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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, Week number eight. I am Paul Charchi
Speaker 1: and my co host today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Good to be back to Harrison. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're you're already prepping your bend Benducci was sound a
Speaker 1: lot like Mario, by the way, No, there's there's no
Speaker 1: now correlation there. What happened is they were sick of
Speaker 1: people getting three tough questions wrong. So you brought me,
Speaker 1: brought you back to hammer away three tough questions. We
Speaker 1: will have three tough questions later in the show. We
Speaker 1: will also provide fine players upon whom you can take
Speaker 1: a chance premature speculation where we give you players we
Speaker 1: believe everybody's gonna want to pick up next week, but
Speaker 1: you will already have because you were listening to this show.
Speaker 1: And we will break down every game Fantasy style with
Speaker 1: letter grades and every meaningful player. First, I want to
Speaker 1: start with this guys, we've got our first weekend with
Speaker 1: probable weather issues. We've got Green Bay with windy conditions,
Speaker 1: Cleveland with wind and rain, Buffalo with rain, and it's
Speaker 1: cold rain at that at this year. So tell me
Speaker 1: the point at which you start changing your lineups when
Speaker 1: when weather strikes almost never, it has to be it
Speaker 1: has to be really really implement Uh. These are these
Speaker 1: are high wind ones, and there's a lot of data
Speaker 1: that supports anything twenty miles per or or less. Uh
Speaker 1: does not change the does not impact the game or
Speaker 1: the fantasy stats too much. If it's twenty five miles
Speaker 1: per hour or more and sustained winds with high gus. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a very small sample size of those, but it's
Speaker 1: shown that passing attempts go down, Russian attempts go up,
Speaker 1: but the Russian attempts aren't as efficient, so the Russian
Speaker 1: stats stay about the same and the passing stats go down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna see a lot more three and ounce
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and the long kicking game's gone.
Speaker 1: Now all of these games have the threat of that
Speaker 1: twenty wins. I mean, that's that is wind is a
Speaker 1: bigger deterrent than precipitation is in many cases, you know,
Speaker 1: because wind really does affect the ball more than the
Speaker 1: precipitation does kickers. If you play in a league that
Speaker 1: still does kickers if it's very windy, I would usually
Speaker 1: take them out of those games. You don't know which
Speaker 1: direction they're they're they're going. In that perspective, they'll probably
Speaker 1: kick towards the field goal. Well, yeah, but which ways
Speaker 1: the wind going? Now, A wet surface I don't think
Speaker 1: changes a lot with kickers, but a flippery surface does.
Speaker 1: So if you've got snow, sleet, or seat, then I
Speaker 1: think you got to be worried about the footing for
Speaker 1: the kickers. How about remember that Chicago game where the
Speaker 1: fog was like I think, I don't you can only
Speaker 1: see a foot in front of you. That was one
Speaker 1: of the great games of all time. Eventually they moved
Speaker 1: the camera down to like field level just you can
Speaker 1: sort of see the blobs moving around the field. That
Speaker 1: was a great game. I was in Las Vegas watching
Speaker 1: it with all the other betting degenerates for that game,
Speaker 1: and that was that was a ton Did you bet
Speaker 1: the under on that one? You know, I don't remember
Speaker 1: that if I did or didn't. But man, with that
Speaker 1: a bit a good play, I got it. Although you
Speaker 1: would think if the defense can't see the ball, you
Speaker 1: could just run it like any direction you want. The
Speaker 1: refs also can't see the ball, so they can't put
Speaker 1: their hands up for a touchdown. You just can't out
Speaker 1: in the end zone and wait until somebody finds you anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: Mostly our advice is don't panic. Yeah, right, were Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get into some of the matchups, beginning with the
Speaker 1: Rams taking on the Dolphins. This is the very first
Speaker 1: game for twah. But let's start on the other side
Speaker 1: in the field with the Rams and what's been a
Speaker 1: pretty inconsistent passing attack. What do you expect from Jared Goff?
Speaker 1: It really has been inconsistent. Goff has multiple touchdowns and
Speaker 1: five of his six, but he's just averaging over two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty yards per game. He's only passing the ball
Speaker 1: thirty two times per games. That's part of the problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not not passing the ball a ton. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: d though, has been lit up by some good qbs
Speaker 1: and held down bad qbs like you know what the
Speaker 1: average defense generally does. Goff probably finds himself on the
Speaker 1: upper end of those average quarterbacks, maybe two hundred plus
Speaker 1: yards one of two touchdowns. I'm giving him a C.
Speaker 1: I I don't know that it's starting, but he is
Speaker 1: also not going to kill you if you throw them in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds right. Uh, Cooper Cup, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a B. Cup has the match you want here. He's
Speaker 1: leading the team in targets, catches, yards, only has one
Speaker 1: game with fewer than four grabs. Best cornerback matchup as well.
Speaker 1: Give me Cup with a B. Woods. He's getting to see.
Speaker 1: He's still been consistent, but not the consistent he was
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, like like consistent on
Speaker 1: a slightly lower level. Um. He might get Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: in this one, which is a little concerning, but he's
Speaker 1: been very good. Yeah, I wouldn't blame you for benching him,
Speaker 1: but I'm guessing you probably don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: better options than uh, Robert Woods with the potential target share,
Speaker 1: he could get Robert C. Grade for Robert Woods the
Speaker 1: rest of the passing in and I'm benching. I know
Speaker 1: Reynolds has had a good game last week, I can't
Speaker 1: trust it this week against a better defense. Higbie and Everett.
Speaker 1: If Higbee does go, they're definitely benched. If he doesn't,
Speaker 1: I can't trust evert. You know, he's he's a two
Speaker 1: to three catch twenty at thirty five yard guy. So uh, Henderson,
Speaker 1: I am given a b too. Though he's outtouched Brown
Speaker 1: forty seven to twenty nine of the last three weeks
Speaker 1: getting getting a lot of the It's it's crazy because
Speaker 1: he's now the guy getting the goal line work too. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see three running backs under the age of thirty
Speaker 1: seven to hit that, to hit the fourteen plus touch volume,
Speaker 1: that's a Frank Gore stat and take him out of it. Uh,
Speaker 1: to hit the fourteen plus touch volume, all hit a
Speaker 1: hundred yards against the Dolphins, I think I think Henderson
Speaker 1: can get that fourteen touches, So I think he's got
Speaker 1: the possibility to get near a hundred yards. And this
Speaker 1: surprised me. About Henderson fourth in the NFL in red
Speaker 1: zone carries and fourth in the NFL in goal line carriers,
Speaker 1: you would think it would add up to bigger splash
Speaker 1: with fantasy game. It's shocking, but at some point that's
Speaker 1: gotta flip. If you're getting that many opportunities in those spots.
Speaker 1: It's gonna work. It's got to work out eventually. By
Speaker 1: the way, side note on Darrell Henderson Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: his highest rated healthy running back right now, Well, still
Speaker 1: give the ball to Malcolm Brown out of all six
Speaker 1: of them. Right on the other side, we got to
Speaker 1: a tongue of iloa. I like that. There's no one
Speaker 1: in there, but there's kind of there is. You have
Speaker 1: to say it like there's a pretend there's an end
Speaker 1: yes to a tongue of violoa. Uh. He's left handed
Speaker 1: and the only left hander in the league, so I
Speaker 1: expect that to completely confuse opposing defenses who were unaware
Speaker 1: that keps are allowed to throw with the other hand.
Speaker 1: Not since Michael Vick have we seen a south paw.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say they probably saw the Hopes do
Speaker 1: it once but assumed it was some kind of wizardry
Speaker 1: or something. I'm I'm giving him a C grade here.
Speaker 1: I think he's got enough weapons. I I think we
Speaker 1: saw enough in the first game here, and it's it's
Speaker 1: the middle of the road match up against the Rams defense.
Speaker 1: The problem is, I need Parker to be healthy. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he is. Sounds like he's gonna go if
Speaker 1: he goes. Yeah, but then there's Jalen Ramsey. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still getting That's why he's getting the C grade.
Speaker 1: If he goes, he's not getting the A grade or
Speaker 1: a B grade. Uh. You have to imagine two is
Speaker 1: going to lean on his best option, but he will
Speaker 1: get Jalen Ramsey. As we just mentioned, the question is
Speaker 1: how many targets will he see? He was averaging at
Speaker 1: least seven a game, but had some low ones and
Speaker 1: has been banged up. Ramsay has held down posing wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and the receivers he covers don't get a lot of targets.
Speaker 1: They don't throw at him much, so that's the concern.
Speaker 1: They're there. Yeah. I think it's like two and a
Speaker 1: half targets per game, two point three nine or something
Speaker 1: like that. Some ridiculous. Uh. Preston Williams I have on
Speaker 1: the bench. He's he's scoring three of the last four.
Speaker 1: But I guess how many catches Preston Williams has on
Speaker 1: the season total. It's gonna be low. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: like twenty. It's twelve twelve twelve catches on the season.
Speaker 1: You can't count on anything there bench. Even though I
Speaker 1: love him, Gasecky, I'm giving giving a seed two. And
Speaker 1: I found this really interesting this week. Mike Kasecki has
Speaker 1: been practicing with two on the scout team all year,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what that says about Gasecky. And
Speaker 1: they just shigned signed Adam Schihen to this new deal.
Speaker 1: Two other tight ends besides Gasseki scored touchdowns in their
Speaker 1: last game. Yeah, I'm really I don't know what to
Speaker 1: make of that. It doesn't like yeah, has scored in
Speaker 1: two straight as well, but you gotta figure Gisiki is
Speaker 1: going to be the guy with that much work timing
Speaker 1: with twa. The other tight end, by the way, was
Speaker 1: Dirham smythe who sounds kind of like a like a
Speaker 1: minor league baseball team, like the Durham Smith or something.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a whiskey brand. I can see that too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's it's a good name. I like his name. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is a ramsdy that allowed nine for one to
Speaker 1: the Bears tight ends and seven to one O nine
Speaker 1: and a touchdown to Kittle over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: She he only ran fourteen routes in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: where Gisicky is on the field almost all the time,
Speaker 1: so I think it's more luck that she had those
Speaker 1: couple of big plays. I gotta see grade on GHASICKI,
Speaker 1: but I like him a little bit more than that
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskon b Grade. The Rams have allowed five different
Speaker 1: running backs to have four plus catches. Gaskin has hit
Speaker 1: that in all but one game. Uh. He only has
Speaker 1: one touchdown, but the Rams uh have and the Rams
Speaker 1: have only allowed three running backs to score. But gascon
Speaker 1: as thirteen plus touches and all the games the seven
Speaker 1: running backs who had thirteen plus touches all total ninety
Speaker 1: two or more yards. I think there's a safe floor here,
Speaker 1: taking very safe Raiders take on the Browns Matt and Josh.
Speaker 1: Jacobs has been really underperforming expectations, and it might feel
Speaker 1: like a trip to the Browns and bad weather would
Speaker 1: be perfect for him, But the Browns are actually sneaky
Speaker 1: good against the run. Yeah, he only had thirty two
Speaker 1: snaps last week. That's really low, only ten rushing attempts
Speaker 1: for seventeen yards. Granted he was playing the Bucks and
Speaker 1: they're really great against the run, but he's been limited
Speaker 1: in practice this week with a knee injury too, and
Speaker 1: the Browns are only allowing sixty eight rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's top five in the league. You put that all together,
Speaker 1: I'm putting Josh Jacobs on the bench this week. That's
Speaker 1: that's all right. There we go, given what he's done
Speaker 1: for the past month. You want bold, how about Da
Speaker 1: car getting an A grade over two hundred sixty yards
Speaker 1: and multiple touchdowns in five straight which is impressive considering
Speaker 1: his very weird wide receiver corps. The matchup is right though.
Speaker 1: The Browns have allowed three hundred six yards and two
Speaker 1: and a third passing scores per game this year. That
Speaker 1: means Darren Waller is also in play with an A grade.
Speaker 1: The Browns are bottom ten in receptions, yards and touchdowns
Speaker 1: allowed to tight ends, and Waller is averaging the most
Speaker 1: targets amongst tight ends per game at nine point two.
Speaker 1: The wide receivers are just like David s Pumpkins their
Speaker 1: own fang. I don't have any idea what you're referencing
Speaker 1: right there, Betty questions any questions. By the way, I
Speaker 1: can see that with Waller if if the weather is
Speaker 1: really bad, I can see a lot of Waller dumping
Speaker 1: off so Brian Edwards was still limited in practice this
Speaker 1: week with a foot and ankle injury. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably not going to go. Nelson agil Are played the
Speaker 1: most snaps among the wide receiver group last week, is
Speaker 1: quietly scored in three straight but only has twenty targets
Speaker 1: on the season, so I'll give him a C grade
Speaker 1: along with Henry Ruggs, who was on the field of
Speaker 1: the snaps last week. The problem with Ruggs as he's
Speaker 1: averaging two receptions per game despite being on the field
Speaker 1: all the time, so he gets the C. Because the
Speaker 1: Browns are allowing sixteen receptions for two yards and a
Speaker 1: score and a half per game to the wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: which also puts Hunter Renfroll in play with a C.
Speaker 1: But he was only on the field for just over
Speaker 1: half the snaps last week. It's a mess in their
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps, so that's why they're all getting SS.
Speaker 1: Let's flip on over to the brown side, where Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield is getting a B grade. Baker had five touchdown
Speaker 1: passes last week after O'Dell went down with an a
Speaker 1: c L injury on the second play of the game,
Speaker 1: but he's only averaging a d passing yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's twenty five among quarterbacks. The good thing is the
Speaker 1: Raiders have allowed at least two seventy yards to every
Speaker 1: quarterback they've faced who is not named Cam Newton, and
Speaker 1: each of the last three quarterbacks they faced have thrown
Speaker 1: for multiple scores. Jarvis Landry is still dealing with a
Speaker 1: rib injury and has been limited in practice all week,
Speaker 1: but I'll still give him a b. He hasn't scored
Speaker 1: yet this year, but he was Baker's favorite target way
Speaker 1: back in the day before O'Dell got to Cleveland, so
Speaker 1: I think there might be something there. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of other sneaky wide receivers to put on your radar.
Speaker 1: Rashard Richard Higgins played of the snaps last week. Donovan
Speaker 1: people Donovan, People's Jones. It's plural people's. He's the people's um,
Speaker 1: the rookie out of Michigan. He played sixty nine per
Speaker 1: cent of the snaps last week. Come on, Brian, Brian's
Speaker 1: not here. It's just it's just everybody does it. It's
Speaker 1: just there's something fresh, interesting, there's it's not to me.
Speaker 1: It's just everybody does it. You know what, Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just do things like happy Birthday friends up Cliff. So
Speaker 1: the Raiders are allowing thirteen receptions per game to the
Speaker 1: wider run, but they're allowing big yardage totals of a
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty yards, so that favors the home run hitter.
Speaker 1: Donovan Peoples Jones is the home run hitter. He's averaging
Speaker 1: eighteen points seven yards per catch. I'll give him a
Speaker 1: sea and leave Higgins on the bench. Harrison Bryant out
Speaker 1: snapped David and Joku last week and Peacocks to Brian
Speaker 1: by the way for his bold Harrison Bryant call two
Speaker 1: touchdowns last week. I'll give Bryant a solid SEA in
Speaker 1: this game because Austin Hooper's out again and Vegas is
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack tight end defense, but they've
Speaker 1: cracked recently, allowing fifteen catches, a hundred ninety yards and
Speaker 1: two scores to the tight end over their last two games. Finally,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is an ah. The Raiders are allowing four
Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry and Dearness Johnson was only
Speaker 1: on the field for two snaps last week, so it's
Speaker 1: all Kareem Hunt, all the time, all the time. I've
Speaker 1: got the Jets taking on the Chiefs. This is not
Speaker 1: going to take very long. No, it won't know, so
Speaker 1: sneak this one into this first segment. Uh, there's a
Speaker 1: only one starter for the Jets, and it's at a
Speaker 1: C grade, and that's LaMichael p Ryan. The Jets stubbornly
Speaker 1: run the ball even when trailing badly. P Ryan over
Speaker 1: the past two weeks has almost as many snaps as
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and Josh Jacobs, so he's getting enough use
Speaker 1: here in recent games. Philip Lindsay DeVante Booker had success
Speaker 1: running against Kansas City, so depending on the health of
Speaker 1: New York's offensive line, p Ryan could surprise us with
Speaker 1: a few decent runs here, and he's a plausible starter
Speaker 1: in a bye week with a C grade. Everybody else
Speaker 1: is on the bench. Jamison Crowder's out with injury, Brishad
Speaker 1: Perriman likely doesn't get through the concussion protocol. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Denzel Mims, who's also on the bench here. Um,
Speaker 1: he got his first action last week, didn't do a
Speaker 1: ton with it. He runs most of his routes on
Speaker 1: the right side of the field, where I get overmatched
Speaker 1: by cornerback chair various wards. So he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: But let's mention this about Denzel Mims. If you're in
Speaker 1: a dynasty or an empire league, think about the rest
Speaker 1: of his career with Trevor Lawrence and no Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: and be thinking about what Denzel Mims would be worth
Speaker 1: to you in one because now is the time to
Speaker 1: trade for Denzel Mims. It will cost you very little
Speaker 1: in a dynasty or an empire league, and he has
Speaker 1: the potential to blossom big time next year. All future
Speaker 1: peacock that can is that a pre cock precock that
Speaker 1: with the time machine and the peacock together. You know,
Speaker 1: Brian had him as his premature speculation last week. Yes, so,
Speaker 1: I mean, but he didn't say it was premature spect
Speaker 1: that's really prema very premature. Let's go to the Kansas
Speaker 1: city side, where Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey are obvious
Speaker 1: A's I'm more worried about the Chiefs running games, sniping
Speaker 1: them through than than on the ground than really the Jets,
Speaker 1: much like last week's blowout win when they didn't need
Speaker 1: to perform in the second half and didn't uh. Tyrey
Speaker 1: Hill also in a grade New York I was a
Speaker 1: healthy fourteen catches for one eighty yards per game to
Speaker 1: wide receivers, and that's great news for Hill, who out
Speaker 1: targeted all the other Chiefs whiteouts last week. But he
Speaker 1: does have a sneaky tough matchup with slot enter back
Speaker 1: Brian Pool, who is ProFootball focuses fifth highest graded cornerback.
Speaker 1: But Hill can run from everywhere. He just mostly runs
Speaker 1: from the slot, so it wouldn't take a lot for
Speaker 1: Andy Reid to just design more plays for Hill outside
Speaker 1: because he runs there anyway, so there's no saying that
Speaker 1: he even actually gets the Brian Pool matchup in this one.
Speaker 1: Sticking with the passing game, c grades as dart throws
Speaker 1: for DeMarcus Robinson and Icole Hardman. These are low volume guys,
Speaker 1: but plausible dart throws. With Sammy Watkins out, Both guys
Speaker 1: have got positive matchups against dreadful cornerbacks Pierre to see
Speaker 1: her and Blessing in Austin. You made that name up. Then, lastly,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running games. Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Since
Speaker 1: the Bell trade, I think we can agree. Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Layers posted his two best NFL games, Putting the pressure
Speaker 1: on him is damaging six yards per carry. Since the trade,
Speaker 1: I think he will still see most of the work
Speaker 1: against a medium bad run defense for the Jets. They
Speaker 1: ranked twenty three yards per carry allowed their twenty three
Speaker 1: in rushing yards per game. There twenty six in rushing
Speaker 1: attempts per game. So I think there's enough work to
Speaker 1: get a B grade on Clyde Edwards Hilaire. So what
Speaker 1: about Lavy on Bell in a revenge game for Brian
Speaker 1: who's not here? Last week in a blowout when he
Speaker 1: got seventeen snaps, which isn't a ton six carries, that's
Speaker 1: a decent amount for a first game with the team. Though, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd agree it's not bad. Uh six carries and he
Speaker 1: averaged six and a half yards per carry, and you
Speaker 1: might say, well, okay, that was in a blowout win.
Speaker 1: So why not put Bell in at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, which is a lot of when he got
Speaker 1: his work. But this is gonna be a blowout win too.
Speaker 1: It's the Jets, so Bell is gonna find his way
Speaker 1: back on the field here. Um. He they didn't throw
Speaker 1: to him at all last week, but the Chiefs barely
Speaker 1: through the ball period and that could change here. I
Speaker 1: still believe Bell will get goal line looks if the
Speaker 1: opportunity presents itself, and I think he will start to
Speaker 1: catch more passes. I've got a C grade hammer hammer
Speaker 1: the bell score. Bell scores a touchdown in this Oh
Speaker 1: you like that alright, Chief's favorite one. In some circles,
Speaker 1: it's between ninete that is, that's that's a big number.
Speaker 1: I have reason. I have reason to believe that is
Speaker 1: a very big number. When we come back, take a
Speaker 1: chance on me. Nine players not normally, not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting lineup. We'll tell you who they are. Who
Speaker 1: you can get off the waiver wire, plug into your lineup.
Speaker 1: When we return to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome Day Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: Paul Charching from Guillotine leagu dot com, Scott Fish and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison take a chance to take a cheer, to
Speaker 1: take a chance on it's growing on me. It is.
Speaker 1: It is growing at me like a fungus and nothing
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this. So you get that checked out.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of those. I really don't take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your
Speaker 1: starting line up. Many of them are available on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. Let's begin at the quarterback position. Scott Fish.
Speaker 1: I know this guy is because I picked him up
Speaker 1: in two of my leagues in the last week, but
Speaker 1: he's probably half owners are more. I'm going with Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Don't look now, but the Cowboys are top five in
Speaker 1: most points allowed through seven weeks in NFL history. That's
Speaker 1: a healthy thirty four points seven points per game they're allowing.
Speaker 1: Uh with Washington and buy winner of this one leads
Speaker 1: leads to the division is a three win team. So
Speaker 1: I think Carson Wentz is gonna be on fire. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have allowed multiple touchdowns to five quarterbacks and Wentz
Speaker 1: has had multiple touchdowns in all but one game, and
Speaker 1: he's put five more touchdowns in with his legs too,
Speaker 1: so there's always that that floor as well. Go pick
Speaker 1: him up. I love just he just plays with so
Speaker 1: much heart, and I know he makes a handful of
Speaker 1: really bad plays every game that just you cringe, But man,
Speaker 1: he just he wants to win so overtly and far
Speaker 1: light without all the armed talent, and yeah, maybe that's
Speaker 1: the light. Yeah, that's the light part. Okay, who is
Speaker 1: you to take a chance in the quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: has been super solid in his last two games, hitting
Speaker 1: at least two hundred sixty five yards in both with
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes against the pretty good Rams defense. But
Speaker 1: Jimmy g really thrives on super bad secondaries because last year,
Speaker 1: remember he killed the Cardinals twice and they were amongst
Speaker 1: the worst secondary in the league last year. And this
Speaker 1: year he's going to kill the Seahawks twice, who are
Speaker 1: allowing a shocking forty eight passing attempts per game for
Speaker 1: three d seventy four yards and two scores per game.
Speaker 1: The Seattle defense is on pace to allow six thousand
Speaker 1: and passing yards. It's crazy. I keep thinking, I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the kinds of stats you normally will hear,
Speaker 1: like through the first three games of the year, right,
Speaker 1: and then teams start to normalize. We're like at the
Speaker 1: halfway point and we're still talking about nothing's normal here. No,
Speaker 1: it is weird. Um. The funny thing about Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: lousy season, and he's actually a better fantasy producer in
Speaker 1: many ways. He's been fantasy relevant in four of six
Speaker 1: games this year because the Vikings are constantly playing from behind,
Speaker 1: and the volume has been there for him where it
Speaker 1: hasn't been in years past, he's um This week he
Speaker 1: sees the Packers, a team that he posted a good
Speaker 1: game against in Week one, a lot of it in
Speaker 1: garbage time, but that's gonna be the case here too.
Speaker 1: The Packers have a good past defense, but they have
Speaker 1: allowed multiple touchdowns to five of six opposing quarterbacks. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins this time around, on like Week one, has got
Speaker 1: a red hot Justin Jefferson available as well, and that
Speaker 1: will help make Kirk Cousins that take a chance of me. Quarterback, Scott,
Speaker 1: let's go to the running back position. Who is your player?
Speaker 1: I got JK dobby in this one. I kind of
Speaker 1: like both Gus Edwards and JK Dobbins here, but Dobbins
Speaker 1: is the better pass catcher. Gus Edwards has three targets
Speaker 1: and no catches on the season, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the better floor and the more explosive player in JK. Dobbins. Uh.
Speaker 1: It sounds like mark Ingram is going to be out
Speaker 1: with that mid to high ankle spreen giving the opportunity here.
Speaker 1: The Steelers are have been good against opposing runners, but
Speaker 1: I think with Dobbins Dobbins floor and if if he
Speaker 1: starts producing and has explosive plays. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to take away more touches than Gus will Matt. I've
Speaker 1: got Jim Michael hasty because the forty Niners have the
Speaker 1: best team running back total in the league. They're running
Speaker 1: backs are averaging a hundred and ninety one total yards
Speaker 1: per game and almost two scores per game. That backfield
Speaker 1: has included big days from Raheem Mostert, Jack McKinnon, and
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson, everybody on roster, basically all of which are
Speaker 1: either out or trending in a bad way. As McKinnon
Speaker 1: is supposedly dealing with fared legs, I think he bounces
Speaker 1: back and plays a bunch of this game maybe, and
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman might return. They haven't taken him off five
Speaker 1: r yet, but let's get hasty here, because he's averaging
Speaker 1: five point two yards per carry on the season. Seattle
Speaker 1: has been okay against opposing backs, but Kyle Shanahan scheming
Speaker 1: a running back game that's way better than Seattle's rundy
Speaker 1: might take a chance of me. Running back is Boston Scott.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders not expected to play in this game, so
Speaker 1: Philadelphia will start Boston Scott Cowboys allowing one hundred sixty
Speaker 1: two total yards per game, fourth most to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: It's been even worse the last two games, where they're
Speaker 1: averaging thirty rushes against almost two hundred total yards and
Speaker 1: one one and a half touchdowns per game to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs. I hear they give up a lot of
Speaker 1: points to that Dallas Cowboys defense. I heard that just
Speaker 1: moments ago, that they give up a lot of points.
Speaker 1: Um Scott is going to be an excellent play with
Speaker 1: the percentage of snaps he's likely to see. Saw sent
Speaker 1: the snaps last week, and so I think that's the
Speaker 1: same thing here. Strong play Boston, Scott Fish. Can you
Speaker 1: do a Boston accent because I'd really like to hear one.
Speaker 1: Probably not, but people don't know this, but we're Halloween
Speaker 1: costumes costumes today and I'm wearing a side from Boston
Speaker 1: Market and Matt is wearing an Ardvark costume. There's the
Speaker 1: there's something you can make the noise too, Can you
Speaker 1: really with the button? That's probably actually pretty good. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the receivers for take a chance on me, Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm going with a tight end with Albert Kua buonum. Uh,
Speaker 1: don't look now again, but Albert oh has thirteen targets
Speaker 1: in the last two games. With injuries continuing to rack up,
Speaker 1: and uh, we might be without Tim Patrick this week.
Speaker 1: Lock has been you know, with all these injuries, Lock
Speaker 1: has been reverting back looking for his old Missouri teammate
Speaker 1: that he threw seventeen touchdowns to normally that played in
Speaker 1: college together. Think they never works. It almost never works.
Speaker 1: But I think this amount of injuries and the the
Speaker 1: weird playout a lock. Maybe it's actually working out right
Speaker 1: now because it has to. So I'm going with Albert Matt.
Speaker 1: Your previous two selections were both forty niners. Who do
Speaker 1: you got first this time? How about a forty niner
Speaker 1: You don't say, Yeah, Brandon Aiyuk, who as of recently
Speaker 1: was only like thirty five owned in ESPN leagues, so
Speaker 1: he's still pick up a bull. He's top two hundred
Speaker 1: yards or scored in four of his last five games.
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel is out for this one, leaving Ayuk as
Speaker 1: the clear number one, with only Kendrick Bourne and Trent
Speaker 1: Taylor as the additional wide receiver options. And you've heard
Speaker 1: of Seattle's defense, right, I have I have heard about
Speaker 1: Seattle's They're allowing twenty two catches two eighty yards per game,
Speaker 1: just too wide receivers. If Iuke has half of that,
Speaker 1: that's eleven. We'll take it. Yeah, we'll take that. Could
Speaker 1: be a breakout game for Brandon Aiyuk might take a
Speaker 1: chance of the receiver is a much more of just
Speaker 1: a safe play. And that's Greg Ward only owned in
Speaker 1: seventeen percent of leagues going up against Dallas. DeShawn Jackson's out,
Speaker 1: he's injured again, and I think, by the way, I
Speaker 1: think it's a career for for Deshaun Jackson. A Ward
Speaker 1: quietly averaging six targets over the past five games, and
Speaker 1: he's found the end zone three times. But this is
Speaker 1: a good matchup in the slot for him as well.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have allowed multiple touchdowns to receivers in four
Speaker 1: of the past five games, and if multiple receivers are
Speaker 1: gonna get paid, I think Greg Ward has got a
Speaker 1: very good chance of being one of those guys. Four
Speaker 1: of the twelve wide out touchdowns Dallas has given up
Speaker 1: has gone to the slot. Ward has got a very
Speaker 1: favorable one on one matchup against Jordan Lewis, who has
Speaker 1: given up two scores and is allowing a passer rating
Speaker 1: of one hundred eleven in his coverage. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the matchups. Scott Fish the Colts take on the Lions.
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton is being outright dropped in many leagues
Speaker 1: and understandably so. Does he have a chance against a
Speaker 1: pretty bad secondary? No? I still don't think so. Okay.
Speaker 1: In fact, I don't like much of this passing game.
Speaker 1: Rivers finally had his first startable Fantasy Day last week
Speaker 1: since week one. Like I have him on the bench,
Speaker 1: I have Pascal on the beach. I know it's in
Speaker 1: okay match up, it's actually more middle of the pack,
Speaker 1: but the Colts have had a different target leader at
Speaker 1: wide receiver in three straight weeks at this point. The Lions, yeah,
Speaker 1: tenth worst against wide receivers. Uh, but if you look
Speaker 1: into it, the the receivers that did well that made
Speaker 1: those giant amounts that got them to tenth worst. Hopkins
Speaker 1: huge game, Julio huge game, and Keeling Cole had a
Speaker 1: fifty one yard, a thirty five yard, and twenty four
Speaker 1: yard catch in garbage time to get his hundred sixty
Speaker 1: yard day or whatever the big days have come from
Speaker 1: garbage time are true studs. The Colts don't have any
Speaker 1: of those guys, so I have the passing game on
Speaker 1: the bench except for Tree Burton, who has five red
Speaker 1: zone targe gets in the last three games, and that
Speaker 1: doesn't even count his goal line touchdown run. So he's
Speaker 1: getting available in a lot of leaks. By the way,
Speaker 1: Trey Burton, Yeah, he's got five or more targets in
Speaker 1: each game he's played. With tight ends the way they are,
Speaker 1: I'll give him a sea here. The Lions have allowed
Speaker 1: every tight end to get at least every tight end
Speaker 1: with at least three targets have top sixty five yards
Speaker 1: are scored. I think Burton can get that, so CE
Speaker 1: grade on him. I'm giving a B grade on Taylor, though,
Speaker 1: I think finally this is a game where Taylor might
Speaker 1: might start to uh show a little bit. The problem
Speaker 1: is he's broken eleven tackles this year. He's got that
Speaker 1: great offensive line and he's not breaking tackles. That's that's
Speaker 1: a big problem. Lions are fifth worst against opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: Taylor has been pretty pedestrian, but he's going to get
Speaker 1: all the carries he's been getting all the carries, and
Speaker 1: the lines have allowed nine touchdowns in six games nine
Speaker 1: times nine time. All running backs to top fourteen fourteen
Speaker 1: touches is which Taylor gets every single game have top
Speaker 1: seventy yards or scored. I think Taylor can get that.
Speaker 1: I'm giving him be grade here. On the other side,
Speaker 1: the Colts have been surprisingly very good against fantasy quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They have allowed just seven passing touchdowns in six games. Uh,
Speaker 1: they did. They did allow rushing touchdown, but since Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers is the only quarterback in starting quarterback in the
Speaker 1: NFL with zero yards rushing zero, he's at zero. He's
Speaker 1: the only quarterball have three yard rush and three kneel downs,
Speaker 1: so uh, and they have allowed the fewest passing yards
Speaker 1: by a pretty fairly wide martian. So I have Stafford
Speaker 1: on the bench, I have Galladay with an A grade.
Speaker 1: I don't care if he gets rhads or if he
Speaker 1: gets Rocky sin. Those two have stayed on their sides,
Speaker 1: and Marvin Jones and Golliday switch, So yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Golliday and Marvin Jones get equal shares of each
Speaker 1: I'm going to give Marvin Jones a C because on
Speaker 1: the time sees up the aainst Xavier Roads. Do you
Speaker 1: remember what Marvin Jones did to Xavier Roads, destroyed him
Speaker 1: as a Viking. I'm just giving a secrete based on
Speaker 1: that alone. Obviously three touchdowns coming from Marvin Jones in
Speaker 1: this game could be. But by the way, and I'm
Speaker 1: betting this is a weird status I pulled in as
Speaker 1: I was looking against the against the Colts here, no
Speaker 1: receiver shorter than six three his top sixty five yards
Speaker 1: on them. That is weird. So you need to be
Speaker 1: a big wide receiver or Marvin Jones, Xavier Rhodes. So
Speaker 1: I'm giving a beta Hackinson at least fifty yards and
Speaker 1: or a touchdown in every game this year. I know
Speaker 1: that's the the you know for everybody that sort of
Speaker 1: got out of Hockinson last year with the injury played
Speaker 1: rookie season maybe one year too early. Yeah well yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean back now tight ends rookie years. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: know there's that tell that to Harrison Bryan and the
Speaker 1: Colts have not been tested at all at tighten. They
Speaker 1: they're good against sight ends, but they have any one
Speaker 1: so uh DeAndre Swift and Peterson here in the running game,
Speaker 1: Peterson's a little banged up, and Swift has overtaken that role.
Speaker 1: So I got Peterson on the bench, I got Swift
Speaker 1: with a B grade. Here's a terrible stat though about Swift. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Mike Tagleer Fantasy Pros. Thirty nine point
Speaker 1: five percent of Swift's rushing yards came off of two carries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot off of two carries. But his snap
Speaker 1: percentages touches surpassed time draining the right way. Yeah, three
Speaker 1: straight games, three touchdowns last two weeks. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: be grade on Swift. All right? That sounds about That
Speaker 1: sounds about right. B grade on Swift. It's not too
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Speaker 1: Your co host today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 1: Got a few more matchups to get to in this segment,
Speaker 1: including Chargers taking on the Broncos. Matt. Justin Herbert has
Speaker 1: been nothing short of a revelation at quarterback and is
Speaker 1: re energized the Chargers. How do you like him against
Speaker 1: the Broncos this week? Do you remember former like Saints
Speaker 1: quarterback Bobby A. Bear very well? I want to call
Speaker 1: him Justin air Bear. You know, air Bear has been awesome,
Speaker 1: averaging eight yards and two and a half touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: Problem is, the Broncos defense has been really really good lately,
Speaker 1: allowing only one touchdown pass over their last three games.
Speaker 1: That's one total in three games. No quarterback top two
Speaker 1: yards in that span, and by the way they faced
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Cam Newton and Sam Donald still, but I
Speaker 1: mean they're pretty good, So I'm giving him a B grade.
Speaker 1: I am giving Keenan Allen and A grade. It's been
Speaker 1: the slot receiver that's burned the Broncos so far this year.
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin Jamison Crowder each beat the Broncos for good days,
Speaker 1: while Chase Claypool and Tyree Kal also had decent games
Speaker 1: flexing in and out of the slot. So He's had
Speaker 1: double digit targets in every game that he started and
Speaker 1: finished with Air Bear, So I think Keenan Allen's a
Speaker 1: solid A here. Mike Williams is on the bench though,
Speaker 1: Speaking of games that Allen has started and finished, Williams
Speaker 1: is averaging one catch per game in games where Allen
Speaker 1: finishes the game. That's a great stat. That is the
Speaker 1: best stat of this show so far. Hunter Henry is
Speaker 1: top six amongst tight ends in targets, receptions, and yards.
Speaker 1: He's a solid B in this game. The Broncos have
Speaker 1: not allowed a touchdown to a tight end since Week one.
Speaker 1: They did help hold Travis Kelsey to only three catches
Speaker 1: and thirty one yards last week, but Henry's still been
Speaker 1: one of air Bear's favorite players, and Joshua Kelly. He
Speaker 1: had thirty eight snaps last week, while Justin Jackson had
Speaker 1: thirty one. Kelly had seventeen touches. Jackson had ten. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much flipped from the week before. Both are kind
Speaker 1: of mired in a straight hoth hand time share this
Speaker 1: week against the Denver defense that has allowed only two
Speaker 1: total touchdowns to the running back position through six games.
Speaker 1: They're only allowing three point nine yards per carry. I'd
Speaker 1: bench them both. If you have to play one, it's Kelly,
Speaker 1: but I'd leave them both on the bench if I could.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Broncos side, where it's the
Speaker 1: long awaited Melvin Gordon revenge game and it seems to
Speaker 1: come at a perfect time for him where he's likely
Speaker 1: a bell cow again as Philip Lindsay is still limited
Speaker 1: in practice with a concussion, probably won't go on this one,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers are giving up a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven total yards and two scores to James Robinson just
Speaker 1: last week, one totally yards to Alvin Camaro the week before.
Speaker 1: I like Melvin Gordon with a solid be here putting
Speaker 1: Drew Lock on the bench. Great stat from Evan Silva.
Speaker 1: In his nine career starts, Slock has twelve interceptions and
Speaker 1: fourteen fumbles and a hundred and seventy passing yards per game.
Speaker 1: He's gross and his wide receivers are all on the
Speaker 1: bench to Jerry Judy's averaging three catches per game. Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick's dealing with the hamstring injury probably won't play. Dave
Speaker 1: Shawn Hamilton and kJ Hamler are warm bodies at best.
Speaker 1: UH fish like Albert Oh in this one, I do too,
Speaker 1: and Noah Fant I'm giving them both a b um
Speaker 1: fantasy Superslid had seven targets again last week, and the
Speaker 1: wide receiver situation is an absolute disaster. The Chargers have
Speaker 1: allowed big tight end days to every tight end that
Speaker 1: you'd actually consider starting. The only ones that haven't done
Speaker 1: well were the Bengals tight ends, the Panthers tight ends,
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars tight ends. They don't even technically have
Speaker 1: tight ends. They're not even on your roster. That's really interesting,
Speaker 1: because I think Noah Fant is going to be a
Speaker 1: top five fantasy tight end the rest of this year.
Speaker 1: He could be that whole pat He's the he's the
Speaker 1: best play maker. Make it definitely rock two tight end
Speaker 1: sets most of the rest of the year, and I
Speaker 1: think both are in for you know, pretty good rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Justin air bear air air, the justin
Speaker 1: a bear. What do you think if we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with their bear? Yeah? How'd you get a bear sound
Speaker 1: so quickly? That was very well done? The bear? That's uh,
Speaker 1: we could have the justin air bear. There we go
Speaker 1: there there? That might we can find better bear sounds.
Speaker 1: I think that's a brand meditates to sounds generally, very
Speaker 1: peaceful bear sounds. Crap on me. Stealers take on the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Will start with the running game and James Conner. He
Speaker 1: posted fifty five yards in his one game against the
Speaker 1: Ravens last year. In Baltimore's last four games starting running backs,
Speaker 1: they faced of average fifty one yards and just three
Speaker 1: point one yards per carry. They've only allowed to total
Speaker 1: running back scores all year. So James Conner is just
Speaker 1: a C grade in this matchup. You probably have to
Speaker 1: started because it's a tough bye week and he's been
Speaker 1: reliable to this point. But I don't love him in
Speaker 1: this matchup and you shouldn't either. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game, where Ben Roethlisberger also a rare C grade
Speaker 1: for him and probably the toughest game on this year's
Speaker 1: schedule for Roethlisberger in the passing game as he travels
Speaker 1: to Baltimore to face arguably the NFL's best secondary. Aside
Speaker 1: from the Ravens let down against Patrick Mahomes, the average
Speaker 1: game is two hundred thirty four yards and zero point
Speaker 1: eight passing. That's it, so probably a tough game cup
Speaker 1: and coming from Ben Roethlisberger over the over the bye week.
Speaker 1: It doesn't help that Baltimore added Russia Yanique Ningakway to
Speaker 1: bolster there otherwise relatively average pass rush and Roethlisberger's gonna
Speaker 1: have to face him too, so just the C grade
Speaker 1: their C grade on Juju Smith Schuster. He'll go up
Speaker 1: against slot cornerback Marlin Humphrey, who's graded fifth overall by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus at the at the cornerback position and
Speaker 1: owns just a seventy five passer rating in his coverage.
Speaker 1: That said, he has allowed plenty of receptions and to sue,
Speaker 1: jud should probably see more targets with Deonte Johnson hobbled
Speaker 1: by injury, which brings us to Deonte Johnson, who, by
Speaker 1: the way, I love Deonte Johnson. Can you just finish
Speaker 1: a freaking game? You're killing me. I love to see
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns last week, but I don't know how
Speaker 1: much more of this my heart can take because I
Speaker 1: I've rostered him everywhere. I love this. The Ravens have
Speaker 1: allowed just three wide receiver touchdowns all year, and just
Speaker 1: one opposing wide receiver has topped one hundred yards all
Speaker 1: season long. Baltimore's cornerback duel of Jimmy Smith and Marcus
Speaker 1: Peters would present problems for even a fully healthy Johnson,
Speaker 1: and obviously that won't be the case this week. So
Speaker 1: just to see grade on Johnson and to see grade
Speaker 1: on Chase Claypool, who's done little in games in which
Speaker 1: Deonta Johnson has been on the field, and you're almost
Speaker 1: banking on him leaving the game if you're gonna start
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool. Johnson plans to play, and uh, a matchup
Speaker 1: with Baltimore is not easy. As I mentioned, the one
Speaker 1: angle you've got here, He's got a big size defferential
Speaker 1: on Marcus Peters, who he will run against often, and
Speaker 1: I think that's your glimmer of hope for Cape. For
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool is a potential touchdown, box out touchdown. I
Speaker 1: call him Clay Chase Pool too sometimes. Did I just
Speaker 1: do that? Okay? I did tweet that once by accident.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Baltimore side where Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: You know, that passing attack for Baltimore just has looked
Speaker 1: out of sync all year, and a game against the
Speaker 1: Steelers doesn't feel like a get right opportunity since the opener.
Speaker 1: Get this, Lamar Jackson's average passing game since the opener
Speaker 1: one hundred seventy three yards and one point four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's all like Drew lock numbers. Those are very locky
Speaker 1: in that's in the conversation also with Cam Newton. And
Speaker 1: that's not good. And we may talk more about that
Speaker 1: a little later. I hope we we had. I think
Speaker 1: the team would really hope for sophomores Markeys Brown and
Speaker 1: Miles boy Can to make a big step up this year.
Speaker 1: That really hasn't happened. Unfortunately. No posing quarterback has top
Speaker 1: two touchdowns against the Steelers. No quarterback has run for
Speaker 1: more than twenty two yards against the Steelers. They're pressure,
Speaker 1: it's insane. It's of the time they get to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm almost banking on the pressure flushing out Jackson and
Speaker 1: then go and runs. I think he's sitting on a
Speaker 1: one touchdown passing game and we're hoping he chips in
Speaker 1: fifty yards and a coin flips chance at a rushing touchdown,
Speaker 1: and that equates to a B grade for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: The receivers, it's not great Mark Andrews. Just to see
Speaker 1: it's been a jackal and hide season for Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: with three good games and three terrible ones. This game, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: he's got dud written all over at Pittsburgh's allowed just
Speaker 1: one touchdown to tight ends all year, and that was
Speaker 1: way back in Week two. They've also allowed a tight
Speaker 1: end to top two catches or thirty yards once that's
Speaker 1: it's just it's all bad then Marquis Brown, like Andrews,
Speaker 1: it's been a boomer bus season for Brown, and while
Speaker 1: the matchup is tough, I'll mention the Steelers have allowed
Speaker 1: multiple wide receiver touchdowns in three of their last four
Speaker 1: games and other opponents top receivers have posted big games,
Speaker 1: including Travis Fulghum and A. J. Brown, who both scored
Speaker 1: in top two hundred fifty yards recently, Brown is the
Speaker 1: this Brown Marquise is the top receiving target here. So
Speaker 1: he does get a C grade and we'll hope he
Speaker 1: goes he does better going forward. J K. Dobbins was
Speaker 1: Scott Fishes, take a chance of me player. I think
Speaker 1: you could also in a pitch, especially in a bye week,
Speaker 1: give Gus Edwards a try. He's been the Ravens best
Speaker 1: runner all year in my to my eyes. In Baltimore's
Speaker 1: last game after Ingram went out, Ingram got a huge
Speaker 1: spike in usage with season highs and touches and plays,
Speaker 1: and he scored on a carry from inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line and the Ravens last game. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: hope that that happens again here and we've got a
Speaker 1: C grade on Gus Edwards. If you if you like
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Speaker 1: play along see if you can go three and oh.
Speaker 1: Welcome back our number two of Fantasy Football Weekly. I
Speaker 1: am Paul charging co host today Scott Fish and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 1: This is a game we call three tough questions. I
Speaker 1: will pepper my co host, with three tough questions. They'll
Speaker 1: try to get them right and you can play along.
Speaker 1: Try to go three and ow. Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: After back to back to back underwhelming performances, what's the
Speaker 1: appropriate level of concern for those with Josh Allen? None
Speaker 1: some or a bowel loosening level of existential dread? Scott,
Speaker 1: I think it's some. He's still had over a hundred
Speaker 1: yards on the ground in the last two weeks with
Speaker 1: seventeen carries. But the big issue isn't as much Alan
Speaker 1: as is they can't run the ball. This allows defenses
Speaker 1: to key on Allen. If you're worried about Allen at all,
Speaker 1: it's because you don't fully believe in Zack Moss to
Speaker 1: get the run now that he's back from injury. They
Speaker 1: have four negative matchups, one positive, four neutral. Not the
Speaker 1: greatest schedule. I actually really like what Brian Dabble has
Speaker 1: been doing. I think he can write the ship. But
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna see that top three we
Speaker 1: saw in the first couple of weeks. So really, let's
Speaker 1: be honest. This is just charged disguising the Zach Moss question.
Speaker 1: You b the code. Matt Fish stole a lot of
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. I think his schedule is
Speaker 1: a little bit harder than he led on. According to
Speaker 1: the Shock Fantasy Metrics, they have the fifth hardest schedule
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the season, including Week thirteen with
Speaker 1: the Niners, then Steelers, then Broncos, then Patriots in the
Speaker 1: playoff run. All of those are proving to be pretty
Speaker 1: tough matchups for quarterbacks. Still, he has thrown from multiple
Speaker 1: scores and six of seven this year, and his running
Speaker 1: ability hasn't vanished. He might be the best running back
Speaker 1: on the roster. You shut up, so I'll just say
Speaker 1: some because of the upcoming difficult schedule. The correct answer
Speaker 1: is none. Even in his three bad games, he's thrown
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in two out of three, and just the
Speaker 1: nature who he is and think he's got, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have some big passing games, deep balls, connecting some of
Speaker 1: they just don't. But his running just neutralizes the dead inside.
Speaker 1: He's gotta have the bad passing game and the bad
Speaker 1: running game together before he gives you the rare dud
Speaker 1: dual dud, and it almost never happens. Even last week
Speaker 1: he had no touchdowns, but he chipped in sixty one
Speaker 1: rushing yards. The sixty one rushing yards, you know, six
Speaker 1: point one points, that's a touchdown and a half passing.
Speaker 1: So the downside just isn't there. And the player You're
Speaker 1: right about the playoffs schedule. Playoffs schedule is not good.
Speaker 1: But that's still only three games out of the rest
Speaker 1: of the season and we still got a long way
Speaker 1: to go. Not worried about Josh Allen, I mean, generally
Speaker 1: you want to do well in the playoffs. The question
Speaker 1: number two, what's the appropriate level of concern for those
Speaker 1: with slumping running back Ezekiel Elliott none some or a
Speaker 1: bowl loosening level of existential dread. Matt, what are you
Speaker 1: sure like to talk about bows? There's a lot of
Speaker 1: bowl talking. How's your bowl feeling, hear? I think it's
Speaker 1: feeling pretty loose right now. Good thing. I have a
Speaker 1: bi day at my house. The Cowboys had no double
Speaker 1: and triple cleaning materials, but day is so fantastic, so clean,
Speaker 1: applying the ceilant. You don't know about the three seashells.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have no offensive line. They're down to their
Speaker 1: third string quarterback who might be delivering pizza's next week.
Speaker 1: Plus their schedule is by far the most difficult running
Speaker 1: back schedule. The rest of the way matchups with six
Speaker 1: top ten run defenses on the horizon and they have
Speaker 1: a buy in there make Zeke very undesirable. His only
Speaker 1: good matchups the rest of the way are Minnesota and
Speaker 1: Week eleven, and since in Week fourteen, that's it. Bowl
Speaker 1: loosening level of existential dread. Alright, Scottowe Elliott, what's the
Speaker 1: appropriate level of concern? Given the running back landscape and
Speaker 1: all the injuries and the fact that Ezekiel Elliott has
Speaker 1: still never missed a game except for that six game suspension.
Speaker 1: I'm just going with some because he's going to be
Speaker 1: the twelve to thirty Carrie touch guy. Uh. Last game.
Speaker 1: This last game was the first game this season he's
Speaker 1: had under twenty touches um and the Cowboys cancer steam drives.
Speaker 1: So obviously you have to have some concern. But given
Speaker 1: this landscape, man, I'm not, I'm not. It's not existential
Speaker 1: dread for me. This question is not about the landscape.
Speaker 1: This question is about Ezekiel Elliott and your I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keeping level contential dress still start. Let's go. Let's take
Speaker 1: and I get one right, and Fish got one wrong.
Speaker 1: That's right, like hallelujah. Let's take the emotion out of
Speaker 1: this and go straight to the numbers. Are you ready
Speaker 1: that he'll still be game pretty much since Dad got
Speaker 1: knocked out. He's running back forty among running backs. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he has zero one hundred yard rushing games this year.
Speaker 1: Talking about Ezekiel Elliott, five fumbles worst among all running backs,
Speaker 1: four drops tied for most among all running backs. Two
Speaker 1: of those drops turned into interceptions first among running backs.
Speaker 1: Seven quarterback hits allowed in past protection worst among running backs.
Speaker 1: This is Ezekiel Williot, declining yards per carry in three
Speaker 1: straight games. Receiving numbers way way down last three games
Speaker 1: fourteen yards, thirty one yards, six yards in receiving. Convinced me.
Speaker 1: Everybody charged the bridge drop Elliott sabotage drop. Zeke is
Speaker 1: averaging less than two yards after contacts. Here's a four
Speaker 1: yard after contact guy for his for his career. And
Speaker 1: here's the part that should if those numbers didn't scare
Speaker 1: you enough. On this the holiday Halloween weekend, his snap
Speaker 1: count has dropped massively over the last two games. He
Speaker 1: is usually an eighty five to snap count guy. The
Speaker 1: last two weeks with all of this happening, he's fallen
Speaker 1: into the mid sixty on snap counts, and Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: has seen career highs. This team is starting to put
Speaker 1: the better running back in the game, or they're taking
Speaker 1: mileage off their umpteen million dollar back in a season
Speaker 1: that's pretty much lost. Either way, the appropriate level of
Speaker 1: concern bowl loosening levels of existential dread. Let's go to
Speaker 1: our third final question number three. What is the appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern for those with John U. Smith? My
Speaker 1: guy none, some or loosening level of existential dread man
Speaker 1: Zack Moss question and church. Have you seen Johnny Smith
Speaker 1: play when healthy? Oh? God? Have I you think I
Speaker 1: haven't broken down all that tape? Are you concerned with
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes arm talent when healthy? Were you concerned about
Speaker 1: Michael phelps immun ability to his pribe? Were you concerned
Speaker 1: about Michael Jordan being being able to score twenty points
Speaker 1: when the other team pissed him off? No, no, No, John,
Speaker 1: who has been hurt? Don't worry about That's all I
Speaker 1: have to say. Don't worry about John, Oh John who
Speaker 1: he has been hurt. This offense is good and he's
Speaker 1: gonna get his opportunities when he's fully healthy. Matt, my
Speaker 1: kids have a poster of every one of those guys
Speaker 1: on the wall, including John WHU Smith as well they should.
Speaker 1: There's no John Hu Smith worry here. Tannehill has been
Speaker 1: much better than expected. John got a bing bit dinged up,
Speaker 1: and after a run of tough defenses from weeks nine
Speaker 1: through twelve, he's got the best playoff schedule for tight
Speaker 1: ends that I've ever seen. Three bottom six tight end
Speaker 1: defenses in the playoffs, including Jacksonville Detroit and Green Bay.
Speaker 1: If you play in week seventeen, he gets Houston, which
Speaker 1: is another one. There's no worry about John Oh Smith here.
Speaker 1: Did you guys know, and I'm sure you didn't. I
Speaker 1: only learned it this week that in South Asia many
Speaker 1: of the languages JOHNU means my love. So from here
Speaker 1: forward we are referring to him as JOHNU. JOHNU Smith,
Speaker 1: my love. John U. Smith highest scoring tight end on
Speaker 1: a per game basis prior to his ankle injury. He's
Speaker 1: three games removed from that injury. He's probably in a
Speaker 1: good spot right now when he gets the Bengals this
Speaker 1: week and they're arguably the worst team against tight ends
Speaker 1: in the entire league. We are not at all worried
Speaker 1: about John new Smith. Let's get back to the matchups
Speaker 1: and the Titans taking on the Bengals. What a fantastic
Speaker 1: transition opportunity. This is right, absolutely perfect, John new Smith
Speaker 1: obvious a grade, obviously in a grade. I just compared
Speaker 1: him to some of the grades of all time. Now,
Speaker 1: if every sport pale, if soccer, did you worry about
Speaker 1: the Bengals have allowed six tight end touchdowns in just
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. That's what Jona Smith gets to
Speaker 1: go up against a team that has allowed the second
Speaker 1: most yards and the fourth most receptions to tight ends.
Speaker 1: This is a smash as a grade. Jonna Smith firing
Speaker 1: up Anthony Ferk Sir for this one too. I don't
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna ask if I was gonna hard vark this thing.
Speaker 1: Can you had looked? I don't have a great art
Speaker 1: park this week. If John who is your If John
Speaker 1: John John is your art park, please please go right ahead?
Speaker 1: Would you like to? I don't know that John U
Speaker 1: John Wu has an ardvark here, but I'm giving him
Speaker 1: an A grade. Derrick Henry I have on the bench. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding that. It's clear clear a grade. The
Speaker 1: Begels could be the eighty five Bears right now, and
Speaker 1: I'm probably still starting Derrick Henry. Uh enhanced. They're not
Speaker 1: that good. They've allowed the fourth most rushing yard story
Speaker 1: backs uh Tannehill also in a grade. I like the
Speaker 1: Titans a lot this week. Sixteen touchdowns in six games,
Speaker 1: and the one game he didn't throw multiple touchdowns, he
Speaker 1: threw one yards. On the other side, the Bengals have
Speaker 1: allowed multiple touchdowns every game since Week one, where to
Speaker 1: Rod Taylor wasn't able to so okay, Herbert would have
Speaker 1: done it. Sorry, air bear, air bear, that's right, the
Speaker 1: air bear. Hold on. That's good. Oh that's that's a
Speaker 1: lion that's not changeable. No, not I know a lion
Speaker 1: roar year one that was like the MGM lion right there.
Speaker 1: That's more like alright, we'll go with that. That's all right,
Speaker 1: We'll call it a bear. A J. Brown with the
Speaker 1: A grade nearly three yards and four touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, the main man for Tan Hill, and
Speaker 1: I'm giving Corey Davis a courtesy C grade. I'm being
Speaker 1: really nice to him because, uh, the first game back,
Speaker 1: he saw Tan targets in Week one with John Who
Speaker 1: and Brown and both healthy. He got his two that
Speaker 1: week like they were able to coexist. So I think
Speaker 1: there's potential here for him to co exist here. He
Speaker 1: might be the modd Odd man out, but I'm giving
Speaker 1: a C grade. Um the second wide receiver against the
Speaker 1: Bengals this year has consistently been in that seventy yard
Speaker 1: range and many of them score touchdowns. Sodas with it.
Speaker 1: I have this game as just an ultimate shootout. So
Speaker 1: I have a lot of really good grades for the
Speaker 1: Bengals as well. Really yes, well, now let's mention upfront,
Speaker 1: Bengals are going to be without their left their offensive
Speaker 1: line tackle, and their starting center. They actually, I'm worried
Speaker 1: about this. They're actually pulling up two practice squad guys
Speaker 1: to be in reserve for the for the offensive line
Speaker 1: this week. I I I don't know that that offensive
Speaker 1: line is going to spring the Bengals for a lot here.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow has legs, he can move around, and but
Speaker 1: also he's been stacked on hun and twenty seven times
Speaker 1: this year. The line hasn't been that good already. So uh,
Speaker 1: it's more about the this matchup. UM. Burrow leads the
Speaker 1: league in attempts and completions, has five games over three
Speaker 1: hundred yards, trailing Andrew Luck who had six, So he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna break that, gonna smash the working passing record. Um.
Speaker 1: They will play from behind probably in this one. The
Speaker 1: Titans have allowed two fifty plus yards and multiple touchdowns
Speaker 1: to five straight passers. I got that. For Burrow here
Speaker 1: to playing from behind, he's gonna he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: throw a lot That's why I actually have all three
Speaker 1: of their receivers in my top twenty this week. I
Speaker 1: just don't know if he's going to have to have
Speaker 1: enough time to pass effectively. I'm nervous. I'm not. I'm not. Uh,
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd, you're mentioning one of their one of their
Speaker 1: cornerback just went out. Uh, Kurtzner? Maybe not sure? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: The Titans have allowed the third most receptions to wide receivers,
Speaker 1: the fourth most fantasy points. They've given up five wide
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns and just the last two games. Uh and A. J.
Speaker 1: Green's got twenty four targets in the last two. He's
Speaker 1: yet to score, but the targets are there, the efficiency
Speaker 1: starting to come around. Actually have a grades on both
Speaker 1: of them. And I have a B grade on Higgins.
Speaker 1: As I said, I really like him this week's He's
Speaker 1: got four plus catches in five straight, sixty plus in
Speaker 1: four straight. He can get a big play. I have.
Speaker 1: I have great grades on all of them. Geo Bernard
Speaker 1: last one run game, this is this is what tough.
Speaker 1: This is where I would have liked a lot more
Speaker 1: of the offensive line is better. I'm giving him a
Speaker 1: C grade just because his fifteen plus touches are probably
Speaker 1: going to happen. And he's been a double digit fantasy
Speaker 1: guy every time he's been the lead back with with
Speaker 1: mixing out or even back in the back in the
Speaker 1: old day. So um, I'm giving him a courtesy C
Speaker 1: grade on volume. Yeah, I had to. I had a
Speaker 1: B grade on him before the all these injuries the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I had to lower him. Did the Sea
Speaker 1: territory as well for Geo Bernard. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Forts take on the Seahawks. Fascinating matchup in that the
Speaker 1: Niners want to run, but the Seahawks are really good
Speaker 1: against the run. The Seahawks want to pass, but the
Speaker 1: Niners are really good against the pass. Are are they? Oh?
Speaker 1: We'll find out when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Then it's a football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Charchi in my co host or Scott Fish and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 1: The Niners take on the Seahawks. Matt game in that,
Speaker 1: in many ways it's two flawed teams, but it feels
Speaker 1: like what they one team does well, the other team stops.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that these teams are able to
Speaker 1: get in the normal kind of rhythm that they that
Speaker 1: they have been in. Now you love the Niners in
Speaker 1: our take a chance segment, you gave us three different
Speaker 1: four niners as you take a chance of me players,
Speaker 1: And I wanted to mention um some people have said, hey,
Speaker 1: what were the grades on those take a chance on
Speaker 1: me guys? So Jimmy Garoppolo, Jamichael Hasty, and Brandon Auk
Speaker 1: all get B grades as might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me players this week. George Kittle gets an A. Kittle
Speaker 1: has never scored against the Seahawks, but seven for eighty
Speaker 1: six and six for seventy in his last two trips
Speaker 1: to the Emerald City, and it's worth noting that Seattle
Speaker 1: hasn't allowed a touchdown to the tight end this year,
Speaker 1: but with all the injuries to the running backs and
Speaker 1: wide receivers, it's hard to believe that Kiddle won't be
Speaker 1: a focal point in this one, so he's still getting
Speaker 1: an A. Kendrick Born and Trent Taylor on the bench.
Speaker 1: Born has topped four receptions once in his career and
Speaker 1: top seventy five yards exactly zero times in three years.
Speaker 1: Taylor's the slot guy and has had eight targets from
Speaker 1: Jimmy g on the air, sweet matchup. Just can't trust
Speaker 1: the players against this awesome Seattle match up here, Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman and Jerick McKinnon. I'm putting them both on the
Speaker 1: bench after I touted Hasty. I clearly imagine one of
Speaker 1: these two more aculously becoming healthy and getting twenty two touches.
Speaker 1: I think McKinnon's canna have a big workload here because
Speaker 1: he is rested from his weak legs, his tired legs um.
Speaker 1: By the way, Coleman his last game out was Week two.
Speaker 1: It was against the Jets. He had fourteen carries for
Speaker 1: twelve so bad. So he's definitely on the bench. I
Speaker 1: guess I could give Jack McKinnon probably a see if
Speaker 1: it looks like he's healthy and going to be the starter.
Speaker 1: There's no reason to think he's not healthy. It's not
Speaker 1: on the injury report. One is healthy. One of the
Speaker 1: weird things with that Shanahan consistently does even when he's
Speaker 1: got a Jamichael Hasty, Like we saw it with Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson just a couple of weeks ago when he had Hasty,
Speaker 1: he takes the veteran and shoves him back in because
Speaker 1: he trusts the vest Turan. I think McKinnon is the
Speaker 1: sneaky play here. You might be right, um, Russell Wilson chart.
Speaker 1: You alluded to the Niners having a really good secondary
Speaker 1: this year in past defense. Um, but Niners have played
Speaker 1: exactly two good quarterbacks this year. Tell me more, Tyler
Speaker 1: Murray and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Where the two that they played
Speaker 1: that were good? And noticed Stu Beards in there. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that two of the best rushing quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's right. Other than that, I don't think any of
Speaker 1: these guys are particularly good passers. But the list is
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, Carson Wentz, Jared Goff, Cam Newton, and Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: Almost said scam Newton. But but there's some bad passers
Speaker 1: in there. Now. Wentz is a good passer and goffs
Speaker 1: a good pass They're not great, but they're good passers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Berry had so Stubird had three fifty yards
Speaker 1: and three scores. Kyler had to thirty and a score
Speaker 1: through the air and another nine and a score on
Speaker 1: the ground. And by the way, Russell Wilson built a
Speaker 1: lot more like Kyler than some of these other quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: so he could get going. I got Russell Wilson as
Speaker 1: a solid A grade, and I'm giving A grades to
Speaker 1: both Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf. In those two games
Speaker 1: against good quarterbacks. The wide receivers did well to DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins had fourteen catches for a hundred and fifty one.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams had four catch is for one oh six
Speaker 1: in a score. Davante Parker even at fifty yards in
Speaker 1: a score in that game. So I think that they're
Speaker 1: both sitting on a grades. And now the running back position, boy,
Speaker 1: this is a mess. Game time decisions for Chris Carson,
Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde, and Travis Homer all questionable with various injuries.
Speaker 1: It's been flipping back and forth, who's the most healthy,
Speaker 1: who's the least healthy. And by the way, late afternoon start,
Speaker 1: so you're you're probably not gonna have answers for this
Speaker 1: when the early games kick off. I think that you're
Speaker 1: benching everybody, including rookie DJ Dallas, who is the only
Speaker 1: healthy guy on the depth chart. Right now, the Niners
Speaker 1: have allowed the fewest fantasy points to opposing running backs
Speaker 1: on the air, and if one of the above injured
Speaker 1: guys is active, it totally takes out the timeshare angle
Speaker 1: with DJ Dallas, so they're all on the back. I
Speaker 1: think that's the safe play, giving what we don't know
Speaker 1: going into that game. Vikings take on the Packers and
Speaker 1: this is going to be in all probability of one
Speaker 1: sided affair with a battered Vikings de fence. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the Vikings offense though, and Dalvin Cook, who does
Speaker 1: get an A grade. Packers are allowing one hundred fifty
Speaker 1: eight totally yards and one point four touchdowns. That is
Speaker 1: the fourth most and the second most respectively to opposing
Speaker 1: running backs on a per game basis, and that's I
Speaker 1: think the Vikings you're gonna try to run for as
Speaker 1: long as they can and keep Aaron Jones off the field.
Speaker 1: They want to replicate the game they had against Seattle. Well, sorry, Rodgers, Rodgers,
Speaker 1: I was trying to say, Aaron Rodgers, um, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: Feel you feel free to interrupt anyway, It's okay. I
Speaker 1: don't mind keep ball Packers off the field. Cook is uh.
Speaker 1: Cook has had great luck against the Packers, averaging one
Speaker 1: hundred thirty five total yards and one point three touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game against the Packers. Again, what I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: trying to replicate exactly what they did to Seattle, although
Speaker 1: in a losing effort a few weeks ago where they
Speaker 1: kept Russell Wilson off the field by just running the
Speaker 1: whole game and eating up the clock. That's their only
Speaker 1: real way to victory here. So I think I think
Speaker 1: we'll see plenty of Dalvin Cook. The other A grade
Speaker 1: is Justin Jefferson. See if you can follow me on this,
Speaker 1: Packers have got one elite cornerback j or Alexander. He
Speaker 1: shadows the opposing number one. I believe that will be
Speaker 1: Adam Feeland will be the number one because Theland has
Speaker 1: roasted this Packers team in the past really several years,
Speaker 1: So I believe that that will be the case. And
Speaker 1: that puts Justin Jefferson on far inferior coverage with Josh Jackson,
Speaker 1: who ranks his quarterback seventy three by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: So Justin Jefferson I think potentially sitting a very good game.
Speaker 1: He ranks, by the way number one by Byroball Focus
Speaker 1: among all receivers, not just rookies, all receivers. Also, if
Speaker 1: it does become a really windy game, Justin Jefferson's averaged
Speaker 1: up of the target is much less than Adams, all right,
Speaker 1: so that might be safer as well. I might have
Speaker 1: more routes that are shorter the line of scrimmage. Theland
Speaker 1: drops to a B level here again, the gayer Alexander's
Speaker 1: shadow coverage is part of why. Although he battled him
Speaker 1: gamely in the opener, and he scored twice and put
Speaker 1: up a hundred ten yards, and so he can beat
Speaker 1: JayR Alexander. He's proven it already. But over the past
Speaker 1: three games, Alexander is held Will Fuller, Mike Evans, and
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, three other very good receivers to under fifty yards.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins was might take a chance on me quarterback.
Speaker 1: You heard that earlier in the show. He is a
Speaker 1: C grade. Now let's go to the Packers side. The
Speaker 1: Vikings are going to be without their number one, number two,
Speaker 1: and number four cornerbacks. Like cornerbacks they're gonna put on
Speaker 1: the field as starters. Matt Harrison, Matt Harrison, Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: hand the three guys that they will start. Gladne hand
Speaker 1: In fields have a combined six NFL starts against Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Davante Adams, who are obvious a's there's something
Speaker 1: better than an A, But yes there is there. There's
Speaker 1: the fantasy arc Vark, the double a double art Vark.
Speaker 1: If there's ever a time for the double a ard Vark,
Speaker 1: it's the double Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams, who's got
Speaker 1: two ways in Adams as well. Ye, yes, so we'll
Speaker 1: go with that. Staying with the passing game, Marques Velde
Speaker 1: Scantling is a C grade. Here is a bit of
Speaker 1: a dart throw. The Vikings are allowing the most touchdowns
Speaker 1: and fourth most yards to opposing whiteouts, and Velde Scanty
Speaker 1: had an explosive game against the Vikings and the opener.
Speaker 1: But I'll mention this, He's done basically nothing else all year.
Speaker 1: So total dart throw on Marques Velde Scantling. But you'll
Speaker 1: never get a better matchup than this. He had a
Speaker 1: good matchup last week and didn't do anything either, so
Speaker 1: there's a lot several good matchups. He played Atlanta, did nothing,
Speaker 1: a lot of good, a lot of risk. Robert Tonyan
Speaker 1: is a Tonyan, thank you, that's right. Rou is a
Speaker 1: C grade after not allowing a touchdown to tight ends
Speaker 1: through the first four weeks. The Vikings have allowed a
Speaker 1: touchdown in their previous two games, and he is a
Speaker 1: touchdown dependent player, so I think you got a crack
Speaker 1: at a touchdown here. Vikings are also going to be
Speaker 1: short one of their linebackers as well due to COVID,
Speaker 1: and last lastly, actually second to lastly, going to the
Speaker 1: running game, Jamal Williams a grade with Aaron Jones out.
Speaker 1: Williams got of the snaps last week without Jones and
Speaker 1: he's been over and three straight weeks. Anyway, Vikings are
Speaker 1: middle of the pack run defense, giving up four yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Game script will work in williams favor here
Speaker 1: as the Vikings figure to be trailing throughout much of
Speaker 1: this game. And I'll note though that the Vikings have
Speaker 1: held their last three starting running backs to an average
Speaker 1: of just fifty four yards per games, so the run
Speaker 1: defense has been okay lately. But man, I just it
Speaker 1: feels like the run defense also had unique and go
Speaker 1: way on it it did, which that doesn't anymore. Hey,
Speaker 1: One of the thing to mention in this windy game
Speaker 1: with the conditions could be an issue and you'll want
Speaker 1: to check it before kickoff. Mason Crosby, their kicker for
Speaker 1: the backers, probably not going to play his games, so um,
Speaker 1: you may need to be searching for an emergency kicker
Speaker 1: if you have Mason Crosby. Let's start work in one
Speaker 1: more matchup, and that is Scott the Patriots taking on
Speaker 1: the Bills. I think we've reached a point where you
Speaker 1: can't start. Aren't any Patriots? No more? Not at all?
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's where we are. Yeah. Edelman's out,
Speaker 1: Harry's out. The running backs are mess. The Bills are
Speaker 1: tough against everything. The Bills have allowed several multi touchdown games,
Speaker 1: but Cam has just three passing touchdowns. Unbelievable in his
Speaker 1: five starts. That's fewer touchdowns than Tom Brady had last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's insane. In the last four weeks, of different wide
Speaker 1: receivers lead the team and targets every week and only
Speaker 1: once this season is a new England wide receiver topped
Speaker 1: eighty yards. Yeah, they're on the bench, the terrible on
Speaker 1: the other side. By the way, we should me to
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman out, Yeah, edlemen and maybe out for a
Speaker 1: long time. And some people think it's a career ender
Speaker 1: for him. We'll see. Yeah, he's yeah, he's at that point.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I give Alan a B grade.
Speaker 1: He still has that super safe floor due to his
Speaker 1: rushing had seventeen rush attempts in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: which we mentioned earlier last week. He only is the
Speaker 1: only week he failed to have multiple touchdowns. The Pats
Speaker 1: held down Lock and grapplone fits but gave Oka days
Speaker 1: to har Mahomes Wilson. Allen is far closer to those
Speaker 1: other three who had multiple touchdowns, So I gotta be
Speaker 1: grade over on Allen. Now into now into the passing game,
Speaker 1: John Brown has practiced fully. He's gonna play, which messes
Speaker 1: up stuff a little bit. Uh. If I told you
Speaker 1: that Beasley Cole Beasley was wide receiver nine team on
Speaker 1: the season before the season, he's He's what people thought
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster was gonna be. I think you're right
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, basically Beasley and Crowder are what you
Speaker 1: hoped for Jujuic Smith Schuster. I believe that comparison happened
Speaker 1: last week. Oh man, Uh tells I listened. No, Actually
Speaker 1: I just didn't. I didn't remember it. Uh, twenty five
Speaker 1: targets in the last three games. There may be a
Speaker 1: case here. If Gilmore does play, he'd be on Digs
Speaker 1: and Beasley would have the better matchup. If Gilmore doesn't plays,
Speaker 1: they all get better matchups. I have a C grade
Speaker 1: on Beasley if Gilmore doesn't play. I think I'm moving
Speaker 1: it to a B and a B on Diggs as well,
Speaker 1: because with no Gilmore, Diggs is gonna get his targets.
Speaker 1: He's got at least six catches in all but one game. Uh,
Speaker 1: John Brown, I'm giving a C grade two bit it's
Speaker 1: hard to trust him. He's gone out of one game,
Speaker 1: he's missed three other games. When he's played the full game,
Speaker 1: he's like a seventy seventy eight yards and a touchdown guy,
Speaker 1: and he's practiced fully. So I'm definitely I'm definitely going
Speaker 1: to give him a starting grade. But it's it's always
Speaker 1: a little bit of a risk um with the running backs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh Zack Moss, excuse me, Zack Moss. Bills are
Speaker 1: passing over sixty of the time and when they run
Speaker 1: it a lot of it's with Josh Allen mosson Singletary
Speaker 1: are splitting touches down the middle. If I have to
Speaker 1: start one, it's Moss. I'm giving him a courtesy C grade.
Speaker 1: Courtesy just because I'm in the room with Charge and
Speaker 1: he's gonna get mad and fired me. Singletary staff percentage
Speaker 1: is dropped three weeks in a row, so if us
Speaker 1: gets more work. Singletary has been bad, I'll get' get
Speaker 1: I'll give him Moss the C grade just so I
Speaker 1: don't get fired. It's worth it. Um One quick note
Speaker 1: while we while we wrap up this segment about Cam
Speaker 1: Newton and how bad he's been, I was trying to
Speaker 1: find a comparable for his passing this year. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find any active quarterback who's as bad as Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: so I had to go really into the depths. Do
Speaker 1: you guys remember Ja Marcus Purple Drank Russell. Yeah, Cam
Speaker 1: is throwing fewer touchdowns and more interceptions than Jam Marcus
Speaker 1: Russell did in his career on a per game basis.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it is for Cam Newton right now. Terrible.
Speaker 1: When we come back. Premature speculation. Three players you can
Speaker 1: pick up now that everybody else is going to want
Speaker 1: to pick up next week, but they're already on your team.
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Speaker 1: segment in which we give you a player that you're
Speaker 1: going to want to pick up now because everybody else
Speaker 1: is going to try to pick up this player next week. Scott,
Speaker 1: who is your premature speculation player? I'm going Jalen here.
Speaker 1: I think it's finally time. Deshan Jackson is out for
Speaker 1: a while. Uh, it's it's been guys like Fulham and
Speaker 1: Ward playing Earth's is still out. He had ninety six
Speaker 1: yards in his first two weeks playing with a torn labor.
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's finally he's finally back. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fourteen different receivers have top two hundred yards are scored.
Speaker 1: He might actually show up this week, but Jalen Reagor
Speaker 1: get him first round pick man. I've got another rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver who's been injured. Michael Pittman returned to practice
Speaker 1: this week, which means the Colts have twenty one days
Speaker 1: to either activate him or put him on i R
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. And they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: him practice if they weren't thinking about activating him. Let's
Speaker 1: say he sits this week, and let's even say he
Speaker 1: sits next week against Baltimore, that's fine. After that, he
Speaker 1: gets Tennessee, Green Bay, Tennessee again, Houston Vegas, then Houston again.
Speaker 1: Those are really really good runs that everyone but the
Speaker 1: Packers are bottom six in the league against wide receivers.
Speaker 1: You couldn't ask for a better schedule for Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: to come back and take over as wide receiver one
Speaker 1: in India. He really is. It's not t Y Hilton anymore, right,
Speaker 1: that is a job right for the taking. And so
Speaker 1: many other receivers, rookie receivers blossomed right around week four,
Speaker 1: week five. For him, that's just coming up now because
Speaker 1: of the time he missed well, and Pittman was starting
Speaker 1: to as well the right right when he got hurt.
Speaker 1: My premature speculation player is Dallas Goddard currently available and
Speaker 1: half of leagues people just dropped him forgot about Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: He may end up playing as fast as this Sunday.
Speaker 1: And if he does, what a fantastic spot he walks into.
Speaker 1: I'll remind you in the two healthy games he had
Speaker 1: at the start of the season nine targets and eight targets,
Speaker 1: and that was when zach Ertz was on the field.
Speaker 1: Now zach Ertz out at least a month and probably more.
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard is going to become the go to receiver
Speaker 1: in this offense, and it could happen as fast as
Speaker 1: this weekend. You'll want to pick him up. He could
Speaker 1: finish out the season as one of the five highest
Speaker 1: scoring tight ends. Wouldn't be surprised. Bonus prespect Ellen Lazard
Speaker 1: started practice. He's available in thirty in sixty seven percent
Speaker 1: of leagues. I like it, a man. Do they need
Speaker 1: a second target to throw too? There? All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some matchups, including the Cowboys taking on
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Matt. There's just it's sad how little there
Speaker 1: is to talk about with the Cowboys anymore. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty bad. I'm giving Ezekiel Elliott a B, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of a generous B. I guess if it were
Speaker 1: like a Valentine on the front, they would say, be mine,
Speaker 1: us us, mind us. See what didn't trick me into
Speaker 1: giving him? Has topped? Good? Good job. Scott Zeke has
Speaker 1: stopped a hundred yards and four of his last five
Speaker 1: games against the Eagles, but the one he didn't was
Speaker 1: the most recent game and he only notched forty seven
Speaker 1: yards on thirteen attempts. And we've got Bendnucci likely starting,
Speaker 1: So the Eagles defense is just going to stack the
Speaker 1: box against the Cowboys. They were already allowing the fewest
Speaker 1: yards per carrying the league at three point three. So
Speaker 1: it's closer to a see I think than even a
Speaker 1: b here uh passing game. Andy Dalton still doubtful with
Speaker 1: that nasty concussion. So Ben DiNucci time in college, he
Speaker 1: had six touchdown passes and seven interceptions, starting for a
Speaker 1: full year. How do you go through a college schedule
Speaker 1: and throw six touchdowns? How do you watch? How do
Speaker 1: you put up those stats and get on an NFL roster.
Speaker 1: How does that happen? On the bright side, he did
Speaker 1: complete sixty of his passes last week. That's two of three. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Eagles defense is pretty good, though decently healthy considering
Speaker 1: it's the Eagles and the pass rushes legit. Add that
Speaker 1: and with a messed up OH line, and I think
Speaker 1: you have the entire passing game on the bench, including
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, who will draw Darius Slay who's been excellent
Speaker 1: this year, Ceedee Lamb and Michael Gallup. Can only hope
Speaker 1: Ben de Nucci has two seconds to throw and he
Speaker 1: won't have that. Dalton Schultz also on the bench. And
Speaker 1: then let's go to the Eagles Boston. Scott was chartes
Speaker 1: take a chance on me, so was Greg Ward car
Speaker 1: and Wentz was fishes to take a chance on me
Speaker 1: doing your work for you. Really, thank you, guys. And
Speaker 1: then you guys talked about Jalen Reagor and Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: I'm a place, he's an a I think by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm giving Scott and Wentz each a's and Ward
Speaker 1: a b oh he gave me a. Miles Sanders still
Speaker 1: not expected to play neither as alshon Jeffrey, and their
Speaker 1: bye week is next week, so if the Eagles wanted
Speaker 1: to hold them out one more week against the depleted
Speaker 1: Dallas team, this would probably be a week to give
Speaker 1: them all an extra game of rest. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can start reagor or got it because
Speaker 1: it's a Sunday night game, so I don't think that
Speaker 1: you can start either of them. So I am going
Speaker 1: to give Travis fulgum in a grade, especially if Regor sits.
Speaker 1: It's a B. If Regor comes back. Seven different perimeter
Speaker 1: wide receivers have topped eighty yards against the Cowboys this year.
Speaker 1: Five of those scored as well. Last guy, I'll mention
Speaker 1: Richard Rogers. He gets a B, especially if he's the
Speaker 1: only tight end of town or doesn't go shot or
Speaker 1: doesn't go yeah. If he he probably gets down graded
Speaker 1: to A. See Rogers played in eight of the snaps
Speaker 1: last week at six catches for eighty five yards. The
Speaker 1: Eagles throw to their tight ends no matter who it is,
Speaker 1: so I think that Richard Rodgers isn't play both ways.
Speaker 1: Saints take on the Bears, and let's start on the
Speaker 1: Saint side. Alvin Camara is an obviously, although I mentioned
Speaker 1: the Bears defense has been good, not great, but they've
Speaker 1: been good against runners all year long. But you're starting Camara,
Speaker 1: who's probably got the highest floor of any running back
Speaker 1: in the league. How about Latavius Murray? You might be
Speaker 1: asking C grade here, Um, it's maybe a bye week
Speaker 1: starting this about bye week? See grade Camara doesn't leave
Speaker 1: much on the table for Murray, but you know, you
Speaker 1: get ten touches, you get fifty total yards, and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you get lucky with a touchdown. UM. Although four
Speaker 1: different backup runners have scored against the Bears, so he's
Speaker 1: got a chance. So CE grade for Latavias Murray. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the passing game. UM blots to not like here,
Speaker 1: So Marquez Callaway out, Michael Thomas out, Emmanuel Sanders out.
Speaker 1: So Drew Brees falls to a bench grade. Chicago is
Speaker 1: allowing less than one touchdown pass per game, and I
Speaker 1: just don't think you can dump off enough balls to
Speaker 1: Alvin Knara to get to a good final number for
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, so he's on the bench. Jared Cook gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. The Bears have been around the league
Speaker 1: average against tight ends in most categories, but They've allowed
Speaker 1: a tight end to put up at least fifty yards
Speaker 1: on five occasions. And Cook's recent outings have largely been
Speaker 1: supported by touchdowns, and the Bears have only given up
Speaker 1: one tight end score of the last three weeks. And
Speaker 1: I don't know he'll get a few extra passes his way.
Speaker 1: Just to see grade for Jared Cook, C grade for
Speaker 1: Tray Kwan Smith. Just super spotty production for him, even
Speaker 1: with all these players out. I don't know the automatically
Speaker 1: get does well here he runs from the slot. Primarily
Speaker 1: he'll match up against Buster Screen, who is allowing thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards and zero point two touchdowns per game in
Speaker 1: his coverage. Those aren't great numbers. And just to C
Speaker 1: grade for take Trey Kwan Smith, Deante Harris, it will Is,
Speaker 1: it's on the bench. I'm not even gonna I'm not
Speaker 1: even I'm not gonna laborate on Deante Harris. You've said
Speaker 1: too much. I already have. Let's go to Chicago. Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson is trying to clear the concussion protocol, so he
Speaker 1: does I don't think he does either, But if he
Speaker 1: surprises us and plays, it's an incredibly juicy matchup against
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore, who has devolved into one of the worst
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the NFL, allowing a near perfect passer rating
Speaker 1: of one fifty six in his coverage. So if Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson goes, definitely start him. If he doesn't go, then
Speaker 1: there's no part of the receiving group that I think
Speaker 1: you want, no receivers that you'll want to play. Well
Speaker 1: you do, you want to play him either way. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham gets a C grade. He might not need a
Speaker 1: touchdown to this week, as the Saints are allowing the
Speaker 1: third most receptions per game and fifth most yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing tight ends, and they've allowed the third
Speaker 1: most touchdowns. So if you're kind of a tight end
Speaker 1: dependent player like Jimmy Graham, I think one way or
Speaker 1: another he could be okay here and a C grade
Speaker 1: on him. David Montgomery just a C grade. He hasn't
Speaker 1: topped three point four yards per carry in any of
Speaker 1: the last five games, including that juicy matchup with Carolina
Speaker 1: that he just blew. It'll be um, It'll be tough
Speaker 1: sledding against New Orleans Saints, allowing the eighth fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards seventh fewest receiving yards per game to opposing running backs,
Speaker 1: and I'll mention his starting center, Cody white Hair, has
Speaker 1: been ruled out of this game. So really, I think
Speaker 1: if we're not a bye week, i'd be just saying
Speaker 1: bench grade on David Montgomery, but relative to everybody else,
Speaker 1: it's just a C grade here. Let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup, and that's Scott Fish with the Bucks taking
Speaker 1: on the Giants. The Bucks offense has been electrifying lately
Speaker 1: and that, but the Giants defense is much improved. Not
Speaker 1: it is, but it's much improved. Let's hear what you
Speaker 1: like about the Bucks. Yeah, the Brady's leading a second
Speaker 1: the NFL in passingdown and he's the NFL leading passing
Speaker 1: touch passing touchdown leader, topping Drew Brees just last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not bad, not bad so, and he's been doing in
Speaker 1: it with guys like Scotty Miller and Tyler Johnson stepping up.
Speaker 1: That whole next man up attitude has come from New
Speaker 1: England all the way over. The Giants have been top
Speaker 1: third against quarterbacks, though top twelve, so Tavia bay Uh's
Speaker 1: likely to go a little more bounced in this one.
Speaker 1: My theory on this game is that the Giants offense
Speaker 1: won't be able to do anything in the Bucks defense
Speaker 1: will be able to hold them down, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: run a ton more. So I'm only giving Brady the
Speaker 1: B grade on this one, even though he's been so
Speaker 1: lights out lately. I'm giving Scotty Miller the B grade
Speaker 1: as well. Has at least five targets in four of
Speaker 1: the six games, and when he gets five targets, he's
Speaker 1: been a lock for seventy plus yards. In fact, he
Speaker 1: reached seventy plus yards in all but one of his
Speaker 1: career games that he had five targets. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: think seventy yards are in store. I should mention Godwin's
Speaker 1: out if I didn't. That's that's probably why I'm giving
Speaker 1: Miller the B here. Tyler Johnson's on the bench. He's
Speaker 1: scored in two straight, but he's talented. Just eleven yards
Speaker 1: on three targets and you need the touchdown, But so
Speaker 1: I'm putting him on the bench. Given Mike Evans the
Speaker 1: B grade, it might be a squeaky wheel against the
Speaker 1: cheese grease. We did that last year too, that same
Speaker 1: exact thing someone else did that My car seems to
Speaker 1: be squeaking. Give it some cheese. Yeah, exactly. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: still got the ankle. James Bradberry has blanketed Evans in
Speaker 1: the past, but that was with the Panthers. This is
Speaker 1: a new team, new defensive schemes, new quarterback, and about
Speaker 1: a hundred other differences. I still feel safe putting Evans in,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna need to produce with godwinel B grade,
Speaker 1: there be grade on Gronk. He's finally coming on with
Speaker 1: twenty two targets in the last three games over fifty
Speaker 1: yards and each scoring twice. He's actually got six red
Speaker 1: zone targets in the last three games. That's more than
Speaker 1: almost the entire receiving corps combined. For the box. He's
Speaker 1: getting those looks. And the Giants they're great against tight
Speaker 1: ends except for the fact they've faced one top twenty
Speaker 1: ranked tight end and that was Dalton Schultz, so they
Speaker 1: haven't not been test it at all. B grade for
Speaker 1: Gronk running game non PPR, you're going Jones PPR, you're
Speaker 1: going four day. Could I say that B grades for
Speaker 1: B grades for both, but for actually I have a
Speaker 1: B minus for Jones and the C plus. Yeah, B
Speaker 1: minus for Jones and C plus for okay, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: B for Jones, C for four Net, But I like
Speaker 1: for net a little bit more in PPR. Jones is
Speaker 1: the starter. He's running hard the Giants. T is no pushover.
Speaker 1: They've done well holding backs down. The reason I like
Speaker 1: for Net more in PPRS last week when Jones dropped
Speaker 1: the ball, for Nett played most of the fourth after
Speaker 1: after that drop, and for net is the past catching
Speaker 1: back there. It's weird to say, but he is. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Daniel Jones Porson quarterbacks are averaging two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three yards against the Bucks and they've
Speaker 1: only given up nine touchdowns in seven games. Yeah, nine
Speaker 1: times and justin justin air bear, justin, justin. I can
Speaker 1: tell you have kids, You've got you've got the roar.
Speaker 1: When is a third of ye, it's pretty easy. You
Speaker 1: just have Daniel Jones on the bench. I'm giving both
Speaker 1: Shepherd and Slayton Sea grades since week to only two
Speaker 1: wide receivers of top seventy five yards against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: It took Allen Robinson sixteen targets to get there. It
Speaker 1: took Nelson Agilar eight or nine. Excuse me, Davante Adam
Speaker 1: was with ten targets, only got like sixty six yards.
Speaker 1: How are you giving them seas? Then here we go.
Speaker 1: Shepherd is the safe play because he's got six catches
Speaker 1: in two of his last three games. And this this
Speaker 1: is a fun stat here, Uh, Shepherd has at least
Speaker 1: six targets in eighteen straight games. He gets peppered, he
Speaker 1: gets just enough. So I think he's the safe guy
Speaker 1: that you're gonna get sea level production. For Darius Slayton,
Speaker 1: I'm giving the se grade too, because they've given up
Speaker 1: four or five playce of over forty yards. You might
Speaker 1: remember Justin Herbert had two long fifty plus yard bombs.
Speaker 1: Justin who air bear. If we just s grade on
Speaker 1: Ingram almost very hesitant there. I expect a three for
Speaker 1: thirty three for forty type game. And the running backs
Speaker 1: around the bench, they're just terrible. Even Freeman's healthy, who
Speaker 1: cares final moments of the show, Davante se Man, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give him a ce um when Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey has been healthy in the past, Matt he's been
Speaker 1: a nine percent of the of the workload guy. But
Speaker 1: Mike Davis has been so good. What is a reasonable
Speaker 1: expectation for Christian McCaffrey and his owners as he's expected
Speaker 1: to come back next week? Well, has Mike Davis been
Speaker 1: The last couple of games are dudish fire for Davis? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he he hasn't put up great rushing numbers. Uh, had
Speaker 1: a couple of games where he's averaging over five yards
Speaker 1: per carry, but a couple in there one point seven,
Speaker 1: three point five wasn't good. And Christian McCaffrey's you know,
Speaker 1: he's just an otherworldly talent. I don't think that it's
Speaker 1: gonna knock too many touches off of his docket. Maybe
Speaker 1: a few, maybe one or two and that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the goal I once to annoy it, right, wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be horrible Christian McCaffrey owners that have languaged through
Speaker 1: this and then he doesn't get the ball to stripe.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if Carolina worked in more to
Speaker 1: running back sets though, with with two good pass catching
Speaker 1: running backs, maybe it'll go that way and we'll find out.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm pretty optimistic that it's going to be
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