A Plus Sized Episode!

just tired of me. He looked at me for a seconds like, oh many. Not only is it the two of you, but we also have London corresponding Colin mccockney really calling in from wait, Tottenham Hotspur Live. Wow, he's there. There's understanding. Wow, that's amazing because there a little early for the game. It's it looked just getting warmed up. That's it all all. He's dedicated. I've never understood a word, he says. Nobody Scott does. I'm pretty sure because noted

Noted Cockney translator. Yeah, Scott, Scott, it's the translation. Key It is that Scottish heritage in me. I know everything about the UK exactly as long as it was in Braveheart. You know anything else? No idea, boy, and don't even ask omaguay is Over the course of the show, did you say like like Gizmo the Magway. Well, I tend to think of the Edinburgh based, no Glasgow based band, but okay, you know that's how I tend to think

of it. Yeah, okay. Over the course of the show, we're gonna break down all of the matchups Fantasy Football Weekly style with letter grades on all the players. Plus you will get nine players wait, letter grades plus yea. Finally hard fine guys and oh that's it. Oh boy, just you can't say that I'm not a man of my word. Plusses are in play today and you'll see it changes nothing. This show is no better. He did not say minuses are I'm gonna refuse to use them.

One I have. This is amazing. Three tough questions and premature speculation all looming over the course of this very excited We begin with our first matchup, Titans taking on the Colts Scott For the Titans, things are generally not going very well, but we got a better game on a Derrick Henry last right, but a tough matchup against a good culture on defense here. Yeah, yeah, I think that's gonna I think actually it's gonna win out in Henry's favor. Though he's got the usage back, it's hard

not to start him. I still have an A grade on him. I joked last week that it would be a squeaky game and he got his usage back. But he got usage plus. He got twenty plus carries plus. Yeah, and he got that pass game rollback that he had to a degree last year, catching five of his six passes. That's gonna put Hilliard on the bench, who scored twice through the air in Week one but had just three touches last week. It doesn't seem like that passing game

is his role. Seems like it's just gonna be all Henry against the Colts d surrounding thirty plus touches per game to the running back, that's just gonna be all Henry. As far as the passing game, Ryan Tannehill's basically been a two hundred and fifty yards and one score guy and one of those games you had to hope for the rushing touchdown to get it. Uh. Colts have been allowing about two hundred and fifty yards as well, but but a couple scores. Honestly, I don't know that I

can give Tannehill to the second score. Maybe he'll run it in, but um, he'd need that second score to get a C grade For me, I'm not gonna trust it. So I have him and the whole passing game on the bench. Get this. Tan Hill hasn't thrown a touchdown to a wide receiver yet, Robert Woods, Traylon Barks, you're on the bench. Oh and by the way, the Colts have only allowed to wide receiver touchdowns. It's just a bad spot for everything involved. I'm only starting Henry on

that team. On the other side, I have a B grade on Matt Ryan against the Titans d that has allowed multiple touchdowns every single week this year, all three of them, and back to back three hundred plus yard days. See, I'm throwing the plus is all over this thing now that I know it's it's a thing. Ryan has been lights Ryan hasn't been lights out, starting slow with his new team, but bounced back last week with the three and fifty two yard day couple scores. Uh, they kind

of found a role for Gelanni Woods. He got Alec Pierce. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he only played like nine snaps, but touchdowns, yes, exactly. It's it's just a sign it's coming, I know, but it's it's a role there. It's actually a terrible role for the tight ends. If he's playing fifteen snaps and getting the touchdowns and moy Ali Cox is not doesn't have any touchdown upside, both of that is now unpredictable,

and I have them both on the bench. He got Alec Pierce back finally, uh, first game of the season. Michael Pittman got back. Uh. I do have an a grade on for Michael Pittman, who grabbed eight balls last week, nine balls in Week one. That's elite volume against the Titans d that is allowing one hundred forty eight or more yards to the last two number one wide receivers. They played a hundred and forty eight yards to each of them or more, yeah, to the last two that

they faced. A grade for Pittman. I do have Pierce and Campbell on the bench, but I'm gonna note Campbell's pretty drop herble and Pierce did more with his thirty two snaps last week than Campbell had. Pierce later, I don't want to say exactly, okay, but save one interesting data fect for that or I'll save it for that then germane to this matchup. No, alright, let's do it obvious a for now. Healthy Jonathan Taylor, he rested up, He's all healthy for this, obviously for him, but he hines,

I'm throwing him on the bench. I know he's getting four to six catches a week if you're in full PPR maybe in a pinch, but he's only getting like thirty to fifty yards five to nine touches. He's not playing a lot of snaps. It has to be full PPR in a pinch to even consider him. I'm on the bench, alright, and Matt, let's go over to the Jets taking on the Steelers for this one, and we get the season debut of Zack Wilson. Yes, I'm not gonna start Zach Wilson in his first game back. Oh

no way. The Steelers are allowing two d seventy yards per game through the air, which is that's the ninth most in the league, but they've intercepted as many balls as they have allowed to go for a touchdown this year. And the Jets are missing their top three tackles, so they have sixth rounder Connor McDermott and fourth round rookie Max Mitchell guarding the outside for Wilson. That doesn't feel great. In his first game back with no tackles. I'm not

feeling very confident in Zach Wilson. I will get his His brother, Garrett Wilson is starting grade, but just to see, I'm leaving Elijah Moore and Corey Davis on the bench. Haven't yet seen a Wilson Wilson game, but Garrett is averaging ten Joe Flacco targets per game. The problem is Cameron Sutton has been a very good corner so far this year, and he figures to see Garrett Wilson the most. He's only allowing fifty eight yards per game in his coverage.

And I'm gonna leave Tyler Conklin on the bench as well. I don't know if he's Flacco's woobee or if yeah, that's a that's a Scott Fish. Yes, yes, his safety blanket. It's safety. So we could see c j Uzoma like fill that role. Who knows, We don't know if it's Tyler Conklin. There By the way, on on Elijah Moore. He tweeted out on Friday, tough times don't last. Trust me. He starting him himself and his own fantasy. I hate that sound effect. Hate this you guys keep bringing it up.

I mean going to give it some grease? Please do? I don't uh it would it be like this man just bucket of lou But the running back tandem of Breece Hall and Michael Carter both get C grades here. They'll probably want to keep the hits off Zack in his first game back. Plus, the Steelers have uncharacteristically allowed hundred and sixty four combo yards per game to opposing backs.

That's third most in the league, and they're currently seeing about thirty four touches per game the Steelers defenses by opposing runners. So even if they split this evenly like they usually do, we're probably looking at a minimum of fifteen touches for both players in this game and then somewhere in the neighborhood of seventy eight yards. So they're both C plus grades. I would say, why that is accept That felt so good? Oh man? That really changed nothing.

There's nobody that was not gonna that didn't want to. There's nobody was like, yeah, c plus, then I'll put him in his in my line. If it's not, it is better than a seed. You know what changes nothing honestly, and I hate to be this guy and I know where you know we're into the show now. But as you say, see plus, I'm starting to lean the charge his side, like I change is nothing. I don't. I don't know that it adds anything. Thank you. This is

the greatest movement show. I love you, scotten never. I never thought I'd do that way until I heard it come out right. It just if you, if you liked him enough to start him as a scene. It felt so good before and now it's now it feels all bad. You know what else feels bad? Naji Harris this year, uh, he only gets a B grade here. He's just been an average back so far. But a snap count reached in week three that's the highest it's been all year.

Also had eighteen touches in each of the last two games. And it's a very average Jets defense. Their middle of the pack on everything. So just a solid bee for Harris. Deante Johnson gets a C grade, so does Chase Claypool. But I'm leaving George Pickens on the bench. Johnson has seen double digit targets in every game but done almost nothing with it, and faces rookie Sauce Gardner this week,

who's been pretty impressive so far. The best matchup for the wide receivers goes to Claypool, who comes out of the slot and sees the other Michael Carter, who's allowing a passer rating of one fifty one in his coverage. And Pickens made that highlight catch last Thursday, But that's more because Mitch Truebiskie is a bad ball thrower. He's a sad trump. By the way, Mitch is on the bench. Mitch is on the bench. Um Pat Friarmouth gets a

C grade though Firemouth averaging seven targets per game. That's sixth most in the league amongst tight ends, and the Jets haven't allowed of tight end score yet, but we're one of the worst units against the position. Command is taking on the Cowboys. I've got a bunch of CE grades on commanders you probably do not want to start. Are there any that are slightly better? They're all exactly season, So when you do your your rankings at Guillotine leagues dot com, you rank all these guys as a tie.

I don't know. Okay. Uh. Let's begin with the running game and Antonio Gibson, who has basically given up all the passing game work to J. D. Mckissic. And what's more, he's been ineffective at the goal line. In seven attempts from inside the ten yard line, he has scored two times and total negative to rushing yards. That's terrible. So he's only helping you and whatever he gets on the ground until he gets the goal line, and that's not

a lot. The only touchdown Dallas is allowed to running back this season was a spectacular dash by se Kwon Barkley last week. So just the C grade on Gibson I can't give you J D. McKissick either. Get this over. Dallas has past fifteen games, they've given up one running back receiving touchdown, and nobody has topped already five receiving yards and the average is under twenty yards. So nothing for J. D. Mckissi, who's on the bench. And let's go to the passing game, where I've got C grades

on everybody who matters. We begin with Terry McLaurin. McLaren that's our guy. If Carson went and it's a big if has enough time in the pocket to set up McLaurin. And I like his downfield matchups because Dallas's three corners are all allowing at least a two thirds of their passes to be completed and at least a hundred and

seven passer rating. I just worry about Carson Wentz staying upright in this game because the Dallas defenses look terrific, completely shutting down Tom Brady, Joe Burrow and Daniel Jones. And if they're doing with their pass rush, and we're talking about the same Carson Wentz. We got sacked nine times, nine times last week. So I've got a C grade

at Carson Wentz. I would like him better, and he did eviscerate the Jaguars and the Lions, and that Jaguars win is not looking better in bread room spect uh. John Dotson consider him a boom or bust option. I love the three touchdowns in three games, don't And I like the matchup against those Cowboys corners, But again, we

gotta keep Carson Wentz upright for this game. Curtis Samuel has been a great story so far at least seven receptions and forty yards in each game this season, and the Dallas defense can generate a ton of pressure which could be dump offs to Samuel. But the catches all stuff is so short. He's catching the ball in the line of scrimmage all the time and then trying to, you know, make up five yards on the catch. It's very deebo Samuel light. I was gonna say, this is

very much what chritis Samuel's done is the career. Yeah, so you know, you know, if you're happy with like five six catches for fifty ish yards, then he's your guy, and there's your there's ten PPR points all of those guys see grades. Let's go over to Dallas, where we've got a handful of starters for you, including a a C grade and both Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott. Elliott continues to dominate the red zone usage, which keeps them viable,

but Pollard far more efficient with his carries. Commanders allow five even a half yards per carry, although they're only giving up one rushing touchdown so far, but that figures to change here. Washington more susceptible through the air. They've given up two receiving touchdowns are running back through the air. That would be more Pollard's territory. Get that Zeke has got negative receiving yards on the season. It's changed a

lot for him. You know when he was a young star runner twenty what it was at sixteen when he entered the league. Dude caught a lot of passes, a lot. That sounds right Pollard, I think is my profride to pick one. I take Pollard overall, but they both get see grades for the opportunity here. Uh Cooper Rush turns out couple rushes in half bad. He looks like he uasi belongs in the NFL. And his two starts, he's completing sixtent of his passes. He's got a touchdown in

each game. And it's not all Lincoln Dunk underneath stuff. He's got a bigger a dot then Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Justin Herbert. So he's slinging at downfield. Something's the new Yolo quarterback. He might be with Winston out. He's the first undrafted quarterback to start his career three and no since Kurt Warner. So that's the path super Bowl. Clearly, I think it's gonna be the same thing Um and

I were talking about data A dot. The Commanders are yielding the deepest A dot ten yards per pass, so some downfield stuff could become unlocked in over the course of this game. We're gonna talk a little bit more about Noah Brown later in the show. Who I do like Seedee Lamb. Commanders have allowed the seventh most receptions, the third most yards, the fourth most passing touchdowns, and

they've allowed the highest average depth of target. As I mentioned before, Outside cornerback Kendall Fullers allowed the second most yards this far, and William Jackson is questionable to play opposite him. So I like the matchups for Seedie Lamb and he comes in with a B grade in this one. Dalton Schultz is still is shaping up as a game time decision. I prefer you don't start him, and he still hasn't taken a full practice yet, so we're gonna

keep Dalton Sheltz on the bench until is healthy. All right, when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. We will tell you who they are when we come back. Fantasy Football Weekly. It's take a chance on me nine players not normally in your starting lineup. These are all guys that you can find, in many cases on the waiver wire or maybe sitting on your bench that deserves start. This week, we begin at the quarterback position in Scott Fish. Who

you got? Yes, I am going with. Geno Smith gets a match up against the Lions, the third words d against fantasy quarterbacks. After looking pretty legitimate self one of this season, Gino Smith has coming off his best game of the bunch against a similarly lowly ranked defense last week, where he dropped two five yards and two scores. Add to that, the Lions haven't had trouble scoring at will. Who thought we'd be saying that about the Lions. Uh?

And the Seahawks are four point dogs, four and a half point dogs in the second highest Vegas toll for the week, so they'll probably be throwing to stay in line. All right, Matt, you'll take a chance at the quarterback. I've got Andy the Redcoat Dalton Jamis Winston looking doubt in London. He's the red coat. Get it, Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Winston looking doubtful for Sunday mornings game in London, So you gotta get him out of your lineups.

For sure, you could throw in Andy Dalton, who faces of Vikings defense that is allowing two passing yards per game, plus Vikings pass rushers. That Darius Smith has been banged up a little bit this week in practice, and the Vikings pass rush has been ineffective at best, with only seven in sacks and four quarterback hits on a hundred and twenty two drop backs so far this season. That's not good. That's not good, and he's gonna have a

lot of time. I've got Cleveland quarterback Jacoby Brissette, who has played extremely well and back to back games now presents never gonna be a guy who just like breaks open a box score, but you can get good numbers out of him, and especially against the Falcons, They've allowed the fourth most passing yards and the third most passing touchdowns, and that despite the fact they faced Gino Smith and Jamis Winston, who have been able to put up good

box scores against them. If Geno and Winston can walk away from Atlanta with decent fantasy games, so can jacobys And as you'll hear later, Marii, Cooper, David and Joco plus matchups in this game plus matchups, it's a T. Scott. Who's your taking chance to be running back? I'm going over to that same Seattle Detroit game with Craig Reynolds. I know the big pick up this week was Jamal Williams, but if available, he was league for some reason. I

don't understand why. I had a couple of big Craig Reynolds, that is, had a couple of big days last year when thrust into action, really productive, had to nine yard day, hundred and seventeen yard day, and he was productive in the others the Lions. The Lions seem to want to use two backs, and so he should get some work. Lions number two back going back to last year, routinely saw ten plus touches. Swift is out until probably after the week six by so he should be playable here

against the sixth worst team against fantasy running backs. Give me ten plus touches at that five one point five point one yard's precared the Seahawks are allowing. What would that be? It's right around fifty probably probably fifty one. Yeah, yeah, I gotta gotta hope for more. Yeah yeah. Alright, Matt, who's your takeing chance with me running one. Are your

favorites charged Sony Walkmand Michelle. He might look a little bit more like a discman this week one with the thirty second anti skip protection because Houston's run defense is bad, so bad that Sony might be able to take thirty seconds and actually skip into the end zone five point four yards per carry. They're allowing a league high on fifty nine rushing yards allowed per game to the running

back position and Austin Necklace. Snap count went from forty seven in Week two to thirty four in Week three, and Sony Michelle's went up from nine to fourteen. Now that he's been on the offense for about a month, I think that they're trusting him a little bit more. And the Chargers have ran the ball one time from inside the five yard line this year. It went to Sony Michelle Gross I'm going with Philadelphia running back Kenneth gain Well. Now, every year there's a team that struggles

to contain opposing runners through the air. This year it's shaping up to be Jacksonville. As good as good of a season as that defense is having. This seems to be the problem. The thing they're struggling with. They've allowed the second most running back receptions and the most running back receiving yards sixty seven per game game. They've also given up a seven catch game to running back in an eight catch game to a running back. Kenneth Gainwell

is averaging eleven routes per game. That's enough to give him three four five receptions on those eleven routes, and that could be forty fifty receiving yards. Throw in a couple of extra rushes. Maybe I'll give us a touchdown and Kenneth Gainwell serviceable play this week, Scott Fish, let's go to your take a chance on me receiver just to add on your Gainwell Boston. Scott is out for this one. No, No, not especially like it. Not gonna

do that. Might take a chance on wide receiver. No, we have people who call in to do that for us. I am staying in that same game with a different Reynolds, not Craig Reynolds this time. Josh Reynolds. I actually gave him a secret. He's more utilized last week lead the team in snaps and chart has been limited in practice all week. Uh. Josh Reynolds had thirty eight to scoring

we to six for nine six last week. Dan Campbell wants to get him more involved, calls calls him the praying mantis spider of death, which is that's that's badass right there. I'm on Ross st Brown out for this one, DeAndre Swift out for this one. And the top wide receiver going against the Seahawks the last three weeks hundred two yards, sixty three yards, fifty four yards in far lower passing volume than the lines put up. I think there's a good weekend store here for Josh Reynolds, who's

probably on your waiver everywhere. Al Right, so you've gone back to back Reynolds. Yes, I think that's a wrap. I wrapped it, wrapped it up with man. I couldn't find the Reynolds at quarterback to start. I tried. I'm so sorry that you did that. All my favorite Reynolds are in Philadelphia. Some of you know what I'm talking about right now. Okay, Matt, who is your taking a

chance to be running back? I'm gonna go, well, I'm gonna go with a tight end for my receiver here, and that's Robert tons of funny and Tonyan uh Tonyan getting healthier every week we've watched a snap count rise from thirty six to forty percent last week, while seeing declining rates from Marcedes Louis, Tyler Davis and Josiah Deguara. Safety's Adrian Phillips and Devon mccordy have each allowed a tight end touchdown in their coverage so far this season.

In fact, in just the last two weeks, three different tight ends have four touchdowns against the Patriots. So Tonya and a guy that you can pick up and throw in if you need a tight end this week. No, I like it they've shown. I saw some footage of Tonyan looking downright, spry and practice this week healthier every He's good and they need targets my I alluded to my take a chance of me? Why receiver last segment Dallas wide receiver Noah Brown. I don't know why more

people aren't starting to Brown. His worst game all year is five catches for fifty four yards. That's his bad game. It's also, by the way, about his good game. But that's probably why I met earlier. Cooper Rush has turned out to be a functional starter. The Commanders have allowed the seventh most receptions, the third most yards, and the fourth most passing touchdowns, and the highest average depth of target. Maybe maybe gets a long pass in this Brown Gallup

is playing, but no Brown. I think no Brown and Cooper Rush have that practice chemistry. Yes, that that might be what it is. Look at look at Thursday night Teddy Bridgewater walks in and all he can find is Trent Shurfield. There's something to be said for that. Yeah, there is, absolutely there is. Okay, let's go to our next matchup, which is the Lions. You've already talked about three. Yes, yes, there anywhere Reynolds that we can start. I tried, man,

I just couldn't find any Always start Ryan Reynolds. The Seattle passing offense gets a great match up here against Lions D that's third worst against quarterbacks. That's why Geno Smith was my take a chance on me player. But they've also allowed six different wide receivers to top seventy five yards and or score so far just in three games. That's led to a bottom eight ranking. Uh that's where I give Tyler Lockett in a grade. I can't believe I'm doing that, but he has been Gino's safety valve.

He's crawled nine balls on eleven targets in back to back games. Yeah, that's a lot of catches. Nine catches. Uh. He hasn't scored yet, but that should probably come with that kind of volume. I will say, as far as scoring goes, dk Metcalf caught Gino's loan touchdown. He caught a couple of touchdowns in Gino's three games last year. Dk Metcalf has six red zone targets. All other Seattle

wide receivers have one. And I'm really excited to watch him versus Jeff Alcuda this weekend because when asked about facing off against Jeff Okudo, dk Metcalf said, yeah, he's playing well. He's getting a lot of help over the top. I saw that nice nice shot there. Uh so I have a B grade on dk Metcalf for his likelihood to get in the end zone. Um, as long as the tight ends continue to split they are and as

like they are, they will be on the bench. I'm gonna note this because Cleveland had this thing yet last year. See tight ends combined for nine for a hundred and five and a score. Last week they combined for eight and a hundred two and two scores in a week. One Like, if there's some injuries and it turns into one person. Keep an eye on that. They are using the tight end a lot um in the run game. Uh. I haven't, Oh man, I can't believe I have an A grade on rhot Penny. How is it possible? Oh no,

it's a B grade. It's a B grade. It's do I have I have a yet? I have a B grade on a shot Penny, who gets almost all the work against the Detroit Rundy that's allowed two rushing scores in each of its first three games to two and two. That's a lot of Russian Dutch stands. Uh. The yards are kind of middle of the pack though, twenty six touches per game hundred thirty five yard average. The B comes because Penny's role seems to be dwindling. They're not

giving him more than fourteen or fifty in touches. D J. Dallas took over all the passing down work last week, and Ken Walker he's looming. He's getting more snaps and touches. I mean, he's not getting much yet, but that's why the B grade comes in. On the other side of the ball, Jared Goff, I got a B grade on him. He's even with I'm on Ross Brown out. This offense seems to tick. I think they're just gonna move it

down the line. He's averaging about two fifty yards and over two scores per game against the Seattle d that's been mostly untested. They held Jimmy g and Mariotta's passing days down. But against Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson had three forty yards and a score. And I compare Russell Wilson and Jared Goff pretty close, at least the courage version of Russell Wilson to this current version of Jared Goff. I think that's actually fair. The concerns here are you

know swift is swift is missing this one. I'm on razow. T J. Hawkinson's coming in GAMEP so I can't give him an A, but he's going to get a B in the t J. Hockenson uh C grade. Here the the Seattle Seahawks are allowing about five catches for eighty yards per game to tight ends and Hockinson is going to get all the work instead of that being split up. And I'm an ros out, so I have a I have I had a Sea grade. Maybe I should give him a B. What do you think charge if he

has something in between there. No, okay, let's go with the toy, but not grade. In the run game, Jamal Williams is getting a B grade. Seattle has been destroyed by running backs this year, especially if you count debos fifty yards fifty four yards rushing the lead back against the Seahawks hunter eight yards, hunting three yards hundred fifty three yards. That's Williams role, and he gets the goal line work. But the secondary back is averaging sixty seven

yards and himself. And that's why Craig Reynolds was might take a chance on me, Blair, Uh, Jamal Williams, like I said, B grade? If I didn't I think I said, I think he did, yeah, um, and he was a very solid start. Greig Reynolds might be the starter, by the way, he might just take swift role. I almost that, I almost put that in might take a chance. I mean there is a non zero chance that Craig Williams is the starter, and they just keep Jamal Williams doing

what he's been doing because it's it's working. My my only caveat against that is last year Jamal Williams started and and Craig Williams only started the games that Jamal Williams didn't play. That's my only caveat. When we come back. Checking in from jolly old England. It's our London correspondent, Colin mccockney. Do you have us everything you need to know about Vikings versus Saints at Tottenham Hotspur. I don't know how to I don't know how to say it

whatever that means. Those are two words that do not mean anything to me if it's just all gibberish. So I don't even know what to come foods, but charge we will. We'll find out what's going to happen. From Colin mccockney when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Churchy and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you, Oh man, I'm so excited. I know you man, it's very exciting. As a reminder of exciting,

you can still join a guillotine league, Matt. You're in a few guillotine leagues. I got chopped in weeks two in one and then my Scott Fish Bowls super Chop still alive and well picked up four guys in my fab run this week. That's all right, I'd love to hear those kinds of stories. Thank you for chiming in, Matt. We are now are ready to go to Vikings taking on the Saints. And Colin mccogney are resident, are residents specialist for all things London related. Yeah he's in Britain

this time, right, Yes, he's live in the UK. Yeah, we're calling him right now, Colin, Colin mccockney to get him on the show. It's um, of course, it takes uh, it takes a little while. Yeah, Dailian. Internationally, you gotta you gotta to act type in like forty seven numbers. I feel. I think that's exactly right. You always get the weird ringing sounds when you're you know, working in Europe or whatever. So you try to get Colin here, Colin,

I think we do. We have Colin, Colin mcco Colin, good to talk to you in London, Colin, Man, it's so awesome. And then Darien Tomes of French. Oh, I don't know what that means. It's not but I know the Vikings are taking on the Saints at Totton Spurs something something Tadertot Spurs, Wake out dustin Living Pullucky Lions, play a little Collin boy, give you a lap of vice boys. Yeah you me? Then put no box the toys for you? You hear me, I do, I do.

I'll translate for you. Try that mean uh. He's just about to start and he wants me to translate. And I said, okay, okay, alright, alright, I wasn't sure if that was there was a player in there. Okay, no, no, So Colin, what do you think about the Vikings and what do you think the Vikings might do? Here? Hurts me? Uncle? Kids goes up into apples and fats. You're seeing a face in a grazy cee that goes borrow and bag bottle and stop up. Well, basically you just said Kirk

Cousins is getting a C grade. He's facing the Saints defense that's top three in completions yards and touchdowns allowed through the air. That's what he said. Okay, yeah, daddy boy Jefferson gets up pipple and block fell mostly boat right, batty roby stop and oil rag from Jemmy Dodger Williams and Nightcap Williams has allowed a chopping only to tap you might weep and whale with your rats and Mike can you say, chuffing on the air. Is that is that?

Does that something we can say? Is that an FCC violation? Chuf That's not what he said, but he said. Don't understand what he said. No, it's I I do it, I do It's all that Scottish Scottish. Basically, you just said, justin Jefferson gets a B, he'll mostly face Bradley Roby, but make it bracketed by p J. Williams. That he had an interesting name for p J. Williams. But that's

that's what he said. Yeah, Roby's allowing twelve yards per receptions and reception and Williams is allowing only two passing scores given up by the Saints this year in his coverage. Um, he also may be the squeaky wheel. I think he said squeaky wheeling. There. There might have been a squeaky whale, but yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I heard he said. He said with the rats and mice. So I think that's BA and came on the chop in bench right,

including Addie Feeling right, Ozzy Osborne right, and JR. It's not enough myths for Turkies, flirty all around, number two pig and roasts getting three and tea times gets the French Scott. Yeah, yeah, you understood all that, right. I think if I think we're supposed to bench Adam feeling kJ Osborne, that's exactly what he said. He said, bench dealing, bench Osborne, bench I Smith. Not enough passing stats to go around number two receivers averaging like three catches for

thirty yards against the Saints. Uh tight ends averaging three catches for twenty one yards as a position group. That's that's really all I said, just benjam All, I got it, got it. He feels like he could have shortened that. I think Dalvin Cook is that we haven't touched on Dalvin Cook yet, have we? Ruby Murray tell me all mom got playing hurt birthday on Friday, picked as a fisherman's daughter, or Maddie gets in and out give and take an America round. Okay, So he said Dalvin wasn't

listed on the injury report Thursday or Friday. But you think there's a good chance that Madison might get some more work for this game. I can't believe he thinks that. I kind of agree with you agree with I think Madison gets a little bit more work and interesting. All right, Well, yeah, I suppose he's got the shoulder. The Saints have seen a high amount of touches go to the running back position in each game, averaging over thirty per contest, so

I guess maybe he's right. Um, they've allowed the ninth most streshing yards on the season to running backs at a hundred nine per game. So Colin gave Dalvin Cook and Alexander Madison both secrets both. I don't know Colin on this one. I think I think Colin has been tilting, tilting the gales, if you know what I mean. Yes, Andy Dalton, that's what he calls his take off. Okay,

got it, got it, Colin? Yes, last time Alvin down and six on the floor the school, the shopping cuts and scratches have been bottom ten copper flower pot, Alvin gets a collar and top. Okay, that time he definitely did say chuffing. It's it's we're doing a lot of chuffing. Yeah, yeah, he said. Last time Alvin faced the Vikings, he had a hundred fifty five yards and six touchdowns, and he predicts exactly the same amount for Alvin Kamar this. I

think that's what he said, I know. He said that Kamara was limited in practice in averaging seventeen opportunities per game, and the Vikings have a bottom run bottom ten run defense. He gave Alvin an a but I'm pretty sure you also guaranteed hundred fifty yards. That sounds like something, Colin. Alright, Colin,

what do you think about the passing game? Mikey Tom Pony and jobs on a raspberry, Jarvis has been on the knocko Ryot Tinkle and trek Uan will spot a sugar basin Roy he gets starkey with Dandy land Patty pat stays on the bloom and left and Dancy Camera stays on the bleeding right. So the Bloody French will have a chuff and daisies for Plasta, Bristol City and a chuck farm. Wow. Wow, So he's just said, you know, Michael Thomas has ruled out with Jarvis. Landry has been

limited with an inkle injury. Yeah, so Crystal Lava and Trey con Smith will see a lot of work. He said, This is man, this is a lot. He said. If Landry goes, he gets to see you with a favorite matchup against the Vikings Slot Corner Tin and Sullivan, Patrick Peterson stays on the left side and Cameron Danzler stays on the right, So the scenes will have opportunity to move a Lava and Smith to whatever side they like to get the coverage they want. Gets the B grade

from Colin and Smith. Trae Kwon Smith surprise grade Colin with some uncanny insight. Maybe Colin says he's on the ground in London. Maybe he spied, spied on their practices and saw something could be He noted that the vikings of a lot of the third most passing yards in league this year. Maybe that's part of it. Yeah, and a gypsy kids calling out, calling out, calling out? What were we talking about? Colin? Like, he wasn't on the phone with us just now, and we're talking about in

the third person. He was right there, asked Colin a lot of these questions myself. What I think I like basketball? Colin, you needed me to translate, because if you ask me, I can give you the answer. If Colin would just repeat, they can never understand what he says. No, it's very hard to understand what Colin says. But what I like best about him is no pluses or minuses. That's the best thing about Colinies is straight Well, I'm not sure at all. I think that's probably just a metric system

type of thing. Browns take on the Falcons, and uh, let's start with the Cleveland side. Nick Chubb is an obvious Amari Cooper has backed back one hundred yard games, something that never happened in Dallas, never had a back to back one hundred yard game, but he's done it. Here turns out Cooper needed Jacoby Brissette as his trigger man. Atlanta secondary is atrocious against receivers, giving up the third most receptions, fifth most yards, and being gassed for a

league high six touchdowns of the position. So Marie Coopers gets an A grade here. Already told you Jacoby Brissette was might take a chance on me quarterback. I've got a B grade on him and a B great on David and Joco. Falcons have been destroyed by tenant tight ends so far, giving up seventy four yards per game to the position, fifth most in the league, and jok Wu leads the team in red zone targets while the

fourth most among all tight ends. So this seems like a very good spot for in Joku to keep the momentum going. And if you need potentially a dart throw, how about I just got stabbed. That's not a snap. That is clear. I got hit by a spear dart again. You hit me again. I mentioned the Falcons secondary non number one wide receivers have had a good fantasy game in every matchup against Atlanta and Jarvis Landry, Allen Robinson, Tyler Lockett, Donovan People Jones dart throw opportunity here and

then the only other Brown player I'll mention Kareem Hunt. Troublingly, he's seen his snapshare decrease in every week. You can't even count on the handful of receptions he was getting. He's averaging just three catches for eighteen yards. That's not much. And Atlanta has been great against receiving running backs anyway. Chubb doesn't all the goal line work, but he gets more of it than Hunt does. So I've just got

the C grade on Kareem Hunt here. I believe Kareem Hunt has faced the most eight man fronts in the league. That seems improbable according to Next Gen stats. Wow, Okay, I don't know why I would, but okay, they're stopping him. Maybe it's working. Maybe that's it. On the Atlanta side, Cordell Patterson has been great, but he popped up on

the injury report. He has expected to go for this one. Uh. The only time Cordell Patterson has been held below one rushing yards was Week two when he faced ProFootball focus is best run defense. In the other two games, he's averaging almost seven yards per carry. I'm thirty nine carries in those two games. I'm just gonna add to the Patterson thing. Yeah, he's got a slight anything, but the team confirmed it was mostly just rest good. I'm glad to hear that. And as Tyler l Ger starting himself,

he is not. Cleveland hasn't given up more than sixty two rushing yards to any runners, so this is not a smash spot and a B grade on Cordarrel Patterson. UM, let's go to the receivers in this one. Beginning with Kyle Pitts. Cleveland is allowed over forty yards to a

tight end in every game. Pits will see coverage from linebacker Jeremiah Owusu Coromoa, who has struggled, giving up an eighty three percent catch rate and two touchdowns when targeted, or their safety Grant Delta, who also covers tight ends and he's yielding a catch rate in his coverage, So a B grade on Kyle Pitts, who saw the big ups up tick in Houston's last week. Drake London B grade.

Browns allowing the sixth most air yards and second highest average depth of targets, so some downfield opportunities for Drake London. They're also allowing a hundred seven yards after the catch per game, and London flash some playmaking ability last week. I like him in this one for a B grade. And then Marcus Mariota. If I like Pitts in London in a very grade, I gotta like Mariota again. It was gonna take a chance, I mean quarterback. Last week.

Mariota's performed like a starting fantasy quarterback. Is He's best quarterback twelve and most scoring systems. This despite Atlanta throwing the second fewest passes, just twenty six per game, so he's been efficient. He's running the ball some. Um it's a good opportunity for him. So we'll continue starting Marcus Mariota even though it doesn't feel like you know, I love that they throw this second fierce passes at twenty seven per game. The Bears have completed exactly twenty seven

passes this season. The Jets are twenty seven per half A are are good? Are good? Friend Andy Barns looked it up. He looked up the Bear stats in nineteen seventy seven, and this isn't even a nineteen seventies seven offense. This is like prehistory. Mike Zimmer and Bill Belichick are just like drooling over this Bears offense right now. Just runs all my player rankings available for free at Guillotine

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J K. Dobbins Baltimore running back j K. Dobbins will finish as a top ten runner eleven through twenty runner or worse twenty one plus. I see you're using plus again twenty one or more? Does that make you feel better? All right, Scott, let's begin with you. Yeah. So my initial thought process here was top ten, Um, I think he's got that potential. They run a ton, etcetera. And then I started looking they don't run as much as they did last year. Lamar's passing has improved quite a

bit and they're able to do it that way. Uh, it really depends on other injuries to other players as well. Baltimore runners have also been pretty dang ineffective this year, including j K. Dobbins. Their line is not getting good run blocking for them. So I went with eleven to twenty simply because I think his volume bumps up to that fourteen to eighteen touch range, including a full a few catches. But they're gonna still split that backfield and they're not running as much or as efficient as in

previous years. All Right, Matt Well j K. Dobbins from this point forward finishes a top ten runner, and eleven through twenty one or or worse. I think Scott hit on a lot of my points that he's probably gonna be split in time with Justice Hill or Kenyan Drake or Gus Edwards when everyone's healthy and Mike Davis is still there. Right now, the Ravens are the worst running back group in the league, and it leads me to believe that there's just a chance that Dobbins could take

over the backfield and put up some decent points. But I just think there's too many things working against him with the injury, so I'll stay he stays outside the twenties at one plus You, Tony, You're over over and I'm not feeling good about it. Yeah, because of the monumental challenge of getting by Mike Davis and Justice Hill and Kenyan Drake. Yes, that's what That's how I feel. Yeah, j K. Dobbins will finish as a top ten runner, and in part because name me the other top ten runners,

Lamar Jackson will finish as a top ten runner. He that's their top runner. I think right now the top ten running back situation is wide open. Nobody who wants it. James Robinson for Darrell Patterson, Jamal Williams, Khalil Herbert, fly to Edwards Hilaire the top right, What how much sticking power does Clyde Edwards Laire have as a top ten running back almost none. He's stuck on that team despite not doing much for years. You're right that the Ravens

are passing more this year and running less. It's because they've had to. When Dobbins gets rolling, they're going to go back to who they are and who Greg Roman is and that is a run first team. Tough question Number two. Should we sabotage drop Alan Robinson? Matt No, because he's still above in snap counts every game this year. And yeah, his targets have only been five and five in the last two weeks, but fundamentally this offense likes

to pass the ball. Robinson scored a touchdown in Week two and I can't cut a guy on a good offense with a snap share Scott. Should we sabotage drop Allen Robinson? Arguably my biggest miss of the year, my anti peacock. What do we call that a mongoose or something that we've got? No, we do have the mongoose. This is the eating froll sound right, And as a double up, I was that's just bad um. I will

know what he did score touchdown. He actually had another touchdown that got called back on a penody that didn't matter another that he was just missed, like he could be staying on three touchdowns. And maybe we're looking at this a little differently right now. Um Matt mentioned he's he's playing almost the entire game in a in a really good passing offense. He's running routes on almost every single play. My initial thought was yes on this, but when I weighed all that, and I'm like, he's not

quite droppable level. Like he's bench level, but he's probably not quite droppable level. Sabotage drop level. The stats for Allen Robinson hard damning, and the eye test is even worse. He's a He's averaging two catches for twenty seven yards, that's all. And when you look at him, and I hate to the project into the mind of a player, but what he from the outside. He looks slow and disinterested. You do not see obvious signs of interest, passion, excitement, effort, determination.

I don't see any of that stuff in Allen Robinson. I don't need those guys on my team. I can find a guy to get I find a lot of guys can be two catches for twenty seven yards. I can tell you that much. I am dropping. I'm the whole point of the sabotage. Drop is the sucker guys like you and using waiver wire equity on him. I hope he scores. He scores an easy touchdown this Sunday. You drop him on Monday or Tuesday, make somebody use something. I hope he has a great game this week and

then drop him. Yeah, I like the idea of it. To question number three, James Robinson Jacksonville running back James Robinson currently the third highest scoring running back. Will he finish the year inside the top ten? We begin with Scott Fish. So in order to do that, he needs a couple of things to happen. He needs this Jags offense to be what it was the last two week. And if this is the real Trevor Lawrence and the

real Jags offense, he needs that. He needs Travis c e ten to not continue to progress forward and step up. He needs c ten to continue being bad. Um. We've already kind of mentioned who's in the top ten right now? Like can he stay? Can he stay with the people there in the top ten right now? Another thing I looked at is in the net for the rest of

the season. He has nine games against bottom twelve run defenses, including games against the worst, second worst, third worst, fourth worst, and fifth worst teams as their current run defenses anyway, um, He's currently RB three with twenty and twenty five touches in the last two weeks. If he can stay in the fifteen to twenty one twenty touch range, I think

he can finish the year inside the top ten. I didn't think I would come away from this at the start, but I think he can, all right, So that's a yes. It's a yes, Matt Jacksonville running back James Robinson, currently the third highest scoring running back. Will he finish the year inside the top ten? No meaningful player has ever come back to relevance after an achilles injury until now.

According to Next Gen Stats, James Robinson average time behind the line of scrimmage is two point eight three seconds. The best in the league is two point five seconds, so three tenths of a second. He's top twenty in that category. He's ahead of Jonathan Taylor, Derrick Henry, Dalvin Cook, Austin Ekeler, Alvin Kamara. Do I want a lot of time behind the line of scrimmager? Very little time, little little little. He's gettingetting out forward, getting out of the

back moving forward quickly. Yes, first he's getting out of the backfield. The line is opening holes and he's hitting them. He's also scoring touchdowns, which he did in each game so far this year, which he did last year, and that's what he did the year before. That's the trend. He's gonna finish top ten because he scores touchdowns. You know, we in the preseason we frequently said he's achilles injuries. Nobody ever comes back. We hoped, you know, we were like,

we hope here wrong. I hope at some point it's going to change. Most of that was talking about Cam Akers, not James Robinson. I test, Yeah, it looks great, and the Jacksonville offense is clearly better. Doug Peterson's in the in the running for the Coach of the year to this point, and the fifth winning is Jaguars coach of all time already three games. I'm gonna say so the little hot take you. I think he looks almost a little bit more explosive than he did before for some reason,

maybe just all that training to get it back. The correct answer is yes, James Robinson top ten running back right now. And what that really means. If you think, for example, Christian McCaffrey is not going to be in the top ten, imagine the deals you can swing right now with James Robinson get a top ten wide receiver and James Robinson CMC right now. It could be exactly my point. Broncos are taking on the Ravens. Scott. Let's

start on the Broncos side. Russell Wilson has been a massive disappointment for its fantasy owners, as discussed on this show last week. I mean, like, is it a disappointment? He average two hundred three yards weeks four through seventeen last year. He's averaging two seven yards this year. He's actually looking better than he did last year. Um no, uh. Still on the Bronco side, I'm actually giving Russell Wilson a B, which might be the highest grade I give

him all year. So that probably says something about how like how much I like him in this one. Every QB to face the Raiders this year has had between two hundred and sixty and two yards right in that zode and and two to three touchdowns each. Granted two of those were Russian touchdowns, and that's not Russ's game anymore,

but it's still a great matchup. Who showed in week one with that Thur enter plus in the score game that he's still capable of it in the right matchup, and I think this is that right matchup B grade for Russell Wilson. As for his receiving options, the only starting grade I gave is Courtland Sutton, the top wide receiver against the Raiders last three weeks. Sixty six yards, sixty eight yards, eighty five yards. That's actually not that stout,

but the volume wasn't there for those guys. Sutton is getting double digit targets every week, well at least the last two. Anyway, Judy figures to siphon off some of them, but it hasn't happened yet. Yeah, I'm getting there, but Juty another week back in Hammler as well, there will be a little more target competition. That's why Sutton is only getting the B instead of the A in in what should be a decent matchup. I have Judy. I

had him with a bench grade. I've moved him up to a C grade because as I thought about it, he still commanded six targets in his return last week, only playing fiftent of snaps and he missed a forty there's a forty five yard play to him that didn't connect, that connects. We look at his box score way different this week than we than we do. So I gave a C grade to Jerry Judy, who should factor in once again. Uh the tight ends splitting on the bench,

that just drop them. Uh the run game. I have a B grade on Javanti and a C grade on Melvin Gordon because of the split. They split eighteen touches to seventeen touches last week. We hoped for more of a Javante Lean. It didn't happen last week. This is the third easiest matchups for runners and the fifth best for receiving backs. But Gordon's getting receiving where two but he was due? Yes, that's what That's exactly what I'm going to Uh that Melvin Gordon has been limited in

practice with a neck injury. All expectation are he's gonna go and be fine, But neck injuries are tricky and if he doesn't go, it is wheels up a grade for Javonte Williams, I would like to think. But Mike Boone has been making an appearance and Mike Boone might just walk into that role. The interesting part about Boon is he's not playing very many snapps, but when he does, he actually touches the ball. That's very weird that he comes in for like ten steps and then gets like

seven touches or something. I made up those numbers, but that's pretty close to what it is. The Raiders allowing thirty one touches per game, you can expect probably a similar workload to last week. If Gordon does play on the Raiders side. Car is basically attempting about forty passes game high two yards, gets two scores per week. That's B level uh B level stats right there. And his opponents opponent this week, the Devon Broncos, hard to judge.

They played Geno Smith, Davis Mills, Jimmy g um Car will be their first test, So I'm gonna lean towards his B level averages and just give him a b um. Davante Adams is gonna get an A. The yards haven't been there, but he's scoring all three He's getting eleven targets per game. It is the toughest matchup, but again, who have they played? Um? Nobody's hit seventy five yards against the Broncos. I'm gonna give mack Helen's a C grade. With Hunter Renfro two weeks now, he's been out with

his concussion. I'm a little worried there. But mccollins is finding himself with a C grade here. Eighty of his yards last week came on winging a prayer type plays, but it says something that car trusted him in those and the volume has been there for two straight weeks for him, So C grade there. Davante Adams is the most double teamed receiver other than Cooper Cup and then so Mark macollins got these one on one matchups and cars like, fine, I'll sling it downfield exactly exactly. I'm going.

I'm giving Darren Waller a B. It's mostly his upside and talent because the Broncos have not really faced any tight ends yet, but they did sellar render two scores in those three games. Josh Jacobs is getting a C game in C grade. In the run game. For me, the Broncos are tops against fantasy running backs, but mostly because they just haven't allowed to touchdown. That's if you don't allow any touchdowns over three games, that's gonna happen.

They allowed a hundred and six total yards to Jeff Wilson, uh Rashad Penny and Damian Pierce had sixty to seventy yards. But I wouldn't count on a score. Derek Carr leads the NFL in attempts inside the five, inside the ten, inside the fifteen, and inside the twenty. Just really once they get inside the red zone, car passes all right, And and to make things worse, Josh Jacobs now make carries he has inside the five and three games two for negative one yards. They do not run the ball

anywhere near the goal. So don't count on a score this week either, Alright, C grade, C grade on Josh Jacobs. H a predictably disappointing season for Josh Jacobs to this point. He gets the volume, it's just not a lot of yards and not you know, midyards, and not much scoring. Man. Let's try to sneak in Chargers taking on the Texans. Here. Is this an Austin Ekeler rebound game? Um, yes, it

certainly is. I gave him in a grade here. Uh, I kind of went over the Texans run defense and might take a chance on the segment featuring Sony Walkman Michelle who also gets a C grade. Here uh stand on the Chargers side, Let's start with Keenan Allen, who's out again. So Mike Williams gets a solid B. Uh. He'll do most of his work against rookie Derek Stingley Jr. Of the fifteen players who have dropped in the coverage for the Texans this year, Stingy ranks the worst by

Pro Football Focus grade by a lot. He's allowing fourteen yards per reception. Josh Palmer gets a C as well. Uh. With Alan gone, Palmer flexes into the slot more will where he'll face a positive matchup against Desmond King. King basically had the last two weeks off against the Bears and the weird Broncos pass game, but in Week one he was torched for ninety one yards from the indie slot receivers. Jalen Guiton, by the way, placed on a R with are I r with an a c L injury.

By the way, Gerald Everett, He's an interesting player. I'm going to leave him on the bench this week. The Texans have only allowed eight catches to tight ends all season, plus we might see the return of Donald Parham this week, and I are like the only people who can that were big Donald Park that could reduce a few of Everett snaps in this one. I like enough of the receivers though, to give just an air Bear a B

grade here. Uh, there he is. He was definitely not his normal self last week against the Jags, but definitely uh still put up some decent numbers. Two nine seven yards on forty five dropbacks. Uh. The Texans have been good against the pass on paper, but again they played the Bears, and they played Russ Wilson, who hasn't been very good the week before. Over on the Houston side, it's pretty quick Damian Pierce, he gets a B grade.

The Chargers are allowing five point three yards per carry to opposing backs and the sixth most receiving yards per game. That means Rex Burkhead and his five targets per game might be a desperation ploy if you're in dire straits, but Pierce took over the backfield over the last two weeks with forty eight touches to Birkhead's nine. Davis Mills hasn't looked great this year, but he catches the Chargers

without Joey Bosa, So I'll throw him a C grade here. Uh, if you're into two sixty yards and two scores, that's probably what you'll see from Mills here. Is that's that's a good game. That's a C grade? Yeah? Or is it a maybe a C plus today? Enjoy it. Brian is going to be in. That's what the Chargers are given up on a per game basis. It means I have to like our receiver. It will be Brandon Cooks,

who gets a B almost ten targets per game. He's facing a Chargers defense that is bottom eight in receptions and touchdowns allowed to the wide receiver position. I can't go as far as Niko Collins, who's still not quite getting a full snap share. He's splitting it with Chris Moore right now, and it's just just not enough to get going all right. When we come back, plenty more matchups to get to, including the Bills taking on the Ravens.

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at explosive Output True. Bills take on the Ravens. The Ravens defense is awful against everything right now, so there's a lot of this is gonna be pretty short. Josh Allen and Stephan Diggs are obvious eight grades. If Gabe Davis were healthy, I would also just be saying he's an obvious A grade too, but we'll talk it through because he's not one. He is the NFL's leader in routes run per game. Gabe Davis fifty four routes per game. Unbelievable. Of course, it helps win. The Bills had ran I

think nine offensive plays last game. Baltimore surrendered the most receptions, the most yards, and the second most touchdowns to wide receivers. So Gabe Davis, if you want to roll the dice on him, not rolling his ankle. B grade on Gabe Davis. Isaiah Mackenzie comes in with a B grade. Baltimore slock cornerback is named Marion Williams. He's allowed the tenth most yards and two touchdowns already. He's also allowed the third

most yards after the catch from the slot. Mackenzie's got game breaking athleticism and if you are looking for a dart throw player now, Jamison Crowder also runs from the slot. He could be a modest fantasy helper with a C grade himself and rounding out the receiving options. For C grades,

we've got Dawson Knox. Baltimore is held opposing tight ends to less than forty five yards in every game, but they've already given up two touchdowns and Patrick Queen linebackers turned out to be a massive um liability and coverage. He's given up two hundred yards in his coverage so far. So Dawson Knox, who hasn't done much, gets a C grade in this game, and Devin Singletary it's time to

start him with confidence in this one. The Ravens have been hemorrhaging yards to running backs, allowing one hundred forty eight total yards per game that is the eighth most to running backs, and Singletary appears to retaken the Buffalo backfield. He saw seventy three percent of the snaps last week. Singletary was also render do so the passing game. Eleven targets, nine receptions, seventy eight receiving yards, all career highs for

Singletary last week. Again, these Ravens aren't great. I've got an optimistic B grade on Devin's Singletary for this game. Over to the Baltimore side, Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews are obvious A grades. Will give a B grade to Rashad Bateman. Normally I'm pretty cautious with Bateman and I would be in this matchup. But starting cornerback Dane Jackson is out. Rookie key year tight year Elam will make his second career start. That is a matchup Bateman should

be able to exploit and beyond Dane Jackson. Micah hides out for Davious White's out. Granted, Baltimore did a great job against Miami's weapons last week, but still, Lamar Jackson is just so hot right now. I want part of all of his receivers. I gotta be grade and Rashad Bateman here. Devin DuVernay is the number two receiver for the league's not his quarterback, so we're gonna start him as well. CE grade. And lastly, JK. Dobbins nine touches

in his first game back last week. It's not saying a lot, but he still lead the team in touches. This is a very tough matchup though. The Bills are only giving up fifty eight total yards per game to opposing running backs. That is fewest league wide and nearly thirty yards fewer than the second best team. So they are crushing and posing running backs. So I got J. K. Dobbins on the bench for one more week and then it's gonna be all gravy for Dobbins. After that, things

will get better, I promise. All right, let's go to our next matchup, and that is the Cardinals taking on the Panthers. Scott, what do you like about the Cardinals passing game and Kyler Murray in this matchup? If anything, if anything, I like it. I don't love this one for him. See see, I I like you probably more than you. I do have a C grade on it Kyler Murray simply because Kyler Murray's passing yards have been there,

his rushing yards have not. He's been under thirty a week, but I feel like it's gonna come back at some point. Maybe this is the week, maybe it's not. But the Panthers pasty was great last year, held downber setting Danny dimes this year, but he got torched by Jamis Winston last week. And I think Kyler is better than Jamis Winston. Um. He's closer to that level, if not above. My My issues is with the passing game. Though it's a j Brown is out, Marquis Brown is is coming in with

a foot injury. We got Rondel Moore supposedly making making his return, also injured. Greg Doorche also injured, all of them limited practices. I do have a B grade on Marquise Brown twenty eight targets in the last two weeks. That volume alone is probably a worthy but given the injury and the matchup, I knocked him down a peg to a b um. Uh. As far as Greg Doorche and uh Rondell Moore, Rondell Moore plays the position that

Greg Doorge has been feasting off of. If they if he comes back and they split that role in a tough matchup, I think they both have to be on the bench at this point. I have a C grade on Murray, bench grades on them B grade. I'm more maybe maybe I don't love the offense as much you're gonna say there. If anything, they're not startable. But I do like zach Ertz, I do like Curs. I had a B grade on him. I actually bumped it up to an A grade because of all the other injuries.

He commanded ten targets and eleven targets in his two full complement of snap games the last two weeks um and he turned that into fourteen catches. That's huge for a tight end. Six catches and eight catches and everybody else is injured. I got an A grade on Earth in this one. James Conner, who managed to play last week but despite being questionable, still took the full workload. But he and he's playing a Panthers D got destroyed by chubbin hunting week one, but they held the last

two backs to about eighty yards. Sadly, this kind of seems like Connor though he's had touches in the mid teens, like fifteen touches productive fifty seven yards, fifty five yards, fifty one twards. Maybe we're starting to see what James Connor is here. I'm giving him a C grade because he's gonna get the volume and it'll be fifty seventy eight yards on the other side of the ball with Christian McCaffrey not likely to miss. I actually I think he's out now. Maybe he's just still likely to miss

at this point and he's doubtful. I have no starting grades for the Carol line of Panthers. Not. I can't blame you. Not. Why what about the squeaky wheel d J. Moore? Yeah that lost this week. Yeah, Baker Mayfield is is thrown basically two hundred yards a game. I'm not trusting that offense. He can't get it into d J. Moore, He's not getting into anyone. And as far as the run game with Foreman and Hubbard, the answer is no, it's just no. They're they're going to share the load

against the Cards. D that hasn't allowed to runner over seventy yards. No, thanks, No, I don't blame you, Matt. Let's go to the Jaguars and the Eagles. Jaguars offense has been a lot better than people expected, as has the play of Trevor Lawrence. Yes, I'm only going to give Lawrence to see this week actually though. Tough matchup, yeah it is. Lawrence is averaging thirty seven pass attempts

per game. That's pretty good. The Eagles are seeing the second most pass attempts against them per game because they're staking giant leads. They have games yea, So the volume is probably going to be there for Lawrence this week. That's why he still gets a starting grade here. But the Eagles defense has just been solid. The best quarterback game they've seen against him this year was Jared Goffs two fifteen yards and two scores, and that was mostly

garbage time fourth quarter heroic. It was Christian Kirk, also just a C grade. Top targeted wide receivers against the Eagles have seen twelve, twelve and ten targets. They've only emerged with sixty four and forty eight yards, though, and that's because Avonte Maddox has been He's been awesome. He's the Eagle slot corner who will go against Kirk. I think is out for this one. That would be good news. I think I think he's dinged up, but it sounds

like he's gonna play. He's got a sore ankle, but they think he's going, Oh wow, all right, well that's all let's crump crumple this all up and throw it all away. Z Jones He's been limited this week with an ankle injury. He's expected to go. Maybe Christian Kirk's up to a B. But Za Jones and Marvin Jones are on the bench. James Robinson gets a B grade. Travis E t N is on the bench. But if there were D grades, I don't know. Can we get those this week? Too? You have? Let's we got the

we got the plus minus. Let's work on. I'm pressing. Travis d t n uh is a D grade. Uh. The Eagles have allowed four ground touchdowns to running back so far this year. That's all the James Robinson angle. But the angle for e. T N is that the way to beat the Eagles defense might be in the screen game. Four different running backs have cut three or more passes in the first three games. E t N is more involved there than Robinson, hence the imaginary D grade.

On the other side, Jalen Hurts gets an A. A. J. Brown gets an A. DeVonta Smith gets an A. The Jags are allowing one sixty three yards and almost two scores per game to the wide receiver position. Most of that damage was done by Washington in Week one, but backup level players Ashton Doolan, Josh Palmer, Jalen Guiton all had nice days against Jacksonville. Dallas got he's getting a

C grade. He's only seeing just over that's it. He's only seeing just over four targets per game on the young season, but does have at least three catches in every game, at least sixty yards or a touchdown in every game. But Jacksonville has been really good against the tight end. They haven't faced anything scarier than Gerald Everett yet, but still they've only allowed an average of three catches

for thirty eight yards to the position. I got it to me, it just is every week like averaging four targets. That's not enough to be sustainable at the tight end position. Charge I think it is for him in that uh Miles Sanders, I'm giving him a C grade. He's getting most of the work. It's almost all on the ground, averaging fifteen carries in seventy four yards by land. The Jags have been stout against runners, allowing only three point

six yards per carry this year. Sixth best so far, and they've faced good backs to Jonathan Taylor, Austin Ekeler, and Antonio Gibson, so this isn't a fluke that their defense is pretty good, but they are beatable through the air, which charge mentioned and and that's why Kenny Gainwell was just take a chance in the runner. Yes it was. Final matchup of this segment is the Chiefs taking on the Bucks. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey obvious eight grades.

The only other guy you want to start here is Juju smith Schuster, the only quasi reliable target for Patrick Mahomes outside of Travis Kelsey. Smith Schuster has commanded eight targets twice in the three games. He's coming off his best yardage output as a Chief, and Tampa Bay's defense very good, but he'll run against cornerback Jamal Dean fairly often. He's allowed to scores last week. So we'll try Juju

Smith Schuster with the sea grade. Nobody else gets a gets a startable grade, including Clyde Edwards Hilaire top ten fantasy running back on your bench this week. He's barely seeing eleven touches per game, thirty five among running backs and he's gonna need a fluke scoring play, which is not his bag. People should be picking up McKinnon in

particco they might want to. McKinnon has led the team in snaps running back snaps three straight weeks and make you guys already know Tampa Bay's run defense is awesome. I don't need to spend a lot of time on it. Allowing the second fewest total yards to opposing running backs, they haven't given up a touchdown. Brutal matchup for a guy who doesn't touch the ball enough. Clyde Edwards a layer on the bench. Let's go to the buck side.

Mike Evans comes back and he's fully healthy, which I love this week that week off that gives him what I hope is a d percent health. The Chiefs have been average against opposing receivers thus far, but they got torched for eight catches, hundred thirteen yards and one touchdown by the similarly big body Mike Williams two weeks ago. On the outside, cornerback Rashad Fenton has allowed at least forty yards and a one hundred passer rating in every

game this year. And then on the other side, Mike Evans is gonna go up against rookie cornerback Jalen Watson. They're both sizeable mismatches. A grade on Mike Evans, get him back in your lineups. And the other receivers Chris Godwin, Julio Jones, their game time decisions. I can't trust them until they've proven to come back healthy and stay the and productive they are on the bench. Tom Brady Clarkson with the C grade here, just the one receiving target

of Mike Evans. So and he's just got two touchdowns in three games. That's not good enough. A rebound possible here against this rebuilt Chief secondary. Chiefs have exactly one reliable cornerback, Lagarius Sneed, and even he's getting burned from time to time. So yeah, just the C grade on Tom on Tom Brady C grade on Leo. Four nette for net has been held under three yards per carrying back to back weeks, and the Chiefs have been stingy on the ground, giving up only three point four yards

per carry. That's the fourth lowest rate, and they've given up just the one rushing touchdown so far. And for whatever reason, they're not throwing a four nette this year, and they've also talked about just this week getting more involved. So I can I can only give Leo Fournett a C grade and hope that he gets to be more productive here running behind that that all banged up offensive line for Tampa Bay. But can't count on it. C grade Leonard Fournette. When we come back, we'll jump into

the my machine. Give you three players you pick up this week that everybody will be trying to pick up next week. It's premature speculation. In the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you. This is a segment we like to call premature speculation. We give you three players you should pick up this week that everybody else will be trying to pick up next week.

But ha ha, I'm already on your team. There's the mic again. Uh. We just talked about him. He was one of my sleepers during the off season shows, the preseason shows. Rashad White. The Bucks want to get him more involved. He's the only other running back for the Bucks who have even taken a snap this year. Um, he's a pass catching back. Hot forty three balls his final year of college the and Lee Leonard four Nette as you just mentioned, hasn't been super productive or effective.

I think if he plays Sunday night in the lights of Sunday night football, the national audience is going to see him. If they do get him more involved and he starts to be a ten touch guy, you're gonna want him on your roster. Get him, Matt who is your premature speculation player. This one might be a little out there, but Malik Willis. If the Titans fall to the Colts this week, they'll be one in three. The team with the that was the a f C Number one seed last year, we'll be down to one in three.

Ryan Tannehill's averaging only two fifteen yards, one touchdown, one pick per game. He's really turned into a caretaker quarterback on a team whose best weapon in Derrick Henry is aging before our eyes like the dude in Indiana Jones the last Crusade. No no, wait, was is the guy who had his face melted off? No? No, no, he was the guy who took took the drink from the wrong cup and he aged like a hundred years in

like ten seconds. Um. The offense is gonna need a spark soon or they will not be contenders in the a f C South. The Titans have a Week five matchup against the Commanders, which is favorable, and then a week six by So if you're gonna try out a rookie, maybe you throw him in the soft matchup in Washington and have have a week to play around over the bye week to tweak the offense, or you tweak the offense in the bye week. So I think Ryan Tannehill could be on a shorter leash than we think. It

might be one or two more games for him. You know, that's kind of brilliant. I like where you're going with that. And if you're gonna, if you're gonna roster a backup quarterback, I want him to be a rushing quarterback because in that same mold was a little interesting. I think that probably makes sense, alright. My my premature speculation player is Indianapolis wide receiver Alec Pierce. Is there any doubt that

rookie receivers can be productive early? When we see what Krystal Lava and Garrett Wilson and Drake London and Romeo Dubbs and John Dotson have done. And now he's back to full health. The Colts desperately need a second receiver to step forward, and it's clearly not Paris Campbell at this point. As much as it breaks my heart, Yeah, what want to fund stat on Alec Pierce. He leads the team in reds on targets and he's played thirty two snaps. Wow not last week on the season. Oh

that's not true. I just look. Oh yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that's right. I don't think so. I looked up a snack cowt before the show and I thought at like forty last week, So I don't know about that either way. No, yeah, all right, that's okay, Alec. But we agree out. This is what we agree on, Alec Pierce, go pick him up now we think we think he's gonna Oh yeah he did, Yeah he got he got some snaps there we go. Okay, But he does leave the team and reds on targets. That is good.

That's the important part. What do you think about? Just quick side note, what do you think about Johnny Woods is a pickup and dash? While we're talking about interesting? Interesting if he keeps that, if he keeps that role, Yeah, yeah, I'm interested in that though. All right, let's go. Let's go back to the matchups in our Flet's see I believe we left off on We're gonna go to Giant. Yeah, let's go to me for Bears Giants. But before that,

I'm going to give you a prespect bonus. We saw what happened with the Bears with Khalil Herbert and Jamal Williams, with the Lions and maybe McCaffrey with Hubbard and and Foreman. Now is the time to get those were shod whites, those Justice Hills, those Jalen Warrens, those McKinnon's pachecos, Tyler lgs. Go get him now, just get him now, because you never Yeah, get all those before bye week's head and injuries. Head. Uh, let's go to the Bears Giants. On the Bears side,

the whole passing game is on the bench. Not shockingly, they've completed just passing game anymore. Yeah, they've completed just twenty seven passes on the season. Not even a good matchup against the Giants stee allowing two nine yards and one point three touchdowns per game. The targets, receptions, and especially touchdowns aren't even concentrated they're going to like touchdowns to e q st Brown and Dr Pettis Like that doesn't help, It helps no one. I dropped Darnell Mooney

outright in an in an empire. I dropped Cole Comet in a couple of weeks. I wish I had listened to Matt in the preseason. I was dead wrong. That was dead right on that one. Uh, Khalil Herbert is getting in a grade. It's it's Herbie fully loaded or groundbar, whatever you want to call in last week he came in, had a better Fantasy day than David Montgomery did in his entire career to this point. It wasn't even a

full game Herbert. Last week the Cowboys duo destroyed the Giants to the tune of a hundred eighty yards and a score. In Week two, CMC had a hundred twenty eight yards. In Week one, Henry and Hilliard combined for a hundred and fifty one yards and two scores. It's a good spot for Hilliard this week. Not a Killiard, not not Donard. It's it's Khalil Herbert. I don't even know why I said Hillier. Uh for the Giants. Oh, I know why because I was talking about the Titans. Yeah. Yeah,

for the Giants. The only starting grade I have is the A for State Kwon Barkley, whose worst game is like eighty eight yards is lost. Touchcount is eighteen plus yards. Uh yeah, I'm not even gonna go into that more. But in the past game I have him on the bench. Daniel Jones has been sub two hundred yards every week. He has just three touchdowns. You know what, I'm gonna talk myself into a C grade here on the on the passing way, you know I I should. They only

have three week wide receivers going into this game. That's Richie James, h David Sills, and Daniel Bellinger. Richie James has been consistent with four to five catches in each game, thirty to fifty yards in each game. And now like Tony's out, Shepherd's out, there's gonna be volume who also is out. Chicago's one good cornerback Jalen Johnson for this game. That means it's Kendallville door is rank is cornerbacks seven

and nine by Pro Football Focus. That's why I I think Richie James, I think his Sills are both startable in a pinch. I will not go there for Sills, but Richie James with his four to five should turn it to six to seven. Why are you throwing? You know every time I swear that is true, every time I go to the bar, I hear that noise over and over. Who throws a shoe? Honestly, Daniel Bellinger's interesting. I do have a bench grade on him, but he's

finally started getting involved. You should keep an eye out there. That's it there, all right. Our next matchup and second to last, is the Patriots taking on the Packers. Matt Yeah, Mac Jones is out for this one, so we get Brian Hoyer. Last time Hoyer started a game was he ended up with one under in thirty yards and an interception. So all of the Patriots passing games on the back believe he's lost eleven straight starting. Yeah, don't you even

think about starting any Patriots pass catchers. The running backs, however, Damien Harris and Romandre Stevenson each get a C grade. The Packers are giving up five point four yards per carry to opposing backs. That's fourth most in the league. Bill Belichick did coach a game in the last year where his healthy quarterback through three passes. That might be

the recipe this week. Harris and Stevenson will each see double digit touches, and this one problem is they're splitting it almost evenly, and they're hovering right around sixty total yards per game. That's Sea level production. Even in a favorable matchup Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon on the other side, they get se grades as well for similar yet different reasons. Dylan is average, actually touching the ball about three times more per game, but Jones is averaging

thirty more total yards. Dylan has been shockingly pedestrian. Yeah, the Pats are tough on the run, allowing only sixty four yards on the ground to opposing backs. So we go to the passing game where Aaron Rodgers gets a B grade, Alan Lazard and Romeo Obs get a C grade. In this one, the Pats just gave up four touchdown passes to Lamar Jackson last week. Aaron Rodgers at home, we'll get at least two. They'll probably go to Lazard and Dabbs, or maybe it might take a chance on

me Guy Robert Touny. In Lazard two games two touchdown passes or touchdown catches. He flexes into the slot on of his routes, where he'll face Miles Bryant, who has seen a passer rating of one thirty two in his slot coverage and game on. Dobbs caught a touchdown last week, and we saw his snap percentage skyrocket from thirty seven percent in week two nothing nine percent in week three. He is a starter. Now. Nothing brings like there's a lot of stuff about Aaron Rodgers and rookies lack of trust.

Nothing brings trust like pulling down all eight of your target does. That does help a lot? So do you give me a letter grade on Romeo dubs see see grad rams take down the forty nine ers. Let's start on the ramside. Cooper cop obvious a look, But everybody else, all the other people you might start just get C

grades here, including Matthew Stafford. Now the Niners rank number one in passing yards and passing touchdowns allowed, and granted they haven't faced any good passers, but still their ranked number one, so this is not gonna be an easy trip. They also have Pro Football focuses number one ranking in pass coverage, and their Nick Bosa lad pass rushes daunting as well, so I'm nervous about Stafford this week, so just the C grade, even though Cooper Cup is the

A grade. Tyler Higbee comes out of the C grade. He hasn't scored yet, but he ranks top five in targets, receptions, and yards among tight ends. San Francisco is shut down the tight end position so far, allowing only twenty three yards and no touchdowns. That is fewest in the league.

The number one there too. Um However, no loan tight end has been targeted more than twice in a single game against the forty nine, and Higbie should be getting five, six seven targets if everything continues to hold, so he's averaging eight. So Higby gets a C grade. Hopefully can get a little more done than anybody else has against

San Francisco to this point. For the other receivers, Allen Robinson cannot be trusted, as outlined in three tough questions, do not start him, and especially not in this matchup, saying with Ben screw won. And then for the running backs, Darryl Henderson diminishing snaps and carries in every game so far. He is on the bench just four carries last week, cam Akers Sean McVeigh stubbornly sticking by acres. He got rewarded last week with a solid effort against a terrible

Cardinals defense. A few teams have seen as has been as nasty against the run as the forty Niners. They're giving a fewer than three yards per carry this season, and only one running back in their last ten games his top fifty yards. That's how good the run defense is for the Niners. Cam Akers, I'm in back. I'm moving onto the bench. I had a great on him. I'm moving on to the bench. I have been to leak. He's on my bench and both I think that's a good call here. Let's go to San Francisco. Side um,

and I'm gonna begin with the running game. Jeff Wilson gets a B grade. Generally productive as the starter, but the Rams are profball focuses top run defense, allowing only three point six yards per carry no back his top sixty two yards, spearheaded by PFF's third and fourth ranked run stopping linebackers Ernest Jones and Bobby Wagner. Tough matchup, but Jeff Wilson averages one ten yards in games in which he gets fifteen or more carries, so hopefully you'll

get a touchdown and get something close to that. We like that part. Deebo Samuel Obvious a Brandon ayouk in both his games. Jimmy Garoppolo has thrown Brandon ayous Way eight times in that volume. I think that should be enough to get it done. Against Jalen Ramsey, I think shadows ay in this game. I'll give him a B grade there. And the last guy that you want to know about it's George Kittle. He faced l A three times last year but only average twenty nine yards per game,

but did score in two of those three. Will hope for the touchdown here. Graham's haven't allowed to tight end score though this year and the third fewest yards to position, so it is a tough matchup for George Kittle. Forty Niners. Jordan Mason another one to pick up. That is another one to pick up if you missed any part of the show. You get all my play rankings available for

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