Fantasy Football Weekly Week 10

for Fantasy Football Weekly. Gopher kickoff is eleven o'clock. Pregame at nine o'clock, so we are adjusted back a couple hours before that two hours of fantasy football. Goodness. I'm Paul Charching. My co host Brian Johnson almost as always, can't quite say as always, the audacity to take the

one week off. And then Matt Harrison, good morning, guys, not as much always not your rarely and they're rarely seen three out of the next four alright, good, alright, good do enough to change the liner for at least three out of the next four weeks. It made sense this morning, at least the intro. The intro made sense, if only, if only this time, take a chance on me. Five tough questions, premature speculation, lightning round, and we'll break

down all of the matchups. And that begins with Packers at Bears. Matt It's got no point now where no Packer feels safe. I have the entire Green Bay Packers offense on the bench except for one player. That's Davante Adams, who only gets us see number one. Wide receivers have actually got it done against the Bears more than any other position this year. Antonio Brown was the only wide receiver to top a hundred yards. Jordi had seventy five and two scores in the first meeting. Michael Thomas had

seven catches for seventy seven last week. And Adams has taken over as the Packers lead wide receiver since Hunley has been the quarterback. He leads the wide receiver group and targets, catches, yards and touchdowns since Hounley took over. This is not uncommon with with young developing quarterbacks where they just can't go through three and four progressions, so they go to one A and I'll throw that guy the ball if easy, remotely open. And so I think

Adams is enjoying some of that. Yeah. The bad news is the last time the Bears allowed to score to a wide receiver it was against the Packers in Week four. Geez, and they allowed four in that game. Uh. The offense is completely struggled under Hunley, and the Bears are top ten defense, especially at home, where they're only allowing fifteen

points per game. Huntley faces a Bears defense it's only allowed eighty nine rushing yards total the quarterbacks this year, and that's where a lot of his value is predicated. So he's on the bench. Chicago's only allowed eight passing touchdowns this year, seven rushing touchdowns in eight games, and they held the Saints to twenty points in New Orleans in the last game. Well, Kamara and Ingram both scored

in that game. Montgomery and Aaron Jones are not on par with Rob without Rogers, so they're on the bench. And that's really it for the Packers. Notice I didn't even mention Jordy Nelson. He's just an afterthoughts in this office. Is I know there there are people dropping Jordy out right. I've seen it. I've seen it happen in one of my leagues. As if someone should trade Jordy for mor Tavis Bryant. Yeah, I saw that tweet as well. I didn't know. I didn't know what to say either. Pick

your poison. It's not good on the Bear side. I got one starter, and it's Jordan Howard, who gets an A grade. The Packers are allowing a hundred and eighteen rushing yards per game. They've given up a running back touchdown in every game a r that's after Rogers. Howard has had thirty six and twenty three rushing attempts in the bears last three games. He's just getting the rock a lot treat. Cohen is on the bench. He's droppable.

He's had exactly one catch per game. Since Mitch Drabinski took over at quarterbacks, I thought I thought it was gonna go the other way. I'll be honest. I'm so used to seeing young quarterbacks dump off balls to running backs and and you know safety safety outlet, the stuff, security blanket stuff. Now, well, trubisky safety outlet was Zach Miller. And while he still has two legs barely, he might

never play again. Kendall Wright hasn't topped fifty yards or scored in Trubisky's four starts, so the rest of the passing game, including Robinsky, is on the bench. Even if I tell you this golden nugget of information that tomorrow is Kendall Wright's birthday, Oh bus, he might get the fifty yards then alright, Vikings take on the Redskins. I've got I've got an A one A grade between both teams,

and it's for Kyle Rudolph. He has scored a touchdown and each of his three career games against Washington, and the Redskins have just been abused by tight ends all season. They've allowed a league worst eight yards per game to tight ends, and Rudolph averaging eight targets per game over the last four weeks. Now a lot of those were without Stefon Diggs now digs back, so that worries me a little bit about Rudolph, But still I'm giving him an A grade here. The rest of the Vikings starters

C grades. Adam Feland goes up against slot corner Kendall Fuller, uh, who has been really a mixed bag here. The Redskins have given up touchdowns and Nelson Agilare twice from the slot. Doug Baldwin had a massive game from the slot, but He's also Kendall Fuller has also shut down some other

good slot receivers, so it's a mixed bag here. Celand has at least five receptions in every game, and I still think it's it's gonna be a typical Theeling game where you're gonna get six seven receptions eight yards and he probably won't score. Stefan dig c gradecent healthy for the first time and over a month and runs the majority of his plays on the right side of the field, which means he'll draw Josh Norman, who almost never ventures

away from that side of the field. Norman hasn't allowed a touchdown this year, and opposing number one receivers consistently shut down against Josh Norman. It is a tough assignment for Steph Diggs. He goes down to a sne like a Digs decoy. It could be it could be uh and maybe all the better for Rudolph Jerk McKenna. Let's stay with the passing him will trap up that at first case. Keenum, I've got a tentative see and maybe

a bench grade here. Redskins have played a lot of good quarterbacks and they've handled almost all of them, basically all of them other than Carson Wentz, who has put up two massive games against them. The average non Winsonian game against the Redskins two hundred twenty five yards and one touchdown. That's it, And that's almost exactly what case Keenum gives you on a weekend and week out basis. So to me, that's barely C grade chart. You got your finger on the pulse of the Vikings. Is the

leash for Keenum short. Now that Teddy is back, could not if he doesn't give away games, I think they can even lose games as long as he's not the three turnover guy to cause those losses. So I think he. I think cases pretty safe actually, all right, So now let's talk about Jack McKinnon for just a moment. Of the last four weeks, he's averaging twenty one touches, one six total yards, and a touchdown per game. Those are

great workhorse style numbers. Elite backs like Todd Gurley, Kareem Hunt, Zeke Elliott have posted very big games against the Redskins, but nobody else has. Only the big workhorse elite level workhorse backs have gotten it done against the Redskins. You can decide on for yourself if Jerick McKinnon belongs to that conversation, is he in the conversation with Girly Hunt

and Elliott? Hundred six yards in a touchdown per game would suggests he is non Girly Hunt Elliott backs against the Redskins, nobody has topped fifty yards, So that's your downside. I've got a C grade on Jack McKinnon. Let's go to the Washington side, where I've got a handful of Sea grades and that's it. Kirk Cousins comes in with a sea There's a litany of problems for Cousins in this matchup. Offensive line is all kinds of banged up. I think they may only end up missing one starter,

but a bunch of guys playing hurt um. The Vikings have an elite sacking defense that will test that offensive line. Of course, you may be shorthanded here without Jamison Crowder, who's shaping up as a game time decision, Jordan Reid shaping up as a game time decision. And then there's the matter of the Vikings secondary, which is very good anyway. They ranked fifth and touchdown passes allowed seventh and passing yardage allowed. A very tough game for Kirk Cousins coming.

The only part of his receiving game that I've got a starting grade on is Vernon Davis because with without Jordan reading the lineup, he's still been reliable. He's averaging four catches sixty two yards in every game since the opener read game time decision hamstring injury. But it might not matter either way. The Vikings are very good against tight ends. They're holding the forty five yards per game

as a position. None of top forty yards against the Vikings since the opener suggest to see grade on Davis and if read, actually we're healthy, implying you might even just take him into the bench area. Darrell Prior's out. He's collected three or fewer receptions in seven straight games. Josh Dockson's got to average more than two catches a game. I just that's just not enough volume. I also worried that he's gonna see Xavier Rhads and then it's it's

game over for Josh Dockson. Lastly, go to the running game. Rob Kelly is on the bench. He's a pure touchdown play. He has scored three times in the last two games, which is great, But the good news ends there. The Vikings have only given up two rushing touchdowns all year. They ranked third and rushing yards allowed, and Rob Kelly's averaging two yards to carry two. I know you you talked about it, but I'm counting six offensive linemen on

the injury report for washing. Isn't it ridiculous? Terrible? Like all of them. Chris Thompson is normally a very safe play, but he's also had this string of matchups against teams that struggle against running backs through the air that ends here. The Vikings alread elite past catching defense for running backs. I've given out these stats a few times in a

lot of different formats. I'll do it again here. Here are these are I'm gonna the Vikings have faced just this litany of excellent pass catching running backs, and listen to what they've done. Alvin Camara twenty yards through the air, Lavan Bell four yards, Theoretic eight yards, Tarik Cohen negative eight yards, Tie Montgomery three yards, Bunk Alan twenty nine yards, and in their last game, Duke Johnson ten yards. So I just I I've got to see great and Chris

Thompson just because I think it's a talent. But I don't expect him to do very much here. Let's go to our final matchup of this segment and it is the New Orleans Saints taking on the Buffalo Bills. New Orleans Saints have turned into a run first offense. What do you think about Alvin Camara mark Ingram? Yeah, I like Alvin Camara a little more in this game. I'm giving him a b um. He's the league leader in yards per carry at six point. Oh, give him more

carries please? Well, we don't like to see that. This matchup is really about the receiving for Camara. Buffalo was allowing running backs to catch nearly six passes per game. Camara's top five among running backs and targets, receptions, and receiving yards. So you do the math. Camara should do pretty well here. I don't like um mark Ingram as much. I'm gonna give him a strong See Buffalo bottom six

and opponent rushing play percentage. Opponents are running just thirty of the time against the Bills, and Buffalo has yet to allow an opposing running back to reach eighty rushing yards. So I like com here a little more than Ingram here. But you're definitely starting both to the passing game. Uh, let's go with to start with Drew Brees. It's no surprise Breeze has more passing touchdowns on the road this year. There's a surprise. Well, you just ruined my punch line

charge but yeah, sorry, I was active. Here you go again, No, just go again. We got Wet and Bryan over here. That is a surprise. I'm giving Breeze this to see here though, even though he's better on the road. Now, that's that's a joke. Of course, bad matchup Buffalo is allowed. The third few is touchdowns passing touchdowns just seven all year. Only one of posing quarterback has topped one passing touchdown. Breeze could do it, but his ceiling isn't as high

as usually is. Michael Thomas will give a b You might be borderline a if cornerback E J. Gaines misses his third straight game, he's questionable right now. Thomas owners are certainly hoping for that, but you're starting him either way. I think Thomas is gonna gonna have a nice game here too. I'm seeing him traded for nothing in a couple of a couple of my leagues. People are really down on him, and I don't think this is the time to give up. No, but he's been very consistent,

has been blowing up like been very consistent. Ted Ginn also been surprisingly consistent. Uh likely to draw trade Davious White, though, who grades out as Pro Football focuses number ten cornerback and coverage. He's been much better than a boom er bust guy this year. Again has but that's kind of what he feels like this week. I'm just giving him a c I'm benching Brandon Coleman and Willie Snead. Snead went from four to eighteen snaps last week. Coleman went

down from fourty gate to thirty. Maybe they meet more in the middle of this week, but just the matchup isn't right anyway, so I got both on the bench. That's it for the Saints. Over to Buffalo, starting with Lashawn McCoy. Shady returns home where he's averaging a hundred and thirty combo yards per game dating back to the

start of last season. The Saints are allowing four point seven yards per carry five point five yards per carry on the road, so McCoy is an easy A. Kelvin Benjamin Oh, I'm tended to give him a SEA, but I'm gonna go go bench grade here and we'll wait and see what happens. The Saints are only allowing an average of six catches and zero touchdown per game to wide receivers as a whole over the past three weeks. For that reason, I have Jordan Matthews on the bench

as well. Even though safety Kenny Vecaro will miss this game for New Orleans, I just don't see either with a very high ceiling in this one. And Charles Clay is supposed to make his return. UH coach Sean McDermott say, Clay is looking really good to play on Sunday, but the matchup isn't right here. New Orleans has allowed these second fewest yards to opposing tight ends, So another wait and see scenario for Clay. Even with all those bench grades for the past catchers, I do like Tyrod Taylor.

I'm gonna give him the B on paper. The Saints have the best past defense in the NFL over the last five weeks, which is but they faced Saint Yeah, Jay Cutler, Brett Hunley, Mitch Dubitsky's still still for the by ST standards. That's amazing. It is it truly is. But the one legit quarterback they faced during that span was Matthew Stafford, who threw for three d twelve yards

and three touchdowns. Taylor does have some interesting weapons, and New Orleans has given up good numbers through rushing quarterbacks. So uh, and I got it. Has at least six rushing attempts in all but one game this year, and it's schoo on the ground in consecutive weeks, So I will give him a beef, all right. Uh. You had mentioned Charles Clay coming back. I think a lot of the success he had had earlier was because Jordan Matthews was out and Zay Jones had done nothing. I mean,

there was nobody else even to throw too. Now you add in Kelvin Benjamin, and you add in Jordan Matthews back healthy. Now Za Jones is a bigger part of this offense, and you know Clay is still not one. I'm not feeling Clay right now, and I don't know that he's going to replicate the early season success he had. Last thing I'll mention about Kelvin Benjamin. Can you remember another time? Can you remember any time that a receiver was traded mid season? And then was a particularly effective

fantasy receiver with the new team. I'm struggling to think of anybody that falls into that category. It's seven am, I'm ever traded in the history of the NFL. Uh, It's I just think this is I think it's a position that it It really helps to have timing with your quarterback, to have run all the routes together and everything else. I just think I think it's hard for a receiver to be particularly effective after after being traded mid season. A lot of Marshall he was traded, but

I don't remember. I don't think it was a lot of a lot of the Buffalo coaching staff came from Carolina and they brought him in for a reason. They maybe it's a good locker room guy, so he might he might fit in pretty well there right away we give my Ley gives points for a locker room guys. Yeah, so yeah, that'll that'll be helpful. P L R G. Yes, Yes, when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally and you're starting line up a bunch

of these guys on the waiver wire. If you're in a pinch in a position you want to stay tuned take a chance on me when we come back. Last week, regular listener Michael Mike Croswell was nice enough to send in a eighties John Carpenter style take a chance on me. We played it, and now he's come back with what he calls the Voodoo mix. Take a chance on Me. I kind of like it. No, it's not the Voodoo mix. I'm sorry, it's the vote Coder mix. I looked at it. I just glanced at it. Votal. I don't seem not

positive of the vote coder is. But we must be listening to it. I think he knows better than we do. Must be this fancy pants keyboard we got going to think. So it's very eighties, it's very Cassio. Let's let's jump into the take chance on me bit. It's uh, nine players not normally in your starting line at the beginning of the quarterback position. Matt, you got I said I'd never do it, but I'm going back to the Jake Cutler. Well. The angle here is that the j Gi E subtraction

was the addition that the Dolphins sorely needed. Both Kenyan Drake and Damian Williams are far better pass catchers and pass protectors than a giant, and the offense is more quick, hitting and pass oriented now is evidenced by Cutler's first three yard games since that happened last week. It was also the first time he threw three touchdowns in the last three years. He completed thirty four passes last week.

A clip that's non cutl area. No five quarterbacks have thrown for multiple touchdowns against the Panthers, his opponent this week in the last seven games. So let's see Cutler do it. I'd like to see Cutler do it, all right, Brian? How did I end up with Stu Beard? Yeah? It doesn't seem normal, does it? Well? I got Stu Beard, Ryan Fitzpatrick at home against the Jets in the Revenge Bowl, which I'm sure we'll talk. This is the most revengee game of all time? Is uh? Sadly? No, no Mike

Evans for Ryan, It's Patrick. But the Jets have still allowed the most passing touchdowns in the NFL with nineteen. They've allowed an opponent completion percentage of sixty eight over the last three weeks. That is just one short of sixty nine if you're counting at home. New York has also allowed multiple passing touchdowns in five straight games. So yeah, Stu Beard. In an obvious revenge scenario, let's go. Josh McCown might be the safest quarterback play this week. Also

now the Revenge Bowl. It's that's the other half of Revenge Bowl. No two quarterbacks have ever faced each other having played for more combined teams in the course of their career than Josh McCown and Ryan Fitzpatrick. McCowen scored multiple touchdowns in five straight games, and this is his easiest opponent of the year, Tampa Bay. The Bucks ranked thirtie and past defense giving up tutor eighty yards per game. Opposing quarterbacks have scored in every game against the Bucks.

It's a terrific opportunity for Josh McCown to go to the running back position. Matt, I've got Rod Smith. And this is predicated on Ezekiel Elliott's suspension actually staying a suspension this week. I think it's going to stay. Exchange between now and kickoff. Atlanta, their opponent this week has allowed the fourth most receptions to opposing running backs, and good pass catching backs tend to have a decent day against the Falcons. Christian McCaffrey had five catches last week

and ended up scoring on the ground. Matt Forte add six for forty five in the air. James White had five catches and scored time Montgomery six for seventy five in a touch. Tarik Cohen eight for forty seven and a touch. Rod Smith's their pass catching back. I like him this week, all right, Ryan, I've got Cleveland's Duke

Johnson at Detroit. Opposing running backs are averaging more than eight targets per game against the Lions, so it'snow surprise Detroit is top twelve and receptions and yards allowed to running backs. Duke has ten catches on twelve targets over his last two games. Cleveland wide receivers are absolutely worthless. I see a lot of volume through the air for Duke in this one. Or Lean's Dark wa is my choice.

Now this is a two parter. It's also Wayne Gallman, so I'll let you do the choosing listener on whether Poor Lean's Dark Wall or Wayne Gollman is more applicable for your situation. Ship probably can't find Orleans Dark one on a lot of waiver. That's right, So and I Wayne Goldman, there's enough to go around. Let's let's talk about it. Forty Niners ranked thirty feet against the run, mostly because teams are running thirty six times per game

against San Francisco. Now, the of the thirty six times, Orleans Dark has never had more than sixteen carries in a game this year, so that leaves twenty carries to get spread around. They're all going to Wayne Goldman. They might all go to Wayne Goldman, and especially if the Giants, Brian, are able to reverse last week's blowout and be on the other end of a blowout win against the windless forty Niners, maybe then they go to their backup running

back Wayne Goldman and give him a bunch of work. Meanwhile, Orleans Orleans Dark wavaging five yards per carry, So we're excited about the prospects of both. I'm sure will do the right thing. Retire. Did Charch just find a barber blowout game flow for the Giants? I did? Wow? How about that? Brian? Sorry, Matt, let's go to the wide receiver slash tight end of position. I've got a tight end and it's Garrett Sellec. Because it's almost too easy.

It's the Giants that they're playing and everyone knows that they suck against tight ends, to the tune that they've allowed a tight end touchdown every game this season. And George Kittle, the normal starting tight end, is out. So Garrett Sellek, who's virtually unowned in any league, is sitting there with the best tight end matchup of all of all time, of all time. It's I mean, if you were to look just at the defensive part of it, it probably is the best tight end matchup of all time.

I'm confident in the twenty three year history of this show, we've never had a team rolling on a ten game tight end touchdown a loud streak ever, correct, Bryan, all right, let's stay with tight ends, and I'm going with Houston. C jt Dorwitz at the Rams. CJ is coming off i R after suffering a concussion in week one. He's expected to quote play a lot. So that's good news, uh,

and then their story three game history together. C J Fedorowit's and Tom Savage are a duo more deadly than Dalton and Wade, whoa also a great place to grab an old fashioned had the well I do like that place. But anyways, CJ caught four passes for forty six yards for forty six yards from Savage in Week one before getting hurt early in the third quarter. Last year, he was the only Texan receiver to see at least seven targets in both of Savages starts. So he's his favorite option.

And I'll see lots of volume on Sunday against the Rimps, and he's going to play a lot and play quote a lot market down. Never have more ringing endorsement. I am going with Tampa Bay receiver Adam Humphries. Evans is out. Tom fres is going to get more targets. But even more importantly, he faces Buster Screen, who ranks nineties or Busted Screen doors we'd like to call him, or we've called him Custer Screen as well. We've been picking on

Fuster Screen for year. Absolutely ranks seven at the cornerback position by Pro Football. Folks. Get this, The last three slot receivers to face the Jets and Screen all have all score touchdowns and they've all topped seventy four yards. That's a liability in the defense we can exploit, folks. Adam Humble, Adam Humphries gets the screen pass. That's right. Uh, We'll take a break when we come back. More matchups

to get to, including Chargers taking on the Jaguars. Do you dare start anybody from the passing game from San Diego? Find out when we come back. You're distinct of Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome back to the show. It is Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Paul Church and Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison with you. We're in a roll up our sleeves on a bunch of matchups and try to work in maybe a call or two to the people nice enough to sit on hold and listen

through the show. First matchup, it's the Chargers against the Jaguars. Jaguars rank number one against the pass They've given up one passing touchdown in their last five games, not one per game, one passing touchdown in their last five games. That means if you spread that out over season, they're gonna they're averaging like three point two passing touchdowns on

the season. That is correct for the Jaguars. Can you possibly start any of your Chargers no the passing games on the bench, and that includes Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen. The Jags have only allowed one touchdown to a wide receiver all year. That was way back in Week one against DeAndre Hopkins, so Allen's not in play. Hunter Henry as the best matchup, as the Jags have allowed three times as many touchdowns to tight ends as wide receivers.

That would be three uh, but Henry's the target totals have just been erratic seven five and two in the last three games. The only guy to start on the Charger side is Melvin Gordon, who gets an A. Through their first six games, the Jaguars have allowed six backs to top nine dr three of them hit triple digits, and they they only held the Colts and Bengals backfields under those marks in the last two weeks. But that's as impressive as Don Trump maxing out a two character

tweet right there. Let's go to the Jaguar side. Leonard four Nette. He gets an A grade. He hasn't played in three weeks due to injury, then a buy, then a team photo. The prior three weeks he was averaging a hundred and fifty five total yards and one point three touchdowns per game, and the Chargers are allowing a hundred and thirty five yards per game to running backs. That's second worst in the league. So he's the A. But the passing games on the bench Blake Bortles uh.

The Chargers have held five of eight quarterbacks to one or zero touchdown passes this season. Tom Brady is the only one to top to fifty against the Chargers. Marquis Lee is on the bench. He's the only wide receiver has been worth anything on this roster. There's a remote possibility that we could see D. D. Westbrook soon. But Marquis Lee draws Casey Hayward, who's only allowed eight teen catches this season to per game. So that's it, nicely done. Did I hit the minute mark? I wasn't timeing? He

thought you were gonna time me. No, you didn't say you wanted to be time Do you want to be timed? Brian? I mean I can work this out if you'd like. Uh. Cleveland takes on the Detroit Lions. Can you do that in one minute? Yes? Or no? On your market set? Go h I say that, I say, crow L, I'm gonna give him a seat. Now. This is way too distract you gotta do it, um uh cro L. What's finally useful from a fan? It's I can't do this? Yes,

our thirty second reviewers do it all the time. All right, it's a bad matchup for crow l. Detroit is right top ten against the run by Football Outsiders d v o A and only two running backs up topped seventy six yards against the Lions. Uh, they're much easier thrown off right now. Taking is like, I feel like the place is gonna explode. Um, I like do Johnson more than that? I say crow wel that's plays. Might take a chance on me running back. The wide receivers are

on the bench. Over the last three games, six Cleveland wide receive eivers have combined for twenty three catches and two forty nine yards. That's not even an average of eight catches and eighty five yards per game for the whole unit. They're just dreadful. And Joku, David and Joeku was on the bench. Decent matchup for tight ends, but in Joko has got the top three catches in the game and has preached the fifty yard mark just once. Uh, you didn't even get through half of the matchup in

sixty seconds. That was nerve racking. He would never make it on Video Games Weekly. That's what I've learned here. You have to tell me that the tik tiking was coming. I wasn't prepared for that. You are a radio professional. You are paid to execute this show. We expect you to be able to do it with a ticking sound in the background. You could have just taken off the headphones. I don't think I'm paid enough to do it with the ticking sound in the background. That's too hard. DeShone

geyser on the bench. Okay, over to Detroit. Golden eight, gonna get eight Golden Tate, canna give him an a? I am so on tilt right now. Tate his top ten and receiving yards among wide receivers. You're obviously starting him against the Browns. Marvin Jones almost want to give him an a. It wasn't for the fact that he'll draw a top cover corner. Jason mccordy Jones one of my one of my sleepers in the preseason. By the way, if you want to fire up that peacock if he's awake.

Over the last four weeks, Jones is fourth among wide receivers and yards and first in touchdowns. That's even more impressive considering he had his by during that span. Uh now, right, now you don't mind, you don't mind talking to the peacock sound when it's all about you. I'm so used to that. Okay, that's true. Alright, uh man, there's a certain tight end I really want to mention in this

matchup for Detroit. Can I know Darren Fells? Believe you had Darren Fells doubly It's it's it's I'm not recommending him in seasonal he's started a standard bench. But on a site like fan ball where he's coming in cheap. Oh yeah, Ebron against the Browns, I would use Fanballs triple tight end set to get Ebron, no doubt, no doubt. Matt Stafful, idiot, Matt Stafford. Want to do a head to head? Yes, all right, you have to use Ebron and your triple tight end stack. Deal, all right, decent

you link later, Matt Stafford. Gonna give him in a Cleveland has allowed sixteen passing touchdowns on the season, which is tied for third most in the league. Stafford has thrown for three or more yards in each of the last three games. He's an easy a. I'm here to abdul. I'm just gonna give him a CE fumbled in some key spots last week. It's hard to trust him in fantasy and now reality. Cleveland has actually ranked number one against the run by Football Outsiders, and it's not because

teams aren't running against them. They are top twelve and carries against, but bottom five and yards allowed. That means they are a legit run defense. So I'm not liking to Abdula here and THEO Rittic I still can't do it. He's on the bench as well. He's basically been benchable all year. You might as well start THEO huxable at this point. That was very impressive. I came right off the top of the head. Really, I can't tell you

didn't put hours and hours of work out of that. Uh. The yards per carry Cleveland is still number one in opposing yards per carry at two point nine. That's it. They are sneaky good run defense. Giants take on the forty niners already told you Orleans Darkwa and Wayne Goldman. Where my code take a chance on me running backs. I want to see you do this with the ticking. Come on, do you think that's gonna phase a seasoned radio like? Yeah, it doesn't mean I don't think I

can get the matchup in under one minute. But I didn't say I could. All right, let's go to the passing game. After a nice start to the season, the defenses regressed badly in their last seven games. They've allowed either multiple touchdown passes or more than three hundred passing yards in every game. And here's Eli Manning who comes in short handed for a month. He's played all these good defenses, yet he's still thrown at least one touchdown

in every game since the opener. And this is the easiest matchup since Week four when he faced Tampa and he rolled up two yards and two scores and that one. So I like Eli Manning. A B grade on Eli Manning, And if I like Manning means I like his really only two receiving options first, Sterling Shepherd. He was targeted nine times last week nin and the Giants don't have

a lot of other options in the passing game. Only two teams have allowed more passing touchdowns than the forty Niners and their slot corner Kwan Williams, who will be guarding Shepherd, primarily ranks as cornerback one hundred twelve by Pro Football Focus. I believe one fifteen is the total number that they've got. Evan Ingram isn't a great and

by the way, Shepherds will be great. A grade for Evan Ingram on the season, the forty nine is are a top ten defensive against tight ends, but they've given up a touchdown to the position in three straight weeks. And here comes Ingram who has scored a touchdown in three straight weeks. He's averaging nine targets nine times over the last five weeks and that is not going to

change here. Let's go to the San Francisco side. You gotta be great in Carlos High, averaging over eighteen touches per game, and he'll get the bulk of the work against the Giants, who ranked twenty four and rushing yards allowed, and they've given up over one hundred fifteen total yards to back in every single game this season. Nine. That is right, That's exactly right. Uh. Matt Breed is just

an afterthought in this offense now. And I've actually got some C grades on the passing game, because Brian, your giants stink against the past all of a sudden, all of a sudden. Other than that part, uh C J. Bethard C grade, he's his rushing prowess helps make him a plausible by week fill and he's averaging thirty rushing yards per game. On the ground, he scored twice in the in three full games. But his arm can ship

in a little something here too. The Giants have allowed multiple passing touchdowns or three passing yards and five consecutive games rolling into this one. And during that stretch, quarterbacks have averaged just under three touchdowns per game. So even if c J. Bethard is half that good, that's one and a half touchdowns. We'll we'll take that. That earns you a C grade around here. Since week four, the

Giants are the NFL's worst past defense. So CJ about Room of the Sea, and then you mentioned Gerrit's Garrett Sellek was you take a chance on your receiver slash tight end? And then Markus God is the only the guy with a pulse. He gets a C grade as well. Since c J. Bethard took over, goodwin leads to forty niners and targets he had eight last week. Of course, Pierre Garsona's out, the Giants get to North Jenkins back

from suspension team and duce suspension. What do you do by the way giant, do we, Brian, what do you we know? What he did? Uh? He laughed at Ben mcadoo's hair. Do so suspend? And then apparently I'm gonna get suspended? Don't you know? I would say that he Uh he besmirched the integrity of Ben mcadoo's barber. But Benmark mcadoo's barber is a Tupperware bowl, so he probably didn't. They have a lot five wide receiver touchdowns in the

last two games. Your Giants have in seven wide receivers have hit at least fifty yards in the last three weeks. Think about that, three games, seven different receivers have hit fifty yards. Goodwin is going to do that? There's Uh, he remains a C grade. I think we had time to time for one more. Let me look at our time, our clock kind of I got this, all right? You think you can do Steelers colts reasonably reasonably quickly? Maybe all right? Uh, you don't want to commit to anything,

I understand. Levan Bell is this week's fantasy Fonzie, Right, Brian the easiest day of them all? Uh. Antonio Brown also in a last year on Thanksgiving against Vante Davis, Brown had nine yards and three touchdowns. But there's no more Vante Davis Juju smith Schuster. He's getting a b. Juju got his driver's license in the bye week after torching the Lions for a hundred and ninety three yards

in a touchdown. Before the bye, the Colts have allowed the most yards in the NFL to opposing wide receivers, and they've allowed a league high forty four completions of twenty yards or more. So Smith Schusters would be almost went to Martavis Bryant, but I have him on the bench.

He hasn't topped fifty yards since Week two, and he could say something stupid at any time and get benched halfway through the game, maybe on Instagram during the game about how lousy Juju smith Schuster probably um Ben Roethlisberger. I gotta be on him. Three of the last five quarterbacks to face the Colts of top three yards but no quarterbacks top two touchdowns against Indie this year. It's pretty easy to run on them and they don't need

to pass that much to the game flow. Could have Levian Bell touch on the ball thirty times plus over on the Colt side. It's a bench festival. T Y Hilton's on the bench. Maybe it's a bold call to put Hilton on the bench at home, where he's raked for years, but this season he's totally matchup dependent. He's topped a hundred yards in three games this season against the Browns, the forty Niners, and last week against the Texans,

whose defense is just garbage right now. In his other six games, he's averaging two point five catches, thirty three yards and no scores. Any competent defense whatsoever has just locked him down. The Steelers have held every wide receiver this year to sixty one yards are less. That's crazy. It's it's just nuts Frank Gore and Marlon Mack around the bench. Max pass protection troubles are keeping him off

the field. He allowed two sacks last week, one of which turned into a fumble and a touchdown for the Texans. That means he's not getting as many touches as Frank Gore and really no back his top to forty eight rush yards or scored against the Steelers in the last three weeks, so it's a bad matchup for sets on the bench. Stafford was the only quarterback to top to

fifty against the Steelers this season. Andy Dalton is the only one who's thrown for two scores, and Jack Doyle, who might be the bright spot on that offense, he's on the bench to no tight end is top to fifty eight yards against the Steelers this season. Only Tyler Croft and Adam Shaheen have scored a touchdown from the tight end position this year against the Steelers. It's just a bad matchup for the Colts. They're all Adam Shaheen, by the way. They gotta start playing him in Chicago. Left,

we'll go to the phone lines. We got a couple of people a bit nice enough to hold Genie. Hello, Hi, come hi guysa week and you guys told me to start golf over cam and that was a great call. And I'm wondering, do I do that again this week? Goff camp? Is this going to be a weekly call every week? Not frek, I have got five spots higher. Yeah, We're gonna get into that matchup a little later. And I've got good things to say about golf. I would I agree. I've got golf is my number six quarterback

for this week. I like him. Good luck, Jennie, anything else, because it's lightning round you could actually ask more than one question. It's not late round. That's what I love about it. Um. I started Baldwin on Thursday night, and I have to pick one of these four. You've only talked about two of them so far. So I have punches Sterling, Shepherd, you do and Robbie Anderson. What would you do? Well? If you're looking for the home run ball, I think you go Juju Well, I think you go

Shepherd against the forty niners. And you like Robbie Anderson as well. I like Robbie Anderson, and You've got a lot of good options. I would take Shepherd out of that group. Personally, I think I would do You'll see the most targets. Thank you, Jeannie, appreciate the call. Will work in one more. Ben, you've been on hold since the beginning of the show. Thank you for your patients as well. Hey, guys, appreciate it. Um. All right, I kind of got screwed with the Zeke taking over eventually,

which obviously we were all kind of expecting. So uh, two of these three, Um, I'm currently playing Kenyan Drake and Funchs Or do I do like a rod Smith McGuire and the Jets or Dan Lewis, Uh Davante Booker, Mark Davis Bryant are sitting in free agency, and well, I have Kenyan Drake and Damian Williams on the bench this week, and I actually do like Funchs a little bit in this matchup. Uh, you listed so many guys that I lost track of. Sorry, sorry McGuire from the

Jets or Dan Lewis. Yeah, neither of those are really doing much for me now. Uh yeah, I think Funci is the play. Then okay, can do one one quick? Yes you can. McCowen or cousins. I have to drop since I was a Zeke owner, I got Rod Smith or I could drop like a mirror dollah for to do what from McCown. Yeah, yeah, from McCown, I have cousins on my team. I'm looking at trying to get a slight upgrade. Well, I think Josh is actually a

pretty big upgrade this week in particular. But I you know, as as a Zke owner, I don't recommend you drop Rod Smith. I think you could drop that duel at this point, as he's almost a sabotage drop candidate as well. It's just name value alone. He's not living up to it. Yeah, all right, thanks, Ben, appreciate the call. When we come back, five Hot Questions the Devani's five Hot questions, see if you can go five and not with our panel of

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It sounds funny. Question number one, first, I bet I guess I should explain the sabotage drop before I do the hot question number one. For people that don't know, the sabotage drop is when you drop a brand name, a player who you think is going to perform badly for all or most of the rest of the year, so that your opponents will pick them up and then mistakenly start that guy. You should have said, listen, all y'all, yeah, listen all y'all. Yeah, it's and you gotta play Beastie

Boys while making a sabotage drop. It's a great point. Oh, that have been perfect. Next time we'll do better. You can boys sabotage on YouTube. Thank you. It's a good song anyway, great video, great video. Personally, I can't stand it, and I know you planned it. I like sabotage and I also like the rare, the almost totally unlistened to jazz album by the Beastie Boys that they released. Or it's not all instrumental all instrumental gez No, it's not

Richard gs. I forgot about that Hot question Number one. Do you sabotage drop Will Fuller? Matt Yes, it looks like Fuller was completely touchdown dependent anyway, and that was dependent on Deshaun Watson throwing the ball. And now it's Tom Savage and he's not going to throw three touchdowns per game. If Savage can throw one per game, it's going to go to DeAndre Hopkins or c J. Fedorowitz. Hopkins is averaged twenty four targets, not averaged. He's had

twenty four targets and six quarters. He's averaging four targets per quarter from Tom Savage, he's getting all the work. Let's jam up a roster spot with Will or Will Fuller. Yeah, there we go. You didn't get You should have listened to this ahead of time. Who knows where the cursing might be. Yeah, well, let's hope not. But this one's this one's pretty clean. I think it is pretty I've heard on the radio many times, although that might be a radio I didn't know if if this is Brian,

I'm telling you all. Let a right. Uh yeah, I got nothing much to really add here. Um, there are some major roadblocks on fuller schedule to in Baltimore and Jacksonville and key points of the fantasy season. So yeah, he he was catching a touchdown on every other pass with DeShawn Watson that was a production that wasn't sustainable. It certainly is not with Tom Savage at the Helm. I'm gonna say not yet. And here's why I got. I got two starts with him, and one of them

is in the first week of the playoffs. Week eleven is Arizona. Patrick Peterson is gonna be on DeAndre Hopkins and we all know the number two receiver, and those games get fed. I want him for that game, but most importantly Week fourteen against San Francisco, first week in my playoffs, I'm gonna go win that first game in my playoffs with Will Fuller, and then I'm gonna do the sabotage drop week fifteen. Leading into the Week fifteen

game He's got Jacksonville and Pittsburgh. Think about how juicy that sabotaged drop is gonna be. After the Week fourteen thrashing against San Francisco, you drop him, some fool picks him up against Jacksonville or Pits. That's the timing for the sabotage drop on Will Fuller. Not yet, you can just keep the shop hot. Question number two, Can I sabotage drop DeMarco Murray, Brian Listen all of y'all. This is not a sabotage. No, I am not sabotage dropping

DeMarco Murray. He did slow and noticeably in the second half last season, but last year he had a hundred and sixty carries through his first eight games. This year, he has only carries through his first eight games. He is practicing in full after suffering a minor knee injury last week. I'm just holding on to him because we have Pittsburgh and Indian the next two weeks. Those are great matchups for Murray. I'm not too excited about Houston

and in Arizona in the following weeks. But then there's that was San Francisco forty Niners again in week fifteen for DeMarco Murray. So I am holding. Despite Derrick Henry eating to his workload, He's still a viable option, although not in Elite one anymore. Brian hit all my points, but also they get the Rams and the Fantasy playoffs, and the Rams have been really bad against running backs this year too, so two great matchups in the Fantasy

playoffs for DeMarco Murray. That's why you cannot sabotage dropping. He's been worse than most people realize. In eight games this year, he's had six flat out bad games out of eight where you almost certainly wish you had not started him. Six out of eight times. Here's DeMarco Murray's average game. Forty nine rushing yards, fourteen receiving yards, and a quarter of a touchdown. That's it. So what you're

saying is you sabotage drafted him. You sabotage yourself. And to Brian's point, Brian was all over this in the preseason. He was banging the drum to avoid DeMarco Murray's so many sounds right now, there's so much happening right now. They the basic boy, you should have put a peacock in that song. I thought that sounded fantastic. Um. Your ideal scenario, though, is to trade DeMarco Murray to the Henry owner. Let that guy deal with this headache on who to start or just start in both. You said

you you can play this angle. You don't have to pick which one. You can start them both the rest of the way. But if you can't trade him, yes, DeMarco Murray is sabotage droppable. I think there's only two games on the schedule where I feel like I can reasonably start somebody who's bad six out of eight times, and that's Indian, San Francisco and the San Francisco games. Week fifteen, I'm already get knocked out of the playoffs,

so we got a start in week fourteen. Oh wait, but week fourteen is the rim hot question number three, Which of the Eagles backs, if any, will emerge as the most reliable fantasy starter? Matt, I was very happy to see that you put if any on there. I'm going to take that if any option and say none of the above. I think that the Eagles will model the running game the rest of the season after what

the Patriots do. From here on out, you'll see both the giant blunt splitting touches, keeping them fresh for what they hope is a deep la off run Corey Clement and Wendel smallwater there to steal receptions and be change of pace. Guys, I'm avoiding the whole running game here, if I can. I think a gi just muddled muddied the waters there. M hmm, Tony, can I get some cypress hill while we discuss Lagarrett blunt? Please? It's and it's not close here Lagarrett wants he's pretty bad. He's bad.

Despite his four point six yards per carry that sounds impressive, it is not. When you take away his sixty eight yard run against the Chargers, He's averaging just four yards per carry. But wait, la Garrett one is good at the stripe, right the negative ghost Rider. He is not good at this stripe. He has eight attempts inside the vibe for negative five yards in one touchdown. He is the Snickel Fritz of running backs. Yes, nice, I don't know what that means, but I'm assuming it's a cypress

hill repper have van Alright. In the old days and in the harsher crueler days of Fantasy Football Weekly, we would never have injected the if any into this. It would have just laid there like a trap waiting to spring. But for some reason, we're in a kinder, gentler time now, and I threw the off any into the question and really tipped my hand. The answer is none of these guys. Last week is a great example of how frustrating this

timeshare is going to be. Even though the running game was very successful in a blowout victory over Denver, they ran the ball thirty seven times, which is not normal for any team. Here's your here's your carries split twelve, nine, eight, and five between four guys. And that's in a thirty seven carry game, which is extremely unusual most games, it's gonna be far less than that for all of them.

And here's the first problem, by the way. Problem number one is, even if we were to just give you the twelve, the nine, and the eight carries, that's not enough to be successful. Twelve, nine and eight isn't enough. We know that we need running backs to get the ball more than that. The second problem is, I defy listeners right now, tell me who is the twelve and who is the nine and who is the eight? From last week's box score from the Eagles? Can you correctly

assign those running backs to those spots? And if you can't, that tells you everything you need to know about the frustration you're going to have on a weekend and week out. Basis, most weeks, somebody, some one of these running backs is gonna have a good game. Good luck starting out who it's gonna be. Most of the time, you're not gonna know until after the game is over, and at that point it is too late. Des hot question number four. At the end of the day, are we gonna wish

we'd just dropped Jamis Winston now, Brian. Uh, Obviously we're talking redraft leagues. Uh, and I'm gonna say yes, what I hear shut down for a couple of weeks and visiting Dr James Andrews. None of that bodes well for a rebec, especially when you're dealing with a shoulder injury. Uh. And Tampa Bay looks to be a noncontender. There's no there's no reason to rush Winston back. Uh. They're on by next week, then at Atlanta at Green Bay. Those are decent matchups. So we don't even know if he's

gonna be playing then. And I don't know that's a dead roster spot right now. So basically I am dropping Winston right now. Tony can I get snoop doggs drop it like it's hot. It's not really if you're in a one quarterback league, I drop him. According to Fanball strength of schedule calculator, they don't have another matchup left on the on the docket against a bad defense. It's all the middle of the packer Worse, his shoulder might not be right until next season. There's gonna be a

new coach in Tampa next year. The locker room is a mess. There's the hard knocks hangover, and I don't want to try to eat any more. W's with Jamis Winston. He visited Dr Andrews and that's never good. Sam Bradford found himself on I R after visiting Dr Andrews as as he was hobbling out of the lobby. That's how factor I are, Andrew. That's right, Dr I R Andrews.

Um it suggests that team doctors don't like what they're seeing, so they fly them off to Dr Andrews to see if they can find some angle that they that they haven't been able to find themselves. Um. I think Jamis doesn't play for at least several weeks, and it's already lost season for the Bucks right there. Two and six.

They're not going to the playoffs. And there's a very real chance that even if he could play, let's advance the clock three four weeks, week thirteen, a week fourteen, they might say, you know what, we don't want to go Andrew Luck on this thing. We don't want to take a bad take a shoulder injury and make it worse and then lose the next season, which would be a very reasonable concern. Luck played on a bad shoulder for far too long and you end up losing the

next season. And to your point earlier, the schedule is not favorable. I got one favorable matchup left the whole way, and all the rest are to your point, middle to pack or worse. At the end of the day, you're gonna wish you'd just dropped Jamis Winston hot Question number five. Should Gronk owners implement the rarely used tight end handcuff and nab mar tell Us Bennett Matt No. We thought this would work out last year, but Bennett only showed up in a couple of rare games in which Gronk

was active but injured, where Gronk was playing decoy. The games which Gronk didn't play, Bennett wasn't involved. The games which Gronk did play and was healthy, Bennett wasn't involved. Plus the shoulder injury may still require surgery. That's why the Packers cut him, because Bennett wanted to have season ending surgery on his shoulder, and I don't know how he passed the physical in New England and he's going to play now, So no, don't pick him up. All right, Bryan,

nothing to add, full agreement there, I'll have this. He's not good. You know, I liked him in the preseason. I really thought that with Aaron Rodgers and the best tight end Aaron Rodgers ever had, I really thought that Bennett was going to be good. I rostered him on several of my several of my own leagues, so I've watched him very closely. He dropped passes, he appeared to be in the wrong spot, he did nothing after the catch.

There's nothing to see here with Martelli s. Bennett. He is all names and all He's all names and all excuses. All martellis S. Bennett is at this point, let's work in one quick matchup. That would be Jets at Buccaneers. Hey, that's me. I gotta find its hold on flipping pages. Here we go. What's the what's the revenge song we should be playing? Uh? There's a system of a down song called revenge. You I don't know if it's clean. I don't either, probably not. Um, yeah, I've got nothing

for that revenge. I'm sure there are a lot of great revenge songs. I can't think of any of the top of my head. It is. It's only eight twelve. I can't be expected to be an encyclopedia of musical knowledge. At eight twelve in the morning, Jets take on the Buccaneers. On the Jet side, Josh mccowns might take a chance to me quarterback, but that it doesn't end there if I like, and by the way, a grade on Josh McCown he's my number eight quarterback this week. I love

him as a described earlier. Let's stick with other parts of the passing game. Robby Anderson a B grade. He's taken over as the Jets top receivers, now scored in three straight games. He's averaging almost sixteen yards per catch, and he gets a great matchup against a Buck secondary that's given up eleven touchdowns to opposing receivers. That is the second most touchdowns to receivers in the league. I also like running opposite him. Jermaine Curse with a C grade.

He's a low volume guy, curses, but he has a touchdown score and has mentioned Tampa Bay secondary give me up the second most wide receiver touchdowns. So it feels like it all comes together here. All but three of the wide receiver touchdowns they have allowed have oh yeah, number one revenge. There you go, this is what I was gonna play. And then google the list and it's that top revenge. So Uncle Joe is Dave Coolier going

to be at this game? All but three of the wide receiver touchdowns that the Bucks have allowed if gone to non number one receivers, So that again works in Jermaine Curse his favor for a long time, Jermaine of this week, As you guys know, Jamaine Curse was might take a chance of a receiver, and I only pivoted to Adam Adam Humphrey because I think Adam humphreeze, so I think he is a deeper selection. How though they're most perfectly good and they're both on the available on

the waiver wire. Is this the one that involves a movie theater at some point? Okay, that happened already. That already happened. Okay, normally you'd think it cats that I missed it, talked right through it. Austin Seferian Jenkins while I was staying with the passing game. Revenge Game. Well yeah, and of Revenge Angle has averaged only three catches for twenty three yards the last three weeks, which is which has gotta be worrisome. Is heads into a matchup against

his former team. The Bucks have allowed the third fewest yards per game to opposing tight ends. He is a C grade. Let's go to the running game. Matt Forte is out. Belal Powell is a B grade. He'll get the majority of the work. He's been very reliable in that scenario over the past two years. When he gets all the work, he's really good. Five of the six non Forte games games that Fote missed, Powell put up big,

big numbers. Last week Alvin Kamara rolled up eighty four receiving yards against Tampa Bay, and the week before that, Christian McCaffrey rolled up fifty receiving yards. Paulo is a good dual threat. This week he gets a B grade. I'm putting Elijah McGuire on the bench. I don't know you could in a pinch, you could play him. But even with Forte out, I'm worried he doesn't do enough and he hasn't top more than two point three yards

per cary since way back in Week four. I got all the good day to today it was a homecoming game for blal Powell from Wakeland, Florida, just east of Tampa. All right, let's go to the Tampa Bay side. Uh, Ryan Fitzpatrick was Bryant's take a chance on the quarterback. Some people are a little bit concerned after years there

is the revenge angle. Some people who look concerned after years of throwing to the the players in green that Stu Beard will be a little disoriented and will and known for his interceptions anyway, will again throw to the players in green. Well, if he's known for his interceptions, he'll probably avoid the players in green. Maybe that's it double reverse psychology. Uh. Deshaun Jackson was already seeing a decent target number with at least six in every game

heading into last week, and he'll get more. With Mike Evans out, Jackson's got a very winnable matchup against Jets cornerbacks Justin Burris and Darryl Roberts, and the Jets have allowed the fourth most receiving yards, second most touchdowns to whiteouts to Seawan Jackson, B grade here, I already gave you Adam Humphreys as might take a chance on me wide receiver in this matchup Cameron brad also a B grade.

He's going up against the Jets team that's allowed the sixth most yards and tenth most receptions the tight ends, and this note from ESPN Ryan Fitzpatrick's got the league's top passer rating when targeting tight ends since nineteen touchdowns two tight ends, zero interceptions to tight ends. Think I passed that one onto you. Camer is going to be the best tight end in the league this week. I

just like it. You're throwing down the gauntlet. Last guy will mention Doug Martin just eight carries for seven yards last week, but the Bucks fell behind early in the game. Script went upside down. Martin is gonna get a lot more work this week. With Winston out and Evans out. He faces a Jets team that's allowed the tenth most rushing yards. They've allowed just one rushing touchdown though in the past seven games. Doug Martin ce grade is startable,

but only at a C level. When we come back, wrap up some more of our matchups, including Texans taking on the Rams. Can you start any part of the Texans passing game? Find out when we come back. Your distinct of Fantasy Football weekly on the fan Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly on Fan Culture and Brian Johnson Matt Harrison with you. Plenty of matchups to get to over the course of this segment and then uh last segment, Lightning Round Premature speculation coming up next.

Let's see Texans take on the Rams. Brian Ram, secondary's pretty good in the Texans quarterback is really bad. What do you make of the passing game in this matchup? Yeah, I mean you're still starring DeAndre Hopkins as une Everyone probably already knows he only gets a bee though he has seen twenty four targets in a game and a half. With Tom Savage at quarterback, that's sixteen targets a game. Uh,

he'll probably see double digits in this one. But the Rams have only allowed four wide receiver touchdowns all seasons. So don't get your hopes too high with Hopkins this week. And you probably shouldn't have any hopes for will Fuller. I'll give him a very very tentative see just to see if you can actually don't put him on the bench. Screw it. Targets last week alright, had just two catches.

Savage is not good. Uh. The one thing that maybe going for that Fuller has going for him is all four touchdowns that the Rams have allowed to wide receivers have gone to secondary options. But I'm just not liking him a lot with Savage under center. Are you saying Savage is not macho? Yeah? I'm not even gonna voice in this one. I'm just so no one knowing likes Tom Savage right now? Who has? And he's stock in the Texans. I do like c J. Fiedoroitz, so he

just might take a chance of a receiver. Giants tight ends a twelve targets against the Rams last week, so Fedor Wooz could see some volume Tom Savages on the bench. The Rams are top ten against the past with having just a hundred seventy six yards per game over their past five games, just five total passing touchdowns during that span, and I'll give Lamar Miller as ce. The Rams are fifth worst against the run. Miller is a borderline b

but he just doesn't put up big numbers. I know, threat from the passing game, no threat from the passing game. I threw allowing four point six yards per carry. Are the Rams only two teams have failed to rush for a hundred yards or score a touchdown against them this year,

so Miller is certainly startable. Over to his counterpart at running back on the l A side, Todd Gurley gets an A despite Houston being ranked second against the run, But when you look further into that, they faced the uninspiring backfields of Cincinnati, New England, Cleveland, Seattle in Indianapolis lately girly averaging touches and a hundred twenty eight combo yards per game. He's an obvious bell cow auto start. Um.

I like the receivers for sure. For l A. I'm gonna give each one of the Sammy Watkins, Robert Woods and Cooper Cup. Uh. We'll start with what Watkins great matchup here? Probably the high Watkins probably has the highest ceiling but certainly the lowest floor. But the Texans have allowed five different wide receivers to top fifty yards and three to top one hundred yards over the last two

games alone. So you gotta like Robert Woods, who leads the rams and targets receptions and receiving yards, and and Robert Woods is a bol so you're this is the highest scoring offense in the NFL. And Robert Woods leads the team and targets receptions and yards, and he's available right now on that team. Well, well, I think he only has the two touchdowns he scored last week. I think he might have three. But yeah, it's you know, it's ridiculous that he's available in so many leagues. Anybody

else think this could be the Watkins breakout game? It's worth rolling it kind of is. He's so overdue for a big game and uh, Cooper cup real quick second in the NFL and red zone targets. He's certainly is a factor there, So I like him as well. Uh, you can't and you can start Tyler Higbee. I'll give him to see. The Texans are the sixth worst defense against tight ends, allowing six catches and sixty two yards

per game to the position. And for all these reasons, Jared Goff and obvious a Houston has allowed has allowed four of the last six quarterbacks they face to go over three yards and throw for multiple touchdowns. The two that didn't were Kevin Hogan and the Marcus Mariotta Matt Castle combo. A couple of weeks ago, the way the way that you were ended that sense, it sounded like there might be more so the other team, but then I won't do the Texans again. Thank you. We already

we already survived that one once. It's early Cowboys take on the Falcons. No Zeke. What do you think of the running back situation there, Matt? Just in case if Zeke is suddenly not suspended, I just want to mention he's an a start. Thank you. Uh. I'm I got Alfred Morris and Darren McFadden on the bench. If that doesn't change, I think you're headed for a three headed rushing attack. Morris will probably end up with around twelve touches.

McFadden will probably get six to eight. Rod Smith is to take a chance on me, guy that I would want to play. I think I'll think McFadden even gets the sixth eight. I think that's Rod Smith. Now it could be. I think Smith's gonna be second in the in the in the eating order, he may be second in command. But Deak Prescott I think is the best

runner in this game. He gets an a. The Falcons have allowed the tenth most rushing yards to the quarterback position this year, and maybe the lack of Zeke and an injury to dead his forces Dak to call his own number near the goal line this week. In fact, you know what, I'm gonna call it, Dak Prescott rushing touchdown this week. I think he leads all quarterbacks in rushing yardage this year. Dez Bryant slash Terrence Williams. If healthy, des is a B. Williams is a SEA. But both

are dealing with ankle injuries. If Bryant doesn't go, Williams might be bumped up to a B. If both don't go, I'm gonna look at Bryce Butler, who's averaging eighteen point six yards per carry, and he's caught five touchdowns from Dak over the last two years. If either is ruled out, I'll move Butler up to a SEA. But if both go, I don't think that I'd play him. Dak Prescott is six the monst quarterbacks in rushing yards. Sorry, not even close to first. Incorrect. We're not gonna where he's number

one rushing touchdown. There we go. Four rushing touchdowns for Dak Prescott one five this week, maybe even six, not six touchdowns this week. No, I might get number five and number six. We're not gonna chase Cole Beasley's two red zone touchdown past is last week because he only has eleven targets over the last three games and Jason

Witten is on the bench. It's true that injuries and suspensions could mean a few more looks for Witten, but he's facing a defense that's allowing four catches and forty eight yards to tight ends this season. On the Atlanta side, I got Davante Freeman with a B and Tevin Coleman with a C. Freeman has been held to twelve or fewer carries in every game since Week four. That's kind of surprising. And Dallas is only allowing eighty rush yards

per game to the running back position. Still, the Cowboys are allowing the seventh most receptions and receiving yards to rush to running backs, and I thought that i'd find Tevin Coleman was leading more more of the receiving categories. It's like completely even just about by like one or two in every category. So that's why Freeman gets the B and Coleman gets the SEA because Freeman just gets more touches. Matt Ryan gets a B. It's a home

game against the bottom ten defense. Dallas has allowed the tenth most passing touchdowns in the eighth worst passer rating in the league. Defensively, Julio Jones gets an A. Do you think Julio Jones is thinking fondly of his season high hundred and eighteen yards last week? I think he's thinking of the easiest touchdown pass that ever dropped in the world. He's he's got a revenge game against himself this week, and he's going to score a touchdown this week.

Mohammedson new I'm giving a B to the Cowboys have been specifically bad against slot receivers and woos running about two thirds of his routes from the slot. Uh Larry Fitzgerald, Jamison Crowder, Cooper cup Sterling Shepherd all had big days out of the slot against the Cowboys. Lastly, I'll mention Austin Hooper. He's not a good play because his name

is not Travis Kelsey. Non. Travis Kelsey tight ends have only scored once this year against the Cowboys, and Dallas hasn't allowed Non Kelsey's two top fifty two yards this season. So did Jason Ken Jason Kelsey do against He didn't do that. Well, OK, it's not even a matter. You can't just be a Kelsey, you have to be a Travis Kelsey. That's true. At that Bengals take on the Titans, I think we squeeze. Uh uh, Nope, We're not gonna

do it. We're gonna take a break, and when we come back Bengals taking on the Titans, we'll tell you if you can, if you can go back to the well with Andy Dalton after the crappy, crappy game he put up against the Jaguars. When we return your distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan, Welcome back to the show. Final segments of Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm the fans. Let's let's knock down our last couple of Oh jeez, yeah, we have three matchups to go. We gotta zip through

these Bengals taking on the Titans. Uh aj Green's and obviously I'm not gonna expand on that. We'll go to Andy Dalton, who was a b prior to running into the Jacksonville buzz saw last week, and they humble everybody. He was averaging. Dalton was averaging two hundred forty yards and two point two touchdowns in the Bill Laser offensive

coordinator era. He faced the Titans defense that's seen some of the worst quarterbacking in the league of late Joe Flacco and DeShawn Kaiser and Cody Kessler and Jacoby Brissette and Jake Cutler. The last two competent quarterbacks that the Titans faced, Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson each through for four touchdowns against the Titans secondary. I think Dalton's sitting on potentially a very nice game here. B grade for him, B grade for Tyler Croft. He has successfully replaced Tyler

Eiffort in the over the last five weeks. He's averaged four catches fifty two yards and he's caught almost a touchdown per game. That is solid tight end production. Production in a year where it's hard to find that he faces an average tight end Titans defense against tight ends. But I think there's a game plan here that's going to be strongly emphasizing the passing game, which brings us to Joe Mixon and why he's only a C grade here. Ay he's averaging just two point nine yards per carry,

which is brutal. He has top sixty rushing yards one time all year, and the Titans, coming with a good run defense, their top ten in rushing touchdowns allowed yards per rush against They're giving up just three point four yards per carry. Jeremy Hill is out for this game, and that does help makes it a little bit. If there are any goal line carries to be had, he would get them. And that's largely why he gets a

C grade here. And if I'm nervous about mixing, I like his backup Giovanni Bernard, even less he's on the bench. Let's go to the Tennessee side of this or I've got a handful of Sea grades, and that is it will start with the passing game. Marcus Mariotte is actually on the bench. It's a tough matchup against Cincinnati. They ranked third in passing yards allowed opposing quarterbacks averaging barely

one touchdown per game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Now is Hamsting is healed, um, But I don't think the legs help here. The the Bengals have seen a bunch of mobile quarterbacks this year, Aaron Rodgers and DeShawn Kyser and Tyrode Tailor and Jacoby Brissette, and they averaged ten scoreless rushing yards. So you're only gonna get what Marcus Mariota's arm can give you. And I don't think it's gonna be that much. That's part of why Corey Davis is down to a sea level. Got his feet what last

week after missing seven games and knocked some rustoff. Kind Of like him because he should match up against Adam Jones, who Pro Football Focus ranks as their ninety one cornerback. Richard Matthews barely a C grade here right side receivers, which he primarily is. I've had some luck because they're getting Drake Kirkpatrick, who ranks at Pro football Focus. So I'm lukewarm on Richard Matthews, but you know his bed. He's sixty seventy yards every game, and that's not so bad.

Delaney Walker gets a C grade. Cincinnatis allowed a forty nine yard game or better to tight ends in three straight games. I like that. Walker is still not close to healthy, though he has seen four or more targets every game, so volume alone might be okay here, but hasn't scored a touchdown this season. None for your guy, mat Delaney Walker. Last night, I dropped him in several leagues. I don't blame me. He's not my guy anymore. Murray and Henry the running backs for Tennessee are on the bench.

Murray narrowly outtouched Henry last week, but Henry got the touchdowns. And every week we talked about this in five hot questions. It's it's always a nightmare to figure out who it's going to be. It's a it's a timeshare, and it's a Cincinnati defense that's only allowed d rusher and only two rushing scores all season. So I don't know how you find I don't know how you could guess which one, if either is going to get anything done this week.

So let's avoid both. Next Patriots taking on the Broncos. Uh, normally we would just say start all your Patriots, but it's a tricky matchup. What do you think it's a little tricky. Start with Tom Brady, who gets to be uh, pretty pretty bad history against the Broncos, who last year allowed a mean or twelve passing touchdowns. This year, they've allowed sixteen passing touchdowns so far, though only two teams

have allowed more than that. So Brady, you're gonna start him. Obviously, You're definitely starting Bob Gronkowski, though he gets an A. In his last four meetings with Denver, he has finished with no fewer than eighty eight yards and a touchdown. When that's your bad game, eight eight yards in a touchdown, you're you're in You're in a good spot. Denver is allowed the second most receiving yards and fourth most catches, So Gronk is an easy start. Brandon Cooks not not

so easy. Even with Chris Hogan out, he has been ruled out. The Broncos have allowed the fewest receptions and yards to wide receivers this year. They have a lot of fair amount of touchdowns, but Cooks really hasn't made a factor in the realm and not at all, So I'm not liking this match up a whole lot for him. I'm really not liking it for Damni m Amndola. If he even plays with that shoulder injury, he'll see a

lot of Chris Harris and the slot. So I got Amundola on the bench, and I'm not getting cute with Philip Dorset or anything like that. With Chris Hogan out, Uh, it doesn't get much better for the running backs. I didn't give Dion Lewis and James White both the sea. Uh. Speaking to Lewis, he led the team and carries for the third straight week last week. He's averaging four point

seven yards per carry. But Denver is giving up the fourth the US yards per game to running backs and have only allowed three rushing touch downs on the years of Not a great matchup for lewis not a great matchup for James White either, but um Denver has surrendered three scores through the air to running backs, which is tied for the second most in the league. And James White has seen eight red zone targets, which is tied

for second among running backs. And Mike Gilsli real quick on the bench obviously, hasn't scored since Week two and has just two carries from inside the five yard line in the six games since then. He is just I think he's been dropped in mostly and uh quickly to Denver's side to Mary's Thomas gets it be. New England has allowed these second most yards per game to wide receivers. They've also given up either one hundred yards or a touchdown to a wide receiver in every game this season.

Uh Manuel Sander is gonna give him a c despite only catching one ball from Brock Oswiler last week. New England allows these second most yards per game two receivers as I just said, and the fourth most plays of twenty plus yards, so Sanders should be more of a factor here. I'm benching brock Oswiler despite the fact New England has allowed three nine yards and two touchdowns per game to opposing quarterbacks. He's brock Oswiler. He's on the bench.

So c J. Anderson Patriots of bottom ten against running backs in and have allowed at least eighty total yards to each of the last four backs that they faced. But CJ's is loo bad. He's average a meter thirty eight rushing yards per game over his last four. His snap count has dropped for seven straight weeks, and I like DeVante Booker more. Now he gets the sea, He's gonna leap frogs TJ on the depth chart. In this game. He's averaging four targets per game over his last four,

He's averaging five yards per carry. New England is allowing nearly six catches per game, so Booker can be a PPR helper here. Alright, Let's go to our final matchup, and that's the Dolphins at the Panthers. Matt, you already told us you like quarterback Jay Cutler, and this one, yeah, I do like to quarterback Jay Cutler. He he got a b out of me. I got bees on DeVante Parker and Jarvis Landry as well. Parker is finally healthy and we have a kindler gentler Cutler chucking him the

ball everywhere. They might be a spread offense soon. Parker has eight or more targets in every game that he's finished this season, and he's hit the sixty nine yard mark in each of his four complete games. Landry's at double digit target in every game but to the season and at least five receptions in every game this year and scored in four of his last five. They're both volume plays, and I think Cutler is going to throw in this one. The running game Kenyan Drake and Damien Williams.

I got him on the bench. They're splitting touches almost evenly, fifteen to thirteen in favor of Drake last week. And as much as I like both of these guys in a PPR format, this isn't the matchup. Tarik Cohen had one seventy yard reception against the Panthers earlier this season. If you take that away, the Panthers are only allowing thirty three receiving yards per game to running back, so

they're both on the bench. Over on the other side, Christian McCaffrey is the fantasy unicorn because he's strange, mystical. I don't know how to feel about him, but he makes magic happen. He's got at least five catches in five straight games, but only sixty five total yards per game. But he scored in three of his last five. And the Panthers are trying to distribute the vacated Calvin Benjamin targets,

and a lot of them are going mccatholicks. They're also vacating James Jonathan Stewart carries after the two fumbles, and he's averaging like two yards a carry. I think they should send Jonathan Stewart on a vacucit and and because his age seems to have caught him caught up with him. He's averaging under two yards per carry in his last five games. Cam Newton, I'm giving him a B grade. Over his last six games, he's averaging nine carries and

fifty rushing yards per game. He's actually their best running back. He has twice as many rushing touchdowns as the rest of the team. Combined. Granted it's only four to two, but that's still something. He's only averaging five passing yards per game, but it's the rushing that's making you money here, and so Newton's will be And Devin Funcious is the last guy I'll mention. I give him a B grade. All three of Funcioses touchdowns came in two games in

which Carolina scored twenty seven or more points. So when they're scoring in bunches, you start funches. And the Dolphins have allowed twenty seven or more points in three straight games, So this is going to be another one of those games. Funcius is going to score this week. Now. We talked about it last week, and you gotta pick your spots with Funchius, and this might be a good one. Premature speculation is the only thing between now and lightning round.

This is the bit where we tell you a guy to pick up now that we think he's gonna be a hot waiver wired next week. Brian, who you got kind of a hail Mary, But let's go with Dante Dante Foreman Anta the Anta foreman who is the backup currently for Lamar Miller is still in Houston. Basically, if a Lamar Miller injury happens, Foreman is gonna be a factor starting Week fourteen. He has San Francisco, Jacksonville, and

Pittsburgh goes with three plus matchups. Foreman did have double digit carries in his last two full games, and Miller faded last year, so why not? All right, I got this guy that you may have drafted first overall named David Johnson. The cast came off his wrist on Monday. Online doctors are saying recovery from this injury is tricky due to all the small bones and ligaments in the wrist, but Johnson said he wants to play, even if they're out of playoff contention. He wants to get in and

get reps. And it was a hand injury, not a leg injury, so he should be fresh when he comes back. He should be able to hit the ground running. I'm giving you two guys that came that got injured and placed and I are early in the season, are now coming off, Greg Olsen Danny Woodhead, both guys that will immediately go into starting roster spots and both of them available. Woodhead comes back next week, Olsen comes back the week after.

All right, let's go to Lightning Round. You know the bit one question between two players and that is it. We're very strict about that around here, Steve. Welcome to the show. Thank you for your patience. Steve. Hello, Hi, what have you got? Hello? This is Lightning Round? Yes? Oh, question, that's fine too for it. Um, my friend offered Kareem hunt for Hunt for Hide. Hunt is not scored in six weeks now. Hi, Hide's kind of a sneaky play.

He's been doing really well at as of the last three weeks and it pains me to do it, but I think I like Hide better. All right, thank you, Steve e. Hello, Hey, alright, Schuster. Oh, let's go with Juju in this one. I think I would do in the matchup. It's gonna be a good dreams Jujuc. They had a turtle in the gang for me. Mike. Hello, Hey, guys, just a quick questioner and pr I'm sorry Copper who I'm here? Abdullah, Abdullah, we'll take up We're you know,

I think we're all pretty down at Abdullah. Yeah, Ben your next. Hey, guys, four point ppr lea. Um. I want to know if you guys would and I have Alfred Morris would you release Zeke Elliott or would him knowing that what's coming back for just the other handcuffs on the cowboy. I'm not as high on Woodhead as as Churches, so I think I'd drop Woodhead and go Rod Smith, who's going to be playing the Woodhead role on a better offense. Ken, I'm sorry I accidentally dropped you.

I apologize for that. Please call back Mike. Hello, you're next? You guys? Uh Goodwin or a hump oh to two guys I gave. I gave c grades to today. Humphries are Goodwin non PPR. I would go Humphries and PPR. I'm going Goodwin with the big play potential in the standards of Goodwin. Arthur, you are next, Yeah, half point PPR lex position Latavius Murray or jud Smith. Latavius Murray is not He's not even rosterable, So let's let's move on. Not even rosterable. Wow, our guy Jrrek McKinnon's the guy.

He is better every way. Lottavius, We're not going to get into it. Taco, you're next. They got standards staring Brady or job right. I can't put Brady on the bench even against Denver. I've got him close, but I got Brady ahead. Ben your next, Ben Abdullah or Alfred Morris. All I heard was Abdula and I was gonna say the other guy, whoever? Other guy is? All right, Corey, you're next guy? What's going on? Humphries or Jordy Nels. Humphrey or Jordy Nels come to this? Yeah, and I'm

starting Adam Humphries over Jordy Nels. I agree, and yeah it has It's come to this for Jordy, who has been virtually phased out of the Brett Hundley is a sabotage drop that maybe maybe that'll be a preview of next week's show. We'll find out John your next ppr Juju or Robbie Anderson. Oh, I gotta go to chart on this one. Do you do you like Rabbi Anderson that much more? I love Robbie. I like Juju quite a bit, but I'll defer I think he said it was a pr ly too and Anderson. Juju Smith is

not a high volume guy. He's a low volume. He's a higher upside guy that I think that I don't even know about that. So all the advantages are to Robby Anderson. I think so, Mikey, you're next, Marlene dark One. You gotta go dark one against the Niners. We talked about all the Vikings just shutting down running backs through the air this year. David your next, David? I hello, Yes, Alfred Morris or Doug Martin. I'm gonna take Doug more.

I think they both got B grades from US. I'm gonna take Doug Martin because it'll get all the work. I don't have to sweat a much of a time share there. I know Peyton Barber got a bunch of work last week, but that was in a blowout loss, and I don't think that's indicative. Ron Smith's gonna have a better game than Alfred Morris. Yeah, I'm put I put Alfred Morris on the bench. Okay, I like Morris more than two has done it. Dave, you're a final caller today. Hey, I love the show. Or Shepherd in

a standard league? Uh, Sterling Shepherd's got terrific upside. I like I got Parker with the B grade. So matchup, Carolina, Yeah, it's a much tougher matchup. Let's take Sterling Shepherd nine targets last week and his first game back nine times. H If you missed any part of the show, please check out the podcast and people listening right now. Most of you missed every part of the show because we started seven o'clock, so we hid Tony. When's the podcast

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