Week 12 Injury Updates, Leftovers, TNF Preview

Forever Show. Start listening to us or suffer the consequences. Du dennit. Yeah, welcome me your host Friday from Man by God Rob Say Francis, practice stantaball ladies and tell them in yours and with that we will. Are you inside of Studio thirty four? This is the BFFs. He's Frank Snaffle. I am Greg Sauceman. What's happening, Reggie? Happy Thursday to your bud. Are you ready for some football Thursday night? Alex Sam? Are you still ready for some football? Man? Alex?

I am. We got a big one tonight divisional matchup Houston Texans and Indianapolis called a great way to start off week twelve. Before that, great, I just sleep last night, Buddy. Some great Man watched. Now, how did I watch? Last night? I watched a couple episodes and Mr Robot that I caught up and watch a Nick game, which was fun for a while. And then somebody in my group it was fun for a long while they were hanging in there. One of my group friends said, Wow, who are these knicks?

And then I was like, the same knicks as always. I get out to a big lead and blow it of course right. That was also if the Knicks ever go up ten points in the fourth quarter in game, bet on the other team of Man easily every time. And then I ended my night watching the series premiere I started it last night. I wound up watching Succession, which I've been wanting to watch. What is the Succession?

It's an HBO program that that's through season two now. Um, but I thought I've been waiting the whole wedding thing because my time was taken up. So I thought it was a show that Judy would like. Because we watched it, she didn't fall asleep. She enjoyed. We're good, all right? Is that the barometer? As long as Judy doesn't fall asleep rains, it's a pretty good show. Well, for like I thought, I knew I would like it, but I thought I've been waiting to watch it with her because

I think it's so she would like as well. Already she was in alright, fair enough. I believe that this is a show that Blondo Doblino and his wife at your wedding, we're telling King of myself to watch. I believe it. You know, you got to promote the brand, obviously. I also want to watch Watchman. Haven't gotten to that yet. I heard that's very good. As heard it's awesome, A big Linden Law fan, not a not a junior show. And I watched that. I was trying to just catch

one robot before I start Watchman. But that's the next thing to queue. All right, Yeah, I would like to watch, uh Watchman as well. I have heard good things. I enjoyed the movie. But Greg, there's so many things going on. I'm trying to stay up to Dayton basketball, trying to get ready for week twelve, trying to watch all the wrestling content that's going to have you had all these things, Aaron, Netflix and Amazon. I don't have time to watch it anymore.

Disney Plus just came out, so I don't want to watch. Greg does not like superheroes. I'm trying to watch the X Men animated series on Disney, plus Spider Man animated series. There's just there's too much going on. There was a great basketball game on late last night between the Clippers and saw that. This morning, I was sleep there was so much. There's just a lot going on, so much going on, and that includes Thursday night football. Tonight, good game between the a f C South Houston Texans and

the Indianapolis Colts. This one is in Houston. Will have a cover. We'll break it down a little bit later on the program. I don't really know what we're gonna have to add. We've been talking about this one for a while with the running backs. We'll let you know what the what the line is, what the total is, uh, and some props that we like come up a little bit later on. We also have Virginia Podcast rejoining the program this week. She will be on toward to twenty pm.

Sometimes you're watching live here on Pluto TV channel five seventeen. Do you want the edge, Frank, what do you do you get? That's right, you get on the grid. Indeed, so I appreciate wherever you're watching and thank you for its tuning in. We we'll we get on our show with what I mentioned to you this morning as you walked in here earlier and I was like, Frank, did you did you know that mohamedson new in Philip doors Set didn't practice yesterday? He's like, wow, I'm trying to

putting worst. You should be right here what you were like, Wow, I knew about Snow. I didn't realize about doors Set. This is pretty big news. Yeah, it is because this Patriots offense has already been limited big time so far this season. And now you know Mohammed Sanu didn't practice yesterday. We'll see what happens today. I haven't seen the Patriots practice before it yet. Philip or said, I saw some of that news later on last night, but you know,

he left with a concussion. He's dealing with concussion symptoms. Now. Edelman is a little bit banged up, but he's you know, he should be good to go. But ultimately that could open up some opportunity Greg because they need pass catchers on this team. They haven't been able to run the ball effectively. I think this should lend itself to the arrow pointing up for James White, we could see more targets, although his targets have been pretty consistent so far this season.

But there's two names specifically. I know there's one that you really like a lot that we will talk about

when it comes to the leftover segment. Yeah, there is some some stuff going on with the Patriots when it comes to the leftovers when you get to that after the break, But they're I certainly believe it's worth mentioning also over the next hour, Frank, I know you are your rankings are published, and I know they're done, but like, are they published, They're not done yet, They're they're they're currently being worked on. Well, I wanted to work through it with you because as you walked in, I had

a bunch of running back questions. A lot of guys in similar tears. I've been waiting on Jalen Samuels versus Boscarborough for a while. I wanted to add Darius Skye to that mix. Um. I think there's a lot of running back conversation that we we have to have. We have to try to figure out, Um, where they rank,

how do you rank them? We want to answer the people's questions, but we know you have them when it comes to both Scarborough when it comes We've talked a lot about both this week and I know we will all of a bow lever, you know, stuff aside. There's a lot to talk about, right, like how high it's too high when it comes to ranking both Scarbrough this

week also, it is a conversation worth having. I also want to get into Devin Singletary as well, because I know he's in the top twenty of a lot of rankings and I gotta see where you have him there. So I want to spend a lot of today talking about the leftovers, Yes, getting a Thursday night football talking Virginia for sure. I want to dive into these rankings here on our final bye week and see what we can do. Alright, sure, yeah, I mean it all makes sense to me trying to figure out where to put

some of these guys. I mean, there's very specific situations Greg that you know. I was talking to a few of the guys downstairs about this, the close Alex Possano as well. There's a lot of running back situations that you don't really know what's going to happen based on the injury report so far. Right, So when it comes to the Steelers, and I tweeted this out last night, drink. We knew that the Cincinnati Bengals defense was really bad, but did you know that they were this bad? Greg?

They have allowed a hundred yard rusher or a rushing touchdowns to running back in every single game this season. The Bengals are really bad. The problem is when it comes to the Steelers, normally they don't run a committee, but normally they have a running back that they can depend on as well. So is it gonna be Janilen Samuel's IS's gonna Benny Snell? Is it going to be Trey Edmonds? So there's a lot of names in the mix there. The Eagles situation, we got to talk about that. No,

Miles Sanders, is he gonna be the guy again? Jordan Howard has banged up, he hasn't practiced. So there's just a few back fields here, Greg that are pretty tough to rank this week, just because we don't know what's going on with the injuries. We'll get into that and hit up with the leftovers when we returned to the BFFs on Sports Grade. Are you ready for the nation's first and only free twenty four hour network dedicated to you,

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A chance in hell? Sorry, budd, I noticed that you didn't play any Do you remember, right, Man? I told you that was band What else is on the band list? I'm interested in the band list, Greg, the bandlist you want to know? Yeah? Do you remember? That was no village? People? People? For sure? People didn't even get a Y M C A in there coming slide of any sort. I did notice there was no There was a little sad, a

little sad about that. There was a journey. Don't stop believing, right, make sure there's perfect first dance song, Greg, It's so inspirational. It's usually I feel like I hear it a lot at the end. Um. Yeah, that has been there was any bar that I've ever ended up at at the end of the night has always closed the night with don't stop believing there was no There was no sweet Caroline so tired that oh yeah, yeah, I mean, is that just because you're tired of or like a red

Sox thing combination of both. I didn't want to hear it, all right, And here's the controvert. There was none of this either. It was although I would have been interested to hear the band kick A bought me a trumpet for my birthday, and I said, I played four years in high school. I haven't played the trumpet in It's a great gift. She's a She's a really she's a really good gift giver. But now I need to learn where I can play, because if I play in my apartment,

I'm gonna get kicked. We have a holiday party, com Dude, I haven't picked up a trumpet in ten years, Danny, would you like to see Frank play the trumpet and play Baby Shark at the holiday party? Eventually, I would like to learn how to play baby That was one of the first to have about two weeks. That's not enough time, Greig. I have to learn how to just play the thing in general. That's a trumbe all right, this is trumpet. Would have Alex te bone he can

play the trumbone. That's fine, will you trumon? Yes? Wow, I think you should do that for sure. I would love to play a duo with Alex. But at first I need to learn how to play the trumpany maybe next years a party, maybe by next year. Um. And also this is the controversial one, oh shout was not allowed to be played. Put my hands up right obviously for winning crash as a wedding staple. Um. Already, so Greg, laying down the law. These songs will not be played

at my wedding. Right. I guess let's just start making a list, right, I mean, you have a while, a little while, like a year and a half, you know, you have some time? And man, yes, some time. Alright. Uh, let's get back to fantasy football, and let's let you know who was left on the waiver wire and weren't picking up. It's time with the leftovers. Still didn't get your fill from the waiver wire? More the BFFs has your leftovers? Watch this? Never mind, give me a whole

lot of it. Alright, it's time born the left thow who is left on the waiver wire and worth picking up in frank we begin where we begun the shows New England Patriots, and in particular to kill Harry, and to kill Harry definitely interesting. You see how much he played last week, forty percent of the snaps. But look at Philip Dorsett can't go. He played forty six percent of the snaps. Mohammed Sanu was on the field for fifty five percent of the snaps, So they really do

have a rotation at the wide receiver position. Outside of Julian Edelman played eighty nine percent of the snaps, but between Jacobe Meyers and kill Harry and Mohammed Sanu and Philip door Set, they have been rotating those guys in and out Greg And I almost wonder if Sanu was playing through that ankle injury last week during the game and that's why he played those limited snaps. But ultimately

definitely have interest here in nkil Harry. Uh. You know, I'm not gonna drop any of the running backs that I just picked up this week, but you know, among the wide receivers that we talked about the other day, you Harry probably has as much upside, if not more than any of those names that we mentioned, especially if some new or Philip Dorset can't go. So yeah, I'm

definitely interested. All right, I'm also interested as well. How are he's gotta think of the slack is the first round pick they obviously had the thoughts for him, was an activist, first came back and a couple of catches last week. He's gonna be a major part of the offense this week if and when potentially and or Set are out Frankie, well a man, does that end? Big

Ben Watson, Ben Watson, Greg. The past two games for Ben Watson, he has played eighty percent and one of the snaps respectively, and he's running a lot of routes as well. There was only four targets last week. But this goes back to what I was just saying about how the past catchers for the Patriots are banged up.

I would expect more James White, more Edelman. You know, Tom Brady is gonna lean on the guys that he trusts most, but ultimately, I ain't somebody to throw the ball here, Greg, So look, we're trying to find tight ends. The Cowboys have struggled Big time against tight ends so far this season as well. I think Ben Watson makes some sense as a streaming tight end if if one or both of these guys are out, you know, if Snow plays off, Torset plays, I think it's gonna be

hard for him to make the most of that opportunity. Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately, I've been been watching guy this week. We'll see, Man, we'll see. I'm desperate for a title. I'm desperate at the tight end position. Right. Other players, uh, that may have been left over on your waiver wire that you should consider potentially picking up this week. Um, I was about to say Zach Pascal, but we assume that Toy is going to play tonight, So that one kind of doesn't make sense. But other players that do

potentially make sense. Well, I go to Tennessee where Corey Davis and A. J. Brown. They're out there in a lot of leagues, Frankie, Tennessee's off the by. They're facing Jacksonville at home this week. Where did they give to the Tennessee wide receivers Corey Davis and A J. Brown. So, I know Corey Davis has been dealing with an injury. He did practice yesterday full participant. He was dealing with a hip injury. He was inactive in week ten and then they had to buying week eleven, so it looks

like he's good to go. I do have interest in Corey Davis and A J. Brown here, Greg, because the upcoming schedule right, maybe not week twelve and week thirteen, but you're talking about looking forward to the fantasy playoffs, and the other day when we were talking about waiver wire ads, I brought up Ryan Tannehill. He has been very consistent from a fantasy perspective. But Greg, that's schedule from Week fourteen through sixteen, the Oakland Raiders, the Houston Texans,

and the New Orleans Saints. Those are plus matchups for wide receivers so far this season. So if you're asking me which one, I would actually probably lean with A. J. Brown. He seems to have a better rapport with Tannehill so far. He's been the playmaker for this team. I understand that they spread the ball around like John H. Smith has

been involved, Adam Humphreys has been involved. But those matchups are very good and I would lean towards A J. Brown just because he's been a little bit more consistent than Corey Davis. If we're being honest, I agree A J. Brown is probably the wide receiver that I would go with as well over Corey Davis. I don't really want

to do it. You have to. You have to A J. Brown facing off against the Jacksonville Jaguars other players that are out there, and I think I don't know your wife receiver rankings, but I think this guy is probably above both of those. Roy Russell gauge for the Atlanta Falcons great, great, great matchup against Tampa Bay Bucks mine, so the snaps haven't necessarily been consistent for him. He

is the third wide receiver. You know, they've been doing a little bit more running over the past couple of weeks because they've been playing with those positive game scripts here, Greg, But how can you argue with the matchup going up against Tampa Bay. I mean there there is there's no other like whatever exaggeration you want to make about how bad the Bucks secondary actually is, it's even worse than that. So, yeah,

we like Calvin Ridley, We love Julio Jones. Obviously. This week I heard the guys on the Fantasy Football Frenzy talking about how they have Calvin Ridley ranked inside their top twelve this week, and it's really hard to argue with that, but I do like Russell Gauge more than the Titans wide receivers. You know, if if the Pats guys were out, I probably would rank Nikkil Harry higher, But as of now, I will rank Russell Gauge higher than Nikil Harry of the snatch last week for Gauge

the week before that sixty two percent. So again, when't they go to three wide receivers sets, He's the one who's in there playing slot wide receiver and that buck secondary is just so bad. I almost wonder Greg that if the Falcons get off to an early start here and that defense looks as good as it has the past couple of weeks, then they might just lean on Brian Hill again in the second half like they have

the past couple of weeks. So that is something in the back of my mind might limit some of the upside for like those peripheral pass catchers. But ultimately, really do like, really, really like Julio Russell Gauge an interesting name, obviously, with a really good matchup. Alright, those are the wide receivers that I think are worth throwing out there. I'm trying to look for some running backs that could be.

Frank Gore's out there. You know, I don't know if nihe Hines was picked up in enough league's But again, the Texans allowed the most receptions for game to opposing running backs. So I understand it's gonna be a committee tonight. It's gonna be messy, But they've allowed some big, chunk chunk plays to receiving running backs, and I think ninety Hinds can make some place tonight. What about Benny Snell.

James Connor is not gonna be out there. Betty Snell is looking it looks like he could potentially return my tom and said earlier this week he's excited about it. Yeah, it's just look, if you're gonna if you're gonna pick up Benny Snell, are are you gonna be able to start him this week? I mean you'd want to against the Bengals, right, but headed running back by committee of my league starting Duke Johnson, Oltavia's Murray the running back. I would use both of those players over Benny Snell

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This is sports Crade. Get all the grid. I've fallen and I can get off Inside Injuries with Virginia Zakis. But a scratch, a scratch, the arms off. Virginia Zakis is in the house with the inside Injuries report. Virginia, what's going on? Not too much? Another busy week of injuries, always, always, always injuries. We appreciate you joining us here today. I want to begin on a selfish level, and I want to begin not at all when we give what we have it on Sunday night, and that was with the

Kansas City Chiefs Tyree hillo Damian Lazy. They both left this game early. Tyreek Hill hurt hamstring gaming. Williams looked like hurt his ribs. They want to buy this week, which is really good timing what will happen next week though, so definitely a good time for them to have the buy. UM. Neither of these injuries looks overly serious, but UM, you know, if they were playing this week, I would expect both

of them to probably not play. UM. For Tyree Hill, we're showing a mild hamstring strain after he underwent an m r I. UM optimal recovery time is two weeks now. He was a high injury risk even before this hamstring strain. UM, you know, because of his injury earlier in this season, that sc joint dislocation, and his history of injuries. So I'm gonna still be a high injury risk next week, even though he's supposed to hit his optimal recovery time

heading into week thirteen. UM also worth noting that he has a history of these lower body kind of soft tissue muscular strains. Also had a hamstring injury in seventeen and a quad strain in UM didn't miss any games with either of those injuries, but this is something he has battled before, so I think we'll most likely see him in Week thirteen, but he's going to be continue to be a high injury risk. UM for Damian Williams. They're calling his injury a rib injury. X rays were negative,

so it doesn't seem like there's any rib fractures. But I am concerned that there's a cartilage injury, which can often be a lot more painful than a rib fracture. Is UM. If that's the case. If it's a mild cartilage fracture, cartilage injury, optimal recovery time is three weeks UM. If it's a more serious one, it may take him, honestly until the end of the regular season until it starts to feel better. UM. A lot of it is

about pain management, UM, getting an injection before the game. UM. But every time he takes a big hit, you know it could be the end of his day very quickly. So unfortunately, I'm going to be concerned about Williams UM probably for the next month or so at least, even if he is playing through that rib injury. So looks like Tyreek Hill should be good to go after the

bye week. Continue to be a risk just because of everything he's dealt with in terms of the soft tissue injuries and the fact that you know he still did have that shoulder injury earlier. On in the season, we spoke about the leftovers. Greg. If Darryl Williams is out there, based on this news on Damian Williams, then I think Darryl is someone that you should be looking at as well. Virginia,

I want to ask you about two Indianapolis Colts. We know that Marlon Mack is not going to play tonight, dealing with a fracture in his hand, where you know, scurrying trying to figure out what this Colts running back by committee is going to look like. How long is Marlon Mack expected to miss? And please update us on t Y Hilton. It looks like he is going to be good to go for tonight. You know what was the original diagnosis from inside Injuries? You know when was

his healthy to return date? Yeah, so from Marlon Mack um suffered a metacarpal fracture and underwent surgery after Sunday's game. He's not gonna play tonight. Um. Our algorithm is showing a seven week Optimore recovery time. UM. Now, I don't expect him to miss that much time. I think he'll return sooner than that, but the fracture will not be healed by then. UM. That means he will probably have to wear a brace or a cast on his hand, and that's going to affect his ball security. It's gonna

affect his um pass catching and his blocking ability. So a lot of it's gonna have to do with, you know, how much pain is he in when the doctor says it's safe enough for him to return, UM, and then how well can he perform because it's certainly gonna hurt his production. So they're just going to have to decide, you know, even at you know, is it worth having him out there? UM? I think the soonest will probably see him his week fourteen. That might still be a

bit optimistic given his injury. UM t Y Hilton. Our algorithm has been showing all along a Grade two moderate calf string UM earliest we've been saying he should return his week thirteen. So I really don't think he should play tonight, although they're saying he's a game time call and he's got a good chance of playing, especially given you know, it's the Thursday night game. UM, every day counts in this situation, and so he's a high risk of re injury. UM. You know, he even admitted himself

that he thought the injury could be season endings. This is clearly pretty serious. Um, he really should give himself ten days and wait until week thirteen to return. If he does that, his injury risk should move from high risk to elevated. UM. But cap strains are just so tough to recover from. So I'm worried about him if he plays tonight, Greg, I'm with Virginia here, I do

worry about t Y Hilton. We said yesterday on the show that if he plays, you have to get him in your lineup just because this Texans secondary could be taken advantage of, and t Y Hilton has a great history of dominating unbelievable. But it's just a really tough situation because you don't want to start off your fantasy

week with t Y Hilton in your lineup. He ends up reinjuring himself and then next thing you know, you have a zero or a two for twenty and something like that, and that's how you get your week started. So it's a very volatile situation, very very low floor, but very high ceiling based on what Hilton has been able to do against that well, even saying all week with Hi Hilton that if he plays tonight. He has the potential obviously to go bonkers, but he also has

a potential to leave early and re injure himself. It's a risk that I think you have to weigh and see if it's worth taking. We're talking us here from Inside Injuries Virginia. We give you a double here with the Colt, so I want to do the same with the Atlanta Falcons. Earlier this week, dan Quinn was like, hey, Austin Hooper DeVante if anyone feeling good about them, And Austin Hooper is ruled out and Demante Freeman did not practice yesterday, what can you tell us is the latest

on those two Falcons? So Hooper is dealing with an mc L sprain um our algorithm. Is UM given us a grade to so moderate sprain um The minimum optimal recovery time for this is three weeks, So we're saying he shouldn't return until week thirteen at the earliest, UM. And so actually we think it's good news that he has already been ruled out this week. If he waits until week thirteen or week fourteen, UM, I think they've got the Thursday game next week, so that actually will

be a little early for him to return. UM, so he'll still be a high risk of you plays next week, but we don't think this should be an injury that extends past week fourteen. UM. For Devonte Freeman, he's dealing with a mid foot spring. UM. I think it's likely a Liz Frank injury, which you know you have to treat those very carefully. He didn't practice yesterday. UM. I just saw on Twitter that they he wasn't seen out there today. So to miss practices after already missing one game, UM,

definitely not starting the week off right. So I think they hold him out uh this week and then hope they can get him back for their next game. Um. He's another player that was already a high injury risk. He had a foot injury last year and then of course he had that nice sprain and growing surgery. So I think the Falcons are going to be pretty careful

with him. Um, given everything his body has been through in the last year, and based on where they're at, Greg, you know, why would they rush back Devantay free You know they still have a chance at whatever six seven wins, and you know Austin Hooper likely back at some point. But I don't think that they're really going to be rushing back either one of these players, Virginia. Let's keep the theme alive of asking you about teammates and Juju

Smith shoes and James Conner. Connor reinjured that shoulder and he left early last week on Thursday Night Football. He has had more time to recover, but we haven't seen him at practice so far this week, and the Juju already looking doubtful for this week. You know, I don't think that he's officially been ruled out but not expected to play. Should we expect Juju Smith Schuster back in week thirteen? I know that he's dealing with both a

knee injury and a concussion yep. Um, So all reports on Jiuju have been you know, he's not going to play this week. Um, just the combination of clearing concussion protocol and also being able to test out his knee and making sure it's you know, he can make it through the game without reinjuring. It probably isn't gonna happen within a week, but our algorithm is saying that by

week thirteen, we think he'll be ready um to come back. Now, always worth noting that it's just nearly impossible to predict how long a player is going to take to recover from a concussion. UM. But if we're just looking at his knee injury, two weeks should likely be enough time for him. UM. For James Conner, you know, early on when he originally was hurt, they called it an AC sprain.

They made it seem pretty minor, and then of course he went on to miss two weeks, UM, which is not really normal with an a with a milder AC sprain. Most of the time running backs can play through it. They might not make it through the game. UM. A lot of it is about pain management, but most of the time they're okay. So I think this is either much more serious AC spreen or there's something else going

on in his shoulder that they haven't told us about. Um. You know, he returned last week but wasn't able to finish the game, didn't practice yesterday. UM, we're actually now showing that he should miss at least three weeks after aggravating his shoulder injury. UM. Anytime a player suffers an aggravation,

the recovery time is going to be much longer. Last time, three weeks wasn't enough so we're now showing that he should miss a lot more time and unfortunately, he's probably going to be a high injury risk for the rest of the season. Well, Greg, as if we couldn't get worse news. On the Pittsbury Steelers, things were already bad. Their offense is limited with Mason Rudolph, but it's not looking good specifically for James Connor. Looks like he might

have came back too soon. Should expect them to be out a couple of weeks. I don't think he plays this week. Obviously. Two major names we have to ask you about that seemed like legit question marks, and I want to make sure we get him in before we hit the break. George Kittle and Tyler Lockett out there in the NFC West. Locket left the game two weeks ago. George Kittle hasn't played in a few weeks. They both seemed very, very questionable at best for Sunday. What can

you tell us about them? Yeah, So, George Kittle UM dealing with a knee injury. He was hurting week nine. Um looks like he hyper extended his knee. This can cause a few different things. The most extreme diagnosis would be a torn a c L, but don't think he suffered that. UM. Outside of that, there's concern for a milder knee sprain or a bone bruise um. In his case, the m r I showed minor ailments, so we don't really have a queer diagnosis, but I'm suspecting there's a

bone bruise um. If that's the case, the optimal recovery time is around four weeks, so I don't think you should play this week, but by week thirteen he could be ready to come back. UM. Tyler Lockett, Um, this was a scary situation. He ended up spending a couple of nights in the hospital, all because of significant swelling in his lower leg um. The concern here is compartment syndrome, which is when swelling and the muscles gets to a dangerous level and it can cause damage to blood vest

blood vessels and the muscle tissue. UM. Thankfully he avoided the worst case scenario. Seems to be doing okay, but this, you know, is still pretty painful and UM likely dealing with a bone bruise to a shin. So he didn't practice yesterday. UM. They were saying there's a chance he was going to practice today, but I haven't seen yet if he's out there, um, and so our algorithm is showing that he should wait until week thirteen or fourteen to return. Alright, So some ominous news there on George

Kittle and Tyler Lockett. Obviously, you know, big name players that we need to show up as we get up for the fantasy football playoffs. Lockett has been so awesome all season long. Same thing with George Kittle. Seemed like he was finally starting to come around and then he suffered that knee injury. So look, if George Kittle can't go, our man Greg Ross Dwelly back in the mix, I'm gonna start rust Willie over over Watson. So it's just

coming down. Good luck, buddy, Jennys Akers. We appreciate the time. We'll talk to you again next week. Our sounds good, guys, A good one. All right. We'll be back pree Thursday Night Football when we were returned here on the b f F S. Are you ready for the nation's first and only free, twenty four hour network dedicated to you the betting and fantasy sports enthusiast. Sports Grade will provide you with a real time content statistics and gaming intelligence

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As I just said, Coults are a three and a half point dog or worth three and a half points Earli tonight. Has that changed? It has not changed. The spread for this game is current with the Texans laying three and a half points greg and the total at forty five and a half. What do you think? Where do we want to start? Do we want to break it down by position for fantasy purposes or perspective? What do you want to do? So? I don't think either good position in my position so much because where are

we twelve? Right? Like everybody kind of knows where we're at. I mean, look, you know you're starting to Shaun Watson if you own them like it's nothing crazy, of course, but I want to talk about certain positions where they're there are a question marks. We talked about hilting the lots,

but not even there. I want to start on the Houston side of the ball, specifically with Carlos Hide, because you asked me a really good question earlier, all right before the show started, and that says, do I start Carlos Hide tonight? Where do I wait for? Both Scarborough on Sunday Carlos Hide in the mix with Jalen Samuel's Darius guys. These kind of names I was naming earlier, they're all he's packed together this week. I know you've

been working on your running back rankings, so what say you? So? I currently have Carlos Hide as RB twenty four, having five spots lower than the consensus rankings on Fantasy pros. The reason being the Cults have actually been pretty good against the runs so far this season. They're allowing just over four yards per carry. Uh, It's easier to beat the Colts with receiving backs. You know, they've allowed the fourth fourth most reception so far, so I think Duke

Johnson is interesting tonight. The Colts have only allowed three rushing touchdowns to running backs so far this season. Earlier on when these two teams met. Both Duke and Carlos Hyde were limited to under sixty total yards each. So we know that Carlos Hyde is really gameflow dependent, Greg. You know, when the Texans are playing with the lead, you can look at his game log. In games that the Texans win, those are the games where Carlos Hyde

has performed better. In games that they've lost, obviously playing from behind negative game script, they have more Duke Johnson on the field. That was the case last week. He played fifty nine per cent of the snaps. He had six carries and two targets. Carlos Hyde Salvage his day, only played cent of the snaps, had that you know, long touchdown run late in the game. Nine are sixty five yards and a touchdown. But if he didn't get that long touchdown run, we were looking at a very

bad game from Carlos Hide last week. I don't feel great about Carlos Hides tonight, Greg, So I have more of a low n RB two high end flex option. That's you know where he's been for most of the season. But if you're asking me between him, Bo Scarborough Darius Guys, I have both Guys and Bo Scarborough ranked ahead of Carlos Hide reason being the matchup, Gregg, I like the match up for those guys more. The matchup is better

for those guys. Like you said, Carlos Hide is so dependent on that game flow and so dependent on being able to stay in the game, which means the Texans have a lead. They've really they've really struggled through the years over the Indianapolis Colts. I think there might be more of that tonight, which means Carlos Hide doesn't beco an afterthought, but doesn't become the focal point of the offense that you need him to be. We have a

word of will Fuller tonight. So I was just looking at up during the break and I really don't see any will Fuller news. It's just he's questionable for tonight. I think you know that changes target share for DeAndre Hopkins. You know I tweeted about that last week. Drink that when Will Fuller has been on the field this year, we see the targets share for specifically Hopkins, Duke Johnson,

and Darren Fells go down tremendously. We also saw Darren Fells not really do much last week for the Houston Texans coming back from the bye, but I haven't seen anything in terms of will Fuller. Even if he plays, you know, I don't I'm not gonna get him in my lineup personally. It's one of those, you know. I think it's a volatile situation as well, similar to t Y Hilton where he could be back but could end up re injury himself. I don't necessarily want Kenny Stills

in my lineup either. I think tonight is a lot of you know who you're starting, right, Deshaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins. I like the over on DeAndre Hopkins receptions tonight. You see the prop for that at the Vanduel Sports Book. At six and a half, he has at least eleven targets in five straight games. On the other side, Jacoby Brissette Greig. The last time he faced the Texans earlier on this year, he threw for over three hundred yards

and four touchdowns. I actually like Jacoby Brisset a decent amount. You have me as myke QB thirteen. This is gonna surprise some people. I'm I'm just very bullish on the quarterbacks with good matchups this week. I have Derek Carr, Sam Donald and Jacoby Brissette all inside of my top thirteen quarterbacks. They are ahead of Jimmy Garoppolo, they're ahead

of Tom Brady, they're ahead of Nick Foles. You know, I'm trusting the matchups here, and you know, if we're talking about props, Jacoby Brissetts number tonight for passing yards greg two thirty three and a half. That's really low, man. I mean, the Houston Texans are allowing an average of two nine passing yards per game. That's the fourth most in the NFL. They've given up a ton of passing touchdowns as well. They've given up twenty two passing touchdowns,

that's fifth most in the NFL. That is the way to attack this Houston Texans defense. They don't have much pass rush no more. Jadaeveon Clowney, J J. Watt out for the year. I think Jacoby Brisset is going to have success in it. Colts are a team that want to run the football. Though Hill and shout me back expect you running be able to play as well. But they're their game plan is to run the football down the other team's throats. That has been saying, that has

been that's what they want to do. So That's what they did against the Kansas City Chiefs, right. And I think this is where the mastermind of Frank Wright comes into play, greg because I think that they attack a team's biggest deficiency, and when it comes to the Houston Texans, that is their secondary and throwing the ball, you know,

specifically to wide receivers. Now, hopefully te Wy Hilton is good to go, looks like he's gonna try and suit up, but you know, targeting those outside wide receivers and and wide receivers down the field, that is the way to attack this Houston Texans defense. And I think Frank Reich is going to know that and realize that and also the past catching running backs. So that's why I do expect Niheim Hins to be involved that have him as a low n RB three. He's more of a flex play.

Now we've got a three headed running back by committee tonight between Jonathan Williams and Jordan Wilkins and Nieheim Hines, and you know, I think that they're gonna mix it up between Jonathan Williams and uh and Wilkins on early downs. But I do think that that Nieheim Hinds is in in play for let's say eight to ten touches tonight. I really do. I think that they're going to try and utilize him in the past game. So there is

a league where I am starting him. And now when I say flex play, do not put him in your flex because Thursday night football you want him. You want that flexibility for for Sunday. Right, So if you want to start Niheim Hines while he is a flex play in theory, put him in is your r B to leave that flex option open for Sunday, just so that

it gives you some flexibility. Greg, Absolutely, you're that's extremely extremely important to do to be smart, to be able to put those players UM in the running back or wide re super position rather the flex You don't want to. You want to leave yourself options. It's all about that flexibility. That's why you need to be smart about that. Um anything else where tonight. Look, I think we've hit on it.

I'll just run through you know where I have these cults running backs ranked just in case you know people are wondering. I have Jonathan Williams at RB twenty nine, so a mid flex play. I have him just behind Terrico and and Brian Brian Hill just ahead of let's ta Vious Murray and Royce Freeman of Niheim Hines at RB thirty five, and then I have Jordan Wilkins at RB forty. So you know, they're all three of these running backs are separated by eleven spots, so they are

pretty close in my rankings. Trying to hedge a little bit here, I think we you know, we gotta talk about the tight ends a little bit here as well, Greg. Eric Ebron has been playing more recently. Him and Jack Doyle basically ran the same amount of routes last week and earlier on in the season, Eric Ebron scored a touchdown against this Houston Texans defense. So if Ebron ghost tonight, which looks like he's going to play, I do like

him a little bit more than Doyle. You know, you heard him turping a little bit a couple of weeks ago, and he has been more involved than Doyle since he made those comments about his role in the offense. So if I'm just if I'm picking the game, Greg, I'll lean with the Texans. I'll lean with the over. But the plays that I really like most are Jecoby Brisset over his passing yards and DeAndre Hopkins over on his six and a half receptions. Alright, tho's the problems that

Frankie really likes tonight. You can get in the game, of course, vandals, it's book or wherever you place your bachelor's and night football tonight. Right, let's dive into your rankings. What are you having the most trouble with at this moment? So it was just one of some of those running back situations that we were talking about earlier. Right, I want to like Jalen Samuel's. This match up against the

Bengals is a prime time one. I mean, this is you know, you want to start your running backs against the Cincinnati Bengals. But as of now, we don't really know who the go to guy is going to be for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jalen Samuel's caught a bunch of passes last week. They were playing from behind for a lot of that game against the Browns. But Frey Edmonds has been active the past couple of weeks. He's had

a role as an early down runner. Benny Snell. It seems like they like him as an early down runner between the tackles. A bigger guy doesn't really have breakaway speed, but I think someone that they envisioned that they can use uh in short yard situations. He kind of fits the mold as that type of running back. So I think right now this kind of ranking the Steelers running backs has been a tough situation. Greg, I know that

you own Jalen Samuels. Are you expecting him to be the lead guy for the Pittsburgh Steelers here or are those other guys gonna have a role as well? The other guys are obviously gonna have a role, um as someone that has owned the startered Jalen Samuels a lot this season, a lot of being a relative term of course. Um, it's frustrating. We see Tradmans got the first carry the game, right. Its frustrating you see Benny Snell be very very involved.

But I think the key to Jalen Samuel's is Dowdy Johnson and Judicith Schuster are most likely also being out this week. I think Deontay Johnson practiced in full yesterday, but he's still in concussion protocols. Got to clear the protocols. He might he might do it because they've had ten days off, that's right, so he might clear the protocol. Heck, the Patriots think Philip dore Set might clear the protocol

and that's within six days. But that's what makes me most bullish, I would say on Samuel's the fact that at the wide receivers they're gonna have to rely on him in that role in what maybe the most complete games when they dumped it off in fifteen times, right, So they are the other running Max. That's why I wrote up Manny Snell earlier. They're going to be involved. It's only a question of how involved are they going debate. I want to go to the wide re stivers Frank

for a moment here. Robert Woods still hasn't returned to l A's facility. We don't know what's wrong. We don't know what's going on with him. The dropable. No, I wouldn't drop Robert Woods because the last time we saw him he actually was more involved than pretty much ever and you know he closed in on a hundred yards in that game. So personally, I wouldn't drop Robert Woods. This Ram's offense has not been good, not what we were expecting obviously coming into the season. But personally I

am not dropping Robert Woods. But I do recognize that even if he plays this week, it is a really really tough matchup. I think outside of Todd Gurley and Cooper Cup, you don't really want to start any other Rams against his Ravens defense. I Roundpoor has just reported that James Thrash and Um, there's the other right now, Derek Um, Derek Brooks. There he goes. Derrek Brooks and James Trash have ruled on the suspensions for Marky's pouncy

and four Miles Garrett. Mark East penalty was suspended for three games. Now he's suspended for two games. Load of the suspension by one game. For Miles Garrett, he was suspended in definitely. Now he is still suspended indefinitely. His uppeal has denied the suspension was completely upheld. The latest on him is he's accusing Mason Rudolph of using a rocket story racial slur. No one has heard about that prior to him saying this kind of sounds like Miles

Garrett to be anything that will work. Yeah, it's just a really ugly situation. Obviously when everything went down a week ago today on Thursday Night football, smacking a guy with his own helmet, I mean, come on, Miles Garrett and now you have you have this to say. I mean, even if that were the case, it doesn't it doesn't matter.

I mean, somebody could say anything to you on the field, and I don't think that it's going to justify, you know, taking someone else's helmet off and smacking them over the head with it. So who knows at this point you know what was said? Uh, I'm sure that there's a lot of things that are set on the football field that you know, obviously people don't want to hear. Unfortunately, you know, you never want to see it go that far in terms of racial slurs. But you know, these

these guys are it's the heat of the moment. They're trash talking each other. It still doesn't justify, you know, taking someone else's helmet off and beating them with it. Overall, so we'll see what happens. I saw that, you know, Mason Rudolph's lawyer came out and had like a comment about it. Just an ugly situation all around for the Steelers, the Browns, the NFL in general. It's just what are we doing? Greg? Like the Colts plus three and a

half tonight Frankie, Well, you're on the Colts. Look, I would not want to bet the side I heard Gabe talk about that earlier on today. I would take the over. I like those props more than anything. Greg spring Snaffle, I'm Gregg Sauce and Wag your talk found by at the window his next We'll do it all go tomorrow, we hope. Are you ready for the nation's first and only free, twenty four hour network dedicated to you the

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What did Here's what you missed on the BFFs. You know that Mohammed Sanu and Philip Dorsset didn't practice yesterday, and he's like, wow, I'm trying to putting words right here. What you were like? Wow, I knew about Snow, I didn't realize about doors Set. This is pretty big news. Yeah, it is because this Patriots offense has already been limited big time so far this season. And now you know Mohammed Sanu didn't practice yesterday. We'll see what happens today.

I haven't seen the Patriots practice report yet, Philip or said, I saw some of that news later on last night. But you know, he left with a concussion. He's dealing with concussion symptoms. Now Edelman's a little bit haanged up, but he's you know, he should be good to go. But ultimately that could open up some opportunity, Greg, because they need pass catchers on this team. They haven't been

able to run the ball effectively. I think this should lend itself to the arrow pointing up for James White, we could see more targets, although his targets have been pretty consistent so far this season. But there's two names specifically. I know there's one that you really like a lot that we will talk about when it comes to the leftover segment. Greg, Yeah, there is some some stuff going on with the Patriots when it comes to the leftovers.

When he gets to that after the break, but they're I certainly believe it's worth mentioning also over the next hour Frank, I know you are. Your rankings are are published, and I know they're done, but like are they published, They're not done yet, They're they're they're currently being worked on. Well, I wanted to work through it with you because as you walked in, I had a bunch of running back

questions a lot of guys in similar to tears. I've been waiting on Jalen Samuels versus Bullis Garborough for a while. I wanted to add Darius Skye to that mix. Um. I think there's a lot of running back conversation that

we we have to have. We have to try to figure out, um, where they rank, how you rank them, want to answer the people's questions, but we know you have them when it comes to Boa Scarbrow when it comes We've got a lot about both this week, and I know I available all of a bow lever, you know stuff aside, there's a lot to talk about, right like how high is too high when it comes to ranking boascar Brow this week, and also it is a

conversation worth having. I also want to get into Devin Singletary as well, because I know he's in the top swety of a lot of rankings and I gotta see where you have him there. So I want to spend a lot of today talking about the leftovers. Yes, get in the Thursday night football talking to Virginia for sure. I want to dive into these rankings here on our final bye week and see what we could do. Alright, sure, yeah, I mean it all makes sense to me trying to

figure out where to put some of these guys. I mean there's very specific situations, Greg, that you know. I was talking a few of the guys downstairs about this, the close alex Osano as well. There's a lot of running back situations that you don't really know what's going to happen based on the injury report so far. Right, So, when it comes to the Steelers, and I tweeted this out last night, drink, we knew that the Cincinnati Bengals defense was really bad, but did you know that they

were this bad? Greg. They have allowed a hundred yard rusher or a rushing touchdown to running back in every single game this season. The Bengals are really bad. The problem is when it comes to the Steelers, normally they don't run a committee, but normally they have a running back that they can depend on. As well, So is it gonna be Janleen Samuels, is gonna Benny Snell? Is it going to be Trey Edmunds. So there's a lot of names in the mix. There