Feast or Famine

and the listeners. It's a Feast or Famine edition Thanksgiving. Did you feast with guys like Dak Prescott, Dawson Knox, Cedric Wilson, Cedric Wilson or Bragger? Or did you get famine on Thanksgiving? DeAndre Swift, Darren Waller? Did you fall for the Tony Jones hype right before gamesh I hope not. I hope not. That's that was a trap, right, there was that offense broken. I stopped crying about Waller like two minutes ago, and you gotta bring that up. Yeah,

sorry about that. We were here to help in either case. If you are if you feasted on Thursday, We're here to help you protect your lead. If you got famine on Thursday and Thanksgiving Day, we're here you to help, here to help you make up ground on your opponents. We will do that over the course of the show with take a chance on me, three tough questions, premature speculation, and we will break down all the remaining games for

this weekend. Gentlemen, Let's start with the Falcons and the Jaguars. Scott, this was a Falcons offense that looked hopelessly broken last time we saw them. They face a surprisingly stout Jaguars defense. Yeah, they do. The The Jack's defense has been really good lately. In fact, they've helped three of their last four quarterbacks they faced under two hundred yards. Josh Allen was the one that got over, but he didn't even throw a touchdown. So I have Matt Ryan and basically most of the

passing game on the bench. Gauge Wrestler. Gauge has a better forties and seventy yard guy three out of the last five games, but the two he didn't get in that range, he got complete goose eggs, not even a catch. How can you trust him here? And if you go by the rule of every other like we were with gasket last week. Then then we got a zero on our hands. Uh Zakias. He did have that nice two touchdong game a while back, but he hasn't had over thirty two yards in any game this season. He's on

the bench. Uh. Cordarrel Patterson is the question mark. He's questionable. He's put in some limited practices this week. I do too. I think I think it's gameplays. The last week I didn't think he was gonna play at all, and he did, and this week I'm I'm hesitant. I would give him a C grade if he plays, because I feel like he's the kind of guy like if they get ahead, he's going to run the ball. If they are behind, they're gonna throw the ball to him. So like he

stays in the game no matter what. I'd give him a C grade if he goes. Uh. The other running backs, however, Quadrea Allison and Mike Davis, I have them on the bench. It was too much of a split. They said they want to get Allison more work, but they were really ineffective with that amount of work last week. I have them both on the bench. It's a lot of bench grades so far. Now over to Kyle Pitts, Brian, It's a nice spot in that seven tight ends have had

fifty plus and or a score the Jacks. Here's the problem with Pitts. He's being treated like an elite receiver. The average PF grade of cornerbacks he's getting is facing is in the top twelve of receivers I, meaning he's seen Deebo Samuel DeAndre Hopkins level seventy plus grades from the corners on on him a few weeks ago, stuff on Gilmore shadowed him a week or two weeks ago. Lattimore covered him the majority of the time he sees

double coverage or help. On twenty of his routes against the Pats last week, thirty one percent of the time he saw double coverage or help. This is this is why all the people that told you, oh, with Calvin Ridley out, Kyle pitch is gonna blow up. No, it doesn't. You know, for the millionth time, it doesn't work that way. You know, when you take the best receiver off a team, it only hurts everybody and by the waiver, but yeah,

still hurt. That kind of proves the point of Pelijack taking away your best receiver if he threw doubles out of the time. That's right. Um. The Jags may take a similar role with Shaquille Griffin and throw him on pits. So I have merely a C grade despite an okay matchup. It's just he's the top end talent and in some of those games he would go three for sixty, which

is a decent game even against that top coverage. But there's it's he's getting too much double coverage and top top cornerbacks will break down Kyle Pitts in more detail later in this show. On the other side, I have the whole passing game on the bench for the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence hasn't topped a hundred and sixty five yards passing in three straight. That is nothing. That's nothing. That's that's like half a deck press sky game. That's it's

basically nothing. Uh. He just lost Jamal Agnew for the year. The Falcons. I don't care that their bottom ten against against quarterbacks. Uh. Lawrence is similar to like the Zach Willis, Wilson, Sam Donald types who all through for under two hundred against them as well. Um, So I had the whole passing game on the bench. I don't care that they say they want to get Chanelt Moore in that agnew role and get him touches at running back. I can't trust it till I see it. James Robinson, No, I'm

giving a C grade too. He's been pretty ineffective with his injured angle and knee despite lots of touches. Uh in the two two weeks since returning from injury, those thirty touches on total yards and scoring two games. But he gets a seat here on the volume. I'm a volume see guy. If you if you tell me you guys getting fifteen plus touches and it's a bottom ten rundee, I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you the C grade that that's that's about all I can give you

as long as you're still hurt. Bucks take on the Colts, Bryan. This Bucks passing offense hasn't looked quite right without antone Yo Brown. And so does that mean we're gonna get a little more Leo four net in this game? I don't know if we'll get more of him, but uh, I don't love the matchup for for Net. I don't

have the matchup for running. We'll get to the most elite running back in the NFL in a second on the cold side, but starting with four net just to see for him, he's failed the top fifty rushing yards over his last three games. He's had some tough matchups mixed in there. The Saints were one of them. Ronald Jones did steal a touchdown from four net last week. That didn't help matters much, but the Colts are ranked

fifth against the run by Pro Football Focus. But receiving wise, India is allowing four catches for yards per game to running back, so that should provide some opportunities for for Net to produce through the air. Among running backs, he's fourth in targets, behind only DeAndre Swift, and that was before Swift played on Thursday Night. Nag Harris and Austin Ekela then it's Leonard four NET. No one really would have predicted that going into the season, especially after Tampa

Bay signed Geo Bernard. So for Net, very active in the passing game. He's startable, but just a C grade for him, uh, not the opposite of the C but in a for Mike Evans. The Colts are allowing one and a half touchdowns per game to wide receivers the highest clip in the league. They've surrendered six scores to the position over the last four games. Not much more to say here for Evans, he gets an A and so does Chris Godwin, especially now that Antonio Brown has

been ruled out yet again. Uh just mentioned the monster numbers posted by opposing wide receivers against the Colts, who have also been smoked by slot guys like Tyler Lockett Cooper Cup. So love god when this week he gets an A. Really like Gronk as well, be for him. In his four healthy full games this year, Gronk is averaging seven targets and has finished inside the top eight at the tight end position, and three of them. The Colts are allowing the sixth most points Fantasy points per

game two tight ends. So be for Gronk, and then an A for Brady because all of the plus matchups for his past catchers. But just for fun now, all these games I'm gonna mention with the Patriots, of course, but the but Brady has thrown multiple touchdown passes in nine of his last ten games, thank you, and he had a hat trick and more in more than half of those games against the Colts, so he's been kind of slaying them over his career. So in A for Brady.

Now over to the coult side and we'll start with Jonathan Taylor or not a lot we need to even say here, right Jonathan hey Lord like that. With Vida Veya not potentially playing in this game, probably not playing in this game that opens he's likely to come back in this game. And Quentin Nelson aggrevated an angle injury last week against the Bills. He was on the card

parted him off. He's looking unlikely to play. I'm still going to give Taylord the A though has been going absolutely preserved since Week fourteen, totally fifteen touchdowns in eight games, scoring at least once in each of them. But Tampa Bay is an elite run defense, allowing just fifty five rushing yards per game, less than a hundred combo yards per game the position. But you can't give Taylor anything less than A at this point. He's gotta he's got to earn the B. I guess you can put it

that way. So and A for Taylor. I will give Michael Pittman a B though I was posting big numbers not long ago. But Taylor is totally stole in the show in recent weeks, but this could be a bounce back spot that the Colts are unlikely to get back starting corner Carlton Davis and um. They haven't faced a ton of tough wide receivers over the last month. Terry McLaurin is really the only good wide receiver they faced.

He did have six catches for fifty nine yards. I'll get Pittman that as a safe floor, but he does have touchdown upside. He is a monster in the red zones. Would be for Pittman. I so I don't. I wasn't where that t Y Hilton made his like third or fourth return from injury last Yes, he's back, uh, but I still got him on the bench and every other Colts wide receiver. I also have Moale Cox Jack Doyle

on the bench as well. It is a decent matchup that they kind of vulture each other, whether it's at the goal or you know, in the red zone or just out side of the twenties. So they're on the bench, but Carson Wentz is not. I'll give him a see. Indie might be forced to throw more against Tampa Bay, who have still a run defense. Like I said, they own the highest opponent passing play percentage at six. So I'll give wins the sea. Alright, Steelers take on the Bengals.

Love this game for Nazi Harris. He destroyed the Bengals in the earlier matchup. He remember that was his fourteen reception game earlier this year. That's they're not gonna let that happen again because he's not gonna get nin targets. They're gonna watch the tape. They're gonna take that away to some extent anyway, But the Bengals are allowing the most receptions and fourth most receiving yards per game. That well, that that did pad some of those stats for sure.

Um and just in general, they've struggled against running backs, allowing one five total yards to runners, second most over the full over a full season here and and that's just over the last three games. So Harris is an obvious sight. Let's go to the passing game. I want to start with Deante Johnson. Get is since Week six, which is a while ago now, says you know, over the past five weeks, only Tyree Hill and Cooper Cup

have more targets than Deonte Johnson. Now it's only scored once over that span, and it's touchdowns have never really been his game. But he gets you to a solid eighty two gay average of eighty two yards per game, and we'll take that. Um. He missed the first earlier matchup with the Bengals, he was out for that game, but last year crushed him went over one hundred yards and both of the games. So this is a good opportunity for Deontae Johnson, who comes in with a B grade,

just a C grade on Chase Claypool. Here Bengals start Shadobe Awuzier and Eli Apple on the outside and they've combined to allow two scores in the last three games, so there's a decent chance there. The best reason to start Cha Pool Chase Claypool is just because he's so much bigger than those guys, four inches and thirty pounds on both of them. And perfect problem recently, even before the injury, is he's not getting separations, so it's a

lot of contested catches. With that size advantage, you can get those catches. Absolutely. I had a big game against the Bengals the previous meeting, but again, Deante Johnson wasn't on the field for that one. Pat Friar Muth I like him here a lot. Eric Ebron has been ruled out and over the last five weeks Firemouth averaging over seven targets per game, and over those last five weeks,

he's the third highest scoring fantasy tight end. And over that same span, averaging five receptions per game, he scored four times. And the last time these teams met he scored. So Friar Muth b grade in that one. Roll all of that together and I've got a C grade on Ben Roethlisberger with some B upside, But we're calling it a straight seat. This is not a We're not changing anything here. This is still just a seat. Very good. Over the last two games of multiple touchdowns for Ben Roethlisberger,

he rarely does that as one touchdown game guy. Prior to that, he had thrown for exactly one score and six of the first seven games, including the earlier matchup here. Bengals held Derek Carr in check last week, but in their two prior games, they've given up combined five touched to Baker Mayfield and Mike White. So Roethlisberger has got some a little better upside than the Sea. But on the law on the whole, I still can't get in past that CE grade. Let's go to the Cincinnati side.

Joe Mixon is an obvious A. He's arguably the second hottest running back behind only Jonathan Taylor, averaging a hundred seven total yards and one and a half touchdowns per game over the last five games. He's an obvious start here. Let's go to the passing game. Jamaar Chase gets a B grade. He's matchup proof, but he'll face two capable veterans in the form of Joe Hayden and Cameron Sutton. Haydn missed the last game of the foot injury. Sutton gives up a seventy percent catch rate, so Chase has

got the upper hand on in those scenarios. Over the last three weeks, He's averaged just thirty seven yards, though, which is a bit of a worry. I don't think he's hitting the rookie wall per se, but I think there is a little bit of concern there. Fortunately, still getting lots of targets, and with enough volume he should be able to overcome a capable but not great secondary B grade on Jamaar Chase. C grade on tee Higgins

with the assive dud last week. Prior to that, he had notched at least fifty eight yards and or a score in five of the previous seven games. Uh He was inactive for the earlier game against Pittsburgh, but his career best game came against Pittsburgh last year. Higgins has slightly positive matchups against the aforementioned Hayden and Sutton on the outside. He's got to see Gray Tyler Boyd startable

in this game. He runs from the slot, and he's scored in two of the last three full games against the Steelers and fellow slot receivers Keenan Allen thumped him for a season high one hundred twelve yards last week. The main slot defender is usually Train Norwood, who gave up one hundred yards, a score and a perfect passer rating against the Chargers last week. Put all those receivers together, and I've got a b ish grade for Joe Burrow.

What's that mean? It means a B. He's the ice cold with back to back duds, and the Steelers don't really feel you know what I'm going see grade, see grade on Joe Burrow. Steelers are not a get right spot especially with makeup. Fitzpatrick coming back for this game, and he will for this one. Burrow posted three touchdowns in the earlier meeting, but he was way hotter than that. Given how cold he's been and how luke warm I am on his receivers, I'm just going with a C

grade on Joe. Speaking of sea grades, Scott Fish really should have given one to Dan Arnold. Them a little pod right now, but I guess I should have. I should have given him a sea grade. All right, great, all right, there you go. Thanks, Okay, if you that's what you wanted. The bench dan Arnold have last week zero targets wasn't his fault, but three the five tight ends to see at least five targets against the Falcons have finished top six, and Arnold's gonna see is at

least at least week. I'm fine with it. I had a bench grade. I'm fine with you. But Jaguars didn't get the ball until like a minute left in the first quarter. Then we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not in really and you're starting lineup will tell you who they are when we return. Take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. We'll give your quarterbacks running back to receivers you can pick up off the waiver wire in many cases and

give a start. This week, we begin at the quarterback position and Scott Fish. Yeah, I'm gonna start with Tyrod Taylor. Trod Taylor. Excuse me? It gets a Jets matchup. The Jets of allowed two fifty plus yards and multiple scores to six straight quarterbacks. Taylor has multiple scores in all four of his fall games this year. Actually, even the game that it wasn't full game, he had multiple scores

uh six passing and three rushing. He's also averaging twenty to thirty rushing yards per game and a score per game four touchdowns rushing. Give me to Taylor, all right, I like it your quarterback, Brian. I got big mac Jones at home against the Titans. Now, I'm a little worried about how this game script might turn out for the New England pass attack. We'll talk about this game later.

They're not going to need to pass much, but still, mac Jones has looked great over his last two games, has completed eighty four percent of his past attempts, and he didn't get a chance to light up the box score in last week's spanking of the Falcons. H Jones did have a hat trick in Week ten against Cleveland. Would have had four touchdown passes, but Brian Hoyer came in for in for relief. It wasn't really relief. He threw a touchdown pass, so it should have been a

four touchdown game for mac Jones. Tennessee does own the third highest opponent passing play percentage at sixty that this well, well, the Patriots jumped out ahead and they will. It could be through the air from mac Jones. Uhlons have allowed at least two passing yards indoor, multiple passing touchdowns and three of the last four games, So I'm going mac Jones where he could get paid off. They might run

up to the goal line, let mac Jones throw. You know, he could get a three touchdown game on eight yard, five yard and four yard touchdowns. Jacks might let him have some fun in this one. They might know, they might. I've got Jimmy Garoppolo going up against the Vikings. Vikings will be missing all four of their starting defensive linemen in this game. Garoppolo is gonna have plenty of time and over the last three games with Garoppolo healthy, Samuel healthy,

are you healthy? And George Kittle healthy. He's throwing multiple touchdowns in every game, and he's top three hundred twenty two yards in two of the three games. He's proving to be, begrudgingly too many, proving to be a serviceable fantasy quarterback. There a lot of people who do not like to think of Jimmy Garoppolo that way. Uh, this is a very good opportunity. Minnesota just got eviscerated by

Aaron Rodgers last week. I don't think we're gonna see like four hundred yards and four downs here, but a solid game from Jimmy Garoppolo coming up. Scott, Let's go to the running back position. Who you got? I have Ty Johnson in that same game the Jets the Jets Texans game. Uh, Michael Carter is going to be out for a few weeks. Here. The Texans are allowing over four point eight yards per carry, which is good for most in the league. They've allowed the second most rushing yards.

It's Coleman might get some work, but even before Carter went out, Ty Johnson was stealing not just receiving work, but goal line work. He was sharing the goal line carries with Michael Carter, so I think he takes that on now. Mike White is the only quarterback that was

targeting running backs in that offense. Like their games were like two catches, two catches, three catches, two catches total for the running backs except for Mike White, who threw you know, four completions per game to the running back. But he he gets that work, he gets the goal line work. I've c grade on him. So he's Johnson makes sense. All right, Brian, you take a chance of

me running back. I got Dontrelle Hilliard. Who a lot of people are you saying Tennis Clinton's running back at the Patriots the game I just mentioned, Jeremy Jeremy McNichols has been ruled out. Uh McNichols was out last week. Hilli had played more than six of the snaps in his first game with Tennessee. In that game, he was also very active in the passing game, catching eight of eight targets uh we mentioned I mentioned earlier. The Titans likely to fall behind in this one will be a

positive game script for Hilliard. The Patriots have allowed the seventh most receptions and third most receiving arts of opposing running backs this year, So Dontrelle Hilliard and PPR. Of course, in standard leagues maybe not so much, but most people play some form with PPR these days. So I think we've put a different Titans running back into this spot three straight weeks. We might not be done either. I

have not. Lamar Miller is still out there waiting in the wind, and if anybody's gonna do it, it'll be you. I've got J. D. Mckissic going up against Seattle coming off a season high and rushing yards, which is great, but where mckissic is always gonna be more reliable through the air. Um, if Seattle can just manage to like hold, serve or maybe even take a lead for a little while, which is not a given, but if they can, that will keep Washington from grinding out the game. With Antonio Gibson.

Seattle gives up the sixth most receptions and the most receiving yards two running backs, and that's where mckissic comes in here, of course, and mckissic is gonna get most of what is there. They're averaging seven receptions and seventy three yards. I'll take seven receptions in seventy three yards out of j D mckiss. That would be fantastic or something close to that. If he's got it, let's go to the receivers. You omitted one very important fact there

as well. It's a revenge game for JD mkiss and he had one last year with Washington against he had a great game. I think Gibson was ruled out entirely of that game. So let's still I love the call. All right, good, let's go to the receiver position. I am piggybacking off of charges prespect from last week to go pick up Evan Ingraham and we're gonna start start him here now. Not just start him. I actually have an A grade on him in this matchup. It's death

taxes and tight ends scoring against the Eagles. Uh, we got okay. Uh. The Eagles have allowed eight touchdowns on the season, two seven different tight ends. Uh. They just give up a ton of yards. And also, Kyl Rudolph might not be playing in this which opens up even more. I'm almost certain Rudolph he's doubtful. He's doubtful at that moment. Christmas, it's Christmas time. He can't be playing football. Sorry, Rudy, rudoh sorry nine touchdowns. My favorite UH Eagles tight end

stat was against the Chargers. They allowed to to finish inside the top five and neither were Jared Cook. Jared Cook finished still top in that game too. All right, Brian, your receiver not a tight end. I got um Carolina is Robbie Anderson at Miami. Opposing wide receivers are averaging more than fifteen catches, one and ninety yards and a

touchdown per game. Against the Dolphins, Anderson has seen twelve targets over the last two games to the fourteen of d J. Morris was right on on pace with him in terms of targets. Both have nine is across those two games. So I see major upside for Robbie, who looks rebooted with Cam Newton at quarterback. He and Sam Donald did not click at all. And quick site note on Robby Anderson. Since the start of he's tied for seconds in touchdowns of forty plus yards. Tyreek kills in

first by a mile, but then it's Robbie Anderson. And when you think about Robbie's quarterbacks during that span, like Sam Donald, yadda YadA YadA, Sam Donald again. So p J. Walker in that safe floor. Huge. So Robby Anderson, one of those guys if you're a deep hole after Thanksgiving, is upside and he's available. Brandon I who goes up against the Vikings. And at this point we can safely say Brandon Ayou has got four paws out of the doghouse.

He's actually get this as actually out snapped Deebo Samuel in four straight games. He's managed eighty five yards and a touchdown in two of the past three games. And I passes the eye test. I mean, if you watch him play, he looks, he looks fantastic. Um, he's working hard. And here's the Vikings giving up the most yards to opposing receivers two hundred four per game, and they've allowed five one hundred yard receivers in their last four games.

Brandon Ayuk nice play. In fact, you could couple him with might take a chance, I mean quarterback, the garoppolo to Ayuk angle. And there's another one Brian was just talking about. You're down from Thursday's games. Here's your chance to make up a little bit of ground. Right there, Let's turn our attentions to a to not a great game Jets taking on the Texas Texas Scott on the Jet side, you already told us you like starting running

back Ti Johnson. What what do you think about the passing game for the Jets with Zack Wilson back at the helmet. I've gotten so many questions about whether or not they can trust Elijah More. Yeah. I like Zach Wilson's arm talent. I don't know that I can trust his fantasy production or the amount of interceptions get based on earlier than the season, So I'm I'm still gonna have him on the bench. Despite a plus match up

against the Texans. But really that was Stafford and Murray and Alan Josh Allen, Kyler, Murray and Matt Staffew there that went for an average of three hundred yards and they had eight scores combined between them. The other seven quarterbacks against the Texans two sixty seven yards, one touchdown in two picks was their average. The Texans defense has been shocked competent. They weren't good against the three really elite quarterbacks, but others. So I have Wilson on the bench. However,

Elijah Moore, He's your wide receiver. One week's eight through eleven wide receiver receiver three weeks, tons and tons of targets, but he hasn't played with Zach Wilson for since earlier in the season when they weren't on the same page and he wasn't getting a lot of work. Uh. All three, I'm gonna go with all three of these guys, More, Davis and crowd are all all three have six plus targets in five straight full games they played, which they're

they're all getting spread out work. I'm giving More the B grade as the guy who's done it a ton recently. They really trust him. He scored four touchdowns in the last three weeks, getting the most of the targets. He's also kind of the big play guy, so I have a B grade on him. I'm gonna give the this the C grade to Davis. If he goes, he might not go in this one. He's he's dinged up right now with a couple of injuries. Uh, if he goes.

He's the guy that's got forty plus yards in six of eight games, and he's scored in you know, four of the in half his games, so I have a B grade on him. Jamson Crowder I have on the bench, Uh, He's really a spot play against bad we we called it last week against Miami. They're terrible against the slot we had. We had Crowder starting here. He gets slot corner uh Tavier Thomas who switched to swap slot corner in week four and since then it has been PF

seventeenth ranked corner since since jumping into the slot. The outside corners are seventy five or below. That's why I got grades on them. I got Crowder on the bench over to the Texans side. I already told you I like to Taylor in this game, his receivers. I like both of them a little bit, A little bit I do have. I have C grades on both Cooks and cons you can if if you were allowed, if we were allowed, I would give Cooks a B B minus. I mean, other than last week, Cooks has been mostly

dependable this year. Here's here's the problem over the last Over the last uh four weeks, he's only seen five downfield looks past twenty yards and that's where he makes his hey and he's not because the line is not blocking for any of them long enough to get those D balls. Alright, fine, I'll give it a be because I originally added to be as a being changed it. Um, let's hope, let's hope he gets one of those big plays,

but against this Jets team. The Jets. The Jets have allowed fifty plus yards from the top two receivers seven consecutive weeks, So the top two receivers are getting work done. So I'm I'm giving Collins a C grade two. He scored a touchdown last week even though the refs took it away for no good reason. Um Johnson, Burke read and maybe even Royce Freeman, you're on the bench. You're on the bench. I I don't even want to get into it. They were so in eighteen carries for for

Burke last week made forty yards. Like they're so ineffective. That Jets around defense is terrible. Somebody I think somebody probably gets a little something done. Oh but it could be anybody. And losing really doesn't really change anything. It's gonna be like forty six yards in a score. The score will get it done and we don't know who's

getting it. Yeah, I'm I'm with you on that. When we come back Panthers take on the Dolphins, Brian will tell you whether or not Cam Newton is going to continue the hot start he has had for the Carolina Panthers. When we return, you can get all my player rankings available for free Guillotine leagues dot com. You've got questions on who to start to bench Guillotine leagues dot com. We'll return to Fantasy Football Weekly in moments. Welcome back

Fantasy Football Weekly. Last segment of our number one begins with a dissection of the Panthers taking on the Dolphins. Panthers offenses look rejuvenated with the return of Christian McCaffrey and Cam Newton at the quarterback position. Brian, let's break it down, beginning at the beginning with Cam Newton, who has been fan who's we liked him last week and he paid off? You like him here? Yeah? I do.

I'm gonna give him a be He certainly has a upside, but I like the matchups for his three primary pass catching weapons. None of them are tight ends, by the way, but we'll get into those guys in a minute. And like I just said, Cam's legs are certainly still a weapon. Miami has faced three mobile quarterbacks over their last three games,

Trod Taylor, Lamar Jackson and Josh Josh Allen. None of them really popped off, with still combine to average thirty nine rushing yards, which equals a passing touchdown in most fantasy format. So I think Newton's a safe be here with a upside. Uh, it's it's it feels like I said that in three tough questions last week. There you go right, and I didn't, so I'm proven wrong. So

far be grade for d J Moore as well. Opposing wide receivers are averaging more than fifteen catches a hundred ninety yards in a touchdown per game against the Dolphins. More caught a touchdown from Cam last week, so no concerns there. And for those reasons, Robby Anderson was might might take a chance of me wide receiver seeing about just as many targets as d J Moore. So I love the both receivers, and you gotta love Christian McCaffrey, but it's not an easy a. It's not a Fonzie

for Christian McCaffrey in the in this game. Even though McCaffrey is scored five McCaffrey has scored twenty five and twenty six PPR points over the last two games. But that's with just one touch down, which is insane. Seven team catches across the last two games for McCaffrey just just an absolute beast when healthy, and Quickside notes once the short sellers do cover a mc will be an absolute beast as well, not financially Anyways, back to football, McCaffrey,

it is a tough matchup against Miami. The Dolphins run defense has really stiffened over the last month. Over their last five games, opposing running backs have averaged just forty six rushing yards and no rushing touchdowns during that span. And granted we're talking about the backfields of the Jets, the Ravens, the Texans, UH and the Bills and the Falcons. H McCaffrey better than all those guys combined, like through

the history of those franchises. Basically, it is worth mentioning also that no opposing running back has topped fifty receiving yards or scored through the air against Miami all season. So if anyone's gonna snap that streak, it's Christian McCaffrey. So I'm still give him an a, but it's not. It's not a slam dunk for CMC. But went healthy, you're you're clearly going to start them over to the

Dolphins side. We'll start with Miles Gaskin. Just to see here, it's an even numbered week for Miles, which I'm very concerned about. Science has proven that he goes off an odd numbered weeks. Struggles, struggles and even the number of weeks. But uh, at least Caroline has run. Defense has softened since Week three. They've allowed one d eighteen rushing yards per game since then. But be wary of what Gascon

might do through the air. The Panthers are allowing the fewest receptions and receiving yards per game to opposing running. Anything to do with Myles gask this week, Yeah, it's a it's a softest. Just I'm not too worried about Philip Lindsay. I mean probably, but you get you get released by the Texans. You're not You're not very good, um Gaskin. I'm gonna give him a C based on expected volume, and just to see for Jalen Waddle, who has pretty much been a safe B play at the

very least. But u G Team Leagues writer Jake Naggy of no relation to Matt Naggy, so Jake actually knows what he's doing. This is what he had to say about Jalen Wattle. Wattle has developed one of the safest floors around, posting between sixty and eighty five yards and five of his last six games and at least seven receptions and four of his last six. He'll need that safe floor against the Panthers defense, though that is fairly stinge against opposing receivers, but that's largely a result of

playing just four top sixteen passing offenses all season. Uh. Carolina has been consistently cooked by quality wide receivers like Brandon Cooks, Adam thieland Justin Jefferson, and most recently Terry McLaurin. A. J. Bouyer and Jeremy Chin had been splitting slot duties for Carolina. As of late, both are allowing a passive rating of at least ninety five on the season. Great work by Jake Naggy on that there's uh. This cornerback group for

the Panthers suddenly uber d right. They added Stefan Gilmore, they added they added in C. J. Henderson, A J. Blue Ya, Dante Jackson. This is and they already had a very good safety in Jeremy Chin. This is a This is turned into a very good second. Yeah, so I'm not getting hued at wide receiver too with Albert Wilson or President Williams. They're both on the bench. Mike Mikes he's really wide receiver to for the Dolphins, but

of course he's tightened eligible in fantasy football. That's the only thing he's eligible as only one opposing tight and his top fifty eight yards against the Panthers all year. Carolina also recently shut down the comparable Kyle Pitts, held him to two catches for thirteen score of the Stards, Like Pitski runs the vast majority of his routes from

this slot or out wide. So just to see if you kisiki and two uh is on the bench for me, and this one when you're over under prop is set at two passing yards, you just stay away from that guy entirely fantasy football. Okay. I've got the Vikings taking on the forty Niners Sdalvin Cook. Just a big rare B grade for Dalvin Cook and a tough matchup. Only two runners have topped seventy two yards against the Niners. That is not a particularly high threshold, and this could

be a trickier matchup than it sounds like. San Francisco's biggest weakness is at the goal line, where they are allowing a touchdown on half of the rushing attempts inside the ten, and the Vikings run the ball constantly inside the tent, so there's a good chance for a touchdown. Though for Dalvin Cook, um I'll note that Cook's only ranked twenty nine in attempts per broken tackle, and normally we think of him as somebody who breaks a lot of tackle hick Alexander Madison many times, right, So I'm

not saying something's wrong with him, but it doesn't. It doesn't seem to have the same level of explosiveness and big plays off of making somebody miss. Profo ball focus ranks is the fourth best tackling defense. So I don't see the big game coming from Dalvin Cook here. Where I see it coming is through the air as the like this is gonna be a high scoring game. I love so many players here, justin Jefferson obvious a coming out back to back games with over one hundred forty yards.

Jefferson runs almost evenly from every spot on the field, left, right, and slot and has got positive matchups at every single stop. How about this stat as legendary as Randy Moss is. In Randy Moss's first two years of football, he had eleven games with one hundred yards. Justin Jefferson's already there with whatever seven games left in the season to go on a better than Moss like clip for Justin Jefferson, he's an A grade. I've got to be grade in

Adam Feeling. San Francisco has given a big games to receivers with competent quarterbacking all year, allowing a ninety yard receiver or multiple touchdowns to receivers when they've faced Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Kyler, Murray, Carson Wentz, Matthew Stafford. I think Kirk Cousins in that mix. San Francisco's cornerback trio of Josh Norman, Emmanuel Moseley, and Kwan Williams all rank they rank respectively by Profo Ball Focus. So I like Theeland

and many of these matchups. The only reason he doesn't have it and A grade here is he is somewhat touchdown dependent. When he does not score, you usually get a good not great box score from Adam Feland and Tyler Conklin on the bench. Nine US have been fantastic against tight ends since an opening week garbage time drubbing by d J. Hockinson. San Francisco's only giving up per game averages of three catches for twenty four yards and

zero point three touchdowns per game to the position. We're gonna sit Conklin in this one, and that leaves Kirk Cousins at a B grade. The beauty of starting Kirk Cousins is that he never torpedoes your team with a terrible game. He's throwing at least one touchdown in thirty four of his last thirty five games. Then then he periodically pops off for a monster game like the like

the likes of which he had last week. He's found his way to three or more touchdowns on five different occasions this year, and as I mentioned, I like the wide receiver matchups. So I do like Kirk Cousins with a B grade in this one. All right, let's go over to the Niners. I told you I thought this is gonna be high scoring game both ways, and it is. Vikings are without all four of their starting defensive lineman in this game. That's not good and That's why I

love many players here. Deebo, Samuel's and obvious a best receiver after the catch. And it's not even do You can't even have a rational conversation with anybody about anybody else in that conversation with the possible exception entire kill for just speed. But nobody's more lethal at By the way, I read a stat that the defensive line for the Vikings with all the backups and dropped about seventy pounds per player. Oh no, kidding, Wow, that's amazing. Already told you.

Jimmy Garoppolos may take a chance to the quarterback. Brandon I who was may take a chance to be wide receiver. They have B grades in this game. George Kittle's gotta be grade. He scored in all three of his games since returning from injury, re cementing his elite status. Minnesota has found a way to keep tight ends out of the end zone, at least until last week, when they surrendered their first score to the position um. Much of this is because they've only yielded to red zone touches

and four red zone targets two tight ends. Anthony Barr comes back, he will be covering George Kittle extensively in this game. Still advantage Kittle, but the Vikings have been very good against the position. All right, let's go to Alves Mitchell. I believe he will play in this game off of the finger injury that kept him out last week. Jeff Wilson had all of the run last week and did nothing with it, which is great for Elijah Mitchell owners.

That means that Mitchell should get the vast majority of the work here. Wilson does have a history as a goal line vulture, though, so I'll mention that, and I could see Wilson coming in and sniping touchdowns. But that's my only worry. When Mitchell is healthy, he gets all the work and he's established a safe floor, averaging seventeen

touches in ninety yards per game. The Vikings have not allowed of running back to run for eighty yards since Nick Chubb did in Week four, but the Vikings missing all of those players on the defensive line, Mitchell could be sitting on a really nice game. Let's hope he's able to go. If he can't go, you can put

a C grade on Jeff Wilson. Although I didn't love what I saw last week Alright, final matchup of the segment is the Eagles taking on the Giant Scott Eagles have suddenly reversed the early season all passing, no running. Now they're all no passing. Yeah, they gotta find some balance sometime, right, although this is working way better for them? Yeah, yeah,

it absolutely is. Jalen Hurts obvious. If he doesn't get it done passing like he didn't last week, he gets it done on the ground like he did last week with three rushing touchdowns, he gets it. He's He's been a top twelve quarterback ten weeks or not nine or ten weeks of this season so far. Obviously there, you're not benching him. Tavanta Smith, I also have an A grade on He's He's Hurts main guy has sixty plus yards in six or eight games, and now he's scoring

a lot more as Hurts. His progressing as a passer um last last week was a little fluky with Hurts running three in but he is the guy that Hurts looks too in the end zone. A grade on Smith Watkin Quest Watkins, I'm sorry, just when I start buying into him, his targets are ticking up and schedule gets easier then he goose eggs on us. So I'm throwing touchdown two weeks. Yeah, I'm throwing him back on the bench. Dallas Goddard B grade here the Giants been allowed a

touchdown since week four. But Waller and Gronk just ripped up the Giants the last two weeks for ninety two yards and seventy two yards and a budget. The other tight ends did work too. It seems like that's a that's the area there. They've been beaten recently in UM and you get a lot of targets out of Goddard. Yeah, yeah, exactly, a lot of a lot of volume that that there was. Where my point is going is he those are the two guys that compare with Goddard as far as volume goes.

Miles Sanders B grade. Howard is out. That should mean a bigger look workload for Sanders. Scott does a lot of stuff that that Sanders does. The reason Jordan Howard was coming coming in is because he does the bang through the middle stuff buston. Scott really doesn't do that. So Sanders isn't gonna lose a lot of work to Scott on that angle. I think he might get up to his early season numbers of of snap counts in

this one. Um, the Eagles have been going to the running back to thirty five times per game, as we kind of alluded to. If he gets even half of that sixteen plus touches, Um, you're talking about a Giant's team that all the backs of that sixteen plus touches. Uh, they averaged a hundred and seven yards. So I like miss Sanderson, he catches passes to my only concerned this hurts stealing goal like Harries, it's legit. On the other side, Daniel Jones, I have a C grade. He's got his

weapons back. Yeah, sharps out or not sharp Sterling Shepherd. Shepherd's oh, yeah, that's right. I you know, I wrote this down before I saw Tony went doubtful. You know what, I'm gonna bench him now, just should be on the bed. Andy's Daniel Jones. The play has been so bad. Yeah, the Eagles have allowed seven seven quarterback touchdowns in just the last three weeks. But yeah, with with Tony out now to Yeah, Shepherd's Shepherds. Don't trust Freddie Kitchens to

materially change, and you can't trust Holiday. You can't trust Slaton, So the only past catcher I trust is might take a chance on me receiver. I guess tight end Evan Ingram, because he's gonna be the only one out there that can really make plays, can throw, they don't have to run something. I don't know. I should look up his passing stats. I have a B grade on s Kwon Barkley. Not the greatest return against the tougher Bucks run d

last week, but it lightens up here. Illegals are allowing the fourth most Comboy yards to running backs at over a hundred forty yards per game. They're not gonna have Booker on the field. Barkley is gonna get He's another week removed from that injury. He got some play in him. He had six catches in his first game back. He's a dual threat. B grade. There be grade there, hey. From the Thursday games, Dallas has lost three of the last four. Tony Pollard is simply a better running back

than Ezekiel Elliott. Do you know how many yards rushing EZEKIELA. Elliott has in the last five weeks? No under five games, under two hundred and five games. I don't. I don't know if he meant to do it. But you called him Elliott there, and I like Ezekiel that would be that's that is a tough guy name right there. At some point, at some point, they gotta flip the usage on these guys. Jerry Jones, do you think you want?

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we love it. Uh. This is a segment we call three tough questions. We encourage you to play a long question. Number one, better tight end prospect in future years Kyle Pitts. Our Pat friar Mouth will begin with our Kyle Pitts apologist, Brian Johnson. Um, I'm gonna have more counterpoints to this ridiculous question. Pat fire movie conclearingly gonna have a great year. He's having a great rookie year as an actual tight end.

But I'm gonna say he is the better tight end prospect in future years because I truly believe that Kyle Pitts to wide receiver because that is what he plays, and yes, he's he is through among uh quote unquote tight ends and yards despite having his by and despite being the only past catcher that's drawing double coverage Pits, Yes, and his his quarterback is dust In Matt Ryan. But I I honestly believe, and I don't like it, trust me, that Pitts is gonna be moved to wide receiver even

in fantasy football couple world. I disagree with you there because he for the contract. Falcons won't do it for the contract. His contract will be up in a couple of years, but they don't want to have to pay him like a wide receiver they want to pay. If Travis Kelsey hasn't moved age, then he won't, he won't resign with Atlanta, and it will go somewhere else receiver, because alright, okay, maybe we should have gone we should

have gone to me first. Then I figured that better tight end prospect in future Kyle Pitts or Pat Friarmouth. Excuse me, so I'm still sticking with See, I love both these guys. I think this is talking to like, you know, who's better for the future, Hill or Adams, you know, like it's splitting hairs from me, because I really I have both these guys in a lot of leagues. I love both these guys. Kyle Pitts just runs so many more routes. Uh, he he runs, He runs so

many more routes. He gets so much more air yards, he gets targeted on more routes um. His target share for the team is much higher. His catch percentage is about the same. But where the difference is is really touchdowns and and the red zone looks are even like way in a way for Pat Okay, Pat fern With gets all the red zone looks. He gets so much

touchdown targeting. That's kind of what you look for in tight ends because but touchdowns aren't super sticky The problem is both we don't know who their cardobacks will be next year. So I'm going to take the guy that I already know gets an elite level, elite level number of routes, you know, targets. Um, he's a bigger part of the offense, and I think he's just a better all around talent because I don't know what each offense is, you know what the touchdown offense is gonna look for,

like for Pittsburgh next year. This was a hard question. I think this is a legitimately tough question. Touchdowns aren't as sick as loophole aside. Uh, first off, let's start here. I'm declaring victory and are heated preseason debates about Kyle Pitts. That's already over. That's not it is not even up for contest. It's third in yards among tight ends. What what Yeah, you're leaving out the one touchdown. Darren Waller has two? Are you calling Waller? That is? That is?

Waller has nothing to do with this conversation. He has been over the past month. Over the past month, Kyle Pitts is tight end thirty two in Fantasy scoring three two. That is, he has if you started Kyle Pitts every week of the season he has hurt your team. That is indisputable. That is, he has hurt your team over the past past five weeks, which is a sizeable sample size. Pat Friar Muth is tight end two in Fantasy Points tight end two over the previous five weeks. Kyle Pitts

is tight end thirty two. So this is not to me. This isn't close. That is a five weeks sample. But they both have two top five weeks at tight end. They both have four top twelve weeks at time end tight end, and Pitts has eight top twenty four weeks. Has played four games over the last five weeks start he had his bidering that span. So talk about skewed numbers, he's got triple the did you start him in his bye week? Um? Okay, now here's here's the X factor here.

And this I really struggled, I really, I honestly struggled with with much of this. We know the Steelers have got a huge problem at quarterback beginning next year, right, I mean, and I mean they this is it, this is the end of the run there. But they also know that and they will do They'll take some corrective measure. Now the prrective measure may not work, but they're going to do some thing about it next year. So then we look at Kyle Pitts with Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan.

There's a chance they move on from Matt Ryan next year, but they will probably start him again next year. But we're at that stage where any year is where it could totally fall off for Matt Ryan. So then do you ride out Kyle Pitts not knowing when the end is here for Matt Ryan, or you better off with Pat Friar Muth and whatever rebuilding measure that they end up taking. And that's not obvious as to what the

right answer is on that. And Steelers have always had consistent tight not not not necessarily elite, but even back to the Heath Miller days, they've had pretty consistent tight end and they you know, they've targed there tight end the red zone for twenty years. And your case against Pitts in the summer was just he was a rookie

tight end. It wasn't that Matt Ryan was gonna be absolute trash, that Calvin Ridley away from the team, that Cordell Cordell Patterson was gonna be this ridiculous X factor out of nowhere. You can't take like that. That's just where we are today. And I won that, Dilton. I won the preseason bet on whether or not he would live up to your ranking of tight end four, your preseason ranking of tight end four. It's just it's just two.

He's tight end eight right now. No, I bet he's not even that high, but that's it's still not four either way. That is soundly seven. Okay, boy, after all of this, the correct answer is Kyle Pitts Top question number two, sabotage drop, Russell Wilson, Scott Fish. What do you think I believe I said in the preseason just not to draft him, because that's that's a whole other conversation to take one of these This this is not

like now. This is what we this is when we talked about the preseason is the second half of the year is bad for him almost almost every year now, and now he's dealing with a finger injury. Um, there are enough qubs out there with the same that are gonna put up similar or better production without the name value. So I I say, sure, I don't trust the run game anymore. I don't trust pe Carroll anymore. Yeah. Yeah, sabotage drop him, Brian sabotage drop Russell Wilson. Uh No,

next week, don't do it this week. You're gonna play him this week against Washington, who is given of the most passing touchdowns two quarterbacks. Of course, So sabotage. Don't sabotage drop at the end of the week anyway. Your sabotrast draft window is next week after the big game against Okay, yeah, I'll say yes if we're under that,

yes notion, but yes after Sunday. Yes, sabotage rop Russell Wilson for sure, especially because I mean Russell Wilson and his career is ten and two on Monday night with absurd stats like and it's a great matchup. Again, for those that are not familiar, the point of the sabotage drop is to cost make other people spend some kind of capital their waivers spot or a bunch of fat and a guy who's not going to perform for that, And so you can't drop him at the end of

the week because those pickups are free. You gotta drop him at the beginning of next week. The second half of the sabotage is that they start him and they don't and that's delicious as well. And by the ways, tenth right now and points per game among tight ends and non PPR, he has had his by And despite that fact, he's third in yards and seventh in catches. Guess the one touchdown? Matt Ryan has missed him on multiple occasions in the end zone watching past I'm very

upset with this. What was what was the correct answer? I know, but still you're all over my boy. Listen. He wasn't that he never should have been ranked tight end four. That was ludicrous. Darren Waller been ranked you guys talked to me up to say, I'm preci I'm pretty sure I had him at six and moved him to five. Right, No, I moved him back to six with the entry to alight factor. Russell, We're still time get this guy. Whatever over his last fifteen games is

a healthy sample size. It goes back to Halloween's Russell Wilson's average output is two hundred fifteen yards and one point four touchdowns. Who else is two hundred fifteen yards and one point four touchdowns? Who is the statistical comparables Sam Darnald to a Tonguo Violoa and Jimmy Garoppolo. None of them may be starters next year. That is your comparable to what Russell Wilson has delivered over the last year and change of games. I just have to throw

this in because it's hilarious. Josh Norris, you know, Josh Norris formally wrote a word. He tweeted out a meme a picture of let Russ cook next to a bowl of cereal with two uncooked Hodd dogs and a piece of not melted cheese in it. And I'm like, that's that's about right now. Get this the schedule another reason to sabotage drop Russell Wilson. To schedule only one strongly positive game left at Houston. Every other game left is

neutral or negative for Russell Wilson. And ask yourself this, with playoff time approaching, you need to get your quarterback to help you win three straight games in the playoffs. You can't trusts. He can't put together three straight good games. His offensive line ranks twenty four and pass blocking by Pro Football Focus. He's only got one reliable target, TK Metcalf. So many things working against him. No running game, Yes, sabotage drop Russell Wilson no matter what he does against

the terrible Washington secondary this weekend. Tough question number three, what is the appropriate level of concern for Darryl Henderson? None? Some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? Brian, I'm going none. He scored zero points last week, but

that's because he was on by UM. Apparently only Kyle Pitts docked for that, but anyway, third easiest remaining strength of skal for running backs according to Fantasy Pros and Sony Michelle, no threat to really steal touches from Henderson, and without Robert Woods, he could see the Rams have deployed him as a wide receiver on multiple occasions, put him out wide and completed long passes to him. He's got a lot of area yards for running back. So

I have no concern with Darren Darryl Henderson. I see where you're going with this, and it's because his touches and his production came down the last two weeks last pretty pretty pretty precipitously. Um. But the even even three to even four weeks ago, he's still got like eighteen touches. The week after that, he got sixteen touches like the

last two weeks were the ones that really killed people. UM. And the reason for that, the reason Michelle was getting nine touches per game, is because they fell behind by two scores. I don't see the Rams doing that a lot going forward. I don't think they're that broken. I think this is a question of do you think that the Rams are a little bit broken and they're gonna be falling behind in games where Darrell Henderson isn't good to get the usage he does. And I don't think

that's gonna happen. I think they'll be ahead a lot. I think he'll get his usage back. He's been a little dinged up. Um. Nobody else in that backfield gets the receiving work. I'm gonna say some, but only because maybe the offense is broken and Darrel Henderson gets injured. It's it's something he does. He does. He's gotten hurt this year already a couple of times, played through it. He got hurt in previous seasons. Uh. The correct answers

some diminishing carries in five straight games. Hasn't top ninety rushing yards all year, but may or maybe more than anything else, I'm just worried that Sean mcveigh's got this knee jerk willingness to bail on his running game the moment his team is down. Will the Rams fall behind at any point during this playoff schedule Seattle, probably not. How About at Minnesota with a good Vikings offense. Maybe

at Baltimore maybe? And if they fall behind, does Darryl Henderson let you down in one of those games where suddenly it turns into a seven touch game. That's a good point, and that's what worries me. So I don't know that you can get through a playoff gauntlet where you can't afford any loss in three straight games. And that's why three. The answer is the appropriate level of concern for Darrell Henderson is some s working one final matchup in this this segment, it's not our final final matchup.

The Tennessee Titans take on the Patriots. Brian, there's nothing left with this, There's nothing left of this, This Titan's offense missing. It's number one and number two wide receivers, it's number one tight end And I don't know we're down to like running back seventeen here? Should I just say, I'm just going with the doctor was might take a

chance of Men's. Yeah, you can go to look at the other wide receivers, but suddenly they're like the top option that it's gonna get shut down by cornerback J. C. Jackson's looked great. So yeah, you can't trust anyone in the passing except Hilliard. Out of the backfield me Marcus Johnson, number one, two and three receivers are out. Johnson put on I R by the way, you would have had a good game. You had the right call, but he got hurt. Last weeks Fitzpatrick and n W I had

a great game. But anyway, basically you're benching all Titans unless Hilliard. If you're desperate running back, he's a He's take on Worthy over to the Patriots side the uh. Damien Harris and Mndre Stevenson both get a C for

me in a likely time share in this one. Teams have been having way too much fun throwing on the Titans, but Tennessee just yielded thirty five running back touches in a loss to the Texans and in this game should offer the same type of script for the New England running back, So a C for both just because they're gonna kind of vulter each other on this one. Stevenson maybe even gets the edge with the pass catching, but then again, they might never not even have to pass

in this game, that's true. Uh. And with that said, just to see for Hunter Henry. For me, the Titans are allowing the fifth viewest Fantasy points per game to tight ends and John and Smith might get some extra reps in this one. It is a revenge game after but he's still on the bench though, Jonas Smith that is. I'll give the seed Hunter Henry, and now for Nelson Aguilar, Ja, Kobe Myers and Drick Borne. Kind of tricky situation here.

I'm gonna give each one to see, but I don't know which one is actually gonna have the the seaworthy game. The Titans are allowing the most of everything to opposing wide receivers on the season, but again, the game script could get flipped upside down. I'll go with Kendrick Bourne, who has the most targets over the last two weeks among the wide receivers in the most yards uh at

a hundred and forty, and he scored a touchdown. Also four rushes for fifty yards, so Kendrick Borne, if your ultra needy gets to see and I'm sort of saying, I'm worried about how much the Patriots are gonna throw, but I still had Mac Jones. This might take a chance to meet quarterback. I think they might let him have some fun here aired out a little bit sounds good. It's uh, it's just gonna be as one side of

a game as as we'll see. Things were looking so promising for the Titans right before when they beat They hammered Patrick Mahomes and dominated that game, and it looked like they were as good as any team in the a f C. Fast forward, what three weeks and it's a complete disaster, clinging exact same team absolutely. When we come back, the Browns take on the Ravens. Brown's offense trying to rebound from a dug game, but they get

back Kareem Hunt. We'll tell you what to expect from him and Nick Chubb in this matchup with the hated Ravens. When we return to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We've got a block of matchups for you, letter grades and all the players who matter. Browns take on the Ravens now here's the schedule. Oddity with this is the Browns are gonna play the Ravens in consecutive games.

They're gonna go Ravens Bye week Ravens, which is I as far as I can remember, and I'm not an authority on this, I don't ever remember that happening before I playing the same team consecutively. That's it is. It is bizarre. This is the first of the two matchups. UM A grade on Nick Chubb Um, although this is a little bit of a tricky matchup as Baltimore allows the seventh fewest rushing yards and only Dalvin Cook has allowed fifty as top fifty nine yards. Chubb has always

shown up though against Baltimore. Is his career average hundred yards and one point three scores per game against his division rivals. So we'll keep an A grade going there. Cream Hunt comes into a B grade. He's off fire, he's activated, he's going to go. Hunt can help on the ground, but I really like him here as a receiver. The Ravens allowing the fifth most receiving yards, the tenth most receiving touchdowns to running game to running back, so I think he finds a way to help out here.

He's um the hobble. You know, Baker Mayfield comes in somewhat at least somewhat hobbled, and I believe that means that they're going to end up emphasizing the run a little more than usual here and maybe some dump offs to Hunt as well. Also, because Baker is not good, I'm not ready to go quite there yet. He's been playing for all season long and I don't know, I mean he has. He's been injured and inefficient, let's put it that way. And that's why he's on the bench here.

He's had he's trying to play through knee, foot, and shoulder injuries. There. There's a scenario where he may not even finish this game. Who knows, but um, he was unable to do anyth against the Lions last week. I can't trust him in Baltimore, so he's on the bench.

I've got C grade on Jarvis Landry. Ravens have allowed the second most yards and eighth most touchdowns per game to opposing receivers over the last five weeks, and much of that production has come from outside receivers because Tavon Young is not allowed fifty yards or a score over those five games. And that's Jarvis Landry is a slot receiver and that's why he's only a C grade. If you are really in a dart throw need Donovan People's Jones if he plays through his groin injury, and we

don't know that he will. But the outside cornerbacks to the Ravens are just getting roasted. Over the past five weeks. They've allowed the second most yards two receivers, two fifteen yards per game. And I just said, I'm not crazy about Landrying this lot. It's gonna go to outside guys, and Donovan People's Jones is the best they've got. Let's go over to the Baltimore side. Lamar Jackson full practices all week after the crippling injury of our illness of

last week. A. He's kind of an amazing track record against Cleveland and it probably doesn't stop in this game. Cleveland is understandably shut down the likes of Tim Boyle and Justin Fields, but good quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes, Mac mac Jones even counts here. Uh, Teddy Bridgewater just good competent quarterbacking Teddy Bridgewater, Kyler Murray, Justin Herbert have combined for eighteen touchdowns against the Browns passing and rushing. So I I like Lamar Jackson a lot in this one,

and I like his receivers, especially Mark Andrews. Since Baltimore's Week eight by He's gone from averaging seven targets per game to nine targets per game. That nine targets per game for a tight end is a ton. On top of that, he's seen thirty one percent of the team's

red zone targets on the season, which is amazing. Andrew's has a great matchup against the Browns, who have given up the eleventh most red zone targets to tight ends, which have resulted in the third most touchdowns to the position. In Andrew's last three matchups was Cleveland, He's dominated them with five or more receptions for at least seventy five yards in every game. A grade for Mark Andrews Mark's Brown is going to enter Sunday's game is questionable and

really maybe even a game time decision. We're hoping he goes here. Obviously, Cleveland hovers around league average and every meaningful stat against opposing receivers. Brown's most common individual matchup will be Denzel Ward, and that is a challenging matchup. Ward is not allowed to score and coverage all year and is not giving up more than forty five yards since Week two. In his coverage, Brown averages three catches, forty five yards and just a quarter of a touchdown

against four in four career games against the Browns. I would give him normally I would give him a seed, but I'm giving him a be just because he's been so good all season and almost every game. But in reality, if I just throw out the past and I look at a injured player in a two very tough matchup, he deserves a see. But I'm giving him a beat because of his past work. Quick just to pile on the domination of the Browns by Mark Andrews five touchdowns

across his last four. He scored two touchdowns in two of those games. Geez, just just he's fantastic matchup for him, and again a grade there, rosch out Bateman. We thought the breakout, we keep thinking the breakout games coming, and it might have come last week if Lamar Jackson had actually played it got got thwarted by Tyler Huntley. Um. With Jackson back, this matchup is just fair. Um, I'm worried about his matchup with on the outside with impressive

rookie Greg Newsome. It's a rookie on rookie, first round rookie Greg Newsom has been good. He hasn't given up a score since week two. He's allowing him modest forty six yards per game in his coverage, and he will also see some of Denzil a Ward, who I just was talking about as a very good matchup. So I'm nervous about Bateman here just the C grade on him in this game. And the only running back you'll consider

staring his DeVonta Freeman. So last week Lataviasmurray came back and I thought Marie would go back to the depth chart top of the depth chart and get most of the work, but that was not the case. It was actually Freeman who got much more work and more it was more effective than Murray. So he's your lead running back. The Browns are pretty tough on paper as a run defense, allowing the eighth fewest rushing yards on the six lowest yards per carry, but lately they've been gashed by high

leverage starters over the last four games. Nazi Harris, Joe Mixon, Romandri Stevenson and DeAndre Swift. We're all way better than Freeman. Granted, but they've had a hundred twenty yards and one and a half touchdowns per game. So if we can get half that out of DeVonta Freeman, there's your C grade for Freeman right there. Next matchup and it's a doozy Rams taking on the Packers, Scott. The Rams offense has gotten itself in big holes in each of the last

two games and been out of sync. Do they get healthy here against the Packers? Yeah? Just throw everyone in this game pretty much, no kidding um so on on the Rams side, I have a B grade on Matthew Stafford. Even though Cousins torched the pack last week, they'd only allowed three passing touchdowns in the previous five weeks combined and an average of two hundred eight passing yards per game during that stretch. Also, Stafford and the Rams offense

hasn't looked good in the last two weeks. It's looked off. Something's been off the bye week. No, Robert Wood is certainly a far part of that. Don't you think you can't just go, hey, Odell Beckham, go be Robert Woods. No, he's not that guy. So I have a B grade on Stafford because his worst game this year's two three yards in a score, which, like, if that's his floor, then I'm still going to give him a B and

hope that that offense turns around. Uh, Cooper Cup is an obvious A. I don't think we need to talk to about him at all. Yeah, oh, b J and Jefferson. Here's where it gets interesting for me. But no, I agree. Normally when people are teams are you know, have wide receivers that are gonna split them like you're gonna monopolize each other. I don't like you. This is the rare opportunity where I'm going C grade on both, but I know that one might fail. Yeah it's probably true. Yeah,

somebody will probably have some success. Yes, but I do that all the time. You can give multiple sees. Two guys on the same team. They have that potential, but doesn't mean they're both gonna produce it. I I do that.

I do that, but I I believe in this one they actually have a pretty decent shot shot because a lot of times the number two receiver in this offense, who was usually Robert Woods, but sometimes it was Van Jefferson, and in past it was you know, Brandon Cooks, the number two receiver performs in this offense, and it's gonna be one of those two guys. So I think one of these guys that's going to perform on a B level, and I think the others can perform on a C level.

I just don't know which one is which because we don't know's role at all. We just have no up. He hasn't top to eighty one yards in two years, right, I think I don't. I don't think O b J is ready for it yet. Yeah, he's he's had like Freddie Kitchen's level coordinators, not Sean McVeigh. That is a factor. But Stefanski's no slouch. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, and this

is the best quarterbacking he's had ever. Yeah. Uh, Henderson, I'm giving a C grade to just we We've already talked on this show exhaustively how he's been the last couple of weeks and that's why he's I would normally give him a BE but the last couple of weeks have been that way, and I could see them falling behind behind, and it could be it could be a replay of the last two weeks. Michelle still in nine touches per game over the last three. That's why he

gets to see you. For me, he's going to get the volume. But maybe maybe it's another game like the last couple of weeks. Rogers, on the other side, I have a B grade for after that one week one to bacle against the Saints. Rogers has thrown multiple touchdowns in all but one game. That game, he's still a two or nine two yards. That's a good game game. Yeah, in a tough spot against the Rams of just allowed three multiple score games and just to three plus yard

days this season. I'm only giving Rogers the B instead of an A because his ceiling remains just through the roof when he's on, he's on. Yeah, this is this is so tricky with Rogers no no left, no left in practice and von Miller coming at you from that same spot. And finally von Miller has got some like he wasn't greatest first game, right, but he's had two weeks to get healthy. As a big part of it, I'm nervous of. I think Rogers has Brady big downside

in this always has upside. The only two quarterbacks on Rogers level that played the Rams. Tom Brady and Kyler Murray had seven hundred total yards and four scores against the Rams. So they performed to Davante Adams like Cooper Cup is just an obviously you're not shadowing him virtually all game. Yeah, they can double him and I'd still trust Davanta Adams to get red zone targets that might score touchdowns. I do have ENVS on the bench, though,

I I it's just too tough of a matchup. Uh And if Lazard comes, Lazard comes back, which it sounds like he will, MVS pops off when Lazard is out, he quiets down when Lizard is in. They spread it around a little too much. So I have MVS on the bench. A J. Dillon and Aaron Green. Aaron Green, Wow, Aaron Jones, that's a flashbacker right there. Um, Aaron Jones,

this is a really tough one. Aaron Jones has practiced the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but a lot of injury experts, including Stefani Bells, have said the Green Bay Packers are notorious for being very conservative, and they've got the bye week. Come, They've got a bye week. The only way Aaron Jones plays is if he's at or near one. And that's exactly where my mind the looming bye week, there's no way they play him unless he's almost full health. That

I think you we're of same mind here. That's exactly what I was gonna say. So my belief is he is out. So I am giving A J. Dylon the B grade here. Uh. Neither Wilson nor Mitchell were very effective in von Miller's first game with the Rams, but Mitchell had an okay day due to huge volume. This is where Dylan stands out from those guys. Where Dylan stands out from those guys is he gets receiving work those guys didn't at all. A J. Dylon had six catches in his in his full game there, six forty

four yards um. He's basically a lock for six team plus touches. Uh. Backs without receiving workload and touches have done fairly decently, So B grade on A J. Dylon. Yeah, you know, Dylan looked okay last week, but as we talked going into last week's game, it's the receiving work that's gonna keep him safe. It's mostly the catches. I feel like Aaron Jones is a much more effective receiver. But for sure he's a very natural dy. Dylan can catch, but Owns is just it's so fluid with he's meant

to catch the ball. Well. When we come back, Premature Speculation will give you three players to pick up this week that everybody else is going to be trying to pick up next week. And Chargers taking on the Broncos will tell you what to expect from Justin Herbert and that passing game. Can Mike Williams make it two in a row? All that and more for the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly Coming up next. Welcome in final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul church In, Scott Fish,

and Brian Johnson with you. You missed any part of the show. You get all my player rankings available for free at Guillotine leagues dot com. This is a segment we like to call premature Speculation, where we give you three players you want to pick up now that your opponents will be trying to pick up next week. Scott Fish, who you got? As always? I sometimes I really like to go deeper on this segment because because I feel

there are people in deep leagues. This guy is available in nine percent of leagues of the snap snaps the last three weeks. Second in targets over the last three weeks on his team, DeAndre Carter. He's got touchdowns in three straight weeks. And get this, since week four, he leads the Washington football team into in red zone targets. All Right, the they have said, the Bears have said, Heineke and him have a great rapport. Curtis Samuel is likely still out. He's only put in two limited practices

since the ree aggravation of his injury. It's and here's the thing. They play Monday night. If he blows up on Monday night, you already got him. Yeah, I like it perfect. Uh, you know what I'm gonna go next, because I'm just gonna piggyback off another Washington player. Alright, Logan Thomas Brian had mentioned him a couple of weeks, but he's finally getting to the point where he's ready to play at this stage. Although he may not go in this game, but I don't. This game has no

no bearing on on this. I'm looking forward beyond this week. We all need tight ends. Remember, in his three full games this year, he scored twice. He's according two of the three games, and he was very good last year. Washington desperately needs more receiving options, although you just mentioned um that there there are well um in his stead Ricky Seals Jones was freaking viable for fantasy and he's a fract He's framctionally as good as Logan Thomas. So

Logan Thomas is Mike would fifth. I think it's it's seven sixteen, Brian, you're taking Sorry, you're premature speculation player. I think you had people on the edge of their seats when you're said you can use the Washington player and they're like st Beard And then it wasn't I thought he was coming back anytime soon. They keep pushing his timetable back. Well, speaking of a guy come back, probably not this week. And when he comes back, I

can't promise you he's gonna stay healthy. And that's Miami wide out Davante Parker uh most likely coming back next week. You can grab him now. According to Fantasy Pros, the Dolphins have the easiest remaining strength of schedule among wide receivers, So if you're needy at the position, Davante Parker charges take on the Broncos. Brian Uh, we already know what we're gonna do with Austin Ekeler. There's a lot more

intrigue in the passing game here. Talk to me about Justin Herbert, and I'm especially interested in in whether or not we can get a good game out of Boom or Bust guy. Mike Williams. Yeah, this is the first meeting of the year between these divisional rivals, so we can go back to recent history. But in Herbert's last or bone trip to Denver last year, he threw for two state two eight yards and three touchdowns. So air

Bear can handle the thin air. The Broncos have rendered multiple passing touchdowns and four of their last six games, only Taylor Heineke in case Keenum failed to hit the multiple touchdown mark, but they each had one, and the Chargers are likely or they are the most high octane offense UH Denver has seen during that same time Spanzo and A for air Bear, uh A A for Keenan Allen. Per next Agen stats, Alan is ranked among the top fifteen pass catchers and percentage of his team's air yards

over the last three weeks. That pairs nicely with the fact that Denver gives up the third highest average depth of target at nine point three yards. Alan has also scored in his last two games at Mile High or whatever they call it now like Corpo dot Com at Mile High Stadium. But E d A for Alan uh, not an A for Mike Williams. I gonna give him a b Denver has allowed six wide receiver touchdowns over

their last five games. Williams has averaged five catches and eighty six yards over his last four games against the Broncos. So I like Williams and this one you're don't you know, you're a lot. You're You feel a lot more confident about Williams than I do or anybody else who started him for the last six weeks. I do. I like him this one. That's why I gave him to be And I don't like Jared Cook. He's on the bench. Denver is not allowed tight in touchdown all year, so

that's pretty easy bench. Great for him, in an easy A for Austin Ekeler over the last Over their last seven games, Denver is allowing hundred and sixty two combo yards and a touchdown per game to opposing running backs, and that has been to the incomparable likes of Ernest Johnson, J D. Mkissick, Kenyan Drake, and Boston Scott and by saying that you can't compare those guys to Austin Ekeler

of course, over to the Denver side. And this Denver side is fascinating because what felt like a massive opportunity for the running backs gets blunted a little bit by the loss of both of the starting tackles for the Broncos. And so when I went into the week, I'm like, Melvin Gordon and Vante Williams are sitting on giant games. Now I'm not so sure. What do you think? Yeah, I had to. I had bees for both of them based on both tackles being out. Like you just said,

I'm just gonna give each a sea. The Chargers are yielding thirty touches per game to opposing running backs who are averaging a hundred forty five compo yards and one and a half total touchdowns per game. Uh So, just to see if you're both it is revenge game from Melvin Gordon. Javante Williams on a per touch basis has been out of this world like the best running back

in the NFL. But the problem is Gordon gets a lot of the touches, but uh, and in fair as much as I want Davonte Willing to just earn and keep that job and just be the starter, Melvin Gordon's look good. Yeah, I mean if he was not bad, but yeah, he's He's looked good, but not as good as Williams, who's looked awesome. But he's looked I don't not so bad that there's any reason to bench Gordon.

Williams will have his day as a bell cow someday, but it's probably not gonna be for the to the wide receivers for the Broncos, Jerry Judy, just to see for him, he will draw a tough coverage from slot corner Chris Harris. Judy is the top option at wide receiver, but this is a better matchup for the Broncos boundary

receivers actually, Courtland Sutton and Tim Patrick. Over the last three weeks, DeVonta Smith, Justin Jefferson and Deonte Johnson, ever combined to average seven catches on nineteen yards and point seven touchdowns against the Chargers, who could also be without Assante Samuel who's concussed last week. UM not a lot of history to to base uh on for Sutton Patrick. These two combined for just one game into the Chargers last year. Patrick had three catches for three nine yards.

But just to see still for both of those guys, I think they might vulture each other. B for Noah Fan. Though, the Chargers have been bleeding points to the tight end position, allowing these second most fantasy points, the fifth most red zone targets, and the second most touchdowns at eight uh. Four of those eight touchdowns have come over the last

two weeks from opposing tight ends against the Chargers. So I like Fans who, in his two games against the Chargers last year average six and a half catches and fifty six yards. And now to Teddy b uh not even Teddy c I've got him on the bench. Even though I gave all his past catchers a starting grade, doesn't mean they're all gonna earn that starting grade. Uh. It's and with the with the beat up line as well, I still think they lean on the run a little

more on this one. So you can find better options with quarterback than Teddy. I concur final segment. The final matchup is the Seahawks taking on Washington. So let's let's begin with Let's begin with Russ. We already hammered Russ pretty good earlier in this show, but this matchups very, very tempting to call a slumpbuster. It's uh. It goes watching the ranks and passing yards allowed thirty first and passing touchdowns allowed, and they just let legendarily inaccurate passer

Cam Newton throw a six in incompletion game. That is not cool. So I've gotta be grade on Russell Wilson. I think he's obviously startable in this matchup, and this might be it for the year. Uh. Dk Metcalf, also with a B grade, is has only fifty seven total yards in the two games since Russell Wilson came back

from that finger injury, really injury. Fortunately, Washington allowing one ninety yards to opposing receivers that is fourth most, and they've allowed a receiver to score in nine of ten games. And if there's a touchdown to be had from a receiver here, dk Metcalf is likely the guy title lock it, just the C grade, you know, you know the story

unlock it. It's all bloomber bust, And obviously he's got boom capability against a bad secondary um but they aren't giving him necessarily explosive games like the kind lock it usually needs. So you know the drill, plenty of risk, plenty of reward. Um, I've just got the C grade unlock it, and I think there's more likely to bust than boom and the whole running games on the bench,

these guys have been a disaster. Alex Collins, despite double digit carries in seven straight games, has only topped the meager threshold of forty seven yards one time, and he's scored just twice in those seven games. And Washington's actually turned into a very good run defense. For all the problems we've got against the past, nothing against the run. Their fourth in rushing yards allowed over their last three

games and only one rushing scoring that time. On Only Alvin Kamara has topped sixty two rushing yards against them. On the Washington side, let's credit Taylor Heineke for playing very well over the last two games. I thought three games ago, I'm like they were talking about benching Taylor Heineke. Now he's played well these last two games, seventy seven percent completion rate, four touchdowns and no picks over the

last two games. Still he's still like makes some crazy bone headed overthrows and mistakes with the ball, but didn't didn't cost him the last two games we know he didn't both wins. Even more impressively, he's done so against two solid defenses, Tampa and Carolina, and he faces an improved Seattle secondary that's playing very well. Well until yielding to Colt McCoy last week, they had been playing well.

Even if you include McCoy's performance last week. The average passing game against Seattle over the past five weeks is a modest two D sixty one yards and just one touchdown past per game. So I like Heinekee here with a C grade. Terry McLaurin gets a C grade as well. It's been a roller coaster ride all year, with over one hundred yards and a touchdown in four games and sixty two or fewer scoreless yards in the other six.

I know that's the that's the risk reward you get out of Terry McLaurin, which I don't I don't know about you, Scott. I didn't necessarily expect that for him because previously he had always been a very safe play. What do you think this week you go and boom or bust. No, I'd be more on the boom side. I think that's going to be more of a shootout than than people think. Um, what will you give? What will you give DeAndre Carter for this game? How about a see? I don't think i'd even give. I would

have tough time even doing that. But my point on that is like, if people watch him on Monday Night, they're going to realize he exists, and that would be his fourth straight game with the touchdown. If he scores. It's tough to trust him though. I don't have him starting, But okay, they gave him on the I had a bench grade. But you know, but you kind of talked me into it during premature speculation. So I wanted to give you the chance. Um J D. McKissick, was manna

take a chance of me running back? Let's talk about Antonio Gibson. In two games since Washington's by both upset victories, how Gibson's handled at least nineteen touches and total at least seventy eight yards, and most encouragingly, He's handled both of Washington's carries inside the tent seven of the eight rushing touchdown Seattle has allowed to come from inside the tent, and if there's a touchdown to we had from inside

the tent, it probably goes to Gibson. So a B grade for Gibson in this game, Logan Thomas, we're gonna keep on the bench until we know for sure that he's a go. And it's a Monday night game. You're not gonna know until Monday night, so we can't start him. Um alright, final few moments of this show. Let me hit you guys with a couple of a couple of topics. Can we just straight up drop Zack Moss? Yeah? I think so, Yeah, I don't. I don't love that situation

at all. The coaches have indicated they want to get bread of more work, and when they did, he still looks good. But it's enough of us split that you don't love starting either Moss or Singletary. But if he's back in this he's he's back to all four paws, back into the dog house. He's back. He's deep in the doghouse after being inactive on third I'm holding him, you know, if I'm not competing in a Dynasty League and just praying for next year, but in redraft, absolutely,

here's why. Here's why. I'm not even holding him in a dynasty league with running backs within two years. For running backs, if you know in two years what you got, some guys the rookie or doesn't pan out, and then the second year it does. If you don't do it in two years, you're not going to do it as a running back in this league. I didn't say I wouldn't. I'd hold him through the draft next year, the draft, and I'm holding him until at least through the off season.

I don't think you start able at the end of the year. And honestly, this feels like they keep just throwing stuff out there to try to figure out the run game within what's already a good offense. They just need the run game. I think they draft or go out and get someone. I think they draft somebody too. If Devin Singletary can average five yards per carry and Zack Moss is three and a half, watch watch the Melvin Burns contract up. But uh, Darren Waller is gonna

miss some period of time. As as we're recording this, we don't know exactly how long is Foster Moreau and automatic ad definitely, I mean he's proven when Waller has been out. Moreau has put up big numbers in a tight ends. A big part of that offense that is missing pass catchers. I gotta throw out real quickly. Brian Edwards just getting dunked on by Za Jones and Seawan Jackson. How about that is killing me? Killing me? Yes? Add

Boston Moreau as Foster. Moreau is the best backup tight end in the league by talent, and he's a beast. He is huge, by the way, So yeah, I think I think Foster Morowe becomes a priority tight end ad for those people in a pinch people people probably forget even in Waller's big year, Morose still at five touchdowns. Like no kidding. That says plenty, doesn't it. If you're listening to the show over the air, know that the podcast for Fantasy Football Weekly is available, and vice versa.

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