WEBVTT - The Fantasy Playoffs are Here! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.880 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:11.560 source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.280 along with the guys from leagues dot com, here's your host, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:17.440 Paul Jarge. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.440 Welcome to a playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.759 am Paul Charchie and my co host today. Like last week, yes, 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:28.720 it's it's back to back. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.160 The last two weeks, and next week and next week. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.479 It's a month, a month's worth of Scott Fish and 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.279 thorn Eystrom. Hey, guys, are you dorm what's going on? 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:42.480 I did not start Cooper Cupp in any of my leagues. Yeah, same, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.120 I've dodged the bullet on that one. And it would 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.400 have been totally reasonable to start Cooper Cup definitely. You know, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.000 we didn't know it was going to rain as hard 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.120 as it rained, that was not in the forecast, and 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:59.360 the matchup was not anywhere near impossible for Cup. So yeah, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.760 let's a little later in the show, I'm going to 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.240 hope to work in some conversation about what you can 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.720 do if you started Cooper Cup and how you could 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.120 possibly rebound from that. But we'll we'll get into that 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.479 a little more detail later. We will still answer three 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.760 tough questions. We'll go through our take a chance to 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.440 me players. For those of you that still, for whatever reason, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.360 you need to hit the waiver wire. Maybe you've got 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.039 a player who's not going to play, like I don't know, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.880 Kenneth Walker not going to play, and you need to 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.400 go find a running back. We're going to try to 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.320 help you with some players that are a little lesser 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.080 known that you can still start. Let's get right into 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.720 the matchups, because we've got a lot of them, Scott Fish. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.560 Beginning with Dallas taking on Carolina. Yeah, a game that 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.840 I think like a month ago we'd have been like 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.360 the first game left on the schedule. But now we've 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.200 got some players not only. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.240 Yeah, it's changed way different. It's Carolina is favorite in 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.680 this well somehow after the Panther after good for the Panthers, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.200 Good for the Panthers. Dave Knealis might actually be I 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.160 mean we assumed he was legit, but he might be 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.680 really really good on the Dallas side. I actually only 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.600 have two starting grades this week. I'm not starting Cooperage 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.840 against the Panthers tenth top ten in past defense, fewest 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.280 pass yards and sixth, but they have a lot of 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.760 the six most scorers, but honestly, those are really good 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.680 quarterbacks who've got a lot of those scorers. But Ceedee 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.280 Lamb in a great matchup last week, Cook's got a 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.800 score that was thorde I Strom's take a chance on 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.239 me player. But otherwise in the last month, almost no 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.680 other wide receivers or tight ends are topping forty yards. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.040 You need a random score, So it's just Ceedee Lamb 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.680 sixteen plus fantasy points and three the last four. He 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.399 does have two duds in the five games with rush, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.800 but he's averaging ten targets a game. I'm still going 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.600 to give him the B in a little bit of 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.200 a tougher spot against the Panthers d lowing the fourth 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.919 fewest Fantasy points to the slot. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:52.720 I believe the average distance of completion for Ceedee Lamb 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.440 is like five yards. Wow. Yeah, it's a lot of 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.880 short stuff. Hard to get explosive results out of that. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.040 Yeah, Jake Ferguson people might be wondering about I do 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.519 have him on the bench. I understand the dart throw 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.040 as Carolina has allowed eight scores in the last seven 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:14.040 weeks to tight ends, including Calcutta, Kalka, Ta but with 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.919 Rush he's been really really bad in in three full 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.840 games with Rush. He was good with Prescott, but not 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.080 with Rush, so I have him on the bench. Rico 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.680 Doddle has an a grade here. He's basically become a 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.560 true bellcow. Over the last few weeks, Carolina allowing the 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.400 most touches, yards and scores to running backs. Four of 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.600 the last five lead backs went for one hundred plus. 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.680 Kareem Hunt was the one that didn't. He went for 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.520 eighty seven, but his metrics are terrible, so that's why 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.040 he didn't get there. And there are five scores from 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.280 those five lead backs. Dowdell himself has one hundred plus 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.680 in back to back. Over to the Carolina side, I 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.440 only have three starting grades and it's Bryce Young, Adam Thielen, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.240 and Chewba Hubbard Chewba Hubbard without Jonathan Brooks for this one, Brooks. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:00.760 And without Miles Sanders and without Rashim black Year or whatever, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.680 Raheem Blackjek who suffered a blunt force trauma to his chest. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.840 Yeah, we saw Cuba with thirty carries last week after 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.880 Brooks went out, he went for one hundred and a score. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.640 In fact, he's had five scores in the last five games. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.920 Panthers are holding it with opponents they're favored in this one. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.920 He should be active, pretty active in this one. Tuba 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.240 had seventeen plus touches in eight straight before Brooks started 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.760 to nerf that utilization. Seven running backs have hit seventeen 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.880 touches against the Cowboys. They averaged one hundred and thirty 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.960 five yards, and those seven running backs scored twelve times. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.919 So there's a lot to be had for Hubbard here, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.200 Bryce Young. This is the fourth easiest matchup for quarterbacks, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.120 tenth most passing yards allowed, five in the last six. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.400 Five times in the last six weeks they've had the 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.600 quarterback run for fifty plus and or a score, which 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.640 Bryce Young can get that. He had a score just 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.599 last week, so there's possible extra extra work there. Young 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.240 himself off has at least one score in six straight 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.080 a couple multiple score games. I gave him a bench 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.120 grade last week, rightly so, but this is just such 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.800 a really good matchup C grade here and Adam Thielen 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.040 his would bee gets a B grade. Dominated targets last 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.719 two weeks with twenty one targets, sixteen catches, two hundred 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.760 and one yards. He's at a snapshare or target shaars 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.400 of thirty three percent and twenty four percent. Dallas allowing 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.000 the ninth most fantasy points to wide receivers. They really 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.320 allow it more to the perimeter, but thelan just gets 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.000 so many targets. He's getting the B grade here. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.839 He's just been feeling has been fantastic in his return 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.839 from injury so far. Kind of makes me, you know, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.640 it's really too bad about the six week long hamstring 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.400 injury that Peelan Hacks. I would have liked to. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:43.480 But I mean, we saw him last year at the 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.240 start of the season. Maybe he just can't go a 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.400 full season. Like, it's good for our fantasy playoffs that 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:48.800 he's got it. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.760 It is good for the fantasy playoffs. You know what 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.159 else is good for the fantasy playoffs? Thor Nystrom starting 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.400 any Bills against a Detroit defense. That's good. That is 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.680 thirteen players on injured reserve. This should be a point 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.640 binanza on both sides, right, it should be. And I 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:05.240 don't know if I. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.839 Can go a full season sometimes, mister fish, but we'll 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.440 try to get through. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:08.760 Yeah. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.800 John Josh Allen certainly a must start in an A 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.600 fifty one point eight Fantasy points last week. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.200 Wow, that was incredible, easy incredible. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.400 He's on my aforementioned Guillotine League team against my. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:26.039 Cowork Hey love that. Nice going to it, James Cook. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:26.800 I'll give him a C. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.240 He is RB twelve and Fantasy points per game, but 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.880 has finished with less than fifty rushing yards three of 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.000 his last five and this is not a good matchup 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.839 for a turnaround. The Lions since Week nine have allowed 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.080 the third fewest rushing yards per game. I keep Ray 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.719 Davis on the bench. Last week he did have a touchdown, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.560 but I don't think this is the matchup to get 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.440 him involved. Maury Cooper give him a bee. Last week 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.359 he had six receptions for ninety five yards. That was 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.719 good for wide receiver twenty four in fantasy. Detroit hasn't 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.800 been the best matchup for perimeter wide receivers recently. Since 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.400 Week nine, they've allowed the fifth fewest PPR points per 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.240 target to boundary receivers. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.680 But Terry on Arnold is the most penalized cornerback in. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.880 The league, so I'm wondering if the Bills will get 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.840 aggressive targeting him downfield and that could that could open 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.600 up more downfield targets. So for whatever it's worth, Just 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.000 like I give Cooper a be gonna give Khalil Shakira bee. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.040 Since Week seven, Shakira has been wide receiver twenty four 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.880 and fantasy points per game. He has six red zone 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.920 targets across his last seven games, and this. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.560 Is a good match. That's a big change for him. Yes, yeah, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.280 you're ready to get those. Give give Shakir some fantasy 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.280 upside that he has not had previously. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.320 On thousand percent this season, Detroit has allowed the second 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.600 most receiving yards per game to opposing slot receivers, so 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.320 it could be a good spot for Shakir. Keon Coleman 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.480 is going to return this week from a wrist injury. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.400 I'd advise to keep him on the bench for now. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.600 Cooe ingratiates back in Dalton Kin kaid I'm gonna give 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.600 him a CEE. He has also injured missed the last 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.480 three games with the knee injury. He would step back 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.200 into his normal pass catching role in this offense if 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.760 he is healthy, but that's currently unclear. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.560 And the Lions have one of. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.120 The NFL's toughest defenses against opposing tight ends, allowing just 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.840 five point eight fantasy points per contest of that position. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.640 Moving over to the Lions, I gave Jared Goffin a 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.560 QB twelve fantasy points per game, and another big game 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.560 should be coming for him here against this floundering Bills 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.320 pass defense. Since Week nine, the Bills have allowed the 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.640 highest success rate per dropback in the entire NFL peast. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.000 I would not have guessed. Yeah, holy cow, all. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.760 Right, David Montgomery is day near at mustard A at 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.960 this point. Right, Yeah, He's got at least three passes 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.880 and four straight appearances, so I thought that that was notable, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.040 and only eight running backs have more PPR points than 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.720 David Montgomery this year. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:38.320 Jremier Gibbs is of course a. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.360 Must start as well the a Amana Saint Brown as 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.880 well with A Jamison Williams. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.719 I gave him a C. I was going back and 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:46.760 forth between B and C. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.240 He's wide receiver thirty seven fantasy points per game this year, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.840 four top twenty four wide receiver weeks this season so far. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.319 The matchup here for him Since Week nine, Buffalo has 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.559 allowed the six most PPR points per target to permit 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.280 our wide receivers, and they also have a really banged 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:07.559 up secondary right now, Buffalo does starting outside cornerback Rasuell 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.800 Douglas with a knee injury has already been ruled out. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.319 Kyer Elam, who they took a couple of years ago 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.839 as a first round pick. Healthy scratch three straight games 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.600 under this we'll see it. We'll see if he gets 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.800 in for this one. And then they're starting safeties Taylor 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.360 rap and Tamorrow Hamlin are both questionable in this game, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.800 so this could be an opportunity. I'll go bea ima. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.200 I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna toggle him up. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.480 And then I also gave a B to Sam laportat 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.200 tight end. Fourteen fantasy points per game. He has finished 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.600 as a tight end one six times in the last 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.720 nine games. Might not seem like that because of the 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.040 disappointing season, but he is playing a bit better. But 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.679 Buffalo is a bad matchup for opposing tight ends. They 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.520 allow the lowest yards per reception to opposing tight ends 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.280 and the fourth fewest fantasy points per game to tight end, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.120 So give him Sam Laport a B. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.280 Baltimore takes on the Giants and this one won't take 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.559 very long, so it's This is pretty obvious what you're 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.120 doing in most of these cases, especially in the fantasy playoffs. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.920 Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry are obvious A grades against 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.040 the Giants. We do not need to spend time on them. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.040 Let's talk Za Flowers. The sophomor has become a consistent 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.120 fantasy factor with touchdowns or at least sixty two yards 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.920 in seven of the last nine games. And funny thing 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:21.760 is the Giants have been a shockingly competent secondary for 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.160 a lot of the year. No receivers hit one hundred 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.760 yards against the Giants all year. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:26.360 Wow. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.840 In the past month, only one receiver scored against the Giants. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.320 They held Ceedee Lamb to thirty nine yards two weeks ago. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.080 Now Flowers runs from the whole field. He's a XYZ 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.960 guy left right slot. And actually, the Giants cornerbacks are 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.640 shockingly competent at all three spots. Their starting cornerbacks hold 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:50.320 PFF coverage grades as cornerback fifty two, twenty three and 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.800 cornerback seven. Not half bad Giants, so B grade on 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:59.080 Zay Flowers Mark Andrews. Though this is also thorny because 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.600 fannac football is a cruel, cruel sport. I would like 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.160 to just remind people that Mark Andrews in the first 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.920 five weeks was an automatic l to your team, as 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.439 he was tight end thirty four in the first five 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.959 weeks with fewer fantasy points than A. J. Barner and 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:24.520 Eric All. Everybody dropped Andrews and understandably so at that point. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.560 Since then week six forward, Mark Andrews is tight end 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.040 three with touchdowns in six different games. This is a 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.800 shockingly tough matchup with the Giants team that stops tight ends. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.560 The Giants rank number two in tight end fantasy points allowed, 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.280 they ranked number four in yards allowed, and they've given 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.800 up just two touchdowns at the position all year. Now 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.680 that's it. Their worst game was last week with the 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.320 Saints tight ends totally one hundred yards and scoring. So, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.800 you know, maybe a little bit of optimism and a 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.600 C grade on Mark andrews 'scover to the Giants side. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.320 Tyron tracing great game last week, coming off a career 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:03.199 high snapcount and season high routes run plus Devin Singletary 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.160 only two carries last week, so they seem to be 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.520 really crystallizing on tyrone tracy. But this is a brutal 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.720 matchup against a terrific Ravens run defense. They're only giving 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.840 up one. They only gave up one hundred and seven 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.640 yards to Saquon Barkley last week. That is a major win. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.400 And before that, no back had topped fifty two yards 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.319 all season. The Ravens ranked number one in yards per 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.720 carry number one and tackle rate number one in yards 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.880 after contact allowed. Tyrone Tracy just a volume see in 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.800 this matchup. And the only other Giant you care about 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:38.360 is Milik Neighbors. He hasn't scored since Week three. Scott 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.480 and Thor, would you care to guess how many players 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.360 have scored a touchdown since Molik Neighbors last score d 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:53.840 touchdown WOW? Eighty four, eighty four and fourteen. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.720 I was gonna guess well over one hundred two. I 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.200 just I wanted to go low. I figured you'd go high, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.080 so I wanted to go low. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.880 That's right, Well, you playing prices right, rule I was Scott. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.880 One hundred and ninety players have scored touchdowns since Malik 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.800 Neighbors last touchdown. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:13.240 WOW does include passing touchdowns that it does not include 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.120 passing touchdowns, but it does include quarterback rushing touchdowns, okay, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:17.640 and defensive touchdown. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.760 So there's some defensive players. Oh, okay too, your starter 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.880 is Tommy DeVito. He and Drew Locke just can't complete 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:30.000 downfield passes. And by downfield, I don't mean way downfield. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.600 I mean ten yards. That is from me to Scott 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.080 Fish right now. Ten yards. That's it. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:37.200 We are a little too close. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.640 We are a little too close on passes of ten 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.880 yards or more. Lock and de Vito are completing thirty 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:48.120 five percent of their passes. It's so sad. By way 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:52.360 of comparison, Sam Darnold is completing fifty six percent of 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.000 his passes of over twenty yards. It's awful. And that 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.200 is why Malik Neighbors only comes in with a C 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.360 grade here. And really you're just talking about PPR only 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.959 where you're going to get a lot of volume and 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.679 not necessarily a lot of scoring opportunities. The rest of 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.319 the Giants passing game is on the bench. In the 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.720 fantasy playoffs, we wouldn't even necessarily think about starting any 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.079 of those other guys when we come back, take a 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.160 chance on me. We'll give you nine players. You would 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.520 not normally start many of these players on the waiver wire, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.520 even in the fantasy playoffs. These guys can be very 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.960 helpful for your team. Find out who they are when 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:26.560 we come back. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:55.080 The chance on me nine players you would not normally start. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.520 Many of these guys available on the waiver wire would 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.600 begin at the quarterback position, Scott Fish. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.640 You know what are the last people I would ever 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.960 tell anyone to take a chance on is Aaron Rodgers. Okay, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.000 but maybe this week. No, just in general, listen, match 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.880 This is the match up the Jags allowing the second 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.800 most passing yard sixth most passing touchdowns, and we know 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.320 Aaron Rodgers loves his multiple passing touchdown games. They also 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.760 allow the most twenty plus yard completions and the most 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:25.440 forty plus yard completions. Rodgers himself kind of a multi 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.760 score game guy this year failed last week, but at 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.040 least he tai tally three hundred and that one. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.800 Alaron Rodgers, Yeah, okay, sorry, I'm kind of with you 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.760 on this. Yeah, you're super flex. I'm interested thor you're 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.600 taking chance on me? Quarterback is Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.800 against the Dolphins. Stroud only has three QBI one finishes 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.320 in Fantasy all year, and he has finished outside the 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.000 top twenty four quarterbacks in two of three weeks with 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.120 Nico Collins back, That's what we were sort of hanging 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.840 our hat on. I know this is a good opportunity 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.840 to get right though, if you have some gambling yet. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.600 The Dolphins since Week nine have allowed the fourth most 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.320 passing yards in the NFL. They also importantly have a 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.400 mediocre pass rush, which is very important with the idea 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.320 of not caving in that bad Texans offensive line given 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.360 Stroud some time to throw. It is three straight weeks 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.680 of me choosing Will Levis and that might be the 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.840 pinnacle masiness for me, and you know what, it's week fifteen. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.880 Deal with it. Or maybe Will Levis just isn't half 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.640 bad and remains applausible dart throw especially in DFS super 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.640 Flex two quarterback leagues. Now, okay, granted, Levis delivered a 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.800 bummer for us last week when I thought he was 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.760 going to be better, But he had posted multiple touchdowns 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.880 in three of the previous four games, and this matchups 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.640 against the easiest defense in the league, Cincinnati, the team 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.880 allowing thirty four points per game over the last six weeks. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.320 Over the last four Bengals games, here's the passing touchdowns 0:16:55.320 --> 0:17:01.000 they've allowed two, three, two and four. Also, by the way, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.880 given up the most quarterback rushing yards in the Leaguebill 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.399 Levis is not Lamar Jackson, but you know he can 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.480 get a little something done with the legs. We'll try 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.440 Will Levis, this might take a chance at me quarterback. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.399 Let's go to the running back position. Scott. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.679 Yeah, I'm gonna start to get grimeier and grimeer here, 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.760 all right. I am going Jalil McLoughlin, Denver running back. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.480 Remember two weeks ago when McLoughlin was averaging six yards 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.760 per carrying that Browns Monday night football shootout, Sean Payton 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.800 said it was due to them feeling they could attack 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.159 the Browns with sweeps and toss plays. Well, the Colts 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.160 are second worst in the league in defending such stretch plays. Wow, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.400 So it might be it might be a spot where 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.000 Peyton is picking his running backs each week to attack 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.960 certain teams. This feels like the spot for McLoughlin, and 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.560 the Colts in general are allowing the second most rushing 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.520 yards and the third most combo yards. I think it's 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.320 a really good spot here. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.600 I like it. I like it. McLaughlin was he got 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.800 most of the work he did. He did. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.320 Yeah, I could have gone into his snaps and everything 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.720 next to Williams, but nah, let's go. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:01.800 Thor you take a chance with me. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.639 Running back is Steelers running back Jalen Warren against the Eagles. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.600 Since we gave this, is that a tough assignment? I 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.000 want to hear about this. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.959 Since we gat Warren has had two top twenty four 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.760 running back finishes RB twenty two, RB eleven, averaging twelve 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.160 touches seventy seventy yards in total yards and change during 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.679 that time. And I actually think this is a decent 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.399 matchup for him. Since week nine, the Eagles are allowing 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.800 the ninth highest yards after contact per attempt and with 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.280 George Pickens out, you're going against a run funnel defense. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.879 Eagles pass defense been really good. I think the running 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.440 game gets established. I think Warren gets some work, maybe 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:39.679 gets he has some fantasy points. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.240 All right, that's bold. I'm gonna try Taj Spears. You know, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.920 Tony Pollard's got a pretty serious ankle injury. He is questionable. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.159 Looks like a game time decision for Pollard. So I 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.479 think Spears is going to get a big uptick. And 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.639 really it's He's only seen one double digit carry game 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.720 all year, and he scored in that game. This week's opponent, again, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.000 as I just mentioned in the Will Loves part, Cincinnati 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.359 very yielding on the ground as well. They've given up 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:10.000 rushing touchdowns in ten of thirteen games, and in those 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.240 I mentioned ten of thirteen. In the other three games, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.840 opposing rusher's top one hundred yards. So I mean Cincinnati's 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.840 given up a one hundred yard game or a touchdown 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.159 in every game this year. Last week, Reco dowbtle one 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.760 hundred and thirty one yards and seven yards per carry 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.520 against the Bengals. Taj Spears. All right, let's go to 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:29.760 our receivers, Scott. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.160 I am going to the tight end position for Stone Smart. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:38.120 Tight end for the Los Angeles Chargers. Will Disley is out, 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.719 Haydenhurst is out. Stone Smart steps in last week when 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.440 Disley came out, Stone Smart had three for fifty four 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.879 yards in the third and fourth quarter. He's a six 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.440 four two and twenty six pound guy came out of 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.000 college with a ninety eighth percentile burst score. Since Week seven, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.440 you really don't get worse than the Bucks against tight ends. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.639 Andrews went forty one to two forty one yards two scores, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.679 Pits ninety one and two score, Kelsey one hundred and 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.679 Gray scored in that game, Kittle fifty seven in a score, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:09.560 Tommy Trembles seventy seven yards, Michael Mayer seven for sixty eight, 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.960 and Brock Bauers three for forty nine. In that same game, 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.399 they're getting tagged and Herbert throws to his tight end 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:15.640 twenty two percent of the time. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.600 You could have just stopped at Kyle Pitts scored twice 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.919 and that's really scores. That's right, that's the lead story. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.359 By the way. Pot Kyle Pitts a good, great matchup 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.320 this week too. Yeah, we'll find out talk about that. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:28.800 I don't know. Yeah, you've got that one. We'll get 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:30.720 We'll find out what you're great is for Kyle Pitts 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.240 a little later thor you take a chance with me. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.639 Receiver is Tank Dell against the Dolphins? All right? 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.359 Since Nico Collins's return, Dell hasn't surpassed seventy two receiving 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.360 yards or ten Fantasy points in any game. Zero red 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.879 zone target. I'm gonna I'm gonna start with the bad stuff. Okay, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.760 it hasn't finished higher than wide receiver thirty three and 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.560 weekly fantasy scoring. But that Dolphins pass defense has been 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.760 struggling over the past month and the lack of pass rush. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.040 The aforementioned lack of pass rush means that the Texans 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:02.480 offensive line is not gonna. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.359 Get exploited again. I think, and given CJ. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.640 Stroud time to throw end that route running merchant, Tank 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.919 Dell time to get open, I think this is a 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:11.800 big opportunity to get right for Tank Dell. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.400 I'm gonna go to the other side of that same matchup. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.880 I'm gonna let pass transgressions go. Breathe in, breathe out. Yep. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.879 Jalen Waddle yep. Against Houston. He's been a wide receiver 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:30.120 too in four of the last five games, Tua throwing 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.640 his arm out of socket lately. Here's his last three 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:38.080 games forty passes, forty six passes and then last week 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.920 forty seven passes. That's enabled Tua to target Wattle more often, 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.080 including a season high twelve targets last week, and Waddle's 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.359 running more routes than ever before. Last three weeks, Waddle 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.760 posted season highs and routes run in all three games. 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.320 And here comes a deeply slumping Houston secondary. Over the 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.360 past five weeks, Houston has allowed the sixth most Fantasy 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.160 points per game to wide receivers. And when we saw 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.440 Houston last two weeks ago before the bye, Parker Washington 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.360 was crushing them for one hundred and three yards. Houston 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.240 just lost their starting safety Jalen Petrieve to a season 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.399 ending injury, and Petree was playing the slot and Wattle 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.280 runs about a third of his plays from there. Jalen Waddle, 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.159 We're gonna let by guns be bygunes. Jalen Waddle just 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.800 come up big in the fantasy playoffs. If you don't mind, Scott, 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:25.840 Let's go to the Jets taking on the Jaguars. You 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.119 tell us that you like Aaron Rodgers in this team, 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:29.960 and I concur with that. 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.480 It's a great matchup for the passing game. So I 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.120 have dueling bees coming from Devonte Adams and Garrett Wilson 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.159 in this. Once again DeVante Adams getting the higher b 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:43.200 of that level because he's outscored Garrett Wilson for five 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:47.760 straight weeks. Wow, it's every single week week he outscores him. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.640 In Fantasy. I mentioned just a minute ago. No team 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:54.320 gives up more explicit plays than the Jags. Fifty eight plays, 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.399 fifty eight passes of twenty plus yards, ten passes of 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:01.399 forty plus yards allowed on by the Jags. Jags allowing 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:05.080 the fourth most yards to wide receivers. So high B 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.280 for Devonte Adams, lower B for Garrett Wilson, who had 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:10.760 one hundred last week, but the three to four that 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:13.760 were kind of duds. I understand that. But he's still 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:16.360 averaging like nine targets a game, and it is funneled 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:20.440 through two people. Two wide receivers. Is where everything goes, 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.720 and the matchup just dictates that he should still be 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:28.520 really really good here in the running game. Brice Hall, 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.640 as of Friday, fully practiced. Yeah, he said he feels good, 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.760 said he's gonna go. It keeps me from having to 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:40.199 discuss Braylan Allen versus Isaiah Davis for too long. So 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.160 I'm just gonna go to a B grade on Breece Hall, 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:45.480 assuming he is fully ready to go in healthy. Because 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:48.199 the Jags allow the third most touches per game at thirty, 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.359 the fourth most yards, and the fifth most scores, the 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.280 game scripts should be a little bit in the gym. 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:57.520 Jets favor to run run more too, so yeah, I 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.520 got a B grade on Brice Hall over to the 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:01.600 Jaguar side. I only have one starting grade. Do you 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.399 want to guess who it is? I bet you know. 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.760 Uh no, no. 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:08.800 It's I've set you up. I set you up. It's 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.639 Brian Thomas Junior. It's always Brian Thomas. 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:13.560 Well, but you know who else? 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:18.240 I love Tank Beasbie, thank you. Yeah, you're not starting 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.600 Mac Jones against the top A pass d. You're not 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:23.159 starting Brenton Strange with Ingram out for the season with 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:24.760 the torn labra. And by the way, I've been going 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:29.600 Ingram as also someone with like a pure amazing physical 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:33.320 form and has has ed tour type. I can give 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:35.960 you tips if you need to know anything about that. 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.360 But Brian Thomas zero catches in the first half last 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:42.120 week eight. In the second half, the Jets do give 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:44.879 up the sixth fewest Fantasy Fantasy points to the perimeter. 0:24:44.920 --> 0:24:47.160 He's going to get the slightly easier side, assuming sast 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:49.640 Gardner is good to go. Uh But over the last 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.240 three games, New York has allowed forty five receptions for 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:55.080 six hundred and eight receiving yards and two scores too. 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:57.600 It's not like the two opposing wide receivers. They have 0:24:57.680 --> 0:24:59.840 been really good all year. In the last couple of 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:02.760 week they've let it come back. Brian Thomas has seventy 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:05.520 five plus yards in seven games this season, including the 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:08.440 including each of the last three with Mac Jones, seven 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.879 plus targets in all the mac Jones games he finds 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:14.280 him in the running game, Jets are just the top 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.480 ten d the rundy that allows the six lowest yards 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.320 per carry. They've allowed a rushing score in the three 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.000 of the last four, but the yardage is laughable. James 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:26.520 Connor thirty three yards, Jonathan Taylor fifty seven yards, Kenneth 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.240 Walker forty nine, Devin h Chan twenty four. And if 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.680 you're talking about any kind of a split where ETN 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:33.600 is getting the receiving work and some of the goal 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:36.360 line work, I just can't find a starting grade there. 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:38.400 I can't either. Yeah, and I you know I'll find 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:41.040 an excuse to start Tank Bigsby not in my fantasy 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:43.679 playoff game. Yep, we're not going to try for that. Thor, 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:45.560 Let's see if we can sneak in one more matchup, 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:47.919 because you've already talked a lot about the Dolphins and 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:49.840 the Texans between us. I think we had three Take 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:52.600 a chance on me. Guys, let's start on the Dolphins 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:55.160 side of this one. You want to go Devon h Chan, 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:56.160 Where do you want to go there? 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:57.919 I'm going to start with Tua because you mentioned how 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:00.880 much you've been throwing recently last four games. These are 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:04.480 his finishes in Fantasy QB ten, QB three, QB eight, 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:07.040 QB eight, nice and this is a solid matchup to 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:09.600 keep the good times rolling. The Texans have allowed fifty 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:12.840 seven passing yards above expected in the last four games. 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:15.520 Think another strong game is coming for two. Gave him 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:15.720 an A. 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.000 Devin Aught Chane is an obvious must start A, although 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:20.920 I do have to say he's averaging only two point 0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:24.800 two yards carry rushing on thirty one carries last three weeks, 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:29.359 but seventeen catches over that span for three scores, so 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:33.240 he remains Fantasy king. Tyreek Kill is an a wide 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:36.320 receiver seventeen in Fantasy since to his return tds in 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.360 four or five games, nineteen point three fantasy points per 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:41.800 game over his last four and the Texans have allowed 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:44.840 thirty nine Fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.720 in the last four games. Jalen Wado was charged to 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:49.840 take a chance on me. He reminds you, guys, how 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:51.720 bad the Texans passed he has been recently. 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:57.280 And John new Smith, your boy is finally getting an a. 0:26:57.720 --> 0:26:58.679 John's getting a here. 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:02.200 Nine red zone targets in the last seven games, tight 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:04.200 end six and fantasy points per game. And this is 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:06.479 a decent matchup against the Texans defense that has been 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:07.800 mediocre against tight ends. 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:10.040 I think we are learning something that when Church loves 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:11.679 a guy and we're not talking I really like this, 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:13.920 we're talking pants fly Off loves a guy. 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:18.240 Wait two years, two years, that's right, boom. Eventually I 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:19.240 will be proven right. 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:20.800 But he just charges. 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:27.400 He's perfected the boomerang, boomerang. Take yes, coming back around right, 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:29.560 Tank bigsby next year, Oh look out baby. 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:32.080 Moving over to the texanside, c J. Strout was might 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:32.879 take a chance on me. 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:33.160 Guy. 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:35.680 Joe Mixon is an obvious must start a as is 0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:38.280 Nico Collins, who is averaging more than one hundred receiving 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.280 yards per game. Tank Dell was my take a chance 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:43.879 on your receiver, and Dalton Schultz I'm giving him a ce. 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.440 Schultz's two best fantasy finishes of the year have come 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:49.760 in the last four games. Tight end eleven, tight end seven. 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:52.160 This isn't a bad spot for one of those tight 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:55.920 end one weeks, potentially the Dolphins. But the Dolphins are 0:27:56.040 --> 0:27:58.800 solid against opposing tight ends. They allowed the eleventh fewest 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:00.800 yards per reception into posing Titians. 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:02.960 I settled on a see for Dalton Schultz. I think 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:06.800 that probably sounds about right. And hopefully in the fantasy playoffs, 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.000 you don't have to rely on Dalton Schultz. Hopefully, hopefully not, 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:12.119 especially when you've got Jon Smith out there. If you 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:14.920 just go with him, your boy, he is my boy. 0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:17.360 Let me tell you it goes way way back. Chiefs 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:20.280 in the Browns when we come back, this is a 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:23.040 this is a this is a really tricky one for 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:26.480 the Brown side. You're starting Jerry Judy in the fantasy playoffs, 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:29.680 what about jimas Winston find out when we come back 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.000 to Fantasy Football. 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:46.760 Weekly, big block of matchups. 0:28:46.280 --> 0:28:51.280 For you, beginning with the Kansas City Chiefs at Cleveland Brown's. 0:28:52.000 --> 0:28:54.200 Let's talk this one through. Starting on the Kansas City side, 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:56.959 I'm gonna start with the receivers DeAndre Hopkins and Xavier Worthy. 0:28:57.080 --> 0:29:00.080 I like him both here more than most weeks. The 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:04.000 Brown's past events has turned very leaky. How bad you ask? 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:05.320 They let Van. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:08.040 Jefferson score on them last week, and before that they 0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:12.280 got pounded by Marvin Mims, and before that Calvin Austin 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:17.640 and before that Mark Hezveld is scantling yew. So what 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:20.560 I want the comparison. I want you to think about Mims, 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:25.720 Calvin Austin and MVS. They are vertical speed guys, just 0:29:25.840 --> 0:29:31.560 like Xavier Worthy. Every I always do the Chiefs every week. 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:34.240 I'm like, do you know, be careful and worthy. It's 0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:37.640 not a lot of catches, show caution, boom or bust. 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:41.320 Game on B grade Xavier Worthy, I feel more confident 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:43.920 about him here than any other time. As for Hopkins 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:46.240 also getting the B grade because he's the most consistent 0:29:46.320 --> 0:29:49.800 target earner from Mahomes by a mile among the receivers, 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:53.520 averaging seven targets per game since week number nine, So 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:57.160 he is also a safe play against a yielding Brown secondary. 0:29:57.840 --> 0:30:00.479 Let's go to Travis Kelcey. He continues to post been 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:03.440 not great totals, either because maybe just his age or 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:07.320 the emergence of Noah Gray, who increasingly looks like Kelsey's 0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:11.000 heir apparent. Kelsey's only scored twice all year and the 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:13.880 Browns have only allowed three tight ends scores all year, 0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:16.520 so I don't think a touchdowns coming for Kelsey. Here, 0:30:16.720 --> 0:30:18.920 Gray is siphoning off five targets per game, and he's 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:22.400 seen three of the last four tight end end zone 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:26.280 targets from Patrick Mahomes. So more of the same for Kelsey, 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.440 which is volume but not touchdowns B grade. Then let's 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:34.000 go to Patrick Mahomes. I've got up some worry about 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:36.320 Mahomes being kept upright in this game. Now is left 0:30:36.320 --> 0:30:39.880 tackle DJ Humphries' his fresh off IR. Last week he 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:44.920 allowed five pressures, and now he faces Miles Garrett, who 0:30:45.000 --> 0:30:48.720 already has eleven sacks and fifty eight pressures, only two 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:52.520 behind the NFL leader Jonathan Grenard. So assuming Mahomes doesn't 0:30:52.600 --> 0:30:56.360 get destroyed by Miles Garrett, I like his chances against 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:59.440 the defense that's allowed passing touchdowns to nine straight quarterbacks 0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:03.520 and multiple touchdowns to six of the last eight quarterbacks 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.880 to face Cleveland. So A B great for Patrick Mahomes 0:31:07.160 --> 0:31:10.040 and a'll be great for Isaiah Pachecko. Two weeks ago, 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:12.200 he got half of the work. Last week he got 0:31:12.200 --> 0:31:15.320 two thirds of the work. Kareem Hunt remains a nuisance 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:19.000 despite being highly ineffective, and this is a weird matchup 0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:23.040 for Pacheco. The Browns rank number one in ESPN's run 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:26.320 stuff win rate, and they rank number one by Pro 0:31:26.320 --> 0:31:31.280 Football focuses run defensive rankings. But the Browns are the 0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:34.400 rare break but don't bend defense. Despite no runner topping 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:37.160 eighty four yards all year, Cleveland has given up seven 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:40.200 rushing touchdowns in the past six games. Let's hope Pacheco 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:42.080 can get in the end zone here, and I've got 0:31:42.080 --> 0:31:43.840 to be great on him under the assumption he's going 0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:46.280 to get most of the work and we're dropping Kareem 0:31:46.360 --> 0:31:48.640 Hunt outright, except if you want him as a handcuff 0:31:48.680 --> 0:31:50.920 to Pachecko. Now let's go to the Cleveland side. I 0:31:50.960 --> 0:31:53.440 want to start with Jerry Judy. Over the past month, 0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:58.800 four games, here's Jerry Judy's average game. Seven catches for 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:02.400 one hundred and thirty yards and almost a full touchdown 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:02.800 per game. 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:04.440 I do feel like the two point thirty in the 0:32:04.520 --> 0:32:08.560 Broncos game is doing a little yes, right, it's. 0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:11.200 Still really high, it is, and over the past month 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:15.120 only only Jamar Chase is averaging more fantasy points than 0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:20.280 Jerry Judy. Nobody saw this coming. Kansas City's secondary was 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:22.360 really good at the beginning of the season, but it 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:26.840 has regressed lately. Over the past five games, the Chiefs 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:29.800 giving up the seventh most fantasy points to receivers, and 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:32.560 even the prospect of some shadow coverage from Trent McDuffie 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:35.760 isn't a major concern any longer. Because McDuffie's allowed three 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:37.920 touchdowns in the past six games. He doesn't feel like 0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:42.440 the shutdown guy that he was, so Jerry Judy A. 0:32:43.400 --> 0:32:46.760 I didn't think I'd ever say it. Unbelievable. Let's go 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:50.280 to David at Joku. So now Djoku is may very 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:52.320 well not play in this game. He's shaping up as 0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:54.600 a game time decision. You're gonna have to pay close 0:32:54.640 --> 0:32:57.680 attention to this. If he were fully healthy, I would 0:32:57.680 --> 0:33:00.360 give him an A grade. In the last two games, 0:33:00.480 --> 0:33:05.600 and Joku's been targeted thirty times two games, the Chiefs 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:09.000 ranked dead last in tight end yards and receptions allowed. 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:12.280 They're the first team to give up one thousand yards 0:33:12.320 --> 0:33:15.719 to opposing tight ends this year. Something called stone smart 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:19.719 you take a chance something called posted fifty four yards 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:21.960 against them last week and the week before that brock 0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:24.440 Bauers hammered the Chiefs for ten catches one hundred and 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:27.080 forty yards. So in Joko comes in with a B grade, 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:28.440 assuming he can play in this one. 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:30.040 Watch it he missed practice Fridays. 0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:32.120 That's right, this is It's gonna be cautious. They've not 0:33:32.200 --> 0:33:35.640 ruled him out total Dart the rafter that, but Jordan 0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:38.920 Akins would be the replacement for David and Joku. Staying 0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:40.800 with the passing game, Elijah Wore comes in with a 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:44.280 C grade. Jameis Winston's the best thing that has ever 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:47.200 happened to Elijah war as his role in the offense 0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:52.400 has exploded. He's averaging eight targets per game under Jamis Winston, 0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:56.560 which was double Elijah Moore's usage under de Shaun Watson. 0:33:57.080 --> 0:34:00.400 The other huge difference Yolo Winston is using more down field. 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:03.800 Moore's gone from five yards per target under Watson to 0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:08.000 twelve yards per target under Winston. Moore's air yards have 0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:11.040 gone from twenty three yards per game to ninety five 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:14.520 yards per game under Winston. And with Cedric Tillman out 0:34:14.520 --> 0:34:18.520 of this game, Elijah Moore legitimate play. I'm moving him 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:21.080 to a B grad B grade on Elijah Moore with 0:34:21.080 --> 0:34:24.680 Tilman out, and that leaves us in the passing game 0:34:24.880 --> 0:34:29.359 with Jameis Winston. So normally he's like all or nothing guy, right, 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:31.480 like he's an A grade or a C grade, and 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:33.520 I'm kind of pushing him into the middle, which is 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:35.920 kind of a cop out with a B grade. The catches. 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:40.840 Kansas City's almost always giving up some fantasy points to quarterbacks, 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:44.640 but not like all or nothing. Every opposing quarterback has 0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:46.960 scored a touchdown. None have scored more than two in 0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:50.080 a game. So I've got a's and I've got an 0:34:50.120 --> 0:34:52.200 A and two b's on his receivers. I'm putting a 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:54.800 B grade on Jameis Winston in this one. And then lastly, 0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:56.759 Nick Chubb and Jerome Ford are on the bench. It's 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:59.600 a sixty forty times share. And by the way, Jerome 0:34:59.640 --> 0:35:02.640 Ford is a sixty on the sixty to forty time share. 0:35:02.440 --> 0:35:05.120 With Nick Chubbub did not come back looking like the 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:05.640 old Nick. 0:35:05.640 --> 0:35:08.319 Joe, not at all. Unfortunately, the Chiefs are a great 0:35:08.360 --> 0:35:10.800 run defense. They rank second best in yards per carry, 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:13.399 second best in yards after contact, fifth best and miss 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:16.880 tackle rate and no back his top sixty four yards 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:20.040 against Kansas City all year. So Chubb and Ford are 0:35:20.040 --> 0:35:22.960 on the bench. Let's go to our next matchup, Colts 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:26.480 taking on the Denver Broncos. Scott uh from the Colt side, 0:35:26.600 --> 0:35:28.600 can we start with Jonathan Taylor? Shirt has been a 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:30.680 major bummer this year? 0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:34.279 He has, he has, and he did disappear against in 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:36.560 the Detroit blow out a couple weeks ago, but in 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:39.040 the three or three games surrounding it, he's been a 0:35:39.080 --> 0:35:42.520 twenty five plus touch guy. And every single twenty plus 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.880 touch back has gone over one hundred yards on the Broncos. 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:47.479 Okay, let's hope the touches are there. 0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:50.560 And those five backs all scored, okay, And he is 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:51.080 a workhourse. 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:53.239 So if he's getting work, Taylor's getting work, he just 0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:55.520 isn't giving you the production out of that much work. 0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:58.040 And those are the majority of the workhorse backs Denver's face. 0:35:58.120 --> 0:36:00.399 They faced a ton of split backfields. If you look 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:04.120 at the splits, the Browns runners combined for twenty one 0:36:04.160 --> 0:36:06.480 for one oh five and a score. The Raiders runners 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:08.680 you know as a group, combined for eighteen for ninety 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.040 eight in a score, but Jonathan Taylor gets it all. 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:14.200 So I'm still giving a B grade here to Jonathan 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:17.400 Taylor in that belcow role. I'm giving a C grade 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:20.480 to Anthony Richardson, who's averaging since his returning. He's averaging 0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:23.799 ten point fantasy point, ten point seven fantasy points per game. 0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:26.799 Excuse me, ten points seven fantasy points per game. 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:29.360 Just on the ground, on the ground, just on the ground. 0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:31.879 I saw that coming, he saw it coming. Sneak that in. 0:36:32.040 --> 0:36:35.440 Yes, Yes, has at least nine carries in each of 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:38.239 the three games twenty nine title, and he's scored three 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:41.000 times in those games. Denver's been a top ten pass 0:36:41.360 --> 0:36:43.920 d all year, and Richardson's numbers have been tailing off 0:36:43.960 --> 0:36:46.799 since that first really good game he came by. But 0:36:46.920 --> 0:36:49.640 Jamis Winston had a three hundred plus multi scorer game. 0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:53.520 The Vegas duo of passers had nearly three hundred yards 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:56.280 last week. Is in the last game as well, Danbye. 0:36:56.640 --> 0:37:00.520 So I'm inclined to give Richardson a here. If you 0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:02.480 get to double digits on the rushing and you get 0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:05.800 one hundred and fifty maybe a score passing, I'm inclined 0:37:05.800 --> 0:37:08.080 for the sea. I don't love it though I don't 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:10.319 love it. Lower end QB two probably yep. 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:13.120 What if you need a dart throw? What if you 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:16.520 started Cooper cup is Anthony Richardson. Yeah, yeah, like dart throw, 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:18.440 absolutely get two rushing touchdowns. 0:37:18.960 --> 0:37:21.319 Yeah, that's absolutely the kind of way to put it. 0:37:22.120 --> 0:37:24.640 Michael Pittman, I do have on the bench. I haven't, 0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:27.279 in fact, all the receivers on the bench because there's 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:29.200 just not a lot of passing yards to go around. 0:37:29.520 --> 0:37:32.520 Michael Pittman's going to see Pat Sartan, who held you know, 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:35.880 metcalf to twenty nine yards, Pickings to twenty nine, Evans 0:37:35.920 --> 0:37:38.719 to seventeen. He's holding down just he held Judy to 0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:41.799 three for twenty eight in that one quarter, in those 0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:45.160 five minutes, he holds down pretty much everyone. Denver does 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:48.520 allow second most yards of the perimeter, but twelfth fewest 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:51.719 to the slot where Josh downs if he does go plays. 0:37:51.960 --> 0:37:54.239 I can't trust Downs in a tough matchup there. I 0:37:54.280 --> 0:37:57.600 can't trust Pierce on the perimeter where he should do 0:37:57.719 --> 0:38:00.359 well avoiding the slot and avoiding Cirtan, but he only 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:03.200 gets like two catches. So I can't trust any of 0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:05.560 those receivers. So I'm gonna go over to the Denver 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:07.800 side where I got bon Nicks with a B grade. 0:38:08.200 --> 0:38:12.120 In the last month, Bonnicks has not topped five rushing yards. 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:13.839 Yes, go figure in a game. Why did they take 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:14.439 the wheels off? 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:17.840 He hasn't scored either, Why take the yeah? Exactly? Why 0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:21.880 till yeah? I will say his passing yardage has jumped 0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:24.400 up to two hundred and sixty six per game and 0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:28.319 over like two point one passing scores per game, So 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:30.040 you're starting to make it up. But we kind of 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:32.680 like the rushing in the fantasy route, but it is 0:38:32.760 --> 0:38:35.640 jumped up. The Colts allowed the sixth most passing yards 0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:39.600 at two forty six, allow more plays from opposing offenses 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:43.840 than anyone. That's part of why I love Jalil mcgloffin 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:46.640 is the Colts allow the most plays in the game 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:49.759 to an opposing team. They allow nearly seventy plays a 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:54.719 game for the opposing offense. So Bonnicks, Juliam, I think 0:38:54.760 --> 0:38:57.040 there's room for a lot of plays here. So I'm 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:59.920 giving a B to Bonicks. Courtland Sutton gets a bast 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:02.800 Since Week eight, Knicks to Sutton that QB wide receiver 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:06.000 duo leads the NFL and completions. They're the modern day 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:11.839 montanded Rice, modern day bonten ed Rice thor Oh, I'm 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:14.880 just kidding Portland Sutton. Yes, yes, Sutton has six plus 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:18.200 catches in six straight in that stretch, eight plus targets 0:39:18.200 --> 0:39:20.400 and all seventy plus yards and all three scores one 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:23.080 hundred plus and three of them. They're just really connecting 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.320 right now. And it's just a middle of the pack matchup. 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:29.759 Jalen Jones sixty second ranked on PFL PFF. He's held 0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:31.920 down some a lot of guys just fine. But you 0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:34.640 allowed eighty five to Nico, eighty eight to Pickens, one 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.120 oh seven to Brian Thomas Junior, eighty three to Jefferson. 0:39:37.400 --> 0:39:39.399 There's plenty of room for Sutton to have a good 0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:43.280 B level game here. Veyle and Mims I could go into, 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:44.880 but I do have them on the bench, and we 0:39:44.960 --> 0:39:49.440 got fifteen matchups. It's fantasy playoffs. Javonte Williams is going 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:51.880 on the bench because, as I mentioned before, it's jo 0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:54.719 Leo McLoughlin for me this week. And if you look 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:58.160 at the stats this year, Sean Payton has had not 0:39:58.280 --> 0:40:00.880 had two running backs do it in this week, he 0:40:01.000 --> 0:40:04.080 picks a running back for the week. I think it's McLoughlin. 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:07.959 Here Cincinnati takes on Tennessee thor and for Cincinnati, Joe Burrow, 0:40:08.040 --> 0:40:10.359 Jamar Chase are just automatic. A's right, and we were 0:40:10.400 --> 0:40:12.880 absolutely starting those guys red hot of course. 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:16.520 Yeah Burrow, five consecutive games with three or more passing. 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:17.239 Touchdowns, how about that? 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:20.320 And I think we can toss Chase Brown and t 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:24.759 Higgins into the mustard as yeah, right, yeah, And I 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:26.520 don't care that the te Higgins coming off his worst 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:29.279 game of the season wide receiver twelve and Fantasy so 0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:31.760 far so and that kick no one else has startedble 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:34.960 everyone else is the mustard as Will Levis was charges 0:40:35.040 --> 0:40:36.640 take a chance on me guy. Going over to the 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:39.839 other side, Tony Pollard. I gave him a c RB 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.280 twenty one Fantasy points per game. He played in sixty 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:44.279 two percent of the snaps the last two weeks, but 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:47.200 his status is up in the air with that ankle injury. 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:50.239 Aforementioned ankle injury, so I settle on see for him. 0:40:50.640 --> 0:40:52.600 Tad J. Spears was charged to take a chance on 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:55.600 me guy. Calvin Ridley, our boy we all love Calvin 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.319 gave him about him later on the show, too, gave 0:40:58.360 --> 0:40:58.960 him a bee. 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:01.520 Since Week seven, Ridley is wide receiver twenty five and 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.840 fantasy points per game seven red zone targets across his 0:41:04.880 --> 0:41:05.600 last eight games. 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:06.000 Not bad. 0:41:06.480 --> 0:41:09.920 Since Week nine the matchup here, Cincinnati has allowed the 0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:12.600 ninth most receiving yards per game and the fourth most 0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:16.560 fantasy points per game two perimeter wide receivers. Nick Westbrook 0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:18.279 a keene. As much as this pains me to say, 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.080 I have to give him a bench grade. He only 0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:23.520 had the one reception for nineteen receiving yards last year and. 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:25.200 It wasn't even in the end zone last week. What 0:41:25.239 --> 0:41:25.600 does he do? 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.279 Yeah, he needs a touchdown to be started with here 0:41:28.320 --> 0:41:28.920 on your own on that. 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:32.600 That's the Bengals. If he's gonna do it, all right, 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:33.880 I'm gonna frame it up at the same way we 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:36.239 did the Yeah okay, like Anthony Richardson, even if you 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:39.560 don't love him, if you need some magic, wouldn't he 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:41.640 be a guy like he would be too long bomb 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:42.760 reception touchdown. 0:41:43.120 --> 0:41:45.360 If you need the yeah miracle, it would be it 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:46.360 would be Nick Westbrooky. 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:48.560 I'm gonna stick with bench all right, okay. I feel 0:41:48.560 --> 0:41:49.840 like charges with the c there. 0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:52.759 And then Chicka kon Quill bench for him twenty or 0:41:52.840 --> 0:41:56.520 few fewer receiving yards nine of thirteen games this year. 0:41:56.600 --> 0:41:58.800 Not the best. I'm gonna sneak in one more matchup 0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:01.719 into this Shir Commanders taking on the Saints because a 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:04.200 lot of these are pretty straightforward. Brian Robinson a great 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:06.920 matchup opportunity. With Austin Ekler out, He's going to get 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:09.360 a ton of work. And since Week three, the Saints 0:42:09.400 --> 0:42:13.799 allowing five point three yards per carriages and one and 0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:15.760 a half rushing touchdowns per game. 0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:18.120 That's a long time too since week three. 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:22.160 Yeah, the season right, Robinson absolute A grade here. Love 0:42:22.200 --> 0:42:24.959 him in this spot. Going to the passing game, Terry 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:28.279 McLaurin A grade. Runs almost entirely from the left side 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:31.120 of the field. He's the league's most one sided receiver 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:32.719 in terms of side of the field. That puts him 0:42:32.719 --> 0:42:36.640 against rookie kool Aid mckinstreet cornerback who's been the starter 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:39.680 since Marshall Latimer's injury in trade, and over that time 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:41.920 he's actually been pretty good. He's allowing a fifty five 0:42:41.960 --> 0:42:44.480 percent completion rate, no touchdowns all year, but still it's 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:47.640 McLaurin against kool Aid mckinstrey as a rookie. I love 0:42:47.719 --> 0:42:51.080 McLaurin here, A grade for him. Zach Ertz enters the 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:53.799 game with touchdowns in three straight games prior to last 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:56.640 week's by but a touchdown here could be unlikely against 0:42:56.680 --> 0:42:58.680 a team that's allowed to league low one score to 0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:01.759 the tight end position. The past five opposing tight ends 0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:04.560 to face New Orleans have averaged five catches for fifty 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:09.240 six yards. Zach Ertz C grade. Lastly, Jayden Daniels A grade. 0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:11.640 Saints secondary has gotten a little bit better lately, but 0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:14.759 in totality, a very strong spot for Daniels, especially on 0:43:14.800 --> 0:43:17.560 the ground. Drew Locke just ran for fifty nine yards 0:43:17.560 --> 0:43:20.400 against the Saints last week, and we've seen Bau, Mick Nix, 0:43:20.440 --> 0:43:23.320 and Justin Herbert put up big rushing days since Week seven. 0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:25.879 So I've got the A grade and McLaurin C grade 0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:28.160 on Ertz. And there's some opportunities through the air as well. 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:30.920 And then the only Saint you care about is Alvin Kamara, 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:32.839 the only got you start in the fantasy playoffs. Sure 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:34.800 I can only get you to a C grade because 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:37.840 everybody else is hurt and Washington may just play to 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:42.080 stop Alvin Kamara, which is what I would do. Stop Kamara, Washington, 0:43:42.160 --> 0:43:42.600 you win the game. 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:43.759 You're not starting Jick Heater. 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:47.680 I've not started taking or mvs. In the three games 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:51.560 Derek Carmist earlier this year, Camara only averaged thirty nine 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:54.640 rushing yards thirty one receiving yards, and he scored in 0:43:54.719 --> 0:43:57.120 just one of those three games. The track record here 0:43:57.160 --> 0:43:59.279 is not great. I understand that you kind of have 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:00.360 to start Alvin Camera. 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:03.360 You hope for four catches, get to double digit, just barely. 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:05.600 Yep, that's I think that's what we're looking at. See 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:07.640 Gray and Alvin Kamara and the whole passing game of 0:44:07.719 --> 0:44:10.320 the Saints on the bench. Our number two of Fantasy 0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:13.120 Football Weekly coming up in moments. Stay tuned for that, 0:44:13.280 --> 0:44:38.280 including three tough questions. Our number two of Fantasy Football Weekly, 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:41.440 Paul Charchie and Scott Fish and Thor Nystrom with you. You 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:45.240 can follow us on X. Scott Fish is at Scott 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:49.319 Fish twenty four yep. Thora is at thor Ku Rock 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:52.160 Chalk and I am at Paul Chargie. And this game 0:44:52.560 --> 0:44:58.279 we cover three tough questions. What should your playoff tiebreakers be? 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:01.920 This is now so this is really important because you 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:05.040 don't want to lose friendships over the fact you did 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:09.399 not have your playoff tie breakers lockdown in advance. And 0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:13.640 I was in a league once, like ten plus years 0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:16.840 ago or there were there was a lot of money 0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:19.560 on the line and there was a tie in the playoffs, 0:45:19.880 --> 0:45:26.279 and this thing got so ugly. So, Scott Fish, we'll 0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:29.120 begin with you. What should the playoff tiebreaker be? 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:34.040 Yeah, so always they're fine, honestly, But here's the main key. 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:36.840 Set it now. If you haven't get it set now, 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:39.200 the most important thing is to get it set. I 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:42.839 don't league shame. I believe that in your leagues if 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:45.560 you do it, the league enjoys doing And that's absolutely fine, 0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:47.920 but you have to have one. As Chuche kind of 0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:50.760 alluded to there. I can make a real good case 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:54.120 that random high score on the bench or backup bench 0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:56.399 scoring is probably the worst way to do it. Yes, 0:45:56.640 --> 0:46:00.200 because people construct their rosters in different ways and some 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:03.840 have handcuffs, a lot of injuries. The random score is 0:46:03.960 --> 0:46:08.040 very best balie and isn't really attributive to you know, 0:46:08.080 --> 0:46:10.239 what your team is. So I can make a case 0:46:10.280 --> 0:46:13.799 those are the worst picking a bench players. The tie 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.520 break I kind of get that you're picking one player. 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:17.400 Whatever. 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:22.480 The way I generally do it is you have played 0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:26.359 all season, and you have earned that seed, and you've 0:46:26.360 --> 0:46:29.160 earned home field advantage, and the highest seed, meaning based 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:32.640 on standings before, is the way to do it. So 0:46:32.680 --> 0:46:34.920 that's why I do it in a lot of leagues 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:38.000 that way. The other way I like is non quarterback 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:40.920 yards from the starters. Touchdowns are a little fluky. If 0:46:40.920 --> 0:46:44.160 you have a really good quarterback, you basically just won 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:47.320 the matchup. So non quarterback yards is probably the second 0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:49.279 way I go about doing it, But generally I just 0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:52.200 go by standings. I think that seed earned you that by. 0:46:52.200 --> 0:46:54.280 So your official answer is by seed. 0:46:54.600 --> 0:46:56.799 Yeah, yeah, it's I mean basically. 0:46:56.480 --> 0:46:59.319 Giving one hundredth of a point to the higher seed. 0:46:59.520 --> 0:47:03.120 Yes, exactly, Okay, but honestly, just figure out what way 0:47:03.160 --> 0:47:04.520 your league likes and get it done. 0:47:04.520 --> 0:47:08.480 Now, what should your league's playoff tiebreaker be. That's where 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:08.839 I'm at. 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:11.200 Way, they're like, whoever finish higher and the standing should 0:47:11.200 --> 0:47:13.560 be the home team, and they get the they get 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:16.640 the tiebreaker. They've earned the tiebreaker, they get the tiebreaker. 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:17.719 That's where I'm at. 0:47:17.800 --> 0:47:20.319 The only reason I don't care for that is, you're 0:47:20.360 --> 0:47:23.000 not settling the matter of who won. 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:25.839 Who won that game that week, that way, that week. 0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:29.080 And that's why I prefer the non quarterback yard, so 0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:32.200 all the yards of all and no defense, So all 0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:35.600 total the yards of all of your players, all my players, 0:47:35.600 --> 0:47:38.640 not including quarterback, not including and you could include quarterback, 0:47:38.680 --> 0:47:41.080 but not including defense. And I would go with that 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:43.840 because its starters, and agree with you, Scott. Do not 0:47:44.040 --> 0:47:47.479 like having the bench players involved because the smartest bench 0:47:47.480 --> 0:47:51.240 players I can have are handcuffs to some running backs. Absolutely, 0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:52.640 I don't need them to do anything, but I need 0:47:52.640 --> 0:47:54.960 them on my roster. I'm gonna have Justice Hill in 0:47:54.960 --> 0:48:00.280 case Derek Henry goes down. YEP, tough question number two, 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:05.919 thorn Estrom. Should consolation bracket teams be able to pick 0:48:06.000 --> 0:48:11.440 up free agents, potentially changing the outcome of playoff bracket teams? 0:48:11.640 --> 0:48:13.560 I feel I feel very strongly about this. 0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:16.680 Before Thor goes I want to say this obviously eliminates 0:48:16.719 --> 0:48:17.560 dynasty and keeper. 0:48:17.800 --> 0:48:21.560 Yes, this is redraft leagues. This is redraft leagues. Very 0:48:21.600 --> 0:48:23.839 strong Okay, oh boy, okay, bring it. 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:27.080 Yes they absolutely should, and if you don't like it, 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:30.919 you can't have a consolation bracket, the team transaction should 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:32.160 only be blocked when that. 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:35.480 Team has no more games left to play and to 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:36.440 start end of story. 0:48:36.640 --> 0:48:38.759 Yeah, I'm on a similar boat. I said, if you're 0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:41.799 I have, If you're playing for something, you should be 0:48:41.800 --> 0:48:44.399 able to make your best effort to play for that thing. 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:47.040 And if that's a consolation bracket, that's a consolation bracklet. 0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:50.080 And some people think, oh, well, you're making it harder 0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:51.759 on the teams than the playoffs. No, you're making it 0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:55.200 exactly the same as the entire season was. Twelve teams 0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:58.960 fighting for what you're doing. What you're doing when you 0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:00.960 don't let them is you're making it easier on the 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:05.239 playoff teams. But yes, if you're playing for something, yes 0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:06.600 you can absolutely still make moves. 0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:08.440 You guys hit all the main talking points, So that's 0:49:08.480 --> 0:49:13.320 exactly right. If you've incentivized team teams to continue playing 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:15.480 and to do well, you need to let them pick 0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:19.000 up free agents. Doesn't matter that they might change the 0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:21.959 outcome of the playoff bracket teams. The consolation bracket teams 0:49:22.000 --> 0:49:26.799 still get to make moves. Tough. Question number three, Give 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:29.960 me a playoff hero who could emerge out of relative 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:33.440 obscurity with a huge run during the Fantasy playoffs, like 0:49:34.000 --> 0:49:36.759 Ron Day in two thousand and six, Drew Bennett two 0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:39.080 thousand and four. And there's probably others, Scott, you're very 0:49:39.080 --> 0:49:39.640 good at remembering. 0:49:39.840 --> 0:49:43.399 Yeah, yeah, there's there's there's there's plenty of others. Even 0:49:43.400 --> 0:49:45.400 more recent than that. You got your Tim high Towers, 0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:47.560 even in that range. You got your Marcus Colston or 0:49:47.560 --> 0:49:50.239 not Colston, but Jimmy Graham's and your Arian Foster's and 0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:52.360 players that just blew up the end of the season. 0:49:52.360 --> 0:49:54.120 But Tyler a favorite of mine. 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:59.240 Yeah, there's plenty of Chan Gaily, Yeah, Chan Gaily offense, 0:49:59.320 --> 0:50:00.600 baby we had. 0:50:00.560 --> 0:50:02.440 Oh god, who's that Rams running back? 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:04.120 That Eric Dickerson. 0:50:04.280 --> 0:50:07.200 No, no, no, But anyway, there's been a bunch of them. 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:09.520 It says something that we had to go that far 0:50:09.600 --> 0:50:12.400 back though, that it doesn't happen all the time. So 0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:14.560 I went a bunch of different routes on this trying 0:50:14.560 --> 0:50:17.399 to figure out who this could be. I want one name, Yes, 0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:20.279 I know. The obvious one seems like Isaac Grenda, who 0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:21.920 got you into the playoffs with a huge week. He 0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:25.160 probably got you about fifteen points on on Thursday night. 0:50:25.440 --> 0:50:27.560 But you don't want that, and he already played. 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:30.320 Yeah, I thought about Taj Spears. He was my prespected 0:50:30.320 --> 0:50:34.040 a couple of weeks ago. He's got three top top 0:50:34.080 --> 0:50:36.960 three matchups in the Fantasy playoffs, and the one that's 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:38.680 not a top three is the Bengals this week. He's 0:50:38.680 --> 0:50:40.799 your take a chance on me player because Pollard might 0:50:40.840 --> 0:50:43.800 be out. Then I thought could be Vidal. Does he 0:50:43.880 --> 0:50:46.520 take over for Gus Edwards? Is the switch finally happening? 0:50:46.920 --> 0:50:50.280 But I figured Thorn might do that, So I'm going 0:50:50.440 --> 0:50:54.319 with I did, so I'm I'm going with the guy 0:50:54.360 --> 0:50:58.080 at my matchups who already took the role and whose 0:50:58.120 --> 0:51:01.600 coach said he's this already running back going forward. And 0:51:01.719 --> 0:51:04.560 he's got two matchups in the next two weeks after 0:51:04.640 --> 0:51:09.799 this week against bottom ten run defenses in Sincere McCormick. 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:12.680 All right, Sincere McCormick is your fish. That was a 0:51:12.719 --> 0:51:14.960 long rout was that we ruled out a lot of 0:51:14.960 --> 0:51:17.560 guys and one of them is thors guy, Kamani Vidal. 0:51:18.320 --> 0:51:21.480 Yeah, and sincerely kind of my co host, the luminary 0:51:21.520 --> 0:51:24.240 Scott Fish, to allow me to have the correct answer. 0:51:24.280 --> 0:51:27.600 I mean, you guys there, that is Kamani Vidal. JK. 0:51:27.760 --> 0:51:30.080 Dobbins might be out for the year. Vodal got four 0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:32.160 carries last week. You know how many Gus Edward's got. 0:51:32.160 --> 0:51:32.800 He got six. 0:51:33.480 --> 0:51:36.480 Vodal becomes the bellcow in that run heavy offense. 0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:40.080 If the gusbuss goes down, the answer is Kamani Vidal, 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:45.120 Kamani Gore Vidal. The correct answer is Calvin Ridley. 0:51:45.400 --> 0:51:46.960 Okay, wow, Okay. 0:51:47.120 --> 0:51:50.040 Two years he has been all or nothing fantasy producer, 0:51:50.560 --> 0:51:53.279 but it's all lining up for him to go all 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:56.440 for these last three games. Twelve targets last week for 0:51:56.520 --> 0:52:00.439 Calvin Ridley, he gets the Cincinnati Bengals already talking about 0:52:00.440 --> 0:52:02.480 how much I how much I like him, and I 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:05.000 like Will Levis. Right, so somingles this week. Next week 0:52:05.000 --> 0:52:06.719 it's Indianapolis that is the middle of the back wide 0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:11.520 receiver defense Championship week for Calvin Ridley. Jacksonville allowing the 0:52:11.560 --> 0:52:14.480 seventh most points to wide outs. And I can understand 0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:17.000 you might be thinking, no chance Amy putting my playoff 0:52:17.040 --> 0:52:19.520 fortunes in the hands of Will Levis. As I keep 0:52:19.520 --> 0:52:21.920 telling you week after week, Will Levis is getting better. 0:52:22.920 --> 0:52:25.919 Over the last five games, seven touchdowns, just two interceptions. 0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:27.840 He's less sucky than you think. 0:52:27.760 --> 0:52:31.560 Thor Thoris sidebar Is. Is charge going to be promoting 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:33.160 Will Levis as Kibi one next time? 0:52:34.560 --> 0:52:35.720 I mean that's where we're headed. 0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:37.840 I feel like he's gonna be like take Bowers of 0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:40.160 the first, take Will Levis's second. 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:42.400 I was so down on Levis heading into the season 0:52:42.520 --> 0:52:45.640 and look brilliant for half a year. But I'm really 0:52:45.680 --> 0:52:49.440 I'm ready to be wrong. I like, I was so 0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:50.200 so very wrong. 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:53.480 I do like on I do like being proven wrong 0:52:53.520 --> 0:52:55.799 on the un stuff like this. It's it's fun. Keeps 0:52:55.880 --> 0:52:56.640 us honest tough. 0:52:56.719 --> 0:53:01.480 Question number four, Since you brought up Sincere mccorn best 0:53:01.840 --> 0:53:06.839 adjective first name in the NFL? Is it NFL or 0:53:06.880 --> 0:53:11.400 not curR NFL lower NFL? Or is it Sincere McCormick. 0:53:12.160 --> 0:53:18.040 Is it Peerless Price or is it Sterling Sharp or Shepherd? 0:53:18.080 --> 0:53:23.160 Your choice? Oh it's got to be Sincere. I don't know. 0:53:23.239 --> 0:53:24.880 Sterling Sharp is a double whammy. 0:53:25.120 --> 0:53:26.120 You get it both ways. 0:53:26.360 --> 0:53:28.520 First, you can be Sharp and you can be Sterling 0:53:28.840 --> 0:53:29.640 Peerless Price. 0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:31.640 I mean you talk about a guy that should have 0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:33.200 been around during the NIL. 0:53:34.520 --> 0:53:36.920 I mean Sterling Sharp is probably the best player of 0:53:37.040 --> 0:53:38.440 all of them, Like pure. 0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:42.600 Talent, borderline Hall of Famer for sure, but sincere McCormick's 0:53:42.600 --> 0:53:45.800 an awesomeme tremendous name. Yeah, let's go back to the matchup. 0:53:45.840 --> 0:53:49.440 Shout out UTSA. There you go, Tampa Bay taking on 0:53:49.640 --> 0:53:54.120 the Chargers, Scott Fish. This is a tough Chargers defense. 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:55.799 But there's so many bucks you want to play in 0:53:55.840 --> 0:53:59.239 this game. I'm expecting you're gonna give me b's and 0:53:59.280 --> 0:54:00.000 c's in this matter. 0:54:00.360 --> 0:54:03.600 Yes, I have three b's and one C. Good job, 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:06.160 Good job on that. That's good job by you. Thank you, 0:54:06.520 --> 0:54:08.960 Baker Mayfield. I got to be beyond. He's scored in 0:54:09.000 --> 0:54:11.640 every game, so that's a nice cozy feeling. But even 0:54:11.680 --> 0:54:14.480 better than that, in the thirteen games he has multiple 0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:16.240 scores nine times. 0:54:16.360 --> 0:54:17.560 You don't say yes. 0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:22.080 It's almost like I wrote that sentence specifically, emphasize the 0:54:22.080 --> 0:54:25.000 words just and he averages over two hundred and fifty yards. 0:54:25.040 --> 0:54:27.080 If he's getting two hundred and fifty and a couple scores, 0:54:27.280 --> 0:54:31.879 you're at B level already. This Chargers defense held down 0:54:31.920 --> 0:54:36.200 to Mahomes and cousin recent cousins recently, Lamar, Burrow and Lewis. 0:54:36.280 --> 0:54:39.279 Before that did okay, did fairly decent, but the nine 0:54:39.320 --> 0:54:42.960 games before that only had one multiple passing score day 0:54:42.960 --> 0:54:45.080 and that was you know, Joe Montana of our time 0:54:45.120 --> 0:54:48.839 bo Nicks. So their ranking is a little bit bait. 0:54:48.880 --> 0:54:50.520 Their middle of the pack rank is a little bit 0:54:50.560 --> 0:54:53.080 based on their early season. So B grade on Baker, 0:54:53.080 --> 0:54:54.920 I think is gonna have a good day here. B 0:54:55.080 --> 0:54:58.000 grade on Mike Evans, who loves to do the doubt, 0:54:58.080 --> 0:55:01.160 not practice all week. I did practice on Friday, and 0:55:01.160 --> 0:55:04.680 I'm gonna play anyway role right now. He went four 0:55:04.719 --> 0:55:07.960 for sixty nine last week. He's got a better matchup 0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:10.560 this week against the Chargers team allowing the third most 0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:13.759 fantasy points to the perimeter. Eight wide receiver scores in 0:55:13.760 --> 0:55:17.160 the last six weeks. Seven of those were to perimeter guys. 0:55:17.600 --> 0:55:21.040 So his yardage shows returning from injury sixty eight one 0:55:21.120 --> 0:55:25.000 eighteen sixty nine. Again, better better match up here. So 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:26.680 I have a B grade on him. You might be 0:55:26.719 --> 0:55:27.600 able to talk to me high. 0:55:27.719 --> 0:55:32.160 Those Chargers cornerbacks all play very physical. Yeah, you know 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:33.960 who pushes around Mike Evans. 0:55:34.360 --> 0:55:34.839 Nobody can. 0:55:34.920 --> 0:55:37.359 No, that's right, No, boy, that's right. 0:55:37.400 --> 0:55:38.879 I was gonna say sixty five two third. But he's 0:55:38.880 --> 0:55:41.920 probably to forty at this point his career. Uh Jalen 0:55:42.000 --> 0:55:44.480 McMillan also on the outside. I think that with Sterling 0:55:44.520 --> 0:55:47.680 Shepherd likely out, Trey Palmer jumps into the inside because 0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:50.640 Jalen McMillan has been playing seventy five percent outside all year. 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:55.520 I just mentioned what perimeter receivers are doing against the Chargers. 0:55:55.560 --> 0:55:58.439 I think Jayleen McMillan should get a C grade here. 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:03.320 He's gonna get the tougher tar. HEEEB still matchup graded 0:56:03.400 --> 0:56:06.520 seventh out of two hundred and thirteen cornerbacks per football 0:56:06.800 --> 0:56:11.279 Pro Football Focus. But Evans and McMillan swap spots a ton, 0:56:11.320 --> 0:56:13.600 and honestly they play all three roles, so I think 0:56:13.600 --> 0:56:15.359 he's gonna get around just enough. He had a couple 0:56:15.400 --> 0:56:19.600 scores last week in a similar, similar matchup, a tougher matchup. 0:56:20.719 --> 0:56:23.399 Kana Hawden is on the bench three for seventy last week. 0:56:23.440 --> 0:56:26.600 His yardage total had been real low the last three 0:56:26.640 --> 0:56:29.279 weeks before that, but only two tight ends have top 0:56:29.360 --> 0:56:32.520 fifty yards against the Bucks, McBride and Kelsey. Only one 0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:35.759 tight end score, Mark Andrews, so tough spot it is 0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:39.600 in the running game. Bucky Irvin didn't practice again. 0:56:41.000 --> 0:56:43.239 Laid on the draw. Yeah, I can't let it go. 0:56:43.360 --> 0:56:45.920 The only reason I mentioned him, I think is the cotton. 0:56:46.239 --> 0:56:49.480 Because of the cotton, sounder B grade on rashad Way, 0:56:49.520 --> 0:56:52.280 Bucky Irving is like, I think he's going to be out. 0:56:52.320 --> 0:56:56.000 He didn't practice, like even as even as a Friday, 0:56:56.000 --> 0:57:00.000 he wasn't practicing. So White retook the role last week. 0:57:00.120 --> 0:57:04.240 Nineteen touches, one hundred and nine and two scores. Last 0:57:04.239 --> 0:57:06.920 week's matchup was much easier. This is a tougher one. 0:57:07.000 --> 0:57:11.080 Chargers are sixth toughest against fantasy runners. B Jon Robinson, 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:13.359 Derek Henry and Chase Brown had great weeks against them, 0:57:13.360 --> 0:57:16.840 but it took thirty two touches, twenty six touches, and 0:57:16.880 --> 0:57:21.280 twenty seven touches to get there. More recently, Pacheco sixteen 0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:24.360 touches for sixty one yards pollared thirteen touches for sixty 0:57:24.400 --> 0:57:26.919 three yards. That feels more like what's gonna happen yere, 0:57:27.360 --> 0:57:29.919 But White gets White's likely going to get goal line work, 0:57:29.960 --> 0:57:32.040 and he's likely going to get some pass catching sall. 0:57:32.080 --> 0:57:34.560 I got a B grade on that. Sean Tucker, he 0:57:34.600 --> 0:57:37.080 was efficient with his three touches, might be in more 0:57:37.240 --> 0:57:39.880 in for more this week, but his season high for 0:57:40.000 --> 0:57:42.600 touches in a game he plays with Rashad White is six. 0:57:42.800 --> 0:57:43.240 Wow. 0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:46.320 So I have a bench grade on Seawn Tucker over 0:57:46.400 --> 0:57:50.200 to the Chargers side B grade on Justin Herbert. Five 0:57:50.240 --> 0:57:52.760 of the last seven quarterbacks to face the Bucks' worst 0:57:52.840 --> 0:57:56.200 ranked pass y had multiple scores, and those five averaged 0:57:56.440 --> 0:57:59.240 two hundred and ninety nine point eight yards. You may 0:57:59.280 --> 0:58:01.760 be saying, Scott, why are you eliminating those to those 0:58:01.800 --> 0:58:04.760 two other games? It was the Aid and O'Connell Desmond 0:58:04.800 --> 0:58:08.760 Riddo combo and it was Tommy DeVito. I'm gonna count, 0:58:08.840 --> 0:58:12.520 I'm gonna pullsks, I'm gonna say the other five or 0:58:12.600 --> 0:58:15.880 more like where Herbert is. But Herbert, his yardage is 0:58:16.000 --> 0:58:19.320 really really tanked recently, barely averaging over two hundred yards 0:58:19.320 --> 0:58:22.280 in the last month, four scores in those four weeks. 0:58:22.280 --> 0:58:25.440 But this is by far the best matchup he's gonna see. 0:58:25.760 --> 0:58:28.440 If Lad mcconka goes, I'm gonna give him a B 0:58:28.640 --> 0:58:31.520 grade as well. He's gonna get Tykee Smith, which is 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:34.280 a tougher matchup. But prior to missing last week, he 0:58:34.320 --> 0:58:38.280 was getting hyper targeted by Herbert. Average of nine times 0:58:38.520 --> 0:58:42.280 per game. He hit six plus catches in y'all in 0:58:42.400 --> 0:58:44.840 all yardage shutals of one hundred and twenty three, eighty 0:58:44.840 --> 0:58:47.320 three and one hundred and seventeen. He had really come 0:58:47.360 --> 0:58:49.960 on and become their wide receiver. One oh for sure. 0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:53.800 If McConkie goes, get this dat. Quentin Johnson had a 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:57.439 total of four catches in those three games. That's how 0:58:57.520 --> 0:58:59.960 hyper targeted Ladd McConkie had got. 0:59:00.360 --> 0:59:04.320 Yep, no Antoine winfield. It is game on if Ladd goes. Yeah. 0:59:04.360 --> 0:59:07.520 So I had bench grades on Johnston and Palmer if 0:59:07.600 --> 0:59:10.080 lad goes. If Ladd doesn't go, I have a C 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:13.080 grade on Quentin Johnson. I'm still leaving Palmer on the bench, 0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:15.880 even though he went six for seventy eight last week 0:59:15.960 --> 0:59:19.000 a thirty one percent target chair. If Ladd doesn't go, 0:59:19.480 --> 0:59:22.960 I mean Quenton Johnson. He's facing up against Jamal Dean, 0:59:23.000 --> 0:59:26.520 who allowed eighty seven to Jameson Williams, eighty one to Sutton, 0:59:26.600 --> 0:59:31.840 seventy three to leget. The problem is he's barely getting 0:59:31.880 --> 0:59:35.480 fifty yards a game, barely five catches. Stone start was 0:59:35.520 --> 0:59:37.720 my chake. Take a chance on me player and Kamani 0:59:37.800 --> 0:59:41.840 Videll despite out snapping Gus Edwards thirty two to twenty six. 0:59:42.200 --> 0:59:45.680 Almost everything was dead. Even the Chargers allowed the second 0:59:45.720 --> 0:59:48.640 most receiving yards and receptions to backs. But that's not 0:59:48.760 --> 0:59:51.160 Vidal's game, and that's not Gus Edwards game, and they're 0:59:51.200 --> 0:59:53.280 tough against the run. So I had both of them 0:59:53.320 --> 0:59:54.440 on the bench as they split. 0:59:54.560 --> 0:59:56.520 Yeah, I'm with you on that as well. When we 0:59:56.560 --> 0:59:59.840 come back, steel is taking on the Eagles, No George, 1:00:00.240 --> 1:00:04.200 and so can you start any Steeler in this game? 1:00:05.000 --> 1:00:25.640 Thorn Nischer will tell you when we come back. Welcome back, 1:00:25.680 --> 1:00:30.600 Fantasy Football Weekly Playoff Edition. Congratulations, I'm making the playoffs. 1:00:30.960 --> 1:00:33.360 That's step number one. That all you have to do 1:00:33.480 --> 1:00:34.280 is stay alive. 1:00:34.480 --> 1:00:36.960 And if you made the past, the thing in the 1:00:37.000 --> 1:00:39.959 guillotine leagues where there's the freeze on the roster, that yeah, 1:00:40.080 --> 1:00:43.080 that's I have to give congress, like myself in my 1:00:43.120 --> 1:00:45.000 work league. I don't know if I've mentioned that yet 1:00:45.040 --> 1:00:48.760 against my coworkers like Dwayne and you know what there? 1:00:48.760 --> 1:00:49.360 You mean? 1:00:49.800 --> 1:00:54.800 Well, Charge, I'm still alive, are in SFP and I 1:00:54.840 --> 1:00:56.720 had three zeros at my roster. 1:00:56.880 --> 1:00:57.680 What did you do with that? 1:00:57.720 --> 1:01:01.600 Trey Lance Tobert and George Pickens I left in my rosters. 1:01:01.640 --> 1:01:05.439 So I feel like I feel like it's you got 1:01:05.440 --> 1:01:08.760 them have destiny. It's a team of destiny at this point. 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:11.760 Dang nice, I am a team five hundred out of 1:01:11.800 --> 1:01:13.040 five hundred left. 1:01:13.680 --> 1:01:16.240 Literally five hundred out of five hundred, the last team 1:01:16.280 --> 1:01:17.320 to make it make the cut. 1:01:17.400 --> 1:01:18.880 Not the last team to make the cut, but I 1:01:18.880 --> 1:01:20.680 am the lowest scoring team left. 1:01:20.800 --> 1:01:24.040 Wow. And it is by points total points? It is yeah, 1:01:24.160 --> 1:01:26.600 my my I made it to last week. I didn't 1:01:26.600 --> 1:01:30.280 make it through last week eight And O'Connell, all right, 1:01:30.360 --> 1:01:32.840 let's go back to our next block of matchups, which 1:01:32.840 --> 1:01:35.200 it begins with the Steelers taking on the Eagles and 1:01:35.280 --> 1:01:39.160 thour no George Pickens, and this Steelers offense without George 1:01:39.160 --> 1:01:42.240 Pickens is not good. And here comes the Eagles. I 1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:44.560 know Jalen Warren was your take a chance on me 1:01:45.360 --> 1:01:48.560 running back, but man, I I am so nervous that 1:01:48.640 --> 1:01:50.440 the Steelers are going to give us like a twelve 1:01:50.480 --> 1:01:52.960 point dud here? What do you think? Yes? 1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:55.840 But first I have to say, well, I'm dead in 1:01:55.920 --> 1:01:58.320 the Scott Fish ball. I have to say my championship 1:01:58.360 --> 1:02:00.040 was drafting next to Scott Fish. 1:02:00.080 --> 1:02:03.480 Live at the Minneapolis this year. After that, I mean, 1:02:03.560 --> 1:02:05.960 it doesn't matter. Everybody come this year, everybody come. 1:02:06.280 --> 1:02:09.280 Russell Wilson. I gave him a quarterback fifteen and fantasy 1:02:09.280 --> 1:02:11.400 points per game. He's averaging two hundred and fifty five 1:02:11.440 --> 1:02:14.040 passing yards per game in comparison to Justin Fields one 1:02:14.120 --> 1:02:17.520 hundred and eighty four as a starter per game. Pittsburgh 1:02:17.520 --> 1:02:19.840 probably tries to run funnel the offense this week. That's 1:02:19.840 --> 1:02:22.320 what I think against this really good Eagles pass defense, 1:02:22.920 --> 1:02:26.080 especially with pickins out. Since Week nine, Philly has allowed 1:02:26.080 --> 1:02:28.920 the second fewest passing yards per game, and the Eagles 1:02:28.920 --> 1:02:31.600 are the second toughest fantasy matchup for a pleasant quarterback. 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:33.760 So that's why we're going to give Russell Wilson a see. 1:02:34.040 --> 1:02:36.960 I gave naj Harris a b RB twenty five and 1:02:37.000 --> 1:02:40.040 fantasy points per game. He's averaging a little over nineteen 1:02:40.080 --> 1:02:42.960 touches and almost eighty seven total yards per game. This 1:02:43.000 --> 1:02:45.440 is a solid matchup for him against a mediocre Eagles 1:02:45.520 --> 1:02:48.560 run defense. Since Week nine, the Eagles have allowed or 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:51.960 have the sixth highest misstackle rate in the entire NFL. 1:02:52.080 --> 1:02:52.800 That surprises me. 1:02:53.000 --> 1:02:55.280 Jalen Warren of Courses might take a chance on me guy. 1:02:55.320 --> 1:02:57.520 We mentioned before that George Pickens is out for this 1:02:57.600 --> 1:03:01.560 game with his hamstring injury Unford. This is in part 1:03:01.560 --> 1:03:04.320 why Pat, the other Steelers receivers. 1:03:03.880 --> 1:03:04.880 You keep them on the bench. 1:03:04.920 --> 1:03:07.240 Pat Fryarmuth, I ticked them up to an A when 1:03:07.240 --> 1:03:09.240 we got this Pickins new Since the Week nine by 1:03:09.360 --> 1:03:12.040 Friarmuth has finished as a top eight fantasy tight end 1:03:12.040 --> 1:03:14.440 in three of five games, back to back games of 1:03:14.480 --> 1:03:18.000 twelve plus fantasy points, and last week without George Pickens, 1:03:18.000 --> 1:03:21.360 Friarmuth had an eleven point five percent target share, twenty 1:03:21.400 --> 1:03:25.400 plus percent air yard share, two point almost two point seven. 1:03:25.200 --> 1:03:26.120 Yards per route run. 1:03:26.160 --> 1:03:28.480 It was on the forty eight yards, but those are 1:03:28.520 --> 1:03:30.880 those are good indicators, so I'm giving him an A. 1:03:31.120 --> 1:03:33.160 Moving over to the Eagles, I give Jalen Hurts a 1:03:33.280 --> 1:03:35.480 BE usually give him an. Am going to give him 1:03:35.480 --> 1:03:38.600 a B this time. Number four quarterback and fantasy points 1:03:38.600 --> 1:03:41.600 for the season. But this is a really, really tough matchup. 1:03:41.760 --> 1:03:44.920 Obviously against the Steelers. The Steelers are the only defense 1:03:44.960 --> 1:03:47.800 to get this. The Steelers are the only defense to 1:03:47.840 --> 1:03:50.200 not give up a twenty point fantasy game to an 1:03:50.200 --> 1:03:53.920 opposing quarterback all year. This one defense. It is the Steelers, 1:03:54.240 --> 1:03:56.360 so that's I didn't have a choice. I had to 1:03:56.400 --> 1:03:58.880 make hurd some of be Sae Kwon Barkley, of course, 1:03:59.000 --> 1:04:02.120 is your must start A. I also made Aj Brown 1:04:02.200 --> 1:04:05.040 by extension of B in this one. Brown is average 1:04:06.040 --> 1:04:09.640 shade less than six targets per game the last eight weeks. 1:04:10.240 --> 1:04:12.600 In this game, he has to face Joey Porter Junior. 1:04:13.000 --> 1:04:16.080 Porter hasn't allowed a touchdown as the nearest defender all 1:04:16.120 --> 1:04:19.800 season long. Opposing wider yes, opposing wide receivers only have 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:22.439 a fifty eight percent catch rate against him. That's pretty 1:04:22.480 --> 1:04:25.440 insane too. And the Steelers allowed the least fantasy points 1:04:25.480 --> 1:04:27.920 to opposing wide receiver once on the other roster. 1:04:28.400 --> 1:04:29.920 So that's why I gave Aj Brown a B. 1:04:30.040 --> 1:04:34.000 I'm Ricky wheel Mouse Shee's whatever. 1:04:34.080 --> 1:04:38.920 Week two, Yeah, Calcutta, not just kidding, DeVonta Smith. I 1:04:38.920 --> 1:04:42.360 gave him a grade of C eleven point seven Fantasy 1:04:42.360 --> 1:04:45.280 points last week. He's averaging four point six targets per 1:04:45.320 --> 1:04:48.160 game since the Week five by the Eagles have turned 1:04:48.160 --> 1:04:51.320 into a run heavy, defensive oriented team and this is 1:04:51.360 --> 1:04:54.000 a bad matchup. The Steelers are the fifth worst schedule 1:04:54.000 --> 1:04:57.480 adjusted matchup for opposing wide receiver, so I gave Davanta see. 1:04:57.880 --> 1:04:59.680 I also gave our boy Calcutta Grand call. 1:05:00.360 --> 1:05:00.760 See. 1:05:01.200 --> 1:05:03.520 In five games where kal Kata has been the starting 1:05:03.560 --> 1:05:06.680 tight end, he's finished his tight end won twice. He 1:05:06.720 --> 1:05:08.960 had a tight end twelve finish and a tight end 1:05:09.040 --> 1:05:12.560 nine finish. The Steelers are good against opposing tight ends. However, 1:05:12.920 --> 1:05:15.000 in the last five games, the Steelers have allowed the 1:05:15.000 --> 1:05:18.480 eight fewest schedule adjusted fantasy points per game to opposing 1:05:18.520 --> 1:05:20.480 tight end. So that's why I gave Kolkata see. 1:05:20.760 --> 1:05:25.280 Patriots take on the Cardinals, and the only Patriot I 1:05:25.320 --> 1:05:27.640 think you're gonna be tempted to play hers Ormondre Stevenson. 1:05:27.720 --> 1:05:30.160 Let's focus on him. He's giving enough touches that the 1:05:30.320 --> 1:05:33.040 sheer volume. He's usually startable, but he has not scored 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:35.960 in a month, and Arizona's a sneaky good run defense. 1:05:36.320 --> 1:05:40.280 Since way back in Week five, only two runners have 1:05:40.360 --> 1:05:43.520 posted rushing touchdowns against the Cardinals, although one was Zach 1:05:43.560 --> 1:05:46.960 Sarbony last week. Most other starting running backs are struggling 1:05:47.040 --> 1:05:52.040 massively against Arizona. Get this list. Aaron Jones, Kenneth Walker, 1:05:52.560 --> 1:05:56.960 Breese Hall, DeAndre Swift, JK Dobbins and Josh Jacobs. These 1:05:56.960 --> 1:06:00.439 are all like top twelve running backs averaged four five 1:06:00.680 --> 1:06:04.880 scoreless yards against the Arizona Cardinals. They're way better at 1:06:04.920 --> 1:06:06.760 run defense than you think. And I can only get 1:06:06.800 --> 1:06:09.720 you to a C grade. And Romandri Stevenson. Drake May 1:06:09.960 --> 1:06:12.880 is on the bench, but I'll note that he usually 1:06:12.960 --> 1:06:15.960 finds his way to a decent fantasy outcome in one 1:06:16.000 --> 1:06:18.880 way or another. But this is a really tough matchup. 1:06:18.960 --> 1:06:21.880 May has exactly one passing touchdown in four of his 1:06:21.960 --> 1:06:25.000 last five games. He's playing behind the league's most injury 1:06:25.120 --> 1:06:28.080 ravaged offensive line, and he ends up scrambling for solid 1:06:28.160 --> 1:06:31.680 yardage every game. Since taking over full time, May has 1:06:31.760 --> 1:06:35.400 more Get this, Since taking over full time, Drake May 1:06:35.480 --> 1:06:40.400 has more rushing yardage than Lamar Jackson Arizona is. I 1:06:40.440 --> 1:06:43.680 know Arizona's an above average pass defense, and since Week four, 1:06:43.680 --> 1:06:46.840 opposing quarterbacks are running for only ten yards per game 1:06:46.880 --> 1:06:49.840 against them. Fantasy playoffs, I can't. I just I can't 1:06:49.840 --> 1:06:51.800 get you to Drake May as much as I've enjoyed 1:06:51.800 --> 1:06:54.560 it season. And Hunter Henry also on the bench. He 1:06:54.640 --> 1:06:59.040 is the safest of the Patriots receiving options since Drake 1:06:59.120 --> 1:07:02.439 may took over reaveraging seven targets five catches a game, 1:07:03.360 --> 1:07:05.840 only one scores all over that time. And the Cardinals 1:07:05.880 --> 1:07:08.800 are an elite tight end defense. They've only allowed two 1:07:08.880 --> 1:07:11.560 tight ends scores all year. No tight end is top 1:07:11.680 --> 1:07:15.000 twenty yards since way back in Week seven. That is 1:07:15.040 --> 1:07:18.800 a crazy stat. So Hunter Heny on the bench here. 1:07:18.840 --> 1:07:21.160 Let's go to Arizona side, where we've got a little 1:07:21.200 --> 1:07:24.080 more optimism, including at the running back position, where James 1:07:24.080 --> 1:07:26.520 Connor comes in with an A grade. Cardinals likely to 1:07:26.520 --> 1:07:28.840 get ahead of early and then run the ball plenty. 1:07:29.080 --> 1:07:31.800 New England sees the seventh most rushing attempts for just 1:07:31.880 --> 1:07:35.160 that reason, Connor averaging fifteen carries per game, and I 1:07:35.240 --> 1:07:37.680 expect you'll see far more than fifteen in this very 1:07:37.680 --> 1:07:40.960 favorable matchup. Runners with at least fifteen carries against the 1:07:40.960 --> 1:07:45.840 Patriots averaging ninety one rushing yards, fifteen more receiving yards, yes, 1:07:45.920 --> 1:07:48.320 and half a touchdown. So we'll give an A grade one. 1:07:48.280 --> 1:07:50.200 Hundred plus and a coin flip for a touchdown if 1:07:50.240 --> 1:07:52.160 you get fifteen touches, Yeah, who hit. 1:07:52.160 --> 1:07:53.200 That to take that? 1:07:53.280 --> 1:07:53.480 Yeah? 1:07:53.560 --> 1:07:56.120 Let's go to the passing game. Drey McBride a grade, 1:07:56.160 --> 1:07:59.760 still no touchdowns, but dominating every other category. Although it 1:07:59.760 --> 1:08:02.280 thinks he's got the rushing touchdown right for Drey McBride, yep, 1:08:02.360 --> 1:08:06.520 the rushing touchdown receiving touchdowns. The Patriots have played basically 1:08:06.560 --> 1:08:10.400 no good tight ends, but McBride's closest comparable to a 1:08:10.480 --> 1:08:13.240 face New England John new Smith and George Kittle both 1:08:13.280 --> 1:08:17.040 scored and average sixty yards trade McBride a gray and 1:08:17.360 --> 1:08:21.960 Marvin Harrison incredibly touchdown dependent. When he does not score, 1:08:22.040 --> 1:08:26.400 His average game is two catches for twenty eight yards. Yeah, 1:08:26.439 --> 1:08:29.120 that's awful. That is four point eight PPR points and 1:08:29.120 --> 1:08:31.600 that is a first round exit from your fantasy playoffs. 1:08:31.880 --> 1:08:36.960 So will this touchdown dependent player score a touchdown? The 1:08:37.040 --> 1:08:39.960 good news is that he's an end zone ball hog, 1:08:40.080 --> 1:08:43.000 averaging one end zone target per game. The Patriots have 1:08:43.320 --> 1:08:46.880 decent cornerbacks, but they do give up touchdowns. Christian Gonzalez 1:08:46.920 --> 1:08:49.800 allows just a fifty seven percent completion rate and two 1:08:49.920 --> 1:08:53.599 touchdowns allowed this year. That's not great news. Marcus Jones 1:08:53.600 --> 1:08:56.080 on the other side, fifty eight percent completion rate, three 1:08:56.120 --> 1:09:00.400 touchdowns allowed this year not great. Jonathan Jones, though a 1:09:00.439 --> 1:09:04.320 whopping six touchdowns allowed fourth most that's from the slot, 1:09:04.439 --> 1:09:06.920 and Marvin Harrison runs about a third of his routes 1:09:06.960 --> 1:09:11.280 from the slot. So an optimistic B grade on Marvin Harrison, 1:09:11.439 --> 1:09:17.280 but danger here. Know the downside, if you're protecting a 1:09:17.400 --> 1:09:20.840 lead against Cooper Cup, don't play Marvin Harrison. That's how 1:09:20.880 --> 1:09:21.799 you could lind. 1:09:21.640 --> 1:09:23.400 Up building your lead. 1:09:24.200 --> 1:09:26.559 Last thing, Kyler Murray. Patriots have only faced one mobile 1:09:26.640 --> 1:09:29.519 quarterback all year, Anthony Richardson, in the game before last 1:09:29.520 --> 1:09:32.519 week's bye week, and Richardson ran for forty eight yards 1:09:32.520 --> 1:09:35.240 in a touchdown. Not bad. Patriots have allowed multiple passing 1:09:35.280 --> 1:09:39.080 touchdowns in five for the past six games, and two 1:09:39.080 --> 1:09:42.720 of those quarterbacks threw for four touchdowns against the Patriots. 1:09:43.200 --> 1:09:46.400 Murray is rarely fired on all cylinders, ground and air, 1:09:46.520 --> 1:09:49.479 almost never all year, but this is the matchup where 1:09:49.479 --> 1:09:52.519 it could happen. I like Marie in this game, and 1:09:52.600 --> 1:09:55.960 I'm giving him an A grade against this defense because 1:09:56.000 --> 1:10:01.200 the prospect of him going air ground is real, all right, Scott. 1:10:01.240 --> 1:10:03.799 That brings us to the Falcons taking on the Raiders 1:10:03.800 --> 1:10:06.800 in this game. This whole Falcons team has just got 1:10:06.840 --> 1:10:09.080 the stench of death on it right now. 1:10:09.520 --> 1:10:11.479 Yeah, But I think there's some grades to be. 1:10:11.400 --> 1:10:12.879 Had against the Raiders. 1:10:12.920 --> 1:10:16.719 Against the Raiders, yeah, five of the last six quarterbacks 1:10:16.760 --> 1:10:19.320 to play the Raiders have had multiple scores and the 1:10:19.320 --> 1:10:21.360 one that didn't had three hundred plus and a score. 1:10:21.560 --> 1:10:24.880 So basically six really good games in a row. It's 1:10:24.880 --> 1:10:27.320 a bottom ten passy. It's a good spot for Cousins, 1:10:27.320 --> 1:10:32.800 who has been absolutely gross lately, copious amounts of interceptions 1:10:32.800 --> 1:10:35.960 and a dearth of scores. Death isn't even the right words. 1:10:36.040 --> 1:10:38.519 I mean it's zero. He's at zero basically in the 1:10:38.600 --> 1:10:41.479 last month. I'm still giving a C grade to Cousins. 1:10:41.479 --> 1:10:44.479 I think against this defense he can find his way there. 1:10:45.520 --> 1:10:50.439 Drake London's been absolutely fine with Cousins terrible month, like 1:10:50.520 --> 1:10:51.320 he could do better. 1:10:51.520 --> 1:10:52.240 Barnold Mooney. 1:10:52.320 --> 1:10:56.719 He's averaged six for seventy nine per game in Cousins 1:10:56.800 --> 1:11:00.160 bad month. He's still seeing more targets, catches, snaps, red 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:02.400 zone tar everything than Mooney, but Mooney has a few 1:11:02.439 --> 1:11:07.080 more yards. So I'm gonna give a C grade on Mooney. 1:11:07.200 --> 1:11:09.519 Huge game last week, but he was sub thirty yards 1:11:09.560 --> 1:11:11.680 and back to back before that. But this matchup's just 1:11:11.720 --> 1:11:13.040 way too good for the past game. 1:11:13.080 --> 1:11:15.519 And Mooney was also dinged up in those games. He's 1:11:15.560 --> 1:11:17.400 healthier now he's off the injury. 1:11:17.360 --> 1:11:20.519 And he gets to see Dicamrion Richardson, who we talked 1:11:20.560 --> 1:11:23.200 about last week, who had allowed two hundred and forty 1:11:23.200 --> 1:11:25.400 three yards in the previous three last week, well, you 1:11:25.439 --> 1:11:28.680 allowed another sixty one last week, so like it's it's 1:11:28.880 --> 1:11:31.800 it's near three hundred in the last last month. So 1:11:32.040 --> 1:11:34.080 good spot, decent spot for Mooney. I got the C 1:11:34.240 --> 1:11:37.240 grade on him. Ray Ray McLeod. I was really tempted 1:11:37.240 --> 1:11:40.120 to give a C grade on Raiders. Give up the 1:11:40.240 --> 1:11:42.960 fourth most fantasy points to the slot. The last three 1:11:43.000 --> 1:11:46.080 slot guys against the Raiders sixty three yards, ninety yards, 1:11:46.080 --> 1:11:48.920 and eighty yards. But those slot guys were kind of 1:11:48.960 --> 1:11:51.479 the lead receiver for those teams. So I'm gonna put 1:11:51.560 --> 1:11:54.000 Ray Ray on the bench. But I understand the dart throw. 1:11:54.040 --> 1:11:55.760 They give a lot up to the slot. They do 1:11:56.920 --> 1:11:59.280 Kyle Pitts, I've vascinated there. 1:12:00.080 --> 1:12:02.719 So late Raiders are getting killed by tight end. Yes, 1:12:02.880 --> 1:12:05.000 Kyle Pitts has been terrible, So what do you do. 1:12:05.080 --> 1:12:09.080 I've vacillated between bench and C grade. It's a great matchup. 1:12:09.479 --> 1:12:14.400 It's their fourth worst and in the last six weeks, 1:12:14.560 --> 1:12:17.920 tight ends are averaging eighty eight for ninety nine and 1:12:18.000 --> 1:12:21.960 a score on the Raiders. Those are team totals because 1:12:22.000 --> 1:12:24.200 Gray and Kelsey kind of combined on a couple of 1:12:24.240 --> 1:12:28.920 those non Kyle Pitts tight ends have two catches. Sorry, 1:12:29.640 --> 1:12:33.120 let me let me go past that. But John went 1:12:33.160 --> 1:12:37.120 over one hundred. Gseki went over one hundred. The Kelsey 1:12:37.160 --> 1:12:40.800 Gray combo twice went went for that much. Just a 1:12:40.960 --> 1:12:45.639 really great spot. But Kyle Pitts has topped fourteen yards 1:12:46.120 --> 1:12:49.120 just once in the last five games. 1:12:49.560 --> 1:12:50.400 That's awful. 1:12:50.479 --> 1:12:54.679 That is absolutely terrible. Given how bad they are against 1:12:54.720 --> 1:12:58.240 the slot and how bad they're against the tight end position. 1:12:59.400 --> 1:13:01.920 I can stand giving him a C grade here. 1:13:02.040 --> 1:13:04.640 I think I really hit it the grade C. 1:13:04.880 --> 1:13:08.479 Grade Bjeon Robinson's getting the A. If the Vikings run dye 1:13:08.479 --> 1:13:11.880 couldn't slow Robinson and his twenty touch averaged last week, 1:13:12.280 --> 1:13:14.760 I don't know how the Raiders a bottom half run 1:13:14.800 --> 1:13:18.200 dye in basically every category is going to stop the 1:13:18.200 --> 1:13:21.679 guy averaging one hundred and five total yards and four catches. 1:13:22.120 --> 1:13:25.439 Tyler Algier. The season has been what it is, fifteen 1:13:25.439 --> 1:13:27.439 to sixty yards. You need the score for him to 1:13:27.680 --> 1:13:30.080 be fantasy relevant. When he doesn't get the score, he's 1:13:30.120 --> 1:13:32.920 not fantasy he doesn't he's not start worthy. Over on 1:13:32.960 --> 1:13:36.160 the other side, you're not starting rheta or orconno no 1:13:36.200 --> 1:13:38.960 matter who starts, so you don't have to worry about that. 1:13:39.000 --> 1:13:41.120 What you do need to know is Jacoby Myers is 1:13:41.120 --> 1:13:44.080 getting the B grade. He's He's been below a twenty 1:13:44.080 --> 1:13:47.200 five percent target share just once since DeVante Adams left. 1:13:47.360 --> 1:13:49.559 In fact, just one sence. Yeah, I think about we 1:13:49.680 --> 1:13:52.960 three Jacoby Meyer super reliable. Yeah, Falcons A lot quarterbacks 1:13:52.960 --> 1:13:55.600 are Yeah. Falcons allowed the second most fantasy points to 1:13:55.600 --> 1:13:58.919 wide receivers and the most to the perimeter, where Jacoby 1:13:58.920 --> 1:14:01.800 plays two thirds of the time. I'm B grade on 1:14:01.880 --> 1:14:04.920 Jacoby Myers, auto A on Brock Bauers. I know Mayor 1:14:05.000 --> 1:14:08.160 broke out last week, but that's that's just not going 1:14:08.240 --> 1:14:12.360 to be common. Sincere McCormick C grade saw fifteen of 1:14:12.400 --> 1:14:16.200 the sixteen running back carries last week, route share went 1:14:16.280 --> 1:14:19.439 up top ten run dee only two backs and top 1:14:19.479 --> 1:14:21.920 sixty yards in the last half of the season only 1:14:21.960 --> 1:14:24.720 four rushing scores. So he's gonna get the volume, but 1:14:24.800 --> 1:14:26.840 I'm not sure how productive he's gonna be So he's 1:14:26.840 --> 1:14:28.560 getting that volume seed. 1:14:28.479 --> 1:14:31.840 Old the old volume, old volume. See I delivered one 1:14:31.880 --> 1:14:32.800 this already of the show. 1:14:32.960 --> 1:14:33.800 Vole absolutely. 1:14:34.080 --> 1:14:35.840 I like McCormick a little better than you do. I 1:14:35.880 --> 1:14:39.639 think this Falcons Falcons defense well off. Everything just doesn't 1:14:39.800 --> 1:14:40.599 it feels off. 1:14:40.720 --> 1:14:43.639 Yeah, if you look at the fifteen plus touchbacks, they've 1:14:43.640 --> 1:14:45.080 done decent and he should get that. 1:14:45.200 --> 1:14:45.960 He's gonna get that. 1:14:46.040 --> 1:14:47.160 I think he's going to get that. 1:14:47.240 --> 1:14:48.320 Final set of matchups. 1:14:48.320 --> 1:14:50.840 We've got a Sunday nighter and a Monday nighter. 1:14:50.920 --> 1:14:53.720 Green Bay taking on Seattle will tell you what to 1:14:53.920 --> 1:14:57.840 expect from the always troubling green Bay Wide receivers when 1:14:57.880 --> 1:15:14.599 we come back. Stay tuned. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. 1:15:14.640 --> 1:15:16.840 Thank you for joining, y'all. You can still get in 1:15:17.000 --> 1:15:20.720 late season Guillotine Leagues Guillotine Leagues dot Com. 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The Green Bay 1:15:46.520 --> 1:15:51.240 receivers thore Oh, what a freaking nightmare every week trying 1:15:51.240 --> 1:15:55.000 to find the right guy. Last week, Jaden Reid no catches. 1:15:55.120 --> 1:15:58.320 Christian Watson went off, what are you doing this week? Yes? 1:15:58.479 --> 1:16:00.599 Absolutely, but at first I have to say I don't 1:16:00.640 --> 1:16:03.960 have to join a new guillets league coworkers to. 1:16:04.000 --> 1:16:06.320 Wayne and Ian in a blender. I probably haven't mentioned 1:16:06.320 --> 1:16:08.360 that yet, but sorry, boys. 1:16:08.800 --> 1:16:09.800 First time hearing of it. 1:16:10.000 --> 1:16:12.280 Yeah. We'll start with Jordan Love. I gave him a bee. 1:16:12.400 --> 1:16:15.439 Love has been a Fantasy Kibi one only once since 1:16:15.520 --> 1:16:18.280 Week eleven. He didn't attempt more than twenty eight passes 1:16:18.320 --> 1:16:20.439 in any of those games, and this is a bad 1:16:20.520 --> 1:16:24.240 matchup against a good Seattle pass defense. Since shifting to 1:16:24.280 --> 1:16:27.759 a predominant two I coverage look in Week eleven, Seattle 1:16:27.760 --> 1:16:31.759 has allowed the fourth fewest yards per attempt. Josh Jacobs 1:16:31.840 --> 1:16:35.840 is an obvious start a Jade getting into that Quagmire 1:16:36.160 --> 1:16:37.080 Packers receiving. 1:16:37.120 --> 1:16:39.400 There you go, well, I'm gonna be. 1:16:39.400 --> 1:16:41.519 Wrong no matter what I say, so we'll just go 1:16:41.600 --> 1:16:44.000 with it. Jayden Reid, I'm giving him a CEE. He 1:16:44.080 --> 1:16:47.120 had that one target, zero catch week last week. You 1:16:47.120 --> 1:16:49.200 guys all know about that. He did have one hundred 1:16:49.200 --> 1:16:51.599 and thirteen yards in the previous game against Detroit. Speaking 1:16:51.600 --> 1:16:55.000 to the Quagmer situation, there, Reid gets more targets versus 1:16:55.040 --> 1:16:57.760 this kind of too high coverage that Seattle plays. I 1:16:57.760 --> 1:17:00.280 will say in his favor, he's first on the even 1:17:00.360 --> 1:17:02.439 first read share against too high. 1:17:02.880 --> 1:17:03.759 But it's the Packers. 1:17:03.760 --> 1:17:05.400 So I give him a seed, just like I'm giving 1:17:05.479 --> 1:17:08.879 Romeo Dobbs and spoiler alert, just like I'm giving Christian Watson. 1:17:09.439 --> 1:17:12.559 Dobbs is in concussion protocol, but he did practice Wednesday 1:17:12.560 --> 1:17:15.000 and Thursday, appears to be on track playing on Sunday. 1:17:15.280 --> 1:17:17.600 He hasn't finished higher than wide receiver forty five and 1:17:17.640 --> 1:17:21.479 weekly scoring since week seven and no go ahead and 1:17:21.560 --> 1:17:24.559 since Week eleven. Seattle ranks number four in that too 1:17:24.640 --> 1:17:27.120 high coverage rate that I talked about. Dobbs is number 1:17:27.120 --> 1:17:29.799 two on the team in yards per route run against 1:17:29.800 --> 1:17:33.439 too high. Christian Watson gave him a seed. This matchup 1:17:33.479 --> 1:17:34.680 not as good for him. We'll get into that in 1:17:34.680 --> 1:17:37.360 a second, but two one hundred yard receiving performances in 1:17:37.400 --> 1:17:40.160 his last four games likely needs at least one home 1:17:40.240 --> 1:17:43.280 run ball to get back there again in this game Watson. 1:17:43.680 --> 1:17:46.040 Watson's usage goes down against these. 1:17:45.960 --> 1:17:48.840 Two I coverage looks since those are designed to take 1:17:48.840 --> 1:17:52.360 away the deep looks that he thrives in. Since Week eleven, 1:17:52.439 --> 1:17:56.280 Seattle has allowed perimeter wide receivers to score the second 1:17:56.280 --> 1:17:59.320 fewest receiving yards per game. But I gave Watson a seed, 1:17:59.439 --> 1:18:01.200 just like I'm giving the rest of him Tucker Craft. 1:18:01.240 --> 1:18:02.120 However, I'm given. 1:18:01.960 --> 1:18:04.400 An a tight end ten and fantasy points per game, 1:18:04.400 --> 1:18:06.799 and he should get plenty of targets this week against 1:18:06.800 --> 1:18:09.920 the Seattle defense that is not good against opposing tight ends. 1:18:10.200 --> 1:18:13.120 Seattle has allowed the tenth most receiving years per game 1:18:13.360 --> 1:18:16.719 to that position. Moving over to the Seahawks, Gino Smith, 1:18:16.760 --> 1:18:20.080 I gave him a B. He has four consecutive underwhelming 1:18:20.120 --> 1:18:23.040 fantasy outings. Since Week eight. He has finished as a 1:18:23.120 --> 1:18:27.000 quarterback one in Fantasy only one time. The opportunity is 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:29.960 here for a better showing against the Packers defense that 1:18:30.040 --> 1:18:33.000 can be thrown on. Since Week nine, green Bay has 1:18:33.040 --> 1:18:36.840 allowed the fifth highest passer rating and the second highest 1:18:36.880 --> 1:18:41.360 success rate in the NFL. Kenneth Walker, he doesn't look 1:18:41.400 --> 1:18:43.920 like he's gonna play. He is doubtful, so keep him 1:18:43.960 --> 1:18:47.040 on the bench. Zach Charboney, he is an a he 1:18:47.120 --> 1:18:49.000 was might take a chance on me guy last week. 1:18:49.240 --> 1:18:51.360 I don't mean to break or anything. I don't know. 1:18:51.360 --> 1:18:53.240 If only we had some way to identify he had 1:18:53.280 --> 1:18:54.479 a pretty good game last week. 1:18:54.560 --> 1:18:57.559 He finishes an RB one that week, and he needs 1:18:57.600 --> 1:19:00.479 to be started here if indeed Kenneth Walker is out. 1:19:00.920 --> 1:19:04.760 Charbonney has averaged twenty seven point three Fantasy points in 1:19:04.800 --> 1:19:06.840 the three games where Kenneth Walker did not play. 1:19:07.000 --> 1:19:08.479 Twenty seven point three. 1:19:08.720 --> 1:19:10.320 Yes, he goes off. 1:19:11.120 --> 1:19:13.960 Keep in mind that the road favorite Green Bay Packers 1:19:13.960 --> 1:19:17.360 surrendered the ninth fewest rushing yards. But that being sad, 1:19:17.680 --> 1:19:20.920 you gotta start Sermaney dk metcalf. I give him a B. 1:19:21.160 --> 1:19:23.639 Four straight games without a touchdown. He is not top 1:19:23.680 --> 1:19:26.800 seventy receiving yards in any game during that stretch. There 1:19:26.840 --> 1:19:29.200 is a possibility for a decent game here against a 1:19:29.240 --> 1:19:33.280 middling Packers pass defense, but I'm not overly bullish. Since 1:19:33.320 --> 1:19:36.200 week nine, green Bay is number fifteen in receiving yards 1:19:36.240 --> 1:19:38.559 per game allowed to bounder wide receivers, so just middle 1:19:38.600 --> 1:19:40.479 of the pack there gave him a be just like 1:19:40.520 --> 1:19:43.600 I gave Jackson Smith and Jigbabbe wide receiver fourteen and 1:19:43.640 --> 1:19:46.400 fantasy points per game. He's only finished lower than wide 1:19:46.400 --> 1:19:50.880 receiver sixteen and Fantasy weekly scoring once since Week nine. 1:19:51.280 --> 1:19:54.519 The Packers have a middle of the road pass defense, 1:19:54.560 --> 1:19:56.679 but also a middle of the road pass defense against 1:19:56.680 --> 1:19:58.320 opposing slot wide receivers. 1:19:58.600 --> 1:20:00.080 Since Week eleven, green Bay has. 1:20:00.160 --> 1:20:03.160 Utilized too high coverage looks at the sixth highest rate 1:20:03.200 --> 1:20:06.719 in the NFL, and JSN has a team leading sixteen 1:20:06.760 --> 1:20:09.679 point four percent target share against too high I'm. 1:20:09.479 --> 1:20:11.599 Surprise he's not an a knowing how much you love 1:20:11.640 --> 1:20:14.840 it and what you're just saying. I'm not trying to 1:20:14.880 --> 1:20:17.200 talk to you into it. I'm I'm just a little surprised. 1:20:17.280 --> 1:20:20.920 We'll give JSNNA the two high coverage looks. That's what 1:20:20.960 --> 1:20:22.960 we talked about last week, where it gives more room 1:20:23.040 --> 1:20:25.840 in the intermediate for JSN to slice and dice, and 1:20:25.880 --> 1:20:30.479 we're giving JSNNA this week. Noah Fanto, my boy from Iowa. 1:20:30.520 --> 1:20:33.720 I'm we're giving him a c. He's averaging twenty two 1:20:33.800 --> 1:20:36.479 receiving yards per game since his return to the lineup, 1:20:36.840 --> 1:20:39.000 has a red zone target in each of the last 1:20:39.000 --> 1:20:41.920 two games. However, and this is a decent matchup if 1:20:41.920 --> 1:20:44.439 you need a streamer. Green Bay has allowed the seventh 1:20:44.479 --> 1:20:47.280 most receiving yards per game to opposing tight ends this season. 1:20:48.240 --> 1:20:50.320 The Monday Night game one of the two Monday Night games, 1:20:50.400 --> 1:20:53.400 Chicago taking on Minnesota in Minnesota, these teams played just 1:20:53.439 --> 1:20:57.280 three games ago. It was an overtime thriller with fifty 1:20:57.479 --> 1:21:01.439 seven points scored in this game three weeks ago. So 1:21:01.680 --> 1:21:03.640 let's try to find some guys to play here, and 1:21:03.680 --> 1:21:05.960 there are a few. I'm gonna start with Keenan Allen 1:21:06.520 --> 1:21:10.960 targeted fifteen times when these teams met three weeks ago, 1:21:11.560 --> 1:21:14.479 and I would tell you the Vikings are going to 1:21:14.520 --> 1:21:16.360 watch the tape and make sure that doesn't happen again. 1:21:16.640 --> 1:21:19.840 But they've struggled with quality slot receivers all season long, 1:21:19.880 --> 1:21:23.200 and that includes last week when ray Ray McLeod posted 1:21:23.240 --> 1:21:26.920 eight catches for ninety eight yards against Minnesota and under 1:21:27.040 --> 1:21:30.599 Thomas Brown, the new offensive coordinator and head coach Alan 1:21:30.680 --> 1:21:34.680 averaging a whopping nine targets per game nine times. For 1:21:34.840 --> 1:21:38.400 Keenan Allen it's resulted in three quarters of a touchdown 1:21:38.439 --> 1:21:42.200 per game, so I'm unusually optimistic about Keenan Allen with 1:21:42.240 --> 1:21:45.840 a B grade. Also B grade for Dj Moore more 1:21:45.880 --> 1:21:48.040 smoked the Vikings for one hundred yards and a touchdown 1:21:48.040 --> 1:21:50.000 three weeks ago. He runs from the left side of 1:21:50.000 --> 1:21:52.519 the field a lot more than anywhere else, which means 1:21:52.560 --> 1:21:55.759 his most common defender will be Shaq Griffin, a decent 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:59.040 but not special cornerback. He is allowing a paltry fifty 1:21:59.040 --> 1:22:02.120 four percent catch right, which is excellent. He hasn't given 1:22:02.200 --> 1:22:04.040 up a score in six games, so he is good. 1:22:04.120 --> 1:22:06.920 I wouldn't call Shack Griffin a shutdown corner, and Dj 1:22:07.000 --> 1:22:09.519 Moore is still startable. B grade here considered to see, 1:22:09.760 --> 1:22:13.639 but I'm going B ultimately and staying with the passing game. 1:22:13.760 --> 1:22:17.920 Roman dunsay that is a C grade. He did score 1:22:17.960 --> 1:22:21.960 twice last week, including a beautiful toe tapper in the 1:22:22.000 --> 1:22:24.280 back corner of the end zone. I think just the 1:22:24.320 --> 1:22:27.360 best overall play that Romadunzey has had all season, and 1:22:28.200 --> 1:22:31.240 the problem is this volume remains way lower than Keenan 1:22:31.280 --> 1:22:33.519 Allen and Dj Moore. That makes him more of a 1:22:33.640 --> 1:22:38.400 dart throw Vikings outside cornerback Stephan Gilmore might miss another game, 1:22:38.560 --> 1:22:41.120 and if I knew he was gonna miss, I could 1:22:41.160 --> 1:22:43.559 see pushing Roman Dunza to a B grade. 1:22:43.600 --> 1:22:43.840 Here. 1:22:44.880 --> 1:22:48.759 Journeyman Fabian Moreau is the stop gap if Stephan Gilmore 1:22:48.800 --> 1:22:53.439 cannot play, a Duneesa probably more reliable in that situation. 1:22:53.680 --> 1:22:55.960 In just two games of play from Minnesota, Moreau has 1:22:55.960 --> 1:22:59.639 already allowed a touchdown, So Rouman Dunsa Roman Dunsay C grade. 1:23:00.080 --> 1:23:03.000 Cole Comet normally one of the least reliable titands in 1:23:03.000 --> 1:23:06.960 the fantasy landscape, but he's consistently good against Minnesota, in 1:23:07.000 --> 1:23:12.240 particular over the past four years, Comet averaging six targets, 1:23:12.280 --> 1:23:14.360 four catches forty two yards, which is not bad. And 1:23:14.360 --> 1:23:16.760 he had a big game against the Vikings three weeks ago. 1:23:17.280 --> 1:23:19.599 But Minnesota has not allowed a tight end score since 1:23:19.640 --> 1:23:21.679 way back in Week four. And I've got col Comette 1:23:21.680 --> 1:23:23.920 with a C grade and that that leaves us in 1:23:23.960 --> 1:23:26.559 the passing game. With Caleb Williams, I've given his receiving 1:23:26.560 --> 1:23:30.280 targets b's and c's. The Vikings have are a giving 1:23:30.320 --> 1:23:32.960 up less than one passing touchdown per game over the 1:23:33.040 --> 1:23:35.080 last six so I don't think there's a lot of 1:23:35.160 --> 1:23:37.960 upside here. And Williams, who's been running a little more. 1:23:38.439 --> 1:23:41.960 But the Vikings give up just eleven quarterback rushing yards 1:23:42.000 --> 1:23:44.599 per game. That's the second fewest in the league. And 1:23:44.640 --> 1:23:47.680 so Caleb is just a C grade. That brings us 1:23:47.720 --> 1:23:48.759 to DeAndre Swift. 1:23:49.120 --> 1:23:50.720 The running game is gonna be fun in this one. 1:23:50.840 --> 1:23:53.040 Yeah, well, okay, first, we don't even know who if 1:23:53.080 --> 1:23:55.120 he's gonna play, or who the running back might be. 1:23:55.120 --> 1:23:57.479 As Swift and Roshan missed practice Friday. 1:23:57.560 --> 1:24:00.639 Yes, so Swift has got Now there's an next because 1:24:00.640 --> 1:24:03.880 it's a Monday game up, So Swift he's got groin 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:07.400 and quad injuries. Roshawn Johnson hasn't cleared the concussion protocol 1:24:07.439 --> 1:24:10.960 that he's been in for like three weeks. So it 1:24:11.040 --> 1:24:13.880 may be Travis Homer. You could pick him up in 1:24:14.000 --> 1:24:17.960 as a desperation play, but that's all it would be Kings. 1:24:18.160 --> 1:24:20.840 I know that's the problem. Now. The Vikings are an 1:24:20.840 --> 1:24:23.840 elite run defense, arguably the best run defense this year. 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:26.640 But I will note this, the last two games the 1:24:26.720 --> 1:24:32.000 Vikings have been without their middle linebacker. I've in Pace. Now, 1:24:32.400 --> 1:24:34.880 in those two games, the Vikings have given up one 1:24:34.960 --> 1:24:37.679 hundred and ten and one hundred and fifty five rushing yards, 1:24:37.680 --> 1:24:39.559 and Pace is on ir He's not going to play 1:24:39.600 --> 1:24:43.920 in this game. So here's where MultiMate ultimately at with this. 1:24:44.160 --> 1:24:47.880 If DeAndre Swift completely clears the injury protocols and he 1:24:48.000 --> 1:24:50.679 is off the injury report, I would say start him 1:24:50.720 --> 1:24:53.320 at a C grade, and if not, I'm benching all 1:24:53.360 --> 1:24:55.720 the runners against the Vikings. All right, let's go to 1:24:55.720 --> 1:24:59.320 Minnesota side of this matchup, beginning with Justin Jefferson obvious 1:24:59.360 --> 1:25:04.759 a grade A in a tougher matchup against Jalen Johnson. Now, Matt, 1:25:05.120 --> 1:25:09.759 the way Matt Eberflus used his defenders, including Jalen Johnson, 1:25:09.840 --> 1:25:11.960 was a lot of zone. I'm really hoping that interim 1:25:12.000 --> 1:25:14.880 defensive coordinator Eric Washington will give us more of the 1:25:15.000 --> 1:25:18.200 Jalen Johnson on Justin Jefferson one on one matchup that 1:25:18.280 --> 1:25:20.439 I think. I would love to see one of the best, 1:25:20.720 --> 1:25:23.080 one of the best cornerbacks in the league against one 1:25:23.080 --> 1:25:25.479 of the best receivers in the league. But I don't 1:25:25.479 --> 1:25:27.719 know if that's gonna happen. And it's still Justin Jefferson 1:25:27.760 --> 1:25:29.840 and he's still gonna get the A grade this one. 1:25:30.160 --> 1:25:33.599 How about Jordan Addison over the last five games, Jordan 1:25:33.640 --> 1:25:36.840 Addison is wide receiver four days. 1:25:37.400 --> 1:25:38.519 I didn't realize that. 1:25:38.560 --> 1:25:41.479 Wow. Now it's because a lot of teams defenses are 1:25:41.479 --> 1:25:44.400 doing whatever it takes to stop Justin Jefferson. And now 1:25:44.520 --> 1:25:47.840 Jordan Addison is seeing all this single coverage. He's gotten 1:25:47.840 --> 1:25:50.719 good enough at this stage of his sophomore year where 1:25:50.760 --> 1:25:54.160 he is just getting open and Sam Darnold's just dealing. 1:25:54.240 --> 1:25:57.720 He's finding him open. Addison's getting separation through better route 1:25:57.760 --> 1:26:01.360 running and through speed. Al Lewis of The Athletic dropped 1:26:01.400 --> 1:26:05.639 this on me earlier today. The fastest receiver clock time, 1:26:05.680 --> 1:26:08.360 receiver times over the past month, and I don't have 1:26:08.400 --> 1:26:11.120 the exact stats or numbers, is Jordan Addison in the 1:26:11.240 --> 1:26:16.599 NFL free three free three free three baby. So Jordan 1:26:16.600 --> 1:26:19.200 Addison ends up with a and by the way, earlier 1:26:19.240 --> 1:26:21.599 matchup with Chicago eight catches one hundred and sixty two 1:26:21.640 --> 1:26:24.280 yards in a touchdown for Jordan Addison. Be great in 1:26:24.320 --> 1:26:28.840 this one. TJ. Hockinson in the week twelve meeting, the 1:26:28.960 --> 1:26:32.519 Vikings identified Chicago linebacker TJ. Edwards, and they threw at 1:26:32.560 --> 1:26:35.160 him constantly, and he gave up one hundred and thirty 1:26:35.160 --> 1:26:37.480 three yards in his coverage in that game. And Hockinson 1:26:37.520 --> 1:26:39.800 went for one hundred and fourteen yards in that game. 1:26:40.400 --> 1:26:43.360 And since then, the Bears are getting harpooned by opposing 1:26:43.400 --> 1:26:47.720 tight ends. Do I have a harpoon sound? Yeah, we'll 1:26:47.760 --> 1:26:49.400 call it a harpoon for our purposes here. 1:26:49.520 --> 1:26:51.880 It sounds more harpoony than it does, Darty. 1:26:51.800 --> 1:26:54.679 It kind of does. Since then, the last two weeks 1:26:54.840 --> 1:26:58.120 Bears gave up two touchdowns to Sam Laporta, and last 1:26:58.120 --> 1:27:02.200 week George Kittle one hundred fifty one yards against the Bears. TJ. 1:27:02.360 --> 1:27:07.120 Hockinson a gray. So now let's go to Sam Darnold 1:27:07.240 --> 1:27:10.479 coming up the best game of his career, and obviously 1:27:10.479 --> 1:27:12.479 I do like him in this matchup, but I don't 1:27:12.479 --> 1:27:15.800 know if I see explosive output coming. The Bears are 1:27:15.800 --> 1:27:17.880 far easier to run upon than pass. And we'll talk 1:27:17.880 --> 1:27:20.000 about Aaron Jones in a minute. I've got a's and 1:27:20.000 --> 1:27:22.280 b's for his receivers, so I still like the passing game. 1:27:22.600 --> 1:27:25.799 I expect closer to the two touchdown performance that Donald 1:27:25.800 --> 1:27:27.840 gave us in Week twelve against the Bears. I've got 1:27:27.880 --> 1:27:30.880 a B grade on him, absolutely startable. And then there's 1:27:30.880 --> 1:27:34.920 Aaron Jones. In the week twelve meeting, Jones broke out 1:27:34.920 --> 1:27:36.920 of a month long slump with one hundred and twenty 1:27:37.000 --> 1:27:39.719 nine total yards in a touchdown. And Jones has scored 1:27:39.760 --> 1:27:42.720 in all three games since then, and he's coming off 1:27:42.760 --> 1:27:45.919 his best game in I don't know two months last week. 1:27:46.320 --> 1:27:48.439 The way you beat the Bears is on the ground, 1:27:48.600 --> 1:27:51.200 and they're turning into one of these softest ground matchups 1:27:51.200 --> 1:27:53.559 in the league. Over the past three weeks. The Bears 1:27:53.640 --> 1:27:56.840 ranked bottom five and fantasy points to runners bottom five, 1:27:56.840 --> 1:27:59.720 and rushing yards bottom five and rushing touchdowns allowed. And 1:28:00.160 --> 1:28:03.919 got a B grade on Aaron Jones kind of spineless. 1:28:03.920 --> 1:28:05.559 I probably should give him an A grade in this one. 1:28:05.680 --> 1:28:06.519 Yeah, I like it. 1:28:06.600 --> 1:28:10.200 I like Aaron joking this matchup quite a bit, all right. 1:28:10.320 --> 1:28:16.360 If you if you played against Cooper Cup, take don't 1:28:16.439 --> 1:28:19.120 take a lot of chances with your roster. Protect your lead. 1:28:19.160 --> 1:28:20.160 You've gotten early. 1:28:19.960 --> 1:28:21.919 Said right, play it safe. 1:28:22.280 --> 1:28:25.880 If you started Cooper Cup, you need dark drows, you 1:28:25.920 --> 1:28:29.080 need some magic to happen. Find a quarterback, wide receiver, 1:28:29.120 --> 1:28:31.640 hookup or a quarterback tight end hookup that maybe you 1:28:31.640 --> 1:28:32.200 can exploit. 1:28:32.360 --> 1:28:34.479 And if you're one of my coworkers playing against me 1:28:34.479 --> 1:28:35.800 in a guillote league. 1:28:35.640 --> 1:28:36.280 Just give up. 1:28:36.520 --> 1:28:37.240 It's over. 1:28:37.080 --> 1:28:37.240 Over. 1:28:37.800 --> 1:28:39.879 I know I haven't brought that up yet in this episode, 1:28:39.880 --> 1:28:40.439 but it's over. 1:28:40.640 --> 1:28:43.679 Just give up. I love it man. Thank you for listening, everybody. 1:28:43.720 --> 1:28:46.879 We'll be back for a semi finals edition of Fantasy 1:28:46.880 --> 1:28:53.240 Football Weekly next week. Good luck everyone. Bye bye