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Speaker 1: Welcome to week number six Fantasy Football Weekly. The War
Speaker 1: of Attrition continues. You've got another victim. Jordan Mason h
Speaker 1: every day it's something unbelievable. Scott fish Thorneistro lays it
Speaker 1: is a slog unlike. I mean, every year there's always
Speaker 1: injuries and it feels bad every year. I swear this
Speaker 1: is worse.
Speaker 4: It does feel really really and that paired with the
Speaker 4: fact that no tight ends are doing anything, it just
Speaker 4: feels like there's not a lot of and the passing
Speaker 4: is down. There's just not fantasy points out there this year.
Speaker 1: But there is fantasy fun anyway.
Speaker 4: There is. There always is.
Speaker 1: And the kind of people who listen to this podcast
Speaker 1: devoted fantasy players. You're staying on top of all this stuff,
Speaker 1: so you're you're pivoting ahead of time. I think you're
Speaker 1: reacting to what's happening better than the casuals. This is
Speaker 1: a bad year to be a casual fantasy player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, that makes a
Speaker 4: loss of sense.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 1: So you know what else is going to make sense?
Speaker 1: Your answers to three tough questions later in this show, Scott,
Speaker 1: that's going to make sense. So will the nine players
Speaker 1: will give you to take a chance upon. Also, we're
Speaker 1: going to break down the remaining twelve I believe thirteen
Speaker 1: games on the thirteen thirteen, thirteen on the schedule, something
Speaker 1: along those lines. That premature speculation. Yeah, yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: a short term helper that you'll have to hear about.
Speaker 4: At the end for premature speculation.
Speaker 1: Premature speculation, short term helper normally, okay, Yeah, Usually it's
Speaker 1: somebody like, hey, three weeks from now, a lot of.
Speaker 4: This, yeah yeah, yeah, this is my week seventeen sleeper exactly, and.
Speaker 1: You'll get to find out how he ties into a blimp.
Speaker 1: We don't get a lot of blimp talk fantasy no
Speaker 1: weekly until now. No scout Let's dive in Cleveland takes
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia. Yeah, this Cleveland offense, in fact, honestly, the
Speaker 1: entire Cleveland Browns franchise to me, feels like it's circling
Speaker 1: the drain. Yeah, Deshaun Watson is a boat anger that
Speaker 1: is going to bring down this organization.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Did you see that fourth down where Watson walks
Speaker 4: off and Stefanski's like because he like throws his arms
Speaker 4: up because he wanted to go for it. Well, it
Speaker 4: turns out there was a twelfth man was yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And they couldn't call time out because they'd already called
Speaker 1: timeout that play.
Speaker 4: It just speaks to disorganization and miss ken communication.
Speaker 1: Now it does what it does, and Deshaun Watson, I
Speaker 1: think Warren Sharp tweeted about this. Deshaun Watson has played
Speaker 1: the easiest passing schle the NFL.
Speaker 4: Multiple people said he's the worst passer in the NF. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so naturally he's on the bench even against the Eagles
Speaker 4: team who has allowed multiple passing scores in three of
Speaker 4: their four By the way, Deshaun Watson doesn't even have
Speaker 4: a twenty plus yard completion in the last couple of games.
Speaker 4: He's not even throwing downfield in the passing game. I
Speaker 4: basically got everyone on the bench right now, David and
Speaker 4: Junku has been limited in practice re injured on his return.
Speaker 4: I suppose there's a glimmer of hope that Kate Dott
Speaker 4: and just take tag the Eagles for six for fifty two,
Speaker 4: but it took being targeted nine times to get there,
Speaker 4: don't I don't think in Djoku gets that. And he's
Speaker 4: not really healthy. Jerry Judy hasn't scored since Week one.
Speaker 4: He's kind of like a four for forty player anyway.
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper leads the league in air yards, third in
Speaker 4: the league in targets, but forty five percent of his
Speaker 4: targets have been uncatchable. Oh forty five percent.
Speaker 1: He also, I think, leads the NFL and drops at
Speaker 1: the same time, so he's not getting accurate asses and
Speaker 1: then when the ball comes to him, he drops it.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, d'n Davian Wicks is coming for
Speaker 4: that record. He's coming for it, baby. Forty two point
Speaker 4: six percent catch rate basically also a four for forty
Speaker 4: one guy. But the Eagles are bottom ten against wide
Speaker 4: receivers both receptions and touchdowns let up a lot of
Speaker 4: So there's the glimmer of hope he gets sucked, he
Speaker 4: gets double digit target volume. I'm giving him a C
Speaker 4: grade here, hoping he can make a few more of
Speaker 4: those passes will be catchable. It's really hard with four
Speaker 4: teams on buy not to at least give him the
Speaker 4: c over. In the run game, I have Jerome Ford
Speaker 4: with a C grade. The Eagles have allowed one hundred
Speaker 4: plus yards to the lead running back in three of
Speaker 4: the four weeks. In their last game, Irving and White
Speaker 4: combined for it, Jerome Ford gets most of the work.
Speaker 4: The Eagles have allowed just one score. That's that's part
Speaker 4: of the problem. Foreman has had two ten touch days,
Speaker 4: but he still plays. He doesn't do anything with him
Speaker 4: and he plays half the snaps of Ford basically just
Speaker 4: comes in to do a couple nothing carries. But the
Speaker 4: fourteen for sixty seven total yard average isn't great. But
Speaker 4: I have him as a volume C here because he
Speaker 4: gets the pass catching work as well. Over to the
Speaker 4: Philly side, I have a B grade on Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4: You're QB twenty on the year twenty perfect song for that.
Speaker 1: Okay, in fairness, he's played most of these games without
Speaker 1: some combination of his number one, number two and number
Speaker 1: three receiver. I think Hurts it's a perfect time to
Speaker 1: be yes.
Speaker 4: It's my next note that he will finally have his
Speaker 4: full compliment of weapons back since since in Week one,
Speaker 4: where he had the best his best Fantasy day of
Speaker 4: the year. His receivers are still banged up. I mean
Speaker 4: Smith should be out of concussion protocol and play by then.
Speaker 4: He's still in it, but he should be. He's dragging
Speaker 4: to play, and then AJ Brown dealing with a hamstring.
Speaker 4: He's been practicing full. At the end of the week,
Speaker 4: he should play, So I have a B grade on Hurts.
Speaker 4: We just saw Daniels tag this this Brown's team last week.
Speaker 4: They're over in the passing game again. DeVonta smiths C
Speaker 4: grade AJ Brown and B grade AJ Brown. We haven't
Speaker 4: seen him since Week one, but he dropped five for
Speaker 4: one hundred and nineteen and one and wide receivers ones
Speaker 4: versus Cleveland McLaurin, Neighbors, Brian Thomas, Junior Ceedee Lamb all
Speaker 4: had very very solid double digit days, some explosive days.
Speaker 4: He'll likely get Denzel Ward, who's coming off his own
Speaker 4: hamstring injury. If Denzel Ward doesn't play, even better. But
Speaker 4: even if Ward does play, he's coming off of the
Speaker 4: hamstring injury as well, So I have a B grade
Speaker 4: on AJ Brown. You could talk me higher. C grade
Speaker 4: on DeVonta Smith, who gets the better Greg Newsom matchup.
Speaker 4: Cleveland mostly just middle of the pack against defensive categories,
Speaker 4: but they've only allowed four wide receiver touchdowns. B grade
Speaker 4: on Dallas Goddard. The Browns haven't allowed to score the
Speaker 4: tight ends and are allowing thirty four total yards per game.
Speaker 4: But you can make an argument that Dallas Goddard is
Speaker 4: the best one that they're going that they've faced outside
Speaker 4: of Brock Powers of Rock powers good coming across the table. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I literally threw my hat up hold back Thor. I
Speaker 4: don't want you to get after me, but yeah, he's
Speaker 4: averaging seventy five yards per game, seventeen catches for two
Speaker 4: hundred and three two yards just in the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: They're really but of course the other receivers have been injured.
Speaker 4: B grade on Dallas Goddard. Here in a grade on
Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley. I don't think I have to talk about
Speaker 4: twenty plus touches, one hundred and thirty plus the yards
Speaker 4: a game.
Speaker 1: Unreal Thork Houston takes on a New England will see
Speaker 1: this Houston offense without the best receiver in the league
Speaker 1: Nico Collins who was dominating yards accumulated through the air
Speaker 1: to this point, and they'll need to find some other
Speaker 1: ways to attack the Patriots. How do you like this
Speaker 1: Houston offense?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And we have speaking of injuries, also, we have a
Speaker 6: weird thing going on with the Texans running back room.
Speaker 6: It looks like Joe Mixon is going to come back.
Speaker 5: He think so.
Speaker 6: Yeah, practice the last two days, the late week tea
Speaker 6: leaves here look promising for a return.
Speaker 5: How much will he play in this game? How many carries?
Speaker 6: How many touches will he get in the game that
Speaker 6: the Texans don't necessarily need him in order to win?
Speaker 6: Correct In the two weeks that mixing was active, you
Speaker 6: do have to say Houston leaned into the ground game
Speaker 6: and the Patriots d of course is trash, but I'm
Speaker 6: going to give him a bea just with some of
Speaker 6: these factors up in the air mix in. If mixing
Speaker 6: somehow didn't go for PPR formats, I wanted to toss
Speaker 6: out the dare A goomboalle Yeah, yeah, Doarre if mixing
Speaker 6: you got somehow is yeah, I would give a seed
Speaker 6: to dare in PPR formats only, but we pray ten
Speaker 6: of eleven cut targets that the last two games going
Speaker 6: to the Texans passing attacks.
Speaker 5: CJ. Stout, I'm going to give him a B.
Speaker 6: Three hundred and forty five and three hundred and thirty
Speaker 6: one passing yards the last two weeks while setting a
Speaker 6: new career high in attempts in both those games. But
Speaker 6: you have to keep expectations a little bit and check here.
Speaker 6: Of course, you mentioned Nico Collins is out for this game,
Speaker 6: and the total of this game at the sports books
Speaker 6: is under forty. The Patriots have allowed the ninth least
Speaker 6: fantasy points per game to opposing quarterbacks, in part because
Speaker 6: you can just run at the end in the second half.
Speaker 6: You don't have to throw against them you're ahead. But
Speaker 6: the Patriots do play man at the fourth highest rates
Speaker 6: in the NFL.
Speaker 5: CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud is number three in the NFL in yards per
Speaker 6: attempt against man. So with those factors in mind, I'm
Speaker 6: giving him a B. Stefan Diggs, I'm gonna I guess
Speaker 6: downgrade him to a B in this game. He's been
Speaker 6: wide receiver twelve and fantasy points per game to this point,
Speaker 6: so he's been in a receiver with a twenty six
Speaker 6: point two percent first read share, but in this game,
Speaker 6: he is likely to be shadowed by Christian Gonzalez, who
Speaker 6: is only allowing fifty five points six percent catch rate,
Speaker 6: sixty five point two opposer passer rating on targets. And
Speaker 6: in the games where Gonzo has gone up against Jamar Chase,
Speaker 6: Garrett Wilson, DK Metcalf, Tyreek killing Brandon Aiyuk, only DK
Speaker 6: Metcalf of those receivers got over sixty yards on their
Speaker 6: targets against him.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go be with Diggs. I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: be also with Tank Dell.
Speaker 6: Tank Dell's only been wide receiver seventy and Fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game to this point. That'll change, and I think
Speaker 6: it changes in this game. He's not had twelve Fantasy
Speaker 6: points in any game scored fewer than nine and three
Speaker 6: of four, but last year scored seventy plus Fantasy points
Speaker 6: in all games where he had five plus targets. I
Speaker 6: think he's getting the five plus targets here with Niago
Speaker 6: Collins sideline to your point before, and he has a
Speaker 6: much better matchup in this game on field than Stefan
Speaker 6: Diggs does. Tank Dell is going to see Jonathan Jones
Speaker 6: and Marco Wilson. Those guys have not been good. Marco
Speaker 6: Wilson hasn't been good his whole career ever since he
Speaker 6: threw that shoe on the field at Florida Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 6: The last one we'll talk about what the Texans. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give him a ben. Yeah, even though he's only
Speaker 6: been tight end twenty five at this point. You guys know,
Speaker 6: super duper disappointing and a crazy ugly zero point six
Speaker 6: to eight yards per route run that's second to last
Speaker 6: them on qualifying tight ends.
Speaker 5: But I think this is the break all week. It's
Speaker 5: a good matchup.
Speaker 4: You want a fun fact on that, Yeah, all six
Speaker 4: of his targets last week came after Nico came off Goes,
Speaker 4: and all six of his targets the week before it
Speaker 4: came with Dell off.
Speaker 5: Oh so I love.
Speaker 4: It becomes an option once the guy's.
Speaker 6: Gone exactly and very good, and then in this one
Speaker 6: good matchup, Texan's going to be throwing a bit. That's
Speaker 6: what they've been doing here recently. New England has allowed
Speaker 6: the third highest yards per reception and seventh most receiving
Speaker 6: yards to opposing tight ends. Moving over to the Patriots
Speaker 6: Drake May. Where you get to see Drake May's his
Speaker 6: first career start, but you got to keep him on
Speaker 6: the bench and keep your expectations in check. Jacobe Brissette
Speaker 6: never had a top twenty five quarterback finish in fantasy
Speaker 6: scoring out there. Brissette was also pressured on a league
Speaker 6: high forty six point five percent of his dropbacks.
Speaker 5: I think this is a super important point.
Speaker 6: Drake May struggled under duress throughout his entire college career,
Speaker 6: even when he was cooking last year, Drake May, so
Speaker 6: this is under pressure. Last year in the ACC thirty
Speaker 6: nine for ninety passing at times with forty three point
Speaker 6: three percent completions. He had a seven to five TD
Speaker 6: nin and T rate fifty nine point two PFF passing
Speaker 6: grade on those with twenty eight sacks. So it was
Speaker 6: either turn the ball over or the negative plays. Patriots
Speaker 6: offensive line stinks obviously, so he's going to be under
Speaker 6: duress in this game.
Speaker 5: You can't start him.
Speaker 6: Ramandre Stevenson is out, it's looking like and so we're
Speaker 6: gonna get Antonio Gibson, who we will talk about later
Speaker 6: because he might take a chance on me running back
Speaker 6: play Jalen Polk, I'm gonna give him a seat on
Speaker 6: He's only caught nine of nineteen targets for so far
Speaker 6: on the season, but the snaps have been going up
Speaker 6: every single week and the stock goes up with Drake
Speaker 6: May moving into the lineup. Those two show chemistry in
Speaker 6: preseason camp, so Jalen Polk, We're gonna get him in
Speaker 6: the lineup.
Speaker 5: S wide receiver, three.
Speaker 6: Flex type guy Pop Douglas is the guy I'm keeping
Speaker 6: on the bench. Drake May did like throwing to the
Speaker 6: slots in college. Josh Downs come on down, but this
Speaker 6: isn't the time to trust Pop Douglas. He's twenty six
Speaker 6: out of thirty one qualifying slot receivers in PFF receiving grade.
Speaker 6: And this is a bad matchup against Jalen Petrie, who
Speaker 6: ranks number five among nickel defenders in the NFL and
Speaker 6: yards allowed per coverage snap last Keith Hunter Henry on
Speaker 6: the bench as well, zero point seven to one yards
Speaker 6: per route run, nine percent first reach here since Week three,
Speaker 6: and this is a bad matchup. The Texans allowed the
Speaker 6: fourth fewest fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: Arizona takes on Green Bay This game's got a variety
Speaker 1: of different angles on it, but I'm gonna start with
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Just one passing touchdown in four or five games.
Speaker 1: I think that's disappointing for all of us. He is
Speaker 1: chipping on, chipping in fifty one rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's helping a lot, and it's why I've got an
Speaker 1: a great on him here at Green Bay has allowed
Speaker 1: the seventh most passing yards and the sixth most passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And you might be like, well, no, Jaire Alexander, but
Speaker 1: when JayR was playing, he wasn't doing that well. So
Speaker 1: even if Jayer comes back for this game, and he
Speaker 1: may doesn't change my thinking on this at all. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Marvin Harrison. Very inconsistent so far. We've had
Speaker 1: big games, we've had down games, but this feels like
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for him, even if JayR Alexander comes back.
Speaker 1: In Alexander's three games, he had allowed a touchdown and
Speaker 1: at very healthy sixty five yards per game in his coverage.
Speaker 1: That is a lot for any single cornerback. So I've
Speaker 1: still got an a grade on Marvin Harrison. If he's
Speaker 1: going to keep booming or busting. He's more boomed than
Speaker 1: busting this one. Greang Dorch hitting the sea grade George
Speaker 1: Baby Dorman Dortch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He'll go up against slot corner Keyshawn Nixon, who has
Speaker 1: regressed this year, allowing two touchdowns and an opposed passer
Speaker 1: rating of one hundred and two. He's Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is ninety fifth ranked cornerback Michael Wilson, also hitting the
Speaker 1: board of the Sea Gray startable in a plus matchup,
Speaker 1: he goes up against Eric Stokes, who ranks his Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focuses ninety ninth quarterback cornerback. He's allowed two touchdowns already,
Speaker 1: and after a slow start, Wilson's been heavily involved in
Speaker 1: this offense. Over the last three games. He's averaging seven targets,
Speaker 1: six catches in eighty five air yards per game.
Speaker 4: In fairness, Stokes might also be ranked the ninety ninth quarterback. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: so we don't know, right, we don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's his true calling because it's not.
Speaker 4: Quarner just unrealized.
Speaker 1: Last thing about this offense, I'll mention James Connor quality
Speaker 1: runners absolutely getting it done here against the Packers. Four
Speaker 1: or five opposing lead runners have topped one hundred and
Speaker 1: five total yards against Green Bay. They're also yielding good,
Speaker 1: not great games through the air air to runners. Three
Speaker 1: opposing lead backs have topped thirty two receiving yards and
Speaker 1: another scored via reception. I did not jut down my
Speaker 1: notes on tight end Trey McBride, So I'll come back
Speaker 1: to that next segment.
Speaker 5: Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I'll have to hit the take a chance,
Speaker 4: let me tight that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. He's a little too good for that.
Speaker 1: I guess the question is whether or not he's an
Speaker 1: A or a B.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Green Bay. Jordan loves an obvious A grade.
Speaker 1: He's my number three ranked quarterback this week. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna spend a lot of time in him.
Speaker 3: Oh noor.
Speaker 1: Jayden Reid get this three non Molik Willis games. Jaden
Speaker 1: Reid averaging one hundred and thirty six total yards and
Speaker 1: a full touchdown per game. He runs almost exclusively from
Speaker 1: the slot, where he's gonna match up against cornerback Garrett Williams,
Speaker 1: who is a lightly used sophomore, has only ever seen
Speaker 1: forty NFL targets in his life. That's a way plus
Speaker 1: matchup for Jaden Reid. How about Tucker Kraft. Two straight
Speaker 1: games of domination for Craft to such a great degree
Speaker 1: that Luke Musgrave didn't play a snap last week. Now
Speaker 1: he's heard the Cardinals have seen some really good tight
Speaker 1: ends and mostly held him in check. Dalton Kinkaid, Sam Laporta,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz, George Kittle have averaged thirty three yards and
Speaker 1: a quarter of a touchdown. But Craft remains a B
Speaker 1: grade because only George Kittle has seen more than three
Speaker 1: has seen of the more than three target it's Kittled
Speaker 1: went berserk with twelve targets last week. So you can
Speaker 1: target the tight end and maybe they'll do that with
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft here. Really tough calls on Dontavian Wicks and
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs flopped Obviously, Dobbs didn't play last week, but
Speaker 1: Wicks stopped flopped badly in a crushing spot last week.
Speaker 1: That was very disappointing. Dobbs returns after his one game
Speaker 1: suspension and running from the outside. Wicks and Dobbs they're
Speaker 1: gonna line up against Sean Murphy, Bunting and Starling Thomas.
Speaker 1: They hold Pro Football Focus ranks as cornerback one hundred
Speaker 1: and four and cornerback eighty eight Thomas has already allowed
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. So I've got C grades on both Wicks
Speaker 1: and Dobbs in this one. Christian Watson not expected to
Speaker 1: play with his high ankle sprain, and even if he
Speaker 1: does try, we're not gonna We're not gonna risk reinjury
Speaker 1: on that one.
Speaker 4: Can I make a prediction on Trey McBride. He's your
Speaker 4: tight end two, so I'm gonna go maybe in a
Speaker 4: grade And you probably would have mentioned that to the
Speaker 4: last three tight ends to scored against the Packers, and
Speaker 4: even Kolby Parkinson had seven for fifty two last week.
Speaker 1: Wow, well thanks for doing that for me. I forgot
Speaker 1: the Josh Jacobs side on this, So how I gonna
Speaker 1: come back and do.
Speaker 4: Josh Jacob boy?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 1: What was a little bit of Troy on Trey McBride.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing a if you haven't been tight end two?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank it, Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: What happened to me in this the middle of this matchup?
Speaker 1: I don't know, this never happened.
Speaker 4: It's a Vikings bye week.
Speaker 1: You're off your game, I guess, so would we come
Speaker 1: back take a chance on me nine players not normally
Speaker 1: in your starting lineup. We've already tipped our hand on
Speaker 1: one of them.
Speaker 7: Find out the other eight when we come back.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me nine players you would not
Speaker 1: normally start. Many of these guys available on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire right now, and they can help your team in
Speaker 1: a tricky bye week. We begin at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this guy has only throwing forty one passes
Speaker 4: in the last two weeks, which doesn't sound good. No's
Speaker 4: he was only started thirty five percent last week, twenty
Speaker 4: one percent started this week coming up, and he's he's
Speaker 4: like QB sixteen on the season right now.
Speaker 1: That's not bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah Yeah, Jared Goff, Yeah, he's in the game. That's
Speaker 4: got a fifty two point five over under, So it
Speaker 4: should be it should be a little bit of a shootout.
Speaker 4: Parsons might miss, Eric Kendricks might miss. The Lions get
Speaker 4: in the red zone or get to the red zone,
Speaker 4: or score on forty seven point seven percent of their drives,
Speaker 4: and I feel like this is a game that's gonna
Speaker 4: have a lot of drives. The Cowboys have allowed multiple
Speaker 4: KB scores in three of their last four and GoF
Speaker 4: has multiple scores and back to back.
Speaker 1: Detroit's gonna kill him. That's what I think is gonna
Speaker 1: happen here. So you take a chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 6: I'm going with Spencer Ratler getting the spots start here
Speaker 6: for Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: Wow, right out of the goals, we've got on our soundbar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, where's the hiss Rattler? We got a good die. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we got a good diet.
Speaker 1: To get the Rattler in.
Speaker 4: It's a bad job by the producer.
Speaker 6: Now at the Saints offensive line, it has disintegrated in
Speaker 6: recent weeks and this is Rattler's first start.
Speaker 5: But Ratler, here's the good news.
Speaker 6: Ratler spent the last two years under constant arrest at
Speaker 6: South Carolina, a team that had one of the worst
Speaker 6: offensive lines in the entire FBS, and in the last
Speaker 6: draft class, he was number one in on target rate
Speaker 6: win pressure at seventy four and a half percent.
Speaker 5: There, Rattler, doesn't I love that?
Speaker 3: Oh that's good love.
Speaker 4: That's even better than mine that slightly.
Speaker 6: Now, Ratler doesn't run much. Sure, he's gonna need the
Speaker 6: passing touchdowns to return fantasy value. Luckily, Tampa Bay's pass
Speaker 6: defense is horrible. The Buccaneers have allowed a quarterback one
Speaker 6: or facilitated a quarterback one score in four of five games. Yeah, so,
Speaker 6: I I think Rattler, especially if you need a quarterback,
Speaker 6: I think he's potentially startable here sneaky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got the big arm. It just they're going
Speaker 1: to heave some passes to rashicha heat for if.
Speaker 4: He plays, is expected to play.
Speaker 1: They might get Antoine Winfield back and that would help
Speaker 1: this secondary for Tampa quite a bit. But I like
Speaker 1: that as a dart throat.
Speaker 4: By the way, did you already said about a LaVey.
Speaker 4: I don't know who has New Orleans matchup, but he said,
Speaker 4: it's my job to go out there and get a
Speaker 4: lobvey the ball as much as possible.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, he gets it, he gets the assignment.
Speaker 1: I guess, so I get you heat the ball.
Speaker 5: But that's me.
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams has got Jacksonville here. Williams has gotten measurably
Speaker 1: better over the past three weeks. He has finished as
Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback twice in the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: He's now completing seventy two percent of his passes over
Speaker 1: the last two games. And this week marks the fourth
Speaker 1: state straight favorable matchup for Caleb Williams. It's Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 1: have allowed the most fantasy points to quarterbacks, the second
Speaker 1: most passing yards, and the second most passing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a season where nobody's throwing. Three different quarterbacks have top
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty eight passing yards against the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 4: Scott Sure, I'm going over to the Jets and Brailan
Speaker 4: Allen gained that soft matchup against the Bills. Bill's good
Speaker 4: matchup for fantasy runners, ranking second easiest, most combo yards
Speaker 4: per game allowed at one to seventy one, including six scores.
Speaker 4: It feels like Henry's two hundred yards and two scores
Speaker 4: is a big part of that. But Connor had a
Speaker 4: great game eight chan and a great game even Akers
Speaker 4: had forty two in a score. There are a couple
Speaker 4: second backs like Justice Hill and Darya Gumbowale had really
Speaker 4: good games against them. I think there's enough room for
Speaker 4: both here. Brailan Allen three point twenty five yards after
Speaker 4: contact is top ten in the league, and he completely
Speaker 4: passes the eyeball test, which we all know with football
Speaker 4: players is way better than the sniff test. Eyeball test
Speaker 4: is what you want.
Speaker 1: The word sniff never has a positive connotation ever, even
Speaker 1: if you are like a wine connoisseur and you're swirling
Speaker 1: the wine in yea class and you're taking the big inhale.
Speaker 4: It's I do like it good whiskey though, like the smels.
Speaker 1: What's the difference between with and sniff though?
Speaker 5: Is there a difference to you?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: Not with?
Speaker 1: Is sniff? Is the verb with?
Speaker 5: I think?
Speaker 1: Is that getting a whip?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think's the breathing. All right, let's go to thor
Speaker 1: you'll take a chance of me running back.
Speaker 6: I'm going with the Antonio Gibson against the Texans Gibson.
Speaker 6: Last week they split the snaps with Remondre fifty to fifty.
Speaker 6: This is going to be his show this week. With
Speaker 6: Remandre out, the Patriots only have Jamichael Hasty behind Gibson
Speaker 6: and they have to elevate a practice squad guy for
Speaker 6: our beat three, so literally nothing behind him. The last
Speaker 6: three weeks, the Texans have allowed eighty plus rushing yards
Speaker 6: to James Cook, Tank Bigsby and Aaron Jones consecutively, and
Speaker 6: Gibson could get a lot of dump off targets here
Speaker 6: from rookie quarterback one Drake May, who again is going
Speaker 6: to be under constant duress here. Gibson, of course, former
Speaker 6: wide receiver at Memphis, knows how to catch the ball
Speaker 6: and run after the catch.
Speaker 5: I think Gibson's worth the look here.
Speaker 1: So stupid that they're starting Drake May behind the worst
Speaker 1: so dump the worst offensive line in football, and the
Speaker 1: least productive wide receiver group. They're just gonna wreck that kid.
Speaker 1: I'm certain we're gonna talk more about Drake Bataman.
Speaker 4: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: I hope they don't wreck him. We'll find out. That's
Speaker 1: gonna come up later in the show. I think this
Speaker 1: is gonna be the last time I can possibly use
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby here. And mostly I.
Speaker 4: Was gonna say that this is the third time in
Speaker 4: six weeks. This is for us as a team.
Speaker 1: Mostly it's so I can press the peak coush.
Speaker 4: He's Baker Mayfield twenty twenty three level now.
Speaker 1: I spent at least three four or five shows last year.
Speaker 1: I issued formal apologies for recommending Tank Bigsby through much
Speaker 1: of the preseason, and then he flopped and people were
Speaker 1: mad at me. You know what, I wasn't wrong.
Speaker 3: I was just early.
Speaker 5: That's all called the ambulance.
Speaker 4: That's that's a common theme on this show, but.
Speaker 1: The early bird.
Speaker 4: Right now, when we have people with Damian.
Speaker 1: Pierce goes off, then I'll have come full circle on
Speaker 1: my two seasons. Let's talk about biggs be against Chicago.
Speaker 1: They have Chicago's an elite pass defense the path of
Speaker 1: least resistance, and I think the only chance the Jay
Speaker 1: Wars have of winning the game is by dominating on
Speaker 1: the ground, where the Bears allow five yards per carry
Speaker 1: to opposing runners. Chicago ranks eighteenth in run defense by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. Only two teams have allowed more than
Speaker 1: Chicago's six rushing touchdowns. We're gonna talk even more about
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby later in this show. Let's go to the receivers. Scott,
Speaker 1: who's your take a chance with me guy?
Speaker 4: Yes, so early in the week you picked a guy
Speaker 4: that I'm like, he seems too good to be a
Speaker 4: a take on a chance on me player. And then
Speaker 4: you moved off it, and I realized I looked into it.
Speaker 4: He's twenty percent started this week.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 4: In Jalen Tolbert, He's only twenty He's only forty nine
Speaker 4: percent rostered. He's available in half of leagues.
Speaker 5: Get him.
Speaker 4: How is this possible? He is the one BEA to
Speaker 4: see Lamb's one A since week one. Listen to this.
Speaker 4: Lamb twenty catches Tobert, nineteen thirty one targets for Lamb,
Speaker 4: twenty seven for Tolbert, three red zone targets for Lamb,
Speaker 4: five for Tolbert, two scores for Lamb, one for Tolbert.
Speaker 4: It's says sixty three PPR points to fifty four pe
Speaker 4: points difference since week one. They're basically one A, one
Speaker 4: B to each other, and they get a Lions D
Speaker 4: that's allowed the fourth most receptions in sixth most yards allowed.
Speaker 4: I actually had a B grade on it. But these
Speaker 4: might take a chance on me play, I guess because
Speaker 4: no one's starting him.
Speaker 1: Yep, I love it. Tolbert's not giving that job up.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, this is going to be He's going to
Speaker 1: pass the baton while he's on IR yep. And Tolbert's
Speaker 1: not going to look back. Thor you take a chance
Speaker 1: on me.
Speaker 6: Receiver going with Giants receiver Darius Slayton against the Bengals
Speaker 6: with Malik Neighbors ruled out again. Slayton's usage is going up.
Speaker 6: He'll be running most of Neighbors's routes with won Dale
Speaker 6: remaining wan Dale in this offense. With Neighbors out. Last week,
Speaker 6: Slayton got a crazy thirty five percent target share and
Speaker 6: eleven targets. Neighbors himself was averaging thirteen targets a game,
Speaker 6: and in that game last week, Slayton eight of eleven targets.
Speaker 6: Caught eight of eleven targets one hundred twenty two yards
Speaker 6: and a touchdown. This is a good matchup here. The
Speaker 6: Bengals have allowed a wide receiver touchdown every game since
Speaker 6: the opener. Slayton, the deep guy in this offense, now
Speaker 6: has a decent chance of continuing that streak this week.
Speaker 1: I like that angle quite a bit. Might take a
Speaker 1: chance of me players at tight end zach Ertz going
Speaker 1: up against Baltimore. Baltimore coverage has been terrible this year,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about that later, but the Ravens
Speaker 1: rank thirty first in tight end receptions at six and
Speaker 1: a half per game, and they're ranked thirty first in
Speaker 1: tight end yards allowed seventy four per game, and all
Speaker 1: seventy four should go to zach Ertz across the entire roster.
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz has every single target but two to the
Speaker 1: tight end position for Washington, so he gets basically all
Speaker 1: the tight end work and Baltimore's getting killed by tight ends.
Speaker 1: All right, last segment, I totally missed Josh Jacobs. He's
Speaker 1: in eight grade, so let me just circle back on
Speaker 1: that for two seconds. Here again, going up against Arizona.
Speaker 1: In five games, six different backs have topped sixty eight
Speaker 1: yards or scored or done both. Against Arizona, they've given
Speaker 1: up the six most fantasy points to running backs. And
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wilson usage dropped way off last week. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why that necessarily happened. And I still think
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wilson's a good stash, but he's not playable right now.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs is my number six ranked running back. You
Speaker 1: can get all my player rankings at fantasylife dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our next matchup, which is
Speaker 1: Scott Indianapolis taking on Tennessee. It appears Anthony Richardson will
Speaker 1: be back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that quarterback practiced in fall all week. They said
Speaker 4: game time decision, but I mean, we know what we
Speaker 4: know what's up, he said, He said he's ready. It
Speaker 4: may actually be a better spot for Anthony Richardson than
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco. The Tennessee Titans are first in completions allowed,
Speaker 4: attempts allowed, passing yards allowed, fourth in passing touchdowns. They're
Speaker 4: a tough pass defense. They're one of the best defenses
Speaker 4: in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They might be the best. Tennessee might be the be.
Speaker 4: They might be the best. However, they have allowed their
Speaker 4: bottom ten in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns allowed to quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: which feels that's a match here. That does feel like
Speaker 4: a match for Anthony Richardson. But because his pass game
Speaker 4: work isn't gonna work too much, I'm only giving him
Speaker 4: a C grade and has on that because he just
Speaker 4: isn't gaining the fantasy volume we thought he would. I
Speaker 4: have basically the entire passing game on the bench. However,
Speaker 4: in this really tough matchup, Titans have allowed the fewest yards,
Speaker 4: second fewest receptions, and zero wide receiver scores this year.
Speaker 4: If Pittman does go somehow, he was supposedly an IR
Speaker 4: candidate and now he's maybe gonna play, he might get
Speaker 4: the shadow treatment from Lagarius Need, who previously shadowed Tyreek
Speaker 4: Hill to twenty three yards, DJ Moore to thirty six yards,
Speaker 4: Garrett Wilson to fifty seven yards. Obviously none of them scored,
Speaker 4: so I have him on the bench. I have Alec
Speaker 4: Pierce on the bench as well. Josh Downs I had
Speaker 4: a C grade on because the slot is the one
Speaker 4: place you can get across on the Titans defensive defense.
Speaker 4: They're allowing forty two percent of their fantasy points to
Speaker 4: the slot. There, you said had but yeah, but he's hurt.
Speaker 4: But he's hurt, but yes, limited on Friday. So if
Speaker 4: he doesn't go, obviously he's on the bench. But I
Speaker 4: did have a SEA grade on him, just I'm a
Speaker 4: little worried there. Over to the running game, Jonathan Taylor out.
Speaker 4: It's a tough spot against the fourth ranked Jets run
Speaker 4: de allowing ninety eight total yards per game, and we're
Speaker 4: probably going to see a split between Sermon and Goodson.
Speaker 4: Goodson ran twenty more routes than Sermon last year. He's
Speaker 4: definitely the B to Sermon. You can't ignore the ten
Speaker 4: plus carries and six catches for Sermon. But I have
Speaker 4: him both on the bench. I'd give a C grade
Speaker 4: to sermon, if you really, really really have to go
Speaker 4: with a running back on that side of the ball,
Speaker 4: it's probably sermon over to the Tennessee side. I'm giving
Speaker 4: the grimiest of grimy se grades to will Levis here.
Speaker 1: I think he is like a long shot candidate. I
Speaker 1: think he's an official ffd S guard throat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, seriously. His last full game was against the Packers.
Speaker 4: He had two hundred and sixty yards and two scores,
Speaker 4: and that was a much tougher matchup than this one
Speaker 4: against the Colts defense that has allowed the fourth most
Speaker 4: yards to quarterbacks multiple scores in four of five. In fact,
Speaker 4: they've allowed three hundred yards and multiple scores in three straight.
Speaker 4: So it's a good spot. Uh, let's just I mean,
Speaker 4: Will Levis has nine turnovers on the season, though, so
Speaker 4: you're gonna get some of some of that, and he's
Speaker 4: only played three full games.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Kelvin Ridley I have a C grade on, but it's
Speaker 4: it feels so gross. Eight receivers have had seventy five
Speaker 4: yards and or a score against the Colts. But Kelvin
Speaker 4: really has only caught the ball nine times this season
Speaker 4: off of those thirteen targets.
Speaker 5: Geez, But this.
Speaker 1: Teams will be a number one receiver on any team
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, you're rolling into Week six with
Speaker 1: thirteen targets.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 4: Colts have allowed fourth most yards receivers. Not good, They're
Speaker 4: not good against the outside. Second most yards per route run,
Speaker 4: fourth most yards after the catch. If Ridley's gonna do it,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be here.
Speaker 1: And really does have like once a month. He yeh bizarre. Yes,
Speaker 1: he had the one good game last month in September.
Speaker 1: He owes us one in October May.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, DeAndre Hopkins is like a high snap or
Speaker 4: a low snap percentage part time player now and just
Speaker 4: two reds on targets. He's on the bench. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: mention Chiga Konku on the bench only because the Colts
Speaker 4: d versus tight ends are giving it up to everybody.
Speaker 4: I don't trust Shag, but maybe next week with John U,
Speaker 4: the week after with Shultz, or the week after with Concline.
Speaker 5: I'm just here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not trusting Shig, but man, they are just
Speaker 4: getting destroyed week after week by tight ends and in
Speaker 4: the running game. I have a B grade on Tony Pollard,
Speaker 4: a C grade on Taj Spears, but Taja really should
Speaker 4: be on the bench. Three lead backs over one hundred
Speaker 4: total yards against the Colts, who ranked ninth worst against
Speaker 4: fantasy running backs, fourthmost rush yards allowed, bottom eight against
Speaker 4: pass catching backs.
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Speaker 1: beginning with Tampa Bay taking on New Orleans. Rashaan White
Speaker 1: not expected to go in this one. Bucky Irving. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get our first look of maybe a full game
Speaker 1: of Bucky Irving.
Speaker 5: This could be a big.
Speaker 1: Opportunity here, stepping into the spalley here.
Speaker 6: Last two weeks Bucky between forty two to forty three
Speaker 6: percent snap right average in those games, eleven touches and
Speaker 6: fifty six total yards per game. Bucky rinks number six
Speaker 6: in the NFL right now in miss tackles, force per
Speaker 6: attempt love it. This is not a great matchup though.
Speaker 6: The Saints have allowed the seventh fewest rushing yards per
Speaker 6: game the NFL.
Speaker 5: So I gave Bucky a c.
Speaker 6: Also given Baker Mayfield to see he has been a
Speaker 6: top ten scorer in four or five games this season,
Speaker 6: but he's been pressured, and he's been pressured the seventh
Speaker 6: lowest average time in the NFL because he's getting the
Speaker 6: ball out the fastest he ever has in his entire career.
Speaker 6: But this is not a great matchup. The Saints are
Speaker 6: number seven in the NFL in pressure rate, No opposing
Speaker 6: quarterback has finished in the top half of the league
Speaker 6: against them in fantasy points, and New Orleans has only
Speaker 6: allowed one touchdown pass this season, which is why.
Speaker 1: They see to be at this stage.
Speaker 6: Super crazy Mike Evans. I'm only giving him a see
Speaker 6: very very tough matchup here. Evans has been held under
Speaker 6: thirteen PPR points. Get this last nine times? Nine times
Speaker 6: you say, nine times against the Saints when Marshawn Lattimore
Speaker 6: has played Marshawn Lattimore short circuits Mike Evans, He's failed
Speaker 6: to record even ten PBR points in seven of those
Speaker 6: nine games. And this season, the Saints have helped boundary
Speaker 6: wide receivers to just the one touch the aforementioned one touchdown.
Speaker 6: So we're giving him a See, we're giving Chris Godwin
Speaker 6: a B wide receiver eight and fantasy.
Speaker 5: Points like him.
Speaker 6: This year, He's been targeted on a career high twenty
Speaker 6: five percent of his routes. Evans is issue with Marshawn
Speaker 6: Lattimore could lead to more targets, maybe even more end
Speaker 6: zone targets. I take it to a B though, because
Speaker 6: I also like Kate Otton in this game, and I
Speaker 6: do think Bucky Irving's going to get to be getting
Speaker 6: some more targets. Here was a very skilled receiver at Oregon.
Speaker 6: Kate Oughton gave him a be tight end eleven in
Speaker 6: fantasy points per game since Week three, and the Saints
Speaker 6: pass defense is a tight end funnel. New Orleans has
Speaker 6: allowed the third most yards and fourth most receptions to
Speaker 6: opposing tight ends. Moving over to the Saint Spencer Ratlers
Speaker 6: might take a chance on me. Quarterback Alvin Kamara is
Speaker 6: an a. He returned to practice on Thursday. He has
Speaker 6: a hip in the hand. Is he's going to play?
Speaker 6: From all indications, he's taking sixty percent of the Saints
Speaker 6: have snaps this season, which the fifth highs of any
Speaker 6: running back in the NFL. And I also want to
Speaker 6: point out I think the swap from Derek car to
Speaker 6: Spencer Rallery could lead to even more checkdowns here for
Speaker 6: Elvin and then on the run defense side, the Bucks
Speaker 6: have surrendered almost five yards per carry this season. Matchup
Speaker 6: for him, Chris o'lave, even though he's only wide receiver
Speaker 6: forty three so far this season, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 6: give him a bee here will Spencer Ratler changes for
Speaker 6: fortunes Mister Scott Fish mentioned and Spencer Ratler said this week,
Speaker 6: my job is he god Chris o'lave the ball, and
Speaker 6: this is not a bad matchup to do it. The
Speaker 6: Bucks play a bunch of cover three versus Cover three.
Speaker 6: O Lave's yards per route run has jumped up to
Speaker 6: three point two one.
Speaker 1: That's very high.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well above where he's been the rest of the time,
Speaker 6: so take a look at him. Rashid Shaheed, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: give him a bee. He's on the injury report with
Speaker 6: a hit, but Shahead said, all be good to go
Speaker 6: for the Bucks wide receiver twenty five and fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game this year with a mind boggling fifty plus percent.
Speaker 5: Air yard share, which is just crazy. This is a
Speaker 5: very good matchup on paper.
Speaker 6: The Bucks have allowed the ninth most receiving yards per
Speaker 6: game to boundary wide receivers. But I do think the
Speaker 6: Saints are going to keep it on the ground more
Speaker 6: often in this matchup, with Spencer Ratler getting that start,
Speaker 6: then the last one Juwan Johnson, I'm giving him a ce.
Speaker 6: Taysom Hill likely out again with the rib fracture. Johnson
Speaker 6: has played sixty eight percent of the snaps the last
Speaker 6: two games, but are very poor zero point nine to
Speaker 6: two yards per route run. Bucks are about middle of
Speaker 6: the pack against tight ends, number thirteen in receptions and
Speaker 6: receiving yards.
Speaker 1: Washington takes on Baltimore. This game features my number one
Speaker 1: and number two ranked quarterbacks both Jade and Daniels and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or obvious a's here. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: Washington side Terry McLaurin and a grade finally paired with
Speaker 1: a capable quarterback. We've been waiting his whole career for this,
Speaker 1: and he has exploded in fantasy value over the past
Speaker 1: three weeks, which coincides with Jade and Daniels starting to
Speaker 1: throw down field. McLaurin its top to one hundred yards
Speaker 1: scored or done both in every game. The Ravens secondary
Speaker 1: getting roasted Baltimore. Baltimore ranks dead last and passing yards
Speaker 1: allowed they ranked twenty ninth, and wide out yards allowed
Speaker 1: thirty first, and wide out touchdowns allowed. And I understand
Speaker 1: they've been rolling up some big leads, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, who cares. All that matters is
Speaker 1: the box score and they're giving this up. Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me tight end. He
Speaker 1: comes in with a B grade in this one. Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson has got this pesky knee injury. He is going
Speaker 1: to be a game time decision, and he faces an
Speaker 1: elite Baltimore run defense. They rank number one in rushing
Speaker 1: yards allowed, number one in yards per carried allowed. They
Speaker 1: rank number two in run defense success rate. Robinson needs
Speaker 1: to overcome the knee injury, and I think just get
Speaker 1: like a goal line carry for any relevancy here. So
Speaker 1: I've got him on the bench, and I guess we
Speaker 1: get good news between now and kickoff and you want
Speaker 1: to put him into your lineup. Maybe a C grade
Speaker 1: at best, but I've got a bench grade on him.
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler frustratingly low volume, but Eckler remains startable because hey,
Speaker 1: he's healthy and he's finding his way to decent games.
Speaker 1: He has topped fifty five total yards in every game.
Speaker 1: He's running fourteen routes per game, which is a good
Speaker 1: number for running backs. Ravens gave up a receiving touchdown
Speaker 1: last week to Chase Brown. So we're gonna just hope
Speaker 1: that Eckler can continue to get his fifty ish total
Speaker 1: yards four or five catches and get you to like
Speaker 1: ten PPR points. And that's a C grade on the
Speaker 1: Baltimore side. Already mention Lamar Jackson's and obvious a so
Speaker 1: is Derek Henry. Obviously, he's currently running at six yards
Speaker 1: per Carrie just he's running back one in Fantasy points score.
Speaker 1: The only other guys that you care about are the
Speaker 1: tight ends. Now, it turns out both Isaiah Likely and
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews were startable last week. But good luck getting
Speaker 1: this figured out. It took forty one points in overtime
Speaker 1: to get capable output out of Likely and Andrews last week.
Speaker 1: My fear remains week to week just guessing which one
Speaker 1: or maybe both, usually neither is gonna be the guy
Speaker 1: you can use. It's just gonna be feudal. And I'm
Speaker 1: not playing that game. And Washington's been very good against
Speaker 1: tight ends. None of top forty seven yards four of
Speaker 1: five opponents haven't had a tight end top twenty two yards.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna bench both Likely and Andrews. And that
Speaker 1: just leaves us with Jay flowers. When Dereck Henry gets
Speaker 1: massive volume flowers wilts, Henry doesn't flowers blooms.
Speaker 4: See, do we have a flower sounder?
Speaker 1: How do you what would a flowers sound like?
Speaker 4: No? I thought we do like if we have a
Speaker 4: flowers soundery.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, as a matter of fact, we do. We
Speaker 1: both Sorry, there we go. When Henry gets eighteen or
Speaker 1: fewer carries flowers averages seven catches for eighty yards, that's great.
Speaker 1: When Henry gets more than eighteen carries flowers, averages two
Speaker 1: catches for fifteen yards. Importantly, against Washington, no back his
Speaker 1: top eighteen carries. So I'm optimistic that Henry is not
Speaker 1: gonna have one of his twenty six carry games and
Speaker 1: the Flowers is going to be okay. Here, we got
Speaker 1: to B grade for him, all right, Scott. Our final
Speaker 1: matchup for segment is the Chargers taking on Denver. These
Speaker 1: are two really good defenses. Struggling offense is not a
Speaker 1: ton to like here, right.
Speaker 4: This could be the most exciting game of the weekend.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna make that Lions Dallas game
Speaker 4: look like nothing. So for the Chargers. The Chargers run
Speaker 4: the few US plays, they take the longest time per play,
Speaker 4: and run the third highest percentage of run plays. I
Speaker 4: heard someone this week say that they try to put
Speaker 4: everyone to sleep. That's what they do with their offense.
Speaker 1: They put a sleeper hole.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Defenses and audience.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The over under in this game is thirty six, which
Speaker 4: is just absolutely ridiculously low. Broncos our top three in
Speaker 4: pressure rate QB knockdown splits, percentage in sacks. Obviously a
Speaker 4: very good defense, very good on the D line there.
Speaker 4: I have the entire passing game on the bench, Justin
Speaker 4: Herbert on the bench, Quentin Johnston. If anyone gets shadow
Speaker 4: coverage from Patrick's ortan, he may not shadow. He didn't shadow,
Speaker 4: and I.
Speaker 1: Don't think he has to here because there's not a
Speaker 1: clear number one.
Speaker 4: He can go on Trey Talker. Yeah, he can go
Speaker 4: on the other side or trade yeah, whatever his name is, sorry,
Speaker 4: he can go on the other side. He didn't shadow
Speaker 4: last week against the Raiders. But even if he did shadow,
Speaker 4: Johnston goes to the slot less than so Tan does.
Speaker 4: Like Tan doesn't go to the slot, but neither is.
Speaker 4: Qwenton Johnston the Raiders. The Broncos allowing the third fewest
Speaker 4: Fantasy points to the position and just one score to
Speaker 4: wide receivers. So I have McConkie on the bench too.
Speaker 4: They allowed the fewest fantasy points to the slot where
Speaker 4: McConkie comes out of. I know that he's got twenty
Speaker 4: four targets in his in the four games. He's the
Speaker 4: target leader on the team, but really his only two
Speaker 4: games good games are when he scored, and this is
Speaker 4: a defense. It's only allowed one wide receiver score. So
Speaker 4: I have them on the bench. I have a C
Speaker 4: grade on JK. Dobbins will It sounds like Gus Edwards
Speaker 4: is not going to play now practicing correct and Kamani
Speaker 4: Videl may get his first game action. I got him
Speaker 4: on the bench, but he might get his first game action. JK.
Speaker 4: Dobbins gets his fifteen yards before contact, seventheen yards over
Speaker 4: expectation per attempt, ninth in forced miss tackles. He's just
Speaker 4: been decent so far since week won. No running back, however,
Speaker 4: has topped seventy yards against the Broncos and just one
Speaker 4: score in that span, leading to a top ten rank
Speaker 4: against fantasy running backs due to gust being out and
Speaker 4: the volume, I'm still gonna give JK. Dobbins a see.
Speaker 4: He gets pass game work as well, so I think
Speaker 4: he'll get there. Benjam On the Denver side, it's basically
Speaker 4: the same exact story bo Nix. We're not starting him
Speaker 4: against the top three Chargers team allowing two hundred and
Speaker 4: seven yards and just three passing touchdowns all year. Cortland
Speaker 4: and Sutton is second in the league in unrealized air
Speaker 4: yards twenty four percent target share, but forty six point
Speaker 4: three percent of his targets are uncatchable, much like Mark
Speaker 4: Coop just a lot of uncatchable balls, fifth and end
Speaker 4: zone targets, however, that's that's why he scored three touchdowns.
Speaker 4: But I got him on the bench the running game.
Speaker 4: Javonte Williams C grade second in the league in touches
Speaker 4: without scoring with seventy touches, hasn't scored yet, fourth and
Speaker 4: miss tackles. It's a C grade for the guy who
Speaker 4: leads them in targets, catches, receiving yards, every thing, and
Speaker 4: he gets He's at eighteen touches in back to back games.
Speaker 4: He's gonna get there on volume. That's a lot.
Speaker 5: Sigh.
Speaker 4: McLoughlin. On the bench, he's not getting enough work. Battie
Speaker 4: Baby might be out estimated, might might play, He might
Speaker 4: be an interesting stash. That's really all I have on
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 1: No, there's not a lot to say in that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thing circling back onto a conversation we had earlier.
Speaker 1: We were talking about drops.
Speaker 4: Uh and Mark Andrews. No, I thought you were going
Speaker 4: sabotage dropping.
Speaker 1: No. No, although, well we're entering sabotage drop season starting
Speaker 1: to come around here pretty soon. The league leader in
Speaker 1: drops is not Amari Cooper like we had speculated that
Speaker 1: it might be, and there was another guy that we
Speaker 1: were talking about to Don Tavian Wicks. Wicks is third,
Speaker 1: Cooper is second, your leader the NFL, and drops is
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard was six already.
Speaker 5: Oh that's hard to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's week six and your head it's
Speaker 1: we five games. You've got six drops?
Speaker 5: Not good?
Speaker 1: That is no, that is not That's not a very
Speaker 1: good sign for Alan Lazard. Whatsoever? Jordan Mason out if
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss any time? Do you have anything on
Speaker 1: Isaac Grendo? What was your feeling yet? The one long
Speaker 1: run but otherwise did to me did not look at
Speaker 1: nearly as good as Mason does when he's running hard.
Speaker 5: It was a good encapsulation of his game.
Speaker 6: He's a home run hitter, but it's sort of that
Speaker 6: boomer bust thing. He's looking for that straight crease down
Speaker 6: the field and that's where he can hit the jets.
Speaker 6: I've ran in the four threes even at his big size.
Speaker 6: But yeah, the subtlety is not there with this game.
Speaker 6: So the grinding out of the yards he's not as
Speaker 6: good at, which sort of in contrast to Wisconsin running backs,
Speaker 6: which might have been one of the reasons why he
Speaker 6: transferred from there at the end to Louisville for his
Speaker 6: last season.
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Speaker 1: Thor is at thor Ku Rockchock. This is a game
Speaker 1: we call three tough questions.
Speaker 3: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: The Drake May era begins on Sunday. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're gonna be starting him a lot this year, but
Speaker 1: as we look to future seasons for Dynasty leagues. Right now,
Speaker 1: is Drake May a top fifteen quarterback assets in dynasty leagues,
Speaker 1: we begin with Scottfish.
Speaker 4: So I went to some sites and some friends I
Speaker 4: respect on their dynasty analysis and at I looked at
Speaker 4: the startup ADP data, the real trade value data, stuff
Speaker 4: like that. It's got him pretty much at QB eighteen
Speaker 4: most places between seventeen and twenty. Most of the rankers
Speaker 4: I enjoyed. I looked above and below, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: there's a couple of guys above that I think are
Speaker 4: probably could fall back. I think JJ McCarthy could hop
Speaker 4: over him. But then you also get rookies coming in
Speaker 4: next year, so if you add that in, I feel
Speaker 4: like he's just going to be outside that top fifteen.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: So no from Scott, Yeah, all right? Thor how about
Speaker 1: for you? The Drake May era begins on Sunday. Is
Speaker 1: he a top fifteen quarterback asset in dynasty leagues?
Speaker 5: That's a noe for me. People bring up with him.
Speaker 6: I hear this a lot of like, oh, Drake May,
Speaker 6: you know he ran for over twelve hundred yards sixteen
Speaker 6: touchdowns at North Carolina. People don't bring up as much
Speaker 6: that Sam Howell rouge for eight hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 6: and eleven touchdowns his last season at North Carolina, and
Speaker 6: Matt Correll rushed for over eleven hundred yards his last
Speaker 6: two years at All Miss. Why does that matter? The
Speaker 6: one thing in common with Phil Longo system is what
Speaker 6: facilitated that for all three quarterbacks I mentioned. So beyond that,
Speaker 6: so his rushing output is not going to be there
Speaker 6: in the NFL. He's going to have to get to
Speaker 6: that top fifteen through the air. And there's ways to
Speaker 6: get that guy to glitch I mentioned before under pressure
Speaker 6: not very good. I brought those numbers up before, and
Speaker 6: then he had the lowest completion percentage by far last
Speaker 6: season of the draft class in guys that were blitz.
Speaker 5: He has a lot of talent.
Speaker 6: Of course, he has a howitzer for an arm, but
Speaker 6: some of those things that lead to fantasy value I'm
Speaker 6: not sure of. And they need to get a better
Speaker 6: supporting cast around DVENA have a chance.
Speaker 1: I think there's clearly thirteen quarterbacks that are undoubtedly ahead
Speaker 1: of Drake May in my mind, and I've got Drake
Speaker 1: May in the Dynasty League. By the way, Mahomes, Alan Jackson,
Speaker 1: Hurt Stroud Richards, and Burrow Love Murray, Daniels, Prescott, Williams Purty.
Speaker 1: All of them to me are ahead. So that leaves
Speaker 1: us two spots fourteen and fifteen to get Drake May in.
Speaker 1: So who's on the bubble Trevor Lawrence. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: this thing does not look good right now. And I
Speaker 1: think if I were offered Trevor Lawrence from my Drake May,
Speaker 1: my answer would be no. I think I'd rather roll
Speaker 1: the dice on Drake May's upside, long term upside. Tua
Speaker 1: can't do it. I don't even know if I thought
Speaker 1: that could. So he's out.
Speaker 4: Jared goff Yep, here's one too.
Speaker 1: There's the age, right, I mean you know there's an
Speaker 1: eight year different I'm guessing roughly eight year difference between
Speaker 1: those guys. I can't do that either. JJ McCarthy. This
Speaker 1: is really hard. I got one preseason game, but I'm
Speaker 1: taking JA. So yes, I do have Jj ahead of him.
Speaker 1: That leaves one spot left and the Patriots right now
Speaker 1: are on pace for the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 4: Well that's Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1: I texted Thor today, Travis Hunter. Yeah, you said no,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Arizona.
Speaker 5: McMillan.
Speaker 1: Say it again.
Speaker 5: Tara Dactyl, Tedoa McMillan six five. Yeah, he's not, he's not.
Speaker 6: He's not like Mike Evans in terms of the bill
Speaker 6: beyond that, but crazy catch radius and catches everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there's help coming in the draft potentially, and
Speaker 1: maybe even at the very.
Speaker 4: They'll be at the top of every round. It's like
Speaker 4: the top of every half.
Speaker 1: They'll be top the second round. So you know, I
Speaker 1: want to believe next year May is going to have
Speaker 1: viable targets. The offensive line will have four guys on
Speaker 1: injured reserve, and it's just things are going to get better.
Speaker 1: So I've got May at number fifteen plus plus.
Speaker 4: In Dynasty, they love youth, they love a guy. They
Speaker 4: may be able to run a little. It doesn't sound
Speaker 4: like Thor thinks he will, but they love the gunslinger too,
Speaker 4: So I can see that.
Speaker 3: Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Who's going to score more points going forward?
Speaker 5: Is it.
Speaker 1: Tank, Bigsby or Travis Eta. For this one, we begin
Speaker 1: with Thor.
Speaker 5: This is a tough one. It is over the last
Speaker 5: two weeks.
Speaker 6: You know, obviously Tank, He's rushed for two hundred seventy
Speaker 6: three yards on thirty four carries, two touchdowns, And what
Speaker 6: I think should just happen going forward is that Tank
Speaker 6: is the early down back et and gets all the
Speaker 6: pass game work.
Speaker 5: That's how this should go. But the Jaguars.
Speaker 6: Continue to reiterate that Etn is the guy when he
Speaker 6: is fully healthy, when he shakes that shoulder injury. I'm
Speaker 6: going to say Etn, even though I think it should
Speaker 6: be closer.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, i'ming forward, who's going to score more
Speaker 1: fantasy points? Tank Bigsby or Drivis Etn?
Speaker 4: I'm basically in lockstep with Thori. I illustrated this a
Speaker 4: few weeks ago that and this has been true for
Speaker 4: the most part since is they literally trade off series.
Speaker 4: It's literally big SB, so dont then it's big B.
Speaker 4: It's basically a trade off. But then you go to
Speaker 4: the passing game where Etn has twenty two targets, Tank
Speaker 4: Bigsby has one. Well, yeah, but it was a twenty
Speaker 4: eight yard catch. I meant that you got that going
Speaker 4: for you. I feel like the way the team's talking,
Speaker 4: I feel like they just continue to split and with
Speaker 4: the pass game work, a target is worth one point
Speaker 4: six times what a carry is for fantasy value. I
Speaker 4: think it's probably just going to be easy once he
Speaker 4: gets past this.
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby is the most exciting runner in the NFL. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's striding defenders, he's breaking tackles, he's powering through piles.
Speaker 4: Are these numbers sustainable? Though?
Speaker 1: Like the metrics, he's running away from defenders. When I'm
Speaker 1: watching Tank Bigsby, I get so excited I start involuntarily lactating,
Speaker 1: and those protein stains are hard to get out. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you here's where Tank Bigsby ranks in the
Speaker 1: NFL among players with his thirty four carries. I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you. Thory yards per carry, tank Bigsby number one.
Speaker 1: Avoided tackle rate tank Bigsby number one, Yes, fifty three
Speaker 1: percent yards after contact, tank Bigsby number one, Wow, six
Speaker 1: and a half yards after content. And over the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, Bigsby three carries from inside the five none
Speaker 1: for Travis etn Now here's where it gets interesting.
Speaker 4: Could I say one thing here?
Speaker 1: Yes, you can.
Speaker 4: I love that you listed those three stats because it's
Speaker 4: the same thing you could have said about JK. Dobbins
Speaker 4: after week one.
Speaker 1: Well that was a one game sample, a five game samples.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, now.
Speaker 1: Here's what I think it gets interesting. The passing game
Speaker 1: is definitely the receiving part is definitely going to go
Speaker 1: towards Etna. But there's this where a lot of coaches
Speaker 1: will hesitate to make a change at running back. Is
Speaker 1: pass protection?
Speaker 4: Uh huh?
Speaker 1: Travis Etn right now is the second worst pass protector
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus, second worst. He is a liability
Speaker 1: in pass protection.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Last year, Tank had an early role in the offense,
Speaker 1: but he had fumbled a couple of times and then
Speaker 1: that was it.
Speaker 5: Tank.
Speaker 1: No fumbles this year. That's important. Losing teams and losing
Speaker 1: coaches make moves more quickly. This is a move that
Speaker 1: can come. It's a move that needs to happen.
Speaker 4: So it's your answer.
Speaker 3: Let's go on tough question number three.
Speaker 1: Is Tucker Craft a reliable every week starter?
Speaker 5: Scott?
Speaker 4: So, if you ask me if Tucker Craft is a
Speaker 4: reliable every week starter, I'll tell you not even Laporta
Speaker 4: or Bauers or Kelsey anyone is no tight end is
Speaker 4: that's ridiculous. But if you ask me on a deeper level,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that given tight ends this year and
Speaker 4: in a good offense that gets into the red zone
Speaker 4: four to five times, per game, scoring on half of them,
Speaker 4: and with wide receivers that are constantly dropping balls and
Speaker 4: one or two of them is injured every single week.
Speaker 4: Love is going to start to trust Tyler Craft. I
Speaker 4: think he's pretty reliable. Honestly. It's I just like watching
Speaker 4: him play. He's so athletic out there. He kind of
Speaker 4: looks like a spry little jack rabbit.
Speaker 1: I got it, I got yeah, you go all right,
Speaker 1: Thoris Tucker Craft are reliable every week start.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say yes.
Speaker 6: And I feel so vindicated about Tucker Craft because after
Speaker 6: they took Craft. Yeah, after Musgrave, I said that this
Speaker 6: was a situation like Hayden Hurston and Mark Anders. I
Speaker 6: like Craft more and not a surprise to me that
Speaker 6: he's the one that's taken off.
Speaker 5: He's on pace right now.
Speaker 6: Kraft for fifty four catches, thank you, seven hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty four yards and eleven touchdowns. And that's despite only
Speaker 6: seeing two to three targets in the games where Malik
Speaker 6: will started. Obviously, those numbers were brought up by his
Speaker 6: performance last week, but you can't say that as a
Speaker 6: context point without mentioning he wasn't getting many targets with
Speaker 6: Malik willis I think going forward, Yeah, he is startable.
Speaker 1: I certainly want to say absolutely, because Lord knows we
Speaker 1: need it every week starting tight end in this league,
Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna happen. Luke Musgrave expected to
Speaker 1: go on IR by the time you hear this might
Speaker 1: even be on IR, and that could be four weeks
Speaker 1: where Tucker Kraft just salts away any any I guess
Speaker 1: chance that Luke Musgrave would eat into this work the
Speaker 1: last two weeks ten receptions, one hundred and forty yards
Speaker 1: and three scores, and he did. Tucker Craft in't do
Speaker 1: much until then, and he's tight in three because it's
Speaker 1: that bad right now. But here's the one note of caution.
Speaker 1: And apparently I'm gonna be this show's official wet blanket
Speaker 1: on this. Over the past two weeks when Tucker Craft
Speaker 1: has been great, Christian Watson has missed almost all the
Speaker 1: two games, and Romeo Dobbs got suspended, and apparently Bow
Speaker 1: Milton is in fact Bow Milton. So I worry when
Speaker 1: all the parts are back in this passing offense that
Speaker 1: now Tucker Craft's one of five guys to throw the
Speaker 1: ball to and we're gonna have a lot of variance,
Speaker 1: and so I worry about that, but the correct answer
Speaker 1: is yes, let's go back to our matchups. We got
Speaker 1: one more to fit in here, Thor Pittsburgh taking on
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. There's a lot of concern that there
Speaker 1: could be change coming at the quarterback position with Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: Do you like him here? Do you think he's going
Speaker 1: to hold the job?
Speaker 6: I do like him, and fortunately that's yes. Russell Wilson
Speaker 6: now is lingering, appears to be healthy, but Justin Fields
Speaker 6: remains the start, as Mike Tomlin recently said, at least
Speaker 6: for this game and a tremendous match up here, which
Speaker 6: is why I'm giving him an A. Despite the struggles
Speaker 6: against Dallas last week, Fields only has one week finishing
Speaker 6: lower than quarterback sixteen and like I said, very good
Speaker 6: matchup here. Raiders thirty first in the league in pressure
Speaker 6: rate and just lost Christian Wilkins. Raiders have allowed top
Speaker 6: ten quarterbacks scoring weeks in three of the last four.
Speaker 6: Let's make it four a five Naja Harris, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: give him a. Ce Cordero Patterson is out, but report
Speaker 6: surprisingly swung positive on Jaln Warren late in the week
Speaker 6: that he's going to play in this game, Harris continued
Speaker 6: nause continues to disappoint despite the sixteen plus touches he
Speaker 6: was getting in every single game, in part because Cordero
Speaker 6: and Jalen Warren were.
Speaker 5: Out in five games.
Speaker 6: Harris is yet to exceed eighty six total yards in
Speaker 6: any of those and has not yet scored. So that's
Speaker 6: why he's been so disappointing. If there was a week
Speaker 6: for him to break out, it would be this one,
Speaker 6: because all four running backs with sixteen plus touches against
Speaker 6: the Raiders this year have all posted fifteen and a
Speaker 6: half PPR points or more. I don't trust Naj though,
Speaker 6: so I got to drop the sea, especially with Warren
Speaker 6: coming back and not knowing how how much Warren is
Speaker 6: going to play. I would keep him on the bench
Speaker 6: for this game, but the same things would apply about
Speaker 6: the matchups, you know with him. Situationally, George Pickens is
Speaker 6: gonna give him a B. Pickens has two top twenty
Speaker 6: four Fantasy performances this year, four wide receivers, but he's
Speaker 6: only wide receiver fifty and Fantasy points per game, and
Speaker 6: then the routes fell off last week down to sixty
Speaker 6: one percent.
Speaker 5: It is tough to know.
Speaker 6: Always it's tough to know if Arthur Smith will go
Speaker 6: back to using him correctly he gets on the Arthur
Speaker 6: Smith carousel.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: This also is not a great matchup for George Pickens.
Speaker 6: The Raiders allow the seventh lowest PPR points per target
Speaker 6: and of course if this game gets away from them
Speaker 6: that the Steelers tried running more in the second half.
Speaker 6: Pap Ryermuth, I'm gonna give him an a tight end
Speaker 6: nine and fantasy points per game. Really good matchup here
Speaker 6: against a tight end funnel defense. Raiders are in the
Speaker 6: top ten points fantasy points per game allowed to tight ends,
Speaker 6: despite being in the bottom ten of targets faced against
Speaker 6: opposing tight ends. Moving over to the Raiders, Aidan O'Connell,
Speaker 6: who's coming in for Gardner Vidshi definitely no for him
Speaker 6: zero fantasy, does not run and has only gone over
Speaker 6: one touchdown passing three career games, despite I think this
Speaker 6: is going to be his twelfth or thirteenth career start.
Speaker 5: This is a nasty matchup.
Speaker 6: Two Steelers have not allowed a QB one fantasy scoring
Speaker 6: week this season, not even once. Alexander Madison going to
Speaker 6: give him a see Zamir White has missed practice late
Speaker 6: in the week here again after missing last week. He's
Speaker 6: likely out again with the groin. But this is a
Speaker 6: bad matchup for Madison. The Steelers defense has allowed three
Speaker 6: point seven yards per carry this season, third lowest in
Speaker 6: the NFL. Jacoby Myers keep him on the bench. He's
Speaker 6: questionable with an ankle injury. But if he plays with
Speaker 6: you know he would be the wide receiver one. Of course,
Speaker 6: with Davante Adams out again, but this is a brutal matchup.
Speaker 6: You have the bad quarterback play and then he'll be
Speaker 6: shadowed by Joey Porter Junior, who is shutting people down
Speaker 6: this year. No thank you, Trey Tucker. I am going
Speaker 6: to give him a seed with a little surprise. With
Speaker 6: Adams out and with Myers blanket by Joey Porter Junior,
Speaker 6: Tucker I think gets some extra looks. You do have
Speaker 6: to keep to expectations in check. Dante Jackson has been
Speaker 6: pretty good in his own right fifty four percent catch right,
Speaker 6: thirty seven point five pass A rating against pretty take good.
Speaker 6: So it's not the easiest matchup. At least you don't
Speaker 6: have to go against Joey Porter and Tucker has twenty
Speaker 6: nine point five receiving yards per game and about one
Speaker 6: year per role run. Still, he only needs one home
Speaker 6: run to return value. And I think that there's a
Speaker 6: shot here on a Steelers defense, you can occasionally get
Speaker 6: the ball deep on them. And then brock Barr's last
Speaker 6: one a obvious must start.
Speaker 1: He's turned into about his reliables and he's so good.
Speaker 6: And he's quarterback proof and he's offensive coordinator proof too.
Speaker 6: You just funneled him the ball five six yards down
Speaker 6: on the field and watch him break tackles.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: Sunday morning game, we got another London game, another early start.
Speaker 1: It's going to be Jacksonville and Chicago. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll tell you which of the Jacksonville passing game you
Speaker 1: don't even know? I like Tank Bixby, is Traves etn startable?
Speaker 5: Find out.
Speaker 1: Also, Chicago's pass defense is good good. Are there any
Speaker 1: players in the passing game for Jacksonville you dare start?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that when we come back to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Jacksonville takes on Chicago.
Speaker 1: Because of the hurricane, the Jaguars left Florida late. Some
Speaker 1: people are noting that they're still going to be in
Speaker 1: like jet lag mode when they come back. Some people
Speaker 1: factoring that in. But I don't love a lot of
Speaker 1: Jaguars here anyway. I already talked extensively about Tank Bigsby's
Speaker 1: got a B grade for me in this one. Travis
Speaker 1: d TN remained startable. The utilization flipped to Bigsby last week,
Speaker 1: who led the team in snaps and rushing attempts. But
Speaker 1: Eten did have a shoulder injury and that could have
Speaker 1: been contributing factor to that. But Etn will out with
Speaker 1: some PPR points. Bigsby non factor in the passing game,
Speaker 1: as Scott mentioned earlier, and the Bears have allowed the
Speaker 1: ninth most receptions to running back, so we're going to
Speaker 1: continue to start Travis Etn. Let's go to the passing game.
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas is awesome. I love this guy. He's quietly
Speaker 1: been fantastic. He's outscored by fantasy points Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 4: Every's talking about Marvin Harrison preseason sleeper.
Speaker 1: Nobody talking about Brian Thomas.
Speaker 4: That's my preseason sleeper.
Speaker 1: But except for Scott Fish, who's absolutely talked about Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: Brutal matchup against Bears superstar cornerback Jalen Johnson. When the
Speaker 1: opposing team has got an obvious number one, Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: goes into shadow mode and it's just game over. DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Robinson thirty seven yards, Michael Pittman thirty six yards, Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley had won deep catch fifty yards and the catch
Speaker 1: was not on Jalen Johnson, by the way, and last
Speaker 1: week Deontay Johnson twenty three yards. That's it. On average,
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson gives up two catches for twenty one yards.
Speaker 1: It is only because I love Brian Thomas him even
Speaker 1: giving him a c here, but he probably should be
Speaker 1: on your bench. You've got another option. Christian Kirk has
Speaker 1: been an all or nothing fantasy producer, and I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be a nothing week. So he
Speaker 1: will not see Jalen Johnson because he runs from the slot.
Speaker 1: He will see Kyler Gordon. Gordon also is really good.
Speaker 1: Not at the level of Johnson, but he's very good.
Speaker 1: Gordon hasn't allowed to score or more than thirty six
Speaker 1: yards in any game in his coverage all year. So
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, I'm I'm you know, I'm putting him on
Speaker 1: the bench. I had to see you great. I'm putting
Speaker 1: him on the bench. I don't want you to start
Speaker 1: him here, and he has dud games and this feels
Speaker 1: like a dud game, and all the other Jaguars are
Speaker 1: on the bench as well. Chicago's allowed the fewest fantasy
Speaker 1: points to opposing quarterbacks and their sixth and passing yards
Speaker 1: allowed Evan Ingram. That includes Evan Ingram. I want to
Speaker 1: see him fully healthy. He's got the hamstring. He's questionable
Speaker 1: all week, just like it was last week when he
Speaker 1: did not play. Let's see if he's where he's at
Speaker 1: and is he getting a full snap count. And the
Speaker 1: Bears are trif against Titans anyway, so let's not even
Speaker 1: go there. On the Chicago side, I got some players.
Speaker 1: I like DeAndre Swift fantastic over the past two games
Speaker 1: would be basically three games in we all just like
Speaker 1: this guy's awful, it's never gonna work. Then Chicago's pass
Speaker 1: blow our run blocking shows up, and he looks way better.
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty degree turn for DeAndre Swift these
Speaker 1: past two games. Jaguars run defense much better than their
Speaker 1: pass defense. They're giving up just three point eight yards
Speaker 1: per gary. I like the passing game more, but swift
Speaker 1: remains absolutely startable. With a B grade in this one,
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams was might take a chance at me. Quarterback
Speaker 1: DJ Moore comes in with an A grade. Jaguars have
Speaker 1: allowed the third most fantasy points to opposing receivers, the
Speaker 1: second most yards, and predictably, just like Caleb Williams, Moore's
Speaker 1: rebounded from a slow start with three strong fantasy games.
Speaker 1: Just like Caleb Williams, He's a huge part of the
Speaker 1: Chicago offense. Dj Moore averaging eight targets per game against
Speaker 1: this bad defense. Love him here, Roma Dunes. I think
Speaker 1: this is looking like a good game. Guys who have
Speaker 1: speed and the ability to get downfield are roasting the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Nico Collins, Alec Pierce, all with over one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yards and a score, and who leads
Speaker 1: the Bears in a hot deep passing Roma Dunza by
Speaker 1: huge margin fifteen yards per target for Roma Dunza. Those
Speaker 1: are the types of guys that are roasting the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: I've got a C grade on Roma Dunza here, C
Speaker 1: grade on Cole Kamet getting nearly all the tight end
Speaker 1: work but other than a random three explosion, he's only
Speaker 1: giving you three catches per game. Still, the Jaguars, a
Speaker 1: lot of Jaguars are not good against tight ends. They've
Speaker 1: allowed tight end scores in two of the past three games.
Speaker 1: So given the tight end hellscape that we're all living in,
Speaker 1: c Grade for Cole Kmet and then lastly Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: i'vevacillated on this one. Jaguars only giving up thirty two
Speaker 1: percent of their Fantasy points to receivers to the slot.
Speaker 1: That is the sixth lowest rate, and that's where Allen does.
Speaker 1: Almost all of his work is from the slot, and
Speaker 1: even though he's been running plenty of routes, he's a
Speaker 1: total afterthought in this offense. He has a top twenty
Speaker 1: nine yards in any game. Jackson has been rotating a
Speaker 1: bunch of different guys in its slot, originally Jerry and Jones,
Speaker 1: now safety Darnell Savage. They're not very good. But I
Speaker 1: just can't start Alan until I see more productivity.
Speaker 5: Scott.
Speaker 1: Let's go to a game that you've already alluded to
Speaker 1: several times, Detroit taking out Dallas. It's a point orgy
Speaker 1: here potentially coming. I love the Detroit side of this
Speaker 1: and and I think it's gonna be a slam dunk wins.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be awesome. But before that, to the listeners,
Speaker 4: if you want to hear more about Take Bigsby, you
Speaker 4: can listen to Paul Charchiad's podcast Doctor Bigski, Doctor Bigsby
Speaker 4: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Take.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm in on that once he darted enough baby, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm bored.
Speaker 4: On board with that podcast. All right. I already talked
Speaker 4: about Jared Goff, who is my take a chance on
Speaker 4: me quarterback, and what I feel like is going to
Speaker 4: be the shootout of the week fifty two point five
Speaker 4: over under. So I like a lot of his receivers.
Speaker 4: I'm on rya state brow. It's getting the are A grade.
Speaker 4: Week one was of an anomaly. He's been the clear
Speaker 4: wide receiver one in that team since in target share,
Speaker 4: getting thirty three targets over the last three games. No
Speaker 4: one else has even half of that in that span. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so A grade there. I have a B grade on Laporta,
Speaker 4: only thirteen targets on the year, but at least he
Speaker 4: caught twelve of them. And he's been able to turn
Speaker 4: that ten percent target share into something with high yak
Speaker 4: yards after the catch and high yards after contact. I'm
Speaker 4: not giving up on Laporta. People forget I heard this
Speaker 4: on a podcast this week, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 4: spout it too. He was injured with a hamstring injury
Speaker 4: in preseason, and he started slow in the last couple weeks.
Speaker 4: He started to come on a little bit right so
Speaker 4: on the.
Speaker 1: Bye week, so the hamstring should be fuller.
Speaker 4: Healed now exactly exactly, So that flipped between Jamison and
Speaker 4: Laporta with target share and catches and whatnot, might flip back.
Speaker 4: I still do have a B grade on Jamison Williams,
Speaker 4: though he leads the NFL in yards after the catch
Speaker 4: per reception sixty percent of the team's end zone targets.
Speaker 4: In fact, know why receiver or a tight end on
Speaker 4: the lines has more than one end zone target except Williams.
Speaker 4: Wow that Yeah, he's got four. And every there's a
Speaker 4: bunch of ones, just a bunch of ones, and he's
Speaker 4: got four. So B grade on him. Plus it only
Speaker 4: takes one of one d pass and he's gonna he's
Speaker 4: got a chance to hit and this is likely issued
Speaker 4: out B grade on David Montgomery, A grade on Jamar Gibbs.
Speaker 4: Gibbs has been slightly more productive and efficient, despite no
Speaker 4: catches in the last two weeks and two less touches
Speaker 4: per game. How is that pass?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: In fact, he caught a touchdown pass on a non target.
Speaker 4: How it was a lateral? It was a lateral? Yep, yep.
Speaker 4: Cowboys allowing the ninth most total yards and third most
Speaker 4: scores to backs. They've allowed seven scores in the five games,
Speaker 4: and it's a good spot for both of them. David
Speaker 4: Montgomery has scored in every single game this year, seventy
Speaker 4: plus yards in every game, has more catches, as we
Speaker 4: kind of just mentioned in the last three weeks than Gibbs.
Speaker 4: He's averaging eighteen touches sixteen. You're gonna get B grades
Speaker 4: without C or b's with that kind of volume. But
Speaker 4: in this offense, b's and a's, so a's for A
Speaker 4: for Gibbs. B from Montgomery over to the Dallas side,
Speaker 4: I still do have a B grade on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: I know you think it's gonna be just destruction over there.
Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna pass a lot. I think the Lions
Speaker 1: are gonna get way up, and I see tons of
Speaker 1: passing coming from Dak.
Speaker 4: I like, yeah, they haven't allowed multiple passing scores in
Speaker 4: a game, but both qbs with twenty five plus passttemps
Speaker 4: had three hundred plus yards and Dak is second in
Speaker 4: the lead to get in past attempts. He's and he's
Speaker 4: gonna throw a lot in this one.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, he's second in pass stems, completions and passing
Speaker 4: yards per game, and their dismal run game just is
Speaker 4: gonna make them pass. Speaking of the run game, I
Speaker 4: have that on the badge Dowdle's the lead back, but
Speaker 4: the Lions allow the fewest fewest total yards to running
Speaker 4: backs at just eighty nine per game, and their tops
Speaker 4: in the league against backs in the pass game. So
Speaker 4: there's just there's gonna be nothing there for Dowdell, so
Speaker 4: they'll pass. Jalen Tolbert was my take a chance on
Speaker 4: Me player. I mentioned how the Lions are bottom ten
Speaker 4: fourth most receptions to wide receivers, six most yards. They
Speaker 4: also allow. They also are the worst team against the
Speaker 4: slot where ced Lamb plays. So I have an A
Speaker 4: grade on CD lamb. Jake Ferguson is the last one
Speaker 4: I'll briefly touch on. I have a B grade there
Speaker 4: over the last three weeks six for ninety five, seven
Speaker 4: for forty nine, and six for seventy and gets basically
Speaker 4: all the Dallas tight end touches. It's not the greatest matchup,
Speaker 4: but in a shootout where he's going to be passing
Speaker 4: all game, I think he's gonna get enough volume to
Speaker 4: get a B.
Speaker 1: I think you're right about that. The one league, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of leagues. The one league I had
Speaker 1: Zeke in I drop him. I think he's absolutely droppable.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I didn't even mention him.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna exactly.
Speaker 4: I didn't write a note.
Speaker 1: Isn't that nice?
Speaker 4: Is Yeah? Don't even have to worry, not even on
Speaker 4: my list.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. Rico's getting way more work, and Zeque
Speaker 1: looks cooked totally.
Speaker 5: He looks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, what Dowdle did last week, it took
Speaker 4: him twenty two touches to do against it easy.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to be playing from behind. He won't
Speaker 1: get nearly the volume. No, No, I don't think either.
Speaker 1: When we come back Atlanta taking on Carolina Thorpe will
Speaker 1: break this down. Last time we saw Kirk Cousins five
Speaker 1: hundred yards and now he gets the Panthers. What can
Speaker 1: you expect from Kirk in this passing game? When we
Speaker 1: come back, Welcome back, final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, And
Speaker 1: as always in this segment, we jump in the f
Speaker 1: W time machine. We find some players that you can
Speaker 1: go get now that we think your league mates, your
Speaker 1: competitors are going to be trying to get next week,
Speaker 1: but they're already on your team. Hah thorn Iram. Let's
Speaker 1: start with you. Who is your premiature speculation play.
Speaker 6: Premature speculation player is a guy that I brought up
Speaker 6: plenty over the summer, and now I think it's wheels uptime.
Speaker 6: Maybe the last time you get an opportunity to pick
Speaker 6: him up. Is Luke McCaffrey of the Commanders, not done
Speaker 6: banging the table for him. Only ten receptions for ninety
Speaker 6: eight yards this season through five games, but the underlying
Speaker 6: metrics screen breakout here. On a passing offense, it's going
Speaker 6: to get better and better and better. McCaffrey's converted ten
Speaker 6: of eleven receiving targets into catches, one for one on
Speaker 6: contested targets. Half his catches have gone for first downs.
Speaker 6: He's playing ninety three over ninety three percent of the snaps.
Speaker 6: And here here's where the metrics come in. McCaffrey is
Speaker 6: number one in the entire NFL in separation percentage.
Speaker 5: What number one? And by the way, it's not even close.
Speaker 6: Only wider receiver in the NFL with a separation percentage
Speaker 6: above seventy nine percent, McCaffrey's over eighty one percent. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's not even close. He's also tied for number five
Speaker 6: in the NFL and EPA per target. The coaches keep
Speaker 6: gushing about this kid. We just need Jade and Daniels
Speaker 6: to start targeting him. Once it happens, it is total
Speaker 6: wheels up for Luke McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: All right. I was skeptical, but I only watched brief.
Speaker 1: I watched heading into the draft. I watched one game
Speaker 1: of rice football and just Luke McCaffrey, that's it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, and.
Speaker 5: He's he's taking of me.
Speaker 6: This is only the thirty year he's played wide receiver, too,
Speaker 6: which might be one of the reasons they're they're working
Speaker 6: him in slow. Although he's on the field every snap.
Speaker 4: And the nice part is Thor has to put another
Speaker 4: dollar in the mentioned Luke mccaffrein bucket. That's going to
Speaker 4: be a nice pizza party at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I'll drop that on the way up, Scott, your premature
Speaker 1: speculation player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with joln Poke good rapport with me
Speaker 4: in the preseason and connected in the final preseason game.
Speaker 4: As Thorne mentioned, I had the same exact notes as him.
Speaker 4: Somehow he hacked my stuff. He's led the team and
Speaker 4: targets the last two weeks. Leads the team in red
Speaker 4: zone targets. Snap percentage has ticked up every single week.
Speaker 4: His targets has increased the last two weeks. If he
Speaker 4: develops a rapport with May and they're behind a lot
Speaker 4: passing a lot, that that could be quite a spark there. Also,
Speaker 4: maybe my prespect is just Ashton Genty. Let's just go
Speaker 4: get him.
Speaker 5: Let's let's just get him into the NFL. Right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll see if the NFL can tackle that guy's.
Speaker 4: Oh here's the sneaky one, Rodric Estamy coming off.
Speaker 5: I ar another guy that's hard to tackle, not quite
Speaker 5: as hard as Dant.
Speaker 1: No one is what Yeah, my premature speculation. Houston receiver
Speaker 1: Xavier Hutchinson. Yeah, I was stayed in the house house
Speaker 1: and before that, here we go. Can you name where
Speaker 1: he came from before Iowa State?
Speaker 6: Yeah, community college in Kansas, right.
Speaker 1: Blind college in Texas and Texas. If you're blind college,
Speaker 1: your mascot has to be a blimp.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How many times are we gonna mention blimps on this show?
Speaker 1: Well, this is why we're talking about Xavier Hutchinson. Now
Speaker 1: what we know is last week when Deacal Collins bowed
Speaker 1: out early, Hutchinson got twenty eight routes. The next closest receiver,
Speaker 1: Robert Wood, had eight. And now Woods is hurt. Hutchinson
Speaker 1: is going to play and start this game. I am
Speaker 1: interested to see what this kid does now. What he
Speaker 1: did at Iowa State thor as you know, he was
Speaker 1: the FBS leader and catches per game two years ago,
Speaker 1: and he set the Big Twelve record for the most
Speaker 1: receptions by a three year player. Hyper productive at Iowa State.
Speaker 5: He's really good after the catch.
Speaker 1: He is, he's physical, he's quick footed.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be Nico Collins? Obviously not, but he's
Speaker 1: going to walk into some of the eleven receptions or
Speaker 1: targets per game that Collins had and if he's like five,
Speaker 1: or if he gets four or five out of those,
Speaker 1: Xavier Hutchinson might be a guy we're talking about as
Speaker 1: a take a chance on me player in FUTUREO. Yep,
Speaker 1: until Nico Collins comes back. All right, let's get back
Speaker 1: to the matchups. Atlanta takes on Carolina thor as I
Speaker 1: mentioned last segment, obviously Kirk Cousins coming off the Monster
Speaker 1: Game career game five hundred yards and four touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: now he's got the Panthers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the leagues' worres defense is obviously Panthers
Speaker 6: number third one in passing points allowed per attempt in fantasy,
Speaker 6: at number twenty nine in Fantasy points per game allowed
Speaker 6: to opposing quarterbacks games. Game script could flip towards the
Speaker 6: run here, though. Caroline only faces about a tick under
Speaker 6: twenty nine pass passing attempts per game, which is eighth
Speaker 6: fewest in the NFL, because opposing teams just run against
Speaker 6: them in the second half. That's why I drop Kirko
Speaker 6: down to a B in this matchup, despite being the
Speaker 6: bad defense, and perhaps scandalously. I'm gonna give Bijon an
Speaker 6: a here, despite only being RB twenty four in Fantasy
Speaker 6: points per game, and even though Arthur we talked about
Speaker 6: Arthur Smith before, the usage is getting weird with bj Anyways,
Speaker 6: we can't blame this on Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith's getting vindicated on a lot of things this year,
Speaker 1: and this is one of them. In part because Tyler
Speaker 1: Elgiers good.
Speaker 6: Yes he is, he for sure is. But yeah, and
Speaker 6: he's he's startable for me too. We'll get to him
Speaker 6: in a second, but yeah, Bijon last two games sixty
Speaker 6: four and sixty seven percent of the snaps averaging thirteen
Speaker 6: touches seventy five and a half total yards per game
Speaker 6: in those games has basically been splitting snaps on a
Speaker 6: pass first team to this point. But this is the
Speaker 6: get right game for him. Panthers run defense is bottom
Speaker 6: five and almost every metric that you can see, and
Speaker 6: again in the second half, I expect this to just
Speaker 6: be run, run, run, run, run, which is one of
Speaker 6: the reasons why we're gonna start Tyler Lger. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: give him a CEE RB fifty two and Fantasy points
Speaker 6: per game averaging about eight touches per game and about
Speaker 6: forty five total yards per game, but should be plenty
Speaker 6: of running back touches to go around against the stinky
Speaker 6: Panthers run defense and overall defense. Caroline has allowed the
Speaker 6: six to moreth most rushing yards per game in the
Speaker 6: NFL so far, and Carolina's defense has allowed three touchdowns
Speaker 6: in the last two weeks. The Bears and the Bengals
Speaker 6: running backs Drake May a obvious.
Speaker 5: Top ten not Drake May. Drake Drake London man.
Speaker 6: Drake May is on the brain, He's been on the brain,
Speaker 6: but London top ten fantasy receiver.
Speaker 5: Another big game coming here.
Speaker 6: The Panthers secondary has allowed the most PPR points per
Speaker 6: targets to perimeter wide receivers. However, I'm gonna Darnal Mooney
Speaker 6: down to a sea. He's yeah, he's wide receiver twenty
Speaker 6: fantasy points per game at the nine catch for one
Speaker 6: hundred and five yards and two touchdowns last week and
Speaker 6: the game where Kirko went ballistic, But this is not
Speaker 6: as good of a matchup for him on paper. Carolina
Speaker 6: runs the second highest single high rate in the entire NFL,
Speaker 6: and we've talked about this in previous episodes. For whatever reason,
Speaker 6: Mooney's usage drops against the single high. Only zero point
Speaker 6: nine three yards per role run against single high for
Speaker 6: Darnell Mooney. So we're gonna give him a See, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give Kyle and you never know what to give
Speaker 6: Kyle Pitts a grade. I'm gonna give him a bee.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be wrong, but I'm gonna give him a be.
Speaker 6: He had the seven catches for eighty eight yards last
Speaker 6: week and his breakout that up Kyle Pitts the tight
Speaker 6: end eleven and fantasy points per game in this wasteland
Speaker 6: of a tight end environment that we've been in fantasy.
Speaker 5: You just shoot right to the top.
Speaker 6: Pits his second on the team in red zone targets
Speaker 6: with three and another good game coming here. Potentially, the
Speaker 6: Panthers have allowed the tenth most receiving yards and fifth
Speaker 6: most fantasy point per game two opposing tight ends. Flipping
Speaker 6: over to the Carolina side, Andy Dalton struggle with this one.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give him a seed though, gonna give him
Speaker 6: a tentative.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 6: He had the poor performance last week, but that was
Speaker 6: against that nasty Bears pass defense. The charge brought up before.
Speaker 6: The Bears are allowing the least fantasy points per game
Speaker 6: to opposing quarterbacks. This is a much better matchup here.
Speaker 6: Mediocre Falcons pass defense ranks number twenty two DVA Ken
Speaker 6: the Panthers offensive line hold up. Dalton was pressured on
Speaker 6: forty seven percent of his dropbacks last Sunday. Austin Corbett
Speaker 6: was lost for the season. Taylor Molton is questionable for
Speaker 6: this week. That's the only slight question here, But the
Speaker 6: Falcons don't have the best pass rush. I gave Dalton
Speaker 6: see chewba Hubbard. I'm gonna give him a b RB
Speaker 6: twelve and fantasy points per game, but most of that
Speaker 6: has been since Andy Dalton became the starting quarterback. Hubbard
Speaker 6: has finished as a top seven fantasy running back each
Speaker 6: of the past three weeks, with averages of twenty two touches,
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty eight total yards per game in
Speaker 6: that stretch.
Speaker 5: Good matchup here.
Speaker 6: The Falcons have allowed the third highest rushing success rate
Speaker 6: in the NFL so far. Deontay Johnson gonna give him
Speaker 6: an a struggle last week while being shot shadowed by
Speaker 6: the aforementioned Jalen Johnson, and I mentioned that you know
Speaker 6: Andy Dalton and that sort of stuff, But since Dalton
Speaker 6: has become the starting quarterback. Outside of that that one
Speaker 6: off game, who everyone has a bad game against the
Speaker 6: Bears pass defense, Johnson his game is is way ticked
Speaker 6: up for fantasy owners. He's He's scored the ninth most
Speaker 6: fantasy points among receivers since that time, even with that
Speaker 6: stinker game included. Panthers have a good matchup the passing
Speaker 6: game for the Panthers do against a bad Falcons pass defense.
Speaker 6: Falcons have allowed every wide receiver one that they have
Speaker 6: faced to score at least thirteen and a half PPR
Speaker 6: fantasy points this year.
Speaker 5: So Deontay Johnson for me, isn't.
Speaker 4: More of the five score touchdowns too?
Speaker 5: There you go? Yeah, just going ballistic against him. Last one.
Speaker 6: Xavier Leget, I'm gonna give him a se looks to
Speaker 6: be a full goal after the shoulder injury he suffered
Speaker 6: last week.
Speaker 5: That that's what they've been talking about. Should be playing here.
Speaker 6: Atlanta has allowed the a ties PPR points to perimeter
Speaker 6: wide receivers, and Lagett could take advantage of a matchup
Speaker 6: against a J.
Speaker 5: Terrell here.
Speaker 6: AJ Terrell's allowed seventy nine percent of his targets to
Speaker 6: be converted in IT catches and near one hundred percent
Speaker 6: passer rating allowed on targets this year.
Speaker 1: Go get Xavier lyg At now. I feel like we're
Speaker 1: gonna buy low moment for Xavier again.
Speaker 5: And he could pop off here, for sure he could.
Speaker 1: That guy's the upside. And by the way, Cuba Hubbard man,
Speaker 1: he looks like a different back this year. He's running
Speaker 1: so much harder. Jonathan Brooks is going to take his
Speaker 1: time coming back because they are getting productivity out of chewbah.
Speaker 5: And why would you rush Brooks back off that injury?
Speaker 1: For sure, no no reason to. Cincinnati takes on the
Speaker 1: Giants on Sunday Night. Let's start with Joe Burrow. The
Speaker 1: Giants pass rush has sparked life over the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: The Giants have notched a ten sack game and a
Speaker 1: nine sack game, which is insane. They got a nasty
Speaker 1: front the Giants and Cincinnati ranks twenty Yeah, Thibodeau may
Speaker 1: not play in this one.
Speaker 4: I don't think you will.
Speaker 1: And Cincinnati ranks twenty seventh in pass blocking by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus. So I have a little bit of worried
Speaker 1: that the Giants are just going to wreck the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage on Joe Burrow here, which is why I'm
Speaker 1: giving him a sea excuse me, a B grade in
Speaker 1: a game where I think many people would have expected
Speaker 1: an A. Over the past two weeks, the Giants pass
Speaker 1: defense has held Geno Smith and Dak Prescott to very
Speaker 1: modest games, and they're good passers. So I've just got
Speaker 1: the B on Joe Burrow. Jamar Chase those stays as
Speaker 1: an eight. You know, he's awesome, and the Giants pass
Speaker 1: defense has been better than I think we all expected.
Speaker 1: But the opposing top receivers are still dominating, like Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Amari Cooper and Ceedee Lamb all big games.
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase obvious A. T. Higgins drops to a C.
Speaker 1: I mentioned number one receivers are having big games, and
Speaker 1: actually slot receivers have done okay, number twos really haven't.
Speaker 1: Higgins should see some of cornerback Deontay Banks. That would
Speaker 1: be a very big positive. He's given up four touchdowns
Speaker 1: already tied from the NFL's worst. You can still start
Speaker 1: te Higgins here. I just again worry about the pass
Speaker 1: rush ultimately getting to Burrow and not getting the numbers
Speaker 1: we would love to have. And for the tight ends,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay on the Eric all watch. But for
Speaker 1: right now, Mike Kaseki's still leading the tight end group
Speaker 1: in snaps, but it's a four way mess. We don't
Speaker 1: want any part of that. Zach Moss and Chase Brown
Speaker 1: both come in with C grades. They're both gonna play,
Speaker 1: they're dealing with injuries. The Giants run defense was bad
Speaker 1: in the first two games, but they've gotten a lot
Speaker 1: better since then. Over the last three New York allowing
Speaker 1: the fifth fewest Fantasy points to runners, the fewest carries
Speaker 1: to runners, and just three point seven yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Last week, the Seahawks only gave Kenneth Walker five carries
Speaker 1: before they just gave up on the running game entirely
Speaker 1: against New York. It's turned into an almost dead time
Speaker 1: share even timeshare between Zack Moss and Chase Brown, and
Speaker 1: both guys have been used equally at the stripe, So
Speaker 1: you don't know what's gonna happen inside the five either.
Speaker 1: But I've got a C grade on both guys. Ideally,
Speaker 1: you don't have to start either one here, but I
Speaker 1: can understand that you probably don't have that luxury in
Speaker 1: a bye week, and we'll give a C grade to both.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll so flip over to the Giants for
Speaker 1: a minute. Here thors taking jansome player was Darius Slayton.
Speaker 1: I like him, here a lot of B grade for him,
Speaker 1: and I like Daniel owns a lot terrific opportunity against
Speaker 1: a massively slumping Cincinnati secondary. The only quarterback who hasn't
Speaker 1: thrown multiple touchdowns against the Bengals is the sense bench
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett. And what's more, the Bengals have allowed the
Speaker 1: second most quarterback rushing yards and Daniel Jones shockingly mobile
Speaker 1: for a guy coming off ACL surgery. He's averaging seven
Speaker 1: designed runs per game. He's going to help you on
Speaker 1: the ground in this one as well. B grade on
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones when Dale Robinson might catch I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty eight catches for fourteen yards, because that's kind of
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He's fifth in targets among all wideouts
Speaker 1: and where he's killing fantasy managers though, as I just
Speaker 1: alluded to, is a dot his average distance of target.
Speaker 1: He's averaging just four and a half yards per target.
Speaker 1: That's it now, Robinson runs from the slot. He's going
Speaker 1: to face Mike Hilton. He remains one of the better
Speaker 1: slot cornerbacks. He has not allowed to score in two years,
Speaker 1: and he's giving up just sixty four percent of his
Speaker 1: passes into completions. Just to see grade on when del
Speaker 1: Robinson and only a C grade in PPR usage. Now,
Speaker 1: where this thing's going to be dicey. This is a
Speaker 1: Sunday night game, everybody. Devin's Singletary status is unknown as
Speaker 1: we're recording this. You'll want to be careful if you've
Speaker 1: got Singletary in your starting lineup. I hope you have
Speaker 1: Tyrone Tracy, so you can pivot to him. If you don't,
Speaker 1: be sure to put Singletary in your flex spot, so
Speaker 1: at least you could flip over to Darius Slayton as
Speaker 1: an example, as somebody who could pick up on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: This injury to Singletary probably creates a timeshare even if
Speaker 1: he does play, and groin injuries aggravate easily, so be
Speaker 1: careful here. Cincinnati's a pretty bad run defense. Every starting
Speaker 1: runner is top ninety yards or scored. If we get
Speaker 1: confident news about Singletary, I could move him up to
Speaker 1: a bee. But otherwise I've got a C grade on
Speaker 1: Singletary and Tyrone Tracy again if one of them gets
Speaker 1: If Singletary gets ruled out, then we could move Tracy
Speaker 1: up to a B grade as well. Final matchup Scott
Speaker 1: Fish is the Monday Nighter Buffalo taking on the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. This is a fantastic Jets pass defense in particular,
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen has given us some dud games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's why I could only muster to see there.
Speaker 4: Three of the last four has been under one hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty yards in both games against top pass defenses
Speaker 4: were duds. He's still jallat Jellan though he gets it
Speaker 4: done with his legs as well, and he can spread
Speaker 4: it around. But this is the number one pass defense
Speaker 4: versus Fantasy QB's second fewest yards allowed. They're just really
Speaker 4: good with red and sauce on the corners.
Speaker 1: There he is.
Speaker 4: This year. Maybe maybe a thing. Khalil Shakir did not
Speaker 4: practice on Friday ankle injury. If he misses yet another game.
Speaker 4: What we saw last week was the wide receivers for
Speaker 4: the Bills had four catches total, so I have all
Speaker 4: of them on the bench. You don't want Coleman or
Speaker 4: Hollins going against them. You don't want Samuel in the slot.
Speaker 4: Duncan Kid I had a bench grade on, But if
Speaker 4: Shakiro doesn't go again, maybe a C grade because he
Speaker 4: has a twenty percent target chair in three the last
Speaker 4: four might have to funnel through him. We might see
Speaker 4: a forty to fifty yard game. For the running game,
Speaker 4: James Cook did not practice on Friday, also tow foot injury.
Speaker 4: If he does not go, it's gonna be Ray Davis
Speaker 4: and Ty Johnson. Ty Johnson actually ran more routes than
Speaker 4: Cook did last week, but he gets stuffed for zero
Speaker 4: or negative yards on sixty percent of his plays. Ray
Speaker 4: Davis sixty five percent of his plays. I think they're
Speaker 4: gonna split and it's just not gonna be enough work.
Speaker 4: I'd have them both on the bench. I'd have James
Speaker 4: Cook with a C maybe even a B if if
Speaker 4: he does go. The Jets have allowed some combos to
Speaker 4: get some yards, but I don't know that I trust
Speaker 4: this duo. Here over on the other side, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 4: I got a C grade on. He's got multiple scores
Speaker 4: in three the last four. This is the middle of
Speaker 4: the pack defense here and his averages are like two
Speaker 4: hundred and eighteen yards touchdown or two should be okay.
Speaker 4: Breestaw I think might be sitting on an a game
Speaker 4: and a new offensive coordinated new offensive coordinator. It's a
Speaker 4: good matchup second East most convoy yards allowed including six scores.
Speaker 4: That's why Braylen Allen was also might take a chance
Speaker 4: on me player. I have sea grades on Alan Lazard
Speaker 4: and Garrett Wilson as well. Wilson's just getting so many
Speaker 4: dang targets. I know he's not doing a ton with them,
Speaker 4: but just so many targets. And Alan Lazard double digit
Speaker 4: fantasy points in four of five games, eighteen targets in
Speaker 4: the last two. It's almost an even split between them
Speaker 4: with red zone targets. It's the fifth hardest matchup for
Speaker 4: wide receivers. But a couple of duos like Thomas and
Speaker 4: Kirk Collins and Diggs had good games, so seagrats for
Speaker 4: both of them. They might do better.
Speaker 1: They might do better. I don't trust Bazard as much
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