Harris gets
Speaker 1: He gets almost all the work and the hope that
Speaker 1: he can duplicate what the Patriots backs did. Two games ago.
Speaker 1: The Patriots backfield trio combined for a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two total yards and to score on twenty five touches. Now,
Speaker 1: the Titans have held the Jaguars, the Texans, the Alvin
Speaker 1: Camaro less Saints to nearly nothing outside of uh in
Speaker 1: the running game. But the Pats game, which was two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, they they they gave up some stuff, so
Speaker 1: they faced one of the softer running back schedules in
Speaker 1: the league this year. So I'm holding Nag at a B.
Speaker 1: It's definitely one of the more positive B grades I'll give, though.
Speaker 1: We'll just call that what we like to call it,
Speaker 1: B grade for Nagi Harris and this one a real positive. No,
Speaker 1: it's not, it's just it. What about it? I like
Speaker 1: that better? At least it's witty. I feel positive about
Speaker 1: killer Bees. When we come back, Panthers take on the Bills,
Speaker 1: We'll tell you if there's anybody who contrust out of
Speaker 1: that Panther's offense, presumably led by Cam Newton. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know for half the game. Maybe Josh Allen comes
Speaker 1: into this one hobbled. What are you gonna do with him?
Speaker 1: Lots of storylines Panthers Bills and many other games. When
Speaker 1: we come back for the final segment of our number
Speaker 1: one Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul
Speaker 1: Georgie and Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with you if
Speaker 1: you've got questions about who to start, who to bench
Speaker 1: in this one of the most confounding weeks the history,
Speaker 1: So do we I can't tell you how much I
Speaker 1: agonized over my lineup decisions on Thursday internal slack. We're
Speaker 1: we're always just asking each other what should I do?
Speaker 1: And I've never been more flammixed. And really, and when
Speaker 1: you're still live in a guillotine league at this point,
Speaker 1: you have all star rosters. At this point, everybody's great,
Speaker 1: and so you're just trying to swap good for great
Speaker 1: between your players, and it's it's unbelievably tricky. Guillotine leagues
Speaker 1: dot Com from my player rankings updated as much as
Speaker 1: I can possibly humanly update and keep up, keep everything going,
Speaker 1: because it's just nuts. Right now, Let's go back to matchups,
Speaker 1: including Panthers taking on the Bills. Brian Panthers ended up
Speaker 1: quarterbacks swapping. Some would say benching Cam Newton throughout the game.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can start Cam new in this
Speaker 1: one because you can't. You don't know how long he's
Speaker 1: gonna stay in now. They're gonna like rotate he and
Speaker 1: p J Walker in and out of this game. Most
Speaker 1: like the Bills are allowing passing yards and zero point
Speaker 1: eight passing touchdowns per game. The only points you might
Speaker 1: get some rushing from Cam, but you're not gonna bank
Speaker 1: on that, so you're benching the quarterbacks. As far as
Speaker 1: the receivers go, I'm gonna give d J. Mor as
Speaker 1: c He's got a hamstring issue, keep your eye on that,
Speaker 1: but he is trending towards playing. I would probably bend
Speaker 1: him if As White all pro cornerback for Buffalo, uh,
Speaker 1: if he was playing. But White is on I R
Speaker 1: so I will give more A cee who has back
Speaker 1: to back games with ten targets. Robby Anderson saw twelve
Speaker 1: targets last week had his best game of the season,
Speaker 1: but he's on the bench. Going back to the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you don't You're not playing Robby Anderson in fift Come on,
Speaker 1: you're not that nuts. And the last guy we can
Speaker 1: talk about for Carolina is Tuba Hubbard. I'm reluctant to
Speaker 1: give him this see. I almost want to bench him
Speaker 1: because it's really just a nightmare for scenario for him
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton at quarter act, well it is, and
Speaker 1: then he's not even getting that many so many touches anymore.
Speaker 1: Why isn't we're dually getting any I don't know, and
Speaker 1: Carolina could be without both of their starting guards. The
Speaker 1: only reason I'm giving Hubbard to see is Buffalo has
Speaker 1: been getting gashed on the ground lately, allowing rushing yards
Speaker 1: over the last three games. So there's some hope for
Speaker 1: Tuba here, but very little. But if you're desperate running
Speaker 1: back in, we're pretty much desperate for anyone at this point,
Speaker 1: I'll give it. I'll give Hubbard to see. A lot
Speaker 1: more to talk about on the Buffalo side, started with
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs. Gonna give him a B. He will likely
Speaker 1: get shadowed by Stefan Gilmour in this game. It's a
Speaker 1: tough matchup, and Carolina is allowing the seventh fewest receptions
Speaker 1: and the sixth few whisty yards too opposing wide outs
Speaker 1: over the last five weeks. But there's no way you're
Speaker 1: bending Stefon Diggs. But just just to be for him.
Speaker 1: Uh see for Cole Beasley. Uh. Emmanuel Sanders was killing
Speaker 1: Beasley's production, but Sanders left the game last week early
Speaker 1: with an injury. Beasley saw levin targets, so he gets
Speaker 1: a sea. But I like Gabriel Davis might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me wide receiver a little bit more. A J.
Speaker 1: Bouyer probably was going to be covering Davis for the
Speaker 1: most part, but he's gonna miss this game. So I
Speaker 1: like Gabriel Davis a whole lot. That's why I used
Speaker 1: my take a chance to me wide receiver. I do.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves Dawson Knox right Uh. This year, he's been
Speaker 1: arguably the best steal at tight end in all of
Speaker 1: Fantasy football. He gets to be. Carolina has had a
Speaker 1: hard time handling tight ends recently, as Kyle Pitts uh
Speaker 1: really a wide receiver and Hayden Hurst just combined for
Speaker 1: sixty plus yards and a touchdown against the Panthers. The
Speaker 1: Panthers are allowing nearly fifty yards per game to tight
Speaker 1: ends over the last four games. That's decent production. Knox
Speaker 1: should have a good game here and uh not. Lastly,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Devin Singletary in a second, but
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about Josh Allen. Of course, no injury
Speaker 1: designation going into the game, so not concerned about the
Speaker 1: foot injury. It is a bad matchup though. Carolina owns
Speaker 1: the third lowest opponent passing play percentage at just so
Speaker 1: it's no real surprise. They are allowing the fewest passing
Speaker 1: yards per game at seventy eight yards per game. Uh
Speaker 1: Carolina has allowed or zero passing touchdowns and six of
Speaker 1: their last seven games as well, So not a good
Speaker 1: matchup on paper. But Josh Allen, he's a unicorn. And
Speaker 1: the Panthers have only faced one true mobile quarterback this
Speaker 1: year and that was Jalen Hurts and he ran for
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, so that that rushing floor and ceiling always
Speaker 1: makes Alan startable. And I just mentioned Devin Singletary saw
Speaker 1: a season high snapshare last week. I was the highest
Speaker 1: for him or any Bills running back all season, but
Speaker 1: he's still on the bench. You just can't trust what's
Speaker 1: going on in that backfield and not very productive with
Speaker 1: the runs. And Caroline has allowed the fourth few as
Speaker 1: fantasy points to opposing running back. So your bench and singletary,
Speaker 1: let's hope Zack Moss goes off. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of active I got a lot of best ball teams
Speaker 1: that would really appreciate that. Have that. All right, Cardinals
Speaker 1: take on the Lions, and it's you know, because it's
Speaker 1: the Lions, there's gonna be some some good plays here.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is an A grade despite the fact that
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is not available for this game. Quarterbacks weirdly
Speaker 1: putting up modest numbers against the Lions, though in part
Speaker 1: because the running game comes so easily. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: He's wrapped up fifty nine and sixty one rushing yards
Speaker 1: over the past two weeks while scoring two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, So just between ground and air.
Speaker 1: I like Murray with an A grade, and he's I
Speaker 1: think you're not predicting a sea touchdown for no Sea
Speaker 1: touchdown here because this game is taking off. Actually, Detroit
Speaker 1: is right on a large body of water. It's on
Speaker 1: a great lake, is itch is it here on? Let's go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go here on for this um and so yeah,
Speaker 1: then maybe a little by sea here is possibility for
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. I'm not ruling that out. Zach Ertz gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. He's played by the way he showed
Speaker 1: up Friday, dinged up with something, but he's expected to go.
Speaker 1: He's played in seven games since arriving in Arizona, and
Speaker 1: he's only gone under forty yards twice. The lines have
Speaker 1: allowed the eighth most receptions in seventh most yards two
Speaker 1: tight ends, and despite effectively only playing half of the
Speaker 1: season with his new team, he's second in red zone
Speaker 1: targets on the team and most since he got there.
Speaker 1: So I think a touchdown feels like a pretty wrong
Speaker 1: play for zach Ertz with his B grade. A J
Speaker 1: Green was might take a chance of a wide receiver
Speaker 1: from earlier. Christian Kirk is a plausible pivots seat. You
Speaker 1: guys think see darts to C minus. It's just a
Speaker 1: dart throw C grade. He has a solid C grade.
Speaker 1: I believe he'll move outside and run Hopkins routes that
Speaker 1: puts him up against a MARII are you are a
Speaker 1: a competent cornerback who's only a lout one score all
Speaker 1: year and a modest passer rating of sixty seven C
Speaker 1: grade on Christian Kirk. Rondel Moore is on the bench
Speaker 1: and run out of the slot, which will give him
Speaker 1: some extra looks. But even when Hopkins was out earlier
Speaker 1: this year, rondel Moore was not at all consistent. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave him on the bench. Let's talk James Conner.
Speaker 1: I told you Detroit's easy to run upon. Here's my
Speaker 1: concern and Connor. It's not the Lions. It's it's a
Speaker 1: great matchup and he will probably score a touchdown here.
Speaker 1: Lions give up the fifth most rushing yards and the
Speaker 1: second most touchdowns running back, so Connor feels like a given.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. He's suffered an ankle injury late
Speaker 1: last week's game. Chase Edmonds is coming back, and I
Speaker 1: do worry about him potentially getting rested to make sure
Speaker 1: the ankles okay. He's been really good. He's a valuable
Speaker 1: playoff asset. Cardinals up by twenty one. Connors on the
Speaker 1: bench for the rest of the game. Now, the lines
Speaker 1: are rarely getting blown out of games, but that could
Speaker 1: happen here. The Cardinals are so hot right now, so
Speaker 1: I've I've only put a B grade on James Conner
Speaker 1: out of that concern that it plays out that way.
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds a C grade. If I knew for sure
Speaker 1: he was going to get high volume, then I would
Speaker 1: think that Edmonds could be a higher grade than this.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna play it safe for the moment and
Speaker 1: give him a C grade in a which should be
Speaker 1: easy matchup, But I don't know how his workload is
Speaker 1: going to go in this game. Let's go over to
Speaker 1: the Detroit side. As you can imagine, there's not a
Speaker 1: lot to go on here. The only starting grade I've
Speaker 1: got right now is I'm on ras St Brown, who
Speaker 1: has seen twelve targets and back to back weeks and
Speaker 1: in his last two games is averaging eighty yards per
Speaker 1: game over the last three weeks. The Zona allowing one
Speaker 1: seventies six yards per games to receivers, that is seventh
Speaker 1: most have given up four scores in those three games
Speaker 1: to receivers. So there's a chance here if even if
Speaker 1: it's just garbage time for aman ros st Brown startable here.
Speaker 1: If DeAndre Swift returns from his shoulder injury, I'll give
Speaker 1: him a C grade, even though I don't know that
Speaker 1: he would catch any passes with the shoulder injury. If
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams were to come back and everybody else is out,
Speaker 1: then you could use him as a C grade. If
Speaker 1: they're both out and Craig Reynolds comes off the practice
Speaker 1: squad again, then maybe you could use him if you
Speaker 1: needed to. But all in all, I think we're just
Speaker 1: gonna leave those guys on the bench. T T. J.
Speaker 1: Hockenson underwent season ending thumb surgery earlier this week. Jared
Speaker 1: Goff is unstartable in non Viking games, and Calif Raymond
Speaker 1: and Josh Reynolds usage is way too scattered to trust
Speaker 1: anything they may or may not do in this game.
Speaker 1: Brian no Matt, let's go to Falcons taking on the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. This Falcon's offense has been wildly inconsistent. Cordell
Speaker 1: Patterson his usage has been fascinating. Through the first eight weeks,
Speaker 1: Matt He was averaging five catches, fifty seven yards and
Speaker 1: half a touchdown per game. Then, over the last month,
Speaker 1: they've dialed back his route running and his receiving to
Speaker 1: the point that Cordell Patterson is only averaging two catches
Speaker 1: for fifteen yards and has not scored through the air,
Speaker 1: and that part of his usage worries me because he's
Speaker 1: now turned into just a part time running back to that.
Speaker 1: I say, Pshaw, Church Pshaw, I say, um. He was
Speaker 1: averaging just over six targets per game in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. The last two weeks, he's had five
Speaker 1: targets in each game. I'm I'm not worried about targets receptions,
Speaker 1: but targets equal receptions. At some point, you have to
Speaker 1: have a target to get a reception. That's the opportunity
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Okay, Matt Ryan sounds like the coach
Speaker 1: at the beginning of Hoosiers that said, you know, before
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman showed up, was like, you can't score if
Speaker 1: you don't shoot. I think that's you. I think that
Speaker 1: was Wayne Gretzky who said that, um uh. In the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, the Falcons have faced three top ten
Speaker 1: run defenses, so Patterson's still put them numbers, and the
Speaker 1: Niners aren't a top ten run defense. They have allowed
Speaker 1: fourteen touchdowns are running backs on the season. That's the
Speaker 1: sixth most. They're also bottom half of the league in
Speaker 1: receptions and receiving yards to opposing runners. So he's still
Speaker 1: in a grade for me. Uh, let's move over to
Speaker 1: the receivers and get Russell Gauge and Kyle Pitt's out
Speaker 1: of the way. I'll give Gauge a CEE and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give Pits a B in this one. Both spend
Speaker 1: about half their time running from the slot, where they're
Speaker 1: going to face five nine slot corner Kawan Williams. That's
Speaker 1: a rather large mismatch for the six sixty pound Pits,
Speaker 1: and if they flex outside, they either get Josh Norman
Speaker 1: who's allowing a passer rating of one two in his coverage,
Speaker 1: or Ambree Thomas, who's Pro Football Focus is two hundred
Speaker 1: ninth ranked corner out of two. D Matt Ryan, I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a C grade. His average stat line in
Speaker 1: games where the Falcons have not been involved in a
Speaker 1: blowout in in in what I mean by that they
Speaker 1: have they have not one by more than seven and
Speaker 1: they have not lost by more than two scores either. Yep. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's averaging two seventy two and two touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: In those games, San Francisco is favored by nine and
Speaker 1: a half years, but that actually kind of works in
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's favor because the two scores is where where
Speaker 1: it becomes a blowout. I think Ryan's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1: He's a C grade Deebo. Samuel's doing his best Cordarrel
Speaker 1: Patterson impression. He gets an A grade in this one.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are a defense you circle on your calendar.
Speaker 1: Plus Elijah Mitchell is trending towards out again, should mean
Speaker 1: more touches for Debot. The Falcons have struggled with past
Speaker 1: catching running backs all season, and with Samuel lining up
Speaker 1: in the backfield a lot, I imagine most of that
Speaker 1: work goes his way. As I mentioned, Elijah Mitchell hasn't
Speaker 1: practiced all week with a concussion, so Jeff Wilson is
Speaker 1: your likely starter. Wilson was the only running back to
Speaker 1: take a handoff last week, and since he with thirteen carries.
Speaker 1: Atlanta has been okay straight up against the run, allowing
Speaker 1: three point nine yards per carry. That's actually ninth best
Speaker 1: in the league, but they do allow a lot of
Speaker 1: ground touches, so for that, Wilson stays to see. Brandon
Speaker 1: au gets an A grade over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Auk comes in at wide receiver sixteen in total PPR points,
Speaker 1: and he had his highest target total to date last
Speaker 1: week with eleven. Atlanta's bottom eight in both receptions and
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed to opposing wide receivers, not surprising. George Kittle
Speaker 1: gets an A even though he did sit out Wednesday's
Speaker 1: practice with a sore knee, but he was ramping up
Speaker 1: his work Thursday and Friday. He's had over a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards in each of his last two games. Uh.
Speaker 1: And every good tight end to face the Falcons this
Speaker 1: year has scored a touchdown every one of them. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Jimmy g finally he was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks. So I like the passing game in
Speaker 1: this one. Kittle is a little dinged up with the knee.
Speaker 1: It's always he's always dinging up. It was a little
Speaker 1: dinged up, but uh, he's probably a little dinged up
Speaker 1: the last two weeks too. And how did that work
Speaker 1: for you? He has been so good and so dynamic,
Speaker 1: so fast. Um, And I know Travis Kelsey is coming
Speaker 1: off a Bonker's game. You're just you're just hurt because
Speaker 1: I am been y did in your guillotine. I did,
Speaker 1: and it might cost it might cost me my season.
Speaker 1: I need Kintle. They can both have great games. Sure,
Speaker 1: I don't see any reason why Kittle can't have a
Speaker 1: forty two point I hope he does. I hope he
Speaker 1: does too, Brian, I believe we have time to work
Speaker 1: through the Jets taking on the Dolphins. The Jets side,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't imagine there's anybody you would start
Speaker 1: in a playoff roster. Yeah, there's gonna be no forty
Speaker 1: two point games or anyone the Jets maybe not combined
Speaker 1: along all among all players. I am going to give
Speaker 1: Michael Carter a see. Though expected to come off, I
Speaker 1: r the ankle injury, should operate in a Bell cow roll,
Speaker 1: but be warned that Tevin Coleman also likely to make
Speaker 1: his return. But he sucks. But it's it's a bad
Speaker 1: matchup for Carter. Since Week six, my ammy is allowing
Speaker 1: only seventy nine compoy yards per game. Uh, they haven't
Speaker 1: allowed to touch down during that same span. Both their
Speaker 1: league lows so very it's even that I worry they
Speaker 1: don't give a full workload to Carter if he's not,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to bring it is he's a
Speaker 1: warm body. Let's put it that away. If you're desperate
Speaker 1: running back, We'll give him the sea for that, a
Speaker 1: warm bodied sea. And it could. I don't know. How
Speaker 1: do how do we have a sound bite for a
Speaker 1: warm body? I don't know. I don't know either believe
Speaker 1: it or not. I do have another another starting grade.
Speaker 1: It's Jamison Crowder. Oh, come on, it gets a se
Speaker 1: uh Elijah more On I R as his Corey Davis.
Speaker 1: The Jets gotta throw somebody. It's not gonna be Key
Speaker 1: d J. Montgomery, Braxon Burrios, Denzel Mims or Vincent Smith.
Speaker 1: It'd likely be Crowder. He did have six I should
Speaker 1: have mentioned these teams had play in week Levin Crowder
Speaker 1: did have six catches forty four yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the first meeting of a sea on Crowder, but
Speaker 1: only only only in PPR leagues. Ryan Griffin obviously on
Speaker 1: the bench as Zack Wilson for the Jets. We are
Speaker 1: done with them. Over to the Dolphins side. Miles Gaskin
Speaker 1: gets an a grade. Um, I know I just like
Speaker 1: the way he delivered it gets an E grade. Like Gaskin,
Speaker 1: He's like he's an enigma. Really, this is an amazing
Speaker 1: matchup I mentioned earlier, and take a chance on me.
Speaker 1: The Jets allowing a hundred and seventy plus combo yards
Speaker 1: at one point eight total touchdowns per game two running backs,
Speaker 1: and that is why Salvin Achmed was might take a
Speaker 1: chance of me running back. There should be enough meat
Speaker 1: on the bone for Acamed in this game, so both
Speaker 1: running backs startable for Miami. Jalen Waddle has officially been
Speaker 1: ruled out now, so bench him, that's for sure, but
Speaker 1: start Davante Parker. Gonna give him a b uh. He
Speaker 1: missed the first meeting between these two teams, but who
Speaker 1: he will be running as Miami's wide receiver one now.
Speaker 1: He played seventy one of the snaps in his Week
Speaker 1: thirteen return, so he should be near full health following
Speaker 1: the Dolphins rare Week fourteen By last week, the Jets
Speaker 1: are so easy to run on the run on that
Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about the volume for Parker, But again,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the top wide receiver, so he gets
Speaker 1: a B or will he be no, he won't be.
Speaker 1: I know who is going to be at the top
Speaker 1: wider Mike gisick there it is who really plays wide receiver,
Speaker 1: although he's obviously tight end eligible. We'll we'll speak to
Speaker 1: tight ends. The Jets are top eight and most fantasy
Speaker 1: points per game allowed to tight ends. Gausiki had five
Speaker 1: catches for fifty yards in the first meeting, but Miami
Speaker 1: tight ends as a whole top yards in that game.
Speaker 1: And I glossed over Isaiah Ford, who should be taking over. Well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna take the Jalen Waddle, uh Jalen Waddle role,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him a seen PPR. It is
Speaker 1: a soft matchup, So if you're desperate wide receiver, go
Speaker 1: for Isaiah Ford and uh to might take a chance
Speaker 1: at the quarterback. He's probably more of a usually our
Speaker 1: take coms or seas, but two is like more of
Speaker 1: a like find number nine right quarterback this week. I
Speaker 1: had him as an a but then when they lost,
Speaker 1: Waddle kind of teamed him take on wordy in my mind.
Speaker 1: But he'll still do just fine. Speaking of Miles Gaskin,
Speaker 1: it's my number two ranked running back this week based
Speaker 1: on everything else that's changed this week. Just you know,
Speaker 1: you you get to annoy the fantasy fonsie. But what
Speaker 1: do you think it's he still scares me. It is
Speaker 1: an odd numbered week, does scientific? I think so? It
Speaker 1: is week fifteen. We've got a couple of minutes before
Speaker 1: we break for the end of our number one fantasy
Speaker 1: owners who are trying to deal with all of our
Speaker 1: COVID stuff and and generally in the playoffs, you want
Speaker 1: to be dropping your mid tier starters, your courtland Sutton's
Speaker 1: of the world who you will never play in any
Speaker 1: normal scenario, to get backups to your stars who might
Speaker 1: get COVID. And see, am I going to play any
Speaker 1: of these guys in the next three weeks if the
Speaker 1: matchups not awesome, drop drop them out right and go
Speaker 1: get backups to your starters that would be starters, it
Speaker 1: would be stars potentially if the starter goes down. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's just situational awareness that we need to
Speaker 1: have as fantasy owners. When we come back, we will
Speaker 1: continue through matchups including packers Ravens coming up shortly, plus
Speaker 1: three tough questions and there's some tricky ones that deal
Speaker 1: with COVID. Fantasy commissioners managers will help give you some
Speaker 1: guidance on what you need to do in the trickiest
Speaker 1: week we've ever seen in the history of fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Fantasy football has never been harder than it is this week.
Speaker 1: It's the game we love and there's no stable footing
Speaker 1: for fantasy managers to try to make the right decisions
Speaker 1: this week. You know, I feel one piece of luck
Speaker 1: out of all of this. What's that half of the
Speaker 1: fantasy managers are out of it? Yeah, that's that's true.
Speaker 1: They don't have to deal with this headache. It's a
Speaker 1: good time. It's a good season to have a loss.
Speaker 1: Have not made the playoffs if you needed to. This
Speaker 1: time of year, you hear people complaining who had to buy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was like like if you had Travis Kelsey and Ross, Like,
Speaker 1: oh I kind of wanted those points. But you don't
Speaker 1: hear that this year. Now people are happy, finally happy
Speaker 1: to have their buy. Um, Matt Harrison, what's happening in
Speaker 1: shock fantasy? Uh? Super dash? Getting ready for the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Making all of your tough lineup decisions a little bit
Speaker 1: easier from a statistical standpoint. I'm not sure I can
Speaker 1: make it easier from the health standpoint. Everybody unfortunately. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we call three tough questions. Tough question number one, should
Speaker 1: we sabboth hajj drop Lamar Jackson Matt So in a
Speaker 1: redraft league, he's absolutely well obviously this is redraft only.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely worth dropping. But should you drop him? No,
Speaker 1: Because in order to perform a sabotage drop, you would
Speaker 1: need to have done it already this week on Monday,
Speaker 1: so people would be picking him up along the way
Speaker 1: and and wasting their fab And if you do it
Speaker 1: next week, you are already advancing in your fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 1: and then only three other teams would be left in
Speaker 1: your playoffs to maybe have a crack at him. So,
Speaker 1: if you're allowing playoff pickups, I assume others in your
Speaker 1: league in the consolation bracket are picking up players too,
Speaker 1: and then they'll grab him, and your sabotage drop is worthless.
Speaker 1: So don't sabotage drop him. Brian, should we sabotage drop
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. No, I wouldn't do it. I'm tempted to
Speaker 1: say yes, but he's got the Packers this week. We
Speaker 1: all know he's most likely not gonna play, but he
Speaker 1: does have the Bengals next week. They played once already
Speaker 1: this year. Jack's seven passing yards, one passing touchdown, ran
Speaker 1: the ball for eighty eight yards. I think he's still
Speaker 1: he's almost It depends on your roster, but he's going
Speaker 1: to be startable next week, depending on him being healthy,
Speaker 1: and I think he will be. So I'm tempted to
Speaker 1: say yes, but I'm saying no. Let's let's just take
Speaker 1: the name Lamar Jackson off of this player for a moment,
Speaker 1: just as just mystery player. Imagine the silhouette with a
Speaker 1: question mark in it, and that's the player we're described from.
Speaker 1: QB Ravens from Technoball cry exactly one touchdown in nine
Speaker 1: games this year, nine of twelve games, scoring exactly one touchdown.
Speaker 1: That appears to be average finish in full games this
Speaker 1: year is quarterback four. Most leagues have ten or twelve teams,
Speaker 1: so he's not a He's not even a starting quarterback
Speaker 1: in an average week. He's sitting right next to Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: who is largely un rostered in many leagues in terms
Speaker 1: of average finished per game. He has just three finishes
Speaker 1: this year as QB seven or better, three all year.
Speaker 1: It's Christmas and mystery quarterback has three finishes of quarterback
Speaker 1: seven or higher. That's it. So are you going to
Speaker 1: start him the remainder of the way this week Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati or the Rams? No? Probably not. He's got a
Speaker 1: bench grade coming this week next week. I haven't said
Speaker 1: it yet, it's coming next week in Cincinnati. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be sitting at roughly a C grade. But
Speaker 1: maybe if you take a chance on me a quarterback
Speaker 1: next week, maybe Championship week against the Rams, likely a
Speaker 1: bench or a C grade, You've probably got another quarterback
Speaker 1: who's better for you and more hazardous to an opponent.
Speaker 1: Why not drop him? Maybe to Matt's points. So maybe
Speaker 1: some not some consolation team's gonna pick him up. I
Speaker 1: don't care. It doesn't hurt me. What hurts me is
Speaker 1: me starting Lamar Jackson. You can totally drop him if
Speaker 1: there's a good player out there, but if not, he
Speaker 1: could do you more harm than good. If you're in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, Lamar Jackson didn't get you there. Tough question
Speaker 1: number two. In a league that locks rosters for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: what should the commissioner do if a team can't feel
Speaker 1: the starting lineup because of all the COVID problems. As
Speaker 1: an example, Uh, you do not have a tight end.
Speaker 1: You don't have a valid tight end. Every one of
Speaker 1: your tight ends is out and your rosters are locked.
Speaker 1: What should the commissioner like if you have Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: and Tyler Higbee is yes. As a perfect example, Brian Um, Well,
Speaker 1: this is speaking directly to private league's home leagues, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call them. Um, the commissioner should make
Speaker 1: an exception if a guy has been officially ruled out
Speaker 1: put on, I r the COVID list, whatever you wanna
Speaker 1: call it. You get one chance per player. I'll reach
Speaker 1: out to you and say who do you want you get?
Speaker 1: I will, you know, add this player to your roster.
Speaker 1: You don't to change your mind, and if he goes
Speaker 1: on gets COVID, I don't care. You get one chance.
Speaker 1: I'll make an exception. That's it. But I would do
Speaker 1: a manual override. Only you can only really do this
Speaker 1: in the private home leagues. Whatever. You can't do it
Speaker 1: in a public contest, operators, they can't do you can't ah.
Speaker 1: This is strictly for friends and family home leagues, uh, Matt.
Speaker 1: Same question in a league that locks rosters for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: what should a commissioner do if the team cannot feel
Speaker 1: a starting lineup at one position due to all the
Speaker 1: COVID problems. First off, don't lock your rosters for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And second, if you do, I think that you have
Speaker 1: to expand your bench for just this reason. For the
Speaker 1: playoff teams. Then I think what you do is you
Speaker 1: do a fun little exercise and you have a draft
Speaker 1: for the remaining bench players that you could do at
Speaker 1: the How would you establish the draft order? I think
Speaker 1: that you would go the the number one seed gets
Speaker 1: the first overall pick uh to to fill out their bench.
Speaker 1: If you're adding let's say five bench spots to your rosters,
Speaker 1: at the end of the playoffs, number one seed gets
Speaker 1: first pick and then and then you you have a
Speaker 1: nice little serpentine draft and uh and and finish out
Speaker 1: your rosters in that way. This is a better answer
Speaker 1: than my answer. A lot of work, though there's a
Speaker 1: great answer. I'll tell you why the problem with the
Speaker 1: solution that you offered, And I would take your solution, Brian,
Speaker 1: which was I'm gonna give a one time exception to
Speaker 1: the guy who can't feeld a starting roster. You've got
Speaker 1: lock rosters, right, and I don't have a tight end.
Speaker 1: He get this, This person gets to pick from all
Speaker 1: of the available tight ends. It could be a huge
Speaker 1: advantage to be able to go through all the tight
Speaker 1: ends and just take the one player you want when
Speaker 1: nobody else has that option. What I love about yours, Matt,
Speaker 1: is everybody gets the same advantage. It's equitable to everyone,
Speaker 1: and because you're doing it by record, the team that's
Speaker 1: earned it gets the first pick. Man, I love that.
Speaker 1: Just one three tough questions, that's outstanding, brilliant question numbers
Speaker 1: rendered You even gave your answer. No, I know that's
Speaker 1: really actually won my first time in nine years. Did
Speaker 1: you went? Uh? What was? He went four for six five? One?
Speaker 1: You're confusing, you're confusing. Take a chance of you a
Speaker 1: three tough questions? It was it was five tough questions
Speaker 1: and he went six for five, which is very just
Speaker 1: very hard to do. Um, it's the what's the how
Speaker 1: did captain Kirk break the simulation. Thing was that the
Speaker 1: Kobe Ashi maneuver or something. Do you know what no idea,
Speaker 1: what you're talking Google Captain Kirk breaking the simulation or whatever?
Speaker 1: You know that that he Yes, you'll you'll see what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's not kobe Ashi, but it's something. It's
Speaker 1: something Maru koby Ashi, Maru something like that. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: answer I had was that I would I would grant
Speaker 1: you the roster exception, but I would give your opponent
Speaker 1: the same thing and the chance to go first. I
Speaker 1: like you wars even better, which gives it to all
Speaker 1: the remaining team play. And you could still do it
Speaker 1: if you wanted to um this weekend, or you could
Speaker 1: do it before the Saturday night game happens. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: their their Thursday guys locked. But you could still do
Speaker 1: it before the Saturday night game happens. Or you can
Speaker 1: say just the obvious next guy up, like you know,
Speaker 1: like the next tight end on the depth chart on
Speaker 1: the same team. You get it, then you don't have
Speaker 1: to reach out to the other You do it that way.
Speaker 1: But that answer is the best. I think Matt's answer
Speaker 1: is the best. Tough question Number three should teams that
Speaker 1: are out of the playoffs continue to make roster moves
Speaker 1: during the playoffs, Matt Chart, I know that you and
Speaker 1: I have the same exact answer, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to I'm not I'm I. I heard you on another
Speaker 1: radio show talking about this exact tough question, and I
Speaker 1: agree with you completely, So I will just take the
Speaker 1: already want to questions, Brian, What do you got Should
Speaker 1: teams that are out of the playoffs continue to be
Speaker 1: allowed to continue to make roster moves during the playoffs
Speaker 1: and redraft? No, unless there's some kind of consolation bracket
Speaker 1: where there's money on the line or some kind of prize,
Speaker 1: but on a high level. No in redraft and dynasty, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because you're always improving your team for the future. You
Speaker 1: can't restrict a non playoff team in a dynasty league
Speaker 1: from making ads while the playoff teams that have their
Speaker 1: essential free pick of all the available free agents. So no, redraft, yes,
Speaker 1: dynasty in a nutshell, if your league has provided some
Speaker 1: kind of incentive for teams that aren't in the playoffs
Speaker 1: to continue to compete, like, for example, weekly high score
Speaker 1: h a consolation bracket or a toilet bowl or something
Speaker 1: like that then yes, I mean, if you're asking those
Speaker 1: teams to continue to be competitive, then they need to
Speaker 1: be able to continue to make moves. If the answer
Speaker 1: is no, you don't just get to play spoiler and
Speaker 1: play keep away with free agents. Sure, so the answers
Speaker 1: no in that case. So it's a two part answer, Brett,
Speaker 1: It's something more ru hi. Um, so what is it?
Speaker 1: The Captain and Kirk broke the simulation with So the
Speaker 1: simulation itself was called the kobe Ashi Maru. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was the name of the simulation. Okay, he was yeah, um.
Speaker 1: He was the only cadet in the star Fleet to
Speaker 1: ever beat it by reprogramming the simulation so that it
Speaker 1: was possible to win. So that was the name of
Speaker 1: the simulation. A franchise. I've never I you know, I
Speaker 1: only had two out of three questions, right, I'm giving
Speaker 1: myself a bonus point for that, So now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go three out of three. You've never gone this yet.
Speaker 1: This was the first time I had not gone three
Speaker 1: out of three, and I found a way to give
Speaker 1: myself an extra bonus and it was the start trek question. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was all right, let's go to uh matchups including
Speaker 1: Packers taking on the Ravens. Rogers, Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams
Speaker 1: are automatic a's obviously, especially in this matchup against a
Speaker 1: bad Raven secondary. But let's talk about Alan Lazard six
Speaker 1: and seven targets the last two games, and Baltimore is
Speaker 1: without its two best corner acts. I think he is
Speaker 1: a COVID week dart throw. You guys like to call
Speaker 1: your darts see dartschis a c great I needs a
Speaker 1: dart throne, so we're gonna give him the s dart.
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard, A J. Dillon, and Aaron Jones are just
Speaker 1: se grades here. Each. Dylan got far more work last week,
Speaker 1: and I think it looks like the Patricks are trying
Speaker 1: to ensure that Jones is fresh for the playoffs. Baltimore
Speaker 1: is a very good run defense. They're only giving up
Speaker 1: three point eight yards per carry on the season. That's
Speaker 1: the third lowest rate, and since their Week eight by
Speaker 1: more recently, Baltimore is only allowed a single run of
Speaker 1: more than fifteen yards since Week eight, and they've kept
Speaker 1: opposing running backs completely out of the end zone since
Speaker 1: Week eight. Week it was a long time ago nobody
Speaker 1: even knew what a macrowd was in weekend. Let's go
Speaker 1: over to the Baltimore side. Mark Andrews didn't suffer at
Speaker 1: all with Tyler Huntley at the Holme last week, so
Speaker 1: we can safely start him again here. Although I don't
Speaker 1: think Huntley is gonna end up going, we do expect
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to go in this game. Green has limited
Speaker 1: tight end production, but when facing elite talents t J. Hockenson,
Speaker 1: George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, packers have been exposed. Each of
Speaker 1: them saw eight or more targets in average seventy five
Speaker 1: yards and two of the three scored touchdowns. Marcus Brown
Speaker 1: C grade here, we'll bump him up to a well
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm gonna move them to a B
Speaker 1: grade on on on the expectation that Jackson will go
Speaker 1: as expected here um mired in a sizeable scoring slump
Speaker 1: after a hot start and a touchdown though possible here
Speaker 1: because Green Bay has allowed the most touchdowns per game
Speaker 1: to wide receivers one point eight per game over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, and they've done that while allowing the
Speaker 1: twelfth fewest receptions, So maybe the touch on productions a
Speaker 1: little bit fluky here. If Gyr Alexander comes back, it
Speaker 1: doesn't phase me that much because it will be his
Speaker 1: first game back after two months, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: probably hit the field a little rusty and on a
Speaker 1: diminished snap count. So I'd still stick with the B
Speaker 1: grade on Marquis Brown. I've got Lamar Jackson on the bench,
Speaker 1: and I really I've really been back and forth on this. Now.
Speaker 1: The presumption is that his mobility is going to be
Speaker 1: dramatically curtailed here um and if I got to rely
Speaker 1: on Jackson's arm topower me to fantasy points, that feels
Speaker 1: like that feels like trouble. As mentioned earlier, he's topped
Speaker 1: one passing touchdown in just two games. Average passing game
Speaker 1: is just two hundred sixty to six yards. Isn't bad,
Speaker 1: but the one point for a touchdowns is not good.
Speaker 1: Almost exactly Ben Roethlisberg. Around the season, Green Bay secondary
Speaker 1: has been inconsistent, but on the whole has been good.
Speaker 1: So I'm keeping him on the bench. Shot Bateman came
Speaker 1: off the bench last week. Well, we're all talking about
Speaker 1: him like, this is the breakout game for Bateman. This
Speaker 1: is the breakout game for Bateman, never comes, never comes.
Speaker 1: We all give up on him. He doesn't even start
Speaker 1: the game, but then Tyler Huntley throws to him like
Speaker 1: crazy and he ends up with a good game. Last week,
Speaker 1: I'm not chasing that weird fluky outpush. I need more
Speaker 1: consistency from marishat Bateman before we go there. Let's take
Speaker 1: a break when we come back, Matt, this Raiders in
Speaker 1: Brown's game is who knows which Browns are in? Which
Speaker 1: are gonna be out? This is not gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: Who knows what day we'll play it? Well, seemingly on Tuesday. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think they can move it again. All I
Speaker 1: know is all right, Monday, they could move it again.
Speaker 1: Darren Waller has a better chance of playing maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh, this thing's gonna be ugly. Well here
Speaker 1: Matt try to muddle through Raiders Browns when we come
Speaker 1: back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: It is the most grueling, difficult week in the history
Speaker 1: of Fantasy football and this show, as exemplified by Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison trying to break down the Raiders taking on the
Speaker 1: Browns in a game that has been moved from Saturday
Speaker 1: to Monday. And Matt, there's so many shifting sands on
Speaker 1: this but I still got to believe that the Browns
Speaker 1: are going to be without many key components to their
Speaker 1: to their offense in this one, and their defense, which
Speaker 1: is a very important part for the Reds, like their
Speaker 1: entire secondary may miss this game. Yeah. So, as I
Speaker 1: was writing up this matchup, because I write up what
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, Uh, twenty three players on the
Speaker 1: Browns are on the COVID reserve list, fifteen of which
Speaker 1: are starters, including as of now, seven starting members of
Speaker 1: the defense and eight backups on the defense. And I
Speaker 1: like Raiders in this game. That's good for the Raiders, right,
Speaker 1: And I think Baker Mayfield tweeted something like Derek Carr
Speaker 1: is gonna eat his alive or something like that. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: let's start with the easiest Raider to rate, and that's
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfrew, who gets an A grade. Uh. He's the
Speaker 1: entire offense for them right now. Fourteen targets, thirteen catches,
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventeen yards and a score last week.
Speaker 1: Has also been targeted at least nine times in five
Speaker 1: of the last six games. He should see a fair
Speaker 1: amount of m J. Stewart in this game. Who hasn't
Speaker 1: logged a snap this year. As both Troy Hill and
Speaker 1: Greg Knewsome looked like they're going to miss this game,
Speaker 1: Auster Moreau, I have him on the bench. Uh, Darren
Speaker 1: Waller looks like he's out with a knee injury. But
Speaker 1: now that the game has been moved two days later,
Speaker 1: it's possible that Darren Waller could play. No tight end
Speaker 1: except for Travis Kelsey has topped the fifty one yard
Speaker 1: mark on the Browns all season, So I got the
Speaker 1: both of the tight ends on the bench in this one.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, I'm giving a B grade two. He's averaging
Speaker 1: three yards per game in a score and a half,
Speaker 1: and with so many members of the Browns defense out,
Speaker 1: I think he can wiggle his way to at least
Speaker 1: to seventy five and two. That's B grade worthy in
Speaker 1: my book. And Josh Jacobs, I'm giving a B grade
Speaker 1: two as well. The Raiders had to abandon the run
Speaker 1: last week, Jacob still ended up with fourteen touches and
Speaker 1: has been very active in the passing game as of
Speaker 1: recent averaging just over five catches per game in his
Speaker 1: last five. Only Leonard four Net has more running back
Speaker 1: catches in that span. Every non Ravens runner to face
Speaker 1: the Browns has had a good week since mid October,
Speaker 1: so Jacobs is fine. Here on the Cleveland side, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield and case Keenum right now both out on the
Speaker 1: COVID list. Offensive tackle Jedrick Wills, offensive guard Wyatt Teller,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, Jarvis Landry, and Anthony Schwartz are all on
Speaker 1: the COVID list. Not to mention, they lost tackle Jack
Speaker 1: Conklin a few weeks ago, and Kareem Hunt is on
Speaker 1: the shelf with an injury. So Nick Mullins, and yeah,
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins is your starter. He started nine times for
Speaker 1: the forty niners last year career, and credit the Browns
Speaker 1: for having a Their third string quarterbacks got seventeen NFL
Speaker 1: star Their third string quarterback is the best third string
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. It's gotta be. He averaged a
Speaker 1: very respectable two hundred sixty three yards and one point
Speaker 1: three touchdowns last year, but with three of his five
Speaker 1: offensive linemen and three of his main five receivers missing
Speaker 1: the game, I don't think you can start Mullins with confidence.
Speaker 1: And I covered David and Joku and to take a
Speaker 1: chance on me segment because Mullins does target the end,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a great spot for in Joku.
Speaker 1: Last week against Baltimore, Donovan People's Jones was the only
Speaker 1: wide receiver besides Jarvis Landry to receiver target just out
Speaker 1: of sheer volume. He gets a C grade here. Richard
Speaker 1: Higgins is the only active roster wide receiver right now
Speaker 1: besides d p J. Finally, Nick Chubb, who really has
Speaker 1: been flat out disappointing in his two consecutive games against
Speaker 1: the Ravens with that bye week in between. So I'm
Speaker 1: surprised CHARGE didn't have a Nick Chubb should we drop
Speaker 1: him question, because you usually do that when a guy
Speaker 1: has a bye week. I I do overreact sometimes, but
Speaker 1: we're not dropping Chubb. But I don't know starting I'm
Speaker 1: giving him an A grade. He's still dominating. He's absolutely
Speaker 1: dominating the workload twenty touches last week, and the Raiders
Speaker 1: are absolutely brutal against running backs. They are ranking in
Speaker 1: the bottom ten in just about every statistical category. And
Speaker 1: I considered d Ernest Johnson as a C. Dart harpoon here,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I could trust the workload of
Speaker 1: him in the fantasy placed on nothing in these opportunities
Speaker 1: to fill in for Cream Hunt. His one good game
Speaker 1: is when he got all the carrier, They're going to
Speaker 1: hand the ball to Chubs, and I'm so nervous about
Speaker 1: the fact that they can't get anything else going that
Speaker 1: all the Raiders will do is play to stop Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: The Raiders have tried to stop the run all year
Speaker 1: and it hasn't worked. Yeah, but then you have a
Speaker 1: function you have still do account for a functional quarterback
Speaker 1: and passing game, and he might be missing to lineman,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous. I'm way more nervous about Chubb than you are. Here.
Speaker 1: There we go. I can't take credit for this, but
Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter someone said this game should be
Speaker 1: impossible to be played because Baker Mayfield lives at the stadium.
Speaker 1: That's a great in fact that the entire stadium you
Speaker 1: can go to Bengals take on the Broncos. Brian, this
Speaker 1: is the rare game that doesn't seem to have any
Speaker 1: really significant COVID related issues. So let's start on the
Speaker 1: Bengal side. Joe Mixon has been disappointing over the past
Speaker 1: I don't know three or four games. What do you
Speaker 1: think here? Yeah, Mixing has cooled down in recent weeks,
Speaker 1: partially because he's been banged up, but either way, his
Speaker 1: production has slowed, so just to be for him, He's
Speaker 1: also losing a lot of his receiving work to Somaj
Speaker 1: p Ryans. P Ryan has out targeted Mixican Nixon six
Speaker 1: to two over the last two weeks. Uh. Not a
Speaker 1: great matchup. Not a bad matchup for running backs. The
Speaker 1: Broncos have allowed the sixth highest yards per carry but
Speaker 1: the sixth fewest touchdowns to opposing running back. So just
Speaker 1: to be for Mixing, I'm gonna give T Higgins B Mr.
Speaker 1: T Higgins. He has racked up three straight one plus
Speaker 1: yard games. Uh. This is a somewhat tough match up
Speaker 1: on paper, though Patrick Surtan and Ronald Darby are very
Speaker 1: formidable cornerback duo. Over the last five weeks, Denver has
Speaker 1: allowed the eighth fewest yards to wide receivers. Despite that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Jamar Chase a B as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: He always has a upside with his talent. Last week,
Speaker 1: Chase became the fifth wide receiver since the NFL a
Speaker 1: f L merger to record one thousand yards and ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his rookie season, joining Justin Jefferson, Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, and Mike Evans on a very prestigious list.
Speaker 1: So a B for for Chase and Higgins, both wide receivers,
Speaker 1: but a bench grade for Tyler Boyd. He continues to
Speaker 1: be the odd man out in the wide receiver room.
Speaker 1: Not liking him this week. And lastly, just to see
Speaker 1: for Joe Burrow. Last week, Burrow not most multiple passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns for the first time since Week eight, ending a
Speaker 1: four game drought where he total just three scores through
Speaker 1: the air. Unfortunately for Burrow, be tough to stay hot
Speaker 1: against the Broncos, who are top ten in fewest passing
Speaker 1: yards allowed per game and only lowest opponent completion percentage
Speaker 1: at just fifty eight percent. And what's more, no opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback has managed to top two passing touchdowns against Denver
Speaker 1: all season long. So just to see for Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: over to the Denver side, starting with the running backs
Speaker 1: in Melvin Gordon canna give him a see. He returned
Speaker 1: last week to lead the Broncos backfield in carries with
Speaker 1: twenty four and snaps. Uh since he is a decent
Speaker 1: matchup for running backs. Are allowing five compo yards per
Speaker 1: game to the position, and that's why Javonte Williams gets
Speaker 1: to see as well. He will be active for this game.
Speaker 1: Basically back that fifty fifty split though, which sucks no offense.
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon is still a very good football player. He
Speaker 1: was actually running fine. He is, man, it was funny.
Speaker 1: I know what. I don't want him to but the
Speaker 1: reality is Melvin Gordon's good. He's the most hated man
Speaker 1: in fantasy football for no Reasonay, we just want Bell
Speaker 1: Cou Javante. We're gonna have to wait till next year,
Speaker 1: but Javonte is the preferred past watch. Melvin Gordon's gonna
Speaker 1: resign with the Broncos. Don't you put that evil on us.
Speaker 1: I'll be so disappointed. The Bengals are allowing seven receptions
Speaker 1: per game to opposing running back, So I like Javonte
Speaker 1: still this week he gets to see. I don't like
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy a whole lot, considering he has scored zero
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year. He has been hurt a little bit.
Speaker 1: But just to see for Judy, the Bengals have allowed
Speaker 1: five eighty yard receiving games over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: If Broncos wide receiver is gonna not eighty receiving yards
Speaker 1: is probably Jerry Judy is not gonna be Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench. Sutton is scoreless since Week six.
Speaker 1: He's been held under thirty yards in five straight games.
Speaker 1: He's just been absolutely brutal. Thirty million and don't pass
Speaker 1: them the ball. Teddy Bridgewater is the fantasy eraser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Suton easily drop herble in redraft formats, but we still
Speaker 1: got a hold in dynasty. Unfortunately I'm doing it. It's painful. Uh. Lastly,
Speaker 1: for the past catchers, Noah Fant gets to see Albert
Speaker 1: oh has really eaten eaten into fans production. But this
Speaker 1: is a decent matchup. The Bengals are allowing five plus
Speaker 1: catches in nearly sixty yards per game to opposing tight ends,
Speaker 1: and over the last six games since he has surrendered
Speaker 1: five scores to the tight end position. So a very
Speaker 1: safe seat for fans and Teddy b The B stands
Speaker 1: for bench for no doubt about it. So the Washington
Speaker 1: game against Philadelphia has been moved to Tuesday, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do my best with what the information we have
Speaker 1: at this time, which is basically most of Washington's not playing,
Speaker 1: and their starting quarterback could very well be Kyle Shermer. Yes,
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Pat Shermer's kid, who I think was either
Speaker 1: corectdraft like a fifth or sixth th I have been
Speaker 1: drafted I think the Chiefs, and he got cut and
Speaker 1: he bounced around a little bit, and Ryan Fitzpatrick willis
Speaker 1: Reid moment. That's Ryan Fitzpatrick's music. I'd love that. So
Speaker 1: with Kyle Schermer at the helm, and even if Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen defies expectation and comes back here, I only have
Speaker 1: one starter for all of Washington injuries throughout the team,
Speaker 1: including there down to their fifth string center, guy named
Speaker 1: John Toth, whose day job is as a plus sized
Speaker 1: male model. I'm working at a starting center. I hear
Speaker 1: you an Tonio Gibson straight up on the bench. With
Speaker 1: defense is really only having to stop Antonio Gibson and
Speaker 1: not worry about the passing game led by Kyle Schermer.
Speaker 1: Uh Gibson averaging just his averaging under four yards per
Speaker 1: carrying each of the last three games, and Charles Leno
Speaker 1: may not start. That's their left tackle over the last
Speaker 1: three games. Only one team has a loud fewer rushing
Speaker 1: yards than the Eagles have. They turned into an elite
Speaker 1: run defense. It was a bad matchup any anyway, made worse.
Speaker 1: I'm not starting Antonio Gibson in the whole passing game
Speaker 1: on the bench, including Terry McLaurin, wasn't playing all that
Speaker 1: well anyway. He had to get this. Mclarina has reached
Speaker 1: sixty yards once in the last six games. That's terrible
Speaker 1: as one touchdown over that stretch too, and brutal matchup
Speaker 1: with Darius Slay. The sleigh ride is back. There is
Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no, Hey, there we go. The
Speaker 1: sleigh ride is back. He's profo ball focuses fourth ranked cornerback.
Speaker 1: Don't start Terry McLaren here, works to it kind of
Speaker 1: does Uh, you're one starter if you believe like I
Speaker 1: do that Philadelphia is gonna stake a big lead j
Speaker 1: D mckissic, assuming he clears the concussion protocol, he's expected
Speaker 1: to go here. The Eagles are gonna lead throughout and
Speaker 1: I can see Kyle Sherman just doing dump off short
Speaker 1: passes to j. D mckissic. In PPR leagues, he is
Speaker 1: a c grade. Let's go over to Philadelphia. I've upgraded
Speaker 1: basically all of my Eagles by a full letter grade
Speaker 1: because of all of the injuries that the Washington defense has,
Speaker 1: including potentially all of its starting defensive line in this game.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders has been great while healthy and playing. He's
Speaker 1: averaged over five point five yards per carry over his
Speaker 1: last three full games. The Washington run defense had been fantastic,
Speaker 1: but again, if these guys aren't starting, maybe it doesn't
Speaker 1: even matter, and the Philadelphia is likely to get ahead
Speaker 1: and just run out the clock in this game. So
Speaker 1: I like Miles Sanders here. Um, Washington has only given
Speaker 1: up one score since the week nine by but maybe
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter. You could you could play a
Speaker 1: desperation Boston Scott if you wanted to, But I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna go quite that deeper. We're gonna stick
Speaker 1: with Miles Sanders has gotten the vast majority of the work.
Speaker 1: I orige only had Jalen Hurts on the bench, but
Speaker 1: he gets an extra two days to heal that ankle,
Speaker 1: so maybe he can run a bit here, and even
Speaker 1: if he can't, the passing could come easily if Washington
Speaker 1: doesn't have all the defensive players it's expected to have here.
Speaker 1: Over the past six weeks, the average game against Washington
Speaker 1: passing game is a modest two twenty one yards and
Speaker 1: one point three touchdowns, and that includes holding far better
Speaker 1: passers Derek Carr and Dak Prescott to a combined one
Speaker 1: score of the past two weeks. But again, if there's
Speaker 1: injury ravaged as we expect I think hurts and it
Speaker 1: hurts his foot is back, then maybe he can between
Speaker 1: running and passing, he can get up to a C
Speaker 1: grade on this. Dallas Goddard is a solid B grade
Speaker 1: with zach Ertz out. He's top sixty yards and four
Speaker 1: of the past seven games the football team has been
Speaker 1: pretty stout against opposing tight ends, only two tight ends
Speaker 1: of top sixty yards against them. But again due to injuries,
Speaker 1: I think you can start Dallas Goddard pretty safely. And lastly,
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith. Over his last three games, Smith, averaging just
Speaker 1: thirty three yards, hasn't found the end zone. Um in
Speaker 1: Washington's last six games, which includes matchups against Brady and Prescott,
Speaker 1: only Tyler Lockett and Hunter Rent for we were able
Speaker 1: to reach sixty five yards, So we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: throw out Davonta Smith here, well maybe even give him
Speaker 1: a secret. Well, I'm gonna go I'll well go ahead
Speaker 1: give him a because again, if watching his missing all
Speaker 1: the players we expect them to be missing, Smith's the
Speaker 1: best chance for somebody other receivers have a big game.
Speaker 1: He's the guy who want to start. If you're going
Speaker 1: up against someone who started, Travis Kelsey or something, I
Speaker 1: need something special to happen. Yeah, that's a great angle.
Speaker 1: That is a great angle. When we come back our
Speaker 1: final three matchups, including Seahawks taking on the Rams another Tuesday,
Speaker 1: another Tuesday game with a bunch of injuries. What to
Speaker 1: do a DK Metcalf will talk about that when we
Speaker 1: come back for the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: This week crazy, poor Friday, Poor Friday. It's a bad deal.
Speaker 1: And then it goes Saturday again. It's eight of the
Speaker 1: next ten days. There's gonna be pro football. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: not starting this weekend? Really eight of the next tent No,
Speaker 1: really no, no, No Friday this week and then and
Speaker 1: then Thursday game this week. They're done with Thursdays. They're
Speaker 1: done with Thursday games. I'm almost sure Seahawks take down
Speaker 1: the Rams. Matt And for the Seahawks, Tyler Lockett probably
Speaker 1: not available, may be available, maybe comes back by Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's possible. It's possible. Alex Collins and Tyler Lockett are
Speaker 1: the notable Seahawks on the COVID list. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: more in this game, but those are the only Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny was might take a chance of me. Runner
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson has never thrown for a three yard game
Speaker 1: against the Rams and twelve career starts, and he has
Speaker 1: thrown multiple touchdowns only once in his last five matchups
Speaker 1: with l A. However, the Rams have twenty five players
Speaker 1: on the COVID list, including four starting defensive players, seven
Speaker 1: backup defensive players, and Aaron Donald was estimated as a
Speaker 1: limited participant with a knee injury because the Rams can't
Speaker 1: meet in person, so it was an estimated limited participant
Speaker 1: for that. I'm gonna give Wilson a B grade because
Speaker 1: he's kind of facing a preseason style defense. Um. Some
Speaker 1: of the noteworthy guys who are out on the defensive side,
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, Von Miller, It's it's pretty big, so um.
Speaker 1: So let's move on to DK Metcalf, who did practice
Speaker 1: in full on Friday and if lock It is out.
Speaker 1: Both Freddie Swain and d s Gridge are both deal
Speaker 1: dealing with injuries as well. So Metcalf. He's been working
Speaker 1: through foot and back stuff, but he looks like he's
Speaker 1: ready to go. With Jalen Ramsey on the COVID list,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for Metcalf. And it's worth noting
Speaker 1: that Metcalf has scored twice against the Rams in each
Speaker 1: of his last two games against them. And that's with
Speaker 1: Ramsey playing, so I think d K will play and
Speaker 1: if he's active, he's a B grade as well. Gerald
Speaker 1: Everett kind of becomes the de facto number two wide
Speaker 1: receiver with lock it Out. And it's also a revenge
Speaker 1: game for Gerald Everett in l A and the first
Speaker 1: time they played this this year in weeks Week five,
Speaker 1: Everett was out in that game. So the Rams are
Speaker 1: normally the middle of the pack against the tight end
Speaker 1: position and a normal tight end coverage guy. Ernest Jones
Speaker 1: is still active as of now, but he's not that
Speaker 1: great at coverage, so he's actually allowed three touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his last six games. UH. Of the twenty five Rams
Speaker 1: on the COVID list, the most important on the offensive
Speaker 1: side are right tackle Rob Havenstein, Darryl Henderson, Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: although Beckham tweeted that he was negative on Friday, so
Speaker 1: I think he's going in this game. He could have
Speaker 1: been talking about, though you never know. And Tyler Higbee,
Speaker 1: who just tested positive on Friday, so he probably won't
Speaker 1: go anyway. Matthew Stafford he still gets an A grade.
Speaker 1: Unlike Wilson, Stafford has thrown for three yards against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Every time he's faced them in a rams UNI and
Speaker 1: he's yeah, that's right. He's thrown for three touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in each of the last three games. Seattle is allowing
Speaker 1: the most passing yards per game, but weirdly the sixth
Speaker 1: fewest passing touchdowns, so that's kind of strange. Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: is my fantasy art Vark of the week. I like it.
Speaker 1: That's a solid A grade right there. Van Jefferson, I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a B on the premise that O'Dell doesn't go.
Speaker 1: If O'Dell does go, If O'Dell does go, I think
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson still a C grade. Van will line up
Speaker 1: against DJ Read most often, where Jefferson has a five
Speaker 1: inch advantage in the height department. And then the last
Speaker 1: guy is Sony Michelle, who gets an A grade because
Speaker 1: it looks like Henderson is out for a third straight week.
Speaker 1: He's on the COVID list and he's still dealing with
Speaker 1: now that they've moved it. Maybe if Henderson does go,
Speaker 1: Henderson gets the A grade. If Henderson doesn't go, Michelle
Speaker 1: gets the ego um because he would get to bell
Speaker 1: Cow again and he's averaged twenty two carries for a
Speaker 1: hundred yards over the last two weeks. Better if if
Speaker 1: Henderson doesn't go, because you know what to get out
Speaker 1: of Sony. If Henderson does go, I worry a little
Speaker 1: bit about a possible harsh a little time share. We
Speaker 1: call him Sony Michelle Cow, Michelle Cow. I like it.
Speaker 1: Uh Well, Michelle Cow would face his easiest matchup that
Speaker 1: he's seen so far this year. Seattle is allowing the
Speaker 1: most touches per game to opposing runners at thirty four
Speaker 1: per game, and opposing bats have hit them up for
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty eight combo yards per game this season.
Speaker 1: So even if Henderson does play, Sony, Michelle is still
Speaker 1: a plausible c start here. If Henderson does go, alright,
Speaker 1: it's gross. It's it's a Tuesday game. If you can
Speaker 1: start anybody ahead of these guys except for Cooper, Cup
Speaker 1: I think and Stafford, I'd start those guys. Saints take
Speaker 1: on the Bucks, Brian and for the Saints, this is
Speaker 1: a tricky matchup a lot of different ways. Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: is traditionally been able to find ways to fantasy relevancy
Speaker 1: against a very good run defense. What do you think
Speaker 1: about this week? Yeah, Well, we'll start with the Camara.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a B by now. Everyone should
Speaker 1: be aware that the Bucks are a brutal matchup for
Speaker 1: running backs, are allowing less than one combo yards per
Speaker 1: game to the position, just eight total touchdowns allowed to
Speaker 1: running backs all year, but one of those touchdowns that
Speaker 1: did go to Kimara. When these teams met in Week eight,
Speaker 1: Camara also totaled seventy six combo yards of that touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the floor and almost ceiling we're looking
Speaker 1: at here. Temper your expectations with Camara, but certainly the
Speaker 1: star and the ceiling. It's at the same time. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's an uncomfortable spot to be in. It's a
Speaker 1: really weird room. Speaking of a weird room, the wide
Speaker 1: receiver room is pretty weird for the Saints with tray
Speaker 1: Kwan Smith, Marquette Callaway, and Esop Winston, all who combined
Speaker 1: for just six catches last week against the Jets. Love
Speaker 1: his fables, by the way, but New Orleans didn't need
Speaker 1: to throw much in that game. They will likely need
Speaker 1: to throw more against the Bucks. I am gonna give
Speaker 1: tray Kwan Smith a CEE. He had a touchdown in
Speaker 1: the earlier meeting this year, and he swored two touchdowns
Speaker 1: one game against the Bucks last year and one in
Speaker 1: the other, so four touchdowns across his last three games
Speaker 1: for tray Kuwan Smith against the Bucks, so see for
Speaker 1: him and his c for Nick Vannette. Saints tight end
Speaker 1: Vanette has seen the second most targets from Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, and the Bucks are allowing
Speaker 1: six plus catches and nearly sixty yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing tight end. So if you're desperated tight end, Nick
Speaker 1: Vannette is worth a shot. And Taysom Hill, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give him an a, but I'm gonna even be
Speaker 1: He has a one percent completion rate in three career
Speaker 1: games against the Bucks. Now, granted his past attempts in
Speaker 1: those three games were to one and one. He'll probably
Speaker 1: pass it more in this one. But of course, it's
Speaker 1: all about the rushing with Taysom Mill. In his last
Speaker 1: six starts, Hill was averaging sixty three rushing yards and
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown per game. Josh Allen just ran for
Speaker 1: a hundred plus yards against the Bucks last week, also
Speaker 1: had three hundred plus passing yards, and I think we
Speaker 1: can call Taysom Hill a very poor man's Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: so a B for Taysom Hill over to the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay side, starting with Leonard Fournette. He will play in
Speaker 1: this game. He's been nursing an injury, but he will play.
Speaker 1: He gets a c just forty three scoreless combo yards
Speaker 1: on eleven touches in the first meeting. He'll likely get
Speaker 1: more touches in this game, though, as his last three
Speaker 1: touch counts have been twenty and twenty four and an
Speaker 1: absolute bell cow as of late. But a tough matchup
Speaker 1: for him as well. New Orleans is allowing just ninety
Speaker 1: seven conboy yards per game to running backs. Another it's
Speaker 1: a tough magic from Mike Evans, too likely to square
Speaker 1: off with Marshawn Lattimore yet again. Evans did have two
Speaker 1: catches for forty eight yards and a touchdown in the
Speaker 1: first meeting, but in his previous five games against the
Speaker 1: Saints he has total just ten catches for a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty six yards in one touchdown. Those averages have
Speaker 1: not come out to a very pretty number for Evans,
Speaker 1: but Chris Godwin put up very pretty numbers in the
Speaker 1: first game against the Saints, he gets an A. He's
Speaker 1: had at least ten catches and over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: and back to back games. He could do it again
Speaker 1: and this one. The Saints have allowed these six most
Speaker 1: yards to wide receivers um and Godwin lit him up
Speaker 1: in the first meeting for eight catches, a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty yards and in touchdown. So love God when here
Speaker 1: he gets an A, as does Rob Gronkowski. Uh, he
Speaker 1: really didn't play in the first meeting. He was coming
Speaker 1: back from injury. Probably shouldn't even suited up. Only saw
Speaker 1: five snaps, no catches. The Saints are tough matchup on paper.
Speaker 1: They've allowed an average of thirty nine yards per game
Speaker 1: to tight ends over the last five weeks. That's not great,
Speaker 1: but when targeted seven or more times against the Saints,
Speaker 1: tight ends have averaged the healthy fifty five yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's good news for Gronk, who has seen at least
Speaker 1: eight targets in four straight And lastly, Tom Brady, what
Speaker 1: can you say about him other than he gets an
Speaker 1: A seventy five yards for passing touchdowns on the first meeting.
Speaker 1: Guy now probably gonna do it again, probably breaking news.
Speaker 1: He's been good the Monday Night game. Well, the one
Speaker 1: of the Monday Night games now is Vikings taking on
Speaker 1: the Bears. Bears riddled with COVID and regular injuries as well.
Speaker 1: Notable defenders who will be missing for the Bears are
Speaker 1: expected to be missing Eddie Jackson, Eddie Goldman, already, Burns
Speaker 1: have all got COVID. Uh Ro Kwan Smith's got a hamstring.
Speaker 1: He may not go in this game. They were already
Speaker 1: without Kali mac who was on I R and Danny
Speaker 1: Trevathan who was on I R. This is a a
Speaker 1: ravage defense and so there's great opportunities for the Vikings
Speaker 1: offense in this one. Justin Jefferson's an absolute lock. And
Speaker 1: not that you need to me to really even expand
Speaker 1: on that, but let me mention the two full games
Speaker 1: without Adam Feeling, he seemed twenty nine targets. So obviously
Speaker 1: they continue to throw to Justin Jefferson and they will
Speaker 1: do so here as well. He's gonna get shadowed by
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson for the whole game. But they did that
Speaker 1: against Davante Adams last week, and they Packers found ways
Speaker 1: to get Adams on other players moving into the slot
Speaker 1: and some other things. Vikings will do that with Jefferson
Speaker 1: here too, UM K j Osborne and obviously for Jefferson
Speaker 1: kJ Osbourne, I've I've bumped up to a B on
Speaker 1: all of these defensive injuries. He would have gone up
Speaker 1: against already Burns, which was already a positive matchup, but
Speaker 1: this means they will probably have to go to our
Speaker 1: favorite whipping boy kindle fil door that's right back on
Speaker 1: the field and if it's not filled or might be
Speaker 1: Xavier Profit although he may not go either, he's questionable
Speaker 1: for this game. A K. J Osborne I've got as
Speaker 1: a B grade right now. Kirk Cousins feels incredibly safe here.
Speaker 1: Multiple touchdowns in six straight games. I've already told I
Speaker 1: like Jefferson, I like Osborne, actually like Tyler Conklin too.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, I'm gonna give him a B only because
Speaker 1: I think the running game is gonna be a big
Speaker 1: factor here as well. Tyler Conklin startable. Bears have only
Speaker 1: a lot of four tight end touchdowns all season, but
Speaker 1: they were just picked apart by Green Bay's backup tight
Speaker 1: ends for seven receptions and ninety yards, and they've actually
Speaker 1: given up three tight end scores in their last four games.
Speaker 1: Constlin probably gets a few extra looks here. With theelan
Speaker 1: remaining out of this game, I believe he'll be out
Speaker 1: of this game. So we'll give Tyler Conklin a C
Speaker 1: grade in this one. And again, all those missing parts
Speaker 1: could be a huge part for the Vikings and Dalvin Cookson. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this might have been a B grade in a trickier
Speaker 1: matchup without all of these starters gone. So Cook averages
Speaker 1: only eighty two combo yards and his only score or
Speaker 1: twice in five career meetings against the Bears, But who
Speaker 1: cares that all bets are off the only the only
Speaker 1: really knock on Dalvin cook wasn't able to catch while
Speaker 1: he was wearing that harness for his shoulder last week.
Speaker 1: May not be able to catch much in this game.
Speaker 1: Still a grade for Dalvin cook Let's go over to
Speaker 1: the other side for Chicago. David Montgomery missed some practice
Speaker 1: with regular non COVID illness, but came back on Friday.
Speaker 1: We expect him to be able to go in this one.
Speaker 1: The Vikings defense finally healthy, but they were healthy last week,
Speaker 1: and Nagy Harris gouged him for five yards per carry
Speaker 1: and two scores, So I still like Montgomery here. In
Speaker 1: three career games against the Vikings, he averages twenty five
Speaker 1: rushes for one four yards and a score per game.
Speaker 1: If you tell me David mcgomery is gonna get twenty
Speaker 1: five carries, I'm definitely in. I only have a B
Speaker 1: grade on him here because of the prospects potentially of
Speaker 1: the of the Vikings getting out ahead against this injury
Speaker 1: ravage defense, and maybe the running game gets phased out,
Speaker 1: and I worry a little bit about Fields eating into
Speaker 1: some of his rushing output. Speaking of Justin Fields, he
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me quarterback, So obviously
Speaker 1: I like him. If Allen Robinson comes back in time
Speaker 1: to play, I like him a lot in this matchup
Speaker 1: against the Vikings cornerbacks. As I also mentioned earlier in
Speaker 1: this show, he's got positive matchups at every stop but
Speaker 1: shod Brilan, Mackenzie, Alexander or even Patrick Peterson. No Vikings
Speaker 1: quarterback ranking higher than one coverage by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: If Robinson's out, you could dart through at Chachem Grant,
Speaker 1: what great would you get? Fields? I have a B
Speaker 1: grade at Justin Fields. Thank you for allowing me to
Speaker 1: clarify that I have a B grade on Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: if he goes a C grade and Jachem Grant. If
Speaker 1: Robinson doesn't go, Darnell Mooney gets a B grade. Vikings
Speaker 1: have allowed the most yards to receivers two hundred three
Speaker 1: per game, and the last seven opponents have all had
Speaker 1: at least one receiver hit eighties six yards. Mooney would
Speaker 1: be that guy. Minnesota has also allowed to receiver to
Speaker 1: score in seven of their last I'm shocked that he's
Speaker 1: a B. He's a B grade. You think you should
Speaker 1: be a fine, A great. It's Christmas time. I'll give
Speaker 1: you the getting and you get an A cold commit
Speaker 1: returned to practice on Friday. If Eric Kendricks does not
Speaker 1: go for the Vikings, give cold Commit a starting see
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