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Speaker 1: Over the course of today, we're gonna break down every
Speaker 1: game fantasy style. Like always, we give you letter grades
Speaker 1: on every meaningful player. We tell you are rationale behind
Speaker 1: those grades, so you can decide if you agree with
Speaker 1: us or not. We'll answer three tough questions. We'll give
Speaker 1: you nine players upon whom which you can take a chance,
Speaker 1: and we will jump into our time machine and give
Speaker 1: you some premature speculation is to who to pick up
Speaker 1: this week. Everybody else we'll be trying to pick up
Speaker 1: next week. That's uh. I think we rocked it last week.
Speaker 1: By the way, I think we had some good ones
Speaker 1: on there, but I don't remember who they were, but
Speaker 1: I remember Kareem Hunt was one of them. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna work out. Well. It wasn't the two of
Speaker 1: us on the show with you last week, so of
Speaker 1: course there wasn't good. We didn't listen at all. Thank you. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's a heck of an endorsement for our show.
Speaker 1: Let's jump into the matchups, Matt, beginning with you your
Speaker 1: first Ravens taking on the Bengals. The Bengals run defense
Speaker 1: has been terrible. Their past defense has been good, and
Speaker 1: here comes the Ravens who love to run the ball.
Speaker 1: It's weird because my first note is on the Ravens side,
Speaker 1: start everyone who runs the ball ye perfect mark Ingram
Speaker 1: gets an A grade. Gus Edwards is even startable in
Speaker 1: a pinch. It's a sixteen by week. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's a great matchup, is for sure. Take on I
Speaker 1: almost I was my take on for a while. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, for those that are new to the show,
Speaker 1: take on take a chance on me players. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: So the Bengals are bottom five in rushing attempts allowed,
Speaker 1: yards per game, allowed, yards per carry, rushing touchdowns, yards
Speaker 1: to running backs, and receiving touchdowns allowed to running backs.
Speaker 1: Edwards iszier to take a chance on a guy. That's
Speaker 1: weird because normally we'd throw this match up later. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, you can start him too, he's started. Just
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Lamar Jackson, by the way,
Speaker 1: he gets an A grade, he's probably chart his top
Speaker 1: quarterback this week, I would imagine, pretty close. Two. Bengals
Speaker 1: have only given up eleven touchdowns through the air this year,
Speaker 1: but have allowed one and forty more rushing yards to
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks than any other team in the league. And
Speaker 1: that's mostly due to Lamar Jackson torching them for one
Speaker 1: fifty two and a score in the earlier meeting about
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. Uh. The only other start grade on
Speaker 1: the on the raven side I have is Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a tepid B grade because there's
Speaker 1: a tight end waste land this this week and Andrews
Speaker 1: is still a good starter. I think he's still the
Speaker 1: top tight end there. Despite Nick Boyle having twice as
Speaker 1: many targets and catches last week, Andrews has been dinged
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Um. It's concerning that he only
Speaker 1: had thirty percent of the snaps last week and only
Speaker 1: ran fourteen routes against the Patriots, but that was the
Speaker 1: Patriots and maybe they were playing a different kind of
Speaker 1: ball game. But he's basically the only tight end that's
Speaker 1: done anything against the Bengals this year. Um. He had
Speaker 1: six in the first meeting, and Dawson Knox was the
Speaker 1: only tight end to score against the Bengals this year,
Speaker 1: So you haven't needed to use a tight end to
Speaker 1: beat the Bengals. So that's why Mark Andrews is only
Speaker 1: just a B grade. And that's really I don't think
Speaker 1: the Bengals are a great past defense and just don't
Speaker 1: have to pass, so teams don't. You don't, and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm benching all the wide receivers. No Baltimore wide
Speaker 1: receiver has more than five targets in a game since
Speaker 1: Week four. That's ridiculous. The last time these teams played
Speaker 1: my else Boykin's two catches for twenty eight yards was
Speaker 1: the top fantasy day for all wide receivers. On the
Speaker 1: other side, A J. Green had a setback. He's out indefinitely.
Speaker 1: Some say his ankle responded poorly to practice this week.
Speaker 1: Others think his ankle responded poorly to seeing Ryan Finley
Speaker 1: taking first team reps. We'll have the ankle or baby,
Speaker 1: he just saw Jalen Ramsey sit out and get a contract,
Speaker 1: And yeah, Finlay's on the bench. By the way, eight
Speaker 1: of the nine quarterbacks to face the Ravens have been
Speaker 1: held to zero or one touchdown passes, and over the
Speaker 1: last five games, the Ravens has have had as many
Speaker 1: picks as touchdowns allowed, which means Tyler Boyd and out
Speaker 1: In Tate aren't doing very good. Tate had the bigger
Speaker 1: game last time these teams faced, registering five catches for
Speaker 1: ninety one yards on twelve targets, but that was with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Boyd was targeted seven times and only had
Speaker 1: three catches for ten of the two. I'd give Boyd
Speaker 1: the tepid see. The Ravens have allowed big days to
Speaker 1: a handful of slot receivers, including Landry Kirk Fitzgerald, Juju
Speaker 1: s new Edelman Lockett. Yeah, I'll mention this, and this
Speaker 1: goes back to one of the long held beliefs of
Speaker 1: this show, Fantasy Football Weekly. What what's when something is
Speaker 1: bad for an offense, it's bad for all the players
Speaker 1: on the office. When a J. Green is out, you
Speaker 1: get far less productivity from Tyler Boyd historically than when
Speaker 1: a J. Green is in. I can't imagine Ryan Finley
Speaker 1: is good for the offense either. It might that's that's
Speaker 1: not it's not a good They might just focus on
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd or something like that. But Joe Mixon I
Speaker 1: only gave a C grade two and it's more it's
Speaker 1: closer to a bench Mixing had his best day of
Speaker 1: the year last week, but only logged of the offensive
Speaker 1: snaps and managed only three point seven yards per carry.
Speaker 1: He only got thirty nine yards on ten touches in
Speaker 1: the last meeting with the Ravens. That's about the floor. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's like my basement apartment in college where the ceiling
Speaker 1: and the floor are really close to each other. I
Speaker 1: think you had like two yards. The Ravens are only
Speaker 1: allowing fifty six point eight rushing yards to the running
Speaker 1: back position over their last four games. I think that's
Speaker 1: the high water market. It's about fifty seven yards for Joe.
Speaker 1: So it's it's just bad all around. And since yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a it's I hate, I hate this.
Speaker 1: This is I'm just I'm not. I'm not. Joe's gonna
Speaker 1: go it. We told you Joe Mixon was sitting on
Speaker 1: a bad season. The offensive line is gonna make it
Speaker 1: really hard for him. If you can still happy Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon in a dynasty or an empire, yeah, need go
Speaker 1: out and look for him because they're probably gonna have
Speaker 1: a quarterback. They're probably gonna spend some high draft picks
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. It's fair. I think Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: is probably a good offensive mine. It's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: come back around that man. That the management I think.
Speaker 1: I think Matt's right though. I think this is a
Speaker 1: it's gonna be historically, we'll look back and go this
Speaker 1: with the by low moment. Joe Mixon, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this is the time to go grab him. Chiefs take
Speaker 1: on the Titans, and the Chiefs will get Patrick Mahomes back.
Speaker 1: He's got the injurneed. So he's gonna be wearing a brace,
Speaker 1: and that means that mahomes mobility will be limited at
Speaker 1: least somewhat, and that does sap some of his productivity here.
Speaker 1: He's not like my normal number one quarterback for the week. Um,
Speaker 1: but he does get an A grade. Titan secondaries of
Speaker 1: middle of the pack unit allowing exactly two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: five different games, including the last three games straight two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So um, one of the reasons I do like Mahomes though,
Speaker 1: Titans just put Malcolm Butler on. I are Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: kind of just run through this defense. I like Tyree
Speaker 1: Hill a lot. He also gets an A grade. He's
Speaker 1: averaged one eight yards with a score in the two
Speaker 1: games started by Matt Moore and has scored four times
Speaker 1: in his many games since his return from injury. We
Speaker 1: like all of those numbers. No Malcolm Butler, as I mentioned, Um,
Speaker 1: this is a great opportunity for Tyreek Hill, who's an
Speaker 1: A grade, and so's Travis Kelsey, who averages twenty extra
Speaker 1: yards and Mahomes games as opposed to Matt Moore games,
Speaker 1: and he goes back to being an obvious A starter. Now.
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins shows up here. As an opportunity as well. Again,
Speaker 1: um he, I think the Malcolm Butler loss will be
Speaker 1: will at least sometimes affect Sammy Watkins. But he also
Speaker 1: runs out of the slot a lot, and that puts
Speaker 1: him up against Logan Ryan, who is surrendered just one
Speaker 1: score in his last seven games. So a C start
Speaker 1: on Sammy Watkins, but he is startable here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Damian Williams, who ripped off that er last week.
Speaker 1: A reminder that outside of that run, Damian Williams has
Speaker 1: been dreadful, averaging two point three yards per carry and
Speaker 1: maybe more importantly, eight carries per game. That's it, do
Speaker 1: not chase last week's yard or it's there's one exception
Speaker 1: to that. If well, yeah, maybe then go ahead and
Speaker 1: start against me. Um. The Titans are an excellent run defense,
Speaker 1: but only when they're starting defensive tackle Drill Casey is playing.
Speaker 1: If he if he has a setback and does not play,
Speaker 1: we think he's gonna play. If he doesn't play, then
Speaker 1: Damian Williams would be elevated up to a higher status.
Speaker 1: As it is right now, I have a begrudging C
Speaker 1: grade on him because Lashawn McCoy is not even a
Speaker 1: factor in this offense anymore diminishing workload in four straight games,
Speaker 1: he's on the bench. Me Cole Hardman averaging ten plays
Speaker 1: per game. Since Sammy Watkins came back, he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: And DeMarcus Robinson has head diminishing snap counts in six
Speaker 1: straight games, he's on the bench. Got a fun staff
Speaker 1: for you on McCoy alright's here. Since he fumbled two
Speaker 1: games ago, he's had six touches. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: In a standard redraft league twelve teamer, how many Chiefs
Speaker 1: are rosterable right now? Well, you got mahomes Hill and
Speaker 1: Kelsey Bank they're in, and then after that it's it's
Speaker 1: you've got Sammy Watkins, the middling starter, and then Damian Williams.
Speaker 1: As a Damian Williams hit waiver wires in some leagues,
Speaker 1: I would understand that, but it's still the starting running
Speaker 1: back on a Chief's offense, so I you know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't drop him by any stretch. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Tennessee side. Derrick Henry is an obvious A
Speaker 1: grade here. The Chiefs run defense has been better over
Speaker 1: the last three games, holding quality runners. Philip Lindsay, Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and Dalvin Cook to an average of fifty eight
Speaker 1: rushing yards, none of them scored. Still, I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to say that this is a stopper run defense in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Henry has seen his rushing attempts, rushing yards,
Speaker 1: and snap percentage decrease in three consecutive games, but his
Speaker 1: yards per carry is increases being more effective on fewer carries,
Speaker 1: and he's still a workhorse getting who's yielding no runs
Speaker 1: to Dan Lewis whatsoever. And Henry is the only Tennessee
Speaker 1: back with a carry inside the five yard line when
Speaker 1: he touchdowns will go to him. He isn't a grade
Speaker 1: for the passing game. I've only got two players you
Speaker 1: could start, and that's Ryan Tannehill with a C grade,
Speaker 1: even though he's been good over the last three weeks,
Speaker 1: averaging depending on your scoring system, roughly quarterback five, quarterback six,
Speaker 1: quarterback seven. That's awfully good for Ryan Tannehill since becoming
Speaker 1: the starter. But the Kansas City secondary is much improved
Speaker 1: from last year. Even though they allowed back to back
Speaker 1: re touchdown games, they've played way better than those box
Speaker 1: scores suggest, and prior to those games, they'd allowed just
Speaker 1: one point one touchdowns per game. I've got a C
Speaker 1: grade in Ryan Tannehill. A C grade on A. J. Brown,
Speaker 1: who's commanded at least seven targets and two of Tannehill's
Speaker 1: three games while notching at least sixty four yards and
Speaker 1: or he touchdown in each of those games. It's again,
Speaker 1: Chief secondary has been good um over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Only the Chicago Bears have yielded fewer fantasy points per
Speaker 1: game to opposing receivers in Kansas City. So it is
Speaker 1: it is only a C grade on A. J. Brown.
Speaker 1: Corey Davis is got a hip injury and he is
Speaker 1: not expected to play in this game. One other guy
Speaker 1: I I missed this on page two, another C grade,
Speaker 1: John Nu Smith Delanny Walker, expected to miss this game.
Speaker 1: Smith's been getting sev of the tight end snap since
Speaker 1: Walker left. Opposing teams have been targeting the tight end
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. They're tied for the league lead in
Speaker 1: tight end targets against them. They've had eight seven tight
Speaker 1: end pass has come their way this year, only three
Speaker 1: TV tight ends of top thirty nine yard though, so
Speaker 1: even though there's a lot of attempts, they aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: being super productive in a six team by week JONU
Speaker 1: Smith C grade. Let's go to the Cardinals taking on
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and I know where you want to start
Speaker 1: with this Scott Fantasy Football's highest scoring kicker going up
Speaker 1: against the defense allowing the most points to kickers. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's it's all about the kicker analysis for you.
Speaker 1: That's where you're going to Zane Gonzalez. Isn't a grade,
Speaker 1: It's Scott fish Bowl next year going to be like
Speaker 1: two kicker positions for each team. It's yeah, kicker, all
Speaker 1: kicker flexes. That's all it is. Uh No, we're not
Speaker 1: going to start their charge. I honestly, this game is
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch, though. I want to inject
Speaker 1: the shootout potential of this game in my veins because
Speaker 1: it's it's like it doesn't sound good, but but but
Speaker 1: I'm touching my arm to it was disgusting. The over
Speaker 1: under this game is fifty two. Uh The rich combined
Speaker 1: scores in our Arizona Cardinals games fifty points. The average
Speaker 1: point combined points scored in Bucks games this year sixty points.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of scoring, and when when these two
Speaker 1: are meet, there should be a lot of scoring. Both
Speaker 1: teams in the match. In this matchup are bottom four
Speaker 1: in a bunch of categories against quarterbacks. So I have
Speaker 1: Winston and Murray with a's. I'm gonna flip side there.
Speaker 1: I have them both with A grades. Um, let's stay
Speaker 1: on the Cardinals side though, I'm gonna I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: B grades to both his two main options. Kirk did
Speaker 1: get shut down against San Francisco, but he had double
Speaker 1: digit targets the prior week, and three of the games
Speaker 1: he's played with Kyler he's had double digit targets. That's
Speaker 1: three of his five or six games. Christian Kirk's available
Speaker 1: on a lot of leaks. That's standard absence of his
Speaker 1: He is a great opportunity. First, He's actually had more
Speaker 1: targets uh than Fitzgerald in each of the last three
Speaker 1: games they played together. Because you know Kirks sometimes. It's
Speaker 1: just been a pretty big disappointment this year and I
Speaker 1: am I'm still giving him a B grade because of
Speaker 1: the matchup. The Bucks have allowed ten wide receiver touchdowns
Speaker 1: in just the last five games, and five wide receivers
Speaker 1: went over a D and twenty yards. Thirteen different wide
Speaker 1: receivers in those five weeks. Top seventy yards or scored
Speaker 1: in five weeks, thirteen of them. Now, the Bucks slot
Speaker 1: cornerback for the last two seasons has been m J. Stewart,
Speaker 1: but he was so bad that they benched him and
Speaker 1: they've been cobbling together other other help in the slot
Speaker 1: the Bucks have. But now here comes. Here comes the
Speaker 1: Cardinals with two slot receivers, as there are number one
Speaker 1: and number two receiving targets slot receivers. So Matt might
Speaker 1: put m J. Stewart back on the field and that
Speaker 1: would be a huge bonus for either Fitzgerald or Kirk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a match if I like for both of them,
Speaker 1: but I'm giving them both B grades. I do think
Speaker 1: Mary gets it done, though, I've Clay on the bench.
Speaker 1: Bucks are might be bad against tight ends, but you're
Speaker 1: not trustee Joss Clay for anything. Um Johnson and Drake Man.
Speaker 1: The Bucks rundy is actually pretty decent. This very good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three point three yards per are in just four total
Speaker 1: running back touchdowns. My even McCaffrey was held to fifty
Speaker 1: seven total yards and he had two of those four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So I actually have both of them on the bench.
Speaker 1: I can see giving them a C grade dart throw
Speaker 1: because there's six teams on by. I know that David
Speaker 1: Johnson was working out of the slot a lot this
Speaker 1: week in practice with with Kennyan Drake, and they were
Speaker 1: trying to get them both on the field, so that
Speaker 1: could be interesting. But I'm worried against a good run
Speaker 1: dy that it'll sap both of them. So I think
Speaker 1: that's fair over on the over. On the buck side,
Speaker 1: Evans is an A and Godwin's an A. I really
Speaker 1: don't feel like we need to talk about that much,
Speaker 1: do we. It's against certainly not Evans, who's been red hot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now for Godwin. You know a lot of Evans. When
Speaker 1: Evans is having these blow up monster games, Godwin's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: god they both come. I think two games they've had
Speaker 1: that both of them were had decent games. But in
Speaker 1: this one, three of the four one yard games against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals came from the slot um and Godwin does
Speaker 1: play all over, but it's from this lot, So I
Speaker 1: like his matchup there. I'm still giving an A grade.
Speaker 1: Uh you're not. You're not betching him, all right. I
Speaker 1: brought a prop that won't work well on radio here,
Speaker 1: but between Brighton. Howard's not your veins is Nope, you
Speaker 1: start all tight ends against the Cardinals. Yes, but you
Speaker 1: have Cameron Braid and O J. Howard coming back. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if this I don't know if Braid's
Speaker 1: gonna play. Yeah, there's that well flipping the Yeah, it
Speaker 1: says to start O J. Howard. There we go. That's
Speaker 1: award and it says to start break too. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm believing. I think you should start Howard
Speaker 1: over Brad's healthy grade there. Uh. In the Running game,
Speaker 1: Oh wow. I'll talk about the Running Game later because
Speaker 1: that's my take a chance on me running Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: we'll come back that. Yeah, we'll talk about that next
Speaker 1: segment a little bit. The bucks I assume, Well, we'll
Speaker 1: find out. It'll be it'll be a big surprise speaking
Speaker 1: next segment. Uh, it's called take a chance on Me
Speaker 1: to nine players you wouldn't ordinarily start, but you can
Speaker 1: this week. One of them, maybe a Buccaneers running back.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the quarterback position, Matt, who's
Speaker 1: your take chance in the QUARTERBA is Sam Donald? Who
Speaker 1: I put a big in parentheses yuck next to when
Speaker 1: I did this? Um. The trends are going in the
Speaker 1: correct direction, and in his last three games for him,
Speaker 1: they're not Yeah. For him, he's gone from eighty six
Speaker 1: yards passing to eighteen to sixty, and he's gone from
Speaker 1: four interceptions to three interceptions to only one. Last and
Speaker 1: guess what, the Giants defense has allowed an NFL high
Speaker 1: eight point nine yards per pass attempt plus four of
Speaker 1: the last five quarterbacks who have faced the Giants have
Speaker 1: thrown for three yards or multiple scores, and that includes
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes to each of the quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Sam Donald, all right, Scott, you'll take
Speaker 1: a chance at a quarterback. I know what I'm going with.
Speaker 1: Jimmy g a lot of people. I am really shocked
Speaker 1: by his ownership. It's like like he's available out there.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, people aren't starting very much because the
Speaker 1: four nine they don't need him to throw. They're running
Speaker 1: a lot. This game against Seattle, he's gon to have
Speaker 1: to pass. Seattle's averaging twenty seven points per game. Um
Speaker 1: he in his career went forced to attempt more than
Speaker 1: thirty three passes. Here's what Jimmy Garoppolo averages three thirty
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Oh, I like it. We'd take that.
Speaker 1: Call him three and two. Uh, because he's gonna throw
Speaker 1: more than call it. I'm calling it all right, okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sales allowed the second most completions, most attempts, and fourth
Speaker 1: most past yards over the last five games. I like it.
Speaker 1: I've got Daniel Jones going up against the Jets, the
Speaker 1: aforementioned Jets, and Sam Darnold. Jones faces a Jets defense
Speaker 1: that was obliterated by Gardner Minshew and Ryan Fitzpatrick over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Gardner Minshew was just benched and
Speaker 1: Ryan fitzpa was benched earlier the season. Put Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: in the same category as Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's not close.
Speaker 1: I've got a long way to go. First of all,
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick's got way more facial hair. I mean it's not
Speaker 1: even close right now, minshewash I think he's the stew
Speaker 1: want to be. But I kind of like to sue
Speaker 1: Steu Statche when I remember that. UM. Over the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, Minshew and Fitzpatrick three touchdowns each over two
Speaker 1: eight yards each against the Jets. They just put starting
Speaker 1: cornerback Tremaine Johnson on I R. Every opposing quarterback has
Speaker 1: scored against the Jets, and Daniel Jones is throwing a
Speaker 1: touchdown in every game. Plus he runs in some stuff
Speaker 1: a little bit too. So well, we're all that together,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. Or take a chance on the quarterback. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position. You're the only one
Speaker 1: with a secret running back to this point, it is
Speaker 1: a secret secret to look like. Um, it's j D. Mckissic.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the well. I used him two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. It didn't work out quite the right way,
Speaker 1: but last week he looked okay, um, and tra Trey
Speaker 1: Carson was put on I R. So it's now a
Speaker 1: two man time share between Ty Johnson and mckissic. Uh.
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson led the time share and snaps and touches
Speaker 1: last week, but it was mkissic who took his seven
Speaker 1: touches and turned them into seventy two yards in a score.
Speaker 1: He's playing the Bears. The Bears are that good on
Speaker 1: the ground, only allowing three point seven yards per carry
Speaker 1: on the ground, and that's the fourth best in the league.
Speaker 1: But they've given up the second most receptions and the
Speaker 1: sixth most receiving yards to running where kiss it comes
Speaker 1: into play. So I kind of like him this week.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, you'll take a chance for me running back. Surprise, surprise,
Speaker 1: it's Ronald Jones. We didn't say. We did our Waiver
Speaker 1: Wire podcast earlier this weekend. He was only owned, which
Speaker 1: is sho ridiculous. I think it's risen to six, which
Speaker 1: is which is nice. But now he's named the starter
Speaker 1: after arians tried to ride the hot hand every week
Speaker 1: for until now. He had twenty touches last week. If
Speaker 1: he gets twenty again, here's what the six running backs
Speaker 1: to have twenty touches against the cards did. Average stat
Speaker 1: line hundred thirty two yards in a score. That's the
Speaker 1: average stat line when you get twenty touches against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: All right, so if you can get there, you should
Speaker 1: have a good game. He's a starter, he has a chance.
Speaker 1: I've got Gus Edwards going up against Cincinnati, so it is.
Speaker 1: It's a big surprise for those that heard this last segment.
Speaker 1: The Bengals allow one hundred seventy eight total yards to
Speaker 1: running backs on a per game basis, one point four
Speaker 1: touchdowns to running backs on a per game basis, So
Speaker 1: it shouldn't surprise you that backup running backs are getting
Speaker 1: paid when they face the Bengals. These guys where he Moster,
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson, t J Eldon, Jalen Samuel's, Chase Edmonds, and
Speaker 1: Darryl Henderson, a bunch of backups averaged seventy nine total
Speaker 1: yards and almost one touchdown per game when facing the Bengals.
Speaker 1: If we can get seventy nine yards and almost one
Speaker 1: touchdown out of Gus Edwards, Bang, we're in. Bang. Bang.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the wide receiver position. I got Jamison Crowder,
Speaker 1: who's owned on ESPN right now. With Sam Donald at quarterback,
Speaker 1: Crowder is averaging nine targets per game. Here's the list
Speaker 1: of guys averaging nine targets per game this year. Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, Mike Evans, Tyler Boyd, DeAndre Hopkins, Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, Julio Jones. And those are all wide receiver
Speaker 1: ones and wide receiver twos. Yes, those are well other
Speaker 1: than Tyler Boyd. Yeah, Tyler Boyd's probably a wide receiver
Speaker 1: to most of the time. Alright, still Crowder, So Crowder
Speaker 1: must suck to be in that. I've got many targets
Speaker 1: and do so little with it. I don't know. This
Speaker 1: week he faces a Giant's team that employs DeAndre Baker,
Speaker 1: a rookie slot corner that admitted the other day that
Speaker 1: he still doesn't understand the Giants defensive scheme, which is
Speaker 1: probably why he's allowed a perfect one fifty eight point
Speaker 1: three passer rating in his slot coverage this year. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's really bad. Crowder's gonna go off in this game.
Speaker 1: You might might be right, Uh, Scott, who is you
Speaker 1: take a chance on me? Receiver? I have Mike Asiki
Speaker 1: and I actually think he's got a pretty good schedule
Speaker 1: the rest of the season to pretty okay schedule. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's third in air yards among tight ends over the
Speaker 1: last four years four weeks, which is a pretty good
Speaker 1: indicator for potential production coming. Uh. If it hasn't already
Speaker 1: hit it for everyone except for Mike Williams. Apparently Mike
Speaker 1: Williams does not qualify for that. He's running routes on
Speaker 1: his snaps and he's top fifty yards in three the
Speaker 1: last four, including a score last week. And now Preston
Speaker 1: Williams is out, so there should be a few more
Speaker 1: balls he can get. Ted Gains ownership is at negative
Speaker 1: twenty three. He goes up against the Falcons, that's not
Speaker 1: possible charge, but I I think it is. I think uh,
Speaker 1: I think League has removed him from the database. I
Speaker 1: believe he was my premature speculation two weeks ago. Nicely
Speaker 1: done because here he not here he pops up with
Speaker 1: a great opportunity against the Falcons. Uh Ted Gain on
Speaker 1: the field for about two thirds of the plays um.
Speaker 1: The Falcons have allowed thirty two receptions of twenty or
Speaker 1: more yards. Now, if you know anything about Ted Gain,
Speaker 1: you know the whole deal on him is low quantity
Speaker 1: of receptions. That and he's a deep ball specialist, right,
Speaker 1: so you're just you, We're looking to get one good
Speaker 1: deep reception going to Ted Ginn. The Falcons have also
Speaker 1: allowed the eighth most twenty yard receptions per game the
Speaker 1: uh which is four. By the way, I think you
Speaker 1: can roll the dice on a long hook up here
Speaker 1: with Ted Gin from Drew Brees. Let's let's roll our
Speaker 1: next matchup, which is the Giants and Jets. Matt. We
Speaker 1: just talked about several Giants and Jets over the course
Speaker 1: of this game. Let me knock some out here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and if we begin on the Giant side, I
Speaker 1: said it like Daniel Jones as might take a chance
Speaker 1: in the quarterback who among his receiving options do you like? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to clear out all the guys. We
Speaker 1: don't need to talk about kwans An easy a. Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones was charted, just take a chance of met. Quarterbacks
Speaker 1: Sam Donald was might take a chance of met quarterback
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder was might take a chance of me. Wide
Speaker 1: receiver Evan Ingram and Stirling Shepherd are out. Yes. There,
Speaker 1: that's two thirds of the matchup already done. Onto the
Speaker 1: other guys. You can start Golden Tate. I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a B grade. Tate his average nine targets per game
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks with six or more catches
Speaker 1: in four straight. That's the good volume play. Right there.
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton even gets a C grade. He ran a
Speaker 1: season high forty nine pass routes last week, and outside
Speaker 1: speedsters like Chris Conley, Odell Beckham, and John Brown each
Speaker 1: top two hundred yards and scored against the Jets. Rhett
Speaker 1: Ellison is in the six team by Apocalypse of tight
Speaker 1: ends mentioning right here Evan Ingraham's out. Ellison scored once
Speaker 1: this season. He faces the Jets defense that just gave
Speaker 1: up six catches to nine yards to Mike Gisicky last week,
Speaker 1: So Ellison's in play in a very desperate moment. Uh
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell on the other side, he's getting a B.
Speaker 1: Bell had an m R I on his knee this week.
Speaker 1: It came back clean. He's also dealing with an ankle
Speaker 1: injury that's limited him practice most of the week. He's
Speaker 1: probably going to suit up against the Giants team that
Speaker 1: has allowed four point nine yards per carry two opposing
Speaker 1: backs over their last five games. It's a great matchup,
Speaker 1: but the injury is just taken down to a B.
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson getting to be The Giants have given up
Speaker 1: the second most completions of twenty yards or more this season.
Speaker 1: Half of Donald's throws of twenty yards or more have
Speaker 1: gone to Robby Anderson. No doubt Chris Herndon's last guy.
Speaker 1: I'll mention he's on the bench. He seems to be
Speaker 1: trending the right way with his hamstring injury, and he's
Speaker 1: being dropped in a lot of leagues. Though he might
Speaker 1: be worth stashing if you have tight end troubles, I'm
Speaker 1: leaving him on the bench because it's a hammy, just
Speaker 1: like Adam Theeland last week. Those have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a recurring status on them, and the Jets have
Speaker 1: treated him with kid gloves since returning from suspension. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna play wait and see with Chris Herndon. All right,
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Speaker 1: Radio app. Falcons take on the Saints. This is a
Speaker 1: game in which Matt Ryan returns. We don't have to
Speaker 1: look at Matt shob again, and maybe that might be
Speaker 1: the last time we'll see Matt job for a career.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the Falcons passed the ball more than any other
Speaker 1: team forty three times per game, and because the Saints
Speaker 1: run defense is so good, they're seeing the third fewest rushes,
Speaker 1: so that equates to guaranteed volume for Matt Ryan and
Speaker 1: that many passes should yield good results for him. Ryan
Speaker 1: is top three yards in every game but one. He's
Speaker 1: thrown multiple touchdowns in every game but two, and I
Speaker 1: see all of those things happening here. I've got an
Speaker 1: A grade on Matt Ryan, and I've got an eight
Speaker 1: grade on his two top receiving targets. Julio Jones and
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper are one of the great success stories of
Speaker 1: this year. Let's start with Julio Jones. Jones brings his
Speaker 1: a game against the division rival Saints, notching over ninety
Speaker 1: yards in nine of the team's last ten meetings. Between
Speaker 1: these two, Jones will likely be followed by shutdown corner
Speaker 1: mark Shawn Lattimore. Over the last five games, Lattimore is
Speaker 1: allowing just twenty seven yards per game and his coverage
Speaker 1: that worries me a bit, But we have seen Lattimore
Speaker 1: post some bad slip up games and Lulu Jones is
Speaker 1: too good to bench, so he remains in A grade.
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper's Fantasy Football's highest scoring tight end, and he's
Speaker 1: now scored in three consecutive games while hauling in at
Speaker 1: least six catches in five of the last six, and
Speaker 1: he's basically matchup proof at this point. Although the Saints
Speaker 1: have defended the tight end well as evidence by only
Speaker 1: one touchdown allowed to the position, they haven't seen anybody
Speaker 1: close to Hooper's skill. They faced a bunch of just
Speaker 1: soft tight ends this year, so Hooper remains in a
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley sticking with the passing game. In his two
Speaker 1: meetings against the Saints, he's posted lines of one hundred
Speaker 1: forties six yards and three touchdowns, and then he had
Speaker 1: an eight catch ninety three yard game with a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I have reasonablyive that's pretty good history right there for
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley over the last three games. The Saints past
Speaker 1: events has been just average, and that was against below
Speaker 1: average passers like Gardner, Minshew and and Mr Rbiski and
Speaker 1: Kyle or Murray Ridley stod should see mostly Eli Apple,
Speaker 1: who is allowing a passer rating of one seven in
Speaker 1: his coverage, and that brings us to them to the
Speaker 1: running game. Devant to Freeman averaging a career low three
Speaker 1: point four yards per carry, It's been a dismal season
Speaker 1: for him and the Saints, allowing the third least yards
Speaker 1: per carry over the last three games. I almost had
Speaker 1: a bench grade on Freeman, but in part because Edo
Speaker 1: Smith is out, I decided I'm gonna go I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go see grade on Freeman. And maybe you know he's
Speaker 1: bailed out fantasy owners with some solid receiving games. Catch
Speaker 1: here is New Orleans hasn't allowed to receiving touchdown to
Speaker 1: running backs all year, So I don't know that he
Speaker 1: helps that way either. It's just because Freeman is gonna
Speaker 1: get so much work that I've got a C grade
Speaker 1: on him. But it's it's it was close on the
Speaker 1: Atlanta side. Did you even give a thought to a
Speaker 1: C grade for wrestler Gauge his nine targets last week?
Speaker 1: To be honest, it's a shop connection shop to hustle.
Speaker 1: That's everybody knows. That's yeah, that that's that's a connection
Speaker 1: that it's just now that's the news gone. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: feeling that. I just don't know. I wouldn't go there,
Speaker 1: but if you want to, okay, uh, let's go to
Speaker 1: the saint side. Drew Brees and Michael Thomas are obvious
Speaker 1: a's over the last five weeks without Kian O'Neill, the
Speaker 1: Falcons are giving up two hundred ninety yards and three
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game through the air Breeze absolutely hammered the
Speaker 1: Falcons last year with nine touchdowns in the two games.
Speaker 1: Nine touchdowns in two games nine times nine Yeah, how
Speaker 1: many times it is? Nine times? Thomas in these eight
Speaker 1: games against the Falcons seventy three receptions. He's currently on
Speaker 1: pace to break Marvin Harrison's single season reception record, so
Speaker 1: obviously starts there too. Uh, let's go do the well.
Speaker 1: A couple of the guys in the passing game, Ted
Speaker 1: Guinness might take a chance. I mean wide receiver Jared
Speaker 1: Cook is back. He's most presumed to be mostly, if
Speaker 1: not entirely healthy. He had scored in two straight games
Speaker 1: prior to getting hurt, and he matches up with Atlanta,
Speaker 1: who's allowed four tight end touchdowns in the last four weeks.
Speaker 1: So there's an opportunity for Cook to get on the
Speaker 1: board here with a C grade. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: running game. I think Lutavius Murray has earned the right
Speaker 1: to see a continued bigger role, Maybe not quite what
Speaker 1: we saw with mark Ingram in the past, but more
Speaker 1: than he was getting before. Alvin Kamara got hurt. It
Speaker 1: sounds like Alvin Kamara thinks so too. He does before exactly.
Speaker 1: Um Falcons have a sneaky good run defense, so giving
Speaker 1: up four yards per carry, uh Mury doesn't catch very much,
Speaker 1: mark Ingram could catch. Murray really isn't much of a
Speaker 1: pass catcher. So just to see grade on Murray, but
Speaker 1: he is startable. Then there's then there's Alvin Kamara, so
Speaker 1: let's we'll wrap up on him. He's never scored against Atlanta,
Speaker 1: but he does everything else he's over his career. His
Speaker 1: average game is one hundred twenty six total yards, eight catches.
Speaker 1: The Falcons run defense is pretty good. Only one is
Speaker 1: hit one hundred yards and by the way, that was
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and it took him twenty seven carries to
Speaker 1: get to one hundred yards. My mind, that's still a
Speaker 1: fail of a game. They've handled Todd Gurley and David
Speaker 1: Johnson on the ground recently, although both guys scored through
Speaker 1: the air, and that's part of why I like Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamaron this one. The Falcons have allowed three receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: to running backs over the last three games, so I
Speaker 1: think being the dual threat that he is Kimara b
Speaker 1: Grade and that wraps up Falcon Saints. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Panthers at Packers Scott For the Panthers, I think it's
Speaker 1: safe to say everybody knows to do with Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the other guys that are gonna be
Speaker 1: trickier calls. Oh no, I needed to spend two minutes,
Speaker 1: but I just did that with Michael Thomas. It was
Speaker 1: just an indulgence. Let's pass uh for Ellen. I have
Speaker 1: him on the bench for the Panthers. In the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, the Packers have allowed multiple touchdowns to Derek
Speaker 1: Carr and Matt Moore, but Allen hasn't top two and
Speaker 1: thirty two yards since his first game against Arizona and
Speaker 1: has just five touchdowns in the last five games. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's the air parent's. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to step it up more, but I'm benching him here.
Speaker 1: I am starting more though he is still seeing a
Speaker 1: ton of targets. He's averaging just under ten targets per
Speaker 1: game over the last four at least five catches in
Speaker 1: each of those and uh seventy three or more yards,
Speaker 1: and three of those he's He's a safe, consistent be
Speaker 1: option is what he is right now. Curtis Samuel Uh,
Speaker 1: he gets less volume, but he scored in three of
Speaker 1: Alan six starts, and I believe he scored an Allen
Speaker 1: start last year too, so there seems to be some
Speaker 1: kind of connection there, and he's the one that can
Speaker 1: get deep. He's a great route runner. Over the last
Speaker 1: five games, the Packers are allowing the fourth most yards
Speaker 1: to receivers, so I'm giving him a secrete somehow. Allen
Speaker 1: on the bench, but I'm starting both of those guys.
Speaker 1: I am betching Olsen though, big game with Allen against
Speaker 1: Arizona because Arizona does that, they allow that. But since
Speaker 1: then Greg Olsen is only average twenty two yards per
Speaker 1: game over the last five. Not good. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is getting an a. I know he got
Speaker 1: derailed by the Chargers from his three game role that
Speaker 1: had him in m v P talks. He should powered spats.
Speaker 1: He bounce back here against the Panther's team who has
Speaker 1: allowed three thirty plus yards to Minshew Winston and Tannehill
Speaker 1: in three last four weeks. Uh. Davante Adams off game
Speaker 1: against the Chargers just like Rogers, but he did see
Speaker 1: eleven targets and no other receivers are stepping up for
Speaker 1: the Packers, so I'm giving him an A grade here.
Speaker 1: They even with James Bradberry. Even with Bradberry, they allowed
Speaker 1: Giant games to Godwin, to Evans, to Chart all within
Speaker 1: the last few weeks as well. Um, I'm not quite
Speaker 1: as optimistic. You can give him a B. I'll give it.
Speaker 1: I'll give it an A minus. Then, oh you quiet
Speaker 1: Graham on the bench. It's been twenty games since Graham
Speaker 1: last top sixty five yards. Carolina's top ten against tight ends.
Speaker 1: I'll catch where there's a lot of play. Here is
Speaker 1: the run game. Over the last five weeks. The Panthers
Speaker 1: are the worst team in the NFL against fantasy running
Speaker 1: back over the last five weeks, so Aaron Jones gets
Speaker 1: an A. Over the last three weeks, the Panthers are
Speaker 1: allowing the most rushing yards, most total yards, most rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and five point eight yards per garry. And they didn't
Speaker 1: the Panthers didn't even have to face Christie McCaffrey for
Speaker 1: those numbers. So Aaron Jones and A and Williams is
Speaker 1: game to see because he's caught at least four passes
Speaker 1: each the last four games and caught a receiving touchdown
Speaker 1: that last four weeks. Yes, yeah, so c grade there.
Speaker 1: He might he might get He might be better than yeah,
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams could be. Yeah. Uh, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: think he was a very good runner prior to really
Speaker 1: this year. But I think he's just playing better than.
Speaker 1: We had those arguments with with another another coworker, me
Speaker 1: and you were all Aaron Jones, all Aaron Jones, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones has been great. Yeah, let's go to our
Speaker 1: final matchup of this particular segment, which is the Lions
Speaker 1: taking on the Bears. Matt for the Lions to running
Speaker 1: game has been a disaster. Although you like j D
Speaker 1: mckissic super here. He already talked about that orange in
Speaker 1: the passing game. But what do you think about Ty Johnson?
Speaker 1: Maybe we start there, is he's startable in your mind? Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: he's on the bench three point seven yards per carry
Speaker 1: on the ground for the Bears. Like I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: he's just on the bench. Um, let's talk about Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: who's been great, but he has been awesome. He's thrown
Speaker 1: for more than three hundred yards in three straight games,
Speaker 1: with ten touchdown passes in that span. However, Stafford hasn't
Speaker 1: thrown for three hundred yards against the Bears since October
Speaker 1: of and he hasn't thrown for three hundred yards in
Speaker 1: Chicago since November of So if you if you add
Speaker 1: up Stafford's last seven starts against the Bears, that's how
Speaker 1: far back you've got to go to get to the
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns that he's thrown in the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: He hasn't had a good history against the Bears. Plus,
Speaker 1: only Case Keenum has thrown for three hundred yards against
Speaker 1: the Bears this season, while only Keenum and Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: have thrown for multiple scores. And this just in Stafford
Speaker 1: is not a former Viking quarterback yet yet he has
Speaker 1: to become a current Viking quarterback. To become a former
Speaker 1: Viking quarterback never gonna work out. I'm only given Stafford
Speaker 1: a C grade. Kenny Golladay, I'm giving a B. Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones is getting a C. Golladay isn't afraid of the Bears,
Speaker 1: and the two meetings last year he had five for
Speaker 1: nine and one six for seventy eight and a score
Speaker 1: and the other. He also leads the NFL in targets
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. That's a good stat. Jones
Speaker 1: is in place simply because the Lions have absolutely given
Speaker 1: up on the running game due to injury um The
Speaker 1: Lions only have had fifteen rushing attempts last week and
Speaker 1: sixteen the week before, and since carry on Johnson's injury,
Speaker 1: Jones is averaging nine targets per game. So there we go.
Speaker 1: The matchup is tough against the Bears. They're only allowing
Speaker 1: nine receptions per game to the wide receiver position over
Speaker 1: the last four games and no touchdowns during that span.
Speaker 1: It's a tough matchup, but it's a volume play. I
Speaker 1: think uh t J. Hockenson. I'm giving a B two.
Speaker 1: He was dropped in many leagues, were in the dart
Speaker 1: throw in uh in the tight end apocalypse. Here the
Speaker 1: Bears have allowed the fourth most receptions and the third
Speaker 1: most yards to the tight end position. That includes an
Speaker 1: eighty seven yard game or eighty seven yards per game
Speaker 1: to the position over the last five weeks. And he's
Speaker 1: the only guy who catches a pass there. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the only guy in the at one point, he got
Speaker 1: knocked out a last week's game, and I'm like, oh, geez,
Speaker 1: it looked like a concussion. I think he just got
Speaker 1: hit in the jewels. All right. On the bear side,
Speaker 1: I'm giving David Montgomery and a grade. He's averaging twenty
Speaker 1: four touches per game over the last two weeks. Is
Speaker 1: Matt Naggy has either recommitted to the run or committed
Speaker 1: to taking the ball out of the hands of I
Speaker 1: gotta I got a fun note for you for David
Speaker 1: Montgomery for this week. Okay, yeah, yeah. Justin Rodgers of
Speaker 1: the Detroit News has reported that the Lions top four
Speaker 1: defensive tackles and their top two guards are either less
Speaker 1: listed as questionable or out for this game. Um, that
Speaker 1: doesn't help, because the Lions are the worst run defense
Speaker 1: in the league. They're allowing a hundred and thirty two
Speaker 1: yards per game over their last four and allowing more
Speaker 1: than a rushing touchdown per game to the position They're
Speaker 1: going to run David Montgomery all day. Now, the passing game,
Speaker 1: this is controversial. Yes, it's a bench grade for the
Speaker 1: whole passing game, the whole thing. Now, this is legitimately
Speaker 1: a great matchup for the Bears passing game. It is,
Speaker 1: but so was Philadelphia last week. And in that game,
Speaker 1: true Bisky only attempted twenty one throws, only completed ten
Speaker 1: for twenty five yards. And I repeat last week was
Speaker 1: also a really great matchup. Well, one key difference here
Speaker 1: is Philadelphia can rush the quarterback right. They've got the
Speaker 1: really good defensive front four. The Lions might be short
Speaker 1: every starter for Pete's sake on their defensive line. One
Speaker 1: key similarity is sad trombone ski. Well, speaking of happy
Speaker 1: trombone skis, it was a happy trombone ski last year
Speaker 1: when these two uh two met. Trubisky and Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: combined for a huge game against the Lions last year
Speaker 1: where Robinson had six for one three and two Trubisky
Speaker 1: three five yards and three scores. But that's eons ago.
Speaker 1: I know. I was looking at the stats earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Mitch Rubisky put up three fifty five against the Lions
Speaker 1: last year and three fifteen against the Lions last year.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying to myself, Mitch Robinsky ever did that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How much worse he's got? That? Seems like it's a
Speaker 1: different person now. He's reportedly asking for the TVs to
Speaker 1: be turned off around the clubhouse in Chicago. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want to see the criticism anymore. He's shaken. There's a
Speaker 1: there's a better chance that Chase Daniel throws for two
Speaker 1: yards in this game. Five six game stretch was a
Speaker 1: complete anonymal anomally for his career. I guess six team
Speaker 1: games under two yards passing. That's it's unbelievable. What's happened
Speaker 1: with Mr r Whisky. I keep thinking that they're gonna
Speaker 1: bench him, my my friends in Chicago media. I'll tell me, Nope,
Speaker 1: they're sticking with them. They're gonna play this thing out
Speaker 1: to the better. Is it Ryan Pace drafted and moved
Speaker 1: up for that kind of thing? Come me up next.
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Speaker 1: Charchi and my co host Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Boys,
Speaker 1: let's jump into the grinder with three tough questions. Listeners.
Speaker 1: We encourage you to play along see if you can
Speaker 1: get the answers correct. Tough question number one for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. Will Kareem Haunt to be a
Speaker 1: running back? One running back to flex or bench? Matt
Speaker 1: Um I would like to say it's worth noting that
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is good, uh and that doesn't mean Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt can't be. But it's still hard to take that
Speaker 1: one bright spot on their offense out of the game.
Speaker 1: There has been a fumble issue though still Chubb is
Speaker 1: at exactly twenty rushing attempts and four of his last
Speaker 1: five games. So here's what I'm gonna do. Let's give
Speaker 1: Hunt all of the non Chubb touches at running back,
Speaker 1: which currently sits at four per game, and then will
Speaker 1: slice off to Chubb's touches just for a high upside sake.
Speaker 1: That's nine touches per game for Hunt. That's not enough. Plus,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland running back schedule is not super favorable. They've
Speaker 1: got Miami and Since on the schedule, which are good,
Speaker 1: but they have stoppers in Pittsburgh twice, Buffalo this week
Speaker 1: who's okay, and Baltimore and the Fantasy championship week. In
Speaker 1: my mind, that's four bench grades maybe two or three flex.
Speaker 1: So he's a bench player bench Okay, I I actually
Speaker 1: put flex, but I had the same as you. I
Speaker 1: had four bench grades and three flex flex grades. But
Speaker 1: but I like the flex plays so much that they
Speaker 1: outweighed the four potential bench plays. Kitchens is just the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that would take Chuck off the field.
Speaker 1: He took him off the field for Hilliard on a
Speaker 1: third and one last week. He's just the type they'll
Speaker 1: do something like that. But I did have I did
Speaker 1: have a flex grade just because I really like those
Speaker 1: three flexes. Alright, So Nick Chubb's previous backup, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: Dontrell Hilliard the last two weeks, was on the field
Speaker 1: for forty percent of the snaps and that's why he
Speaker 1: got all those touches. Well, Doctroll Hilliard got a bunch
Speaker 1: of the touches. He had five carries last week, and
Speaker 1: Dontroll Hilliard sucks three months awesome. So Hunt is Hunt
Speaker 1: is a very inefficient pass catcher. He's averaging just six
Speaker 1: yards per reception. Do you have many yards per reception?
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt had last year seven point six Again, Nick Shubb,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb had six Kareem Hunt had fourteen and a half.
Speaker 1: He's such a good pass catcher, going to throw to
Speaker 1: him often. If Freddie Kitchens doesn't throw five, six seven
Speaker 1: passes a game to Hunt, he deserves the firing he's
Speaker 1: going to get. He's only thrown into O B J
Speaker 1: six times a games. Who knows what I mentioned. Dontrell
Speaker 1: Hilliard ran the ball five times last week. So if
Speaker 1: Hunt's gonna run the ball five times, if he's gonna
Speaker 1: catch the ball five times, maybe six times, maybe seven times,
Speaker 1: I hope that's ten touches. If he's gonna average just
Speaker 1: let's say the fourteen and a half per per reception
Speaker 1: isn't gonna hold up. What do we havever just ten
Speaker 1: yards a touch at ten at ten touches, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, seven yard games are not are not out
Speaker 1: of the question at all for Kareem Hunt. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be fairly common. And he's gonna
Speaker 1: score sometimes. I mean it's not even just about yardage sometimes.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt's going to score because again, he's awesome, And
Speaker 1: anybody who thinks he's not awesome look at the Eaves
Speaker 1: running game without him, and it's all the same players
Speaker 1: except not Kareem Hunt. And now you're starting running backs
Speaker 1: at two and a half yards per carry. That's how
Speaker 1: good Kareem Hunt is. He is going to be a
Speaker 1: flex player. I can't get him an RB two so good.
Speaker 1: He's only to be able to play him and the
Speaker 1: game because Nick Chubb's great. He's good. Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: With Patrick Mahomes returning, are you buying low on Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins or are you just glad you didn't invest Scott.
Speaker 1: I think I'm probably closer to the just glad I
Speaker 1: didn't invest. I know that he was. He led the
Speaker 1: team and targets in three of the four games with Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He led the team in yards in two of the
Speaker 1: four games with Mahomes, but Hill only played one of those. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think part of it is just the schedule. They
Speaker 1: haven't had their by yet, so you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: worry about that. They got matchups with Tennessee and the Chargers,
Speaker 1: and the Broncos were really good against wide receivers. They're
Speaker 1: coming off that, but they're they're still decent. The Bears,
Speaker 1: the Patriots, they just have a lot of tough matchups
Speaker 1: and a by left. So I'm probably glad I didn't invest. Okay,
Speaker 1: matt Um, We've had a long enough Mahomes Watkins track record. Now,
Speaker 1: that's sixteen total games including playoffs where they've gone together.
Speaker 1: He scored a touchdown in three of those sixteen games.
Speaker 1: He's topped sixty five yards only in six of those
Speaker 1: sixteen games. That means you have a sixty two chance
Speaker 1: of fewer than sixty five yards and a chance that
Speaker 1: he won't score. You're going to consistently get it wrong too,
Speaker 1: because the game where he had a hundred yards and
Speaker 1: three scores was Week one against Jalen Ramsey, by the way,
Speaker 1: which nobody started him in that week. Then he had
Speaker 1: great matchups against Detroit and Oakland, he managed forty and
Speaker 1: fifty four scoreless yards, so he was invisible in those games.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have him. Um. Finally healthy, Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins has been on the field for of the snaps
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks, and in doing so, he
Speaker 1: has destroyed the playing time of me, Cole Hardman and
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson. He's he's almost an every down receiver in
Speaker 1: that Patrick's Patrick Mahomes led offense, and he's averaging nine
Speaker 1: targets per game. Um, you know, I'm I'm deeply interested
Speaker 1: in anybody getting nine targets from Patrick Mahomes, even Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 1: who's the most frustrating player in the NFL. Now, if
Speaker 1: I had to pay anything seen significant amount to get him,
Speaker 1: I'm out. But Patrick Mahomes I picked up off the
Speaker 1: waiver wire an hour ago in one league. Patrick Mahomes, Sorry,
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. I picked up Sammy Watkins off the waiver
Speaker 1: wire an hour ago in one league and is tradeable
Speaker 1: for virtually nothing. I'm I'm just I'm interested in anybody
Speaker 1: who's getting nine targets from Patrick Mahomes, even Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 1: as frustrating as he is, under the assumption you don't
Speaker 1: have to pay much. I'm tough. Question number three in
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Empire leagues is Brandon Cooks droppable? Now, allow
Speaker 1: me to clarify this question. By the way, I know you,
Speaker 1: especially Scott, you like to play in like twenty four
Speaker 1: roster Dynasty League. I am talking about a normally sized league,
Speaker 1: ish roster spots. You can just you can roster everybody,
Speaker 1: And I don't believe that's true. And Dynasty and Empire leagues.
Speaker 1: Is Brandon Cooks droppable? Assuming you have a sized league
Speaker 1: of around fifteen roster spots. This caused damage to my
Speaker 1: medulla oblongata. Oh yeah, there's some seventies rock song that
Speaker 1: references the helps maintain my vital body functions such as
Speaker 1: the heart rate and breathing. So naturally I almost passed
Speaker 1: out and forgot what I was going to say for
Speaker 1: this question. So I'm just going to go Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: on this and ask is Robert Woods droppable? Because at
Speaker 1: least you know that you can't start Cooks while he's
Speaker 1: listed as out and Woods has started and finished every
Speaker 1: game him and he's only had nine more catches and
Speaker 1: sixty nine more yards than Cooks, who's missed portions of
Speaker 1: four of his eight games this season. Okay, what's more,
Speaker 1: Cooks has a touchdown reception, Woods does not, So I'd
Speaker 1: rather have Brandon Cooks, who I know not to play,
Speaker 1: than Robert Woods and have to make a decision here. However,
Speaker 1: they're both were rostering and Dynasty and Empire formats. Both
Speaker 1: of these players will have value among the top one
Speaker 1: twenty next season, so they're both worth So he's only
Speaker 1: twenty six years old. He's had a bunch of concussions
Speaker 1: and that's why he's out right now. He was at
Speaker 1: practice on Friday or you know, and he's not gonna
Speaker 1: play this week. It might be a little while till
Speaker 1: he plays. But Dynasty League Football does dynasty drafts every
Speaker 1: month to get a good, solid current a DP value.
Speaker 1: Last month he was seven, This month he was forty six.
Speaker 1: That was done this week overall wide receiver twenty two,
Speaker 1: and those picks were made within the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: So right now, other guy as a top five d player. Okay,
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty two, So other dynasty players value him
Speaker 1: as a top fifty dynasty player right now. He was
Speaker 1: dropped in one of our league's chart and I picked
Speaker 1: him up. Yeah, you know, dropped him. He's rudy nose.
Speaker 1: I think it was me. He's not dropable because other
Speaker 1: players in your league will value him enough that you
Speaker 1: can trade him. I'll take him in a rebuild year,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, the correct answers. I've already tipped my
Speaker 1: hand here, by the way, he's wide receiver fifty one
Speaker 1: this year and scoring. You know, I've never been a
Speaker 1: cook um and you know, so I looked at total
Speaker 1: scoring for this year, Brandon Cooks wide receiver fifty one,
Speaker 1: so that well, okay, but he's missed a bunch of games,
Speaker 1: so I'll sort it by average points per game. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing is is he hasn't missed any games that
Speaker 1: he's played, and every he actually went down have to
Speaker 1: wide receiver sixty in that case, because he's been knocked
Speaker 1: out of two games. He's had five concussions that we
Speaker 1: know of, five that we know of. So let's just
Speaker 1: assume a good chunk of this year is lost, or
Speaker 1: you're not going to start him in this in a
Speaker 1: season which has been mostly a lost season for him
Speaker 1: for this year, eating up a roster spot, but then
Speaker 1: you're gonna roll into next year and all offseason. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be fine at the beginning of next year,
Speaker 1: and that means he's going to cost you a roster
Speaker 1: spot that you could use for a different prospect. And
Speaker 1: then you're in Now you're in Jordan's read territory, where
Speaker 1: all you're doing is just waiting for the next concussion.
Speaker 1: And I don't want that. I mean, if I assuming
Speaker 1: my roster spots mean anything, and if you're playing with
Speaker 1: twenty roster spots. They don't, then I'm out. And so
Speaker 1: in my mind, you're right. If I thought I could,
Speaker 1: if I thought I could trade him for something, yeah,
Speaker 1: if I thought I could get a third round, I
Speaker 1: would trade him. But I don't know that. So the
Speaker 1: correct answer I'm balan. I'm out on Brandon Cooks. I
Speaker 1: do not want the next Jordan Read on my team.
Speaker 1: Let's work in one more matchup into this segment. It
Speaker 1: is Dolphins taking on the Colts. Not a ton to
Speaker 1: talk about here. One C grade on the Dolphins side,
Speaker 1: and that's DeVante Parker with Preston Williams out. The passing
Speaker 1: game largely goes through Parker, which is a mixed bag.
Speaker 1: It means that the defensil obviously play to stop him
Speaker 1: much more. He's quietly scored four times the last five games.
Speaker 1: Davante Parker lines up on the left side, drawing coverage
Speaker 1: from rookie cornerback rock Yahsen, who's yielded at least seventy
Speaker 1: five yards in two of his last three games. But
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna roll double coverage over to DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't blame him. Um Ryan's Fitzpatrick might be
Speaker 1: loved Stu Beard has been Fantasy viable in three straight games,
Speaker 1: with multiple touchdowns in each, but it ends here. He's
Speaker 1: lost his best big play weapon, Preston Williams, who went
Speaker 1: on I R. And he faces an improved Indie secondary
Speaker 1: that's allowed just three touchdowns in its last four games,
Speaker 1: and two of those four touchdowns were against Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson two of those four games or against
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Shawn Watson. Point being the face really
Speaker 1: good quarterbacking, and they haven't. They haven't allowed anything there either.
Speaker 1: And frankly, Ryan Fitzpatrick in the Miami offense is not
Speaker 1: nearly as good. Obviously, Mike Kasecki was your take a
Speaker 1: chance on me player. Correct. I don't have a starting
Speaker 1: grade on him, but it's okay a tight end in
Speaker 1: a desperate tight end week, I think it commits. Let's
Speaker 1: talk Klin Blage, your new starting running back. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, is there something lower than bench that you
Speaker 1: can give him? He's averaging two yards per carry and
Speaker 1: has caught four of the twelve passes that have come
Speaker 1: his way. He literally ducked past. Now is he the
Speaker 1: worst starting offensive player in the league, not counting line,
Speaker 1: not counting line like skilled position guys. Maybe now Blage
Speaker 1: struggles at the finer points of the game, such as cutting,
Speaker 1: elusive vision, balance instincts, footwork, finding open lanes, catching the football.
Speaker 1: Other than that, those are the finer points. Those are
Speaker 1: the finer points of the position of running back. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Indianapolis side, where Marlon mack is a
Speaker 1: rock solid A grade against the Miami team allowing the
Speaker 1: most rushing attempts and rushing yards to opposing running backs
Speaker 1: MAC averaging over nineteen rushing attempts per game, so the
Speaker 1: volume will be there against this team. It's a very
Speaker 1: very good opportunity for Marlon mack um. The three other
Speaker 1: backs to get nineteen plus carries have all had at
Speaker 1: least one eighteen rushing yards. Let's talk about the passing game.
Speaker 1: We're not sure if it's gonna be Brissette or Brian
Speaker 1: Hoyer yet, but I don't think it matters, and they're
Speaker 1: both gonna get a B grade. It looks like Brissette
Speaker 1: he practiced again. See here's the thing. I know he's practicing,
Speaker 1: but you are, You're Indie. You're trying to make it
Speaker 1: the best decision for the future of your team. You
Speaker 1: don't need Jacoby Brissette against the Dolphins. So I'm not
Speaker 1: that Dolphins are on a hot street, no Hilton, no Campbell, right,
Speaker 1: and they still do it. I think they could do it, um,
Speaker 1: regardless of whoever it is there. It's incredibly it's a
Speaker 1: safe play against the Miami defense that's allowed actually two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and six in the past seven games. So let's
Speaker 1: put either guy, whether it's Prissette or Hoyer on two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: This is the first week, I think all season where
Speaker 1: we're not starting the quarterback against the Dolphins and take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Yeah, how about that? There might
Speaker 1: be most because we don't know who it is that
Speaker 1: had we known that it was gonna be Brian Hoyer,
Speaker 1: I bet what I bet you'd have taken Q Yes, exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: it'll be by the way, if it's Hoyer, he'll be
Speaker 1: a a DFS bonanza, right, all of a sudden, people
Speaker 1: go bonkers on Sunday when the announcement comes out. Brissette
Speaker 1: has multiple touchdowns at five is seven full games. Obviously
Speaker 1: we'd prefer Brissette, but Hoyer's playable as well. He threw
Speaker 1: through touchdowns last week four if you count the one
Speaker 1: that he threw to the other team. Zach Pascal gets
Speaker 1: a B grade. He has now scored three times in
Speaker 1: the past three weeks. He's got a one hundred yard
Speaker 1: game in that span as well. T Y Hilton out
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell out wide receivers have flourished against Miami, scoring
Speaker 1: seven times in the dolphins last four games, tied for
Speaker 1: second most in that span. And then I've got sea
Speaker 1: grades on Eric Ebron, Jack Doyle, and nikem Hinz. But
Speaker 1: I had them all his benches at one point and
Speaker 1: then decided to warm them up to seize all dart throws.
Speaker 1: If you if, if you think that Brissette needs alternative
Speaker 1: targets to Hilton and Campbell, I could see him throwing
Speaker 1: especially near the stripe to Ebron or Doyle or maybe
Speaker 1: even Nike Hinds out of the backfield. Could have a
Speaker 1: big game here, and maybe even you know, for that matter,
Speaker 1: you could go Jordan Wilkins if you really want to
Speaker 1: go deep. The Dolphins haven't allowed to tight end score
Speaker 1: since the opener, but they also haven't allowed of running
Speaker 1: back receiving touchdown since Week four, So you know what
Speaker 1: I'm putting back on the bench. Ibron Doyle hys back.
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Speaker 1: built the lineup with Jamis Winston and Kyler Murray facing
Speaker 1: off against each other like a couple of wide receivers
Speaker 1: in on that game. Oh, that's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: one to watch it. It is going to be a
Speaker 1: good game. Second highest over under for in Vegas this
Speaker 1: weekend is that one. Phil take on the brown Scott
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. We've been waiting for the breakout game. It
Speaker 1: happened last week. I don't think they look back at
Speaker 1: this point. I'm so happy about this. Yeah too long,
Speaker 1: it did take too long. I love Devin Singletary. I
Speaker 1: do have a B grade on him here though. The Browns,
Speaker 1: uh core still got eleven touches. That's that's the problem.
Speaker 1: He's still got eleven touches last week. Are they going
Speaker 1: to run a thirty plus times and and Gore's still
Speaker 1: going to get eleven touches? Or they going to run
Speaker 1: it twenty two times and Gore's still going to get
Speaker 1: eight nine ton touches. That's my problem. I don't think
Speaker 1: they look back as well. But over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: the Browns have allowed the most rushing yards, second most
Speaker 1: total yards, and five point six yards per carry. I
Speaker 1: almost want to give it. I almost, I almost want
Speaker 1: to give into a My only concerned is if they
Speaker 1: give Gore ten touches. That's the problem. Singletary is pretty
Speaker 1: small for goal line use, and we don't yet know
Speaker 1: who's gonna get carries at the stripe right Uh, so
Speaker 1: be great on Singletary and Gore is easily on the bench.
Speaker 1: It's it's just how much trust I have in Singletary
Speaker 1: right now in the in the bills. To give Singletary
Speaker 1: Alan I give a beat. There's so many Allen's playing
Speaker 1: quarterback right now in the NFL. There's three of them. Uh,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen given a B to Allen. Browns have allowed
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes in sixth straight and seven of their
Speaker 1: eight games. Alan has multiple touchdowns in four straight. His
Speaker 1: yard ogen attempts have been lower all year that but
Speaker 1: he's finding the end zone. So that's what's getting him
Speaker 1: in there. Only a B grade because he needs those
Speaker 1: scores and some rushing to make his fantasy days. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's not he's not putting on mass. We haven't had
Speaker 1: the explosive games because he just hasn't been running the ball.
Speaker 1: He's not having the hundred yard rushing day, he's not
Speaker 1: having the three hunderd yard passing day. He's just getting
Speaker 1: touchdowns in like thirty yards per game rushing consistent. But
Speaker 1: it's a B grade. His main guy, I'm giving a
Speaker 1: B grade. John Brown has at least four catches and
Speaker 1: at least fifty yards in every single game. But he's
Speaker 1: only top seventy three yards once this season, which is yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a solid, you know, solid nine point
Speaker 1: games in PPR. Giving him a B grade there. Brown
Speaker 1: secondary is finally healthy. Uh so that that could be
Speaker 1: tough on Brown, but I'm giving him a B. Here, Beasley,
Speaker 1: I'm on the fence about his biggest game in the
Speaker 1: last four weeks is three catches for forty one yards,
Speaker 1: but he scored in three straights, so they're finding him
Speaker 1: around the goal line. I think I'm throwing him on
Speaker 1: the bench because TD touchdowns are just tough to predict.
Speaker 1: So I'm on the bet right now. Knox is on
Speaker 1: the bench as well. I I can't trust him meeting
Speaker 1: in a light week for you know, teams on by
Speaker 1: antight ends Mayfield, no We're not starting Mayfield anymore. We
Speaker 1: just can't. And the Bills have an elite past top
Speaker 1: four against quarterbacks, wide receivers, an tight ends. He's my number.
Speaker 1: He's my second to bottom ranked quarterback. This week my
Speaker 1: biggest miss of the year. You and everybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we b J does get a C grade for me.
Speaker 1: Despite having a drawing shadow coverage from trade Avious white Church. Uh,
Speaker 1: Mayfield has been still targeting o b J seven point
Speaker 1: five times per game. His two duds this year came
Speaker 1: against similar tough David Tough defenses like the Ravens and
Speaker 1: forty nine, So he gets he just gets a C
Speaker 1: grade here. I think he might get seven attend targets
Speaker 1: and that what that might get him over Landry I
Speaker 1: do have on the bench despite the fact he's scoring
Speaker 1: and he's actually putting up a few more yards. And
Speaker 1: Landry Harris is on the bench for me too. But
Speaker 1: Chub I'm giving him a grade here. He's averaging twenty
Speaker 1: two touches per game. Hunt will be in. But even
Speaker 1: if he gets Hilliard's five touches from the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and a few more, Uh, it's it's hunts
Speaker 1: first week in here even if he loses more. The
Speaker 1: only running back to have seventeen or more touches and
Speaker 1: not top ninety yards and touchdown against the against the
Speaker 1: Bills was Sony Walkman Michelle, So that's understandable. All the
Speaker 1: rest of them, seventeen touches, it's an A grade. Hunt,
Speaker 1: I'm given a C grade. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: have a little a little like like you said, a
Speaker 1: little work in the passing game, just enough to be
Speaker 1: barely startable. Yeah. I think he's gonna be a flex
Speaker 1: just like we told you in three tough questions. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our next matchup, which is the Rams. Yes, hey,
Speaker 1: you know charge, I wanted to ask you. Do you
Speaker 1: enjoy games? I do, thank you, because I got a
Speaker 1: Rams and Steelers game that i'd like to play with
Speaker 1: you guys. Are you guys ready? I'm ready? Um. Here
Speaker 1: are two quarterbacks. Okay, I'm I'm rubbing my temples. Which
Speaker 1: one would you rather have in your fantasy team? Quarterback
Speaker 1: A he averages two fifty four yards. He had thirteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns and four interceptions this year. Okay, that's okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's quarterbacking. Quarterback B is averaging two sixty three yards
Speaker 1: per game. Similar, but he has eleven touch downs and
Speaker 1: seven interceptions. Which one would you rather have? They're pretty similar,
Speaker 1: but I think I'd rather have the guy with thirteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns and four your Okay, Well, quarterback A doesn't have
Speaker 1: a job anymore. His name is Gardner Minshew. Quarterback B
Speaker 1: is Jared Goff. Who are we sure if he's good? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions right now, and his road
Speaker 1: splits are real, and that's why I'm only giving him
Speaker 1: a very tepid C grade in this game. According to
Speaker 1: Evan Silva, he's averaged eight point nine yards per attempt
Speaker 1: at home, only seven point four yards per attempt on
Speaker 1: the road, and he's got a home touchdown to interception
Speaker 1: ratio of thirty six to nine compared to twenty one
Speaker 1: to seventeen on the road. The Steelers have been a
Speaker 1: break but don't bend defense. As of recent four of
Speaker 1: the last five quarterbacks the Steelers have faced have been
Speaker 1: held under two hundred yards, although three of those five
Speaker 1: through for multiple scores. So it's a break, but don't
Speaker 1: bet um. I am giving Cooper cup In a grade.
Speaker 1: Rob Woods and Josh Reynolds are on the bench though.
Speaker 1: Uh Pittsburgh's weaknesses the slot, where they've allowed six touchdowns
Speaker 1: to slot receivers this year. In fact, slot receivers have
Speaker 1: been targeted eighty times this year against the Steelers, compared
Speaker 1: to only sixty six targets to combined outside receivers, so
Speaker 1: they're just peppering the slot against against Pittsburgh. Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: is missing another week after concussion, and Cooks after Cooks
Speaker 1: left the field in the London game against Since Josh
Speaker 1: Reynolds drew eight targets in that game, so I actually
Speaker 1: like him more than Woods, especially on fan ball dfs
Speaker 1: where he's basically so free. Um Todd Gurley is the
Speaker 1: only other starting grade and he just gets to see
Speaker 1: only one opposing back his top seventy nine yards against
Speaker 1: the Steelers this year. That was Marlon Mack last week
Speaker 1: on twenty one carries, and Gurley will not see twenty
Speaker 1: one carries, especially with the return of Malcolm Brown to
Speaker 1: the lineup. Plus Darrell Henderson probably has done enough to
Speaker 1: see some change of pace touches. The Steelers have only
Speaker 1: allowed four touchdowns to runners on season, which doesn't bode
Speaker 1: well for a touchdown dependent girly On the Pittsburgh side,
Speaker 1: James Conner is out, meaning Jalen Samuels will get the start,
Speaker 1: and he gets a B grade and standard and an
Speaker 1: A grade in PPR. Trey Edmonds, who spelled Samuels on
Speaker 1: the ground, looks like he's also going to miss the game.
Speaker 1: Bench Snell still out with a knee injurym meaning Samuel's
Speaker 1: is about it. He's only on fanball. He's like an
Speaker 1: auto start on fanball in my mind. And another great
Speaker 1: stat from Evan Silva. In six career games where Samuel's
Speaker 1: has played at least forty of the offensive snaps, Samuels
Speaker 1: has four games with seven or more receptions about that,
Speaker 1: including thirteen last week. Well, he's converted tight end. He
Speaker 1: plays like it. They you know, they threw to him
Speaker 1: constantly last week. It was great. It is awesome. Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph gets us. See um, he seemingly gets you about
Speaker 1: two hundred yards and two passing scores every week. I
Speaker 1: think that's still bankable here. The Rams have seen a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks at the right time this year. They
Speaker 1: got an injured Cam Newton in Week one, They injured
Speaker 1: Drew Brees and Matt Ryan during games. But they are
Speaker 1: the team that gave up four touchdown passes to Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston four touchdown passes to Russell Wilson. Andy Dalton topped
Speaker 1: three hundred yards against them in his final game as
Speaker 1: a Bengal starter and probably got yeah, probably got beatched. Uh.
Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Schuster and Deonte Johnson are on the bench.
Speaker 1: Juju has been a roller coaster this season. He only
Speaker 1: managed sixteen yards last week. He matches up with Nicol
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman, who was only allowed hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: total yards this season in slot coverage. Deonta gets the
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey treatment. And I'm trying a new nickname here
Speaker 1: is he in the Jalen jail? I don't know jail.
Speaker 1: There's something there, There's something to be done there, all right?
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald does get a B grade. Um he scored
Speaker 1: last week in Indie? Is he gonna get jail house rocked?
Speaker 1: Never mind? Jen use from sorry sorry sorry keep working
Speaker 1: yet jump yeah? Well workshop this later off air, the
Speaker 1: Rams have been given up the farm to the tight
Speaker 1: end position. Kittle had one oh three, Disley at eighty one.
Speaker 1: The ghost of Tyler Effort managed six for seventy four.
Speaker 1: Cooper and Cameron Brady each score outside of Jalen Samuel's
Speaker 1: he's the best receiving option this week. So McDonald's bay
Speaker 1: um our final topics are ahead, and we provide you
Speaker 1: with three guys we would believe will be hot waiver
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Speaker 1: seems like people like this segment a lot. Maybe the
Speaker 1: most valuable segment of the whole thing is we try
Speaker 1: to provide a player who's going to be a hot
Speaker 1: waiver wire pick up next week, who you want to
Speaker 1: grab this week. Let's see who you've got. Matt, I
Speaker 1: got this guy. Um, he replaced maybe the greatest quarterback
Speaker 1: in the history of the universe. It's Nick Foles who's
Speaker 1: replacing Gardner Minshew Right. Um, he's only owned in just
Speaker 1: over nine percent of ESPN leagues. And remember he's back
Speaker 1: together with his old quarterback coach John d Filippo, who's
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator in Jacksonville and commandeered a pretty good
Speaker 1: passing offense this year with Minshew. According to my own
Speaker 1: rest of schedule UH charts that I came up with,
Speaker 1: I tweeted him they're they're at explosive output on Twitter. Um.
Speaker 1: The Jags have the second easiest quarterback schedule remaining, including
Speaker 1: games against Oakland and Atlanta in your fantasy semi final
Speaker 1: and championship week. Those are nice matchups to have in
Speaker 1: a two quarterback league. Nick Foles kind of bankable in
Speaker 1: that second quarterbacks, all right, I like it. I'm going
Speaker 1: with Josh Reynolds. He's only four own on ESPN. I
Speaker 1: thought people will be all over and based on that's
Speaker 1: why I went with his productivity last year, we filled
Speaker 1: in exactly. He's He's played ten games with either Cup
Speaker 1: or cooks out. He scored six touchdowns in those ten games,
Speaker 1: and he averages four catches and over fifty yards per
Speaker 1: game in that. If we find out and Cook is gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess see a specialist on Sunday, I
Speaker 1: believe he's definitely out this week. If we find out
Speaker 1: Cook's done for the season, that's a guy that's going
Speaker 1: to be startable in several matchups this year and home.
Speaker 1: Just just pick him up. You'll drop him if if
Speaker 1: Cook comes back, no problem. Yeah that makes sense. How
Speaker 1: about Daniel Jones a candidate for a big game this
Speaker 1: week against the Jets. Remember me telling you why I
Speaker 1: thought he was he was startable this week against the Jets.
Speaker 1: And then when he has a big game this week
Speaker 1: against the Jets, somebody might bother to pull up his
Speaker 1: playoffs jewel and allow me to refresh your memory on
Speaker 1: the Giants playoff schedule. Philadelphia, Miami, Washington. These are three
Speaker 1: of the five worst past defenses in the NFL. These
Speaker 1: are all great opportunities for Daniel Jones, who's gonna clock
Speaker 1: in it roughly a B grade and maybe an A
Speaker 1: grade in those games if he shows some improvement between
Speaker 1: now and then. And yeah, do Daniel Jones thrown receptions? Sure,
Speaker 1: don't care. You know, it's what's mine. Winston does too.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the interceptions count you from They
Speaker 1: hurt you about one third of what a touchdown costs
Speaker 1: you or gets you. So I don't care. Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: premature speculation Um might have a bye week coming. I
Speaker 1: don't quite recall, but that's you can. We can work
Speaker 1: around that part if we need to by next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by is next week coming. Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: our final two matchups. Sunday night is Vikings versus Cowboys
Speaker 1: and no Adam Feeling in this game. For the Vikings,
Speaker 1: they will also be missing their defensive hackable. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that when we get to Ezekiel Elliott quite possibly
Speaker 1: missing him for the White games. I've got to be
Speaker 1: grade on Dalvin Cook. Like the Chiefs last week, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna sell out to stop Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 1: force the Vikings passing game without Adam Theland to beat them.
Speaker 1: I worry about Dalvin Cook beating a Cowboys defense that's
Speaker 1: playing to to stop him entirely. Dallas's defense contains sake
Speaker 1: One Barkley for all but one play last week. They
Speaker 1: have not allowed one hundred yard rusher since Aaron Jones's
Speaker 1: explosion back in Week five. Only two running backs have
Speaker 1: scored against Dallas since Week two, none through the air.
Speaker 1: So Dalvin Cook just a B grade here. The rest
Speaker 1: of the passing game, it's mostly bad news. I've got
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins on the bench. I thought he looked uncomfortable
Speaker 1: last week, and here comes in the pocket, here comes
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence and Robert Quinn and Michael Bennett. So
Speaker 1: I don't know that he settles down in this game.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have Adam thelan and safety valve guy, and
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs will probably get double covered like what the
Speaker 1: Chiefs did to him throughout last game. And that means
Speaker 1: the Cousins is gonna have to throw to B. C.
Speaker 1: Johnson and Laquant red Well and IRV Smith and those
Speaker 1: second tier guys. Just I don't think they can get
Speaker 1: it done. So he Kirk Cousins on the bench. Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs gets a C grade. Over the past five games,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys allowing just one d twenty yards per game
Speaker 1: to receivers. That's third fewest, and they've only allowed to
Speaker 1: receiver touchdowns over those five games, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: those are paltry numbers here. And Diggs has got a
Speaker 1: really tricky matchup against shutdown cornerback Byron Jones, who is
Speaker 1: allowing less than thirty yards per game in his coverage.
Speaker 1: And then again, no Adam feelings they can roll extra
Speaker 1: coverage to Diggs. It's it's a brutal matchup. Unfortunately, just
Speaker 1: to C grade for him, Let's go to the Dallas side.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott gets an A grade under the assumption that
Speaker 1: the Vikings starting defensive tackle Lynval Joseph does not go.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been ruled out like Ceeland has, but he
Speaker 1: also didn't practice on Thursday or Friday, so I do
Speaker 1: not believe he's going to play. The Vikings had been
Speaker 1: very solid against the run, though. Um They've only allowed
Speaker 1: two touchdowns on the ground and three through the air
Speaker 1: to opposing backs, and it's be you through the air.
Speaker 1: Elliot has been oddly quiet as a receiver, which is weird,
Speaker 1: but maybe it doesn't matter here. Only one runner is
Speaker 1: top thirty one receiving yards against Minnesota, so that probably
Speaker 1: doesn't change. Maybe he wrote it into his new contract
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want to catch passes anymore. Maybe I
Speaker 1: usually don't see that. That's unusual offset language there. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Elliot's gonna get a ton of work if
Speaker 1: Linval Joseph doesn't go. Lynn Bad is the run stuffer
Speaker 1: of the Vikings defensive line, so we'll keep him with
Speaker 1: an A grade. Let's go to the quarterback Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and Amari Cooper both A grades. They both face an
Speaker 1: inconsistent Vikings secondary that has yielded touchdowns to every opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback except the point resistant Washington duo of case Keenum
Speaker 1: and Dwayne Haskins. Excluding Redskins, over the last month of
Speaker 1: Vikings have allowed three d fifteen passing yards and two
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns per game. Amari Cooper has one
Speaker 1: hundred yards and or touchdown six and seven full. So
Speaker 1: they're both a grad. Yeah, Dak and Amari. There there
Speaker 1: was worried that he might not go. I believe he
Speaker 1: was practicing Friday. Yeah, he did practice Friday, and they
Speaker 1: expect Amari Cooper to play in this game. He's got
Speaker 1: a knee and ankle issues, but he is expected to go.
Speaker 1: Michael gallup Um has got a nice matchup. It's it's
Speaker 1: not clear on whether it's gonna be more Xavier Rhodes
Speaker 1: or if it's going to be more Trey Waynes, But honestly,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Xavier Rhodes is Pro Football focuses one
Speaker 1: hundred seventeenth ranked corner and Trey Waynes just got picked
Speaker 1: apart by Matt Moore for a hundred forty three yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in his coverage last week. Waynes is
Speaker 1: also allowed touchdowns in three of the past four games,
Speaker 1: so Gallup is an excellent start here as well. Also
Speaker 1: a B grade, Jason Witten gets a CE. Minnesota has
Speaker 1: given up the second most receptions and six most yards
Speaker 1: to opposing tight ends. Now, the downside for Witten, I mean,
Speaker 1: aside from being old and slow, is that he hasn't
Speaker 1: scored since Week two, and the Vikings are the one
Speaker 1: team in the NFL that is not allowed to tight
Speaker 1: end touchdown. Um. The only cowboy that I've got on
Speaker 1: the bench is Randall Cobb as a slot receiver. He
Speaker 1: actually gets the best Vikings coverage from McKenzie, Alexander and
Speaker 1: Mike Hughes in the slot. So he's the only guy
Speaker 1: we're benching. Everybody else's a go. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Monday night football game. That's the Seahawks and the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: Scott Seahawks have been styling fantasy owners, but this is
Speaker 1: the toughest matchup of the year. Yeah, but it's Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: He's just so good. He's just so good. And here
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that the Niners have played and people have
Speaker 1: talked about this, Winston Dalton, Rudolph Mayfield, Golf Keenum, Kyle Allen,
Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray who actually had not a murder of rue.
Speaker 1: But Murray had a decent game this week. Ok Um,
Speaker 1: I'm giving I'm giving Wilson a B here. I should
Speaker 1: give hi an A just because he's Russell Wilson. But
Speaker 1: it's such a tough matchups and the fourt Nighters are
Speaker 1: only allowing twelve point eight points per game. But Wilson
Speaker 1: scored in every game multiple touchdowns and seven of his
Speaker 1: nine be great. I want to give him an A,
Speaker 1: but it's it is a tough matchup, is a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: Lockett his main guy. I'm giving an A grade too.
Speaker 1: He's scored in sixty percent of his games since the
Speaker 1: start of last year, so he steps on the field,
Speaker 1: he has a sixty percent chance of scoring touchdown the
Speaker 1: downside fours, having allowed a receiver over eighty one yards
Speaker 1: since week two, but once again, not exactly a murderer's row.
Speaker 1: And Tyler Lockett's pretty special. DK Metcalf I'm giving a
Speaker 1: B grade two. He's averaging over eight targets per game
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks with three touchdowns and that
Speaker 1: span eighteen yards per catch to say he doesn't he
Speaker 1: doesn't even need a lot of them and the yeah,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier in the week, but I think
Speaker 1: Russell they're trying to pad Russell Wilson stats by just
Speaker 1: throwing a ton in the red zone. As you mentioned that,
Speaker 1: Lockett is tied for second in the NFL and red
Speaker 1: zone targets DK metcalf is fourth. They're throwing a lot
Speaker 1: when they get in the red zone. Gordon in his
Speaker 1: possible first game, I'm benching hollisterir I'm probably having on
Speaker 1: the bench as well. No tight end is top twenty
Speaker 1: five yards since Week one against the forty niners. That's
Speaker 1: not good. Although let me mention this, George Kittle may
Speaker 1: not play in this This is exactly what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say next to you. But you can say it
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. You know, if you've got George
Speaker 1: Kittle who did not practice Thursday or Friday, and you're
Speaker 1: very nervous as you should be about him being a
Speaker 1: game time decision may not go. You could pick up
Speaker 1: Jacob Hollister and then waited out until Monday night, and
Speaker 1: then if Kittle doesn't go, you could play Hollister as
Speaker 1: an option. YEP, I was gonna say the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: and with a second caveat if you are one of
Speaker 1: those rare people who have Kittle and a good second
Speaker 1: tight end, play start the good stecond tight ends. Put
Speaker 1: Kittle in your flex and then you can choose from anybody.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of options if your flex guy exactly, Um,
Speaker 1: Chris Carson, I'm given an A grade to Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: just let up the forty Niners. McCaffrey did the week before,
Speaker 1: but that's McCaffrey. Peterson had eighty plus the week before that.
Speaker 1: Three weeks in a real running backs have had pretty
Speaker 1: darn good games against the forty Niners. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: it an A grade to Chris Carson because all all
Speaker 1: all running backs who have touched the ball seventeen times
Speaker 1: against the forty Niners hit a hundred yards. Wow, that's surprising.
Speaker 1: I just al and Quan Alexander out. That's a big
Speaker 1: loss right in the heart of the Niners defense went
Speaker 1: out early last week. Chris car Carson averages twent two
Speaker 1: touches per game. So he should hit that number on
Speaker 1: the other side. I hate to bring up the fumbling
Speaker 1: thing again for Chris Carr last week. Hopefully he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He don't seem to see God bless him for not caring.
Speaker 1: What does that tell you? Does that possibly tell you
Speaker 1: about Rashod Penny that you can fumble an unlimited number
Speaker 1: of times to keep your job? Yeah, exactly, Jimmy g
Speaker 1: was my take a chance on me. I actually have
Speaker 1: an a grade on him. Just so you know. They're
Speaker 1: Manuel Sanders back to back games he's scored in since
Speaker 1: joining the Niners. I have an a grade on him
Speaker 1: as well. Seattle has allowed four yard receivers in the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, all by the leading target getter, target
Speaker 1: leading target wide receiver, and that's gonna be Sanders this week.
Speaker 1: Sanders has fourteen targets since joins joining the team. The
Speaker 1: only person with more is George Kittle, who if he blays.
Speaker 1: We saw him play a few weeks ago, the same
Speaker 1: injuries days being bad. We played in the game. You know,
Speaker 1: last week's game. He played through the injuries. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to play. He's he's like barreling people over
Speaker 1: still and when he plays I I guess maybe they
Speaker 1: just give him a little cortisol or whatever toward it
Speaker 1: all at all. I don't know that pharmacy guy. I
Speaker 1: believe it's to at all. They give him a nice shot.
Speaker 1: He's gotten a grade. I don't think you should give
Speaker 1: him ambien in the game. Get like an ambient ointment
Speaker 1: that you can can rub. Can you inject ambien? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that something like into a knee or anything. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't take your niece sleepy well, you
Speaker 1: get the elbow thing, right, we get the funny bone,
Speaker 1: don't Some people say that No, never mind, no, just
Speaker 1: just to see grade on Coleman, though, it appears Shanahan
Speaker 1: is splitting the roles between Coleman and Breda, letting the
Speaker 1: hoth hand get more work. Last two weeks ago, it
Speaker 1: was Coleman, last week it was Breda. If you had
Speaker 1: a bet on one, it's going to be woman because
Speaker 1: of the touchdowns. He's the goal line. I wish I
Speaker 1: wish they would give breed of more carries inside the five.
Speaker 1: He's only got one all season, and inside the five
Speaker 1: for the longest time. Even when Colvin was out, Colvin
Speaker 1: still was ahead of it. Jeff Wilson taking those banks
Speaker 1: and I hate that part. Do you guys think now
Speaker 1: that Emmanuel Sanders is with the Niners? Niners have been
Speaker 1: the most run heavy team in the league. Do you
Speaker 1: think now with Emmanuel Sanders there that it was really
Speaker 1: more it wasn't you know? And they were a good
Speaker 1: running team, right, so why not run? But they also
Speaker 1: know the receivers had stepped up at all, other than
Speaker 1: George Kittle. Now that Sanders is there, do you think
Speaker 1: that they will no longer be the most run heavy
Speaker 1: team and that this thing is gonna start to balance
Speaker 1: and balance itself out to something closer to NFL average. Well,
Speaker 1: we have a one game sample size of Jimmy G's
Speaker 1: attempts going way up, so maybe it's scary for everyone
Speaker 1: if they are. But that Quinea, Yeah, that's that's I mean,
Speaker 1: just the schedule indicates that it's going to be a
Speaker 1: more balanced attack. I mean, Scott like to the Seattle
Speaker 1: matchup this week, They get Arizona next week, they have
Speaker 1: Atlanta in week fifteen, so there's a handful of matchups
Speaker 1: in there that are kind of good and if they're
Speaker 1: gonna be tough matchups to New Orleans is in their
Speaker 1: Baltimore is in their Green Bay is and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to throw to win in some of these games,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be tough ones. Uh. Melvin Gordon, going
Speaker 1: back to the Thursday night game, two huge workload games
Speaker 1: with new offensive coordinator Shane stike In now getting rid
Speaker 1: of Ken Wizzenan who has now been fired midseason in
Speaker 1: two consecutive years, always seems to be a plus. Do
Speaker 1: you believe that we this is the real Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 1: that he can continue to be an effective workhorse back
Speaker 1: going forward, or do you think there's just a two
Speaker 1: game blip on the radar. It's worth noting that Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon has now played in six games, and usually, you know,
Speaker 1: you have a preseason that lasts about four games, and
Speaker 1: his four game preseason happened to happen in week five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: and eight, where he did next to nothing. And now
Speaker 1: he's good. Go figure, He's Melvin Gorton. He's a good player.
Speaker 1: He had to he had to get acclimated to this.
Speaker 1: I think that he's going to be pretty solid the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. The return of Russell Coom to
Speaker 1: that offensive line certainly helps as well. That's that's I
Speaker 1: think when I think our theory of when he was
Speaker 1: coming back is still in play, that they they might
Speaker 1: not want to keep him in. They might continue to
Speaker 1: run the wheels off him as well. Absolutely, let's continue
Speaker 1: talking Chargers for just a minute. Their wide receivers have
Speaker 1: combined for zero touchdowns in six games, and they've got
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, they've got Mike Williams. A is Mike Williams
Speaker 1: just a flat out drop and be do you have
Speaker 1: the stones to sabotage drop Keenan Allen? That is that's
Speaker 1: the way to go, tough question Umber four. That's right,
Speaker 1: it feels that way. So Mike Williams, you guys dropping Yeah,
Speaker 1: dropping in in a standard league a touchdown dependent receiver
Speaker 1: who has no touchdowns under the year AFT league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's absolutely droppable. Yeah. Probably, It's it's tough. It depends
Speaker 1: on your roster, I guess, But yeah, I don't think that. Yes, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't have the ability to save TAJ dropped Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: though he he's shown that upside. He it was like
Speaker 1: what week three or week before that, he was maybe
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver in fantasy. Something's got. It's like
Speaker 1: the Curio stretch of the DeAndre Hopkins stretch that those
Speaker 1: touchdowns will start coming. And and he has been injured
Speaker 1: for a few weeks now. I know he was questionable,
Speaker 1: and he played in that Bears game a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He's got, you know, the long layoff right now after
Speaker 1: after a Thursday night game. I believe they play in Mexico.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you the next week and then have
Speaker 1: a bye so yeah, it's Kansas City then by um,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this about Keenan Allen. Are you
Speaker 1: trading Many leagues have got their trading deadline either this
Speaker 1: weekend or next weekend. Are you trading Keenan Allen on
Speaker 1: name value right now or do you think his values
Speaker 1: dropped so low that the return is not going to
Speaker 1: be worth it. I'm looking at the by Low angle
Speaker 1: on Keenan Allen and seeing if I can get him.
Speaker 1: I think it's closer to by Low than to sell
Speaker 1: at this point, because I do think it'd be a Cello. Alright,
Speaker 1: it's Hunter Henry, a top three Fantasy tight end. No,
Speaker 1: I still got Kittle Kelsey. I think zach Ertz is
Speaker 1: still above Hooper's. Hooper's in that conversation healthy by points
Speaker 1: per game, Almost none of those guys are in the conversation.
Speaker 1: Henry's way up there. Henry's awesome in points per game
Speaker 1: has been yeah, you know, if you finish, if you
Speaker 1: think he's going to stay healthy for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, which has not been a sure thing to
Speaker 1: this point. He's also been great, awesome in missed games
Speaker 1: per season. He's very good at that. I think are
Speaker 1: we just talking redraft here? Because just talking redraft for
Speaker 1: the rest of this I think you can make a
Speaker 1: very strong argument for top three top three. I think
Speaker 1: you can do. I've noticed that the two tight ends
Speaker 1: that played last night, Hunter Henry and Darren Waller are
Speaker 1: on like everybody's team together because when when Henry went down,
Speaker 1: down scrambled, everybody scrambled and scrambled and went, who do
Speaker 1: I pick up both? This Waller guy did well. So
Speaker 1: everybody's got both of them right now, and I don't
Speaker 1: mind acquiring either of those guys from that team that's
Speaker 1: got both Waller and Henry. That makes sense. Last one
Speaker 1: in Empire and Dynas the leagues is Josh Jacobs, a
Speaker 1: top five overall asset, not top five overall because I
Speaker 1: have wide receivers normally ranked pretty high. You got Kelsey's
Speaker 1: in that, Yeah, you got partly McCaffrey and Cook. If
Speaker 1: he starts catching more passing, catching more passes of this
Speaker 1: season goes on, then he would be but not yet,
Speaker 1: not yet, He's probably he's getting there. It's it's in
Speaker 1: that conversation. If he keeps going at this pace through
Speaker 1: the rest of the season and adds in a few receptions,
Speaker 1: they expand the offense for m a little bit, which
Speaker 1: they might. Josh Jacobs could be a top five overall
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