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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. Time

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Speaker 1: now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly source

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Speaker 1: for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now along

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Speaker 1: with the guys.

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Speaker 2: From Guillotine Leagues dot Com. Here's your host, Paul Jargia.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Semi Finals Week. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm

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Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and co host today are Scott Fish and

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Speaker 1: Matt Harrison.

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Speaker 3: Hey guys, Hey charch how are you doing? How is

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Speaker 3: how is house arrest going for you? And is the

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Speaker 3: ankle bracelet itchy?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I am at home, which is part of my

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Speaker 1: three step process of finding ways to make my radio

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Speaker 1: show podcast audio quality sound like hot garbage in three

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Speaker 1: different weeks. So I had to do it with the

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Speaker 1: flu once and that sounded bad. And I had to

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Speaker 1: do it in Vegas from an echoee hotel room was

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Speaker 1: shaky Wi Fi and that's sounded bad. And now now

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Speaker 1: I'm at home with COVID where we have both the

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Speaker 1: shot because I got COVID. So this is like for

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Speaker 1: the hardcore of our hardcore listeners, very very grateful. Then

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Speaker 1: on top of everything else, the house arrest because of

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Speaker 1: the whole ty Chandler pantsiless incident going down last Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I can't help it if ty Chandler just put together

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Speaker 1: the best running back season that Alexander Madison has ever seen,

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Speaker 1: and so of course I was pantiless.

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Speaker 3: Have you put pants on yet? That's the real question,

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Speaker 3: not even right now.

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Speaker 4: Oh you don't have to. I guess I'm.

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Speaker 5: Glad you said all that because those other shows that

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Speaker 5: you were at home were my shows, and I just

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Speaker 5: figured you were dodging me for something.

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Speaker 1: Well that's not mutually exclusive, got you coming up on

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Speaker 1: the show. We've got three tough questions. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: still take a chance an players you're in a pinch

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Speaker 1: at some position, we're still here to help. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course we've got all the matchups, and we got

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Speaker 1: the full slight of matchups going all the way into

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Speaker 1: Smiths Day, finalizing with that big one on Monday night

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Speaker 1: that could be a Super Bowl preview. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: all of those, beginning with Scott Fish Indianapolis taking out Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Here's Indianapolis not getting enough national attention for being in

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Speaker 1: the playoff hunt. And here we are late December. Very

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Speaker 1: impressive run for them against the Falcons. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor expected to return. Zach Moss not gonna go

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Speaker 5: Yes, by the way, on that indie team that Shane

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Speaker 5: Stike and he can coach, man, he can coach. I

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Speaker 5: think they got a good one there. Yeah, at least

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Speaker 5: now I do. Jonathan Taylor, Yeah, full participate in practice

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Speaker 5: Thursday and Friday is good to go. Moss missed some practice,

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Speaker 5: Zach Moss missed some practices. He says he's gonna play

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Speaker 5: through his injury, through his arm injury that he sustained

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Speaker 5: last week. But I feel like it's gonna be mostly

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Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor in this one, and it's gonna go, especially

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Speaker 5: if Moss doesn't doesn't suit up. It's gonna be mostly

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Speaker 5: back to the Taylor show of old, where he's getting

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Speaker 5: fifteen plus touches, he's catch the ball. This Falcons team, though,

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Speaker 5: it's their second best against runners, allowing just three point

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Speaker 5: rushing touchdowns on the year, which feels so fluky to

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Speaker 5: me that I'm giving Jonathan Taylor a B grade with

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Speaker 5: that fifteen plus touches and I think he scores a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna call it. This is the first touchdown against

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Speaker 5: first rushing touchdown against the Falcons. In this one, Rashad

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Speaker 5: I think Taylor's gonna be fine here, B grade over

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Speaker 5: Gardner Minshew the second. It's the ninth best matchup for quarterbacks.

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Speaker 5: Minshew's been a top twelve quarterback in two the last

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Speaker 5: three games. Atlanta has been tough recently, but that like

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Speaker 5: that's against Bryce Young and Tim Boyle and players like that.

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Speaker 4: Those are real players, are they?

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Speaker 5: They are there are But before that they'd given up

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Speaker 5: the listeners. Sometimes a huge hit can be, you know,

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Speaker 1: No, I've been coying Madden.

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Speaker 5: So you can get them of all varieties. But Michael Pittman,

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Speaker 5: he had five targets on just twenty one snaps. I

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Speaker 5: the worst teams against the slot Josh Downs. When he's

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Speaker 5: So I would give it more if Piman was out,

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Speaker 5: I'm having trouble starting almost anyone for Atlanta. With Heinike

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Speaker 5: It's the middle of the pack matchup. But I have

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Speaker 5: the entire passing game. I got Drake Lennon on the bench.

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Speaker 5: He's been pretty hit and miss, but his hits are

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Speaker 5: don't know. We don't have a good track record of

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Speaker 5: him with Heineke. Kyle Pitts and Johnners Smith are going

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Speaker 5: Robinson Tyler Algier both getting C grades. It's just such

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Speaker 5: We don't know who it's going to be. It seems

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Speaker 1: Makes sense. It's tough to if you've found your way

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Speaker 1: here on Bijon Robinson, it's not a clear path even

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Speaker 4: No, Yeah, Jon's just that's a rough place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anything attached to Arthur Smith is a rough place

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Speaker 5: I don't blame anyone.

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Speaker 3: Remember Arthur Smith's old team, the Titans. They sure had

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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the Titans, Seattle taking on the Titans.

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Speaker 1: That's a nice segue there. Let's start in the Seattle

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Speaker 1: side map. I thought Kenneth Walker played great last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, don't be fooled by the recent snap counts.

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Speaker 3: All of the important touches are going to Walker. Despite

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Speaker 3: last week, Walker led touches twenty two to four over

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Speaker 3: Zach Sharbonay, and he missed weeks twelve and thirteen with

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Speaker 3: expected bell cow once again. If Walker gets twenty touches

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Speaker 3: output to what Devin Singletary did against the Titans just

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Speaker 4: That's huge.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to give Walker an A grade. Sharbone

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Speaker 3: I don't think that you can trust him really on

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Speaker 5: With sharbon Ay and Walker, that defense is missing like

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Let's talk talk about some of those missing starters

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Speaker 3: So DK gets an easy A grade here. Tyler Lockett

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Speaker 3: This week against either the injured Sean Murphy Bunting or

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Speaker 3: He usually mans the slot where Jackson Smith and Jigbo

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Speaker 3: The Titans are a super weird opponent though They've held

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Speaker 3: and only allowed five multi score games. But they've faced

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Speaker 3: So roll that all together with Gino's injuries and the

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Speaker 3: So the four games prior to that murderer's row of chuckers,

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Speaker 3: They're really They're bad against really good quarterbacks, and neither

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Speaker 3: I've been struggling whether I start Derrick Henry in a

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Speaker 3: The Titans are eliminated from the playoffs already, and it

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Speaker 3: seems like this could be like the very last Derrick

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Speaker 1: It's a bold move. A lot of people very hesitant

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Speaker 4: That's a sad howl right there.

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Speaker 1: It is a sad howl. We need Robbie off season.

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Speaker 5: I'm going up to Alaska to the I will We

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about that later.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, the Jets are an elite secondary and they ranked

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Speaker 5: Ninety that's a lot.

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Speaker 3: Remember in the preseason that we thought that the Jets

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Speaker 1: You can barely start against the worst secondary in the

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Speaker 1: these recent running back performances against Washington, Kyron Williams a

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Speaker 1: a grade. When we come back, it is time four

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Speaker 4: You never know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you do. We're here either way. When we come

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Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. We begin

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I am going to go with a guy who

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Speaker 5: and that would be Joe flat three games Joe Flacco

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Speaker 4: Nine times nine times over.

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Speaker 5: Nine times per game, more than they were before. Houston.

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Speaker 5: Did you press the button on this?

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Speaker 3: I I man, I'm just off. I don't usually hit

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Speaker 5: I should have done that. Ye I knew it was coming.

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Speaker 4: You knew it was coming. Queue it up.

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Speaker 5: Come on us. Having the button bars is so fun.

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Speaker 5: Houston allowed multiple scores in five straight before. Levis only

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Speaker 5: I think it's a good game here for a Flaco.

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Speaker 1: All right, man, you'll take a chance with me quarterback.

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Speaker 3: I've got Jake Browning who's thrown four over two hundred

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Speaker 3: The last time he didn't throw for two hundred and

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Speaker 3: he plays this week. The Steelers have had a pretty

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Speaker 1: I'm moving Jake Browning up my ranking right now. I

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Nick Mullins. A high risk play

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Speaker 1: go to the running back position, Scott, Who's you taking

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Speaker 5: I'm going with Ty Johnson, mostly because I love the

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Speaker 1: All right, Matt, who's your take a chance on me?

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Speaker 3: I've got Zeke Elliot because it looks like Rimandre Stevenson

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Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I have Zeke in my top five

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Speaker 1: I'm going a little bit tougher spot than that. Danta Foreman,

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Speaker 1: Foreman gets Arizona, so this should be a easier They

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Speaker 1: ranked twenty seventh in run stuff win rate, They rank

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna switch it up because I had David

436
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 5: and Djoku, but I feel like he's been good for

437
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 5: long enough. Then, Yeah, he's in my top five tight ends.

438
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 5: This week. We can't do that, so I'm going to

439
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 5: don Tavion Wicks leads the team in yards per route

440
00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 5: run has has had three very startable or B level games.

441
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 5: With Watson out, Christian Watson and Jayden Reed looking like

442
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 5: they will both be out for this game, which lead

443
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 5: should lead to a bunch more opportunities here. Wicks will

444
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 5: get the best matchup of the receiving core there in j. C.

445
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 5: Horn allowing a one to sixteen passer rating against and

446
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 5: this week Matt Lafleur and Pressers spoke really glowingly about Wicks,

447
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 5: even saying he sees glimpses of DeVante Adams in him

448
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 5: and saying the sky's the limit.

449
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: Wow, geez, well that's not it's a lot to live

450
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: up to. I don't know. You want to put that

451
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: on a kid? Yeah, all right, no, dy, who's your Yeah? Yeah,

452
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 1: go ahead, Matt, you're your receiver this week.

453
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Speaker 3: You probably don't need a deep dart throw at tight

454
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,439
Speaker 3: end if you're in a Fantasy semi final. But I

455
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 3: really like Tanner Hudson of the Bengals this week against

456
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 3: the Steelers. Since Week nine, Hudson averaging four target or

457
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: four catches per game, and nothing has really dropped off

458
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,959
Speaker 3: since Joe Burrow went down. I mentioned with Jake Browning

459
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 3: that the Steelers' top four safeties are out, but another

460
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,439
Speaker 3: interesting fact is that Pittsburgh has allowed a tight end

461
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 3: touchdown in four straight weeks after only allowing one in

462
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 3: the first ten games of the season. So if four catches,

463
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 3: forty five yards and a touchdown will help you, I

464
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 3: think that's about what we're looking at for Tanner Hudson

465
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 3: this week.

466
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Speaker 1: That would help me. I think that would help most people. Yeah,

467
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: I am also going tight end. Pat Fryarmouth, got to

468
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: pick your spots here, but this is the spot because

469
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 1: Cincinnati allows the most tight end yards by a mile,

470
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: seventy two per game and worse lately, allowing eighty two

471
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Speaker 1: yards to tight ends over the past five weeks, a

472
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Speaker 1: span that includes a mammoth game from Pat Fryarmouth. We

473
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: put up eleven targets, nine catches, and one hundred and

474
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Speaker 1: twenty yards in Week twelve. Now, it's been a while

475
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Speaker 1: since we've seen Mason Rudolph start a game. Two years

476
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:50,160
Speaker 1: ago it was Friar Mooth's rookie year, and in that

477
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 1: game again, the last Mason Rudolph start, Pat Fryarmuth was

478
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: targeted nine times.

479
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 5: Oo nine times.

480
00:23:58,800 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: I've tried to draw that out.

481
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it worked.

482
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,479
Speaker 4: You should have like whispered n times before.

483
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go, Scott. If you like Ty Johnson.

484
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: Something tells me that James Cook is a lock here

485
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: in this game against the Chargers.

486
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got James Cook is a lock here. He's

487
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 5: he's been RB three since week ten. Since since Joe

488
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 5: Brady took over. He's averaging twenty four point one PPR

489
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 5: points per game. His target share has doubled since Brady.

490
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 5: He's running the same amount of routes, but he's getting

491
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 5: double the targets. Not just that his red zone snaps

492
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 5: have also doubled. Maybe Brady watched the film and he's like, wait,

493
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 5: Latavius Murray's just not working. Why do we not have

494
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 5: Cook in here? Head over one hundred total yards in

495
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 5: five straight Chargers as I mentioned before, really bad against

496
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Speaker 5: backs and the Ti Johnson things. So I have an

497
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 5: A grade, I could go double a rdvarc, I could

498
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 5: go fonsie whatever. I got an A grade there. Over

499
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 5: to the passing game.

500
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: Here's here's the thing. You the button bars right in

501
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 1: front of you, so you can do any of those.

502
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 5: Yeah you know, I can drop that or I don't

503
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 5: know where they all are. There's one there. We go,

504
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 5: our wonderful Ardvark. Over to the passing game. Josh An,

505
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 5: I'm giving the A grade too as well. It's the

506
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 5: eighth easiest matchup for quarterbacks against the d that just

507
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 5: gave up sixty three points and four touchdowns to eight.

508
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 5: And O'Connell. Granted, it'll be a different defensive play caller

509
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 5: this week with Brandon Staley fired and on, and the

510
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 5: data shows when a coach gets fired, the team plays

511
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 5: better the next week. It's just what happens. So maybe

512
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 5: it's a little tougher. But Allen has multiple scores in

513
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 5: fourteen straight. Stefan Diggs, Oh man, it's it's been rough.

514
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 5: It's been rough lately. But I'm going with him. I

515
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 5: think this is a get right game. I'm giving him

516
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 5: a B grade. You could talk me in new An A,

517
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 5: but I'm going with a B just because it's so risky.

518
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 5: Nearly nine targets per game under Brady. That's probably deserves

519
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 5: it nine times. But his catch totals four, six, four four,

520
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 5: his yardage totals twenty seven, seventy four, twenty four forty eight.

521
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 5: He's and no scores. He's just not getting he's just

522
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 5: not getting getting it done.

523
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: There.

524
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 5: Oh, actually one score, the six catch, seventy four yard

525
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 5: and a score game against the Eagles is the one

526
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 5: that's more comparable to this defense than the Chargers a

527
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 5: poor pass defense. So I like him here. He's got

528
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 5: He's matching up against Michael Davis too, which who allows

529
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 5: one hundred and sixteen point one passer ray against Just

530
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 5: a good spot for him, so B grade. As for

531
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 5: Gabe Davis, Khalil Shakir, Dalton Kinkaid, and Dawson Knox, this

532
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 5: is really frustrating. But since Dawson Knox came back, now

533
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 5: Kinkaid has two catches for twenty one yards in the

534
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 5: two games with Knox returning. Knox's Knox is not worthy

535
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 5: worthy of it, and Kinkaid's going to come into this

536
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 5: questionable as well. Also, he managed to Joe Brady coming

537
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 5: over be coming oc. Gabe Davis has a goose egg

538
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 5: in three of the four and once Shaquille once Dawston

539
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 5: Knox came in, Shakir's numbers just completely dropped off and

540
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 5: he has one catch for twelve yards since Knox came back.

541
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 5: So Dawston Knox basically took four players out with it

542
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 5: just coming back, so they're all on the bench over

543
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 5: on the other side, the Chargers are going to be

544
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 5: without Keenan Allen, which makes me really hesitant to start

545
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 5: a lot of players in that past game or start

546
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 5: Eastern Stick. H Get this stat about the Chargers. The

547
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 5: last time they converted a third down was week thirteen.

548
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 5: What That's what seemed to me.

549
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: That is insane. Even all that garbage time stuff.

550
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 4: They haven't converted a third battle.

551
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 5: That's three weeks ago or two and a half weeks ago,

552
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 5: whatever it is.

553
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: They didn't have a buy in there, did they.

554
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 5: They only have to check Mahomes is the only quarterback

555
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 5: with over two hundred yards in the last five weeks

556
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 5: against this Buffalo. You got you got stick on the.

557
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: Bench anyway, nobody, Josh, you don't even need to expand it.

558
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 5: Josh Palmer, I got a B grade on He can

559
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 5: find mismatches, he plays left right hand slot about a

560
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 5: third each he's he can easily avoid Rosweld Douglas uh

561
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 5: so I and he got forty percent of the air

562
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 5: yards with Eastern Stick last week. I got to be

563
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 5: on him. The target's got to go somewhere. I do

564
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 5: have Quentin Johnson on the bench. The first Stick game

565
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 5: good was good. The second one not so good, and

566
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 5: he's gonna get Razuill Douglas, who get this, is allowing

567
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 5: a twenty five point two passer rating against since coming

568
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 5: to Buffalo's That's absurd. Just ten completions.

569
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: They worked the Packers on that grade.

570
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 5: Ten completions in ten completions in six games. Allowed two

571
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 5: picks in a Folmer recovery. Just unreal. Gerald Evertt, I

572
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 5: got a C grade on two Eastern Stick games. Eight

573
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 5: targets in each, five catches in each. The yardage isn't

574
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 5: quite there, but with Keenan out, he's probably gonna get

575
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 5: a little bit more volume. It could be a volume seed.

576
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 5: But I got a B grade. Ferguson and Kelsey the

577
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 5: last couple weeks have done well against this team. Austin Eckler,

578
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 5: I got a C grade, but I don't blame you

579
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 5: for benchingin nowadays. Prop Stackler, by the way, for coming

580
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 5: in late in that blowout and getting a first down

581
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 5: and celebrating it. You know, it's the little victories. You

582
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 5: gotta celebrate the little victories. Bills are middle of the

583
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 5: but in the second half of the season, you basically

584
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 5: he's basically been a twenty touch guy. He could get

585
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 5: to a B level game and if they don't decide

586
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 5: to split it later on in the game. But I'll

587
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 5: just give him a C.

588
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, we need to move quickly through Cincinnati Pittsburgh. Fortunately,

589
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: you know our take a chance on me is were

590
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: replete with Bengals and Steelers. So let's start on the

591
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: Cincinnati side, and let's start with the running game. What

592
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: do you think of Joe Mixon here?

593
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's still getting most of the running back touches,

594
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 3: but Chase Brown starting to eat into that workload just

595
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 3: a little bit. Brown's seen an average of eight carries

596
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 3: over the last three weeks, compared to about seventeen per

597
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 3: week for Mixing. Mixing was absolutely stuffed by the Steelers

598
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 3: in Week twelve on the eight carries for sixteen yards,

599
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 3: although he did add forty four receiving yards in that game.

600
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 3: The Steelers d did allow two hundred total rushing yards

601
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 3: to the Colts backs last week, which was mostly Tyler

602
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 3: Goodson and Trey Sermon. So with a bit of a

603
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: downturn and touches for Mixon, I'm downgrading him to a B.

604
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 3: But he's still pretty reliable here as far as the

605
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,719
Speaker 3: receivers and the passing game. Jake Browning was might take

606
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 3: a chance on me quarterback, and Tanner Hudson might take

607
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 3: a chance on me receiver. Jamar Chase is going to

608
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 3: be out this week. That means t Higgins becomes the

609
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 3: focal point for Jake Browning yet again, just like he

610
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: was last week. Higgins had two second half touchdowns and

611
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: eight targets against Minnesota and his a dot in that

612
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 3: game was twenty three point three. And we just mentioned

613
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 3: all of the safeties are out for the Steelers, Higgins

614
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 3: should be able to go pretty deep, especially with Levi Wallace,

615
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 3: the corner who's he's going to match up most often with.

616
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 3: He's tied for fifth in the league with six touchdowns

617
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 3: allowed in its coverage this year. So for all of

618
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 3: you who've been disappointed in te Higgins all season, he

619
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 3: gives you an a grade right here. Tyler Boyd saw

620
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 3: a little bit of an uptick and work when Chase

621
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 3: went out, so he gets to see he'll primarily face

622
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 3: Chandon Sullivan from the slot and Chandy Land doesn't usually

623
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 3: see a ton of targets, but seventy percent of them

624
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 3: are completed in his coverage over on the Steelers side

625
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 3: Jason Rudolph week, but he's not a guy that you'd

626
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 3: start in your fantasy semi final, but it's worth looking

627
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 3: at some of his past history with receivers. The last

628
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 3: two times Rudolph has started a game was Week ten

629
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty one and Week seventeen of twenty twenty.

630
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 3: In those Mason Rudolph games, Deontay Johnson averaged eight and

631
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 3: a half targets five catches in eighty nine yards. And

632
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 3: Johnson has averaged six and a half targets per game

633
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 3: over the last month and a robust ninety three air

634
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 3: yards per game. So I've got a B grade on Johnson. Pickens,

635
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 3: I'm a little leer on here. He hasn't scored our

636
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: top one hundred yards in seven games and was held

637
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 3: to just three catches in fifty eight yards in the

638
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 3: week twelve meetings. So just to see on Pickens and

639
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: Rudolph targeted slot guys Juju Smith, Schuster and Chase Claypool

640
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 3: a ton in the twenty twenty games.

641
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 4: Two.

642
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 3: Alan Robinson usually runs from the slot, but he's not

643
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 3: on the field very much, so I think this is

644
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 3: Pat Fryarmuth running from the slot and charge alluded to it.

645
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 3: He was his take a chance on me tight end.

646
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 3: I got an A grade on Friarmuth. As for Naji

647
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 3: Harris and Jalen Warren, this is still a horrifically gross

648
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 3: complete split backfield. Over the last five games, the snap

649
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 3: count is almost equal. They're both getting about fourteen touches

650
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 3: per game. They're both getting about the same amount of

651
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: touches inside the five. Naji had fifteen carries for ninety

652
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 3: nine yards in a score in the week twelve meeting,

653
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 3: and Warren had sixteen touches and sixty two yards that game.

654
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 3: You normally, if you normally start them, you can start

655
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 3: them with a seed, but it's not a particularly good

656
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 3: or bad matchup. I'd feel gross starting either in a

657
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 3: Fantasy playoff game.

658
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 4: So just sees.

659
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that. It's a it's a

660
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: tough spot for sure, and as we as we had

661
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: to break. I don't know if you guys saw the

662
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: blocking effort put forward.

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00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 4: By George Pickens. Oh, George Pickens, Yet he.

664
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Speaker 1: Doesn't want to git well, oh no, yeah, I got it. Yeah,

665
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to run block. Yeah, you know, that's

666
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: part of the job user, Come on, that stuff does

667
00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: not sit well with your teams wide receiver man, what

668
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: is it? Holy cow? I don't know when he come back.

669
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Speaker 1: What we do know is Lions and Vikings gonna match up.

670
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: We'll talk through that matchup and perhaps another big game

671
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Speaker 1: from Jared Goff find out when we come back. Welcome

672
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Jargi and Scott Fish and

673
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison with you. De Trod and Minnesota will play

674
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Speaker 1: for the first time this year this weekend, and there's

675
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: a lot of players to start here, and a lot

676
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: of reason to feel pretty good about a variety of

677
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: different Vikings and Lions. Let's start on the Lion side.

678
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: I'm on Ross Saint Brown, clocking in with a A grade.

679
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: He's the rare slot receiver who gets reliably used near

680
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: the stripe. He's tied for fifth in red zone targets.

681
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: He accounts for thirty seven percent of the Lion's targets

682
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: in the red zone. The Vikings defend the slot with

683
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: a wide variety of players, but very commonly, defensive coordinator

684
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: Brian Flores uses safety. Josh mctellis, who ranks his Pro

685
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: Football focuses twenty eighth coverage safety, so he's just okay,

686
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: but he gives up an eighty eight percent catch rate

687
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: that is gigantic, So don't see any reason to not

688
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: expect good things from Aman Ross. Saint Brown comes in

689
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: with an A grade, also coming in with strong grades.

690
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: B grade for Sam Laporte here coming off a huge grade.

691
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: This is a trickier matchup though, than what he has

692
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: seen In recent weeks. The Vikings have been grading against

693
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: tight ends behind the play linebacker Ivan Pace Junior, who

694
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: ranks his Pro Football Focus's tenth best coverage linebacker, and

695
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: he's allowed the lowest yards per reception of all linebackers,

696
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: just five yards per reception. Vikings allowing only five receptions

697
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: and forty six yards per game to tight ends. None

698
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: have found the end zone in five weeks, so a

699
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: B grade on Sam Laporte a little down from what

700
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing the other receivers for the Lions.

701
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: I get the feeling one of them is probably in

702
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: of a good game, especially because Vikings cornerback Byron Murphy's

703
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: has been ruled out of this one. But the problem

704
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: is Josh Reynolds, Khalif Raymond Jamison Williams. They all split

705
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: time almost evenly. Impossible to really know which one might

706
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: benefit here, so I don't know them on the bench.

707
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 5: How many yards per game does Jameson Williams average against

708
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 5: the Vikings?

709
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 1: About fifty eight?

710
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 5: I think I think it's forty one in a score

711
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 5: it might be on one catch.

712
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've got A grades. I've got B grades here.

713
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: Jared goff feels like a safe play, always better indoors,

714
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: where he scores double of touchdowns from his outdoor games,

715
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: including last week's five score finanza. Vikings defense. Yeah, there

716
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: you go. The Vikings pass defense had been downright stifling

717
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: before they'd yielded to Jake Browning last week, and some

718
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: of that came in overtime too. The Vikings ranked eighth

719
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: in pass coverage by Pro Football Focus. They've surroundered multiple

720
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and only two of their last nine games.

721
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: So I wanted to I want to give Jared goffin

722
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: a grade here, but I can't do it because the

723
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: Vikings pass defense has generally been very good. I do

724
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: like Jamiir Gibbs a lot. He's out touched David Montgomery

725
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: six to three in the red zone over the last

726
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: two weeks, which is surprising, including getting the only one

727
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: touch they've given a running back from inside the five

728
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: yard line. That'd be a major shift if they start

729
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 1: giving Jamir Gibbs goal line carries. Here. He's averaging five

730
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: and a half yards per carry on the season, including

731
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: at least six yards per carrying each of the last

732
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: three games. He's also reliably notching about three receptions per game,

733
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: and the Vikings give up the fifth most receptions per

734
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: game to running back, so jumior Gibbs a safe B grade.

735
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: Montgomery C grade and a difficult matchup for him, particularly

736
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: since he's not going to help through the air. As

737
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned, that's where the Vikings are most vulnerable to

738
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: running backs. Minnesota's only given up fifty rushing yards to

739
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: a running back once since Week six, and that includes

740
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: shutting down the likes of Christian McCaffrey, Bjohn Robinson, Alvin Kamara,

741
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, Joe Mixon. In fact, the in fact, only

742
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift has surpassed sixty five yards against the Vikings

743
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: all year. I can only get you to a C

744
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: grade on David Montgomery, and that's what the hope for

745
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: a touchdown Viking side. I told you Nick Mallins might

746
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: take a chance on me quarterback. He comes in with

747
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: a C grade. Justin Jefferson A grade. I love that

748
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: you saw ten targets from Nick Mullins last week. That

749
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: was a great That's a great indicator here. Detroit much

750
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: worse against the pass than against the run. They rank

751
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 1: thirtieth in coverage by Pro Football Focus. Detroit corner Cam

752
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: Sutton shadows bigger, physical opposing number ones like Jefferson, and

753
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: he shut down Denver's Courtland Sutton last week in a

754
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: Sutton versus Sutton matchup. Over the last three games, Sutton

755
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: has allowed only thirty six total receiving yards, So a

756
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: tough matchup for Justin Jefferson and I almost gave him

757
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: a B grade here, but I think on volume, I

758
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: can't get myself to do it, and I'm keeping him

759
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: at an A grade. Jordan Addison with the big game

760
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: last week and with Sutton and on Jefferson, that means

761
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: Addison draws far inferior coverage from Jerry Jacobs. He's allowed

762
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: a league worst seven touchdowns, and Addison's nine scores leads

763
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: all rookie rookie wide receivers, So I like the touchdown here.

764
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: And what's more, Addison is a deep ball threat and

765
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: the Lions give up thirteen yards per reception, which is

766
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: a gigantic number. So I like Addison. B grade on

767
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: him and for TJ. Hockinson while we stay with the

768
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: passing game, A rare B grade for me. Hockinson has

769
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: remained consistent. He's racking up between like fifty and sixty

770
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: three yards in his past four games. That's good, but

771
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: that's not explosive output the Lions haven't allowed. Hey, there

772
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: you go. The Lions haven't allowed more than sixty six

773
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: yards to a tight end all season. They're only averaging

774
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: five receptions on per game. So there's just not a

775
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: lot of upside here for Hawkins, and so I can

776
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 1: only get you to a B grade. Looks like Alexander

777
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: Madison's going to be active for this game, So where

778
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: does that leave you with Ty Chandler. Kevin O'Connell suggested

779
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: Chandler will start and be the lead back and he

780
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: should be in one NFL start. Last week, Chandler posted

781
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: more rushing yards than any game in Madison's career. Very

782
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: tough matchup, though, Detroit Pro Football Focus's fourth best run defense.

783
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: The Lions have not had an opposing running back top

784
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: sixty seven rushing yards against them. They've given up a

785
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 1: league low sixty two rushing yards per game, and they're

786
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: giving up the six fewest receptions to the position and

787
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: no receiving touchdowns to running back. So very tough matchup

788
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: for Chandler. I can only get you to a C

789
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: grade there. All right, Scott, let's go over to Green

790
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: Bay taking on Carolina. You already told us that you

791
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: like Wis as a deceiving option. Yeah, Dust, you like

792
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 1: from the passing game for the Packers.

793
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, Let's stick with the wide receivers for a

794
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 5: secon second, because Jaden Reid and Christian Watson are both

795
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 5: likely out. One is doubtful, one is questionable. But they

796
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 5: missed practice every day to end the week. I'm playing

797
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 5: it as if they're out. Jaden Reid is the one

798
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 5: that might go. He's questionable. If he does go, I

799
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 5: would give him a C grade, but I expect both

800
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 5: to be out. I do have Romeo Dobbs on the bench.

801
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 5: He's consistently a three to five catch guy. Didn't even

802
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 5: get that much work after Jaden Reid went out last week.

803
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 5: He's usually getting in your thirty in the thirties for yards.

804
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 5: He hasn't scored over a month, just two red zone

805
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 5: targets in last month. I don't think that's where the

806
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 5: targets go. I think they go to Wis and I

807
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 5: think they go to Tucker Craft as well. With Luke

808
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 5: Musgrave gonna miss this one again. Kraft has scored twice

809
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 5: in the four games without Musgrave, has four plus catches

810
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 5: in back to back yardage totals of fifty seven and

811
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 5: sixty four. That's that's very that's very nice for a

812
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 5: SEA level tight end, maybe even a B level. The

813
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 5: volume matches what similar targets have been doing against the

814
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 5: tight ends for similar tight ends have been doing against

815
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 5: the Panthers. So I have a C grade there with those.

816
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 5: I have a very hesitant, very very hesitant C grade

817
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 5: on Jordan Love. He's getting it done, He's finding ways

818
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 5: to get it done. He's got multiple scores in five

819
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 5: to the last six five to the last six games.

820
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 5: This just this is just a really tough Panthers pass defense,

821
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 5: mostly because teams just run with their running backs on him.

822
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 5: That that's really what it is. Over the last eight weeks,

823
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 5: the highest passing yardage day was two hundred and two yards.

824
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 5: That's that's nothing in the past game, but there's been

825
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 5: a couple of multiple score games. This is a fun

826
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 5: note on the Panthers. They've allowed nine rushing yards to

827
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 5: quarterbacks this year total.

828
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: Wow.

829
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 5: New England is second. New England is second in that

830
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 5: court category with one hundred and six. Panthers have allowed

831
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 5: nine rushing yards. Over to the run game. AJ Dillon's

832
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 5: questionable with that thomb. Even if he plays, He's we

833
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 5: mentioned before, he's not getting inside the five stuff. He's

834
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 5: less efficient. Less pass game works with Jones playing, I

835
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 5: got him on the bench and I'm giving it an a

836
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 5: grade to Aaron Jones. Just an awesome matchup against the

837
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 5: Panthers run game along in the fifth most yards and

838
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 5: the most touchdowns. Hopefully he gets those snaps back up.

839
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 5: He got a decent amount of touches last week, ninety

840
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 5: the touches, but the snaps he he only played about

841
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 5: half the snaps. Let's let's hope that increases with the

842
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 5: second week and fully off the injury report over to

843
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 5: the Carolina side. I don't have any of the past

844
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 5: game starting at all I know that the Packers have

845
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 5: allowed back to back NFC Player of the Week awards

846
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 5: to the quarterbacks. Thanks thanks Brian Johnson for that note.

847
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 5: Rest in peace.

848
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 4: Brian's not dead. He just moved.

849
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 5: No, he moved, and he took like a red Eye flight.

850
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 5: I just wanted him to rest, to be peacefully rested

851
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,959
Speaker 5: in his new city with the red Eye flight there.

852
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 5: But yeah, Adam Thielen, in recent weeks, the targets have

853
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 5: gone down. Early in the year, he was hyper targeted

854
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 5: and that's what helped him. It's now split multiple ways.

855
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 5: Jonathan Mingo is a low volume two to five catch

856
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 5: wide receiver with When you're sharing less than two hundred

857
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 5: yards every game from Bryce Young and it's between three

858
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 5: or four options, you're just not getting it done. So

859
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 5: bench the whole passing game. And I have a B

860
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 5: grade on Chewba Hubbard. Here's the last month of touches

861
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 5: for Cuba nineteen twenty five twenty four with yardage totals

862
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 5: ninety to one hundred and five yards. Grim Bay is

863
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 5: allowing the fourth most rushing yards and eighth most running

864
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 5: backs scores. But Cuba needs a lot of touches to

865
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 5: do less than four yards per touch, so he's not

866
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 5: very efficient with it. So just a B grade on

867
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Speaker 5: Chewba Hubbard.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, Three Tough Questions, a forward looking

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Speaker 1: time machine style edition of Three Tough Questions. When we

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Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, our number two. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and

872
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 1: Scott Fish, Matt Harrison with you. This is a game

873
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Speaker 1: we like to play called three Tough Questions, and we

874
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Speaker 1: begin with.

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00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 2: This tough question number one.

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Speaker 1: Let's fast forward to week one of next year. Is

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00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: Chase Brown the lead back in Cincinnati. We begin with

878
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Speaker 1: Scott Fish.

879
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 5: Let me let me turn on my mic here once.

880
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,280
Speaker 1: The classic Scott Fish right there.

881
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 5: Classic classic. They have a potential out with Mixing after

882
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 5: this year, but it's also not super super costly to

883
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 5: keep him and the cap hit plus what they would

884
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 5: pay him is you know what they would have to

885
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 5: pay a replacement like a pickup a picked up free

886
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 5: agent would probably cost more than just keeping Mixing. So

887
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 5: the question is closer to do they continue to run

888
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 5: Mixing down and split the role or do we think

889
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 5: Chase beats him out right? Or is it an Alexander

890
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 5: Madison Tdy Chandler situation where the more talented back is

891
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 5: shelved longer than it should be despite all of us

892
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 5: seeing that Chase is clearly the better player. Not exactly

893
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 5: sure what happens happens by week one. I think with

894
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 5: most NFL teams, you usually see them just stick with

895
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 5: the old hat until he's until the new one can overtake.

896
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 5: But you know what I texted you last week, I

897
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 5: thought Chase could beat the start, be the starter next year.

898
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go with bold with it and say, sure, yeah,

899
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 5: why not?

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00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: All right, Matt? Fast forward to Week one of next year?

901
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: Is Chase Brown the lead back in Cincinnati?

902
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 4: Uh?

903
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 3: Do we believe that the Bengals, a team that's win

904
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 3: window is now, is gonna stand pat and do nothing

905
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 3: at the running back position? I simply don't. They'll sign

906
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 3: someone or draft someone. It could be a split backfield

907
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 3: in Cincy. But here's the list of free agent running

908
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 3: backs coming up this year. Joe Mixon, Derrick Henry, Austin Eckler,

909
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs, Saquon Barkley, Tony Pollard, DeAndre Swift and those.

910
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 4: Are just the highlights.

911
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 3: You'd think that those seven guys are likely to be

912
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 3: on an NFL roster starting somewhere. Plus, there's a decent

913
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 3: crop of rookie runners highlighted by Jonathan Brooks, Trey Benson,

914
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,479
Speaker 3: Blake Klorum, Traveon Henderson, probably another three or four guys

915
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 3: that we're going to start to like next spring. I

916
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 3: just think that the Bengals are going to have another

917
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: running back there, and if it's not Mixon, I think

918
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: that they'll have somebody that they've spent a lot of

919
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 3: assets on.

920
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: You know, if I ran the Bengals, I would draft

921
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: a high profile, really good running back too, But they haven't.

922
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: They've not shown a predilection to do that since Joe Mixon. Interesting,

923
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: hadn't really thought about that angle. You know, I was

924
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 1: looking at a seven year veteran in mixing with high

925
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 1: mileage who's going to turn twenty eight and has averaged

926
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: three point nine yards per carrying back to back years.

927
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: You cut that guy, right, I mean, you know you

928
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: can find three point nine yard per carry guys washing

929
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: dishes at Applebee's right now. So why keep Joe Mixon here?

930
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: He's out Chase Brown looks good. I mean the eye

931
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: test says he's pretty good and maybe better than a

932
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: lot of those older veterans that you've just described. You know,

933
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: Matt I. You know, those are all big name players

934
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: who have been very important to their offenses for a

935
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: long time. But they're all, like, all of those guys

936
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: really struggling right now. I don't know that Cincinnati makes

937
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: a move for any of those guys. Maybe in the draft. Yes,

938
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: I was tempted to make a last minute switch to

939
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: go to your side to this match, just in the

940
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: prospect that they draft they put real draft equity here

941
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: into the running back position. But I'm not going to

942
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: bank on it. I'm gonna trust my eyes. Chase Brown

943
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: looks like a good player, averaging four and a half

944
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: yards per carry, all the explosiveness, the big plays. You're

945
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna go with, Yes.

946
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 2: Tough question number two.

947
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: By the way, since you've got the time machine, I'll

948
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: set and ready to go. Let's hear from the time machine.

949
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 2: Hm. There it is.

950
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: So we fast forward to week one of next year,

951
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: just like we did with Chase Brown, Let's stay with

952
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: the same team. Potentially, is Jake Browning a starter for

953
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: any NFL team next season? For this one we begin

954
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: with Matt.

955
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 3: My answer is no, Caleb Williams, Drake may Jaden Daniels,

956
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 3: Michael Pennox, Bow Nicks, Quinn Ewers, JJ McCarthy. That's seven

957
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 3: rookies who could be drafted and just be launched into

958
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 3: a starting job, plus the potential openings or landing spots.

959
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 3: They're not as many as you think. There's a lot

960
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 3: of injured quarterbacks this year. But the open spots are Atlanta, Vegas, Minnesota,

961
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 3: if they don't re sign Cousins, New England, Tampa, Tennessee,

962
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 3: maybe Washington. That's only seven teams, and Kirk Cousins in

963
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield are top free agents. I think Jake Browning

964
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 3: signs a nice backup contract somewhere.

965
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: All right, let's go over to Scott. Fast forward a

966
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: week one of next year. Is Jake Browning starting for

967
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: an NFL team?

968
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 2: Yeah?

969
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in lockstep with Matt on this one. I've

970
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 5: almost immediately said no. I feel like the only place

971
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 5: Jake Browning gets a starting job is with one of

972
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 5: those teams that drafts one of those and he fights

973
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 5: him and battles it out and beats him.

974
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 4: In camp and holds the job for six weeks quarterback.

975
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 5: Won for like the early part of the season, and

976
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 5: that's how he is the starter through week one. Otherwise

977
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 5: he strikes me more as more like Keenum or Dobbs,

978
00:49:55,760 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 5: you know, mostly just ex vikids where they show up

979
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 5: up for a portion of a season and then they

980
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 5: get it back up, they get a backup ro all

981
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 5: somewhere in the next season. That's it's x Viking thing apparently,

982
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 5: But no.

983
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: Jake Browning has played his way into the conversation as

984
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: applausible starter for sure. Since becoming the starter, he leads

985
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: the NFL INN adjusted completion percentage and this, and it's

986
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: not thinking dunk stuff. He has the second longest yards

987
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: per attempt nine and he's looked better than half the

988
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: starters in the league honestly since he's come in. Now,

989
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: obviously this is a deep quarterback class and everybody, all

990
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: the teams that are positioned inside, like the top ten,

991
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: top twelve, they're gonna hit that pretty hard. But then

992
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,479
Speaker 1: what do you do about Atlanta, Las Vegas, Cleveland, which

993
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: nobody mentioned, and that job is still potentially open. Tampa,

994
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: nobody talked about Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh meets a quarterback, Yeah, is

995
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: Joe Flaco. I don't think Joe Flacco's coming back, so

996
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: I think the answer and if only for week one,

997
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: only at the beginning of the year, any where he

998
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: could beat out a rookie, I'm the answer here is yes.

999
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 2: Okay, tough question number three?

1000
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: Fast forward to week one of next year. Is Sam

1001
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: Howell the starting where's the Howell sounder? By the way,

1002
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: is Sam Howell the starting quarterback for the Commanders?

1003
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 5: I just love how we have this, but Barrown lock, yeah,

1004
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 5: right on top of it. Yeah, I'll start this one.

1005
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 5: This is a tough one for me. I can't remember

1006
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 5: who said it, but Sam Howell's stats this year are

1007
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 5: really empty calories. The offense is not good, he's every

1008
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 5: All of his metrics outside of volume aren't good. He

1009
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 5: even got bench last week. Things really need to be fixed.

1010
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 5: Will they draft a guy? If they do, can that

1011
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 5: guy take overtake Sam for week one? I'm gonna go no,

1012
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 5: He's not the start. I think they might might try

1013
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 5: to find something else, but yeah, for now, I'll go no.

1014
00:51:58,440 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 5: But I could go either way on this one.

1015
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: Okay, We're gonna put you on no, all right, Matt

1016
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: Is Fast forward a week one of next year. Is

1017
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: Sam Howell the starting quarterback for the Commanders.

1018
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 4: I'm pretty negative today. I've got no.

1019
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 3: And here's why. There's a new owner in Washington. He's

1020
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,919
Speaker 3: about to fire Ron Rivera after the season, and either

1021
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 3: they're going to elevate Eric Bienemy to the head coach

1022
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 3: position or they're going to hire a new coach with

1023
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 3: an offensive pedigree.

1024
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 4: If it's b Enemy, maybe he has some loyalty to Sam, but.

1025
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 3: Maybe he's just been waiting for the shot for ten

1026
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 3: years and he's going to want to draft his guy.

1027
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 3: And the Commanders currently have the fourth pick in the draft,

1028
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 3: and a new owner probably wouldn't mind either making a

1029
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 3: quarterback selection at number four or even trading up to

1030
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 3: two or one with maybe Chicago if he wants the

1031
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 3: perfect quarterback to compliment his new head coach. I don't

1032
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 3: think Sam Howell has a chance to be the Commander's

1033
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 3: starter next year.

1034
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: I would say I think not a chance is a

1035
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: little strong, but I'm with you. I think the answer

1036
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: here is no. I'm a little rattled over the past

1037
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: couple of weeks where Sam has looked Haggard and I

1038
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: guess when you absorb fifty nine sacks. Maybe the season

1039
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: is eventually gonna it's gonna beat beat you down, which

1040
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: has happened to him. You know part of it though,

1041
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: as a Sam Howell apologist. Washington has lost these last

1042
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: five games, which is bad. They've given up twenty nine points,

1043
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: thirty one points, forty five points, forty five points, and

1044
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: twenty eight points. And people are pinning these losses on Howel.

1045
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: It's just like it's just like last year with Kirk Cousins. Right,

1046
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: defense is giving up these massive leads and opposing defenses

1047
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,439
Speaker 1: know that Howel's gonna pass zero thread of a running game.

1048
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: But the Jacobey Brissett, you know, like last third of

1049
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: that game kind of rattled me a little bit, and

1050
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: he came in and just powered that offense. It was

1051
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: garbage time. But I think Matt's fundamentally right. New owner

1052
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: Josh Harris is gonna replace everybody. You didn't mention the GM.

1053
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,959
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna replace Martin Mayhew as well, and that GM.

1054
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: You know, new gms and coaches want their quarterback. They

1055
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: want to pick their guy. And when you picked fourth

1056
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: in the draft and a deep quarterback draft, you're gonna

1057
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: get You're gonna somebody you like. So I think the

1058
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: odds are that Sam Howell's not the starting quarterback for

1059
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: the Commanders, and it makes me sad.

1060
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 3: Ah, Well, maybe let's go to our next to MAT's

1061
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 3: squeally Howl next year.

1062
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: Well that's true, let's go. Uh, let's go back to matchups.

1063
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: Jacksonville taking on Tampa Bay, Matt, this is uh, let's

1064
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to start with the running game, since the

1065
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: passing game, you know it's it's CJ. Bethard, so probably

1066
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: so that probably doesn't bode very well. Travis Etn, who

1067
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 1: powered teams in the first half of the season, has

1068
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: struggled significantly in the second. What do you expect here

1069
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay.

1070
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got him just as a C grade in

1071
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 3: this one. Over the last three weeks, he's had eleven,

1072
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 3: fourteen and ten carries. Well, he has scored in two

1073
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 3: of the past three games. He hasn't topped forty five

1074
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 3: yards in that span, and the matchup is just horrible.

1075
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 3: Tampa's allowed only five rushing scorers to a running back

1076
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 3: this season. Only four running backs have topped seventy yards

1077
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 3: all season against the Bucks. So it's just a C

1078
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 3: for etn. On the passing side, as you mentioned, charge

1079
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence has an ankle injury that he's been playing

1080
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 3: through for a couple weeks, and he's also in the

1081
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 3: concussion protocol. If he's unable to clear that, we get CJ. Bethard.

1082
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: If Lawrence is able to go, I do love this

1083
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 3: matchup for him. The Bucks are allowing two hundred eighty

1084
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 3: two yards per game, what's the second most in the league.

1085
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 3: And since Lawrence does run a little bit, it's worth

1086
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 3: noting that the Bucks have given up the second most

1087
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 3: quarterback rushing touchdowns this year at six. So if Lawrence goes,

1088
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 3: I'll give him an A grade. They play Sunday afternoon,

1089
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 3: and if you have to decide between Lawrence and one

1090
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 3: of the Saturday guys, I think it's probably worth picking

1091
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 3: up Bethard as an insurance policy. I think I'd give

1092
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 3: Bethard a C grade in for the matchup alone. But

1093
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 3: as for the receivers, I'm going to grade them out

1094
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 3: as if Lawrence was playing. If it's Bethor drop them

1095
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 3: a letter grade. Okay, Calvin Ridley gets an A or

1096
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 3: a Bethard B Wow. Brandon Ayuk, Michael Pittman, Drake London

1097
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 3: Dontavian Wicks all had huge days against Tampa's secondary in

1098
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 3: the last month, and with Christian kirk on Ir and

1099
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 3: Zay Jones looking like a game time decision at best,

1100
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 3: Ridley becomes a huge focal point in a good matchup.

1101
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 3: Ridley had thirty percent of the team's targets last week

1102
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 3: and it's probably a similar number this week. Evan Ingram

1103
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 3: gets an A or a Bethard B. He's just a

1104
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 3: week removed from twelve targets as well, and Tampa's allowed

1105
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 3: the fifth most receptions and receiving yards to the tight

1106
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 3: end position, and after twelve weeks of no scoring, he's

1107
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 3: got three touchdowns in the last three weeks.

1108
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 4: But that's it for the Jaguars.

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00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 3: Let's go over to the Tampa side, where Rashad White

1110
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 3: is the highest priced running back on DraftKings for the

1111
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 3: Sunday Slave.

1112
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 4: Wow, what a world we live in.

1113
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 5: He's my number one ranked.

1114
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, he gets an A grade this week. Jags are

1115
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 3: actually good against the run, top seven and yards per carry,

1116
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 3: rush yards and rushing scores allowed, but they're bottom three

1117
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 3: in receptions and receiving yards allowed to opposing backs, and

1118
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 3: the Bucks have given White at least two receptions in

1119
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,720
Speaker 3: every game this year, and they I've seen him garner

1120
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 3: at least five receptions four different times this year. Ten

1121
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 3: different running backs have got to the five reception mark

1122
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 3: against Jacksonville just this year, and they're allowing almost seven

1123
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:14,240
Speaker 3: receptions per game to the running back position. So, especially

1124
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 3: in a PPR league, he's a definite A. If you're

1125
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 3: in some sort of weird non PPR league, it's probably.

1126
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 4: Just a C.

1127
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 3: But the A for PPR for touchdown your touchdown only league,

1128
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 3: Oh yuck. Mike Evans gets an A grade. He scored

1129
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 3: a touchdown in ten games this year. He has not

1130
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 3: scored a touchdown in four games this year, and the

1131
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 3: Jaguars have allowed the fifth most touchdowns to wide receivers.

1132
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 3: Chris Godwin hasn't practiced yet this week with a knee injury,

1133
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 3: but had the same injury last week and then played

1134
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 3: and then oh, by the way, saw twelve targets ten

1135
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 3: catches in one hundred and fifty yards last week. I'm

1136
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 3: sure this is more veteran maintenance for the.

1137
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 4: VET in Tampa.

1138
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 3: The Jags have also allowed the ninth most receiving yards

1139
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 3: to opposing wideouts. So if Godwin is active, he could

1140
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 3: a B grade. That's a much closer to an A.

1141
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 3: I'd call it a B plus if Chart was here.

1142
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: Oh wait, oh boy, I'm at home.

1143
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 4: I can't do any you can't do anything. Sorry, no

1144
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 4: fake across the Death from strad exactly.

1145
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 3: You could throw a dart at Kate Otten this week too,

1146
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 3: but it's just a C for him. The Jags have

1147
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 3: allowed the fourth most receiving yards to opposing tight ends

1148
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 3: this season, and Baker Mayfield had a perfect passer rating

1149
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 3: last week in lambeau Field. It's the first time of

1150
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 3: visiting quarterback has ever done that in lambeau Field sixty

1151
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 3: six years as the Packers home. I'm giving him an

1152
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 3: A grade this week for a lot of the reasons

1153
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 3: I liked his wide receivers. In the last month, the

1154
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 3: Jags have allowed three hundred eleven yards and three scores

1155
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,479
Speaker 3: to Joe Flacco, three point fifty four and a score

1156
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 3: to Jake Browning and three oh four and two to c. J.

1157
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 4: Stroud. Let's keep the Baker bus rolling, all right.

1158
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna work in one quickie with Arizona in Chicago.

1159
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: Not a lot to talk about here. As you can imagine,

1160
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: with these offenses, Trey McBride, though, is just becoming an

1161
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: ob tight ends against the Bears are seeing the sixth

1162
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: most targets and the third most receptions in the twelfth

1163
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: most yards and he's just dominating right now. So we're

1164
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: gonna stick with Drey McBride as an a. The only

1165
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,439
Speaker 1: other guy with a letter grade, James Connor, comes in hot,

1166
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: but there's a very tough matchup against Chicago. No runner

1167
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: has topped eighty yards against the Bears all year, and

1168
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: since Week five, opposing runners averaging just fifty four yards

1169
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: per game. That is nothing. Chicago gives up a lot

1170
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: of receptions, but James Connor, get this, he hasn't topped

1171
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: five receiving yards since Week three. That's it. So zero

1172
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: participant in the receiving game startable only on volume here

1173
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: in a C grade for him. The rest of the

1174
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: passing games on the bench, Kyler Murray is averaging zero

1175
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: point eight touchdown passes per game and his only reliable receiver,

1176
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: Markis Brown has been ruled out, so they are nothing

1177
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: to like there. And on the Chicago side, got a

1178
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: couple of A grades for you, Justin Fields would have

1179
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: had a mind sins game last week had Robert Tunyan

1180
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: and Darneld Mooney not dropped easily catchuple long bombs. Arizona

1181
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: has allowed multiple thank you touchdowns in three of the

1182
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: last four games, and two of those quarterbacks three for

1183
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: four scores. Cardinals have only faced one mobile quarterback that

1184
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: was Lamar Jackson, who they held to seventeen yards, which

1185
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: is impressive, but they've given a four quarterback rushing touchdowns.

1186
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: Field could score here, although we haven't gotten a lot

1187
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: of rushing touchdowns out of fields this year. DJ Moore

1188
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: another a grade for the Cardinals. Even after they've benched

1189
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: weekly roasty cornerback Marco Wilson, they still have got the

1190
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: worst set of starting cornerbacks in the league and DJ

1191
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: Moore very positive matchups no matter where he lines up,

1192
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: and he lines up all over the field. He's a

1193
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: deep ball specialist and Arizona gives up the fifth most

1194
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 1: receptions of forty or more yards, so easily easily easy

1195
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 1: to see a big play coming here. Moore's been targeted

1196
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: at least nine times since Justin Fields return from injury

1197
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: in Week number one. The only other part of the

1198
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: receiving game. You might care about Cole Comet. He's got

1199
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: a quad injury. You want to check his status. He's

1200
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: shaping up his game time decision over the past seven games,

1201
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: averaging that have very healthy six catches for forty seven

1202
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: yards and importantly the second most receptions from inside the

1203
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: ten yard line, and he scored the second most touchdowns

1204
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: from inside the ten yard line. In previous years, Arizona

1205
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,439
Speaker 1: was terrible against tight ends, but that's all changed this year.

1206
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: They give up the second fewest receptions and the second

1207
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: fewest yards to tight ends, just thirty eight. So I

1208
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: can only get you to a C grade on col Comet.

1209
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 4: And lastly, Don.

1210
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: De Foreman was might take a chance on me runner.

1211
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: I already talked about him. I like him here this

1212
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: week expected to go in a weird situation where he

1213
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: didn't practice Friday for reasons that were just listed as personal.

1214
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: But whatever, you should be able to go here, and

1215
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: I kind of like his opportunity. And I've got a

1216
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: B grade on Don de Foreman. When we come back,

1217
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: Cleveland takes on Houston. Joe Flacco hop we already talked

1218
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: about that. Some Scott will bring us through the rest

1219
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: of the matchup when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly.

1220
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: Welcome back to a semi finals edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.

1221
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 1: Six more juicy matchups to break down for you, beginning

1222
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: with Cleveland Houston. Scott, you already tipped your hand earlier

1223
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: in this show that you are very high on David

1224
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: and Joko. He's my number two ranked tight end this week.

1225
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: What do you love about it?

1226
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, since week seven, he is averaging fifteen point

1227
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 5: five points per game, twenty five percent target share in

1228
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 5: that offense, leads tight ends in targets inside the five six,

1229
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 5: plus catches in five of the last six, scoring three

1230
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 5: times in the last two games. And he's facing a

1231
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 5: Houston team allowing the second most receptions, third most yards

1232
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 5: and fourth and is overall fourth worst against tight ends.

1233
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 5: It's just a smash spot for a guy who is

1234
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 5: just exploding, especially with Joe Flacco. Might take a chance

1235
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,840
Speaker 5: on me quarterback at the helm. Also in the passing game,

1236
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 5: Amari Cooper, I'm giving a B grade two. He has

1237
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 5: seen his target skyrocket as well, with Flacco pulling in

1238
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 5: twenty two targets in the last two games. You'll remember

1239
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 5: that first Flaco game of Flacco's three games, Amari Cooper

1240
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 5: went out and Elijah Moore got hyper targeted with twelve targets.

1241
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 5: Since Stefanski mentioned in the post game that's because Cooper

1242
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 5: went out. Now we're seeing what Cooper's doing with that

1243
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 5: huge volume. He'll be the number one option.

1244
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 4: All number one up.

1245
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 5: Most of the number one options against the Houston Texans

1246
01:03:57,080 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 5: have seen seventy two plus yards, almost all of them

1247
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 5: double digit PPR days. So I got a B grade here.

1248
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 5: You could talk me more into an A, but I'm

1249
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 5: gonna stick with a B. I think it's a little safer.

1250
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 5: I do have the run game on the bench. I

1251
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 5: know Houston's a mill of the pack run dye mostly

1252
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 5: to being bottom seven. But you know those nine to

1253
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 5: ten extra dropbacks Joe Flacco's taking, they're coming away from

1254
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 5: the run games, and the Ford is splitting Jerome. Ford

1255
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 5: is splitting with Kareem Hunt and Pierre Strong. So if

1256
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 5: you're only taking half of a possible twenty touches in

1257
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 5: the middle of the pack matchup, the only backs that

1258
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 5: have really tagged Houston are high volume, Ford's not gonna

1259
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 5: get it. I have a bench grade on all the

1260
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 5: runners over there. Over on the Houston side. I'm sorry,

1261
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 5: Case Keenum. I still love you for the Minneapolis miracle,

1262
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 5: but I got you on the bench.

1263
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 4: It's a Case Keenum revenge game, though they're.

1264
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 5: All revenge goes at this point. For Case Keenum, come on,

1265
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 5: he gets the fourth toughest jog against fantasy quarterbacks. That

1266
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 5: brownstee is no joke, allowing the fewest passing yards. I

1267
01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 5: got Keenum on the bench. Nico Collins is trending hords

1268
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 5: going with that calf injury. I missed, missed the first

1269
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 5: few practices of the week, but then started practicing. If

1270
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,880
Speaker 5: he goes, I expect him to go back to his

1271
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 5: hyper volume met volume work with Case Keenum in there

1272
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 5: seven plus catches in his three last three fully healthy games.

1273
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 5: It's not a tough draw though. I mean it's not

1274
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 5: an easy draw though. The Cleveland Brown's top six and receptions,

1275
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 5: yards and touchdowns alloted to wide receivers. So just to

1276
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 5: C grade there, if he does not go, I give

1277
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 5: that C grade to no Brown because we saw last

1278
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 5: week Keenum sent all those targets right over to Noah

1279
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 5: Brown and he became the de facto one. As for

1280
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 5: tight ends, Dalton Schultz. He's also getting a C grade.

1281
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 5: You look at that number one ranked defense against tight

1282
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 5: ends with the Cleveland Browns and it does look a

1283
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 5: little scary, But Keen Keenum targets the tight ends. Last week,

1284
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 5: schultzaw four catches for fifty nine yards, with second in

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01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 5: targets on the team. Browns have allowed four tight end

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01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 5: scores in just last four weeks, including three very decent

1287
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 5: tight end day So all those tight ends that they

1288
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 5: stopped were early in the year. They've led it up recently.

1289
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 5: So a C grade on Dalton Schultz and a B

1290
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 5: grade on Damian Pierce. I'm just Kadie Josh. I'm sorry.

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01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 5: I didn't mean to do that.

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01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 1: A B grade hurts and it's very personal. I don't

1293
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: know why you would do that.

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01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 5: B grade on Devin Singletary. Forty three touches in the

1295
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 5: last two games, including thirty last week with Keenum in

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01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:26,919
Speaker 5: it tells you they just want to run the ball

1297
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 5: a little bit more. With him in there, you keep

1298
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 5: it in his hands instead of Keenums. Perhaps only one

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01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 5: back under fifteen touches topped seventy yards against the defense,

1300
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 5: but I think he might get over over seventy yards.

1301
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 5: By the way, the one back who tops seventy yards

1302
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 5: with under fifteen touches against the Browns Jalen Warren twice.

1303
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 5: He's just cele efficient. It's a top ten run dye,

1304
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 5: but I think the volume is going to get him there.

1305
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 5: I got a B grade on him. On Devin Singletary.

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01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 1: All right, let's go over to Dallas taking on Myami

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01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: Matt and at this point Dak Prescott ceedee lamb. Just

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01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: feel like in every week A grade.

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01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you survived the Dak Prescott goose egg

1310
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 3: last week with one hundred and thirty four passing scores

1311
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 3: and no touchdown passes, you've built yourself a fantasy jugger.

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01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 4: Not really.

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01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 3: In the prior twenty two game or prior seven games,

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01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 3: he was averaging three point three touchdown passes per game,

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01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 3: and in five of those seven he got to at

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01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 3: least two undred ninety nine yards. Miami is okay against

1317
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 3: the pass I don't see how you could bench Dak

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01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 3: right now. I'm giving him an A grade in the

1319
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 3: highest over under of the week. But it is worth

1320
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 3: noting that offensive lineman Tyron Smith and Zach Martin both

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01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 3: haven't practiced yet this week. Due to injuries. I think

1322
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 3: both might suit up, but if both of them missed,

1323
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 3: it's probably enough to downgrade Dak to like a B plus,

1324
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 3: and if Dak gets an a CD, Lamb gets an A.

1325
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 3: He's ran from the slot about sixty percent of the

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01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 3: time this year, which means he's going to get the

1327
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 3: best matchup most often against Dolphin slot corner Cater Kohu,

1328
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 3: which leaves Brandon Cooks and Michael Gallups seeing a lot

1329
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 3: of Jalen Ramsey and Xavian Howard. Cooks and Gallop each

1330
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 3: move around quite a bit, and Howard stays on the left,

1331
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 3: Ramsey to the right, So I'll give Cooks a C

1332
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 3: grade in this one. That's likely because it's a shootout.

1333
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 3: Gallop on the bench, though Jake Ferguson gets a be

1334
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 3: kind of a C grade. He's seen exactly eight targets

1335
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:24,559
Speaker 3: in three straight games, with an average line of six

1336
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 3: receptions sixty four yards, and he had one score in there.

1337
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 3: Although the Dolphins have only allowed three tight end touchdowns

1338
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 3: on the season and none since Week seven, so that's

1339
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 3: why I want to give him a BEE. But it's

1340
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 3: on the matchup alone. It's kind of a C. Tony

1341
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 3: Pollard probably sees a slight uptick in his work this

1342
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 3: week with Rico Doubtel injured and limited all week with

1343
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 3: an ankle. The problem is, unless Pollard scores, he's killing

1344
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 3: your team. He's had four games where he's scored this

1345
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 3: year and is averaging twenty PPR points in those games.

1346
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 3: In the ten he hasn't scored in, he's averaging only

1347
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 3: eleven PPR points per game in Miami's only allowed three

1348
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 3: total running back touchdowns in the last seven games. So

1349
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 3: it's just a C grade on Tony Pollard. And if

1350
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 3: his offensive lineman don't go, he's on the bench. Over

1351
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 3: on the Dolphin side, Tyreek Hill limited all week. They

1352
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 3: didn't need him to beat the Jets last week, but

1353
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,839
Speaker 3: I think they will suit him up to beat Dallas

1354
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 3: and if he's if he's active, he's an A grade.

1355
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 3: Jalen Wattle gets an A as well. The Cowboys have

1356
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 3: look look like they have a tough matchup on paper,

1357
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 3: but much of that was against some pretty bad quarterback

1358
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:35,679
Speaker 3: wide receiver combos this year. Courtland Sutton, Stefan Diggs, Adam Thielen,

1359
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 3: aj Brown, Devonte Adams, Garrett Wilson, DeAndre Hopkins all had

1360
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 3: really good days against the Cowboys d So I'm not

1361
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 3: scared there, you know.

1362
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: I With Wattle, it's I always feel like when Hill plays,

1363
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, he has that dud game where

1364
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: just Hill just dominates box scores. And maybe because he'll's

1365
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent, Wattle is more safe. But I

1366
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: always feel like I can't trust Waddle at the A

1367
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:00,080
Speaker 1: level when when he'll play.

1368
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still gonna trust him, just based on we

1369
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 3: don't know if Tyreek hills one hundred percent and maybe

1370
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 3: he tweaks that ankle a little bit and suddenly Jalen

1371
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 3: Waddle's the focal point in which should be a shootout

1372
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 3: if Tyreek and Waddle are a's. In my mind, Tua

1373
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 3: is as well. Gino Smith and Sam Howell each topped

1374
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:19,759
Speaker 3: three hundred yards against Dallas in the last four weeks.

1375
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 3: Raheem Mostert is a must start, especially after James Cook

1376
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 3: exposed this Cowboys defense to the tune of twenty five

1377
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 3: carries one hundred and seventy nine yards and a score

1378
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 3: on the ground, plus two receptions forty two yards and

1379
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 3: another score through the air.

1380
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 4: That was just last week.

1381
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 3: Mostart's seeing about ten more snaps per game and about

1382
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 3: five more rushing attempts over Devon ah Chan right now

1383
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 3: over just the last three weeks, although ah Chan has

1384
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 3: been leading in targets over that time at sixteen to

1385
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 3: four over Mostert. However, Dallas is the number one defense

1386
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 3: in the league against running back receptions. They only allow three,

1387
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 3: and a Chan is dealing with a toe injury. It's

1388
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 3: caused him to mispractice time both last week and this week,

1389
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 3: So Moster gets an A grade. A Chan, I'm given

1390
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 3: just a C because I think this matchup just favors

1391
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 3: Mostart a lot more.

1392
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: Okay, when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, plenty

1393
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: more games to get to, including the Kansas City Chiefs

1394
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 1: that used to be certain starters but not necessarily anymore.

1395
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelcey possibly benching in the playoffs. It

1396
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: sounds absurd. You may have better options. We'll talk it

1397
01:11:35,760 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: through when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly Final

1398
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: Segment Fantasy Football Weekly Semi Finals edition. Let's hope you're

1399
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: listening next week. I have that'd be the best.

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01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 5: Let's get to those two.

1401
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: I want you to get there, Yes, yeah, we'd love championships.

1402
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 1: You never remember the money, you remember the winning. That's

1403
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:23,839
Speaker 1: that's always the best part. We have three games on Monday,

1404
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, and you've still got a Sunday matchup to

1405
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 1: get through. Let's advance to Las Vegas Kansas City. This

1406
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:37,439
Speaker 1: is the earliest of the Christmas Day games. Josh Jacob's

1407
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,200
Speaker 1: status as of the moment we're recording this still unknown.

1408
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: You return to practice on Friday. In the old days,

1409
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 1: you would worry about the Chiefs, like getting ahead by

1410
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: twenty one and a half, and then the game script

1411
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 1: is such that you couldn't help you know, runners couldn't

1412
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 1: help you anymore. But that's that is not the Kansas

1413
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: City Chiefs anymore. And Josh Jacobs against Kansas City a

1414
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: month ago twenty four touches one hundred and twenty three

1415
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown. Chiefs give up four point seven

1416
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: yards per carry to opposing running backs. That is second

1417
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: worst in the league, and they've got the second worst

1418
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 1: run stop win rate. So, Josh Jacobs, if you were

1419
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: fully healthy, I'd give him an A. But even with

1420
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: the quad injury, I'll just I'll knock him down one

1421
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: letter to a B. The receivers you care about are

1422
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 1: DeVonta Adams and Jacoby Myers. Let's talk that through because

1423
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:24,599
Speaker 1: it's really fascinating. Adams was held to a modest game

1424
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,839
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. In that game a month ago, seven catches,

1425
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: seventy three yards, did not score. Good game, not great game,

1426
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:35,639
Speaker 1: difficult matchup on the outside because Lagerius Sneid is emerging

1427
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:37,799
Speaker 1: as one of the best young cornerbacks in the league.

1428
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 1: He hasn't allowed to score all year. He shadowed Adams

1429
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: in the previous game, giving up sixty six of the

1430
01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 1: seventy three yards that Adams did get. So that is

1431
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 1: a lot as a big game by Snead standards to

1432
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: give up sixty six yards. But it kind of tells

1433
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: you can get something out of Adams here, but probably

1434
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 1: not an explosive game. I can only get you to

1435
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: a B grade on DeVante Adams. Now, Myers is really

1436
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: fascinating because in this matchup last month he got more

1437
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: yards than Adams. He got a touchdown that Adams didn't

1438
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: get because he didn't have to see Legerius Snead. Same

1439
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 1: thing coming here in all probability. In the previous game,

1440
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:21,719
Speaker 1: six different Chiefs defenders were on to Kobe Myers. Total

1441
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: boomer Bus play here, but the opportunities are going to

1442
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: be there for Myers with a lot worse coverage than

1443
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: what Adams get. So boomer Buss guy, if you're like

1444
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 1: already behind because you're playing against I don't Matthew Stafford

1445
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: pookin a cool or whatever. Jacoby Myers intriguing play all

1446
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: right on the Kansas City side. We're at a stage

1447
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:43,600
Speaker 1: now where Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey are merely B

1448
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:48,799
Speaker 1: grades and that's it. Get this for Patrick Mahomes. Twenty

1449
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 1: five quarterbacks have posted three touchdown games more recently than

1450
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes did back in Week seven. Unbelievable that we're

1451
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: talking about this now. Last time when these when these

1452
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: teams met a month ago, he put up two hundred

1453
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: and ninety eight yards and two scores. It's totally solid numbers.

1454
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: And I think that's the same range you're gonna get here.

1455
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: The Raiders haven't seen many good passers, but they generally

1456
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 1: end up giving up in the high two hundreds for

1457
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: yards and they generally giving up around two scores. That

1458
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 1: sounds about right for Mahomes. Here for Kelsey, where she

1459
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:25,719
Speaker 1: Rice's emergence maybe taking a lot of targets away from Kelsey.

1460
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: Rice runs from the slot through the middle of the

1461
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: field that's in the past has been like exclusively Travis

1462
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 1: Kelcey territory, and over the last four weeks, Kelsey has

1463
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 1: only seen seven targets and five receptions per game. Those

1464
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 1: are low numbers for him. Now he has had at

1465
01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 1: least eighty targets in three of those games, so you know,

1466
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: the productivity is still okay. Raiders, though, have been strong

1467
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 1: against tight ends, not allowing more than fifty seven yards

1468
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: other than the ninety one yards the Kelsey put up

1469
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: in Week twelve. For ra she Rice a grade. Yes,

1470
01:15:58,080 --> 01:15:59,560
Speaker 1: I'm delighted that it's come to this.

1471
01:15:59,800 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1472
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: Over his last four games, fourth in yards among wide

1473
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: receivers while scoring three times in those four games. The

1474
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 1: Chiefs lead the league in drops, but not because of Rice.

1475
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: He's got an eighty percent catch rate, The highest mark

1476
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: for a rookie receiver with seventy or more targets in

1477
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: the last thirty years is wow. I love it. Rice

1478
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: has orchestrated his best game of the season against Vegas

1479
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:25,559
Speaker 1: in Week twelve. Eight catches, one hundred and seven yards

1480
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:27,800
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. He runs from the slot a lot.

1481
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: That puts him up against Nate Hobbs, who allows us

1482
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 1: seventy eight percent catch rate, and Hobbs gave up Rice's

1483
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: touchdown in the previous meeting. So I love her. She

1484
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: Rice here? Yeah, oh great.

1485
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 5: That previous meeting was kind of his breakout game. By

1486
01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,640
Speaker 5: the way, She right was second in yards after the

1487
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 5: catch per reception, only behind Deebo'. That's I love it. Yeah,

1488
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 5: love it. He needs it with a three yard eight

1489
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 5: ot though.

1490
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:52,200
Speaker 1: Well that is true. You gotta you better do something

1491
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: after the catch at that point. Yeh Iszam Pacheco is

1492
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 1: going to return to this game. Medically cleared last week,

1493
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: but the team decided to play its IF and they

1494
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: sat him, and so he should be near one hundred

1495
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: percent health. He's gonna be rested and ready for the

1496
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:08,839
Speaker 1: Monday game. He's posted a career high two scores against

1497
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: the Raiders in the previous game, and the Raiders allow

1498
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: the seventh most total yards to opposing running backs. But

1499
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: I'll cost that is. Receiving numbers are way down. He's

1500
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: averaging just nine receiving yards over the last five games,

1501
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 1: although Jerrick McKinnon may not go with a groin injury,

1502
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 1: so that might give him a couple extra catches. All right,

1503
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: let's move over to our next game, which is the

1504
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: Giants taking on Philadelphia. Scott Saquon Barkley major bummer last week.

1505
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: Do you put him in your lineup against a good

1506
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: Eagles run defense.

1507
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really tough. At best, it's probably your volume

1508
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:45,919
Speaker 5: see alert. He has been averaging fifteen touches with Devido

1509
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 5: in but in the blowout last week, split snaps with

1510
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 5: Braida and Brada got a third of the touches. Game

1511
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 5: script is going to be a thing. But with Barkley, Walker, Dowdell, Pollard, CMC, Cook,

1512
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,799
Speaker 5: Pacheco all had decent and days in recent weeks against

1513
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 5: the Philly Rundy that was awesome, like top five for

1514
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 5: most of the year, but the last four or four

1515
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 5: or five weeks they've been tagged a little bit. So

1516
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him the volume C in the past

1517
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 5: grade that pass game. I actually have some grades here.

1518
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 5: I'm giving Tommy DeVito a C. Philly is the second

1519
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,960
Speaker 5: best matchup for quarterbacks, and the game script should have

1520
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 5: him passing more. His really good passing day with the

1521
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:26,679
Speaker 5: three touchdowns was against that also very poor Washington pass

1522
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,680
Speaker 5: d so it's a little bit comparable. I'll give him

1523
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 5: the C grade here. I'm giving a B grade to

1524
01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 5: Darren Waller has played seven full games. In those seven

1525
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 5: full games, he had six or more targets in all

1526
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 5: but one. And despite playing a full game last week,

1527
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 5: he only played twenty six snaps, but he had four

1528
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 5: for forty in those twenty six snaps. Once he's closer

1529
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 5: to you know, ninety percent of the snaps, should have

1530
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 5: a much bigger game here. I am given a C

1531
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 5: grade as well to wan Dale Robinson. I really have

1532
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 5: trouble giving grades to New York Giants wide receivers at all.

1533
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:01,759
Speaker 5: But if you're really, really, really really in a pinch,

1534
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:05,560
Speaker 5: Eagles allow the most slot points yards and second most targets.

1535
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 5: It's it's just a really good spots. The Giants very

1536
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 5: who the leading receiver is, but Robinson has been the

1537
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 5: consistent one, you know, three to five catches most weeks.

1538
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,200
Speaker 5: It's just it's it's a great matchup where he plays

1539
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 5: eighty percent of the time in the slot. Over on

1540
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 5: the other side, Jalen Hurts and A J. Brown are

1541
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 5: getting a's. I don't know how much I have to

1542
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 5: go into them with a J. Brown's only had a

1543
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 5: couple duds, and it's lagarious need in one other DeVonta Smith.

1544
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 5: If he goes, and mind you, he did not practice Wednesday,

1545
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 5: Thursday or Friday, he's questionable.

1546
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:41,839
Speaker 4: Do they need him to beat the Giants?

1547
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:42,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

1548
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: He may not gooff.

1549
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 5: If he goes, I have a B grade on him.

1550
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 5: If he doesn't go, I have a B grade on

1551
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 5: Dallas godd or Dallas Goddard'll get a see if Davonta smits, goes.

1552
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 5: But we have talked about this for two years. When

1553
01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:00,280
Speaker 5: Davonta Smith and Goddard are tied, it's like the vlume

1554
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 5: goes to the other one when the one when the

1555
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 5: one is out. So I will give the B grade

1556
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 5: to Dallas Goddard, assuming Davanta Smith doesn't go. Thirteen targets

1557
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 5: in his last two games since returning, not a whole

1558
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:14,640
Speaker 5: lot of volume, but he'll get a little more with this.

1559
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 5: And the Giants just allowed two tight end scores last

1560
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:20,719
Speaker 5: week and a Tucker craft bit decent day the week before.

1561
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:23,680
Speaker 5: In the run game, I'm only giving a grade to

1562
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 5: DeAndre Swift. Since his breakout against Minnesota, he's been very,

1563
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 5: very pedestrian, but he's still getting fifteen to twenty touches.

1564
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,799
Speaker 5: Hurtz keeps stealing the touchdowns. I'm gonna give him the volume.

1565
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 5: C I expect more running this game as they Philly

1566
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 5: pulls ahead and they just run later. I don't think

1567
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 5: I can give anything to Kenneth Gaywell gain Well, and

1568
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:50,120
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna start Boston Scott do the accent despite

1569
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:52,799
Speaker 5: him scoring in all nine games.

1570
01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:57,520
Speaker 4: Come on, come on, he's played Boston Scott.

1571
01:20:57,120 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 5: Now, including the playoff game. He's got ten touchdowns in

1572
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,760
Speaker 5: nine games against the Giants. I just can't do it.

1573
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:04,720
Speaker 5: He's got You don't think that.

1574
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 1: If so, let's he just set this up. No, they're

1575
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: at the goal line where they would normally do a twist,

1576
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:15,760
Speaker 1: two cheek, sneak or whatever. Yes, you don't. You don't

1577
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:22,679
Speaker 1: think Nick Sirianni Boston Scott. I heard do what he's

1578
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 1: done every time.

1579
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 5: If you're if you're balls enough, go for If you're

1580
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 5: desperate enough and balls enough, you might get six point

1581
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 5: one points.

1582
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 3: It could just be a blowout to and and they

1583
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 3: might want to not give Swift all the touches.

1584
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:37,679
Speaker 5: That's very true, very true.

1585
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: When we lose a touchdown out of Jalen Hurts box

1586
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 1: score because of this, it's going to be a major bummer,

1587
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: really will be. It's that it's not about Boston Scott.

1588
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 1: It's about Jalen Hurts losing a rushing touchdown and that

1589
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: that would worry me a little bit. Yeah, that part's

1590
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 1: a bummer. New England takes on Denver. Matt I got

1591
01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott's right now sitting at run back five. I

1592
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: think you've already touched on the positivity of that matchup.

1593
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:05,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is.

1594
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 3: Might take a chance on your runner. I should say,

1595
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 3: very solid A grade in this one, Hunter Henry the

1596
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:14,920
Speaker 3: only part of the passing game you could consider. He

1597
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 3: gets a C grade against Denver, who's bottom four in

1598
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 3: receptions and yards to the tight end position, and they've

1599
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 3: given up the most tight end touchdowns this year with

1600
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,680
Speaker 3: nine of those. So Hunter Henry C grade if you

1601
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 3: need him on the Broncos side. I'm not feeling a

1602
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 3: huge Russell Wilson week this week. He's topped two hundred

1603
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 3: and fifty passing yards only once in his last eleven games,

1604
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 3: and he's thrown for exactly one touchdown and four of

1605
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 3: his last five. What's kept his fantasy managers afloat is

1606
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 3: that he's ran for a score in three of the

1607
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 3: last four games. The Patriots have only allowed two rushing

1608
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 3: scores to a quarterback all season, and four of the

1609
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 3: last five quarterbacks they faced have had two hundred and

1610
01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 3: twelve or fewer yards and one or zero touchdown passes.

1611
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:02,640
Speaker 3: So just a SEA grade for Wilson Courtland. Sutton is

1612
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:05,120
Speaker 3: kind of like the AFC version of Mike Evans. He's

1613
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 3: scored in ten games this year and not scored in four.

1614
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 3: I'll throw him a B grade as the Pats present

1615
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 3: a slightly better than average matchup for wide receivers. They've

1616
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 3: allowed the ninth most receptions to the wide receivers at

1617
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 3: about fourteen per game, and they do allow about a

1618
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 3: touchdown per game to the position. Who do you think

1619
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:26,839
Speaker 3: that goes to. It's gonna be Sutton. Finally, Javonte Williams

1620
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 3: is still getting most of the work, but his shares

1621
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 3: have been cut into recently by Jalil McLoughlin and samaj

1622
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:37,920
Speaker 3: p Ryin. The problem is Williams only good Fantasy Day

1623
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 3: in the last month came against the Chargers, who are

1624
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 3: a terrible run defense, and the Patriots are not terrible

1625
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 3: at this They're second best in the league at yards

1626
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 3: per carry at three point two. They're only allowing one

1627
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 3: hundred and seven combo yards per game to the position,

1628
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,639
Speaker 3: which is sixth best in the league. And if Williams

1629
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 3: gets about sixty percent of the touches here, he's looking

1630
01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 3: at like a sixty five yard game and his chances

1631
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 3: of a touchdown are a coin flip at best. So

1632
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 3: just a C grade for Williams.

1633
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,520
Speaker 1: All right, final matchup the Monday nighter Super Bowl preview,

1634
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 1: maybe Baltimore at San Francisco. Let's start with Let's start

1635
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. You know, for San Francisco, every opposing

1636
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 1: quarterback with six or more carries has scored a rushing

1637
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 1: touchdown or top forty three yards. So Jackson's gonna help

1638
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 1: you on the ground here can good passers generally fare

1639
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: pretty well against the Niners. Matthew Stafford, Dak Prescott, Kirk, Cousins,

1640
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts average tw hundred and eighty four

1641
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: yards and one and a half touchdowns. The question is

1642
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:40,680
Speaker 1: is Lamar Jackson in their category in their strata. I

1643
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: don't think he's quite there, And every other passer besides

1644
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:48,480
Speaker 1: those elite level passers only post two hundred and nineteen

1645
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 1: yards and zero point eight touchdowns per game. Now where

1646
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: he could help you out his volume, forty nine ers

1647
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: see the second most passes thirty eight per game. Distill

1648
01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:59,200
Speaker 1: all that into one letter grade, then we've got to

1649
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: be on the mo Jackson A see on Zay Flowers

1650
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:05,560
Speaker 1: as the go to receiver for this offense. Leading the

1651
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 1: team in targets over the last three weeks, forty nine

1652
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: ers have allowed the third most receptions to opposing receivers.

1653
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: Zay lines up all over the field and his matchups

1654
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: on the outside are difficult, but he's got this path

1655
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: of least resistance in the slot against Isaiah Oliver, which

1656
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: is very positive among all cornerbacks who's played at least

1657
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:26,839
Speaker 1: three hundred snaps. Oliver's giving up an eighty nine percent

1658
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: catch rate that is the worst in the league. So

1659
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 1: I like Flowers out of the slot. Here an opportunity

1660
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:36,599
Speaker 1: to start him. Odell Beckham had an inexplicable dud last

1661
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: week in a far easier matchup, but I don't know.

1662
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,560
Speaker 1: Maybe startable if you believe the Ravens are going to

1663
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 1: be passing from behind throughout the game. The forty nine

1664
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:48,640
Speaker 1: ers see the third most wide receiver targets and the

1665
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: second most wide receiver reception, so you know he might

1666
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:57,200
Speaker 1: be startable, particularly if Niners cornerback Deamador Lenor does not

1667
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: play and he's questionable, then I think you could give

1668
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: a throw to Odell Beckham, but that's it. Isaiah likely

1669
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: touchdowns in consecutive games. Tough matchup, though, Niners allowing just

1670
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 1: forty seven yards and five receptions per game to tight

1671
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:14,800
Speaker 1: ends thanks to the large part to Fred Warner, who's

1672
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 1: obviously great. He's Pro Football Focused's fourth best rated coverage linebacker,

1673
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 1: and before they allowed Trey McBride to go for a

1674
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: one hundred yards last week, tight ends have only gotten

1675
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: over fifty yards twice this season, but McBride did hit

1676
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 1: him for one hundred, so Isaiah likely started ble with

1677
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 1: a C grade in this game. Gus Edwards C grade.

1678
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:38,080
Speaker 1: Keaton Mitchell out for the year, so Edwards should see

1679
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:41,360
Speaker 1: an upticking usage. Although you know what's gonna happen in

1680
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 1: Justice Hill is going to be frustratingly involved. Yep, forty

1681
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:48,680
Speaker 1: nine ers allow the second second fewest total yards and

1682
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: the fewest touchdowns to opposing running backs only twenty one

1683
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: per game. Opponents to know the runs coming when Edwards

1684
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 1: is on the field. He faces eight or more defenders

1685
01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 1: in the box on thirty three percent of his rushing attempts,

1686
01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:02,600
Speaker 1: which is four highest among all running backs. And that

1687
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 1: makes it tough for Edwards goal line. Maybe you get

1688
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 1: a touchdown here, that's it for Edwards and a C grade.

1689
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 1: Let's go over to San Francisco. Brat Perdy and Christian

1690
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,639
Speaker 1: McCaffrey obvious as and you would think Deebo Samuel would

1691
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: be as well. He comes in his Fantasy Football's highest

1692
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,880
Speaker 1: scoring receiver over the last six games, so I know

1693
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: you're going to start him, but he carries some sneaky downside.

1694
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: I want to explain to you here. First, Deebo's had

1695
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: four or fewer receptions in five of his last seven games.

1696
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:35,640
Speaker 1: That is very low volume. That means he has to

1697
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 1: get touchdowns to make up for the low volume. And

1698
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: as you can guess, the Ravens don't give up a

1699
01:27:40,280 --> 01:27:43,719
Speaker 1: lot of touchdowns. Fourth fewest to wide receivers just half

1700
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game on average to wide receivers. Samuel

1701
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: runs from all parts of the field evenly, but hopefully

1702
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: more so from the slot on Monday, because the Ravens

1703
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:56,639
Speaker 1: have given up one hundred yard games to Cooper Cup

1704
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and I'm on Ross Saint Brown great slot

1705
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,719
Speaker 1: receiver recently, so you hope he can run from the slot.

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01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: I can only give you a B grade on Deebo

1707
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: Samuel in a tough matchup. Brandon Ayuk runs from the outside,

1708
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 1: isn't his favorable as the slot. He'll see cornerback Marlin Humphrey,

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01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: who's been lights out since Week six, giving up just

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01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 1: twenty three scoreless yards in his coverage, so I can

1711
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: only get you to a B grade on him. And lastly,

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01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:23,600
Speaker 1: George Kittle, Deebo Samuel carves into his box score a

1713
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:27,400
Speaker 1: lot in games with a healthy Deebo Samuel Kittle averaging

1714
01:28:27,479 --> 01:28:29,799
Speaker 1: just three and a half catches for fifty eight yards,

1715
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:33,320
Speaker 1: and the Ravens allowed the eighth fewest yards and the

1716
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 1: twelfth fewest receptions the tight ends and only three touchdowns

1717
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: all season, so it's a tough matchup for Kittle and

1718
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,920
Speaker 1: I've only got a C grade on him this week.

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01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:47,559
Speaker 1: It's a lot of talking. Yeah, thanks everybody for us

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01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:49,160
Speaker 1: list this.

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01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:50,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you very much.

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01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:54,600
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everybody, Happy holidays. Great semi finals matchup, I

1723
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: hope for all of you, and we'll talk to you

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01:28:56,320 --> 01:29:08,799
Speaker 1: for the championship week next week. Bye bye. Fantasy Football

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