Despondent Dallas!

It's fantastic. Brian, Um, not as much you, but you know, but you're here. There were that there were ones of people asking me if I was gonna be on the show today. I was missed by something. One was like my mom, Yeah. The other was both of your guys, Mom's well and you and your new puppy very concerned. Your teams are either one in or oh and one. If you're only in one league, and the temptation is to feel like if you're want to know you nailed it.

And if you're temptation is your temptation of your oh and one is to go, oh, my team is a disaster. Most likely you know you're gonna end up one and one at the end of this week, and you're somewhere in between those two spots, and it's probably not as good or bad as you think, and it'll all even out a little bit. Take um, as just one example, the Mike Williams game from week one to week two. You know, those are the kinds of things that happened that tend to level the playing field a little bit

in fantasy football in week two. The only people who should truly be upset about Week one are those who were chopped in their Guillotine league. Those those people. But everyone else has calmed down. There's a lot of season left, you are, okay, plenty of season left at guillotine leagues dot com. By the way, we're still forming new leagues, seventeen person leagues through this week out at least sixteen

next week as well, will be the week after. Wait, I'm trying to figure out how math works by zero carry the one. Yes, that's exactly right. We've got plenty to get to. Over the course of this show, we will break down all of the games Fantasy Football Weekly style, with letter grades on all of the players. We will go through our favorite players upon whom you can take a chance we will answer three tough questions, and we will go into the time machine to give you some

preman speculation. Near the end of the show, we begin with our first matchup of the week, Cardinals taking on the Raiders. Cardinals basically couldn't have looked worse in all the first game. Boy, they that defense that the Chiefs will make a lot of defenses look bad, but I think they're legitimately bad by any standard. Yeah, yeah, it did not look good last week. Luckily for Murray, things

should be maybe a little bit better this week. Las Vegas was the fifth worst against quarterbacks last week, but I mean you got to take into account that they played Justin Herbert, so maybe it was just a Justin Herbert thing. But Kyler Murray has been a pretty dang good fantasy quarterback or last few years. Uh. The offense was bad, as we've mentioned, and Murray's day and really Hollywood Brown and zach ERT's day were saved by being

down thirty in the fourth. That's not even hyper hyperbole, Like it was thirty seven to seven and those two had forty total yards and no scores. They got two touchdowns right at the end to make it the sledding is gonna get a little easier here. Murray might need to get a couple on his a couple with his a couple of points with his legs, but I still have a B grade on him. In a matchup that has the second highest over under total of the week

should still be a pretty decent shootout. Um. I have Greg Doorche on the bench of snaps, leading targets tied, and routes run. I almost want to give him a sea here. I just don't know that I can count on it yet. I just don't know that maybe a J Ground, a J Brown, a JA Green gets more involved. Uh, he's got the better matchup. Greg Dortch actually has one of the worst matchups in the NFL this week, going against one of the league's best up and coming slot corners,

Nate Hobbs. Yeah, they're nickelback slot corner. He's just he might take Greg Dortch out. So you got the plus matchups on the sides with Green and Brown. I do have a bench grade on Green because he's almost a decaying corpse of AJ Green at this point. But I do have the C grade on Marquise Brown. I could see him being upped from that, but he's gonna get

bench player now turned into starter. With Anthony Everett out, Meek Robinson or Rock you have seen, those guys will be on the outside covering Green and Brown in this one. Brown played on the outside last week, so that's where he'll be. Uh se grade on him. You could talk me into a B if you want to, but I think a C grade is fair. Zach Ertz, I'm given a B grade. Good matchup against the Vegas team who was bottom five by almost every metric against ted ends

last year. They just allowed six six receptions for seventy eight yards and the score to tight ends last week and that Chargers game. He has been dealing with calf injury, but he played through it last week and he ran twenty seven routes. No other tight end even ran a route for them last week, so he gets everything. He gets everything. He he got all the red zone targets for tight ends. He got everything. So be in a good matchup for earths and just the scarcity at the position.

James Conner also getting a B grade here, played ad percent of the Cardinals snaps inside the ten yard line, which you love to see with your fantasy running back inside the five is even better. I hear charge that's that's something like. Uh, he had fit he played fifteen of the two. He had fifteen of the twenty two running back touches. He's basically getting it all. The nice part is he had five catches on six targets. He's taking the pass game work, which we thought might go

to Benjamin a little bit. It really didn't. Benjamin had some of it. He only had seven touches. I got Benjamin on the bench. I got Connor with a b as he seemingly and every down back. We'll see how much he gets out of it this but can expect fifteen plus touches. Uh. I just can't give him an A on this one yet. I need to see I need to see a little more um and he also he needs touchdowns on the other side. Derek Carr A grade. I'm sorry. I love this. I absolutely love this match up.

I'm totally with you on this. Yeah, so adding Davantae Adams is pretty big. You could argue targets last week. Absolutely, you could argue, uh, you know, some of the best weapons in the NFL with there are a few better slot guys than than Hunter Renfrow, and he's got Waller and Adams Arizona. Let Herbert go. Hey, I'm last week the Vegas totals. I've already mentioned. Um, you know, I'm also giving Davantae Adams and A grade here, but I need a ruling from Brian. Brian, I need a ruling

from you on this. On Davantae Adams obviously ton of targets, he's their number one receiver. It's going to be a shootout. It's an obvious A grade. But his grandparents are have never seen him play a professional game in the state, Like, they've never gone to the stadium for person in person, and they're coming this week for the first time. He's super excited about that. Is that enough for an ard Vark? Just like you've got you know me, I'm more of a Fonzie guy, but I will give him the A

for that. The grandparents game, I love it. I love that. Okay, grandparents game. Uh, we're giving the art Vark. What happened? We used to have Fonzi A on the on the sound bar. I'm gonna have the fons N motorcycle. We need our Fonzie A back on the back on the sound bar. Speaking of as, it's an a for Darren Waller as well. The Cardinals got the fun draw this year of Kelsey exploding for ade yards and score last week. They weren't great against tight ends last year, and they

get Darren Waller this week. It reminds me kind of the Ravens last year, didn't They started with Kelsey and Waller and Hawkinson and like so for the rest of the year, we're gonna think that the Cardinals are just bad against tight ends, when really they started out on this slope. Um Waller was actually really productive with his opportunities. He only had four catches, but he had seventy nine yards.

He should actually get more work in this one eight grade on Waller B grade Josh Jacobs, It's hard not to like the usage we saw. Despite the totals. He didn't have a lot of yards, was almost six yards of carry, gave him the ball twelve times exactly. It's the usage I like, and I think he's going to get more volume in this higher scoring game. Here. He ran more more routes than all the other Vegas runners combined. He had eleven of the sixteen touches or twelve of

the sixteen touches. Uh backups spelled him, but they didn't have an actual role, not a pass catching role, not a red zone role, not a two man role. He was the lead guy and he got the over seventy of the work. I got a B grade on Jacobs in a matchup. I think he surpasses that twelve from last week and he goes fifteen plus. All right, let's go to the Bucks at Saints and Brian for the Buccaneers. It's a disaster scenario for fantasy owners and the Bucks

really across their wide receiver position. We gotta give a quick shout out to loyal listener Mark McNeil who dubbed them the questionnaires this week about that very considering we know that I believe they have five wide receivers that all have the questionable designation coming into this game, and Chris Godwin has been ruled out. Yeah, so we'll start with Mike Evans. He has he's dealing with the cap injury.

He did practice on Friday, so we'll assume he's gonna play on Sunday just to see for him though he should see extra targets with Godwin out, but Evans will see a lot of Marshawn Lattimore in coverage, which is which is a tough matchup. Evans managed to score in one of two games against the Saints last year, pretty total, just three catches for sixty two yards across both contests, So not very high expectations for Evans and this one.

Julio Jones questionable with a knee injury. He also practiced on Friday, though, so he should be good to go. He did not look washed last Sunday night at all and made a couple of highlight catches look great. Only saw five targets, but Tampa Bay was running all over Dallas in that game. The game script was not in his favor. That could change this week. He'll see a lot of Bradley Roby, who allowed a catch rate and a twenty one passer rating in his coverage last week.

So I like Jones more than I do Evans this week, assuming both play, which we are going to assume that as of right now. Russell Gauge questionable with a hamstring injury. Gonna give him a see though I saw just two targets in Week one, only ran eighteen pass routes, but he should see a bump in those numbers with God went out, So I think he is startable in this one with the Sea and who is not startable are the tight ends. They're all on the bench unless Gronk

somehow unretires before to kickoff. Think the ends had one catch in the in the last in last week's game. Yeah, it's not a great matchup regardless, but yeah, you don't want to touch the tight ends on Tampa Bay and Tom Brady. You barely want to touch him, just to see for him. Opposing quarterbacks average just two hundred forty three passing yards at one point two touchdowns against New Orleans last season, and the Bucks offensive line is a

major concern right now. The Saints have allowed a completion rate of just thirty four point six percent when the opposing quarterback was under pressure since the season. That is the best in the NFL. So Brady is gonna be under a lot of drest in this game, so just to see for him. And lastly for the Bucks, another questionable player, Leonard for Nette, dealing with a hamstring injury.

Assuming he's good to go, you still want to monitor his status of course, leave you know, to kick off, but if he does play, do not like the matchup at all. The Saints defense allowed successful plays on rush attempts on just thirty of them last season. That's best in the NFL. And if you're wondering what wondering what a successful rush play is, it's basically four yards at least four yards and situational. If it's fourth and one,

A successful rush play is one. I could get more in the weeds until but no, we won't do that. UM Over to the New Orleans side. More questionable tags here, starting with Alvin Kamara, who did not practice on Friday with the rib injury. I'm just gonna give him a CEE even if he's good to go. Um, this is a bad matchup for Kamara the Saints. I'm sorry that the Bucks have a lot of troubling issues, but the

run defense is not one of them. After stuffing Zeke last week, Jonathan Taylor is the only opposing running back to top eighty rushing yards against the Bucks over their last thirteen games, and kamaras struggled mightily in his last game against Tampa Bay that was last season, of course, totally just thirty one scoreless combo yards and if Kamara somehow SAIDs mark Ingram is the next guy up. But I don't even know if I started Ingram in this matchup.

It's just the Bucks. You just don't want to start running back to pick the Bucks unless they're an elite talent. Thursday, Michael Thomas is practicing and is healthy as of right now. I saw healthy eight targets in Week one average the third most points per drop back among wide receivers. He's in a pretty good spot against the Bucks, who allowed the fourth most receptions to opposing wide receivers last season.

That means I like the other two wide white outs for the Saints, starting with the Jarvis Landry and give him a c quite the Saints debut seven catches a hundred and fourteen yards, including a forty yard catch that was all airy yards. That's more air yards then Jarvis Landry is seen a tired that's coming to earth. Exactly were you wanting to say something? Your hand is raised? Okay?

Uh jokes aside, Lander looks like a steal so far in reality and fantasy football, but he has a little tougher matchup against Tampa Bayed slot quarter in Antoine Winfield, probably the best corner on the team, Chris olav Lastly, for the wide Receiver's gonna give him a see led all Saints wide receivers and snaps last week, but only saw three targets. That said, he made the most of them, catching all three for forty one yards in a two

point conversion. Just like the Bucks. You got all the tight ends on the bench for the Saints, but Jawan Johnson and guy you want to keep an eye on, I think we talk about more. Talk more about him later in the show. And lastly, Jamis Winston, he's on the bench. I gave all the pass catchers like middling grades. Doesn't mean they're all gonna come through. Going back to last year, Tampa Bay has held seven of its last eleven opposing quarterbacks to zero or one touchdowns. When we

come back, take a chance on me. Nine players you can put in your starting lineup. Find out who they are. You may already have injury issues, you might have lineup deficiencies, were ready to help you unearthed some gems. Take a chance on me when we come back, Take a chance on me. Not nine, but ten players upon whom you can take a chance. Guys that are not normally in your starting lineup may be available on the waiver wire. We begin at the quarterback position. Scott, who is your

take a chance on me quarterback? Sounds like we got a surprise coming ten players. I'm gonna I'm gonna add players now too. I'm going with Matt Ryan going against the Jags. That just allowed Carson Wentz to finish the week as a top three quarterback and throw four touchdown passes. Who's gonna throw those two? I wonder Ryan went for yards in a touch on last week and in a much more difficult matchup. Um was a couple of drops away, actually two drops away from a four hundred plus multi

touchdown last week. That would have been nice. Yeah. Uh, let's go to Brian your take a chance at me quarterback. I have good friend of the show, Davis Mills at the Broncos this week. Last week, Geno Smith only threw for yards against Denver, but that was only pass attempts, twenty three of which went for completions. That's a completion maybe, and Gino also threw for two touchdowns no picks. So

I like Mills this week. Going back to last season, the Broncos have allowed at least one touchdown pass in fourteen of their last fifteen games, with multiple touchdown passes allowed, and more than half of those games. I will continue to say Davis Mills. There is no player in fantasy football being more overlooked than Davis and fostered in most leagues. It will become offensive to use him as a take on. We're gonna get to that at some point this season.

I hope you're right. Trey Lance faces Seattle. I like him this week in a bounce back game. Seattle just play their super Bowl. That was a nationally televised game against the quarterback who spurned them. They got an upset win, major letdown coming on the road for them, and all you know, Lance obviously had the monsoon. He had one bad pick last week, but otherwise I thought he looked fine.

And the running is is clearly present there. And I don't think George Kittle is gonna go, but maybe gets George Kittle back, But even it does, it doesn't matter. Deevo Samuel Brandon Ike against the secondary of Sydney Jones and Justin Coleman and rookie Terreq Willen, and then safety Jamal Adams is out and his replacement, a guy named Josh Jones a loot four of five passes to be

completed in his coverage. It's all great for Trey Lance, and I think we're gonna get the version of Lance that we wanted, the dual threat running and passing coming back this week. Let's go to the running back position. Scott, who is your take a chance on me runner? Yes? So the Indian Polis Colts talked about this all offseason, putting heinz he Hines that is in the slot wide receiver roll along with his running back role. What happened Week one? Hines ran twenty routes last week on twenty

six steps, most of them out of the slot. The Jags were the third worst team against the slot last week. Last year there were ninth worst. Hines caught all six of those targets for fifty yards last week, a role they had talked about, and uh I projected that this week as well. Five plus catch game and some extra running work. Running back work, all right, I like it, Brian,

you take a chance of me runner. We're gonna stick with the running back receiving angle and go with Tony Pollard at home against the Bengals, who were top five in the most catches and yards surrendered to running backs last season. Last week, not G Harris caught a touchdown against Since And let's be honest, it's quite plausible that Cooper Rush will be under constant pressure and looking to dump off to his running backs early and often in

this game. Khalil Herbert's taking on Green Bay. And even though in last week's game David Montgomery had twice as many carries for half as much yards as Khalil Herbert, and you know, I'm sterned eye test here is starting to lean towards Khalil Herbert as the better of the running backs. Get this. Montgomery only averaged half a yard after contact per carry against San Francisco. That was second lowest among all running backs. Last week. The Packers run

defense earned a PFF ranking of twenty seventh. Last week, Dalvin Cook Alexander Madison rolled up hundred twenty eight yards. Even though Montgomery will get the probably continue to get more quite a bit more work than than Khalil Herbert, there might be enough there where Herbert becomes a plausible starter. This week. Let's go to the receivers. Scott, you'll take a chance on me wide out. No, it's not gonna

be a wide out this time. It's gonna be a tight end because people need tight end help charge and I am here for it. I'm going with Evan Ingram. I know, I know it's gonna gross. But Evan Ingram uh. He played of snaps and was the only tight end in that offense to see any targets last week. His opponent, the Colts, were the fourth worst against tight ends last year, allowing the third most receptions and third most yards. The Colts continued that trend just last week, allowing O. J.

Howard to somehow scored. He's on just six routes he ran. Uh. Shack Leonard is also out. You were, yet again making things a little bit easier in the middle of the field for having Ingram, Brian, you're take a chance at me wide out. I presumed wide out. I'm going wide out, and I'm gonna go wide out. That everyone seems to have forgotten about. And that's Buffalo. Buffalo's Jamison Crowder at

home against the Titans. Yes, Isaiah Mackenzie scored the slot touchdown for the Bills last week, but Crowder had more targets catches and yards than Mackenzie and looking at the matchup, Tennessee was the worst team in defending the slot last season. And these stats come courtesy of Scott Fish kind enough to give them to me. The Titans gave up the

most PPR points to the slot last year. Sixty of the points they surrendered to wide receivers were slot wide receivers, and twenty one or thirteen of the twenty one touchdown surrender to wide receivers went to slot receivers. Like, can I start Mackenzie and Crowder? You can, but I like Crowder more as the take on. Everyone's gonna start Mackenzie Basically he'll get a sea later on. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert,

and real quick these teams met last year. Yeah cool, Beasley had seven catches for eighty eight yards in a touchdown and many Sanders had five catches for but don't but don't leave Jamison. Crowder unstarted speaking of slot receivers in a plot twist to Bizar for even Hollywood. Paris Campbell is the one healthy remaining receiver for Indianapolis. Alec

Pierce is out. Michael Pittman didn't practice the week. He's presumed out and Paris Hilton faces at Jacksonville Secondary that just allowed four touchdowns to the modest Commander's passing attack. As Scott alluded to earlier, Jaguars slot cornerback is a guy named Darius Williams. Pro Football Focus is bottom ranked cornerback from last week, ranking as cornerback one hundred seventeen last week, allowing five of six passes in his coverage

to be completed. Paris Campbell, take a chance on me, but wait, you may have added up a total of nine. Take a chance on me players, and I promise ten Scott. Do people need tight end sleepers? They do a wow Tyler Higbee. Shockingly, Higbie emerged from week one as the leader in targets among all tight ends with eleven, something I think most of us would not have guessed. Just need him to catch more this year. That would be better to catch more, caught like four or five out

of the eleven. Um. It looks like if Allen Robinson is going to continue to be a confringe contributor for the Rams offense, Fan Jefferson's out for this game, this could be another very impactful spot for Tyler Higbee up against Atlanta Falcons allowed the anonymous tight end John Johnson to roll up forty three yards, suggesting a far better tight end Tyler Higbee can improve on that performance a lot, and last year Atlanta allowed the fourth most tight end scores.

So a little a double a double header, take a chance on me, Paris Campbell, Tyler Higbee. Uh, let's return to the Let's return to the matchups, and oh you know what I'm up next? Commanders taking on Detroit, Let's begin with Antonio Gibson. For all of our worries in the preseason, Gibson basically shut us all up. He showed explosiveness. He ran for uh ten or more yards on a third of his attempts against Jacksonville topped it off of

a career high seven receptions for seventy two yards. Detroit allowed Philadelphia to drive the ball in them all game long. Four different Eagles scored rushing touchdowns. They ran for over two yards on thirty nine combined carries. That was five and a half yards per attempt, and the Lions only held opposing running backs under ninety yards four times in

the last twenty four games. So we like Antonio Gibson with an A grade boy, I'm putting mckissic on the bench because mckissic thrives on negative game scripts, something that Washington generally has but did not have last week and probably will not have this week as well. Detroit. I don't see the big deficit coming against Detroit's possible, but I don't see it coming here. So we're gonna keep j D. McKissick on the bench and wait for an opportunity for the Commanders to get blown out. And you

love putting mc kissick on the bench. It gives you great jolie. I do for some for some reason, I do. I admitted j D mc suck it. Let's go to Washington, where Terry McLaurin gets a B grade and mains a terrific option for Wentz and operating on the outside, He's got a very favorable match up against Jeff Foukuda anytime he lines up on the right side of the field. Kudas trying to salvage his young career after a variety of injuries have really unfortunately put his career in peril.

Last week, a Kuda allowed four of five targets in his coverage to be completed. I like Terry McLaurin. Curtis Samuel came out of the gates with a really strong game early in the first half. They didn't go back to him as much as they thought they should, and I thought he looked great. Um he looked like his slippery twenty version when Curtis Samuel was a very viable fantasy producer. He'll go up in the slide against Mike

Hughes now in his third team in three years. Hughes was only targeted one time last week, but he did allow that catch and then he allowed twenty five yards after that catch. So we'll try Curtis Samuel here with a C grade as well, and Logan Thomas six targets in his first game back from a C l Great news for him and as savvy waiver wire pick up

for anybody struggling at tight end. By the way, last year the Lions gave up the second most yards to tight ends and then probably gave up sixty yards to Dallas. God heard last week. I like Logan Thomas here, C grade on him, and that leaves us with Carson Wentz if I like his receivers. McLaurin, Samuel Thomas, all starting grades there I've got a B grade on him. He flung at forty one times last week, and even though there were some mistakes, he had two pretty ugly interceptions.

The Commander's passing attack looked pretty refreshed this year, so I'm giving him a B grade. For Carson Wentz and let's go over to the Lions side on this Beginning with the running game, you're gonna have to monitor DeAndre Swift. He's got an ankle injury. He swears he's gonna play, But running backs and ankle injuries, no bueno. You need to be careful here. Cut is a huge part of his game. Got great example, Um Barkley at the high

ankle sprain. We can just you know, we can. We don't have any reasonably that's the case for Swift, who probably would not be playing. But show a little bit more caution here, and I've downgraded him to a B grade despite the phenomenal game he had last week, posting a hundred forty four rushing yards um had by the way five yards of ten or more. Washington allowed five point four yards per carry between the tackles last week, and they babe maybe without defensive lineman Jonathan Allen and

Fedarian mathis due to injury. So we're gonna keep a B grade on DeAndre Swift and we're gonna keep watching this goal line situation because last week Jamal Williams turned two goal line carries into two touchdowns. Now, if you're the coaching staff of the lines, you're going, well, he converted those carries to touchdowns. We're gonna keep doing this, and with Swift gimpy, Williams could see an upticking usage

and will probably continue to get goal line use. So we'll have a C grade on Jamal Williams in this grade A game, and we'll upgrade him to a B if it turns out that DeAndre Swift does not go. Let's go to the receivers for the Lions. I'm on raw St Brown saw career high twelve targets last week, which pretty much vaporized the narrative that he got all those targets last year because everybody else was hurt. Um Washington's defense allowed an average depth of target of eight

point six yards per reception last season. That was third most. I'm on ras St Brown will face Ben st Juice in the slot. Well, he kind of is he ranks his cornerback by Pro Football Focus through one week, so strong advantage to I'm on ros st Brown with an A grade. DJ Chark saw whopping eight targets and looks like a legit deep ball threat. Last week, the Commanders gave Robby Anderson and d J. Moore and average of almost eight yards of Cookshion, second worst of any receiver tandem.

Big play possibilities here for DJ Chark with a B grade in this game, and if I like it, I've had a B grades on the receivers, I gotta put a B great on. Jared Goff played a solid game last week, almost rallied his team to a massive come from behind win and put up plenty of points in that game. And I like his receivers, so I like golf as well. T J. Hockenson ce grade. He's seen seven or more targets in nine of his last thirteen healthy games, and he's averaged over sixty yards per game

when he gets that kind of volume. Hopefully that holds here. Washington gives up seven targets per game to tight ends and did last year eighth most yards as well, so the opportunity should be there for Hockinson. Just need to see more overall productivity before we put a stronger grade than a se Alright, our next matchup, in final matchup of this segment, Jets taking on the Browns Scott for New York. They threw the ball fifty nine times last week. Yeah,

that's that's not gonna happen. Not that should not ever happen. No, No, Flecko hasn't thrown it more than forty four times in like four years. That's that's not gonna happen. I do think this is gonna be a high volume passing offense this year. I think they'll have negative game scripts a lot. No that that will be a thing. But no, the Browns allowed thirty three attempts per game to quarterbacks last year,

twenty seven in the opener to Mayfield. I think you're looking more at that, and that goes for the wide receivers. When you look at those guys, Corey Davis and Garrett Wilson what they did in week one. Don't live off week one stats because you're getting twenty extra pass attempts that you're not gonna see most weeks fifteen to twenty. I actually do have Davis and Wilson on the bench in this one. UM, I need to see it more out of them and see their role with Flacco when

Flacco is not spreading. That's the other problem, when Flacco is not spreading around seven different players tallied seven or more targets. Uh. The only guy I truly truly trust in this which is a a really good match up, a really tough matchup against the Brown's team that was

top ten in a lot of categories last year. They only allowed sixteen wide receiver touchdowns over seven in teen weeks last year, they and and even last even last week, the one touchdown they allowed was a seventy five yard broken coverage play, right, Uh so they did not allow a lot I do. I'm giving Elijah Moore the C grade though he's gonna line up on the opposite side of Denzel Award for most of the game against rookie Martin Anderson. If he does that, he gets a C grade.

You can you know a factor in the ward blew a fifty yard played Ian Thomas last week. He did blow a coverage last week. He's not the Denzel Award of three years ago. But uh, I have a C grade on more bench grades on Davison Wilson, bench grade on Flacco, bench grade on Tyler Cochlin. His his results last week were very very uh, you know, volume based. He's gonna need a touchdown to score in the running game. This is where it gets. It gets tricky sometimes with

these two. This year, it's gonna be tricky all year. I think we're looking at the next Jones, Dillon Gordon Javonte type of situation here with Carter and Bruce Hall. Carter was the starter and the main back, and they said that going going in. Uh, they're both they both seem like they're going to be start worthy in spots this week. Nineteen of theft Flacco targets went to running backs, which is really nice to see, but Carter was clearly the one a higher snaps, better usage. Hall saw the

only running back touch inside the ten. Uh, he saw the two minute work um against the Browns team that held McCaffrey in check. Though Carter is only gonna get a C grade for me, and because Hall is the one b and only had twelve twelve touches in a game where they ran eighty four offensive plays. Just you know, they average sixty nine plays a game. Last year, he only got twelve touches last week, I have him on the bench. Over on the other side, you're not starting,

Jacoby per said. He was fairly he looked, he looked absolutely terrible. Jets. Jets are a great matchup. You know, their bottom twelve allowing the more yards and than than most of the teams in the league. But he should be on the bench. Uh, People's Jones and Cooper I have C grades on them. I think they're the only really two startable wide receivers on this team and barely Uh. People's Jones leave the team and routes, run targets yards,

all while being shadowed by Donte Johnson. If you remember back to last year we talked about this teams CB ones were shadowing and covering Donovan People's Jones over Landry like he was the one. And this year they're doing it again with Cooper. Uh they're they're they're on People's Jones as if he's the one. Uh So, Cooper, I'm giving the C grade. He was second most targeted, didn't do a lot, but he might see the second dB in this People's Jones seems to have a vibe with

pre sent and he's getting the volume. I do have a C grade there in a in a game in a decent matchup for wide receivers against the Jets, najok Wu I have on the bench. The Jets allowed of five for fifty two days Andrews, which is okay. Joker's day was terrible and Brissette cannot support three different pass catchers. I was hesitant even giving two Sea grades in that receiving corps. I don't blame and for Chubb and Hunt.

Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt last year win together. Chub average twenty touches per game, Hunt fifteen per games to fan Sky giving this running backs thirty to thirty five. Wait, this is what I said last week, and it's the same thing this week. A grade for Chubb. Be great for Hunt because he gets all the past game work. Yes, uh, Kareem got the two touchdowns last week, but it could just as easily be uh, just easily Nick Chubb this week for sure. And a good matchup against the Jets

that were last against running backs last year. Yeah, it's a It's a juicy matchup, no doubt about it. Love both guys this week. You already know a gun team, league's work, seventeen teams left start at this point, you can start a new league with seventeen teams or seventeen weeks left in the season. Low scoring team gets cut every week players go to the waiver wire. It's pandemonium. We had um in one of my leagues. Jonathan Taylor got cut and how much how much bad do you

put on him? One guy put his entire year's budget. I'm Jonathan Taylor. He's gonna learn his lessons the hard way. That that is a week seven out right there, exactly exactly. See you next year. We'll be back next segment. Fantasy Football Weekly Coming up next, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Church and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. Our next matchup is the Patriots at the Steelers. Brian,

the Patriots offense looked bad last week. We'll talk a little bit more about this later in the show, but your thoughts on this particular match up against the Steelers. Yeah, this one feels all about the running game for New England. So I'll give Damien Harris Harrison be here the law. The season ending loss of time Montgomery bodes well for Harris and Raumandre Stephenson, but as of right now, Harris

looks like the lead back yet again. He managed five point three yards per carry last week, compared to the three point one for Stevenson. Harris was also targeted twice in the red zone, and last year Pittsburgh out these second most rushing yards after contact per attempt. In this week, they will be without t J. Watt upfront, so I like Harris with the B I will still give m Andre Stevenson a c not giving up on him just yet. He should still see around twelve of the fifteen opportunities

in this game. And again, this feels like a game where New England's is gonna lean heavily on their running backs. For that reason, I have Jacoby Myers, Nelson Aghilar, DeVante Parker and Kedrick Bourne all on the bench. Not one single one of them scored double digit PPR points last week. So not touching the wide receivers from New England this week, and not touching the tight ends although they are led by John new Smith and not Hunter Hendy, but they're

both on the bench. It's a bad matchup. The Steelers have allowed a tight end touchdown in just three of their last eighteen games, and I hate the pass catchers a lot, so I clearly hate Mac Jones in this matchup. He's on the bench as well. Over the Pittsburgh side, Nag Harris looks like he will play with the foot injury he's dealing with. He turned to practice in full

on Thursday, but just to see for him. Miami running backs total just one hundred and seven combo yards against New England last week, and we're held to under two point five yards per carry, So just to see for no g Harris. Jalen Warren would have been interesting in Paris is out. He's on the bench, but a guy I am stashing anywhere I can. I recommend you do

the same. Over to the wide receivers for the Steelers, Deonte Johnson, and give him a b If you didn't see the one handed sideline catch he made last week, go ask Jeeves about that right now, because it's it's worth a watch. Um, I'm glad you guys got that one. We're old enough to know to Jeeves is a lot of people probably don't anyways. Johnson resumed his hogging of targets in Week one, as his twelve targets are more

than every other Pittsburgh wide receiver combined. So I love Deonte and Listene with a B. I kind of like Chase Claypool, so I'll give him a CEE. He was second among Pittsburgh wide receivers with six targets, but we only turned them into four catches for eighteen scoreless yards. But he had six carries he go him out of carries the yards for thirty six yards, so very interesting usage.

And he played almost entirely from the slot, which means he's likely to see a lot of New England slot corner Miles Bryant, who checks in it five ft nine and so a little bit of a mismatch for Briant up against Claypool. Claypole should exploit that matchup George Pickens the Priests. Darling won one catch for three yards on three targets. He's on the bench right now until he proves he can produce in the regular season and Pat fire Mouth close to the bench, but I'm gonna give

him a CEE. He led Pittsburgh in receiving yards and was second on the team with ten targets last week, but a tough match up here last year, New England allowed the fewest receptions and yards to tight ends, just two point seven catches and twenty six yards per game. That trend continued in Yeah and Hunter Long. Neither the Miami tight ends combined for two catches or fifteen yards against New England last week. So just a very soft

sea for Fry Muthin. Mitch Drubiskie was almost might take a chance of the quarterback, but not yet this he's on the bench. Cant to it. Dolphins take on the Ravens. Obviously, grades for Tyreek Kill and Jalen Waddle was strong Week one performances, and that brings us to to a tonguo Violoa. I loved the start of the year for him getting the ball to his playmakers Hill and Waddle. That's all

he's gotta do. He goes up against the Ravens last year one of only five teams to allow more than thirty passing touchdowns, and to address that issue, Baltimore signed cornerback Kyle Fuller in the off season. Andy promptly tours a c L. So now they're getting Marcus Peters possibly back for this game, but if he starts, it's gonna be his first game since the end of the twenty twenty season, and the other corner back, Marlin Humphrey's got a groin injury. It's all good for the Miami passing game.

I've got a B grade onto a Toungo Violoa and a B grade on Chase Edmonds. I know the matchup against Baltimore doesn't field grand and paper, but the Jets backs just ripped the Ravens for a hundred sixty one total yards and the Ravens ranked thirty and run defense by Old Football Focus through one week. Edmonds saw sixty

of the running back snaps for Miami last week. He barely managed two yards per carry on the ground, which was not good and so the efficiency was not there, but the opportunity to get better definitely is and he could catch the ball fair amount. Ravens just allowed the Jets backs to catch thirteen passes on nineteen targets in that game. So I like Chase Edmonds as a dual threat and to be grade over to Baltimore side Mark Andrews obvious a let's go to the other receivers. Rashad Bateman.

Great to see the fifty five yard touchdown, but other than that catch, Bateman had one catch for four yards. That's it. Volume figures to be an ongoing worry for the Ravens receivers and a run heavy offense. Bateman likely draws the dolphins best coverage corner Xavian Howard, who travels with number one. Howard is not allowed to touch down is coverage since Week eight of last year. I've got

just a C grade on Rashad Bateman. Devin DuVernay scored twice last week, emerges a waiver wire darling this week. With Xavian Howard on Bateman, that puts Nick excuse me, Nick, need him on DuVernay and that is a positive matchup. Need Him is a middling coverage corner who ranked his Pro Football Focuses forty four best cornerback last year. So I like Devin Duvernet enough to get him a C grade on this one. And uh for Lamar Jackson, if you can blend in the Mark Andrews a couple of

season his receivers, I've got to be on Jackson. Dolphins held Mac Jones in check last week, but Lamar Jackson obviously totally different beast um. That's it. Miami has got a pretty solid past defense top six and passing touchdowns allowed last year. They blanked the Patriots last week. Um Jackson faced the Dolphins last year. Two passing yards in one touchdown and he only ran for thirty nine yards. That wasn't great, It's just okay. So that's the B

grade on Lamar Jackson. And for the running backs, I got them all on the bench. J K Dobbins expected to make his first appearance in over a year, but I got a figure. He gets the modest workload in his first game back off the a c L. Six touches guys, eight touches for j K. Dobbins. This is his pro debut. If I'm not mistaken right Dobbins, j K Dobbins did we get injured in preseason last year, but the far back in time, that's okay. Miami's rundefensil good.

In Week one. They held Damien Harris to forty eight yards and Romandre Stevenson to five. So I don't I don't like Dobbins and all the other runners look terrible last week, so they're all they are all out. Let's go to our final matchup of this segment, Panthers taking on the Giant Scott. Yeah, so I have an obvious eight grade on Christie McCaffrey. You might say, why is it obvious? He wasn't that great last week. He had to be saved by a touchdown with literally eight seconds

left in the fourth quarter. Uh, but it was one of the tougher RB matchups of the weekend and McCaffrey still scored. Still got it. Uh, it was this week. You can look for him to get a combination of what Derrick, Henry and Hillier did against the Giants. Hilliard destroyed them through the past game. He had, uh, you know Henriette a decent amount of rushing yards. I think that this is a fifty plus rushing fifty plus receiving game for McCaffrey at minimum. Probably some scores a grade

on McCaffrey in the passing game. I only have one starting game grade here. Baker mayfields on the bench. If it weren't for those two blown coverages we we talked about, his day would have been a hundred and ten yards and no touchdowns an interception. He barely threw a fifty pc completion rate. Robby Anderson hundred yards hundred two yards seventy five on the blown play. He topped fifty yards three times last year. D J. Moore is where I'm giving the C grade. I still trust him. I'm still

gonna believe in even though week one was lackluster. He'll get a Dory Jackson shadow treatment who took Robert Wood's out last week. But he should get the volume in this one to find enough opportunity to get a C grade. On the other side, the only grade I have is say Kwon Barkley with eight grade. He's back to match up proof life he had a couple of years ago. He had twenty four touches, but a big deal with six catches. He came back in the in the passing game.

The Panthers just let Kareem Hunt loose in the receiving game. That's gonna be all Barkley in this one. Um, it's a tougher matchup than last week was. It's a slightly tougher match up than last week was. But Chubb and Hunt did it, so I think Barkley ken with Daniel Jones Sterling Shephard. Sixty five of shepherds seventy one yards were on that blown coverage sixty five yarder you mentioned earlier. Uh, Daniel Jones. You're not starting Daniel Jones against the top

five Panthers defense. No one. Still, that's no out of here, No, that's ridiculous. Um, we've got about one minute left. Let me ask you this, Well, why don't we just fire up the peacock for me saying s Juan Barkley finishes at the season as everyone is it too early, It's way too early. I just jack, it's very premature peak cocking. Well, we're willing to do that around premature pea calculation. Let

me ask this about the the Thursday night game. Patrick Mahomes is now completed passes in both games to ten different receivers. Do you believe that that's going to be an ongoing tread that he's just spreads the ball around so thinly literally sad that's what he was going to do before the season. He also said the sky is the limit, referring to sky will replate zero snaps. I don't even know if he's a real person. I know at this point, I know Scott, Well, he's playing special teams.

That's it. Justin Herbert by the way, Yeah, yeah, that's like and you know what those that you get you get the broken rib. That's your season. You gotta play with that all year. He's wearing the flat jacket season. Absolutely. When we come back to our number two Fantasy Football Weekly, we will answer three tough questions you can play along

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up now. Welcome back our number two Fantasy football weekly, Paul charchy and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. We encourage you to follow us on Twitter at Paul Charchion, at Scott Fish four and at b t x J, respectively. This is a game we call three tough questions. Tough question Number one, what is the appropriate level of panic for New England running back Ramandre Stevenson. Is it none,

some or a bowl loose sending level of existential dread Scott. Yeah, so this is the part where I apologize to the listeners for being so in on Romandre Stevenson and you guys. I thought he'd get all the pass catching work time at Coomery. I thought would be out longer he came back. But the bad thing is I went to Canton for Fantasy Football Exco Expo, went back and forth from the airport with a Patriots guy that knows people there, and

he said, the offense is going to be anemic. They changed to his zone running and an outside zone running scheme, and they're running into the line and it is going to be bad. A week later, I go on Christopher Harris's show ESPN guy Patriots fan Connections with the Pats told me the same thing. But I refused to believe all the inside info because I'm like, no, he they're talking to me, he's gonna be the pass catcher. I screwed up. I did not take that in. They were

all right by week one account. They were all right that offense is not going to move and they're going to run, and Romandre only at thirty three percent of snaps. I'm I'm a little bit of I think it's blowed here until Bill Belichick figures it out. So you're going with bobel loosening left existential dread. I think I said to trust Scott here and his and his insiders. The only my New England insiders, a bunch of drunk idiots. You do this thing. I think they're part of the

Patriots organization. They were avoiding all Patriots. So okay, I'm blowed. I'm I'm blowed now. I was gonna say something, but I'm convinced unblowd. The correct answer is some on the positive side. Time Montgomery's out and that's a big consideration here. Stevenson figures to get more past catching work, and I think this this offense is gonna be playing from behind a lot. Montgomery had almost twice as many snaps as Stevenson did last week. But now he's out of the

He's out of the picture for a week a month. Uh. The bigger issue here, though, Patriots offense just looks bad. They only had fifty seven plays last week, only two seventy one yards of offense. That was fourth worst behind offenses led by Geno Smith, Cooper Rush and a team that played in a monsoon and not even both of the teams that played in a month. Soon. You gotta have faith that Bill Belichick turns it around, he figures

it out. We gotta hope that the bounceback starts this week. Right, they play Pittsburgh a team Joe Mixon just ran through and getting Stevenson up, getting Stevenson going. He's arguably the most explosive playmaker they've got on the whole team. Well, that in John neu Smith. Oh and by the way, don't sell on the on the dip here, keep him. Yeah, we don't like to sell talented players low. To question number two, what is the appropriate level of panic on

Dallas wide receiver C D. Lamb? Is it none? Some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? We begin this time with Brian Johnson. Oh, you gotta be blowed on Ceedee Lamb based on his preseason a DP and the expectations that we had for him basically as a top five wide receiver. Um And it's not his fault, it's it's the circumstances that now surround him. Of course, Dak Prescott, he's gonna miss more time than Ray Jones

is hinting at it's gonna be six to eight weeks. Uh, the offensive line kind of a wreck, and he's just got no help at receiver other than his tight end Dalton Schultz. I just think defenses are gonna be keyed in on him when when that even when Dad comes back, he's got Cooper Cooper rushed for the next six weeks. So it's gonna be a very slow start, a very slow middle for Ceedee Lamb. So based on where he

was going in our expectations, we had on blowed. You're blowed al right, Scott for Ceedee Lamb, what's the appropriate level of panic? Yeah, I'm still on the Patriots. They only ran to two personnel groupings last week. That is ridiculous. Two groups side tracking or we're gonna side track back to the page. The problem is their head coach. It'smatic. He is. He thinks that he's the hubrist is so high with Bill Belichick, probably the best coach in the history of the game. But he's a He is the

de facto head coach. Well, he is the head coach, de facto general manager, offensive coordinator, and defensive coordinator. No one person can do all these things well. And he's trying to do it all and he can't. And it's this The mistake he's making is thinking that he's so much better, that he doesn't need any help around him, and that he's so much smarter than everybody else. That's

the problem with the Patriots right now. Back to the question at hand, the appropriate level panic on Ceedee Lamb Scott. I have some on this. One. Last time Prescott and missed extended time, the Cowboys still averaged about thirty six past attempts per game, and that was with uh Dalton and Denucci. Sounds like a seventies band or something. Dalton and I think, I think it sounds like a post but but the old line was light years better. Honestly, I could bring the panic line down to blow it

on this one, but it is Ceedee Lamb. I do like the eleven target eleven twelve targets he got with the two catches. Yeah, and I think that's I think he's gonna get major volume a lot of these weeks as they fight to stay in it um. And if it's only four to six weeks, I mean we're still looking at maybe eight weeks to end the season of Prescott. That that might still be the case, so I'm only some at the moment. The major volume in Dallas is

this gonna be the booze that. The correct answer for the appropriate level of panic on Dallas wide receiver Ceedee Lamb is a bowel loosening level of existential. The left tackle Tyrann Smith is out, left guard economic governess hurt. The rush is going to get to the Dallas quarterback whose name is Rush. I mean talk about metaphysically tipping your hand. He is going to get destroyed back there. And the r as you mentioned, the other receivers are

so anonymous. I watched that entire Dallas game and the only guy I can even remember is the guy who is ironically called Houston playing in Dallas. There's nobody else to catch a path in Dallas. They're gonna take defenses are gonna take away Ceedee Lamb just like Tampa did last week and make Cooper Rush win throwing to something called Houston playing in Dallas tough. Question number three, what is the appropriate level of panic for Houston running back

Damian Pierce? Is it none, some or a Bobi loosening level of existential dread Scott, This one is some they want, they want Damian Pierce to get more involved this week, But the problem is Burkehead appears to be soaking up all that past game work that we kind of half expected but really hoped against. Um, the level of panic

is really based on where you got him. If you got him as your RB three, like almost all of us, did you know before the last week or so of the preseason, You're fine, You're just you're just a little frustrated. But those people who grabb him as a r B two, they might feel blowed, but it's really just some. It's some, all right, Brian, What is the appropriate level of concern for Houston running back Damian Pierce? Yeah, I'm at some too.

Last week Burkehead saw over the snaps, was only one of three running backs with more than ten carries and more than seven targets. But there's no way in hell Burkehead becomes a bell cow running back this year. He's thirty two years old. He's only top seventy rush attempts in his season once. That was the last year and he had a hundred twenty two yards. The averaged three point five yards per carry. Then at some point he's gonna break down or get hurt. I hate to say it,

but it's happened throughout his career. Um, he's never started more than five games. I mean, look at his career starts five zero, one, four three one. You know Damian Pierce will be okay, don't freak out too much. Uh. The correct answer is none. And that's not just confirmation bias, because we loved Damian Piers all preseason and we talked about him a million times. It's for all the reasons

you mentioned. No chance thirty two year old Rex burkehead holds the strangle the stranglehold on that job for very long. Damian Pierce well eclipse him. It's just a matter of when. Granted, the timeline is longer than we thought it was gonna be the reason it's gonna be a slowest art. It's gonna be like it's gonna take us a little longer than we thought it was gonna unfortunately, and I wish it weren't that way, but the reality is it is, and we're just gonna We're just gonna deal with that.

Let's go to our next matchup, Bengals taking on the Cowboys. Brian, I gotta believe the Bengals. Joe Burrow is not gonna have five turnovers in one game. Yeah, I would hope not, or get sacked seven times like he did a last week against UM Pittsburgh. So we'll start with Burrow. Give him a b um. It sounds like te Higgins will play in this game. Should clear concussion protocol that helps burrows uh prospects this week. My main concern is this feels like a game or the Bengals just dominate and

it aren't forced to throw a ton. So we'll run through his receiver's real quick. Jamar Chase gets an a. We'll likely see a lot of Trayvon Diggs in coverage. It was a very good cornerback, but Mike Evans very comparable. Mike Evans had a touchdown and seventy one yards against Diggs last week. So in a for Chase, te Higgins just mentioned him. Sounds like he'll go give him a b here. He should see a lot of coverage from Anthony Brown, who surrendered six received being touchdowns last year.

That is a fair amount. But Tyler Boyd, I gotta put him on the bench. Only he saw a thirteen percent target chair last week and that was with Tee Higgins out for most of the game, UM Boyd will again, this feels like a game where the Bengals aren't gonna throw it don So Boyd not seeing a ton of snaps last week. I don't think that he's a main main factor in this game, so he's on the bench. Hayden Hurst is not, though, gonna give him a See Hearst rand fifty one pass routes last week, which is

a lot. In fact, it was the fifth most among all players, not just tight ends, but it's it's kind of a tough matchup on paper. Last season, only five tight ends game to more than fifty yards fifty yards against the Cowboys, and none reached the hundred yard marks of just a sea For Hearst and lastly, Joe Mixon, he gets an A despite trailing pretty much the entire game last week against Pittsburgh, Mixing saw thirty four touches,

a career high. Granted that game went to overtime, but I would be shocked if the Bengals trail in this game. So game script should be in Mixon's favor here he gets the A over to the Dallas side. Definitely no a's here. Starting with Ezekiel Elliott just to see for him and eleven career games that Deck has missed with injury. Zeke average and easily three point eight yards per carry

and only scored twice in those eleven games. The Bengals have been stout against the run for quite some time, only allowing four running backs to top eighty yards over their last twenty two games, So rough spot for Zeke. I do like Tony Pollard though, while with with the receiving angle that's why he was might take a chance on me running back and the aforementioned Ceedee Lamb just to see for him. It's more like cassette tape Lamb at this point. Um he saw. I saw leven targets

last week, only caught the two. That's gross. He also has Cooper Rush as his quarterback, now that's more gross. Lamb will see Mike Hilton when lined up in the slot in a combination of Eli Apple and Shadobe Ouse on the edges. Those three corners have combined to allow just one touchdown over their last six games played together, and it's really just well factory I Apple out of that because he's not very good. Anyway. Back to the

other wide receivers. It's really Noah Brown who's wide receiver too, but he's on the bench. Despite seeing nine targets in Week one that resulted in five catches for sixty eight yards, I just can't give him a starting grade. I will give Dalton Schultz a B though, despite Cooper Rush as his quarterback. On paper, a great matchup for Schultz, who ran the second most pass routes for Dallas in Week one. Last season, the Bengals were top five in the most catches,

yards and touchdowns allowed to tight ends. Last week, they surrendered five catches for seven five yards to Pat Firemouth, who's also tackled on the one yard line almost scored a touchdown. So I do like Schultz this week, and I Cooper Rush. Can it get the bench gright out of the way this week? No, but I want to just get him out of future weeks, always on the bench, Cooper Rush. Well, what if you play Vikings again? Fair? Fair? Yeah, Seahawks take on the forty nine. This is gonna be

quick light rain in the forecast. Again. By the way, let me mention that so forty nine just could go from a monsoon to another rain game, but nothing like last week's game. And I already mentioned my bias in this is that Seattle just played their Super Bowl. They're gonna hit the road here and have a huge letdown game coming, and you'll hear that in my grades, I believe we start with Rashad Penny, who handled every Seahawks carry but one average five yards per carry against a

stout Denver front seven last week. He was also active in the passing game. He saw all three of Geno Smith's running back targets here. Uh forty nine is completely bottled up David Montgomery in the monsoon, but Penny's a tougher tackler average three point five yards after contact going back to last year, the NFL's best over that stretch.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna give him a B grade, and I'm barely giving a B grade a DK Metcalf because get this, for as you know, the big body guy that is just four point six air yards on his targets last week, which is a criminal misuse of Metcalf's body type and talent. Hopefully they'll air the ball out a little bit more in this one. Metcalf is top four receptions and sixty yards in five of six attempts against the Niners, and he clearly is the preferred

target for Gino Smith. So I've got to be grade on him, C grade on Tyler Lockett. All of our fears are realized with Lockett last week. Gino Smith did not look lock Its way at all last year when he started. He didn't look his way at all last week when he started either. And the short passes that Gino Smith is throwing are the anticipthis of what Tyler Lockett is all about. I think I may have mispronounced that I don't. Uh. Gino Smith indisputably looked in command

of that offense last week. Loved a lot of what we saw there, but again throwing all mostly entirely dink and dunk under short stuff. He he scored touchdowns in each of his four starts going back to last year, and two touchdowns and back to back starts. Uh, last two starts, he's throwing fifty one passes and just nine in completions, just nine in completion. It's against So it's all just safe work for Gino Smith, and that's enough

to give him a C grade. And that's it. Uh, don't anything with the Seattle various tight ends because they split it all up between Will Disley no offense and Colby Parkinson out of nowhere last week side Deebo, Samuel obvious a and a phenomenal matchup. Love him here and he's probably gonna get a few extra carries with Eliza Mitchell. I'm not gonna expend any more time on that um.

But for other members of the passing game and tray Lance, by the way, it was might take a chance on me quarterback that you may have heard earlier in the show, Brandon aou with a B grade. We're gonna throw out last week's monsoon game. Are you gaverage six point two yards after the catch last season? That was six the most Seahawks allowed five point eight yards after the catch last season, fourth worst, So a great opportunity for Brandon

Ay after the catch. And cornerbacks Justin Coleman and Michael Jackson posted uh sub forty PFF tackling grades last week, so I can see how you getting free for a long one here. I like his prospects and I've got a B grade on him. And then lastly, Jeff Wilson, by the way, I I'm under the assumption George Kittle is not going to go in this game, although Tyler Croft is a sneaky sleeper against the defense that just allowed seven catches and eighty five yards to a tight end.

If you're really in a pinch at tight end and Kittle gets ruled out, Tyler Croft might be a good way to go. Let's talk about Jeff Wilson, your new lead running back, not nude, your new lead running back to the forty nine years, although if you were nwed

it would add an interesting element to the game. In games in which Wilson has had more than fifteen carries throughout his career, and there's eight to those and the lead carrier carrier for the Niners always gets at least fifteen carries, he has averaged nine two rushing yards and eighteen receiving yards. That's a total of it's a hundred and ten yards and a full touchdown per game. Jeff Wilson, when he gets fifteen carries, that is massive productivity. He

gets the Seahawks this week. If Gordon and Williams hadn't both fumbled at the one yard line against the Seahawks, would be talking about how the Seattle run defense has already given up a hundred yard rushing game and two touchdowns, So Jeff Wilson a grade for him. We'll take a break when we come back. More matchups to break down, including the Texans taking on the Broncos. Might be love Texans. That Texans offense. We already talked about Davis Mills, who

we like. What about Eco Collins didn't doo much last week? What about Brandon Cooks who did? We'll tell you what we think about those guys when we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Churchi and Scott Fish, Brian Johnson with you. Scott Falcons take on the Rams. Falcons, Ruddy packs were really far are more effective than the Rams were. Rams with a big opportunity

to bounce back. But let's start with court Darryl Patterson's the best stories of week one and and early last year. It's a two year in a row thing here. Well this this week, alright, last week, at least Patterson Patterson's role was basically a full role because Damian Williams went out and their only active backup was Avery Williams, a converted defensive back who mostly plays special teams this week.

Williams will be out again, but they're prepared for it, and Tyler l Geer, who I play in the league with, will also get some work. But indications are Patterson will once again get that workhouse workhorse role fifteen plus touches. My problem is it's a very tough match up against the ramsdy that was top ten in a lot of categories against the run last year. So I only have a B grade on Cordell Patterson. I'm gonna have Algie on the bench. I'm not gonna trust him in this

very first game, sorry, Tyler. As for the passing game, yeah, I surprisingly have starting grades somehow on Mariotta, London, and Pits. In a game, I think they'll be behind a lot and need to pass to even try to attempt anything to sts defense. But how about Mariota's rushing from last week? Yes, that's exactly the point. Mariotta is not going to get you a ton through the year air, but he had a third of their running back rush carries last week.

Ten plus rush attempts is easily within the range of outcomes for him. That's gonna give him a C grade. It's kind of like Jalen Hurts only not quite as much passing volume, so he gets the C grade on that alone. Um again a tougher matchup, but I feel like they'll fall behind. The rush attempts plus falling behind give him the C grade here. Drake London also gets a C grade. It's hard not to like what we

saw in Week one. He missed all a preseason done, goes on to lead the team in target share, receptions, yards, everything. Basically Jalen Ramsey's gonna try to lock him up. And he had some trouble ls week, and he had to trouble some trouble at the D last season too, so you know, maybe maybe just on pure volume alone and again game script, Drake London gets a C grade. For me, I have a B grade on Kyle Pitts and I'm getting frustrated charge and Brian. Brian especially, I'm getting frustrated.

He's consistently top five in so many superfluous categories, not anything that but not phantasy points. Like last week he had what like I think third or fourth fifth most unrealized air yards that just didn't happen for him. Once those start happening, he's going to be like a solid A most weeks, but they're just not happening. So I'm giving him a B in it once again, a tough matchup, trailing B grade until he until he can show it. I'm not gonna give him an until he shows me it.

That's fair for Kyle Pitts right now. On the other side, Matt Stafford is getting an A grade. Cooper Cup is getting a grade. I don't think I need to talk much about it. It's night and day from last week, last year's top past defense, last week this year or this week they get a bottom five pasty. So Stafford and Cup easy a's. But what are we gonna do with Alan Robinson. I'm gonna keep my eye on it,

but I'm half throwing out Week one. He played percent of snaps, he had half the red zone wide receiver targets, and we just watched Jarvis Landry and Michael Thomas torched the Falcons for a hundred fifty plus yards and two scores. So I have a C grade hesitantly, but a C grade on A on Allen Robinson, a wide receiver in that good offense. Tyler Higbee was one of your way too many, too many Chicks. He's a good streaming option in the run game. We need to buy into Henderson.

We we do. They want cam more involved, they say it, but they didn't show it on the field, and even the stuff after last week wasn't super out of optimistic and he had some pretty bad plays, pretty bad plays in that game. So Cama's on the bench while Henderson gets a B because he was one of only six backs had a full work work work, workhorse role, and one of only six backs to play every single red zone snap for that team last week. The B is kind of due to how competent the Falcons Rundy was.

It actually seemed pretty good outside of the one Taystom Hill run run. They shut everything else down. So just a B B grade for Henderson in case cam Akers does make his way. I think they'd like to get Acres going. I think it would chance too, because they know from they know Henderson after watching him all of last year. Henderson's not a special running back. He's just the lead running back for the Rams. They'd like to get Acres going. He'll give They'll give him more chances.

I don't know they'll make good on it, but it'll get more chances Brian Texans take on the Broncos. We love the Texans in general. We've already talked about Davis Mills. You're take a chance on me quarterback will tell me about his receivers. Who else do you like in this one? I basically only like Brandon Cook's gonna give him a B. He saw twelve targets in Week one, while the rest of Houston's wide receivers total just nine. It's not the

best matchup for Cooks, but the volume should be there. Uh, Davis Mills loves looking his way, so a safe B for Cooks. I got the rest of the wide receivers on the bench for Houston. Hopefully Nico Collins steps up soon, but I'm not gonna put him in my story hand I had to drop in a couple of leagues. Now, that's what the tight ends. So O. J. Howard ran six pass routes last week. I saw two targets, scored

two touchdowns. Now, if I were to extrapolate numbers across a full season with an average of about thirty routes per game, my calculator would blow up. But I've got him on the bench in Brevin Jordan's We had to need some more clarity there. Well, it'll be interesting to see if Howard gets ramped up more runs, more pass routes, but for now they're both on the bench. As you mentioned, Davis Mills might take a chance of me quarterback. And lastly, the running backs, t Rex Burkhead. I call him t

Rex because he too soon will be extinct. Like, Gonna give him a c As mentioned, he ran or saw more than seven percent of the snaps, was only one of three running backs with more than ten carries and more than seven targets, so for now he is the starter, so based on expected volume alone, gonna give him a see. And Damian Pierce on the bench until he sees more playing time, but that should come sooner than later, hopefully.

Over the Denver side, Javante Williams easy a here, still in a time share, but this is a great matchup. Last year, Texans were thirty second in red zone rushing defense and thirty in explosive run rate. Last week, Williams ran twenty eight pass routes and was targeted forty of them for twelve targets. That's like Alvin Kamara type receiving work. They're pretty exciting. So in A for Williams and a

B for Melvin. Gordon played in forty percent on the snaps last week, total seventy two combo yards on fourteen touchdown, so he still is a major factor. He also saw more touches in the red zone than Williams did, so he's a strong start in this plus matchup. So a B for Gordon. I'm gonna give Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy both of B I like pretty much. I like

both of them pretty much the same. Yes, the Texans went into overtime last week, but still the Colts whiteouts total seventeen catches, two d and forty yards and one touchdown, So Sutton and Judy could both get something done in this game. And now over to Albert hold hold on, fish, I got this Albert o'quebu nom job. Get the Q in there. He gets a se uh. Andrew Beck stole some early work from oh Quabunam, but he still let Denver tight ends and targets and catches in Week one.

Houston allowed the twelve most yards to tight ends last year, and the Colts tight ends are just targeted nine times against the Texans last week. So I like Albert Oh and lastly, Russell Wilson. I don't like him too much. He really annoys me, but I'm gonna give him a b. Wilson didn't get his revenge in the Seattle, but he

still posted strong numbers and his debut with Denver. Last season, the Texans finished bottom ten in passing yards, touchdowns, and yards per attempt, and that's bottom ten in a bad way. When it comes to their defense, the Texas overhauled their secondary, including both safeties, but they are both rookies. As a starting cornerback at Derek Stingley, who was a first round pick but still a work in progress, Wilson should have a good game here. I think he should have a

good game. To calculator items, number one is eight zero zero eight five, You know what I mean? And the second is what the heck is? M plus M minus M S M R M C. What does that even do? Does anybody know? I mean? I do? I do? I who knows what those buttons on a calculator does? If you do, at Paul Charchi in X, explain what all of those ms mean on a calculator, because I don't know I don't want Bears taking on the Packers. We begin as a reminder my the ground Bears might take

a chance to me running back. Let's let's stick with the running backs and go to um. David Montgomery averaged three point five yards per carry against uh the Packers last year. He's gonna yield some of the carries to Herbert, as I discussed earlier. And the Packers run defense, well, it did not great out well against Minnesota, graded up very well last season. I don't necessarily trust him here.

Only one running back top to one yards rushing against the Packers since the since elite run stuffing linebacker Davantre Campbell arrived in Green Bay, but Montgomery did in Week twelve of the season two years ago. If that means anything, I don't think it does. C grade on David Montgomery, that's it. I don't. I don't love him here, justin Fields only gets a C. Gray passing last week was bad, but it was a monsoon. I'm worried about him passing

in perfect conditions against a very good Packers secondary. And yes, Minnesota humbled the Packers last week, but Cousins to Jefferson is a far cry from Justin Fields to Darnell Mooney just to see grade here, and only a C grade because of the rushing threat that Fields provides. He had rushing totals of seventy four and forty three yards against the Packers last year, so we'll hope that he can rush for some yardage here. And a C grade for

Justin Fields. A begrudging C grade on Darnel Darnell Mooney who likely gets shadow covered from elite coverage corner Jaire Alexander, who is smarting from his zone use against Justin Jefferson last week. But even if it's others, Mooney, if he sees, whether it's Jaire Alexander, Russul Douglas or Eric States, it's all a challenge. None of them have given it more than thirty five yards in their coverage since Week fourteen

of last season. There's a good Packers secondary, and I don't think Mooney's gonna change at We're gonna bench Cole Commet one target on zero catches last week and two mundane games against the Packers last year, and the Vikings tight ends did nothing against the Packers last week. I know comments gonna do better than last week. But have zero catches last week, so better doesn't necessarily mean much. Let's go to the Packers side. Aaron Rodgers has a

bounce back coming if Lazard plays in this game. Rogers history against the Packers is just torturous, with four to four and four touchdowns thrown over the past four meetings. Chicago starts two rookie second rounders in its secondary, Tyler Gordon and Jakwon Brisker. Sure they held up last week in the slop, but they've got a far tougher test

coming against Aaron Rodgers in perfect weather. And even if the receivers are pretty pretty middling here, So be great on Aaron Rodgers, be great on Almizart if he goes. I like him a lot. He scored in both games against the Packers last year and three of the last four against Chicago, and the other receivers proved themselves. The other Packers receivers proved themselves to be no help. Lazard's

return is gonna be very welcomed by Aaron Rodgers. And I see a lot of volume coming for Lazard, and let me mention this as I probably should have started with the Packers of this. They may get three offensive linemen back in this game. That would be huge Runyon and Jenkins and back tr If they all come back, or even like two of the three come back, that is a that is a huge help for this line.

I like both the running backs a lot. Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon both get bes here for Aaron Jones three touchdowns in the two games last year, and after last week's game, head coach Mela Fleur said he vowed basically vowed to get Jones more carries. The Bears were the league's worst graded run defense last week. Elijah Mitchell and Deebo Samuel ran for almost seven yards a carry against them. It was in the monsoon, but still that's if anything, that almost makes it worse for Chicago.

They've allowed five straight backfields the top one d yards rushing and that includes Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon from last year. Like them both a Lot A J. Dillon got lead the team in rushing attempts, receptions and receiving yards and touchdowns last week. You're certainly going to start A J. Dillon again. Both B grades for those runners and lastly, Robert Tonyan the Packers tight end C grade here look shockingly Spry in his first game back from the a c L Again, nobody else to throw too.

I just think that there's just not a lot of sure targets for Aaron Rodgers. We'll try Tony and last year Chicago was a pretty good tight end defense, but I still don't trust him much here and I think there's a chance for Tony and if you need to throw darts at the tight end position when we come back. Premature Speculation. We'll tell you guys to pick up this week that everybody else will be trying to pick up next week, but they're already on your roster. Premature speculation

coming out next on Family Football Weekly. It's the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. A reminder we are still creating guillotine leagues from scratch. You can still play. You can play with your friends in a private league anywhere between eight and seventeen of your friends can get together to form a guillotine league. Or if you don't have friends, maybe you've just got a maybe just uncouth, maybe you've got a personality that most people find offensive. Then you're

going to join one of our public leagues available. We've got live drafts basically anytime there's not an actual NFL game going, You've got a live draft option at Guillotine leagues dot com. Alright, gentlemen, it's time for a favorite segment on this show, Premature Speculation. This is where we get players other others will be trying to pick up next week, but are already going to be on your roster because you listen to this show. Scott, who is

your premature speculation player this week? I am gonna go with Van Jefferson, who is close to being back for the Rams this week but could quite get there. He'll probably be back next week. Uh, he was really starting to flash and show things at the end of last year. And there's a small chance Allen Robinson is actually washed and Van Jefferson becomes the number two in a very

highly explosive offense. And for my second prespect because apparently we're doing things like that now, Donovan Peoples Jones could legit be that wide receiver one for that team. He's seventeen percent rostered. He should be on a roster. I picked him up in a few leagues last week. Brian, your premature speculation player, speaking of potential team wide receiver ones. I got New York's Richie James. M rich James five

catches last week. That's the same amount as of catches as Sterling Shepherd, Darius Tony, Kenny Galady, and wan Dale Robinson combined. And listen, we know Sterling Shepherd is injury prone, Gadarius Tony's kind of looking like he's injury prone. He's cooked, and then there's wan Dale Robinson. So Richie James, Rich James could be uh the number one wide receiver for the Jihnts this season. Bill grab him? Why not? How

about Gus Edwards? By this time next week, Gus Edwards is going to be through three of his four weeks of of the populist that he's on, the injured reserve that he's on, and so he'll be looking at coming back. Kenyan Drake and Mike Davis for Baltimore are totally washed up, and Edwards should reaffirm his position is the backup behind Dobbins in a time share that we believe it is going to be like sixty forty Dobbins to Edwards. I'll take a running rate uh for a team that runs

the ball as much as the Ravens do. And as a reminder about Gus Edwards. His last healthy year he was Pro Football Focus is fifth ranked running back and he's never averaged less than five yards per carry in any season. Gus Edwards a good running back who's gonna come back and be an impact player for the Ravens, and you'll want to pick him up, I believe. Let's get back to our matchups. The next matchup up is

the Colts taking on the Jaguar Scott. For the Colts, it's no Alec Pierce and this one and it looks like Michael Pittman is not going to go. But he said earlier you still like Matt Ryan at the quarterback position. Yeah, I'm not. I'm still not sure about Michael Pittman. But yeah, it's looking looking like practice. I know, well he got he got hurt on Wednesday, um, and then he didn't practice on Thursday, and then they skipped the team skipped

their Friday practice. So the B reporters, the B reporters actually say it's on the optimistic side of questions. Okay, so, but for the Colts, Jonathan Taylor's and obviously pretty much every week Matt Ryan was my take a chance on me quarterback and he hines was my take a chance on me running back Paris Campbell was one of your many take a chance on the players over there in charge. Michael Pittman does get the C grade for me if

he goes. The hesitancy is on the injury. I mentioned what the practices were this week, but he may play limited naps if he goes, so I don't want to give him an A grade, assuming he'll be healthy and get his alpha rollback. I'm only given him a segrade. On the Jags side, Uh, Trevor Lawrence did his usual throw the ball into the ground or throw it too high, thinking his wide receivers are yell ming or something. Uh. You aren't starting him unless he becomes more efficient with

those attempts. But a bright spot was Christian Kirk. He's the clear wide receiver one there. They paid him like that, and he's the clear wide receiver one. He hauled in six of his twelve targets. Twelve targets. That's awesome, awesome volume. Uh, topping a hundred yards. He'll get his because he'll be playing the same role that Brandon Cooks played last week in a similar workload. UH. And he had eighty two yards against that defense. Uh So, I think Christian Kirk

is getting a B grade for me here. I kind of want to say, see, but it's the volumes just too high, and he's the main guy. I have both Za Jones and Marvin Jones on the bench. The Jags do play a ton of three wide receivers sets. They had pretty even numbers, but this has the fuel of an offense where the twomate might flip week to week. The indicators are a little in Za's favor. If you're really in a pinch. It's a matt hip against the

bottom ten d from a year ago. But this the Vegas over under his thirty seven on this game, the lowest of the week. There's not going to be a lot going on. I saw one of these next gen stats um bits the fastest timed receiver last week Jones, And remember he that guy is a little bit of an athletic freak. He he had that hovering stand back up thing from a couple of years ago and that was weird. Yeah. Yeah, Over to the running game, Travis C t N and James Robinson might be annoying this season.

I have a C grade on E. T N here in a bench grade on Robinson, and I know it's super weird, but E t N played a hundred percent of the short yard of snaps, a hundred percent of the minute two minute drill snaps, seventy five percent of the long down and distance snaps, and if Lawrence was more accurate, he would have had two touchdowns. One was completely thrown over or thrown yeah, thrown over. The other one he had barely reached up and tipped and could

barely get ahold of. He was wide open for one of the touchdowns that we probably could have caught. You and I think both tweeted within about sixty seconds of each other in the middle of Sunday. Trevor Lawrence still can't pack. He can't. Everybody just just was like, Oh, it's not his fault. Urban Meyer, I will say, had pass so far. I hope it changes. Et N did have a lot of bad places, and that's why Robinson

got a lot of looks. But I have the secret on E t N. The reason the grads are so low is the the Colts were the third best against running backs last year top ten last week, allowing a paltry two point nine yards per carry, and that's why Damian Pierce is going to have a bounce back right there. Titans take on the Bills. Brian Um Derrick Henry a pretty sizable disappointment in week one. What do you think in Week two? And arguably a tougher matchup. Yeah, it's

a it's a brutal matchup. That's why he gets the lower case B for Derrick Henry. He'll probably get fifteen carries. Sorry, but it's a brutal matchup. That data said Buffalo allowed less than ninety rushing yards in a touchdown per game to opposing running backs last year. Henry did have a monster game against Buffalo, but that they're old line in Tennessee has taken a step back from last year. So just the lower case little B for Henry. Dontrell Hilliard

on the bench, but he should be rostered. But not a good week for him this week to start on the Bill surrendered the third fewest receptions running back running backs last year. So Hilliard is on the bench, by the way, is he well that makes it further on the bench. Kyle Phillips, I'm gonna give him a seat. He led the team and targets, catches, and yards last week. He was targeted on targeted on seven percent of Ryan Tannehill's dropbacks. Hate the matchup, but Tannon has to throw

to somebody, and Philip seems like the guy. It certainly doesn't seem like Treylon Burke's and where Robert Woods who combined for four catches and six eight yards last week. They're both on the bench in a tough matchup, as is Austin Hooper. Jeff Swain led Tennessee's tight end to targets, receptions, and yards last week, so I can't advocate starting Hooper, even though the Bills yielded eleven targets to Tyler Higgy Higby last week. Hooper is on the bench, as is

Ryan Tannehill. That shouldn't be h too hard to decipher considering I hate all the past catchers. Basically over to the Buffalo side, Devin Singletarry and Zack Moss. Canna give them both the sea. The Titans were stout against the run last season, but so far that hasn't carried over to two. Just ask Sae Kwon Barkley about that. Who shredded the Titans run defense single Arry saw of the

snaps last week. So he still has a lead back, but I see both he and Moss topping ten touches in this game, and James Cook dead to us for now. He's on the bench. Of course, Stefon Diggs monster game in week one. He's an easy abuse. Jalen Ramsey basically matchup proof digs. No no need to go any further into that. Gabriel Davis can give him a bet. He didn't see a ton of targets last week, but he made the most of them. He played in nine of the snaps and ran a pass route on every single

one of Josh Allen's drop backs. He remains a must start in almost any matchup. And we talked about how bad Tennessey was against slot receivers last year. I'll reiterate um, they gave up the most PPR points to slot wide receivers. Of the wide receiver points they gave up went to slot receivers thirteen and wide receiver touchdowns surrendered went to slot receivers. So I give Isaiah Mackenzie the sea, and

I also like Jamison Crowder. That's why I used my take a chance on me wide receiver fired that bullet at Jamison Crowder both Cole Beasley and Manny Sanders had great games when these teams met last year or so. I like Mackenzie and crowder Dawson Knox, I do not like him again this week. I got him on the bench. The Titans allowed the Giants tight ends to combine for

just one target, one catch, one yard last week. It's not like anyone who was expecting anything from New York's Chris Maya Rick to have a breakout game, but this looks like a continuation of last season, where Tennessee allowed the fifth fewest yards, sixth fewest receptions, and just three touchdowns to tight ends. So Knox on the bench for

one more week, and Josh Allen quite the opposite. He's in a obviously, he's basically always in a su the other Monday nighter, and for some reason, we have two Monday nighters, but they're both on the East Coast. If you're gonna have two Monday nighters, you gotta stagger him so people can watch one or the other. Right, watch both rather, I mean, instead of having to choose, I got to bring both. It's a little weird. I don't

get that Vikings Eagles is the other Monday night game. Uh, we'll start with the Viking side justin Jefferson's obviously grade. We're not going to spend time on that, but let's talk about some of the other receivers. Adam Theland after a quiet game gets a B grade here should see more opportunities in this game, even in a matchup with

another another challenging secondary. The outside cornerbacks Darius Slay and James Bradberry have combined to allow just one score over their last six games, which creates a contrast to Theland's touchdown scoring prowess. But the Eagles are very susceptible in

the slot, at least moderate. You're susceptible in the slot, and we saw I'm on ros st Brown's big game from the slot last week, and Theland runs from the slot regularly, and I think we get up an uptick here and a very possible touchdown B grade for Theland. He's always a possible touchdown. I feel like he is h J. J. Osbourne very quiet last week, but he runs from the slot, as you just mentioned of Ante Mattos,

all of that same stuff. I like Osborne with a C grade here with a bigger role in the in the greatest weakness coming from the slot. Uh Kirk Cousins five got A B and C grades on his receivers. I've got to like Cousins as well. Uh Bradberry very good. James Bradberry cornerback was very good last Sunday, allowing thirteen yards on six targets. But every part of the Vikings passing game is far stronger than with the Lions would have allowed last week. So I still like Cousins here.

Probably not a gigantic game, but a good enough game for a B grade for him. And then Dalvin Cook. Um, Cook's value took took a hit at the goal line. Kevin O'Connell ran five plays from inside the ten yard line. Just one was a Cook run, and I think we're gonna see so different and I know I think this mayor this mirrors the past heavy usage of the Rams last year, um, and so that's probably gonna be something

that continues here. Still, Leagles just gave up one hundred seventy two yards and three scores DeAndre Swift and Jamal Williams. So you're certainly starting Dalvin Cook a B grade for him. On the Philadelphia side, A J. Browns and obvious A, you know, to start him after the Giant game last week. And Jalen Hurts also an A. And I think we're getting to the point where we just say that he's in every week A, right and just obvious A. And

that's it to top twelve quarterback and eighteen how about that? Yeah, he didn't throw a touchdown last week and he was QB five with no touchdown passes. And if the Vikings get pressure on Hurts, he's got the elusiveness to extend plays and that pressure also, you know, he could offen essentially make it harder for Patrick Peterson and Cam Danceler to hang with A. J. Brown and the other receivers there,

like Dallas Goddard as well. The Packers have a hodgepodge of tight ends that combined for six catches, sixty seven yards and no touchdowns, and Dallas Goddard figures would better than all of those that the Vikings gave up last week. Miles Sanders B greade on Dallas Gollard, B grade on Miles Sanders, who was great last week's seven point six yards per carry that was a very strong play. Vikings run defense looked really good but went largely on challenge

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