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an awesome day. It is an awesome unless you're a guy who had the first pick in your fantasy draft. That that could be true, But no, I was gonna say, I am doing exactly what I should be doing on a day like this, hanging out with Paul charch In and Brian Johnson on my sixteenth wedding Anniverse three. Well, I mean I think of us as being something like very open marriage between us, the three of us, and

maybe include and your wife as well. In fairness. When we got married, I married my best friend and and she married like her fourth best friend. I'm still in the top ten on the top ten after sixteen years. That's like a Brady like Rod. I'm still a top ten. Not bad, not bad. Happy anniversary to the fishes. You outkicked your coverage that if I wait, if you have an open marriage, does somebody get to sleep with the fishes? I just talking in your extremely hypothetical scenario. Yes, that

that makes sense. Fantastic. We've got plenty to get too. Over the course of this show, will break down every match of fantasy styles we always do. We will play three tough questions. We will answer what to do with Cuba Hubbard a little later in this show, and we will also give you nine players upon who can you can take a chance. Let's roll up our sleeves immediately with Jacoby Broussett and the Dolphins offen. Dolphins might be the lowest scoring offense of the year. They are right

now the lowest scoring offense. This may hold this season as they take on the Raiders. Yeah, this game, this game, I think it's gonna be a really low scaring battle here. Joe Kobe Prissett, the starter for the Miami Dolphins. This week, the Raiders held Ben and Big Ben and Lamar Jackson down to about two sixty five yards in a touch. Uh. You think of Brissette is a mobile quarterback? You kind of do. He's He's had his chops a little bit. But you may or may not be surprised to know

he only averages fifteen yards rushing per start. He doesn't. He doesn't run as much as we might think, and he averages two hundred passing yards and one touchdown per start. He doesn't get a lot of a lot of stats. And when you have that low volume, you can't start Wattle. You can't, especially with will Fuller back. You can't start Wattle or Fuller or Parker. One of them might get you some stats, but you can't trust in any of them. I have them on the bench. I've sat on the

bench as well. If you's couldn't have figured that out, I have Gasecki on the bench. The Raiders are actually top ten against tight ends, but mostly Gasecki and Derm might have been pulled into be used to block the line plays been terrible in Miami. Yeah, you can't. You can't start Kaseki. I do have a C grade on Gaskin though he's getting five plus targets a week. Um, you say that like it's a good thing. Yeah, I mean his his ten to fifteen touches might be what

gets you there. It might be the only thing that can work in this offense. Brissett's little dump offs to him and he had a hundred sixty nine yards total yards last year against this writer's team, So I think there's a little bit optimism there. So I'm giving him a possibly a volume C grade. I think he gets some catches, he gets you some points. On the other side, Derek Carr, I am giving a B grade to Derek Carr.

With Drake and Barber, um, you know, being the workhorses with uh, you know, and watching what they did last week, they were just they were they were terrible last week that the their yards per yards per rush were there was one territory, two for Barber and one for Drake carry. That's it. Yeah, it's It's absolutely ridiculous. Derek Carr has been lighting it up. This might be a little better

of a defense. The Dolphins have some good cornerbacks, so I'm only giving car B grade here, But he's gonna have to step it up in this one because the running game is not going to get it done with Jacob's likely out. However, with Rugs and Edwards and Renfro I mentioned those cornerbacks, Uh, they're all good, like Xavian Howard's good Byron Jones is good. We're talking. All three of their cornerbacks are top forty ranked by PFF, Like, uh, it's it's good. It's tough matchups for all of them.

Renfro as the best matchup in the slot against Coleman. But I don't like any of them this week as like even a C start, I think it all goes to Waller. I think that's where Carr can do that. He's going to spread it around, but we might see another nineteen target Waller game. So I mean he's just an obvious A at this point. Yes, yeah, in the run game, I have Drake with a C and Barbara on the bench. Drake is only getting the C because he's got five catches, not targets. Five catches in each game.

If and that's that's getting me, you know, five catches in forty yards just receiving, then he gets that's how Granted he got nine yards rushing last week, so I was gonna say he gets rushing, but we don't know think that's gonna count on that. He's gonna get the C. Great for me, but that's it for for this matchup, alright, not much, you know, not a lot to like in Dolphins Rangers. But we got that game out of the way, yes, right off the bat, which is very important. Go away.

We have a better matchup, I hope with Bengals at Steelers. Brian, I don't know. And Bengal is gonna likely be without Tee Higgins in this game. There's a lot of likely without, Like I printed off my notes a couple of hours ago and they're already like marked up, like tons of ready in on my these notes right now. But we'll start with the Bengal side with players who will play uh In Joe Mixing just to see for Mixing though this week had a rough outing against the Bears last week,

probably won't get any better against the Steelers. Are any easier, I should say. Pittsburgh has allowed the seventh fewest rushing yards and sixth fewest receiving yards to running backs. Mixing basically didn't play last year, but he didn't play the Steelers in either game last year, but in his six

career meetings prior, just one total touchdown. And now now t J. Watt is questionable for Pittsburgh and that's that's that's a huge With a growing injury that that'll be huge either way, So you want to keep your eye on what when it comes to Joe mixing and the passing game, which we'll get to you right now. As you mentioned, Te Higgins looks doubtful. He's like a positive doubtful though like the most positive a doubt doubtful can get apparently on the questionable side of doubt with the

shoulder injury. But we're just gonna assume he does not play. Uh, so he's on the bench, So we'll go to Jamar Chase, who I had a B grade on if Higgins played, and it certainly doesn't help Jamar Chase that Higgins is sitting. Does not give him extra attention for sure, So I'm gonna stick with a B for Chase. He's paying off big time for those who butt uh the late summer like he felt a couple of rounds and after the drops in the preseason a touchdown of twenty plus are

yards in each week for Chase. The Steelers have allowed the sixth most yards and third most receptions to wide receivers plus a touchdown in each game they played. Henry Ruggs, the third just had a hundred plus in a score last week, So I like chase his chances of replicating those numbers from Rugs. So again, Higgins out, Tyler Boyd was gonna get his CEE. I guess I'm gonna bump Boyd up to a B. Now Pittsburgh has yielded the third most targets to wide receivers and Tyler Boyd generally

gets a lot of those. From Ben Roethlisber, I'm sorry from Joe Burrow, Um, who you know, I gotta talk about autent tate now, I was gonna give Tyler Boyd. I don't think even when a dart throw autent tae though there is a good secondary Joe Hayden's going they're gonna get funnel to the past. I feel the Bengals aut not a takecom player, but he's a fringe take on player, maybe a daily Star super super super desperate.

There you go, We'll go with that. And then lastly, for since Joe Burrow, just to see, um, he did play Pittsburgh last year before the season ending knee injury. Sadly, te Higgins went off in that game. Who's not playing in this game? So uh bur only had two yards and one passing touchdown. In that game. I think he can get to to forty and two in this one. Uh, now with Jamar Chase in the mix, but again Higgins gone. Uh. If t J. Watt is a go or no go,

that's that's this huge for Burrow in this one. But I'm gonna stick with the sea. Over to the Steelers side, We'll start with Naji Harris, who did not play in one of the snaps last week. It's a tough matchup for Naji um the Bengals held Dalvin Cook and David Montgomery and check on the ground. Harris did see five targets last week. That's encouraging. I would expect him to top one hundred combo yards on this one with the potential for a touchdown, but just a very soft b

for nausea. That's all the way from that was very intentional. Now Deonde Johnson was going to get an A, but now he's been ruled out. He is out. So James Washington becomes a really sneaky pickup inlay and dfs we we will get to him in Trey Wayne's uh, since his top corner is doubtful, so that that's a bump for all remaining wide receivers will start with Juju Smith Schuster, your your boy Charts has scored in three or four career home games against the Bengals, including last year's contest.

So I'm gonna give him a B with no Deonte Johnson and uh, he was going to be a C, as was Chase Claypool. Uh, I'm gonna give Claypool to be here fifty plus yards in both games against the Bengals last year. He scored twice in one of those games. Um, So with no Deonte Johnson, Claypool and Smith Shoester should see a significant bumping targets a B for both of them and James Washington another kind of bonus. Take home wide receiver here with a C grade no Deonta Clify.

For those that might not listen to the show regularly, take com is recalled take a chance on Me. That is our our shortened version. Everyone knows that the most popular acronym in fantasy football, but they'll they'll learn it in the next Well the second The second most popular acronym and fantasy football is blow and we'll get well, yeah, we'll get blowed later and quickly. The tight ends not

startable yet for me for Pittsburgh. Even though rookie Pat Friar Muth has appeared to have jumped he run on the depth chart. Fiarmuth is the only true rookie tight end we will discuss on the day show. And lastly, Ben Roethlisberger. He'll never get higher than to see ever right for the remainder of this season. I mean, based what we've seen so far. No, he he looks cooked with no Deonte Johnson, he's got the peck injury. I kind of like the wide receiver still a little bit.

But I got Ben on the bench. No, I don't blame you. They're far better cup, far better guys to play. Chargers take on the Chiefs, and I'm gonna start with the Chargers side by mentioning the Chiefs defense is in bad shape. Frank Clark is out for this game and that will help to both the running game and the passing game. Chris Jones is questionable chair various Award one

of their starting corners also questionable for this game. Chargers are going to win this game and Patrick Mahomes is gonna be under five hundred in a couple of days. That's coming up. Huh, let's start with the running game in Austin Ekeler. Chiefs are allowing one hundred thirty rushing yards. That's the third most and two rushing scores the most per game to opposing running backs, which is part of the A grade for Eckler. He caught all nine of

his receptions last week. Remember after week one when he had no receptions and we were all worried that he gets nine the next week next week? Right, zero, I'd like it. Zero. Yeah. The Chiefs ranked thirty so far in running back receiving yards allowed. Sorry, that was last year, thirtieth last year allowed. They appeared to be better through that through a couple of games this year, but still a plus matchup for Eckler on the ground and through

the air. Love Justin air Bear, who has played better than his box scores would suggest. In Week one he faced a very good Washington defense, still put up threety seven and in week two he had a couple of big play touchdowns that got reversed and he still posted three thirty eight yards and one was on a taunting call to right, one of the many awful taunting calls.

It feels like Justin he is sitting on an explosive game, and this could be at the chief secondary has only been lightly tested with the passing of Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson, and they're still giving up an eye popping completion rate of seventy two, the fifth worst in the league. And here comes Air Bear with his seventy percent completion rate. This is a plus plus matchup for a Bear A grade. Keenan Allen gets an A grade. Back to back one

hundred yard games the first time since twenties seventeen. Minnesota cast off Mike Hughes awaits him in the slot. Hughes gives up four inches and twenty pounds. That is a sizeable mismatch in Alan's favor. Also, Mike Hughes is not good. Mike Williams gets a B grade, which we will upgrade to an A if char Various Ward does not play

back to back games with double digit targets. For Mike Williams something that had never happened in his entire career before, and that kind of usage makes him a reliable starter like never before. I read how his A dot has basically been cut in half, but it's been absolutely more productive. He's got a good coachingverage. The target for those who do that is correct, Thank you very much. Well, I

do think cornerback Legarius Sneed is good. Um, he can be avoided pretty easy by lining up on the other side of the field. And as I mentioned, our various word may not play so b and possibly in a grade for Mike Williams. Jared Cook is a sneaky tight end sleeper you may be able to pick up. The Chiefs have allowed ninety three yards per game to opposing tight ends, that is the second most in the league. Cook has gotten almost all of the tight end targets.

He notched four red zone receptions in the two games, which could be a good sign for a possible touchdown here. Next, let's go over to the Kansas City side Mahomes and Hill and Kelsey. I'll get a grades, but I do need to point out some danger points for you. Over the past two years, Mahomes is averaged a mundane two hundred nineteen yards and one point three touchdown passes against the Chargers. That is Brisset level production. That's so that's weird.

And with the return of elite safety Derwin James and promising rookie cornerback is Sante Samueldi. The Chargers are not a lay up at this point. Los Angeles has allowed the second fewest Fantasy points to quarterbacks, including goose egging Dak Prescott last week. It looks like Joey Bosa will not play though, after missing the entire week of practice. That does help Mahomes but again still have A grades and Mahomes, Hill and Kelsey, but not this usual the

usual confidence we've had in the past. Then we turned our attention to Clyde Edwards, a layer to complete duds so far and needs to perform here against the Chargers team allowing a league worse rushing yards per game on five and a half yards per carry. This is a critical juncture for Clyde Edwards a Laire. We're gonna talk more about him a little later in the show. He gets a C grade here. He he is still quasi active in the receiving game. I don't know, not as

much as he should be. So maybe he's going to help out a little bit in that particular area. But again, deep dive coming up later in the show on Clyde Edwards a Laire. We've been kind of ragged on Jacoby uh in this segment, but he did prest the bar pretty low boy. Thanks Dad. When we come back, nine players upon whom you can take a chance. As a segment we call take a chance on Me, and we continue to create brand new Guillotine leagues at Guillotine leagues

dot com. If you want to play the freshest new format and fantasy sports, check out Guillotine Leagues dot com. Back in moments, everybody, welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A segment we call take a chance on Me. It's so great to have a great song to go take a chance on me. Now. I ragged on this song in its debut at late last year's but it was it was that it was better than whatever we were rolling out before that. But it's growing on me every time

great tune. I apologize for ragging on I think as well you should. This is nine players not normally and you're starting line up. Many of these guys are available on the waiver wire. Got great matchups this week. We'll tell you who they are, beginning at the quarterback position and Scott Fish. First off, I think we all missed the chipmunks. We can all admit that we missed the

Chipmunks take a chance on me song. It's true. Yes, I never thought I never thought I would say it, But yes, that's that's the one that's still not miss Okay, I have Daniel Jones. The Falcons are the worst ranked team against quarterbacks. They've allowed eight passing touchdowns, and the Giants are designing runs for Jones, which is actually going to give him a nice floor. He has a two

plus total yards and multiple scores in both games. And as I said in week one, if you remember, you have to keep in mind that for Atlanta, the front eleven on that defense is not very good. That is true, the front eleven. Yes, yes, Brian, you're take a chance to the quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo at home against the Packers. How should my guy from the past two weeks? Oh yeah, started like is he always gonna be taking take ace? Might bake Trey Lance is gonna have to wait another week.

Jameis Winston went off against Green Bay for five touchdowns in week one. Jared Goff at a decent showing in Lambeau last week with nearly two fifty passing yards and two touchdowns. So Jimmy g has multi touchdown potential with his primary receiving options healthy like George Kittle and Diebo Samuel of course, and and virtually no running backs on the team. We'll talk about that a little later in

the show. And Jameis Winston also ran for thirty seven yards and Gop had forty six against Green Bay and Jimmy g just as mobile as those guys, if not more so. I'm like in Garoppolo sitting on a big game. I think it could be just find Kevin King is all you have to do at the Packers fans pulling

their hair out over his play. Jared goff Is might take a chance on me quarterback you just alluded to him, and unlikely top ten fantasy quarterback right now thanks to a unique recipe that remains in play for the Lions and awful defense creating ongoing negative game scripts. His offensive line is pretty good, so he's got time to scan the field, and even with shaky receivers, he's getting a lot of help from his tight ends in his running backs.

And here comes a Baltimore defense a shell of its former self, allowing the most passing yards in the NFL, and on Friday they had to rule out four defensive starters on the COVID list. This is a very plus matchup for Jared Goff potentially sitting on a big game. They're probably calling ed read write about now, want to let's go to the running back position. You're take a

chance on me player. I am going with score Darryl Patterson Mark McNeil from from Twitter giving me that nickname score Darryl Patterson, Like, uh, he has a role in this offense. Was this last week? But I know right they're designing a lot of plays for him. He's only in a game about a third of the time, and he's touching the ball on a good high percentage. Of those giants they match up against. The Falcons are allowing nearly five point four yards per carrying over nine yards

per reception to to running backs. Also, by the way, Gauge and Frank Darby r out. So basically, it's it's Pits, it's Redley, it's Patterson, and like all the Alata days, Achias like that's it on that. Yeah, I didn't think you pull that off. You're taking a chance of me running back Bryant. I have the decomposing zombie corps of James Conner at Jacksonville. Connor has not looked good this year, but the Jaguars have looked worse than James Connor has

in a vacuum. Chase Edmonds is a guy you want for Arizona, but Connor is still going to factor, uh, probably heavily against the Jaguars team that allowed every Texan running back to score in Week one outside of Rex Burkhead, but all three other backs scored and last week uh, they surrendered one plus combo yards to Denver backs. And Jacksonville has also yielded the second most red zone and gold to go touches to running backs so far this year. So I think Connor sneaks into the end zone in

this one. Could be I've got Latavius Murray against Detroit. Any warm body viable play against Detroit, And while I prefer Tyson Williams by a lot, but just for the sake of going farther down the depth chart, let's talk about Murray. He'll face a Lions team surrounding one fifty total yards per game to opposing backs that's ninth most and a staggering three running back touchdowns per game. The

Lions are giving up by average. Uh, So you know if there's three to be had, even if Williams gets one or two of them, Maury could get the third. Murray had eighty three total yards and two scores when he played against Detroit last year as a member of the Saints. Let's go to the receivers, Scott, who's your take a chance on me? White out? My take a chance on me? Wide receiver is going to be Jillen reagor. Uh.

He's going up against Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys giving a lot of passing or wide receiver production so far, it looks like it's gonna be a shootout on Monday Night with with an over under over fifty points. And the Dallas Cowboys have allowed ninety plus yards and or a score to four receivers in their two games, two in each game, and three of those scored. Uh. The one

who didn't had a hundred eight yards. Also, the guy that plays in Rigors spot in the field went for five in a touch and seven for a touch in those two Wow. Alright, Brian, your take a chance to me receiver? Now he's Uh, he's a receiver, but he's not a wide receiver. He's a tight end and he plays for Arizona. But he's Minnesota's own Max Williams at the Jaguars. You think last week Max at Jack's was not a was not a fluke. It was not a fluke. Max with Jack's big Max attack. And that's with two

exes on Jacksonville. And that's the University of Minnesota, of course. And I saw it was Goldie the Gopher sixty nine birthday, sixty nine, nice birthday the other day, So happy belated Goldie. But great matchup for Williams, finally living up to that second round draft capital from Baltimore from about I don't know. It feels like a decade ago at this point, but tight ends have faredwell against the Jaguars. Houston's Farrell Brown had four catches sixty seven yards in Week one in Denver.

Tight ends combined for nine catches for sixty plus yards in a touchdown against jackson Ville Jacksonville last week. So Max to the Max, Max and Jacks Sammy Watkins is not just for week one anymore. He leads all Ravens receivers and snap counts. He leads all Ravens receivers in routes run Mark Keys Brown entering this game hobble. This could be a big opportunity for Sammy Watkins to continue

a solid start to the season. Um the Lions secondary so inept they're missing two starting cornerbacks in an already awful secondary. This is an opportunity for basically any carbon based life form who's on the field against the Lions, and Sammy Watkins counts as one of those. He is carbon based. Is carbon based? We are we are reporting here for the very first time. Let's work in a couple of matchups. Falcons against the Giants. Scott we already

talked about We've already talked about a couple of falcons. Yeah, well we talked about score. Darrell Patterson. Uh, let's go with the other running back there, his backup running back. Just kidding, Mike Davis. He's actually still playing seventy of the snaps to Patterson's six, team plus touches in back to back games for Davis and ten catches in those two games to patterson seven. He's actually getting a decent amount of work both in the running game and passing game.

Already told you the Giants are allowing five point four yards per carrying, nine yards per reception, give me a B grade on Mike Davis this week. I like him here in this spot. The Matt Ryan in the passing game washed Matt Ryan. That's that should be his nickname now. But still, somehow, somehow, I'm giving him a C grade. But honestly, you should probably find a better option. But I'm gonna give him a C minus here, all right. The secret than the Giants are allowing three hundred yards

and two scores per game. That's why you like him. Uh the over unders like forty and a half, That's that's why you should like him. To um he had three hundred yards and two touchdowns last week. There's reasons to like him. He just looks really bad and I don't want him to give him a grade better than the see. I don't blame you, Kelvin Ridley. I got an A grade on He's gonna get James Bradbury. For the most part, Bradbury gave up four for forty nine

to McClaren. Obviously McLaren had a bigger game that but that's what Bradbury gave up. Gave up ford for forty three to Sutton. He's he's given He's given up some chunks and Ridley. They can move around and he can avoid Bradbury at times. So twelve total receptions in his coverage. Bradbury is Ridley A grade. Russell gauges out Alamina Zakias is gonna gonna be in. I have a bench grade on Zakius, but also Frank Darby's out. Basically the only other guy in that offense is Kyle Pitts. He come.

This could be This could finally be the A grade you so desperately want to have give and have him actually be made good on. Hey hey, now, I gave him an A grade in week one, but then the following week you gave Jake George Kittle and a grade against that same defense, and George Kittle did worst worst. Okay, the Giants have allowed the third most receptions, the third most touchdowns, and the fifth most arts to tight ends. They're allowing six plus catches and sixty plus yards and

to score per game in each game. This isn't a new tread. Remember in two thousands seventeen they were terrible. They were terrible in two thousand set Well, when we talk about Cole Pits, apparently we're supposed to use historical tight end data. Is that all right? Boom roasted. I'm just kidding. I'm just messing around. I do have an A grade on cop Pits. Yeah, I'm sure you do. This feels like way more of a breakout. It really does. It really does. Previous A grade. Yeah, this is, you know,

justin Jefferson's third game last year type stuff. All right over, how about the Giants side? Giants side? Daniel Jones was gonna take a chance on me player? Obviously if I like him, I like some players. He's going to be throwing too. I'm keeping ingram and the tight ends on the bench in his first game back, even though the Falcons let Gronkins Goddard score on them. I don't trust Angraman his first game back, but Shephard and got A.

Shepherd leads the league in interceptions right now. It's hard not to like him. I have a B grade on him. I could be convinced into an A grad um. Atlanta has allowed multiple wide receivers to score in each and each game, and all of them had over forty nine yards. For Kenny Golladay. It might be a squeaky wheel gets the grease type of situation, or a squeaky mouse gets the cheese situation or what what whatever the saying is,

because here's the interesting thing. Sixty second ranked Isay Oliver is going to be covering Shephard right and Slot Golliday. They just ruled out A. J. Terrell on Friday, putting five year journeyman five years, five teams journeyman T J. Green, who has played like twenty snaps this year. On Kenny Golladay, I know Kenny's, you know, dealing with little injury issues, but given the blow up blow up last week, I think the squeaky wheel thing, I'm going to give him

a C grade for a cat. For a certain caliber of player, the squeaky wheel almost always gets the grease. And when you're paid seventy one million dollars, yeah, I think you get greased. Yes, So C grade for him. In the running game, Booker's only averaging four touches of game, so let's ignore him. But se Kwon Barkley, this might be the first time back, it's the first time he's not on the injury report. Finally, he's had ten days rest. We knew it was going to be a slow start.

His snaps went from to eight and now he's had ten days. Falcons are allowing a hundred forty two combo yards per game. You gotta imagine that all of that is going to Barkley. I have a B grade on Barkley just because a little hesitant. Still all right, I think you're right. I think this is this could be the breakout game. Adrian Peterson as an example for a running back coming off a c L in his big his blow up season was his first three games were light,

first two were light. He had a ten carry game in week one, a twelve carry game in week two, and then he touched the ball twenty nine times a week three. I remember, he can be the big the big change. So maybe that's gonna be it for Sae Kwon Barkley. I remember you had like two hundred yards in the first three games, and then he had like eighteen hundred to end of the season. I think that's about right. Whatever was um, Brian, let's see if we can sneak in Cardinals Jags in like two and a

half minutes. Let's do it. If you think we can't, then then we're gonna go to break What do you think? Let's go for it? Caler Murray. I'm giving him the fantasy Fonzie. A currently on pace for roughly seventy five total touchdowns as of right now. I guess that's a seventeen game pace as well. I don't have a Fonzie. I've got the Ard Park. But now now DeAndre Hopkins game time decision with a rib injury, I'm still giving

Murray the Fonzie regardless of Hopkins place. I like him against Jacksonville, but you gotta keep your eye on DeAndre Hopkins with the rib injury. Gonna give him in an A if he goes. Jacksonville is allowing more than two yards per game to wide receivers and Hopkins is one of the best in the world, so uh, not a lot to discuss here, but you gotta keep your eye

on him. So hopefully he goes on Sunday. Now, if he doesn't go, I had starting grades on Rondale Moore, A, J. Green, Christian Kirk BBC, no Hopkins, then now it goes a B. Basically Green will see the most snaps and has shown some glimpses of the glory days, but more it looks like an absolute super star. But he's on the field the least of the three, and that's I mean again against the Jaguars, I'll start all three of these guys even if Hopkins is a go uh, Kirk my least favorite.

But if no Hopkins, they all get bumped up. And I liked Max Williams as might take a chance of me receiver at tight end. And you like James Connors, you take it. But I like I like Chase Edmunds more than James Connor, So Edmonds gets to be Connor gets the take. Hom See, you gotta love your Cardinals against the Jaguars, you don't have to love a lot on the Jacksonville side. I will give James Robinson a C. Last week, his snapshare rose to seventy and his touch

is nearly doubled. That was a relief uh for everyone who drafted him as a bell cow post e t N injury um. But the Cardinals limited Derrick Henry to fifty eight rushing yards in the opener, but then Dalvin

Cooke just ran all over them last week. So give Robinson a safe C on you know, volume with some B potential, but it's a it's gonna be a coin flip if he has any six s or not uh nobes for any of the wide receivers and only giving Marvin Jones a starting grade, he gets to see fourth highest target share percentage among all wide receivers at thirty eight percent. Looking like an absolute draft day steel right now, Arvin Jones is h d J Shark does not. He's

on the bench. Twelve targets in week one, just three catches. That's not good than just four targets for one catch. I think d J art just might not be any good and Lavish Chalt Trevor Lawrence, we gotta see some more before we need want to see Channel healthy as well, and maybe in a better matchup. Um speaking at better matchups Ravens and Lions Points School or coming. We'll tell you all the players you can start in this matchup

when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you from Guillotine leagues dot com. You roll back into some matchups, including the Ravens taking on the Lions, and there's a lot of guys we like here and some of them don't even require much elaboration, like Lamar Jackson obvious a here. Marquis Brown has eight touchdowns in his last eight games going up against this paper thin

Detroit Lions secondary missing two of its starting cornerbacks. Marcus Brown is an obvious A I believe as well, and Sammy Watkins was might take a chance on me. Wide receiver Mark Andrews has been quiet, but a breakout game possibly coming here. George Kittle dropped four catches for seven eight yards on Detroit in Week one, and then Robert Tunyon posted fifty two yards in a score this past Monday Night, So good game likely coming from Mark Andrews

in this one. The breakout game we want. Tyson Williams I meant into him earlier in the show, quietly on a having a really nice season. He's averaging six and a half yards per carry. He leaves all NFL runners in average yard yards over expectation by next gen stats at two extra yards. Tyson Williams does the kids good appropriately. He's still getting more snaps and more carries than Murray as well as he should. Plus he catches passes that

Murray isn't in this In this game. So far, he's hauled in five of six targets this year and receiving chops are valuable. If you look at what the Lions just allowed Aaron Jones to do for on them through the air. We want a piece of that. So there's Tyson Williams and a B grade for you. Lettavius Murray was might take a chance, I mean running back earlier he has a C grade in this game. Moving over

to the Detroit side. Already told you Jared goff Was might take a chance on me quarterback, And I'll re mention Ravens just put four defensive players on their COVID list, so we like a lot of players here. I had a B grade on golf before they put all those players on the list, and I think I'm still gonna keep him with a B grade. But man, it's close to a grade B before. Yes's just a top ten

fantasy quarterback already, he's swimming in garbage. We made a joke about it, but I think this trade was good for both sides. Might turn out that way. T J. Hockinson's and obvious A grade here. By the way, Kansas City goes from Darren Waller to Travis Kelsey and now t J. Hockenson a murderer's row of tight ends and they're getting killed as well, and a probable negative game script will keep Hockinson active throughout this one. A grade

for t J. Hockenson. Staying with the passing game, how about if we sprinkle in a little quintet c fist with the C grade throw a dart at him? Why not? He was your snap leader last week at the wide receiver position by a wide margin and with tyrrell soft tissue Williams out. He runs primarily from the left side of the field, where he sees Anthony Aver a neutral matchup. A C grade for c fuss the Quinn Tasmanian devil

nope uh DeAndre Swift gets a B grade here. He leads the league with sixteen targets, leads all runners in targets. He is second in receptions. He's third in receiving yards. His lone touchdown has come through the air as well, and he's going to be a big PPR helper in this game. Swift production will come easier through the air.

The Ravens allowed the fourth fewest rushing yards to opposing backs and the fourth most receiving yards, so there's all about the receiving prowess of DeAndre Swift, and that's the B grade. And Jamal Williams can chip in here as well. Granted he's on the wrong side of the two third one third time share with DeAndre Swift, but when he's in the game, he's getting on the field and he's still touching the ball fourteen times a game. He's already had an eight catch game, and I just explained about

how susceptible Baltimore is to pass catching back. So I like Williams as well with the C grade. In that game, Yeah, he's touching the ball nearly two thirds of his snaps. Yeah, that's that's not good good utilization. The Buccaneers take on the Rams and Tom Brady has been my number one ranked quarterback the past two weeks. Not this time, though, Scott. Uh no, no, it's this week. I actually have a B grade on Brady. I mean, they have nine passing

touchdowns no rushing touchdowns yet over there for the Bucks. Uh. If Dalton can throw for two d two hundred plus yards on the Rams and Wentz can throw for two seven, you think Tom can throw for three hundred, you would think. But all kind aside, that's a really good defense. Uh, they we'll see how the I think they meet in the middle here. You know, the good offense, which is the good defense. I'm just giving a B grade Brady,

and I assume that finally we might see some rushing points. Yeah, well, you never know. He has a lot of those one yard jump over Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. I have B grades on both. The ram have only allowed yards to receivers. Weirdly, Michael Pittman was of that, I don't know how that works, but only one receiving touchdown allowed. But and Jalen Ramsey, Darius Williams, David Long are all top forty ranked by PFF. But they're they're just gonna get enough targets in a shoot out like this that

I'm gonna give him a B grade. I feel they get there somehow, especially with Antonio Brown out for this game, likely out for this game. Uh Tyler Johnson and and uh Taylor Darton are going to get into the game a little more. But you can't start them. Gronk. I have an A grade on He's not going to score two touchdowns. Again. I feel safe in saying that. Well, actually, I don't feel as safe as I should feel weirdly.

But the Bears and Colts tight ends average six for sixty eight on the Rams, and I'd be very happy with that with Gronk, but I think he'll get more because he seems to be Tom's favorite target near the stripe. So still in a grade for Gronk because he's got that huge touchdown upside the Leo, g O and O Joe trilogy there they're on the bench. I mean Geo has four touches this season, Rojo has eleven. That's that's that's nothing for Netta has twenty nine touches. So if

there was a guy, it might be him. But the Rams run the has been good. They're holding down every they hold held down Jonathan Taylor to basically nothing last week. He got a bench of them all. On the other side, Matthew Stafford, I got an a grade here. You have a banged up Darrell Henderson. If he goes, if he doesn't,

it's Sony Michelle. They won't be able to run it all against this vaunted Bucks D. So Stafford's gonna have to light up a Bucks D that is allowing three hundred and fifty yards and two point five touchdowns per game. By the way, Stafford himself is averaging three hundred yards and two point five touchdowns, so that seems like where he's gonna be. Cooper Cup is an obvious A. By the way, Peacock on that one in the preseason, I had that one right. Uh, he's he's a Stafford, he's

Stafford's guy, He's Stephred's guy. Now you don't really need to do that. Uh. He's got a nice match up against Ross Cockrell ranked ninety one by PFF, and the Bucks are allowing two yards per game, which is good for the second most to wide receivers and the most receptions to wide receivers. So he's gonna get the A. Robert Woods is going to get the A going up

against Carlton Davis. Um He's actually ranks pretty good by pretty pretty highly by PF, but a lot of it is a bunch of pass breakups and pick He still lets up yards. So um Amari Cooper blew up on him week one, Calvin Ridley blew up on him last week. Justin or Van Jefferson I have on the bench. You know, maybe he gets a big play, but you can't count on it. He's as dart throwable as On and Tad and James Washington and like maybe a little more than

those guys. Um, but I have a bench grade. But like Charge says, you know, he's he's he's dart throw a bowl. Uh. Tyler Higbie, I have c great on the Bucks. Allowed nine plus receptions to tight ends in each game, sixty five plus yards in each game. Feels like a solid spot. Higbie wasn't part of the game plan last week, Complete Dodd. I think he rebounds in the high scoring matchup this week. And Henderson and Michelle,

if Henderson goes, your bunche in of both. If Henderson does not go, and it's all Michelle, you're mentioning him to uh. In the last two games, get this, You're gonna this is a charge stet, You're gonna love this. In the last two games that McVeigh has played the Bucks, he's dialed up twenty six run plays and a hundred and nineteen passed places, so expects the passing. No rams running back outside of those two have touched the ball, so you can't touch start any of them. Absolutely not

all right? In our final matchup of this segment, and this hour will be the Colts taking on the Titans. Brian, we don't yet. We might not know until game time about who the cold starting quarterback is. Yeah, Carson Wentz. Parentheses ankles not singular to sprained angles. Never never heard of such a thing, and uh my my life basically, So let's you've had two sprayed angles at the same time I have. I guess I'm not surprised by that, sadly, but I still love be Fish. Anyway, We'll start with

wins Um on the bench, even if he plays. You can't trust the guy with two sprained ankles unless his name is Scott Fish. You could always trust Scott Fish. If wins doesn't go, you think Jacob Easton was going to get the start, but you probably Well, they might run Hundley a little bit, but they're not gonna They're not gonna diddle be Eason and no way anyway you slice that you can't like the past game too much. I will give Michael Pittman to see if Wentz plays.

I guess that's a good thing. If wins plays in this game, I'm not so sure. But Pittman had a huge day against Jalen Ramsey and the Rams last week, so why not against the Titans. I do have Zach Pascal on the bench though, despite having three touchdown receptions already, but uh, I just don't don't trust him with a Hobbily Wins or a Jacob Easton or Brett Hunley Webber's playing quarterback. You're not starting Zach Pascal. And I've got

Jack Doyle on the bench as well. So far, opposing tight ends have totalled one catch on six targets against Tennessee, and Gerald Everett was one of them. And he's decent enough, He's a warm enough body, So uh, Doyle is on the bench. Jonathan Taylor probably you're only sure fire start for the Colts, but he's not a very strong one. UH leads the NFL and red zone touches, zero touchdowns, six carries inside the five yard line twelve zero yards

for zero touchdowns. Obviously he likely will come around. Uh. He's got a shot against the Titans defense, who have gotten off to a slow start, allowing one d plus comboy yards or multiple UH scores opposing leadbacks in both games. Chris Carson had two goal line touchdowns last week, so hopefully Taylor can plunge over the goal line if he get gets the opportunity again, multiple opportunities again. We'll talk

more about Taylor later in this show. And I almost used Nahem Hines as might take a chance on me running back, but I got him on the bench for this one. Quickly over to the Tennessee side, King Henry Derrick Henry gets an a yes on eight plus rush yards and the hat trick last week, but I'm most excited about the six catches her territory more than Kamara,

more than uh Karen Jones. He's a receiving back now and in his last game against Indie, which was also in Indie last year, Henry had one seventy eight and three on the ground with with two catches in that game. So an easy a for Derrick Henry, Uh, pretty easy be for a j Brown didn't look so great last week, but he will play play. The Coast have allowed two one hundred yard receivers and have rendered five touchdowns of the position. For that reason, Julio Jones also gets to

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back for our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. In moments, our number two Fantasy Football Weekly pul Sharchy and Guillotine Leagues dot com. Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. This is a game we call three tough questions. Tough question number one, Derek Carr is leading the nf FELL in passing yards? Is that a trend or a mirage? Scott, It's a trend. It's a trend. It's gonna happen. This is rich Gannon two thousand to reincarnate. You remember that

year very well. Yes, we all remember that year when he never threw for more than four thousand yards, and then all of a sudden, that year's MVP candidate with or so. Las Vegas has the worst runback blocking line in the league and they are allowing the fourth highest pressure rate for past for blocking. Car has to throw and throw quickly and a lot to to stay in any games. Right now, his schedule toughens up for a

little bit. He's got five five games against top ten defenses out of the next six, but after that they're all like bottom twelve for almost the entire rest of the season. I think he loads up there. I'm saying it's a trend. I'm saying he's gonna have to throw a lot this season, all right, Brian Derek Carr leading the all in passing yards trend or mirage, Yeah, I'm going trend to. Last year, Car was eleventh in passing yards, but Las Vegas only threw the ball like cent of

the time. That's a very low clip. Right now, they're throwing the ball nearly seventy percent of the time. I liked the wide receivers enough and Henry rugs, Brian Edwards, Hunter, Renfrell an absolute stud at tight end. Obviously, with Darren Waller, the defense is just bad enough to keep them throwing a lot, as are the running as the running games. So yeah, I don't know if he's gonna be the passing yards leader, but he's got top five potential right now. Yeah. Um,

you guys took all my talking points. This is a trend, Derek, even the rich Cannon point, even the Rich Cannon one man, I wanted to win m VP. I think he finished second that year. I don't think I could be I could be wrong. That was a while ago, Vegas. It's just a person perfect recipe for passing yards for the reasons you already mentioned, the negative game scraps, the dubious running, all the other stuff, and he leads the NFL and passing attempts. That that's going to continue, Derek Carr is

good enough. Update. Rich Cannon did win that year. He did win that. He did tough sin number two. Clyde Edwards a layer with two dud games trend or miurage, Brian, I think it's been so is the dud what's in question is that? What is what he's currently doing a trend, right, It's very much is it? Why do we've seen this year a trend? Or is that emerge? It's very much

a trend essentially throughout his career. It's been a short career, granted, uh c e h has about three good games in fourteen or fifteen dud games and people were scratching their head when he was the first running back selected in the draft last year. He had like a third round grade by a lot of the quote unquote experts, But they seem to be right on this one. I'm going to trend on the dud the dud leyness of light

Scott Edwards a layer with two dud games trend or mirage. Yeah, this this thing is like a fifteen sixteen seventeen game trend is what this is at this point? He you know what, how long can we sit there and go majority running back carry's chair on a high scoring offense.

It's gotta work and it just keeps not working, Like how long are we just going to keep buying into the narratives and not just watch what we see on the field, which is a back who looks kind of average, not even remotely as fast as we thought, and they're just not using him in the passing game like we hoped. He had no targets last week. Yeah, this is this is a trend. This might just be who he is, by the way, kind of like the third receiver on

Kansas City. Right, it just doesn't happen. It should, it just doesn't. More like Clyde Edwards Despair. Oh boy, we got a new nickname. Nicknames right it's a uh I don't know. Oh that's it right there. I thought I could Clyde Edwards Despair. Since his debut game last year, he's top the modest rushing mark of seventy nine yards one time. He has scored in four of his NFL games.

He's averaging three point three yards per carry this year, and over his past four teen games, almost a full season, he's somehow averaging seventeen receiving yards For a back who can catch, they just don't get him the ball. As I mentioned earlier in this show previous hour, a juicy matchup with the Chargers right now. If he doesn't do anything here, I think it's time to start treating Clyde Edwards Despair as a benchable flex player at best. Imagine

question number three. Imagine all the players, all the running backs that they could have drafted, like DeAndre Swift. Imagine DeAndre Swift on the number three about to talk about right now, could have been drafted. That's a great point. This guy tough. Question number three. Appropriate level of concern for Jonathan Taylor none some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread blue ed known as blowed Scott. I

just have son some on this, not son some. His next eight games are against defenses ranked in the bottom twelve against fantasy running back, so he should get back on track. He's getting nearly a fifty split of the receiving words with wear work, which we didn't really expect concerning how much how good Naim Hines was in that in that category last year. We expected more to fall into him. So it's hard to complain about nine targets

in two games. Um. They also felt really behind in both games, which I don't think they'll be doing all season. Maybe this week without a quarterback, but I don't think they'll be fine behind. They'll have more positive game scripts to come in better matchups. I'm just some concern, okay, Brian. Is the appropriate level of concern for Jonathan Taylor. None so um or blowed. As much as I love saying blowed, blow d it's just some level of a concern for me.

It's been a very slow start. It was a slow start for Taylor laster in his rookie year, but his his usage ramped up as the season went on. I think that happens this year. The line offensive line not as healthy as we would hope it would be as dominant, and that the past game isn't offering him much help so far. He's going to see a lot of stacked boxes. But again, the the guaranteed fifteen twenty, maybe even twenty five touches as the season wears on, only leaves me

with some level of concern. Why would it be blow ed? I mean, granted, there's beloved and be love ed. Maybe maybe it's like Spanish, that's like it's an too, so I married an ax murder some people out there. We'll get it. Okay, I don't get that, but that's okay, uh okay, Well I won't get into it, but well, Nathan Taylor leads the NFL and red zone carries with twelve, hasn't scored yet, and as you guys have covered already.

I think that seems unlikely to you know, he will end up scoring touchdown and zone carries like he's getting good. We want that. That's that's the usually the cheap, easy stuff, uncharacteristically wobbly offensive line that currently ranks twenty eight and run blocking by Pro Football Focus. Presumably Quentin Nelson will

get better. Right now, Quinton Nelson, who is going to go to the Hall of Fame, ranks twenty nine among guards by Pro Football Focus too, Viking guardens remember coming off ankle leg injury that you figure that gets better as well. So I'm still gonna go with some I don't The whole offense worries me, but I'm not ready to loosen my bowels over Jonathan Taylor, and you're usually willing to get Let's get those most of the time.

That's why it happens. It happens plenty around here. Let's go to our next matchup, which is the Saints taking on the Patriots, and start on the Saint side. To

be grade for Alvin Kamara. I'd like to tell you that a massive bounce back from last week's disaster is coming, but I can't Belichick loves to take away what opponents want to do the most, and that's get Alvin Camara going, and I don't think it's gonna happen, And you know that will mean that Jamis Winston is gonna have to sling his way to his Saints victory, and I don't

like that happening either. No back is top fifty nine rushing yards against the Patriots, but they are giving up a middle of the pack four point six yards per carry, So there's gonna be some opportunity for Camaron, which is part of why he gets the B grade here. But we should know is that for years Belichick has been elite at stopping past catching backs through the air, and that's already happening this year. So I don't know that Camara is gonna chip in the usual help that he

often does through the air. And also watch the health of State Saints center Eric McCoy Without him last week, that offensive line was brutal and if he's not able to go in this game, that's a big concern for Camara as well. Everybody else is on the bench. Let's just briefly touch on Jamis Winston and the rest of the receivers here, Winston is dead last, and pass attempts at just twenty two per game. Most of the time, you can't find fantasy relevancy on twenty two passing attempts.

In fact, I went back and looked at Bill Belichick over the last four years. When facing a quarterback who throws twenty two or fewer passes, the average game is one hundred seven passing yards and zero point two touchdown passes per game. That kind of volume, you're not going to get there on that volume, especially against Belichick. They're all on the bench. Tony Jones also on the bench. Low usage last week, just three touches, and this is not a favorable matchup. Let's go over to the Patriots.

I'm excited for Mac Jones in this game, and even though he has one touchdown pass on the season, I'm giving him a B grade. Facing a depleted Saints secondary that just got picked apart by Sam Donald for three hundred yards and two touchdowns. They're missing cornerback Marshawn Latimer. That means the Saints starting corner acts are a bunch of replacement grade guys like rookie Paulson Adebo, the always burnable p J. Williams and Bradley Roby, who's gonna be

making his second ever start for the Saints. I think Mac Jones looked good. He's completing seventy four percent of his passes as a rookie. That's nuts. Let's give him a B grade in this one. And that means that, like some of his receivers as well, Nelson Aguilar comes into a C grade. There are many times I'm safely going to tell you that Nelson Agilar is better than every opposing cornerback he's gonna see. But that is the case. Here is I just outlined for you guys. Jacoby Myers

gets a C grade. Running from the slot. He's gonna face one of the league's most risk taking, burnable cornerbacks. P J. Williams perennial perennially when of Pro Football Focus is lowest ranked cornerbacks, and James White as a receiver, He's already seen the fourth most targets and the second most receptions among all running backs. Connecting on Twitter, eleve

of thirteen tosses from Mac Jones. With Harris unlikely to get much traction on the ground in this game, I think White's gonna be on the field a lot, and last week Christian McCaffrey chipped in sixty five air yards against the Saints. I can see White going sixty five yards here. So now let's just talk about Damien Harris. Harris is looking at a tricky matchup. Loved his game

last week. By the way, Saints run defense has been elite for years and remains so now only one back has topped one hundred yards in New Orleans last fifties six games, a staggered level of run domination. They completely stuffed Aaron Jones and the opener, and Harrison Harris does not chip in anything through the air. Um last thing I'll mention them, and it pains me to say it, but with John Who Smith and and Hunter Henry splitting action,

we're just not getting enough usage for those guys. Unfortunately, now there's a chance that John Who doesn't go in this game, and if that is the case, Hunter Henry becomes startable. But as long as both of them are going, we're gonna have to pick our spots, and this is not one of them for those guys. When we come back, we'll work our way through a few more matchups, including Jets taking on the Broncos. Are there any Jets that you can start in this game? Find out against a

tough Broncos. They might be a bench everybody game. We'll find out when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. My name is Paul Charchy. I'm the host of the show. My co hosts are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. You can get all my play rankings for free each week at Guillotine leagues dot com.

Encourage you to check that out, maybe as part of the show and you want to you want to break down deeper, breakdown on your guys, or if there's a player not on there, there should they should all be on there. But I'll give you charge his phone number and you can. That's right. I love that. That's that makes me so happy when people do that. You know what else makes me happy is when Justin Fields gets

to take the fields time. And I'm very I'm optimistic for him in general, but I'm nervous about this particular matchup in this his first time out. Tell me what you think is Chicago takes on Cleveland? Scott, Yeah, if if you look at how much he runs the ball, Justin Fields, if you include the preseason games. He's running the like taking taking the ball and scrambling at a higher percentage than almost any quarterback does. I wouldn't be

surprised if he keeps that. Maybe not to that level, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has a bunch of designed runs he does runs at the goal like he did in Week one. The Browns are the third worst against fantasy quarterbacks so far, and they've allowed to touchdown in one of their rushing touchdown rushing touchdown Patrick

Mahomes and Trod Taylor. Yeah, he fields this right right in that uh that Jalen hurts from last week's spot where you know, maybe he only gets a yards passing, but he's gonna get you sixty on the ground and maybe a touchdown, which you know, I was a little bit worried that because Fields is quote unquote the backup, that they wouldn't risk him to injury. But their third

stringers Nick Foles. So I mean, you know, even if he were to like get hurt free fields or to get hurt on designed run plays, they can bring in Nick Foles. It's not a bad backup to go to. So I do think there will be a willingness to run him here. Yeah, that I I completely agree. In the amount he scrambles like he's showing that he's he

gets a little more. I wouldn't say skittish, but he's shown that he he feels more comfortable scrambling instead of trying to stick and make a play like Kyler Murray or Russell Wilson do uh So I have a B grade on him. I have a B grade on Allen Robinson. Targets came way down with fields in last week, only one catch for thirteen yards on three targets in the second half. There With fields, He's got the tougher cornerback matchup with Gavin Newsom, who generally plays the bigger guy

because he's a bigger guy himself. He's only allowed two receptions in his coverage on the season, but Allen Robinson is ten times better than the players he's covered so far. So uh. Darnell Mooney, I had a B grade on him because I love the mass matchup, but he's he's dealing with a groin injury. I'm gonna drop him to a C. But I still really like the matchup. He's got seven plus targets and back to back games five

plus catches and backed back the rounds. Browns have allowed twenty receptions for two and seventy five yards and two touchdowns to the opposing top receiver. Are the opposing speed receiver, I should say in the last two games, Tyrek Hill and Brandon Cooks. And that's kind of mooney spot. He's gonna go up against Denzel Ward because but is it mooney spot on a groin injury? The speed guy that is? That is why I'm dropping him from a B to a C. Alright, you're baking in some of that risk.

He yeah, he played eight nine percent of the snaps in both games, but again growing injury. So let's let's let's put him at a See maybe Allen Robinson's B turns into a B plus. Then, um, he didn't even catch me on that one. Got the plus that got me? You got me distracted for a minute, all right? Not cool. Cole Commet is on the bench only one target last week after a nice week one. Uh. Similarly, the Browns gave up a huge Week one to Kelsey but shut

down on tight ends last week. Uh. Montgomery B grade. The Browns are tenth against running backs allow allowing well under three yards per carry. That's terrible, under a hundred combo yards per game. But Monte is averaging over twenty touches per game. He's on the field all the time, and he was on the field a ton once fields came in last week. Um and mobile quarterbacks, as we know, often open open up some running lanes. So I gotta

be grade on Montgomery Williams on the bench. He saw just four touches last week, and his snaps went way down once fields came in. I really dug into the snaps once fields came in to try to try to break this side down. On the other side, Baker Mayfield, I'm giving a C grade. The Bears the middle of the pack against quarterbacks, but Chubb and Hunt might have a tough time running in this one, forcing Baker to pass more. Which is why I'm actually giving him. I

like him more than you do. I I think he's that secondary has been terrible. There's only one touchdown this year, man, Yeah, Chicago has allowed multiple passing touchdowns. And I'm going to go back to last year, and though you know, ten out of the last eleven games dating back to last year, they have allowed multiple passing touchdown and the secondaries worse right now, cornerback at all, maybe Jarvis Landry's got out for this game, and that would have been the most

exploitable matchup on O B J is back. Um they have mentioned where it's like play count and a pitch counting snap snap. At most, he's half the snaps. Yeah, um, so okay, I'll give I'll give Mayfield a B, but I think it goes all over the place. So I don't even like starting any of the receivers O b JNNA snap count. Uh, you know, Higgins and Schwartz and Donovan, people's jones. You can't start them. And they're doing that with their tight ends to exactly, We're pulling three tight

ends all the time. This is the ridiculous thing. Uh, as far as they're ted ends, nearly forty five percent of Mayfield's targets are going to tight ends. And it's all over who is the target leader, who's the reception leader, who's the yardage leader? So I'm starting none of that passing game. I guess I'll give may feel to be because it feels like totality, It feels it feels like he'll push it. He'll get thirty yards to each each of the TED players, and Mayfield's playing well. It's just

it's he's just fansky run heavy offense. That just his volume is always low and he's just not an explosive fantasy producer. But he's playing well. Yeah, Chubb, I gotta be grade on the Bears of only allowed three catches for thirty three yards in the past game, which is not very much at all for on the season, So it seems like you'd want Hunt out of this one. He's he's gotten a lot less touches and snaps um B grade on Chubb. Chub do you think Chubb gets

twelve plus touches here? Okay, the last time Chubb had twelve plus touches and failed to have at least ninety yards in a score was December of When he gets twelve plus touches, he's giving you a score and he's going to do that here, So B grade for him. I started touch on Hunt in the middle of that. Somehow I'm still giving Hunt to C grade because he does get that, does get that passing game work. He just really hasn't yet and he is still getting you know,

five to ten touches a game. I think he gets more like ten in this one. I'm gonna give him a see all right, that all sounds fair. Jets take on the Broncos. We talked about this in passing a little bit earlier. Brian, are there any Jets that you start in this game? I wanted to give him Michael Carter a starting grade. Uh, tempting Coman's out. He is out, Not like you really care anyway. Both Carter and Ti Johnson kind of in a fifty fifty time share. But

Carter looks better. He's the one who's getting targeted. But the Broncos a brutal matchup, allowing the second fewest rushing yards and third fewest receiving yards running back. So Carter and Ti Johnson both on the bench. Tempted to bench Corey Davis, but I give him a c U totally nullified by New England last week. But he's pretty much like the top threat on the Jets. So that's what

happens against the Patriots. Uh. Comparable boundary receivers like Kenny Galladate, Darius Slayton, Marvin Jones all went for at least double digit PPR points. So hopefully Corey Davis will get there with some hope for a touchdown, but unlikely not a C for Davis, James and Crowder doubtful, unlikely to make his season debut. Braxon Barrios led the team in targets last week. Elijah More two weeks for very Elijah More

still in the mix. Uh, much heralded rookie, but you just can't trust Zach Wilson in his what four interceptions last week and his uh I think is his first road game will now they played in Carolina, but first West Coast game, so everyone else on the bench for the Jets, it's really just Corey Davis with a very soft sea. I'd like to make a case for Barrios for a dart throw because he's has five plus catches and back to back games and he's getting the target.

I won't tate in the Washington and in Van Jefferson range, no no touchdown and upside for for burials. But h in PPR he might get you get you the ten plus points, so I don't hate that too much. Uh, Courtland Sutton might get you to twenty plus points in this game meets all wide receivers and air yards over three hundred now he gets an a. Uh shockingly didn't score last week, but went off without Jerry Judy in the lineup. He is the alpha receiver there now. Tim

Patrick's still very viable without Judy. He deserves to be and Patrick, I'm sure if he plays, he'll he'll go. I would think. Uh, the Jets secondary very unproven. They're coming off facing Mac Jones last week, so they haven't really faced a true test kJ Hammler chart this week. Not everything was lined up for him last week Anywan speaking, So he's gonna go off this week matchup, you know, but I said he was a great match up last week and it was. It was. He's a very viable

dart throw too. I'm gonna bench him in seasonal, but in daily you might want to take a flyer on Hamdler. Uh, Fan Noah Fant has a very good matchup. He's been very reliable so far, double digit PPR points in back to back games. You should continue to produce against the Jets, who just allowed a combined six catches for seventy yards to Jano Smith and Hunter Henry last week. I love Fan with a B and Teddy Bridgewater gets a b as well, tied for the NFL lead in twenty plus

yard pass attempt and I forgot. This is a revenge game. He was signed by the Jets but then traded when right after they drafted Sam Donald sixth round draft pick to the Saints. So I did too. I just want to realize that today. So a little bit of revenge angle for Teddy. And then lastly, Javonte Williams Melvin Rdon want the Javonte Williams breakout came to be right, It's still basically a fifty still basically a fifty fifty split. It's only a matter of time for Williams takes full control.

If you take away Melvin Gordon's long touchdown run, He's basically, I say a crow l. Remember how many times it took away touchdown run Browns recorded in Williams is Peterson and Chester Taylor all over again, Broncos. Bronco's favored by two touchdowns, so you gotta like both backs here. Gordon Williams gets to be though. Gordon just to see Jets allowing one hundred sixty two combo yards per game to running back, and I think that I don't have the stat off top of my head. But if you take

away Gordon's long run, it's like two point seven. Right, yeah, right, that's not good. Yeah. Seahawks take on the Vikings Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett. All A's Vikings are allowing a crazy three hundred thirty one passing yards and three total touchdowns to opposing quarterbacks. It's a great opportunity. Lockett has largely moved out of the slot, which is new this year, and that puts him most often against an injured Bashad Brelan,

who owns Pro Football Focus, is lowest cornerback ranking. He's one hundred and three out of one hundred and three cornerbacks rated. I wish you would have set out of one. It would have been better. DK Metcalf runs predominantly from the left side of the field, where he draws aged veteran Patrick Peterson, who has allowed six of seven targets to be caught in his coverage and gave up two touchdowns last week. All eight grades. Staying with the passing game,

Gerald Everett gets a C grade here. He's been on the field a lot. He scored in Week one, mostly as a blocker. Though he's only seen four targets in two games. But the Vikings just allowed Max Williams to post career best numbers seven targets, seven catches, four yards, So I'm based on that. I think Gerald Evert in the tight end desperate landscape we have is gets a C grade. And lastly, Chris Carson. Vikings rebuilt defensive line supposed to be smothering opposing runners, but it's not really

working out that way. They ranked twenty four and run defense by Pro Football Focus or giving up four and a half yards per carry, and they were torched by another Bell cow back, Joe Mixon in the opener. Chris Carson gets almost all the work in these games. I see potentially a solid game coming. Um. You know, then again, maybe they just don't have to run that much because

the passing is gonna come so easily. Here, look at Chase Edmonds last week, got his game torpedoed on only three carries because they just didn't have to pass or didn't have to run because the passing was so easy. Let's go over to the Vikings or I think it's a little more interesting in this one. We'll begin with Kirk Cousins Since coming to Minnesota, Cousins has faced Seattle every year and average two four yards and almost two touchdowns per game. All three of his wide receivers have

very positive matchups. Um Kirk scores touchdowns. He has scored in seven games. He has scored multiple touchdowns in ten of his last eleven games. Cousins doesn't normally win with volume, but he could end up with some extra passes because Dalvin Cook is hobbled coming into this game. We'll talk more about that in a minute. A grade for Adam Feeling.

Hopefully you did not listen to the preseason experts who were a cacophony of touchdown regression storylines for Adam Feeling, but not here on this show, because we talked about his proficiency near the stripe and we liked him here. He plays all over the field and his positive matchups at every opposing cornerback spot, whether it's Tray Flowers or d J. Reid or Ugo Amadi. Feeling hit this secondary for two touchdowns in the meeting last season. That's part

of why he gets an A grade. Justin Jefferson gets a B grade. Like Feeling, he lines up everywhere as well, and he has positive matchups at every stop, especially when he sees Trey Flowers, who's giving up a pass rating of a hundred fifty five in his coverage. That's just

three points off a perfect rating. And I know Jefferson has been the odd man out of the Vikings passing games so far, and I think Minnesota is going to intentionally try to get Jefferson Cooking with some extra passes in this one because he's been so quiet through the two games. Well, now let's talk about their leading receiver,

k J Osborne. A tricky matchup in the slot though, with Ugo Amadia, converted safety who is never allowed a touchdown in his sixty one career coverage pass passes in his coverage um he's barely been tested this year, which is four targets. So I'm still giving the edge to Osbourne based on his high utilization so far and a C grade. So Dalvin Cook is really got me nervous

for this. He comes in with a bulky ankle. He was clearly hobbled last week, and I think we're gonna see a lot more of Alexander Madison and some extra throws from Kirk Cousins in this one. So it could be a low utilization game and he could aggravate the ankle injury. Um, so there's that. Now. The Seahawks are allowing the most total yards to runners because Derrick Henry ran through this team last week. So it's a decent matchup.

But I can only put a B grade on Dalvin Cook and this thing could go haywire a few different ways. I know you kind of have to start him if he's active. A reminder, Alexander Madison came in for an injured Alley for an injured Dalvin Cook last year against Seattle top one yards. I'm giving Alexander Madison a C grade in this one because I think they do take some miles off of Dalvin Cook in this game. Yeah,

Madison already one of those must have handcuffs. And if you if you have Cook on roster and you don't have Madison, you're you are in a certain amount of trouble. Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next, including premature speculation where we tell you the guys to pick up this week that everybody else will be trying to pick up him next week. Final second Fantasy Football Weekly Paul

Church and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. This is a segment week call Premature Speculation, where we give you three players to pick up this week that everybody else is gonna be trying to pick up. But next week we begin with Scott. Yes, I'm gonna go with You're gonna start out picking up Jeff Wilson, who's gonna come back in about a month, and you're gonna put him on I R. And then you're gonna pick up a shot Babman who's coming back after next week. Throw

him on I R two. And then you're gonna pick up Van Jefferson, who I said is maybe a dark throw this week, but after this week he gets a shootout with the Cardinals who have a lot of lot he gets a shootout with the Seahawks, then he gets the Giants and Lions defenses. That's he's gonna be flex worthy, especially once we're starting to get into bye weeks. Your Premature Speculation player, Brian, I got a quick one for the super flex dudes and do debts out there. That's

when you can play two quarterbacks. Of course, it's Ian Book rookie back for the New Orleans Saints. Now some people are mad that are quarterback hungry that they missed out on Davis Mills. But Ian Book could be the next Davis Mills. And by that, I mean just the warm body's gonna get benched at some point, I do, and Taysom Hill is not going to save their season at that point, I think they out of him. They want to see what they'll get out of ian Book,

and hey, maybe Michael Thomas is making his return. Then I'm saying Ian Book could be the next man up for any team. I mean, he's not Jacoby Brissette at least he's We've yet to see what ian Book has to offer. So I'm going with a player who's dropped under fifty ownership despite being having an average draft position of the seventh round, Curtis Samuel Washington. He's coming off injured reserve next week, so you want to pick him

up this week. His original groin injury dates back to July, so he really ought to be done with this thing. At the stage. He's reunited with his original head coach Ron Rivera and his offensive coordinator Scott Turner, so he should be able to hit the ground running. No this offense and literally hit the ground running. Assuming this this groin is healed and reminder. At the set and half of last season, he was a top twenty Fantasy wide receiver.

Curtis Samuel available for free right now, boom. Let's go back to the matchups, beginning with the Eagles taking on the Cowboys. Scott Yeah, I'm gonna started the passing game for the Eagles. Jalen Hurts had almost an A level game, only throwing for a hundred ninety yards and zero paste his yards on one play exactly. His rushing floor makes him a C grade every single week and sometimes a B grade just off of his rushing. Uh, this week

should be more like Week one. The Cowboys have allowed the second most passing yards to opposing quarterbacks, with over three thirty in each game. I've already given you my take a chance on Me player with Jalen Reagor. I also like DeVonta Smith despite the tougher matchup with Trayvon digs Um. DeVonta Smith is fast enough and plays around enough that he should be able to get get around.

If you don't remember from the take a chance on Me segment, the Cowboys have allowed four different receivers to get ninety plus yards and or a score in the last two weeks. Uh, it's just a great spot for Smith. Quest Watkins is on my bench, it's a potential shootout. He's We've mentioned a few dart throw type wide receivers or it's a it's a I have him on the bench, but like, he's another one you can convince me into a sea level dart throw start if you're missing Deonte

Johnson or Antonio Brown or something like that. Dallas Goddard, Dallas, Dallas playing Dallas here. Wow, just realized that as I'm reading it. Dallas is fifth worst against the Dallas Cowboys are fifth worst against tight ends. But it should be worse. They gave up two touchdowns to Gronk and last week they had two touchdowns to tight ends called back, so it should actually be a lot worse. They've given up a lot about five plus catches in each week. I

have a B grade on Goddard. Did you imagine if Dallas Goddard was the fifth worst tight end on his own team, not having uh Miles Sanders. I'm giving a B grade two. He's not quite a bell cow, but four did nineteen touches a game is pretty good volume. The Cowboys have kept rushing yard down, but they've allowed the third most receptions and fifth most receiving yards to back.

I'm expecting a similar work gload three to five receptions. UM. He had two yards and two scores against Dallas last year in the two games, so it's it's a decent spot for him. B grade for him, a C grade for gainwell on the high on the higher level of it, he's a pass catching back that plays in two minute drills. They'll be playing from behind catch up. UM, he should get you know, five to ten touches, maybe ten touches and and that's worthy of a C grade. On the

other side, let's go to Dak Prescott B grade. Here, Dak is barely throwing downfield, which makes me wonder if that labor m injury from right before the season might be playing in UM. The Eagles d allowing the fewest passing yards and touchdowns to quarterbacks, but they played Jimmy g and Mattie Ice. This game should give your give

us a better idea. But his rushing and a likely hearts high scoring game, I'm giving Dak a B. Still, you could talk me into a SIE just because been a little worried, but I think it's gonna be high scoring and he should get enough uh in the passing game. Also Ceedee Lamb A grade Amari Cooper who got injured his ribs and weak ones but still played fine. In week two, he'll be playing Uh, don't worry about him.

B grade there for Lamb, he playst in this lot is slated to see Darius Slay who's ranked number fourteen by PFF. Tough matchup, um, but he's the utilization. But yeah, but he gets. He gets lots and lots of volumes. Same with Cooper, Dallas, optimistic Hill go obviously he is gonna go. UM. Cedric Wilson's interesting here. Once once Gallup went out, Gallup played a hundred percent of snaps on the outside. Once Gallup went out, Wilson came in and

played sev slot and Lamb and Cooper kicked outside. So we're talking about the slot guy here in Wilson. But guess what the Eagle slot guy, Avante Maddox who's ranked six by PFF. Too tough of a matchup. I'm benching him. H Els and Jarwin, I'm benching them. They held Kittle to seventeen yards and and this amazing Kyle Pits got a thirty one yards. Those tight ends are on the bench, Zeke and Pollard, I'll start with I don't know who I'll start with here, but the Eagles held down the

Atlanta backfield and the current mess in San Francisco. It's tough to get a good read on the defense with that, but zek has run the fifth most routes around among running backs. He's actually gaining out there in the passing game. Uh five looks last week to four four to four looks to Pollard's one. Actually, uh Paular just looks like he was shot out of a cannon. Though. Um Zeke the better pass blocker, so he'll be in there more. And Zeke is playing eighty percent of his snaps eighty

percent of the time. Pollard's only playing twenty snaps a game, but he's making those count. He touched the ball seven out of twenty in week one, sixteen out of twenty one snaps in Week two. I'm giving Zeke the B grade because he's the one out there, and Poullard the

C grade because he gets good receiving yards. All right, let's go to the Packers taking on the forty Niners, Brian, I'm gonna give Aaron Jones and a Now we have to mention that left tackle for Green Bay Elkton Jenkins, who was really a right guard who was moonlighting as a center, was playing left tackle for He is unlikely to play this week, so the Packers line is pretty much in shambles. But I'm still gonna give Aaron Jones

an a here. San Francisco is allowing the fourth most yards per carry five point oh and are the seventh worst run defense according to Pro Football Focus. San Francisco has also allowed the second most receptions to back, So a for Aaron Jones. Also in A for Davante Adams. Uh, San Francisco does not have great corners of Jason Rhett on I r talking about fifth round rookie Diamador Lenore. Yes, he's actually been pretty good, but Josh Norman has been terrible. Yes,

and and the washed up Josh. He's definitely washed up at this point in his career. His career was pretty much over. So in A for Adams, and I'm giving Marquees Valdez Scandling a seat, even though we broke many hearts last week with zero catches. I just think they forced feed him in this game to make up for that. You have a hundred twenty eight yards last week, just

didn't have a catch and one very quickly. One of my game leagues, a guy needed one catch for Marquez veld Scantling on Monday night to avoid the chopping block. He got thrown to four times, zero catches. I'm in that league, and thankfully I'm not that guy still alive. Robert Tonyan still still alive, but it's in a very slow start for him. Just to see, he's thirty first and targets among tight ends with a snap percentage of

less than fifty percent for Tonyon. Uh. The Niners allowed a good game to t J. Hogginson in Week one, but last week they limited Dallas Goddard and Zach Ertz to a combined three catches for thirty scoreless yards. So

kind of a coin flip for Tonyon. But he remains a must start in the tight end waste land, and you're definitely starting Aaron Rodgers in a This is a homecoming revenge game because if whoever doesn't remember the Niners selected Alex Smith over Aaron Rodgers, essentially the Packers played in San Francisco last year. Rodgers went for three five yards and four touchdowns in that game. So I'm giving an A to a a Ron. So he's now a a a ron uh and that is it for the

Packers side. Now over to San Francisco. Trey Sermon is gonna be the starting running back. I'm not gonna dive too much into this situation. I'm not too excited about it, even though the Packers have allowed the fourth most rushing yards so far, just to see for Trey Sermon or not convinced will be the goal line guy yet, but he looks to be the starter this week. So it is Sermons season in that regard. Now, Deebo Samuel definitely gonna start him gets an A grade thirty six percent

target share for Deebo. He's accounted for more than half of the receiving yards. The team is absolutely fantastic. The Packers secondary is allowed touchdowns to the likes of Deonte Harris, Chris Hogan, and Quintez Cevas. So love Deebo Samuel here he gets an A. I do not love Brandon Ayuk. He's on the bench. He's basically getting out produced by Juwan Jennings and Trent Sherfield. At this point, I'm buying

on I'm not starting. I'm not starting him, but I'm I'm holding him and if he's out there, he should see an uptick and usage. One would hope it right now, looking like one of the biggest bus of the year so far, George Kittle off to a slow start too, but he will not bust in. This game has only seen nine targets so far this year, but Green Bay has yielded the third most red zone targets and the most goal to go touches two tight ends so far,

so I'm giving Kittle an a here. He should blow up in a love Kittle so much loved Eebo Samuel. That's why Jimmy Garoppolo was might take a chance on the quarterback. All right, Let's go to our final matchup, the Monday night game Washington at Buffalo, and we'll start with the running game. For Washington, Antonio Gibson Um. He has a league high eighty four rushing yards after contact and his top ten and rushing attempts and rushing yards.

He's been effective Um and this is a good chance against a middle of the pack Buffalo run defense to begin the season, and they rank eighteenth and tackling twenty three and overall rush defense. It's a nice opportunity for Gibson not chipping in through the air, though, and that brings us to j D. Mckissic. You're gonna be tempted to chase last week's big game for m. A A. Kissic,

But this does not look like the right spot. Buffalo ranks number two and receptions two running backs number two and receiving yards to running backs, and they were great at it last year, and they've allowed one running back receiving touchdown in their last twenty games. So we're putting j. D. Mckissic on the bench. Kiss only had two snaps outside of the two minute trills as well. Great point, so he is on the bench. Let's go to the passing

game where Taylor Heineke gets a C grade. Buffalo's defense throttle Jacoby Brissette and Ben Roethlisberger to this point, holding them to per game averages of just passing yards and half of one touchdown. Heineke's most important receiver, Terry mclaurin's gonna get shadow coverage from elite cornerback to Davious White, which is often a death sentence. We'll talk about that in a minute. Your best angle here is for rushing

touchdowns for Heinekeeeks. The Bills allowed seven quarterback rushing touchdowns last year, third most, and five different opposing quarterbacks top thirty six rushing yards, and so you're hoping for some scrambling out of Heineken. That's just the C grade for him coming off a nice game last week. Back to McLaurin Buffalo allowing just one twenty seven yards per game to opposing receivers. That's six the fewest, and again, he's gonna get a lot of trade Avious White, and that

is never an easy matchup. Although mclauren just beat James Bradberry fairly soundly last week, but this is still a tougher matchup than that. And I'm worried about McLaurin, who drops to just a B grade in this game. And lastly, Logan Thomas, the Bills have yet to allow a tight end touchdown while also surrendering the seventh fewest receptions two

tight ends. Thomas currently falls into the middle of the tight end pact with the eleven target eleventh most targets, fourteenth most receptions he's um and he's suddenly competing with Adam Humphreys and Dammy Brown for targets, which I don't love. And he didn't have to fight those guys last year.

So Thomas, just to see grade in this game, We'll flip over to the other side now, beginning with Josh Allen, who has been inaccurate, completing just fifty six percent of his passes, and his his total yardage and touchdowns reflect that just two passing yards per game. UM. Here comes a very talented Washington defense with a great front four that can put a lot of pressure on opposing players. They've already put together six sacks, five hits, and twenty

one hurries and two games, so that worries me. Your obvious hope here for Josh Allen is he's gonna run his way to a big game, just like Daniel Jones just ran through the Washington defense. Similarly, Fleet quarterbacks Kyler Murray and and Jalen Hurts scored two rushing touchdowns apiece against Washington last year. So the B grade for Josh Allen is primarily because I think he's gonna run well

in this game. He needs a big game. I mean he was going before Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson in most leagues, and those people are regretting that decision, right correct. Stefon Diggs obvious A. I'm not gonna elucidate on that very much, although it is not a simp the simplest matchup of the world, but also the Washington secondary has been burned a bit so far. Cole Beasley gets starting grade. Working

out of the slot he'll find journeyman Kendall Fuller. He's allowed eleven of fifteen passes to be completed in his coverage. You can start gold Beasley in a pinch. Devin Singletaries looked pretty good so far, topping six yards per carry in each game, and he's also seen at least two thirds of the snaps so far. So he gets a C grade. And we're not chasing Zack Moss's two touchdowns from last year. He was barely on the field and he's still only averaging three point three yards per carry.

Singletaries look better to this point. It's coming for Zack Moss, though it's gone. Let's hope it is coming. If you haven't yet checked out Guillotine leagues you should do so. Guillotine Leagues dot com, the freshest new way to play fantasy sports, is the only place in the world where you can go get Alvin Camara off the waiver wire.

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