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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. It is week number three. We are here
Speaker 1: to help you notch a victory. I am Paul Chargy
Speaker 1: and my co host Sayer, Brian Johnson, and Matt Harrison.
Speaker 1: Hello guys, Hello governor. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the show, we will give you
Speaker 1: nine players upon whom you can take a chance. We'll
Speaker 1: answer three tough questions and give you three players that
Speaker 1: we believe you should speculate on prematurely this week that
Speaker 1: everybody else will be trying to pick up next week.
Speaker 1: Tell you who they are. Near the end of the show,
Speaker 1: will break down every match up fantasy style with letter
Speaker 1: grades on every meaningful player. And we begin with the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. Last time we
Speaker 1: saw Cincinnati, Joe Burrow was throwing his arm out of
Speaker 1: socket practically and with repetitions. Joe Mixon wasn't doing a lot.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the key players for the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Matt Yeah, I'll start with Mixing. Remember last year he
Speaker 1: had an incredibly slow start to Uh. He only scored
Speaker 1: one time through Week six of last season, but it
Speaker 1: was Week three of the year last year where he
Speaker 1: had his little peak of his early season slump. This
Speaker 1: year has been odd because he's had twenty one and
Speaker 1: twenty touches in his first tame plenty to work with.
Speaker 1: It's just he's come up a little empty handed. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Philly matchup looked tough last year, but through two weeks,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have allowed forty more yards per game to
Speaker 1: opposing runners, as well as three touchdowns in the first
Speaker 1: two weeks to opposing running backs. So I'm giving Mixing
Speaker 1: a C. It's probably you know, uh high see like
Speaker 1: an Ecto cooler. I think that it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: a B. He's getting plenty of work and there's a
Speaker 1: bad defense. You know, if there was something between a
Speaker 1: B and A see, definitely give him one Ecto Cooler. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, he gets a B grade. Burrow has kept
Speaker 1: things conservative and his first two starts, but he's been successful.
Speaker 1: He's averaging only eight and a half yards per completion,
Speaker 1: but he's completing his passes. It's very good for us
Speaker 1: to start rookie similar to fellow first overall picked Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: That's how Jared Goff plays, by the way, Jared Goff
Speaker 1: had two sixty seven and three against this defense last week.
Speaker 1: So Burrow is a solid be uh. Tyler Boyd. I'm
Speaker 1: giving a B grade to A. J. Green gets a C.
Speaker 1: Green has had twenty two targets to Boyd's thirteen, but
Speaker 1: Green's then basically nothing, averaging four catches and forty yards
Speaker 1: per game. Well, Boyd is securing five and a half
Speaker 1: catches for fifty three yards. Boyd and Green this week
Speaker 1: said that he still doesn't feel like he really knows
Speaker 1: the playbook and feels in sync with this offense. That's why,
Speaker 1: you know, I understand he missed last year, but that
Speaker 1: was last year. You had all off season everything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't like hearing that from A. J. Green. He's
Speaker 1: averaging eleven targets per game, though, so you kind of
Speaker 1: have to leave him in lineups even though it's not
Speaker 1: going well because he's gonna catch more of those. Eventually,
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. So Boyd has a better matchup
Speaker 1: this week, as Cooper Cup and Steven Sims total one
Speaker 1: thirty one from the slot. Well, Terry McLaurin and Robert
Speaker 1: Woods only managed seventy five from the perimeter. So I
Speaker 1: like Boyd better. We're not going as far as Mike
Speaker 1: Thomas or Drew sample. Uh c j Uzoma on I
Speaker 1: r with a torn achilles May he rest in peace?
Speaker 1: Uh Miles Sanders on the other side, he gets an
Speaker 1: A grade while Boston Scott is on the bench. I
Speaker 1: like Scott more if he wasn't so past dependent. Chargers
Speaker 1: backs combined for twenty four yards and a score on
Speaker 1: the ground. Brown's backs to ten and three on the ground,
Speaker 1: but both teams only five receptions in twenty seven yards total,
Speaker 1: so Boston Scott's out Sanders had twenty of the twenty
Speaker 1: four rushing attempts last week too. Carson Wentz he gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. Everyone was all excited about Baker last Thursday.
Speaker 1: He only put up to nineteen and two against the Bengals,
Speaker 1: but he did look good because it's the Bengals terrible
Speaker 1: pass rush. They gave him all the time in the world.
Speaker 1: The Bengals only have two sacks on the season so far,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to see when's kind of get it going.
Speaker 1: But the running matchups just so juicy, and he's got
Speaker 1: injuries all up and down the wide receiver corps. Jalen
Speaker 1: Reagor probably not gonna go with a thumb injury. He
Speaker 1: is he on I are now that's new to me.
Speaker 1: Al Sean questionable with the foot. He might come back,
Speaker 1: but they're both on your bench. And Deshaun Jackson, he's
Speaker 1: only a C grade. He's averaging eight targets per game
Speaker 1: but has done barely anything and the only only one
Speaker 1: wide receivers hit the eight yard mark against the Bengals
Speaker 1: in their last six games. But Zach Ertz and Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard are the guys you want to play. I'm giving
Speaker 1: arts An and got heart be there's still the best
Speaker 1: receivers on the roster. Goddard has seven teen targets on
Speaker 1: the season, Urtsys has seven in each game. Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: had five catches for seventy three in the first week
Speaker 1: against this defense, which is fine. That wasn't a particularly
Speaker 1: little tough match up against the tight end either. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine in this game. Yeah, I think so. Too.
Speaker 1: They're effectively the Philadelphia tight ends are basically wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Wanted wide receiver too. Absolutely, let's go to Houston taking
Speaker 1: on Pittsburgh gets the third in three straight brutal matchups
Speaker 1: for your Texans. And if there's ever a time you're
Speaker 1: going to buy low on Texans, this is it heading
Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh when the owners have got nothing out of
Speaker 1: their Texans and they're looking at Pittsburgh going I can't
Speaker 1: even start my Texans right now. What tysans are there
Speaker 1: there that you want to buy low on? But basically
Speaker 1: all of them because you'll pay pennies on the dollar
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson, Fuller Johnson, because because right now now,
Speaker 1: if you wait a week, the new the owner is
Speaker 1: gonna look at the schedule, which turns very soft and
Speaker 1: out and go, well, you know, I've waited out these
Speaker 1: three impossible weeks. This is the time to strike, I believe,
Speaker 1: before Sunday's games. Anyway, With that free amble, I just
Speaker 1: just killed all of your time to talk about the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans foibles against the Putils pretty much. But yeah,
Speaker 1: let's pretend the owner just looks at Sunday's box scores
Speaker 1: and not the forthcoming schedule, and then you can really
Speaker 1: buy low on your Texans because it's a brutal matchup
Speaker 1: for basically everyone. Will start with DeShawn Watson, who is
Speaker 1: the most pressured quarterback in the NFL, and these Steelers
Speaker 1: lead the league and pressure rate and are the most
Speaker 1: splits happy team out there. So I quite frankly fear
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson. And when I envisioned, like you know,
Speaker 1: when Sonic the Hedgehog would get hit and all his
Speaker 1: rings would fly out, that's all the money DeShawn Watson
Speaker 1: is to me. He's gonna fly out his pockets. That'd
Speaker 1: be pretty cool. So over to his pass catchers, it
Speaker 1: doesn't get much better. I'm gonna give Will Fuller a
Speaker 1: c desplite zero targets last week, squad dooche, but he
Speaker 1: was hurt then in his healthy now the story the
Speaker 1: song remains the same for wolf Fuller here. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a brutal matchup, though, despite the fact that Darius Slayton
Speaker 1: roasted the Pittsburgh secondary for one oh two and two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in Week one, only one wide receiver top the
Speaker 1: hundred yards and scored multiple touchdowns against the Steelers. All
Speaker 1: of last season and they weren't even the same person.
Speaker 1: It was Tyler Boyd with the yards and Philip Door
Speaker 1: set of all people in week one with two touchdowns
Speaker 1: before the acquired makeup Fitzpatrick. So just to see for Fuller,
Speaker 1: and I got Brandon Cooks on the bench despite the
Speaker 1: upticking targets last week because Fuller saw zero. I'm just
Speaker 1: not going to Brandon Cooks either. It's it's a brutal
Speaker 1: matchup and the tight ends. I was tempted to start one,
Speaker 1: but I got them both on the bench despite the
Speaker 1: fact Darren Fell Darren Fell scored last week, Jordan Aikins
Speaker 1: had seven catches. Jon Nakins is emerging. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: tight end usage is very intriguing in Houston. If one
Speaker 1: of these guys goes down, we might have a top
Speaker 1: twelve tight end on our hands. But they're both on
Speaker 1: the bench this week. And I should say, Brandon cook
Speaker 1: so put them in your line up for next week
Speaker 1: when they got the Vikings. But Benson this week and
Speaker 1: um David Johnson also gets to see The Steelers have
Speaker 1: allowed just ninety seven rushing yards on thirty eight carries
Speaker 1: so far the season. That's two point six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: We all watch Sa Kwon get shut down in Week one,
Speaker 1: but Philip Lindsay managed ninety four combo yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown catching garbage time last week. Johnson has that potential
Speaker 1: as well, so he gets a sea over to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: James Conner gets the A, even though I'm worried about
Speaker 1: him finishing the game. The bell cow was back for now.
Speaker 1: He also gets right guard David de Castro back who
Speaker 1: missed the first two games this year. Houston allowing six
Speaker 1: point four yards per carries to imposing back, So an
Speaker 1: easy A for James Conner and an easy A for
Speaker 1: Deonta Johnson. I'm talking about him first before Juju Man,
Speaker 1: Well you should, yeah. Thirty two point three percent of
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's targets in Week one, thirty one point seven in
Speaker 1: week to the third highest target share percentage in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Baltimore wide receivers were quiet against Houston last week, but
Speaker 1: that was dictated by game script. Both Sammy Watkins and
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill caught a touchdown in Week one against Houston.
Speaker 1: So I love Deonta Johnson and I love the Juju
Speaker 1: in Week one gave him an a pacock no time
Speaker 1: for that, I know, but I'm gonna gieve him a
Speaker 1: be this week. He will play with the knee injury.
Speaker 1: His target share is south at which is troubling, but
Speaker 1: the explosion is clearly back. Two touchdowns in week one,
Speaker 1: seven catches last week. You cannot sit him right now,
Speaker 1: especially against the Texans. You can sit James Washington, though,
Speaker 1: got him on the bench. Game script for reads me here,
Speaker 1: but I would still roster him, hold on to him
Speaker 1: in the most of leagues Eric he run on the bench,
Speaker 1: target totals of two and five so far this season.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews was quiet against Houston last week, so he
Speaker 1: run on the bench. And lastly, Big Ben gets a b.
Speaker 1: He looks really good. That arm strength is only gonna
Speaker 1: get better following Tommy john surgery. Again, I'm just worried
Speaker 1: about the game script here. It could be a Connor day.
Speaker 1: But Patrick Mahomes had three passing touchdowns only two hundred
Speaker 1: eleven yards, and Lamar Jackson didn't blow up the box
Speaker 1: score either against Houston. That's a little troubling. You can't
Speaker 1: convince me Houston is suddenly a great second Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's not just well, Ben Ben. I think he's capped
Speaker 1: at thirty thirty pass attempts. That's my only concern here.
Speaker 1: He still gets a very solid B no plus though.
Speaker 1: Charge At some point we'll we'll talk more about Deonte Johnson,
Speaker 1: but I think he is a top ten Fantasy wide
Speaker 1: receiver overall. Washington takes on Cleveland in our final matchup
Speaker 1: of this segment, and for Washington, there's just a couple
Speaker 1: of guys you want to talk about. But I want
Speaker 1: to start with Logan Thomas, who I love this week,
Speaker 1: and I've got to be grade on Loto Loto one
Speaker 1: of the one of the many quarterback turned tight ends
Speaker 1: in history. Like, um, all right, well, I guess nobody's
Speaker 1: ever a quarterback turned tight end. The Browns are the opponent.
Speaker 1: They've already allowed three tight end touchdown Marquis Gray quarterback.
Speaker 1: Oh well, there he turned tight end and like that,
Speaker 1: Like how that turned out? Browns have allowed the second
Speaker 1: most receptions and six most yards to tight ends. And
Speaker 1: get this, Thomas on the field for percent of Washington
Speaker 1: plays last week, only Darren Waller and Travis Kelsey have
Speaker 1: seen more targets than Logan Thomas. In a juicy man
Speaker 1: jump B grade, staying with the passing attack Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: Through two weeks, he's accounted for forty six percent of
Speaker 1: Washington's passing yards just for him, Barry mclard. This week
Speaker 1: he faces a battered Brown secondary that's going to be
Speaker 1: without Greedy Williams. They've allowed the eighth most yards to receivers.
Speaker 1: Uh and that was despite facing you know, the Bengals
Speaker 1: with Rickie, Joe Burrow and a run centric Ravens team.
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll start Verry Terry McLaurin with a B
Speaker 1: grade and then the only other player I want to
Speaker 1: talk about for Washington is they're starting running back in
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson. He experienced a huge uptick in usage last
Speaker 1: week and hopefully that continues here. The Browns are allowing
Speaker 1: the third fewest rushing yards on a smothering two point
Speaker 1: nine yards per carry. Who are these Browns? If mark
Speaker 1: Ingram and Joe Mixon can't top forty six rushing yards
Speaker 1: or score, then I can't give a starting grade to
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson. This week, j K. Dobbins had a good
Speaker 1: game against them, and I believe Jio. Look, okay, just stoke.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the second running back and that may pay.
Speaker 1: I hope not. I hope not. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Cleveland side. We'll start with a running game. Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: gets a B. No team has allowed fewer Fantasy points
Speaker 1: to running backs and Washington's there's a little danger here.
Speaker 1: No runners scored and they held Kenyan Drake and Check
Speaker 1: last week. Still Washington's just the middle of the pack
Speaker 1: run defense, their middle of the packing yards per carry.
Speaker 1: Chubb continues to get all the money carries near the stripes,
Speaker 1: so we'll give him the B. Kareem Hunt gets just
Speaker 1: to see only had a twelve touches and twenty snaps
Speaker 1: last week, but still turn it into a good game.
Speaker 1: But you worry if that's all the touches he's gonna get,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to keep scoring two touchdowns a game.
Speaker 1: Last year, Washington was terrible stopping runners through the air.
Speaker 1: This year they've looked better, but I doubt they've transformed
Speaker 1: doing a shutdown unit against guys at Kareem Hunts skill level.
Speaker 1: So he's still startable with a CE gright. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game. Baker Mayfield looked incredibly poised and
Speaker 1: comfortable last time. We saw him to thursdays ago. I
Speaker 1: think it continues here if Cleveland's overall overhauled offensive line
Speaker 1: is truly improved, because they're going up against this terrific
Speaker 1: Washington front four, a group that Profobot focuses ranks as
Speaker 1: the fifth best pass rush. Remember, they got four first
Speaker 1: round picks on Washington's defensive front line. The Washington secondary
Speaker 1: looks improved, but the personnelity personal really isn't improved. I
Speaker 1: just think they're they look improved because the pass rush
Speaker 1: has been good. I think if Baker's line can just
Speaker 1: hold up, I think he'll do okay here. I've got
Speaker 1: a C grade on Baker Mayfield, a B grade for
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. Against Washington, no receiver's topped sixty eight yards,
Speaker 1: but already five receivers have topped fifty yards, so I'd
Speaker 1: see an okay game coming for Odell Beckham. Jarvis Landry
Speaker 1: playing hurt. He's scored one time in his last seven games,
Speaker 1: and he's um he's been. He goes up against the
Speaker 1: slot cornerback Jimmy Moreland, who struggled and last week alone
Speaker 1: gave up ten catches for a hundred six yards. So
Speaker 1: Jarvis land remained startable with a C grade. We've dropped
Speaker 1: off Austin Hooper out of our rosters entirely. We're not
Speaker 1: going to spend time on him. When we come back,
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. Nine players upon whom you
Speaker 1: can take a chance. These are guys not normally in
Speaker 1: your starting line up. Many of these are available on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire, and man, do we need receivers this week.
Speaker 1: So many guys are out. We'll tell you who you
Speaker 1: can count on to pick up off the waiver wire
Speaker 1: and plug into your starting lineup. When we return to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, getting you
Speaker 1: ready for Sunday's action. There is a segment week call
Speaker 1: take a chance on me. We give you nine players
Speaker 1: upon whom you can take a chance. These are players
Speaker 1: not normally in your starting lineup, but they can be.
Speaker 1: This week. We beginning at the quarterback position and Brian Johnson,
Speaker 1: I have Philip Rivers at home against the Yets, and
Speaker 1: this is quite simply a professional quarterback against the worst
Speaker 1: team in professional football, the Jets. Second. Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: verdicts still out there, but I'm still giving Jets the
Speaker 1: edge here. The Jets secondary has gone way South since
Speaker 1: jettisoning JOm All Adams. They're awful ran pass coverage by
Speaker 1: a pro football focus, and they have surrendered two passing
Speaker 1: scores in each game so far. That feels like a
Speaker 1: pretty safe floor for Philip rivers and this one. So
Speaker 1: why not? All these kids will be cheering for this
Speaker 1: big game. Okay, Matt, you'll take a chance at the
Speaker 1: quarterback Nick Mullins of the San Francisco forty Niners spent
Speaker 1: a while since we've seen him, Oh the Mulligan. Uh.
Speaker 1: He started eight games for the Niners and twousand eighteen
Speaker 1: he averaged two four passing yards per game, and those
Speaker 1: eight contests and through for multiple scores and four of eight.
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins is a good quarterback, and he gets Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan as his offensive coordinator and head coach who gets
Speaker 1: to scheme for him for a week. He's facing off
Speaker 1: against the lowly Giants as well. The Giants have allowed
Speaker 1: over two yards or multiple touchdown passes to six of
Speaker 1: the last seven quarterbacks they've faced, and they've already allowed
Speaker 1: five touchdown passes this season. Nick Mullins, go get him
Speaker 1: all right, I'm I'm with you on that and it's
Speaker 1: got to be a fantastic DFS. He is DraftKings the
Speaker 1: cheapest starting quarterback this week. There you go, my quarterback,
Speaker 1: There we go. It's Happy Trombone Ski. I am surely
Speaker 1: jaxing the hell out of Happy Trombone Ski with his
Speaker 1: third straight starting grade and second appearance in this segment.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing it anyway because the matchup is so tantalizing.
Speaker 1: The Falcons have been blasted for almost eight hundred passing
Speaker 1: yards and another fifty rushing yards by quarterbacks so far,
Speaker 1: and that includes eight touchdowns to opposing quarterbacks and three
Speaker 1: of them on the ground to Dak Prescott. And you
Speaker 1: know what, Happy Trombone Sky fleet of a rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: possibility here too. He's got great matchups, including Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: he can throw out of the backfield against a team
Speaker 1: that always struggles against running backs as receivers. By the way,
Speaker 1: every Falcons game this year, if you add up all
Speaker 1: the passing yards from Matt Ryan and opposing quarterbacks, it
Speaker 1: might be the most passing yards in history in games.
Speaker 1: In games, it's gonna be eight hundred yards of game
Speaker 1: like almost every game I I contest. Just let the
Speaker 1: Falcons score three touchdowns if you're the opposing head coach,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna you're gonna put up even more
Speaker 1: points against him if you super weak on side kick
Speaker 1: at them. This reminds me of the old Layola Marre
Speaker 1: Amount basketball All team Hank gathers Um that would say
Speaker 1: we would let them score so we could get the
Speaker 1: ball back. But I'm down for it. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running back position, Brian. They say it's your birthday,
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis, baby at home against the forty Niners. Birthday
Speaker 1: thirty Burger on the way. Yeah, I know. They just
Speaker 1: signed DeVante Freeman, and the narrative all summer was like,
Speaker 1: when is Deonta gonna choose someone to sign with. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure no one wanted to sign Deonta DeVante Freeman. No,
Speaker 1: because he looked cooked as all hell last year. There's
Speaker 1: no way it comes in after five days and leads
Speaker 1: his team in touches. So I'm going the way of
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis against the forty Niners, who are basically missing
Speaker 1: everyone on defense right now, and the Jets running backs
Speaker 1: are awful who they faced the forty Niners last year,
Speaker 1: but they combined for twenty eight touches. Fifteen is a
Speaker 1: lock for Lewis, who will get most of the work
Speaker 1: in the passing games. Chase Edmonds caught a touchdown against
Speaker 1: San fran And week one, So Dion Lewis is playable,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm staying with the Niners and I'm going
Speaker 1: with Jet McKinnon. Mullins favorite target could very well be McKinnon. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Niners have had a league high thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: of their targets go to running back so far this year,
Speaker 1: and McKinnon takes over for an injured raheem most dirt
Speaker 1: and even and even more injured Tevin Coleman, and he's
Speaker 1: been electric in his first two games, accounting for scores
Speaker 1: in each week, including a long touchdown run last week.
Speaker 1: Plus last week, the Bears backs totaled seven catches for
Speaker 1: seventy yards and a score through the air against the Giants.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Mullins to McKinnon all day long. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if McKinnon's gone in your league, and he's gone
Speaker 1: in many, Jeff Wilson is a good start as well.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that in the match up. They
Speaker 1: always roll in that second running back at San France.
Speaker 1: Second running backs always relevant and he'll get the goal
Speaker 1: line work. My take a chance of your running back
Speaker 1: is Josh Kelly of the Chargers going up against Carolina,
Speaker 1: ostensibly the backup, but it's really more of a one
Speaker 1: two punch there, and both guys will have a great opportunity.
Speaker 1: Kelly and Austin Ekeler as well. The Panthers historic bad
Speaker 1: run defense. They now have allowed running back touchdowns in
Speaker 1: fourteen straight games, and over those fourteen straight games, they're
Speaker 1: averaging two and a half running back touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: So both of them get paid here. Kelly's actually getting
Speaker 1: more looks inside the ten yard line than Austin Ekeler,
Speaker 1: So I feel like a touchdown here is all but
Speaker 1: inevitable for Josh Kelly. Let's go to the receivers, Brian
Speaker 1: who you got Cool Beasley at home against the Rams
Speaker 1: who are definitely going to bring bring the pressure in
Speaker 1: the toughest matchup for the Bills, who look great. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a game where Beasley season at
Speaker 1: least eight targets easily. He has back to back double
Speaker 1: digit PPR games to start the season. The Rams have
Speaker 1: allowed the eighth most catches to wide receivers. Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: will certainly be locked on Stefon Diggs and Beasley's matchup
Speaker 1: with Troy Hill is plus. Till has allowed catch rate
Speaker 1: in his coverage so far this season. Okay, Matt, go
Speaker 1: to t J. Hockenson of the Lions. He's the only
Speaker 1: Detroit tight end with a target this year and he's
Speaker 1: come up with five fifty six and one in Week one,
Speaker 1: four for sixty two you in Week two. Good numbers.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a lack of shab right there in
Speaker 1: those numbers. Uh. And he gets the Cardinals and while
Speaker 1: they haven't allowed a touchdown to a tight end yet
Speaker 1: this year, they're do And it was Hockinson who started
Speaker 1: that party in Week one when he had six catches
Speaker 1: for a hundred and thirty one yards and a score
Speaker 1: in the meeting in the Desert. Last year, they went
Speaker 1: on to give up fifteen more touchdowns the tight ends
Speaker 1: last year. So the Cards are better, but it's not
Speaker 1: night and day. T J. Hockenson's a sure start this week.
Speaker 1: I've got Adam Humphreys going up to Minnesota where he
Speaker 1: will perform well. He's been targeted six and seven times
Speaker 1: in the two games, including a touchdown reception. Last week,
Speaker 1: he goes up against an injury battered secondary without its
Speaker 1: starting slock cornerback Mike Hughes, and we don't even know
Speaker 1: who the replacement is for Hughes because the depth chart
Speaker 1: is so wobbly in the Vikings secondary. It could be
Speaker 1: rookie Harrison Hand, who has never played a snap in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Hey, I'm Humphrey. We're gonna give him the
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison hand right there. Yeah, Harrison hand. Yeah nice,
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. Let's let's go to
Speaker 1: one more matchup, maybe even two. Las Vegas takes on
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and Matt. For a while there
Speaker 1: looked like Josh Jacobs might not go, but he's going
Speaker 1: to go in this game. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: the running game against New England? Well, he is probably
Speaker 1: bruised up a little bit because he leads the league
Speaker 1: in touches through the first two weeks with fifty nine.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, that's a ton. Luckily, Jacobs is also
Speaker 1: second on the team and targets because the Patriots are
Speaker 1: still a tough run customer, allowing only three point nine
Speaker 1: yards per carry and four rushing touchdowns over their last
Speaker 1: twenty three games. But Chris Carson was able to score
Speaker 1: through the air last week on the Patriots, and Jacob's
Speaker 1: usage is great there, so uh, he's a b start.
Speaker 1: I am putting Derek Carr on the bench. Twelve of
Speaker 1: the last fourteen quarterbacks to face the Patriots have been
Speaker 1: held under three yards. That list includes Patrick Mahomes, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen twice, Dak Prescott, Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson. Derek Carr
Speaker 1: is none of those guys. Car has h only topped
Speaker 1: three yards once in his last twenty one games. By
Speaker 1: the way, he's not He's not that good, even though
Speaker 1: he looked great on Monday night. Brian Edwards still questionable.
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs is out, but they're all on your bench,
Speaker 1: so is Hunter Renfro. Four different Seattle wide receivers scored
Speaker 1: last week, but that was Russell Wilson at the Helm.
Speaker 1: Car is a bit closer to stew Beard than Wilson,
Speaker 1: and frankly, he's not even close to stew Beard. The
Speaker 1: Miami wide receivers were all held under fifty yards and
Speaker 1: none scored in the first week. I think that that's
Speaker 1: what's on the docket for the Raiders. Wide receivers Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: he gets a B grade, also missed some time in
Speaker 1: practice this week, but was a full participant on Friday.
Speaker 1: Four yard games in his last seven games played, including
Speaker 1: sixteen targets and twelve receptions last week. Waller has more
Speaker 1: targets this season than Henry Ruggs, Hunter, Renfro, Brian Edwards,
Speaker 1: Nelson Aghilar, Jason Witten, Foster Moreau, and Za Jones combined,
Speaker 1: basically the whole team. Yes, it's it's crazy. Cam Newton
Speaker 1: on the Patriots side, he gets an A grade. He's
Speaker 1: averaging two rushing touchdowns per game. He's averaging sixty one
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game. No one else on the rosters
Speaker 1: averaging thirty rushing yards. He's you're starting running back for
Speaker 1: the Patriots. There's no running back that you're going to play,
Speaker 1: even with James White out this week. Again, outside of
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Derrick Henry, and Alvin Kamara, no running back
Speaker 1: has topped fifty three yards against the Raiders since Week
Speaker 1: ten of last year. The wide receivers Julian Edelman and
Speaker 1: nikkil Harry. I'm giving them both a B even though
Speaker 1: they're both Patriots questionable. Edelman has been Cam's guy so far,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about Harry and his matchup. Boundary receivers
Speaker 1: have torched the Raiders so far, with Robbie Anderson going
Speaker 1: for a hundred and fifteen yards in a score. Tray
Speaker 1: Kwon Smith even had five catches for eight six yards.
Speaker 1: Nice called by Scott Fish by the way, last week.
Speaker 1: Harry is at twenty nine percent of the Pats targets
Speaker 1: so far this year. That's enough to keep him in play.
Speaker 1: And there is no tight end that you want to
Speaker 1: play on the Patriots. No, there is not. That's it.
Speaker 1: That is it. Let's try to work in one more
Speaker 1: matchup into this segment, but it's it's got to be
Speaker 1: fast Rams taking on Buffalo. Brian sorry with the Rams
Speaker 1: running backs, by the way, the most rush attempts at NFC,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams had right now, But it's Sarell
Speaker 1: Henderson the only one you want to start. He led
Speaker 1: the way last week, the only running back targeted Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Not a great matchup al though the they've allowed four
Speaker 1: yards per carry thus far, But it was the Dolphins
Speaker 1: and Jets running backs. Not much to write home about there,
Speaker 1: so I'm giving Henderson to see. Tyler he could be.
Speaker 1: Higby gets to see as well, dominating the Snaps a
Speaker 1: tight end, playing over eighty percent of them. The Bills
Speaker 1: just gave up a monster game to Mikeasicki, but they
Speaker 1: were without linebackers Matt Mlano and Tremaine Edmonds. If they returned,
Speaker 1: that lessons Higby's prospects a little bit. But Chris Herndon
Speaker 1: had six catches in Week one, so Higbie's got a
Speaker 1: safe floor. He's the top twelve of tight end options.
Speaker 1: He's only a C. Only a C. If the linebackers
Speaker 1: come back, I'm gonna get to the quarterback, which I'm
Speaker 1: not sold on. Who's throwing the ball to Higbee and
Speaker 1: his name, well, we'll get to him. Cooper Cup, though,
Speaker 1: gets a blot. Slot receivers, I've had success against Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Jameson Crowder had a hundred and fifteen yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Ford even had seven catches for seventy six yards
Speaker 1: against the Bills. I like Cup with a B. I
Speaker 1: don't like Robert Woods as much, sadly in a revenge game,
Speaker 1: just to see for Robert Woods likely to see tret
Speaker 1: Davias White on the outside for the most of the
Speaker 1: day and therein lies the rub for Woods. Davante Parker
Speaker 1: did manage five catches for fifty six yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown against the Bill so Woods is startable, but just
Speaker 1: to see for him, and even though he's off to
Speaker 1: a hot start, it's a dangerous spot for Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: He's on the bench for me. Stu Beard through three
Speaker 1: hundred plus and two touchdowns against Buffalo last week, but
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were in comeback mode and that game was
Speaker 1: in Miami. Going back to the start of last season,
Speaker 1: just one quarterback has thrown for more than one touchdown
Speaker 1: and Buffalo and that was Lamar Jackson. And the Rams
Speaker 1: have only played the JV teams in the nfc E
Speaker 1: so far. This is a true test. So Goff is
Speaker 1: on your bench, don't don't be fooled. Josh Allen not
Speaker 1: on your bench though, Just to be though, Wentz was
Speaker 1: blanked from a passing perspective last week by the Rams
Speaker 1: did run into touchdown. Deck was quiet in Week one
Speaker 1: against them as well, But you cannot bench Allen right now.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of tape, of course, but l A
Speaker 1: was flamed by flamed by mobile quarterbacks last season. Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray all went off against them. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen can certainly do the same. Stefon Diggs talk about
Speaker 1: a hot start just to see for him though, why
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. That's about it, and Ramsey will shadow him?
Speaker 1: Oh all day. Marie Cooper did have ten catches and
Speaker 1: Ramsey's coverage in Week one on fourteen targets. So if
Speaker 1: Diggs can get peppered like that, he could produce. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't bend him, but temper your expectations. They're also temperate
Speaker 1: your expectations for John Brown. Just to see Darius Williams
Speaker 1: is no slouch at the other outside corner spot for
Speaker 1: l A. But the Rams have allowed the eighth most
Speaker 1: catches to wide receivers and fellow roadrunner wide receiver to
Speaker 1: Shawn Jackson managed six for sixty six for sixty four
Speaker 1: against l A last year, which should be a safe
Speaker 1: floor for Brown. I like Cole Beasley the most at
Speaker 1: all the receivers, to be honest, that's why he was
Speaker 1: might take a chance on me wide receiver and to
Speaker 1: the running backs. Zack Moss is out, Dak Moss is out,
Speaker 1: Killing Singletary is gonna get a lot of work here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't t j Yelden will be in the mix,
Speaker 1: but we're not gonna talk about him. But the Rams
Speaker 1: have allowed a hundred and sixty seven columbo yards per
Speaker 1: game to opposing running backs three total touchdowns. So if
Speaker 1: there's ever a time to start Devon Singletary with, it's
Speaker 1: it so b for Singletary. We'll see if they give
Speaker 1: him a red zone carry though I don't know, well
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Speaker 1: the year. Tennessee takes on Minnesota and the battered Minnesota secondary,
Speaker 1: which may be starting cornerbacks Holton Hill, who ranked Pro
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Speaker 1: in the league. Jeff Gladney, who ranks eight six and
Speaker 1: is allowing a passer rating of one forty three, and
Speaker 1: Harrison Hand who has never played an NFL snap. So
Speaker 1: I ask you, co host, who do you suppose is
Speaker 1: the highest scoring tight end in fantasy football? John new Smith?
Speaker 1: Which tight end has scored the most touchdowns? John new Smith?
Speaker 1: Which tight end is the most yards per reception? John
Speaker 1: new Smith? Is there a super peacock sound you can play?
Speaker 1: Which which tight end faces a Vikings defense without its
Speaker 1: strong side linebacker Anthony Barr or Anthony Bar's replacement, Anthony Ferkser.
Speaker 1: John U. Smith? Which team which tight end faces a
Speaker 1: team that just allowed a third string tight end to
Speaker 1: roll up one yards last week? John U? Smith? Yes,
Speaker 1: John Eu with an A grade this week. I didn't
Speaker 1: know we set aside five minutes for the John Smith matchup,
Speaker 1: absolutely because we don't have to talk about Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: was an obvious A against the Vikings run defense that's
Speaker 1: bottom five in every meaningful rushing category. Ryan Tannhill a
Speaker 1: great as well, and the only thing that really hurts
Speaker 1: him here is Derrick Henry, his own teammate. No no
Speaker 1: problem with the Vikings defense here, but Henry might just
Speaker 1: leave not enough on the table for Tannehill. Still a
Speaker 1: grade because if Henry doesn't take it. Tannehill's got the
Speaker 1: same four touchdown upside he had last week, and Corey
Speaker 1: Davis gets an A grade with a j Brown out,
Speaker 1: he'll face a secondary as I mentioned, filled with litterd
Speaker 1: with backups at the cornerback position. He's already uh and
Speaker 1: even when he gets their ostensible well, they've got at
Speaker 1: any rate, Corey Davis sitting out a great game. By
Speaker 1: the way, I don't know, fire up the peacock for
Speaker 1: Corey Davis. One of my summer sleepers said, do not
Speaker 1: give up on Corey Davis. Peacock Roll and Tannehills might
Speaker 1: take a chance to meet quarterback last week, and Adam
Speaker 1: Humphreys might take a chance and for this week, get
Speaker 1: that peacock a lozenge. We're pre cocking for Adam Humphreys.
Speaker 1: Now the Vikings side, there's only two players you care about.
Speaker 1: That's Dalvin Cook, who I feel like this is same
Speaker 1: script for Dalvin Cook as it has been the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, which is the Vikings will be way behind
Speaker 1: throughout much of this game. They're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run very much and hopefully Cook just gets enough
Speaker 1: volume to do Okay. I don't think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: gaudy stats because the Vikings just aren't going to be
Speaker 1: able to run enough for him to get there still
Speaker 1: if he can get to like fifteen touches, that probably
Speaker 1: gets him to eighty yards and maybe a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: B grade on Dalvin Cook, C Grade and Adam Thelan.
Speaker 1: You know last week the Cold sent extra coverage to
Speaker 1: Theeling and it worked marvelously, holding him to just thirty
Speaker 1: one yards. You figured the Titans do the same thing here.
Speaker 1: Darn kirk Cousins to go to old A B. C.
Speaker 1: Johnson or Justin Jefferson, something he was unwilling to do
Speaker 1: last week. Theland runs predominantly from the right side of
Speaker 1: the field, or he matches up with ancient cornerback Jonathan Joseph.
Speaker 1: Titans have only allowed one wide receiver touchdown on the year.
Speaker 1: C grade for him. Let's go to San Francisco taking
Speaker 1: on the Giants. Matt, you already talked about a couple
Speaker 1: of Niner players that you like. Yeah, McKinnon was, might
Speaker 1: take a chance to me, Runner mullins was, might take
Speaker 1: a chance on me. Throw our will mention. Jeff Wilson. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a capable backup. He's been trusted as the goal
Speaker 1: line guy in in in times pasted when Matt Breeder
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman were out with injury last year. If you're desperate,
Speaker 1: he's a S grade. I think he's startle Uh. There's
Speaker 1: no other starter on the Niners except for Jordans Reid,
Speaker 1: who gets a be read scored last week kittles out again.
Speaker 1: The Giants have held Eric Ebron and Jimmy Graham in check,
Speaker 1: but those two teams have healthy wide receivers. Through the
Speaker 1: last five weeks of the Giants gave up five touchdowns
Speaker 1: to the tight end position, and James Bradberry is a
Speaker 1: good corner by the way, He's gonna shadow either Kendrick
Speaker 1: Borne or Brandon a Uk. So there's not enough. There's
Speaker 1: not enough injuries that would make you go all the
Speaker 1: way to them right now. Uh. Dion Lewis was Brian's
Speaker 1: take a chance on me runner. DeVante Freeman's on the bench,
Speaker 1: though after replacing se Quan Is only averaging one point
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry. With this line, what makes you
Speaker 1: think that three days after being signed, DeVante Freeman, by
Speaker 1: the way, was bad last year, can do better than
Speaker 1: say Kwan Now, Daniel Jones, I'm giving him a C grade.
Speaker 1: Even without Nick Bosa, d Ford and Solomon Thomas on
Speaker 1: the d line, The Niners still have a decent pass rush.
Speaker 1: Kyler and Donald were each held under two fifty passing
Speaker 1: yards and only managed one passing score. Jones will likely
Speaker 1: be forced to throw more, but Sterling Shepherd hits I
Speaker 1: R with a toe injury, leaving Darius Slayton as a
Speaker 1: possible B start, maybe slightly worse than a B. How
Speaker 1: about like a reduced B. Is there like a reduced be? Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a bee. Uh. DeAndre Hopkins did manage a huge
Speaker 1: day against this defense just two weeks ago. Chris Hogan
Speaker 1: put up respectable numbers from the outside as well. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll just give him a solid bee for Darius Slayton. Uh,
Speaker 1: And the Niners are still without Richard Sherman. Two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I are Yeah. So Slayton has nine scores in his
Speaker 1: past ten games as well. Golden Tat's in the slot.
Speaker 1: How about this? In games without Shepherd last year, Golden
Speaker 1: Tate averaged six catches for seventy five yards per game.
Speaker 1: Not bad, not bad, And Braxton Barrios had six forty
Speaker 1: nine and one from the slot last week, So that's
Speaker 1: attainable for Tate. He gets to see, I'm only given
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram a C grade, though you'd think with se
Speaker 1: Kwan and Shepherd out had like Ingram Moore. But the
Speaker 1: Niners are really good against the tight ends. They've only
Speaker 1: allowed three receptions to the position this year. They held
Speaker 1: Chris Herndon to one catch for five yards last week
Speaker 1: in a spot they were behind the whole They were
Speaker 1: behind the whole time. No wide receivers. Oh, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like this week, but you know the Giants have
Speaker 1: a few more receivers. Evan Ingram's only a sea perfect
Speaker 1: segue to the Jets taking on Indianapolis? Are there any
Speaker 1: Jets to play here? They're wider, there's no wide receivers
Speaker 1: left standing. Well, it might be Braxton Burriosrouder last week
Speaker 1: ruled out Brashad Perriman not gonna play. They're both on
Speaker 1: the bench. The running backs are on the bench. Of course,
Speaker 1: even if Frank Gore gets twenty one, he's again last week.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't want to even get
Speaker 1: into that. But Braxton Barrios, I'm gonna give a C
Speaker 1: to Keelan Cole and Justin Jefferson both led their team
Speaker 1: and receiving yards against the Colts, and they run primarily
Speaker 1: from the slot. The Jets will certainly be forced to
Speaker 1: throw in this one, so Braxton Barrios his PPR garbage
Speaker 1: time savior. Also, he kind of just filled the Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder rolling Crowder gets all those targets from the slide point.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm listening to that. You told me I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say start. Chris Hogan, who was the thing
Speaker 1: again playing for Game NFC's team, so he's on the bench,
Speaker 1: Chris earning him give him a ce. Tight Ends haven't
Speaker 1: done much against the Colts, but it was the Jagson Vikings,
Speaker 1: so not much to say. They're free safety and Lee
Speaker 1: Cooker did Terrorist Achilles last week, so that will help
Speaker 1: herned In Adam Gates needs to stop using him as
Speaker 1: a blocker, but I'm gonna get herned in the see here,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald on the bench, I just feel bad for
Speaker 1: that guy. Nothing to work with. Poor Sam. Over to
Speaker 1: the Colt side, Jonathan Taylor, easy a. I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a Fonzie a instant bell cow status. The Colts are
Speaker 1: huge favorites at home, and the vaulted Jets run defense
Speaker 1: is fading, allowing five point yards per carry so far.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you've spent a bunch of your fab
Speaker 1: by Naheim Hines. He's on the bench this week, even
Speaker 1: in a in a blowout blowout spot. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he's he'll clearly have more work than last week,
Speaker 1: but you can't trust him in seasonal he's like a
Speaker 1: he's a DFS dart throw you. There's no guarantee touches
Speaker 1: for Hines. I don't know if you charge, says behind
Speaker 1: Sea tweaked to him when he got me. I got
Speaker 1: him on the bench though. T Y Hilton, though, I'm
Speaker 1: going back to the well for the third time. He
Speaker 1: gets an a saw lesson of the snaps last week
Speaker 1: that was troubling, but he did drop a long touchdown
Speaker 1: pass which would have surely salvage his stat line. I'm
Speaker 1: removing the San Francisco wide receivers from this equation because
Speaker 1: they basically don't exist. But in Week one Buffalo white
Speaker 1: Outs total twenty three catches, so there's enough to go
Speaker 1: around for t Y Hilton and Michael Pittman. With Paris Hilton,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Paris Campbell out. Also out, Paris Hillton would
Speaker 1: be a hell of it number two receiver for the
Speaker 1: Jets if she's available. I don't know if you're out there, Paris,
Speaker 1: but Michael Pittman gets a see saw. I saw six
Speaker 1: targets when Paris Campbell went down last week. Should see
Speaker 1: steady work against the Jets would allow the third most
Speaker 1: red zone targets to wide receivers. Pittman has the size
Speaker 1: to thrive in the red zone and the tight ends.
Speaker 1: I was gonna give Moalley Cox to starting grade, but
Speaker 1: it's sounding like Jack Oil's gonna play, so that that's
Speaker 1: uh muddied Waters and Philip Rivers. Might take a chance
Speaker 1: of me quarterback against the most garbage team in the NFL,
Speaker 1: unless the Vikings deciety changed that on Sunday. Alright, our
Speaker 1: final matchup of this segment is Chicago taking on Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and hey, that's me happy. Drom bon Ski was might
Speaker 1: take a chance on me where it's happy to have
Speaker 1: me try to take chance quarterback. I love Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: this matchup. This might be his best matchup of the
Speaker 1: year as he goes up against the hapless Falcons defense.
Speaker 1: They've allowed the second most yards to receivers, including multiple
Speaker 1: receivers to top ninety yards in both weeks. So then
Speaker 1: I must like multiple Bears receivers, so you'll find b
Speaker 1: great on Anthony Miller, who dropped the touchdown last week
Speaker 1: but remained startable in a favorable matchup against slot cornerback
Speaker 1: dark keys dennerd Dennard has already allowed fifteen sixteen receptions
Speaker 1: in his coverage. That's the most in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: that's the matchup for Anthony Miller, a fantastic dark horse
Speaker 1: this week. And Darnell Mooney also getting into this act.
Speaker 1: Remember last week I told you to put him on
Speaker 1: your watch list and he ended up scoring. They we're
Speaker 1: putting him in the starting light up of the C
Speaker 1: grade this week against this struggling secondary. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the running backs. David Montgomery B grade here. Falcons have
Speaker 1: allowed the eleventh fewest rushing attempts in seventh fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards UH to opposing running backs. That's pretty impressive. And
Speaker 1: they faced his equality and Chris Carson, who are very good.
Speaker 1: But Montgomery has been very active in the passing game.
Speaker 1: He's actually out targeted Tarik Cohen in both games so far,
Speaker 1: and he's holding a touchdown via the air. And the
Speaker 1: Falcons are struggling with running back receptions like they do
Speaker 1: every year for the past five years. So I like
Speaker 1: Montgomery as a ground air threat Tariko and gets a
Speaker 1: C grade here for the same reason. Again, even even
Speaker 1: though he's not getting a lot of usage, I do
Speaker 1: like the fact that he will should be involved in
Speaker 1: this passing game against a bad falcons Uh defense against
Speaker 1: receiving running backs in case Mattnege comes to his senses
Speaker 1: and decides to throw to Kurt Rio, and I want
Speaker 1: to give him the C grade here. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Atlanta side. Matt Ryan has been fantastic and get
Speaker 1: to the A grade here. And the Chicago secondary sounds intimidating,
Speaker 1: but they've got these spots that you can exploit. For example,
Speaker 1: buster screen, their slack cornerback got worked by Danny Danny
Speaker 1: Amndola in the opener, and cornerback Jalen Johnson is making
Speaker 1: his third career start and to Shaun Gibson as a journeyman,
Speaker 1: so he's got spots that I think he can work
Speaker 1: with here. Julio Jones not expected to play in this game,
Speaker 1: and that does drop a little bit of my my
Speaker 1: esteem for Ryan, but he's still got so many good
Speaker 1: targets that I think you can still can you to
Speaker 1: play him here? Calvin Ridley with an A grade. He'll
Speaker 1: get some extra work when Julio can't go in this game.
Speaker 1: Uh He's posted over one yards and multiple touchdowns in
Speaker 1: back to back games, and Hayden Hurst we'll see some
Speaker 1: extra targets as well. The Bears have allowed two solid
Speaker 1: games to two solid tight ends t J. Hockenson and
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram. Hurst went off last week against Dallas and
Speaker 1: is locked in as the focal point a focal point
Speaker 1: of Atlanti's high powered offense, and I think he gets
Speaker 1: a few extra looks in this game. Todd Gurley C grade.
Speaker 1: Gurly only managing three point three yards per carry and
Speaker 1: has a whopping one receiving yard. So far, things don't
Speaker 1: get a lot easier against the Bears team that's giving
Speaker 1: up the eighth fewest rushing attempts, the tenth fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game, and they haven't allowed a running back
Speaker 1: to have more than four receptions. So I don't think
Speaker 1: Gurley's gonna help you much through the air either. So
Speaker 1: really just the C grade on Gurley, who has been
Speaker 1: a disappointment to this point. Guys who've got about one
Speaker 1: minute left. Is James Robbins in and every week starter
Speaker 1: going forward? Yeah, I mean we said Chris Thompson was
Speaker 1: gonna steal the third down work wrong. Nope, we said
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is not going to run the ball. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: Jacksonville too far behind in every game to run the ball. Nope,
Speaker 1: that hasn't worked out. I think he's an every week starter.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's an every week starter. I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy that you're gonna wonder about and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have better matchups and play. Uh, they've played some
Speaker 1: pretty easy teams so far this year. So and and
Speaker 1: you gotta remember, right well, Armstead and Divine Ozigbo, we're
Speaker 1: both ahead of him on the depth chart until both
Speaker 1: of them hit. I R when those guys come back,
Speaker 1: there could be Yeah, there could be a little bit there.
Speaker 1: He's not an every week starter that I see the
Speaker 1: next Arian Foster on our hands. Maybe just maybe you
Speaker 1: mean his han he's gonna blow out his hands. Well,
Speaker 1: I was saying, it's that what you mean, Jackson's might
Speaker 1: have found gold in the in a big pile of
Speaker 1: dung man. It's it's it's it's what you called Jacksonville
Speaker 1: as possible, I think, except against the the truly elite defenses.
Speaker 1: James Robinson's gonna be a starter every week. Uh, you
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Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison with you. This is
Speaker 1: a game we paw call three tough questions. Try to
Speaker 1: go three and oh I'll be peppering my co host
Speaker 1: with three brain busting questions. Begin with tough question number one.
Speaker 1: In single quarterback leagues, can you drop Drew Breese outright? Brian? Personally,
Speaker 1: I cannot because I was not drafting him all summer long.
Speaker 1: Because I'm reusing notes from this very show when I
Speaker 1: said Drew Brees past attempts sorry in have gone down
Speaker 1: from six seventy three to five thirty six to eight
Speaker 1: nine to three seventy eight last year. During that same
Speaker 1: time span, his yard has gone down from d tot
Speaker 1: three to four thousand to under three thousand passing yards
Speaker 1: last year. He looks awful already. Taysom Hill probably is
Speaker 1: the better quarterback right now, no Michael Thomas for an
Speaker 1: extended period of time, and going into the season. The
Speaker 1: Saints have the twenty three hardest schedule when it comes
Speaker 1: to quarterbacks, and these first two maps matchups are supposed
Speaker 1: to be easy with the Raiders and the Bucks and
Speaker 1: Breeze pretty much what the beds, So yes, you can
Speaker 1: drop the Drew Brees in one quarterback Leaga. He's still
Speaker 1: putting up some decent stats, but as I mentioned, the
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas high ankle sprain. Those can linger all season.
Speaker 1: Plus Emmanuel Sanders isn't a good player anymore, and Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill stealing snaps something you shouldn't worry about from your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback on a fantasy team. Um, they're having Hill
Speaker 1: throw the deep throws, by the way, because breeze is
Speaker 1: range isn't what it used to be. He's only averaging
Speaker 1: seven point two air yards per attempt. That's Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: That's the guy they just got rid of if you're
Speaker 1: going to drop him, you might want to do it
Speaker 1: right before a waiver period. I wonder what we might
Speaker 1: call a drop right before a fab run would go off. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think charges got it? Yeah, we do. It is
Speaker 1: time to sabotage drop Drew Brees. Yeah, for all the
Speaker 1: reasons you guys mentioned. He is all name and he
Speaker 1: has no production. I continue to believe Michael Thomas won't
Speaker 1: be until after the Week six bye. That puts him
Speaker 1: all the way out to week seven, and that in
Speaker 1: two of the next three games for the Saints, including
Speaker 1: this week, are very difficult. And then there's the bye
Speaker 1: week mixed in. You got like one shot to use
Speaker 1: Drew Brees for the next month of play. No way
Speaker 1: am I sitting on that roster spot. He will be
Speaker 1: available in week seven again if you want to pick
Speaker 1: him up. Only a matter of time before Saints fans
Speaker 1: add an h to the end of the name plate
Speaker 1: on the Doe Drew Brees, Jersey breech Uh, you guys,
Speaker 1: I'm on it. Sometimes. Washington running back Antonio Gibson saw
Speaker 1: a big uptick and uses last week going forward, is
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson a running back to a flex or a
Speaker 1: bench player. Matt, oh, you're going to me first after
Speaker 1: the Briech, Yes, I don't. I don't want. I want.
Speaker 1: I want Brand to turn his mic off. That's what
Speaker 1: I really want. It's in interesting to note that when
Speaker 1: they won against Philly, it was Peyton barber toating the rock,
Speaker 1: and in catchup modor garbage time, it was Gibson. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's gibbage time. Can I turn your seriously? Drew Brees's gold? Alright,
Speaker 1: So which mode will they be in more often? It's
Speaker 1: probably catch up mode. After this week's matchup with Cleveland,
Speaker 1: they get Baltimore, the Rams, the Giants, and then the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the following four weeks. Three of those four
Speaker 1: matchups don't look like WS for the W's, so Gibson
Speaker 1: should see the field a lot. I've only got him
Speaker 1: as a flex though, Okay, Brian, Yeah, Looking all the
Speaker 1: way throughout the season, there was some great spots for
Speaker 1: for Antonio Gibson, who has to be the guy right
Speaker 1: now and watching in his backfield. They're only passing the
Speaker 1: ball at the time. I was thinking would be like
Speaker 1: at this point, that's that's that's true as well, But
Speaker 1: there are two games coming up with the Giants, which
Speaker 1: are a couple of smashpots the schedule of Detroit Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and I'll hold any Washington running back as long as possible,
Speaker 1: especially Antonio Gibson for the Week six team matchup against Carolina.
Speaker 1: Right so, he's a flex player in my mind the
Speaker 1: end of the season, he could be here Championships back winner.
Speaker 1: Right there. He is a flex player, dynamic guy who
Speaker 1: can raise some eyebrows with his running, and he can
Speaker 1: catch as well, especially if you give him some space.
Speaker 1: And I worry a little bit about an offensive line
Speaker 1: that's below average, not a lot of threat from the
Speaker 1: passing game. The big problem though, Frantonio Gibson is not
Speaker 1: who he is. It's not this offense. It's that when
Speaker 1: they want to pass, they throw to j. D. Mcsuckett.
Speaker 1: When they want the touchdowns they go to Peyton Barber.
Speaker 1: And so that just leaves Gibson sort of in the
Speaker 1: middle of the rest of all of that. And unless
Speaker 1: his talent makes it so, it's so talented that they
Speaker 1: just can't get those guys on the field. Um, I
Speaker 1: worried that debt just leaves him as a flex guy
Speaker 1: where you gotta pick your spots like Week sixteen gibbage time.
Speaker 1: No not, Dalvin Cook has produced solid fantasy games despite
Speaker 1: the failings of every other part of the Vikings. Are
Speaker 1: you selling now while his value is still high? Or
Speaker 1: are you keeping Dalvin Cook, Ryan Breech. Do the Vikings
Speaker 1: look bad, bear and shambles and everywhere? Yeah, they look
Speaker 1: like gibbage, including including their own line. Are we gonna
Speaker 1: restart the show now? But I'm holding onto Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: Just look at the running back landscape right now, healthy
Speaker 1: bell cot running back. I'm holding onto him and Cook,
Speaker 1: despite how bad the Vikings have looked, has matchups on
Speaker 1: the horizon that he can win you weeks on his own.
Speaker 1: They are so juicy. And those are the Texans, the Falcons,
Speaker 1: the Lions, the Panthers, and the Jaguars. Those are all
Speaker 1: in coming weeks. So I'm holding on to Cook and
Speaker 1: hopefully he stays healthy and the Vikings can figure their
Speaker 1: s out. All right. The Vikings don't need to figure
Speaker 1: anything out. They stick with their game plan. They do
Speaker 1: their thing. They run the ball, they play bad defense.
Speaker 1: They run the ball, they play bad defense, they throw
Speaker 1: it down. Feel old. They get tackled at the one
Speaker 1: Dalvin runs it in for a touchdown and then they
Speaker 1: give him a two point conversion because they're down by
Speaker 1: three scores. The matchups are tough. Dalvin gets injured every
Speaker 1: stink in year, but after this week it's Houston, Seattle, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and Green Bay. He's going to continue to put up points.
Speaker 1: The problem is he gets hurt once a year, and
Speaker 1: his bad matchups are in the next few weeks. So
Speaker 1: if I can trade him right now and get value
Speaker 1: back for him, I'm trading him right now. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: trading him right now. The Vikings defense could be the
Speaker 1: NFL's worst, and that means that there's negative game scripts
Speaker 1: in almost every game. And granted, the Vikings will never
Speaker 1: fully go away from the running game because that's just
Speaker 1: who they are. They will be stubborn there. But what
Speaker 1: we've seen is that the volume just isn't there for
Speaker 1: Dalvin to put up the big numbers that you want
Speaker 1: from an RB one. And he still has name brand
Speaker 1: value as a first round pick who has performed okay
Speaker 1: in the first two weeks. You can trade him for
Speaker 1: another first round pick right now, so you should. I
Speaker 1: don't believe he can keep up this current level of
Speaker 1: production even though it isn't even all that high. And
Speaker 1: as a reminder you you brought up the injury part,
Speaker 1: I'll mention this Vikings offensive line is just wayfa wafer thin.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of Mr Creaso, but I can't do my brittant,
Speaker 1: my French accent. You could totally trade him then for
Speaker 1: s Kwon Barkley Michael Thomas. Yeah, I agree with you
Speaker 1: there for a fellows round pick. I bet you could
Speaker 1: trade him for Derrick Henry right now, anything happened any
Speaker 1: you might be able to. He hasn't scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: to trade Derrick Henry for Dalvin Cook. But that's the
Speaker 1: trades and still makes got more fantasy. I don't think
Speaker 1: I am make correct answers. Yes, we're moving on from doubta. Uh,
Speaker 1: Dallas takes on Seattle, Matt. This has been an explosive
Speaker 1: Dallas offense and a Seattle secondary that's really struggled. Do
Speaker 1: you love Dak Prescott as much as I do? This
Speaker 1: is uh what Brian and I on the old Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Almost Daily podcast used to call a game stag.
Speaker 1: You get everybody in this game. Zeke gets an a,
Speaker 1: Dak gets an a by the way. Dak had three
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns last week. Seahawks gave up two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: the cam last week. You don't think that Dad's gonna
Speaker 1: get another rushing score this week. He is for sure.
Speaker 1: Uh Amari Cooper A grade, Ceedee Lamb A grade, Michael
Speaker 1: Gallop B grade. Uh Cooper has percent of the targets
Speaker 1: thirty scent of the air yards. Lamb is second on
Speaker 1: the team with fifteen targets and mostly stays in the slot.
Speaker 1: Gallop has only ten targets, but thirty percent of the
Speaker 1: team's are yards, so he's gonna go off soon. And
Speaker 1: six different wide receivers have had seventy two or more
Speaker 1: yards against the Seahawks this year, with four of them
Speaker 1: topping one and both slot receivers Julian Edelman and Russell
Speaker 1: Gauge each top two hundred yards. That bodes well for Lamb,
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks have allowed a eleven yards per pass
Speaker 1: attempt to slot receivers that's the most in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Even Dalton Schultzel on the board here. He's third on
Speaker 1: the team with fourteen targets. Blake Jarwin was just keeping
Speaker 1: the seat warm for Dalton silt. He likely won't total
Speaker 1: the nine for eight eight and a score that he
Speaker 1: had last week, as the Seahawks have been decent against
Speaker 1: the tight end, allowing just under twenty nine yards per
Speaker 1: game to the position. On the other side, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: gets an a DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett get an a.
Speaker 1: Dallas lost slot corner Anthony Brown to a rib injury,
Speaker 1: so Lockett is locked in. Metcalf just beat the defensive
Speaker 1: player of the year for nine two and a score,
Speaker 1: and it scored in five of his last seven bomb
Speaker 1: two d dk Metcalf was gorgeous, a perfectly thrown pass,
Speaker 1: and Gilmore had really good cover John him. I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's right, right I DK Metcalf. The past was
Speaker 1: just too perfect. DK Metcalf will be a top two
Speaker 1: receiver in next year's drafts. Watching watch top ten for sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going top I think he's
Speaker 1: top top two. Saucy Um avoid the tight ends. Will
Speaker 1: Disley and Greg Olsen are essentially splitting time and averaging
Speaker 1: one target per game. Chris Carson does get a B
Speaker 1: grade uh still out snapping and out touching Carlos Hide
Speaker 1: three to one, but all of his touchdown production has
Speaker 1: come through the air, which is weird. Malcolm Brown did
Speaker 1: have two goal line plunges against the Cowboys in Week one,
Speaker 1: and I expect Carson to hit pay dirt with a
Speaker 1: rushing score this week too, So he gets the B grade.
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Speaker 1: Matt Harrison with you back to some matchups for this segment.
Speaker 1: A little later on, we're gonna get too premature speculation.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay takes on Denver, Brian. Last week, Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: started the game and had some success, but then Leo
Speaker 1: Fournette came in and had way more success. So who
Speaker 1: do you dare go with this week as they take
Speaker 1: on Denver. It's gotta be four Net. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: stars were aligning for Jones a touchdown on like the
Speaker 1: first drive at the game, and then he fumbles and
Speaker 1: here comes Leonard four NET scoring two touchdowns a hundred
Speaker 1: plus yards on twelve carries. H Jones finished the game
Speaker 1: last week with seven carries. It looks like four NET
Speaker 1: is the guy going forward against the Broncos. And then
Speaker 1: both lead runners to face Lebroncos so far topped a
Speaker 1: hundred yards and don't forget for Net looks like to
Speaker 1: be lead back for a Buccaneers team that wasn't at
Speaker 1: full force this season when it comes to the offensive weapons,
Speaker 1: So and Denver could be without two starters on their
Speaker 1: D line, Draymond Jones and DeMarcus Wall or Von Miller.
Speaker 1: Of course, on I R so, Leonard Fournett is safety,
Speaker 1: but I've got I've got Jones on the bench. He
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna be taking in the back seat
Speaker 1: the four net. The only thing that worries me, it's
Speaker 1: just Bruce arians so inscrutable. He wants Shawn Vaughan to
Speaker 1: get involved now apparently, but I don't remember the exact
Speaker 1: stat but there's like no Bucks running back who's had
Speaker 1: fifteen touches in a game and back to back games
Speaker 1: in like two years. I wouldn't surprise me. It's just
Speaker 1: that's so Ronald Jones is the way to go this
Speaker 1: week because it doesn't make sense. He he isn't in
Speaker 1: daily U zig while other zag and that's what you
Speaker 1: should done. Last week when people all over Jones have
Speaker 1: been for net went off. But anyway where there are
Speaker 1: no question marks is a wide receiver for the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, he gets an a d percent healthy right
Speaker 1: now in a smash spot with a J. Bouyer now
Speaker 1: on I R for Denver per Pro Football focuses Jared Evans.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have given up the league high and targets,
Speaker 1: catches and yards to opposing outside wide receivers Corey Davis
Speaker 1: and Deonte Johnson both when off against Denver. So so so
Speaker 1: love Mike Evans here, love Chris Godwin to gonna give
Speaker 1: him an A. He will make his return from injury
Speaker 1: running primarily from the slot. Fellow slot receiver slot receivers
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys and Juju Smith Schuster both that solid catch
Speaker 1: totals against Denver six and seven, respectively. So I like
Speaker 1: god One here. As for the tight ends for Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: I do not like them. Both are on the bench.
Speaker 1: Bruce arians quote said his offense isn't built for tight
Speaker 1: ends to see consistent targets the end. And if John
Speaker 1: new Smith can only catch four passes against the Broncos,
Speaker 1: albeit one was for a touchdown, you got both the
Speaker 1: books tight ends on the bench. Sorry, gronk Uh. Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: though he gets a B, has both of his top
Speaker 1: receivers healthy for the first time this season. Don't forget
Speaker 1: Von Miller on I are, like I said earlier, Denver
Speaker 1: has got a laundry list of injuries on defense, and
Speaker 1: they have surrendered two passing touchdowns in each game so far,
Speaker 1: and that's a safe floor for Brady and this one
Speaker 1: over to the Broncos. Philip Lindsay thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: be ruled out, but there's a chance he might play,
Speaker 1: even if he does. Brutal matchup. Brutal matchup, I'm going
Speaker 1: on the assumption he's not playing. When I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Melvin Gordon here, I'll give Gordon a b if
Speaker 1: Lindsay's out. To see if Lindsay plays. The Bucks were
Speaker 1: brutal against the run last year, and that appears to
Speaker 1: be the case as really good. They held Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: and Christian McCaffrey to paltry rushing totals. When it comes
Speaker 1: to yardage, both did manage to combine for three rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the ground, though the Bucks have yielded the
Speaker 1: most red zone touches to opposing running backs, uh and
Speaker 1: opposing running backs have had good days through the air,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara, but Mike Davis the best of
Speaker 1: them all with the patches for seventy four yards and half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Gordon will get bell cow usage. If Lindsay is out,
Speaker 1: he could certainly catch the ball. So based on expected
Speaker 1: volume and be if Lindsay's out, see if Lindsay is in. Uh.
Speaker 1: Over to the receivers for Denver, Jerry Judy gets to see.
Speaker 1: No one questioning the Broncos taking a wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the first round. Now are they he still took the
Speaker 1: wrong one? It should have been ceedee lamb not Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy has three drops on fifteen targets, already has been
Speaker 1: limited by a rib injury. Should play the better. Not
Speaker 1: let the Chargers team doctor doctor administer that painkilling shot
Speaker 1: though nobody did to uh Tyrod Taylor punctured aslong great
Speaker 1: DJ Moore and Robby Anderson both top two hundred yards
Speaker 1: against um. Excuse me? Who they playing again? The Broncos
Speaker 1: last week has been talking about Yes, the Bucks I mean,
Speaker 1: so I'm giving Judy a ce not going by the
Speaker 1: way of Tim Patrick. Will talk about kJ Hamler or
Speaker 1: the other rookie wide receiver on Denver a little later,
Speaker 1: and no a fan the last guy I'll talk about.
Speaker 1: He'll get a se touchdowns in both games to start
Speaker 1: the season. Chris mann Hurts of Carolina did nothing last week, understandably,
Speaker 1: but Jared Cook had a decent line in Week one
Speaker 1: five catches for eight yards. The Bucks did allow the
Speaker 1: sixth most yards and fifth most touchdowns. Too tight ends
Speaker 1: last season, so you can start fant with confidence. Alright,
Speaker 1: Carolina takes on the Chargers. Only a couple of Panthers
Speaker 1: to talk about here, Mike Davis. Everybody went to the
Speaker 1: waiver wire when grabbed Mike Davis. You only get a
Speaker 1: C grade this week. What I loved was that he
Speaker 1: was targeted eight times in the second half and he
Speaker 1: caught all eight and put up seventy four receiving yards UM.
Speaker 1: And the Charges are allowing the eighth most receptions to
Speaker 1: opposing running backs on nine targets per game on average,
Speaker 1: and all nine could end up going to Mike Davis.
Speaker 1: So from a PPR standpoint, he's safe. But this is
Speaker 1: a very good run defense that's already shut down far
Speaker 1: better runners Joe Mixing and Clyde Edwards a layer, so
Speaker 1: I don't expect Davis to get anything done on the
Speaker 1: ground just to C grade for him. D J. Moore
Speaker 1: also the C grade without any real threat of a
Speaker 1: running game. I think the Charges are going to emphasize
Speaker 1: pass coverage and pass rush and make an already difficult
Speaker 1: matchup even harder for DJ Moore. More will most often
Speaker 1: see corner Michael Davis, who has the speed to hang
Speaker 1: with more and is averaging less than forty yards allowed
Speaker 1: in his coverage. So just the C grade on d
Speaker 1: J Moore. Let's go to the charger side. Already told
Speaker 1: you that Josh Kelly was might take a chance on
Speaker 1: me running back, and I love him this week. But
Speaker 1: I also love Austin Ekeler. Both guys. It's the rare
Speaker 1: A grade for both running backs in a game. It
Speaker 1: happens like twice a year. It happens every week that
Speaker 1: the Carolina That's just that, even though they'll cannibalize a
Speaker 1: little each other a little bit. I'll just reiterate some
Speaker 1: of the stats from earlier in the show. Carolina's last
Speaker 1: fourteen games, they've allowed a running back touchdown and every
Speaker 1: one of them, and an average of almost two and
Speaker 1: a half scores per game. It's just SIT's staggeringly bad. Actually,
Speaker 1: Eckler is getting plenty of work. He's His thirty five
Speaker 1: carries in the first two games are the most he's
Speaker 1: ever had in a two game stretch, so he's getting
Speaker 1: plenty of work and he is still in a grade
Speaker 1: for this game. Going to the passing game. I've got
Speaker 1: a B grade on Keenan Allen. It's only a one
Speaker 1: game sample, but Alan was much more productive with Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: who was going to be under center in this one,
Speaker 1: and he notched nine yards and ten targets. And Herbert's debut.
Speaker 1: Carolina deploys rookie safety Jeremy Chin in the slot a lot,
Speaker 1: and he's been very good. But he's also never seen
Speaker 1: anybody like Keenan Allen. So far, He's covered Hunter Renfrow
Speaker 1: and Justin Watson. Obviously, Keenan Allen's way better, so he
Speaker 1: gets a B grade here. Mike Williams has really impressed me. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't get a ton of attention last week, but
Speaker 1: that was the first game for Justin Herbert, who found
Speaker 1: out he was the starting quarterback. When I found out
Speaker 1: he was the starting quarterback last week, did you hear
Speaker 1: he thought it was a joke. Why wouldn't Anthony Lynn
Speaker 1: walked up to him and he goes get your helmet,
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, whatever, right, you find out I'm
Speaker 1: during the coin toss that you're going to be the quarterback. Anyway,
Speaker 1: our team doctor killed the start the needle. This reminds
Speaker 1: me of Alvin Harper where the the team trainers cut
Speaker 1: the end of his finger off, taking tape off of
Speaker 1: his hand. I wouldn't like that either. I don't regrab
Speaker 1: the punctured lung or to have the end of my
Speaker 1: finger cut off by the team trainer. By the way,
Speaker 1: is this the best way for a rookie to make
Speaker 1: his first start? Surprise? It probably don't think about right
Speaker 1: you don't you have all this time to think about it.
Speaker 1: I think there's something to do that. Mike Williams runs
Speaker 1: from all over the field, and when he's on cornerback
Speaker 1: Dante Jackson, he's got six inches and forty pounds on Jackson.
Speaker 1: I think Mike Williams is a sneaky play this week.
Speaker 1: He is a C grade Hunter Henry a B grade.
Speaker 1: He's been easily the most consistent receiver on the team,
Speaker 1: regardless of quarterback, and he gets a match up against
Speaker 1: um rookie linebacker. Um. Oh wait uh, that's a weird name.
Speaker 1: That is a weird day. I have a type in
Speaker 1: my note. Sorry, Tampa Bay's Tampa Bay's uh. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: tight ends just totaled one catch against Carolina last week
Speaker 1: UH with Rob Gronkowski, but Darren Waller posted a solid
Speaker 1: forty five yards and in Week one against them, So
Speaker 1: I think counter Henry is still a safe start with
Speaker 1: a B grade for him. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: want to go all the way down to starting Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert in his second start, in part because of Panthers
Speaker 1: have now get a whole game of tape on him.
Speaker 1: No surprise factor in this one, um, and so I
Speaker 1: don't have a pant even though I do like some
Speaker 1: of those receiving options this game. I got the name.
Speaker 1: It's linebacker mclineback face. Thank you, we'll go. We'll run
Speaker 1: with that linebacker, mclinebacker face. Yeah, we'll go. We'll go
Speaker 1: with that guy. He's Irish. Yeah, thank you very much. UM,
Speaker 1: when we come back. Premature speculation. Three guys you can
Speaker 1: pick up now that everybody else is gonna be trying
Speaker 1: to pick up next week, but they're already on your team.
Speaker 1: Find out when you go on the time machine. With
Speaker 1: Premature Speculation. Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: We have three matchups to get to, but first a
Speaker 1: segment we like to call premature speculation. These are three
Speaker 1: players that you can pick up now that we think
Speaker 1: people will be trying to pick up next week, but
Speaker 1: they are already on your team. It's like you've gone
Speaker 1: forward in time. It's almost as if we've jumped into
Speaker 1: a time machine. That sounds that's our time, and that's
Speaker 1: what his time machine sounds like. We've decided yes, Um,
Speaker 1: we begin with Brian Johnson, who is your premature speculation player.
Speaker 1: Briefly mentioned him in the last segment. I'm going with
Speaker 1: kJ Hamler, wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, rookie out
Speaker 1: of Penn State, drafted in the second round by Denver.
Speaker 1: As you should know by now, Courtland Sutton has been
Speaker 1: put on I R, which should open up the door
Speaker 1: for Hamdler. Probably not this week against Tampa Bay. I
Speaker 1: didn't give him a starting grade, but moving forward, like
Speaker 1: him to move into that starting role. Uh usurped Tim Patrick,
Speaker 1: who's starting opposite Jerry Judy right now, and uh it's
Speaker 1: it's there's some really good matchups on the horizon for Denver,
Speaker 1: and we're hoping that Drew lock will come back. He's
Speaker 1: not on the shelf for the season, but matchups on
Speaker 1: the rising for Hamlet to look nice. The Jets, Miami, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas all in coming weeks and he should see
Speaker 1: seven eight targets once he's put in the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: So kJ Hamler, even in redraft, intriguing prospect, and once
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles is in the game. I wanted I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought I was pressed for time. I wanted to
Speaker 1: I said, I wanted to say Jeff Driscoll on the
Speaker 1: bench for the Broncos, especially because border Potty on roster,
Speaker 1: and you just wanted to get that. You love that name.
Speaker 1: Some of my finest work is the border Potty. I feel.
Speaker 1: Who is your premature speculation player, Matt I mentioned it
Speaker 1: in the preseason. The Colts love Trey Burton there. Their
Speaker 1: staff has been raving about him all throughout the preseason,
Speaker 1: and he got hurt right before the season start. He's
Speaker 1: on I R. But he can come back in week
Speaker 1: four and this is the team that Eric Ebron and
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle were both fantasy viable tight ends, and they
Speaker 1: brought Burton into play that Eric Ebron role. And what's more,
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell is out for the year with an injury,
Speaker 1: and Jack Doyle is already dinged up and he's been
Speaker 1: oft injured in the past. They made mo Alie Cox
Speaker 1: look really good. Philip Rivers loves tight ends. After this week,
Speaker 1: the Colts have the Bears, Browns, and Bengals. None of
Speaker 1: the above is proving to be a tough tight end matchup.
Speaker 1: I think Trey Burton is gonna be a sneaky tight
Speaker 1: end starter in some upcoming weeks. I like it, you know,
Speaker 1: with the end you Paris Campbell was going to cover
Speaker 1: a lot of the middle of the field and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be out. They didn't put it in. He's on
Speaker 1: i R. He's email for a while. I don't think
Speaker 1: he comes back before I don't know, Thanksgiving. So I
Speaker 1: kind of like the Trey Burton's team. I've got four
Speaker 1: options for you, come on a few, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Damien hair Rid who's coming off i R
Speaker 1: after this week, Sony Michelle, Sony Walkman averaging three point
Speaker 1: three yards per carry. That's it, even by his lackluster standards.
Speaker 1: You know it's bad. You don't even have to walk
Speaker 1: to get three point three yards per full three three
Speaker 1: yards per car, that's right from a new ball. So
Speaker 1: Damien Harris was the best looking running back the Patriots
Speaker 1: had in training camp. Which hand and Cam Newton is
Speaker 1: gonna siphon off a lot of rushing touchdowns. I get that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Damian Harris is going to score ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns the rest of the way, But man, is that
Speaker 1: starting job open? And in thirty two teams, there isn't
Speaker 1: a better prospect to steal a starting running back from
Speaker 1: the waiver wire than there is with Damian Harris right now.
Speaker 1: So let's go pick him up. Remember second round pick
Speaker 1: last year didn't get used for a variety of reasons
Speaker 1: and then looked like a different player in training camp.
Speaker 1: I think he performs well here and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give one more name. While we're talking about guys coming off,
Speaker 1: I r Deebo Samuel available in a lot of leagues. Man,
Speaker 1: do they need somebody to catch a freaking pass for
Speaker 1: San Francisco? So there's an opportunity there as well. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to our final set of matchups, beginning with
Speaker 1: Detroit taking on Arizona. Matt, do you like the passing
Speaker 1: game here? Maybe with Kenny Golladay or maybe not with
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay. Um, it looks like Kenny Golladay is going
Speaker 1: to go. He says he's gonna try. If if Goladays
Speaker 1: in and he's gonna go, I'm giving him an A grade. Uh,
Speaker 1: you can roll right in with him against Patrick Peterson
Speaker 1: who allowed seven catches for a hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: yards and a score to Terry McLaurin last week. So
Speaker 1: Golladay is in, he's an A grade. If if Glad
Speaker 1: is going, Stafford is an A grade too. If not,
Speaker 1: I'll give him a B because I think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be in catchup mode. Uh. Last year
Speaker 1: Stafford torched this defense for three, eight, five and three,
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals second. The Lions secondary is in shambles,
Speaker 1: which means they're going to give up a ton of points.
Speaker 1: A shootout is on, and you want to have Stafford
Speaker 1: in a shootout. If Golladay does go, Marvin Jones gets
Speaker 1: a B. If not, we downgrade him to a C.
Speaker 1: It's science. Jones is just better with Golliday on the field. Sure,
Speaker 1: Jones is a number two receiver, not a number one receiver.
Speaker 1: He did catch a short touchdown last week in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: If Golladay's return does come, Quintess c fests back to
Speaker 1: the bench. If not, I think he's startable with a
Speaker 1: C grade. Uh t J Hockenson was might take a
Speaker 1: chance on me tight end as well, So the rationale
Speaker 1: is good. I like Hockinson in this game. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like him a lot. He's gonna be a good daily
Speaker 1: favorite of mine this week. To the second best tight
Speaker 1: end in this game, it's weird. Uh. The Lions running
Speaker 1: backs are all on the bench. Carry On led the
Speaker 1: team and snaps with twenty. Swift had nineteen snaps. Peterson
Speaker 1: had fifteen snaps. That's a full time share right there.
Speaker 1: If you're starting one. It's Swift who led the team
Speaker 1: with ten touches. Ten touches and only five targets last week.
Speaker 1: I believe if memory serves well, he can't drop anymore,
Speaker 1: they won't let him. Uh. And what should be a
Speaker 1: heavy passing game script, Swift has the best chance of
Speaker 1: success where heem Mostert and Jerick McKinnon each scored through
Speaker 1: the air on the Cardinals in Week one. On the
Speaker 1: Cardinal side, Kyler gets an A and I don't need
Speaker 1: to explain it anymore. DeAndre Hopkins gets an A as well.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk has a groin injury and he is out
Speaker 1: this week, which brings Larry Fitzgerald and and both are
Speaker 1: Sea grades this week. Desmond Truffont still dealing at the hammy.
Speaker 1: We mentioned that they lost starting quarterback Justin Coleman last week.
Speaker 1: Fits had eight catches for one thirteen and a score
Speaker 1: last year against this Lion's defense. That was probably better.
Speaker 1: All right, get to the good stuff. Uh, Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: gets an A grade. Uh Drake had twenty two touches
Speaker 1: last week, and Chase Edmonds was on the sideline a
Speaker 1: bunch More had only six touches. Yes, Drake hasn't scored. Yes,
Speaker 1: those who drafted him are freaking out. But Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: just had two d thirty four total yards and three
Speaker 1: scores against Detroit last week. This is a big Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake game right here. Um And finally, best for last,
Speaker 1: there's a Cardinals tight end that we need to talk about.
Speaker 1: Max Williams hits I R this week, So Dan Arnold,
Speaker 1: I guess is a desperation C grade. Bob Tanyan and
Speaker 1: Jim Graham each scored a touchdown against the Lions this
Speaker 1: year from the tight end position. Dan Arnold might get
Speaker 1: a touchdown to damn A Are you calling it? Sure?
Speaker 1: Are you? Brian? Are you calling it? It's coming? For
Speaker 1: green Bay takes on the New Orleans Saints. And for
Speaker 1: green Bay, they could have had a softer two weeks
Speaker 1: schedule facing the battered defenses in Minnesota and Detroit. Now
Speaker 1: they get a real defense in the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: Do you think their level of success continues? Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't chase last week's box score too much. Starting with
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, we all know he blew up, but just
Speaker 1: giving him a bee here, he's gonna come down to
Speaker 1: earth just a little bit against the Saints, most likely,
Speaker 1: who are allowing just three point four yards per carry.
Speaker 1: No surprise. Aaron Jones leads the league in rushing yards,
Speaker 1: but he also has the most red zone targets among
Speaker 1: all players in the NFL as of right now, and
Speaker 1: the Raiders back Raiders backs just combined for six catches.
Speaker 1: Against the Saints last week, alec Ingold had a touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: so Jones can certainly get something done through the air
Speaker 1: be for him. Davante Adams is pretty much doubtful at
Speaker 1: this point. He's not gonna play. I'm glad. I was
Speaker 1: fearing the decoy status for Adams if he did suit up,
Speaker 1: but you just have to go on the assumption Adams
Speaker 1: is not gonna play, So he's on the bench. And
Speaker 1: I was gonna give Alan Lazard and Mvs a c
Speaker 1: if Adams sat, but I preferred Adams played and active
Speaker 1: as a decoy here. But I will still give him
Speaker 1: both the Sea Lazard and Elds scant length. The Raiders
Speaker 1: receivers were quiet last week against Orleans, very quiet because
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs just going off and Darren Waller. But in
Speaker 1: week one both Scottie Miller and Chris Godwin topped seventy
Speaker 1: yards with essentially no Mike Evans. So with no Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard and MVS are startable as Aaron Rodgers top
Speaker 1: two wide receiver options. Speaking of Rogers, just to see
Speaker 1: for him. Without Davante Adams probably would be a B
Speaker 1: with a healthy Davante, But I'm a little nervous for
Speaker 1: a a Ron here. Both quarterbacks you New Orleans have
Speaker 1: fared well so far this season. Tom Brady to thirty
Speaker 1: nine and two tacked on a rushing touchdown. Derek Carr
Speaker 1: had two eighty four and three. But man, no Davante
Speaker 1: Adams gotta make it nervous for Aaron Rodgers him. I've
Speaker 1: got him ranked in the twenties. Do you guys think
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams is a sneaky play? When Adams was out
Speaker 1: last year, Williams is targeted a lot inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: I can dig that angle. I probably probably keep it
Speaker 1: on the bench, but he is take m fringe worthy
Speaker 1: for sure. With Adams out, I'm not going to talk
Speaker 1: about the green Bay tight ends. There's like five of them,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna go there. Over to the Saint side,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, he gets an a it is a tougher
Speaker 1: matchup for him, but this offense will run end pass
Speaker 1: through Camara. Green Bay is allowing four point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry and five catches per game to opposing running backs.
Speaker 1: Camara leads all running backs and targets and catches so
Speaker 1: far this season. Easy a for him. Jared Cook can
Speaker 1: give him a b uh, Michael Thomas. They haven't ruled
Speaker 1: him out. They just okay, finally they ruled them out,
Speaker 1: and they can rule him out for the next two
Speaker 1: couple of weeks as well, probably while we're at it.
Speaker 1: But so no Michael Thomas from New Orleans means Cook
Speaker 1: should get the first read more than off more than
Speaker 1: usual in that offense. Green Bay has allowed only seven
Speaker 1: catches to tight end so far, but the pretty comparable T. J.
Speaker 1: Hockenson had a decent outing against Green Bay last week.
Speaker 1: Four catches for sixty two probably a safe floor for Cooking.
Speaker 1: This one over to the wide receivers for New Orleans
Speaker 1: and Manuel Sanders. He looked awful. He and tray Kwon Smith.
Speaker 1: I'll give him a sea with no Mike Thomas in
Speaker 1: the lineup. Sanders wasn't visible last week against Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: One catch on three targets and two drops and two drops.
Speaker 1: Smith had the much better outing with seven targets five
Speaker 1: catches for eighty six yards. I guess Sanders is still
Speaker 1: the number one guy, but I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: he might just be cooked. I know that he looks bad,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give him both the sea here. It
Speaker 1: is a good matchup on paper. The Packers have allowed
Speaker 1: four wide receiver touchdowns already. That's a lot for two
Speaker 1: weeks into the season. So they both get to see, well, garbage,
Speaker 1: it's the garbage time. And then I don't think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be garbage time in this game. I mean that's
Speaker 1: a good Packer. Well, with Drew Breeze and quarterback, there
Speaker 1: just might be some garbage time. But I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Breeze a see here. I'm not gonna put them on
Speaker 1: the bench. Uh. Kirk Cousins and Matt Stafford both tossed
Speaker 1: to two touchdown passes against the Packers, but that's probably
Speaker 1: the absolute ceiling for Drew Brees at this point in
Speaker 1: his career. Without Michael Thomas, he's gonna need Alvin Camaro
Speaker 1: to do all the dirty work in this one to
Speaker 1: live up to that se grade. The Monday night game
Speaker 1: is Kansas City and Baltimore a possible preview of what
Speaker 1: that's such a fun game. I'm so jealous that you
Speaker 1: get to preview of this game. It's uh, it's a
Speaker 1: possible preview of the a f C championship game. Although
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are going to find their way
Speaker 1: into this spot. But we'll say Buffalo might have something. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Um, the Vegas number on this is
Speaker 1: fifty four, and that's wrong. This These are two really
Speaker 1: good defenses. And to get ready to hear numbers, you're
Speaker 1: your grades that you are not necessarily expecting to hear.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey, let's talk about all
Speaker 1: of them. You're gonna start them all no matter what
Speaker 1: I say. But this is a difficult matchup. The Ravens
Speaker 1: completely shut down the passing of Cleveland and Houston so
Speaker 1: far this year, and Cleveland went on to looked very
Speaker 1: good after they got done. Since Week three of last year,
Speaker 1: the Ravens are allowing one touchdown pass per game. That's it. Now.
Speaker 1: What happened in Week three last year, Well, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: surer for three seventy four yards and three scores. But
Speaker 1: since then they've been really, really good. Kelsey remains very safe.
Speaker 1: Baltimore has allowed tight end scores in both games, and
Speaker 1: that was Darren Fells and David and Joku. And they're
Speaker 1: hardly you know, it's hardly Travis Kelsey, soh Kelsey remains
Speaker 1: very safe in my mind. Tyreek Hill I have a
Speaker 1: B grade on in this matchup because of the difficulty
Speaker 1: of dealing with both of the excellent cornerbacks that the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens give you. Now, if he works out of
Speaker 1: the lot, he's got a better opportunity, but I'm not
Speaker 1: positive that this is one of his better games coming up.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes also just the B grade, which is unusual. Again,
Speaker 1: but we're talking about a Baltimore defense that's giving up
Speaker 1: eleven points per game. Clyde Edwards a layer, just a
Speaker 1: B grade. Baltimore is allowed a running back rushing score
Speaker 1: and six of their last nine home games. I like
Speaker 1: that part. When the Chiefs played Baltimore last year, Lashawn
Speaker 1: McCoy and Darryl Williams put up a hundred nine combo
Speaker 1: yards and seven yards per carry. And this year Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt and Nick Chubb combined for a hundred thirty two
Speaker 1: rushing yards against Baltimore and the opener. Still, this is
Speaker 1: a pretty good run defense despite everything I just said.
Speaker 1: And they have not allowed a running back to score
Speaker 1: on the ground or through the air this year, and
Speaker 1: I do believe there will be an emphasis to get
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards a layer going in this game, because Baltimore
Speaker 1: is easier to run on than pass on. And uh,
Speaker 1: they didn't get Clyde going last week and they struggled
Speaker 1: and kept the Chargers team in it until the very end.
Speaker 1: I have a nickname submission for review. Are you guys ready?
Speaker 1: I'm ready. He's got to have a good game, but
Speaker 1: if he does, we can call him Clyde Edwards Governor.
Speaker 1: That would only work if it was a London game,
Speaker 1: but it's not a game, and Colin mccockney needs to
Speaker 1: actually give that nickname. I think we'll have to. We'll
Speaker 1: have to find Colin and ask him to to certify
Speaker 1: that nickname for Clyde Edwards. Hilaire, let's go to the
Speaker 1: Baltimore side with Lamar Jackson getting Lamar Jackson's got an
Speaker 1: A grade in this game. But again, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: nervous here. He faced the Chiefs in Week three last
Speaker 1: year he had zero touchdowns through the air. He ran
Speaker 1: one in which helps salvage a fantasy game that all
Speaker 1: the ways would have been miserable. Maybe it's the same
Speaker 1: kind of thing this week. Over Kansas City's last nine games.
Speaker 1: They're giving up just one passing touchdown per game. But
Speaker 1: both the quarterbacks to face the Chiefs have rushed in
Speaker 1: to score already this year. Man, so I guess we'll
Speaker 1: count on him to rush one in. Jackson's receivers, um
Speaker 1: are not as good as the cornerbacks they're gonna face
Speaker 1: and you're gonna That's why I've got just a C
Speaker 1: grade on Markis Brown. He was at exactly five catches
Speaker 1: in both games thus far. One of those games of
Speaker 1: five catchess, the other one forty two yards. Marks Brown
Speaker 1: needs to hit that home run to be fantasy relevant.
Speaker 1: He's the next Will Fuller. Basically, he is a bit
Speaker 1: of hopefully slightly stronger hamstrings, very much stronger, let's hope.
Speaker 1: Um it really it highlights the need for big place
Speaker 1: here and there's a team that doesn't often give them up. Now,
Speaker 1: he will run generally from the side of the field
Speaker 1: that is manned by fourth round rookie Ladarius Snead. You
Speaker 1: would think fourth round rookie, this should be a very
Speaker 1: positive matchup for Marcus Brown. But sneed was was has
Speaker 1: been pressed into service when self described a marijuana enthusiast
Speaker 1: Brashod Brelan got suspended. Now here's the thing. Sneed has
Speaker 1: been great. He's got interceptions in both games and is
Speaker 1: allowing a passer rating of twenty nine in his coverage.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Willie sne It. I'm confused. No, this
Speaker 1: is the other other side of the field, Darius Sneed,
Speaker 1: so advantage Snead Comma Ladarius over Marquis Brown. Just the
Speaker 1: C grade there, Uh, stick you with the passing game.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews gets a B grade. He was almost invisible
Speaker 1: last week, although they did throw to him in the
Speaker 1: end zone once then and it was not a good
Speaker 1: past and he wasn't able to come up with it.
Speaker 1: This is a tricky matchup against Honey Badger Tyrone Matthew,
Speaker 1: who generally fares very well against tight ends but well
Speaker 1: note Hunter Henry logged six catches for eighty three yards
Speaker 1: against Kansas City last week. So success can definitely happen
Speaker 1: for Mark Andrews in this game, and he gets the
Speaker 1: B grade. Now let's go to this frustrating set of
Speaker 1: running backs. So for Mark for mark Ingram. He hammered
Speaker 1: the Chiefs last season in the matchup for one thirty
Speaker 1: five combo yards and three touchdowns, but this year, in
Speaker 1: the first two games, he's averaging nine kerry nine times. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards is averaging almost seven yards per carry and
Speaker 1: j K. Dobbins has siphoned off gold line carries and
Speaker 1: some garbage time usage. The Chiefs are a middle of
Speaker 1: the pack run defense in virtually every single way, and
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens will have some success running the ball,
Speaker 1: but does it come via Ingram and does he get
Speaker 1: enough volume? So really just the C grade on mark
Speaker 1: Ingram and I can't go to J. K. Dobbins or
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards. Dobbins just three touches last week. Maybe gets
Speaker 1: helped out through the passing game as a receiver, but
Speaker 1: then he's a very He's a very accomplished receiver in college,
Speaker 1: but they don't use him that way so far. Maybe
Speaker 1: they have furl him here in the receiving game, but
Speaker 1: I can't count on that. So I got Dobbins on
Speaker 1: the bench, Gus Edwards not getting enough use, even though
Speaker 1: he looked really good last week, He's on the bench
Speaker 1: as well. I think this is gonna be a far
Speaker 1: lower scoring team game than Kansas City versus Baltimore Monday night.
Speaker 1: Sounds like, and I've got it's gonna be like that
Speaker 1: Chiefs Rams Mexico game where they scored a hundred points.
Speaker 1: Maybe it ends up working out that way. I want
Speaker 1: to touch on the Thursday night game. Miles Gaskin running
Speaker 1: the ball very, very well for Miami. Do you believe
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin has moved into a stratosphere where he becomes
Speaker 1: a starter most weeks. Yeah, he looks like the best
Speaker 1: running back on roster right now. I'm a little worried
Speaker 1: about Jordan Howard as bad as he looks, being a
Speaker 1: touchdown vulture. I gotta give vulture sound effect because he
Speaker 1: is the vulture. I gotta give credit to Evans Silva
Speaker 1: on this tweet. He extrapolated Howard's numbers moving forward. Howard
Speaker 1: is on pace for like eighties six carries for sixty
Speaker 1: four yards and sixteen touchdowns. But outside of that, yeah,
Speaker 1: Gaskins is gonna be the guy. He'll still get some
Speaker 1: red red zone work he did on Thursday night. Uh.
Speaker 1: The encouraging thing is he's averaging uh, seventeen and a
Speaker 1: half touch is per game. That amazing. That's very encouraging.
Speaker 1: Considering everybody kind of thought Matt Brita would be really
Speaker 1: involved in in at least the passing office. And Scott
Speaker 1: fish nailed this in the preseason when he said the
Speaker 1: vacated targets for the running back position for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: was just absolutely huge. And that's why four receptions, six receptions,
Speaker 1: five receptions for Gaskin. That keeps him in play. Now.
Speaker 1: He hasn't scored yet, and he's only averaging eighty one
Speaker 1: yards per game, but he's in play at all times.
Speaker 1: And I think he's going to become better when ta
Speaker 1: becomes the quarterback and adds a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a running element to the quarterback position. Miles Gaskin passes
Speaker 1: the eye test. He is an NFL running back and
Speaker 1: I like what I see there. Let's pivot for a
Speaker 1: minute to Tua going into the season. I think most
Speaker 1: people believe to his time was coming sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick's been good, and but you know that guy
Speaker 1: is he stone cold gamer, has nothing but fight. The
Speaker 1: team loves him too that you absolutely love playing for
Speaker 1: that and to it loves him too from the way
Speaker 1: it sounds. So I think at this point we are
Speaker 1: looking closer to like a Halloween or Thanksgiving. It might
Speaker 1: take an injury, and it might maybe it's even all season.
Speaker 1: It could be all season, It could be and we
Speaker 1: may not see two effects. Painful, But is it? It's
Speaker 1: painful for me? For you? Who was my premature speculation
Speaker 1: last week? It didn't really work out. No, I don't
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