Fantasy Football Weekly week 5

I am Paul Charching my coast. Matt Harrison, Bryan Johnson, Hello guys, good morning, Yeah, na oh man? Do you start? Why did Coakes start that? Did How many cokes have sold because of jinks By? Got by me a coke? Why couldn't I don't know this as a marketing campaign, by the way, they really should like they put the names on the side of the Coke bottles. Just put Jakes, um I it's it's been, by the way, brilliant marketing plan. Then Snickers, Snickers ran with that deal. I mean it

was whoever thought of it? You know, go by an island. Coke should just pay you enough to go buy your island. Go retire for the rest of your life. We have a couple of We've got four teams on buy, so we've got a little extra breathing room into the show, which I think is great. We'll get to all of the matchups fantasy style, take a chance on me, the five Tough Questions, premature speculation, and which should be a little longer lightning round at the end of the show

as well, plenty to get to. We begin diving right into our matchups with the Jaguars at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Matt for the Jaguars. Last time we saw them, it was UM a less than ideal scenario with UM with a loss to the Jets. What do you think this week is they travel to Pittsburgh. Well, if you, sir Blake Bortles, and you're not playing in London, you suck. That's just it. In his last eight games played in the United States, he's averaging two five yards and is

only thrown for six touchdown passes. If he's not in London, he's not worth playing. And he's on the bench this week. Marquis Lee is also hurt, and and that means Alan Hearns is on the bench as well. Lee hasn't practiced this week with a rib injury. He's more doubtful than questionable to play, and the Steelers have allowed the second fewest receptions and yards to wide receivers this season. That

leaves Hearns on the bench as well. I'm not chasing the Marcedes Lewis three touchdown game from a couple of weeks ago. So the only guy on the Jaguars that you got to talk about is Leonard four nett. I gave him a B grade this week. Over the last two weeks, the Ravens and Bears running backs average six point oh yards per carry against the Steelers. Four Nets had at least six team carries in every game this season and a scored in every game. He's an every

week starter now. But I think we'll talk more about him later in the show. Uh another running back to talk about, Levan Bell. We really don't need to talk about him. He's an easy in this game. Ben Roethlisberger. I'm giving him a B grade. And I know Jacksonville's defenses look legit, especially against the past, but let's remember it is legit against the past. They've faced Tom Savage, Josh McCown, Ryan Mallett and Joe Flacco in ten of

the sixteen quarters they've played so far. Okay, not exactly a murderers row of quarterbacks there, But if you rewind the clock all the way to week five of last year, so one calendar year from this week, week five, the Jaguars on average allowing zero point eight touchdown passes per game. And you know that's if a full sixteen sixteen quarterbacks in there. Okay, alright, so I mean I don't think

it's all fluke. Okay, would you like to wait? But um, I still got Roethlisberger as a B. He's got great home road splits in there at home this week, Antonio Brown. I'm actually giving an a to Brown's chirping a little a bit, and he's frustrated on the sidelines, and I don't care that the Jaguars are currently the top defense against wide receivers. DeAndre Hopkins was the only really good

wide receiver they faced this year. Even with Tom Savage soft tossing him the ball for the first two quarters, he still managed fifty five yards in a touchdown. Antonio Brown's a head and shoulders get above and squeaky wheel gets the grease if you're good enough player. Yeah Squeaky Wheels get the grease and and Antonio Brown frustrated, mouth and off. He needs more action than he got last week and he's gonna get it. So at the same time, Juju Smith Schuster and Martevis Bryant I got them on

the bench. A. J. Bouyer and Jalen Ramsey are very very good. They're two shut down corners and if you're not Antonio Brown, you're just not going to beat them. Um. Kind of a bonus take a chance on me player is Jesse James, who I'm giving a C grade to. The Jags have allowed the ninth most yards and the tenth most receptions to tight ends this season. That's kind of their weakness in the passing game. Uh, he's gonna need to be a touchdown scorer to be relevant, so

you have to be pretty desperate to play him. But he's kind of a take a chance on me C grade tight end. Green Bay takes on Dallas Brian and Time Montgomery doubtful. Uh of doubtful players do not play in the game, so we'll assume he's not going to go in this one. What do you think of the Green Bay backup running backs here, well, it's Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. Jamal Williams who was the guy who came in first when Montgomery went down last week and was ahead of him on the head of Jones on

the depth chart all preseason. When Montgomery was hurt got injured on like his first carry, right, But he's been practicing all week and full, so he will play. But Aaron Jones looks like the starter for now, so he's the guy to own. Uh. Dallas is rank against the run according to Football Outsiders d v O a UH. Brian Beluga and I dated back to your are both questionable for Green Bay. That don't you say? Brian Beluga? I like that, what is it whatever? But Beluga is

way better. I'm sure. I'm sure he never heard never has a big guy growing up and everything. I'm sure he never heard nobody ever saying Offe's baby at him. I'm I don't know, but I think you gotta have a four year old to know that. I'm guessing. And probably Blaga and are both questionable. That'll hurt the running game if they don't play. I think they're they're both slated to play, which would be the first time they've played together since like Week one or something. All right, well,

that will certainly help Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. Jones is the better play this week, but don't give up on Jamal Williams just yet. He was a hit on the depth chart all along, so he definitely could. He'll be probably the likely goal line back in this game, with Jones getting more work between the twenties, but both get to see start against the Cowboys. Over the passing game, Aaron Rodgers is an easy a. By the way, this

is a rematch of the divisional playoff game last year. Well, these teams have played each other three times in the last two years, so we got a lot of track record between Packers and Cowboys. Ye, going for it. Tony Baby has an injured knee. I think yeah, that was a good one. That was good. Poet, don't even know it? All right? Where was I I am very very long? I think you were. Yeah. Let's focus on the most recent matchup. Rogers had three five yards and two touchdowns

against Dallas and the playoffs. The Cowboys have allowed multiple passing touchdowns and three straight three straight games. Their whole defense is questionable. Right now, you're starting Aaron Rodgers. Duh, you're also starting Jordy Nelson. He gets an A. He missed the playoff game last year. But Dallas has allowed five wide receiver touchdowns already, so you probably should start the wide receiver leader in touchdowns in this game. Nelson. Randall Cobb and give him a B borderline A start.

Slot receivers have fared well against Dallas. Cooper Cup had five catches for sixty yards and a touchdown, Larry Fitzgerald went nuclear with thirteen for one, nine in a touchdown, and Sterling Shepard caught seven passes against Dallas. So Cobbs and easy A or I'm sorry B almost an A. Davante Adams not so easy here hasn't been ruled out yet, hasn't been ruled in yet. Yeah, we should know today, should not today. It has to happen before he gets

on the plane. And that which is if if it's a typical team flight that the teams usually fly around lunchtime on Saturday. So yeah, we're gonna I think we'll know about Adams if he plays. Where are you great amount? He's he's a B if he plays kind of plane if he plays, if he sits Toronomo, Allison borderline B

as well, probably a C plus. Allison hasn't gotten a lot of run in his career, but he has ten plus PPR points in the four of the five games he's seen at least four targets, So he gets four targets. He's a PPR helper. So if you're an Adams owner, a certainly trying squat on Allison. If you can. Martella is Bennett, I'm going to give him a C. Revenge game. It is a revenge game. It is uh. Jared Cook and Richard Rogers combined for seven catches, a hundred thirty

seven yards and two touchdowns in that playoff game. Dallas really hasn't been tested by tight ends at all this year, but Bennett has underwhelmed. But he's sixth among tight ends and catches, so he's startable in this one. And Lemit I'll mention this about Bennett. Aaron Rodgers this week came out and said they got to get it more involved early. He's the most targeted packer. He's been too involved. He's been terrible. And I was the guy who went to

war for Bennett throughout the preseason. I'd like I think he can be a top five tight end. I think he finishes my number four tight end. In the preseason, he's been a wreck. They've thrown plenty of passes to him. You've got to catch a ball. If you follow Martellis Bennett on Twitter, you'll know he's a guy who would totally be into the revenge angle too. Yeah, well, that's probably totally his style. I don't know. I'm worried about that bomb. He loves to hear about how you how

he affects your fantasy football team exact. I'm sure he would love that everybody tweet him. Baltimore takes on the I gotta go to the Cowboys still. Oh sorry, jeez, Love of God, So Chop chop man, you're the one who's in again. We started singing, baby Blua. That coldn't help me at all. Ezekiel Elliott is an a. We don't need to go further into that one does. Briant also in a des leads all wide receivers and targets from inside the ten yard line. He had nine for

you and two in the playoffs last year. Julio Jones and aj Green are both top the hundred yards against green Bay, so Deads could do the same benching the other wide receivers. I'm gonna bench Jason Witten. He could be a desperation see play. He's cooled off significantly. Um green Bay has just allowed twelve catches in a hundred and six yards at tight ends all season, so he's

I'm put them on the bench. And Dak Prescott gets to be multiple touchdowns and three straight games had three hundred plus yards and three touchdowns in the playoff game, It's kind of crazy. Green Bay hasn't seen more than thirty pass attempts from an imposing quarterback this year. Well in one of four games. I'm sorry, one of four games, but Dac might not breach that watermark. This feels one of the gaze game. But I'm still giving him a B. I love z I love Zeke, my number two running

back this week. You've loved Zeke from the loved him from the beginning. Now Baltimore taking on the Oakland Raiders. There's only one Ravens player with a starting grade, and that's Alex Collins averaging eight yards per carry. Probably gets a chance here to be the true workhorse back. But in Baltimore, the workhorse back it's maybe a dozen carries and not the hand in the ball more care. One of the problems he fumbles too much so and that he's least like one fumble away from hitting the hitting

the bench. Oakland is a mediocre run defense, are giving up four point two yards per carry. No opposing runners rushed for a touchdown against Oakland, but Collins has done enough to earn the opportunity to get a bunch of carries. He won't stay at eight yards per carry, but he's worthy of a start. Here. Let's talk about the other running backs. Terence West goes on the bench four carries last week, which he turned into negative seven yards. So Terence West, I think the only question is you know

you're not gonna play him. The only question is are you gonna drop him out right? Which I would understand if you did. Buck Allen is your past catching specialist, and Chris Thompson did kill the Raiders one fifty receiving yards. But every other team is averaging just thirty two receiving yards, and that's almost exactly what Buck Allen is giving you on averages thirty two receiving yards, and that's not good enough.

There's also no possible way that Church will give Buck Allen a starting grade for the rest of his career. Maybe not. Uh, we have a bad we have a bad history. Uh. Joe Flacco on the bench. In the twenty games since the start of last year, he's managed more than one touchdown pass six times. That's it. He's averaging one hundred fifty passing yards per game this year. That's it. Oakland's the middle of the pack, right in

the middle of the pack for past defense. But Flacco is only startable against the dregs of the league, and that is not Oakland right now. Jeremy Macklin isn't getting enough targets. Mike Wallace also not getting enough targets. Finally put up a good game last week, but his previous three games were awful, single digit yardage games. So they're

all out. Let's go to the Oakland side. Quarterback is probably not going to be David carl though they haven't ruled him out of this game, but the original diagnosis on his fractured back was a month so I even though we practiced all week, I can't imagine him playing in this game. Will assume it's EJ Manuel for the purpose of our rankings here. His last one is a starter for EJ Manual three years ago. He hasn't thrown a touchdown in two years. Um, this isn't a great

rape in secondary. But they just handled Trevor Simeon on the road last week, so there's that, and and maybe there's some opportunity here, But for EJ Manuel it's it's desperate desperation plays Only Michael Crabtree returns and Marie Cooper is back as well. Crabtree missed a game of the chest injury coverages for Baltimore is competent, not spectacular. They've got Brandon Carr and Jimmy Smith. Those guys will take Crabtree and Cooper respectively. Baltimore has allowed the fifth fewest

yards to wide receivers. They just held in Antonio Brown to thirty or four yards and one tantrum. I've got C grades on Michael Crabtree and Marie Cooper. It would be B grades if if David Carr Derek Carr actually played in this one, but I don't think you will. Jared Cook startable four dump offs from e J Manuel He's gotten six, six and eight targets the past three games. If you're in a pinch at tight end, maybe you deactivated Gronk and now you're trying to find somebody to

go with. Jared Cook would be your starter here. Baltimore only one game removed from letting Marcedes Lewis get the three touchdowns against them, so maybe there's an opportunity for Jared Cook here. And lastly, Marshall Lynch. After facing the last two weeks the number one team against the run and the number four team against the run, he now gets number twenty seven and number thirty two the next

two weeks. This is number twenty seven and Baltimo has been especially filmthropic at the goal line, giving up three rushing touchdowns in the last two weeks, and rushing touchdowns should go to Marshawn Lynch. E j Manuel obviously doesn't help matters any but Lynch is still run hard. They just haven't given him the ball enough and the Raiders have inexplicably been way behind in a couple of games, and that's been frustrating as well. I feel like they

were trying to save him for the playoffs. Yeah, already the playoffs are now now now they need to start working. I think there's some truth to that. Um, this should be a tighter game. You know, Ravens don't blow anybody out, so I think there's I think for those that are giving up on Marshawn Lynch, don't do it yet. I've got a B grade on him for this game. Do you think David Carr should have gotten the start over

to Jay Manuel. I would rather have David Carr. I think it's his work on the NFL network has been very good. Uh, he is a he's let's just say it's got a face for TV for David Carr. M when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup will tell you who they are when we come back. Change your mine the first th line, honey, steal free, take a chance on me if you need me, let me know, let

me all round. If you got no Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly and especially disturbing version of take a chance on me in the background. Those are some screeching vocals. Those really are. It's the antithesis of the original. I believe take a chance to me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup will begin at the quarterback position. Matt,

I've got Jacoby Brissette. In the last two weeks, Jared goff torch the Niners for two yards and three touchdowns, Carson Palmer through for three fifty seven yards and a touchdown. The Niners defense has faced a league high twenty one rushing attempts by quarterbacks this season, and Brissette is averaging

just under five yards per carry. And the last time Brissette was at home facing a winless team, that was two weeks ago against the Browns, where he had two hundred fifty nine yards and a touchdown through the air and added two rushing scores. And I believe that was year take a chance on me that week. I think I think it was Brian. It was last week. I only called four touchdowns for Deshaun Watson. Yeah, you got it wrong. I'm sorry, you should have said five. I apologize.

So I'm on a bit of a hot streaker quarterback here. Uh, it could come to an end the Josh McCown at the Browns. Now, technically McCown can seek revenge on about that's right. That's seven seven teams for the record. But he spent a lot of time in Cleveland. He did, so this is the ripest untapped revenge on Josh mccount's docket. All right, and Cleveland just sucks. They've allowed nine passing

touchdowns in four games, eleven total touchdowns to quarterbacks. McCown has a rushing touchdown already this year, so he is all but guaranteed to get you two fifty total yards and at least two touchdowns on Sunday. All right, where's your where's your five touchdown predictions? Now not from McGown. You stop Bryan Hoyer's upside against a bad defense. Two weeks ago, he exploded against the Rams. Here comes an even worse past defense Indianapolis, a team that's allowed the

third most passing yards. The Colts allow passing averages of almost three hundred yards one and a half touchdowns. This has the makings of a get right game for Brian Hoyer, or at least to perform better game for Brian Hoyer. He is might take a chance in the quarterback. Let's go to the running back position. Matt I got J D mckissic am I pronouncing that I said, I'm glad I am c J. Procis is trending towards out this week, and the team already lost Chris Carson for the season. Yeah.

This leaves Thomas Rawls, who's done almost nothing in two years, who is also injured, and Eddie Lacey, who is well Eddie Lacey, that's the only other running back. Both Rawles and Lacey have been healthy scratches this year at various times. Yeah, so I entered mckissic, who ran for a touchdown and caught a touchdown past last week on only five touches. He easily slides into the third down back role. And if Lacey and Rawls looked like Lacey and Rawls, he

could end up with even more touches. And the Rams have given up seven touchdowns the running backs this season. That's two more than any team in the league. So I like mckissic this week. All right, I've got Geovanni Bernard at home versus the Bills. Um, have you heard he doesn't want to be called Geo by the way, too bad? Anyways, geove Vanni has caught touchdowns and back to back weeks, Buffalo allowed eight catches two Jets backs and seven to the Ravens backfield. Both backfield saw double

digit targets and change of pace. Backs have fared well against the Bills over the last two weeks. Stevin Coleman had nine for seventy nine rushing and caught four passes for sixty five yards. Before that, Jamal Charles had nine carries for fifty six yards and a touchdown. I think Bernard does well this week. I've got Wayne Gallman going up against the Chargers and essentially one half of work. Last week, Gallman set a giant season high in attempts and yards and that's all it took was a half.

He also scored a touchdown and lead all backs and snaps last week, again only playing a half. Paul Perkins already ruled out of this one, dark was hurt. This week's opponents, the Chargers, the team allowing the most rushing yards per game and the fifth most rushing yards per carry. Four point eight. Wayne Gallman wide receiver. We got I'm going to the John two Vey special right here and going to Marvin Jones. Remember from a four touchdown you

got the four touchdown game from Marvin Jones. That was awesome. H Kenny Golladay looks like he's gonna miss this game with a hamstring injury, and so Marvin Jones gets to be the main outside receiver. And outside receivers have had a lot of success against the Panthers. H Michael Thomas, Pierre Garson, Chris Hogan, and Ted Ginn each either top to eight yards or scored against the Panthers. And free safety Kurt Coleman is out with a knee injury, so the over the top play goes to Jones, and I

think that the Hill score. It's a nice sneaky angle, all right. Bryan's got Kenny Stills at home versus the Titans. Tennessee has allowed seven top twenty wide receiver performances in PPR so far this year, which is three more than any other team, and according to Football Outsiders, the Titans ranked thirty first against number two wide receivers, allowing more than seventy yards per game. Stills is basically a Boom er Bus play, but I'm calling Boom in this matchup.

He has scored in ten of his last eighteen games and in four of his last five in Miami. I'm calling one on Sunday. Geron Brown is my guy. Since David Johnson went out the Cardinals have been forced to pass and pass a ton. Carson Palmer leads the league in pass attempts by a mile, and Giron Brown averaging ten targets per game, the same as Larry Fitzgerald. Here's

the Eagles the defense. They've allowed nine different receivers to hit at least fifty five yards, So I feel safe as that is your minimum for Jeron Brown and the Eagles ranked thirty first in passing yards allowed to receivers and dead last in receptions to receivers. Geron Brown is our final take a chance on me, guy. Let's go right into the Yeah, let's go right into that game. Arizona takeing on Philadelphia. You know you were talking about how the Eagles have just been torched by a wide

receivers this year. It's been slot right wide receivers that have been just absolutely killing him though, So why that's why Larry FitzGeralds and a um Sterling Shepherd at seven catches a hundred and thirty three yards in a touchdown Keenan Allen at five forty eight just the last couple of weeks. Fitz ranks third in the league and targets and catches so he's an easy A. UM, you already

talked about Jeron Brown. I have J. J. Nelson and John Brown probably on the bench because when John Brown returned, it just J J. Nelson's up snap percentage. So I think I'm leaving both of those guys on the bench. But Carson Palmer I have a C grade on um. Also, this is the first game in NFL history where the two starting quarterbacks are named Carson, and the second time in NFL history where two guys named Carson have played on the same field at the same time. Wow, we

did not know that, Thank you. UM. Why would I have? And now who knows why the Cardinals line is Why do you know that? Maybe that's the better. That's the extensive deep research that we do here. Me and Tuve had some fun with some Pro Football Reference yesterday. The Cardinals line is still missing tackle d J. Humphries and guard Mike au Potty. Former Viking Alex Boone is also nicked up. But Palmer is second in the NFL and passing yards. Each game since David Johnson went down, Palmer's

thrown for at least three five yards. The problem is that they can't score touchdowns. They've only mustered sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen points in the last three weeks, but I think they beat that this week against an Eagles defense that's not very good against the past. Andre Ellington, I gotta see for him in PPR. Ellington's had twenty two targets in the last two weeks. That alone means he's

a viable PPR option. They've basically taken what David Johnson did through the air, compartmentalized what he did as a receiver, and just given that work to Andre Ellington and Larry Fitzgerald to some degree to just keep throwing it short. Um he's He's leading the Arizona running backs and snaps over the last two week with a fifty seven percent clips. So we're leaving Kerwin Williams and Chris Johnson on the bench. Let's get the name straight, the undead corpse of the

tap dancing Nancy. Is that the name? Not? That is then on in a few weeks. I'm sorry you've missed it. On the other side, I got Carson Wentz with a C grade. Stafford had a huge day against Arizona in Week one, but since then, the Cardinals have given up two hundred eleven yards per game and only two total touchdown passes to the other quarterbacks they faced. Wentz has still never thrown for more than two touchdown passes in a game, making him a very high priced Mike Glennon.

I have Alshon Jeffrey on the bench. Patrick Peterson Pat Pete, as Brian likes to call him, will lock down Alshon Jeffrey for this entire game. He has held each wide receiver that he shadowed this season to under fifty yards, although Marvin Jones and Des Bryant each scored a short touchdown on Peterson's watch. We're not going Nelson Aghilar Tory Smith, but we are going zach Ertz, who he gets a B grade. He's leading the league in tight end targets

and receptions, averaging nine targets per game. He's on pace for over a hundred catches this season. We're only two weeks removed from Jack Doyle torching the Cardinals for eight catches and seventy nine yards. I think that's the low water mark for It's this week and la Garrett Blunt. I have a S grade on Wendells. Smallwood is expected to miss this game with a knee injury, which should leave Blunt as at bell Cow this week, Corey Clement and ken John Barner are expected to fill Smallwood's role.

Ezekiel Elliott's the only back to top sixty eight yards against the Cardinals this season. One of the two scored, so La Garrett blunts just to see, just because he's gonna get a heavy workload when we come back. The Chargers take on the Giants, and we'll tell you if you can start Keenan Allen with confidence against one of the better secondaries in the NFL. Stay tuned your distinctive Fantasy Football weekly on the fan. Love that John Fantasy

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banquet now I will. Now Chargers take on the Giants. Brian and Chargers wide receivers have been pretty frustrating outside of Keenan Allen to a degree, But even then there's just a lot of balls to go around, and now we we also have headaches at tight end position. Help us make some some sense out of the passing game for the Chargers. Yeah, it's it's a tough matchup for the passing game. As bad as the Giants look, the secondary is still the most legit thing on that disgusting team.

But how do you really feel, Giants fan? I'm giving Keenan Allen to be uh be generous. Jenkins has only taken seven snaps and slot coverage this season, so Alan and Dominique Rogers Camarady will be mixing it up. It's a slightly better matchup for Alan, who is top eight among wide receivers and target percentage and is basically a C start at worst when healthy like he is now,

so enjoy it while he's healthy. I am benching Tyrone Williams and Travis Benjamin though my guy Tyrrell went off last week and Benjamin has had some early success, but the Giants having a loudy wide receiver to top seventy yards this season, so both of those guys are on the bench. For me, it is about the Eli Apple matchup, which is always exploitable. It is, but there's good, good safeties in New York too, So it's just I don't know why I would give Williams a desperation see in

deeper leagues. If you need to start him, he would be the guy would lean to obviously over Benjamin, but he is He is startable as a C C level grade, but um tight ends more stortable. In this one, Hunter Henry and Antonio Gates. I didn't give Henry a C and Gates C plus B minus. Uh. Giants have been torched by tight ends this year, five tight end touchdowns in four games, touchdown in every game, five total. Gates has three targets inside the ten yard line as opposed

to Henry's one. Gates has also seen five targets and back to back games, which equals ten targets, which equals Hunter Henry's target total for the season ten. So Gates is the stronger play. But either have a chance to score here and I'll get Philip Rivers the Sea in the revenge games in their revenge game, but the Giants haven't allowed more than two passing touchdowns at home since Week fifteen of when Cam Newton had five touchdowns, and since that game, New York has allowed up to passing

up to two passing touchdowns only five times overall. But uh, for what it's worth worth, Rivers has three plus yards and going multiple touchdowns and three of his last four starts, so I will give him a C in this game, and then Melvin Gordon gets to b. The Giants run defense has not been as good as they were last year. They ranked thirty first in Football Outsiders d v o A against the run, so he was a squeaky will this week as well, so he should get some grease

in this game. Over to the Giants, I'll start with Odell Beckham. He'll get an A. His finger got fed up last week, but he's going to play. Uh. He honestly might be better catching the ball one handed, I think. And there is that right. If there's ever a player who who doesn't need a hand at wide receiver, it's usually he usually drops him with two hands. Without Jason Vrette, the Chargers have allowed at least one wide receiver touched

on in every game. So you're given Beckham and easy a grade here, or I am I should say, I'm gonna start with Sterling Shepherd over Brandon Marshall. Here, Albert Wilson, Kenny Stills, and Benny Fowler, all slot receivers have scored on the Chargers. Faaler scored twice. Shepherd, among wider wide receivers with at least twenty five targets, is seventh in yards per target. He's also fourth in red zone targets among wide receivers. So he gets a B. I like it,

and I'll still give Marshall a B here. Target totals of ten and eleven with catch totals of six and eight in his last two games. He needs Odell Beckham on the field. When Odell's on the field, Marshall's not half bad. He's showing signs of life and touchdowns will come eventually. I also give Evan and Gram starting grade just to see though he's second in targets among tight ends behind zach Ertz, and his catch totals have gone up from four to four to five to six. This

is pretty much a neutral matchup. But tight end is such a waste land that you can consider starting Ingram this week. I kind of my number four tight end overall. Ram. Yeah, alright, I like I like him. I gonna like him better. Obviously, tight end is a waste Lam this week. Alright, alright, let's give him a B for that? Why not Eli Manning to give him a B. He's almost a borderline

A as well. He's been an elite fantasy option the last two weeks, with two passing yards and three total touchdowns last week three sixty six and three through the air the week before starting center West and rich Burke is out, which doesn't help his cause. But l A's secondary has been brutal with allowing a completion percentage north of sixty five, and then they have a six to one touchdown to interception ratio. And then finally the running game chart. Wayne Galman was gonna take a chance of

me running back. He's a solid play this week. Shane Vereen still is not. I can't go there. No Jets take on the Cleveland Browns and the most disgusting matchup maybe of the year. You already mentioned Josh McCown as you take a chance, I mean quarterback and so and I had I had a starting grade on him as well. His of his receivers, like Austin Safarian Jenkins the best. The Browns have allowed the most receptions to tight ends

and the second most touchdowns of tight ends. Safarian Jenkins, now available after his three game suspension, comes into the week averaging five targets per game. Robbie Anderson startable. He's gonna draw Jamaar Taylor, who ranks nine five among cornerbacks

by Pro Football Focus. Anderson's put up solid numbers the past couple of weeks, while Jermaine Curse has receded badly after a couple of good games at the beginning of the year, We'll take Robby Anderson as a starting grade with a C grade B grade on Bellew Paul coming off a career best one d sixty three yards grand

and seventy five of those one sixty three. We're a little on the cheap side, but you should see close to twenty five touches, the same number he had last week with Matt Forte out again, and that is now official. The Browns have had a stout run defense this year. Surprisingly stout. They're only give you a three yards per carry. No posing back his top sixty six yards. Paul might need to cobble together sixty is rushing yards and fourty fifty receiving yards, which is a possibility for Paul, who

is a capable receiver. Elijah McGuire splashed a little bit last week, but I just don't think there's enough scraps left over for McGuire to do much, and not against a shockingly good Brown's run defense. Let's flip over to the Cleveland side. Not a lot to talk about here.

Duke Johnson gets a B grade, clearly the efety valve for rookie quarterback Deshaun Kaiser with a whopping fifteen catches the past two weeks, nearly all his values tied up into his PPR production, So know you're scoring system here, but Duke has scored a rushing touchdown surprisingly each of the last two games, which is infuriating to Isaiah Crowell owners.

The Jets allow the fifth most receptions to running backs and giving a fifty five receiving yards per game to running backs, and Duke will get nearly all of that for the Browns. Isaiah Crowell also will be He's been a non factor in way too many games because the Browns are always playing from this big deficits or defense has been terrible, but that should change this week. The Jets should not get way up on the Browns, and Karl should see his first game as a real workhorse.

Some optimistic you will. The Jets are allowing the seventh most rushing yards four and a half yards per carry, so Kroll, I know he's been frustrating, but I think you give him another chance here. And the entire Browns passing game is on the bench, and we're not going to spend a lot of time on this. But Kaiser was benched last week and the Jets passing defense is actually pretty good. They allowing the seventh fewest passing yards and only Derek Carr was able to crack two hundred

twenty five yards. Kenny Britt's out in this game. You're starting receivers, and bonus points to you if you know who the Browns starting receivers are for this game, Richard Higgins and Ricardo Lewis Gross. Yes, the forty Niners and the Indianapolis Colts have already talked about a bunch of players from this game in our take a chance on

Me segment Matt Who's left? Well, we did talk about Hoyer and Brissette does take a chance of any quarterbacks on the On the Niner side, Pierre Garson Merritt's a B grade. Garsona has almost as many targets as the next two wide receivers on the depth chart combined. Uh and according to Evan Silva, Garson run of his routes at slot and left corners. Vante Davis plays right corner more often than not, so he gets to avoid the Vante Davis coverage. And I'm not even sure Vante Davis

is that good anymore. He might not. Three years ago he was really good, But I'm with you, Carl those hide him giving a se even though he's questionable the hip injury, but all signs point him he'll play laying uh. We we think that Matt Brito will probably get more work than you think, though he had ten touches last week and it's a good matchup. But the injury is concerning enough for me that maybe he's taken out of the game for a myriad of reasons and Brita just

gets more work. So I'll give. I'll give hide to see even though it should be a B or an A in this game just because of the injury. Consider that the Matt Brita tout right there a little bit of premature, premature speculation. Wow. Um, let's go to the other side where Frank Gore gets the long awaited the revenge game. It's a big revenge game week. Um. There's basically no one left in the San Francisco organization that

was there when Frank was still there. Though the Niners have allowed only rushing yards to opposing running backs in three or four games, and the only team that's that they stopped was the post David Johnson Cardinals. So Frank Gore only gets a seed. It's it's his every week see for Frank Gore just because of the volume. Uh t Y Hilton and Dante Moncrief. I'm giving a c

as well. Sammy Watkins, Robert Woods, and Jared Jeron Brown each top two hundred yards against the Niners defense so far, but Moncrief hasn't topped to forty four yards and sets three starts. I still think he's a little sneaky maybe for a touchdown here, and it's always been his bed. It's not volume, its scores, yes, and Jack Doyle, Oh Doyle has been rude out down so that many more passes go to the receivers in theory exactly. Final matchup

of this segment Tennessee Titans taking on the Miami Dolphins. Um, we don't think Marcus Mariota is gonna play, but maybe on the bad hamstring. But if he doesn't go, it's a disaster scenario with Matt Castle at the helm. Yeah, and even if Mariota goes with the hamstring, you don't really want a one dimensional Marcus Mariotta on your fantasy team. Uh passing touchdown totals on the season of zero one, two and zeros Miami has ranked thirty first against the past.

For football outsiders, it's a tough call. If he goes, it really depends who you have on your team. Is a backup, but you don't wanna be handcuffing matt Castle the markets Marita, So let's go under the assumption that Mariotta plays. If he does, I'll give Richard Matthews a B. He's averaging eight targets per game, while Eric Decker has totaled seven targets over the last two weeks and one number one wide receivers have done very well against Miami.

Keenan Allen had nine catches for a hundred yards and Michael Thomas had eight for eighty nine and one touchdown. So I'll give Matthews a B. I'll keep him at a sea level of Castle goes, but he might be the only starter of Castles under the under center. Eric Decker is on the bench. He's just been a non factor. Corey Davis is out. I got that right this week. He's he's oot uh, So he's on your bench as well.

Delaney Walker, I'll give him a CE. His numbers are down this year, but he is one of eight tight ends with more than twenty five targets on the season. Uh. The Jets and Saints tight ends understandably didn't do much against Miami, but Antonio Gates and Hunter Henry combined for nine catches ninety one yards in a touchdown, So Walker is startable. Uh. Despite who starts a quarterback for the Titans, and for the running backs, look get de Marco Murray

b and Derrick Henry see here. They should be leaned on in this game. Miami is only allowing three point two yards per carrying three games, but they have allowed a running back touchdown in each game and Melvin Gordon had seven catches against the Dolphins. Alvin Kamara had ten, so uh. Both can do some damage out through the year as well. Over to Miami, Let's start with j J. I who It's been brutal start for him. I was high on him, high the most, I must admit, but

I'm keeping the faith. I'm gonna give him a b Uh. Here's a great stat from Adam Spinks at the RB Scout on Twitter. Um the g I E is one of nine running backs averaging more than two point five yards per carry after after the potential tackle point where he could first be tackled, so the skills are still there. Um, I'm keeping the faith with the gy in a somewhat

tough matchup. Tennessee hasn't allowed more than seventy six rushing yards are running back this year, but they've surrendered four total touchdowns at the position over the last three games. And this is a gis first real home game of the season where he scored seven of his eight touchdowns last year. Uh. To the wide receivers Jervis Landry Vante Parker, I'm giving them both an A mentioned it before, but Tennessee has allowed seven top twenty wide receiver perform wide

receiver performances in PPR, so they're an easy start. Kenny Stills was might take a chance to me wide receiver for the same reason. Basically, Julius Thomas is just not interesting yet, so he is on the bench. They're not using him at all. And with that poorous secondary, Jake Cutler does get a B. Tennessee secondary has surrendered four passing touchdowns in two straight games. Uh. They only managed to pick off Blake Bortles twice. Should have been like

five interceptions. So they're just really bad here here. I I used to Jake Keutler's might take a chance for me quarterback last week, and that a little bit in my face. I liked him the week before that in an easy matchup that blew up in my face. Here's another easy matchup for ja. Everybody's gonna jump off this. Everybody's off at Jake Cutler right now. You just gave him a B grade, So now you know it'll be This is gonna be the ball game finally gonna happen.

We'll find out we're actually gonna talk more Dolphins in a little bit, Tom, thank you for your patience. Hello Tom, I hate to hang up that long. Sorry Tom Ryan. Hello, yes hi, UM, I have thanks for taking my call. Um. I played Cooks, I'm the standard two quarterbacks and PPR week UM. I played Cooks and Gillis Lee in UH Thursday Nights game, UM and the other guy who playing Gaskowski. So I'm now losing to a kicker with anyway because you're but I have three players UH running back in

a flex position. I have de Marco Murray, Carlos Hide and Pierre Garson. I'm playing Stefon Dames and my other UM receiving spot and UM not quite sure whould played between DeMarco and uh and Pierre Garson. We just talked about Pierre. Sounds like you're you're benching one of those three guys. He said, it sounds like, yeah, uh, so I would bench high just because of the injury factor here if he if he gets Nick dup at all, they're gonna lean heavily on you trust Murray. I don't

trust Murray. Brian gave him a B grade. I don't know. I'm not you. You guys like him a little more than I do in this one. Maybe you would rather put an injured Carlos hide in over Murray, easy matchup. He's not that injured. I don't any question about him going. Yeah, I think I would. Yeah, that's just me. So we have which we have a different we have different we both like. We all like Pierre Garson though. So there's that. Let's go Garson, Let's go Garzone. I think that's your

that's your sure play. See a more call here, see if Aaron Jones is available. Ben Hello, hey guys again, appreciate the call. Um. I'll be really quick. I got crab Tree and the Riddick PPR. Riddick is currently in my starting position. If if the guys side more towards a crab tree, Um, there's a people on the waiver wire right now, then I could easily drop Riddick for you guys mentioned crow l. I got McKinnon. Yeah, there's a good matchup for crow Well. I gotta b guy

would be grade on him? Uh, I have Riddeck in a later matchup, and I'm giving him a bench grade. He's only had nine total touches in the last two weeks. That's bad. He's just not getting the ball enough. So I don't know if Riddick is worthy of a bench spot. Even right now, you might be droppable. What would you guys? Kind of just ask really quick would what would you guys rather pick up mckinning, Collins or crow or like? Sure?

I mean he's a lead back. He's effectively a workhorse running back on an NFL team instead of a spot starter. So to me, that's the clear angle. What's better a workhorse or a bell cow? Allow me to answer that fish. There you go, that's her. That's the answer. When we come back, your chance for five answers? Can you go five? And? Oh? When we do, we throw out your chance for five answers, Well, you're gonna make five. You're gonna you are going to have five of your own answers to the Devani's five

hot questions. So close one of these weeks, I'm gonna get it perfect. This is like a seven AM show right now, it really I know the way this is, guy does feel like a seven am show. All that five hot questions. When we come back, You're distinctive Fantasy Football Weekly on the fan Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm a fan. If you have not yet tried daily fantasy sports at Fanball, we encourage you to do that.

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Championship with a fifteen thousand dollar prize pool. So, uh, go to fanball dot com slash charch and uh, let's get it on question number one. Well, Cam Newton's off the field transgression affect him on the field enough to harm his fantasy value, Matt, So he said something stupid in front of a whole bunch of media members, and many people in this country say stupid things, usually using a hundred and forty characters. Uh well, and usually on

this show. This will literally blow over by next week when a ruling on the Zeke suspension comes down and everybody looks the other way at the new, shining new thing. No, this isn't going to affect him at all. Yeah, if anything, I think it helps him because it would make football is only escape and at least in the short term. Like Mass said, this will be old news eventually, so I will say no this. Uh. But he has a tough matchup in Detroit this week, so I don't think

it's gonna help him that much. Correct answers, Yes, it will affect him. His play a quarterback was already so wobbly. He entered last week with a passer rating lower than brock Osweiler's last year. Does does Cam Newton care more about winning football games? Or does he care more about his popularity, his style, his pinage, his status as a performer. Remember, he wants to be a performer, not a football player. Now he's been publicly shamed and it's bad. Nobody is

on his side, nobody. He lost his biggest national sponsor distractions. You would think at the NFL level the distractions wouldn't matter, but they do. They matter all the time. Here will talk about it. Even if they won't admit it when it's happening, they'll admit it after it happened. The reality is Cam Newton is a human being who cares about how he's perceived, and he's been perceived badly, and it

will affect him on the field question number two. Will Will Fuller finished the season as a wide receiver, one wide receiver to flex or bench player, Brian, this is the first Will Will Will Will. I don't think I've ever don't. When I typed it, I'm like, that's weird. Will Many of do dues and stuff like that. We have that bats every now and again. Can we just cue the peacock real quick? From my premature speculation, Will Will follow a mon? Was that sweet sound? That's the

sweet sound of of a premature speculation? Ringing the bank twice in one week? So Fuller exploded bank ring the bell anyway? All right? Uh, Fuller exploded out of the gates as a rookie. His three of his first four games, he had uh five catches for a hundred seventy yards, a hundred seven yards in a touchdown, four for one oh four, seven for eighty one and one. Then he got banged up in os Wiler settled in or settled out? I should say so. Deshaun Watson is a much better

quarterback than Brock Osweiler. He will give the speedy Fuller a lot of time to separate because Watson is so mobile. But that'll give Fuller a high ceiling in a lot of games, but a very low floor, especially because Houston is not a pass eavy team. They ranked twenty eight and pass play percentage at so I don't see Fuller being consistent enough to be anything better than a flex

play this year. Okay, yeah, I was gonna try to put him as a wide receiver V but I don't think that's gonna work out for a lot of the things that Brian mentioned. I think he's a flex player as well. He had over ninety targets last season with terrible quarterbacks. His injury this year was a collar bone that's not very likely to reoccur, so I think he's

a flex player. He's a wide receiver too. We think of Will Fuller is a low volume guy because he only caught forty seven passes all of last year, But as you correctly mentioned, Matt ninety two targets, so they threw his way plenty of times, just a brock Osweiler was his quarterback, obviously far better quarterbacking this year, and Fullers a year older, presumably a better receiver. And Jandre Hopkins is on page for one targets. That's not sustainable.

There's going to be a regression in Hopkins targets, and the only place for those targets to regress too is Will Fuller, and so he's going to be dramatically more involved in this offense than people think who are replaying last season. Davanni's hot question number three, Miami's low scoring team in the league. Are you buying low on Dolphins? Matt To steal a page from Dosek's Jake Butler looks

like the most disinterested man in the world. He doesn't always put his hands on his hips when lining up in the Wildcat, but when he does, he does so with a potty lift. Uh. They'd be O N three right now if it weren't for the recently released Chargers kicker missing a field goal in their first game of the season. But still, Jarvis Landry is usually a good PPR helper. Davantae Adams was a guy that we were

all looking at as a breakout campaign this year. J Gi simply isn't as bad as Brian mentioned in the matchup, and Matt Moore might be starting before this game is over, So I think it's time to buy low on the Dolphins. Okay, because Matt Moore is gonna because Matt Moore is gonna be starting. Say yeah, I'm I'm really just buying low

on a Ji. Here one more stat from the at the RB scout um among running backs when it comes to percentage of carries where they face an extra unaccounted for defender in the box, um among when running backs face an extra defender in the boxers, I mean, I should rephrase, Jilly has the third highest percentage of runs where he sees an extra unaccounted for defender in the box, So he's going up against stacked boxes most of the time.

Got a couple that with the fact that we talked about how he's among the leaders and yards per carry after the potential tackle point. It's very talented running back. Still I'm buying this week and hopes he has a good game, and then next week at the very least he should rip the Falcons and you can flip him then if you really want to. But Bilow and a

GI's what I'm saying. Yep, Bilow, they played three road games because their Week one was going to be their home game, and this third road game was in London for Pete's sake. Now, the home games start to kick in two of the next three at home, five three the next five are at home. The biggest problem for Miami has been their offensive line. And while it's not good, remember the Dolphins are a week behind everybody else. And remember when the Giants, the Bengals and the Seattle offensive line.

So those first few weeks of the season were so bad they couldn't score. But the offensive lines got better, as they tend to do, and now those teams are putting up points. That's the same situation Miami finds itself in. And of course, remember j Cutler came in off the couch in the middle of training camp. He can get better, and he probably will. Devanny's hot question number four. The only running back with a touchdown in every week of the season is Leo four Net. Now, nobody's suggesting he's

gonna have a touch out in all sixteen weeks. But do you believe it's current level of fantasy output is sustainable? Brian Man, He is working hard this year so far. We just talked about how a Ji is third as the third highest percentage of carries with an extra defender in the box. Four Net is second, So he's working even harder than a gy is and he's doing it

behind a mediocre line at best. He does have modest catch totals, which has helped him out a little bit, but I'm worried he hits the wall eventually for net only. At a hundred and twenty nine carries last year at l s U, he's currently on pace for three d and twenty right now. He is he is a freak, but I think he falls off just a little bit.

So I don't think this output is sustainable. Tokay, with all the injuries that the wide receivers in Jacksonville, plus Blake Bortles being Blake Bortles, that team is solely reliant on handing the ball off the four net and playing good defense. And it kind of reminded me of the year a few years back where Christian Ponder was at the helm for the Vikings and they handed the ball off to Adrian Peterson over and over again and he tallied two thousand yards. That team was about running the

ball and playing defense. The Jaguars about are about running the ball and playing defense. So I think he can sustain it. You are correct, you can also, I'll note this, and you hit many of my talking points. But also this the schedule super favorable on the ground, only three remaining games against teams that rank in the top half against the run. All the others are bottom half. And of those three remaining games with teams that rank in the top half against the run, none are in the

top five. So there are like, you know, really tough stoppers necessarily. And then in November and December, you know those cold weather, bad weather games that seems perfect potentially for him, and he's the big body against warned down defenses that have played a dozen games or four teen games. Those things all seem to favor for net as well. He will sustain this level of fantasy output. Hot question number five. The bye weeks are upon us, particularly particularly

in Dynasty and Empire leagues. Are you okay with owners and those kinds of leagues who don't start a kicker or a defense or a tight end because they don't want to make a difficult drop to fill that spot with a backup. Hopefully that makes sense. Dynasty and Empire league, is it okay to go to war in your starting lineup without a kicker or but with a bye week kicker, defense, or tight end Matt. You know, if you have a bench, you should be able to plan for these things. But

I guess I'm okay. I have a middle of the road answer. I'm okay with it for a tight end if you don't want to drop a tight end, but I'm not okay with it for a kicker in defense. And furthermore, I like kicker in defense for re draft leagues, but I don't like them for Empire dynasty. I think we should get rid of them an empire and dynasty.

They don't do anything for empire and DYNA. What answer your question, I'm going Brian Johnson on this five tough question and just saying whatever I want to say on the radio. All right, Brian, please do not go Brian Johnson on this question. Is hot, it's not tough. Um, Yeah, I'm okay with it if I'm playing the person who's is leaving a starter with a zero. But ultimately, at

the end of the day, no, it is wrong. It messes with the competitive balance of the league and the integrity because if someone's basically giving up against you, they could affect the standings in a multitude of ways. So no, you should be forced to have a full compliant roster every week. So what if you're in like one of those weird six team by weeks and like your entire team for some weird scheduling purposes on by what do

you do in that situation? Taxi squad? Then you can employ the taxi squad, which I feel like charge is about to talk about. No, I'm not because in every league's kind of taxi squad most well, okay, I don't think they should. If your dynasty league and and or Empire league is set up correctly, you don't have that many bench spots because dynasty leagues with big bench spots takes all the strategy out of it. And if you don't have a lot of bench spots, then you don't

necessarily have anywhere to go. And we don't want you dropping great players to change defenses in one week. So yes, we it's okay. We can live with it. We don't like it, but in a small roster league, we can live with it. Let's go to our final match up of this segment, which is, oh hey, it's me the Minnesota Vikings taking on the Chicago Bears. The sound of

flipping papers me getting to that page. Let's start with the Viking side of this one, and we'll begin at the running game with Ottavias Murray, who gets a C grade here. Chicago is the seventh ranked run defense in the league. They're giving up eighties six yards per game and average of just three point five yards per carry, and they've seen good runners better runners in Ottavias Murray,

DeVonta Freeman, Leavy On Bell, Tie Montgomery. H. Murray is a pretty much a straight ahead plotting runner without a lot of moves. He'll only give it the Vikings offensive line can give them, and let's just hope that that's a touchdown plunge. He's startable in a pinch. I got it. I got a starting grade on him, but I love it here. I think this split is maybe sixty forty

with Jerick McKinnon. Let's go to the passing game. It appears, not knowing who the quarterback is going to be, I'm assuming for our purposes it's going to be Kates Keenum. You can bump everybody up a little bit if it turns out to be Sam Bradford, only let's sell it Digs. He's gotta be grade and he's my favorite of the

of the options for the Vikings. Only one team has allowed more than Chicago's six wide receiver touchdowns already this year, and since his moved to the outside, Diggs has become the Vikings goal line target when passing as well, Diggs will primarily line up against cornerback Marcus Cooper, who ranks fifty among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. What about Adam Theland.

He leads the Vikings and targets and receptions and has had at least one twenty four yard play in every game, which is great, but he draws a tough match up against Chicago slot cornerback Bryce Callahan, who's probably their best cornerback overall. To this point, Callahan has seen Mohamed Sanu, Adam Humphreys, Juju Smith, Schuster, and Randall Cobb and held those guys to an average of three receptions in thirty

seven yards per game. Only Cob managed to score. I think your best angle here is that last year the Vikings scored from the slot in both matchups with the Bears. So maybe Adam Theland can can do a little something more than than the matchup would suggest. And then Kyle Rudolph, kay Keendom killing Kyle Rudolph basically in a nutshell under case, He's getting about half of the targets that Rudolph used

to get when Sam Bradford was under Helm. The average Keendom game for Rudolph is three catches, thirty six yards, no touchdowns, and no red zone targets. But the Bears are without three linebackers. Danny Trevathan suspended, Nick Watkowski is out with a peck injury. Deral Freeman went on, I r without three starting linebackers, there's a chance that Kyle Rudolph's gonna get free in the middle, and they may target him more here. So he's c grade on Kyle Rudolph.

Let's go to the Bear side, where I've only got two starting grades and nothing in the passing game. I'm taking a hard pass on the Mitch Traubinsky lad offense until I see proof that he's ready for this level of competition, particularly against Mike Zimmer, who requires opposing quarterbacks to decipher. Byzantine looks at the line of scrimmage and and it's not like he's got this great stable of receivers who are gonna bail him out. Trabisky has got

no help. The whole passing games on the bench. Ord and Howard demolished the Vikings last year with a two game total of three hundred thirty seven yards. That's crazy. But the Vikings run defense is a lot better this year. Their top five against the run and virtually every statistical category. Opposing running backs as a group are averaging just seventy one yards per game. And you don't have to respect

the past with Mitch Robinsky. So I think the Vikings game plan to stop Howard, and so I've just got a B grade on Jordan Howard. Tarik Cohen gets a C grade. I don't think he takes a big step backwards for with Travisky will probably a safety valve option, but I'll need to do something special with the ball and a tough matchup. Vikings have been are a top

five defense against pass catching running backs. They're only averaging twenty seven receiving yards per game two running backs, and this despite the fact that they've seen Theoretic and Levan bell to the best pass catching running backs in the legal already and they're still only giving up twenty seven yards per game. So Tarik Cohen is a only a C grade. When we come back our final set of matchups, including the Seattle Seahawks taking on the Los Angeles Rams.

We'll tell you if you dare start Eddie Lazier Thomas Rawls when we return. You're distinctive Fantasy Football weekly on the fan. I don't want to make any promises, but this is shaping up as a big lightning round. I we you know, we've only had like two and three minutes for lightning round the past couple of weeks. I think we're gonna have a nice, juicy lightning I'm gonna talk and don't do it, everybody, don't do it. You'll have a chance to talk right now. Seattle takes on

the Los Angeles Rams. Chris Carson goes on I R. Now they go to Thomas Rawls and or Eddie Lacey against the Rams is a bad run defense? What do you think of those two guys? I got them both on the bench. As I kind of mentioned in to take a chance on me segment, Mkissic is the guy that that I want out of this out of this team, and I just don't trust either Eddie Lacy or Thomas Rawles to get it done. What's your thought? I think

Rawls is a lot better. I don't trust Lacy Rawls is one season removed from being awesome, and I think he's just got more talent than Lacey does. So I would roll the dice on Ralls. I think both are startable in a pinch, because the Rams run defense is that bad. It's what do you prefer, fat or fragile? What's your preference? Yeah, I mean I I can't overcome fat, but if you're healthy, you're not fragile. So you know that's kind of my it's kind of my you're healthy

or not fragile. It's like it's it's not good. Rams run defense is bad. They rank in running back running back yards allowed. You know, their past defense isn't that good either. So that's why I'm giving Russell Wilson an A grade. This week and his first two weeks of this season, Wilson did basically nothing less than two hundred

yards in each game recorded one total touchdown. In the last two weeks, Wilson's caught fire six passing touchdowns one rushing score while averaging three thirty four past yards per game. The Rams at the same time almost did the I identical thing to Russell Wilson. They gave up exactly a hundred and seventy nine passing yards in each of the first two weeks and allowed only one passing score, but in the last two weeks, Brian Hoyer and Dak Prescott

each roasted them for three total touchdowns apiece. One of those was a rushing score. Both those guys averaged two ninety two against them. So I like Russell Wilson a lot this week. Given Doug Baldwin a B as well miss practice earlier this week with the groin injury. They kind of had him as a a a decoy last week, but this week I think that he's better, uh and

ready to go. The Rams have been fairly good against slot wide receivers so far this year, but Cole Beasley and Jamison Crowder were the best two they've seen, so Doug Baldwin's up at a B. I even got a C grade on Paul Richardson and Tyler Lockett. The Rams have been giving up the farm to outside wide receivers. They have allowed fourteen completions of twenty yards or more this season. Richardson leads the team in twenty plus yard targets with five. Lockett has three and Jimmy Graham has four,

so there's gonna be a lot of downfield throws. Jimmy Graham I gave a C grade two as well. Uh, he's taking a day off of practice every week for the last three so he's shown up questionable on your on your software for your for your fantasy league. But he's recorded at least sixty yards and back to back weeks the Rams held Jordan Read to six catches and forty eight yards, but he's the only good tight end they faced all year, So I think that's kind of

the downside for Jimmy Graham. Over on the Ram side, Todd Gurley gets an A. He leads the NFL and yards from scrimmage and touchdowns. How about that? And the Seahawks are not your father's Seahawks run defense, Carlos Hyde and DeMarco Murray each top two hundred and fifteen yards time. Montgomery had ninety three total yards in a score. The only the only person that could really stop was the eight year old Frank Gore. But the passing game I'm

putting on the bench. Jared Goff, this matchup looks like a girly one. Seattle has been more stout against the passing game. If you take out Aaron Rodgers three eleven yard game in Week one, the Seahaks have only allowed a hundred and sixty passing yards per game in the last three weeks, three total touchdowns. I'm not going Sammy Watkins, Robert Woods, or Cooper Cup, but if you're going to spot start one of them, Cup is the one that

I like the most. He has the best matchup against slot corner Jeremy Lane, who's also dinged up, and he should play. But only three wide receivers have topped fifty yards against the Seahawks this year, and two of those were Packers. I cannot wait until Girly scores two touchdowns in the game and Cup has one, So it would be two girls, two girls, two girls, one Cup. That

would be That would be perfect. Yeah. Cooper Cup has been that guy who's been everybody rushed to get him after Week one and then he did nothing for every dropped him, and then he scored again. Last week, he go get him again and now he's gonna do nothing. I'm gonna drop him again because you know every year there's that guy who just cycles through a dozen teams I get the feeling Cooper Cup is going to be that guy. I agree. Buffalo takes on Cincinnati Brian Lashawn

McCoy has been dreadful for a couple of weeks. Now does he break out of the slump against the temp the Cincinnati Bengals. He's gonna He's gonna have to work hard for it. I'm still gonna give him a B based on a volume alone, but no running back has topped eighty yards on the ground against the Bengals, who have also only allowed two rushing touchdown running back so far this year. They have been generous to backs through the air, though, as they've allowed eight catches per game

to the position over the last three weeks. So there's some hope for Shady here. Not a whole lot more to talk about for Buffalo. I will give Charles Clay a desperation CEE. It's a bad matchup on paper. The Bengals have allowed ten catches the tight ends total this year, but they've also faced the Baltimore tight ends, the Texans tight ends, and the Browns tight ends, so not a lot of competition in that regard. So he gets the desperation. See because he's the only past catcher on that team

right now, that's worth talking about. And then I'm putting

Tyrod Taylor on the bench this week. Cincinnati's ranked eighth against the past according to Football Outsiders d v o A. Aaron Rodgers had three thirteen yards and three touchdowns against the Bengals, but Joe Flacco, Deshaun Watson and the combo Deshon Kaiser and Kevin Hogan combined for just four d twenty nine yards and one passing touchdown between the three quarterback sets there Over to the Bengals, AJ Green gets a B. Damarius Thomas is the only wide receiver to

top eighty yards against Buffalo, but Green is easily the same caliber as to Maryus Thomas's and Green has five to six inches under Dabus White and E J. Gaines he started cornerbacks for Buffalo. I'm putting the other wide receivers on the bench, though it is a tough matchup. Tyler Croft, Yeah, he blew up last week, uh tight end for the Bengals in in place of Tyler Eifer, But that was against the Browns. Uh. This is the Bills, and only one tight end has topped three catches against Buffalo.

And not one tight end has top fifty yards all year. Andy Dalton is also on the bench. Buffalo was ranked third against the past according to Football Outsiders, and they've only allowed one passing touchdown all season. That was to Matt Ryan Joe Mixon. He gets the starting grade, but the lowest level one at a C. He has average twenty one touches over the last two weeks, but he's averaging just two point six yards per carry behind a very wobbly line and the Bills have only allowed two

rushing touchdowns running backs this year. They are far more generous through the year, and that is why Giovanni bernard was might take a chance on the running back nicely done in Kansas City takes on Houston in probably the toughest matchup for the Chiefs this year. Karee Munt is an A grade, but let's note that this is this is his hardest This is his hardest matchup. He leads the league in rushing yards by one hundred forty yards, which is a ton uh. He also shined in the

Chiefs passing game. He's caught all thirteen of his thirteen targets, but Texans have held back saverages of just fifty two rushing yards, seventeen receiving yards, and no touchdowns over the last three weeks. For what it's worth, last year when these teams played, Kansas City's Runners West and Ware combined for hundred six a total yards. So there's your glimmer of hope for Karee Hunt. He remains an a start because he's just that good also from the passing game,

and a start for Travis Kelsey. He leads the team and targets. He's at one hundred yards and scored in two of the last three games. Kelsey takes on a Texans defense that's given up averages of six sketches, seventy yards and one touchdown to Gronk and de Laney Walker, which are relative comparables to Travis Kelsey. The last couple of weeks be great for Tyreek Hill. Like a lot of home run threat wideouts. Its feast or famine with Hill, and so far he's eaten well on the road and

he's starved at home. This is a road game. He goes up against the Houston dec its secondary that's been susceptible to big plays, giving up over fifteen yards per completion, and Hell's gonna see a lot of lousy cornerback Jonathan Banks, who ranks at the position by Pro Football Focus. So I like Tyreek Hill in this one. Alex Smith is a C grade. You know, more and more it looks like Alex Smith's monster Week one was a bit of

a mirage. He's settled back into more of a game manager, although a stronger armed game manager than what we had seen in the past. Um Meanwhile, when he's not, Houston's defense has been very good for everybody else except Tom Brady. They're giving up averages of just one passing yards and zero point three touchdowns per game. So what Brady did rip him apart. Everybody else has been humbled by this Houston secondary, and that probably includes Smith here C grade only.

Let's flip over to the Houston's d. Deshaun Watson's turned into a guy that you can put an A grade on and feel okay about. He's turned to do a bona fi duel threat. We always knew the legs would be good, but he's actually and he by the way leading all quarterbacks and rushing yards. The arm has been pretty good too. Kansas City's rebuilt secondary has allowed the seventh most yards through the air, but they've also been

vulnerable to quarterbacks who can run. They're allowing an additional twenty three rushing yards per game to quarterbacks, which is second to last in the NFL. Deshaun Watson's and A starts. You know, I like DeAndre Hopkins. He's gonna remain the primary focus of Houston's offensive attack as he goes up against the Kansas City secondary that has allowed one hundred yards and are a touchdown to opposing receivers in every

game this year. Hopkins will line up all over the field and that's gonna be a huge advantage for him when he's not on Marcus Peters and he is on Terrence Mitchell or slack cornerback Philip Gaines. Although we saw last week on Monday Night Football, Marcus Peters gave up a touchdown on a really a nice play to Terrell Prior, so you can still you can still can get something

done when you're on that side of the field. Will Filler gets a B grade because the absence of safety Eric Berry from the Kansas City secondary means that they're vulnerable to pure speed deep receivers like Fuller, Fuller's volume is always a bit of a question, but as we talked about last segment, it's better than most people think. He's kind of a boomer bus guy and that will probably remain here. But I like him against the Kansas City secondary. And then there's Lamar Miller C grade. He

consistently touches the ball fifteen to twenty times. He's probably gonna need all of those because the Kansas City run defense is very good. They've yet to allow eighty rushing yards to any runner they faced. They are, though, giving up four point three yards per carry, which is kind of a lot, and they've allowed the second fewest receiving yards running back. So Miller's not gonna help you there. Suggest a C grade for Miller. We'll take a break

when we come back. Our final matchup Carolina Panthers at Detroit Lions. Do you trust Cam Newton Devin Funches to bounce back and have well have back to back strong games, I should say, and then premature spect elation and lightning round all of that coming in the final segment after this your distinct of Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome back to the shell of Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan, Paul Arch, Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison with you

final matchup. He's coming up in a moment that will be the Panthers at the Lions. But first premature speculation. These are three players generally available on the waiver wire you can pick up now, one week of ahead of everybody else is looking to do. So, Matt, who you got? I'm staying Homer with it and going Michael Floyd, wide receiver, Minnesota Vikings. He's back from his four game suspension. Lakwan Treadwell has been getting play at the outside wide receiver position,

but he's not good. He's just not good, and he's not gonna suit up anymore. Now that Michael Floyd's back, plus the loss of Dalvin Cook and the hopeful return of Sam Bradford, means I think that this Viking offense is going to rely on a vertical passing game, which I think means three wide receivers are on the field a lot, and I think Floyd gets a lot of play.

All right, Brian, I am going Trent Taylor, rookie slot receiver for the San Francis ten targets last week, caught a touchdown the week before Aldrick Robbins had twelve targets last week, bringing on the targets for the Niners. But let me finish here, all right, Taylor is actually a bonus take on this week, potentially against the Colts, who's starting a slot corner Nate Harrison is out, leaving rookie

Quincy Wilson to man the seam. So the good matchup this week, But then the yellow brick road continues down the schedule for Taylor. The following week he has Washington, were slot receivers Nelson Aglar scored and even Albert Wilson tops sixty yards against the Redskins. Following that is Dallas. We mentioned that was a very plus matchup for slot receiver Randall Cobb this week, and other slot receivers had fared well against the Cowboys, Cooper Cup, Larry Fitzgerald, Sterling

Shepherd all with the the PPR points. The following week they have Philly who has also been flamed by slot receivers. Sterling Shepherd had seven catches for a hundred thirty three yards in a touchdown. Keenan Allen had five for over the last two weeks, and then after that game they had the Cardinals. Remember I mentioned that Taylor was just targeted ten times. That was against the Cardinals. Alright, So there you go, Trent Taylor, honey badger, not scaring anybody

in the slot anymore. That's that's the thing in the past, Trent Taylor. I like it super deep. Mike Williams is mine. This was the first round draft choice by I think seventh overall picked by the Chargers UH this past draft and hasn't been available until recently practicing now and maybe active in this week's game. I think he's still listed as doubtful for this week, but it's there's a chance.

We'll just say this chance he's coming around. This is your time to get him before he starts making waves as a as a player who is returning and big body is ideally suited for red zone use the downside and Mike Williams, So I think it's fair to mention is just all the depths and the number of targets that they've got to go around Keenan Allen, Travis, Benjamin Tyrrell Williams and Hunter Henry Antonio Gates and throwing in Melvin Gordon. There's a lot of you know, there's only

so much ball to go around. I like Mike Williams as I like Meg Williams the athlete. I love the big body for goal line use. I I still think in bigger leagues he belongs on a roster, and I've rostered him in like my twenty team league. Um, but I do worry about that. That component of his game is all the different players that San Diego has to throw too. Let's go to this final matchup, Carolina Panthers taking on the Detroit Lions. We finally got a good

game from Cam Newton. Does he do it back to back? Yeah? Well, I'm tempering my expectations there. It's also worth noting that center Ryan Khalil, who is the best Khalil on roster for the Panthers. Uh, He's missed the last three games of the neck injury and he's believed to be out again this week. Um. It's not the Patriots epically bad defense in front of Cam Newton either. Before that game, Cam was averaging a hundred and eighty nine passing yards.

Her game against such blazingly awesome past defense is known as the forty Niners, Saints and Bills. That's not scary and he's not doing well, so the Lin's defense is not allowed a three yard passer this year. They've only given up four touchdown passes while tallying seven interceptions, So I only have a C grade on Newton. The wide receivers Devin Funchius and Kelvin Benjamin, giving them both very

tepid SEA grades as well. Funcius is leading all wide receivers on the tight on the team with twenty five targets this season. He's averaging an additional five targets per game in the two weeks since Greg Olsen went down, so they've really turned to him in the last two weeks. It's likely both he and Benjamin get a little taste of the Darius Slay ride this week. Benjamin was sidelined earlier in the week with the knee injury, but returned

to practice on Thursday. But whoever you consider the wide receiver one, that guy, Yeah, that guy might look forward to a ninety plus yard game like us Stefon Diggs or Julio Jones have done in the last two weeks against Detroit. UH. The running backs, though, Christian McCaffrey, I'm giving a B. Jonathan Stewart, I'm giving a C the Lion's last week side linebacker Paul Whirlo to an mc l last week, and they were already bad against the run.

The saving grace for the Lions run stats has been that David Johnson and Dalvin Cook both went down with injury during during the game. Yeah, it's a great point. So uh, the other the only running back they've really stopped as Paul Perkins, and we all know about Paul Perkins Detroit his bottom ten in the league and running back receptions and receiving yards, which is why I like McCaffrey a little bit better over on the Lions side.

Amir Abdula, I'm giving a C grade. He had a mild mild ankle injury last week against Minnesota, but he's expected to play. He's coming off the best game of his career. Looked better than he looked against the Vikings. Twenty three touches last week against the Vikings, where he logged a hundred and nine total yards and scored no running back his top to fifty six rushing yards against the Panthers this year. Only Dion Lewis and Alvin Kamara

have recorded rushing touchdowns against them this year. That's why Abdula is only getting the C grade. THEO Rittic I affirmly on the bench. We talked about how he's just not getting play right now. Matthew Stafford I got a C grade on him. The stats are kind of expected

for the Panthers defense. They held Brian Hoyer and Tyrod Taylor to under two under passing yards and no scores three total points in each of those games given up for the Panthers defense, But Drew Brees and Tom Brady were the the guys that they played the last two weeks. Both of those teams scored thirty points. Drew Brees had three touchdown passes. Tom Brady had three or seven and two. What kind of quarterback is Stafford? I think he's somewhere

in the middle here. He probably he's probably like a two fifty and two kind of a game here. That's why he gets the C grade. That's that's B numbers two fifty and two. That's a good game, thank you well. I think one of those touchdowns goes to the Marvin Jones, who I talked about is might take a chance of a wide receiver like it. Golden Tate gets a B grade.

Tate ran seventy of his routes out of the slot last week, and the Panthers have allowed a slot wide receiver to score a touchdown in each of the last two weeks. Brandon Coleman and Danny Amondola did that, So he gets the B grade. Eric Ebron's on the bench. He was only on the field for of the snaps last week. He can be dropped. I think he can be dropped out right. One touchdown in his last year of football. For Eric Ebron. It is time for our

by far, our longest lightning round of the year. You know, all the times that we're gonna play a C D C S we might get through this like three times, like fifteen minutes of thirteen minutes of lightning round. That's amazing, three and a half times. We're told by Tony Um, here's the rules. You know, this works toughest question between two players, and only two players. We hang up on you. You listen to the response via the delay that comes through your radio. But we also will hear trades trades.

Oh yeah, we'd prefer that, actually prefer to hear your trade talk to be perfectly honest. All right, our first caller Eric Hello, half point PPRR, Grammar Rudolph, all right, I got Jimmy Graham this week. I'm I'm just afraid if if Keenum goes, then Rudolph's just not a player. Although if Bradford does go, it's a money in that game, money that game. You know he does go. I love him against those banged up line backers. The Chicago's got

Michael your next, Michael Michael. I can't hear you, Michael Michael. I'm gonna put you on hold. We'll go, We'll spin back around to Michael. Me'll take us off. Speaker. Eric Hello, Google PPR. Thomas Brown from Arizona Rawls or Jeron Brown. Yeah, I'll go with charges. Take a chance on me, Guy, Geron Brown, I don't know yet. Howard Hello, Hi guys Um Marchwn Lynch or Marshawn Lynch. It's a great After two punishingly difficult matchups, this one's much easier. In Baltimore.

Mikey Hello, Hi, nonrn Or I'm sorry Cohen or who I think it was? Will Fuller, Okay, I'd go will Holler if it's not in PPR. Yeah, I agreed, Tom Hello, I have PPR Blacklijah McGuire, Eric Decker. Boy, we have bench grades on both guys. I would say McGuire if Forte sits, but I think he's playing, So I would roll the dice with Decker, with Corey Davis, how about if you drop Decker outright, pick up your guy Taylor, Taylor or Kenny Still Yeah, Jones, Marvin Jones, Right, and

you can do better? Mark Hello, Yeah, PPR League, Mark Davis, Bryan or Marvin Jones. I'm sorry, who's the Mark Tavis, Mark Tavis, mar Jones. I'm going to Matt's guy. I had Bryant on the bench too, So yeah, there you go. Um, Michael will try you again. Let's see how it goes this time. Well, now Michael's just given up altogether. I think Brad you are next. Hello. That was offered Odell Beckham for Chris Holgans. Odell Beckham or what do you think,

Brian Chris Hogan. He's totally legit. I would say, if you need a running back, if you're really probably for running back, do that deal. He was offered Odell though, so he would be losing Logan and Miller. Yeah, if you can spare the I don't know it's a question, man, if you if you got to deep up running back bench, I'd do the deal. Yeah, if just an upgrade to Odell, I would. I would do again if you had a competent running back to fill that spot. Yep, Mike, Hello,

digs are hill? Digs? Which which hill? Tyreek Hill? Tyreek Hill? Probably? Okay? Thank you? I think I like Tyreek Hill better in this matchup I gave him. Would be great. John, you're next. If we knew Bradford was gonna go, but it's Monday night. I don't think we're gonna go back. I don't think you're an old. It's tough to play any Vikings this week. Really, John, your next? Hi? Uh? Both PPR Melvin Benjamin or Richard Man? Thank you? Okay? Oh Man? Mary? Yeah, it's you can't

just start any of the receivers with Castle Town. If Mariota goes, I would go Matthews. But if he doesn't, I'll go Benjamin. Paul, You're next. Hi, straight up, trade Cam Newton for Marcus Mariota. I'd rather have Mariota in a landslide. As discussed earlier, I really think he the potential for him to unravel psychologically is here. I advised somebody on Twitter to watch Cam blow up against the Patriots and then trade him. Now is the time to

trade Camp and I think it is too rob. Your next guys, bull PPR, Kemmy Watkins or Kelvin Benjamin Watkins or Benjamin I had Benjamin with a start grade and Watkins with a bench grade. We'll go there. Jesse, You're next battle of the take a chance on me, guys, full PPR. I've got n Detroit or I've got Jern Brown from Arizona. Who Brian gets to be the deciding factor Old PPR Jones isn't a high volume catch. John Brown is the ten targets a game. I would go

lean Gern Brown and full PPR. I can agree, Dan your next half pay PPR uh either Richard Matthews or Mary Cooper Cooper again, I just you know until even if Mariota with a hamstring, I just too much, way too much risk there. And if it's matt Castle then all bets are off. Gosh, you're next, Yeah, Eli or bign okay Man. Ben's got the number one past defense going. Yeah, I guess I'll go Eli and Elis I I do like Big Ben this week, though he's got He's gonna pop off and have a big game, I think. But

I think Eli is the safer play. His average home game over the last three years three hundred thirty five passing yards, two point eight passing touchdowns. You're arguing against your own advice. I'm pretty sure right now. But he faces the number one past defense in the NFL. It's gonna be a big Bill day that's allowed the number. Yeah it is. Jackson was terrible against the run, the great against the pastor just gonna run Bell all day. That's my worry. Chad, you next Ellington or Joe? All right?

What Jellington or Marvin? I'm assuming Marvin Jones, Yeah, Marvin Jones. Yeah. We love the concise questions, but you can't. You are allowed to give first names with your players. Rob your next uh PPR Arizona's Ellington or Jerk McKinnon. Ellington are full PPR. Especially again, they've carved out what David Johnson was doing through the air and they're giving all of that to Andre Ellington. He's averaging margets per game the last two weeks. Brett, You're next, Jarvis Landry or Mark Davis,

Brian PPR, Jarvis Landry and it's not close. Jim, you're next. Yeah, Hi, I'm really frustrated with Brandon Marshall. Should I dropped him and pick up Sterling Shepard? Oh? This is the Giants question right here? Why do you think? Yes, Shepherd, Surgeon Marshalls not? I would Michael your next, mcclown. I'm sorry, what was again, Michael? I know you're trying. We just can't hear you. Cutler or McCown. I think you told him mcclown, which I like as well. That's that's a

long standing bid here on the show. Yes, uh, if that is it, we'll take. We'll take mc take Cutler. We like, we like Coulor. We had as and Beesa for all his receivers. We're gonna take Cutler on this one. Brody, Hello, Hi, Hi, Dog Carton, h Jnan Adelman and Keenan Allen. That's the trade in a Dynasty League or Um, I'm sorry, Doug Martin, Julian Edelman and Um Marvin Jones for Keenan Allen in a Dynasty League trade. I like the Keenan Allen side a lot more. Okay, Matt, you are next hip full point,

GPR or anything. I think that was Cohen Man. We're having a hard time hearing people. I think that was Cohen or Ellington. Oh, that's a coin flip. If I've ever heard one, I would go Cohen, I'd go Ellington. I'd go Ellington too. There's a chance that Travisky is gonna just destroy that whole offense. I see a lot of dump offs coing in that game, but I don't know. Billy. You're on the fan. Marshall or mixing PPR mix and

had some wiggle the last couple of weeks. I'm I'm kind of down with it wiggling to two point six cards. That's it. I'm I'm going Marshall, who's been targeted a lot more lately in a PPR league. I'll take Marshall. Jordan's your next standard league, Will Fuller or Brandon Marshall. Okay, I think it's Will Fuller. Yeah, Darryl, you're on the fan cor the full point. It would be a slam dunk Duke. I'm still going Duke, though you'll see a ton of a ton of volume here. Tom, you're on

the fan. Um, I'm very much in the first place, and I'm probably gonna stay there for at least in this a couple of weeks. Do I spend money on Luck and hold onto him, or do I stream quarterbacks for the rest of the year. That's a great question. I would um, if you can, I would take I would take Luck. I mean, yeah, if you're telling me you don't need wins for the next couple of weeks, the roster spot's not gonna kill you. Yeah, I would take Luck and but but wouldn't you be doing both.

He would be stashing Luck and then stream roster spot. He's using up the roster spot on Luck that he would have used to stream quarterbacks in and out of what he said. So you're gonna take a zero for Luck the next few weeks, Well, yeah, he's not gonna start Luck. You canna start somebody else. It's just he doesn't have that spot I think available. But I don't think it means if you're gonna take a zero from Luck from several weeks that would change my answer. I

wouldn't do. I think they're not I think they're not utually exclusive. I think you take Luck and then you stream quarter right, Well, ideally, yes, Andrew Luck you guys are talking, uh, Confederate or General Mark, You're next Standard League mccaffy or Alex Collins, Ryan Standard, McCaffrey or Collins. I think Collins is the most carries for the Ravens and this one McCaffrey doesn't get any carries, especially in

the red zone. I'm going to Collins Standard, Lee, Collins, Dan, you're next William Gollum or sure his last name is like Gollum. It's gonna have a precious game. No, we're gonna start, We're gonna stay, We're gonna start. Golman, He's might take a chance to me running back, he will get the vast majority of the work against the bottom ranked run defense in the NFL. Uh my, my college screener, says Doroth. I don't know if that's Dorothy or what that is. It sure is all right, Doroth high love

the show, guys. Running back question touchdown heavy Jane for Green Bay or Balman for the Giants. All right, I'm going Jones this week. Really Yeah, I even split time with Williams. I'm saying that he's gonna split time with Williams. Colman is going to get all the world. I'm liking Jones. Alright, that's Jesse you are next. Yeah, another question for you, tight end. Do I go with Witten or do I go with Jesse James from Pittsburgh? Thank you. I put

Whitten on the bench. It's just a tough matchup for the Packers, and Matt gave James a C grade. I just can't believe we talked to doroth No, Michael Hello Howell or for net non ppr um. I gotta keep starting for Net. Yeah, you never know what. The Jets they always find some way to frustrate the Powell owners out there. I believe that there's a chance come Sunday they're gonna pull a side galal Pole and say we want you to instead of playing football, we want you

to spend today waxing Woody Johnson's dirigible. That could that could be a thing with the Jets. Tom, you are next. What just happened? Tom? Well, you got me on instead. I'm Jason. Sorry it says Tom here, but okay, Jason. Al Right, First of all, I like the show. I listened a lot of fancy podcasting. You guys are one of the most enjoyable shows. Thank you very much. Anyways, Um, Davante Adams if he goes or Golden Tape. I like Golden Tates in this matchup. I like the slot matchup

for tape. Okay, thank you, scores Todd, you are next, Cam or a warrior, Okay, you better match up he does. I'm all the way I'm nervous about. I'm nearly nervous about Cam. David. You're next, uh full point PPR Carlos Hide or Makistics Carlos Hide. Good? Look this, Now, look what you've done. Mad mckissic is a changeup pace heiny runner who will if he's at best, He's a c. J. Procise replacement. That's it. I got a dollar bet with you that in fanball scoring mckissic will outscore Carlos Hyde.

The Hid taken Eric, You're next, assuming Sam Bradford plays Sam Bradford or Andy Dalton. But you're not gonna know on. I don't think you're gonna know on Bradford when you're gonna need to set Dalton lineup at noon? Going to start Andy Dalton this week? Find any almost virtually almost anybody else than Andy Dalton, Jacobe Burssette, Brian Hoyer, John McCown Josh mccow Cutler right, chat your next uh standard PPR PPR league looking for a black position Gallman or

Duke Johnson, seem my Goldman again. I mean, you know what to Johnson is gonna give you, and it's not trivial, but it's not to me. It's PPR. I think he did say PPR in Yeah, I'm gall in on Golman. But if it's PPR, then just take to Johnson. Take anything less than full PPR will go Goldman. Dave, you're next. Two eyes dropped, Corey David to take up my growing No, No, Corey Davis will be back sooner. Caleb, Caleb, you're on the fan here you guys. How are you doing today? Good?

Thank you? Um, I'm gonna looking for a flax flexo for this week. Warring ABU should go with Matthew. They're blood Richard Matthews like Eric blont I think that's easy. Yeah, I guess you go blunt at home against Arizona. Get your touchdown to be happy. DJ You'll be our final call of one of our longest lightning rounds ever. Uh full point r Ron Drown or Wayne Goldman Child both of Mike take a chance of me. Guys, how are you going to choose? I'm gonna take Jern Brown with

the consistency that he's given us. I'm gonna I'm gonna take Jern Brown. I like him a lot in this one. Um. As many of you know, our podcast through iTunes changed and now we've got a whole new feed, and that feed needs your votes and it needs your review is please spend some time if you would, If you listen to the show and you love it, especially if you like it, please go to iTunes rate and review the show because our old show, which have like sixteen hundred reviews,

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