Climbing Up That Hill

and that means that every game means that much more. Yes, except for the people who are way out of playoff contention. They're not listening now, they're out, they're not listening anyway, so we're not even talking to them. So just to you guys who are listening, our stuff means a lot, that's right. You know, if you're a three win operation at this stage, you're not listening to this podcast. Maybe maybe, I mean they should, And you know, really, that's one

of the beauties of the Guillotine League. When you get chopped, you don't have to pretend you care, like you know, you got a three win team right now in December, you don't care, but you have to go through the charade that you care. I should really make like a waiver wire move because I've moved two guys on I try to put in a starting line up. Yeah, I was in two this year. One I'm still in and the other one cut in week one. Wow. The truth is, you cannot lose in the Gay Team League. I've talked

about this for to three years? Are you kidding? You cannot lose. You either win or you either win the guille Team League or you win extra free times. It's a bonus win win. You can't lose. I love it. Of the course of the show, we're gonna break down all the matchups fantasy style with letter grades and all the players that matter. Will take a chance on nine different players. We'll answer three tough questions, and as we

usually do in December, we will retire premature speculation. But we're gonna fill that time by giving you some of our favorite Dynasty Empire League stashes instead. There we go, so we'll we'll you'll still get some good data out of that. In the final segment of the show, we begin with the Cardinals taking on the Bears. Matt and Kyler Murray expected to be back at the Helm for this one. Yeah, it's still a really weird gross game. Though.

Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins I kind of lump them together. Both have been limited in practice, Murray with the ankle, Hopkins with the hammy. Both are reported as moving around pretty well. Uh, Kyler, like you said, looks like he's going to play. Easier for him to overcome an ankle injury than a hamstring for DeAndre Hopkins. So I'll give Kyler a B grade. Here is Chicago's past defense has actually been okay. If for some reason, Kyler does not go,

we downgrade all of the receivers a full letter grade here. Conversely, if DeAndre Hopkins is active, I'm also going to downgrade all the wide receivers a full letter grade. So like if I gave Christian Kirk a B right now and both are and Hopkins was active and Kyler was not, Christian Kirk would be on the bench. Here's how we do it. Christian Kirk gets a sea after after all that, the Bears have bad corners, but the best dish has been Xavier Crawford, who operates from the slot. That's where

Kirk spends three quarters of his time. A J green, I'll throw a se on as well, he'll mostly line up against Artie Burns, who covered for the injured Duke Shelley last week and allowed fifty five yards in a score in his coverage. And I think they finally have benched Kindle vildor. Yeah, he's a starter, which is too bad because we love picking on him every show. I think we just love to say Kindle. Oh, yeah, he's an open and shut book. And you know we've had

every every possible I think book reference. Yeah. Uh. A. J. Green has seen at least five targets and four of his last five games as well. And ron Dale Moore he saw eleven targets in Week eleven with Hopkins out, but that was kind of the season outlier on him. I'll throw a C grade on him, seeing is how we can downgrade it to bench if Hopkins place zach Ertz, I'll give him a C grade as well. In san zach Ertz played against the Bears and had one hundred

and three yards and a score. In twenty nineteen, Zackert's played against the Bears and had one hundred and three yards and a score. It is an odd number years, so hundred and three yards of the score right here. Uh, so the Bears have been They've been okay against the tight end there, ranking in top ten interceptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the tight end, so they've been pretty good. Uh. Finally, Chase Edmunds still on i R with the ankle injury.

James Conner should see at least fifteen carries in this game so we can safely put him on a touchdown to. Since Week five, the Bears have allowed to touch down to every running back who has had at least fifteen carries in a game, except for Jamal Williams and Thanksgiving last week, so Connor gets a B on the Bear side. It's really gross. Justin fields just downgraded to doubtful on Friday, meaning that Andy Dalton is going to probably start in

this one. You should not start him against the Cardinals who are only allowing two hundred one yards and one touchdown a game to opposing quarterbacks and almost all of his wide receivers are hurt. Alan Robinson hasn't practiced this week with a hamstrings. Marquis Goodwin didn't practice Wednesday with rib and foot injuries. Cole Commett didn't go either with a groin injury. Darnell Mooney is the only one you

can really play. He gets just a C grade. The Cards are allowing the fifth fewest receptions and yards to opposing wide receivers though, so it's just a C grade for Mooney. And finally David Montgomery, he gets the Scott Fish volume C. Yeah, the only hope for the Bears is to hold the time of possession. The good news the Cards are allowing four point seven yards per carry on the year. The bad news the Cards have only allowed four touchdowns all season two runners, and the game

scripts have not favored runners all years. The Cards are only seeing an average of seventeen rushing attempts per game. All right, let's go to the Giants taking on the Dolphins. This is a brutal game with fel like I feel like every one of my matchups, by the way, I'm like, oh god started until you get the Giants. Dolphins, start the Dolphins defense, Well, you actually do start defense. Giants are gonna be without their starting quarterbacks and two receivers

in this game. And there's nobody in the passing game to play here, absolutely none, absolutely none. If if you are really in a penchion, need to take a dart, throw it might be Tony because he got thirteen targets from Glennon and the last one if he goes. If he goes, he's it's not expected to play. So uh yeah, and Shepherd's not expected to play. He had like Miami's terrible, gets a slot and he's not gonna go. Like there were options, just it just didn't come together for the Giants.

Nothing in the passing game. Barkley, I am giving the B grade too, though they they leaned on the run heavily in that other Glennon game, giving over twenty I think it was twenty four touches to the running backs. Uh and Glennon only passed it twenty five times in that in that first the first Glenning game. So I'm giving Barkley a B grade here. He has ten catches in a two games back. Um, I saw this. I

saw the stat the other day. Barkley hasn't topped six yards rushing since twenty nineteen, that by the way, and yes, seven yards by the way. I tweeted it this week, so I thought he hasn't. It's been since Week four since he scored a touchdown. It's been since since he's tapped. I think with the volume plus the likelihood of four to five catches, I gotta be great on him, though. That's you're way more optimistic than I am. I am. Actually, I OpEd it with I feel better about it with Glennon,

and then I would have with Daniel Jones. Uh on the two on the Miami side. On the two A side, I'm given to a C grete. The Giants held out Hurts last week, but he was hurt a little. And uh, they've they've been more than more like middle of the road defense against quarterbacks over the last six two has looked really solid. Uh. He's second in the NFL in a completion person manage over that span. UM. In those six games, he has twelve touchdowns, so two per game,

averaging about two and fifty yards per game. Uh. If Gaskin would stop taking wildcat snaps at the goal line, maybe two, it would get a few more points. But I gotta c grade on him a grade for Jalen Waddle, it's hard not to give him his due at this point. He's on pace to break An Kwon Bolden's rookie record for receptions. He's averaging about nine targets, six catches, seventy five yards per game. With Parker and Fuller unlikely to play as well, he's still going to be just about

the only guy in town. Uh So, I do have an A grade on Waddle. I just think double digit targets. Waddle is entering Rookie of the Year conversations right now, and Jamaar Chase is handing that five games have not been spectacular for Chase. Uh Gasicky, I have a C

grade on him. He had a quiet day against Carolina last week and what should have been a decent spot Becausecki basically plays jumper wide receiver a jumble wide receiver role and had forty eight plus yard in the five previous games to that, Giants just gave up really really good days to Gronk and waller Um and they're they're

mostly average against the position. Obviously grade there. In the running game, Philip Lindsay I actually kind of liked this week until now he's turned up with an injury and he's doubtful to play, So it's gonna be all x. Lindsay had twelve carries last week. If he's not there, Gaskin is just gonna get more volume. What do you think it says about Miles Gaskin on but you know, on less than a week with the team, they gave

Philip Lindsay twelve touches. Yeah, the fact that they signed him says something, and Lindsay responded with, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna have a good game on an on an even numbered week this time, I'm gonna kick that. Uh. I have a B grade on Gaskin. The Giants d checks in at fifth worst against fantasy running backs. They've allowed over a hundred fifty total yards per game. That's good for fourth most, seventh most rushing yards, fourth most

passing yards. A lot of the position. As we know, gasking can catch passes and those wildcat runs at the goal line. He's getting a lot of goal line opportunity. I have a B grade on him, a much stronger than be grade than I do on Barkley. Go good. I think I'm with you on that. The time has come. Javante Williams is going to be the starting running back for the Broncos. Man. I'm glad that you brought this up right after Myles Gaskin, because I got a choice

between those two in the league this week. Chart what Charter gonna do. What is the fantasy community gonna do? If Mike Boon that's the is he might, it would be very frustrating. Uh. Javonte Williams Melvin Gordon not expected to play in this game. He's officially doubtful. Let's you know, and the people who are doubtful do not play. So Javonte Williams as the starter. He's been really I Popping

Lee good to this point. But Melvin Gordon has been good enough to make sure that Williams isn't getting requisite work to make can a safe start on a weekend and week out basis. Until now, catch is this has turned into a really good Chiefs run defense. They're allowing the sixth fewest rushing yards on the third fewest carries, and they haven't given up a touchdown by land Sea or Air in seven games to a running back. How did they get one by c touchdowns? You're gonna find

out a Monday night. With the Weather game coming on Monday night. I'm excited to talk to you about that game when we get there later on. So I've got to be grade on Williams. In an easier matchup, I would love to give him an A grade. What's gonna be fun is think of all of next year's preseason prediction articles that are going to talk about Javonte Williams. They're all gonna reference this one game as a starter that he had, you know, in the one game to six.

That's right in that one when yards a year, right, So be great on Javonte Williams. Hoping for greatness, but I'm subduing my expectations a little bit. The entire passing games on the bench, Teddy Bridgewater is thrown zero or one touchdown in four straight games. The return of Jerry Judy, you would think that that would help the passing game, but all that's done is take a meager number of

completions and divide them by another set. It's destroyed everybody, including Tim Patrick, who had been as totally bankable, totally

dried up. Sutton's no good, Judy's killed us. So Judy hasn't scored all year, and Grantity missed a bunch of the season, but still um Patrick's last two games fourteen and twenty six yards no offense has devolved into a spot starter and this is not the spot Kansas City secondaries red hot over the past six games, Kansas City is allowing just two three passing yards and one touchdown per game. So that's it for the passing game on

the bench. Let's go over to Kansas City. I am excited for what I believe will be a very big game from Clyde Edwards Hilaire. The Brocos are clearly feeling the absence of Von Miller and L and A. J. Johnson. Over the past four games. They're allowing the most rushing yards at a league high five point six yards per carry to opposing backs. And it'll get even worse if Shelby Harris misses this game. He's Pro Football Focus his seventh best run defending interior alignement, and he's questionable to

go in this one. And remember, in Clyde Edwards Hilayer's last three full games, he's averaging one hundred total yards and he scored twice in those three games. A grade for Clyde Edwards Hilaiyer. I just want to mention he's he's had the flu this week. You do not expect that to be a problem by Sunday's expected to be past that. Just for uh Patrick mahomes Man, I I really struggled with the letter grade on Patrick Mahomes. Let's talk it through together. Dud games and four of the

last five games for Mahomes. And when I say dud, I mean dud other than that Raiders game with four hundred yards and four touchdowns. Going back since Week six, October sevente was a long time ago, he's had one good game since them. In all the others, Patrick Mahomes is averaging two twenty six yards and half of one touchdown per game. God, that's I just traded Mahomes for

a J. Brown in the league. Man it wow, that's amazing. Um. He threw just one touchdown in both of the Denver meetings last year, and that was when Denver's defense was reeling with injury. Defense is better. Denver hasn't surrendered more than two touchdown passes to any quarterback this year. They on the second best opponent completion percent. It's just C grade on Patrick. Would anybody be surprised if he threw three? No? No,

it's Patrick Mahomes. But we now have so much data on this that you just can't feel like that's something that's bankable anymore. Let's talk about his receivers and I want to begin with Travis Kelsey. This is a tricky matchup Denvers allowing the fourth fewest Fantasy points to tight ends. No opposing tight end is finished in the top twelve in any game against Denver this year, and that includes Darren Waller Mark Andrews. They did not crack the top twelve.

And Travis Kelsey has dropped six passes in the past four games. That is the most over the last four games in the NFL. BE grade for Travis Kelsey. If you played a different position, it probably a C grade. I'm still maintaining an A grade on Tyreek Hill. In the last four meetings, He'll scored four times, which is pretty good considering Patrick Mahomes has only scored five touchdowns in those four games. He'll commanded a league high forty

eight targets over his last four games. Because that volume is there, I'm keeping the A grade on Tyreek Hill. You'll go up against rookie cornerback Patrick Certain for the first time. Uh in Certain it's actually stam sur Tan's career. But guarding Hill for the first time is a daunting task.

And so I'm gonna go advantage Tyreek Hill and I'm gonna keep the A grade on him sitting on the bench, Darryl Williams, because once Clyde Edwards comes back, we're gonna see Williams go right back to the low usage he had before when Clyde Edwards a layer was healthy earlier in the season. It's yet another bye week. You need help with a couple of pivotal positions, maybe even the tight end. We will tell you nine guides upon whom

you can take a chance. Many of these players available on the waiver wire, and at least one tight end to give you when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Take a chance on me nine players not normally a new starting lineup. Any of these guys are available on the waiver wire. We begin at the quarterback position and Scott Fish. I'm going with Carson Wentz. He's had multiple touchdowns in seven of his last nine. The two he didn't were against the Bills Pasty and the recently really

really stout Jags past defense. Uh So, the Texans are middle of the road against quarterbacks, but went went to twenty three and two last time, which kicked off a stretch of qbs going for three or more multiple scores uh like four times against the Texans after that, So Carson wentz al Right, I like it, Matt, you'll take a chance to be quarterback. My all might take a chance of me. Players will be on the spelling test this week. We start with Jimmy Garoppolo two two peas.

I was surprised when I looked it up. He's only thrown three career touchdown passes against the Seahawks in five games. Seattle's defense is looking absolutely brutal right now, and Deebo Samuel is out, So why Jimmy G here? Yes, I'm curious about that. The Niners did figure out something in the first meeting. Is the combo platter of Jimmy G and Trey Lance managed to throw for three, two and three against Seattle earlier this year. Garoppolo was injured in

that game and missed the next two weeks. In the six games since returning, Jimmy G has posted to yard games and multiple touchdown passes and three of his last four. And with Deebo out, I think it forces the Niners and to be more of a traditional offense. Run the ball with Mitchell, passed the ball with Jimmy. I'm gonna go with him this week, Tyrod Taylor d it depending

on who you ask. Taylor takes on the Colts and while granted they haven't had there buy yet, but the Colts are surrendered the most passing touchdowns while allowing opposing quarterbacks for multiple touchdowns in eight different games this year. So Taylor may help you through the air here, but also on the ground. We've seen other comparable mobile quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson, Ryan Tannehill, Josh Allen, Trevor Lawrence average

seven yards per carry against the Colts. If Taylor is gonna get seven yards per carry and he gets seven nine eleven carries, you know suddenly we're looking at a easy fifty yard game for Taylor. I'm just on the ground. So combine that together, there's your starter. It's fun fact on Taylor multiple touchdowns in every game he's played this year between ground and air. I think not by sea.

You didn't put the scooping touchdowns. Speaking of touchdowns, let's go to here take a chance, I mean running back Scott I'm going with Sony Michelle up against the Jaguars defense. It's not the best the matchups. It's the middle of the road matchup that's gotten better over over recent weeks. But Darryl Henderson is dealing with a hip injury, and it sounds like there's a lot of concern he'll play, and if he does play, concern that a lot of

concern he won't play. But if he does go, he might be on a little bit of a snap count. And the Jaguars are allowing nearly thirty touches per game to running backs. This is a game where the Rams might get ahead to and run the ball with Sony Michelle to run out that clock. I see Sony with ten plus touches. Whether whether Henderson goes or not, I like see Gray there. Let's go to Matt and you're take a chance of me running back. The second word in the spelling test is use check, as in Kyle

use check. This is probably my boldest take a chance in me call of the year. If he scores once, I'm golden in this one. If he scores twice, I get to go into the John t V. Take a chance on me Hall of Fame. You I don't know, yeah from file use check corse four times. You definitely catch h Kyle J has caught a pass in every game this year. Uh deebo. Samuel will miss this game.

As I mentioned that vacates about nine targets per game, but in a sneaky way, it's also vacating rushing attempts as he comes out of the backfield a ton, and Samuel's last three games he's ran the ball nineteen times. They need to not only replace him as a wide receiver but a weapon out of the backfield. So why not, Kyle? The Seahawks are allowing the most receptions to running backs, the most receiving yards to running backs, and the most

total touches per game to the position. They can't give Elijah Mitchell thirty two carries again, Kyle use Check is gonna get some use in this game. Check that yep, Miles Sanders is back, but that doesn't mean Boston South suddenly not gonna get carries. And they've give him plenty of work even in Sanders games. And they're going up

against the Jets. They ranked last in rush defense, last in rushing touchdowns allowed, twenty six yards per carry, and no team is running the ball more than the Eagles since Week seven. Granted a lot of that's Jalen Hurts every time Boston Scott is mentioned on this show. I want Scott to do a Boston accent from now on. Can you say Chowder? Okay, let's go. Let's let's go over to the receivers that could be wide receivers and

or tight ends. Scott, who you got chowder? Russell Gauge going up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which was an easier matchup earlier in the year, but they're still not great against wide receivers. Over the less two weeks, Gage has fifteen targets, leading the team the leading the team's wide receivers in targets, catches, and yards. I say wide receivers because Cordil Patterson I'm kind of running back for

this specific statistic. Um. He's had five to six cards, catches and fifties and sixty plus yards in four of his last five games with and he's scored in a couple of them. Still, uh, it's it's just good matchups grade on him too. All right, Matt, you're a receiver. Well, I happen to know it's a tight end. Well. The final guy in the spelling test is c j Uzoma, and the US has popped off for a few big days this year, they've all come against porous tight end defenses,

and the Chargers fit that bill this week. Last week, the Broncos tight end Eric Salbert scored Albert. The week before Eric Ebron and Pat friar Muth each scored for the Steelers, and the week before that, Tyler Conklin scored twice for the Vikings. Against the Chargers. They're averaging almost one tight end score per game and have allowed the second most scores in the league to the position. Foster Moreau is probably the best backup tight end of the league.

And you may recall in the preseason we said if there's one tight end you're gonna hand come we've talked about for a couple of years. We are. We're big Foster Moreau. Fans uh. That was your handcuff to have Moreau filled in for Darren Waller once earlier this year. And here's what happened in that game. Moreau was on the field for every single snap. He ran routes on thirty two of thirty seven passing plays. They targeted him six times. He caught all six passes for sixty yards

and a touchdown. And every tight end who's been targeted five or more times against Washington has hit at least fifty yards and or scored a touchdown. Foster Moreau. Let's go to another matchup, Chargers taking on the Bengals, Matt this has been an inconsistent Chargers passing game. What do you think about Justin Herbert as he takes on a surprisingly good Cincinnati past. I have no idea who Justin Herbert is, but their quarterback Air Bear. He's not scared

to go up against the Bengals, certainly not. Air Bear is thrown for multiple scores and four of his last five and for over three hundred and three of his last five. Both Mike White and Baker Mayfield through for multiple scores against this defense in the last month, but they did hold Derek Carr and Big Ben in check in the last two weeks. Should we give him an A grade for Air or a B grade for Bear?

Or maybe we split the difference and give him something in between those two bad like an A B grade. I'll just give him a B and thank you. Mike Williams will face Eli Apple most often in this one. He's the bengals worst cover corner according to Pro Football folk US It's tough to feel a lot of faith in Williams right now, after hitting double digit PPR points only once in his last six games, after accomplishing that

feat in four of his first five this year. Last week in Denver, he didn't score, but did have eight targets, his highest mark since Week five. So I'll take a stand and I'm gonna throw a hopeful B grade on Mike Williams this this week. It's that that is not panned out more often than not. It's a hopeful B grade, which is something like the grade alright, Keenan Allen gets a solid B grade. Uh, slot corner known as a B grade. How's interrupting me? Chart? Geez? Uh slot corner.

Mike Hilton has been very good this year, but Allen has been to ten or more targets in five straight games and double digit PPR points in every game this season, which is crazy. Uh. Jared Cook and the rest of the tight ends are on the bench. Somehow, They're now targeting four tight ends in this offense. And while Cook leads the team and looks at four or five targets per game, you need to score and Parum gets as many red zone targets is just gross. Austin Ekeler. He

does get an A grade though. The Bengals have been decent against the run game, but their bottom five in receptions and receiving yards allowed to opposing running backs. That an average of seven catches and fifty five yards per game. That's right Neckler's wheelhouse over to the other side. Chart. I'm gonna need you get a button ready because Joe

Mixon he gets this week's fantasy art Vark. Joe Mixon. Yeah, thirty one touches per game since the bye week, dang uh, and the Chargers have allowed the most rushing yards and the second most touchdowns to the running back position. It's gonna be a big Joe Mason. I think he's my number one ranked running back this week. Well, that's that's how you get an art Vark rading uh c j Uzoma was might take a chance on the receiver Joe Burrow.

I'm only giving a C grade two. He hasn't topped three hundred yards and four straight, has thrown two touchdown passes in his last three games. And you don't pass on the Chargers, you run on the Chargers, which is why the Chargers are top five and passing attempts, completions, and yards As a defense only allowing two eighteen yards per game plus tackle. Riley Reef is not a percent and may not go with an ankle injury. Jamaar Chase

and Tee Higgins gets c grades in this one. Chase hasn't topped fifty yards in five weeks, Higgins has scored more Fantasy points than three of their last four. Both get a little break though, as Chargers cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. Is looking like he's gonna miss this week with concussion. Still, Michael Davis and Tavon Campbell have been very capable this year, and as I said, people just run on the Chargers,

so I think it's pretty low volume here. By the way, Tyler Boyd is on the bench, he draws Chris Harris from the slot. That's a that's the worst matchup and he's the worst of the three wide receivers. We're not normally starting Tyler Boyd anyway, so that's okay. When we come back, we will dive into more matchups, including Colts versus Texans. Sure Jonathan Taylor is an obvious start here. We know that Scott Fish likes Carson Wentz so hot. Which of the re sievers is gonna get beyond the

receiving end of all of those scores. I think you promised four touchdowns for Carson Wentz a personal guarantee. We'll tell you who they are when we come back. In addition to breaking down the backup running backs between the Vikings and Lions, both of whom are in key roles this week, all of that and more Fantasy Football Weekly returns in moments. This is the final segment of our number one of our two hour journey into Fantasy football

and Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charge and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you if you want to follow Scott Fish on Twitter at Scott Fish twenty four. Matt Harrison is at explosive output and I am at Paul Charge. In Boom Colts take on the Texans, Scott Jonathan Taylor goes without saying he's an obvious start, and uh, there's no scenario under which you would not start him. But more about the passing game, sure, Uh, Carson Wentz obviously

was my take a chance on me quarterback. So in the passing game, you'd think I'd like a lot more players than. Yes, I would, but I have a B grade on Michael Pittman. He held was held down a little bit by the Bucks last week because the touchdowns some for some reason went to Hilton, t Y Hilton, and Ashton Dolon. Uh a Dynasty Metrics favorite from a couple of years. Okay, yeah he was yeah writing that. Uh, he's still crushed in target share though he's getting over

eight per game. The top receiver usually goes for seventy five plus on the Texans. Texans and usually scores. So I got that from Michael Pittman. As for the others, I'm just not trusting it. With Hilton, he scored, but he hasn't top thirty yards in his last four games. All the rest are super inconsistent. It's gonna be Pittman, it's gonna be Hinds getting some catches. It's gonna be Taylor getting some catches Whenzi'll get there. But we don't

know exactly where it's gonna go. You mentioned Taylor was the obvious a his last three lines against the Texans. I just want to put these out there, five and one and one and two. Geez, those are honestly he's better now than he was then. On the other side of the ball, Taylor was he was. So you think I'd like a lot of the wide receivers of it, one of them because a lot of a lot of the reason I like Taylor was first rushing, Yes, exactly. He gets you two to three points rushing every week.

No matter what, you'll get more than that. Yeah, I do like do like Cooks. I got a C grade on him. He scored last week to save his fantasy day because his targets had dried up a little bit. With Taylor only throwing at twenty four and twenty six times in the last two weeks, which is gonna tank tank them. But Cooks over the season and especially recently end up until that two game stretch, had been getting eight to ten targets. I figure him to come back

a little more in that range. With them falling behind the Colts in this one. Uh see, great on Cook's I have a bench grade on Collins. He got the first two targets and catches of the game last week and then the last target of the day and nothing to between. I can't trust that into the running game. I have them both on the bench. It becomes a little more interesting. If David Johnson doesn't go bad become

absolutely plausible. Plug in. Yeah, the last two weeks, rex Burke had went eighteen carries for forty yards and twelve for I believe twenty two yards or twelve or twenty eight. So if you want twenty carries for maybe fifty or sixty yards, Burke head bike and to see but two yards per carries? What if Johnson doesn't go rex Burke had doesn't even get my volume. See I'm that low on Burke hand. Wow, Bikings take on the Lions. Alexander

Madison will be your starting running back. He was a top ten fantasy running back in the two full games he's already played in place of Dalvin Cook, and he's averaged in those two games. He averaged thirty two touches per game, and one of them was against the Lions. Earlier the Lions, it was good for hundred fifty three yards.

In a grade on Alexander Madison in this one. Let's go over to the passing game or justin Jefferson is an obvious a over one hundred yards in his last two match ups with Detroit, including one twenty four yards in the earlier meeting. He's become one of Fantasy Football's safest wide receiver plays. A grade for Jefferson, B great for Adam Theelan in a far trickier start than Jefferson's.

Over his last four games against Detroit, Theland's averaging just forty yards and only one score in those four games, including the one earlier this year, which was just two catches of for forty yards. That's not good. Uh fortunately, does come into this game hot at least five catches and a seventy one yard average over his last three games. He's also found the end zone in five of the last six, which is great and touchdowns obviously always helped.

But oddly enough, the Lions do a good job at keeping receivers out of the end zone, allowing just one touchdown to wide receivers in the last month Detroit. And that brings us to Kirk Cousins and you can probably see this coming a little bit a B grade here. The Lions are shockingly competent against the past. The last four quarterbacks to face the Lions are averaging just two hundred twelve yards and zero point eight touchdowns. The Lions granted Cousins is way better than any of the guys

that they faced in that last month. But in the Week five matchup, Cousins was good for a very modest two yards in one score. That was it. Still Jefferson and Theland dramatically better than anybody they'll face in the Lions secondary, and they should on paper do well here, so I'm keeping a B grade on Kirk Cousins. Let's go over to the Detroit side of this game. Another backup running back, Jamal Williams, will get virtually all of the work here. You got almost every touch on Thanksgiving

after DeAndre Swift went down. The Vikings just got hammered by Elijah Chill. They're giving up the most yards per carry in the NFL, but they do get both of their starting defensive tackles back, including key runs stuffer Michael Pierce, who's missed two months of time. He'll he is expected to play in this game. Minnesota's allowed of rushing touchdown in seven of the past eight games, and I think Williams does find the end zone here and a B

grade on him. The only part of the passing game that I'm giving a starting grade two is t J Hockenson and it's a bit's it's a seed that I had as a bench for a long time. Only there is something less than a sea. But there's not a letter between C and bench. I mean it's there a Harpoons kind of a Vikings fantastic against tight ends, allowing

one touchdown to the position all year. Nobody's top forty four yards since Week three, and athletic linebacker Anthony Barr likely plays in this game and he'll get a lot of the Hockinson assignments. Hockinson only managed two catches for twenty two yards and no touchdown in the first match. You know what, I'm moving to the bench. That's it, and the whole arrest of the passing games on the bench, I don't even have to talk about golf and Cliff Raymond and I'm on ross A Brown and Josh Reynolds,

including Josh Reynolds. I know we had three catches for seventy yards. Last name, did you see the goff record without Sean McVeigh. Uh? Is it like two wins or something? Two career wins zero sixteen and one? Oh man, when did he have? What were the other So he's oh ten and one now, right, So where were these other six losses when Jeff Fisher was oh, back in the Jeff Fisher days, right right? Wow, That says plenty and maybe more about Sean McVeigh than anything else. Sean McVeigh

got Jared Goff to a super Bowl. It's amazing. That is amazing. Let's go to one more matchup in this segment, Eagles taking on the Jets. Matt I I talked a little bit about about Boston Scott, but let's talk about the quarterback position. Jalen Hurts may very well not go in this one. He's got the bad foot, so even if he does play, you might not get the rushing out of him that you desperate need. Yeah, he was practicing this week game time decision nursing an ankle injury.

Probably not a good thing for running quarterback. Going against the defense that hasn't allowed anything to running quarterback, It's really easy to run against the Jets as a running back. In the game. Scripts haven't forced quarterbacks to run much this year. The Jets have only allowed one touchdown on the ground to a quarterback this year, in an average of eight rushing yards per game. Add add in Hurts injury, and I think they'll try to keep the alley's off Hurts.

They're probably gonna keep him in the pockets, So I'm gonna give him just a C grade. He's gonna have to throw. That's not his best trade. But the Jets are allowing two seventy seven passing yards per game. UM As far as other receivers, I'll give Davanta Smith a C. But the rest are on the bench. Everyone hates Jalen Reagor by the way, yeah they should after the two

drop passes at the end of that game. Really h Smith is only top seventy yards once in the last seven weeks, but has scored thrice in the last four weeks, so that's why he gets the sea. Dallas Goddart was obsent, absent, absent last week against the Giants, one catch for zero yards on three targets. But I'll give him a see though, as he was able to top sixty yards and three of the prior five games, and the Jets are allowing sixty yards per game two tight ends. That's the seventh most.

The running backs are just an absolute disaster. Miles Sanders didn't play the second half of last week's game, which led to many believe that he wouldn't play this week because he was injured. But no, he practiced in full on Thursday, so now it looks like he's going to play now. But ankles are tricky. Just asks Scott fish Um. Lots of people pivoted to Boston. Scott and Charge talked about him a little bit. He's missed every practice this week with a non COVID illness. Jordan Howard also missed

practice with a knee injury. He looks more doubtful than questionable. And Nick Sirianni won't give Kenny Gainewell more than three touches per game. They faced the worst run defense in the league their bottom seven and every statistical category against the run, including dead last and touchdowns, with twenty one

total to running backs almost two game. Sanders, I'm gonna give a B. If Scott is active, he gets to see I don't think Howard goes, but if he does, he gets yeah, okay, And and if Scott and Howard are both inactive for this game, Miles Sanders vaults to A. Maybe Miles Sanders goes to an A. But then Kenny Gainwell gets a harpoon in this one. Oh, I like the sound of that. On the other side, it's the Jets harpoon. You can't start a running back on the Jets.

We all thought Ty Johnson would get some usage with Michael Carter out, but he was third in the pecking order last week, behind Tevin Coleman and Austin Walter. Austin Walter scored the short touchdown and Tevin, who is not good,

ended up with eighteen touches. If you have to start one, it's probably Coleman, who saw the most targets last week, as the Eagles have allowed the third most receptions to running back but are good everywhere else against the run, and you can't start anyone in the passing game either. Zach Wilson was able to beat the Texans last week on one d and forty five passing yards. He's only top the two hundred yard mark once in his last five games. In seven total games, he's thrown four total

touchdown passes. That takes out all the wide receivers. If you do start one, it's Elijah Moore, who saw eight targets last week from Wilson but could only manage four forty six. But the deepest dart throw of them all is Jets tight end Ryan Griffin. Griffin leads the Jets and red zone targets with five on the season. Jets tight end, the Jets tight ends right, thank you. The Eagles are dead last in the league against the tight end,

the most receptions and yards and the second most touchdowns allowed. Griffin, that's like a sixteen team tight end premium level start right here for Ryan Griffin. If you absolutely Chris Chris my Ark for the Giants tight end scored on the Eagles last week, if he could do it right, uh An Tonio Brown's gonna miss three games. I've reason to believe that brings him back Week sixteen. That is the

reason semi final week for most fantasy leagues. So he'd be there for two of your three, you know, two of potentially two of your three playoff games if you're alive to that point. But do you burn a roster spot in Antonio Brown and hold him all this time waiting for him to come back? What do you guys think I am in this situation in a couple of leagues, I was, as we remember from the preseason, I thought he was going to be the best Bucks receiver and

through six weeks you were right there. So I'm in this situation in quite a few leagues. Uh, those those games, I believe are the Panthers and Jets. I'm gonna look a real quick, Yes, I'm pretty sure it's Panthers and Jets. I kind of like that Jets matchup. Panthers matchup not as great, but there's a lot of weapons for the Panthers, but they're really decent on the back end. Um, he was wide receiver six in points per game Fantasy points

per games through six weeks. If he comes back at full health, he was gonna miss a couple of games anyway, I think he's worth it on a championship Austar at the back of your batch. I'm going to hold him. I'm inclined to hold him as well, because I think he is. He's just he was so good before and he should be healthy at that point, and Antonio Brown was so good. Yeah, I wouldn't hold him. The Panthers are actually a very good the Jets, it's gonna be

a week seven team game. They'll have already locked up the NFC South. There's not going to be much of a reason to get Antonio Brown. They're not gonna be in week seventeen. But it's also a hey, run the ball. It's the Jets, you don't have to. That's that's Tom Ray always it's terrible. But by the way, the Bucks they're there. Their pass rates, even when they're blowing teams out, is ridiculous. They just keep passing. So if Calvin Ridley

has been dropped, are you picking him up? You know Calvin Ridley, I mean, it's he can come back any day. I mean, I'm that minute true. Now he could decide I'm ready to be bad. Falcons are not out of the playoff race. It's not It doesn't look great, but they're not out of it. It really depends on your team.

I have a team where he's on waivers and I have not picked him up, So I guess answer in that league, no, But there are other leagues where I definitely would, So I think it's a little roster dependent, But I mean, yeah, that's what do you think about trading for him in a dynasty league? We're at the right now, this training deadline, a lot of weeks right here. What do you think about trading for Calvin Ridley for

next year? At what might possibly be the lowest. I actually did trade for him last week in one of my dynasty leagues where I'm not really competing this year. I think it's kind of a savvy move. I believe he is back with Atlanta next year, but beyond that he's not, so I believe it. This is his last year with the Falcons under contract, so makes it kind of interesting. One second dynasty trade I saw this week in one of my league's Austin Nuckler for Derrick Henry

and Christian McCaffrey. Damn, wow, it's come. It's come to this for christ whim now for you know, two future assets, and that is that is a that's a win. That's that's that is a win now trade, no doubt about it. One of the playoffs. As the playoffs are approaching for those people that uh for league's average league has got six teams that go to the playoffs. Right of the six, I believe that that six teams should get in on

points score. It should not go just by record, because so often times a very high scoring team has just had some bad luck on who they've played. Are you guys with me on this? Totally with you? This is what I've done for twenty years. We have a team in in my my home league that's four and eight right now, but they're the third highest scoring team in the league and they deserve to be in. They deserve to be in. And the way you know, the way you know it's this is this is the right way

to go. If you're that one seed, who would you rather face the sixth best record or the highest scoring remaining teams? Right, you'd always want to play the sixth best record. That's the worst tad. By the way, you should let your teams with the higher seed to pick their pick their opponent on the playoffs, pick your poison. Let's do it. I don't know, but I love it. When we come back Fantasy Football Weekly, we will answer three tough questions. Play along, see if you can go

three and note with our panel experts. When we return. Fantasy Football Weekly is our number two Fantasy Football Weekly Paul charchy In, Scott Fish and Matt Harrison brought to you by Guillotine leagues dot com. All my player rankings available for free Guillotine leagues dot com. This is a segment we like to call three tough questions and we

traditionally start right here, tough question number one. We'll take some Hill finishes a top ten quarterback eleven through fifteen or sixteen or worse from this point forward, Scott, I'm doing it man, top ten. I'm going top ten. The top ten quarterbacks are avaging like nineteen or more fantasy points per game. Taysom Hill just dropped, depending on your scoring, twenty four to twenty eight fantasy points in a game. He looked terrible most of the game through four interceptions,

including a pick six, but his rushing gets got him there. Honestly, you know me, Even if the rushing comes down, the interceptions are probably gonna come down as well. He's gonna have a lot of twenty point games. He did last time, and he didn't get a rushing touchdown this He had like five rushing touchdowns in his four full starts last

year or something four and four. Yeah, so I haven't been in top ten, all right, Matt will Tastom Hill finishes a top ten quarterback eleven through fifteen or sixteenth or worse. So he did run for a hundred yards on Thursday night. There's only been two other quarterback one hundred yard rushing games this year LaMarche accident in week two, justin fields in week eight, Nope, just once. Rushing scores

are even more important. By the way, Sam Donald is still quarterback twenty five based solely on his five rushing scores. Tannehill also has five. He's quarterback thirteen in total points. So even if Hill is a below average passer, if he can keep up what he does on the ground and score a few along the way, he's going to finish out the season in the eleven to fifteen range. Secretly, this question actually is will take him He'll keep the starting job because if he does, he almost can't fall

out of the top ten. This is uh, this is has spent especially thorny question that way because his passing is bad enough to get him benched. He'll finish is a top ten quarterback in three of four games last year. He's gonna do it this week, making it four out of five. And you think you won't have another four interception game, which would help. But it's just so plausible for him to get to a top ten ranking every week. The problem is is Trevor Simeon was already benched for

his passing. I know, but Here's the thing. Simeon is not good, but he's a better pastor than Taysom Hill is. Here's what Taysom Hill has to average to get safely in the top ten every week. Just two d passing yards which is nothing, one passing touchdown, fifty rushing yards he averages in the five starts so far, he averages sixty three and half a rushing touchdown. He's going to do that easily most weeks. The only question you really have to ask is will he keep the starting job?

I think the answer is yes. Tough question number two? Who will finish as the lead back for the Dallas Cowboys, Matt Now, does the lead back mean who's going to have more touches this year? Yes? It does. Okay, I don't care who gets the first touch of the game. So just to clarify, I don't care about necessarily the start. Penny game in the first does not lead back. It's still Zeke. Then he had fifteen touches on Thursday Night to Pollard's nine. There's only been one game this year

where Pollard has had more. That was Thanksgiving where Zeke bruised his knee, and in that game, Pollard only led fifteen to fourteen. Now we all see it. Pollard is a better back. He's a better back. The other thing we all see is Jerry Jones paid Zeke a bazillion dollars and Mike McCarthy is an idiot who just keeps feeding the ball to Zeke. So Zeke's gonna see more touches down the stretch. He's still the lead back. No

matter how much we beg and play Scott. I have the same thing and virtually the same stuff, It's still going to be Zeke. For some reason. Jerry Jones runs this team. He he is limping on the field, He is noticeably limping and and just lumbering on the field, and they just keep dead boys, gonna be dead boys,

and they're just gonna keep riding Zeke for some reason. Yes, I have almost all your talking points as well, but I'll mention this one of the other things that's gonna make it hard for Pollard, who's unquestionably the better back. Zeke's a far better past blocker. Pro Football Focus ranks Tony Pollard as the league's one hundred twelve best past blocking rock back. I did not see that one coming. Bad stuff about Pollard yeah, so, I mean I think

that's gonna factor into this as well. We want this change to come more than the team seems to want it to come. It ought to. If they want to give themselves the best chance to win, they should make that change. But I don't trust three. What is the appropriate level of concern for Jalen Hurts? Is it none? Some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? Scott. I mean he's hurt right now, which that that should mean some, I guess, but I'm thinking long term for

the whole rest of the season. Here. He gets the Jets twice, he gets Washington twice, he gets the Giants in the five fantasy relevant games he's about to play, those are all very positive matchups. He was progressing as a passer up until he got hurt. Um, I'm not going to be that concerned about the injury. I really feel like his rushing plus his passing progressing and those matchups, I don't have much concern. Okay, So none, Okay, all right, Matt.

Is the appropriate level of concern for Jalen Hurts? None? Some or bload? Uh. He's at at least fifty rushing yards in five straight. In fact, during that Spanni's averaging sixty six point four just under a rushing score per game, you can basically bank on ten fantasy points per game from just a rushing standpoint. But the passing is still really bad. Under two hundred yards and seven of his last eight prior to that in games where he was forced to throw against Dallas in Kansas City, he was

able to eclipse the three yard mark in both. But after the Jets this week, probably the best thing for him is he gets a buy next week and he can heal up a little bit. Then he gets football team Giants and football team again in your fantasy playoffs, and football team has allowed the fifth most rushing yards per game to opposing quarterbacks. They're also bottom eight in passing yards and passing scores allowed. The Eagles are still in playoff contention in the NFC two. I don't think

they make a change. I have no concern about Jalen Hurts. As you know, he's been salvaging his box scores with his running, which has been consistently good all season long, although not as many touchdowns as you probably think. He's only scored rushing touchdowns in four games. Yeah, but but he has eight in those games. But sooner or later, your quarterback has to be able to pass the ball.

And he hasn't topped the meager threshold of one hundred seventy eight passing yards in five weeks, and going back to week five, Hurts is averaging less than one less than one passing touchdown per game. You know what he needs, He needs to get right type of schedule with really easy matchups to Well, here's the funny thing. His backup maybe getting the get right opponent this week, Gardner Minshew. What if he starts this game and looks good against

the Jets. He always looks right. Then the door opens, so and then they're heading into the bye week. They can prep up Minshew to be ready the week after that. There's a scenario here, a not impossible maybe it's implausible, but not impossible scenario where Gardner Minshew challenges Hurts for the job as early as a few days from now. Final I'll pick up Minshew and the Eagles are right in the middle of the playoff hunt, and they won't play Hurts just to get him reps. If he's not

the best quarterback. They have to play the best quarterback, and your quarterbacks have to be able to pass at some point, and Hurts his passing isn't there yet. The appropriate level of concern for Jalen Hurts is some Our next matchup is the Bucks taking on the Falcons Scott. But the Bucks Leonard Fournet with a big game last week, what do you think about He's I canna score four times? But what do you think about Leonard four Nett this week in this matchup with the Falcons. I have him

scoring five times. No, no, no, no no no. I am a B grade on Leonard Fournett, mostly because he's a lock for fifteen plus touches weekly. I know, I know Ronald Jones is getting in there. He's he's but he hasn't had more than ten touches in any game this year. He's just scored a couple of times. You can't trust that. It's a little flukey. So I have Jones on the bench.

But with four net he had seventy six yards in the first meeting, a three score blowout, meaning he got he got some work at the He got enough work in a three score blowout to get seventy six yards. The Bucks keep passing when they are up. That's a problem for him, but he still managed that in that game. The but the uh, sorry, excuse me, the Falcons are allowing the eighth most yards to running backs. So I think he's gonna get enough to to lock in a

B grade here. Uh in the passing game, Tom Brady, I have an A grade on as a member of the Bucks. I've tweeted out some of these stats. These are ridiculous. With Brady and Godwin against against the Atlanta Falcons. Three games Brady has played the Falcons as a member of the Bucks. Three yards, two touchdowns, three yards, four touchdowns, two seventy six yards, five touchdowns. It's he's just destroying the Falcons. A grade there. Godwin also in A grade.

He's played six games against the Bucks. He's topped a hundred yards four of them, and he scored nine times nine times in those six games. Not just nine times, he scored in every game. He scored twice in three of them. It's yeah, I have a B grade on Evans. He doesn't get the same volume as Godwin, but he can explode on a dime and he scores a ton more. Evans buggaboo. Early in his career, doesn't score touchdowns. He has twenty three touchdowns in two years with Tom Brady.

Not bad. He's got ten this Year's become consistent with it. B grade on Evans uh Gronk I got an A grade on him. Thirteen catches for nearly two hundred yards since he's come back from injury. Uh. He was tight end two before he got injured. He's tight end four in the last two weeks. Right back to him, Right back to him now that he's healthy. On the other side, Matt Ryan's on the bench. He's only finished as a

top ten quarterback twice this year. He's barely startable. He has one touchdown and five picks over the last three games. It's a good matchup, but he doesn't have really he's the offensive matchup. The Tampa Bay secondaries getting about Carl Davis coming back, and we talked about this earlier in the year that they were injured. That's why their secondary was bad early and this is turning into a good secondary again. Russell gauge I, I, he was gonna take

a chance on me player. Uh. Dyle pits Man, what do you do with Kyle pits Like if he had two more touchdowns, he would be tight end three on the year. That's how ridiculous it is. He's got so many, but he's not. And he's got scored in one game this year, over over the last over the last month. Guess how many red zone targets he has. I think to target him a bunch, just one zone target in the last so he doesn't he doesn't get you scores. You gotta hope for yards, which is what the Bucks

are giving up to tight ends. So I gotta c grade on him because you're starting him. But it feels gross to start him sometimes. Uh. Cordarrel Patterson running back, Cordarrel Patterson A grade. Actually he's hybrid hybrid. My thing with Cordarrel Patterson is he's completely game script immune. They get behind, they pass it to him, they jump ahead, they run it with him, and he gets both no matter what. He gets at least fifteen touches in every game he plays, at least nine. Then in the snaps

in his nine full games, he scored nine times. What so he basically every generally general score three times against the Bucks generally. No, that was the he scored three times in the overseas game against what was the Jags. I believe, um uh, generally you don't play running backs against the Bucks. So I'm gonna play Patterson the wide receiver against the Bucks. I hear what you're saying. I just I worry about the rushing yards simply not developing.

And he runs for like twenty three yards, okay, and he gets sixty receiving and maybe a score. I mean, then you're up to in the score. Alright, a few receptions. I want to believe your reichs. I've got Patterson in a couple of leaks, and I've currently got him on the bench in two guillotine leagues. So maybe I have to rethink that a little bit. When we come back, Ravens take on the Steelers. We haven't had a good game from Lamar Jackson in a long time. Is this

going to be the one? We'll tell you when we return Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We've got a block of matchups for you. Letter grades on all the salient players, beginning with the Ravens taking on the Steelers. Let's begin with a running game. A C grade on DeVonta Freeman as mundane as he has been his volume and opportunity remains so high that he stays

startable here. He's averaging seventeen touches per game over the last month for Baltimore, and it's seventeen touches pretty much anybody is startable. That volume should be helpful against the Steelers defense allowing the most rushing yards and touchdowns over the last five weeks. Go figure DeVonta Freeman C grade. Considered giving him a B grade here just because of how much the Steel's defense has slumped. And t J.

Watt not expected to go here. And for all to talk about t J Watt, his excellence is a pass rusher. He's also a very good run stopper. They won't have him there. Let's go to the passing game. I want to begin with the receivers and Marcus Brown, who gets an A grade. Steelers pass defenses struggle lately, and cornerback Joe Hayden will miss this game and that will help Brown, who scored a scored in both of last year's matchups

against the Steelers. Steelers have allowed consecutive one hundred yard receiving performances and if there's gonna be a third, Brown is by far the most likely Ravens receiver to continue that trend. Rashade Bateman, though, I'm putting on the bench soon. We keep saying like this is the week that Rashod Bateman is gonna break out, But for once, I don't think this is the week he's gonna break out. It has materialized yet, despite plenty of targets positive matchups, and

this is just a neutral matchup. He's averaging just forty eight scoreless yards per game over the last month. So I'm keeping Bateman on the bench at this point. Be great on Mark Andrews, averaging a whopping nine targets per game since the bye week. He leads the team in red zone targets. The Steelers have allowed almost sixty yards per game to tight ends since Week eight, but none of them have scored. And Andrews has never scored against the Steelers, so this might be a yardage game and

not a touchdown game for Andrews. Roll all that together and we've got to be grade on Lamar Jackson. I think he's coming off a bad game. I think he rebounds to a great degree here. Steelers are middle of the road past defense. They're giving up two passing yards and one and a half passing touchdowns per game. That said, Joe Burrow just ran for a touchdown against them. Week before that, justin air there ran for nine yards on the Steelers. So back to back good rushing weeks by quarterbacks,

and here comes Lamar Jackson, now at full health. I think he gets plenty done on the ground here. Again be grade for him. Let's over to the Steelers side. We'll begin with the running game here and Naji Harris with just the C grade. The broader Steelers woes here are affecting Harris a great deal, coming off his worst fantasy game of the year after his team fell behind very early last week, averaging a dismal three point three yards per carry over the past six games. That's brutal

for Naji Harris. Steeler's offensive line is major hindrance for him. Only one back is crap Has has cracked sixty rushing yards against Baltimore and only three of topped one hundred total yards, so I don't think Harris is going to get near that. Normally, Harris is receiving gives him a safe floor, but the Bravens have been awesome against receiving backs. No backs top three catches or twenty seven yards since

way back in Week six. So there's just nothing to like about Harris's game here other than volume and usage. Let's go to the receivers. Deonte Johnson gets a B grade, and you know the deal on Johnson. Lots of targets, lots of catches, lots of yards, and no touchdowns. That is the likely scenario this week as well. Ravens give up a lot of receiving yards to whiteouts and very few touchdowns. Your glimmer of hope for the end zone

for Deonte Johnson is this. He will face Marlon Humphrey most often on the outside, and he's given up four scores on the season, which is as many as he gave up all of last year. So glimmer of hope for Johnson. But I don't think he scores here. And it's another heavy volume and yardage game for a B grade. You know, giving up that many touchdowns, we can call

that the Gettysburg four scores. I like that the Gettysburg Chase Claypool has commanded at least eight targets in two straight games, volume he hadn't seen since in back to back weeks. Since Week two, and three, and we'll hope it continues here because it led to eighty plus yards in back to back games. Weirdly, for Claypool, who has built four touchdowns, he has not scored in five straight games,

and that is sadly. I'm probably going to continue because he will most often face Anthony Averett, who has given up just two touchdowns all season long. Pat Friarmouth has been a great breakout story here and especially with Eric Ebron on I r um. You know we're bemoaning the lack of scoring for Johnson Claypole. We'll it's all going to Pat friar Muth for Pete's sake. Since his bye week, Friarmouth leads the team in red zone targets and has

scored five touchdowns. Meanwhile, the Ravens have allowed three scores of tight ends in their last five games. They're also giving up sixty four yards per game to the position. That is a lot. So Friarmouth B grade. So if I roll all of those receivers, if Johnson, Claypool and Friarmouth all have a B grade, I guess I kind of have to give Ben Roethlisberger a B grade right now. I'm giving him grade um. You know the drill here, lots of passing, low efficiency, not enough scoring. But Baltimore

gives him a lot of upside. Among teams that have had their by Baltimore surrendered the most passing yards to opposing quarterbacks, and I think the yards are gonna come here even if I don't have an explosive game on the docket for Ben Roethlisberger. Some of his ex teammates have come out and former players have come on, so they should bench Ben Roethlisberger. But I don't think they know who's on the depth chart, apparently because there's nobody

to turn to here. Dwayne Haskins to Boskins, right, Matt forty Niners taking on the Seahawks. Forty Niners. Elijah Mitchell coming off of back to back twenty seven carry games. How do you like him this week against the Seahawks thirty two total touches last week against the Vikings hundred and six yards and a scoring that one he gets an A grade. He faces the awful Seahawks run d which already highlighted a bit and take a chance on me.

But I will add that they saw a similar bell cow workload from Antonio Gibson last week, who had thirty six touches and a hundred and forty six yards. I did use Jimmy Garoppolo and Kyle use check in to take a chance on me segment. Both of them get a C grade. Deebo Samuel we mentioned will miss this week with a growing strain, So I'm gonna give Brandon Auk a B grade here. Eighty five or more yards in three of his last four, scored in two of those four. He's back in the good graces of Shanahan.

But we're not going to go as far on the wide receivers to reach for John Jennings or Trent Sherfield here. George Kittle was a big disappointment last week after scoring in the three previous games. I'm going right back to him, though he gets an A grade this week. The Seahawks have allowed the eighth most receptions to the tight end position, and they allowed a huge day to Zechert two weeks

ago where he had eight catches and scored twice. Plus the Niners targeted Kittle eleven times in the first meeting with Seattle this year on the Seahawks side, on on our like internal slack. I jokingly asked if Russell Wilson was take a chance on me worthy, it's if he's even on a roster at this stage. Roster still. He hasn't thrown for three yards since Week two. Uh, he doesn't run the ball that much anymore. He's only averaging fourteen rushing yards per game in his last six games.

He's hit the two touchdown mark only twice. And his high water mark for yardage in twenty career games against the fort Can you guess what it is? Apparently it's not that high the way you've set it up, So I'm gonna guess like two yards two hundred sixty one yard games. Plus, the Niners defense has been really good the last month or so. No quarterback has topped two

D fifty passing yards since Week three. Only three quarterbacks have hit the double digit or the double touchdown mark in the last eight games, but one of them was russ So I'll give him a courtesy C grade here. But he's teetering near the sabotage drop cliff. The last week on the show, we said sabotage drop him. Well, then you already pushed him over u DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett they might be there too. Uh. They both

get C grades in this one. DK has scored four times in his last four meetings with San Francisco, Lockett three three times in the same span, and actually DK and Freddie Swain scored in the earlier meeting this year. Metcalf didn't catch a ball last week until the final minute, and Locket is so reliant on the big splash play but he only gets like three four catches a game. The Niners have only allowed two touchdown passes to a wide receiver in the last five weeks, and both went

to Adam Feeling last week. So if I had to bet on a touchdown for a wide receiver in this one, I'd give it to lock It, who should face a healthy dose of Emmanuel Moseley, who gave up the scores last week. But it's gross Gerald Everett. He's on the bench, by the way. And then the Seattle running game is on a rock. I got one running game that I think is worse in this league. That'll that that I'll

that I'll put out in the final. Alex Collins and DJ Dallas and maybe Adrian Peterson are all on the bench. Uh Collins is still working through an abdomen injury and was limited in practiced this week. D Dallas is limited too. They don't trust him that much either, because they made him split the word workload with an injured Collins last week, and they signed Peterson to the practice squad because Marshawn Lynch was not available this weekend. There are media reports

saying they're gonna elevate Peterson over the weekend. Didn't play him in this game now. And then there's the defense. Dalvin and Madison combined for seventeen carries and only sixty yards on the ground last week. The Niners held James Robinson twenty nine yards the week before and Darryl Henderson was held to thirty one yards the week before. So there's no way you can start anything that was that was a minute and a half on. Don't start any of those, you know, you know what, don't don't have

Seattle backs on your Russell drop out Collins is. You give him ten carries, he'll get you forty yards. You give him twenty carries, he'll get you forty yards. Like the Leroy Horde of modern day. Speaking at James Robinson, he's the only Jaguar worth mentioning as we turn our attention to Jags taking on the Rams, Scott nobody no other part of the Jaguars offense. You don't think it's gonna be big. He led the team in targets and

receiving yards last week did for our first rounder. Robinson's got the foot injury, and just when I watched him play, he's just you can tell that's what is bothering him. He doesn't have the limited practice all When he's limited all week and there's not a great matchup, I'm nervous about James Robinson here. What do you think I still have a C grade on him? Because despite being limited all week, this is a guy who plays hurt. And I wonder if for sure, I wonder if it's that's

undrafted nature in him. He's like, I gotta stay on this team. They drafted a first round running back. I gotta prove my worth. Uh. The Rams have allowed only allowed three backs over fifty yards this season. UH, and only James Connor and DeAndre Swift logged RB one weeks. Because Connor scored twice in DeAndre Swift caught like eight balls. Uh. It's it's a volume C grade. He's scored in almost He scored in almost every full game he's played. He's

played seven full games. He's scored in six of them. So I like the chip. I like the odds that if they can get down there, they like him. At the stripe, he might get a touchdown. He might get you forty to fifty yards, maybe a little more. He does catch passes. I have a volume SEE on him or yeah. On the other side, Matthew Stafford B grade, once an obvious weekly A grade starts for the first few weeks of the season. Now I have a B grade on him. With this offense floundering a bit over

the last few weeks. However, his worst game on the year is two forty three yards in the score. It's like his floor is a C grade pretty much. Uh. The Jags Basty, as we mentioned earlier in the show, has been sneaky good lately, holding four of the last five qbs under two hundred yards. Those five qbs totaled five touchdowns. But it's really just his floor is way too seefe safe. He's better than those five quarterbacks, and

he's got better weapons than all those quarterbacks. I'm still giving him a B grade because even last week he had three hundred and a couple of scores and didn't honestly didn't even play all that well and be a good matchup in a really good matchup. Tough matchup. Odell Beckham expected to play in this game Cooper Cup. I I'm gonna start with Cooper Cup though just obvious a like his last week with O b J coming on, he had his worst game of the year, seven catches

for ninety six yards. O b J expected to play. I'm giving him and Van Jefferson C grades. I like O b J went healthy a little bit more based on last week. A lot of the early passes Stafford had O b J didn't connect, kept going to him in the second half. I love seeing that Van Jefferson did exactly what he's done all season. A bunch of but like seven and six to nine targets. He only catches a few of them, but he usually catches a big one. He's done that four times, caught a big

one that made his fantasy day. Otherwise he doesn't have a great fantasy day. So I have C grades on both of them. I trust O b J a little bit more I have Tyler Higbee on the bench just way, way too inconsistent, especially with O, B J and Jefferson taking so much production last week. Darrel Henderson B C grade. I would have had a B grade if he was healthy, But now I'm giving him and Michelle C grades because i think just with that, if he doesn't go, that's

an obvious choice. But as we mentioned, to take a chance on me segment, I got Michelle with ten, ten, twelve, fourteen touches. I think Henderson does that. I think they split it up pretty well, and Henderson catches the ball a lot more. If Henderson doesn't go, Where do you put Sony Michelle in A grade? I had a secret Yeah, but does that without without Henderson? Either way, Sony Michelle is just so much less efficient because he's not very good.

Yes you, by the way, let's let's get that straight. I'd hate to have the Sony Walkman nickname get just not get used and end up being forgotten out of the ether. That's no good when we come back. Some Dynasty stashes you'll want to make at the end of this year to set you up for next season, plus our final two matchups including Washington taking on the Raiders will tell you what to expect from a surging Antonio Gibson.

When we returned Fantasy Football Weekly, final segment of our number two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you. Up to this point of the season, we've been using premature speculation in this spot, but now that we're so late into the season, we usually retire it at some point. We're going to do

that now. This is kind of dynasty premature speculation because this is the time in a lot of leagues ther roster lock is coming up for the playoffs, and so if you're in a dynasty league and you're thinking about stashes for next year, you need to make those moves sooner than later. So we're here to help you with some of the players we think can be savvy dynasty stashes that are available to pick up. That's not easy to do, or just go try to Accordred. Okay, that

works for me, Scott, Do you want to go first? Yeah? The first guy I'm gonna start with. You got more than one awesome welcome back to you. Yeah, I got several several points we can go. The first guy I'm going to start with this guy who I think is going to get paid in this offseason, and that is that number three wide receiver whose contract is up for the Dallas Cowboys. Michael Gallup. Yeah, he looked just looked really good the last two week. He has looked really

good the last two years. Uh, it's it's likely he's gonna hit free agency. It's likely he's going to one of the Yeah, I mean his contracts up, he's gonna and they're not signing can resign. He will be. He will be are one of the top wide receivers signed out there. He's gonna make like number one, number two wide receiver money for whatever team he goes to. I don't know where he's going, but he could be really

good next year. Matt, give me a dynasty stash. You know, the Vikings are going there already ten million over the cap next year and they're going to have to cut money here and there. So I think they're gonna cut Alexander Madison, who makes one point two mill but only a two. It's not Dalvin Cook. I'm pretty sure it's not Dalvin Cook. So Cannogo is the guy that i'd like to pick up. Dalvin Cook cannot stay healthy for a full year, and the Vikings do love to run

the ball. I think Cannuang Goo fills that Alex Madison role next year. But you seem to think that Dalvin Cook might be on the short. You gotta make up a bunch of money. You never know. That's it's possible. That's all I'm saying. Um. By the way I learned today, can a Wong Woo? It's Wong wou wong wo. Okay, I don't look at the letters because you'll never come

up with that. He just take take the end of voice of the Vikings told me it's Wong woo, and he would know because he's got to call it correctly. So there you go. Can a Wong Woo Minnesota Vikings running back. Here's my guy, my dynasty stash Chargers tight end Donald on the list. Scratch that, Steven Anderson and Jared Cook our free agents. Parm is the only tight end under contract for the Chargers next year. And get this, justin Herbert is throwing thirty of his passes to the

tight end position and Parm is a freaking beast. He's six foot eight, two hundred forty pounds. Dude is an NBA power forward with that size and if he, if he evolves his game a bit, Donald param could be scary good. It's uh, I like that param angle. Um, we'll come back. We have time at the end of the show and come back to some more of your Dynasty stashes, Scott. But let's make sure we can get in our two matchups. I don't think Scott wants to

do him anymore. Maybe not. Let's Donald Palm off the table, Superstar off the board. I've done Washington's taking on the Raiders. Uh, Let's start with Antonio Gibson. In three games since Washington's Week nine, by all wins, Gibson's average twenty four carries for ninety yards and he has scored twice. Vegas is much easier to run upon than pass upon, so I

think he's gonna get plenty of work here. Raiders are twenty nine and touchdowns allowed to running backs with thirteen of them, and they give up over one rushing yards per game. Um, and we know that J. D. McKissick has been ruled out of this game, So maybe a couple of extra pass catches from Antonio Gibson when Dell Smallwood will factor into the j D mckiss. Yes, great, let's go to the passing game here. I've got a

bench grade on Taylor Heineke. As I mentioned just mentioned, Raiders are hard to pass upon and just one touchdown pass in five of the past six games for Heineke um he doesn't provide much upside in any matchup, but especially not this one. Aside from elite passers Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott and Justin air Bear, Las Vegas is only a allowing two passing yards and one point two passing touchdowns per game. So where does this leave us with

his receivers. It's not great, but I do have a B grade on Logan Thomas in his first game back last week nearly scored. He was on the field for of the snaps last week and that number probably vaults to which. By the way, pre injury, Logan Thomas didn't miss a snap this year, on the field for every single offensive play. Thomas has a plus matchup this week, Raiders have allowed the fourth most fantasy points per game

two tight ends. What's more, over the last six games, they've allowed five tight ends to finish inside the top nine at the position, so be great on Logan Thomas and Terry mclauren is one of the trickiest starts of the week. Mclauden. He'll get shadow coverage from Casey Hayward and elite cornerback allowing a passer rating of just fifty

three in his coverage and zero touchdowns. A loud and for McLaurin, who in previous seasons had been pretty much matchup proof, he's been very boom er bust this year, and this feels like a bust game. Only two teams have managed a one yard receiver against the Raiders. I don't like McLaurin here. It's a respect for his abilities. See grade for Terry McLaurin. Let's go over to the Raiders side of this game. I want to start with

a lot of caution on Josh Jacobs. He saw a huge spike in usage last week, but that was an anomaly on the full season where he's been averaging a mundane eleven carries per game before last week. Washington much tougher opponent to run upon than pass upon, and I don't see Jacob's getting a lot of volume here. Opponents averaging just thirteen running back rush attempts per game against Washington over the last five weeks. That is the league's

lowest figure. So volume working heavily against Jacobs here. They're also going up the second fewest rushing yards and they've only allowed one score to backs over the last five weeks. So I don't like Jacobs here much at all. And just to see great I oh, I nearly had him on the bench. I keep him to see his his passing volume. I think he has like six year seventeen targets in the last three games. It's gone. It's gone up a lot, and that does that could get you

the CE. I like the way you put that. Frank Moreau's may take a chance on me tight end this week, and he's got a B grade here, Hunter, Renfro, you call him Frank, I did call him. I think I don't know who's Frank Moreau. I don't know. I don't either, Foster Moreau. You did with Brian earlier this week too, I think I did. On the top you called Brian Frank. I did. Renfro has commanded at least nine targets in three of the last four games since Henry Rugg's arrest,

and with Darren Waller out. It's hard to believe he's not going to continue to get heavy, heavy volume here. He's tallied one yards and or a score in three games since the Rugs arrest football team. Secondary ranks third in yards per game allowed and fourth and touchdowns allowed to opposing receivers. That is great. Washington is using a new guy in the slot, guy named Danny Johnson, generically

named Danny Johnson. Sure his name is not Frank, Sure, Frank Johnson, But we don't have a lot of data on him because he's pretty much new and advantage Renfro on that particular matchup, and um so for Derek Carr. Coinciding with the loss of Henry Ruggs, Cars scored just one touchdown in three of the last four games, which

is worrisome. But Washington is a bona fide slumpbuster. They've allowed a the most passing touchdowns, be the most passing touchdowns in every game this year, and see multiple passing touchdowns in eight of the last nine. But I gotta go only give a B grade to Derek Carr here because of the dearth of receiving talent on this team. I don't think you want to go to any of the depth guys like Brian Edwards or z Jones or Sean Jackson in this one final matchup Jackson's interesting church.

Could you queue this one up with a few sleigh bells for us? Maybe I would be honored to like that. Yeah, just like that. I keep that going. It's sleigh bells because we've got a weather game coming on Monday night. If you believe the podcast, we are going to have what happened that's the rate. So that's the funny thing is it's going to be a combination of precipitation right at the freezing line. We could have rain, we could have snow, we could have sleet or even sneat on

Monday night. We get up Monday night sneak game, and blustery conditions thirty mile in our winds expected in this game. Yeah. So I did look at it right before the show. The precipitation models have eased up a little bit, which I'm a little bummed about because I want to see the gross weather. Um. But the real story is the sustained wins with gusts into the mid thirties. Uh. That affects a game quite a bit more than the precipitation

more than the precipitation um. And this game features the defense that's allowed the fewest yards the Bills at two d seventy five yards a game, and the fourth fewest yards the Patriots at three sixteen, and the top two scoring defenses. The Pats have allowed fifteen point eight yards per two points per game and the Bills have allowed sixteen point five points per game. So this is gonna be a low scoring game here. Who can you start in this one? Damien Harris? He gets a C grade

and I'll throw a harpoon at Ramandre Stevenson too. Harris did see a slightly higher snap count and touch total over the last two weeks, but it's almost split evenly now and it's a brutal matchup, as the Bills allow only twenty four touches per game and a total of a hundred and ten total combo yards per game to opposing runners. Those are both top five marks. Although Harris was able to hit the hundred yard mark against the Bills last year in his only meeting against them, that

was last year. That was last year. They have not played yet this year. Mac Jones was able to hit passing yards against the terrible Titans passive fence, but he gets Buffalo, the best past defense in the league and windy and wet conditions. For that reason, Mac in the entire receiving game, they're all on the bench. The Bills allow the fewest receiving yards to wide receivers, the fifth fewest to tight ends. They've only allowed eight total passing

scores on the year. So Hunter, Henry, Jacoby Myers, Kendrick Born, and Mac Jones are all on your bench. Now you're not worried about the loss of trade devious White. That's a massive loss to this secondary in my mind, and he could open up somebody to have a big game, not in the wet and blustery conditions of this one. And Mac Jones is not a guy who just throws up. He doesn't get a strong armor ball through the wind

because that's not his game. You know who does have a strong arm who could throw it through the wind. That's Josh Hellen. I'm gonna give him a B grade. He's ran for at least twenty five yards and four of his five career meetings with the Patriots, and did crack the code against them last December. Ended up with three twenty yards and four passing scores in that one. But that Pat's defense was not as good as this one.

Uh they trail only the bills and passing scores allowed with only four on the year, and they've intercepted the most balls in the league. But I'm still giving Alan the B. I'm gonna give Stephan Digs a B grade as well. He should go up against Jalen Mills both

the most of the time. He's their weakest corner and has allowed a passer rating of one twelve in his coverage as well as five touchdowns scored against him so far this year, and Diggs was on the receiving end of three of those four Josh Allen touchdowns last December. He's just downgraded a little bit because of the weather.

I'm gonna give Cole Beasley a C start. He'll be on the slot against Miles Bryant, who hasn't allowed a score this year, but seventy of the balls and his coverage are caught, and with the windy conditions, you gotta think lower distance, high percentage throws are more likely. So that brings Cole Beasley in. That doesn't put Emmanuel Sanders and he's on the bench. The target load hasn't been there. Dawson Knox will get a C grade for much of

the same reason Cole Beasley does. Short and intermediate passes will be key. Plus, Knox scored twice last week and had a third touchdown wiped from the board by a penalty. Finally, the best matchup in this game would be a pager a Bill's runner, a Bill's runner going against the Patriots run defense, but there are none. Zack Moss was a healthy scratch last week. You can't start him right now.

He shouldn't roster him right now either. Devin Singletary managed fifteen carries last week and had two point nine yards per carry. The same can be said about Matt Brita, who had nine carries and ended up with two point nine yards per carry. Spackfield is probably the worst in the league. It's tougher to forecast the Monday night weather than to start the right Bills running back. The Pats have allowed four point six yards per carry on the season.

That's the fifth most in the league. They've allowed the fourth most total rushing yards, but they've only given up four scores to the running back position all year. Kettysburg. That's best in the league. Do you think with the weather there's just gonna be a lot more running in this game. I think Josh Allen just is going to have to keep doing it by himself because those runners are so bad they can't get any thing done on it's finding his way to the end zone whatever that's worth. Yeah,

not against the Patriots. Not give up no touchdowns to running back. So they're all on your bench. I don't think any of them should be on your roster either. A right, let's go back to dynasty statues. You've got a couple more for us in our final moments, sure sure does. First off, maybe Broncos players, they might get an what I would do to that offense? Tim Patrick even just try to He just resigned from about another sneaky Aaron Rodgers team. The Steelers, Yeah, might be ready

to win too. I think they're gonna be in the Russell Wilson sweep Steaks along with potentially Philadelphia and the Russell Wilson sweep Steaks. But yes, that is another possible landing spot. Here's another one, maybe Josh Palmer. This actually helps Palm to Mike Williams contract is up, but I don't see him resigning there. They have an out on Keenan all and but I don't think they take that. Nico Collins, how about the box. Chris Godwin was franchise tag.

He'll be a free agent again. Antonio Brown be a free agent. Maybe Tyler Johnson or jal They hate Tyler Johnson, is what I've concluded over the past month. It's it's ain't don't like him, but he's playing to him. If you're on the field all the time, and Tom Brady, what if Godwin's gone? Though? But Brown has been gone and he's been running all these reps and it doesn't matter. It's Brown and God What do you think it? Deshaun Watson? Maybe okay Man playing for next year. Thanks for listening

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