Fantasy Football Weekly week 2

left for uh, for our Patriots. Yet Uh this in the last half hour, numerous reports now saying that Odell Beckham expected to play on Monday night. Now we'll get to this matchup and spend all more time with a little later. But I'll go to the Giants desk. Ryan. It's Monday. You know, people can have to make their Sunday decision at noon without much more information than they've got right now that Odell may play. And then we

always listened as questionable. What do you think you always fear the dreaded decoy role for so, I don't know it's encouraging news, but obviously do not put him in your wide receiver spot. Put him in your flex if possible, and have some kind of fallback plan on Monday night, like probably the Riddic or something like something like that. Maybe even h the corpse of the You've still young Eric Ebron something like that. I don't know, but make sure he's in your flex. But let's hope he plays.

Will be better for the sake of fantasy football, which was atrocious last week. I've got that game and I'm going to be recommending that people do not play him, and let's just take let's take a week off. You've probably rather than have to go into Monday night and hoping you can flex a sterling Shepherd or something, I would rather just let's take a week off. Worst thing it happens is he comes back and plays a great game. You didn't start him, and now you know you got

Odell Beckham rolling forward. The downside, you lost. The downside thing that could happen. The downside is, well, the downside is is that he doesn't play. It was a decoy. He doesn't play at all. That this is all just puffery, and you know they're just trying to make the Lions have to account for him in their schemes. What is puffery? Puffery that's when you you know, it's a blather, it's a lot. Uh, you know you're puffing, it's smoke. Are

you making up words? Absolutely not. When let's let's get into the matchups. Of course, by the way of the course of the show, we've got our take a chance on me players nine players not normally in your starting lineup, many of whom are on the waiver wire. Two of my three or waiver wire guys. Five tough questions, premature speculation, and will break down all fifteen of the matchups, and we're gonna have to go quickly. This one should not

take long. Jets at Oakland, Matt Jets, everybody's on the bench, BELLEL. Powell and Matt Forte. The problem it's a time split four to ad of the Snaps Powells on the field for they almost split touches down the middle. It's gross there. That was exactly the scenario that I laid out last week when we talked about this matchup, and I was like, you know what, this thing really scares me. We all know, but all Powell's the best, the best runner. But the

Jets don't your peacocking that they suck. I'm I'm peacocking that we here are smarter than the Jets. The one guy I'll mention on the Jets that you're not gonna start, but you should keep an eye on his Jermaine Curse. It's worth noting that he had nine targets and seven receptions last week. He was on the field for the Jets snaps. He is their wide receiver one right now. And if you get desperate down the line and the matchups good, Jermaine Curse could be a guy that you

could pick up and play on the Oakland side. It's pretty much start. Everybody was that premature premature speculation. That's like super premature. Yeah, I'm premature speculation. Pickpurse alright, um, Oakland side, Marshawn Lynch, I got an a start on him. Lynch look powerful last week yards on nineteen carries and those were some bruising, punishing runs last week. It's his

homecoming in Oakland. They're going to get him in the end zone for sure, and there's no Mike Tolbert here to vulture his touchdown carry like what happened to Lashawn McCoy last week. That duo combined for a hundred and fifty two yards in a score. No one is afraid of the Jets run defense anymore. Marshawn Lynch is in A He's my number one ranked running back this week. Well, of course he is your number one range running back.

You love Marshawn Lynch. Derek Car's a B. I think it would be an easy A. But the main concern here is that the Raiders lead at halftime is so large that game script just kind of forces Derek Carr out of the game, and they don't have to pass much. They can They can really cycle in a lot of runs and just run out the clock. So I'm also giving Mark Cooper and Michael Crabtree a B as well. Anytime Buster Screen is involved in a defense, I try

to play all the receivers I can. Cooper had a few drops last week, and no team has dropped more passes in their last eight games as the Raiders have a lot of that has to do with Cooper Cooper. Yeah, it's pretty much all. Cooper drops more balls than specialist. Just Mr one Liner today, What did you have for breakfast?

Only that Mike could drop? That's right. I'm supported by some kind of stand mechanism crab Tree and Cooper have essentially an equal target loads since they arrived in Oakland together in the beginning of don't think too hard about crab Tree. He's an every week starter in that is, he's he's fantastic. And then Jared Cook, I gotta see start on him. Cook caught all five of his targets

last week for fifty six yards. The Bills tight ends combined for five catches seventy five yards in a touchdown last week, So it seems like Cook's gonna get about five receptions here around sixty yards and half a touchdown. Buffalo takes on the Carolina Panthers. I think everybody knows to start Lashawn McCoy no matter what. He's an obvious they are there any other Bills to play here. I got him in a b right now. Though in a tough matchup the Bills. Let's not let him score touchdowns.

There is that as Matt said, Tilbert had the short touchdown, more carries inside the five, Tyrod Taylor threw five times inside the ten, twice inside the five that he's do not give Shady the ball to stripe. It's a tough matchup. You're starting him either way, but B because it is against Carolina and he's not a workhorse. Youar the goal line. For whatever reason, we need a Mike Tilbert vulture sound revenge game from like Tilbert in Carolina. Maybe Tony can

help us find a vulture sound. I'm gonna have to look up what that sounds like. I'll see what I can do. Do you think we knew what a peacock sounded like a year ago? We had no idea, and yet here we are with a peacock sounder? Yeah? All right? No skin being ripped off a dead carcass. That's what it sound like to me anyway. Tyrod Taylor uh turned graphic.

Tyrod Taylor on the bench. Since Week nine of last year, Carolina hasn't allowed more than two passing touchdowns, and they've allowed one zero touchdowns in all but four games during that span. So Taylor is on the bench as is Jordan Matthews did have two catches for sixty one yards last week, but just three targets. I do think he will improve over the season, but I'm not ready to start him just yet. And uh, Charles Clay give him a ce. Uh he's averaging whoa this is not distracting

at all. And there's but I want to get the vulture sound rolling for this year. Fantasy Football Weekly a horrifying noise. It's a horrifying noise. Just to let you guys know, there's a ten hour YouTube clip. If you really wanted to get enough ULU sounds, there might be ten hours of Toilbird stealing shady touchdowns. This year, we'll see Charles Clay even him as c over his last five games, averaging five catches, fifty six yards and a one whole touchdown. And here's a great stat from fan

Ball Scott Fish. Since the start of Charles Clay has fifteen receptions when his quarterback has been under pressure. That is second among tight ends meeting. He is a safety valve and that's gonna happen this week against the Panthers, So you will be a PPR helper for sure. Panthers

front four is still elite, very elite. Uh And Luke keick Lee up and running as he was not at all times last year over to Carolina, Cam Newton gonna give him a b was clearly rusty coming off the shoulder injury, but did throw for two touchdowns, had six carries one inside the ten yard line. So he is running the ball a little bit still. Uh so he's

in a good spot this week. Given him a B. I'll still give Kelvin Benjamin a B. Only five targets last week, but that was second to Christian McCaffrey for most on the team. Uh. He has about seven inches on cornerbacks. Tra very true, Trude, Trude Davious wife like, that's how you pronounce it actually, and E. J. Gaines. So I'm still starting Benjamin this week. J. Gaines is awful, very bad corner very true. Greg Olson, he gets a C. His targets were way down last week, as we kind

of discussed. He did have two catches the Benjamin's one though, so in five hot questions you said Benjamin's receptions would suffer more. I said no, But but now I'm right because Oldsen had two catches and Benjamin had one. But Olson's in the lead right now. But anyway, he gets a CEE. Not a great matchup, but Buffalo was ranked Levins eleventh against tight ends by Fantasy or by Football

Outsiders last year, so there's hope par Olson. Even though Christian McCaffrey is starting to steal the show and give him a B borderline A led the team in targets and catches last week, also had thirteen carries. He's gonna be a guy that you're gonna start regardless of matchup, because they're gonna put the ball in his hands. I think you took a few direct snaps as well. So excited about him this week. And Jonathan Steward gets to be eighteen carries last week, had a nice receiving touchdown.

He got all the carries inside the ten yard line for the Panthers at running back. And this is a matchup where game script could favor him in the second half. This played out for Jonathan Stewart. It's only one week, but it played out exactly like we told you it would in the preseason. Christian McCaffrey doesn't suddenly mean he's not the gold line guy, and it doesn't suddenly mean

he's not gonna get any carries. And McCaffrey got a lot of carries more than I expected, like thirteen carries in the game I was thinking would be more like a seven or eight guy. But even with that, Stewart put together a solid game. Let's go to the Vikings, taking on the steel You are done, correct, Steve Vikings taking on the Steelers. First, let's just say this that if if it turns out Bradford can't go, and there's I think, I think he's gonna play, but there could

be some smoke screen here. Everybody gets knocked down a full letter grade if it's case Keenum, and then you wouldn't even want to start case Keenum right now, every meaningful Viking is a B on my sheet. Let's start with the running game and Dalvin Cook. He'll be put to the test against the defense that held Isaiah Crowwell to just one point nine yards per carrying the opener. And if you think, well, it's just Isaiah crawl on the Browns, Brown's offensive line is better than the Vikings

offensive line, so there's that um. But Dalvin Cook's got the past catching ability that that crow Well does not have, and that should ultimately keep him here as a B grade. Again, assuming Sam Bradford ends up ends up playing in this game. So let's go to the passing game and Bradford, now he got the knee injury and teams downplaying it. We're hoping it's not a smoke screen here. Steelers registered seven sacks against Cleveland last week. T J. Watt looks like

an immediate difference maker. And that defensive line and again before you just go olds the Browns again, offensive line is better than ours. So if they got to the quarterback seven times, I think we're gonna see a lot fewer deep downfield plays for Sam Bradford this week than he had the luxury of last week. I didn't I don't know the exact stat but t J. Watt was the first rookie everyone's first game to have like two sacks of forest fumble and alignment p his pants at

the same time. That's right, Soil himself, totally legit. It's the rare soiling staff. Um. I'm I'm nervous about a lot of short dump off stuff for Bradford. That would be great for theeland from a PPR standpoint. Now that he's in the slot, he is going to Um, he's going to catch a lot of passes because the Vikings love throwing the short timing stuff to their slot receiver. Last year it was Diggs. Now it's theland we sought materialized last week and he faces the worst cornerback on

their roster. Slot cornerback Mike Hilton, so I like feeling would be grade Diggs I don't like quite as much, but he still gets a B grade hitter here because he's gonna draw a favorable match up against Joe Hayden. I think the Browns knew what they were doing when they cut him lose. Hayden is not not a special player and he graded out badly in the last game. So plus matchup for Diggs, who also gets a B grade, and Kyle Rudolph targeting the red zone. No, no, tight.

I'm targeting the red zone more times last year than Rudolph was, and then last week scored from the red zone. So we'll continue to um, We'll continue to start him and to be great, let's flip over to the Steelers side. A grade for Levy on Bell, and I mean that should surprise nobody, and you know you wouldn't bend him anyway. But the Vikings did limit the Saints three headed backfield of just sixty combined rushing yards and Bell was stymy by the stupid Brown's defense last week, so you know

this thing is still got some flux to it. But that was Levan Bell's preseason game, right So that was the knockoff the Rust game, right, So we assume Bell is going to be back and be much better here and and here's the real thing though with Bell. If Anthony Barr can't go, Bell is gonna be devastating on this defense, both as a runner and as a receiver out of the backfield. Obviously he's an elite pass catching

back and Bar would pick up that assignment normally. So if Bar can't go, Bell is sitting on potentially a gigantic game. Then we go to Antonio Brown, another obvious A start. He will probably get a lot of Xavier Roads, and we've seen Roads shut down opposing number one many many times, so but it's still Antonio Brown. Um, this is It's a tough matchup Roads and out of posing receivers to catch only forty one percent of targeted balls last year, which is the best number of any starting

cornerback in the league last year. Still, I thought Roads was just okay last week and Brown was obviously awesome, so he maintains an A grade. Roethlisberger gets a B grade here. Of his last ten home outings, he's not three yards and nine of them and multiple touched and and and or three touchdowns in nine of them. So it's a it's an any time he's at home, Ben is sitting at potentially an explosive game. Uh. Martavis Bryant

gets a B grade here. I think he's going to draw Trey Waynes throughout this matchup as its speed versus speed. I thought Waynes played pretty well in week one, but throughout his career pretty inconsistent. Martvis Bryant, and I was kind of a knockoff the rush game for him to last week where he didn't do anything. Now he's a year, he's another week back in. I give him a B grade. Jesse James gets a C grade. We saw Kobe Fleinner

with a nice game against the Vikings defense. And again, if Anthony barrs out this, you know Anthony bar gets a lot of tight end assignments and if Bars out that would open up the middle for Jesse James. Don't expect another two touchdowns, but a C grade for him that bumps up to a B grade if Bar doesn't go when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players, many of them are available on the waiver wire, many of you already, and we two looking for waiver wire.

Help one week. Help, We'll tell you who those guys are when we come back on the first three line chance on me nine players not normally in your starting lineup, We'll tell you who they are, beginning at the quarterback position, and Brian Johnson. I'm going Mike glenn and Bears in a revenge game in Tampa. Tampa Bay was one of ten teams to allow two fifty plus passing yards per

game to quarterbacks last year. Jordan Howard's looking a little iffy for Chicago, so it could be a lot of pass attempts coming for Glennon It's a volume play the end. I got Jacoby Brissette, the Colts starting quarterback this week going up against Arizona. The Cardinals defense looks shaky. Last week against Matt Stafford and the Lions, they allowed tune or ninety two passing yards and four touchdowns. The Cards have given up fifteen passing touchdowns in their last five games.

My Matt says that's about three per game. And when Brissette came in last week, at least he aired the ball out a little bit. He completed two passes, one of which went for fifty yards. All there's that uh and in his left and his two starts in New England last season, he proved to be pretty mobile. He averaged six yards per carry. He might be on the hook to do all of this by himself this week. So I got Jacoby Brissette. I'm going with Blake Portals

against Tennessee. Unlike last week, the Jaggers will be probably playing from behind, which means plenty of passing. And you know what that means, the return of garbage time, Blake port It's garb portlege time. Tennessee's got a great run defense and a very wobbly past defense. They gave up two or sixt or two yards to two touchdowns and David Carr last week, and it should have been a lot more for Mary Cooper could hang on to a damp ball. Last year, the Times ranked twenty nine against

their past. The secondaries filled with question marks, including rookie A Dory Jackson who got trucked in last week's game. Let's go to the running back position. Bryan Alvin Kamara, rookie running back for the Saints at home against New England. Adrian Peterson is not a fit for the Saints. Uh, certainly not in this game, which will be an expected

shootout with the Patriots. Kamara was on the field for slightly fewer snaps and mark ingram last week, but he did have more targets and carries, and I think it's fair to compare Kamara's skill set to Kareem Hunt, and we all remember what Kareem Hunt did to the Patriots Week one. Kamara should be a solid play this week. Okay, Matt,

I've got Jamal Charles going up against the Cowboys. Dallas basically gave up nothing on the ground of the Giants last week, mostly because Paul Perkins should be working at Perkins instead of playing football. Uh. They did get torched by Shane Vereen, who had nine catches for fifty one yards. And the Giants have saw some sort of weakness at the running back passing game, as they threw fourteen times for a league high twelve receptions to running backs against

the Cowboys. Charles at ten carries last week, spelling c J. Anderson, but at one point he was one of the best receiving running backs in the game, and I think that they get him going this week. I've got another receiving angle and that's Shane Vereen going up against Detroit last week. Nine catches for Shane vareens nine times. He finished Week one ranked among running backs number two in targets, number two receptions, and number six and receiving yards. His opponent

this week is Detroit. Last week, Detroit gave up one hundred five receiving yards to running backs. So it's all coming together here with more's dump off stuff to Shane Verreen this week for the Giants on Monday night. I like that call. Thank you speculation. Yeah, he was your premature speculation guy last week. Nicely done on that peacock sound on the music like it had I had helped Kimara who now you're recommending as your last week and now we should do a radio show. We should do

a radio show or something. Who is your Who is your wide receiver? I'm going Robert Woods of the Rams at home against Washington, who was ranked twenty nine against secondary wide receivers by Football Outsiders last year. That's the obvious Josh Norman effect, who will likely be shadowing Sammy Watkins in this game. Woods was involved quite heavily in the game where the Rams didn't really need to pass all that much last week at fifty three yards and

two catches of twenty plus yards. So Washington is a team that gets grown on a lot, so you could have a good game here. Okay, I went tight end with this, and uh, I went with my guy Cameron Brad, a guy kind of touted in the preseason as a late round fire. We didn't get to see Bright last week due to IRMA, but we get did get to see the Bears give up a hundred and twenty eight

yards and a score to Austin Hooper. Most of that came on one play, however, but they also did give up a big day to Kyle Rudolph in Weeks seventeen last year where he had eleven catches a hundred and seventeen yards in a touch. Jared Cook had a big game in Week fifteen, and if we go back to Week ten, Cameron Brad had seven catches for eighty four yards and a touchdowns against these Bears. So like Cameron Bright to do it again this week. I love the

opportunity J J. Nelson has against the Colts. John Brown has been ruled out of this game, so J J. Nelson, who goes from kind of a rotational player, will be a full time player. He scored a touchdown last week, and now without David Johnson, the mandate for the Cardinals is gonna be to win this thing through the air, largely. Kerwin Williams is not a gifted runner. Obviously. The Colts defenses and shambles. Jared Goff just posted a career best

game against them. Cooper Cup just roared through the Colts secondary. Starting safety Darius Butler is out, starting cornerback Vante Davis is out, and propo ball Focus ranks the cornerbacks T J. Green and Rashan Melvin among the very worst starter is in the league. J J. Nelson a terrific pickup and play this week. And I love him in fan Ball, where he's basically free in the fan ball scoring system. All right, that wraps up a chance. I mean, yes,

you missed an awesome opportunity to say, Cooper Cup runneth over. God, I got it. I'll remember that, absolutely right I did. Miami Dolphins taking on the Los Angeles Chargers, Matt, what do you uh, so we haven't seen that, We haven't seen the Dolphins yet. What do you think of our prospects for our first most of the teams. It felt like last week all these first start offenses almost all struggled. This is the first game for the Dolphins. I'm very

nervous about them for the exact same reason. The guy that I do like the most out of this is j Agi, who was uh they played last year. He was limited to eight total yards on twenty touches last November. But the Broncos backs combined for four point o yards per carry against the Chargers last week. So I got a Giant as a B grade. Going over to the passing game, I got Devon A Parker as a C grade. Jason Verrett was added to the injury report on Thursday

with a knee injury. He's really good. This could be a day off for him, or it could be the same knee that he had a c L surgery on last season, and that could be concerning. But the Chargers do have two good corners. The other ones Casey Hayward.

Casey Hayward likely draws the line up against Parker, who I have as a C grade, but if Varette plays, he should get to Kenny still, so I still like Parker better than Landry this week, but it would have been better had both of these corners, frankly not being been on him. Jarvis Landry, I gave us c as well. He gets the best wide receiver matchup, he gets slot corner Trevor Williams. And we we pounded on the slot corners against the Chargers last year, over and over and

over again. Landry and Cutler didn't seem to have the overall that's concerning Tannehill is all about the dink and dunk underneath stuff, and that's all Landry brings to the table. And so I'm worried about a mismatch with his quarterback here, But I still think you're c grade on Landry is safe. Yeah, I think it's fair. Um and then Cutler. I have

Cutler on the bench. The Chargers have not allowed a three hundred yard passer in their last eight games, and only three quarterbacks have thrown for multiple scores in that span, Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. This just in their pretty good edge rushers, and they got two good cornerbacks. I want to see Cutler play a full game before I trust him. Uh and Julius Thomas. I got him on the bench. It's a really bad desperation play at tight

end if you need him. But there's no buys this week, and there's just more tight ends that have better matchups than this. Over on the charger side, I got Melvin Gordon with an a start last year in Miami yielded the fourth most rushing yards and the sixth most receptions to running backs in the meeting between the two teams last year, Gordon had a hundred and thirty two total yards. He's a great start. He's my number three running back this week. Uh the passing game Philip rivers Keenan Allen

and Tyrrell Williams that gave him all B grades. I mentioned that these two teams played in twenty sixteen. That was Week ten. Rivers through for three twenty six yards and three touchdowns in that meeting. Williams had a huge game there on five yards and a touchdown. Obviously, Keenan was hurt. Alan ran out of his of his routes last week from the slot, which should mean that he faces the worst cornerback that Miami has. That's Bobby McCain. He was the tenth worst corner in Pro Football Focuses

rankings last year. Finally, the two tight ends Antonio Gates and Hunter Henry. Wow, is this a disappointment last week? Uh? I got him both on the bench this week to Henry and Gates scored against the Dolphins last seasons, both of them. But Gates looked like a forty year old for sure. And uh and Henry got zero targets last week. So I'm really nervous that they're gonna keep four speeding Gates the ball until he gets his touchdown. He's gonna promptly retire on the field right there, and then we

can let loose Hunter Henry and go with him. That's funny. I'd I'd like to see an in game retirement I'd be a whole new touchdown celebration. You've worked out your retirement papers out of that, you got it hidden? Yeah, they pring the cake right gold watch. It's all over right there on drop back drop behind him in a little press conference podium. Wouldn't that be nice? Though? Like I like the sound of that. Uh. When we come back,

Chicago Bears take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We'll tell you what to expect from our first look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, including Jacky's Rogers with a start do you dare go with him, We'll tell you when we come back. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Have a fan Punk Archie, Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you. Many thanks for a decade long sponsored grain Belt Premium, the official beer Fantasy Football. Don't forget to play the free

Crush Charts Challenge at grain belt dot com. It is a true weekly game, so even if you didn't play last week, that doesn't mean it doesn't change anything for week number two. You can come into week do play against me, beat me, find yourself at Manny's for the in Hers Banquet in January and your chance at the two thousand dollar grand prize. Many thanks to our friends at the Brewery, Sean Ryan, Ted Marty, Jody Marty. Let's roll onto the matchups. Chicago Bears taking on the Tampa

Bay Buccaneers. Jordan Howard's a little gampy in this one. Trekko and splashed big time. Will be spending more on those guys a little bit later broadly speaking, but do you like him in this came against Tampa? Specifically, Brian no I got to give Jordan Howard to see in this one. Limited with her shoulder injury, might be out or it could possibly be limited in the game, might

not even play when healthy. You play Jordan Howard in any matchup based on his expected heavy volume, but that might not be the case here, So you gotta be a little worried if you're a Howard owner, might even explore other options. If you can Trek Cohen, I know you'll probably would be in the B range chart. I'm gonna be a little more conservative and give him a c um Let's not forget he played Atlanta last week, the perfect matchup for a pass catching running back like

three Cohen. Tampa Bay is not the perfect matchup. No running back top five five catches against the Bucks last year and the only allowed five catches to the position twice. So Cowen certainly it certainly isn't play, But I'm a little conservative with him this week, given him a CE. Mike Glennon was might take a chance on the quarterback. That was more of a revenge game hybrid garbage time angle there, but there's some hope for him, as there

is for Kendall Wright. Gonna give him a see he was might take a chance on me wide receiver last week didn't post great numbers, but as expected, still led Chicago wide receivers and targets catches and yards three catches. I'm not lying, I'm telling factually correct. He will draw slot corner Robert McClean, who allowed a one thirty three point eight passer rating and slot coverage last year according

to Pro Football Focus. That was third worst among quarterback cornerbacks with at least a hundred snaps and slot coverage over to the Bucks. Jameis Winston gets an A. Hopefully the Bucks aren't rusty. We kind of mentioned that, uh in the last segment. Matt Ryan went for three one

yards and a touchdown against the Bears last week. Seems like a safe floor for Winston here, especially when he has weapons like Mike Evans, who who I will also given a. The Bears did hold Julio Jones in check last week, but Mike Evans is a different breed in the red zone. Prince of Mukamara and Marcus Cooper are cornerbacks that just don't have the size to hang with Evans. No one really does, so he's an easy A. Sean Jackson basically give him a C every week just because

he's such a boom or bust play. Mike Evans is easily the best Batman wide receiver he's had. Meaning to Sean Jackson is clearly the robin in that relationship. Could be in for big season, maybe a big game in this one. But he's a coin flip, but he's he's a wide receiver three for sure. Cameron brad was Matt's to take a chance, I mean receiver this week. He's in a good spot as his Jaques Rogers game script could favor him in the second half. The Bears were

not good against the run last year. Ranks twenty nine by Football Outsiders, and you drafted Jackies Rogers, so use him. In the first three weeks for the most part, he might be to use him and reflex, but this is a this is a matchup. You want to use him. Otherwise you shouldn't even drafted him, So start him this week. He's a b. Patriots in the Saints should be the

highest scoring game of the week. And I've got obvious maybe the year maybe obvious A grades for Brady Cooks and grond Coop are my number two, three and one respective guys at their positions, and it's an obvious bounce back game. Against a terrible defense for the Patriots, who have ten days to prepare for this game and the Saints have a short week after playing on Monday night. Mike Gillessie also with an A grade. If you think the Patriots are gonna score a lot of points, just

keep this in mind. If you think the Patriots gonna score a lot of points, any given touchdown, any of them, the most likely scorer is Mike Gillesslie, just like la Garrett Blant was last year, Just like Gillesslie was in Week one. If you think they're going to be a bunch of touchdowns in this game, nobody's more likely to score them than Mike gillis Lee is every past interference in the end zone leads to a one yard Mike Gillessly touchdown run, Yes it does. Dalvin Cook ran through

this defense last week. B grade for Chris Hogan plays most of his snaps on the right side of the field, and like Stephan Digs last week, that means he'll smoke DeVante Harris too. And if he flips the other side, he gets rookie marsha On Lattimore and his second ever starts. So I don't think there's a loose scenario here for Chris Hogan uh sneaky start for Rex Burkhead with Edelman and Amundola out, I think Burkehead is gonna get a

lot of work from the slot. And that's where Adam Feeland just humiliated P. J. Williams for nine receptions, Like a lot of that goes to Direx Burkhead and James White with a C grade here. He carried the ball ten times last week, which surprised me that it was

that high for carries. He didn't do anything with it though, Um New Orleans is a neutral matchup against running backs in the passing game, and I just think he continues to help you with the stuff that James White does, the five receptions, the six receptions, the seven or eight carries, and at the end of the day you end up with a a sea level PPR start for probably give the New England water boy at sea in this one you're probably could yes uh for New Orleans a grade

on Drew Brees and obvious a start here, particularly at home where over the past two years his averag of game three hundred forty yards. She's average for most of the NFL's quarterbacks over the last two years. That's their one high water mark is a three forty yard game, the high that's a career high game. That's right, that's Drew Brees is average game over the last two years

at home and two point six touchdown passes. He is an A. Kobe Fleaner is an A Patriots won't have linebacker Dante high Tower and that hurts their second level linebackers where Fleaner makes a living, and he was productive against a better Vikings defense last week, including scoring a touchdown. Fleaner is an a love that don't yes, uh, let's

go to the Let's go to the wide receivers. Michael Thomas gets a B. He got bottled up by Xavier Roads in the opener, but should fare better against Malcolm Butler unless Butler Butler got He got just cleanly beat on Thursday in Week one. But last year is really good, so I'm I think Butler was. I'd like to think Butler can play better than he did two Thursdays ago. But if he's if he's not, if he's like that same guy that he was do Thursdays ago, the Michael

Thomas has got a chance. He's gotta be great here. Ted Gin gets a B grade. He didn't splash against the Vikings a better defense, and the Chiefs killed the Patriots defense with speed, the deep play to Hill, the deep passes that they threw to Um Kareem Hunt. Speed killed this Patriots defense, and I think that I think the Saints are gonna find out whether or not that's gonna kill him here too, So I like again the fastest of their receivers. C grades on running backs, mark

Ingram and Alvin Camara. You use camera as you take a chance to me running back, I've got a starting grade on him as well, Marking Ram for many of the same reasons Kareem Hunt crushed the Patriots on the ground and through the air. Both Ingram and Kimara can win battles on the ground and through the air. And again, no high tower at the line at the linebacker level means that these running backs are going to release in release, into into into inferior coverage, and I think they've got

a chance to catch a lot of balls. Adrian Peterson should be dropped in fantasy or in reality or both both. Did you trade him to the Giants? The yeah, you can. I think I think he's got more left than Paul Perkins has. Got to be honest, I can't argue that Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs. Matt, what do you um? I thought that we got a very good game out of out of Wentz in the opener, but

this is a brutally tough matchup. Yeah, he had a three yards for the fifth time in his career last week against Washington, but he's never thrown for more than two touchdowns in a game. So we gotta temper our expectations a little bit on Wentz. Especially over the last eight home games. The Chiefs are only allowing fourteen point six points per game two opponents in Arrowhead. They're incredibly tough to play at in Kansas City. So I only have a sea level start on Carson Wentz sounds right.

I have a sea level start on Elshon Jeffrey And here's why. Marcus Peters usually lines on the right side of coverage and not usually like basically, al Shan only had one target on the right side of the field last week, so it looks like he will avoid the Peters coverage. That means he likes likely draws Terrence Mitchell, who according to Pro Football Focus, allowed ninety six receiving yards just last week and gave up a couple of big pass interference calls against Brandon Cooks as well. So

I got a sea level start on al sean. Uh. The only other start on the eagle side is Zach Ertz, who gets to be The Chiefs lost Eric Berry for the season, and he was the guy who shut down Gronk last week. ERT's had ninety five receptions in his last sixteen games. He's led the team in targets, receptions, and yards even last week. He's all over the place and his Wentz his favorite target. I I love it. It's in this game. I think they're gonna throw to him. Copiously.

It could be an A grade. It's it's definitely a B plus. Um on the bench, Legerett Blunt and Darren Sprowles. Sprowles led the team with the snaps to Blunts, but Blunt led the backs with fifteen touches and had his second career receiving touchdown. It's weird to think that Blunt vultured. Yeah, a receiving touchdown from Sprawls. Oh No, the reverse vulture reverse technically vultured MC did through the air. I got to appropriate vultures fly. Here's your airborne vulture touchdown. There

we go. I got Tori Smith and Nelson Aglar on the bench. R tied for the team lead with eight targets last week, and of course had the big outing that was his career high in targets, catches, yards and scores, and it came out a broken play And if you take that play away, he didn't. It was like four catches for like eighteen yards or something close to that. Both of those guys should see more, Marcus Peters Tory

Smith specifically, so they're on the bench. On the other side, Kareem Hunting's in a after the best fantasy debut for a rookie and week one, ever, how will he follow that up? Well, let's hope it's more than fifty seven percent of the snaps which he had against the Patriots. That's the only disappointing part there. Just think if he had nine, Hunt look good in the passing game to running some legit. Well, the downfield routes was the really

impressive part. He wasn't just going out in the flat and catching a ball and lined him up outside his a receiver throwing him deep. He was the fastest player. You know these services that now that now track the speed that players are running at. He was the fastest player in the NFL last week at twenty point something miles per hour on that touchdown touchdown reception that he had. Yeah, it's worth noting that the Eagles did get beat by Chris Thompson through the air for four catches fifty two

yards in a touchdown as well. Tyreek Hill's gotta beat. Ronald Darby is out with an ankle injury. He was the best corner that the Eagles had in his last eight games, he'll has scored six touchdowns, including three on the ground. Had the big week last week. He's really good, Alex Smith. I got a C grade. Alex Smith get this, has never thrown for three hundred yards twice in the same season in the same season stat after last week, and he had his one for the season already this week.

Four touchdowns he threw against the Patriots last week, well that was pretty much it too. He only had four outings where he threw two touchdowns last season. Hasn't had three touchdowns in a game before that since Week one of Travis Kelsey I'm only giving a C grade two as well. Last year, the Eagles gave up the second fewest yards in the league to the tight end position, averaging twenty six point four yards per game to tight ends. They're really good against the tight ends. So that's it,

all right. Let's go to Titans taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Obviously, the Jaguars defense elite last week, but a much tougher game coming for them against a diverse Tennessee offense. YEA, let's start with Marcus Mariotta. Going to give him a B. He broke his leg in the last meeting between these two teams late in the season, and his two career games prior he had two hundred and seventy yards and two passing touchdowns and to sixty eight and three with

one rushing touchdown thrown in. So Jacksonville's defense is improved, but the Shawn Watson made some things happen when he came in last week, and Mariotta is certainly player of that. Ilk Richard Matthews, Eric Decker, and Corey Davis, I'm gonna give them all a see just because there's just too many of these guys in this at the receiver targets last week. Decker had eight, Richard Matthews had nine, Corey

Davis had ten. Decker by far had the worst statistical day, but he had three red zone targets to the combined two from Matthews and Davis. Decker has been dropped in a lot of leagues, So grab I think you should grab Decker. I don't think I think that's an overreaction to leave. He was the only wide receiver targeted inside the ten yard line too, and it happened twice last good sneaky stuff right there. Jalen Ramsey and A. J. Bouyer are formidable corners for Jacksonville. But all these guys

are startable. But yeah, if Decker is on the wire, grab him immediately. Laney Walker gets a B. Has scored in two of his last three games against Jacksonville. The Jaguars allowed six catches and six yards at Houston tight ends last week, so Walker has a nice floor. He had nine targets last week, so we felt no ill effects for plays wide receivers. Um DeMarco Murray gets a B on borderline. C on Murray right now was somewhat

plot usque against Oakland last week did not look good. UH. In the two games last year, he had a one yard game with a touchdown, but his most recent game was a huge dud against the Jaguars. Houston did absolutely nothing on the ground last week against Jacksonville. But Tennessee does have a much better offensive line. You're starting to Marco Murray, but just barely. I might start Charles Clay over to Marco Murray in the league of minding the two,

and Derrick Henry is on the bench. It was a two to one split and carries with Murray last week. I expect more of that ratio early on, but his his numbers should climb as this season goes on Over to Jacksonville. Leonard Fournette gets a b great debut for him. I was wrong on him so far. I thought it'd be more of a tune early on. UH. Tennessee only allowed three running backs to top seventy rushing yards last year, though, and Leonard Fournette will be the focus of defensive coordinator

Dick Lebou. Real quick on Dick lebou eighty years old and he's still that's awesome. Already forty four years as a coach and fourteen as a player before and he's still doing it one of the best. Uh Alan hearns Mark's lea and give him both the sea. Neither are that great, but Blake Bortles has to throw to somebody in Tennessee. Secondary is that's how you beat Tennessee defenses

through the air, It's not on the ground. They did sign quarterback Logan Ryan, which bolster bolstered that secondary a little. But both of those guys are startable. Because Blake Bortles, as you said, charges you to take a chance on the quarterback. He just might take a chance on the quarterback. I'm not trying to knock down the Browns at Baltimore. Ravens and ninety seconds or last only two Browns to

only one Brown to mention is a starting grade. And that's Isaiah Kroll with a CE totally ineffective last week. Now he gets a better run defense in Baltimore that only allowed seventy five rushing yards to Cincinnati's runners. Krowell did nothing in last week last year's Week ten meeting with Baltimore. Your glimmer of hope, though, is if you rewind back to Week two of last year against Baltimore,

he blew up for one hundred thirty three yards. That was the biggest total any runner put on the Ravens all year. Everybody else is on the bench for Cleveland. You might be tempted to start to Shaun Kaiser and hope for like rushing yards or rushing touchdowns, but get this. No team allowed fewer rushing yards to quarterbacks last year than the Ravens at four rushing yards per game allowed

to quarterbacks four. That's it. And if a j Green can't get it going, how are you gonna start Corey Coleman or you know, anybody else from the Browns receiver's group. Let's go to the Baltimore side. Terence West gets a b start. Don't be fooled by the Browns current standing is the NFL sting gious run defense. Uh that that was the Jets they caught Sorry, that was that was Lavy on belt looking rusty at you know, they got rusty.

They got him rusty at the right time. In the opener, Let's not forget that Cleveland had the thirty first ranked run defense last year, giving up onetree ground yards per game. West is an excellent candidate for twenty plus touches with Danny woodhead out. Even bunk Allen is startable here with a C grade. I think he's garbage, but so's the Browns defense. So in a matchup of underachievers, he got hamster that one time. He did shave the hamster once

last year, and we'll never forget it. Now. If we can come up with hamster shaving sound, that would be really impressed. Please let's go to the passing game. Joe Flacco was C grade here, not the rust stoff last week. Only completed nine passes and that, But now he gets a secondary in flux without Joe Hayden or Calvin Pryor. Flacco went nuts on the Browns last year, two of his best games of the year. In the two matchups, he combined for six hundred passing yards and five touchdowns.

He gets us. He gets a C grade in this game. You could move, you could bump him up to a B if you feel a little more exotic. But he did so little work last year, last last week that I don't feel comfortable necessarily making him a B grade. Mike Wallace gets a C grade. He scored twice against the Browns in the first matchup last year and that was in Week two. Then he scored one more time

the whole rest of the season for Mike Wallace. If you recall, he's got a decent matchup against Jamar Taylor, who struggled last week, and Jeremy mackllan scored last week but only a two catches. He's gonna draw slot corner. Brian body Calhoun is actually pretty solid, so I've got him former the bench. That is correct. He's actually he's not half bad former Gopher. When we come back, Five tough Questions, Five Hot questions, Five Hot questions sponsored by

Devani's When we return, Welcome back down for two. Fantasy Football Weekly and the Fan Paul Giarchie and Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison with you. Thank you for spending your Saturday morning with us. We have full phone lines right now, but just so you guys know, because I'm gonna be honest with the full slate of games, um, I don't think we're gonna get two calls between now and Lightning

Round at the end. So if you're on hold now, just to be honest, I don't think we're gonna get to your calls until the final segment of the show, particularly to Ben and San Diego. Ryan in Portland, just a heads up there, shoot us a tweet with your questions, can help out there. We could do that too. Let's let's go to our Devani's five tough questions. Hot question number one. Yeah, it's hot. I keep saying tough. It's

gonna take me years to get through this. Can fantasy owners start Jordan Howard and Teri Cohen in the same backfield every week or most every week? Ryan, life is of Devani's in your hand. That's true. Yes, thank you. Uh, normally i'd say yes, and I'm gonna say yes, you can start both. Might be a caveat this week because Howard's a little banged up, but let's pretend he's good

to go. Yeah, you can start both of these guys because Howard's the bell cow running back and Cohen is a scat back who is basically going to be a wide receiver this year. Uh. Cohen got twelve targets last week. It was against Atlanta, but still he could get seven to eight to nine a week in this offense. Two hundred and seventy two vacated targets for the Bears last year. That was before they lost Kevin White last week, so that packs on. It's about three hundred targets that are

now open for Chicago. So yes, you can start both in this offense. Okay. I think this is a philosophical how you build your lineup question, and it comes down to are you looking for safety and touch volume from two backs in the same offense? Are you looking at upside and maybe multiple scores and big games from multiple backs? Um? I tend to go do the opposite on my team. So I'm looking at a stable of running backs where it's a fairly large group of running backs and I'm

playing the best matchups of the week. So I'm not going to end up with Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen on my team. And I would never. I would never end up with two running backs in the same backfield. It's not my style. I would never do it. So your answer here is no, No, this was not meant for your personal team. It's not. It's not meant for my taste. I would never start two running backs on

the same offense. And he's been trying to trade for devant to Howard and Tevin Coleman by the way from me in the Empire League, Davante Howard doesn't exist in the preseason. We like Howard enough to rank him. You know, by we I mean universally rank him roughly running back five, right. Cohen doesn't take anything away from him. Cohen still maintain he's every bit you know, he's every bit as good Howard is everybody's good regardless of what Cohen does, because

he doesn't take away anything from what Howard does. And cod can lead the team and receptions. As Brian correctly assessed, he's basically a wide receiver with a running back number on his back. And so you you can absolutely start both guys. And I'll note this, you guys didn't bring up Chicago schedule has very few stoppers in it. I think the only two games where you would hesitate to start both of these guys at Baltimore and Week six

at Philadelphia, Week twelve, the rest of it game. On question number two, should David Johnson owners just drop him? Matt No, but I like the idea of trading him at a discount if you're in a redraft league, especially if you're thin at running back, because it's a risk injury, which means he should be in good shape and you can sell that to a trade partner. If the Cardinals offense looks halfway decent this week against the Colts, you

can also sell that to a trade partner. So I think that you'd have to sell to a team that's deep at running back, probably target their second or third running back, like a Isaiah Crowle or maybe a Tevin Coleman. Since he didn't do much in week one. See if you can get a dart throw like Kenny Golladay thrown in there, do a two for one, do something like that, and see if you can work it. Okay, yeah, I'm all for trying to trade him, Bob, but you can't drop him unless you're in a shallow eight to ten

team league. But overall, I'm gonna say no, even though when Johnson comes back, or when you hope he comes back, Let's say week thirteen is the best case scenario. He's looking at the Rams Titans at Washington. That's a plus matchup, but then the Giants in week sixteen. If you play in week seventeen, he's at Seattle, it's a brutal schedule. He's a special player. Uh So, not a great matchup,

but I'm holding unless I can trade, no drop. Um, I I was not factoring and trading, and obviously that I think that the concept behind this was not you can go get value for him. Okay, great, you know, but that's I think the concept was here that trading was not an option, although I didn't expressly put it in the question. You have to go with your own hearts on this one. Uh, there's all about opportunity cost. What are you losing by rostering a zero point player

for the next three months. Could you be picking up somebody helpful, somebody that's gonna turn into it, It's gonna turn bye week losses into bye week wins, somebody who's gonna surprise and become a starter for your team. You're looking at twelve weeks at a minimum at which you will have zero points, and that is simply too much to play. And he comes back for the Fantasy playoffs? Are you in the Fantasy playoffs at that point because you've taken You've had a zero point guy in your

roster all this time. Maybe not Lastly, if he does come back in mid December, which seems to be the roughly the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and he's estimated to come back. Let's call it mid December. Are the Cardinals a three win team at that point? The four win team? And do they say to themselves, you know what, are we gonna try him out there? Have him suffering a c L injury in a lost season. Maybe not. They may minimize him or not even bother bringing him back.

So there's a lot of ways this thing could go sideways for David Johnson, and if you can't trade him, you may as well drop him. Davanny's hot question number three. Should Danny Woodhead owners just drop him? Brian, Yes, I was. I wasn't an advocate for drafting him. I was, in fact, I was quite against it, and I just look at the scenario this way, he'll be back around the midpoint season,

at the midpoint of the season. So imagine you're doing a midpoint draft, you know, starting from scratch the middle season. Are you targeting Danny would hit in that draft? I certainly am not, So I don't want him on my team at midpoint in the season. I never trust him to stay healthy for obvious reasons. I feel bad. He's a great player, but click dropped. Sorry, Danny. I agree, he simply can't stay on the field, and no one is going to pick him up for that reason alone,

because he's so injury prone. And if you listen to the show the week or two before he comes back, he will be charges premature speculation that week. Then you can pick him up and put him back on your roster and we'll be all. Okay, allow me to read my third bullet point to answer for now you've got to drop him, but in early November, go get him. I will remind you during pretymature speculation in early November. There we go. You know me a little too. That's frightening,

how well you know me? Devanny's hot question number four. Does Jacoby Brissette help the Colts offense, hurt the Colts offense or neither? Matt Well he was might take a chance on me quarterback, So I think he helps the Colts offense a little. He's definitely a help over Scott Tolzine luck shoulder is worse than they're letting on. I think he's not going to play for months. It's it's going to be months, not weeks. Uh. They traded a former first round in Philip Dorsett for Brissette as well.

He has running ability. I think he gives that offense a slight chance to look good in any given weeks, So I I he's got to help. Yeah, it was this help from like the Tolzine era, like does he make the team? That was at the question it is the team better off with? Effectively? Are they better off with Jacoby Brissette in this offense? Then? And and then other alternatives besides obviously and h you know they're moving to Brissette now he's their starters. Are they ultimately better

now with him? Okay? So yeah, I would say yes, he's better than Scott Scott Tolzene, who has given us a one thousand, sixty five yards and four in his four year career. Brissette has only at fifty eight pass attempts in his career, but he's total four yards. That's a three three hundred yards per game pace. And as Mett mentioned, he's great on the ground, so easily and produced the Colts offense over Scott Tolzine. By definition, the Colts offense couldn't go down already ground zero, right, So

that's throw that that out. So the correct answer is either help or neither. He started You remember he started two full games and played in part of another game roughly half of another game last year. Do you remember what happened in those games? He had a shutout for him and a shutout against him, right, and he generated zero touchdowns himself. Did not throw a single touchdown in any of those In fact, the Patriots scored four hundred

fifty nine points last year. Brissette, despite playing in two and a half games as the starter, provided zero of the four points He's he had a rushing Cooktown. Uh. Yeah, actually might be right about I stand corrected. Uh. He brings a little athleticism to the position, which he definitely needs because starting center Ryan Kelly's out again is gonna be out for a little while. Ultimately, he does help,

but not by much. Dev's hot question number five. The Bengals offense hasn't scored a touchdown and they're desperately churning offensive coordinators. Can you drop all of their running backs outright? Brian? We certainly harped on the concerns we had for Cincinnati's offensive line in the preseason, and I talked about it

many times. Quite evident, stay away, Yes, So I think you can safely drop Hill and g O right now, because you haven't invested a lot of draft capital in them, but you did for Joe Mixon, so it's a little premature to drop him right now. I think he had a few nice runs the other night against Houston, and I just look at his schedule coming up. He has green Bay coming up next week where they'll be chasing points. Hopefully his role increases there, and then Cleveland next week.

Don't drop Joe Mixon yet. There's hope Brian hit all my points. That's it, Yeah, and really most of mine as well. I'll just mention a couple of more things here. There's a chance that new offensive coordinator Bill Laser is going to change up the mix and designate a workhorse back, which we you know, we never got before. Right it's desper need, which you would which they would be nice. And if there's one guy that's gonna happen to, Joe Mixon is the only one who's shown signs of life

that he could be that bad. So we're gonna keep mixing hope against hope that that happens. But I want to spend just a second on something you just said, Ryan, haven't invested draft capital and a guy I think that's I think that kind of thinking is a huge mistake. Where you drafted a guy or how much how many auction dollars you put into a guy should be irrelevant in your decisions going forward. Like if you made a

mistake on Eddie Lazy. Some of us had him ranked number fifty one at the running back position, but maybe you didn't listen to that, and you took him at the average draft position, which was you know, like round eight or something. But a touch guy and he hasn't gotten that opportunity yet. That's I'm kind of more that I'm just talking more. I'm with you. I don't I think. I don't think where you drafted a guy should stop you from dumping him if you need that roster spot

for somebody else. Swallow your pride to get rid of Adrian Peterson. Swallow probably get rid of Eddie Lazy, Danny Woodhead Johnson, David Johnson, Right, I mean just they're just sometimes when you just need to make your team better and you need to get over your mistakes that you made three weeks ago at the draft. Fish or cut bait. Uh. Let me mention this as a side note, since I happened to be on Lacey and Peterson. I tweeted this

just two years ago. Two years ago, a DP player number two in the entire all Fantasy football average second player taken in drafts, Eddie Lacey, average third player taken in drafts, Adrian Peterson. Here we are just two years later, and they are both droppable out. We're not even droppable. You should drop them. It's like drop able. You should be dropping both of them. That tells you the volatility

of the running back position. And for anybody who comes back with which too many people did on Twitter, well that was two years ago. The point is, in the span of just two years, they went from the best in the estimation of the fantasy community, the best two of the three best players possible, to not even on rosters. So people got bludgeoned by those players over the last two years. So trade Levan Bell now in dynasty leagues we might want to do. Let's go back to our matchups.

Matt in Arizona takes on the Indianapolis UH Indianapolis Colts Arizona obviously without David Johnson. Yeah, that's not good. Let's start with the running backs. Then I have all of them on the bench, Kerwin, Andrea Ellington and Chris Johnson. Even against the Colt against the Grain, it's gonna be a three headed attack, despite the fact that called Kerwin

Williams the starter. William's average two point o yards per carry last week in the absence of Dave Ellington will gobble up most of the receptions, and they resigned c J two K who has scored like four touchdowns in the last three years. He's gonna get work. It's just gonna be ugly and I don't want any part of it. Um. I think this is your one chance to start Kurwin Williams because he knows he knows the offense better than the others do. Andre Ellington, they tried to convert to

wide receiver in the off season, didn't work. They got him back at running back. I don't think he's gonna get a lot of carries. I don't know that Chris Johnson is ready to get a lot of carries. And it's the Colts. I feel like this is and I don't like Owen Williams, but I think this is the one chance he could do it. There's no buys this week. Nobody's starting Kerwin Williams. Come on, a lot of people starting Kerwin will all right, can you do a Kermit

the Frog? All right? Hold, this is Kerwin Williams. That was really good. It was really disturbingly good. Actually, you've got kids, all right, um, Carson Palmer, I got a sea level start on What's bad for the offense is bad for the offense, we always say on this show. Palmer lost maybe the best running back in the league

and his left tackle DJ Humphries in week one. He threw three picks last week, but one of which David Johnson ran the wrong route, one of which he was hit during the throw, and one of which was Andre Ellington tipping it to a defender. So they really weren't as much his fault on that one. Uh. Jermaine Gresham and Larry Fitzgerald each dropped touchdowns in j J Nelson dropped a fort yard pass, so Carson Palmer's day could have looked really good for a couple of throws going

the other way. So I still got him as a sea level start against a bad Indeed, d also got Larry Fitzgerald as a sea level start. Fitz he at thirteen targets last week against the Lions, but very much looked his age. The Colts have a terrible secondary, but have only allowed three touchdowns to opposing wide receivers in the last eight games. Yeah, they're terrible now though. Yeah, I know Vante Davis is out and is free, but

and so and those are starting safety out. Yeah, this is a I think it's a nice opportunity for my guy, j J. Nelson. It looks like Brian's guy, Germaine Gresham is out this week and John Brown is out as well. Charge had J J. Nelson is just take a chance on me wide receiver and Jaren Brown's the other guy who's there. And I get it. It's the worst secondary in the league, but I I don't want to start any part of the Carson Palmer team outside of Larry

Fitzgerald right now. On the other side, Jacoby Brissette was my take a chance on me quarterback. I got a sea level start on t Y Hilton. He figures to drop Pat Pete in this game. But Golden Tate had a decent outing last week in his coverage the bright spot here. He led the team in targets and it's been been pretty much at the top of that list regardless of quarterback who's been in for the Colts. I

got Frank Gore and Marlon Mack on the bench. No running back has top two hundred yards against the Cards since Week three of last season. This is gross and it's a timeshare right now. And I got Dante Moncrief and Jack Doyle both on the bench. Moncrief caught the big fifty yard throw from Burssette last week, but that was it. He's generally useless if Andrew Lux not playing,

and even then he's touchdown dependent. And the Cards after being a tight end easy spot for the last like five years, last year they figured it out and we're one of the top defenses against tight ends in so Doyle is not a value play in this matchup. When we come back, we will talk about the Dallas Cowboys at the Denver Broncos. A tough matchup. Another tough matchup for the Dallas Cowboys, who just came off of one. Now they get another one as they travel to the

Denver Broncos. But beyond Zeke, do you dare start anybody will day when we come back, the weekly matchups for you, beginning with the Washington Redskins taking on the Los Angeles Rams. I don't think the Rams are gonna score forty six points this game, probably not. But Washington's Devens isn't that great. But let's start with our offense. Kirk Cousins gets the Sea. He did not look good last week, but going back to last year, the Rams allowed at least three passing

touchdowns and four of their last six games. Scott Tolzine and the Rams in the Colts are not a true test for the Rams last week, so we have nothing to glean from that really about our Cousins is startable as his Durell prior my boy gets to be this week had eleven targets last week was a PPR Helper dropped a long touchdown which was just brutal. But he was wide open and he'll continue to get wide open this year. Uh. Not a plus matchup by any means, but I do see another ten targets at least in

this game. Um As for his counterpart, Jameson Crowder in the slot, I got him on the bench. He was really quiet last week. The Rams lines kind of dinged up too though he was He's coming along, but Nickel, Robie Coleman isn't above average slot corner. He's krit crowd is wornth starring, but he's also worth exploring other options if you have them, so I have him on the bench. Personally, though, Jordan Reed gets a C. He didn't really look like he had a broken toe last week. Looked okay to me.

I think maybe they're just getting the news out there in advance because they're expecting a broken toe. What's going to happen? It's like boiler plate read injury report. Basically, he is a thin orthotic away from hitting I r On on the toe. Yeah, he did catch five passes last week, just thirty six yards. The eight targets were encouraging. You still have to start him when he's on the field. Bottom line and Rob Kelly gets the see just barely startable.

Aaron Donald is back in full swing for the Rams, who only allowed two running backs to top one hundred yards since the start of last season. Over to the Rams. Todd Gurley gets a B. I'm close to giving him an A in this matchup, but he had to work a little too hard for those good numbers he posted against The Colts were very bad run defense. Washington is also a very bad run defense, though they were one of the three teams to allow twenty total touchdowns to

running backs last year. And Gurley was key in the passing game last week. Caught five passes for few six yards. So he's looking like a true bell cow as we expected. Uh, Sammy Watkins is more like Sammy Squatkins this week. I got him on the bench. It's all about Josh Norman. Should have benched alshon Jeffrey last week, should bench Sammy Watkins this week. So that's simple for me. For that reason, I have Robert Woods is might take a chance of

me wide receiver. Secondary receivers just kill Washington. And for that reason, Cooper Cup, who I was going to use as might take a chance to me receiver but felt he was too obvious after that great debut, he gets to be for the same reason, I had Cooper Cup as my take a chance to me wide receiver but last week, but then last week's co host Jay said he wanted to use another another of the receivers from the Rams, So like, all right, fine, I'll get off

a Cooper Cup and I went to somebody else. Now I regret never letting Jay change my take a chance of me guys again, don't do that. And lastly, I'll give Jared Goff a CEE. Even with Watkins presumably neutralized, there's probably enough here to cold together two two in this matchup. So yeah, Jared Goff, how about that. Let's let's go to our next matchup, San Francisco taking on the Seattle Seahawks. That's mine. I got a couple of sea grades here from the Niners, and that's it. Carlos

Hide caught five balls on six targets last week. Shanahan is feeding Hide receptions and he's gonna need it because they're gonna behind, They're gonna be throwing a lot, and that's your angle here, really is is through what he can Hide can give you through the air, which I think is going to be, you know, not not not bad um. Seattle has had trouble in the past with pass catching running back, so we'll start Carlos Hide here. Didn't do much in this matchup last year, whatever that's worth.

But new offense now with Shanahan Peare Garson obviously with a very tough matchup, but he'll draw the least good of the Seahawks cornerbacks, Shaq Griffin who ProFootball Focus ranked as cornerback sixty five after week one, and San Francis is gonna be playing from behind, and I think they're throwing throughout in this game. So se grade on peerre Garson. Everybody else is on the bench. Let's go to the

Seattle side. A grade on Doug Baldwin, who smoked the Niners for one hundred sixty four yards in one of the two matchups last year, but he was quiet in other one. He runs out of the slot almost exclusively. That puts him up against Kawan Williams, who wasn't good enough for the Browns to keep him in the off season, so I gotta believe this is a pretty good matchup for him. And Williams allowed No name slot receiver Russell

Shepherd to score against him last week. Said Doug Baldwin is a lot better than Russell Shepherd, So a grade for Doug Baldwin. Let's go to Russell Wilson, who's gotta be grade. Obviously limited by a horrific offensive line, but the Niners get very little pressure on quarterbacks, including Cam Newton last week, who who they were held to zero sacks, So I think Russell Wilson's fine here. Uh. He's no less mobile than um than Cam Newton was, and I

don't think they get any pressure on him. And in his two matchups to San Francisco last year, he threw for about two hundred forty yards and both of those had one touchdown in both of those. I think that's your kind of your minimums here. Uh. I don't do not expect an explosive game from Russell Wilson because the

offensive line, but a solid game sounds right. Staying with the passing game, Jimmy Graham c grade despite just while he had just eight yards last week and he's forced to block a lot more than we want him to because the Seattle offensive line stinks and the Niners held Greg Olson last week to just eighteen yards. So I don't love him here. I know you drafted. There are people like Jimmy Graham was like number two tight end. Graham had a couple of bad drops last week in

that game too that were just ugly. He was targeted five times and he only turned it into two catches. Paul Richardson will match up with Richard Robinson, who played pretty well last week and he limited Calvin Benjamin to just one catch title a Locket's gonna get a little more playing time, which is a little worrisome for Richardson, but I still think he doesn't take that much away from Richardson, Who's gonna be an every down starter, and you could give him a C grade. Let's go on

to the running game. C grades on Chris Carson and Thomas Rawls, who will split carries, and I think both have decent performances here. The Niners were dead last against the run last year, and they gave up one thirteen rushing yards last week. Speaking of last week, both Jonathan Stewart and Christie McCaffrey were helpful to fantasy owners. So maybe both Carson and Rawls can do it here too, if Seattle's offensive line can judge do anything, which frankly

isn't a given. Eddie Lacey. There's an offensive line epidemic in the NFL right now. No there is the there there is. There's six or seven teams that are paralyzed by bad offensive line play, and it's it's a huge underreported issue for the whole league. You know, we're all busy talking about Colin Kaepernick. How about fact that seven teams can't get cobble together an offensive line that can do anything. Let's go to our next matchup, which is

the Dallas Cowboys at the Denver Broncos. Tough matchup for Dallas. Another one we'll start Zeke. Of course, what do you what about the passing game? Are there any angles here that you like against a traditionally stout Denver secondary. Yeah, it's really the dump offs and the tight end work. I got a C grade on Jason Witten. He led the team with nine targets last week. The Broncos had a problem with good tight ends last year. Travis Kelsey torched them twice, and both Gates and Hunter put up

some pretty big days. If you're desperate for a late game dart throw a Witten is not a bad one. He's not a super great start, but he's a cee uh Dek Prescott. I gave a C two as well, um basically because he's a talented player. Only one quarterback top two hundred sixty seven yards against the Broncos last year. That was Drew Brees, and they gave up multiple touchdown passes only twice. Last season, only six quarterbacks even hit

the two hundred yard mark. The bright spot is two of the three passing touchdowns that Philip Rivers had last week came from inside the eleven yard line. And I think that's Witten zone and I think that's Ezekiel Elliott zone, who has been more involved in the passing game. I have Dez Bryant and all the wide receivers on the bench. Only eight wide receivers top to fifty yards against the Broncos last season. Seven touchdowns they allowed to wide receivers

last year. It's just gross. Uh. He got. Bryant gets the slightly better matchup against Bradley Roby since most of his routes run to the left side of the field, But I still don't want to start him. He hasn't looked good as long as Dad Prescott has been the quarterback there. Frankly, on the Broncos side, it's a it's a bench grade for Trevor Simeon. In the last fourteen games, only two quarterbacks have top three hundred yards against Dallas

and only five have thrown for multiple touchdowns. I'll give tepid C grades to Damarrius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. It sees Cowboys top cornerback Orlando Scandrick broke his hand last week, so if he plays this week, he'll probably be in some sort of weird clubby hand thing that probably takes away the interceptions there. I'm not chasing Benny Fowler who had the two touchdowns last week. He only had fifty seven percent of the snaps and he only had four

targets in that game. So let's go on to c J. Anderson in the running game. Jamal Charles obviously was might take a chance on me runner c J. Anderson. I'm giving a b start too. I thought he looked pretty good last week. To be I thought he did too. Um, he had twenty carries last week. That was the fourth time in three years that he's hit the twenty carry into it happened last week or last year in weeks one and two when he was fresh right. So Dallas's defense finished eighth and r B D V O A

last season. Basically, that's a measure of how difficult they are against runners. However, let's look at the running backs they faced last year. They had Levan Bell, who's good. Then the best runners they had that had fifteen carries or more, Rashad Jennings, Carlos Hyde, Eddie Lacey, Darren Sprawls, Paul Perkins, Doug Martin. That's not a murderer's row of running backs right there. So C. J. Anderson's probably the next best out of that crew. That's why I'm giving

him a b start here. When we come back Premature Speculation. Three guys you can pick up off the waiver wire now that we think could be hot commodities next week, and they'll already be on your roster. Plus our final two matchups and Lightning Round final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Thank you for joining us today. We've got a bit that we like to do called premature speculation. We don't have a sounder for that, and I think it's best that we don't have some lucky fan out there needs

to make us one. No, please please, that's okay. Don't do not send us audio of anything related to premature speculation. These are three players you can pick up now that we think will be hot waiver wire guys next week. We begin with I don't know if he's gonna be a hot waiver wire guy, but I think he'll have some use after this week. It's Marquis Goodwins wide receiver for the San Francisco forty Niners. Last week, his six targets trailed only Pierre Garson. He dropped a long touchdown,

unfortunately saw a few more deep fer him. But I've seen him catch some long ones too, So there's so did the Viking fans in the preseason. Definitely. UH probably won't do much against the Seahawks this week, but after this week he has the Rams, Arizona, Washington, and Indie. UH. Last year Arizona and the Rams were both one of the ten teams to allow at least fifty five yards per game to number two wide receivers. Indie secondaries just bad.

We all know that. And then when they face Washington, we can all expect Pierre Garson to draw Josh Norman and we talked about secondary receivers against Washington. So if you're really desperate for wide receiver, Marky's goodwin could be a big Hill Mary edition matchups. This one's kind of a hunch, but I got Jamal Williams of the Packers. He's the backup to t uh Time Montgomery um the Falcons.

The easiest way to beat them is running backs who can catch the ball and just running the running game against the Falcons, and Ty Montgomery catches the ball just fine. Time Montgomery catches the ball just fine. But Jordan Howard

and Tariko and had huge days last week. If the Packers decide that they need to just keep running the ball and using runners, if Jamal Williams gets five to ten touches in this game, which he had like two or three last game, and he breaks one, people are going to be all over this guy and trying to add him to their rosters. I think he's a great guy to add, especially if you're a time Montgomery owner.

Patriots utility guy Rex Burkehead had just ten snaps in Week one and got dropped by a lot of people. I think that's going to prove to be a mistake, and I believe he will end up shifting to slot receiver with Danny Amendola out and he may have some success there and they're gonna see I think we're gonna see Burkehead as a running back and as a receiver, and I think you can go get him now. And alternately, let me just re mention somebody we touched on earlier.

Eric Decker dropped in tons of leagues that was that was. Those are premature drops, and he's got a nice opportunity for a good game this week and good games beyond that. He belongs on rosters. Let's go back to our final set of matchups and then we'll get to Lightning Round. We begin with a game that could have a ton of points. Packers at Falcons. Prian. Yeah, so we can

get to these lightning round callers. Let's just be one here, Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson, Vante Adams, Randall, Cob and Time Montgomery all in a If you're not starting even Cobb, I'm not with you on Cob out of that group. I like Cob. He missed the regular season meeting last year, but in the playoffs he had six for eighty two. I don't know over under a fifty seven. I'm starting everyone for green Bay that I just mentioned, even Martell's Bennett.

He gets the loan. B Atlanta was one of ten, one of ten teams to allow sixty yards per game to tight ends last year. Bennett's all respectable six targets last week. I see an uptick and an expected shoot out this week over to the Falcons. DeVonta Freeman gets a b total three touchdowns and the two meetings between these teams last year basically a sixty forty split with Kevin Coleman, but both are worth playing in an in a shootout scenario. I like Coleman a lot. Saw six

targets last week to Freeman's two. He's more active in the passing game. Both are startable. Julio Jones is as well. He gets an A went bonkers in the playoff game against the Packers last year, but they're their Their secondary was in a sad state of affairs, probably as sad as it could ever get, uh, but Jones should dominell most of the same players now. Jones should dominate to Mary's Randall and Devon House. He's an easy A. Mohmed Sanu is startable. He gets to see nine targets last

week and six catches. He had as many targets as Taylor Gabriel and Julio Jones combined. Will be a PPR helper in this shootout, as should Austin Hooper. He's now the featured tight end. Had a big game last week. Probably not gonna have an eight yard touchdown reception on this one, but he is stortable. And then of course Matt Ryan startable with an A to eight eight and three and three four in the two touched and the two meetings last week. So yeah, this is gonna be

a lot of points in this game. Yeah, it's basically start them all. It's the short answer to that one. The deal on Cobb is when you attack Seattle like they did last week, you always attacked through the middle of the field. We saw Bennet get a lot of run, we saw Cob get a lot of cobs. Historically done really well against Seattle for Green Bay, I worry now when you can beat you can beat the Falcons on the outside. They don't have to go to Cobs as

much as they did last week. So Bryan Pool is the weakest corner between Robert Alford and Desmond Truffont though, slot guy, So I don't know, you gotta start hi. I just want to put him at the A level. That's all all right, let's go. Let's go to our final matchup, which is the Monday nighter, and that is

Detroit at the New York Giants. Um, let's start with the Let's start with the running game and a meerb dula with a C grade Giants have an elite run stuffer in snacks, Harrison and the Lions ran a pult for a poultry fifty nine yards and the week fifteen matchup. These teams played each other just four games ago and Lions did nothing on the ground. Last week he averaged a brutal two yards per carry, Abdullah did and theo

Ritick houses all the receptions. So it's barely a C grade on a meerb dula and frankly, I hope you have other options. You can take theoretics on the bench. The Giants have not allowed a running back receiving touchdown in twenty one games. Theoretic on the bench. Let's go to the passing game. Matthew Stafford, despite the four touchdowns

last week, slumps to a C grade here uh. In Detroit's Week fifteen matchup with the Giants last year, uh he threw four zero touchdowns, one interception two seventy three yards. Giants have gotten elite secondary filled with awesome players Genorris Jenkins Landon Collins. This is a tough matchup. Golden Tate is Stafford safety valve and Tate, although has a tough matchup with dominiqu Gargers Cremarti out of the slot. I

don't love that part. He didn't face Dominique Rodgers Crimarti from the slot last year because it wasn't playing the slot last year, and he put up a gigantic game one hunder twenty two yards. I don't think that's gonna happen now because he's in the slot. Who gets the opportunity to go up against Eli Apple like Tate did last year. Could be Kenny Golladay, We've got a C grade down. It could be Marvin Jones. We don't know which one of those is gonna get you, Norris Jenkins,

and which one is gonna be Eli Apple. I view them both as highly speculative, dangerous plays. I have C grades on Holiday and Jones. Eric Ebron gets a C grade. Saw seven targets went Detroit faced New York in the Week fifteen matchup last year. He converted those seven targets into just thirty six yards. It's worth noting the Giants allow had seven catches for fifty nine yards and a touchdown to Jason Witten last week, though, So there's your glimmer of home on Ebron. Let's go to the giant side.

My favorite player among all of the giants is might take a chance on me player Shane Vereen, who I gave a B grade two. Let's go to the rest of the of the other running backs to Paul Perkins, only one that you care about. I wouldn't start him. I've got a bench grade on him. Terrible offensive line. He's not a good player. Last year, get this, Paul Perkins somehow turned one twelve carries into zero touchdowns. You

know how hard it is to do that. He top fifty He's top fifty sixty eight yards one time in his entire career. He's bad. He was even worse last week than that. And in the week fifteen meeting between these teams, he had just fifty six total yards. There's your upside for Paul park We picked him as a bench player in the pre In the preseason, we said he was a bench player, and that's you know here, he is grading out as a bench player right now.

He's kind of cut player, maybe the only one you cut in as a starting running back in the NFL. Now he might be. He might be actually somebody you cut out, right Um, all right, let's go to the passing game. Eli Manning last week self short dump off stuff. That's gonna be the case here again. It's part of why like Shane Verreen so much and Odell Beckham playing or not does not matter. I can't believe he's gonna be far from full health here. He'll be playing hobbled.

I don't think that until he's at full strength. I'm not counting Odell Beckham as somebody that's necessarily going to be able to help Eli Manning in a meaningful way. At most, he's a decoy. Last year in this matchup he posted a modest two yards. He did have two touchdowns though, but he had Odell Beckham at full strength last year. Now you get Odell beth Beckham either not playing or hobbled. I can't, I just I can't support only Manning looking a lot better than he did last year,

and then for Odell Beckham. So it looks like there's a chance he's gonna go. But if he plays it all, will he be a decoy? And then if he's not a decoy, how do they throw a lot of balls his way or do they work him in a little bit? And then lastly this, if he's good, they'll just put Darius Slay on him. And now he's got a really tough matchup with a good cornerback and slate he does you don't want to slay, right, So all that together

and I'm nervous about Odell Beckham. I wouldn't play him, and I know and you can't wait till Monday night to start all this out. You're gonna have to make your decisions on Sunday. To me, that's way to way too many moving parts. Last thing, Brandon Marshall. I like him. When when Odell Beckham is healthy, you're gonna you're gonna be hearing a lot about how I like Brandon Marshall. He's not a number one wide receiver at this stage of his career. He just isn't. What no Evan Ingram

Evan Ingram to me is a I see. It's his matchup against a team that struggles historically against the tight end. I'm gonna give him a seat. I'll give him a sea for it, if only for you, it's for the people, just for Brian. It is time for lightning round. You know this works. It is one question between two exactly two players. We do not want a question between three players. We do not you do not have a question. If it's only one player, Let's go to the people who

have been on hold a very long time. I think Mac has been on hold literally the entire show. Hi Mack, thank you your patience. Thanky, thank you, vant to Parkground, Jim mcley. Oh, it's a tough secondary for the l A Chargers, but I'm still that could be the big ben in San Diego. Thank you for your patients, also on hold almost the whole show. The question e pr point should I stay with Adams? Where should I go with rock players? Roger, and definitely stay with Davante Adams. Yeah,

a level start. This is gonna be a good game down. Davante Adams got hung out to Dry and Richard Sherman a lot last week, and that's not going to be the case here. Twelve catches and one of the meetings scored in the other one against Atlanta last year. Nate, Hello, hey guys, I got a twelve standard for the flexing

between Adam Delon or Kevin Coleman. Okay, um, you know, with questions on the Vikings quarterback situation right now, I'm just gonna I'm gonna go with Tevin Coleman for some of the reasons that Brian just discussed and all the points that come out of there. Logan Hello him, that was Gillisle or Crowell. I gotta go with gillis Lee in the shootout, like Gearge said, reminder, because we lighting around still pretty new this week. The way it works,

especially for people are in town. You ask your question, I hang up on you. You listened to the response on your radio. Billy, You're next? Say it again, Billy Nelson, Aguila are Marshall? I think Marshall is probably closer to a starting grade, right, how would too? Maybe the Odell Beckham decoy thing will work to his advantage and they'll put Sleigh on Odell Beckham. Brian Hello, questions whole point? Pr Walker Bennett Bennett for the reasons that that Brian

just talked about. I like Walker too. It's it's a coin flip, it really is. Walker's got a much tougher matchup. Just collect and go with the shootout. I'm going, I'm going where the points are. Mark Hello, back Miller, Hunter, Henry or Zach Miller Callers Tony, if you can help us with that, I would love to see your Waiver wire Man because I don't like either of those. I guess Hunter Henry because you're shown us something in the past.

Back Miller is pretty much dead. Zack when healthy, when health, you know, I see. I might go Millard just because they have so few o their targets. The throw too. They do, but it's a tough matchup Tampa Bay. Believe or not, they were very good against eight end. Still get Cameron Braid if he's available, Charles play Charles absolutely DJ your next point PPR, Rob Kelly or Thomas Walls. I just don't know what we're gonna see out of

Thomas Rawls. I think I know that Rob Kelly is going to be these gonna get back, So I'm gonna go with Rob Kelly. I think Priyan had like one play maybe like no touches. I don't think he had a touch now, Uh John your next yes non PPR. Jason Witten or Cameron Brad Uh Camera Brad was your take a chance on me guy, but gave us You liked Witten a lot this week, so a lot. But he's the one cowboy worth starting, and this week you broke down Braid in details. So I'm gonna go with

your judgment. Normally go against your judgment, So consider that a compliment. But the tight end whisper, that's true, Gary, your next POINTR? Say it again, Gary, half PR phone is cutting out? Have carry? We just were not getting clear reception. I'm sorry, we can't hear what you got the half point PPR. That doesn't help us. Yeah, Chris, you're next? Uh standard scoring Mark, Tavis Bryant or Pierre Garthon. Okay, Uh Garthon in Seattle is a little dicey, So I

would go Briant and this one. Frankie your next? Hey, yeah, half point PR, markting Room or Tree Coon. I'll go Tret Cohen. I think I think the upside there is is fun. Let's go ten. I would do Barty your next, Mark, Tavis, Brillyant Landry. I'm going Briant, and I think they're gonna test Trey. Wayne's a lot and there's gonna be some opportunities for deep plays knocked off the rust last week. Mo, you're next? Yeah, I want to watch football uninterrupted tomorrow.

So do I fake an injury to my back or do I tell my wife and kids I'm sick? Uh to fake the injury to the back, because it's so hard to get a proper diagnosis, right, I mean, if you're saying I'm sick, you gotta fake a bunch of cops and stuff. If it's the injury in the back, you just settle into a comfortable spot and say you can't be moved. That's almost impossible for anybody to verify against you. And then people have to bring you like

ships that you can't get up. And by the way, mart Tavis, Brian doesn't knock off the rust, he knocks off the resident. I like it. I like it, Todd. You're last question for the day, Breeze Newton, how do we do? You know? We it's and we ended up that note. Wait, it's so obvious and it's only break the rule, but it's I can't end that way, Brian, go fast, Okay, yeah, I want to go off. Corey, David Tyrell Williams, all right, done. You missed that part of the show. Take out the podcast camp and fan

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