FFW Week 13

thirteen version of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Giarchi and my co host this week are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello guys, Hello, good morning. Only there was something to talk about, something to sort of take up our usual cadence of matchups and stuff. Nothing, I got nothing. Anthony Davis scored forty one points against the Miami Heat

last night. Yeah. Um. In the span of less than twenty four hours, uh quite a bit less than twenty four hours, Kareem Hunt owners went from empowering into the playoffs into now feeling potentially like they're a first round loss in the playoffs. As kareem Hunt has hit the Commissioner's exemption list and released from the chiefs, and now we are, now we are we look ahead. Um, I don't think we do not have the time or the format to do a deep dive into this, the social implications,

everything else. It's just not that's not what we do here, and we just don't have time for it, especially with no bi weeks and all the matchups. So we need to get to So let's let's just turn our attention this way for kareem Hunt owners and dynasty leagues and empire leagues. You're thinking about future years? Is he somebody you're dropping? I'm holding I have him in an Empire league. I was lucky enough to be able to pick up Spencer wear on the waiver wire yesterday. But I'm going

to definitely hold. Um. It's not a political issue in my mind, it's just a fantasy issue. It's a guy who makes statistics, and I'm going to wait and see if he's going to make statistics in some other uniform next year. Yeah, I'm probably trading. I I've talked about this in the office before. I you know me, I'm

the guy that does a lot of charitable stuff. I you know, I I have a lot of causes, and there are sometimes that like when Adrian Peterson went down, I traded all my shares and I can still get value for them. It's just the thing for me. And there are players who you know, make recompense that that, you know, they become they become better people afterwards, and they learn from their mistakes and then I can start

to acquire them again and have those guys. But I'm just not a guy that ken I would be trading him. But that's the thing there. I believe he will be on an NFL roster on opening day next year. I believe he will. Um. He will uh show appropriate contrition. He will do the right things to do effectively what Joe Mixon was able to do and you know, salvaging his draft status and to a great degree and finding

himself on a team and being a productive player. And you know, you have to answer a lot of tough questions when that team first makes a move to acquire you. You have to at the players to have answers ready at that point. Um. But fundamentally, we are a forgiving society. We like to give people second chances because we want them ourselves. When we make mistakes, and I believe that by the time you know, we're a half year from

a half year from now or farther. Um, you know, some teams is gonna feel like, um, he's done enough and enough time has passed, and somebody will want him because the talent that he has. This is not like Ray Rice who was at the bitter end of his career and it was pretty easy to look past his talent. I think that you know, and talent, frankly, talent matters from these kinds of situations. What do you think of

Spencer ware rest of season? Just give me a number on where you think he will finish for as a as a fantasy running back. Spencer where a fourth hot question? There really is a fourth hot question, But because we need to open the show with it, give me a number on where you think he will finish rest of season among running backs? What's what's what's the rest of his schedule? Looking like it's not great? Um, I can

tell you Oakland this week, Oakland this week. I think he's gonna absolutely have a monster game, you would assume, so I know they play Oakland again in weeks seventeen, which doesn't matter. The schedules Baltimore, Chargers, Seattle. Okay, I think he's definitely startable in that Chargers game. The Baltimore game is gonna be tough. He'll probably be a C

grade there and uh, Seattle probably a B grade. So see if the number where you think maybe a number where you think he's going to finish among running backs rest of season at this point forward. Yeah, I think it's a little higher. I think it's more like ten. Hunt may have finished, you know, five four, um, but Spencer War is not as good as Kareem Hunt. Yeah, so you know, you know there's that, so you know he won't put up Kareem Hunts numbers because he's not

as good. There's a reason Kareem Hunt was the start uh. In addition to uh, in addition and obviously you know, we'll be breaking down Kareem Hunt's game later in this show and what you can expect this week for those of you that picked him up. Sorry, where's uh, Where's game? Kareem Hunt's gotta buy. Kareem Hunt is on permanent by semi permanent by we will get to take a chance

on me. We'll talk about three hot questions we are premature speculation is done for the year, but we'll in part because we have to power through all of the remaining matchups, which of which there are many. No by weeks anymore, and that begins with the Browns and the Texans. Scott. This is the first difficult matchup for Baker Mayfield in a month, and now I think we're gonna find out what we got in Baker. What do you think? I completely agree. I'm really excited to see the Mayfield v.

Watson game, though. That's man, two guys I really like coming on. I mean, someday we might you know, ten years from now, this might feel like a breeze. Brady, Yeah, very well good. I love them both so much. Mayfield's throwing multiple touchball touchdown passes in all three games since he left, but I mean they were easy matchups, as he kind of alluded to there. He also threw multiple

touchdowns in the two games before he left. I do admit that the offense has opened up a bit, But where I sit on Mayfield this week, I gave him a B grade. I think he's got an okay matchup, but he's gonna have to get it out quick. Clowney and Watt are two of the top five in speed to the quarterback, which I think really lays out well for Landry and Duke Johnson this week. So I gave both of those guys C grades. I'm I'm including Duke Johnson in the passing game apparently, um, although he's not

much of a factor in the passing game really. Yeah, Duke Johnson, Yeah, No, he was a couple of weeks ago when he had nine targets. I think last week was more of an anomaly. I think he gets back to that this week because I think Mayfield is gonna have to get it out quick. I do only have a C grade on Duke though. They're the worry is there. We saw Mario to hit down Lewis seven times last week, so pass catching backs are are catching. It's also why

I'm benching Callaway. I don't know that Mayfield is going to have the time to get it down to Callaway and he drops half of them anyway. So David Njoku, the last time I thought, David Nuke, how many times we got a plan for great matchup smash spot And Yeah, the Texans have allowed to touchdown in three straight and in those three nine receptions, eleven targets and one yards is the average to the tight end. It's a great

spot for Nujoku. I'm giving him the A grade, so be prepared for the Goose egg right, A grade, Yes, I love it. He had a single eight is David and Joko it a single game this year? Whyber one game? Yeah? That was top twelve tight end. Yeah, absolutely, that's not what I mean. Yeah, alright, No, I think you're being bold. But okay, I think it is a little bold. That's why I expected goose uh chub. I'm giving a B

grade and it's completely on the touches. He's gonna get twenty touch guys have had at least eighty four yards, all of them against the Texans. Only se Kwon Barkley top two hundred total yards against the Texans this year, so I think the upside is pretty limited on the Texans side. The passing game, I love this matchup. Browns are terrible against against quarterbacks and watch receivers. So I have eight grades on both Watkins and Hopkins. Um. Even

Driscoll did okay in the second half of that game. Yeah. The catch on on Watson is he's had no more than twenty five passes now in six straight games. You just it's just that low of volume. It's really hard. You look through like four touchdown passes on less than that. It can be. I'm not saying it's impossible, but you know this is not This is not a one time anomaly. Six straight games with twenty five or fewer passes is troubling. Yeah. I believe in one of those games he'd at five

touch jowns Deshaun Watson though he did. Yeah, so uh and this is this is a team that has thrown, has given up multiple touchdowns with three hundred yards and all but one game this year to the quarterback. So uh. As far as DT, Damarius Thomas and QT, I kind of I'm benching them both because I don't know which one is going to come off, right. Uh. DT has got Denzel Award going up against him, and QT really does demand targets when he is in there. He gets

a lot of targets. So I think they might just monopolize them both. And I don't know which one is going to be the bad one. But uh, Lamar Miller. Miller now has a hundred total yards and four of his last five the Browns have allowed a hundred forty more or more total yards to seven running backs this year, including three of the last four games, five touchdowns in that span. I have an rare A grade on Lamar Miller. All right, that is rare. Yeah, let's go to a

Chargers taking on the Steelers. Chargers had a tough matchup last week, but the passing game came alive anyway. Now they go to to h to Hinz Field, where every

game is seemingly a shootout. Yeah, that's true. Um, the Steelers are averaging twenty nine points at home, which should force Rivers to pass and pass often as opponents in hines Field are averaging thirty six pass attempts on the season, and on the season when Rivers has had at least thirty six pass attempts, he's averaging three fifty eight yards and three touchdowns. I believe you came up with that job. Well, I'm sticking to it. Yes, that that that is a fact. Um.

I gave Rivers a B grade. I could see an A, but it just seems like the the Steelers still have a very good defense. So I'm just knocking him down just a little bit. I think a B grades fair there, Uh, Keenan Allen, I'm giving a B grade two as well. Allen will face off against Mike Hilton, who hasn't allowed a touchdown this season and hasn't allowed more than nineteen yards in the last seven games. That's a that's a tough, very tough, tough draw for Keenan Allen. Both the Williams brothers,

Mike and Tyrrell. Mike scored twice last week versus Arizona, but he's finished under sixty yards in eight straight games, and Tyrrell was active last week despite a quad injury. He was on the field of play for nine times. I'm not I'm not even he had zero targets on those nine plays that he was on the field. So both of those guys are on your bench. Uh. And then the the interesting guy here, I guess is Austin

Ekeler because Melvin Gordon is out this week. I'm giving Eckler a B grade because Justin Jackson is the other running back who should get play in this game. And Ekeler has been great. He's had five point eight yards per carry, but he probably won't fall into Gordon's volume. However, Christian McCaffrey, Leonard four Nette, and Philip Lindsay have all topped a hundred and ten total yards and scored against

the Steelers in the last three weeks. It's not a particularly easy looking match up on paper, but people have got it done in the last couple of weeks against him. Austin Ekeler is a better inside runner. People think he's Darren Sprowls. He's not. He's a better inside runner than that. And he's stronger and more physical than that, and um, and he still has the opportunity for goal line carriage number one in the NFL, yards per touch number three

in elusiveness, unbelievable. Austin Austin Nickler is really really good points or seven point eight yards per touch per touch number one in the NFL. The running back on the other side of the field, I'm more interested at him running between the tackles this week because the Chargers will be missing both starting defensive tackles this week, Brandon Mebane. And what about Jackson owners Is there a start for Jackson opens here? Now? You don't think so, not at all? All? Right.

I think I think he's a I think I think he's flexible that's a really deep dart throw. It is a it's a bit of a dart throw. James Conner. I'm giving an a though, because of the aforementioned Chargers that will be missing this week, and the Chargers have allowed four point three yards per carry and the fourth most receiving yards to opposing backs. Connor's good out of catching catching balls out of the backfield too. Ben Roethlisberger.

I'm giving an a grade to Ben is logged at least two hundred fifty yards and mull to pull scores in four of the last five games. In the one game where he didn't hit both of those benchmarks, he had four hundred sixty two yards and one touchdown. That was last week against Denver. So the Chargers have faced the Chargers have been good this year against the past.

But here's the last handful of quarterbacks they faced. Josh Rosen, case Keenum, Derek Carr, Russell Wilson who actually had a good game, Marcus Mariota, Baker Mayfield, Derek Carr again, c J. Bethard. I think the quarterbacks are making them look a little bit better than they are pass So a grade for Ben that means in a grade for Antonio and Juju. Over the last five weeks, Brown is averaging ten targets per game. Juju is at nine point four, so they're

almost equal. Uh, Casey Hayward probably ends up splitting time between these two in the game. Think so, I don't think he'll go in the slot that much. Well, they moved Juju to the outside a ton last week against Chris Harris, so they started They started flexing these guys back and forth and are moving them around the field. So I think both of these guys are pretty good plays this week, and we'll we'll probably see equal amounts of Casey Hayward. Finally, Vance McDonald. He gets a C grade.

A hip injury cost Hims some on field time last week in Colorado, but he practiced fully this week. Maybe he got some meta natural pain relieving substances well. In the Rocky Mountains, Chargers have been top ten in most categories against tight end this year. That's why he only gets the C grade. All right, let's go to our final matchup of this segment, Ravens taking on the Falcons. My guy, Lamar Jackson with another A grade. You already know what his legs can do, and he can drive

you to a top ten quarterback finish UH. And you know with light with with quarterback rushing, it's always something of a dart throw. But boy, what's not to like about one hundred ninety rushing yards in two games from your quarterback? And now if Jackson could do something even remotely close to that on the ground, this is a

juicy matchup through the air opposed. Nine of ten opposing quarterbacks have thrown multiple touchdowns top three ards or done both against the Falcons, So you could be sitting on the potential of another explosive game for Lamar Jackson A grade.

Gus Edwards also an A grade UH. Teams are frightened that Jackson's gonna pull the ball down on these read options and they're not capable of focusing on Gus Edwards and that run option UH is giving defenses a lot of problems and it's opening up things for Gus Edwards. It's something that is underrated in fantasy football that the running back with a running quarterback is always very good.

It is. It's very underrated and and because intuitively you tend to think, well, there's only so many rushing yards to go around, and if the quarterbacks is gonna get all these rushing yargins gotta come out of the running back, but a lot of time it doesn't. It comes out of the passing game mostly, that is true. Uh. The Falcons terrible at stopping opposing running backs. Nick chub Ezekiel Elliott each game more than two hundred total yards within

the last three weeks against the Falcons. Uh. The receivers. Oh well, while we're talking running backs for a moment, Time Montgomery and nice sneaky play here. The Falcons have allowed the most running back receptions, the second most running back receiving yards, and just two games ago, Zeke put up eighty yards through the air against Atlanta. Montgomery, who got a lot of action last week as a receiving back, is a PPR flyer. If only somebody would have prematurely

speculated on Time Montgomery last weekend. Oh wait, that was Oh that's what you do? That what do you know? And by the way, they faced Kansas City next week, and Kansas City almost as bad against pass catching running backs as Atlanta is. Time Montgomery, you might want to see if he is available in your league. The only receiver I've got a starting grade on is Willie Snead. All the wide receivers, though, have good matchups, but in

Atlanta is allowed the second most wide receiver touchdowns. But snee is the only one who's getting consistent production under Jackson. So I've got a starting grade on him. You could throw darts on John Brown. I wouldn't really on crabt he who has really done nothing under Jackson. But Sneet is the safe play out of that group. Let's go to the Atlanta side. Matt Ryan. It's a B grade. He's top three hundred thirty yards in five of the

last six games. But here's the problem with three thirty yards. The Ravens have given up three or thirty yards one time all year. That's it. What's more, no quarterback has top two touchdowns against the Ravens since Week two. I I don't much like his wide receiver matchups one on one. You'll hear about that in a minute as well. So I'm nervous about Matt Ryan. And the B grade is actually closer to a seat. Yeah, I was gonna say it. B is very generous. B is a little bit generous here,

especially considering he's my number twenty one quarterback. This week. Let's go to the Let's go to the receivers, Julio Jones. The Ravens have have seated just four touchdowns to receivers since Jimmy Smith returned from suspension Week five. That's it, just four. Julio Jones will primarily be covered by Jimmy Smith. He's held opposing receivers to thirty total yards and coverage

over his last two games. Brutal matchup for Julio Jones, who gets a B grade on reputation mostly in past accomplishments. Mostly all the rest of the receivers are on the bench because of the difficulty of this matchup that I've just described. But Austin Hooper startable. Ravens have only allowed four tight ends to reach the end zone on the season. All four have come in the past five games though, so four tight end touchdowns in the last five games.

Austin Hooper's seen at least eight targets in four of the past seven games. By tight end standards, you're pretty much gotta start him. Unfortunately, in a difficult matchup. Last guy to mention is Tevin Coleman. Unfortunately, the Ravens have allowed the third fewest rushing yards, the third fewest rushing touchdowns over the last five games, and the Ravens have given up a touchdown to the position in each of their past five games to the lead back, which bodes well.

And dual threat guys like Christian McAffrey and James Conner each found the end zone through the air over the last five games, So there's an angle here for Tevin Coleman to get it done through the air more so than on the ground, and that's why he gets a B grade. Generous B grades that are trending mostly to see for most most most of those Falcons. By the way, in this game, Alex Collins just put on I r oh. I didn't know that, yeah, and Kenneth Dixon activated courtesy

of Brian Johnson. Well, that's who's helping us from helping us from afar. He's he's frankly, he's more helped to us out of the studio. Studio when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup will tell you who you can start when we come back. This is Fantasy Football Weekly presented my Green Bell Premium on the Fan. Welcome back to the show. Fantasy Football Weekly. It's winning. You're in addition, week number thirteen. For many of you, you have to

have a victory this week. We will do our best. You might have to hit the waiver wire. It's not the worst thing in the world. You don't have to go with the guys who got you there. Let's find some quarterbacks running back to some god receivers who can help you out in a pinch. Beginning with Scott Fish. How about poor man's Lamar Jackson. I'm just kidding my guys. Josh Allen whose second in rushing and over the two

weeks with a twenty rushing yards standard touchdown. He's got four touchdown rushing touchdowns on the year, so there's been a little bit of a floor there. He's got a lot of fourty and six yard games. Um. The Dolphins have a lot of multiple touchdowns and five the last six the third most passing touchdowns the last five weeks. Josh Allen's always looking to make a play. I think this is a week where he makes a few plays. Okay, I got a poor man's Josh Allen. How about that?

It's Jeff Driskell Santy Bengals. Uh, He's literally the fastest Jeff You know, he's six four to forty and he ran a four five forty at the two thousand six NFL combine In the last five years, among quarterbacks who have started at least one NFL game, only Marcus Mariota ran a faster forward than Jeff driscoll. He's taken snaps in three games this year. He scored rushing touchdowns in two. He had a decent preseason. Two. He completed sixty six

percent of his throws. He wasn't embarrassing last week in relief. I thought it was good. One passing touchdown, one rushing touchdown. Mahomes, Wilson, and Watson each had solid days as will threat quarterbacks against Denver this year, I like Driskell, Colt McCoy, faces an absolutely devastated Eagles secondary. Avante Mattock, Sidney Jones, Jalen

Mills all may not play in this one. Not to mention all the players have already put on I R They've allowed passing touchdowns in nine of ten games and at least two hundred sixty nine passing yards and eight straight games. I would take touchdowns and at least six two hundred sixty nine passing yards from Colt McCoy. I thought he looked pretty good. He just he just threw two touchdowns against a far better secondary Dallas last week.

And he is also fleet of foot. Could run one in for you as wells go to the running back position, Scott, He's no Jeff Driskell. Come Jeff clearly, Uh Jeff Driscoll for more number one recruit uh quarterback position anyway, my guys, t J yelden uh. Mostly because the cultiv allowed the second most receptions and fourth most receiving yards per game to running backs this year, and four different running backs

in the last four games fifty yards each. I think this game script plays out well for yelled in to get a decent amount of pass catching work with four that out. Okay, I actually wish I could use Jeff Driscoll as my running back to he'd by the way fanball this week. It's crazy. Yeah, Um, I got Isaiah Crowl and I don't like this at all. He touched the ball nine times in each of the last two weeks,

nine times, nine time. He touched the ball fourteen times each of the prior two weeks with Sam Donald at the Helm and Donald looks like he's coming back to hand the ball off again this week. The once mighty Titans run game has given up five point one yards per carry over their last four games and allowed touchdowns to James Devlin, Marlon Mack, Jordan Wilkins, and Lamar Miller in the last three weeks. Isaiah Crowell gross gross also gross,

Like Garrett Blunt, yuck. We we shouldn't have even done the running by No, it's I don't like him, but he's coming off his best game as a lie eighty eight yards and two touchdowns against an excellent Bears run defense. Now he gets a far easier matchup. In each of the past four weeks, the Rams have given up over eighties six total yards on six yards per carry and a touchdown to opposing backs. That's your Rams run defense

right there. Obviously, the Lions are gonna want to be able to keep the keep the Rams offense off the field as much as they can. They're gonna try to run. Rams are giving up over five yards per carry on the season. Garrett Blunt, Let's see if we can get him in. Let's see if we can get the ball inside the three, get a sneaky touchdown, get seventy five rushing yards before they have to turn to the passing

game exclusively. In that one Scott receiver, I'm gonna go with Robert Foster, a guy that everybody in the office thinks I like way more than I actually do. It's your nude pictures, that's that's an exact tasteful nudes. Uh No, he was a highly recruited recruit, that highly recruited recruited UH four fourth speed that matches perfectly with Josh Allen's arm. In the last two games, he has a hundred ninety nine yards and a touchdown, include a forty seven yard

and a seventy five yard er. Uh He's He's a great deep threat for a guy Josh Allen who has eighteen percent of his passes go for over twenty yards. Okay, Robert Foster sounds just a touch faster than Jeff Driskell. But I have Adam Humphries this week. Humphries is scored in three of his last four games and had at least fifty yards in five straight. This week, he faces off against Captain Munnerlin in the slot, and he's been

getting torched. Last week Tyler Lockett ran half of his routes out of the slot and finished with a hundred and seven yards in a touchdown. The week before that, Kenny Golladay ran a ton of routes out of the slot. He finished with a hundred and thirteen and one. The week before that Juju at nine one and the week before that, Adam Humphries faced these Panthers eight catches, eighty

two yards and two touchdowns. Like Humphries again. Courtland Sutton is a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos going up against Cincinnati, maybe the worst secondary in the NFL. They've slumped badly. Emmanuel Sanders is my number two wide receiver on the week. Courtland Sutton can be awfully good as well. He's averaging fifty yards per game since the Damerius Thomas trade and this is the easiest defense he's seen by

a mile. Bengals cornerback William Jackson is primarily he will be covering him, and he's surrendering almost fourteen yards per catching a passer rating of one hundred eight. Let's get back to the matchups Bills taking on Dolphins. Scott, you've already talked about every Bill that i'd want to have. But I like Shaun McCoy and he is a super sneaky play, and I bet he's cheap on fan ball. Maybe we can pull up what is Matt. Yeah, I'm working on working on that, thank you. I bet he's

undervalued considering how good this. He might be a part of the fan Ball four play on fan ball this week. It might be I do have I have a B grade on him, but I don't love the B grade as much as you do. Probably, But eleven different running backs have topped eighty total yards against Miami. I like that part. And uh, in the last eight weeks, UH, six of seven or seven have topped the hundred ton total yards. Six of seven have scored. It's it's a

good spot. But McCoy is only getting fourteen touches a game. He's gonna need a lot more than that. And I think that the game script might get a little behind him here because the Dolphins are known for running up big. You just told me half, you know, five minutes ago about how I'm supposed to start Josh Allen. I like the passing him a little bit more. I think I think that the Bills are going to fall behind the Dolphins.

I truly do. I think you just have some unnatural hate for Lashawn McCoy that that he touched you in appropriately as a child. He's got to choose which Bills? Do you really? Do you really want me to give it an A grade to Leshaw McCoy if you think he's earned it. I don't think I've got to think I have a B grade on him. But you know I have a B grade on him. If you know, if he gets twenty plus touches, sure, but I don't. I don't see that it hasn't that doesn't happen. But

it's the Dolphins and it can absolutely happen here. It can. This is the game that Lamar Miller got that A grade for me a long time ago, and he did have a huge day. Still you're still bragging about that one. Definitely not Oddly, I do not like the passing game for the Dolphins. Tannehill is probably gonna have an okay game, but the Bills are really good, really good against the against the past. Tannehill just doesn't have starter material here

and the Bills wide receivers against the Bills are just terrible. Uh, there's no wide receivers I like for the Dolphins. I do have se grades to both Gore and Drake. Now though I had I did have them on the bench, but I am moving them to see grades because the the Bills have allowed eight touchdowns to running backs in the last five games and the third most touchdowns ruin backs and in this season. I think both have an

opportunity here if they both get over ten touches. Drake is off the injury report and he's always a threat for a big play. So I've seen grades on them. Dolphins giving up the fourth most rushing attempts in the league twenty nine per game. Now you've assured me that he's not that we're not going to get enough rushes. Sean McCoy does change the grade. Is Josh Allen gonna get twenty He's gonna get probably eight or nine. Okay, so so now I'm looking at twenty rushes. Still a

B grade doesn't change anything, all right. This is a there's a lot of back and forth, and we both have a B grade on Let's go, um, let's go to the Panthers taking on the Bucks. Matt Actually, let's not. Let's take a break when we come back Panthers taking on the Bucks. We'll tell you what to expect from Jamis Winston. Can you have another in consecutive solid performance his best game of the year last week? You might?

You might. We'll find out when we come back. This is Fantasy Football Weekly presented by green Bill Premium on the Fan. Welcome back to the show. It is Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Always nice. We have people out state that are on hold waiting to talk to us. We've got college from Ontario, Portland, Toronto. I hope you'll continue to hold. Let's dive back into the matchups. As we mentioned before, we went into break. Panthers taking on

the Bucks. Matt Um, Let's start on the Let's start on the Buck side because I find Jamis Winston to be fascinating. Uh. And whether or not you think this is a an opportunity for a second solid game. He just just played his best game of the season. No interceptions for Jamis, which is a very big deal. Yeah. Um, I gave him a B grade. It was only five weeks ago when Ryan Fitzpatrick through for four touchdowns against Carolina. The following week, Big Ben topped three hundred yards and

through five touchdowns against the Carolina Panthers. Russell Wilson had over three two last week, and Jamis Winston has thrown for over three hundred yards in every game that he started and finished this year. That's all three of them. So Winston I got as a B grade. Mike Evans

I like as well. He's also a B uh. Evans is topped nine yards or scored in four of his last five games against the Panthers, but he has never accomplished both of those feats at the same time in his eight career game against Carolina, so in Week nine it was that weird game where Evans had ten targets caught one ball for sixteen yards. So he looks to

get revenge on James Bradberry this week. Bradberry has allowed two or fifty five yards in his coverage over the last three weeks, and Evans is coming off back to back hundred yard outing, so he's closer to an A for me than a b um. DeShawn Jackson has been ruled out with an injury, and Adam Humphreys was might take a chance on me wide receiver, and Cameron Braids I'm giving a B grade two as well. As far as tight ends go, Braids has about as good a

chance of any tight end at getting a touchdown. He had to end his own targets last week one touchdown out of that. Carolina has allowed the most tight ends, uh touchdowns this year. So why is he A being not an A because he only got four targets last week and you got he has to basically convert two touchdowns in my mind to get an A grade out of this? All right? Maybe? All right? Uh? In my in my mind, a touchdown from a tight end is

a grade this year. That's all takes. I guess, I guess I reserve my A grades for Kelsey Kittle and Earth's I think. I think that's it. As we discussed on this show last week and five three tough questions, three hot questions. Excuse me, um, I think he's a top five guy the rest of the year, and I think most of the most of the time, he's going to be a grade requisite. I'm I'm on the I'm on the camera, Brad Bandwagon. Can we revisit the plus

and minuses? Can we for tight ends only? No? Speaking of A grades, Christian McCaffrey gets an A grade after coming off a fifty point week at Fanball. Cam Newton's getting a B grade. He's not topped three hundred yards against the Bucks since two thousand twelve, and his last five games against Tampa he's been under two hundred passing yards three times, which is shocking con sering how bad that defense is. And by the way, Brent Grimes may not play in this game, which would be a huge

difference the silver lining. He's topped forty rushing yards or scored a rushing touchdown in seven of his last eight against Tampa. D J. Moore, I'm giving a C grade. Curtis Samue on Devin Funchius around the bench, though more has led wide receivers and targets and receiving yards in each of the last two weeks. Impressive games out of him. But Funcas, who sat the last couple of weeks with the back injury, is back at practice and ready to play.

That's just gonna muddy the waters for the Carolina wide receivers. Greg Olsen gets a B grade. Tampa's getting killed by tight ends. Vance McDonald, Ertz, Burton Hooper and Joku and Greg Olsen have all either tops ninety yards or scored against Tampa this year, many of those names did both. Greg Olsen was one of those names already, so yeah, I like him as a b Bears nick gon the Giants, and I like the Bears running game a lot since

the Giants foolishly dispatched Snacks Harrison for nothing. Might I add to the Lions, they're giving up one hundred thirty four rushing yards per game, five yards per carry, and a touchdown and a half to opposing running backs. That brings Jordan Howard right into play. And I know it's been a brutal season for his owners, but don't make the mistake of leaving him on your bench. And this one, I've got a B grade on Jordan Howard. I think the Bears get up ahead and they pound Howard a

lot in this game. Tariko and also startable here, although it looks like straight ahead power runners have done more damage to the Giants than speedback so I actually prefer Howard over Cohen, but both absolutely startable. I've technically got a C grade on Cohen, but in PPR leagues lifted up to a B grade. And for the passing game, I'm nervous Chase Daniels I thought played pretty well against the Lions and Thanksgiving, but he's startable only in really

easy matchups. And since the Eli Apple trade, opposing quarterbacks are averaging just two hundred six yards and one touchdown pass against the Giants. That is the definition of addition by subtraction. Giants are a better secondary without Eli Apple and a lot of running coming in this game. I've got a bench grade on Chase Daniel. I've got a C grade on Anthony Miller, who was very touchdown dependent. He draws undrafted rookie cornerback Grant Haley, who was allowing

a passer rating of one nine. I like that part of it. He's scored in five different games, but he's only top forty nine yards one time. So it's all about the touchdowns for Anthony Miller, and he's got a chance here, so he gets a starting grade. Taylor Gabriel has been the bears most targeted receiver over the past two weeks. He gets cornerback Generis Jenkins um more often than not. Jenkins was really shaky for the first part of the season, but as allowed just one touchdown over

his last four games. C grade on Taylor Gabriel as well, and then Trey Burton and epic and colossal disappointment so far this year over the past five games, averaging just three receptions for twenty five yards. Yuck. And the Giants are keeping tight ends out of the end zone. Zach Ertz is the only tight end to score touchdown against the Giants this season. I know, um the Giants. Uh. Ideally Trey Burton would be a bench grade, but because of the dearth of talent at the position, I've I

have very liberally given him a C grade. Graciously given him a C grade, but think twice if you've got other options. Let's go to the Giants side. St Kwon Barkley gets an A grade. Pat Shermer under great scrutiny for last week's loss, in which set Kwon Barkley marching up and down all over the field. They absolutely had they were dominating the game, and then despite having a lead, he went away from Sat Kwon Barkley in the entire

second half and ended up losing the game. So I think we'll see plenty of Sa Kwon Barkley in a rebound here, but he'll likely struggle on the ground against a good Bears defense, although they did just give up two touchdowns little Garrett Blunt. The Bears give up six receptions per game to the receiver position, which is ninth most, and obviously s Kwan can help you that way. Odell Beckham slumps to a B grade here. In fact, let me just talk more broadly about the Giants passing game.

Why I don't like it. Terrible offensive line against the team that generates the most pressure on opposing quarterbacks. Eli Manning is gonna be under siege constantly. He's gonna have no time to throw the ball. He's gonna be doing all of those inaccurate dump off passes that he does when he gets in trouble. I hate this game for the whole passing game, and Odell Beckham is only a

B because that's it. There's nothing really to like here, although he will see a lot of Bears corner Kyle Fuller, who has allowed sixteen receptions in the past two weeks, So maybe that's your angle for Odell Beckham. But again, I worry about Eli Manning having an absolutely dreadful performance, which I think he's capable of, and all the rest of the receivers are on the bench. Next matchup, Colts

taking on the Jaguars. Scott, I think this is the game where Andrew Lux streak, of which I believe is now at eight straight games with three or more three or more touchdowns. I believe it comes to an end right here. Wait, come on, yo, I think this is it. I think this is it. What do you think? You do? Realize the Jags have allowed this. There's third most Fantasy points to quarterbacks our last five weeks. Well that's because A. J.

Bouyer was out for several of those games. He is back, and the difference in the with and without Booyer is jaw dropping. In fact, would you like to hear more about it? Sure, we really don't have time for it. But I'm gonna tell you anyway. So if I'm gonna bother to look this stuff up, then I'm gonna bother to mention it out here. In games with a J. Boullier on the field, Jacksonville averages two hundred four passing

yards allowed and one touchdown per game. That's it. That's nothing. Nothing. Wow, You've almost convinced me to drop Andrew Luck to a B grade. But I'm not going to do it. Okay, I'm still giving him an A grade. You have three touchdowns against them in WEEKEDN again without without I think Andrew Luck can transcend that. I still give him an A grade. He charge can't be happy with any grade we give Andrew Luck. I know, well if you do, remember he said before the season that we were wrong

and he should drop. We should drop Andrew I honestly thought. I honestly thought Andrew Luck's arm problem was going to keep it. I thought now he would be good. I really thought he was going to struggle with arms strength based on everything we saw in the preseason, that it was gonna take six weeks for when you get his arm strength back. I'm i'm I mentioned this in the break. I'm the one in Fantasy football training camp that said Luck is my quarterback three And at the same time,

how do we do this? The trombone and peacock interesting because because of that I do I do like Hilton. I only have a B grade on Hilton. I think where they're gonna really attack them is the tight end. Lux throwing eighteen of his touchdowns to tight ends. Moiley Cox is out. Eric Swoop just popped up now is questionable instead of likely to play, So it might just be Eric Ebron out there. He had two touchdowns and sixty nine yards in the in the previous match up

with them. Uh In the Jags will out six touchdowns to tight ends in just the last four games. I love Ebron here, I gave a grade to him. I am now, however, with the likelihood that Mac is going to play, He's got one step left to clear protocol. He's like, you're gonna play now. So that makes both of the running backs against a very good Jags run defense benchable for me, I think the Colts are going to have to pass. Uh Also for me, that a grade I'm giving luck on the Jag side. I think

I'm I'm benching everyone but yelled in now. I think the game script favors yelled in for for some passing game work. That's great in PPR leagues, But I'm not taking a Kessler run pass offense. And I think game script would go away from hide a little bit. If Cody Castler were any good, he'd have been the starting quarterback in Week five. The Millennium Falcon once did the Kessler run right, that's um that if for the Jaguars, you've set it up, I like the sound of that.

Let's sneak in one more matchup, Matt Cardinals taking on the Packers. This is a this might be a rare. I actually have a pretty good grade on. I have starting grade on on Josh Rosen. I like him in this one. Why I do? Have you seen? Have you seen the secondary that that that they're rolling out for the Green Bay Packers. He was almost your take home too. He was almost at one point he was gonna be

might take a chance on me. So if if you can knock like Deshaun Watson for only getting twenty five passes in a game, why do you like the guy who has thrown nineteen and twenty passes in his last two games. One of those games they lost to the Raiders, the other they were way behind on the Chargers, and game script favored him throwing the ball a ton and he didn't. They just it's it's all David Johnson all the time. And that's when Rosen had a three touchdown

game two games ago. Yeah, but he's only throwing nineteen and twenty passes. That's not enough volume to give a Josh Rosen guy a starting grade plus. Guess what the matchup just got better for David Johnson because Packers defensive tackle Mike Daniels is out for the year. He's a big portion of the run stuffing defense, and the last five weeks the Packers have given up big receiving days to Todd Gurley, James White, and Dalvin Cook. So that's

why David Johnson gets an A grade. I only gave Larry Fitzgerald to see because he's only had six targets in the last two week and he's turned in a weird STA line over those two games of four catches, fifty three yards and three touchdowns. So Josh Rosen is not throwing the ball often, but when he does throw, I guess it's going for touchdowns. So Fitzgerald's got a decent shot at getting another one. Christian Kirk and Ricky

Seals Jones around the bench though. Over on the other side, I wish we had some birthday music queued up because we got some birthday boys in this game, and their names begin with a A, and that's Aaron Jones, who's celebrating his twenty four birthday tomorrow. UH Cards are allowing over a hundred and eighty total yards per game to running backs Both Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler were top

twelve running backs just last week against the Cardinals. So Aaron Jones gets a double A grade on his birthday and uh the other double a Aaron Rodgers. I'm giving him a double B grade on his thirty fifth birthday. Rogers is only top to the three hundred yard mark three times this year. He's thrown for more than two touchdowns only twice, and the Cardinals are giving up the fourth fewest passing yards and the second fewest passing touchdowns per game. So Rogers just get to be and it's

probably closer to a seed. But he's at home and it's his birthday, so I'm gonna give him a little bump there, Isn't that nice. Davante Adams is still in a grade. Wow, that's really nice, so super soft, happy birthday. Yeah, all right, Davante Adams is getting an A grade. He will score a touchdown. Adams has only been held out

of the end zone in three games this year. In those three games, ten for one sixty five for eighty one in the games he didn't score, and he's beat Xavier Rhodes, Darius Slay, Xavian Howard and Stephan Gilmour for touchdowns this year. Patrick Peterson shouldn't scare him, Well he should, but he keeps He always gets John Adams always gets the best corner you got and he almost always ends up winning at least one matchup. It might be time for us to start talking about Davante Adams is the

best wide receiver in the league. Well, he's talking about it. This week he said he was the best receiver in the league statistically. It's getting there, right, It's in the conversation. The rest of the passing game is on the bench. The Cards have only allowed a hundred and forty yards per game to opposing wide receivers, and they all may go through Adams and Jimmy Graham's still nursing the finger injury.

Cards are top ten and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the tight end position, so they're all on the bench. Buddha Baker's the star quarterback hybrid safety that the Cardinals have. Without him. Last week, Philip Rivers set an NFL record completing twenty six passes Without Buddha Baker, He's questionable and

probably a game time decision in this one. I think he moves Aaron Rodgers a full letter grade up and down based on his available from the double B to a double A. Potentially, okay, potentially, all right, let's let's take a break when we come back. Three hot questions for a panel of experts. I'm tempted to try to work in a call, but I we don't have time yet.

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at me, I'm generally too positive. Every time you do one of these, I say no. I I try to get a reason why you shouldn't this time. Yeah, sure, drop him? What the hell? Recently a Phillies b reporter was talking about how they're force feeding him and it's just not clicking with their offense, and they're gonna go back. They might be going back to more twalled personnel. Um, I don't think he's gonna be force fed. Is eight targets a game anymore? And he's he's got some I

got some tough matchups coming on the rams. One might be okay in week fifteen, but Dallas and Houston have been really good decently, and even the Rams are getting to lead back. You know what, sabotage, drop him on Monday for waivers, if you're going to do it. Scott used a lot of the points I was going to use, but he came up with a different answer. I said, not yet, because he's getting eight targets per game, and I thought the schedule was pretty decent. Washington this week

is a good matchup. This one's fine. The Rams in week fifteen, I think is a good matchup. The Cowboys in week fourteen. By the way, he's already played the Cowboys twice this year. He knows the Cowboys better than anybody that's not on Dallas Cowboys coaching step and Houston weeks sixteen. That might be a must win for Philly. I don't think that I'm dropping him yet. I looked at it somewhere differently than all of you guys. I think I've got him as a sea grade this week

next week. As again, Dallas Golden Tate is a bench grade. Look at what they just did to Michael Thomas for Pete's sake. The following week at Los Angeles, I think Golden Tate's a see the next week after that against Houston, he's a bench. So I got two season and to two bench grades coming up pretty much where that's that's I can find guys like that at the seven eleven. I know Mike Zimmerken. That is a drop right there. He's averaging three and a half receptions and thirty one

scoreless yards since he joined the Eagles. I thought it would be better than this. I was wrong, and I don't love his matchups enough. You can go find more and better help off the waiver wire. Correct answer question number two. I don't know that I like agreeing with you on that. Yeah, every time Church said that he's gonna drop somebody, every always goes the wrong way every time. Every can I just dropped Sammy Watkins. No, not again, Matt, Yeah,

I'm dropping Sammy Watkins. He's out again this week with a foot injury. Uh toughest remaining schedule out there, maybe second toughest at Oakland. Not good for wide receivers. Baltimore Clippers and uh Seattle Chargers not Clippers. Um, so yeah, I'm dropping Sammy Watkins. Okay, sure, I'm gonna stay negative for dark. It's evil, Scott. It feels I don't I feel even you're wearing all black today. That was a

really weird choice. Is charcoal gray? My friend? Uh? Sure, Chiefs have the toughest fantasy wide receiver player schedule against wide receivers with the Ravens, Chargers, and Seahawks, who over the last five weeks ranked number two, number one, number ten respectively. And it worries the crap out of me that he couldn't get healthy over the over the bye week either, So sure drop him reoccurring foot issues that

have plagued his entire NFL career. I think there's a decent chance they just shut him down for the playoffs at one point in here anyway, and just try to get him healthy so he's ready to go in January. Christ maybe Chris Connelly is the way to go. But you can drop Sammy Watkins. When I went through the schedule, it looks like three benches and a C grade coming up. I can find guys like that at fred Alone's Ace Hardware. Let's drop him outright, Sammy Watkins. Some really athletic guys

that hot. Question number three is Aaron Rodgers and every week starter Scott. This is funny. I was mentioning this to Matt. I have a super flex league where I haven't started him in weeks. Wow, so I already you're already saying no, So yeah, it's it's uh yeah, it's it's an interesting one. I have luckin Watkins in that or Watson. So are we considering this a one quarterback league? Considering this a one quarterback league with twelve team But

I still think he's never really started. I think that you know, there's maybe a matchup or two. They're gonna be tough, but he's gonna be right around that twelve boarder. He's at eight team plus fantasy points in all but two games. I know his body language says he's kind of giving up, and he's like the twelfth best quarterback in the league this year. But he's got a dreadful Atlanta defense, a gross Jets defense, and arrival will be

match up against the Bears. That's a team he's throwing three or more touchdowns against three of the last four games and multiple touchdowns of five of the last six in Chicago. Uh, you know what, I think they're okay, matchups enough I think he's startable, all right, So yes, every week, every week start Yes, Okay, so he is not an every week starter, but I would start him

every week the rest of the way. How about that? Uh, just like Scott said, this week, he gets his birthday game at home against the Cards Atlanta second worst past defense Chicago where he always does something magical on the Jets. All startable grades there? All right? Yeah, I've got a m B grades for Aaron Rodgers the rest of the way as well. And that means that, you know, even though he's roughly quarterback thirteen in your league, I think

he's awfully hard to bench. What's really killed him? He's had one explosive game all year one. Normally he's you know, every third game is an explosive game with four new yards and three touchdowns. But whatever. Interesting to see how we rank Aaron Rodgers going into next season when we're doing these shows before Fantasy football training camp. Won't Football weekly, That's right, the silver anniversary we won't be talking about. I'm confident we will not be talking about him as

our number one quarterback. I don't think, uh, you know, maybe maybe they get you know, who knows, maybe something changes, and you know we have some renewed optimism in the off season, but I don't think so. Let's go back to the matchups. Vikings taking on the Patriots afternoon game. Let's start with the Patriots side gronks and a grade start here. Now, the Vikings were really bad against tight ends earlier in the season, but they've gotten a lot

better over the last four games. They've allowed just twenty three scoreless yards to tight ends. But it's a fully healthy gronk, And how do you not give him an a grade and start him for sure? A grade there? Let's go stay with the passing game. Let's move to Tom Brady. Arguably the toughest matchup of the year for Brady, particularly of Savior roads goes. Over the past five weeks, the average passing game against the Vikings one hundred eighty

one yards and zero point eight passing touchdowns. That's um And it's not like Brady's on fire either. Over his last month of play, including games against some really wobbly secondaries, He's only average two eight yards and zero point eight touchdowns himself. So I'm I don't love Brady in this matchup. I'm afraid I've got still gotta be grade out of respect for him, and because we don't know about Xavier Rhodes. If Rhodes plays, you could knock Brady down to a

C grade in this one. Let's go to uh these receivers. Josh Gordon moves to an A grade. If Xavier Rhodes is out, He's a B grade as it stands right now, and we don't know Rhodes is allowed. Hasn't allowed more than thirty six yards in his coverage over the last five games, giving up just one score over those last five games. Gordon has been in a groove thout, getting at least seventy yards and three straight games. But you know, if Rhodes is good enough to be healthy and healthy

enough to play well, then he is. There is some danger here. So the B grade on Josh Gordon right now, Julian, I don't sorry, go ahead. Rhodes did return to practice on Friday, and Zimmer gave him a decent chance to go. He sounded very optimistic, but I'm sure this is gonna be one of those you know, we'll warm up the hamstring in the pregame and you know you're not gonna know until Unfortunately, one thirty Central Time. About with the

status of Xavier Rhodes. On this one, Julian Edelman is gonna see Minnesota's slot cornerback McKenzie Alexander, who has improved a lot in coverage, but still this is a positive matchup for Edelman. Over the past five games, Alexander's only allowed an average of twelve scoreless yards per game. But Edelman's a focal point of a passing attack and Alexander has not been tested very thoroughly. A B grade for

Julian Edelman. And let's move to the running backs. Sony Michelle might need to attack through the air because he's well, he can't attack through the air. He he might want to, but he only has six receptions on the season, so I don't think that's gonna work. And then here comes the Vikings, no back his top eighty three rushing yards against Minnesota, the Vikings giving up just three point six yards per carry. That's third best. They've allowed just three

rushing touchdowns all season long. And then muddying up the waters for Sony Michelle, here comes Rex Burkhead and he got who knows, I mean, Rex hits you know with with fresh legs. He's been practicing for a couple of weeks. He's fine. Um, this thing could be really dicey for Sony Michelle and I've only got a C grade on Sony Michelle and this one C grade and James White as well. Minnesota's allowed three running backs to gain sixty

nine or more receiving yards against them this season. Um and other really good receiving backs have generally got it done. But that's the only way James White's gonna help. You're not gonna get anything on the ground. And Rex Burkhead could be a problem here too because Rex catches balls out of the backfield. So I'm showing costin on James White, and I've just got a C grade on him too. With all this talks of Rex Burkhead, do you start him?

Probably not, because who knows. He's a total X factor And I'd like to see what happens to one game. Let's go to the Viking side. I've got an A grade on Kirk Cousins because when he's not pressured, his quarterback rating is one eleven. And Pro Football focuses that the Patriots have just the twenty three best pass rush and they've generated just seventeen sacks on the season, that's third lowest in the NFL. So I think Cousins gonna be comfortable enough. And in those situations he's been good.

And every good passer to face the Patriots has walked away with multiple touchdowns and only Derrick Anderson has failed to score against the Patriots. So I like Cousins in this matchup, and I particularly like Adam thealand an absolute a going here against inconsistent slot corner Jonathan Jones, who's allowed to touchdown catching three of his past five games.

For Stefan Diggs, it's a Stephan versus Stephen game as he goes up against Stefan Gilmore and who was the best of the cornerbacks, he shadows the opposing team's best receiver. I do expect Digs to play uh in this one after missing some practice this week. Maybe volume will help UH.

No receivers seen more targets over the past month than Stefon Diggs, and the five receivers to get double digit targets against New England averaged almost one hundred yards and the five receivers caught five touchdowns, So maybe it'll work out well for him. That way a couple more guys to get to. Staying with the passing game, Kyle Rudolph, in six of the past seven games for New England to tight end has gained at least fifty yards and

or scored a touchdown against them. Kyle Rudolph saw his usage tick upwards last week for the first time in a long time. I've got a C grade on Kyle Rudolph. Was some optimism there and then uh. The running game. Dalvin Cook. His performance on the ground has so far been man but and the Patriots having allowed an eight yard rusher since Week three. Unfortunately, since his return to injury, Cook has caught all ten of his targets, and the Patriots give up the seventh most receiving yards per game

to opposing running backs. So, man, I really hope they used Dalvin Cook in the in the uh in the air game here, and hopefully they will. And that brings me to a C grade on Dalvin Cook. I've got Latavius Murray on the bench. He needs a goal line run for fantasy relevancy, and only three runners have scored on the Patriots all year. We'll take a break when we come back. Rams taking on the Lions. You notice start most or almost all of your Rams, but the

Lions side's a lot more interesting. What do you do with Matthew Stafford? What do you do with Kenny Golladay? We'll tell you and we come back. This is Fantasy Football Weekly, presented by green Bell Premium on the Fan. Welcome back to the show Fantasy Football Weekly. We're gonna dive right back into the matchups. Scott Fish Matt Harrison with US Scott Rams taking on the Lions. I know to start all my Rams or even any even questions here job. By the way, Josh Reynolds had great, a

great opportunity in this matchup too. I have Josh Reynolds as a B start, but he's still gonna have a good day. He's gonna face Mike Ford, who's a second start, undrafted free agent rookie. Yeah, and I like his chance. The Rams have three wide receivers, their big three on the field. All the time Reynolds had percent snaps played, I would almost I'm still gonna leave him in a B. But Man Woods is an A. You know, four or

seventy minimum intense straight games. Cooks is an A. He's leved the team and targets four straight weeks, averaging ten per game. Golf is an a multiple touchdowns and five straight lines of a lot of multiple touchdowns in all but one game this year. Uh did the tight ends though before before the Chiefs game, No, none of the tight ends had had more than three catches. I have them on the bench and Girly's name obviously so over over to the over the Lions side though. I think

they will be playing catch up. So that's great for Pad Stafford, who is great with garbage town numbers. Uh. So, I do have a pretty solid B grade on Stafford here. He has multiple touchdowns in sixth straight earlier this year since train away Golden Tate it uh, he's only had one. But I think he's gonna be playing catch up and the Rams have been lit up for three or more touchdown is five times this year. I think I can see that happening. Kenny Golladay, I have a very strong

EG grade on you can't help yourself. His worst game since Tate left is five for ninety and that's really his floor, honestly, uh, And I'm gonna read off his numbers. He has nine career games with at least five targets. Nine games of five targets, five for ninety eight a touch, six for seventy eight in a touch, seven for one fourteen, six for eighty nine in a touch in a touch that's yeah, four for sixty nine and two touches for

six for fifty three in a touch. Those are games in which he got nine five, five receptions, five targets, targets, that's yeah. Those are games where he gets over five targets. Is getting five targets in this game exactly. All right. So we're starting Kenny Golladay, who I've got inside my top ten, and you're be rating me because I don't have him high enough. I've got him at seven if you watched him against James Bradberry and I had a

conversation with Singing Bloom about this earlier this week. CB the CB one doesn't matter. Stafford will throw because it keeps leave comes back. I had Holiday up at number five and then on the t Lead News I nudged him down to seven. I think that was that was a slap in your face, in my face, I have an A grade on God. I have a C grade on Ellington because of the garbage time, second most targets last week. He's kind of taking over the tape roll.

It's it's really PPR leaves. I'm probably I'm benching him in standard, but in PPR leagues I'm giving him a C grade because I think he will get a decent amount of receptions. Blunt was your take, com and for me, Riddick again that game script. I think it's the highest over under the week. I think he's going to be out on the field a lot when they're behind and catching passes. I gave him a C grade, so you're startable, startable. I've got to see grade on him too, and they're

they're a handful of guys i'd play him over. But it is a nice opportunity for sure. All right, let's let's move to our next matchup, Broncos taking on the Bengals. For the Broncos, this feels like a great opportunity. We've already listed a couple of a couple of take a chance on me players from this matchup on the Broncos side, let alone Philip Lindsay, who I adore. Yeah, I was gonna use case keenum As might take a chance on any quarterback. But then Jeff Driskell was dropped out of

the clouds too. You saw the light. He ran around really fast and I was like, oh, look at that guy. Still giving case Keenum a B grade. Every quarterback except for Ryan Tannehill has had an above average game against the Bengals this year. And if you take out Lamar Jackson, who didn't pass at all against the Bengals, the last four quarterbacks to face Cincinnati have averaged three hundred thirty eight yards and three and a half touchdowns. It's just

a great um. Philip Lindsay, he's getting an A grade. In their last three games, the Bengals are allowing two hundred three total yards per game to opposing running backs. They were the ones who started the gust bus. They've also allowed the eighth most receiving yards and the most receiving touchdowns to opposing backs. Lindsay is a great, great play this week. He's my number three running back. Yeah, Emmanuel Sanders, I'm giving him an A grade as well.

From the slot, Sanders should face Darky's Dinard. Who's getting hard Dennard? Are you sure? Yeah? I want to say, because it's weird, and so everybody corrected me. When I had that's me with Mark Quez Valdez. I can't even know, but yeah, I said Marquez for a while and it's Marquez. Yeah. Okay, so dark queasy deaner who's given up a passer rating of a hundred and fifteen this season. So that meins Sanders is in a good spot and Courtland Sutton was

charged just take a chance on me. Wide receiver Jeff Heyerman is on I R. By the way, Matt Lacos is his replacement. If you're in a two tight end mandatory league or one that requires you to use a Denver Broncos tight end. On the other side, Jeff driscoll was might take a chance on the quarterback, of course, Joe Mixon. I'm giving him a B grade. Over the last month, Denver's defense has been really good against runners

only three point three yards per carry. They held James Connard only nine yards, kept Melvin Gordon out of the end zone. Uh Lamar Miller only at forty eight yards, Cream hunt On he had fifty yards on the ground, but did score touchdown through the air. A running quarterback is usually good for running backs, though, and that's why I like Joe Mixon here plus A J. Green is returning, which should help him out a lot. It should make the field a little bit more open for Joe Mixon.

And like I said, A J. Green returning, he gets a B grade and it's almost an A grade. Um, it's a good matchup for perimeter wide receivers. Uh. Frankly, all wide receivers Juju, Robbie Anderson, Robert Woods, Sammy Watkins, and DeAndre Hopkins all topped one yards. Only Woods among that group didn't score. Bradley Roby will end up on Green as Tremaine Brock has been ruled out. Yeah, okay, Brock had played pretty well lately. Yeah, Brock has been all right, but he's out this week. So Roby has

been bad. He's been just torched down the field and that might be the end for him. And so Tyler Boyd will match up with Chris Harris in the slot, so I'm not vibing him as much. He just gets a C grade in this matchup. Finally, c j Uzoma, Driskell and Uzoma our second team mates, their old buds from the second team offense. The Broncos have also allowed the eighth most receiving yards and touchdowns to the tight

end position. They gave up ten targets, eight catches and eighty five yards to the Pittsburgh tight ends last week, so it was almost kind of a sneaky little play if you're desperate, all right, I'm not that desperate. I'm having UM. That's because you invest in tight ends. Because you do the opposite, I do the opposite. You're right, so I am invested in tight ends almost everywhere Chiefs

take on the Raiders. Speaking of desperation, here's your Raiders. UM, let's start with Spencer, where you're new starting running back for the Chiefs. We talked about it the beat at the outset of the show. You can hear the podcast when we posted shortly after the show. Over the last three weeks, Oakland has allowed Melvin Gordon, David Johnson and Gus Edwards to gain one eighteen or more yards from scrimmage, and for the season, the Raiders are allowing five yards

per carry to running backs, worse than the league. Where not nearly as good a runners hunt, but he can still be very effective in a very easy matchup um every other chief Here is an obvious eight grade. I have number one positional rankings for Mahomes for Hill, for Kelsey and even Harrison butt Car. So absolutely start all those guys, and we don't even need to talk about

Sam has been ruled out. Yes, we mentioned to kick around this show, but it's the rare number one across the across the boards, and it was number one, was number one. Hunt was my number one running back? Where is not? But he's still in a grade. Let's go to the Raiders side, when I only I've got, I actually have starting grades on on a handful of players here.

Let's start with the running backs. Jalen Rochard gets a C grade because the Raiders will likely be playing from behind throughout the game and the game script will favor Richard. The Chiefs have been susceptible to pass catching running backs. Both David and Duke Johnson no relation gained over seventy five yards receiving over the last three weeks alone. Chiefs have been bad against running backs of the air all

year long. Jalen Rochard's a nice sneaky play here. Uh. Doug Martin hasn't been half bad, but the game script is terrible for him and as they probably go working the opposite direction from Jalen Richard. I don't know how long they're gonna be able to run in this one, and he's super touchdown dependent, averaging only sixty yards per game as the starter. Um, I've got a bench grade on Doug Martin, but I could see a C grade in the hopes that they they run it enough in

the first half to help him be viable. And then the guy kind of like is Jared Cook. He leads the Raiders and targets, he leads the Raiders in receiving yards, he leads the Raiders and receiving touchdowns. To be fair, there's nobody else there. There is nobody else there. He has scored one. Uh. He has scored in each of the past two games. Casey's allowed nine yards per attempt to tight ends. That's third most in the league. Cook has had two of his most successful career games against

the Chiefs last season. So Jared Cook would be great. You think there's going to be some carbage time this week. I think there might be some carbage time. I could see it happen. Uh, let's see what's working. One more matchup. Forty Niner is taking on the Seahawks. Scott Matt Brita has been a fantasy find. Do you like the running game against a surprisingly tough Seahawk Runde, I actually really

like Brady this week. They've allowed four straight running backs to top a hundred total yards, and each of them scored. The last two scored twice. Brada himself has top two hundred and thirty plus total yards and two straight in the last four Seattle is allowing six point six yards per carry in the last two, grade is averaging six point six yards per carry. I think it's a great spot for him. I actually have an A grade on him. I have an A grade on Kittle because it's George Kittle.

I honestly not and yeah, I really can't. He's like Galladay to me. I just can't. Um. But I'm benching the rest of the passing game. A quick note, Marquis Goodwin is out but right, but I just want to sew Dante Pattis, who stepped up big last week. He led the Actually, wow, I do have a C grade on him. I missed that he led the team in targets last week and has thirteen in the last two weeks. H And with those players out, Yeah, he's he's got

barely started about grade. I just want to say on Marquis Goodwin, it's I want to wish him the best. I know he's not listening, but it's great that he's speaking out about his depression and anxiety, especially after losing his kid last year. UM, if you do need help there, reach out to someone, keep the lines of communication open with with your family members and whatnot. Very very good on him speaking out and I wish him the best. UM. On the Seattle side, I have Wilson with an A

grade with that that rushing ticking up. I know it's been a little down the last couple of weeks, but he had seventy seven yards and rushing in the first seven games. He has a hundred and fifty four in the last four and multiple touchdowns in ten of eleven games, including seven straight. The four Nighters allowed multiple touchdown passes in big games to Josh Rosen, Eli Manning and Jamis Winson. I think Wilson's going to eat here. I have him as an A grade. It's not not like number one

A grade, but he's still in A grade. San Francisco also lost safety Jimmy Ward to a broken form and just just Coarski Tart. That guy may not play with a shoulder injury. He's good too, pretty good. Yeah, lock touchdown machine. I mean he he has eight touchdown He has touchdowns in eight of eleven games, in fifty or more yards, also in eight of eleven games. Just always a great start. A grade now for him. Uh, Baldwin is a B for me. He's he's back, He's off

the injury report. He he has led the team in targets the last three weeks, but it wasn't super fantasy relevant in that but slot slot guys like Tad and Theeeling and Fits and even Adam Humphreys had great games against San Francisco, So I give him a B grade here. David Moore I liked earlier in the season. We got a ton of red zone targets. He's not getting them anymore, even though he had a big game last week. I'm

just I'm gonna fade him here and bench him. Chris Carson is getting a C grade, just just barely a see grade. The four Niars have allowed the second fewest fantasy points to running backs. Yeah, and and a hundred ten total yards by se Kwon Barkley was the best day nobody else's top seventy total yards. Uh. It's basically a volume play because when he's out there, he does get a ton of volumes. I'm barely given a ce,

all right, I'm listening to that. Uh. And you know Arson also has got two other backs that are ready to walk in. And that's especially with the reports this week. They want to get Penny more touches this week. I know that we don't want Penny to get more. We hate when the waters get muddied. I'm moving to Carson down. I just moved him down three spots just from your just from hearing you talk that through. We'll take a

break when we come back. Final segment, our last two matchups and Lightning Round will take plenty of your calls as well. Final segment, Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a win and in addition, fantasy playoffs start next week. This is Fantasy Football Weekly, presented by devanes on Man. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul In, Matt Fishy, Matt fish

Fish Matt Harrison. You know that's what happens when I start by looking at Scott and by the time I'm done, I'm looking at Matt and then that's it my brain. It's over two final matchups to get to and then we'll take your calls for lightning round. We begin with Matt Jets take on the Titans. You already told us you like Isaiah Crow. Well kind of. I don't take a chance at me running back. It was a it

was a very wobbly recommendation. I was forced into taking a take a chance on me running back this weekend. They're just none. I like, all right, I kind of give Isaiah roll bench grade anyway. That's terrible. Yeah, I know. Alijah McGuire, he's on the bench to exactly six carries in each of his three games this year. The change of pace back in New York always gets six carries. Trendon Cannon got six carries the week before McGuire came off. I r I remember when that guy was a thing

for a week. Yeah. Uh, Josh McCown or Sam Donald and Donald may return in this game. Um, they're both on the bench because there's thirty two quarterbacks playing this weekend, and you've got one that's not a Jets quarterback on your roster. The Jets offense has scored ten, six and ten points in their past four games, so everybody's on the bench, and the one bright spot on their offense this year has been Chris Herndon. He scored three weeks in a row a month ago, and now he hasn't

scored in three straight. And now he plays the Titans who haven't allowed a tight end touchdown all year, and they're only allowing thirty five yards per game to the position on the Titan side. I got a C grade for Dion Lewis and a bench grade for Derrick Henry, and I dropped Derrick Henry after he was might take a chance on me running back last week. I'm just done with him. I dropped him into Empire leagues, washing our hands, picked up Dante Pettis your premature speculation, and

it's gonna work out. It is gonna work out. Lewis hasn't scored a rushing touchdown since Week one, though he only has two total touchdowns on the season. He had seven carries for eight yards last week, but he gets the starting grade because the Jets have been brutal against the run lately. A hundred and thirty three and one to Sony Michelle last week, one and two to La Shawn McCoy the week before. Uh, they're almost splitting snaps Lewis and Henry, but Lewis still leads by about a

fifty forty five margins, so Louis gets the nod. Marcus Mariotta gets a B grade. Multiple touchdown passes in each of his last three games he started and finished. He's the only quarterback in the league faster than Jeff Driscoll. By the way, Jets a multiple touchdown passes in seven of their last eight games. That includes fantasy studs like Matt Barkley, Blake Bortles, and case Keenum torching this defense. The one who didn't get multiple touchdown passes brock Osweiler.

I'll go figure, yeah, Uh, Corey Davis, I'm getting a C grade. Two. Jets cornerback Morris Clayborne has been the best part of their shaky defense, allowing three or fewer receptions in four straight games, and Davis hasn't had two straight decent games this season. His average stat line in games after scoring a touchdown, and he scored last week three catches for forty yards. It's just absolutely every other thing. No, it's not at every other thing. It's just he's not consistent.

He's wildly inconsiderton. You never know what you're gonna get. He's like a Marie Cooper on the Raiders. That's a good point, or a Marie Cooper on the Cowboys. Might I add John U. Smith he's worth mentioning he's on the bench this week. The Jets have allowed the fewest receptions and yards to tight ends this year, only four touchdowns on the season. I sabotage dropped John Smith, which is a mini Sabina really has sabotaged a little a little bit. Did they spend some money? That's the key point.

I dropped him in. Uh might have been our league anyway, but you know people are so they're so hungry for any anything that resembles a plausible tight end. People still bid on it. Uh. Redskins Eagles our final matchup of this show, and then we'll go to lightning round. But it looks it's shaping up like a long lightning round, which I love because there's not a lot to talk about on the Redskin side. We can talk about all day longer if you want me to. I'd like you

to keep your pants on, is what I'd like. Colton McCoy's might take a chance on the quarterback, and I've got a C grade on him. He'll be throwing to Jordan Read with a C grade, and Jordan Read's first game about Alex Smith. He continued to lead the Redskins, and Um continued to lead the Redskins for past attempts to pass receptions. But Philadelphia ranks fourth against tight ends, allowing only two touchdowns to the position. So I don't

love Read here, and he's always highly inconsistent. Let's go to the running back Adrian Peterson. Coinciding with the destruction of the Redskins offensive line four weeks ago, Peterson has dipped down to three yards per carry. He's only getting the ball fourteen times per game. The Eagles were an elite run defense for most of the year, but they've been trampled by opposing running backs on the ground to pass three weeks Ezekiel Elliott, both of the Saints backs,

say Kwon Barkley. They're giving a hundred forty two rushing yards per game on seven yards per carry over the last three games. So maybe there's a chance here for Adrian to get a little something back. He used to C grade Capri Bibs and Chris Thompson. Chris Thompson is now back, so that whole that whole thing gets super ugly and you want to avoid both of those guys. Uh. The only other thing I want to mention about the receivers. I wouldn't start any of him, but keep watching rookie

tray Quinn. He had this amazing preseason that he got hurt. They put him on i R, they took him off IR. He had a really good game last week. He was He was arguably better than Courtland Sutton and ms U last year. Yes, there's a watch tray Quinn. If you're in a deeper dynasty or Empire league and you're carrying over players for next year, I think tray Quinn has a better than fifty fifty percent chance chance of being the starting wide receiver for the Redskins next year. Scott,

you think that's crazy. No, I don't think. I don't think it's I don't think it's crazy at all. I will mention Josh Jockson had ten targets from Cole McCoy last week too. There's some interest there too. Yeah. Oh, by the way, Jamison Crowder last year of his contracts, so I think he's done. Tray Quinn, just keep your keep a guide to dash statue if you're in a deeper Fantasy league, dynasty league. All right, let's go to

the Eagles side. Anybody seems to care about right now is Josh Adams, who carried the ball twenty two times last week against the Giants. Get this, those twenty two carries the most carries by an Eagle since Ryan Matthews in September of ten, and he had exactly twenty two To get to more than twenty two, you have to back up another two years. Before that, the Redskins had given up an average of twenty three carries for four and a half yards per carry to lead backs Lamar

Miller and Ezekiel Elliott. The past two weeks, Redskins run defense was really good, but also a little bit like the Eagles slumping a bit lately. So Josh Adams has a B grade here, and let's hope he continues to get the majority of the work. That's it. Darren Sproles comes back and that might factor in a little bit here.

Going to the passing game, Carson Wentz gets a B grade. Unfortunately, Golden Tate has not been at all impactful as we discussed, and take a chance on me, where we all recommended dropping him or two or the three of us did Nelson Aguilars move outside has been an even bigger disaster. And get this, Nelson aguilar is getting more of a snap counting Golden Tate in the last two weeks. He has one catch for twelve yards. Why ah, so frustrating.

I know it's a disaster. All Sean Jeffrey. By the way, since the Tape trade, here's what all Sean Jeffrey is giving you four catches for a scoreless forty yards since the since the Golden Tate acquisition, all of that trade did was mess up everybody, everybody. That's what makes me that when you had a when you had Golden Tate as a Lion on your fantasy team, you had a basically an every week starter. He was. He was the best restart best, he was the most reliable fantasy receiver

on the Lions. Butter disaster and steaming over here, right, No, he's not wrong. He's not wrong anyway. Complicating matters further, WinCE his best weapons Zacher. It's faces a defense that hasn't allowed any tight ends to top forty eight yards and they've only given up one score to the position since Week five. I'm Keith Carson, and it all sounds like I'm saying bench Carson Wentz. I'm not. I still

think he's a B level start. I just got I have to believe things get better because there's too much talent. All Sean Jeffrey's great, Golden Tate's great. I gotta think they're unlock it sooner or later. Maybe it's this week, and Carson Wentz is still a fantastic quarterback, so I still have BE grade on him among others we should. We already talked about Golden Tate a lot in this matchup,

but let me just let me just mention this. He goes up against Redskins slack corner Fabian Moreau, who's given up over one dred receiving yards twice in the last three weeks. So maybe this is the week that Golden Tate becomes relevant again. I would love to think. So I've got a C grade on him here, maybe that's gonna happen. I've got a C grade on all Sean Jeffrey, as I mentioned, slumping badly lately, making matters worse. His last two meetings, Jeffrey get held the thirty seven and

thirty eight yards by the Washington Redskins. I think that wraps up that one. Let's take your calls and god, we had a lot of time. Got ten minutes. We never have ten minutes. We motored through all of these matchups, no bye weeks awfully impressive motoring. Because I'm here, maybe it is um. Ryan has been on hold for two hours and I'm not exaggerating. Thank you, Ryan, I appreciate we could let Ryan have two questions if he wanted. All right, maybe Hi Ryan, Hi? Um? I need uh

three if to be all mine? Um? Well, basically just O b j R. Brandon Cooks or Tyree Kill and Man of Sanders. Yeah. Well there you have literally my number one and number two ranked receivers and those two guys. So it's O b j Or who Brandon Cooks Man. I think I'm gonna do Cooks. I think has a much tougher matchup. I'm nervous. I'm super nervous about Oh b j in this matchup, Brian, because you held for two hours. If there's something else you need, we're here,

for you. I have Aaron Jones if my number two RP and Sony Michels in their pants has got a good move. Yeah, I keep Aaron Jones on. He got the double A grade for his birthday game against the terrible Cardinals this week. Yeah, and I gave Sony Michelle a C grade. Absolutely, you got it right. Thank you for checking in from Portland, Ryan, I appreciate it. Regular caller Ben Hi Ben, Hey, guys, thanks again. I'll be strang to this point. Uh, touchdown heavy. Let's just do

it this way. If you had to, who would you start for the rest of the year. Rogers? I think it's Rogers has a better schedule. Yeah, the schedule I think, not way better, but it's better. Yeah. I think the schedule favors Aaron Rodgers. Carolina is Cleveland, New Orleans, Atlanta. I guess maybe switching I'm going to Cam. Yeah, alright, maybe this Cam. Joe in Toronto. Hello Joe, thanks for your patients too, Ramsey, Is that would you go Hilton

Ova Beckham? Yes, I would almost either way. I probably would, to be honest, Joe. Thank you for the column. Thank you for your patients. To also in almost almost two hours on hold, which is great. Imagine these two teams are benching. I know, well, look it's a terrible matchup and you know, special and anything could happen, right, I mean would I'd be surprised me at the twenty yards and two no sounds no, because he's Odell Beckham. But

the matchup is it's their rosters are that good. There's a lot of good wide receivers in the league now, Jordan, Hello Brady or golf Brady or golf golf way higher. Yeah I do too, Yeah, absolutely, thank you. Jordan's uh Jesse your next. Yeah, Packers are rammed. It's two points per Shack bought his points were holding opposing team to low points in yardage. I think it's definitely the Packers at home against a rookie quarterback, for sure. Could I

do one more? No, I'm afraid you can't. The way this way this You can call in again, I mean, like anybody can, Jesse, just que back up. We got a lot. We still got like seven more minutes a lightning round, so feel free to call back. So you know how this works. It's one question players, I didn't actually say it this time, so you should retract your packers answer, Nate, you are next. He would have got the second question. Uh, I gotta I need a flex

for a standard Sony Michelle or Dalvin Cook. Um, I'm really down on Michelle in this one. I would start to Alvin Cook for reasons. I I think Belichick tries to take away the lands. I think so too, and I want to get a running game going and they should be able to pass to Cook too. Brian, Hello, Yeah, I gotta. It's a quick one for you. Either theo ritic or it was ridd Or Whore Bret Okay, it was it breat or Drake. Oh, I don't know. I love him go because that's how that's a lightning round.

You listen to the answer. You know, I'll just I'll just take Riddick then, all right, if it's bright, I would start, I would start, Yeah, I like, yeah, I'll go break Riddick Drake in that order. Stephen, your next, good job, Uh, standard scoring quarterback Deshaun Watson or Kirk Cousins. I'm to take DeShawn Watson in this game. I think that the Cleveland defense is pretty weak. Like the matchup a little bit better. Dan, Welcome to the fan. This week.

I wanna know PPR black Jordan Howard or Gallady Kenny Golladay. I like Jordan Howard a lot in this match I actually do too. I like how I never like Howard, I like him in this like him in this matchup a lot. But they'll take Kenny Golladay and what feels like a terrific matchup? Nick, you're next. Yes, I'm looking at a PPR league flex position. Neither Spencer where or

Dalvin Cook? Is it me where? I have where? Probably is a top five back when I when I get done with it this week, Um, I've got him, I think sitting around ten right now. But that's it's He's gonna can score so many ways though too. Yeah that's the Bob. Your next HI standards scoring quarterback Roethlisberger or Luck Roethlisberger finally next year. So that's really tough in a tougher matchup. But yeah, Luke, you're next, alright, PPR league Stills or Parker. Yeah, you know you have a

Miami receiver rule in your league. You have to start a Miami a FC East only league. Uh, Parker, I do not. I think it's still still I think it's still I'm gonna go Stills, and we'll hope for one of those long times and long touchdowns that we were getting in weeks two and three that we haven't seen since. What Tannehill is back now? The Miami Dolphins on Twitter, we're trying to get Kenny Stills into the Pro Bowl. What they're trying to get people to vote Kenny Stills.

I saw, I saw a I saw a quote from Kenny Stills yesterday saying I can't throw the ball to myself and right sometimes squeaky will squeaky will get you know, the grease. So maybe Sunny Hello, Hey guys, uh PPR, Dreen Peterson or Time Montgomery PPR, Yeah, PPR. You know I'm gonna go Bold and go Montgomery. Yeah. I don't blame you, Jason, You're next, Hey, standard scoring, Tony Michelle or Dalvin Cook. We just had this one, Uh, Dalvin, we think Dalvin and what else would a squeaky wheel

get besides Greece um replaced? No, yeah there. I think the other one is squeaky mouse gets the cheese, so maybe you can get cheese. As I was saying, squeaky well, I'm like, wait, it's not cheese. I've never heard squeaky mouse gets the cheese once in my entire life. Now you have. Now you have made that up, Eric, I might have just made it up. Eric's next. Hello, Hey guys. Standard scoring curdis Damuel or Courtland Sutton. I think it's just not me and I like Courton Sutton. Here was

my taket chance to be wide receiver. Lots sunches back. It's got to be Sutton. Yeah, I like I like him. Nick. You're next the are Cohen or Carson? Oh? I think Carson just off a pure volume. Tom you are next on the fan, Shawn Watson or a little Lamar Jackson. M m oh come on, oh come on, it's actually they're close. Yeah yeah Watson for me. I love Lamar Jackson. I know that you do. Man. I'm still man. I have a Lucky I have a league with Luck Mahomes

and Lamar Jackson. I can't can't get him in the roster. Here's the thing about Lamar Jackson. It's so much fun to watch him come watching every time. Every time he tucks and runs and wick it could be fifty yards. It's just so much fun. And at some point fantasy football should be fun. Lamar Jackson is fine, and you've convinced that people should play super flex. All right, Mark, you're next. Hello, you're up? Yeah? Um halfpoint PPR. I'm

gonna Guillotine League. So with Antonio Brown and Tyree locked in, do I go didn't cook their Austin Ekeler? Who? Um? I would go Brandon cooks even with the tougher matchup on against Darius Slay Eckler, I think it's going to be in a fifty fifty time share. I don't think enough to cooks enough. I'm leaning, Yeah, I lean cooks. I think gets touches. And congratulations to get into this stage of the of the Guillotine League. You out survived me.

I'll survive Fish, although Matt Harrison is still alive. By the way, the last time Gordon, the last time Gordon missed, Ekeler played snaps. He's Brilli in there. Okay, I like that. I didn't know that stat. That's a good stat. Uh. Mark, you are next, and our final call standard league Watson or will uh Winston. I've got Watson a couple of spots ahead. Um, I've Winston's got a nice matchup, but you know, Watson has been very good and if this turns into a game, will they actually let him throw

more than twenty five times? Then? What if it's a and it's crazy beside passing yardage heavy? Well maybe yeah, he said standard, but depending on his version of standard, you know, what standard actually means is up for debate. Um, to all the Cream Hunt owners, I'm sorry that you deserve a better faith than this. It's sad that this it worked out this way in a deeply unfortunate situation.

Hopefully you can cobble together some playoff wins anyway. Um, and hopefully you had you hopefully you had Spencer wear anyway, which would have been which would have been the right thing to do to begin with, to secure your handcuff at the late stage of the season. If you miss any part of the show, check out the podcast Cafe and dot Com Fan on Demand, also available on iTunes, and thanks to everybody who takes the time to review and rate the show. Saturday's with Sauce at one Hour

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