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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. We've got plenty of matchups
Speaker 1: to get to all of them, and beginning with buff Well,
Speaker 1: not two is not Thursday Nights Buffalo at Miami, Brian,
Speaker 1: you know, for Buffalo, this has been a the end
Speaker 1: of a series of polled, strongly positive matchups. So this
Speaker 1: is the last one, and in honesty, the Bills have
Speaker 1: not maximized this opportunity against most of these bad opponents.
Speaker 1: What do you think happens in this game in Miami?
Speaker 1: I think they probably win. Let's analyze this from a
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective. Okay, just kidding, Devin Singletary start with him.
Speaker 1: I gonna give him a B. Over the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: Singletary is total thirty four touches to Frank or Is seventeen.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are conceving thirty two touches per game to
Speaker 1: opposing backs. So if this trend continues, Singletary should touch
Speaker 1: the ball around let's say twenty three times. My estimation
Speaker 1: I would be plenty, which means Franco would handle the
Speaker 1: ball around nine times nine times. Thanks for the manual.
Speaker 1: Good job. By the way, these teams are played already
Speaker 1: this season. This is the second meeting of the year.
Speaker 1: Singletary and Gore combined for eighteen carries, eighty one yards
Speaker 1: and zero rushing touchdowns. In the first meeting, Francore at
Speaker 1: the only reception but single Arry is the bell count
Speaker 1: now would appear, so he gets the B. So does
Speaker 1: John Brown. In the passing game, at least four catches
Speaker 1: and fifty yards and seven straight games. So Smokey has
Speaker 1: a safe floor. We're not used to seeing. He's usually
Speaker 1: been very boomer Bucks. Is he smokey or is he
Speaker 1: smoke It was smoky Brown Brown, I believe. So that's
Speaker 1: Smokey the bear. I think he Isn't he just thought
Speaker 1: it was smokey. Well, we'll have to fact check that
Speaker 1: that's different. Yeah, well yeah, we'll get back to you
Speaker 1: on now. I'm calling him very important. But this is
Speaker 1: a high ceiling scenario for smoke or smoke, whichever one
Speaker 1: it is. We'll figure about. Brown had five for eighty
Speaker 1: three and a touchdown in the first meeting, and that
Speaker 1: was when Xavian Howard was healthy, their best cornerback. He's
Speaker 1: on I R now, So I'm like in the ceiling
Speaker 1: for Brown here, I didn't actually give him an a
Speaker 1: screw it from John Brown. See for gold Beasley. Beasley
Speaker 1: also scored in the first meet, but only at three
Speaker 1: catches for sixteen yards, but Miami allowed at least eighty
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown slot receivers ju Juice with Schuster
Speaker 1: and James and Crowder in the recent games since the
Speaker 1: first meeting. So Beasley is worth the dark throw and PPR.
Speaker 1: Buffalo tight ends are not though they're all on the
Speaker 1: bench for me, and Josh Allen is not on the bench.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him an a uh, just a modest
Speaker 1: two O two and two touchdowns passing four thirty two.
Speaker 1: That's good passing for thirty two rushing. We're used to
Speaker 1: seeing the Yeah I want, I want the eleven scrambles
Speaker 1: for nine six yards from Josh Allen and we're back
Speaker 1: getting it all year. Yeah, we'll hope we will see
Speaker 1: it in this game because last year he had ninety
Speaker 1: five yards rushing and two touchdowns, then a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: five yards rushing in the other game, so that's ceiling
Speaker 1: still exists. Miami has actually opposed limiting, uh limited opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback production over the last three but they faced Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph Sam Donald and Brian Hoyer during that stretch. So,
Speaker 1: like Josh Allen, here over to the Miami side before
Speaker 1: we have breaking news. Before you get over to the
Speaker 1: Miami side. It's Smokey. I did it. I don't know
Speaker 1: what made me think it was smoke, But by the way,
Speaker 1: some people do call him smoke And it turns out
Speaker 1: there's a restaurant in Kampas City called the John Brown
Speaker 1: smoke House, all right, and according to yelp, it's delicious. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're they have anything to do
Speaker 1: with each other. Wait, no, no, no, it's in Long Island. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's in Long Island, I guess. But if they call
Speaker 1: themselves Kansas City style of barbecue, anybody, if any listener can,
Speaker 1: has ever been to the John Brown Smokehouse? Let us know,
Speaker 1: people in Casey like us, which Miami cornerback is going
Speaker 1: to the John Brown Smokehouse this week? Hey? Uh? Not
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard or basically Finn past pick Finn Patrick. All Right,
Speaker 1: I was trying to get to how bad Caitlin Blage sucks. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give him a cee in this matchup.
Speaker 1: O god, wow. Fifty five carries on the season for Blage,
Speaker 1: by the way, a hundred and thirteen yards on those
Speaker 1: five carries. Unbelievably bad. He called his forty five combo
Speaker 1: yards on twenty two touches against the Colts last week
Speaker 1: a quote okay, quote unquote okay day for career, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. In the first meeting Miami Backs total
Speaker 1: ninety four yards in a touchdown on twenty three carries.
Speaker 1: But when I say Miami Backs, I really mean Mark
Speaker 1: Walton and Kenyan Drake. Blage had three carries for seven yards.
Speaker 1: He is the one who scored the touchdown. The Bills
Speaker 1: have allowed four running back rushing touchdowns over the last
Speaker 1: four games. Nick Chubb and Adrian Peters and both topped
Speaker 1: the hundred yards against Buffalo in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and neither had more than twenty Gary's to do so.
Speaker 1: So I'll give Ballage the sea based on volume. But
Speaker 1: again he blows. Uh. Davantae Parker, he's on the bench,
Speaker 1: had five for fifty five and one in the first meeting. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's what that was? What I'm sorry? Yes, he had
Speaker 1: five fifty five and one in the first meeting, and
Speaker 1: in his first game without Preston Williams last week he
Speaker 1: saw ten targets. But Preston Williams was shadowed by Tredevius
Speaker 1: White in the first meeting. Vante park was gonna shadowed
Speaker 1: by So he's on the bench, Alan hearns. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make up my mind on the fly here played the
Speaker 1: snaps last week. He won't be shadowed by Tredevius White
Speaker 1: White lockdown Beckham last week and that's when Jarvis Landry
Speaker 1: went off and Richard Higgins even scored. So Alan earns
Speaker 1: Man that's a throu throw on fanball dot com. That's
Speaker 1: basically not a take Colm receiver but a dart throwing
Speaker 1: Fanball Mike Kasecki can give him a c not one
Speaker 1: of posing tight end as top fifty yards against Buffalo
Speaker 1: and then includes Cosecki wcause he had four for forty
Speaker 1: one in the first meeting and sadly that's decent tight
Speaker 1: end production these days to get about eight PPR points.
Speaker 1: So he's a round tight end fifteen this week, and
Speaker 1: I'm putting your boys to bear on the bench chart.
Speaker 1: He did have eight two and one passing and thirteen
Speaker 1: rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the first meeting,
Speaker 1: but I'm not banking on that rushing touchdown. The Bills
Speaker 1: have allowed one er zero touchdown passes until Baker through
Speaker 1: for two last week. But uh, I know Patrick as
Speaker 1: good as Baker, and who knows they're both not very good,
Speaker 1: so you'll be nice. O Denver takes on the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings in Minnesota. For Denver, it's Uh, it's a game
Speaker 1: where Brandon Allen, former a f quarterback, gets his second
Speaker 1: NFL start ever and it's on the it's to get
Speaker 1: against Mike Zimmer, So I you know this. It puts
Speaker 1: a damper on everything here. This feels like a sizeable mismatch.
Speaker 1: I could see him finding his way to like a
Speaker 1: touchdown maybe in garbage time, maybe gets a second in
Speaker 1: garbage time, something like that. But other than that, I
Speaker 1: don't think you want to start Brandon Allen and that
Speaker 1: brings down quite a bit the other players in the
Speaker 1: passing game. Courtland Sutton remains a B level grade though,
Speaker 1: because Vikings cornerback Xavier Xavier Rhodes Xavier Rhodes as he
Speaker 1: likes to be called now, who's it's just been a
Speaker 1: bad year. He's catch The catch rate on him is
Speaker 1: eighty six percent. That's crazy. His path to passer rating
Speaker 1: against him a hundred one. Courtland Sutton is uh, just
Speaker 1: super safe as well, averaging seventy four yards over his
Speaker 1: last six games, four touchdowns over those six games. Most
Speaker 1: of those are Joe Flacco, and again, I don't trust
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen to get a lot done here, but that
Speaker 1: might be enough to get Courtland Sutton up to a
Speaker 1: B grade, but he's the only receiver you want to
Speaker 1: start in this game. Noah fan gets a wobbly see
Speaker 1: mostly just because of the bye week and injuries to
Speaker 1: Kittle and Hooper. Uh So, normally I'd give him a bench,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give him a CEE for Noah fanse.
Speaker 1: He has seen seventeen targets the last three games, a
Speaker 1: notable uptick for the rookie tight end in usage. Vikings
Speaker 1: allowed the third most tight end receptions, although none have
Speaker 1: scored Philip Lindsay by you guys know, I love love
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. The Vikings do not have their primary run
Speaker 1: stuff for Lindval Joseph for this game, but even so
Speaker 1: it's a tough matchup. Viking shutdown Ezekiel Elliott without Lindvald
Speaker 1: Joseph last week, Vikings right nine and rushing yards allowed.
Speaker 1: They've given up one rushing touchdown since week two. I've
Speaker 1: got to see grade on Philip Lindsay. Royce Freeman is
Speaker 1: on the bench. He has top forty yards once in
Speaker 1: his last five games. He's been held to under three
Speaker 1: point five yards per carry for a month straight. He
Speaker 1: doesn't catch passes either. He's dead to us for that matter,
Speaker 1: when is Denver and Vic Fangio, who I love, gonna
Speaker 1: just let Philip Lindsay, be a workhorse and see what happens.
Speaker 1: You know what happens if you give him the ball
Speaker 1: twenty five times, He's not gonna snap in half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he broke his wrist at the in Week sixteen last year.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's fragile. I put the unnecessary hits
Speaker 1: on him, though in the lost season at time you
Speaker 1: could say that, I suppose let's go to the Viking side.
Speaker 1: The storyline here is really that Vic Fangio has migrated
Speaker 1: his Chicago defense westward. They are awesome. In fact, statistically
Speaker 1: since Week four, the Broncos are the better defense than
Speaker 1: the Bears. Let's talk about it. Dalvin Cook, I've got
Speaker 1: I've just got to be great. On Dalvin Cook, only
Speaker 1: two backs have averaged four yards per carry against Denver.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have given up just one rushing score running
Speaker 1: backs in their last six games, only one receiving score
Speaker 1: two backs all year long. Cook his averaging five catches
Speaker 1: and six eight yards through the air in his last
Speaker 1: three games, and the screen pass has become devastating, and
Speaker 1: I love that part about the the the game for
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook has now become a very valuable receiver. But
Speaker 1: I think Fanjo's defense is good enough to keep him
Speaker 1: at a B level for this game. Kirk Cousins gets
Speaker 1: a C grade, and it's a wobbly see it at
Speaker 1: at that The past five teams to face the Broncos
Speaker 1: of average just two hundred seventeen passing yards and zero
Speaker 1: point four touchdowns. That's it. Yeah, Kirk's got to do
Speaker 1: a whole lot better than that if you're gonna even
Speaker 1: consider starting him here. He's further challenged by the absence
Speaker 1: of Adam Feeling in this game. Stefan Diggs will draw
Speaker 1: shadow shadow coverage from elite cornerback Chris Harris, who's giving
Speaker 1: up just thirty nine yards per game in his coverage.
Speaker 1: And that's why I've got Diggs with a bench grade.
Speaker 1: Last two games without Adam Feeling, Diggs just four catches
Speaker 1: for fifty four yards. That is it. I mentioned Chris
Speaker 1: Harris giving up just thirty nine yards per game in
Speaker 1: his coverage, so it's a It's a brutal matchup for
Speaker 1: Diggs as well. Cal Rudolph is on fire with four
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last four weeks, but the Broncos are
Speaker 1: tough against tight ends. Denver's only surrendered one score to
Speaker 1: the position. They held Travis Kelsey and Darren Waller to
Speaker 1: under five receptions each, so I've got a bench grade
Speaker 1: on him as well. Uh So, overall, it feels like
Speaker 1: a defensive tussle. I don't particularly like any of the
Speaker 1: players involved. Tussle tussle. Uh. Let's go to the say
Speaker 1: to found themselves in a bit of a tussle last week.
Speaker 1: Uh nobody thought that the Falcons would shut out Drew
Speaker 1: Brees and they take on Tampa Bay. It's not no
Speaker 1: chance that Drew Brees goes zero and zero against the
Speaker 1: Falcons and the Tampa Bay buccaneer. Yeah. I don't think
Speaker 1: so either, but it is worth noting in his last
Speaker 1: five trips to Tampa Breeze has only had one game
Speaker 1: with multiple scores and only one game of over three
Speaker 1: hundred yards in his last five visits to Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: But I'm giving him an a grade. We all know
Speaker 1: the Tampa defense is non existent, allowing multiple scores to
Speaker 1: the past seven quarterbacks they've faced, including four touchdowns the
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater in Week five. Mike Thomas easy a had
Speaker 1: eleven two and two in the first meeting. Ted ginn
Speaker 1: even gets a C grade in this one scored in
Speaker 1: the first meeting. I tried that last week and he
Speaker 1: gave me zero zero. Yeah, I think we're all skunked
Speaker 1: last week in that Atlanta game. Uh, Tampa stops No. One.
Speaker 1: Five different wide receivers have topped seventy yards in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, and they're so bad that they just
Speaker 1: cut former first rounder Vernon Hargraves the third. Yeah, he's gone.
Speaker 1: Jared Cook is getting a B grade. Eight different tight
Speaker 1: ends have either top to fifty yards or scored against
Speaker 1: the Bucks this year. That's one per game on the scores. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cook was targeted ten times last week against Atlanta. That
Speaker 1: was the first game that Cook played with Drew Brees
Speaker 1: since Week two. So that's that's a pretty good target
Speaker 1: share right there. Uh. Like Michael Thomas, I like him
Speaker 1: a lot this week. Uh. And then Alvin Kamara and
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray. I'm giving Kamara a B and Lotavius a
Speaker 1: pretty solid bench grade. Um behind most of the week.
Speaker 1: Last week to Atlanta Kamara ran forty five pass routes
Speaker 1: and was on the field for the Snaps had ten
Speaker 1: targets in that game. Murray is basically only in play
Speaker 1: if this game gets out of hand in the Saints favor,
Speaker 1: and if you believe they're about to dominate, I guess
Speaker 1: you could fire him up. But even if he gets
Speaker 1: in the game, the Bucks have allowed the fewest rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game in the league this season. They're really
Speaker 1: good UM, and New Orleans is three and two in
Speaker 1: their last five trips to Tampa. They've only one by
Speaker 1: more than a touchdown once in that span, so this
Speaker 1: game is not going to be a blowout. And if
Speaker 1: if history serves right, on the other side, Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: and Peyton Barber, they're both on the bench. They're back
Speaker 1: to splitting the rushing touches almost evenly. In fact, that
Speaker 1: each had eleven rushing touches last week, but Jones did
Speaker 1: add eight catches for seventy seven yards through the air. UM,
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna start one of them, it's probably
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones. But the last back to score against the
Speaker 1: Saints was Peyton Barber back in Week five. It's been
Speaker 1: a while weeks. UM, so they're both on the bench.
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston, I'm giving him a B grade. Winston his
Speaker 1: top to three hundred yards and six of his last
Speaker 1: seven starts. He's been great for fantasy really, as the
Speaker 1: one outlier here was the game against the Saints, who
Speaker 1: held him to two hundred four yards and two scores.
Speaker 1: Although Marshawn Lattimore is expected to miss this game hamstring
Speaker 1: in that really helps Winston's chances. And as Lattimore is
Speaker 1: shut down Mike Evans in the past few weeks, that
Speaker 1: really helps Mike Evans. Because speaking of Evans, remember when
Speaker 1: he had zero catches in the Week five meeting going
Speaker 1: up against Latimore. Well, Latimore shadowed him the entire game.
Speaker 1: Since he's gone, it's open season for Evans. He gets
Speaker 1: the A grade since he topped eight yards or scored
Speaker 1: in six of his last seven games. Oh, that seventh
Speaker 1: one was against Lattimore. UM, Godwin is getting a B grade.
Speaker 1: It looks like he'll be facing slot corner P J. Williams,
Speaker 1: who's allowed eight point five yards per attempt this year.
Speaker 1: Godwin hasn't scored in four straight weeks, but he has
Speaker 1: average ten targets per game during that span, and he's
Speaker 1: also managed a hundred and twenty five yards and two scores.
Speaker 1: In the first meeting. There's some talk that they'll move P. J.
Speaker 1: Williams outside to take on Evans and that Gardner, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Johncey Gardner bill up the fourth would end up who
Speaker 1: has been absolutely a disaster to in coverage this year
Speaker 1: in a short spurt. So it's it's all looking good
Speaker 1: for Godwin. O. J. Howard is getting a C grade
Speaker 1: Cameron Braids on the bench. Braid has seen fewer than
Speaker 1: fifteen snaps and two consecutive games, and Howard was on
Speaker 1: the field for of the snaps last week, and he
Speaker 1: scored against the terrible Cards tight end defense. The Saints
Speaker 1: aren't yielding a lot to the position, but with Howard
Speaker 1: on the field the snaps and a lot of people
Speaker 1: having issues at tight end, he's probably good enough to
Speaker 1: start in some scenarios. It wasn't Chauncey Gardner, the the
Speaker 1: name of the Peter Seller's character in some seventies movie
Speaker 1: where everybody thought that he was like a chart was
Speaker 1: born in the eighties, brilliant artists out that he was
Speaker 1: really just super stupid. I think I swear Chauncey Gardner
Speaker 1: was that guy. I just think that's Johncey Gardner Billips.
Speaker 1: I like that part of it. We'll go, We'll go
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, it's something like that. It wasn't okay,
Speaker 1: Brianne is younger than all of us, and Brianne is confirmed.
Speaker 1: Chauncey Gardners that was the name of some of this.
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Speaker 1: Nine players not normally in your lineup, so many of
Speaker 1: whom are available on the waiver wire. Take a chance
Speaker 1: on me. We begin at the quarterback position. Brian, who
Speaker 1: you got? I'm getting grimy today and we're starting with
Speaker 1: since he's Ryan Finley at the Raiders. Uh, Finley likely
Speaker 1: not really good, but he's okay. He had one and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns against Baltimore last week. I'm giving my
Speaker 1: hat touchdown. I'm the twenty two rushing yards he had.
Speaker 1: That's about two points, so U this is a much
Speaker 1: better matchup for Finley though Oakland is top eight an
Speaker 1: opponent passing play percentage at home, and since he has
Speaker 1: the highest passing play percentage on the road, passing the
Speaker 1: ball seventy three percent of the time on the road.
Speaker 1: Oakland secondary has been in shambles all season. Now, Starting
Speaker 1: corner Trayvon Mullen very questionable. Starting free safety LaMarcus Joyner
Speaker 1: is doubtful to play. And this game has the high
Speaker 1: third highest over under of the weekend, and there's gonna
Speaker 1: be precious garbage time. And I'm not done pimping the
Speaker 1: Bengals yet, all right, So that's just just the beginning
Speaker 1: of your Bengal pimping. The madness is just popping the
Speaker 1: Bengal pim That's what I think. Let's let's sounded like
Speaker 1: to me, I hear what I want to hear. I
Speaker 1: guess uh, let's go to your quarterback. What is it
Speaker 1: with you? I don't I would not recommend trying to
Speaker 1: pop a Bengals pimple, either a player or the animal. No,
Speaker 1: both correct. Certainly not Myles Garrett. I've got a guy
Speaker 1: who's probably on most rosters, but he's probably sitting on
Speaker 1: the bench in most leagues, and that's Kyler Murray. Uh.
Speaker 1: You might see Murray going up against that big red
Speaker 1: number one defense this week and be poised to put
Speaker 1: him on your bench, but not so fast. Murray has
Speaker 1: multiple touchdown passes and three of his last five games
Speaker 1: offers a nice rushing floor of about thirty five yards
Speaker 1: per game, which is what he's averaging over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. That's similar to about a touchdown pass in
Speaker 1: most league formats. Plus, he played that these Niners two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He's stuck with them. They only lost by three.
Speaker 1: The key came up with two forty one yards and
Speaker 1: two scores with thirty four yards on the ground. The
Speaker 1: Niners have been good against the quarterbacks they faced, which
Speaker 1: includes such stalwarts as Andy Dalton, Mason, Rudolph Baker, may Field,
Speaker 1: Jared goff case Keenum, and Kyle Allen. Yeah, I'm including
Speaker 1: Jared goff in there. These are bad quarterbacks. Is Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray not in that group? No, Because he's Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: he's good. Um. The Niners have lost two key defensive
Speaker 1: pieces in the last two weeks to injury. His pass
Speaker 1: rusher Ronald Blair and linebacker Kwan Alexander both hit I
Speaker 1: R So like Kyler Murray sneaky spot here? That would
Speaker 1: be sneaky. You know who's a good quarterback? Nope, Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen is a good quarterback. He is. He is. He's
Speaker 1: coming off his best game as a problem watching that game,
Speaker 1: going you know what this kid can play. I just
Speaker 1: had him in the list of bad quarterback. He's he's
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. He the kid, he really ken. He's
Speaker 1: got it whatever it is that a quarterback has to have,
Speaker 1: that intangible thing. Kyle Allen's got some of it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. He's a little talent moxy he's got. He's
Speaker 1: got boxy chutzpaw. Do you know what he's got. Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen's got chutzpaw. He's also facing the Falcons, which helps
Speaker 1: a lot. You don't have to be that good now.
Speaker 1: I know they just shout out Drew Braids, but let's
Speaker 1: take a longer view of the Falcons. Prior to that,
Speaker 1: six straight games with multiple touchdowns are gonna give up
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns. Here included in that group of multiple touchdown
Speaker 1: games alleged great quarterback Kyler Murray, Jared Goff, Jacoby Brissette,
Speaker 1: and Marcus Mariota. Since benched, Kyle Allen might take a chance,
Speaker 1: I mean quarterback. Let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 1: Brian back to the Bengals in Geo Bernard at the
Speaker 1: same Raiders h Geo was working his way into essentially
Speaker 1: at a time share when it comes to snaps with
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, but he left lat last week's game against
Speaker 1: Baltimore with an injury not listed on the injury report
Speaker 1: this week, so Geo will be back in action against
Speaker 1: the Raiders, who over their last six games, have conceded
Speaker 1: six receptions per game to opposing running backs, who have
Speaker 1: also totaled five receiving touchdowns during that same span. So
Speaker 1: Geo Bernard another Bengal who's gonna mop up in garbage time?
Speaker 1: All right, I got Raheem must Ert. Matt Brito looks
Speaker 1: like he's missing this game with an ankle injury. Brita
Speaker 1: did lead the San Francisco running backs and touches last
Speaker 1: week uh most are Ted had seven during that game. Actually,
Speaker 1: he should fill into breed a spot, as the Niners
Speaker 1: have done before an injury occurs in their backfield. They
Speaker 1: just kind of slide the next guy in and he
Speaker 1: takes over the touches. Well. Since Tevin Coleman returned, Brita's
Speaker 1: averaging thirteen and a half touches per game. So I
Speaker 1: put mostart on something close to maybe fifteen touches in
Speaker 1: this game. Could be um Now he's also you know, he,
Speaker 1: he's he may be shaping up as a game time decision,
Speaker 1: and then you could pivot to Jeff Wilson because it
Speaker 1: is next It is next man up. Zonas allowed five
Speaker 1: touchdowns to the position in the last four games. Have
Speaker 1: you given up twenty seven receptions to the position in
Speaker 1: the last three I can't believe you just most are
Speaker 1: debated on air. I can't believe you squeezed all the
Speaker 1: pus out of the Bengals, or so we think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't remember the last time I had
Speaker 1: to take a chance on me running back inside my
Speaker 1: top ten at the position, but I do. This week,
Speaker 1: Brian Hill starting running back Atlanta Falcons, going up against Carolina,
Speaker 1: probably the worst running back defense in the league. Now
Speaker 1: you need to know Devon Freeman's out, you know Smith's
Speaker 1: and I are. Brian Hill got twenty carries in relief
Speaker 1: last week twenty. They have no problem giving him the
Speaker 1: ball a lot, and Carolina over the past four games
Speaker 1: has given up twelve running back touchdowns. That's a full
Speaker 1: season for many teams. In the NFL, Panthers have done that.
Speaker 1: In the last month. The last six runners to face
Speaker 1: Carolina have averaged at least four point seven yards per
Speaker 1: carry on the ground. Accepting Peyton Barber, you think they'd
Speaker 1: been good like having to go up against Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: and practice every day. It doesn't work that way. Doesn't know,
Speaker 1: Brian Hill might take a chance of me running back,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson. Let's go to the receiver position. Who you got?
Speaker 1: Is this the first time in the history of the
Speaker 1: show that we're going full on stack. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna take ans on me because the first time somebody
Speaker 1: has been so lazy that they did not hold all
Speaker 1: three guys out of the same team. Listen, you daily players,
Speaker 1: go over to fan ball dot com. I got your
Speaker 1: basement value garbage time stack here, and it's finishing off
Speaker 1: with Audentate of the Bengals. Of course, at the Raiders,
Speaker 1: no way A J. Green's playing this week, so Tate
Speaker 1: remains in the starting lineup. And since week three, when
Speaker 1: Tate became a starter, he's thirteenth among all wide receivers
Speaker 1: and targets and top twenty five yards. And the Raiders
Speaker 1: secondary is absolute trash. Outside the two injuries I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: you know they've lost players to i R. They traded
Speaker 1: their best quarterback, Garon Connelly, so Audent Tate completes the
Speaker 1: Bengal stack for me. Heaven helped me Matt take a
Speaker 1: chance of receiver. I've got Randall Cobb. Cob has been
Speaker 1: targeted eight times and caught six balls in each of
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Last week, he led the Cowboys
Speaker 1: with a hundred and six yards in a score. This week,
Speaker 1: he faces a terrible Detroit defense that has been roasted
Speaker 1: by slot receivers as of recent uh. They gave of
Speaker 1: up touchdowns and each of the last two weeks to
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel and Hunter Renfrow. And they gave up eight
Speaker 1: catches for eighty five yards to Golden Tate the week
Speaker 1: before and two touchdowns to the combo of Adam Theelan
Speaker 1: and B. C. Johnson the week before that. Randall Cobb,
Speaker 1: I've got Curtis Samuel. Normally I don't go with somebody
Speaker 1: who's so well rosters, but Curtis Samuel's got the Falcons
Speaker 1: already told you all. Like Kyle Allen, he actually leads
Speaker 1: the Panthers in red zone targets from Kyle Allen. He's
Speaker 1: had eight of them so far. He turned eight turned
Speaker 1: half of those into touchdowns. He faces a Falcon secondary
Speaker 1: that over the last three games has allowed one hundred
Speaker 1: seventy yards per game to receivers and has allowed one
Speaker 1: hundred yard receiving performances in back to back games. Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel absolutely startable for fantasy owners. Let's say we can
Speaker 1: sneak in one more matchup, Brian. We've we've already mined
Speaker 1: in many ways this this Atlantic Carolina matchup with some
Speaker 1: of the players I've already talked about here because all
Speaker 1: three of mine came out of the same game. Uh,
Speaker 1: two on the two on the Carolina side, one on
Speaker 1: the Land side. I've already told people about Brian Hill.
Speaker 1: Tell people about the Falcons passing attack against Carolina where
Speaker 1: it's a lot trickier. Well yeah, well it's very tricky
Speaker 1: if Matt Ryan doesn't play with this ankle injury. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume he's playing. We'll go forward with he'll play.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give Ryan a b has top three
Speaker 1: yards and or throwing multiple touchdowns and seven straight games
Speaker 1: against the Panthers. The Panthers haven't allowed more than two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns to a single quarterback all year, and they
Speaker 1: just blanked Aaron Rodgers without their best corner James Bradberry
Speaker 1: last week. So I'm a little worried about Ryan re
Speaker 1: interested the ankle. It's a bad matchup. No, Austin Hooper, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: so Matt Ryan, I'll give him a very very soft
Speaker 1: be here. Uh, Julio Jones, I'll give him an a
Speaker 1: I'm almost leaning be here. Julio has had some monster
Speaker 1: games against the Panthers in the past, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: topped the hundred yards against them since November, only total
Speaker 1: nine catches for nine two yards, and the two games
Speaker 1: against them last year, he did score a touchdown in
Speaker 1: the later game. James brad But what about this part?
Speaker 1: If Hooper's out and Hooper has been siphoning off all
Speaker 1: the touchdowns and here Julio hasn't scored and I don't
Speaker 1: know forever, but it's certainly Yeah. The absence of Hooper
Speaker 1: and DeVante Freeman too, by the way, opens up thirty
Speaker 1: percent of Atlanta's target share, so certainly bodes well for
Speaker 1: Julio Ridley too, and yeah, definitely Ridley um Dante Jackson
Speaker 1: questionable with the hip injury. Bradbury might come back. He's
Speaker 1: the better corner, but if Jackson doesn't play, that bodes
Speaker 1: well for both. So I'm giving Julio the A and
Speaker 1: I'll give Ridley a b. Uh. He scored in both
Speaker 1: meetings with Carolina last season. The Panthers are allowing more
Speaker 1: than two yards per game to wide receivers over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. Mentioned Austin Hooper is out for about
Speaker 1: a month, which really sucks. I'm not going by way
Speaker 1: of Luke Stocker though, but he's the guy up but
Speaker 1: deep tight end leagues, I guess go grab Stocker. Really
Speaker 1: he did. Let's not let and Brian Hill. Your take
Speaker 1: a chance on me running back chart On the Carolina side,
Speaker 1: I think I'll take a chance on Christian McCaffrey and
Speaker 1: this one. Uh. Surprisingly only one touchdown in four games
Speaker 1: against Atlanta and became in their first meeting. But last
Speaker 1: year he had combo yard totals of one seventy eight
Speaker 1: and one thirty nine and those came on twelve and
Speaker 1: four team catch performances. Che So yeah, you're playing McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: You're definitely playing DJ more too. He and Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: are really starting to click. Double digit targets and back
Speaker 1: to back games, and Atlanta has allowed a one hundred
Speaker 1: yard receiver and back to back games. So big day
Speaker 1: for my boy d J. Moore, and this one could
Speaker 1: be a big day for Curtis Samuel as well. Charges
Speaker 1: take a chance on me wide receiver. Maybe even a
Speaker 1: big day for Greg Olsen. Shockingly, just one touchdown in
Speaker 1: his last seven games against Atlanta, but that's kind of
Speaker 1: ancient history because he didn't play last year, so I'm
Speaker 1: not too concerned about that. And tight end is such
Speaker 1: a waste land that Olsen is certainly viable coming off
Speaker 1: a big game in Green Bay last week. Atlanta has
Speaker 1: given up four tight end touchdowns over the last five games,
Speaker 1: and an opposing loan tight end has seen ten targets
Speaker 1: and two of the Falcons last three, so tight ends
Speaker 1: are involved. And then Kyle Allen, who is take a chance,
Speaker 1: I mean quarterbacks, arches, take chance on the quarterback Bengals.
Speaker 1: You game stacked, okay, Cam, No, you know, at least
Speaker 1: I took two of my three guys, were only two
Speaker 1: of my three were so the same, They're all from
Speaker 1: the same game. I would go fanball and uh superplex
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen and Ryan Finley and then throw in all
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville takes on Indianapolis, Nick Foles back under center. It's
Speaker 1: been every quarter since quarter one of the priests of
Speaker 1: the regular season, since we've seen Nick Foles. Over the
Speaker 1: past five weeks, the Colt rank number one in passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed and number six and passing yards allowed. Nick
Speaker 1: Foles comes in rusty having missed ten weeks. So we'll
Speaker 1: roll all that together and we're gonna bench Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: And that means that I'm not about any of his receivers.
Speaker 1: The only one I'll bother to talk about here is
Speaker 1: DJ Chark, who gets a cautious C grade. He's looked
Speaker 1: lost in the last four games, scoring just once and
Speaker 1: topping fifty three yards just one time. Remember how good
Speaker 1: things were rolling for d J. Chark for a long
Speaker 1: That was with Minshew though, and and Foals was always
Speaker 1: talked about in the preseason. I remember the preseason shows
Speaker 1: how we were saying Folds really likes to target the
Speaker 1: slot in d. D. Westbrook is set for a huge year.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in d. D. Westbrook is a long
Speaker 1: term pick up. The rest of their schedules great. By
Speaker 1: the way, after this week, the cold secondary has been great,
Speaker 1: yielding just one score to opposing receivers in their last
Speaker 1: four games, tied for the fewest over that last month,
Speaker 1: and they've been doing so impressively without the probably their
Speaker 1: best corner, Pierre to see Her, who will likely miss
Speaker 1: this game as well. Apparently they don't need him. Um.
Speaker 1: Remember by the way in that quarter of play that
Speaker 1: falls had touchdown too dj hr uh. The only other,
Speaker 1: the only the Jaguar you likely care about is Leo
Speaker 1: four Nette, and he gets a B grade. India is
Speaker 1: not allowed one hundred yard rusher all season, and they're
Speaker 1: allowing the seventh fewest rushing yards per game over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. For Net has only played two games
Speaker 1: against the Colts in his career and was held under
Speaker 1: three yards per carrying both outings, but did manage to
Speaker 1: score in both, which is sort of the flip of
Speaker 1: this year where's getting a lot of yards but not
Speaker 1: a lot of touchdowns. I think one way another he
Speaker 1: cobbles his way to a B worthy grade. Let's flip
Speaker 1: over to the cold side where we get Jacobe Percet back,
Speaker 1: which is great. Um, But like Brian Hoyer last Sunday,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be without t Y Hilton and Paris Campbell's
Speaker 1: two best wide receivers. Did you guys happen to have
Speaker 1: the unfortunate, um, unfortunate I guess happenstance to run into
Speaker 1: the picture of Paris Campbell's hand. Oh god, it's gruesome.
Speaker 1: I really really encourage you to not look at the
Speaker 1: picture of of of Paris Campbell's hand. I'm looking right now.
Speaker 1: He told me not to do something. I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Oh it is not it's not pretty. The Jaguars are
Speaker 1: allowing barely one touchdown per game to wide receivers, and
Speaker 1: much of those, or what passing touchdowns overall, much of
Speaker 1: those are going to tight ends. That's your glimmer of
Speaker 1: hope with present really is his tight ends. Ebron and Doyle, Uh,
Speaker 1: they give up a they face the Jaguars defense. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of five tight end scores in the last
Speaker 1: five games. So I've got C grades on both Ebron
Speaker 1: and Doyle. Most weeks Ebron only gets a couple of targets,
Speaker 1: but maybe turns that into a touchdown. Last week, that's flipped.
Speaker 1: That script flipped, but that was a Hoyer game, and
Speaker 1: God only knows. I still think together they represent the
Speaker 1: best chance for a touchdown. But you're at a kind
Speaker 1: of a coin flip between the two of them, for
Speaker 1: which one may do better. They we do care a
Speaker 1: little bit about Zach Pascal, although I think you got
Speaker 1: picked up in a bunch of leagues a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. They got dropped in all those leagues last week.
Speaker 1: Jaguars have only allowed two wide receivers scores since the opener.
Speaker 1: Think about that, only two wide receivers have scored against
Speaker 1: the Jaguars since the opener, like four weeks ago. Ahead. Uh,
Speaker 1: that was like Patrick Mahomes they faced in the opener,
Speaker 1: by the way, right, that's a pretty good excuse. Marlon
Speaker 1: Mack has received at least eighteen carries in five straight games,
Speaker 1: and that volume will come in handy against Jacksonville. They
Speaker 1: have allowed at least ninety yards all three times at
Speaker 1: back has received at least eighteen carries. So if he's
Speaker 1: gonna be if he's got at least eighteen carries in
Speaker 1: five straight you hope he gets to the ninety yards.
Speaker 1: Mac has never scored. He has never top fifty yards
Speaker 1: in four career games against the Jaguars, though, But let
Speaker 1: me mention this backup Jordan Wilkins may not play with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury that could force even more use to
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack And if he's out and you really want
Speaker 1: to do you really need a dart throw in a
Speaker 1: bye week now, you Hines, I think becomes quasi serviceable
Speaker 1: if Jordan Wilkins is in fact out for this game.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next matchup, which is Dallas taking
Speaker 1: on Detroit. Matt Dallas Cowboys were unable to get Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott going last week against the Vikings. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have any trouble this week against Detroit. I mean,
Speaker 1: is Zeke like, do you feel like Zeke's having a
Speaker 1: good year? It seems bad, But that was the first
Speaker 1: game of the year last Sunday. Of the nine games
Speaker 1: he's played in which he did not top a hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards or score in the game, he just hasn't.
Speaker 1: It's just been like quietly consistent. It's y in a
Speaker 1: touchdown or a hundred and ten yards and no score.
Speaker 1: It just it hasn't all come together for Zeke. Um.
Speaker 1: You said Carolina's run defense was the worst in the league.
Speaker 1: I see you a Carolina and raise you at Detroit,
Speaker 1: um they have allowed a hundred and twenty rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game to the position over the last five weeks. Plus,
Speaker 1: opposing backs are averaging a rushing touchdown per game easy
Speaker 1: for Zeke uh decks and easy a as well, Deck's
Speaker 1: coming off and three against the Vikings. Plus the Lions
Speaker 1: have given up fifteen touchdown passes in their last five games,
Speaker 1: including and are you ready for this charge? Get your
Speaker 1: get your mouth's ready three last week too happy Trombone Ski.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's back, He's back. Amari Cooper, he gets an
Speaker 1: easy a. Michael Gallup as a B and Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: was might take a chance on me wide receiver. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys wide receiver group is leading the NFL in yards
Speaker 1: per game at two or twenty three per game. Uh
Speaker 1: Cooper mrs practice or two every week with a nagging injury,
Speaker 1: but he plays every time. Gallup has sixteen targets over
Speaker 1: his last two has reached paydirt in each contest. Darius
Speaker 1: Slay is still injured and he's been burned for eight
Speaker 1: point nine yards per target this season. You know, I
Speaker 1: think we have a sleigh ride button on there too.
Speaker 1: The sleigh ride is very jolly right now. It's just
Speaker 1: like that. Um. The Lions are bottom half in the
Speaker 1: league in receptions, yards, and touchdowns allowed to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Jason Witten even gets a C in this grade.
Speaker 1: I don't really trust Whitton overall, as he hasn't scored
Speaker 1: since Week two. He could get off the schneide here, though,
Speaker 1: as the Lions have allowed a tight end touchdown in
Speaker 1: four straight games. I'm still worried that Blake Jarwin vultures
Speaker 1: that sucker in this one. Though. On the other side,
Speaker 1: I'm giving Jeff Driskell a Sea grade. I probably should
Speaker 1: have used him as might take a chance on the
Speaker 1: quarterback as a bonus one. Um Stafford has been ruled
Speaker 1: out again with a back injury. It's possible he may
Speaker 1: miss the rest of the season. Um Stafford's a sneaky
Speaker 1: sabotage drop. By the way, After this week, the Lions
Speaker 1: get Washington, who's surprisingly good against the past Chicago Minnesota.
Speaker 1: They get Tampa in week fifteen, and then Denver in
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, so there's only one good matchup the rest
Speaker 1: of the way for Detroit. Well that Tampa matchup. UH
Speaker 1: driskll through forty six times last week in Chicago. That's
Speaker 1: more attempts than Stafford had all season. He did run
Speaker 1: for a team high thirty seven yards last week too.
Speaker 1: He's their best runner. Um, considering the disaster, there's a
Speaker 1: lion's backfield right now. He might do that again. He
Speaker 1: has four five combine speed, so that's not terrible out
Speaker 1: of Jeff Driskell. Alright, but maybe he'll run his way
Speaker 1: to fantasy roll. He might. Uh. Ty Johnson looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss this week with a concussion, meaning Paul
Speaker 1: Perkins and j. D. Mckissic will split reps. Kissing at
Speaker 1: sixteen touches last week, including six receptions, only managed forty
Speaker 1: five yards. Uh. He's been burning me on take a
Speaker 1: chance on me, So you've got to be done with
Speaker 1: I'm done with mckissic and Perkins. They're both on your bench.
Speaker 1: Golladay gets a C grade, Danny m and Dola and
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones are on the bench. Uh. Driskoll's targets were
Speaker 1: pretty even last week, nine at Golladay, eight at Am
Speaker 1: and Dola six at Jones. But the Cowboys have been
Speaker 1: legit against wide receivers this year though. Their top seven
Speaker 1: in receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the position, and
Speaker 1: they've held every receiver they faced in the last three
Speaker 1: games under fifty yards. That includes al Shan, Golden Tate,
Speaker 1: and Steph digs Uh. T J. Hockinson, though he's might
Speaker 1: B grade in this game. Hockinson is my favorite cheap
Speaker 1: tight end plan fan ball this week and only four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. The Vikings tight ends combined for nine catches,
Speaker 1: forty eight yards and two scores and a two point
Speaker 1: conversion last week. Dallas has allowed the third most receptions,
Speaker 1: fourth most yards, and fourth most touchdowns to the tight
Speaker 1: end position this season. I like t J. Hockenson in
Speaker 1: this one. He's kind of gone off on those easy
Speaker 1: matchup games so far this season. All Right, Houston takes
Speaker 1: on Baltimore. Brian Um, there's a tough matchup for you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're used to starting a lot of Houston players,
Speaker 1: you just automatically put them in your lineup. It's a
Speaker 1: tough matchup against a Baltimore defense that seems to be
Speaker 1: improving almost on a weekly basis. What do you think
Speaker 1: about some of the star players, including Watson and Hopkins
Speaker 1: this week? Why couldn't the NFL figure out how to
Speaker 1: get this game on Sunday Night? Football. By the way,
Speaker 1: you know, Chicago is the third biggest city and the
Speaker 1: Rams of the second biggest city. Let's see how many
Speaker 1: of them actually watch the game. Anyway, over to this game,
Speaker 1: as you said, tough guys to sit on the Houston side,
Speaker 1: starting with the Andre Hopkins gonna give him an a
Speaker 1: even though now that Jimmy Smith is back in the
Speaker 1: fold for Baltimore, that secondary is very scary. Over their
Speaker 1: last five games, only one wide out has topped ninety
Speaker 1: yards and it was my boy, Audent Tate who did it.
Speaker 1: Got Hopkins as certainly has a chance to top ninety
Speaker 1: yards in any matchup. You're not benching him, no way.
Speaker 1: I am benching Will Fuller if he makes his return
Speaker 1: from a hamstring injury. It's looking sort of likely and
Speaker 1: you can see a full game from Fuller before you
Speaker 1: trust putting him in a lot and you're lining up
Speaker 1: and this is a very bad matchup and I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not starting Kenny Stills if Fuller where to sit.
Speaker 1: I'm also benching Darren Fells even though he's tied for
Speaker 1: the tight end touchdown lead and has more combined touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey and Zach Ertz. How about that, But
Speaker 1: no tight end has more touchdowns in the last six
Speaker 1: games than Darren Fells. It's insane, But this is a
Speaker 1: bad matchup for Fells as well. Baltimore hasn't allowed a
Speaker 1: tight end to top thirty four yards over the past
Speaker 1: five weeks, while also only surrendering one score to the
Speaker 1: position over that span. There are better options at tight
Speaker 1: end this week than Fells. To Shaun Watson, gonna give
Speaker 1: him a b. Only Patty Mahomes has thrown for more
Speaker 1: than one touchdown and this defense practically gets better every week.
Speaker 1: Uh and Watson can run, of course, but Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson only total thirty one yards on the
Speaker 1: ground against the Ravens. So just to be for Watson
Speaker 1: and to see for Carlos Hide, there has been just
Speaker 1: four running backs we've reached double digit carries against Baltimore
Speaker 1: and just two running backs who topped sixty five yards
Speaker 1: on the ground. So not a great matchup for Hyde.
Speaker 1: Over to Lamar Jackson, this is a great matchup Jackson matchup.
Speaker 1: They're saying Jackson could score more fantasy points. He's on
Speaker 1: pace to score more fantasy points and Patrick Mahomes had
Speaker 1: last year not throw for more touchdowns. Of course, facts rushing,
Speaker 1: it's it's absolutely insane um Don rookie quarterbacks and that's
Speaker 1: basically Gardner Minshew and Kyle Allen are averaging seventeen yards
Speaker 1: and two point eight passing touchdowns against the Texans this
Speaker 1: year and Houston has not been tested on the ground
Speaker 1: by a quarterback yet either. Gardner Minshew might be the
Speaker 1: best rushing quarterback they faced, and he had six carries
Speaker 1: for fifty six yards. So yeah, I mean that's part
Speaker 1: of the beauty of Lamar Jackson, my number one ranked
Speaker 1: quarterback this week is even if he doesn't run, he
Speaker 1: can pass you to a big game. And even if
Speaker 1: he doesn't pass, he can run you to a big game.
Speaker 1: And he might do both. Just an absolute beast. Hollywood
Speaker 1: Brown Marky's Brown returned to practice on Friday, so it's
Speaker 1: looking like he'll play a great matchup for him. Of course,
Speaker 1: Houston secondary is awful. They are allowing one point nine
Speaker 1: PPR points her target this season. That's crazy. You don't
Speaker 1: even have to complete a pass to be a target.
Speaker 1: Uh for that reason, we have well, we have to
Speaker 1: mention Myles Boykin I was gonna give him Brown's b
Speaker 1: if Brown sits, But Brown looks like he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna bench Boykin just because Baltimore doesn't pass
Speaker 1: a ton. But here's the angle on Willie Snead. Really,
Speaker 1: if Bradley Roby sits like did last week, that would
Speaker 1: put Cornell Armstrong back to man the slot. Cornell Armstrong
Speaker 1: has played a hundred and sixteen snaps in his short
Speaker 1: two year career. He's given up twelve of fourteen completions
Speaker 1: for a hundred and seventy four yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Armstrong Armstrong. So Bradley Roby is out. Willie Snead on fanball,
Speaker 1: get to it, uh real quickly? Mark Andrews a b
Speaker 1: for him. Tough matchup for him for him. The Texans
Speaker 1: surrender just two scores to tight ends all season. Austin
Speaker 1: Hooper is the only tight end to top four catches
Speaker 1: against the Texans so far this year, and then Mark
Speaker 1: Ingram gets a b. Uh. Actually, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a hard seat. Texans are tough against the run. Over
Speaker 1: the last five games, only Josh Jacobs has top fifty
Speaker 1: rushing yards, and no running back has scored Houston is
Speaker 1: also allowing the fifth least yards per carry over the
Speaker 1: last three games at three point six. All right, well done,
Speaker 1: well done. Coming up next, let's answer three tough questions
Speaker 1: you can play along try to go with perfect three
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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison, Boys, it is time four three
Speaker 1: tough questions. Tough question Number one, Should David Wunson owners
Speaker 1: sabotage drop him? Now, there's a reminder for people have
Speaker 1: not heard this before. Sabotage drop is it's a drop,
Speaker 1: but it's a drop of a big name player that
Speaker 1: people are going to Your opponents will pick up and
Speaker 1: then try to find value in but there's no value
Speaker 1: to be had and they're just wasting roster spots and
Speaker 1: potentially wasting starting spots. And and to maximize the value
Speaker 1: on the sabotage drop, you drop him right before the
Speaker 1: fab run happens, and you drop it before so people
Speaker 1: either have to use a lot of their fab budget
Speaker 1: or they have to use their top waiver priority correct
Speaker 1: doing it like on Friday, It's two easy. You don't
Speaker 1: have to give anything up to go get him. You're
Speaker 1: not doing it. Do you want to do it? Like
Speaker 1: Sunday or Monday is the time that you drop David
Speaker 1: Johnson if if you were to decide to do that, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Tuesday at noon is when you drop him. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what you think, Tuesday at noon. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: you should sabotage drop him. Yeah alright, well go ahead
Speaker 1: and explain your rationale. Um, he's got to buy next week,
Speaker 1: so he's reason to believe he's not gonna get any
Speaker 1: points next week. Um. Then he has matchups against the Rams.
Speaker 1: That's a bad matchup. Pittsburgh, that's a bad matchup. And
Speaker 1: then in week fifteen and sixteen, just kind of middle
Speaker 1: of the pack matchups against Cleveland and then at Seattle,
Speaker 1: especially with Kenyan Drake kind of being anointed as now
Speaker 1: the starter there. And I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: this going around on Twitter, the video of David Johnson
Speaker 1: just walking into defenders and and looking like he has
Speaker 1: nothing left in the tank. You mean David the refrigerator Johnson.
Speaker 1: He's taking over William Perry's name. Wow. Uh Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's time to sabotage drop David Johnson, get rid
Speaker 1: of him, Brian, Yeah, I don't have much to add. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you watched him play last week, he was the
Speaker 1: epitome of plotting for David Johnson. And on Friday he
Speaker 1: was running with the twos when Kenyan Drake was running
Speaker 1: with the ones. They said he looked good in practice
Speaker 1: on Friday. That's because he's running with the twos. I
Speaker 1: could look at running instit twus and practice and Matt
Speaker 1: alluded to the schedule. According to Fantasy Pros, it's the
Speaker 1: third hardest remaining schedule for a running back behind a
Speaker 1: very good offensive line. So yeah, drop him now, well
Speaker 1: not now at the right time. Yeah, drop him Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Tuesday in apparently I think Monday works fine. Um, he
Speaker 1: might not have value. He's probably still locked on Monday
Speaker 1: because the games aren't done for the week. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's that's probably well. But in many leagues you can
Speaker 1: still drop a guy. It depends on your system. I guess, um,
Speaker 1: when Chase Edmond comes to, Chase Edmonds comes back, David
Speaker 1: Johnson might be third in the pecking orde. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee. He's just second in the packing order.
Speaker 1: I agree with everything you guys said in fact, but
Speaker 1: I want to get a bonus question. What about Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire League ers? Are you dropping David Johnson outright? No,
Speaker 1: he's got enough value still that you just you just
Speaker 1: can't do that. You could trade him for something, can you? Though? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the all time low water mark for trading.
Speaker 1: I would probably go to anybody in the league and
Speaker 1: be like, I'll take a draft pick for David Johnson.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me a first or second next to
Speaker 1: hear any draft pick for David Johnson. Let's roll. Remember
Speaker 1: the last time he was good sixteen. He's had one
Speaker 1: good season one. These are there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: this this is so. This reminds me of the Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon thing, as people reliving with Josh Gordon. I think
Speaker 1: there's serious question about whether David Johnson, however, has any
Speaker 1: value whatsoever for the remainder of his cares. I definitely
Speaker 1: don't want him on my roster. I don't either. I
Speaker 1: don't even want him on yours. Tough question number two
Speaker 1: in many leaks, the trade deadline is this weekend. Should
Speaker 1: say Kwon Barkley owners trade him now while they can? Brian, Well,
Speaker 1: you should never sell a player at his lowest points.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's a point lower than
Speaker 1: coming off a thirteen carry for one yard performance last
Speaker 1: week k Barkley had against the Jets. So you're not
Speaker 1: going to get fair return for Barkley. And he's not
Speaker 1: a bye this week, which is no good. At Chicago
Speaker 1: next week that's not very good. He there Green Bay
Speaker 1: is a good matchup, but then at Philly is bad.
Speaker 1: But then you know, we'll say the Red Sea parts
Speaker 1: in the playoffs weeks fifteen and sixteen Miami and at Washington.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you get a package of three
Speaker 1: or you'd have to be a monster package. But you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get it. That's what she said. But sorry
Speaker 1: or myself laughter, I didn't play on doing that. I'm sorry. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not trading, all right. Brian alluded to the schedule,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's that's the thing. In the
Speaker 1: last four weeks, three of the four matchups are really good.
Speaker 1: And I'm really not that afraid of him going up
Speaker 1: against Philly. He's going to be the the top target
Speaker 1: in that game, and I think Philly can give up
Speaker 1: some some points to pass catching backs like Sa Kwan.
Speaker 1: You really need to get it insane haul to get
Speaker 1: anything for Sa Kwan right now. So no, I'm not
Speaker 1: trading him. No, you're both wrong. And most leagues Barkley
Speaker 1: owners are in bad shape between the ankle injury that
Speaker 1: knocked him out and then the middle n performances since
Speaker 1: coming back. Most Barkley owners aren't trouble right now. They
Speaker 1: need to win now. They cannot afford the zero points
Speaker 1: this week and the at Chicago next week. What's more.
Speaker 1: What's more, that playoff schedule that seems so easy is
Speaker 1: suddenly turning to be really tricky. Philadelphia has been good
Speaker 1: against the run all year long, Miami is suddenly turning
Speaker 1: into a competent run defense, and Washington is actually like
Speaker 1: a top five run defense quietly. So it's not it
Speaker 1: feels easy because these are floundering teams. But that's not
Speaker 1: an easy schedule you need to get out of. Sae
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley. Now, his name value carries a lot of cash.
Speaker 1: A you're going to get a Derrick Henry or a
Speaker 1: Leonard four net from some owner who's heading to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and thinks and he sees Philly, Miami, Washington in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he's like, say, Kwon Barkley is gonna
Speaker 1: lead me to the promised Land. He may not be.
Speaker 1: You make that trade now, tough. Question number three, are
Speaker 1: you holding a roster spot for Matt Brida? Matt, you
Speaker 1: know this one caused a little bit of damage to
Speaker 1: my amygdala. I hate it when my amygdala gets damaged because, um,
Speaker 1: a visible bulge is known when that happens, is just
Speaker 1: happy to see me. It might be both. Uh Themigdala
Speaker 1: helps me respond to emotions, memories and fear, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm very fearful for Matt. Matt Brita's remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: He has dinged up right now after this week and
Speaker 1: he's been I think ruled out this week. Um, he
Speaker 1: gets a good matchup against Green Bay next week, but
Speaker 1: who knows if he's healthy for next week's game two.
Speaker 1: Then after that it's awful at Baltimore, at New Orleans
Speaker 1: and the Rams in week sixteen are all bad matchups.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's kind of the middle of the road run defense.
Speaker 1: They're really bad against the past, but mid all the
Speaker 1: road against the run. So with Brita splitting touches, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think that you can hold onto him. I'm
Speaker 1: actually holding him in two leagues, but those are Empire leagues.
Speaker 1: Draft here, all right. I won't add much to what
Speaker 1: Matt said other than the Atlanta matchup, which is good.
Speaker 1: But that's a revenge game for Tevin Coleman. That game,
Speaker 1: all right, But I just want to throw one. Matt
Speaker 1: Breed us that he's the he's been uh clocks is
Speaker 1: the fastest ball carrier on the single play this season
Speaker 1: by next Gen stats at twenty two point three miles
Speaker 1: per hour, faster than Corduill, Patterson, Brandon Wilson, Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, and me Cole Hardman. He's so good, but no,
Speaker 1: I gotta you gotta drop him in redraft at this point.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I was gonna add. He's a
Speaker 1: really good player. Hey, Matt Breed is really talented. It's
Speaker 1: just always constantly hurt and and that match and all that,
Speaker 1: and Joe Staley out for several weeks with the mutilated finger.
Speaker 1: For Joe Staley, did you see a picture of his
Speaker 1: fingers Paris Campbell's hand. Don't do what I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: It's it's a disaster all for you and three and
Speaker 1: oh and if you did, congratulations, the panel of experts
Speaker 1: did very well this week. Congratulations to you guys. You
Speaker 1: know it's not going to go very well. Jets at
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. Let's talk about it. You know, I just
Speaker 1: alluded to the fact that Washington was a tricky good
Speaker 1: run defense. Listen to this, as levy On Bell gets
Speaker 1: a C grade. Washington has allowed three point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry over their last three games, but they've also
Speaker 1: seen the most attempts, so they've actually given up the
Speaker 1: second most yards over that time. But it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of attempts to get there. The hope here is
Speaker 1: that levy On Bell will get the attempts. But he's
Speaker 1: eclipse three and a half yards per carry just twice
Speaker 1: all year. He put up one point nine yards per
Speaker 1: carry last week on a bad knee. I don't like
Speaker 1: him much here at all. It just the C grade
Speaker 1: on Bell, between the the shockingly surprisingly difficult matchup and
Speaker 1: the the odd ball usage and his general in effectiveness.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the passing game, where I've got
Speaker 1: C grades on a couple of guys, beginning with Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: and I would love to endorse Sam Donald in eight
Speaker 1: seemingly easy matchup against Washington. But how can I when
Speaker 1: he has failed fantasy owners the past two weeks against
Speaker 1: similarly easy secondaries the Dolphins and the Giants, just one
Speaker 1: score in both of those games. And actually, you'll notice
Speaker 1: I said the words seemingly the Redskins secondary has actually
Speaker 1: played much better of late. Over the past month of games,
Speaker 1: they've allowed just two hundred three yards and half a
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. Suggest the C grade on Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: C grade on Robbie Anderson. He faces a Washington secondary
Speaker 1: of one excellent cornerback, Quentin Dunbar, and one lousy one
Speaker 1: Josh Norman. Historically, Robbie Anderson runs on Quinton Dunbar side
Speaker 1: more often, but it'll be on Norman's side enough to
Speaker 1: give him a C grade here, Uh, Anderson is fast,
Speaker 1: Josh Norman is among the slowest starting cornerbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: so maybe he's got a chance to add a deep
Speaker 1: catcher two. Here, we'll try Robbie Anderson as a C grade.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Washington side, where I've got two
Speaker 1: guys with the starting grade, beginning with Adrian Peterson. In
Speaker 1: the four games under Bill Callahan, Peterson averaging nineties six
Speaker 1: yards per game in five yards per carry. This is
Speaker 1: the best stretch of running since the middle of the
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen season for Adrian Peterson. New York has allowed
Speaker 1: the fourth fewest rushing yards to running backs, though they've
Speaker 1: been quietly great all year long. The Jets have held
Speaker 1: all running backs to three yards per carry on the season.
Speaker 1: So just the C grade for Adrian Peterson. What about
Speaker 1: Darius Guys. You made ask who will be active for
Speaker 1: this game, and he will see the field. I think
Speaker 1: he gets used sparingly in this game, and the Redskins
Speaker 1: will slowly use him more and more over the course
Speaker 1: of the season, so that by the end of the
Speaker 1: year they know if Darius Guys is a guy they
Speaker 1: want to go with next year, or if that's a
Speaker 1: spot they have to fill. But I don't think it
Speaker 1: starts here in his first game back. Well, and actually
Speaker 1: his first ever NFL game was it would be outside
Speaker 1: of the game one where he got hurt. He he
Speaker 1: got some run this year. Yeah, it will one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, Terry mclauren, Terry McLaren, Darius it is
Speaker 1: over come the many. I think he will potentially overcome
Speaker 1: the many shortcomings of his rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins, but
Speaker 1: he faces a jet secondary that over the last three
Speaker 1: weeks has allowed ten receiver touchdowns over three weeks, which
Speaker 1: is great, and that was coming from Gardner Minshew and
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Daniel Jones are not great passers. Uh
Speaker 1: make Lauren overwhelmingly plays from the left side of the field,
Speaker 1: where he faces cornerback Arthur Mullett. You made that name
Speaker 1: up an undrafted journeyman who has two career starts. So
Speaker 1: we will try Terry McLaurin with a C grade. He's
Speaker 1: been very quiet for a month, but I think this
Speaker 1: might be the opportunity. UM, I'm sorry, I was looking
Speaker 1: at mutilated hands. Did you grade Jamison Crowder? I did not,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jamison. I have whole paragraph on him. Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder is now notched at least eighty yards and a
Speaker 1: score in two straight games. He runs from this lot
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the time where he faces Redskins slot
Speaker 1: cornerback Fabian Moreau, who's allowed in eighty eight percent catch
Speaker 1: rate but no scores. So I do think we're looking
Speaker 1: at a PPR style game from Crowder. Which is what
Speaker 1: you usually get in the seven eight catch eighty yard range.
Speaker 1: He gets a c gre just not a sheer spite.
Speaker 1: He's going to get in the end zone though, because
Speaker 1: he's mad at washingting revenge. You know much, you got
Speaker 1: paid by the Jets of some obscene amounts, so he's there.
Speaker 1: Really shouldn't be a lot of revenge, even if you
Speaker 1: want it. What would revenge sound sound like? The psychos?
Speaker 1: It's the only thing I have in the soundbar that
Speaker 1: we don't know. It's it's the revenge duck. No revenge duck.
Speaker 1: I love it. The revenge duck. Well, let's see if
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Speaker 1: on San Francisco. Matt, we already talked about a lot
Speaker 1: of players we like at various levels. Here Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: coming off a three touchdown game. You liked Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: and you used him as you take a chance, I
Speaker 1: mean quarterback. What do you think about Christian Kirk coming
Speaker 1: off the big performance? I gave him a B grade,
Speaker 1: mostly because the Cardinals sneakily have moved Christian Kirk. He's
Speaker 1: no longer a slot receiver. They've been pushing him to
Speaker 1: the perimeter more and more, where you can really gouge
Speaker 1: this Niners defense. Dk Metcalf had six catches for seventy
Speaker 1: last week. Andy Isabella had the a d R touchdown
Speaker 1: catch the week before, uh and John Ross had one
Speaker 1: twelve and a score from the perimeter to earlier in
Speaker 1: the season. Kirk was finally healthy last week. It showed
Speaker 1: up in a big way with the three scores on
Speaker 1: ten targets. I'm only given Larry Fitzgerald to see because
Speaker 1: his average depth of target is only five point three yards.
Speaker 1: Compare that with Christian Kirk, who's at fourteen and a half.
Speaker 1: It's almost ten yards more. Uh So FitzGeralds is not
Speaker 1: getting deep enough to make a big difference. He only
Speaker 1: managed four catches for thirty eight in the meeting two
Speaker 1: weeks ago against the Niners. Um The running back situation
Speaker 1: is gross. Chase Edmonds is probably not going to play
Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury. Cliff Kingsbury indicated that Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: will remain the lead back this week, although that meant
Speaker 1: a snap count in favor of Kenyan Drake, so David
Speaker 1: Johnson still eating into these touches here. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe that doesn't continue. Maybe they just pulled a plug
Speaker 1: on the whole David Johnson experiment. I gotta pull the
Speaker 1: plug on the whole running game this week. They're all
Speaker 1: on the bench. It's not enough for me to want
Speaker 1: to start either of these guys against the Niners defense
Speaker 1: that's done a great job against the run this year.
Speaker 1: Their top ten in attempts, touchdowns, receptions, and receiving yards
Speaker 1: allowed to running backs. They've only allowed eighty seven rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game to the position. That's just not enough
Speaker 1: to split. On the other side, you mentioned Jimmy g
Speaker 1: coming out of the last segment. He gets an a
Speaker 1: gre He's just a weak remove from three seventeen and
Speaker 1: four scores against the Cardinals, four of the last five
Speaker 1: to face Arizona have topped three. Three of those four
Speaker 1: have thrown for three or more touchdowns. Unfortunately, we have
Speaker 1: some receiver issues. George Kittle is trending toward out again,
Speaker 1: which means Ross Dwelly his backup is kind of worth
Speaker 1: a c start. Because it's Arizona. That's the only reason
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a it's a week try in
Speaker 1: you're a sixteen team league where you need to start
Speaker 1: a tight end dwell. He had seven targets last week
Speaker 1: against Seattle, and he gets Arizona this week. Uh. They've
Speaker 1: already allowed ten touchdowns to the position this season, putting
Speaker 1: him in my four tight end lineup on fan ball
Speaker 1: where it is. Emmanuel Sanders is also trending towards not playing.
Speaker 1: He didn't practice again today. Um, he hasn't practiced it
Speaker 1: all this week with a rib injury. Uh. He did
Speaker 1: participate in the walk through, though, he's a true game
Speaker 1: time decision. He gets a C grade if he plays.
Speaker 1: I'm giving Deebo Samuel a B grade and a stat
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Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson in Uh, he's allowing fourteen point nine yards
Speaker 1: per reception. That's a career high seventy one yards per game.
Speaker 1: That's a career high, seventy nine point to catch rate
Speaker 1: career high, and a passer rating of one point four
Speaker 1: when targeted. Deebo led the team with eleven targets last week.
Speaker 1: He's also had five red zone targets in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Nobody's scared of Arizona, even Pat Pete anymore.
Speaker 1: Arizona has allowed a league high seventeen red zone receiving
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year. That's where Debo comes into play. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna score for sure this week. So I
Speaker 1: like Deebo quite a bit. What's the great on Deebo?
Speaker 1: Samuel b a bibo on Deebo? Uh. Tevin Coleman gets
Speaker 1: a B grade Raheem Mostert was might take a chance
Speaker 1: on the runner. Coleman abby gets all the goal line
Speaker 1: work and is very involved in the passing game, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, to take a chance of the cards to
Speaker 1: have been gouged by pass catching backs as of late,
Speaker 1: allowing nine receptions per game uh and about two hundred
Speaker 1: yards and a score just the last three weeks. And
Speaker 1: those weren't backs that are known for their pass catching prowess.
Speaker 1: That was Latavious Murray and Ronald Jones. So Tevin Coleman's
Speaker 1: got a good shot to put up a huge day
Speaker 1: in PBR. Yeah, I'm closer to an A on Tevin.
Speaker 1: You're probably right with frieda out. I could be convinced. Alright,
Speaker 1: New England takes on Philadelphia. That's our next matchup here,
Speaker 1: I'm in correct about that being your next No, it's yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it is Cincinnati and Oakland is our next matchup. You
Speaker 1: already told us everybody to set up since what about
Speaker 1: is likely only starter you haven't mentioned from Cincinnati already,
Speaker 1: and to take a chance of the segment. Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: has something to say about that, but I'll start with
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. Uh, We're finally working on a Bill cow
Speaker 1: role last week, but that was because Gio Bernard left
Speaker 1: the game with an injury. Geo not on the injury
Speaker 1: report this week, and that was because they were killing clock.
Speaker 1: Yes deficit, they didn't, they were just trying to leave
Speaker 1: the I think it was the Cardinals that did that
Speaker 1: last year against Seattle. They're losing by and they just
Speaker 1: kept Yeah. Anyway, the Raiders have been tough against opposing
Speaker 1: running backs, but Chargers backs did rack up a hundred
Speaker 1: eighty one combo yards and two touchdowns last Thursday night
Speaker 1: against Oakland, So I'll give Joe mix In the CEE.
Speaker 1: Oakland has surrendered the seventh most running back receptions, and
Speaker 1: that is why Joe Bernard was gonna take a chance.
Speaker 1: I mean running back Tyler Boyd. Everyone should take a
Speaker 1: chance on him this week he gets an a opposing slot.
Speaker 1: Receivers are averaging ten plus targets, seven plus catches, and
Speaker 1: eighty eight yards per game and have totaled six touchdowns
Speaker 1: in Oakland's nine games. You're gonna start five Bengals in
Speaker 1: a lineup you're gonna goans won't allow it. For whatever
Speaker 1: they should, certainly allow me give them my money away.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna start all Bengals, but I am starting
Speaker 1: at in tape. Might take a chance to my wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I'm not starting to Tyler Eiffort. Even though we scored
Speaker 1: last week, he only ran twelve pass routes. He's like decomposing.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for Tyler Efford. Well he does. That
Speaker 1: means I hit on Ryan Linley. It might take a
Speaker 1: chance on the quarterback. I just paired him with the
Speaker 1: wrong players. But like Linley and this one, it's all
Speaker 1: about chasing points and garbage time. Here over the Raiders side,
Speaker 1: it's Josh Jacobs and guess who else is in the
Speaker 1: room with him. It's the Fantasy Fonzie A for Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Over the last four games, enemy backs have totaled six
Speaker 1: touchdowns while averaging a hundred and forty five combo yards
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, who are conceding thirty touches per game
Speaker 1: to the position on the season. UH A for Jacobs.
Speaker 1: H A for Darren Waller since he sort of appears
Speaker 1: tough against tight ends on paper, but it's not hard
Speaker 1: to be tough on tight ends from Arizona, Jacksonville, or
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh when the only tight end is Nick Finnett who
Speaker 1: just got off a plane via trade from Seattle. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at what the Ravens tight ends have
Speaker 1: done to the Bengals. That's a fair op, right, Dads.
Speaker 1: Waller nine and then twelve for one, fifty one and
Speaker 1: two against the Bengals last week. Waller is gonna smash
Speaker 1: this week. It's been a quiet couple of weeks for Waller,
Speaker 1: but he'll bounce back. Tyroll Williams is gonna give him
Speaker 1: a b here because because he's touchdown dependent and since
Speaker 1: he's only yielding the third fewest pass attempts for a
Speaker 1: game per game, because everybody runs on them with such success. Ye,
Speaker 1: and so just a be for Williams. I will give
Speaker 1: hum to Renfrew with c and I was going to
Speaker 1: use this might take a chance to me receiver, but
Speaker 1: it's almost too easy. Per Sports Info Solutions, Cincinnati has
Speaker 1: given up a hundred nineteen point five passer rating on
Speaker 1: slot targets. And finally Derek Carr because of the volume concern,
Speaker 1: just gonna give him a B here um like he
Speaker 1: has a very safe floor in this matchup though, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a very clean pocket. Cincinnati is dead
Speaker 1: last in sacks and quarterback hits Dre Kirkpatrick going on
Speaker 1: on Friday, So that's it's another reason for some optimism
Speaker 1: with the with the Oakland passing attack, New England takes
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia. Guys, this is this one is a little
Speaker 1: bit thorny. We'll work our way through it. Here. For
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, a B grade because the Eagle secondary rolled
Speaker 1: into the bye week having held Josh Allen and Mitch
Speaker 1: Drabinsky to just one hundred sixty nine and on the
Speaker 1: return of Ronald Darby and Avante Mattock definitely helped that secondary. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Tom Brady is a lot better than
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Mitch Drobisky, but over the previous month
Speaker 1: of games for Tom Brady it wasn't that great. He
Speaker 1: was averaging half a touchdown per game one touchdown, excuse me,
Speaker 1: one touchdown per game over the previous month of games,
Speaker 1: almost as many interceptions as touchdowns, by the way, which
Speaker 1: Tom Brady never does. So just the B grade on
Speaker 1: Tom Brady here. Julian Edelman also with a B. Over
Speaker 1: the last four games, Edelman has commanded over eleven targets
Speaker 1: per game. He has scored twice well thinks per game
Speaker 1: over that last month. The Legal secondary has given up
Speaker 1: five wide receiver scores in their last four games, but
Speaker 1: they haven't surrendered a touchdown from the slot since Week two,
Speaker 1: and that's why Edelman is a B and not an A.
Speaker 1: The only other startable Patriot I've got is Mohamed Sanu,
Speaker 1: fresh office first Patriots touchdown, a game in which he
Speaker 1: notched the most targets and receptions in eighty one games,
Speaker 1: so obviously getting a lot more action as a Patriot
Speaker 1: than he ever got as a Falcon. But this matchup
Speaker 1: is a little bit trickier. You know. I mentioned Brady
Speaker 1: with either has tossed zero or one touchdown in three
Speaker 1: of his last four games. Philadelphia has only allowed two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in the last two games. Um, he'll get
Speaker 1: a matchup largely against Ronald Darby Derby a gambling corner.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that works out. For Mohamed Sanu. You
Speaker 1: could start him in a pinch. Philip door Set on
Speaker 1: the bench. I'll be interested to see what Nikkil Harry does.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about him a little bit more next
Speaker 1: segment as well. Um, but this will be his first
Speaker 1: opportunity for playing time in this game. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: start either him or Philip door Set here, Sony Walkman
Speaker 1: on the bench. They'll be running against a Philly defense
Speaker 1: that allows three point one yards per carry at home,
Speaker 1: good for second fewest he's averaging. Michelle averaging just three
Speaker 1: point four yards per carry. He's failed to top four
Speaker 1: yards per carry every game but two, and also Rex
Speaker 1: Burke had finally healthy. He could really carve into Sony
Speaker 1: Walkman's role. And as as another side, Michelle doesn't catch
Speaker 1: any passes, he doesn't have any speed, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: any footwork, he doesn't have any elusiveness, and he has
Speaker 1: no power other than that he's a great running back.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the eagle side starting grades on Jordan's Howard.
Speaker 1: Get this forty two carries in his last two games.
Speaker 1: That's the most Doug Peterson has ever given us a
Speaker 1: single runner in back to back games. To get to
Speaker 1: forty two carries, that's impressive. On the season. And by
Speaker 1: the way Sprawls just went on, I R I didn't
Speaker 1: want to interrupt in the ji. I mean, but why
Speaker 1: I don't under why even sign him? There? Under using
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders as it is, right whatever, j He's just
Speaker 1: got to be just for a warm body. That's I
Speaker 1: don't know why else you'd bring him in On the season.
Speaker 1: New England still technically the stingiest team against fantasy running backs,
Speaker 1: but more they're given more. Lately, over the last two games,
Speaker 1: they've allowed one hundred fifteen or more rushing yards. The
Speaker 1: last three backs to face the Patriots have all averaged
Speaker 1: four and a half yards per carry. I think Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard gets something done and the best way to beat
Speaker 1: the Patriots is on the ground. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: passing game where Carson Wentz is on the bench. Your
Speaker 1: confidence in Wentz has got to be shaken. Over the
Speaker 1: last three games. He's averaging just two hundred yards and
Speaker 1: one touchdown to Sean Jackson. Dead all Shan Jeffrey so
Speaker 1: slow and injured, and he drops passes and here comes
Speaker 1: in elite secondary New England. The average passing game against
Speaker 1: the Patriots just one hundred seventies six yards per game.
Speaker 1: No quarterbacks topped one yards since Ben Roethlisberger in the opener.
Speaker 1: It's a disaster start here for Carson Wentz, who buck
Speaker 1: has to buck a lot of trends. As I already
Speaker 1: tipped my hand. I don't like all Shan Jeffrey here,
Speaker 1: super slow, no separation, dropping balls, and he gives a
Speaker 1: goes up against a secondary that's allowed one wide receiver
Speaker 1: score all year. So he's on the bench. Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: also on the bench. It's worth noting he's only seen
Speaker 1: three targets in each of the last four games. We
Speaker 1: think of him sort of like the past catching back,
Speaker 1: but he's not even getting that much work there. Sanders
Speaker 1: has given us a thirty yard or more play in
Speaker 1: four of his last six games, and that's probably what
Speaker 1: you need here. But that the Patriots don't give up
Speaker 1: long games, so it's really it's a bad matchup for
Speaker 1: him too. He is also on the bench. The only
Speaker 1: other Eagle worth mentioning is zach Ertz. Here he finally
Speaker 1: broke out last week with season highs and targets, receptions,
Speaker 1: and yards. On paper, the Patriots of smother deposing tight ends,
Speaker 1: holding them to thirty two yards per game, but the
Speaker 1: competition is largely been bad and zach Ertz will be
Speaker 1: the best tight end they faced all year, and they
Speaker 1: have given up a tight end touchdown and back to
Speaker 1: back games. So zach ERT's with a B grade. If
Speaker 1: you're in a real pitch, you could consider Dallas Goddard,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't go that low. I think you can
Speaker 1: probably find more help from other players. Our final topics
Speaker 1: are ahead. When we provide you with three guys we
Speaker 1: believe will be hot waiver wire pick up next week,
Speaker 1: but you're going to pick them up this week. We'll
Speaker 1: jump into the time machine for premature speculation happening next.
Speaker 1: It is Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment of Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly Premature Speculation, our favorite segment out of all of them,
Speaker 1: as we try to identify players you want to pick
Speaker 1: up this week that everybody else will be trying to
Speaker 1: pick up next week, but blammo and or they're already
Speaker 1: on your roster. Feels so good, Brian, who's your premature
Speaker 1: speculation player this week? I'm gonna go with a bit
Speaker 1: of a dynasty empire angle here and say you go
Speaker 1: grab Justin Jackson, the long forgotten running back of the
Speaker 1: Chargers who look great in the preseason, and the Chargers
Speaker 1: like him a lot. I think he has the ability
Speaker 1: to be a starter, maybe even a bell cow. And
Speaker 1: let's not forget Melvin Gordon, last year of his contract,
Speaker 1: not guaranteed to resign with l A Austin Ekeler free agent.
Speaker 1: Say he doesn't come back all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: sitting on Justin Jackson, who is out there display the
Speaker 1: deepest dynasty last just available, and you might have a
Speaker 1: starting running back on your hands come August. Obviously, have
Speaker 1: to go through the NFL Draft and all that and
Speaker 1: Gordon and but if you're if you're wallowing away in
Speaker 1: the dynasty league and you got extra spot, go grab
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson. I think it's a great I think it's
Speaker 1: a great idea. Let's see, I'm I'm sold absolutely all right, Matt,
Speaker 1: I have got a J. Brown who's top sixty yards
Speaker 1: or score in three of his last four games, which
Speaker 1: is basically since Ryan Tannehill took over um. And then
Speaker 1: he's got this really awesome schedule in the fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 1: which includes Oakland, who's a bottom five wide receiver fantasy defense,
Speaker 1: Houston in Week fifteen, who's a bottom five wide receiver
Speaker 1: fantasy defense, okay, and then New Orleans in Week sixteen,
Speaker 1: which isn't awful. It's not great, but if he doesn't
Speaker 1: get march On Lattimore in that game, if they have
Speaker 1: a matchups work that way, it's not a bad matchup either.
Speaker 1: So a J. Brown is worth a pickup. Drew Bennett
Speaker 1: could maybe even come back. They had the late season
Speaker 1: blow up. That might be nice. Man. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: that year. That must have been like two two thousand three. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that long. It was more like ten eleven
Speaker 1: with Billy Bullick. Yeah, I'll look it up, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: please do look that up. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: two thousand three for the big Drew Bennett, Miss Lyndale White. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he also had a really good end of
Speaker 1: season run with him and run Dane. Some true story
Speaker 1: about two years ago. Guy comes up to me with
Speaker 1: a Ron Dane football card with a five dollar bill
Speaker 1: tucked it tucked into it. It's in a little holder,
Speaker 1: and he says, I listened to Fantasy Football Weekly. You
Speaker 1: guys put me onto Ron Dane from my fantasy playoffs
Speaker 1: and I wrote him to the championship. So here's a tip.
Speaker 1: He gave me the five bucks in the card. I've
Speaker 1: still got it. My premature speculation player is nikkil Harry,
Speaker 1: as I just alluded to earlier. Remember first round taken
Speaker 1: in the first round for a team that desperately needs
Speaker 1: wide receiver help after jettisoning Josh Gordon. He's got the
Speaker 1: opportunity for a media playing time. He's got Tom Brady
Speaker 1: throwing him the ball. He only needs to really overcome
Speaker 1: very little to make an impact, like Philip Dorset, who
Speaker 1: they always seem to want to bench. So it doesn't
Speaker 1: it's maybe it turns out he's an impact outside receiver.
Speaker 1: They need an impact outside receiver. Maybe they're gonna try
Speaker 1: and to kill Harry. Usually I'm lukewarm on rookies getting
Speaker 1: their first starts, but the situation, the stars may aligned
Speaker 1: to get something out of nikkil Harry the rest of
Speaker 1: the way, Okay, you were you were right charge two
Speaker 1: thousand four. Time has flun so the epic three games
Speaker 1: stretch for Drew Bennett. For Drew Bennett Week thirteen, don't
Speaker 1: go into opponents, doesn't matter. He had three for one
Speaker 1: four and three touchdowns, all right, the following week twelve
Speaker 1: for two thirty three yards, three touchdowns, the following week
Speaker 1: thirteen for one sixty and two touchdowns, and so then well,
Speaker 1: and then he disappeared. So now put yourself in my shoes. Right,
Speaker 1: So I've got now, I've got the next spring, next summer,
Speaker 1: I've got a magazine to put out with all my
Speaker 1: player ratings. What do you do about Drew Drew Bennett
Speaker 1: coming off of that playoff run? Where do you rank him?
Speaker 1: Tell people what Drew Bennett did in the next day
Speaker 1: of the month of the next season, if you would, Brian,
Speaker 1: do I even have to. It's not gonna be good.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be good because you know, we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: and Drew Bennett looks so good, and that's what you remember.
Speaker 1: Of course, well, he started with three for seventy nine,
Speaker 1: so you're like, Okay, he'll get going. It's not awful,
Speaker 1: but he only had one touchdown in his first ten games.
Speaker 1: Half yards but yeah, never the same epic bus. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get tricked. That's part of what fan a That's
Speaker 1: what fantasy football does too. A lot of the time.
Speaker 1: They just trick you out. Right, let's go to the site.
Speaker 1: The Sunday night game in Chicago taking on the Rams.
Speaker 1: Brian they got three touchdown passes out of three touchdown
Speaker 1: It wasn't a great game, but it was by his standards,
Speaker 1: a better game than we've had in the past. What
Speaker 1: do you think of the passing game for the Bears
Speaker 1: against the Rams? Well, I was listening to say, despite
Speaker 1: the three touchdowns, you're benching this game, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go into it too much. Really, the only past catcher
Speaker 1: worth mentioning is Allen Robinson, but the Rams have Jalen
Speaker 1: Rams and Mitch true Bisky is the quarterback of the Bears,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give a rob a c based on
Speaker 1: name alone. They both played for the Jaguars together a
Speaker 1: whole while ago, their buds Ramsey in the league. Then yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: yea there bud anyway, David Montgomery is uh buds with
Speaker 1: his ankle after rolling it in practice on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't work at all. But he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: game time decision going into this one, and it's it's
Speaker 1: not a good matchup. And he went the bed against
Speaker 1: the Lions last week smashed spot. The Rams have allowed
Speaker 1: just one rushing touchdown to a running back over their
Speaker 1: last five games. Only two running backs up top the
Speaker 1: hundred yards against them all year, the Rams. That is.
Speaker 1: It was Christian McCaffrey in Week one and then Chris
Speaker 1: Carson had a hundred eighteen rushing yards in Week five,
Speaker 1: but it took him twenty seven carries to get there.
Speaker 1: He almost can't bank on starting David Montgomery between the
Speaker 1: game time decision in the matchup, I think he's a
Speaker 1: bench and no, you're not gonna go grab Ryan Hellnall
Speaker 1: his backup. So I said the only pass catcher worth
Speaker 1: mentioning was a rob. If Montgomery sits, hear me out alright,
Speaker 1: Cordurell Patterson sneaky, sneaky play. He's probably better running back
Speaker 1: than Ryan All. He could be the running back for
Speaker 1: the Bears could be starting running back. I have a
Speaker 1: quote up on my wall at home. It says, don't
Speaker 1: get cute at running back Brian Johnson, he's a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I would get cute with the wide receiver playing running back.
Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens with Montgomery. He'll probably play.
Speaker 1: But awful matchup. I'm gonna say bench Montgomery out right,
Speaker 1: even if he plays. Uh. I almost want to say
Speaker 1: bench Todd Gurley out right going to the other side.
Speaker 1: Get this. Gurley has yet two top twenty opportunities in
Speaker 1: a game that's carries plus targets. He hasn't even It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks ten touches and twelve touches. That's
Speaker 1: it for Todd Gurley. And they never passed to him anymore.
Speaker 1: He was any leaf pass catching back. How's the stat?
Speaker 1: The Bear l a the Rams running backs I can
Speaker 1: barely read this, it's so bad have totaled five catches
Speaker 1: over their last four games. Twenty running back catches on
Speaker 1: the whole. See Sean McVeigh lose his touch like did
Speaker 1: he get shattered by Bill Belichick in that Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Is it all over for the Wonder Kint I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance that the Rams offensive line is awful,
Speaker 1: awful and by the way they just put their center on,
Speaker 1: eye on and the right the right tackle is going
Speaker 1: to miss this game, Ross Haven or whatever. Yeah, I will,
Speaker 1: I will give Gurley. See still, Chicago has been kind
Speaker 1: of bad against the runs since losing a Chem Hicks.
Speaker 1: They have even up seven rushing touchdowns in the last
Speaker 1: five games. But temporary expectations with Girly, you know you
Speaker 1: need to do that already. Ronald Jones has like the
Speaker 1: same numbers as Todd Gurley this year. You can do
Speaker 1: like the player player and player compared. It is very depressing.
Speaker 1: Uh what else was depressing? It was Cooper Cups goose
Speaker 1: egg last week, probably the most brutal goose egg of
Speaker 1: the fantasy foot all season so far. Mike Evans saying,
Speaker 1: what at least marsh On Latimer, it was sort of
Speaker 1: an excuse for that. Like Jared Goff, Cup does way
Speaker 1: better at home, where he averages an extra thirty yards
Speaker 1: per game on his career. Not a great spot on paper,
Speaker 1: though the Bears have only allowed one wide receiver to
Speaker 1: score since Week three. In the last three weeks, seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards is the high watermark from opposing white out,
Speaker 1: so just the sea for cup. I will give Robert
Speaker 1: Woods to see. Uh got eleven targets last week with
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks on the sideline. Cooks definitely not playing this
Speaker 1: week or probably for the rest of the season, but
Speaker 1: again not a great matchup in Woods only has three
Speaker 1: red zone targets on the season. That is inexplicable. That
Speaker 1: explains his zero receiving touchdowns. Yep. Gerald Everett has caught
Speaker 1: some touchdowns, but they've really been on the road. He's
Speaker 1: the reverse goff split guy. He's better on the road
Speaker 1: than at home. Has average eleven targets over his past
Speaker 1: three road games, but only five targets over his last
Speaker 1: three at home. He's been held scoreless and under twenty
Speaker 1: one yards in five games, whether it's home or on
Speaker 1: the road. Most of them have been at home, but
Speaker 1: in his other four games he's gone off. He's either
Speaker 1: scored called eight passes or top the hundred yards, but
Speaker 1: he's so boom or bust. This is a bus scenario.
Speaker 1: Outside of Zach Hurts his big day against the Bears,
Speaker 1: Chicago hasn't allowed any other tight end to top four
Speaker 1: catches or fifty yards. So Everett he gets a seat
Speaker 1: just because tight end is such a waste land. But uh,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a good day for him. And
Speaker 1: then Jared Goff, I know he's at home, but I
Speaker 1: got him on the bench. I'm aware of the splits.
Speaker 1: But Chicago is allowing just one passing touchdown per game
Speaker 1: on average, and only one quarterback as it has hit
Speaker 1: three d passing yards. That was case keenum and garbage time.
Speaker 1: And like you said, charge the Rams without their starting
Speaker 1: center and right tackle. It's not all Golf's fault, but
Speaker 1: it's like drop her bile and redraft down. There might
Speaker 1: be true, that might be true. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to our Monday night game taking place in mexicollicoll and
Speaker 1: are correspondent one one? No, it's mateo, mateo one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: blond matteo. Um, hey I need some here we go yeah,
Speaker 1: now now I'm feeling it. This is the way to
Speaker 1: do it. The Kansas City f As at the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Cargodores in Mexico. Um, we'll start with some Briado McCoy.
Speaker 1: That's Shady McCoy, who was a healthy scratch last week.
Speaker 1: He's still on your bench. Damian Williams, he gets the bay.
Speaker 1: Not to wait, that's not p plus is it? No?
Speaker 1: Not to gra Okay, thank you? Yeah you get an
Speaker 1: a bay or say yeah obviously. Williams had twenty four
Speaker 1: the twenty nine touches last week, including five receptions. Those
Speaker 1: five receptions are important as the Chargers have allowed an
Speaker 1: average of eight capturas and sixty receiving yards in their
Speaker 1: last five games to the running back positions. When you
Speaker 1: add in three receiving scores to opposing backs in that time,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a scoring fiesta for Damian Williams. Patricio
Speaker 1: Macasa he gets an cute yes, Patrisa never mind no
Speaker 1: Mahomes Tobilo. Tobio ankle injury looked like a non factor
Speaker 1: last week as he threw four quatro cientos quarenta passing
Speaker 1: yards that's four forty six in Tennessee. The Cargadores have
Speaker 1: been good against the past, but Vuelo superior quarterbacks such
Speaker 1: as Deshaun Watson and Ryan Tannehill have each top three
Speaker 1: yards and thrown for multiple scores this year. Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: gets the bay. Nota Kelsey is not Mattiol against the
Speaker 1: Chargers since they moved to l A. He has not
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown against the Chargers since they've become the
Speaker 1: l A Chargers, in fact, outside of Kansas City because
Speaker 1: two his last two lines against the Chargers are one
Speaker 1: catch for six yards and one catch for Juno yard.
Speaker 1: Yuck uh. The Chargers haven't allowed a tight end touchdown
Speaker 1: in seven games. Derwin James isn' due back for another
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, but he was the guy who really
Speaker 1: shut down Kelsey last year, so that's why Kelsey still
Speaker 1: gets the bay. Tyreek Colina Hill he gets the nota
Speaker 1: Mikole Duro hard Man. Yeah, and Sammy Watkins are on
Speaker 1: the bunco Uh. Tough to knock a guy with nineteen
Speaker 1: targets last week. Like like Tyreek Hill. The only minus
Speaker 1: here is the matchup. No wide receiver has topped seventy
Speaker 1: yards or scored against the Chargers in the last three games.
Speaker 1: They've only allowed one wide receiver to top a hundred
Speaker 1: yards on the year, and there's just not enough to
Speaker 1: go around outside of Hill, so the other guys are
Speaker 1: on the bench. I'm a bombko. Isn't that bank or
Speaker 1: is that Banko? That's Banko Philippe Rios. On the other side,
Speaker 1: he gets the same not Rivers hasn't topped dose touchdown
Speaker 1: passes since Week one. He's only three yard mark twice
Speaker 1: in his last six games. The bright side is that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have allowed multiple scores to each of the
Speaker 1: past three quarterbacks they've faced. His favorite receiver is Kaza
Speaker 1: Door Henry. He gets a note. Uh. He's totaled at
Speaker 1: least forty seven yards or score in every game he's
Speaker 1: played this season, and the Chiefs are bottom ten in
Speaker 1: receptions and yards allowed to the tight end position. Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry a great uh. Miguel Williams, he's on the bench.
Speaker 1: I mostly just wanted him to call call him Miguel.
Speaker 1: He hasn't scored yet this season, hasn't topped six targets
Speaker 1: or four receptions any of the last four weeks. But
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen he gets the bay note and what should
Speaker 1: be a shootout. Allen as upside ten or more targets
Speaker 1: and three of his last four. Hasn't scored since Week three.
Speaker 1: Hasn't scored in seven weeks. Keenan Allen. However, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are only allowing ten catches and one fourteen on average
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position over the last five games. That's
Speaker 1: all got to go to Keyan Allen here. Uh, Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 1: he gets an ah note here. Um. Gordon has re
Speaker 1: established himself as the conquistador of the Chargers backfield with
Speaker 1: over twenty carries and back to back weeks that resulted
Speaker 1: in Ciento Centa Echo eight total yards and three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in those two weeks. Speaking of Ciento Centa Echo eight yards,
Speaker 1: that's exactly how many Derrick Henry ran for last week
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Every top back to face the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks has topped two hundred and
Speaker 1: ten total yards, which brings in to play Austin Ekeler.
Speaker 1: He's the final guy in this matchup. He gets a
Speaker 1: say nota. He's still averaging twelve touches per game over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks since Gordon really took over. And
Speaker 1: it's worth noting we're only a couple of weeks removed
Speaker 1: from Aaron Jones going for seven catches, a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards and two touchdowns through the air. So
Speaker 1: that's why Austin Ekeler is still in play. I think
Speaker 1: he is in play very possibly Mexico City Field doesn't
Speaker 1: end up destroying anybody. Well, they didn't turn him around
Speaker 1: and put him back in l A. All right, it's
Speaker 1: a good sign. Um, we've only got a few moments
Speaker 1: left in the show. Let me get you with a
Speaker 1: couple of quick ones. Brian Johnson, Can I drop Juju?
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster outright? He's in the concussion protocol? His status
Speaker 1: for next week Week twelve unknown? Yeah, sabotage drop Juju.
Speaker 1: He's a headache you don't want to deal with if
Speaker 1: you're not in the playoffs with Juju and roster. But ye,
Speaker 1: I would drop it down the stretch. Would you rather
Speaker 1: have Juju or Alexander Madison? I'd rather have the handcuffed.
Speaker 1: I'd rather exactly or Madison. And that even if, even
Speaker 1: if you don't have Dalvin Cook, just in case something happens,
Speaker 1: he's your Sander. Madison's the top tennis you're taking. Tony
Speaker 1: Pollock could be the same way. Maybe it's another opportunity
Speaker 1: like that. Al Right, guys, a nice job. Thank you
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