WEBVTT - Danny Darts 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.480 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.760 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.600 Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.160 the host for Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul George 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.680 and your host. Fantasy Football Weekly is with you now. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.400 Thank you for listening. It's our final two hour show, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.960 our final long form show, and this is also our 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.720 final over the air show, so it heads up to 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.600 all the radio stations that are gracious enough to have 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.560 been with us here for sixteen weeks of Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.279 This is the final over the air show. But it's 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.559 very happy to say that we are in every week podcast. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.040 You'll hear us podcasters every week throughout the off season 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.839 and then all the way back to next August when 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.960 we go back to our long form shows again. I 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.040 am Paul Churching. My co host today are Scott Fish 0:00:55.120 --> 0:01:01.000 and Brian Johnson. Hi, guys, it's morning, so it could 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.160 be any time. It's not even it's even morning now here. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.360 That is very weird. Good day. There you go. That's 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.840 that's generic. We can we can sider to go with 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.759 that absolutely. Um. As always, over the course of the show, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.200 we're gonna break down all the games. This is the 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.679 first time in the twenty plus year history of the 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:23.200 show we've ever had sixteen matchups to do because there's 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.800 always there's always been a Thursday night game in Week 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.240 sixteen until now. So we gotta jam in a bunch 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.600 of content into the next two hours, especially be knocking 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.720 down these games, including the Saturday games. In this segment, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.000 we're gonna do all three of the Saturday games. Uh, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.600 let's start with the It's actually the second of the 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.680 third game, um, second of the three games, but we'll 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.880 do it first. Buffalo at New England Scott. These are 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.800 two really good defenses here, and last time they combined 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:51.960 for what like twenty points or something, and they when 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.560 they played last So I don't think anybody's expecting a 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.680 lot of offense here. Yeah, this isn't a game where 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.600 I think you're going to find a lot of starters 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.640 on the Buffalo side. I basically have everyone benched except 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.200 for maybe a C grade on Beasley. Uh he Josh 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.760 Allen threw three picks against New England last time. Maybe 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.880 running ability helps you, but only two qbs have top 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.720 two thirty five passing yards against New England and only 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.639 two had multiple touchdowns. It's it's a bad draw for him. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.040 It's a bad draw for John Brown, Who's probably gonna 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:26.040 gett Stefan Gilmer, who has more touchdowns this year than 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:31.200 all the wide receivers combined in his coverage. Well, all 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.800 the wide receivers combined in against Stephan Gilmore have zero. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.200 He has to impressive exactly. He should be Defensive Player 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.800 of the Year. By the way, I am giving Beasley 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.320 just a slight sea. I don't even love it though, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.960 but he was highly targeted the last time. He's been 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.000 highly targeted by Allen recently. I think that that's how 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.480 they think they're going to be able to move the 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.440 ball down the field. Is is he short dump offs? Uh? 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.080 Tough matchup with Jonathan Jones, But Jones has given up 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.760 touchdowns three touchdowns in his last four and beastly scored 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.560 in his last six of his last nine. Maybe there's 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.520 a touchdown upside there and it's still really re employ 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.200 but it's still really risky in your championship game. I 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.560 do like Singletary, though, I'm giving him a C grade 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.240 even against this tough matchup. The last five running backs 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.519 to face the Patriots that hit seventeen touches all had 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.200 over a hundred yards, and right now Singletary is averaging 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.560 twenty touches a game. Yeah, so I'm giving him a 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.639 sea grade, probably just because he's gonna get get there 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.600 on volume and uh, Devin Singletary leads the NFL in 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.400 explosive play rate of ten plus yard runs and twenty 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.120 plus yard runs, so maybe he can get one of 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.560 those and you know, boost those stats. On the other side, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.960 I'm only starting Adelman and White. Brady's been pretty average 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.280 lately and it's a really, really tough past defense for Buffalo, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.280 so I have him. I got Sanew and Harry on 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.400 the bench. Michelle it took twenty touches against the terrible 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.440 Bengals to even make him slightly viable, so I'm not 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.040 putting him up against Buffalo. I'm giving a C to 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.920 Edelman though, prior to last week's nine yard dud um, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.120 He's had double digit targets in eight games. Uh. I 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.200 do know that the last game against Buffalo was his 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.760 previous worst game of the year, but he should be 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.880 good for that seven or so catches. He usually if 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.960 he's healthy enough. I mean, if he's healthy enough to go, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.279 it sounds like it's a Patriots. But he's got a 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.360 go nagging injuries, He'll start for sure. You know. Last week, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.960 I think the injuries, he just wasn't part of the 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.000 game play. That's why I got a C grade on him, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:27.880 and that's probably the best. I do have a C 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.240 grade on White. He did go. He had eight catches 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.280 for fifty seven yards in the last meeting. I think 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.360 that that's how the Patriots get the ball down the 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.279 field on this on this Buffalo great secondaries by those 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:40.960 short dump offs two guys like White. So I have 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.239 a C grade there. Yeah. If I were the Bills, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.039 I would use Josh Allen as a running back. I would. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.039 I'm serious. So I would do what Baltimore did to 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.960 the Patriots, and I would run Josh Allen in designed 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.560 runs much the way that Baltimore did with Lamar Jackson. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.600 I don't think they're gonna do it because they don't 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.080 run him and designed runs very often. It's mostly he 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.560 runs around and scrambles from broken plays. He did have 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.560 thirty seven and a score in the first game. That's 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.360 that's the proach. I would take the Houston takes on 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.600 Tampa Bay Brian uh Shaun Watson going up against the 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.880 Tampa Bay secondary feels pretty darn good. Yeah, let's talk 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.000 about a fantasy friendly game on this show. And no kidding. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.800 By the way, Tampa Bay has only played in two 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.080 games this season with the total finished under forty seven points. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.760 So yeah, usually a point orgy when they're involved. Um, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.160 like you said, starting with the passing game in Houston, 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.880 DeAndre Hopkins did not practice on Wednesday with an illness, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.400 returned in full on Thursday. He's good to go and obviously, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.760 over the last five games, the Bucks have allowed eight 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.080 yards per game two wide receivers in six total touchdowns 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.520 to the position. That's why will Fuller gets the ECTO 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:50.200 Cooler grade, which is high, very high see despite being 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.000 questionable with a hands high. Different than C plus because 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:54.960 it gotta because there's no plus. I didn't say the 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.719 P word, Church Hope. I didn't say an we don't do. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.360 We're gonna bring up the P word later though, multiple times. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.680 But anyway, for whatever reason, will Fuller does not go, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.599 he probably should. I would give Kenny Stills a CE 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.840 in his place, but I'm not gonna give Stills to 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.480 see if Fullers Ago and then Deshaun Watson, who you 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.200 you mentioned in the in the opening of this game. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.000 Over the last four games, Tampa is allowing only two 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.200 passing yards and just one touchdown per game to opposing quarterbacks. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.000 But Deshaun Watson is much better than David j Kobe Brissette, 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.560 and Gardner Minch you. So those are the three of 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.160 the four quarterbacks that Tampa is faced during that Spanzo 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.520 Watson still gets an A, Carlos Hide and Duke Johnson. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.520 Carlos Hide is questionable with an ankle injury. I'm gonna 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.720 bench him either way, and I'm still gonna bench Duke 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.240 Johnson even if Hyde were to sit. Um it's just 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.680 a brutal matchup as it has been all year for 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.960 opposing running backs against the Bucks, and even more recently, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.240 over their last six games, only Alvin Kamara has topped 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.760 thirty eight rushing yards against Tampa Bay. So I'm benching 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.920 both Texan backs despite if a Hide sits are not 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.920 over to the Tampa Bay side and their number one 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.200 wide receiver brush Shad Perryman in his fifteenth year in 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.320 the league's at No. Not really, but it feels like 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.960 he's been the league that long. I'm giving him a 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.720 B most with thinking A but I'm a little worried that. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.000 You know, people are their game planning as him as 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.000 the number one right wide receiver. Now that wasn't the 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.080 case last week Godwin left started, so this is probably 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.600 the first time his career the schematics or based throughout 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.520 him being the number one wide receiver just to be 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.400 despite it being a great match up, the Texans have 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.320 allowed a hundred and sixty seven yards per game to 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.280 wide receivers, including a one hundred yard receiver and two 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.160 of their last three uh and that was over the 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.560 last three weeks. For allowing one sixty seven to opposing 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.000 wide receivers. It's been a good matchup against Houston all year. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.080 For wide receivers. Would be for Perryman and a C 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.840 for Justin Watson. Scotty Miller was on it was really 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.000 the number two even we played like one game, but 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.440 he's on i R. So Watson has the number two 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.160 job all to himself. When Mike Evans went down in 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.360 Week fourteen against the Colts, a game that Scotty Miller 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.880 was an active four. Watson came in and caught five 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.720 passes on eight targets. One was a touchdown, So he's 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:09.920 an easy see in this matchup. Just sneaky DFS play too, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.520 Just Watson, definitely. There might be one more you won 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.480 in this matchup too. It's not O J. Howard. He'd 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.400 be a Chalky option despite how brutal his season has been. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.360 But as of late nineteen targets over the last three weeks, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.160 with the injuries to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, Houston 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.280 has allowed a league high ninety yards per game two 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.800 tight ends over the last five weeks, and the only 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.320 Fantasy relevant player at the tight end position they faced 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.920 during that stretch was Mark Andrews. So O J. Howard 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.160 has no Mark Andrews, but he's better than a nobody, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.400 just barely. But no, he is but Cameron brad I 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.959 can't give him a starting grade and redraft, but another 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.960 great DFS option based on the matchup. Again, ninety yards 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.120 per game to opposing tight ends over the last five 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.440 for Houston, and lastly, Jameis Winston easy a first player 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.240 in NFL history with back to back four fifty plus 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.760 yard games opposing quarterbacks have scored three or four touchdowns 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.040 and eight of Houston's last ten, so easy for a reason, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.880 absolutely insane. I shouldn't have said. Lastly, I do have 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.240 to mention Peyton Barber and Ronald Jones, but I desperately 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.640 want to start one of these guys. Houston has allowed 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.840 nine running back touchdowns over the last five games. Dang, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.719 it's a lot. Can you trust starting Ronald Jones or 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.880 Peyton Barber and the championship in third place game? No, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.120 it's hard touches again, DFS. These are guys I mentioned 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.240 him rolling the dice on because they'll be dirt cheap. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.440 But when when it comes to catching the ball out 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.480 of the backfield against Houston, opposing backs are averaging more 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.600 than five and a half catches and one whole touchdown 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.080 through the air over Houston's last five. But it's dare 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.880 Ogun bowal A who catches all the passes too. So 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.960 you gotta bench on. Do you have a preference from 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:47.199 Barbara Jones? I feel like we've gone over this. You 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.679 never get it right. I mean nobody, nobody gets it right. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.439 But I feel like Barbara would be the high round 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.000 guy in DFS. So I would lead in Jones to 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.520 be more contrarian, but let's stay away in season. Although 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.600 the Saturday night game is the Rams taking on the 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.280 forty nine, is lots of playoff implications in this one, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.520 for sure. Let's start with the running game Todd Gurley. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.000 You know, the Rams saved up Todd Gurley. You know 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.640 all the frustration that we had with his nine touch 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.920 games and his eleven touch games and his five touch 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.000 games and his fourteen touch games, Well, they saved him 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.040 up for the end of the year. Now they're just 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.800 running in plenty because every game they're effectively in the 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.840 playoffs right now, needing to win out the rest of 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:25.520 the way. Um, San Francisco is allowing the fewest fantasy 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.719 points to running backs over the last month and our 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.720 third on the full season. It's a tough, tough matchup. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.600 They've only allowed one touchdown and it was a goal 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.800 line plunge last week and their last five games, so 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.520 a tough match for Todd Gurley, hopefully offset for his 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.800 owners anyway, offset by the total usage here. So I've 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.640 got to be great on Todd Gurley. Jared Goff gets 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.440 a sea and barely you see at that he enters 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.440 the game having thrown two touchdowns into two of the 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.720 in the last two touchdowns in the last three games. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.680 But mostly he's only good against bad defenses, and that's 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.760 not the who get healthy here. Remember the last week 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.280 they were missing Richard Sherman and d Ford and Kwan 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.840 Williams and Jack Quisky Tart. They were all out. Almost 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.920 all of them are likely back for this game, and 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.439 Richard sherman'scent is absolutely back for this game. So I 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.360 think there's a much tougher matchup for golf, and I 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:15.920 don't trust him one bit here. I think he's a 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.800 dart throw at best um against a nine years defense 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.200 that's closer to full strength. Just to see grade on golf, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.760 and if you're not sure, feel free to bench him. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.079 Cooper Cups the only receiver I've got a starting grade 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.520 on who has scored in three straight games, but over 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.040 the past six games he hasn't topped sixty five yards. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.600 He's on the field like thirty five of the plays. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.680 That's it for Cooper Cup. I don't even I don't 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.520 understand the usage here at all. Now he would go 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.640 up against corner Kwan Williams, who want to check his status. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.280 If he does not go in this game, then will 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.040 upgrade Cooper Cup to be If Williams goes, and he's 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.720 been very good this year, and he was totally shut 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.240 down Cooper Cup in the earlier match matchup, holding Cup 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.120 to seventeen yards. So if Williams plays, Cups kind of 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:00.920 dead to us, and if will Him is out, then 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.040 I think we could elvite him to a B. Robert 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.880 Woods it's uh, it's been a it's been really tricky. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.960 And he runs predominantly from the right side of the field, 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.120 which puts him up against Richard Jerman, who's been awesome 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.160 this year. He hasn't allowed to touch down in his 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.439 coverage since Week one. Woods was held out of catch 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.200 in the first meeting between these teams. I don't like 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:20.760 Woods here and I've got a bench grade on him, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.840 and Brandon Cooks is dead to us. Let's talk Tyler 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.760 Higbee because this is the toughest matchup for fantasy owners 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.720 because he's been awesome three consecutive one hundred yard games. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.960 But now Gerald Everett is back. What does that mean 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.440 for Higgbee? You know, needless to say through the entire 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.240 rest of the season, and for that matter. All of 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.920 Tyler Higbee's career, anytime he's had to share time with 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.720 Gerald Everett, he's been nothing more than a dart throw. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.199 And my worry is we're right back at that again, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.080 and and ever was healthy enough to be a full 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.480 participant in practice. And I'm nervous. I've only got a 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.240 C grade on Higbee because I as as potent as 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.720 he's been lately, I'm just I'm I'm too worried about 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.600 Everett splitting time with him, and they go right back 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.480 to being they were. And it's not a great matchup 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.240 to begin with. Really, No, actually it's not a great matchup. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.480 San Francisco has been a little easier against Titans lately, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.199 but on the whole, it is not. Let's go to 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.319 the niner side of this game, where I've only got 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.199 I've got a handful of starters for you, specifically George Kettle, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.080 who gets an obvious A every week you put up 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:17.920 a hunting three yards against l A in the earlier 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.480 matchup where he mostard also gets an A. Rightfully has 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.320 received two thirds of the carries for San Francisco over 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.640 the last three games. You didn't think any back would 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.360 get two thirds of the carriage. But he's that good. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.719 They have to keep playing Raheem Mostart. Los Angeles has 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.240 given up the fourth most Fantasy points to backs in 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.480 their last five games, and in their seven home games, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.880 the Niners have scored fifteen running back touchdowns. Hopefully after 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.880 this game they have given up the most most are 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.040 two points. Absolutely that could that could end up happening to. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.320 I love Mostard. Here a grade on Raheem Mostard. Earlier 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.520 earlier episodes of this show, he called him the Ron 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.280 Dane of this year. He's gonna power teams to Fantasy championships, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.400 and that's going to happened every other Niner. I've got 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.280 a bench grade on. Let's talk through. Let's first, Tevin 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.440 Coleman and Matt Brita are averaging twelve ish snaps and 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.840 half that many touches, so they're not even options. Let's 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.800 talk about the passing game. Jimmy Garoppolo. Five of the 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.040 rams opposing quarterbacks have been completely shut out, including Jimmy 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.520 Garoppolo in the earlier meeting. Only four quarterbacks have managed 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.120 more than one score against the Rams this year. The 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.600 Rams just got done. Your racing a Marii Cooper and 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.520 Michael Gallop off the field last week. And if they're 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.040 going to do that to Emmanuel Sanders and Deebo Samuel, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:34.800 I'm not I don't want any part of this thing. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.000 And those guys are on the bench too, So for Sanders. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.120 Over the last four weeks, the entire San Francisco receiving 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.160 group is averaging just twelve targets the whole group of receivers. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.360 That's just not enough to go around. Meanwhile, over the 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.360 last five games, the RAMS secondary hasn't allowed a receiver 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.560 to reach eighty yards, and over the last five games, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.600 cornerback Troy Hill is allowing fewer than forty yards in 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.960 his coverage. So I don't like any part of this 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.640 for Emmanuel Sanders, for Deebo Samuel, same thing he gets. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.560 Jalen Ramsey, He's dead to us. I don't like any 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:09.080 part of the receiver group. There are two great reality 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.400 games on Saturday and just one good fantasy game. And 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.520 that's yeah, that is that is probably true. It is 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.920 a great Saturday of Yeah, it's got many Thanksgiving. Now 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.640 this show airs in some markets on Saturday or on Sunday. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.560 They'll be able to people. We will listen back and 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.800 go man. Were those guys idiots? They could not have 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.960 misread this thing. Worse, Hopefully it's not the case, and 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.160 our Sunday matchups are gonna be way better. And that's 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.680 what's coming up is our Sunday matchups, I'm happy to say, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.040 including Pittsburgh taking on the Jets will tell you if 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.920 James Conner is somebody you can rely upon, Juju Smith 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.200 Schuster comes back, is that somebody you want to start? 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.200 And when we return, nine players not normally in your lineup, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.280 many of whom are available on the waiver wire. Yes, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.480 you can take a chance on waiver wire grade players 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.760 even in the championship We'll tell you who they are 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:18.400 when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly. Nine players not 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.880 normally in your line up. Many of these guys are 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:25.040 on the waiver wire. And you know what, just because 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.320 you're in the championship game does not mean that your 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.680 roster is automatically so good that you don't have to 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.240 take a chance on some of these guys. Ask the 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.760 Brashotte Harriman player from last week. What about Mike Bone. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.640 We're gonna talk about him later too. There's a lot 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.760 of options here. We'll talk those through momentarily we beget 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.760 at the quarterback position. Brian, you take a chance at 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.760 the quarterback is the aging Philip Rivers at home against 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.120 the raid Is. Rivers has scored in twenty four straight 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.400 games against Oakland. How about that? That's your favorite? When 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.960 I dug that stat up this week, I'm like, what, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.600 that's got to be the longest conset give string of 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.680 any player scoring against one one opponent. I would be 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.639 tough to contest ecutive games attribution to Paul Charching as 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.159 he just mentioned. And Philip Rivers has thrown for multiple 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.320 touchdowns and six of his last seven against the Raiders, 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.600 who have allowed the third most passing scores this season 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.080 and have surrendered multiple touchdowns to every quarterback they have 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.160 faced outside of Joe Flacco in Week one, and that's 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.760 very understandable. And then Kirk Cousins in a Week three 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.240 blow up by the Vikings were only through the ball 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.800 twenty one times. It's a touchdown machine when you face Oakland. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.520 Got it, Scott. I have a quarterback who is one 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.920 of only two quarterbacks in the NFL that leads their 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:42.480 team in rushing. I know who it is. I know 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.600 who it is. I love Stu Beard. Stew Beard the 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.240 Dolphins leading rusher. Ste Beard averaging thirty six yards per 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:55.480 game rushing over his last four games, has multiple touchdowns 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.560 in three of his last four. The Bengals has been 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.400 a little better lately, but they've been average in the year. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.280 I like Stupard this week. And here's the thing about 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.040 this matchup that I love for Ryan Fitzpatrick. The Bengals 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.080 run defense is awful, so they've been seeing the fewest 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:16.200 passes in the NFL. The Bengals have. But the Dolphins 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.359 can't run. They can't run, and so Stu Weird's gonna 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.600 be throwing on a secondary that never gets thrown on, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.280 and I think it's gonna end It's ultimately gonna end 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.560 up well for him, and he's gonna expose a sneaky 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.520 bad secondary. Kenyan Drake is still the highest scoring running 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.399 back for the Dolphins, and he might end the year 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.560 the highest scoring running back for the Dolphins and Texas. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.879 No Cardinals, but yes, Cardinals. Do you know when the 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.719 last time that happened? Herschel Walker with the Cowboys and 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.680 then another team that I do that, no team that 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.800 we do not. We don't know what team that might 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.400 take a chance to me quarterback is Drew Lock. Now, 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.439 remember Duro I had those two great first games, and 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.040 then last week faced the Chiefs in a quasi blizzard 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:02.879 and did nothing. And now he gets a fantastic matchup 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.000 with the Lions, a team that has allowed explosive output 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.200 to opposing quarterbacks like no other. Six quarterbacks have thrown 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.040 for three or four touchdowns. Seven quarterbacks of top three 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.800 hundred yards against Detroit, including last week James Winston lighting 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.080 up the Lions. Of course, only the touchdown repellent Dwayne 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.360 Haskins has failed to score against the Lion since Week four. 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.600 Drew Lock is a great high upside swing for the fences. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.320 I'm playing against Lamar Jackson. I need somebody can get 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.320 me three, maybe four touchdowns. Drew Lock could be the guy. Bryan, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.120 let's go to our take a chance to be running backs? 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.119 Who do you have? I got Phillies, Baston Scott. Boston 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.040 Scott has put up third team catches in the two 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.440 games without Jordan Howard, who I do not think will 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.560 play this week, has not been cleared for contact. And 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.359 uh and if you haven't noticed, the Eagles do not 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.720 have any wide receivers either that they're gonna put Nelson 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.640 aglare on. I are probably, and not like that really matters. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.840 Also very helpful for Boston Scott that the Cowboys have 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.600 yielded the sixth most targets to running backs on the 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.560 season and have surrendered receiving scores to the position and 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.200 two of those asked the three. So Boston Scott and PPR, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:08.080