Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
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Speaker 1: along with the guys from leagues dot com, here's your host,
Speaker 1: Paul Jarge.
Speaker 2: Welcome to a playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I
Speaker 2: am Paul Charchie and my co host today. Like last week, yes,
Speaker 2: it's it's back to back.
Speaker 3: The last two weeks, and next week and next week.
Speaker 2: It's a month, a month's worth of Scott Fish and
Speaker 2: thorn Eystrom. Hey, guys, are you dorm what's going on?
Speaker 2: I did not start Cooper Cupp in any of my leagues. Yeah, same,
Speaker 2: I've dodged the bullet on that one. And it would
Speaker 2: have been totally reasonable to start Cooper Cup definitely. You know,
Speaker 2: we didn't know it was going to rain as hard
Speaker 2: as it rained, that was not in the forecast, and
Speaker 2: the matchup was not anywhere near impossible for Cup. So yeah,
Speaker 2: let's a little later in the show, I'm going to
Speaker 2: hope to work in some conversation about what you can
Speaker 2: do if you started Cooper Cup and how you could
Speaker 2: possibly rebound from that. But we'll we'll get into that
Speaker 2: a little more detail later. We will still answer three
Speaker 2: tough questions. We'll go through our take a chance to
Speaker 2: me players. For those of you that still, for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: you need to hit the waiver wire. Maybe you've got
Speaker 2: a player who's not going to play, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker not going to play, and you need to
Speaker 2: go find a running back. We're going to try to
Speaker 2: help you with some players that are a little lesser
Speaker 2: known that you can still start. Let's get right into
Speaker 2: the matchups, because we've got a lot of them, Scott Fish.
Speaker 2: Beginning with Dallas taking on Carolina. Yeah, a game that
Speaker 2: I think like a month ago we'd have been like
Speaker 2: the first game left on the schedule. But now we've
Speaker 2: got some players not only.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's changed way different. It's Carolina is favorite in
Speaker 3: this well somehow after the Panther after good for the Panthers,
Speaker 3: Good for the Panthers. Dave Knealis might actually be I
Speaker 3: mean we assumed he was legit, but he might be
Speaker 3: really really good on the Dallas side. I actually only
Speaker 3: have two starting grades this week. I'm not starting Cooperage
Speaker 3: against the Panthers tenth top ten in past defense, fewest
Speaker 3: pass yards and sixth, but they have a lot of
Speaker 3: the six most scorers, but honestly, those are really good
Speaker 3: quarterbacks who've got a lot of those scorers. But Ceedee
Speaker 3: Lamb in a great matchup last week, Cook's got a
Speaker 3: score that was thorde I Strom's take a chance on
Speaker 3: me player. But otherwise in the last month, almost no
Speaker 3: other wide receivers or tight ends are topping forty yards.
Speaker 3: You need a random score, So it's just Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 3: sixteen plus fantasy points and three the last four. He
Speaker 3: does have two duds in the five games with rush,
Speaker 3: but he's averaging ten targets a game. I'm still going
Speaker 3: to give him the B in a little bit of
Speaker 3: a tougher spot against the Panthers d lowing the fourth
Speaker 3: fewest Fantasy points to the slot.
Speaker 2: I believe the average distance of completion for Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 2: is like five yards. Wow. Yeah, it's a lot of
Speaker 2: short stuff. Hard to get explosive results out of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jake Ferguson people might be wondering about I do
Speaker 3: have him on the bench. I understand the dart throw
Speaker 3: as Carolina has allowed eight scores in the last seven
Speaker 3: weeks to tight ends, including Calcutta, Kalka, Ta but with
Speaker 3: Rush he's been really really bad in in three full
Speaker 3: games with Rush. He was good with Prescott, but not
Speaker 3: with Rush, so I have him on the bench. Rico
Speaker 3: Doddle has an a grade here. He's basically become a
Speaker 3: true bellcow. Over the last few weeks, Carolina allowing the
Speaker 3: most touches, yards and scores to running backs. Four of
Speaker 3: the last five lead backs went for one hundred plus.
Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt was the one that didn't. He went for
Speaker 3: eighty seven, but his metrics are terrible, so that's why
Speaker 3: he didn't get there. And there are five scores from
Speaker 3: those five lead backs. Dowdell himself has one hundred plus
Speaker 3: in back to back. Over to the Carolina side, I
Speaker 3: only have three starting grades and it's Bryce Young, Adam Thielen,
Speaker 3: and Chewba Hubbard Chewba Hubbard without Jonathan Brooks for this one, Brooks.
Speaker 2: And without Miles Sanders and without Rashim black Year or whatever,
Speaker 2: Raheem Blackjek who suffered a blunt force trauma to his chest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we saw Cuba with thirty carries last week after
Speaker 3: Brooks went out, he went for one hundred and a score.
Speaker 3: In fact, he's had five scores in the last five games.
Speaker 3: Panthers are holding it with opponents they're favored in this one.
Speaker 3: He should be active, pretty active in this one. Tuba
Speaker 3: had seventeen plus touches in eight straight before Brooks started
Speaker 3: to nerf that utilization. Seven running backs have hit seventeen
Speaker 3: touches against the Cowboys. They averaged one hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: five yards, and those seven running backs scored twelve times.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot to be had for Hubbard here,
Speaker 3: Bryce Young. This is the fourth easiest matchup for quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: tenth most passing yards allowed, five in the last six.
Speaker 3: Five times in the last six weeks they've had the
Speaker 3: quarterback run for fifty plus and or a score, which
Speaker 3: Bryce Young can get that. He had a score just
Speaker 3: last week, so there's possible extra extra work there. Young
Speaker 3: himself off has at least one score in six straight
Speaker 3: a couple multiple score games. I gave him a bench
Speaker 3: grade last week, rightly so, but this is just such
Speaker 3: a really good matchup C grade here and Adam Thielen
Speaker 3: his would bee gets a B grade. Dominated targets last
Speaker 3: two weeks with twenty one targets, sixteen catches, two hundred
Speaker 3: and one yards. He's at a snapshare or target shaars
Speaker 3: of thirty three percent and twenty four percent. Dallas allowing
Speaker 3: the ninth most fantasy points to wide receivers. They really
Speaker 3: allow it more to the perimeter, but thelan just gets
Speaker 3: so many targets. He's getting the B grade here.
Speaker 2: He's just been feeling has been fantastic in his return
Speaker 2: from injury so far. Kind of makes me, you know,
Speaker 2: it's really too bad about the six week long hamstring
Speaker 2: injury that Peelan Hacks. I would have liked to.
Speaker 3: But I mean, we saw him last year at the
Speaker 3: start of the season. Maybe he just can't go a
Speaker 3: full season. Like, it's good for our fantasy playoffs that
Speaker 3: he's got it.
Speaker 2: It is good for the fantasy playoffs. You know what
Speaker 2: else is good for the fantasy playoffs? Thor Nystrom starting
Speaker 2: any Bills against a Detroit defense. That's good. That is
Speaker 2: thirteen players on injured reserve. This should be a point
Speaker 2: binanza on both sides, right, it should be. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if I.
Speaker 4: Can go a full season sometimes, mister fish, but we'll
Speaker 4: try to get through.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: John Josh Allen certainly a must start in an A
Speaker 4: fifty one point eight Fantasy points last week.
Speaker 2: Wow, that was incredible, easy incredible.
Speaker 4: He's on my aforementioned Guillotine League team against my.
Speaker 2: Cowork Hey love that. Nice going to it, James Cook.
Speaker 2: I'll give him a C.
Speaker 4: He is RB twelve and Fantasy points per game, but
Speaker 4: has finished with less than fifty rushing yards three of
Speaker 4: his last five and this is not a good matchup
Speaker 4: for a turnaround. The Lions since Week nine have allowed
Speaker 4: the third fewest rushing yards per game. I keep Ray
Speaker 4: Davis on the bench. Last week he did have a touchdown,
Speaker 4: but I don't think this is the matchup to get
Speaker 4: him involved. Maury Cooper give him a bee. Last week
Speaker 4: he had six receptions for ninety five yards. That was
Speaker 4: good for wide receiver twenty four in fantasy. Detroit hasn't
Speaker 4: been the best matchup for perimeter wide receivers recently. Since
Speaker 4: Week nine, they've allowed the fifth fewest PPR points per
Speaker 4: target to boundary receivers.
Speaker 2: But Terry on Arnold is the most penalized cornerback in.
Speaker 4: The league, so I'm wondering if the Bills will get
Speaker 4: aggressive targeting him downfield and that could that could open
Speaker 4: up more downfield targets. So for whatever it's worth, Just
Speaker 4: like I give Cooper a be gonna give Khalil Shakira bee.
Speaker 4: Since Week seven, Shakira has been wide receiver twenty four
Speaker 4: and fantasy points per game. He has six red zone
Speaker 4: targets across his last seven games, and this.
Speaker 2: Is a good match. That's a big change for him. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're ready to get those. Give give Shakir some fantasy
Speaker 2: upside that he has not had previously.
Speaker 4: On thousand percent this season, Detroit has allowed the second
Speaker 4: most receiving yards per game to opposing slot receivers, so
Speaker 4: it could be a good spot for Shakir. Keon Coleman
Speaker 4: is going to return this week from a wrist injury.
Speaker 4: I'd advise to keep him on the bench for now.
Speaker 4: Cooe ingratiates back in Dalton Kin kaid I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: him a CEE. He has also injured missed the last
Speaker 4: three games with the knee injury. He would step back
Speaker 4: into his normal pass catching role in this offense if
Speaker 4: he is healthy, but that's currently unclear.
Speaker 2: And the Lions have one of.
Speaker 4: The NFL's toughest defenses against opposing tight ends, allowing just
Speaker 4: five point eight fantasy points per contest of that position.
Speaker 4: Moving over to the Lions, I gave Jared Goffin a
Speaker 4: QB twelve fantasy points per game, and another big game
Speaker 4: should be coming for him here against this floundering Bills
Speaker 4: pass defense. Since Week nine, the Bills have allowed the
Speaker 4: highest success rate per dropback in the entire NFL peast.
Speaker 2: I would not have guessed. Yeah, holy cow, all.
Speaker 4: Right, David Montgomery is day near at mustard A at
Speaker 4: this point. Right, Yeah, He's got at least three passes
Speaker 4: and four straight appearances, so I thought that that was notable,
Speaker 4: and only eight running backs have more PPR points than
Speaker 4: David Montgomery this year.
Speaker 2: Jremier Gibbs is of course a.
Speaker 4: Must start as well the a Amana Saint Brown as
Speaker 4: well with A Jamison Williams.
Speaker 2: I gave him a C. I was going back and
Speaker 2: forth between B and C.
Speaker 4: He's wide receiver thirty seven fantasy points per game this year,
Speaker 4: four top twenty four wide receiver weeks this season so far.
Speaker 4: The matchup here for him Since Week nine, Buffalo has
Speaker 4: allowed the six most PPR points per target to permit
Speaker 4: our wide receivers, and they also have a really banged
Speaker 4: up secondary right now, Buffalo does starting outside cornerback Rasuell
Speaker 4: Douglas with a knee injury has already been ruled out.
Speaker 4: Kyer Elam, who they took a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: as a first round pick. Healthy scratch three straight games
Speaker 4: under this we'll see it. We'll see if he gets
Speaker 4: in for this one. And then they're starting safeties Taylor
Speaker 4: rap and Tamorrow Hamlin are both questionable in this game,
Speaker 4: so this could be an opportunity. I'll go bea ima.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna toggle him up.
Speaker 4: And then I also gave a B to Sam laportat
Speaker 4: tight end. Fourteen fantasy points per game. He has finished
Speaker 4: as a tight end one six times in the last
Speaker 4: nine games. Might not seem like that because of the
Speaker 4: disappointing season, but he is playing a bit better. But
Speaker 4: Buffalo is a bad matchup for opposing tight ends. They
Speaker 4: allow the lowest yards per reception to opposing tight ends
Speaker 4: and the fourth fewest fantasy points per game to tight end,
Speaker 4: So give him Sam Laport a B.
Speaker 2: Baltimore takes on the Giants and this one won't take
Speaker 2: very long, so it's This is pretty obvious what you're
Speaker 2: doing in most of these cases, especially in the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry are obvious A grades against
Speaker 2: the Giants. We do not need to spend time on them.
Speaker 2: Let's talk Za Flowers. The sophomor has become a consistent
Speaker 2: fantasy factor with touchdowns or at least sixty two yards
Speaker 2: in seven of the last nine games. And funny thing
Speaker 2: is the Giants have been a shockingly competent secondary for
Speaker 2: a lot of the year. No receivers hit one hundred
Speaker 2: yards against the Giants all year.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: In the past month, only one receiver scored against the Giants.
Speaker 2: They held Ceedee Lamb to thirty nine yards two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Now Flowers runs from the whole field. He's a XYZ
Speaker 2: guy left right slot. And actually, the Giants cornerbacks are
Speaker 2: shockingly competent at all three spots. Their starting cornerbacks hold
Speaker 2: PFF coverage grades as cornerback fifty two, twenty three and
Speaker 2: cornerback seven. Not half bad Giants, so B grade on
Speaker 2: Zay Flowers Mark Andrews. Though this is also thorny because
Speaker 2: fannac football is a cruel, cruel sport. I would like
Speaker 2: to just remind people that Mark Andrews in the first
Speaker 2: five weeks was an automatic l to your team, as
Speaker 2: he was tight end thirty four in the first five
Speaker 2: weeks with fewer fantasy points than A. J. Barner and
Speaker 2: Eric All. Everybody dropped Andrews and understandably so at that point.
Speaker 2: Since then week six forward, Mark Andrews is tight end
Speaker 2: three with touchdowns in six different games. This is a
Speaker 2: shockingly tough matchup with the Giants team that stops tight ends.
Speaker 2: The Giants rank number two in tight end fantasy points allowed,
Speaker 2: they ranked number four in yards allowed, and they've given
Speaker 2: up just two touchdowns at the position all year. Now
Speaker 2: that's it. Their worst game was last week with the
Speaker 2: Saints tight ends totally one hundred yards and scoring. So,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe a little bit of optimism and a
Speaker 2: C grade on Mark andrews 'scover to the Giants side.
Speaker 2: Tyron tracing great game last week, coming off a career
Speaker 2: high snapcount and season high routes run plus Devin Singletary
Speaker 2: only two carries last week, so they seem to be
Speaker 2: really crystallizing on tyrone tracy. But this is a brutal
Speaker 2: matchup against a terrific Ravens run defense. They're only giving
Speaker 2: up one. They only gave up one hundred and seven
Speaker 2: yards to Saquon Barkley last week. That is a major win.
Speaker 2: And before that, no back had topped fifty two yards
Speaker 2: all season. The Ravens ranked number one in yards per
Speaker 2: carry number one and tackle rate number one in yards
Speaker 2: after contact allowed. Tyrone Tracy just a volume see in
Speaker 2: this matchup. And the only other Giant you care about
Speaker 2: is Milik Neighbors. He hasn't scored since Week three. Scott
Speaker 2: and Thor, would you care to guess how many players
Speaker 2: have scored a touchdown since Molik Neighbors last score d
Speaker 2: touchdown WOW? Eighty four, eighty four and fourteen.
Speaker 3: I was gonna guess well over one hundred two. I
Speaker 3: just I wanted to go low. I figured you'd go high,
Speaker 3: so I wanted to go low.
Speaker 2: That's right, Well, you playing prices right, rule I was Scott.
Speaker 2: One hundred and ninety players have scored touchdowns since Malik
Speaker 2: Neighbors last touchdown.
Speaker 3: WOW does include passing touchdowns that it does not include
Speaker 3: passing touchdowns, but it does include quarterback rushing touchdowns, okay,
Speaker 3: and defensive touchdown.
Speaker 2: So there's some defensive players. Oh, okay too, your starter
Speaker 2: is Tommy DeVito. He and Drew Locke just can't complete
Speaker 2: downfield passes. And by downfield, I don't mean way downfield.
Speaker 2: I mean ten yards. That is from me to Scott
Speaker 2: Fish right now. Ten yards. That's it.
Speaker 3: We are a little too close.
Speaker 2: We are a little too close on passes of ten
Speaker 2: yards or more. Lock and de Vito are completing thirty
Speaker 2: five percent of their passes. It's so sad. By way
Speaker 2: of comparison, Sam Darnold is completing fifty six percent of
Speaker 2: his passes of over twenty yards. It's awful. And that
Speaker 2: is why Malik Neighbors only comes in with a C
Speaker 2: grade here. And really you're just talking about PPR only
Speaker 2: where you're going to get a lot of volume and
Speaker 2: not necessarily a lot of scoring opportunities. The rest of
Speaker 2: the Giants passing game is on the bench. In the
Speaker 2: fantasy playoffs, we wouldn't even necessarily think about starting any
Speaker 2: of those other guys when we come back, take a
Speaker 2: chance on me. We'll give you nine players. You would
Speaker 2: not normally start many of these players on the waiver wire,
Speaker 2: even in the fantasy playoffs. These guys can be very
Speaker 2: helpful for your team. Find out who they are when
Speaker 2: we come back.
Speaker 5: The chance on me nine players you would not normally start.
Speaker 2: Many of these guys available on the waiver wire would
Speaker 2: begin at the quarterback position, Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: You know what are the last people I would ever
Speaker 3: tell anyone to take a chance on is Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
Speaker 3: but maybe this week. No, just in general, listen, match
Speaker 3: This is the match up the Jags allowing the second
Speaker 3: most passing yard sixth most passing touchdowns, and we know
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers loves his multiple passing touchdown games. They also
Speaker 3: allow the most twenty plus yard completions and the most
Speaker 3: forty plus yard completions. Rodgers himself kind of a multi
Speaker 3: score game guy this year failed last week, but at
Speaker 3: least he tai tally three hundred and that one.
Speaker 2: Alaron Rodgers, Yeah, okay, sorry, I'm kind of with you
Speaker 2: on this. Yeah, you're super flex. I'm interested thor you're
Speaker 2: taking chance on me? Quarterback is Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud
Speaker 2: against the Dolphins. Stroud only has three QBI one finishes
Speaker 2: in Fantasy all year, and he has finished outside the
Speaker 2: top twenty four quarterbacks in two of three weeks with
Speaker 2: Nico Collins back, That's what we were sort of hanging
Speaker 2: our hat on. I know this is a good opportunity
Speaker 2: to get right though, if you have some gambling yet.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins since Week nine have allowed the fourth most
Speaker 2: passing yards in the NFL. They also importantly have a
Speaker 2: mediocre pass rush, which is very important with the idea
Speaker 2: of not caving in that bad Texans offensive line given
Speaker 2: Stroud some time to throw. It is three straight weeks
Speaker 2: of me choosing Will Levis and that might be the
Speaker 2: pinnacle masiness for me, and you know what, it's week fifteen.
Speaker 2: Deal with it. Or maybe Will Levis just isn't half
Speaker 2: bad and remains applausible dart throw especially in DFS super
Speaker 2: Flex two quarterback leagues. Now, okay, granted, Levis delivered a
Speaker 2: bummer for us last week when I thought he was
Speaker 2: going to be better, But he had posted multiple touchdowns
Speaker 2: in three of the previous four games, and this matchups
Speaker 2: against the easiest defense in the league, Cincinnati, the team
Speaker 2: allowing thirty four points per game over the last six weeks.
Speaker 2: Over the last four Bengals games, here's the passing touchdowns
Speaker 2: they've allowed two, three, two and four. Also, by the way,
Speaker 2: given up the most quarterback rushing yards in the Leaguebill
Speaker 2: Levis is not Lamar Jackson, but you know he can
Speaker 2: get a little something done with the legs. We'll try
Speaker 2: Will Levis, this might take a chance at me quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the running back position. Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna start to get grimeier and grimeer here,
Speaker 3: all right. I am going Jalil McLoughlin, Denver running back.
Speaker 3: Remember two weeks ago when McLoughlin was averaging six yards
Speaker 3: per carrying that Browns Monday night football shootout, Sean Payton
Speaker 3: said it was due to them feeling they could attack
Speaker 3: the Browns with sweeps and toss plays. Well, the Colts
Speaker 3: are second worst in the league in defending such stretch plays. Wow,
Speaker 3: So it might be it might be a spot where
Speaker 3: Peyton is picking his running backs each week to attack
Speaker 3: certain teams. This feels like the spot for McLoughlin, and
Speaker 3: the Colts in general are allowing the second most rushing
Speaker 3: yards and the third most combo yards. I think it's
Speaker 3: a really good spot here.
Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. McLaughlin was he got
Speaker 2: most of the work he did. He did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could have gone into his snaps and everything
Speaker 3: next to Williams, but nah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Thor you take a chance with me.
Speaker 4: Running back is Steelers running back Jalen Warren against the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Since we gave this, is that a tough assignment? I
Speaker 2: want to hear about this.
Speaker 4: Since we gat Warren has had two top twenty four
Speaker 4: running back finishes RB twenty two, RB eleven, averaging twelve
Speaker 4: touches seventy seventy yards in total yards and change during
Speaker 4: that time. And I actually think this is a decent
Speaker 4: matchup for him. Since week nine, the Eagles are allowing
Speaker 4: the ninth highest yards after contact per attempt and with
Speaker 4: George Pickens out, you're going against a run funnel defense.
Speaker 4: Eagles pass defense been really good. I think the running
Speaker 4: game gets established. I think Warren gets some work, maybe
Speaker 4: gets he has some fantasy points.
Speaker 2: All right, that's bold. I'm gonna try Taj Spears. You know,
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard's got a pretty serious ankle injury. He is questionable.
Speaker 2: Looks like a game time decision for Pollard. So I
Speaker 2: think Spears is going to get a big uptick. And
Speaker 2: really it's He's only seen one double digit carry game
Speaker 2: all year, and he scored in that game. This week's opponent, again,
Speaker 2: as I just mentioned in the Will Loves part, Cincinnati
Speaker 2: very yielding on the ground as well. They've given up
Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns in ten of thirteen games, and in those
Speaker 2: I mentioned ten of thirteen. In the other three games,
Speaker 2: opposing rusher's top one hundred yards. So I mean Cincinnati's
Speaker 2: given up a one hundred yard game or a touchdown
Speaker 2: in every game this year. Last week, Reco dowbtle one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty one yards and seven yards per carry
Speaker 2: against the Bengals. Taj Spears. All right, let's go to
Speaker 2: our receivers, Scott.
Speaker 3: I am going to the tight end position for Stone Smart.
Speaker 3: Tight end for the Los Angeles Chargers. Will Disley is out,
Speaker 3: Haydenhurst is out. Stone Smart steps in last week when
Speaker 3: Disley came out, Stone Smart had three for fifty four
Speaker 3: yards in the third and fourth quarter. He's a six
Speaker 3: four two and twenty six pound guy came out of
Speaker 3: college with a ninety eighth percentile burst score. Since Week seven,
Speaker 3: you really don't get worse than the Bucks against tight ends.
Speaker 3: Andrews went forty one to two forty one yards two scores,
Speaker 3: Pits ninety one and two score, Kelsey one hundred and
Speaker 3: Gray scored in that game, Kittle fifty seven in a score,
Speaker 3: Tommy Trembles seventy seven yards, Michael Mayer seven for sixty eight,
Speaker 3: and Brock Bauers three for forty nine. In that same game,
Speaker 3: they're getting tagged and Herbert throws to his tight end
Speaker 3: twenty two percent of the time.
Speaker 2: You could have just stopped at Kyle Pitts scored twice
Speaker 2: and that's really scores. That's right, that's the lead story.
Speaker 2: By the way. Pot Kyle Pitts a good, great matchup
Speaker 2: this week too. Yeah, we'll find out talk about that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, you've got that one. We'll get
Speaker 2: We'll find out what you're great is for Kyle Pitts
Speaker 2: a little later thor you take a chance with me.
Speaker 2: Receiver is Tank Dell against the Dolphins? All right?
Speaker 4: Since Nico Collins's return, Dell hasn't surpassed seventy two receiving
Speaker 4: yards or ten Fantasy points in any game. Zero red
Speaker 4: zone target. I'm gonna I'm gonna start with the bad stuff. Okay,
Speaker 4: it hasn't finished higher than wide receiver thirty three and
Speaker 4: weekly fantasy scoring. But that Dolphins pass defense has been
Speaker 4: struggling over the past month and the lack of pass rush.
Speaker 4: The aforementioned lack of pass rush means that the Texans
Speaker 4: offensive line is not gonna.
Speaker 2: Get exploited again. I think, and given CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud time to throw end that route running merchant, Tank
Speaker 4: Dell time to get open, I think this is a
Speaker 4: big opportunity to get right for Tank Dell.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the other side of that same matchup.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let pass transgressions go. Breathe in, breathe out. Yep.
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle yep. Against Houston. He's been a wide receiver
Speaker 2: too in four of the last five games, Tua throwing
Speaker 2: his arm out of socket lately. Here's his last three
Speaker 2: games forty passes, forty six passes and then last week
Speaker 2: forty seven passes. That's enabled Tua to target Wattle more often,
Speaker 2: including a season high twelve targets last week, and Waddle's
Speaker 2: running more routes than ever before. Last three weeks, Waddle
Speaker 2: posted season highs and routes run in all three games.
Speaker 2: And here comes a deeply slumping Houston secondary. Over the
Speaker 2: past five weeks, Houston has allowed the sixth most Fantasy
Speaker 2: points per game to wide receivers. And when we saw
Speaker 2: Houston last two weeks ago before the bye, Parker Washington
Speaker 2: was crushing them for one hundred and three yards. Houston
Speaker 2: just lost their starting safety Jalen Petrieve to a season
Speaker 2: ending injury, and Petree was playing the slot and Wattle
Speaker 2: runs about a third of his plays from there. Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 2: We're gonna let by guns be bygunes. Jalen Waddle just
Speaker 2: come up big in the fantasy playoffs. If you don't mind, Scott,
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Jets taking on the Jaguars. You
Speaker 2: tell us that you like Aaron Rodgers in this team,
Speaker 2: and I concur with that.
Speaker 3: It's a great matchup for the passing game. So I
Speaker 3: have dueling bees coming from Devonte Adams and Garrett Wilson
Speaker 3: in this. Once again DeVante Adams getting the higher b
Speaker 3: of that level because he's outscored Garrett Wilson for five
Speaker 3: straight weeks. Wow, it's every single week week he outscores him.
Speaker 3: In Fantasy. I mentioned just a minute ago. No team
Speaker 3: gives up more explicit plays than the Jags. Fifty eight plays,
Speaker 3: fifty eight passes of twenty plus yards, ten passes of
Speaker 3: forty plus yards allowed on by the Jags. Jags allowing
Speaker 3: the fourth most yards to wide receivers. So high B
Speaker 3: for Devonte Adams, lower B for Garrett Wilson, who had
Speaker 3: one hundred last week, but the three to four that
Speaker 3: were kind of duds. I understand that. But he's still
Speaker 3: averaging like nine targets a game, and it is funneled
Speaker 3: through two people. Two wide receivers. Is where everything goes,
Speaker 3: and the matchup just dictates that he should still be
Speaker 3: really really good here in the running game. Brice Hall,
Speaker 3: as of Friday, fully practiced. Yeah, he said he feels good,
Speaker 3: said he's gonna go. It keeps me from having to
Speaker 3: discuss Braylan Allen versus Isaiah Davis for too long. So
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go to a B grade on Breece Hall,
Speaker 3: assuming he is fully ready to go in healthy. Because
Speaker 3: the Jags allow the third most touches per game at thirty,
Speaker 3: the fourth most yards, and the fifth most scores, the
Speaker 3: game scripts should be a little bit in the gym.
Speaker 3: Jets favor to run run more too, so yeah, I
Speaker 3: got a B grade on Brice Hall over to the
Speaker 3: Jaguar side. I only have one starting grade. Do you
Speaker 3: want to guess who it is? I bet you know.
Speaker 2: Uh no, no.
Speaker 3: It's I've set you up. I set you up. It's
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior. It's always Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: Well, but you know who else?
Speaker 3: I love Tank Beasbie, thank you. Yeah, you're not starting
Speaker 3: Mac Jones against the top A pass d. You're not
Speaker 3: starting Brenton Strange with Ingram out for the season with
Speaker 3: the torn labra. And by the way, I've been going
Speaker 3: Ingram as also someone with like a pure amazing physical
Speaker 3: form and has has ed tour type. I can give
Speaker 3: you tips if you need to know anything about that.
Speaker 3: But Brian Thomas zero catches in the first half last
Speaker 3: week eight. In the second half, the Jets do give
Speaker 3: up the sixth fewest Fantasy Fantasy points to the perimeter.
Speaker 3: He's going to get the slightly easier side, assuming sast
Speaker 3: Gardner is good to go. Uh But over the last
Speaker 3: three games, New York has allowed forty five receptions for
Speaker 3: six hundred and eight receiving yards and two scores too.
Speaker 3: It's not like the two opposing wide receivers. They have
Speaker 3: been really good all year. In the last couple of
Speaker 3: week they've let it come back. Brian Thomas has seventy
Speaker 3: five plus yards in seven games this season, including the
Speaker 3: including each of the last three with Mac Jones, seven
Speaker 3: plus targets in all the mac Jones games he finds
Speaker 3: him in the running game, Jets are just the top
Speaker 3: ten d the rundy that allows the six lowest yards
Speaker 3: per carry. They've allowed a rushing score in the three
Speaker 3: of the last four, but the yardage is laughable. James
Speaker 3: Connor thirty three yards, Jonathan Taylor fifty seven yards, Kenneth
Speaker 3: Walker forty nine, Devin h Chan twenty four. And if
Speaker 3: you're talking about any kind of a split where ETN
Speaker 3: is getting the receiving work and some of the goal
Speaker 3: line work, I just can't find a starting grade there.
Speaker 2: I can't either. Yeah, and I you know I'll find
Speaker 2: an excuse to start Tank Bigsby not in my fantasy
Speaker 2: playoff game. Yep, we're not going to try for that. Thor,
Speaker 2: Let's see if we can sneak in one more matchup,
Speaker 2: because you've already talked a lot about the Dolphins and
Speaker 2: the Texans between us. I think we had three Take
Speaker 2: a chance on me. Guys, let's start on the Dolphins
Speaker 2: side of this one. You want to go Devon h Chan,
Speaker 2: Where do you want to go there?
Speaker 4: I'm going to start with Tua because you mentioned how
Speaker 4: much you've been throwing recently last four games. These are
Speaker 4: his finishes in Fantasy QB ten, QB three, QB eight,
Speaker 4: QB eight, nice and this is a solid matchup to
Speaker 4: keep the good times rolling. The Texans have allowed fifty
Speaker 4: seven passing yards above expected in the last four games.
Speaker 2: Think another strong game is coming for two. Gave him
Speaker 2: an A.
Speaker 4: Devin Aught Chane is an obvious must start A, although
Speaker 4: I do have to say he's averaging only two point
Speaker 4: two yards carry rushing on thirty one carries last three weeks,
Speaker 4: but seventeen catches over that span for three scores, so
Speaker 4: he remains Fantasy king. Tyreek Kill is an a wide
Speaker 4: receiver seventeen in Fantasy since to his return tds in
Speaker 4: four or five games, nineteen point three fantasy points per
Speaker 4: game over his last four and the Texans have allowed
Speaker 4: thirty nine Fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers
Speaker 4: in the last four games. Jalen Wado was charged to
Speaker 4: take a chance on me. He reminds you, guys, how
Speaker 4: bad the Texans passed he has been recently.
Speaker 2: And John new Smith, your boy is finally getting an a.
Speaker 2: John's getting a here.
Speaker 4: Nine red zone targets in the last seven games, tight
Speaker 4: end six and fantasy points per game. And this is
Speaker 4: a decent matchup against the Texans defense that has been
Speaker 4: mediocre against tight ends.
Speaker 3: I think we are learning something that when Church loves
Speaker 3: a guy and we're not talking I really like this,
Speaker 3: we're talking pants fly Off loves a guy.
Speaker 2: Wait two years, two years, that's right, boom. Eventually I
Speaker 2: will be proven right.
Speaker 3: But he just charges.
Speaker 2: He's perfected the boomerang, boomerang. Take yes, coming back around right,
Speaker 2: Tank bigsby next year, Oh look out baby.
Speaker 4: Moving over to the texanside, c J. Strout was might
Speaker 4: take a chance on me.
Speaker 2: Guy.
Speaker 4: Joe Mixon is an obvious must start a as is
Speaker 4: Nico Collins, who is averaging more than one hundred receiving
Speaker 4: yards per game. Tank Dell was my take a chance
Speaker 4: on your receiver, and Dalton Schultz I'm giving him a ce.
Speaker 4: Schultz's two best fantasy finishes of the year have come
Speaker 4: in the last four games. Tight end eleven, tight end seven.
Speaker 4: This isn't a bad spot for one of those tight
Speaker 4: end one weeks, potentially the Dolphins. But the Dolphins are
Speaker 4: solid against opposing tight ends. They allowed the eleventh fewest
Speaker 4: yards per reception into posing Titians.
Speaker 2: I settled on a see for Dalton Schultz. I think
Speaker 2: that probably sounds about right. And hopefully in the fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 2: you don't have to rely on Dalton Schultz. Hopefully, hopefully not,
Speaker 2: especially when you've got Jon Smith out there. If you
Speaker 2: just go with him, your boy, he is my boy.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you it goes way way back. Chiefs
Speaker 2: in the Browns when we come back, this is a
Speaker 2: this is a this is a really tricky one for
Speaker 2: the Brown side. You're starting Jerry Judy in the fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 2: what about jimas Winston find out when we come back
Speaker 2: to Fantasy Football.
Speaker 5: Weekly, big block of matchups.
Speaker 2: For you, beginning with the Kansas City Chiefs at Cleveland Brown's.
Speaker 2: Let's talk this one through. Starting on the Kansas City side,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start with the receivers DeAndre Hopkins and Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 2: I like him both here more than most weeks. The
Speaker 2: Brown's past events has turned very leaky. How bad you ask?
Speaker 5: They let Van.
Speaker 2: Jefferson score on them last week, and before that they
Speaker 2: got pounded by Marvin Mims, and before that Calvin Austin
Speaker 2: and before that Mark Hezveld is scantling yew. So what
Speaker 2: I want the comparison. I want you to think about Mims,
Speaker 2: Calvin Austin and MVS. They are vertical speed guys, just
Speaker 2: like Xavier Worthy. Every I always do the Chiefs every week.
Speaker 2: I'm like, do you know, be careful and worthy. It's
Speaker 2: not a lot of catches, show caution, boom or bust.
Speaker 2: Game on B grade Xavier Worthy, I feel more confident
Speaker 2: about him here than any other time. As for Hopkins
Speaker 2: also getting the B grade because he's the most consistent
Speaker 2: target earner from Mahomes by a mile among the receivers,
Speaker 2: averaging seven targets per game since week number nine, So
Speaker 2: he is also a safe play against a yielding Brown secondary.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Travis Kelcey. He continues to post been
Speaker 2: not great totals, either because maybe just his age or
Speaker 2: the emergence of Noah Gray, who increasingly looks like Kelsey's
Speaker 2: heir apparent. Kelsey's only scored twice all year and the
Speaker 2: Browns have only allowed three tight ends scores all year,
Speaker 2: so I don't think a touchdowns coming for Kelsey. Here,
Speaker 2: Gray is siphoning off five targets per game, and he's
Speaker 2: seen three of the last four tight end end zone
Speaker 2: targets from Patrick Mahomes. So more of the same for Kelsey,
Speaker 2: which is volume but not touchdowns B grade. Then let's
Speaker 2: go to Patrick Mahomes. I've got up some worry about
Speaker 2: Mahomes being kept upright in this game. Now is left
Speaker 2: tackle DJ Humphries' his fresh off IR. Last week he
Speaker 2: allowed five pressures, and now he faces Miles Garrett, who
Speaker 2: already has eleven sacks and fifty eight pressures, only two
Speaker 2: behind the NFL leader Jonathan Grenard. So assuming Mahomes doesn't
Speaker 2: get destroyed by Miles Garrett, I like his chances against
Speaker 2: the defense that's allowed passing touchdowns to nine straight quarterbacks
Speaker 2: and multiple touchdowns to six of the last eight quarterbacks
Speaker 2: to face Cleveland. So A B great for Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: and a'll be great for Isaiah Pachecko. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: he got half of the work. Last week he got
Speaker 2: two thirds of the work. Kareem Hunt remains a nuisance
Speaker 2: despite being highly ineffective, and this is a weird matchup
Speaker 2: for Pacheco. The Browns rank number one in ESPN's run
Speaker 2: stuff win rate, and they rank number one by Pro
Speaker 2: Football focuses run defensive rankings. But the Browns are the
Speaker 2: rare break but don't bend defense. Despite no runner topping
Speaker 2: eighty four yards all year, Cleveland has given up seven
Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns in the past six games. Let's hope Pacheco
Speaker 2: can get in the end zone here, and I've got
Speaker 2: to be great on him under the assumption he's going
Speaker 2: to get most of the work and we're dropping Kareem
Speaker 2: Hunt outright, except if you want him as a handcuff
Speaker 2: to Pachecko. Now let's go to the Cleveland side. I
Speaker 2: want to start with Jerry Judy. Over the past month,
Speaker 2: four games, here's Jerry Judy's average game. Seven catches for
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty yards and almost a full touchdown
Speaker 2: per game.
Speaker 3: I do feel like the two point thirty in the
Speaker 3: Broncos game is doing a little yes, right, it's.
Speaker 2: Still really high, it is, and over the past month
Speaker 2: only only Jamar Chase is averaging more fantasy points than
Speaker 2: Jerry Judy. Nobody saw this coming. Kansas City's secondary was
Speaker 2: really good at the beginning of the season, but it
Speaker 2: has regressed lately. Over the past five games, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: giving up the seventh most fantasy points to receivers, and
Speaker 2: even the prospect of some shadow coverage from Trent McDuffie
Speaker 2: isn't a major concern any longer. Because McDuffie's allowed three
Speaker 2: touchdowns in the past six games. He doesn't feel like
Speaker 2: the shutdown guy that he was, so Jerry Judy A.
Speaker 2: I didn't think I'd ever say it. Unbelievable. Let's go
Speaker 2: to David at Joku. So now Djoku is may very
Speaker 2: well not play in this game. He's shaping up as
Speaker 2: a game time decision. You're gonna have to pay close
Speaker 2: attention to this. If he were fully healthy, I would
Speaker 2: give him an A grade. In the last two games,
Speaker 2: and Joku's been targeted thirty times two games, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: ranked dead last in tight end yards and receptions allowed.
Speaker 2: They're the first team to give up one thousand yards
Speaker 2: to opposing tight ends this year. Something called stone smart
Speaker 2: you take a chance something called posted fifty four yards
Speaker 2: against them last week and the week before that brock
Speaker 2: Bauers hammered the Chiefs for ten catches one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty yards. So in Joko comes in with a B grade,
Speaker 2: assuming he can play in this one.
Speaker 3: Watch it he missed practice Fridays.
Speaker 2: That's right, this is It's gonna be cautious. They've not
Speaker 2: ruled him out total Dart the rafter that, but Jordan
Speaker 2: Akins would be the replacement for David and Joku. Staying
Speaker 2: with the passing game, Elijah Wore comes in with a
Speaker 2: C grade. Jameis Winston's the best thing that has ever
Speaker 2: happened to Elijah war as his role in the offense
Speaker 2: has exploded. He's averaging eight targets per game under Jamis Winston,
Speaker 2: which was double Elijah Moore's usage under de Shaun Watson.
Speaker 2: The other huge difference Yolo Winston is using more down field.
Speaker 2: Moore's gone from five yards per target under Watson to
Speaker 2: twelve yards per target under Winston. Moore's air yards have
Speaker 2: gone from twenty three yards per game to ninety five
Speaker 2: yards per game under Winston. And with Cedric Tillman out
Speaker 2: of this game, Elijah Moore legitimate play. I'm moving him
Speaker 2: to a B grad B grade on Elijah Moore with
Speaker 2: Tilman out, and that leaves us in the passing game
Speaker 2: with Jameis Winston. So normally he's like all or nothing guy, right,
Speaker 2: like he's an A grade or a C grade, and
Speaker 2: I'm kind of pushing him into the middle, which is
Speaker 2: kind of a cop out with a B grade. The catches.
Speaker 2: Kansas City's almost always giving up some fantasy points to quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: but not like all or nothing. Every opposing quarterback has
Speaker 2: scored a touchdown. None have scored more than two in
Speaker 2: a game. So I've got a's and I've got an
Speaker 2: A and two b's on his receivers. I'm putting a
Speaker 2: B grade on Jameis Winston in this one. And then lastly,
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb and Jerome Ford are on the bench. It's
Speaker 2: a sixty forty times share. And by the way, Jerome
Speaker 2: Ford is a sixty on the sixty to forty time share.
Speaker 3: With Nick Chubbub did not come back looking like the
Speaker 3: old Nick.
Speaker 2: Joe, not at all. Unfortunately, the Chiefs are a great
Speaker 2: run defense. They rank second best in yards per carry,
Speaker 2: second best in yards after contact, fifth best and miss
Speaker 2: tackle rate and no back his top sixty four yards
Speaker 2: against Kansas City all year. So Chubb and Ford are
Speaker 2: on the bench. Let's go to our next matchup, Colts
Speaker 2: taking on the Denver Broncos. Scott uh from the Colt side,
Speaker 2: can we start with Jonathan Taylor? Shirt has been a
Speaker 2: major bummer this year?
Speaker 3: He has, he has, and he did disappear against in
Speaker 3: the Detroit blow out a couple weeks ago, but in
Speaker 3: the three or three games surrounding it, he's been a
Speaker 3: twenty five plus touch guy. And every single twenty plus
Speaker 3: touch back has gone over one hundred yards on the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's hope the touches are there.
Speaker 3: And those five backs all scored, okay, And he is
Speaker 3: a workhourse.
Speaker 2: So if he's getting work, Taylor's getting work, he just
Speaker 2: isn't giving you the production out of that much work.
Speaker 3: And those are the majority of the workhorse backs Denver's face.
Speaker 3: They faced a ton of split backfields. If you look
Speaker 3: at the splits, the Browns runners combined for twenty one
Speaker 3: for one oh five and a score. The Raiders runners
Speaker 3: you know as a group, combined for eighteen for ninety
Speaker 3: eight in a score, but Jonathan Taylor gets it all.
Speaker 3: So I'm still giving a B grade here to Jonathan
Speaker 3: Taylor in that belcow role. I'm giving a C grade
Speaker 3: to Anthony Richardson, who's averaging since his returning. He's averaging
Speaker 3: ten point fantasy point, ten point seven fantasy points per game.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, ten points seven fantasy points per game.
Speaker 2: Just on the ground, on the ground, just on the ground.
Speaker 2: I saw that coming, he saw it coming. Sneak that in.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, has at least nine carries in each of
Speaker 3: the three games twenty nine title, and he's scored three
Speaker 3: times in those games. Denver's been a top ten pass
Speaker 3: d all year, and Richardson's numbers have been tailing off
Speaker 3: since that first really good game he came by. But
Speaker 3: Jamis Winston had a three hundred plus multi scorer game.
Speaker 3: The Vegas duo of passers had nearly three hundred yards
Speaker 3: last week. Is in the last game as well, Danbye.
Speaker 3: So I'm inclined to give Richardson a here. If you
Speaker 3: get to double digits on the rushing and you get
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty maybe a score passing, I'm inclined
Speaker 3: for the sea. I don't love it though I don't
Speaker 3: love it. Lower end QB two probably yep.
Speaker 2: What if you need a dart throw? What if you
Speaker 2: started Cooper cup is Anthony Richardson. Yeah, yeah, like dart throw,
Speaker 2: absolutely get two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's absolutely the kind of way to put it.
Speaker 3: Michael Pittman, I do have on the bench. I haven't,
Speaker 3: in fact, all the receivers on the bench because there's
Speaker 3: just not a lot of passing yards to go around.
Speaker 3: Michael Pittman's going to see Pat Sartan, who held you know,
Speaker 3: metcalf to twenty nine yards, Pickings to twenty nine, Evans
Speaker 3: to seventeen. He's holding down just he held Judy to
Speaker 3: three for twenty eight in that one quarter, in those
Speaker 3: five minutes, he holds down pretty much everyone. Denver does
Speaker 3: allow second most yards of the perimeter, but twelfth fewest
Speaker 3: to the slot where Josh downs if he does go plays.
Speaker 3: I can't trust Downs in a tough matchup there. I
Speaker 3: can't trust Pierce on the perimeter where he should do
Speaker 3: well avoiding the slot and avoiding Cirtan, but he only
Speaker 3: gets like two catches. So I can't trust any of
Speaker 3: those receivers. So I'm gonna go over to the Denver
Speaker 3: side where I got bon Nicks with a B grade.
Speaker 3: In the last month, Bonnicks has not topped five rushing yards.
Speaker 2: Yes, go figure in a game. Why did they take
Speaker 2: the wheels off?
Speaker 3: He hasn't scored either, Why take the yeah? Exactly? Why
Speaker 3: till yeah? I will say his passing yardage has jumped
Speaker 3: up to two hundred and sixty six per game and
Speaker 3: over like two point one passing scores per game, So
Speaker 3: you're starting to make it up. But we kind of
Speaker 3: like the rushing in the fantasy route, but it is
Speaker 3: jumped up. The Colts allowed the sixth most passing yards
Speaker 3: at two forty six, allow more plays from opposing offenses
Speaker 3: than anyone. That's part of why I love Jalil mcgloffin
Speaker 3: is the Colts allow the most plays in the game
Speaker 3: to an opposing team. They allow nearly seventy plays a
Speaker 3: game for the opposing offense. So Bonnicks, Juliam, I think
Speaker 3: there's room for a lot of plays here. So I'm
Speaker 3: giving a B to Bonicks. Courtland Sutton gets a bast
Speaker 3: Since Week eight, Knicks to Sutton that QB wide receiver
Speaker 3: duo leads the NFL and completions. They're the modern day
Speaker 3: montanded Rice, modern day bonten ed Rice thor Oh, I'm
Speaker 3: just kidding Portland Sutton. Yes, yes, Sutton has six plus
Speaker 3: catches in six straight in that stretch, eight plus targets
Speaker 3: and all seventy plus yards and all three scores one
Speaker 3: hundred plus and three of them. They're just really connecting
Speaker 3: right now. And it's just a middle of the pack matchup.
Speaker 3: Jalen Jones sixty second ranked on PFL PFF. He's held
Speaker 3: down some a lot of guys just fine. But you
Speaker 3: allowed eighty five to Nico, eighty eight to Pickens, one
Speaker 3: oh seven to Brian Thomas Junior, eighty three to Jefferson.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of room for Sutton to have a good
Speaker 3: B level game here. Veyle and Mims I could go into,
Speaker 3: but I do have them on the bench, and we
Speaker 3: got fifteen matchups. It's fantasy playoffs. Javonte Williams is going
Speaker 3: on the bench because, as I mentioned before, it's jo
Speaker 3: Leo McLoughlin for me this week. And if you look
Speaker 3: at the stats this year, Sean Payton has had not
Speaker 3: had two running backs do it in this week, he
Speaker 3: picks a running back for the week. I think it's McLoughlin.
Speaker 2: Here Cincinnati takes on Tennessee thor and for Cincinnati, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase are just automatic. A's right, and we were
Speaker 2: absolutely starting those guys red hot of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah Burrow, five consecutive games with three or more passing.
Speaker 2: Touchdowns, how about that?
Speaker 4: And I think we can toss Chase Brown and t
Speaker 4: Higgins into the mustard as yeah, right, yeah, And I
Speaker 4: don't care that the te Higgins coming off his worst
Speaker 4: game of the season wide receiver twelve and Fantasy so
Speaker 4: far so and that kick no one else has startedble
Speaker 4: everyone else is the mustard as Will Levis was charges
Speaker 4: take a chance on me guy. Going over to the
Speaker 4: other side, Tony Pollard. I gave him a c RB
Speaker 4: twenty one Fantasy points per game. He played in sixty
Speaker 4: two percent of the snaps the last two weeks, but
Speaker 4: his status is up in the air with that ankle injury.
Speaker 4: Aforementioned ankle injury, so I settle on see for him.
Speaker 2: Tad J. Spears was charged to take a chance on
Speaker 2: me guy. Calvin Ridley, our boy we all love Calvin
Speaker 2: gave him about him later on the show, too, gave
Speaker 2: him a bee.
Speaker 4: Since Week seven, Ridley is wide receiver twenty five and
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game seven red zone targets across his
Speaker 4: last eight games.
Speaker 2: Not bad.
Speaker 4: Since Week nine the matchup here, Cincinnati has allowed the
Speaker 4: ninth most receiving yards per game and the fourth most
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game two perimeter wide receivers. Nick Westbrook
Speaker 4: a keene. As much as this pains me to say,
Speaker 4: I have to give him a bench grade. He only
Speaker 4: had the one reception for nineteen receiving yards last year and.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even in the end zone last week. What
Speaker 3: does he do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he needs a touchdown to be started with here
Speaker 4: on your own on that.
Speaker 2: That's the Bengals. If he's gonna do it, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna frame it up at the same way we
Speaker 2: did the Yeah okay, like Anthony Richardson, even if you
Speaker 2: don't love him, if you need some magic, wouldn't he
Speaker 2: be a guy like he would be too long bomb
Speaker 2: reception touchdown.
Speaker 4: If you need the yeah miracle, it would be it
Speaker 4: would be Nick Westbrooky.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick with bench all right, okay. I feel
Speaker 2: like charges with the c there.
Speaker 4: And then Chicka kon Quill bench for him twenty or
Speaker 4: few fewer receiving yards nine of thirteen games this year.
Speaker 2: Not the best. I'm gonna sneak in one more matchup
Speaker 2: into this Shir Commanders taking on the Saints because a
Speaker 2: lot of these are pretty straightforward. Brian Robinson a great
Speaker 2: matchup opportunity. With Austin Ekler out, He's going to get
Speaker 2: a ton of work. And since Week three, the Saints
Speaker 2: allowing five point three yards per carriages and one and
Speaker 2: a half rushing touchdowns per game.
Speaker 3: That's a long time too since week three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the season right, Robinson absolute A grade here. Love
Speaker 2: him in this spot. Going to the passing game, Terry
Speaker 2: McLaurin A grade. Runs almost entirely from the left side
Speaker 2: of the field. He's the league's most one sided receiver
Speaker 2: in terms of side of the field. That puts him
Speaker 2: against rookie kool Aid mckinstreet cornerback who's been the starter
Speaker 2: since Marshall Latimer's injury in trade, and over that time
Speaker 2: he's actually been pretty good. He's allowing a fifty five
Speaker 2: percent completion rate, no touchdowns all year, but still it's
Speaker 2: McLaurin against kool Aid mckinstrey as a rookie. I love
Speaker 2: McLaurin here, A grade for him. Zach Ertz enters the
Speaker 2: game with touchdowns in three straight games prior to last
Speaker 2: week's by but a touchdown here could be unlikely against
Speaker 2: a team that's allowed to league low one score to
Speaker 2: the tight end position. The past five opposing tight ends
Speaker 2: to face New Orleans have averaged five catches for fifty
Speaker 2: six yards. Zach Ertz C grade. Lastly, Jayden Daniels A grade.
Speaker 2: Saints secondary has gotten a little bit better lately, but
Speaker 2: in totality, a very strong spot for Daniels, especially on
Speaker 2: the ground. Drew Locke just ran for fifty nine yards
Speaker 2: against the Saints last week, and we've seen Bau, Mick Nix,
Speaker 2: and Justin Herbert put up big rushing days since Week seven.
Speaker 2: So I've got the A grade and McLaurin C grade
Speaker 2: on Ertz. And there's some opportunities through the air as well.
Speaker 2: And then the only Saint you care about is Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 2: the only got you start in the fantasy playoffs. Sure
Speaker 2: I can only get you to a C grade because
Speaker 2: everybody else is hurt and Washington may just play to
Speaker 2: stop Alvin Kamara, which is what I would do. Stop Kamara, Washington,
Speaker 2: you win the game.
Speaker 3: You're not starting Jick Heater.
Speaker 2: I've not started taking or mvs. In the three games
Speaker 2: Derek Carmist earlier this year, Camara only averaged thirty nine
Speaker 2: rushing yards thirty one receiving yards, and he scored in
Speaker 2: just one of those three games. The track record here
Speaker 2: is not great. I understand that you kind of have
Speaker 2: to start Alvin Camera.
Speaker 3: You hope for four catches, get to double digit, just barely.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's I think that's what we're looking at. See
Speaker 2: Gray and Alvin Kamara and the whole passing game of
Speaker 2: the Saints on the bench. Our number two of Fantasy
Speaker 2: Football Weekly coming up in moments. Stay tuned for that,
Speaker 2: including three tough questions. Our number two of Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 2: Paul Charchie and Scott Fish and Thor Nystrom with you. You
Speaker 2: can follow us on X. Scott Fish is at Scott
Speaker 2: Fish twenty four yep. Thora is at thor Ku Rock
Speaker 2: Chalk and I am at Paul Chargie. And this game
Speaker 2: we cover three tough questions. What should your playoff tiebreakers be?
Speaker 2: This is now so this is really important because you
Speaker 2: don't want to lose friendships over the fact you did
Speaker 2: not have your playoff tie breakers lockdown in advance. And
Speaker 2: I was in a league once, like ten plus years
Speaker 2: ago or there were there was a lot of money
Speaker 2: on the line and there was a tie in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and this thing got so ugly. So, Scott Fish, we'll
Speaker 2: begin with you. What should the playoff tiebreaker be?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so always they're fine, honestly, But here's the main key.
Speaker 3: Set it now. If you haven't get it set now,
Speaker 3: the most important thing is to get it set. I
Speaker 3: don't league shame. I believe that in your leagues if
Speaker 3: you do it, the league enjoys doing And that's absolutely fine,
Speaker 3: but you have to have one. As Chuche kind of
Speaker 3: alluded to there. I can make a real good case
Speaker 3: that random high score on the bench or backup bench
Speaker 3: scoring is probably the worst way to do it. Yes,
Speaker 3: because people construct their rosters in different ways and some
Speaker 3: have handcuffs, a lot of injuries. The random score is
Speaker 3: very best balie and isn't really attributive to you know,
Speaker 3: what your team is. So I can make a case
Speaker 3: those are the worst picking a bench players. The tie
Speaker 3: break I kind of get that you're picking one player.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: The way I generally do it is you have played
Speaker 3: all season, and you have earned that seed, and you've
Speaker 3: earned home field advantage, and the highest seed, meaning based
Speaker 3: on standings before, is the way to do it. So
Speaker 3: that's why I do it in a lot of leagues
Speaker 3: that way. The other way I like is non quarterback
Speaker 3: yards from the starters. Touchdowns are a little fluky. If
Speaker 3: you have a really good quarterback, you basically just won
Speaker 3: the matchup. So non quarterback yards is probably the second
Speaker 3: way I go about doing it, But generally I just
Speaker 3: go by standings. I think that seed earned you that by.
Speaker 2: So your official answer is by seed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's I mean basically.
Speaker 2: Giving one hundredth of a point to the higher seed.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, Okay, but honestly, just figure out what way
Speaker 3: your league likes and get it done.
Speaker 2: Now, what should your league's playoff tiebreaker be. That's where
Speaker 2: I'm at.
Speaker 4: Way, they're like, whoever finish higher and the standing should
Speaker 4: be the home team, and they get the they get
Speaker 4: the tiebreaker. They've earned the tiebreaker, they get the tiebreaker.
Speaker 4: That's where I'm at.
Speaker 2: The only reason I don't care for that is, you're
Speaker 2: not settling the matter of who won.
Speaker 3: Who won that game that week, that way, that week.
Speaker 2: And that's why I prefer the non quarterback yard, so
Speaker 2: all the yards of all and no defense, So all
Speaker 2: total the yards of all of your players, all my players,
Speaker 2: not including quarterback, not including and you could include quarterback,
Speaker 2: but not including defense. And I would go with that
Speaker 2: because its starters, and agree with you, Scott. Do not
Speaker 2: like having the bench players involved because the smartest bench
Speaker 2: players I can have are handcuffs to some running backs. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I don't need them to do anything, but I need
Speaker 2: them on my roster. I'm gonna have Justice Hill in
Speaker 2: case Derek Henry goes down. YEP, tough question number two,
Speaker 2: thorn Estrom. Should consolation bracket teams be able to pick
Speaker 2: up free agents, potentially changing the outcome of playoff bracket teams?
Speaker 2: I feel I feel very strongly about this.
Speaker 3: Before Thor goes I want to say this obviously eliminates
Speaker 3: dynasty and keeper.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is redraft leagues. This is redraft leagues. Very
Speaker 2: strong Okay, oh boy, okay, bring it.
Speaker 4: Yes they absolutely should, and if you don't like it,
Speaker 4: you can't have a consolation bracket, the team transaction should
Speaker 4: only be blocked when that.
Speaker 2: Team has no more games left to play and to
Speaker 2: start end of story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on a similar boat. I said, if you're
Speaker 3: I have, If you're playing for something, you should be
Speaker 3: able to make your best effort to play for that thing.
Speaker 3: And if that's a consolation bracket, that's a consolation bracklet.
Speaker 3: And some people think, oh, well, you're making it harder
Speaker 3: on the teams than the playoffs. No, you're making it
Speaker 3: exactly the same as the entire season was. Twelve teams
Speaker 3: fighting for what you're doing. What you're doing when you
Speaker 3: don't let them is you're making it easier on the
Speaker 3: playoff teams. But yes, if you're playing for something, yes
Speaker 3: you can absolutely still make moves.
Speaker 2: You guys hit all the main talking points, So that's
Speaker 2: exactly right. If you've incentivized team teams to continue playing
Speaker 2: and to do well, you need to let them pick
Speaker 2: up free agents. Doesn't matter that they might change the
Speaker 2: outcome of the playoff bracket teams. The consolation bracket teams
Speaker 2: still get to make moves. Tough. Question number three, Give
Speaker 2: me a playoff hero who could emerge out of relative
Speaker 2: obscurity with a huge run during the Fantasy playoffs, like
Speaker 2: Ron Day in two thousand and six, Drew Bennett two
Speaker 2: thousand and four. And there's probably others, Scott, you're very
Speaker 2: good at remembering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's there's there's there's plenty of others. Even
Speaker 3: more recent than that. You got your Tim high Towers,
Speaker 3: even in that range. You got your Marcus Colston or
Speaker 3: not Colston, but Jimmy Graham's and your Arian Foster's and
Speaker 3: players that just blew up the end of the season.
Speaker 2: But Tyler a favorite of mine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's plenty of Chan Gaily, Yeah, Chan Gaily offense,
Speaker 4: baby we had.
Speaker 3: Oh god, who's that Rams running back?
Speaker 2: That Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, But anyway, there's been a bunch of them.
Speaker 3: It says something that we had to go that far
Speaker 3: back though, that it doesn't happen all the time. So
Speaker 3: I went a bunch of different routes on this trying
Speaker 3: to figure out who this could be. I want one name, Yes,
Speaker 3: I know. The obvious one seems like Isaac Grenda, who
Speaker 3: got you into the playoffs with a huge week. He
Speaker 3: probably got you about fifteen points on on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: But you don't want that, and he already played.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought about Taj Spears. He was my prespected
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. He's got three top top
Speaker 3: three matchups in the Fantasy playoffs, and the one that's
Speaker 3: not a top three is the Bengals this week. He's
Speaker 3: your take a chance on me player because Pollard might
Speaker 3: be out. Then I thought could be Vidal. Does he
Speaker 3: take over for Gus Edwards? Is the switch finally happening?
Speaker 3: But I figured Thorn might do that, So I'm going
Speaker 3: with I did, so I'm I'm going with the guy
Speaker 3: at my matchups who already took the role and whose
Speaker 3: coach said he's this already running back going forward. And
Speaker 3: he's got two matchups in the next two weeks after
Speaker 3: this week against bottom ten run defenses in Sincere McCormick.
Speaker 2: All right, Sincere McCormick is your fish. That was a
Speaker 2: long rout was that we ruled out a lot of
Speaker 2: guys and one of them is thors guy, Kamani Vidal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and sincerely kind of my co host, the luminary
Speaker 4: Scott Fish, to allow me to have the correct answer.
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys there, that is Kamani Vidal. JK.
Speaker 4: Dobbins might be out for the year. Vodal got four
Speaker 4: carries last week. You know how many Gus Edward's got.
Speaker 2: He got six.
Speaker 4: Vodal becomes the bellcow in that run heavy offense.
Speaker 2: If the gusbuss goes down, the answer is Kamani Vidal,
Speaker 2: Kamani Gore Vidal. The correct answer is Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, Okay.
Speaker 2: Two years he has been all or nothing fantasy producer,
Speaker 2: but it's all lining up for him to go all
Speaker 2: for these last three games. Twelve targets last week for
Speaker 2: Calvin Ridley, he gets the Cincinnati Bengals already talking about
Speaker 2: how much I how much I like him, and I
Speaker 2: like Will Levis. Right, so somingles this week. Next week
Speaker 2: it's Indianapolis that is the middle of the back wide
Speaker 2: receiver defense Championship week for Calvin Ridley. Jacksonville allowing the
Speaker 2: seventh most points to wide outs. And I can understand
Speaker 2: you might be thinking, no chance Amy putting my playoff
Speaker 2: fortunes in the hands of Will Levis. As I keep
Speaker 2: telling you week after week, Will Levis is getting better.
Speaker 2: Over the last five games, seven touchdowns, just two interceptions.
Speaker 2: He's less sucky than you think.
Speaker 3: Thor Thoris sidebar Is. Is charge going to be promoting
Speaker 3: Will Levis as Kibi one next time?
Speaker 2: I mean that's where we're headed.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's gonna be like take Bowers of
Speaker 3: the first, take Will Levis's second.
Speaker 2: I was so down on Levis heading into the season
Speaker 2: and look brilliant for half a year. But I'm really
Speaker 2: I'm ready to be wrong. I like, I was so
Speaker 2: so very wrong.
Speaker 3: I do like on I do like being proven wrong
Speaker 3: on the un stuff like this. It's it's fun. Keeps
Speaker 3: us honest tough.
Speaker 2: Question number four, Since you brought up Sincere mccorn best
Speaker 2: adjective first name in the NFL? Is it NFL or
Speaker 2: not curR NFL lower NFL? Or is it Sincere McCormick.
Speaker 2: Is it Peerless Price or is it Sterling Sharp or Shepherd?
Speaker 2: Your choice? Oh it's got to be Sincere. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Sterling Sharp is a double whammy.
Speaker 2: You get it both ways.
Speaker 3: First, you can be Sharp and you can be Sterling
Speaker 3: Peerless Price.
Speaker 4: I mean you talk about a guy that should have
Speaker 4: been around during the NIL.
Speaker 3: I mean Sterling Sharp is probably the best player of
Speaker 3: all of them, Like pure.
Speaker 2: Talent, borderline Hall of Famer for sure, but sincere McCormick's
Speaker 2: an awesomeme tremendous name. Yeah, let's go back to the matchup.
Speaker 2: Shout out UTSA. There you go, Tampa Bay taking on
Speaker 2: the Chargers, Scott Fish. This is a tough Chargers defense.
Speaker 2: But there's so many bucks you want to play in
Speaker 2: this game. I'm expecting you're gonna give me b's and
Speaker 2: c's in this matter.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have three b's and one C. Good job,
Speaker 3: Good job on that. That's good job by you. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield. I got to be beyond. He's scored in
Speaker 3: every game, so that's a nice cozy feeling. But even
Speaker 3: better than that, in the thirteen games he has multiple
Speaker 3: scores nine times.
Speaker 2: You don't say yes.
Speaker 3: It's almost like I wrote that sentence specifically, emphasize the
Speaker 3: words just and he averages over two hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 3: If he's getting two hundred and fifty and a couple scores,
Speaker 3: you're at B level already. This Chargers defense held down
Speaker 3: to Mahomes and cousin recent cousins recently, Lamar, Burrow and Lewis.
Speaker 3: Before that did okay, did fairly decent, but the nine
Speaker 3: games before that only had one multiple passing score day
Speaker 3: and that was you know, Joe Montana of our time
Speaker 3: bo Nicks. So their ranking is a little bit bait.
Speaker 3: Their middle of the pack rank is a little bit
Speaker 3: based on their early season. So B grade on Baker,
Speaker 3: I think is gonna have a good day here. B
Speaker 3: grade on Mike Evans, who loves to do the doubt,
Speaker 3: not practice all week. I did practice on Friday, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play anyway role right now. He went four
Speaker 3: for sixty nine last week. He's got a better matchup
Speaker 3: this week against the Chargers team allowing the third most
Speaker 3: fantasy points to the perimeter. Eight wide receiver scores in
Speaker 3: the last six weeks. Seven of those were to perimeter guys.
Speaker 3: So his yardage shows returning from injury sixty eight one
Speaker 3: eighteen sixty nine. Again, better better match up here. So
Speaker 3: I have a B grade on him. You might be
Speaker 3: able to talk to me high.
Speaker 2: Those Chargers cornerbacks all play very physical. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: who pushes around Mike Evans.
Speaker 3: Nobody can.
Speaker 2: No, that's right, No, boy, that's right.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say sixty five two third. But he's
Speaker 3: probably to forty at this point his career. Uh Jalen
Speaker 3: McMillan also on the outside. I think that with Sterling
Speaker 3: Shepherd likely out, Trey Palmer jumps into the inside because
Speaker 3: Jalen McMillan has been playing seventy five percent outside all year.
Speaker 3: I just mentioned what perimeter receivers are doing against the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I think Jayleen McMillan should get a C grade here.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get the tougher tar. HEEEB still matchup graded
Speaker 3: seventh out of two hundred and thirteen cornerbacks per football
Speaker 3: Pro Football Focus. But Evans and McMillan swap spots a ton,
Speaker 3: and honestly they play all three roles, so I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna get around just enough. He had a couple
Speaker 3: scores last week in a similar, similar matchup, a tougher matchup.
Speaker 3: Kana Hawden is on the bench three for seventy last week.
Speaker 3: His yardage total had been real low the last three
Speaker 3: weeks before that, but only two tight ends have top
Speaker 3: fifty yards against the Bucks, McBride and Kelsey. Only one
Speaker 3: tight end score, Mark Andrews, so tough spot it is
Speaker 3: in the running game. Bucky Irvin didn't practice again.
Speaker 2: Laid on the draw. Yeah, I can't let it go.
Speaker 3: The only reason I mentioned him, I think is the cotton.
Speaker 3: Because of the cotton, sounder B grade on rashad Way,
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving is like, I think he's going to be out.
Speaker 3: He didn't practice, like even as even as a Friday,
Speaker 3: he wasn't practicing. So White retook the role last week.
Speaker 3: Nineteen touches, one hundred and nine and two scores. Last
Speaker 3: week's matchup was much easier. This is a tougher one.
Speaker 3: Chargers are sixth toughest against fantasy runners. B Jon Robinson,
Speaker 3: Derek Henry and Chase Brown had great weeks against them,
Speaker 3: but it took thirty two touches, twenty six touches, and
Speaker 3: twenty seven touches to get there. More recently, Pacheco sixteen
Speaker 3: touches for sixty one yards pollared thirteen touches for sixty
Speaker 3: three yards. That feels more like what's gonna happen yere,
Speaker 3: But White gets White's likely going to get goal line work,
Speaker 3: and he's likely going to get some pass catching sall.
Speaker 3: I got a B grade on that. Sean Tucker, he
Speaker 3: was efficient with his three touches, might be in more
Speaker 3: in for more this week, but his season high for
Speaker 3: touches in a game he plays with Rashad White is six.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I have a bench grade on Seawn Tucker over
Speaker 3: to the Chargers side B grade on Justin Herbert. Five
Speaker 3: of the last seven quarterbacks to face the Bucks' worst
Speaker 3: ranked pass y had multiple scores, and those five averaged
Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety nine point eight yards. You may
Speaker 3: be saying, Scott, why are you eliminating those to those
Speaker 3: two other games? It was the Aid and O'Connell Desmond
Speaker 3: Riddo combo and it was Tommy DeVito. I'm gonna count,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pullsks, I'm gonna say the other five or
Speaker 3: more like where Herbert is. But Herbert, his yardage is
Speaker 3: really really tanked recently, barely averaging over two hundred yards
Speaker 3: in the last month, four scores in those four weeks.
Speaker 3: But this is by far the best matchup he's gonna see.
Speaker 3: If Lad mcconka goes, I'm gonna give him a B
Speaker 3: grade as well. He's gonna get Tykee Smith, which is
Speaker 3: a tougher matchup. But prior to missing last week, he
Speaker 3: was getting hyper targeted by Herbert. Average of nine times
Speaker 3: per game. He hit six plus catches in y'all in
Speaker 3: all yardage shutals of one hundred and twenty three, eighty
Speaker 3: three and one hundred and seventeen. He had really come
Speaker 3: on and become their wide receiver. One oh for sure.
Speaker 3: If McConkie goes, get this dat. Quentin Johnson had a
Speaker 3: total of four catches in those three games. That's how
Speaker 3: hyper targeted Ladd McConkie had got.
Speaker 2: Yep, no Antoine winfield. It is game on if Ladd goes. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I had bench grades on Johnston and Palmer if
Speaker 3: lad goes. If Ladd doesn't go, I have a C
Speaker 3: grade on Quentin Johnson. I'm still leaving Palmer on the bench,
Speaker 3: even though he went six for seventy eight last week
Speaker 3: a thirty one percent target chair. If Ladd doesn't go,
Speaker 3: I mean Quenton Johnson. He's facing up against Jamal Dean,
Speaker 3: who allowed eighty seven to Jameson Williams, eighty one to Sutton,
Speaker 3: seventy three to leget. The problem is he's barely getting
Speaker 3: fifty yards a game, barely five catches. Stone start was
Speaker 3: my chake. Take a chance on me player and Kamani
Speaker 3: Videll despite out snapping Gus Edwards thirty two to twenty six.
Speaker 3: Almost everything was dead. Even the Chargers allowed the second
Speaker 3: most receiving yards and receptions to backs. But that's not
Speaker 3: Vidal's game, and that's not Gus Edwards game, and they're
Speaker 3: tough against the run. So I had both of them
Speaker 3: on the bench as they split.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that as well. When we
Speaker 2: come back, steel is taking on the Eagles, No George,
Speaker 2: and so can you start any Steeler in this game?
Speaker 2: Thorn Nischer will tell you when we come back. Welcome back,
Speaker 2: Fantasy Football Weekly Playoff Edition. Congratulations, I'm making the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's step number one. That all you have to do
Speaker 2: is stay alive.
Speaker 4: And if you made the past, the thing in the
Speaker 4: guillotine leagues where there's the freeze on the roster, that yeah,
Speaker 4: that's I have to give congress, like myself in my
Speaker 4: work league. I don't know if I've mentioned that yet
Speaker 4: against my coworkers like Dwayne and you know what there?
Speaker 2: You mean?
Speaker 3: Well, Charge, I'm still alive, are in SFP and I
Speaker 3: had three zeros at my roster.
Speaker 2: What did you do with that?
Speaker 3: Trey Lance Tobert and George Pickens I left in my rosters.
Speaker 3: So I feel like I feel like it's you got
Speaker 3: them have destiny. It's a team of destiny at this point.
Speaker 3: Dang nice, I am a team five hundred out of
Speaker 3: five hundred left.
Speaker 2: Literally five hundred out of five hundred, the last team
Speaker 2: to make it make the cut.
Speaker 3: Not the last team to make the cut, but I
Speaker 3: am the lowest scoring team left.
Speaker 2: Wow. And it is by points total points? It is yeah,
Speaker 2: my my I made it to last week. I didn't
Speaker 2: make it through last week eight And O'Connell, all right,
Speaker 2: let's go back to our next block of matchups, which
Speaker 2: it begins with the Steelers taking on the Eagles and
Speaker 2: thour no George Pickens, and this Steelers offense without George
Speaker 2: Pickens is not good. And here comes the Eagles. I
Speaker 2: know Jalen Warren was your take a chance on me
Speaker 2: running back, but man, I I am so nervous that
Speaker 2: the Steelers are going to give us like a twelve
Speaker 2: point dud here? What do you think? Yes?
Speaker 4: But first I have to say, well, I'm dead in
Speaker 4: the Scott Fish ball. I have to say my championship
Speaker 4: was drafting next to Scott Fish.
Speaker 2: Live at the Minneapolis this year. After that, I mean,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. Everybody come this year, everybody come.
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson. I gave him a quarterback fifteen and fantasy
Speaker 4: points per game. He's averaging two hundred and fifty five
Speaker 4: passing yards per game in comparison to Justin Fields one
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty four as a starter per game. Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: probably tries to run funnel the offense this week. That's
Speaker 4: what I think against this really good Eagles pass defense,
Speaker 4: especially with pickins out. Since Week nine, Philly has allowed
Speaker 4: the second fewest passing yards per game, and the Eagles
Speaker 4: are the second toughest fantasy matchup for a pleasant quarterback.
Speaker 4: So that's why we're going to give Russell Wilson a see.
Speaker 4: I gave naj Harris a b RB twenty five and
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game. He's averaging a little over nineteen
Speaker 4: touches and almost eighty seven total yards per game. This
Speaker 4: is a solid matchup for him against a mediocre Eagles
Speaker 4: run defense. Since Week nine, the Eagles have allowed or
Speaker 4: have the sixth highest misstackle rate in the entire NFL.
Speaker 2: That surprises me.
Speaker 4: Jalen Warren of Courses might take a chance on me guy.
Speaker 4: We mentioned before that George Pickens is out for this
Speaker 4: game with his hamstring injury Unford. This is in part
Speaker 4: why Pat, the other Steelers receivers.
Speaker 2: You keep them on the bench.
Speaker 4: Pat Fryarmuth, I ticked them up to an A when
Speaker 4: we got this Pickins new Since the Week nine by
Speaker 4: Friarmuth has finished as a top eight fantasy tight end
Speaker 4: in three of five games, back to back games of
Speaker 4: twelve plus fantasy points, and last week without George Pickens,
Speaker 4: Friarmuth had an eleven point five percent target share, twenty
Speaker 4: plus percent air yard share, two point almost two point seven.
Speaker 2: Yards per route run.
Speaker 4: It was on the forty eight yards, but those are
Speaker 4: those are good indicators, so I'm giving him an A.
Speaker 4: Moving over to the Eagles, I give Jalen Hurts a
Speaker 4: BE usually give him an. Am going to give him
Speaker 4: a B this time. Number four quarterback and fantasy points
Speaker 4: for the season. But this is a really, really tough matchup.
Speaker 4: Obviously against the Steelers. The Steelers are the only defense
Speaker 4: to get this. The Steelers are the only defense to
Speaker 4: not give up a twenty point fantasy game to an
Speaker 4: opposing quarterback all year. This one defense. It is the Steelers,
Speaker 4: so that's I didn't have a choice. I had to
Speaker 4: make hurd some of be Sae Kwon Barkley, of course,
Speaker 4: is your must start A. I also made Aj Brown
Speaker 4: by extension of B in this one. Brown is average
Speaker 4: shade less than six targets per game the last eight weeks.
Speaker 2: In this game, he has to face Joey Porter Junior.
Speaker 4: Porter hasn't allowed a touchdown as the nearest defender all
Speaker 4: season long. Opposing wider yes, opposing wide receivers only have
Speaker 4: a fifty eight percent catch rate against him. That's pretty
Speaker 4: insane too. And the Steelers allowed the least fantasy points
Speaker 4: to opposing wide receiver once on the other roster.
Speaker 2: So that's why I gave Aj Brown a B.
Speaker 3: I'm Ricky wheel Mouse Shee's whatever.
Speaker 4: Week two, Yeah, Calcutta, not just kidding, DeVonta Smith. I
Speaker 4: gave him a grade of C eleven point seven Fantasy
Speaker 4: points last week. He's averaging four point six targets per
Speaker 4: game since the Week five by the Eagles have turned
Speaker 4: into a run heavy, defensive oriented team and this is
Speaker 4: a bad matchup. The Steelers are the fifth worst schedule
Speaker 4: adjusted matchup for opposing wide receiver, so I gave Davanta see.
Speaker 4: I also gave our boy Calcutta Grand call.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 4: In five games where kal Kata has been the starting
Speaker 4: tight end, he's finished his tight end won twice. He
Speaker 4: had a tight end twelve finish and a tight end
Speaker 4: nine finish. The Steelers are good against opposing tight ends. However,
Speaker 4: in the last five games, the Steelers have allowed the
Speaker 4: eight fewest schedule adjusted fantasy points per game to opposing
Speaker 4: tight end. So that's why I gave Kolkata see.
Speaker 2: Patriots take on the Cardinals, and the only Patriot I
Speaker 2: think you're gonna be tempted to play hers Ormondre Stevenson.
Speaker 2: Let's focus on him. He's giving enough touches that the
Speaker 2: sheer volume. He's usually startable, but he has not scored
Speaker 2: in a month, and Arizona's a sneaky good run defense.
Speaker 2: Since way back in Week five, only two runners have
Speaker 2: posted rushing touchdowns against the Cardinals, although one was Zach
Speaker 2: Sarbony last week. Most other starting running backs are struggling
Speaker 2: massively against Arizona. Get this list. Aaron Jones, Kenneth Walker,
Speaker 2: Breese Hall, DeAndre Swift, JK Dobbins and Josh Jacobs. These
Speaker 2: are all like top twelve running backs averaged four five
Speaker 2: scoreless yards against the Arizona Cardinals. They're way better at
Speaker 2: run defense than you think. And I can only get
Speaker 2: you to a C grade. And Romandri Stevenson. Drake May
Speaker 2: is on the bench, but I'll note that he usually
Speaker 2: finds his way to a decent fantasy outcome in one
Speaker 2: way or another. But this is a really tough matchup.
Speaker 2: May has exactly one passing touchdown in four of his
Speaker 2: last five games. He's playing behind the league's most injury
Speaker 2: ravaged offensive line, and he ends up scrambling for solid
Speaker 2: yardage every game. Since taking over full time, May has
Speaker 2: more Get this, Since taking over full time, Drake May
Speaker 2: has more rushing yardage than Lamar Jackson Arizona is. I
Speaker 2: know Arizona's an above average pass defense, and since Week four,
Speaker 2: opposing quarterbacks are running for only ten yards per game
Speaker 2: against them. Fantasy playoffs, I can't. I just I can't
Speaker 2: get you to Drake May as much as I've enjoyed
Speaker 2: it season. And Hunter Henry also on the bench. He
Speaker 2: is the safest of the Patriots receiving options since Drake
Speaker 2: may took over reaveraging seven targets five catches a game,
Speaker 2: only one scores all over that time. And the Cardinals
Speaker 2: are an elite tight end defense. They've only allowed two
Speaker 2: tight ends scores all year. No tight end is top
Speaker 2: twenty yards since way back in Week seven. That is
Speaker 2: a crazy stat. So Hunter Heny on the bench here.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Arizona side, where we've got a little
Speaker 2: more optimism, including at the running back position, where James
Speaker 2: Connor comes in with an A grade. Cardinals likely to
Speaker 2: get ahead of early and then run the ball plenty.
Speaker 2: New England sees the seventh most rushing attempts for just
Speaker 2: that reason, Connor averaging fifteen carries per game, and I
Speaker 2: expect you'll see far more than fifteen in this very
Speaker 2: favorable matchup. Runners with at least fifteen carries against the
Speaker 2: Patriots averaging ninety one rushing yards, fifteen more receiving yards, yes,
Speaker 2: and half a touchdown. So we'll give an A grade one.
Speaker 3: Hundred plus and a coin flip for a touchdown if
Speaker 3: you get fifteen touches, Yeah, who hit.
Speaker 2: That to take that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Let's go to the passing game. Drey McBride a grade,
Speaker 2: still no touchdowns, but dominating every other category. Although it
Speaker 2: thinks he's got the rushing touchdown right for Drey McBride, yep,
Speaker 2: the rushing touchdown receiving touchdowns. The Patriots have played basically
Speaker 2: no good tight ends, but McBride's closest comparable to a
Speaker 2: face New England John new Smith and George Kittle both
Speaker 2: scored and average sixty yards trade McBride a gray and
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison incredibly touchdown dependent. When he does not score,
Speaker 2: His average game is two catches for twenty eight yards. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's awful. That is four point eight PPR points and
Speaker 2: that is a first round exit from your fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 2: So will this touchdown dependent player score a touchdown? The
Speaker 2: good news is that he's an end zone ball hog,
Speaker 2: averaging one end zone target per game. The Patriots have
Speaker 2: decent cornerbacks, but they do give up touchdowns. Christian Gonzalez
Speaker 2: allows just a fifty seven percent completion rate and two
Speaker 2: touchdowns allowed this year. That's not great news. Marcus Jones
Speaker 2: on the other side, fifty eight percent completion rate, three
Speaker 2: touchdowns allowed this year not great. Jonathan Jones, though a
Speaker 2: whopping six touchdowns allowed fourth most that's from the slot,
Speaker 2: and Marvin Harrison runs about a third of his routes
Speaker 2: from the slot. So an optimistic B grade on Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 2: but danger here. Know the downside, if you're protecting a
Speaker 2: lead against Cooper Cup, don't play Marvin Harrison. That's how
Speaker 2: you could lind.
Speaker 3: Up building your lead.
Speaker 2: Last thing, Kyler Murray. Patriots have only faced one mobile
Speaker 2: quarterback all year, Anthony Richardson, in the game before last
Speaker 2: week's bye week, and Richardson ran for forty eight yards
Speaker 2: in a touchdown. Not bad. Patriots have allowed multiple passing
Speaker 2: touchdowns in five for the past six games, and two
Speaker 2: of those quarterbacks threw for four touchdowns against the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Murray is rarely fired on all cylinders, ground and air,
Speaker 2: almost never all year, but this is the matchup where
Speaker 2: it could happen. I like Marie in this game, and
Speaker 2: I'm giving him an A grade against this defense because
Speaker 2: the prospect of him going air ground is real, all right, Scott.
Speaker 2: That brings us to the Falcons taking on the Raiders
Speaker 2: in this game. This whole Falcons team has just got
Speaker 2: the stench of death on it right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I think there's some grades to be.
Speaker 2: Had against the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Against the Raiders, yeah, five of the last six quarterbacks
Speaker 3: to play the Raiders have had multiple scores and the
Speaker 3: one that didn't had three hundred plus and a score.
Speaker 3: So basically six really good games in a row. It's
Speaker 3: a bottom ten passy. It's a good spot for Cousins,
Speaker 3: who has been absolutely gross lately, copious amounts of interceptions
Speaker 3: and a dearth of scores. Death isn't even the right words.
Speaker 3: I mean it's zero. He's at zero basically in the
Speaker 3: last month. I'm still giving a C grade to Cousins.
Speaker 3: I think against this defense he can find his way there.
Speaker 3: Drake London's been absolutely fine with Cousins terrible month, like
Speaker 3: he could do better.
Speaker 2: Barnold Mooney.
Speaker 3: He's averaged six for seventy nine per game in Cousins
Speaker 3: bad month. He's still seeing more targets, catches, snaps, red
Speaker 3: zone tar everything than Mooney, but Mooney has a few
Speaker 3: more yards. So I'm gonna give a C grade on Mooney.
Speaker 3: Huge game last week, but he was sub thirty yards
Speaker 3: and back to back before that. But this matchup's just
Speaker 3: way too good for the past game.
Speaker 2: And Mooney was also dinged up in those games. He's
Speaker 2: healthier now he's off the injury.
Speaker 3: And he gets to see Dicamrion Richardson, who we talked
Speaker 3: about last week, who had allowed two hundred and forty
Speaker 3: three yards in the previous three last week, well, you
Speaker 3: allowed another sixty one last week, so like it's it's
Speaker 3: it's near three hundred in the last last month. So
Speaker 3: good spot, decent spot for Mooney. I got the C
Speaker 3: grade on him. Ray Ray McLeod. I was really tempted
Speaker 3: to give a C grade on Raiders. Give up the
Speaker 3: fourth most fantasy points to the slot. The last three
Speaker 3: slot guys against the Raiders sixty three yards, ninety yards,
Speaker 3: and eighty yards. But those slot guys were kind of
Speaker 3: the lead receiver for those teams. So I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: Ray Ray on the bench. But I understand the dart throw.
Speaker 3: They give a lot up to the slot. They do
Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts, I've vascinated there.
Speaker 2: So late Raiders are getting killed by tight end. Yes,
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts has been terrible, So what do you do.
Speaker 3: I've vacillated between bench and C grade. It's a great matchup.
Speaker 3: It's their fourth worst and in the last six weeks,
Speaker 3: tight ends are averaging eighty eight for ninety nine and
Speaker 3: a score on the Raiders. Those are team totals because
Speaker 3: Gray and Kelsey kind of combined on a couple of
Speaker 3: those non Kyle Pitts tight ends have two catches. Sorry,
Speaker 3: let me let me go past that. But John went
Speaker 3: over one hundred. Gseki went over one hundred. The Kelsey
Speaker 3: Gray combo twice went went for that much. Just a
Speaker 3: really great spot. But Kyle Pitts has topped fourteen yards
Speaker 3: just once in the last five games.
Speaker 2: That's awful.
Speaker 3: That is absolutely terrible. Given how bad they are against
Speaker 3: the slot and how bad they're against the tight end position.
Speaker 3: I can stand giving him a C grade here.
Speaker 2: I think I really hit it the grade C.
Speaker 3: Grade Bjeon Robinson's getting the A. If the Vikings run dye
Speaker 3: couldn't slow Robinson and his twenty touch averaged last week,
Speaker 3: I don't know how the Raiders a bottom half run
Speaker 3: dye in basically every category is going to stop the
Speaker 3: guy averaging one hundred and five total yards and four catches.
Speaker 3: Tyler Algier. The season has been what it is, fifteen
Speaker 3: to sixty yards. You need the score for him to
Speaker 3: be fantasy relevant. When he doesn't get the score, he's
Speaker 3: not fantasy he doesn't he's not start worthy. Over on
Speaker 3: the other side, you're not starting rheta or orconno no
Speaker 3: matter who starts, so you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 3: What you do need to know is Jacoby Myers is
Speaker 3: getting the B grade. He's He's been below a twenty
Speaker 3: five percent target share just once since DeVante Adams left.
Speaker 3: In fact, just one sence. Yeah, I think about we
Speaker 3: three Jacoby Meyer super reliable. Yeah, Falcons A lot quarterbacks
Speaker 3: are Yeah. Falcons allowed the second most fantasy points to
Speaker 3: wide receivers and the most to the perimeter, where Jacoby
Speaker 3: plays two thirds of the time. I'm B grade on
Speaker 3: Jacoby Myers, auto A on Brock Bauers. I know Mayor
Speaker 3: broke out last week, but that's that's just not going
Speaker 3: to be common. Sincere McCormick C grade saw fifteen of
Speaker 3: the sixteen running back carries last week, route share went
Speaker 3: up top ten run dee only two backs and top
Speaker 3: sixty yards in the last half of the season only
Speaker 3: four rushing scores. So he's gonna get the volume, but
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how productive he's gonna be So he's
Speaker 3: getting that volume seed.
Speaker 2: Old the old volume, old volume. See I delivered one
Speaker 2: this already of the show.
Speaker 3: Vole absolutely.
Speaker 2: I like McCormick a little better than you do. I
Speaker 2: think this Falcons Falcons defense well off. Everything just doesn't
Speaker 2: it feels off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you look at the fifteen plus touchbacks, they've
Speaker 3: done decent and he should get that.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get that.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to get that.
Speaker 2: Final set of matchups.
Speaker 5: We've got a Sunday nighter and a Monday nighter.
Speaker 2: Green Bay taking on Seattle will tell you what to
Speaker 2: expect from the always troubling green Bay Wide receivers when
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Speaker 2: Green Bays taking on the Seattle Seahawks. The Green Bay
Speaker 2: receivers thore Oh, what a freaking nightmare every week trying
Speaker 2: to find the right guy. Last week, Jaden Reid no catches.
Speaker 2: Christian Watson went off, what are you doing this week? Yes?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, but at first I have to say I don't
Speaker 4: have to join a new guillets league coworkers to.
Speaker 2: Wayne and Ian in a blender. I probably haven't mentioned
Speaker 2: that yet, but sorry, boys.
Speaker 3: First time hearing of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We'll start with Jordan Love. I gave him a bee.
Speaker 4: Love has been a Fantasy Kibi one only once since
Speaker 4: Week eleven. He didn't attempt more than twenty eight passes
Speaker 4: in any of those games, and this is a bad
Speaker 4: matchup against a good Seattle pass defense. Since shifting to
Speaker 4: a predominant two I coverage look in Week eleven, Seattle
Speaker 4: has allowed the fourth fewest yards per attempt. Josh Jacobs
Speaker 4: is an obvious start a Jade getting into that Quagmire
Speaker 4: Packers receiving.
Speaker 2: There you go, well, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 4: Wrong no matter what I say, so we'll just go
Speaker 4: with it. Jayden Reid, I'm giving him a CEE. He
Speaker 4: had that one target, zero catch week last week. You
Speaker 4: guys all know about that. He did have one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirteen yards in the previous game against Detroit. Speaking
Speaker 4: to the Quagmer situation, there, Reid gets more targets versus
Speaker 4: this kind of too high coverage that Seattle plays. I
Speaker 4: will say in his favor, he's first on the even
Speaker 4: first read share against too high.
Speaker 2: But it's the Packers.
Speaker 4: So I give him a seed, just like I'm giving
Speaker 4: Romeo Dobbs and spoiler alert, just like I'm giving Christian Watson.
Speaker 4: Dobbs is in concussion protocol, but he did practice Wednesday
Speaker 4: and Thursday, appears to be on track playing on Sunday.
Speaker 4: He hasn't finished higher than wide receiver forty five and
Speaker 4: weekly scoring since week seven and no go ahead and
Speaker 4: since Week eleven. Seattle ranks number four in that too
Speaker 4: high coverage rate that I talked about. Dobbs is number
Speaker 4: two on the team in yards per route run against
Speaker 4: too high. Christian Watson gave him a seed. This matchup
Speaker 4: not as good for him. We'll get into that in
Speaker 4: a second, but two one hundred yard receiving performances in
Speaker 4: his last four games likely needs at least one home
Speaker 4: run ball to get back there again in this game Watson.
Speaker 2: Watson's usage goes down against these.
Speaker 4: Two I coverage looks since those are designed to take
Speaker 4: away the deep looks that he thrives in. Since Week eleven,
Speaker 4: Seattle has allowed perimeter wide receivers to score the second
Speaker 4: fewest receiving yards per game. But I gave Watson a seed,
Speaker 4: just like I'm giving the rest of him Tucker Craft.
Speaker 2: However, I'm given.
Speaker 4: An a tight end ten and fantasy points per game,
Speaker 4: and he should get plenty of targets this week against
Speaker 4: the Seattle defense that is not good against opposing tight ends.
Speaker 4: Seattle has allowed the tenth most receiving years per game
Speaker 4: to that position. Moving over to the Seahawks, Gino Smith,
Speaker 4: I gave him a B. He has four consecutive underwhelming
Speaker 4: fantasy outings. Since Week eight. He has finished as a
Speaker 4: quarterback one in Fantasy only one time. The opportunity is
Speaker 4: here for a better showing against the Packers defense that
Speaker 4: can be thrown on. Since Week nine, green Bay has
Speaker 4: allowed the fifth highest passer rating and the second highest
Speaker 4: success rate in the NFL. Kenneth Walker, he doesn't look
Speaker 4: like he's gonna play. He is doubtful, so keep him
Speaker 4: on the bench. Zach Charboney, he is an a he
Speaker 4: was might take a chance on me guy last week.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to break or anything. I don't know.
Speaker 2: If only we had some way to identify he had
Speaker 2: a pretty good game last week.
Speaker 4: He finishes an RB one that week, and he needs
Speaker 4: to be started here if indeed Kenneth Walker is out.
Speaker 4: Charbonney has averaged twenty seven point three Fantasy points in
Speaker 4: the three games where Kenneth Walker did not play.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven point three.
Speaker 2: Yes, he goes off.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind that the road favorite Green Bay Packers
Speaker 4: surrendered the ninth fewest rushing yards. But that being sad,
Speaker 4: you gotta start Sermaney dk metcalf. I give him a B.
Speaker 4: Four straight games without a touchdown. He is not top
Speaker 4: seventy receiving yards in any game during that stretch. There
Speaker 4: is a possibility for a decent game here against a
Speaker 4: middling Packers pass defense, but I'm not overly bullish. Since
Speaker 4: week nine, green Bay is number fifteen in receiving yards
Speaker 4: per game allowed to bounder wide receivers, so just middle
Speaker 4: of the pack there gave him a be just like
Speaker 4: I gave Jackson Smith and Jigbabbe wide receiver fourteen and
Speaker 4: fantasy points per game. He's only finished lower than wide
Speaker 4: receiver sixteen and Fantasy weekly scoring once since Week nine.
Speaker 4: The Packers have a middle of the road pass defense,
Speaker 4: but also a middle of the road pass defense against
Speaker 4: opposing slot wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Since Week eleven, green Bay has.
Speaker 4: Utilized too high coverage looks at the sixth highest rate
Speaker 4: in the NFL, and JSN has a team leading sixteen
Speaker 4: point four percent target share against too high I'm.
Speaker 2: Surprise he's not an a knowing how much you love
Speaker 2: it and what you're just saying. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: talk to you into it. I'm I'm just a little surprised.
Speaker 4: We'll give JSNNA the two high coverage looks. That's what
Speaker 4: we talked about last week, where it gives more room
Speaker 4: in the intermediate for JSN to slice and dice, and
Speaker 4: we're giving JSNNA this week. Noah Fanto, my boy from Iowa.
Speaker 4: I'm we're giving him a c. He's averaging twenty two
Speaker 4: receiving yards per game since his return to the lineup,
Speaker 4: has a red zone target in each of the last
Speaker 4: two games. However, and this is a decent matchup if
Speaker 4: you need a streamer. Green Bay has allowed the seventh
Speaker 4: most receiving yards per game to opposing tight ends this season.
Speaker 2: The Monday Night game one of the two Monday Night games,
Speaker 2: Chicago taking on Minnesota in Minnesota, these teams played just
Speaker 2: three games ago. It was an overtime thriller with fifty
Speaker 2: seven points scored in this game three weeks ago. So
Speaker 2: let's try to find some guys to play here, and
Speaker 2: there are a few. I'm gonna start with Keenan Allen
Speaker 2: targeted fifteen times when these teams met three weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and I would tell you the Vikings are going to
Speaker 2: watch the tape and make sure that doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2: But they've struggled with quality slot receivers all season long,
Speaker 2: and that includes last week when ray Ray McLeod posted
Speaker 2: eight catches for ninety eight yards against Minnesota and under
Speaker 2: Thomas Brown, the new offensive coordinator and head coach Alan
Speaker 2: averaging a whopping nine targets per game nine times. For
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen it's resulted in three quarters of a touchdown
Speaker 2: per game, so I'm unusually optimistic about Keenan Allen with
Speaker 2: a B grade. Also B grade for Dj Moore more
Speaker 2: smoked the Vikings for one hundred yards and a touchdown
Speaker 2: three weeks ago. He runs from the left side of
Speaker 2: the field a lot more than anywhere else, which means
Speaker 2: his most common defender will be Shaq Griffin, a decent
Speaker 2: but not special cornerback. He is allowing a paltry fifty
Speaker 2: four percent catch right, which is excellent. He hasn't given
Speaker 2: up a score in six games, so he is good.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call Shack Griffin a shutdown corner, and Dj
Speaker 2: Moore is still startable. B grade here considered to see,
Speaker 2: but I'm going B ultimately and staying with the passing game.
Speaker 2: Roman dunsay that is a C grade. He did score
Speaker 2: twice last week, including a beautiful toe tapper in the
Speaker 2: back corner of the end zone. I think just the
Speaker 2: best overall play that Romadunzey has had all season, and
Speaker 2: the problem is this volume remains way lower than Keenan
Speaker 2: Allen and Dj Moore. That makes him more of a
Speaker 2: dart throw Vikings outside cornerback Stephan Gilmore might miss another game,
Speaker 2: and if I knew he was gonna miss, I could
Speaker 2: see pushing Roman Dunza to a B grade.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: Journeyman Fabian Moreau is the stop gap if Stephan Gilmore
Speaker 2: cannot play, a Duneesa probably more reliable in that situation.
Speaker 2: In just two games of play from Minnesota, Moreau has
Speaker 2: already allowed a touchdown, So Rouman Dunsa Roman Dunsay C grade.
Speaker 2: Cole Comet normally one of the least reliable titands in
Speaker 2: the fantasy landscape, but he's consistently good against Minnesota, in
Speaker 2: particular over the past four years, Comet averaging six targets,
Speaker 2: four catches forty two yards, which is not bad. And
Speaker 2: he had a big game against the Vikings three weeks ago.
Speaker 2: But Minnesota has not allowed a tight end score since
Speaker 2: way back in Week four. And I've got col Comette
Speaker 2: with a C grade and that that leaves us in
Speaker 2: the passing game. With Caleb Williams, I've given his receiving
Speaker 2: targets b's and c's. The Vikings have are a giving
Speaker 2: up less than one passing touchdown per game over the
Speaker 2: last six so I don't think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: upside here. And Williams, who's been running a little more.
Speaker 2: But the Vikings give up just eleven quarterback rushing yards
Speaker 2: per game. That's the second fewest in the league. And
Speaker 2: so Caleb is just a C grade. That brings us
Speaker 2: to DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 3: The running game is gonna be fun in this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, okay, first, we don't even know who if
Speaker 2: he's gonna play, or who the running back might be.
Speaker 3: As Swift and Roshan missed practice Friday.
Speaker 2: Yes, so Swift has got Now there's an next because
Speaker 2: it's a Monday game up, So Swift he's got groin
Speaker 2: and quad injuries. Roshawn Johnson hasn't cleared the concussion protocol
Speaker 2: that he's been in for like three weeks. So it
Speaker 2: may be Travis Homer. You could pick him up in
Speaker 2: as a desperation play, but that's all it would be Kings.
Speaker 2: I know that's the problem. Now. The Vikings are an
Speaker 2: elite run defense, arguably the best run defense this year.
Speaker 2: But I will note this, the last two games the
Speaker 2: Vikings have been without their middle linebacker. I've in Pace. Now,
Speaker 2: in those two games, the Vikings have given up one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten and one hundred and fifty five rushing yards,
Speaker 2: and Pace is on ir He's not going to play
Speaker 2: in this game. So here's where MultiMate ultimately at with this.
Speaker 2: If DeAndre Swift completely clears the injury protocols and he
Speaker 2: is off the injury report, I would say start him
Speaker 2: at a C grade, and if not, I'm benching all
Speaker 2: the runners against the Vikings. All right, let's go to
Speaker 2: Minnesota side of this matchup, beginning with Justin Jefferson obvious
Speaker 2: a grade A in a tougher matchup against Jalen Johnson. Now, Matt,
Speaker 2: the way Matt Eberflus used his defenders, including Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 2: was a lot of zone. I'm really hoping that interim
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Eric Washington will give us more of the
Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson on Justin Jefferson one on one matchup that
Speaker 2: I think. I would love to see one of the best,
Speaker 2: one of the best cornerbacks in the league against one
Speaker 2: of the best receivers in the league. But I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's gonna happen. And it's still Justin Jefferson
Speaker 2: and he's still gonna get the A grade this one.
Speaker 2: How about Jordan Addison over the last five games, Jordan
Speaker 2: Addison is wide receiver four days.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that.
Speaker 2: Wow. Now it's because a lot of teams defenses are
Speaker 2: doing whatever it takes to stop Justin Jefferson. And now
Speaker 2: Jordan Addison is seeing all this single coverage. He's gotten
Speaker 2: good enough at this stage of his sophomore year where
Speaker 2: he is just getting open and Sam Darnold's just dealing.
Speaker 2: He's finding him open. Addison's getting separation through better route
Speaker 2: running and through speed. Al Lewis of The Athletic dropped
Speaker 2: this on me earlier today. The fastest receiver clock time,
Speaker 2: receiver times over the past month, and I don't have
Speaker 2: the exact stats or numbers, is Jordan Addison in the
Speaker 2: NFL free three free three free three baby. So Jordan
Speaker 2: Addison ends up with a and by the way, earlier
Speaker 2: matchup with Chicago eight catches one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 2: yards in a touchdown for Jordan Addison. Be great in
Speaker 2: this one. TJ. Hockinson in the week twelve meeting, the
Speaker 2: Vikings identified Chicago linebacker TJ. Edwards, and they threw at
Speaker 2: him constantly, and he gave up one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: three yards in his coverage in that game. And Hockinson
Speaker 2: went for one hundred and fourteen yards in that game.
Speaker 2: And since then, the Bears are getting harpooned by opposing
Speaker 2: tight ends. Do I have a harpoon sound? Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: call it a harpoon for our purposes here.
Speaker 3: It sounds more harpoony than it does, Darty.
Speaker 2: It kind of does. Since then, the last two weeks
Speaker 2: Bears gave up two touchdowns to Sam Laporta, and last
Speaker 2: week George Kittle one hundred fifty one yards against the Bears. TJ.
Speaker 2: Hockinson a gray. So now let's go to Sam Darnold
Speaker 2: coming up the best game of his career, and obviously
Speaker 2: I do like him in this matchup, but I don't
Speaker 2: know if I see explosive output coming. The Bears are
Speaker 2: far easier to run upon than pass. And we'll talk
Speaker 2: about Aaron Jones in a minute. I've got a's and
Speaker 2: b's for his receivers, so I still like the passing game.
Speaker 2: I expect closer to the two touchdown performance that Donald
Speaker 2: gave us in Week twelve against the Bears. I've got
Speaker 2: a B grade on him, absolutely startable. And then there's
Speaker 2: Aaron Jones. In the week twelve meeting, Jones broke out
Speaker 2: of a month long slump with one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: nine total yards in a touchdown. And Jones has scored
Speaker 2: in all three games since then, and he's coming off
Speaker 2: his best game in I don't know two months last week.
Speaker 2: The way you beat the Bears is on the ground,
Speaker 2: and they're turning into one of these softest ground matchups
Speaker 2: in the league. Over the past three weeks. The Bears
Speaker 2: ranked bottom five and fantasy points to runners bottom five,
Speaker 2: and rushing yards bottom five and rushing touchdowns allowed. And
Speaker 2: got a B grade on Aaron Jones kind of spineless.
Speaker 2: I probably should give him an A grade in this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: I like Aaron joking this matchup quite a bit, all right.
Speaker 2: If you if you played against Cooper Cup, take don't
Speaker 2: take a lot of chances with your roster. Protect your lead.
Speaker 2: You've gotten early.
Speaker 5: Said right, play it safe.
Speaker 2: If you started Cooper Cup, you need dark drows, you
Speaker 2: need some magic to happen. Find a quarterback, wide receiver,
Speaker 2: hookup or a quarterback tight end hookup that maybe you
Speaker 2: can exploit.
Speaker 4: And if you're one of my coworkers playing against me
Speaker 4: in a guillote league.
Speaker 2: Just give up.
Speaker 3: It's over.
Speaker 5: Over.
Speaker 4: I know I haven't brought that up yet in this episode,
Speaker 4: but it's over.
Speaker 2: Just give up. I love it man. Thank you for listening, everybody.
Speaker 2: We'll be back for a semi finals edition of Fantasy
Speaker 2: Football Weekly next week. Good luck everyone. Bye bye