WEBVTT - Week 14: Cam Shafted 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.520 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.800 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:24.119 advice Leagues dot Com. Here's your host. Welcome to a 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.560 playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul charge In. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.040 My co host today are Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.040 Welcome back, Matt, I am back. Matt's back. It is 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.000 of particular note this week because many of our listeners 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.360 have been cam shafted because you either started Cam Newton 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:49.400 foolishly cam boozled, or you play I like cam Shafted better, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.559 or you played against cam Acres, so you could have 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.680 You could be looking at an uphill battle and get 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.160 any of two different cam ways. Whoa black Betty him 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.360 the ram. Yeah. So the course of the show, I 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.200 don't know what any of that means. Over the course 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.319 of the show, we will answer three tough questions, will 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.640 break down every single matchup Fantasy style with letter grades 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.880 and all the important players, and we'll give you nine 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.760 players upon whom you can take a chance. Hopefully you 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.880 don't need these guys in the playoffs, but you might. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.800 I mean there's still things happening. Julio Jones isn't gonna 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.560 play mean there there are life goes on. Even though 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.959 it's the Fantasy playoffs. You may have to reach for somebody. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.360 Let's begin with the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Buffalo Bills. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.280 Matt for the Pittsburgh running game. It's been a disaster 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.240 without James Connor, but now he's back. It's kind of 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.000 been a disaster with James Conner. He was activated off 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.319 the COVID list. He's gonna play. Prior to missing last 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.119 week's game, his touch totals were dwindling, from twenty rushing 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.600 attempts in week seven down to fifteen and a pair 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.880 of nines in week ten and then thirteen and eleven. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.640 So he scored once in the last five weeks and 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.840 really only looked halfway decent in the game against the Jaguars. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.800 The things he's got going for him, the other running 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.680 backs look worse. That that is true. Benny Snell did 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.040 nothing with the opportunity. Oh Man I dropped McFarland and 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.440 Snell off a dynasty roster. Even though we don't know 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.359 who the Pittsburgh runner is going to be next year, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.440 but it ain't them. I just let them both go. Uh. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.399 And the Bill's defense hasn't been the best against the run. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.960 They're allowing a hundred and forty total yards in a 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.480 score per game to the position. I take the under 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.440 for Connor on those numbers. I only given him a C. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.519 Big Ben gets a B grade. He's fifth in the 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.040 league and touchdown passes, and while his yardage is down, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.880 the Steelers do throw near the stripe. Eleven of those 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.440 touchdown passes have come from inside the ten yard line. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.400 Buffalo gives up some high yardage totals, but not a 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.160 ton of scores through the air. So it's kind of 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.960 a reverse match up here, so something's got to give. Still, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.360 the Bills might be one of the few offenses that 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.919 can hang with the Steelers, so I imagine Roethlisberger throws 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.920 more than average in this one. The wide receiver group 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.160 Deonte Juju and Clay Pool, I'm giving them a bees 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.920 and I don't think it's a cop out here by 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.440 giving them all bees. Deontay's averaging almost ten targets per game. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.120 He's fifth in the league in that category, behind only 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.280 Adams Hopkins, digs and Keenan Allen, Claypool, and Juju are 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.040 each getting two of the team targets inside the ten 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.640 yard line, and each have scored four times from the 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.600 infrared zone this year and trade as white figures to 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.440 follow Deontay primarily, but that's not as daunting anymore as 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.839 he's allowed career highs in yards per completion, yards per target, touchdowns, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.000 and passer rating this year. Eric Ebron, he's getting a 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.760 B too, quietly, fourth among tight ends and targets and 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.760 receptions this season in PPR leagues. He really should be 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.320 locked into lineups at this point, and it works out 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.640 this week because Buffalo has allowed the most tight end 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.640 receptions on the year. Over on the bill side, Josh 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.520 Allen's getting a B. It's not a good matchup against Pittsburgh. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.880 They've almost as many interceptions as they do passing touchdowns 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.440 allowed this year, and no quarterback has thrown for uh 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.400 three yards and no rushing touchdowns allowed the quarterback position 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.360 on the season. The bright spot the dual threat rushing 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.240 quarterbacks have had their best days against Pittsburgh. The highest 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.680 three fantasy point totals for quarterbacks against Pittsburgh were Lamar, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.040 Daniel Jones, and Deshaun Watson, and I should mention, you know, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.200 Joe Hayden's gonna miss this game. That's a pretty significant 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.440 loss for that second. That's sizable. You know. That does 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.760 give Josh Allen and Stephen Diggs in particular a slightly 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.080 easier well, I maybe out slightly, a significantly easier matchup. Yeah, 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.560 and so let's talk about Diggs. I'm only going to 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.240 give him a C grade in this one. Uh. He's 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.000 been super reliable in PPR leagues despite only finding the 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.680 end zone four times this season. But I will say 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.200 three of us four touchdowns came against some of the 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.000 best secondaries he's seen all year, the Dolphins, Rams, and Chiefs. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.920 He steps up in big games. Top flight wide receivers 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.800 have not fared that well against Pittsburgh this season. Uh, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:49.200 Terry McLaurin. Terry McLaurin, Yes, was shut down last week. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.240 Well tell me about it. Knocked me out of two 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.080 guillotine leagues. Yeah. Really, the only bona fide stud to 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.279 torch the Steelers this season was a J. Brown. That's it. Um. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.720 It's the second and third receivers that have burned the Steelers, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.760 and that's why I'm giving Cole Beasley a C grade 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.840 and gave Davis. I just want to mention because I 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.080 gotta give the peacock to Scott fish on that one. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.800 He had the peacock trifecta last week. That might be 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.240 three three peacocks. I would love to give you the peacock, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.400 but they moved around all myself. I gotta find all right, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.680 So that's Gabriel Davis. Who else did he have? I 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.679 forget he had Baker. I know that you have Baker 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.400 Mayfield and other runner he had running back? Was it 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:37.000 Adrian Peterson? I don't uh. The Steelers have been targeted 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.320 in the slot. Cam Sims at nine targets, five catches, 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.480 and ninety two last week. Tyler Boyd logged eight targets 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.920 against them a few weeks ago. So when Beasley gets 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.799 the targets, he delivers. Anytime he gets targeted nine times 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:53.280 in a game this season, times nine, he gets over 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.240 a hundred yards. And by the way, charge I was 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.120 notified that you guys missed a whole bunch of nine times. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.920 So be ready on that button time. I'm bringing it back. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.279 All right, good, you're working, You're gonna make up stats. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.760 We're gonna back. Uh, maybe by nine times. I don't 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.840 know who knows. Zack Moss and Devin Singletary on the bench. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.240 Moss fumbled near zone end zone last week and was 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.119 sent to the bench without any supper. But little Bunny 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.400 Foo Foo will be back again this week's single. Arry 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.200 took his twenty one touches and managed only eighty three 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.400 scoreless yards. He's simply an under four yards per carry 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.920 guy in a time share in Pittsburghs run defense. Just no, thanks, agree, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.120 that's not That is not the favorable match If you 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.080 want to to start either one of those guys, Let's 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.320 go to Indianapolis, taking a Las Vegas Brian for Indianapolis. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.400 This is a surging offense against a reeling defense. I 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.560 think there's a lot of players to liken this matchup. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.920 Let's start with Jonathan Taylor, who I'm gonna give a 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.200 B too for now. But if Anthony Costanzo is active 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.400 on Sunday and thank you, they think he's gonna go, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.520 did you give him a B two? Is that like 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.920 slightly less than a B? That would be would be 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.039 a rock lobster. That's that's the animal that we need 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:05.440 add to the button bar now. The sound lobster. It 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:10.360 goes rock lobster makes well, you eat one and they 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.200 are good, Matt. You don't like colobster though, do you. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.480 That's one of the few allia back to football. Jonathan Taylor. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.080 Gonna give him a B as well as well, Uh 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.760 not even as well, but anyway, the magic number with 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.520 Jonathan Taylor is forty eight percent of the offensive snaps. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.360 He's gotten more than forty percent of STAPs in five games, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.720 and he's gotten seventeen carries and he's averaging a hundred 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.600 and ten yards. Six games, he's fallen below forty percent 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.520 of the snaps and he has ten carries and fifty 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.400 five yards a game. So he does give him half 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.160 the carries and he's gonna be money in this So 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.320 is he gonna get the four percent? I believe he 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.480 will get the four eight percent plus in this one. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.120 And we were people were starting Frank Gore last week 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.240 based on the matchup with the Raiders. So and Ty 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.120 Johnson came in and had over a hundred yards from 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.560 New York. So Taylor gets a B and A if 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.960 Costanzo is active, and he might, he probably will be 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.400 like we said, okay, over to the fasting game Michael 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.920 Pittman and B. He has cooled off considerably, but the 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.560 is a good matchup. The Raiders have surrendered five wide 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.360 receiver touchdowns over their last three games, so I will 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.800 also give t Y Hilton a B. Might take a 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.400 chance on the wide receiver from last week, but charges 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.240 walking away, so I won't get the peacock for that. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.640 Hilton has at least eighty yards and a touchdown and 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.880 back to back games, and let's not forget he's in 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.640 a contract year two t Y Hilton, so he's pretty 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.200 motivated right now going into the last part of the season, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.840 so he has a upside in this one. Trey Burton 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.720 has no upside to me. He's back to the bench. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.480 Both Mo Ali Cox and Jack Doyle had more receiving 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.520 yards than Burton last week, and that wasn't too hard 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.959 because Burton only had eleven receiving yards last week. So 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.520 you're benching all of the tight ends, not only Burton. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.760 I will give Philip Rivers a s C. He's no 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.800 stranger to the Raiders, of course, from his days as 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.679 a Charger, he probably won't come in close contact with 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.480 many Raiders. Considering the only third lowest sack percentage in 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.600 the NFL, and the Raiders have also allowed multiple passing 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.400 touchdowns and seven of their last nine games, so I 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:58.640 know I'm about to bump it up to a B. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.920 With the two exceptions out of seven of nine games 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.360 were the Monsoon game in Cleveland and Drew Lock. So 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:08.480 I'm going up to a BI and over the Raiders side. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.319 I was about to say Oakland, that would be incorrect. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.800 Las Vegas Darren Waller just to B. But I'm very 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.400 nervous for Waller and this one. India has only surrendered 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.600 one tight end touchdown all season and only two opposing 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.920 tight ends have managed to crack fifty receiving yards against 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.800 the Colts this year. Waller did face the Colts last 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.800 year had seven catches for fifty three yards. That's probably 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.719 a safe floor in this one, I hope, but his 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.880 ceiling isn't far from it. I'm worried about Waller. Dollar 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.679 might be the guy that got you to the dance, 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.319 but doesn't you don't go home. Personally, I might bench 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.200 him for Dalton Schultz. Maybe we can talk about that later. Yeah, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.439 but I hate the matchup for Waller, but he is 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.079 a leap but he still gets to be the receivers 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.880 Nelson aghilor Henry Ruggs. I'm close to giving him a 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.000 starting grade here. The Texans wideouts went for three hundred 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.640 and seven yards last week, and that's like Chad Hanson 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.679 Kiki qt. But before that, the Cults were only allowing 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.760 one fifty seven yards per game. That's the middle of 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.600 the road at best. Aglar did have eleven targets last week, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.559 but he only had four catches. I'm benching both of 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.640 these guys. We know Rugs had a nice game, but 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.800 that was a fluke that he's had two long catches 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.560 all year. Unless the rest of his season has been nothing. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.000 Unless Greg Williams was hired as the d C for 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.440 the Colts, then I don't think that's happened. So Williams 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.360 is not ever going to be I don't think he's 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.520 gonna be hired to clean out use shoulder pads. I 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.760 would hope not, I think his NFL career, So why 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:34.120 would you need to clean out new shoulder pads? Very 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.400 good point. Uh, two more points to make and they're 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.559 both pointing players to the bench. That's Derek Carr. When 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.240 you hate Darren Waller's matchup. You're not starting Derek Carr. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.240 It's that simple point, and I'm bending benching Davante Booker. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.839 Josh Jacobs. Likely he's out. I think he's likely to go, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.960 likely to go? Oh? Is he likely to go? Now? 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.920 It's a tough matchup for both, and I don't think 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.520 he'll get a full work workload. No back has top 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.719 seventy two rushing yards against India unless their name was 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.320 Darrick Henry, Jalen re Shard and Theo Riddick. We're gonna 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.280 steal all of the passing work from either Booker or Jacobs, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.600 so I got them both on the bench. You can 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.400 started Josh Jacobs, but I think you can find better 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.679 options this week. I've got to see right on Josh Jake. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.679 If you if you have to start him, you can, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.960 but it's a it's a big excite. It's a bad matchup. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.199 Only Derrick Henry is top d eighty eight yards against 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.439 the Colts. Basically not Henry. Runners never do anything gets 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.360 the Colts is the long short of it, and Josh 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.720 Jacobs isn't Derrick Henry. I did say that, but yes, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.280 thanks for re enforcing that point. Um for Minnesota and 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.719 Tampa Bay. Let's let's start with Dalvin Cook, because that 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.719 really explains the rest of this matchup. It's brutal for 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.839 Dalvin Cook, and you can't automatically assume you're going to 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:45.000 start him. Here's why. First, he's wearing down in the 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.600 first nine weeks of the season, Dalvin Cook average six 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.760 yards per carry right now, since then, he's averaging three 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.199 point five yards per carry. That's it. So his productivity 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.520 is dropped in roughly half. Here comes Tampa number one 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.920 in rushing attempts number one and rush yards per game, 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.120 number one in yards per carry. Are you advocating to 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.800 sabotage drop Dalvin Cook right now? Okay? Good. The last 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.920 time a runner topped forty four yards, which is an 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:16.480 incredibly low threshold, was week two Christian McCaffrey, and he 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:21.280 only put a fifty six yards on Tampa. Now, I've 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.480 got to be grade on Dalvin Cook, but I want 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:29.960 to explain why he has bench grade downside. Aaron Jones 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.360 ran for fifteen yards, Josh Jacobs ran for seventeen yards. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:41.400 Alvin Camara's two games forty yards and sixteen yards. Now, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.400 some of those guys chipped in touchdowns which salvage their day. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.760 But what if Cook doesn't get a touchdown, and he 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.079 hasn't scored in back to back games, and the Vikings 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.440 offensive line is not so good that it can certainly 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.360 just exert its will for touchdowns. That's where your bench 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.520 grade downside hits on Dalvin Cook. I know most of 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.240 you listening are of the never bench, your studs Ilk 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.880 tell that to Josh Jacobs seventeen yards, Aaron Jones fifteen yards, 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.360 and Alvin Kamara's sixteen yard games. Also, they're very hard 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.160 to pass against for runners as well, So I can't 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.040 even open up a window of hope in the passing game. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.160 So based on that, then let's go to the Let's 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.600 go to the Vikings passing game led by Kirk Cousins. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.640 Here's where the Vikings offense is going to flow. Kirk 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.079 has been red hot. He's in the middle of his 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.120 best stretch of Fantasy games of his career. First time 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.000 he's ever had three straight games of three touchdowns and 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:42.520 three hundred yards. His his mark that you need to 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.800 get to his twenty seven passes. When Kirk averages. When 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.440 Kirk goes over twenty seven passes, he averages just under 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.120 three hundred yards and two and a half touchdowns. That 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.400 is a great material. Seven passes is not a high threshold. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.040 It's not a high threshold, especially against Tampa when eleven 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:04.520 of twelve Tampa opponents have topped twenty seven passes and 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.360 the last two opposing quarterbacks to face Tampa forty nine 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.439 and fifty one passes. Throne Kirk's gonna be over that number, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.120 and that's why he's sitting on a big game. So 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.440 is Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeling. With his pass heavy 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.600 game plan, Tampa sees the fourth most passes. The Bucks 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.400 have allowed the fourth most receptions to wideouts and are 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.920 allowing two hundred seventy yards per game to the position 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:34.040 over the last three games and multiple touchdowns to receivers 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.680 in three of the past four. And they're gonna be 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.160 without their best starting cornerback, Jamal Dean, who's been ruled 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.080 out of the game. They're gonna slide their slot corners 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.560 Sean Murphy bunting out to the outside to help contain 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:51.400 Jefferson and Feeling. Plus matchups A grades for Jefferson, Feeling 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.400 and Cousins. I saw a seventy five percent completion rate 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.520 for the opposition over Tampa Bay's last three games. That 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.480 sounds right, and that is a high we will take that. Uh, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.080 it looks like Kyle Rudolph will not play. It looks 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.720 like IRV Smith will play. If it plays out like 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.920 that and they're not one is in and the other 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.480 ones out, you could start IRV Smith. The Bucks have 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.040 been rocked by tight ends of late, including three touchdowns 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.160 in the past four games. And that's the guys like 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.360 Josh Hill and Adam Troutman and Colin Thompson. If they 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.400 can score, if Smith could score, all right, let's go 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.440 to the Tampa Bay side. I've got I want to 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.120 start with the passing game here too. I've got Tom 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.400 Brady with an A grade. He's thrown multiple touchdowns in 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.480 six of the past seven games, and it seems that 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.320 he will likely have similar success against an inconsistent Vikings 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.880 defense that maybe without its leader Eric Kendricks, who is 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.160 relevant in this matchup a variety of different ways, and 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.600 we'll talk about Kendricks more. Outside of Cameron Danzler, the 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.560 Vikings are very thin at cornerback and here's Brady just 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.600 deep with weapons that can stretch any secondary, including this one. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.680 So I've got the A grade on Brady. Mike Evans 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.080 appears that he will play in this game. There was 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.040 some question about it earlier in the week. We expect 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.520 him to go. He will most often match up against 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.040 Cameron Danzler, who is the Vikings best cornerback and he 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.680 is physical. Um. In fact, he's Pro Football focuses highest 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.600 graded cornerback over the last month, which is crazy because 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.600 all the Vikings secondary was among the worst than Pro 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:21.520 Football Focus. That's right, but really Danzler. Danzler's physical and 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:22.960 I like that part um, and you have to be 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.320 physical against him. But it's still Mike Evans against a rookies, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.320 So I still have a B grade on Mike Evans. Here. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.680 I've got a B grade on Chris Godwin running out 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.120 of the slot. He's had over ninety yards or a 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.400 touchdown in four of the past five games. Godwin's got 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.480 a very winnable matchup with rookie Jeff Gladney, who is 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.440 allowing a passer rating of one and it's given up 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.200 six touchdowns in his coverage. Antonio Brown also getting a B. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.360 He draws the most favorable matchup on the board among 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.840 the Vikings cornerbacks, and that's Chris Boyd, who is allowing 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.480 of his passes to be completed in his coverage and 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.520 a passer rating of one one as well. Now, Brown's 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.200 usage has dropped over the past couple of games, but 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.320 still and he hasn't scored yet, and he's averaging just 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.639 forty two scoreless yards. But I love his matchup in 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.800 this one and to B grade there. Then let's go 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.080 to the tight end position. Rob Gronkowski has been very 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.879 active lately. I mentioned earlier the Vikings are gonna be 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.760 without their defensive leader, Eric Kendricks in this game. Kendricks 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.000 is going would have been the assignment for Rob Gronkowski. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.440 Without Kendricks, the Vikings are really ill manned to stop Gronkowski, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.480 and Gronky gets a B grade in this one as well. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.560 And then uh, let's go to the running backs. Ronald Jones. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.159 I think you can, I think you can. I had 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.679 him originally as a B, but without Kendricks he might 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.760 be in A grade here. The Vikings have struggled against 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.560 opposing running backs of late. They've allowed one hundred thirty 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.440 five total yards and a touchdown per game to the position. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.080 Over the last three games, most of Ronald Jones's success 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.359 has been against bottom half run defenses. And that's the 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.440 way the Vikings are playing right now, and especially without Kendricks. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.200 I like him there, Leo for that's dead to us. Yeah, 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.040 except he's gonna have the game now, Well he might, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.000 and actually the way he might is again not that 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.000 it's all about Eric Kendricks, but Kendricks also usually gets 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.200 the assignment of the running backs out of the backfield. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.560 He won't be there for that, So four net could 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.600 catch a few passes. Yeah, ten catches for Jacksonville tight 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.240 ends last week without Kendricks in the lineup. Yes, Jacksonville 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:27.479 tight ends O'Shaughnessy James O'Shaughnessy in the corps of Tyler Eifford. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:32.080 Ten catches eighty four yards. You can do it with anybody, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.399 you know. I like Will dis Lay from Scotland, and 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.280 we're gonna talk about him on the Seattle matchup. I 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.960 guess when we come back, take a chance on me. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.480 Nine players not normally in your starting lineup, and they've 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.320 all got good matchups will tell you who they are 0:18:46.400 --> 0:19:09.000 when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly Welcome back 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:13.160 Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul and Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.119 with you. This is take a chance on me. We 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.760 begin at the quarterback position with three quarterbacks upon whom 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.600 you can take a chance. Matt Harrison, Uh, Andy Dalton. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.960 I think it's time for revenge duck chart because this 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:28.720 is I would be. I'd love to give you a 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.960 revenge duck. This is maybe the most revenge list of 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.560 revenge games. Andy Dalton returning to Cincinnati. Dalton had a 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.399 decent two eighty five and two last week against the Ravens, 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:44.360 and Cincinnati seems slightly eas Six of the last nine 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.240 quarterbacks to face the Bengals have thrown for multiple scores 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.560 and two a doesn't count in that bunch. But he 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.800 had two or ninety six yards in a score last week. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.879 I think that's the floor for Andy Dalton in this one. Brian, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.280 you take a chance in the quarterback Dalton should die 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.200 some Bengal stripes in his hair, just to troll them. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.880 That would be great in that matchup. I got Mike 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.480 Glennon like the like the like the helmet, just like 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.920 that exactly. Yeah, alright, he should have done that his 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.360 whole career, he might, but he would still be there. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.080 I got Mike Glennon at home versus the Titans. It's 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.359 quite simple. The Titians are gas by the way. They 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.760 had forced into that early week four by and they 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.960 need another bye week pretty bad. They have allowed the 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.520 most passing touchdowns in the league, and there are plus 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.639 matchups for all of Glennon's skill players. The Titans have 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.159 allowed the second most receiving touchdowns and running backs, the 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.399 fifth most to wide receivers, and the third most to 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.800 tight end So Mike Glennon, Mike Glennon, there's your that's 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:38.040 your DFS dart right there, double d. I've the player 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:44.879 I've got is that's right doing it again to my U. 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.879 We hit on it last week. Then it's happy Trombone, 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.600 Come on now, it's still sad. Trombone Ski played well 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:56.120 last week. This matchup even easier. Not counting Houston's monsoon 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.880 game in Cleveland, the Texans are allowing a whopping three 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.320 hundred thirteen yards and two touchdowns per game since Week five. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:09.560 We're going to get something done with sad trombonesis well. 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:11.680