FFW Week 14 (Fantasy Playoffs Week 1)

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got a buy weekend. It doesn't even matter. You're just listening to see if you can have a great game when it doesn't matter. Paul Charchy in here my co host today, Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Hey, how's it going. Good morning. It's going great as a matter of fact, because it's the playoffs. It's winning in now, winning in it's it's it's win and win and continue. Can you make it in the Church League? Number one seed? What?

You don't want? A bragger? But I don't know. There's like some sort of bird noise that we could play for something like that. But I know you probably have to pull it up. I'll pull it up. Pull it up. That's good, that's actually quite good. I've been really practicing at home. You know. I as a rule, I don't talk about my teams, and we don't talk about our own teams here. Um. But I followed my own preseason advice, like I banked heavily on chiefs um And and I

just I loved Sae Kwon Barkley. He was my number two ranked running back in the preseason. You don't always get the one seed in the Church League. You can revel in this one yeah, so I feel good about it. But there's no bye week in the charch, oh my gosh, and so I gotta play this week and my Chiefs have got to have got the tough match up with the Ravens. So uh, there's I could very well be bounced in this one. Speaking of teams that are getting bounced,

one seed is getting bounced. You know who's gonna bounce them. It's Derrick Henry because Derrick Henry is on is on these bottom Derrick Henry is on these bottom seeded teams. Mostly they didn't get in right, mostly didn't get in with Henry. But if you did get in, you're a sixth seed or an eight seed, right, and and you're in and you're starting Henry. It's it's not a lot of them, but it's that's the scenario where it happens. And those guys are going up against one seeds, it's

gonna there's gonna be some Derrick Henry bouncing. I don't think anybody had Derrick Henry in their lineup. In fact, I looked it up on Fanball for our Thursday through Monday slate one. But that's DFS. That's different. But how many people were A in the playoffs, and B had nothing else that they could play. But Derrick Henry going up against a Jaguars defense that was really really good and gave up zero points last week. There there there's

no reason. It was totally unexplicable, but you had you should have played Henry at all. It was. It was a sheer desperation play if anybody did play him. But I asked for screenshots on Twitter at Paul Charchy and lots I got lots of screenshots of people proving that, you know, showing me the live scoring that that proves they had him. So Derrick Henry was out there. I know. I'm tempted to talk about what to do if you

went against him, but mostly people didn't. And you know, I think you already know the answer to that to some degree. Anyway, your your high risk, high reward players, pour one out for a good season. Really yeah, right, you're you're probably you're almost certainly cooked. If you can come back, if you can, if you can beat Derrick Henry, that would be awfully impressive one to remember. All right,

let's let's dive into uh dive into the show. You know the bit we're still continuing with take a chance on me, because there are still even though it's the playoffs, there are still people that have to find help, especially at the running back position. With everything that's happened, Uh, we'll still have three hot questions, will still lightning round. We're gonna break down fifteen different matchups, beginning with what should be an epically high scoring game Atlanta at Green

Bay Scott. I see a ton of points coming in this one, and I think that I think the Packers are going to uh gonna write the ship a little bit here. What do you think? Yeah? I think so too, especially especially because that Atlanta team is really bad. It's quarterbacks. I think their second worst than the season. But I'm gonna start with the Atlanta side. Uh. Matt Ryan's been pretty streaky as of late, but he did face like New Orleans and New Orleans, Dallas and uh, I think

the other one was Baltimore. Baltimore and Dallas have been pretty tough recently, so um he has three hundred plus and five of his last seven. His touchdowns all over the map. As I was kind of mentioning, But the pack Uh, they have a lot of multiple touchdowns passes to nearly every decent quarterback this year. Right, So I like this a lot from Ryan, and you mentioned the high scoring aspect. I just want to touch on that. Uh. The line was originally forty eight. It's already up to

fifty and a half. It's moving on up. So Julio was an obvious a for me. The last two times he faced the Packers were just giant two hundred plus and one eight yard games, touchdowns in both uh nine catches eleven, just huge games, so obviously they're Ridley is kind of a dart throw for me. He's man since his early season explosion. He's only top scored twice and only top fifty yards twice. In those two games where he hit fifty plus and scored, it took nine targets

and thirteen targets. I don't know that he gets that in this one, but he's kind of a dart throw because it could be a really high scoring affair. A very soft Sea grade on him. Uh C grade on Hooper twyna and targets over the last four games is promising. Uh it's a resulted in two scores, but he's averaging less than forty yards in those games, so a little bit of PPR upside. Every tight end with seven or more targets against the Packers had sixty plus yards. I

don't know that he gets to seven targets. Yeah, dot Hooper, I had him with a soft Sea grade. I don't love him in this one, but I could be persuaded to a bench grade. Honestly, But yeah, tight ends the way they are this year, I give a C grade. I have Coleman and Edo on the bench, even in a high scoring affair. Tevin Coleman has had four yards per carry or less in ten games this year. The last two weeks fourteen carries for fourteen yards. I was going to mention that it seems like about one point

zero yards per carry. Your your math skills are uncanny, right, I didn't even use my calculator. Hey, can you try this one, Keto Smith Over the last two games, eleven carries for twenty two yards twice as good? Uh carry the one track? Where did you get that advocate so fast? And one nine? Oh you're so close? And it's only averaging three point two yards per carry on the season.

I don't like them much at all. I think this is gonna be a full passing game, so they split just enough for me to bench both on the other sides. I got a lot of A grades here. I almost want to say Rogers, Adams, and Aaron Jones are so obvious I don't need to mention them. But I'm just gonna say that Falcons are second worst against fantasy quarterbacks this year. Uh. I think that with McCarthy gone, they might want on Rogers might want to on load a bit.

Aaron Jones, He's been so good, scored in four straight games with six touchdowns in those games. Davonte Adams, I mean, yeah, those are all A grades. I don't even want to waste my time, on our time on that. So Jimmy Graham, I'm giving a C grade here. Uh. We had concerned, but when he broke his thumb, he had a kind of a matt outing against the Vikings. But last week he reeled in eight of eleven targets. Atlanta has allowed fifty plus two tight ends in three the last five.

I think, I think this is what Graham does this week, especially in a high schooling affair. I gave him a SE grade. I've got Aaron Jones at running back for Davante Adams at wide receiver. Three, and and Aaron Rodgers at quarterback three. So you know, I'm fully all those guys. I spent like thirty seconds on them. That was almost too much. That was almost too much. I think their

auto starts. All right, let's go. Let's go to another guy who's normally an auto start, Andrew Luck, but got shut out last week, and now he gets a good Houston secondary. Do you like Andrew Luck going up against Houston? Matt Oh, it's me with the Andrew Luck matchup high? How's it? Yeah? Funny? You know it's always you chart. Guess what great I gave Andrew Luck this week? Um bench? I gave him an A grade? What never ever on

the same page with Andrew Luck. In Week four, Andrew Luck had four hundred sixty four yards and four touchdown passes against the Texans defense. Since then, the Texans have faced maybe the best group of quarterbacks ever, Dak Prescott, Nathan Peterman, Blake Bortles, brock Osweiler, case Keenum and then they broke Alex Smith's leg. And then after breaking Alex Smith's leg, they gave up three or three and two to Marcus Mariota and three seven and one to Baker Mayfield,

Andrew luck is going to have a good game. He's back to an a start. He's gonna get right back on it. Okay, yeah, he's no. You kind of you kind of sold me a little bit. I've I have him ranked twelve at the quarterback position. I've got a B grade on QB one though it's QB one all right. Uh t y Hilton, I'm given a B grade two. He's top seventy seven yards and four straight and has three games of a hundred and fifteen yards or more in his last four meetings with the Texans, with three

touchdowns to go along with that. A shoulder injury had him miss practice most of the week. He is a game to time decision, but he did practice on Friday, so I think Hilton's gonna go. Eric Ebron he gets an A grade. He was sick earlier in the week and he missed some practice time. He had sixteen targets last week, and it's one of those rare occurrences when two players are splitting a position and one goes down that the other player actually gets all of the work.

Eric Ebron is getting everything that Jack Doyle had, and Houston is awful versus the tight end bottom eight rankings and receptions, yards and scores to the tight end. I love Ebron this week. I do a lot running games on the bench. Though Mac only had eight carries, Hines had four last week against the Jags, and that was a Jags team that just got torched by Derrick Henry. Right. They couldn't get it going right and Derrick Henry ken Uh. So the Colts are on the bench for the running game.

Over on the Texans side, Lamar Miller he gets a C grade. The Colts haven't allowed a running back to top eighty one yard since Week five. That's seven games, and in those seven games, only two running backs have scored on the ground, and Miller had an underwhelming forty nine yards in the first meeting on fifteen. Ari's Deshaun Watson's getting a B grade. He had his first thirty passing attempt outing since Week five. Charches probably excited about that. Yeah.

Uh And the Colts guess what, they faced a very similar schedule of quarterbacks. That's why they look good. It's ridiculous. Kessler, Tannehill, Gabbert, Bortles, car Derek Anderson, and Sam Donald are the last seven they faced. You can't. If I asked you to put such string together the seven worst opposing quarterbacks in the NFL, you'd have the last seven teams the Colts of face. The a f C South got all the bad quarterbacks.

So uh yeah, Watson had three seventy five, two through the air and one on the ground in the first meeting, so he's a B grade. DeAndre Hopkins easy a last six games against the Colts, he's averaging a hundred and four yards. However, da Marius Thomas and Kiki Cutie, I got them both on the bench. The Colts are top ten in receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to the wide receiver position. Yeah, because they're facing Sam Donald and playing Gabbard,

And yeah that's true. They've only allowed a hunt thirty two yards in a score per game. And that's about what DeAndre Hopkins should kit in this game. So there's not a lot to go around for the rest of the guy's son Leavin, Thomas and Cutie on the bench. Alright, final matchup of this the opening segment is uh at one that should cause great consternation for Chiefs owners. It is the Ravens versus the Chiefs. Let's start on the

Ravens side. Lamar Jackson gets a B grade. Over the last three starts, he has scored the fourth most Fantasy points among quarterbacks, despite the fact that Lamar Jackson has thrown one touchdown. That tells you the power of rushing when you are an extremely good rushing quarterback like Lamar Jackson. Um one of these weeks is gonna throw a couple

of touchdowns and just post a monster game. And it could be this week considering that seven there's seven touchdowns that the Chiefs defense has allowed over the last two weeks. So maybe Lamar Jackson throws two here and he ends up doing what he always does on the ground and then monster week coming. But I think he's safely a B grade no matter what, because the rushing almost insures fifty six yards seems like an automatic and I don't know how he falls below a B grade unless they

absolutely shut down the rushing. Fish and I were pondering who which team might equal Derrick Henry's two thirty eight rushing yards this week as a team as a team, and Baltimore was the one that kind of came to be with Jackson and the gust Bush. They could who was Guss I'll take that as my transition. This is a B grade averaging twenty rushing attempts per game with Lamar Jackson in the lineup. Uh, he doesn't catch me passes, so he's not gonna help you through the air. But

it doesn't matter. Posing backs of top eighty five rushing yards and five of the last six against the Chiefs. So if you figure Gus is gonna go eighty five, maybe a hundred, then now I'll give you another hundred plus ab Lamar Jackson. Then there's there's your Derrick Henry game. Yeah maybe that, maybe it comes together there. But there's one other running back to start for the Ravens. There is. There is Tie Montgomery. Yeah, he posted five catches last week.

And the Chiefs are allowing the most receiving yards to running backs, the most re seeving touchdowns and running backs, and the third most receptions to running backs. If only somebody would have told you to pick him up like two weeks two weeks ago, and like a prematurely speculatory kind of way. Oh yeah, that was a was a matter of fact. Everybody else in the passing games on the bench Brown, Crabtree, Snead all been a disaster under

Lamar Jackson. Combined, they have scored combined the three guys, they have one touchdown in the last five weeks. So it's not even just Lamar Jackson. That's including a couple of games with Joe Flacco in there. Get this, none of top fifty eight yards in five weeks either. If you had the ability to start all three Baltimore wide receivers as one player, they still would you do it. They would together, they'd have a sea grade. Uh, let's go to the Kansas City side, and this is the

area of consternation for fantasy owners. I still have an A grade on Patrick Mahomes. You're going to start Mahomes, Kelsey and Hill flat out going to start them. I totally get it. But let's just talk about what they're up against. Sense Jimmy Smith's returned from suspension way back in Week five. The average quarterback line against the Ravens one hundred nine five yards and one point four touchdowns. That's half of what we're used to getting from Patrick

Mahomes in any given game. The Ravens secondary doesn't have any glaring areas to exploit their solid every place, so I don't you know, you still have to start my homes and nobody be surprised if he had a three touchdown game here in three yards, but that would be a total aberration against the Ravens. Let's go to the other obvious place, Travis Kelsey obvious a. The tight end defense, though,

was the only real weakness for the Ravens defense. They've given up five touchdowns in the last six games to tight ends. Kelsey is the safest play out of the big name guys. Tyreek Hill B grade. This is an excellent Baltimore secondary that's only a lot of four touchdowns to wide receivers since Week two. Allow me to repeat that four touchdowns to wide receivers since Week two for

the Rains. That's unbelievable. Uh. Tyreek Hill runs from all over the field, but most commonly from the slot, where he'll draw coverage from Ravens cornerback Brandon Carr, who's allowed at least seventy six yards and two of his last four games. So there's an angle there. Uh. We'll give Tyreek Hill a B grade here. Chris Conley will likely get to start with Watkins hurt, but it's a brutal matchup, and you're not gonna go all the way down to

Chris Connley. Here, let's talk about Spencer Wear. I know everybody ran too the waiver wire to pick him up. He looked Mundane let Us two weeks ago, he looked Mundane last week, and then he's got an elite Baltimore run defense here, allowing just sixty five rushing yards per games, second lowest. They're giving up three point four yards per carry, also second lowest. Only one runner is top sixty four

yards since Week two against Baltimore. I really should have where on the bench, but I'm giving him a C grade just out of respect for the offense as a whole and the fact that he would likely get any goal line carries were any to become available. I it's a tough, tough matchup for Spencer Wear. So look, line short of it is, Chiefs powered you into the playoffs. There's no guarantee that you're gonna continue. They could power you right out of the Yes we did. Um, we'll

take a break when we come back. Plenty more matchups to get to, including New England taking on Miami Patriots. Inexplicably always struggle in this situation. We'll tell you what to expect from Tom Brady, his receivers, and especially the various running backs of the Patriots when we come back. This is Fantasy Football Weekly, presented by green Bell Premium on the fan Take a chance. I mean nine players not normally in your starting line up, many of whom

are available on the waiver wire. We begin at the quarterback position. Scott, we got uh well this week, I got Jamis Winston. I think it's a great matchup for him. He has multiple touchdowns in three straight. And the Bucks, I don't know if you know this, They have the most passing yards as a team in the end in NFL history through which do you mean? They have the wait,

the defense has yielded the most. No. Buccaneers have passed for the most yards him plus Fitzpatrick in NFL history through Wow, I didn't know that they've actually been on that street for a few weeks. And they've been. They've benched their starting quarterbacks how many times this year? And they're setting the all time NFL record in passing yards combined. They set a record in interceptions to the Saints have allowed the second most passing yards this year allowed to

quarterbacks bucks will be thrown from behind. I think so Winston, it's my quarterback, alright, Matt, I've got Baker Mayfield. The Panthers defense has absolutely fallen apart over the last five weeks, resulting in four losses for their team. They've allowed fourteen passing touchdowns in that span and an average of two

seventy five yards per game. And since we through the Freddie kitchen sink at Baker Mayfield, he's been pretty decent multiple scores and five of his last six and the sixth was last week when he only threw for one touchdown but Tali three seven yards. I'm going with Josh Allen against the Jets. And this is the same Josh Allen who is the highest scoring quarterback in Fantasy football over the last two weeks. It might have been my tick on list. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Go ahead,

look you earned it. He saw that he has more top five finishes as a fantasy player per week than Aaron Rodgers does this this year. I'm starting him in the fantasy playoffs. Is my second quarterback and the homes Josh Allen one of my leaks. Get this His two hundred twenty four rushing yards the last two weeks is topped by only four running backs. It's unbelievable when he's bringing on the ground and it's a game against the Jets. So even if the legs don't help him, help you out,

the arm will. The Jets are allowed multiple passing touchdowns and eight of the last nine games addition by subtraction to get Calvin Benjamin off the field. So I like Josh Allen on the ground through the air, he could have another game. He could have another top yet another in a series of well now to uh games since the elbow injury. Coming back from the elbow injury with a top performance, let's go to the running back position. Scott, I need to apologize to our listeners out there because

I failed you last week. I had it in my notes in the forty Niners matchup to tell you to pick up Jeff Wilson. I did in all my leagues, and I I failed our listeners. That's what I did. Do you have It's just a app there's a definition of a humble brag. Yeah it really is. You knew it, but you didn't tell anybody failed to tell anybody. Uh, but man does he has. He had twenty three touches last week, turned into a hundred and thirty four yards niners a plane from behind a lot. He had eight

catches for seventy three. Those eight receptions are the most by San Francisco running back in a game this season, which is crazy. But he's gonna get so much volume that I think he's a great start this week. All right, please go ahead and tweet at Scott Fish twenty four a gift of how you feel about this information that he with her holding any information from our listeners this week. Well, I'm going to do it on purpose. Now. Yeah, I've

got Justin Jackson. He only had eight carries in one catch last week, but he made it count with eighty two yards total yards and a score against the Steelers. Anthony Lynn said during his Tuesday press conference that Austin Ekeler has been wearing down and he's an important part of the special team. So he's a little tired, and you'd also see an increase in Justin Jackson and possibly Detre's Newsome this week. Eckler was the clear lead back

last week with thirteen carries and eight targets. But I think Jackson is going to be the lead carrier this week. The Bengals are a packing it in for the season as everybody is hurt and they've lost six to the last seven and be really terrible against the running back, allowing the most total yards per game to the running back position. The Chargers could use this as a pseudo rest week for Ekeler, so we could see a ton of Justin Jackson. Oh absolutely, I like him a lot.

This week. I've got Last week, I gave you La Garrett Blunt and he ended up with like sixty rushing yards, did not score. This week, I'm giving you La Garrett Blunt again, really going because it worked out so well last week. But here's the thing. If you give me two chances at any take a chance on me, I will come through for you. And so will Garrett Blunt

this week because he goes up against Arizona. Fast forward to Churches chance, Garrett Blood, Carrie and Johnson has been ruled out, so you know Blunt's going to see the majority of the work. It will get the goal line carries. He's averaged a respectable four and a half yards per carry the last two weeks without Johnson in the Cardinals, though, it's all about the matchup. The Cardinals give up the most rushing attempts, the third most rushing yards, and the

most rushing touchdowns per game in the league. So it's such a juicy matchup. If you take on Blunt against uh I believe they played Minnesota the last week and Buffalo the week that to be impressive. So he's averaging eighteen carries per game when Carrie on Johnson's gone that kind of volume against these Cardinals virtually automatic. Let's go to the receiver position, Scott, second week in a row, I'm gonna go with a Buffalo wide receiver. So this

is really scary for me. But as Charge preaches at training camp about the inside the five numbers, opportunity opportunities a big deal. Z A. Jones is third in the NFL into his team's target share, putting him in within the likes of Keenan Now and Kenny Golladay, Travis Kelsey, Kittle, Adams Beckham, digs Hill, etcetera. He gets a ton of his team's work. He has three touchdowns in the last three weeks. The Bill's just released Kelvin Benjamin and Andre Holmes.

So that's gonna three up like three targets again. And remember just a couple of weeks ago against this same Dolphins team, four for sixty seven and two touchdowns. Oh yeah, and he's going up against buster screen. Yeah that helps the busted screen. Let's go, so, j z A Jones, z A Jones, Matt your receiver. Some people might need a little help at the tight end position because it's been a waste land this year. That's why I've got Ian Thomas, who takes over for and injured Greg Olsen.

It's worth noting that Thomas has had at least five targets in each of the last three games that Greg Olsen did not start and finish. He caught all five of those targets last week for forty six yards. And it's a good matchup for Thomas. The Browns have allowed Austin Hooper and Jordan Thomas to score against them in the last three games, and big time tight ends like Travis Kelsey and Jared Cook each scored twice against the Browns earlier in the year. So Ian Thomas, if they're

gonna catch some touchdowns, might be him, all right. And my final guy, Trey Kwon Smith. And I know a lot of you have played tray Kwon Smith exactly wrong over the last month. Started him for zero to his zero catch get you didn't start him for the Washington game when he went berserk. Then you start him the next and then you've started him the next week and he gave you zero catches, and then you benched him the next week, and it's Thanksgiving and he posts ted

catches hundred six yards in a touchdown. So then you put it back in your line up the next week and you got zero and got hurt. And so now we're back. Tray Kuan Smith is starting against the Buccaneers. Is it gonna be all or is it going to be nothing? Tampa's allowed the second most wide receiver touchdowns eighteen of them, including touchdowns in every single game this year. And the guy tray Kuan Smith replaced Ted Kin also a straight line speed guy, just like Drake Won Smith

scored in this matchup against Tampa in Week one. Tray Kuan Smith the ultimate all or nothing guy. That's our final take a chance on me this week. It's like, Ohtown, Tom Brady has been ice cold Matt and he has average over the last five weeks, he's averaging less than one touchdown pass. There's a fish game, so ok I was gonna, I was gonna pass it to Fish. Okay, Scott averaging less than one touchdown pass per game. He has failed to finish higher than QB in any game

for five straight weeks. Tom Brady, do you like him against Miami in Miami? Oh? Man, in Miami. I'm sure you already know this, but he's one in four in his last five games, hasn't top two hundred fift yards, only seven touchdowns in those five games in Miami. So I had him as a B grade, but as I think about it, I think I'm lowering him down to a C grade here. Uh he should still do fair, okay, just barely startable, but man, yeah, he's been ice cold.

I do. I do like his uh, some of his position players, though with no Xavien Howard, I like Josh Gordon. Over the last six games, he's averaging eighty yards per game in over nineteen yards per catch, which you can do the math, and that means he's averaging about four catches the game. But with no Zavian Howard, I like the matchup I gave him a B. They also gave Edlman a B as well in that same span, averaging six catches per game. Uh, but only about seventy yards.

But in PPR leagues that's getting it done, So I'm giving him a B grade. Gronk also a B grade because he's be come very touchdown dependent. Luckily, the Dolphins have allowed seven tight end touchdowns in the last seven weeks, including multiple to Ebron, Jordan Thomas, and Michael Roberts, so I think Gronk might be able to get it done in the red zone here. Charles Clay was the only bad game in those last seven weeks for against the Dolphins, so B grade there. Sony Michelle, I'm giving him an

A grade. He has over twenty touches per game since returning from injury, and before McCoy crap the bad last week. The previous five who we argued about our B grade. That the way the previous five running backs to have eighteen and more touches top two total yards against the Dolphins, I think that's in the range. For Michelle. I have Burkehead on the bench because he only had nine touches last week. What worries me here is White. I still gave him a B grade because he's so PPR dependent.

But without Burkehead he was averaging forty five snaps per game. Down he's averages thirty two snaps a game with burke Head in as evidence by thirty three last week. Burkehead replaces him, not Michelle. So that's the PPR upside, is why I'd still give him a nice safe PPR floor. So I barely give him a beat on the dolphin side. I don't like anything except from maybe a dart throw on Kenny Stills, because eight percent of Stills receptions have

come from Tannehill. He has four out of five touchdowns have come from Tannehill. Uh, it's a touchdown. It's almost a touchdown dependent girl. So yeah, so okay, it's a spin of the wheel or a name from the hat or whatever. But barely a sea grade on Sills. But I'm mentioned everything else, all right. I like that angle. Carolina. We'll take on Cleveland when we come back. We'll talk about Cam Newton, who has thrown exactly two touchdowns and nine of his last ten games, will he throw exactly

two touchdowns? Find out when we return. This is Fantasy Football Weekly presented my Green Bell Premium on the Van Welcome Back Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan, Paul Church and Scott Fish Matt Harrison with you. It is yeah, high, Scott, I can confirm people are sending me Jeff's now because of gifts. Gifts. I giff, Jeff is the peanut butter. That's clearly a Jeff pi F. That's fine, So I like Giff. I'm fine with. However, Standford graphic interface not

graffic file something. Yeah, yeah, correct, Yeah, that's You're exactly right. The guy who invented calls the Jeff, so that's what I and then and then he gets to say it's an old CompuServe format. By the way, anyway, Carolina takes on Cleveland, Matt and in a statistical anomaly I may never see again, Cam Newton is thrown exactly two touchdowns and nine of his last ten games nine times, nine times, nine times. How does that happen? You can't you can't

make it happen. It's unbelievable. Well, if you need three touchdowns from Cam Newton, he will give you two. Well, if you need one, he will give you two. He's the Leroy Horde of quarterbacks. Maybe he could throw like five touchdowns in any given game, but he's throttling it back and just just stop at the two. That's right. I don't want to set expectations too high. I gave him an A grade this week. The Browns have faced a few running quarterbacks this year. Uh, They've been pretty

successful for the most part. Deshaun Watson had the least success with two and one passing and only thirty on the ground, but Jeff Driscoll had one fifty five and one through the air and one on the ground against the Browns in about a half of play. By the way, Mahomes had three seventy five and three. Jamis Winston had three. He had a rushing score as well as to go along with fifty five rushing yards. So yeah, Cam's a good start. So is Christian McCaffrey. He's an A grade.

He's their best receiver. Uh. D J. Moore, I'm giving a C grade two. He's the only other receiver I have a starting grade on besides I and Thomas. Who's might take a chance on me player? Uh uh? When funis returned. It's good that Morris targets didn't dry up. He still had eight. It only converted to four for forty four last week, though more and forty six routes. Well, Curtis Samuel ran forty one and Devin Funcius only ran twenty two. Yeah, there's a lot of steam behind Samuel.

There are a lot of people think Samuel's become borderline every week starter. Guy end Yeah, I was thinking Samuel's for a second, Samuels, Curtis Samuel, Yeah, Moore is the only one I want to start. UH. On the other side, Nick Chubb, I'm giving a B grade two UH. Panthers have been pretty good against the run. They have not allowed run at the top one hundred yards since Week two, but they have allowed a rushing touchdown to a back

in four straight games. And Nick Chubb's getting all the work, which means Duke Johnson's on the bench because someone called Dontrelle Hilliard had more targets and receptions than Duke last week, and he was only good in those two games against Kansas City in al Ah. That was it. We thought. We all thought Duke could sort of turned the corner. He's getting dropped in my leaves understandably, so Baker Mayfield was might take a chance on the quarterback, I'd give

him a B grade this week. Jarvis Landry is also getting a B. Last week I told you to start wide receiver Adam Humphreys against the Panthers. They've all been terrible and slot coverage the whole season. Well, let's talk Jarvis Landry though. Where this match. Tyler Boyd, Tyler Lockett, Juju Sterling Shepherd, Cole Beasley, and Humphries twice all had big days against captain Munterlin. So Landry's a B. Uh. Antonio Callaway kind of a C grade as well. I

like him. He'll line up against James Bradberry, who's allowed the most yardage in the league to opposing wide receivers. Uh Callaway fumbled at the goal line on a seventy one last last week, so he was really really close to a huge, huge day. Uh David Joku also giving a B grade. Two. Good spot for in Joku facing the Panther's defense that's bottom eight in receptions and yards allowed to touch downs or two tight ends, and they've

allowed the most tight end touchdowns on the season. My previous matchup had an elite offense Kansas City going up against a great defense. This one another elite offense, the Rams going up against the great defense Chicago, and this one got flex to the Sunday night game. This is your Sunday Night game, uh, and deservedly so this is a this is an epic matchup right now. Todd Gurley, obviously you have to start him, He's an A grade.

But just know the Bears give up the fewest rushing touchdowns and the fews yards per carry, so it's it's a brutally tough game. He will do all right through the air. I think Bears go up the eleventh most receptions per game to the position, and some other dual threat runners like David Johnson carry on. Johnson have found ways to get into the end zone. So you're obviously

gonna start Todd Gurley. But after that it's all murky. Um. But let's talk about the The fascinating part about this for me is Jared Goff because and I've talked about this in past shows. In games in which Todd Gurley is held to zero or one touchdowns, which the Bears will probably do, Jared Goff makes up the difference in those Todd Gurley, those modest Todd Gurley games. Jared goff averages three hundred fifty three yards and three touchdown passes.

The hope is that he can continue to do that. Here, I've got him with a B grade because I don't know that he can get to those numbers against the Bears. Um. The Bears get so much pressure on opposing quarterbacks. But he's got a great offensive line in front of him. Let's talk about his receivers. Brandon Cooks with a B grade because he's gonna see a lot of Kyle Fuller.

Fuller doesn't necessarily the speed to keep up with Cooks, but he's technically very sound, and over the last seven games, Kyle Fuller has allowed averages of just forty one yards and zero point one touchdowns in his coverage over the last seven games. So a tough matchup for Brandon Cooks, whom's normally a lock a, goes down to a beat and Robert Woods, who I've I loved last week, slumps down to a C grade. Here he runs out of

the slot since Cooper Cup's injury. That means he's going to see a bunch of Bryce Callahan and it is a tricky matchup against the bears best corner Callahan's allowed just one touchdown on the season. He's also given more than twenty three yards in his coverage just once in the past six games. He is an absolute shutdown slot corner. And I'm nervous about Robert Woods and Josh Reynolds goes

down to the bench. He's had a nice season allowing uh he's had He has had a good season when they've asked him to play, but he doesn't get enough looks. I think it's safer to just leave him on the bench and a tough matchup. Let's let's go over to the bare side. Trek Cohen a grade. In the two games, will Chase Daniel. Cohen was targeted twenty two times, hauling a nineteen of them. Uh, Chase Daniel will not be your starter here, but it shows him trending the right way.

The Rams have given up touchdowns to backs through the air in three the last four games. The Rams run defense isn't great, but shifty backs like Aaron Jones and Alvin Kamer have posted strong games against l A in the second half of the season. I love Corto Rick going in this matchup. I think he's my number nine running back overall. He is my number running back. He's my number nine running back. Let's go to the passing game.

M r Bisky back as a reminder, from week four to week eleven, when he was healthy, Mitch dr Whisky was Fantasy football second highest scoring quarterback, and he's got a lot of upside against an inconsistent RAMS secondary here. I will note though, that it keep to leave his back, and that's a huge change in improvement for the RAMS secondary. In three full games with the keep to leave, the Rams allowed averages of just two thirteen passing yards and

zero point three passing touchdowns. It's a much better secondary with him. Uh, but it's still still I've gotta be great on Mitch dr Whisky because he was so effective and the rushing yards that he brings in as well. Is number one receivers Allen Robinson Uh. He hopes to continue a stretch of four touchdowns in Trabisky's last five starts. It's also worth noting that l A has only allowed one receiver top fifty yards in the four games of the keep to leave, so that part working against him still.

Allen Robinson's the main target for Mitch, and I've got to be great on him. Taylor Gabriel's got a sneaky good matchup. You gotta pick your spots with Gabriel, but I like him here. He'll most frequently match up against Marcus Peters, arguably most burned quarterback in the cornerback in the league. Peters has given up six passing touchdowns in his coverage and a pass a rating of one six. So Taylor Gabriel not normally some of you'd want to start, but I think you do here. I've got a C

grade on him. Trey Burton has been a disaster, but in games with Mitch Drabinsky averages forty two receiving yards and half a touchdown per game, and in the past two games without Drabinsky scoreless fourteen yards. Hopefully Drabinsky comes back. It's a little something dumb here. The Rams allowed tight ends to average eighties seven receiving yards, so there is an opportunity for Trey Burton, who gets a C grade. The last guy that I haven't mentioned and should is

Jordan Howard. Last week, Howard posted his highest yards per carried since Week six. I liked him a lot going into last week's game, and he finished with an okay game, he passed. He passed the eye test in my mind last week. Straight ahead power backs haven't been very successful overall against the Rams, but they have found the end zone against the Rams. Rashad Penny Jamal Williams have both scored in the past few weeks as straight ahead plotting

runners like Jordan Howard. A lot there was a meeting matchup, A lot to be said, meaty, meaty. Uh, let's uh. I want to work in one more matchup and then we'll try to get in a call here at New Orleans taking on Tampa Bay in what what figures to be a massively highest scoring game. Already told you Trey Kwon Smith might take a chance on me one receiver. What do you think about Drew Breese in this matchup? Fifty five and a half over under highest of the week.

So so you nailed that one? Uh? Do I need to tell you what my number one? Right? Breeze and Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara are obvious A starts just about every week regardless of matchup, and this is a great matchup anyway. So I am benching killer Keith Kirkwood. I know that he's been pretty safe at six point five or so points every week for the last few weeks, but I got him on the bench. Trey Kwon was your take, hom Dan Arnold, He's hard to trust. Two catches.

Then he had the forty five yards and a touchdown on Thursday on the Thanksgiving game. Two catches last week. I'm benching him. Mark Ingram, I'm giving him a B grade because it's a bottom three defense against fantasy running backs, and if they get ahead, maybe he gets a few extra touches. The Bucks have allot of whopping hundred and seventy eight total yards per game to running backs in

the last three games, including three h yard rushers. Camaron was gonna get a lot, but Ingram should be fairly startable with a B grade. On the Tampa Bay side, Winston was my take. Hom really like him a lot this week against terrible Saints past defense, and because of that, I like Evans. He had a huge game week one, yes with Fitzer Fitzpatrick, but against Lattimore, so I'm not worried about it. If you watch If you watch him play, he can beat just about any corner. So he's just

you know, Afric Couch. Yeah, A grade there, Godwin. I give a B grade to um. He's he's a real upside shot. Here He's played three games without DeShawn Jackson. Here is numbers seven for one eleven and a touchdown five for one on one in a touchdown. Those are massive games. When Jackson doesn't play, y, y, you didn't stay stated overtly. But JACKSON'STPP playing in this game. Yes, Jackson's out. So also when Jackson's out, Adam Humphreys averages

five and a half catches and seventy yards. So I have I have a nice safe four B grade on him as well. Uh, Cameron Bade, I have the on the bench. The Saints have only allowed one tight untouchdown in the last calendar year, and it's been even longer since weeks seven of last year where break topped fifty yards. So I had him on the bench even though Winston's at quarterback. Uh, and Barber, I'm just benching him. He

he's Barber. And the Saints allowed the second fewest runching in attempts, and when they do, they're only allowing three point two yards per carry. I don't Zeke's Zeke got like sixty one yards against them. I'm not trusting Barber, I don't think I would either. We had a caller on hold who dropped off, but his topic was very good. Should teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs be allowed to make transactions? Yes? Or no? I have my

own opinion, Bell, I'll yield the floor to you guys. First, Well, dynasty keeper is obvious. Yes, I don't even think that's up for discussion in redrafts. If you have it, if you're in a toilet bowl. By the way, the reason it's not the reason that dynasty and redraft is because it's not fair to let your playoff teams effectively planned for next year exactly, continue to make transactions. Well, you can't, and you need it more than they do because you're

not even in the playoffs exactly. Giving an advanta, an extra an advantage to good teams is ridiculous. You either need if you're a redraft, if you're a Dynasty league or an Empire league, and you get you get to the playoffs, either everybody gets locked down on transactions or everybody gets to make trips. It needs to be fair playing field, all right, what about redraft redraft? I'm generally in the mode that if you're in a toilet bowl, yes you can absolutely. If you're not, you know, it's

up to the commissioner. For me, I I don't care either way, but i'd probably prefer they don't. In redraft, if you're not playing at all anymore, well, and I want to clarify at all, yes, if you have if you have anything to play for, including things like high score of the week gets ten bucks, whatever. If you have anything to play for, you have to let these teams put the best players they can. If they don't have anything to play for in a redraft league, then

no transactions. You're out because I don't want you mucking up the works with when you have no reason to go. Get Justin Jackson. I don't want you just playing spoiler because you can play spoiler when you have nothing, you have no reason to play, you have no opponent, you have nothing to play for, then you're out. So if you've if your if your league gives any reason to play, then everybody gets every Then everybody gets to go. If there's no reason to play to playoff teams are out.

Let's go to the phones. Bugsy, Hello, Yes that's you. Yeah, all right, Hey, absolutely great show all year. Thank you guys are awesome. Listen to it prectly when I can thank you all right, Listen, I met you quickly. I'm met you ball iviously two years ago. I was a flight attendant on some country airlines and your buddy, you meet a lot of people, but I mean you might remember. But I was getting your bloody Marys and think he

came back from Vegas outstanding. I love that does sound like? Yeah? Anyways, Um, I dodged the bullet. Okay, I'm five in the Big Man Playoffs on five seat against the four. He had Derek Henry in our league, he would have got forty seven point four points. Left him on the bench. Yeah, he left him on the bench because he's got starting right now. He's got Marlon Mack and uh and that new Gut the Wilson guy, Jeffrey whatever, she started them too, and he has had him on the bench, and uh

it was the other guy. He could still put it on Sunday Kenyan Drake's anyway. So I dodged a bullet. Um, now I need help. My running backs was Alex Collins. He's word, he's gone. I have David Johnson and now the other two guys. Um, I have this really gut feeling, you know how you get it. Sometimes you guys on somebody, but you don't really talk to him about them much. But Darren Sproles or long story short, I'm um, Raiders got Doug, Doug Martin, Doug Martin, Matt What do you

think Martin's way safer? Yeah, Martin's Martin's the safety play, and I think with the sound of his running backs, I think all you really need to do is take the safety play. So I think I'd go Doug Martin in this scenario. MARTINIX. I know there was some concern about his health um at one point about him playing in this game, but I'm pretty confident he is going to go. If anybody has a chance for a goal line touchdown in that Raiders uh Steelers game, it's gonna

be Martin. He's got any but is expected to play Doug Martin. Thank you for holding uh bugsy. I appreciate it. Um, Yeah, no problem. Hey Christmas bonus. I know it's a dumb question, but that's not the lightning round. Um, you wouldn't do. I got Lamar Jackson and and Mahomes. You just stay with Mahomes right, I would, I would, but it's not.

It's not a dumb question. And if you told me had had this guy started, uh, your opponent started Derrick Henry, we'd be going to Lamar Jackson because of the the upside, the freakish upside that he has. I know Patrick Mahomes has freakish upside two. But against the Ravens, I might have flipped it over to a different answer when we come back. Plenty more to get to, including matchups like the Giants taking on Washington. Eli. We already talked a

little bit about Eli Manning. What about sake Kwon Barkley? What about Washington's offense? Is there anybody left to play? And a Mark Sants has led team. We'll tell you when we come back after this. This is Fantasy Football Weekly presented by Devan man. Welcome back to the show. Our number two a playoff edition and Fantasy Football Weekly. Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you as well. I am Paul Charchian. Uh. This is the time first segment.

We like to call three hot questions, and traditionally we like to start it right here. Hot question number one. Hold on, I'm not on the right page, Ken Paul find the right page is hot. Question number one, how much better will the Packers offense be in the post Mike McCarthy era, no better, somewhat better, or a lot better? Scott. This is a weird question me for me because how much better? And one of the things is about the same, about the same, how much better? Um I put somewhat better.

I mean it's not all on McCarthy. Aaron Rodgers is twenty nine in the NFL and completion percentage among quarterbacks with over a hundred attempts. I mean, he's He's thrown into the ground quite a bit as well. But they have some The only tough matchup they have is Chicago. Uh. They have two games against bottom ten past defenses, and in the last four or five games Rodgers in Chicago, he's only had one bad game. I've he's gonna have three pretty good games down the stretch here. I think

I'm gonna go with somewhat better. Okay, are you looking at this from a next year standpoint? The rest of this year? Sorry, that was not clear. The rest of this year not into perpetuity or yeah, well I was a Viking fan. I was rooting for the Packers to hold on for Mike McCarthy as um he was a mediocre to bad offensive coordinator in San Francisco who looked into two of the top ten quarterbacks in last twenty five years. Great quarterback, maybe the best in the NFL.

I still think he's gonna be rejuvenated by Joe Philbin, and maybe Aaron Rodgers is calling more of the plays now. Frankly, he's got possibly the best wide receiver in the league in Davante Adams at well above average running back and above average offensive line, young but decent depth receivers. I think they're gonna be a lot better going forward. Uh, no stoppers in the schedule. I like him a lot.

I'm gonna go in some intangibles here. If Aaron Rodgers openly did Aaron Rodgers openly campaigned against Mike mcarthy in the media right, talking second guessing his play calling, we need to use Aaron, Aaron Jones more of that kind of stuff. Imagine what was happening behind closed doors between Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy, right, and ultimately Rogers got his way. McCarthy's gone. Joe Philbin is a four game

speed bump, but nothing more. You know the guy who runs that The guy who runs that offense is Aaron Rodgers, not Joe Philban. No chance that Philban is gonna run an offense contrary to rogers wishes. So Rogers is running the show, He's going to want to prove that he's right that he was being held back by Mike McCarthy. I think there's a lot of motivation for Aaron Rodgers, and he might be right by the way, there is a chance he's correct about that. And then three of

the four remaining matchups are just excellent matchups for him. Falcons, Jets, Lions, all elite level matchups. Aaron Rodgers my number three quarterback this week, take Randall cob off the injury report for the first time all year Packers offense. It's going to get a lot better. Question number two, how many tight ends should be taken in the first round next year? This is the next year question, Matt, Okay, how many tight ends should be taken in the first round next year? Zero? One,

two or three? Matt? How many titans will or should should, should, should not? Will? How many titans should be taken? So we hear at this little radio show we call Fantasy Football Weekly like to get to we have the ability to cause change in the world, and I think that we will do this. Uh if you looked at a mock right now, you'll see probably zero. But I'm on record, were a pinned tweet on my Twitter account or Travis Kelsey one one in two thousand, I think first, first

player taken. And the difference in having a top two tight end and not having one is the playoffs. Basically in many leagues, Earth's has ninety three receptions, Kelsey has seventy nine. They average nearly two to three more catches per game than George Kittle, who's a lock at tight end number three. I think two of them should go in the first round. Kelsey will get taken first, and then Earth's will get taken almost immediately after that because of scarcity. So I think it's gonna be two tight

ends taken in the first round next year. All right, I'm gonna go deeper and I'm gonna say four. I'm just kidding, uh No, and I completely agree with that strategy. I and I think, as we've seen in the mocks, once one goes, the next to go right away like Earth's and Kid will go right after. So I'm gonna say saying three, are you saying to I'm gonna go with Matt and say too. I think the third comes right around the corner in the second, so I'm gonna

go too. That that's fun. I like that strategy. Not only is Travis Kelsey the number one scoring tight end, he's the number four scoring receiver including wide receiver. Right. So if you're one of these people like I could never take a tight end in the first round, well, would you take the number four wide receiver in the at the end of the first round? Of course you would. Yeah, So I gotta take Odell Beckham in the first round? Yeah, right,

So why wouldn't you take Travis Kelsey? How about zach Ertz? You mentioned the ninety three reception second only to Adam Feeling. His fantasy points make him wide receiver ten right now, of course? And Kittle will get Garoppolo back. Yeah, and Kittle gets Garoppolo back. That's all. I'll come to him in a minute. So of course you'd want to draft both of those tight ends where you get massive positional advantages.

Had this year you decided to slough the tight end position and just gone for the sixth Beth tight end and for and you somehow knew the sixth Beth tight end you're sitting at. You've played Austin freaking Hooper all year to get to number six, and most likely you weren't even that good. If you really let the tight end position go this year, you were you were in the unfortunate position of starting David and Joku as the number twelve tight end all season streaming right, And it's

way worse than that. I mean, that's like, that's your best case scenarios. Really, if you waited to the middle of the tight end run or the end of the tight end run, I will say, every year it seems to be a big three, you do it earlier, you wait, this year's worse. Like the gap. Well, let's talk about the gap. So if you waited to the middle and you were going to wear with Austin Hooper, you were getting outscored by a three to one margin by Kelsey

and Arts. If you waited all the way down to in Joco a four to one margin, that's how big you were penalized. Now, so obviously those two guys are in should George kit will go in the first round. Well, yes, but you won't have to take him there. So because you won't need to take Kiddle there because people aren't going to because he didn't do it last year, and people can't, you know, come to grips with the concept

that things might change in the next year. You won't have to take Kittle in the first But if I was in a sadity, I would absolutely consider it. But you won't have to sleep correct answer for the number of tight ends taken in the first round next year is too hot. Question number three for the rest of the year. Is Derrick Henry and RB one and r B two a flex or a bench runner? Scott bench I can't, I can't. I mean, I can't trust him. I can't trust him after one game. I mean he

I don't think. I think I saw the stat that he'd never topped sixty five yards this season. Yet I might be wrong. Might actually I might be able to pull it. I'll I'll look, well, you're well, you continue to chat. Well, I have barely anything else to say I have. I haven't been able to trust him all year. Why am I going to trust him in my fantasy playoffs? Alright, it doesn't even matter because everybody had him on the

bench already and their teams out of the playoffs. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna league right now where Derrick Henry was on a playoff roster and started. Wow. So he had not topped fifty seven yards in a game prior to this one this year. That's ridiculous. It didn't help that that Indy some yard touchdown that he had was like the worst tackling I've ever seen by a team in the history of football. It was. It was so gross. The Giants is a good matchup. Washington is not particularly

a great matchup. People will chase stats next week. I won't. I'm not fooled. I'm benching him. You know, he scored in five of them. He scored uh in five of the last seven games. The total yards, by the way, yeah six five total yards. Like he doesn't. He chips it nothing through the air. He had a he had a thirty three rushing, thirty two receiving. That was his best total yard. But because of the touchdowns at five touched, he has scored a touchdown at least in five last

seven games. I don't think he's a bench grade guy going forward. I still want to touch on him. I still want touchdown and burned to me too many. He goes, yeah, you guys sound like bitter Derrick Henry is he? I don't know him in anything at He goes up against the Giants without Snacks Harrison. They've turned into the worst run defense in the NFL without Snacks Harrison next week, and so I think he's gonna I think Derrick Henry is going to have a B or AC grade from

US next week. Then he's got Washington, they've stumped to twenty eight in running back fantasy points allowed over the last month. I think he's gonna get a beer REC grade there too. Then he gets the Colts. They've sumped to twenty seven in fantasy points allowed to running backs in the last that's Week seventeen. Don't play fantasy football. Week's seventeen kills. I think he's gonna get a Beer C grade in that one too, although we won't be on the air for Week seventeen, but that's the right

grade he'd likely get. Derrick Henry, based if nothing else on the touchdown prospects, is going to be an RB two in these final three weeks of the season. Many thanks to our decade long sponsored Grainbell Premium, the official beer fantasy football Do not forget to play the free crush Charts challenge at grainbelt dot com. Win two thousand dollars and a trip to Manny's Steakhouse for our winner's banquet in January. Just like last week's winner, Mark Schwab.

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What do you think, Eli Manning? It just looks like a promising game, Matt game A C grade, that's it. Yeah, I thought it might be a little higher. Washington has bottom seven and completions and passing yards allowed per game. ELI put up three, sixteen and one in the first matchup. I'd say the good numbers high two hundreds in a score is about what you're gonna get for Eli. That's just a see for me. Uh. Much like my basement apartment in college. The floor and the ceiling are way

too close together for Eli um Evan Ingram. He's on the bench along with Sterling Shepherd. Sterling's a bit dinged up with a rib injury that limited him in practice this week, and he hasn't topped thirty seven yards in five games. UH. Ingraham is going to play this week after missing the last two games, but he hasn't been healthy or right yet this season and faces a Washington defense that's only allowed three scores on the on the whole year to the tight end position UH and then

Odell Beckham. A. Beckham is scored topped a hundred and twenty yards or both in five of six career meetings with Washington, and he torched him in the Week eight matchup. On the other side, Adrian Peterson's the only viable start for Washington. He gets a B grade. UH. Mark Sanchez is in charge of throwing the ball now. That means he's going to hand it off and he's facing a defensive front. That is void of my cousin, Snacks Harrison

and safety land and Collins ended up on it. Nobody, nobody's ever seen the two of you in the same place at the same time, Snacks. It might be the same person or not the same He's my cousin. Come on, cousin, okay um, I see the family resemblance. Absolutely, Landon Collins was a run stuffing safety. He was put on I

R this week. That's a huge loss. Uh. Giants gave up a hundred and thirteen rushing yards to Bears backs last week, one nine to the Phillybacks the week before and one oh six to Peyton Barber the week before that. Those aren't impressive groups running backs. So Adrian Peterson's a solid B. I guess you could give Chris Thompson desperation D and PPR. He did return last week and had five targets, But he's part of a past of the passing game, and I hate the passing game, which is

all on the bench. Sanchez, through twenty one time spanning almost a full game last week, managed only one hundred passing yards in one interception. The whole passing games dead. It's very possible that they throw less than twenty five passing attempts in this game, and the Giants have allowed the third fewest passing touchdowns in the league this year. Jets take out in the Bills, and there's not a

lot to talk about in this game. Every Jet has got a bench grade here, Um the whole passing game of Sam Donald is on the bench and Isaiah crowles on the bench. He's bouncing between six and twenty one carries and back to back games. You never know what you're gonna get, but you know it won't be overwhelming no matter what. Despite playing from behind most of the season, the Bills have only allowed two players to gain eighty or more rushing yards all year against them, and Isaiah

Crawl is not likely to be that guy. And Elijah McGuire is not getting enough use for consideration anyway. In a tough matchup. Chris Herndon might be the only other Jet you might even be thinking about. The Bills have allowed the fewest receiving yards at tight ends period. End of story. So Chris Herndon's out, So let's go to the Bill side. Josh Allen was might take a chance on me quarterback with a B grade. Za Jones was fishes take a chance of me wide receiver. I've got

a B grade on him as well. Let's talk Lashawn McCoy. Let's he's had exactly one Fantasy relevant game all year one. The only game with a touchdown came three games ago, but it was against these same Jet Lightning could strike twice. The Jets have allowed five hundred fifty seven rushing yards to running backs in just the last three weeks. I don't have my advocus out, but I'm I'm guessing that's about a hundred and sixty seventy yards rushing each game,

something like that. So Lashawn McCoy is, it's got a C grade here. Let's hope this is gonna be a second Fantasy relevant game of the year. Robert Foster the Scott Fish Special. Do you like him this week? Not as much as they three games ago he had a hundred five yards he did two games ago he had ninety four yards in a touchdown. It's the last week in one catch. It's a big play thing and Josh Allen's got a big arm, so he's gonna do that. But the dismissal of Kelvin Benjamin and Andre Holmes frees

up some targets. I think Foster's I think this is the It's the first time that Robert Foster's every every down starter, which he will be this game. The Jets ran twenty nine and yards allowed to wide out receptions to white outs. Robert foster sneaky play. Scott, I think you're getting off the bandwag and just the wrong No, No, I'm not off the you're off the bandwagon, I admit it. I just think he's a boomer bust type of guy. He has a boomer bust guy. When we come back,

Denver takes on San Francisco. Philip Lindsay has been one of the great stories of the fantasy season. Will it continue against the forty nine ers? Find out when we come back. This is Fantasy Football Weekly presented my Green Bill Premium on the Van Playoff petition and Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charting with you, Matt Harrison, Scott fish Uh, Let's jump right back into the matchups. Denver takes on San Francisco and boy Emmanuel Sanders loss is I think gonna

gramifications through that whole offense. They don't have to respect the past anymore. Courtland, Sulland's gonna get number one coverage all the time. And I worry frankly about about the whole offense just taking a big step backwards for Denver, maybe even in this matchup against San Francisco. What do you think it's gonna be really interesting for Lindsay, especially because he had faced one of the least stacked boxes in the NFL out of all the Out of all

running backs, he had seen the least amount of stack boxes. Ironically, Royce Freeman had seen some of the most one of the highest percentages of stack boxes. You sound like a Freeman truther to me right now. There is not getting enough carries and shut up. Hey, you know me, Yeah, you know me. I watched the games. I know I'm all in on Lindsay. He looks so good, he um, but on this one I did just give him a B grade because I think the whole offense really suffers

with them out Emmanuel standards to keep those drives alive. Um, there's there's there's some a lot to like. Though. The four nine ers have allowed hundred total yards or more to running backs every week since Week seven, when the Mike McCarthy led Packers failed to do so only because he gave Jamal Williams and Time Agomer the snaps. If he hadn't done that, they probably would have done it too.

So be great for Lindsay. I have the whole passing game, even uh, you know Dynasty Darling Dayshawn Hamilton's who takes over the slot for Emmanuel Sanders. I have the whole passing game except for Sutton on the bench. I think Sutton's going to take a couple of those targets, but a lot of people think it's gonna be He's gonna

be ten plus a game. I don't know that that's going to happen, but he these matchups for Denver coming up, and this one especially, uh, they're all bottom eleven against uh deep deep past attempt u scoring for wide receivers, and that's that's really Sutton's game. Sutton can do that if he gets seven to ten targets, I think he could have a B game here. So that's why I

like him. On the other side, I'm benching Mullins. He's had four good games, but the two four games, and two of them were great, but one was a blow Both were blowouts. Really one was. One was the Oakland game and the other was blowout behind trailing Seattle. I think this one's gonna be low scoring and close, So I don't like Mullins or much of the passing game here, Kittle, though obviously uh Pettis. With Goodwin back, I'm tentative to

give them both C grades. Um Pettis has two yards and three touches the last two weeks, but that denber secondary Scotts in flux without Chris Harris, right, you've taken the best cornerback off the team. Granted he was a Pettis runs a fair amount from the slot. I like him a little better than Goodwin here, but I just wonder if taking Harris out, if that's just going to create a ripple effect of weirdness for the Broncos secondary. That's exactly kind of what I had. I had Pettis with.

You're gonna say we No, I had Pettis with A being good one at the Sea. I knocked Pettis back to a C, but I put in my matchup here. I like him better than Goodwin. I think he's developed a real connection with Mullins over the last couple of weeks, so I give him the edge there. Uh, and Wilson was my take on Yeah, excellent, yeah. Uh. Matt Cincinnati takes on the Chargers. It's the Bengals are a team in utter and total disarray right now. They're missing offensive lineman,

two starting cornerbacks, um starting quarterback. It's all bad for the Bengals right now. Not to mention A J. Green, Yeah yeah, oh yeah, a J. Green. Oh yeah. By the way, that guy um Chart, do you have a sad trombone over there? Because my Jeff Driscoll call of last week. But he's he's so fast, he's the fastest Jeff you know, except now for Jeff Wilson Jr. In

San Francisco. Uh, Chargers are top ten in passing yards, passing touchdowns, picks, rushing yards, and rushing touchdowns allowed to quarterbacks. So Driskll is on the bench just barely some C grades for some other guys. Uh. Tyler Boyd faces awesome slot corner Desmond King, who's only allowed one touchdown on the season. Boyd will suffer because of the Green loss is his numbers have dipped in games without a J. John Ross will drop Casey Hayward. So he's on the bench.

C j Uzoma, I'm giving a slight C two because since Jeff Driscoll started taking snaps, whose Oma leads the team and targets with seventeen and in about six quarters of play and includes ten against the Browns and seven last week against the Broncos. So from a volume standpoint in a game, they should be playing catch up. Whose Elma is the top target? Uh? And then Joe Mixing, I'm only given him a C grade two. In the last two weeks, Mixing and the offense have lost as

you said, Dalton Green and tackle Cordy Glenn. Mixing was also limited and practiced this week with a foot injury, and the Chargers have not allowed a one yard rusher since Todd Gurley in Week three. Over on the other side, Melvin Gordon still sitting out this week with a knee injury. And I talked about how I like Justin Jackson as might take a chance to me running back. You know, I've got I've got him as a borderline A grade.

It's still going to get half the words. You know, Eckler was really good for most of the year, and granted he didn't look as good as Jackson last week makes just a one game samp. Tired and worn down thing is problematic for me. And it wasn't a workhorse. I don't know how tired and worn down he was on eight touches a game. No, but he's been playing special team snaps the whole season and that kind of thing. So, but I covered Actler. I gave him a B as well.

Keenan Allen easy A scored a touchdown in four straight since complaining publicly about a lack of targets. Bengals are allowing the ninth most wide receiver yards of this season, a hundred and seventy three per game. Uh Mike and Tyrrell Williams are both on the bench the brothers Williams. Mike is touchdown dependent and has had four or fewer targets in nine straight games, and Tyrrell is in top to fifty yards since the London game in weeks seven.

And game script says they'll get up big and slow down the offense. Philip Rivers. I'm still giving an A grade two. Bengals are allowing two or eighty nine yards per game through the air. Sitting on a monster game, Philip Rivers, and congratulations to the Rivers family as Mrs Rivers is now pregnant with kid number nine. That's nine times. Wow, that's a lot of kids. That's a lot of kids. I got a hunch that Mrs Rivers is not is a stay at home mom. I don't think. I don't

think she's working along with probably a nan me several nanny. Yes, a wet nurse. Uh. You just have the wet nurse on retainer and you always yes. Uh. De Drey takes on Arizona. Will zip through this one quickly because there's not a lot to talk about from either team. La Garrett Blunt's my highest rated lion. He was might take a chance on me player by running back. Matthew Stafford's

on the bench. His issues include a bad back, the trade of Golden Tate, Marvin Jones, trip to i R. Two excellent past defenders he faces in this game against Arizona, Patrick Peterson and Buddha Baker. You put all together and it's a deeply uphill battle for Stafford. Just a C grade on Scott On Scott Fish's guy Kenny Golladay. I can't Peter. I can't imagine Patrick Peterson not shadowing him. Why wouldn't Patrick Peterson shadow in the whole game? So

that's you know, you're basically dead right there. Peterson's only giving up two touchdowns in his coverage all year. The average game against Patrick Peterson is twenty three yards in his coverage. So I have I have a C grade most because I was afraid Scott would come over here and punch me the face. Then to the Arizona side, the only, uh my, only really positive player here is David Johnson. The Lions giving up a league worst five point one yards per carry to opposing backs, although much

better since Snack Harrison arrived. They've also given a cousin that's right. They've also given up twenty plus carries to opposing backs three times, and in those games the backs average hundred thirty rushing yards in a touchdown per game. Hopefully David Johnson's gonna get the twenty carries I've got to I've got an A grade on David Johnson for this one. Can also be helpful through the air as well, as you already know. Uh, the only other starting grade

is is Larry Fitzgerald. He's got a very positive matchup in the slot against Nevin Lawson, and or tease Tabor, but he's entirely touchdown dependent. He's top fifty yards just once. In the Josh Rosen era, Larry Fitzgerald, you can start him and hope for a score on his poultry three catches per game. But that's all you're That's all you're getting from Larry Fitzgerald is that chance for a touchdown. And Josh Rosen's on the bench. He's strown less for

less than one nine yards and three straight games. Think about that, less than one nine yards and three straight games. How do you do that in the NFL these days? That's like Lamar Jackson. That is bad. Final set of matchups coming up when we come back, including the Eagles. Do you trust Golden Tate? Now find out when we come back. This is Fantasy Football Weekly presented by Devannies.

On the final segment of a playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Archie and Scott Fish Matt Harrison with you. We've got a handful of matchups to knockdown, and then we will get to your calls. Lightning round, including several people from out of town nice enough to hold a long time, and I appreciate everybody's patience. Today, Scott Philadelphia takes on Dallas. Golden Tate finally looked like the guy for the Eagles that he had been for the Lions,

where he was a highly productive fantasy player. Do you think it continues into this game in a tougher matchup with Dallas? Right and the and the nice thing is he's getting eight targets, eight targets and seven targets last last three weeks. He's he's getting the targets. I do kind of think it continues, But the Cowboys have been pretty tough lately. They've allowed the second fewest receptions, fourth fist yards, and third fewest touchdowns to wide receivers. Now

that's the problem. I only gave Tate a C grade. I think the targets might get him there, though I'm giving whence you know, the leader of the offense. I'm giving him a B grade. He had three sixty and two against the Cowboys in Week ten. These two teams usually get up for each other, so I think that he might be able to overcome how good that Cowboys d has looked recently, especially against the Saints the other week. Right and Matt Ryan held to a one touchdown game.

So I think Whence gets up for it just just enough for a B, and I think it spreads in a round a lot. You know Hurts is going to get the A grade. He had four teen for one and two against the couples last time. Although you know this is an old John Habermeyer theory, and I think he's right more often than not when these um when interdivisional rivals play each other, if one thing, you know, cause one one guy blew up, the next time they play the defense place, just to take that that away.

This is classic Arts too, because and this is different matchup, but Art's against Washington for like four years was awesome and then not good. Like against Washington, his December game against Washington every year was amazing. Uh egilars two inconsistent, so I have him on the bench. Jeffrey, he has between thirty and fifty yards and no touchdowns in five

straight since the since the Golden Tape trade. Hal Sean Jeffrey's average line three and a half catch up thirty eight yards scores exactly four tea for one in that span, these tight ends have outscored him. C J. John Smith, Vance Donald something named fer Sir for Tennessee, Rhett Ellison, Tyler Higbee, These these crap tight ends scoring Alshon Jeffrey since Golden Take came to town. Uh. I gave a B grade to Josh Adams and I have spoils on the bench. The B grade to Josh Adams is because

he's chocked up twenty plus touches in consecutive games. The yards per carry isn't great, but I gotta give him a beyond that amount of opportunity in an in division game. On the other side, I give Prescott a C grade. UH. Since Week seven, only Drew Brees has had multiple touchdowns against Philly or over three hundred yards multiple touchdowns or over three hundred yards against Philly. That doesn't speak well, But Dak just had two of his best three games

of the year. The defense is looking a lot better, which puts him on the field more, and he's tacking on rushing touchdowns touchdowns. In games in which Dak Prescott averages. In games on which he gets the rushing touchdown, he's on average, he's quarterback eight. If he does not get you are rushing touchdown, he's quarterback twenty two. And you want to know who quarterback twenty two is this year. It's Blake Bortles. So if you do not get the

rushing touchdown from Doc, you're starting Blake Bortles. That's how important it is to get the rushing touchdown. So he's got to sea hoping for that. He's at five in the last seven games, so you've got to hope for it a little bit. But I think he'll, you know, be barely startable here. I gave Cooper and Zeke a's because Cooper is averaging eight targets per games since joining the Cowboys. He's had seventy five yards and or a touchdown in four those five. Eagles are allowing the second

most receptions and second most yards to watch receivers. Zeke's obvious. I don't think I need Yeah, that goes without saying. Um. Speaking of obvious place, Pittsburgh takes on Oakland. It's start all your Steelers right and A grades virtually across the board. Virtually across the board. A for Antonio and Juju uh Juju is averaging a hundred eight yards per game over his last four weeks, with half a touchdown per game. Ben gets an A grade. The home road splits do

not exist anymore. The low yardage mark on the road this year is two hundred seventy yards, and he's thrown at least a touchdown in every game on the road. He's also had two rushing touchdowns in the last three road games. It's a little interesting after two straight losses, the Steelers are looking at a Raiders defense that it's allowed the most passing scorers in the league. Ben's gonna

get right, Vance McDonald. I'm giving an A grade. Six different tight ends have scored a touchdown on the Raiders in their last six games. Three different Colts and two different Chiefs tight ends scored against the Raiders in the last few weeks too. As an emergency dart throw. Jesse James is not a terrible play Jalen Samuel's He's getting a B. I gave Stephen Ridley a C grade. James conners out this week the Steeler said they're gonna go running back by committee. I do not believe them. They

never have done that in Mike Tomlin's tenure. Uh, sam Stephen Ridley sucks. Yeah, let's just be honest. Samuels was a college running back, fullback, wide receiver, and tight end. Yes, he has the ability to be involved in the passing game. Uh and that's of a hallmark of the Steelers running backs in the past. They're usually involved in the passing game. He caught three balls for twenty and a score last

week along with the two carries he had. Oakland's allowing the most rushing yards per game to running backs a hundred and thirty per game, so Samuel's is a pretty good start over. On the other side, here's the deal at the Raiders. Are you chasing the stats from last week? Because Jalen Rashardon Doug Martin Martin both looked good. Derek Carr was not a complete embarrassment. He had two eighty

five and three scores last week against the Chiefs. In fact, he hasn't thrown an interception since Week five, seven straight games, and the completion percentage is a very nice six on the season. Jordy Nelson did not retire, had ten catches for ninety seven yards. Jared Cook had a hundred yards in a score last week. That being said, every one

of them is on the bench. The Steelers are a top twelve defense against passing yards allowed, rushing yards allowed, yards per carry, receptions for running backs and receiving yards for running backs, and in their last five games, the Steelers rank in the top ten in receiving yards allowed to wide receivers, tight ends, and touchdowns allowed to both of those positions as well. There's nothing to like here about a top ten Steelers defense and a mediocre Oakland offense.

Final matchup is the Monday night game, Vikings taking on the Seahawks. It's um plenty, it's a meati matchup, and uh but we will still plenty of time for lightning rounds, so I encourage you. Lines are full now, of course, but I encourage you to dial in when you hear people drop. Uh. Wait, let's be at the passing game for the Vikings. Seahawks secondary is slumped over the past six games, giving up over the past six averages of

three yards and two touchdowns. And more specifically, the Seahawks are a lot exactly two passing touchdowns in those six straight games, all of them to touchdowns. I think Kirk finds his way to at least two touchdowns here, which

gives them a B grade. Uh. Kirk's receivers have got positive matchups, and I've got A grades on both digs and Theeling digs Go was primarily up against Seattle cornerback Trey Flowers, who got ruined by Dante Pettis last week, and then if when he also sees Shaquille Griffin, he's given up a score and each of the last two no team runs a higher percentage of pass plays in the vikings, and Diggs is the more targeted of the two, So we'll go with Stephan Diggs in an A grade.

Adam Feeling will primarily line up against slot cornerback Justin Coleman, who's just okay um, he's the last three games he's he's been good, but this is still a strongly positive matchup for Theelan who has scored or topped one yards and eleven of twelve starts. Staying with the passing game, I've got a C grade and Kyle Rudolph. Teams are targeting their tight ends on just sixteen percent of their

passes against the Seahawks, which does not bode well. Uh. Kyle Rudolph's best games have come when Feeling and Digs of each scene ten ten or more targets, and Seattle has given up the six most passes per game over the last three games. So maybe there's just just the plethora of running game work well or passing game work will ultimately helped to Routolph. But just to see grade and really preferre you kept him on the bench, let's

go to Let's go to Dalvin Cook. Every Viking fan wants to see more of Dalvin Cook after last week when he averaged nine yards to carry. Since Week nine against the Seahawks, every lead back is top to one hundred yards and or scored except one. So if the Seahawks run defense has not been great, and you know after last week, there feels like a mandate to get Dalvin Cook much more involved, I've gotta be grade on him. I think they will do that here. Latavius Murray's touchdown

dependent will leave him on the bench. Let's go to the Seahawks side, Russell Wilson. It's for me, the whole thing depends on Trey Waynes. I've got a B grade on Wilson right now. I'd i'd consider upgrading him to A if you told me Trey Waynes was not gonna go in this matchup and he is not practiced yet.

But it's a Monday nighter, there's still a chance he practices today and if that happens, that opens up the door for Waynes potentially to uh to get something done in this and get on the field for this matchup. It's working his way through the concussion protocol. Now it's a tough matchup with the Vikings. Aside from that Rams meltdown in Week four, the Vikings average game against is just two hundred thirty passing yards and zero point nine

passing touchdowns per game. That's it. Four The past five quarterbacks to face the Vikings haven't even topped one passing yards. But for his part, Russell Wilson has been terrific, multiple passing touchdowns in every game but one, including three or more scores, and half of his starts. Now Russell's not doing anymore is rushing. He has no rushing touchdowns this year. They don't have design rushing plays. He's got to get done with his arm in a tough matchup. But again,

if Trey Waynes doesn't go, I like him more. And that brings us to Tile Lock Tyler Lockett, because that's the guy that you want. Wayne's on. Thai Locking is one of the fastest receivers in the league. Wayne is one of the faster cornerbacks in the league. That's a perfect one on one matchup for Trey Waynes. Lockett parlays these three catches of games into scores better than anybody

scored in nine different games this year. So if Waynes can't go tier Lock it's an A. If Wayne's does go, I dropped Tyler Locket down to a C. Doug Baldwin may not play after missing practice the last couple of games, UM, and he runs out of the slot and he'll see a vastly improved McKenzie Alexander either way. So if Baldwin goes, you maybe a C at best. But I don't know that he's gonna play, and I think you're safer leaving him on the bench. Also, David Moore, I don't think

you want to start in this matchup either. He's only playable and easy matchups. This is not one of them. Let's go to the running game. Since Week eight, the Vikings have only allowed two runners to score on the ground um, and they haven't been playing scrubs over that time. Either. They've held carry On Johnson and Check Jordan Howard, Sony Michelle. None of them found the end zone or top three

point eight yards per carry. Curse Car. Carson's getting about two thirds of the snaps and then the other third go to Penny and Davis. So you gotta leave on the bench because they're just not getting enough work here and the matchups very difficult. A C grade on Carson, a bench grade on the others. That brings us to lightning round. Your calls your toughest question between two players, one question between two players. We have plenty of time to get to a lot of you. I know this

is a big week, this is the playoffs. You need to win, and we're here to help. We got to bring the a game advice here. All all this year, we've been coasting, purposely giving out bad advice, waiting until the playoffs to give the good advice. Well, especially to people from Wisconsin to uh Raw Josh and Philadelphia. Hello, thank you for your patience. Josh, Hey, guys, no problem. Appreciate the insight all year. Or Winston Scott. I think

I have Wilson higher. Yeah, Wilson, I'm surprised. I don't. I'm worried about that Viking defense. If we break the tie, I think it's Winston. Winston was my take so, Yeah, they're really close for me. You know, if you told me for sure tray Wains was out, I'm I'm listening to the Winston side, but we don't know right now, and I don't know if we're gonna know by tomorrow morning when you gotta make that that decision. Josh, We're on Winston to play it safe. Thank you for listening

from Philadelphia. I appreciate that. Tom. Hello, Hello, thanks for taking my college gentlemen, and I have a total strategy question to ask a wide receiver. My opponent has Jamie Winston and you're playing Godwin. I have Humphreys that I could throw in, or I could avoid that matchup and play tennis from San Francisco. Which would you prefer to do to play the receiver against your protos quarterback or go away from that team and take Let me Tim, Tom,

let me ask you this. If everybody just sort of plays out to the way they probably play out, do you think you're the favorite or are you the underdog? Exactly projected for the same score within two tenths of the point and a standard leave Matt, what do you think? Uh? In that case, I think you go upside and you cheer against the Bucks hard, So I'd go Pettis and not not play the Humphries angle and just hope that New Orleans just rolls. And actually there's supposed to be

some bad weather in that game. There's potentially potential rain and weather concerned. So yeah, I go Pettis. Dave, you're on the fan, Dave? Hello, Yeah, come here all right? BlackBerry Guy? Hey, full point PPR. Austin Equer, Aaron Jones, Aaron Jones, I love even since I'm my top five this week, so we'll take Aaron Jones um and Blueberry Guy. So Austin, Hello, join Jackson Mixing? That was Justin Jackson

or mixing? I believe. I think Justin Jackson's gotta split just enough and mixing is gonna get all the volume. It's a tough matchup, but I'd rather have mixing, all right, and the other way and hello to point PPR. I've got Listonmatory or Dare Peterson. Both of them are great, Ko or Adrian. How strongly do you feel in your your B grade of McCoy church um? Actually feel pretty good to Chest's defense bad all right? Where where do you have him in your ranks. Um, hang on, this

is close. I'd lean Adrian. I know you'd probably lean McCoy, but they're really, really tight. I've got Um, I've got Adrian at twenty five, and i've got McCoy at thirty. All right, let's go Adrian. Okay, Matt, you're next. Hey, guys, I'm starting Jack right now, but something's been bugging me all week to replaced him in favor of Jamis. What do you think I would? Here's the problem. You know, Dad doesn't again, if he doesn't get the rushing score, he hurts you. So I think I would play. I'd

play Jamis Winston in that one. Mark, You're next? Hi, um or ppr wow to come to this? For Joe Mixon, I'm such a trick And he said so boom er bust. Maybe he's not the safe call. He's not the same. There's nothing safe about the Bengals anymore. It depends on what you need. Do you need the safety of ten points from Joe Mixon or do you need the upside from track one? Yeah? I see if our second of

three marks? Hello, oh Hi, Mark, Mark, Standard Lee, Chub or Lindsay, I'm gonna go Chub but I don't like what the what what it's looking like for the Broncos offense when when Emmanuel goes down, I think that whole offense has to run through Lindsay, and I think that they can stack the box against him. I still love Lindsay. I can't I can't not love Philip Lindsay, Chris Hello, Hight, Drake Smith or Pettist. I'm going to gainst the team

with Barkley, Jones, Savante and David Johnson. Wow, that's a good See he needs the upside. Yeah, but they both have but they both have good upside in this one. See. I would take Pattis three touchdowns in the last two games. He gives you plenty of upside without all the risk that comes with Tray Kwon Smith, Brad you are next? Yeah? Four point ppr Z Jones or Allen Robinson. Okay, I like sa Jones far more, even though Chicago should be playing from behind a little bit and they're gonna need

the offense. I like a Jones a lot this week. Mark, You're on the fan further playoff? Baker, Sorry, say one more time. Baker may feel a little Okay, that's tight, Baker Mayfield. You take a chance. I mean, guy, Lamar Jackson has been a top five Fantasy quarterback since taking over. I go Lamar. I think they're safety there. Yeah, there is a certain amount of safety with a rushing quarterback who's downside feels like sixty rushing yards well, and his

matchups a lot better to Dave. You are next? Okay, standard league, Landry or Tates. I have went starting at quarterback. Landry's got a fantastic matchup and we saw signs of life last week. I'm taking Jarvis Landry in this one. Josh your next? Yeah, I need two wide receivers Tyllard Boyd Smith. But yeah, you know it's been the same rules for three years. Josh, I'm sorry. It's one question between two guys. Scott you are next. Yeah, standard scoring Kelsey,

Oh geez. Seriously. By the way, we talked earlier in the show about how in the first round those two guys are gonna go, a lot of people are going to try to take both. Yeah, so I would totally understand that at the player pool. Ye, absolutely, I guess Kelsey. Yep, That's where I'm going, right, go Kelsey to Ravens are good defense they're great defense. The one weakness with the Ravens tight end. As I mentioned earlier in the show, they've given up tight end touchdowns in five of the

six weeks. And it's the second meeting against Dallas. Dallas might just sell out to stoppards Lavell, good morning, good morning. How are you. I'm good. Don't laugh at my selections, the the unmotivated Matt Stafford or Case Keenum. Oh no, really, you should get down four players really quick and just just I can't. I can't start Case. I can't start Case this week. No, Emmanuel Sanders Stafford against the Cardinals. Yeah, I can't do it. I know. Well there's that, but

I'll how about Kenny Golladay? Okay, see your Sutton and raise you a holiday. Correct obviously, I'm I'm I'm I have a team that's a wild card team, so it's obvious when I have Matt Staffords my quarterback. Bile Vl thanks for checking in. Appreciate it. Uh if you messed any part of the show, check out the podcast cafan Fan on demand, also m on iTunes, And thank you for everybody who takes the time to leave ratings and reviews that helps everybody around the country find the show

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