WEBVTT - FFW Week 16 (Fantasy Championships) 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:08.719 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan, presented 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.520 by green Belt Premium and Devanny's, your weekly source for 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:19.880 the nation's best fantasy football speculation and advice. Fantasy Football 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:25.160 Weekly is brought to you by fanball dot Com, town 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:31.520 Hall Family, Breeder, Twin Cities, Honda Dealers, Shoe Sensors, Hudson 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:37.840 Ford and by Park Tavern now Wow, along with fanball 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:43.920 dot Com, Scott Fish, Matt Harrison, and Brian Johnson. Here's 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:49.400 the fans. Paul Charchi in welcome you a championship edition 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.680 of Fantasy Football Weekly. If you are listening now, it 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.520 means you are two of ten, or two of twelve, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.800 or two of fourteen or two of twenty people left 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.880 in your league. Congratulate you think there's nobody listening that 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.600 is out, No, because you because you're better, and you 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.479 give up although you could play daily fantish or you're 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.600 playing fall that works. Yes, maybe they're just last two weeks, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:13.960 last two weeks. Don't Are we doing the auction game 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.120 into the playoffs? I believe so, I think A right, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.160 we wouldn't. Yeah, I hope so. Uh, you want to 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.080 get the auction game in while you can, though it 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.560 runs through the NFL season, So you want to do that? Uh. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.039 My co host today Brian Johnson, Scott Fish, Good morning, morning, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.640 Merry Christmas. Let's put a bow on this baby. Yeah, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.720 let's unwrap some championship gifts. So let's unwrap some hardware 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.759 for our listeners Championship week. You know who won't be, uh, 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:45.040 who won't be helping out our fantasy owners, Todd Gurley. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.800 It's he might, but he might not, and you're not 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.680 gonna know. And here's the the really bad part with 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.400 Gurley is it's a late game start, late afternoon starts. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.520 So now the problem is for to put this in 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.920 Central time uh time zone, You're gonna have to make 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.880 decisions by twelve o'clock noon, not knowing in all probability 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.200 if Todd Gurley is going to play against the worst 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:14.080 run defense in the NFL. And that magnet that that 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.239 all gets magnified by the fact that there's not a 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.880 lot of clarity behind Todd Gurley where the team has 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.520 been I think trying to mask their true plans for 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.240 what they what they want to do if Todd Gurley 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.799 can't go. So let's start the show, and we've got 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.799 sixteen matchups to do it. There's no Thursday game. We 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.400 gotta get through every matchup. We gotta take calls, Ben, Chris, Matt, Tommy, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.359 Ellie and Greg. We already have got full phone money. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.079 We have a lot to get to. But let's talk 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.320 about Girly because this is so important to so many people. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.200 I believe if you have another viable starter in the 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:51.040 noon games, you can't start Girly obviously. If you've got 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.000 a viable start in a later game, then you can 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.880 wait and find out if Gurley's in or not. And 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.720 if you do, put Girley in your flex, not in 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.839 your running backs. Yeah, very great, it's a great point. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.360 Put him in your flex. You could x in a 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.600 wide receiver if you needed to, So don't be a 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:10.079 end warm. Yes, even if doesn't play, he's probably better 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.440 than most head ends here. Well that is that that 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.640 might be true. The tight end landscape is so bad. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.120 So you guys with me that, given what we know 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.720 right now Saturday morning, and I don't think we're gonna 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.320 know anymore because I think they're playing coy, you can't 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.200 start Todd Todd Gurley based on on on what it 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.000 looks like right now. If you have another quasi startable 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.200 player like somebody and maybe my top thirty of my 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.519 rankings on fanball. You with me on this, absolutely, okay, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.520 all right, so let's play it one step deeper. Now 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.640 you are a John Kelly owner and you've got to 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.360 make a decision. You've got to make another similar decision. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.800 Do you try John Kelly? Now? I think this is 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.400 I think this is a far more difficult decision. Here's why. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.360 Even if Gurley goes, Kelly's still going to have a role. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:04.600 Eight different back up runners had Fantasy significant games backups 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.000 against the Cardinals because they're so bad against the run. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.520 Kelly has a degree of safety that you don't have 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:15.320 with Todd Gurley. What do you guys do about John Kelly. Well, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.520 we're gonna get into this matchup later, of course. But 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.960 c J. Anderson is a thing now, and they say 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.960 they want to give him a look, get him up 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.680 to speed on the plays one of the playoffs. I 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.840 don't know, but I think Kelly, you can start with confidence, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.599 at least at the flexi level. John Kelly got every 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.680 first team snap this week pretty much. Yes, so c J. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:38.279 Anderson has been on the team for five days, Illuzzes 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.560 on Kelly, you know, two different teams this year on 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.240 his third team. Who does when the past It's one 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.799 thing to teach him a handful of plays for running. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.240 He can't be on the field on passing plays very 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.520 much at all, even though he's a decent pass blocker. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.920 He can't know all the You can't know all the assignments. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.400 You can't know all the blitz pickups when you've been 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.840 on the team for four days. That stuff is out. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.000 I am not listening to the c J. Anderson steam. Yeah, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.800 I'm only on Kelly. I'm not going to argue that 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.440 at all. All right, good, let's move on to the 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.640 matchups because we have so much to get to. We 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:15.039 begin with Cincinnati taking on the Cleveland Brown Scott It's 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.640 Joe Mixon has been fantastic, but I don't and but 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.680 Tyler Boyd is out, and I'm worried that the whole 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.320 defensive game plan for Cleveland, who just shut down Philip 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.760 lindsay it's going to be to stop Joe Mixon and 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.680 win the game. That that could be true. I mean, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.360 this is a game where both Mixing and Chubb had 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.080 a hunt and twenty plus total yards each then the 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.560 last time they played, which is pretty rare for both 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.520 running backs to have great games. But honestly, I don't 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.600 like anything in the passing game here. I just don't 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.360 with boyd out Ross is your little dart throw thing. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.160 I don't even think he can get it done. Uh Uzoma. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.240 He had thirteen targets against the Browns a few weeks ago, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.840 and the Browns ever allowed double digit fantasy days to 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.680 Jared Coke, O j Howard, Travis Kelsey, Austin Hooper, Jordan 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.960 Thomas into a bunch of players. So I gave it 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.159 Uzoma just like a kind of a C grade. I 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.919 don't even like it. But in the tonight end landscape nowadays, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.800 yeah you might have to, and it's an okay matchup 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.760 for him, But I'm not starting Drisk, I'm not starting 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.120 the wide receivers, and I know what you said about mixing. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.200 I'm still giving him an A grade here because he's 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.839 averaging over thirty touches a game over the last two 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.000 and he's going to need that this week for them 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.280 to have, so at that kind of volume, I'm giving 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.680 him an A grade. All four running backs with at 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.880 least twenty touches against the Browns hundred fifteen plus total 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.400 yards and three of those four were over a hundred 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.400 fifty total yards. So I I still have an A 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.240 grade on mixing. I think I have in my top 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.839 six or seven running backs this week. I'm I'm more 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.360 nervous about mixing than you are. But we'll we'll find out. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.760 And he's been great. Yeah, I'm curious where you haven't 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.159 ranked now, But let's let's go to the Browns while 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:51.080 you okay uh on the brown outside. Mayfield gets his 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.760 second revenge game against Hugh Jackson. If you remember a 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.480 few weeks ago, he had two hundred and fifty yards 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.000 and four touchdowns. Since then, his numbers have dropped a 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.280 little little in the Bengals held down Keenum and rivers 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.000 and cars, so that expectations should be a little tempered, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.120 but he does have multiple touchdowns in six of the 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.800 last eight. I gave kind of a week B grade 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.040 here to Baker Mayfield, but I don't love Landry or callaway. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.680 Landry is so boom or bust right now. He felt 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.320 a hundred day up with a fifty plus day and 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.360 then a thirty seven yard game, and since who Hugh left. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.440 He's been all over the map. Really, Uh. I have 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.920 a bench grade on Landry, believe it or not, a 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.160 bench grade on Callaway as well. And I like Gallowey, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.520 do you man, he's so inconsistent Goose Just two weeks 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.280 ago he had a Goose. That's he's he's he's a 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.640 Antonio Callaway is a boom or bust, all or nothing guy. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.200 And it feels like against Cincinnati, this could this could be. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:48.840 And by the way, he's fresh off a career high 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.640 five catch performance last week, right, so you know he's 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.440 trending short term, trending one game short term, that's right. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.120 I like him as I like him. It's a dark 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.160 dark and I like is what's this fan ball price? 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:05.040 Antonio Callaway? Thank you? Maybe I just don't have the 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.080 cojones to drop him into my championship game line. His 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.400 price is uh, David and Joeku. I have a C 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.760 grade on because I think he's going to do better 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.480 than that, and every time I give him a higher grade, 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.200 he does nothing. So he had five or sixty three 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.880 and a touchdown last time against Cincinnati, and that if 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.440 you remember that sweet crowd surfey and touchdown. He had 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.880 basically in that game. The Bengals of a lot of 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.200 five tight end touchdowns in the last eight weeks and 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.520 over sixty yards to tight ends in five of those 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.559 eight games. I actually like him better than to see, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.160 but I'm given to see just because I think he'll 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.080 do better and I want to be scored in that 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.920 game too. And Nick Chubb, I want to say it's 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.840 just an obvious a but maybe he's not to some. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.880 But hundred twenty eight and two touchdowns last time. Since 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.199 Hyde left, he's averaging a hundred four total yards per game, 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.240 and he scored eight touchdowns in those eight games. He's 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.920 just an every week start now, So a grade on Chubb. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.199 I love Nick Chubbs my number three running back this week. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.880 That's three. We're talking on the earlier show. That's about 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.520 where I have him. He's gonna go off. He's sitting 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.200 on a monster game, Nick Child. Love him. This week 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.040 Atlanta taking on Carolina. Carolina is gonna be with without 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:18.400 its starting quarterback. Tyler Heineke will be your starter. Yeah, yeah, Atlanta, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.280 Let's start with the Atlanta side of the matchup. Though, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.040 I think they're gonna breeze through this game win handily 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.800 and I see a lot of points coming. You see 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.240 it the same way pretty much. Uh, We'll start with 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.120 Tevin Coleman, with Judge Edo Smith on I R now 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.000 Avonta Freeman not coming back, Coleman's in line for some 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.680 bell cow usage in this game, and then with Cam 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.480 on the shelf. This game script look looks like it's 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.160 gonna heavily favor the running game for the Falcons. So 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.360 even though it's kind of a tough matchup on paper, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.680 Tevin Coleman's gotta get an a grade this week, especially 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.640 with all the injuries at running back. He's he's in 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.600 line for twenty touches minimum in this game, So I'm 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.200 giving Coleman an a coming off the big game. You 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.040 actually had a big game in the first meeting way 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.800 back in Week two, over a hundred yards on six 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.679 point seven yards per carry. Julio Jones listen as a 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.000 game time decision right now. A little nervous about that, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.079 but he's expected to play with ribbon hip injuries obvious 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.400 a there. If he's active, you're starting him forever. Reason 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.079 he sits, that's the only reason. Calvin Ridley or Mohammed's 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.600 Sanu become viable. But if Julio is active, they're both 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.920 on the bench. Especially Ridley hasn't scored since mid October. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.400 Is a disappointment he's been after the crazy hot start. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.880 I really thought he was heading for like a bonkers 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.440 rookie year. I will say his snaps in those hot 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.760 star games like he was not playing very many snaps, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.000 so it was a little bit flukey. I kind of 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.920 like Sannu against Captain Munderland in the slot. Manolin has 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.640 been bad. Yeah, the ceiling, he's got a safe floor, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.480 but there's no no exciting ceiling with Sanu. But if 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.839 you're desperate, I could see Sannu as a dart throw 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.000 take on type receiver. Definitely like him more than Ridley 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.160 in this game. Austin Hooper not liking him a whole lot. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.920 Served up a zero burger last week. Dropped a touchdown 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.120 which wasn't even a real target, was off a broken play. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:58.080 He's dinged up the Panthers on but the season looks 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.960 soft against tight ends, but they hadn't conceded to tell 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.440 didn't touchdown in five straight games and no tight end. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.760 I said forty yards during that span. The forty yard 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.440 mark Hooper did have five catches for fifty nine yards 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.840 and a touchdown in the first meeting, but I almost 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.240 would look else where. Odds are you're not contemplating starting Hooper, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.000 but I'll give him a see if he suited up 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.080 and teamed healthy. And then Matt Ryan just obviously last 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.920 week's top scoring quarterback, top five quarterback on the season, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.480 You're starting him in this game. And I'm gonna cut 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.440 to the chase with Carolina. The only player worth mentioning 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.559 now is Christian McCaffrey's nobody else. I'm not going d J. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.880 Moore of Chritis Samuel with heine Key and uh No, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.760 Christian McCaffrey. Caroline has packed it in, but he has 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.920 milestones to hit. I think his four team catches shot 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.080 of the receiving record for running backs. He got snubbed 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.800 for the Pro Bowl to guys usually and it's the Falcons. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.240 It's Christian McCaffrey against the Falcons scene that gives up 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.079 the most receptions to running backs and has for four 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.280 straight years. So let's just give him the old fantasy 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:58.959 Fonzie at it. I love it. Uh Tonight's game Baltimore 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.199 taking on the chart jurors on the Baltimore side, Lamar 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.200 Jackson a fascinating matchup here. Now you already know that 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.280 the rushing line basically reads like a running back averaging 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.280 seventeen carries for eighty six yards. He's Chris Carson playing 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.480 he is He's Chris Carson playing running back or playing quarterback, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.040 and you're gonna need all of those rushing yards because 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.240 he's not gonna pass on the Chargers elite pass defense. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.199 Los Angeles just put Patrick Mahomes and his passing abilities 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.120 on his worst performance of the year, and Lamar Jackson's 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.360 fractionally as good a patcher a passer as Patrick Mahomes. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.160 So it's all about the legs here. So what are 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.520 you gonna get from Lamar Jackson's legs? Chargers having a 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:46.040 lot of rushing touchdown in twenty games twenty that is 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:47.840 a lot of a few and so that is going 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.160 to make things tough on Lamar Jackson. I've got him 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.880 as a B start because the rushing numbers give him 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.400 a very safe floor, but I don't think he's got 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.959 the explosive upside that you want from Lamar Jackson. I 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.640 want to see like a quarterback Jamal Charles, remember when 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.840 he had twenty rushing yards and a hundred fifty receiving. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.920 Honestly passing yards and rushing, we might get that. Gus 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.000 Edwards gets a B grade here. Uh, you know, he 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.080 is somewhat touchdown dependent here, but I think there's a 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.920 good chance he does score. Charges have allowed eight rushing 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.720 touchdowns to backs in their last five games. They've also 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.760 allowed almost five yards to carry to running backs over 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.880 the last eight games. Gus Edwards good start. Kenne Dickson 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.959 even gets into this mix a bit here as well, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.120 with a C grade Los Angeles. As I mentioned, they've 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.720 given up all those rushing touchdowns, all those yards per carry. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.000 Gus got more work, he got more carries last week, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.240 but Dixon had more snaps last week. So this thing 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.040 could be a little closer to fifty fifty, and I 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.640 think you can still start Dixon in a pinch. Let's 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.800 go to the Chargers side. Melvin Gordon goes right back 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.520 to being in A grade, even though he's got a 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.280 tough matchup with the Ravens defense allowing the fourth fewest 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.080 rushing attempts in the third fewest rushing yards per game. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.160 They have been a little more vulnerable lately though, giving 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.840 up eighty eight rush yards and a touchdown per game 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.520 to Peyton Barber and the Chiefs Committee of running back. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.480 So there's you know, there's still some safety here, and 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.680 Melvin Gordon was great all year. We're gonna keep starting 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.120 in with an A grade. Keenan Allen's expected to play 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.199 through his hip injury, but uh, he's gonna sleep. See 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.320 slot cornerback Brandon Carr in coverage, who's allowed over thirty 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.000 two yards just once in his last five games. That 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.880 is a tough matchup for Keenan Allen. He's surrendered no 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:32.440 scores all year out of the slot. That's again, tough 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.920 matchup for Keenan Allen, who I'm putting a B grade 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.240 on out of respect for Keenan Allen, but he's probably 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.880 in reality closer to a seat. Mike Williams was an 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.040 unexpected here last week. Zero chance of a repeat this week. Uh, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.800 that is, it's not happening against a great Baltimore defense 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.720 that hasn't allowed a score to a wide receiver in 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.200 four straight games. So I've got I've got a wobbly 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.600 SED grade here on Mike Williams. I don't love him, 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.080 and I still think you're you're reaching if you try 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.840 to chase last week's box score. No great on Hunter 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.160 Henry this week, not yet, not yet, But I'll tell 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.560 you what flash forward the next year. So August, I 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.200 think we are August four, third August of next year. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:21.320 Hunt is Hunter Henry a second round heick. I think 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.280 he's gonna go. I think his average draft position is 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.520 going to be round two. That's how high Hunter Henry 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.360 is gonna go. Next year. The Year of the tight End, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.360 the year is it's gonna be all It's gonna be 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.000 all tight ends all the time. And those that or 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.360 that's gonna be our big talking point in our on 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.360 our silver anniversary shows when we come back, take a 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.360 chance on me. Even though it's the championship week. Look 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.880 at all the problems that running back people have. Look 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.080 at all the brutally tough matchups for quarterbacks out there. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.320 We will help you find good matchups, even for those 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.120 of you in the championship week. Take a chance on me. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.320 Coming up next, this is Fantasy Football Weekly Green Bell 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:11.720 Premium on the van. If you change, take the final 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.760 show of the year Final'll take a chance on me. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.040 Of the year, Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson, Scott Fish. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.480 These are nine players not normally you're starting lineup, and 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.600 even in a championship week, you can start these guys 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.400 in many cases. Um and Uh. In particular, I think 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.200 all three of the running backs you're gonna hear about 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.720 startable for many of you with all of the running 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.360 back problems. Um that all the people have limped into 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.840 the championship game with these running back issues. These are 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.320 guys that are gonna help. But we're gonna start the 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.120 quarterback position, and Brian Johnson, I'm gonna go with Sam Donald. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.840 Or if Mike Francesco was called us calling this, you'd 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.440 call him Sam Donald. But Sam Donald at home Bruce's 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.360 Green Bay. Donald understandably struggled in his first game back 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.720 from injury at Buffalo, but I looked very good at 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.160 home against the Texans last week, which was a tough, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.080 tough matchup. This is not a tough matchup considering Green 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.800 Bay's decimated by injury. They have allowed multiple touchdown passes 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.040 in four of their last five games. The only one 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.080 failed to do it was Josh Rosen. Uh. That's because 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.520 the Cardinals actually dominated that gamemall control. So I'm liking 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.440 Stamp Donald this week. You might outscore Aaron Rodgers. Okay, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.320 I don't like going second. Just why? I don't know 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.359 why I go third? Is it better to go third? 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.000 I have no idea. Uh So, my my guys, Dak Prescott. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.280 UH had a weird week with Dak Prescott. At first, 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:30.840 I thought it was a good matchup. Then I thought 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.040 over the last half season, nine games, whatever they're average, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.439 they're allowing the Bucks are allowing two yards and one 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.840 point three touchdowns, even a vastly improved secondary. Right, But 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.920 in that span there are road games, multiple touchdowns to 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.040 three of them. And if you look at their road 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.439 games this year, they're allowing an average of thirty seven 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.280 points per game on the road. All Right, Six of 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.200 the seven teams thirty four or more points. And if 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.800 the Cowboys scored twenty five points, they will be the 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.880 worst road team in NFL history by points allowed, by 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.280 points allowed. All right, Um, and the Bucks in road 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.080 games they're allowing an average of three hundred yards or 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.240 three yards and two points seven touchdowns against. I really 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.239 have started to like Dak Prescott this week. All right, 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.960 let's go to UH let's go to Marcus Mariota. I 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.000 hope Mariota, I hope most of you don't have to 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.400 go this far down the down the list, really, but uh, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.200 if you throw out the Redskins domination of Cody Kessler 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.200 and the Jaguars and feel free because Kessler is not requisite, 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.960 I'm got starting quarterback. Five of the last six quarterbacks 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.640 have faced the Redskins have all posted big games, including 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.680 three or four touchdowns, and half of the last six. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:44.640 I'm also throwing out Marcus Mariotta's Mayor Mariota's last two 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.520 games because he handed off to Derrick Henry fifty times. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.400 That probably doesn't happen. I just think everything corrects back 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.840 to the middle here. Mariota's arm might just light up Washington, 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.800 and maybe if his arm doesn't, his legs might. Kessler 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.359 just ran for sixty eight yards against Washington, and mobile 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.360 quarterbacks have fared well against the Redskins. It's a dark throw, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:03.840 for sure, and I hope you don't need him, but 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.480 Marcus Mariota a plausible play. Let's go to the running 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.080 back position. I'm gonna stay in Jersey and go with 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.600 the Packers. Jamal Williams at the Jets. Uh limited this 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.800 week with a toe injury, but don't be concerned with 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.600 that at all. He'll be full go on Sunday and 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.640 basically he's in line for bell call work as well 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.160 with Aaron Jones on. I are the Jets have shut 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.720 down the Texans and Bills in recent weeks, but I'm 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.880 not reading into that too much. Randall Cobb also doubtful 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.080 for this game, so the Packers are short on pass catchers. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.280 So Jamal Williams, you can start with confidence this week. Yeah, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:37.240 all right, great, agreed? Running back position, Yes, all right. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.440 I have this weird guy. We just talked about John Kelly. Uh. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.880 During the break, we're watching a little bit of John 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.680 Kelly Porne, some stiff arms from college and whatnot, just 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.840 just devastating players. His stiff arms are so devastating. But 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.440 this is a great spot for him. The Cardinals have 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.320 allowed the most rushing attempts, most rushing yards, and the 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.560 most rushing touchdowns this year, not to mention over the 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.959 last five games five point two yards per carry. I'm 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.480 with charge. I think it's a John Kelly day. I 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.480 think it is too. Elijah McGuire's you're starting running back 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:09.800 for the Jets, and he has been for two weeks 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.320 when he's seen twenty touches per game, and he gets 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.720 a juicy matchup with Green Bay. This is the same 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.920 Green may defense that Jordan Howard just rumbled through last week. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.840 Week for that, Atlanta put up five yards per carry 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.520 from their backfield. Week for that, Chase Edmunds, Remember Chase 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:30.240 Edmunds carving up the uh the Packers. And if that's 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.480 not enough, Packers just put their second defensive tackle on 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.560 I R. Kenny Clark, who joins Mike Daniels on injured 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.639 reserve Elijah A. Choir is a shockingly safe play this week. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.560