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Scott Fish. Hello, guys, what's yeah? We will We'll talk about Patrick Mahomes in just a moment, but over the course of the show, we will break down every game fantasy style, like we always do, give you letter grades on every meaningful fantasy player and an explanation for why that player got that grade, so you can decide to you on board with our thinking or not make your

own decisions. We'll give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance coming up next segment, and then we'll answer three tough questions and we'll even jump into a time machine to identify the players. Everybody's gonna be trying to pick up next week, but as it turns out, he's already on your team because you've been in the time machine. I'm gonna run our time machine that sound effect into the ground. That's a good time machine sound effect.

Thank you, Brian. We weren't sure for a while. Our our time machine went blamo. But really time that doesn't it's not a very I could have just done the dude dude from Wayne's World or the doctor who yeah, right, the doctor who won. It's grating, the doctor who want not of the sound. David, I'm a I'm a fan of David Tennant, who's not good to really like the

news for sure. Let's start with Patrick Mahomes. Guys, we believe that he's gonna miss three ish games, but maybe it extends out to the bye week, which had been five. So there's you know, there's a little bit of wheel room on on what this means. Week twelve is Kansas City's by Week twelve is there by? You know, I think, you know, we don't know if they would necessarily be

rushing him back. They brought it back before the bye but you know a lot of teams used that by to just get to one, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did that here. Now that said, so they're five and two, that they got the Packers and Vikings coming out. Packers and Vice could be rough with Matt Moore in there, they could be. Um, those are two good past defenses that would make things tough, no matter I think, No matter what. I'm just trying to think

of their their record and their playoff chances and hopes. Yeah, which is important in this right. You know, when you're secure in your record in your playoff hopes, it's a lot easier to bench your quarterback longer their division sucks, that helps. Yeah, So that's that's what might be the second best team in that division. Right, That's it's come to this for the poor Chargers. So all the injuries all right, so let's start here for the games he's out,

is Tyreek Hill and automatic start? Yes or no? Without Patrick and assuming Matt Moore's at the helmet, I think because it's a short enough of injury, I dont think they're gonna make a move at quarterback. He's so explosive. I would have a hard time giving him less than the sea on this show. He's still had a fifty seven year touchdown with more in last night. Um, but I think I think he's still an automatic start, because these next few weeks are so bye week written and

there's so many injuries. I have trouble believing you're gonna bend him. Okay, even with more same thing with Kelsey, right, even even with Kelsey, where you're still you're there's just no there's just no good tight end. However, you'd be picking up to replace Kelsey can't possibly be better than Kelsey with Matt Moore, and so he's going to be

in back the hill very quickly. They're probably gonna get creative in ways of getting him the ball to putting the ball in his hands, you know, yeah, maybe, yeah. You know we've seen him more on Jet Steep Hill a lot and do some other things right, and Andy Reids brilliant. Uh, the running game to me is a real question mark here. It was already a very inconsistent running game. And now when you take the threat of the pass away and what Patrick Mahomes did to open

up the fee old. Um, I don't know that I'm going to be starting or giving a starting grade to McCoy or Williams anytime soon. I barely could anyway. That was with Mahomes, right, not chance. Okay, so I think we're in agreement on McCoy is gonna have to face Miami, which they don't until I believe weeks seventeen again, right, so yeah, and then any other wide receiver, whether it's even a healthy Sammy Watkins, it's all matchup dependent at

this point. Are you dropping without more dropped Sammy Watkins? Yes? No, probably it depends on the scenario, of course, right, he is droppable, but circumstances he's absolutely droppable, you know, to be factor in the in the always inconsistency, that inconsistent that comes with Sammy Watkins, in with his own injury, Mahomes injury. He's out, He's dead to us right now. Let me give you this one. You're an owner scenario. You're an owner with Patrick Mahomes and your sub five hundred?

Are you pushing? Are you trading him away to a playoff bound team? I can see that move, I can see that movie. I can too. Yeah, because you you need, you need the help. Probably it's your stuffy Miami and they don't, and they and Mahomes owners aren't necessarily above five hundred this year. This is not like last year where you if you have the homes, you're almost automatically

over five hundred. If you are above five hundred, I think, and you've got my homes, you just hold steady and you don't panic, and you just you just wait this thing out to be able to help you. Yeah, you've got an angle for premature speculation later on in this show. All right, So there's there's the I think, the quick breakdown and on how how we feel about the homes and all the other things related to the Chiefs. And it's a really tough break from Thursday night, but um,

it could have been far far worse. Assuming things hold as expected. Let's jump into the matchups, beginning with the Los Angeles Rams taking on the Atlanta Falcons and what should be a point fest for everybody who started Jared Goff last week. Uh, you know you're feeling awfully burned. But Scott here comes what should be the cure in the form of the Falcons. Yeah. He he did not look good last week. I think seventy eight passing yards

if I remember correctly. Over the last four games, qps are averaging three hundred and twenty five yards and three in a quarter touchdowns against the Atlanta Falcons. Um, so I am starting. I'm starting golf here just based on matchup, even though it's a road game. Golf doesn't usually play well in road games, but this is a road game. I'm willing to take the chance. Uh. So I do

have an A grade on golf. It's just the Atlanta Falcons defenses is where I I line up that up with cano Neel out there, they're even worse for Cooper Cup, his main guy in A grade. He had a bad week last week, but he had four straight hundred yard games before that. I think he gets back to where he was there. Um, he's a guy that's played. Uh. He leads to the team with sixty nine targets. By

the way, Brian, now you're sleeping nice. Over the last three weeks, the Falcons are allowing the most yards, touchdowns, and third most receptions to wide receivers. So I have all their wide receivers starting. I have a B grade on Cooks because deep speed guys like uh like will following. Even demire Bird had a fifty eight yard cat last week. Uh yeah, do you speed guys can exploit Atlanta? So I got a B grade on Cooks and see has been a little disappoint What has been a little disappointing

this year no touchdowns. That's more than a little disappointed. Actly, So I'm giving him a C grade just because the matchup is good enough. You should probably still start him. Have the tight ends on the bench. Gerald Everett. I know you had that hundred thirty six yard day the other day, but in his last ten games, he has that game and then he has a hundred forty six total yards, and so him and Hagbee are on the bench. Todd. This is where it gets thorny here. If Todd Gurley goes,

it looks like he's gonna go. I expect him. I expect them to only play him if he's healthy, and if he's healthy, he's gonna get like the Snaps giving him a B grade, and I'm benching the other two. If he does not go, I'm I'm giving both Brown and Henderson a C grade because I think they will have seen in the last game how much more explosive Henderson looked, and they'll give him a better split. Brown is more of the goal line guy and the two down guy, but Henderson can break off a big one

against Atlanta's defense. I'm giving them both Sea grades if Gurley doesn't go. If Gurley goes, I'm throwing him on the bench over to the Atlanta side. We we kind of mentioned that this is the highest over under of the week, fifty four point over under by Vegas. They expect a lot of points scoring and Matt Ryan leads the NFL and pass attempts three d plus yards in every game, multiple touchdowns in all but one game. Take away that defensive battle against the four nine ers. They're

just really good. Jalen Ramsey might be able to shut down Julio, but we got tight end one Austin Hooper and Calvin Ridley and Jalen Ramsey gonna play every play. So he's been on the team for six days days. The only scenario I can see them playing having him play extended is if they say, just go sit on Julio Jones like he any cornerback can go out there and just play man, you know, So maybe that's what happens. If he does play. Julio and him have no previous history.

I'm still giving Julio and a Well, we'll talk about this later, I know, actually no, we won't talk about this later, but with how much is Ryan Ryan is throwing, Julio is a stafe option even against Jams. Jalen Ramsey wide receiver is the one area the Rams aren't being dealt death blows. Uh, only four top sixty five yards all year. But that was Godwin Evans, D J. Moore and Michael Thomas conversation. So I'm still giving Julio good grade here, really a B grade scored in four of

his last six. With how high scoring this game is, I think that it's very likely he gets in the end zone again here. Uh, Snow, I'm putting on the bench slot guys have not done well against the Rams, and Snoo has been a little inconsistent. Austin Hooper, we mentioned he's tight end one right now. Yes, he might be the highest scoring on many leagues. He's the highest

scoring tight end, and I think he's unvengeable. Yeah, six catches at least six catches in four straight Kittle went for one oh three against this Rams team, dis Lee for eight one. Hooper a grade. Uh. In the running game demands Freeman, I'm giving a B grade two. He has at least nineteen touches and three last four Atlanta has allowed seven touchdowns to running backs in six games, and five of the six starting running backs to face them scored. So I think there's a there's a good

line here for Freeman. Okay, Uh, that was a that was a thorny matchup. There was a lot of guys to get through. With all the question marks at the Rams running back situation, I know that that was particularly tricky. One. Let's go to green Bay taking on Oakland, Brian all three of the green Bay Packers wide receivers starting receivers may miss this game. Yeah, well, let's get through the

green Bay side. Uh after Oakland Oaklands on the road. Here, Let's start with Josh Jacobs um and give him a b. Green Bay allowing nearly five yards for carry, I surrendered the most rushing touchdowns and running backs. The one concerned with Jacobs is the game script flips to the past and it's not all but guaranteed he gets the passing work out of the backfield. He did see a season high three targets after John Gruden said they wanted to get him more involved in the passing game, but that's

really only concerned with Jacobs. Also, his left tackle Trent Brown is questionable with the cab injury, might miss this, but you're starting Jacob's either way. Definitely starting Darren Waller. Even in a tough matchup. The Packers have allowed the fifth views receiving arts the tight ends only one tight end as top thirty seven yards and that was zach Ertz. Waller is working his way into that tier uh and green Bay will be without free safety Darnell Savage, so

Waller is safe be here. Tyrol Williams is out, so he's definitely on your bench. I'm not going to advocate for hunter Renfro or the newly acquired Za Jones from Buffalo there on the bench as well, and so is Derek Carr. Even the legendary Darren Waller cannot carry car to fantasy relevance over to the green Bay side. Aaron Jones gets a sea so much with the bell cow status. Lost a fumble last week, dropped a touchdown, got out

snapped by Jamal Williams. Warning nine percent outtouched fifteen to eighteen. And this is not a good matchup, believe it or not. According to Football Outsiders, Oakland has ranked sixth against the run, and over their last two games they've held Marlon Mack and David Montgomery to a combined sixty four yards on twenty two carries on the ground. Uh. So Jamal Williams, I think he got to give him a sea here. Um. As you already mentioned Charch and I'm gonna talk about more.

The Packers are basically out of wide receivers, so Williams could have an expanded role coming off arguably the best game of his career. And Tariko and in ninety Mins each had six receptions against Oakland over their last two games. So Williams is a factor in PPR. Davante Adams not gonna factor. Most likely he's doubtful with that toe injury. He's not gonna go. Jerome Geronimo Allison and Mark Kee's of all this scantling both on the wrong side of

questionable as well as they don't go. That leaves Alan Lazard and Jake Kumero and Darius Shephard. Uh. Lazard had four catches for sixty five yards in a touchtown the quote unquote comeback win on My Day football. Uh and his target total quote matched that of Kumarro and Shepard combined. So I'll give Lazard the sea here. He was might take a chance on me runner up at wide receiver,

but did not make the cut. I'm actually a little shocked that you, with your revenge game and birthday game, didn't even mention that they picked up Ryan Grant this week who played for Oakland. That maybe it's some midside. Isn't his birthday too? If if it was, then I give him an a who is not getting as Jimmy Graham. And this is it for Jimmy Graham. If he does not douce here, he is his fantasy relevance is dead. He should be dropped in every league and never added again.

Oakland allowing sixty yards per game to tight ends. They've allowed three scores to the position over their last four. So if Graham doesn't do anything here, cut ties entirely for eternity, and Aaron Rodgers just gonna get a sea here has a ragtag crew receivers. Uh, it's still Aaron

Rodgers at home. Though Oakland has ranked against the past by Football Outsiders, they've allowed multip touchdown passes and three of five the two quarterbacks who failed to do so or Joe Flacco and then Kirk Cousins in a blowout win soft. It is a soft see no minus minus.

Here's the thing. You go back twelve games. Aaron Rodgers is barely a touchdown per game, barely a touchdown per game, and you take his number one, number two, number three receivers off the field, and then Jimmy Graham's on the field. Those are that's four pretty big strikes against you. I

don't know. I can't, I can't advocate starting. There will be better starters will unearth in the next segment and take comments Take a chance on me coming up next, Well, we'll give you some better players that you can work with. Everything charge, Hey, that's me. Everything charge is available at fanball dot com. Be going to famball dot com slash charge. You get instant access to my free weekly rankings, my free one thousand dollar weekly contest, all of our podcast.

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many of whom are available on the waiver wire. When these quarterbacks running back some receivers hit paydirt, you pay us nothing, no royalties involved, and take a chance on me. I wouldn't mind if they did, though, can you? I would be nice? Go fund being or something. Let's do yeah, let's well, especially hit him and how I didn't earn much last week? Maybe not? Well, we'll do better this week, beginning at the quarterback position and Brian Johnson, who you got?

I got Indies? Jacoby Brissette at home versus versus the Texans. Uh. The Texans have partaken in some point orgies over the last couple of weeks. Their offense is red hot, and so the over under a forty seven and a half is very enticing for this game and for the record, UH. These teams totaled a hundred and sixteen points across their two regular season games last year, so they like to run up the score. UH. Jacoby is playing great football.

He is one of ten quarterbacks with double digit touchdowns UH this season. But he's the only one of those ten quarterbacks who have his bye week, so he's ahead of the pace right now. And Houston owns the second highest opponent passing play percentage at precisely, precisely sixty eight point zero one percent. Obviously, I'm gonna round that up to uh, anyone want to throw in a nice there, fish, you're sleeping at the handle. Very nice, not very nice

at all. And really the text and secondary is not good. If they've allowed multiple passing touchdowns and three of their last four Kyle Allen was the one quarterback that failed to throw multiple pat touchdown passes. Starting corners Bradley Roby and Jonathan Joseph are battling injuries, limited in practice all week and lastly presented sixth among quarterbacks and rushing attempts.

And although Houston hasn't truly been tested by mobile quarterback this year, they did surrender fifty six rushing yards of Gardner Minshew on six carries, and Matt Ryan rushed for a touchdown a couple of weeks ago. Well that's it for the segment that is the longest ever. Take a chance on me, read out a lot. I don't even remember we're talking about anymore, alright, are we redoing it then, Who wasn't Jacoby proct Jacoby Prissette. Good heavens man, alright, jeez,

let me do that one more time. I'll help you charge. All right, thank you, Let's we'll zip these along. Good heavens Scott, You're take a chance to be quarterback? Is I got Daniel Jones? Uh? He? He looked bad over the last few weeks. Not bad, but two yards and only three touchdowns over the last two weeks. But the Cards are the worst NFL against fantasy quarterbacks. Multiple passing touchdowns in all but one game, third, most passing yards, have not intercepted a pass yet this year. But wait,

Patrick Peterson's back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Patrick Peterson is back. But I think it's still gonna be okay for Daniel Jones. Second most passing touchdowns allowed the Cardinals. Cardinals, it's it's it's gonna be a good matchup. I've got Gardner Minshew going up against the Bengals. Bengals are gonna be without both starting cornerbacks in this game, Drake Kirkpatrick and William Jackson, and the Bengals will let you beat them on the ground and through the air. Kyler Murray ninety three rushing

yards in a rushing score. Lamar Jackson hundred fifty two rushing yards and a rushing score against the Bengals. And then you can pass on them as well. We saw Jimmy Garoppolo with his only three touchdown game of the year, Mason Rudolph through to Gardner Minshew by ground and by air. He's fleeting foot, you know, not by sea. Well, I'd like to see it happen. It could happen. He could get a C grade. And then how about that. Okay, it comes around there, Brian, who is you take a

chance of me? Running back Phillies Miles Sanders at the Cowboys. This matchup sets up nicely on paper for Sanders, who has established himself as the clear pass catching back over their last two games. Here's Phillies target distribution among the running backs. Eight for Sanders, one for Darren Sprawls, who's not going to play in this game most likely, and then that's the end of the list. No one else

has a target among running backs. So the Cowboys are second in targets and red zone targets yielded to running backs. They're also second and catches allowed to opposing running backs allowing seven catches and fifty yards per game to the position, and Sanders should see more than the three carries he received in last week's lopside had lost in Minnesota. His carry totals in the previous games are nine, eleven, thirteen, ten, and eleven. So h Sanders is a solid PPR play

this week. Alright, I see. I thought you were going to go smartass on me and give me like a one sentence rationale for Sanders. No, not the case. Scott needs more than that. He deserves more than that. He needs. He needs Scott, You're take a chance for me? Running back is the guy I love this week. I'm going I gotta go with my guy. We talked about him in January. I've been liking this guy since way before

the pre draft processing. Devin Singletary. You remember back a few weeks ago when I take home Tony Pollard against the Dolphins as a second running back and he had a hundred plus in a touchdown. Well, that is Devin Singletary. This week, he gets those same Miami Dolphins who have allowed the most rush attempts, rush yards, receiving yards, total yards and receiving touchdowns to running backs. Get this, He's only rushed the ball ten times this season. He's healthy

again now. By the way, ten times this season seven yards, that's twelve point seven yards per tempt. Seven of them, yes, seven of them went for twelve yards or more. Three of them went for over twenty yards. For reference, Christian McCaffrey only has three rushes over twenty yards and Devin Singletary did it in ten attempts. Give him ten to twelve touches in this one against the Dolphins. He's gonna play for you. He's going to play, and I love him.

There's week I've got Matt Breda, who granted is he's already rostered on a lot of teams, and I realized that, and so it's more just get him off your bench in this game against Washington. And yes, Tevin Coleman will get we'll get probably a little bit more work and probably get the goal line carries, but still plenty to go along around here. And and by the way, Matt Breed is a lot better then Kevin Coleman. He's just better.

He's just a better at the two backs. He goes up against the Redskins defense that has allowed the seventh most fantasy points to running backs. They've allowed six scores two runners in their last five games for rank first in run ratio. First. There's gonna be plenty of action here. Matt Breed is gonna get paid in this one. Let's go to the receiver position, Brian, you got all right. Here's a guy who's probably not on anybody's teams, but

that should change. Uh. That is Dallas's Cedric Wilson going up against the al right, Amari Cooper very unlikely to play. We'll talk about this matchup more later on Randall Cobb also unlikely to play, but he's a slot receivers. Drick Wilson's an outside guy, a sixth round rookie UH six three, as well as good big body if he draws the start, arguably walking into the most cake matchup for wide receivers. This year, Philly has allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns.

Six different wide receivers have topped one hundred yards against the Eagles. Already, Philly has yielded the third most red zone targets and the second most red zone touches to opposing wide receivers, and when Cooper went down, it was Wilson, who came in with five catches for forty eight yards against the Jets. He looked like the next guy up, Fire him up. If Mari is out, you know that's a good chance he is Scott. You'll take a chance

to the receiver. I'm going with Jamison Crowder. He has twenty six targets in the two games with Donald, resulting in twenty catches and nearly a hundred yards in each game. Golden take Cole Beasley, Jujudmith, Schuster all had three Hall had decent days against the Patriots growing up against Jonathan Joseph or Jonathan Jones. In fact, those are the three

best wide receiver days against the Patriots this year. Uh if if crowd is gonna be a lock for eight, nine, ten to which he usually is, which he usually is, he is he has been this year. Uh, he's going to get a C grade for me and a take come take on play and available in most leagues. I'm sure I don't want to brag, but if you go back to Week one, I called Chris Conley's only good game of the year, and I'm doing it again calling my shot and Chris Conley, despite his zero catch performance

last week. He's actually the team leader. He by the way he plays for the Jaguars. If you're not even sure he's your starting receiver opposite DJ Chark, he's the team leader in snaps ahead of d J Chark. He goes up against the Bengals, already already told you I love Gardner Minshew. I told you that without their starting cornerbacks, to tell you their backups are. The cornerbacks are gonna start for the Bengals. Tony McCrae and Tory mc flat tire. Now,

how bad are they? Tony McCrae rays as cornerback by Pro Football Focus, and Tory mcflat tire was cut by the Dolphins. When you're so bad that the Dolphins kick you to the curb, you don't belong in the NFL. I got a nickname for Tony better than make flat tire. Well, no that no McCray, Tony mcmccray up, McClay up. It's a clay up to start somebody against him, like Chris Conley. I'm listening to that sort of not my best work.

It was, it was improblem it was improvised. You know you're working, you're you're working, your material right now in real time on the air. Let's work in one matchup. Miami takes on the Buffalo Bills and Scott you already told us some of the players on the Bills side that we like in this one. But let's go to the Miami side. Buffalo's defense is so much better than people realize. I've got to believe this is like a

zero starter. There's not a starter, especially with well I shouldn't I'm sorry, but even with ste Beard coming in, there's not not a start. It's not happening. Just White is gonna knock out either Devontae Parker or Preston Williams that they can they can cover him, no problem, start, no one here, so real quick. Sorry. The Dolphins give Ryan Tanneinghill like seven years to try and to become something and Josh Rosen gets three starts and then they

kick him to the her. Maybe they're just trying to not wreck Rosen. No, I'm serious. I'm kind of serious about that. I think they might be benching him out of mercy for his career. Yeah, he's had he's had a rough go, a lot of a lot of situations. On the other side, though, Josh Allen just to smash a start here against the Miami Dolphins, second worst against quarterbacks. Alan has multiple passing touchdowns in five last six, but get this last year against Miami nine rushing and nine

for and two rushing two touchdowns. Those are some big rushing days. He also threw two and three touchdown passes in those games, respectively. It's just a great matchup for him. Already mentioned Singletary love him as a tay com I even like I even like bore Gore. Bore Gore has sixteen or more touches in every game since Week one. Running Backs with at least fourteen touches against Miami average

ten total yards. What do you think the touch the carry distribution will be between Singletary and Gore and this juicy matchup with Miami. This is a team I think runs the ball thirty plus times in this game, so I'm not too worried about it. You think it's I think it's probably more likely an eighteen twelve type of Gore to Singletary thing. But onto the wide receivers, I think Brown can have a decent day here. No Bills receiver has top seventy five yards since Week two that's

a little rough. With Duke Williams coming in last week, Brown still remained the guy, so I think he has some options here against a week Miami defense. But the other guys, Beasley, Duke Williams, I can't trust them yet. I'm mentioning all of them all right, Um, I don't play this. It's start all. It's basically as simple as this, start all your all your bills, Ben. Yeah. Well, and oddly there are there are a few of the matter. The signature daily fantasy contest at famball dot com. It's

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Fish and Brian Johnson from fanball dot Com. You can hear us over the air on many stations around the country, and this show is also a podcast available every Friday on all major podcasting platforms, including the number one destination for podcasts, the radio app. Vikings take on the Lions. For the Viking side, you want to watch the status of left tackle Riley Reef, who comes into this one is a probable game time decision um obviously if he is not able to go, all the Vikings take a

bit of a step backwards here. Dalvin Cook is an obviously regardless, He's got a lifetime average of six yards per carry against Detroit. There's nothing, There's no part of Detroit that's going to dissuade you from starting him. And I'm not going to ease an obvious a grade. As for the passing game, I've got B grades beginning with Kirk Cousins left for dead as recently as two weeks ago,

has another good opportunity against the Lions. Now, I know the Lions held Patrick Mahomes scoreless in Week four, and so there's a temptation to think they're better than they are, but they're mostly the middle of the pack defense. They can be beaten. Four of the five passers they've faced have top two hundred eighty yards. Three of the five have thrown multiple touchdown passes. With the Lions unable to generate much of a pass rush, they've got just ten

sacks on the whole season. By the way, what what How many sacks did Denver allowed? Seven just on Thursday night? I think so, yeah, nine times? I thought was it? In fact, I believe it wasn't nine times? And I guess maybe I just may I lost it. After after seven you start to lose track. I think Cousins should be comfortable in the pocket, which has been the case for two straight weeks. His Cousins played at a high level, and that's really the whole bit on Cousins startable when

he's comfortable in the pocket. So there you go, and Adam thelands his number one target, who also gets a B grade. He runs out of the slot more than any other Viking receiver and that gives him the most favorable matchup on the field. Every single wide receiver touchdown the Lions have given up has come from the slot, including Alan Lizard mentioned last segment out of the slot. Theeland's track record, I'll mention though in this matchup is spotty.

In ten matchups with the Lions, He's only scored one time. Nevertheless, I like the match up here. He will avoid the slag ride that Stefon Diggs will suffer, and that's why Digs is a C grade even after the big game last week. Darius Slay is great. He's only allowing forty one yards per game now. No, as I mentioned, no outside receivers scored on the Lions all years, so there's that as well. But let's watch Darius Slays hamstring injury for any reason. Slay can't go screen light on Stefon Digg,

so uh Slay is dealing with that injury. Will watch him. Let's go to the Lion side, beginning with krry On Johnson in the midst of a disappointing season, and I in all fairness. I was. I thought he was sitting on a much better season that he's had so far, and it just has not worked out. Johnson is just one game of more than fifty rushing yards. He's put up a dismal thirty eight yard performance in his one

game against the Vikings last year. Minnesota's allowed just four rushing scores to backs in their last twelve road games. The Vikings are a good road run defense as well. It's there's nothing to like here there the Vikings giving up just three point yards per carry. I've got a C grade on carry and Johnson most just mostly just due to volume. Honestly, he should be in the twenty ish Carrie range and that's the only reason that he still gets a C grade. Let's go to the passing game.

Matthew Stafford's last two games featured zero touchdown passes and sixteen yards and one yard. That's it. No bad uh. Minnesota has held him to zero or one touchdowns in four of his last five meetings. So and what else is hurting staff At his low volume, He's averaging only thirty one passes per game, and since the overtime game and the opener. Since then, thirty one passes per game. It's just enough, just not enough passes to get much done.

So just the C grade on Matthew Stafford here. Even if you got to start a receiver, the only one I like particularly is Kenny Golladay. She has been absolutely matchup proof this year. One receiving yards and or a touchdown in four of five games. For Golliday, I think you have to temper your expectations because he's never exceeded sixty one yards or scored against the Vikings. Ever, he's gonna draw Xavier Rhodes for most of this game. Rhodes has played better than the last few games, so I'm

nervous about Holiday here. But a B grade just on talent and because he's been so productive this year. After him and the only other guy that gets a starting grade is t J. Hockenson. Tight ends are averaging eleve ben targets per game against the Vikings. And get this, over the last two weeks the Vikings have given have tight ends against the Vikings have been targeted twenty nine

times and they've caught twenty nine passes. That's unbelievable. The Vikings have allowed the fifth most yards to tight ends but have yet to UH yet to surrender a touchdown. So I've got a C grade on t J Hockenson in this one. Marvin Jonson's on the bench. He's he has been Fantasy irrelevant, and I don't like his matchup against Trey Waynes. Let's go to our next matchup, Houston taking on Indianapolis. Brian uh. This is a Houston team that has got people very frustrated and flummixed with their

wide receivers, Will Fuller and DeAndre Hopkins. How do you feel about the passing game in this one in particular? Before we get into that, it's worth noting these teams played three times last year, the two regular season meetings and then in the in the playoffs. Okay, so I I get the feeling there's some good historic data. There is some good historic data here. We'll start with the wide receivers that you alluded to. DeAndre Hopkins. He gotta

keep riding him. As frustrating as it's been, I'm gonna give him an a here. He scored in both the regular seasons and games last year against UH Indie, but he was held under forty yards in the playoff game with no touchdown. And in the Week thirteen game. But the very comparable number one receivers like Keenan Allen Julio Jones both top two hundred tony yards and scored a touchdown against the Colts this year. So just continue to give Hopkins the a treatment and everything will work out fine,

I promise. Uh if it will. Fuller could give a b here. Uh. The Colts will be without starting safety Malik Hooker, who was the quarterback of their secondary. Fuller was only healthy for the first meeting between these teams last year. He did have four catches for forty nine yards and a touchdown, and the Colts have allowed at least seventy five yards to two wide receivers on the same team in two of their last three games. So

fire up Hopkins and Fuller, maybe even Kiki Cuti. Cutie played in two of the three games last year, the Week four game and then the playoff games, so he kind of book ended the matchups. His lines were eleven catches for a hundred and ten yards in a touchdown and eleven catch is for a hundred and nine yards. Eleven catches are a lock, but you just kidding. Kenny Stills might make his return to that really muddies those waters. If Stills comes back, cut end still is on the bench.

If Stills is out, will give QTI the sea here and the tight ends are worth talking about in Houston for once. How about the Houston tight end. Houston has the most tight ends in football right now, most total tighten most total that could be true, but the most total tight end touchdowns. Okay, touchdown, that's a mouthful. They're also top eight and tight end yards. Uh. Darren Fells and Jordan Aikins have both been producing as of late, but Fells has been the alpha dog. Over the last

four games. He has six catches for sixty nine nice yards, then two catches for twenty yards and two touchdowns. He did have one dud in the span with one catch for twelve yards, but then uh, the fourth game five catches for forty nine yards and a touchdown, and opposing tight ends are averaging nine targets, six plus catches and sixty seven yards against the Colts with three total touchdowns. So Darren Fells gets a starting grade with the Sea here and Deshaun Watson, I'm just gonna give him an

a not get into that at all. He's in an elite spot here. Over the Colt side, Marlon Mack can give him a B. Had been nursing an ankle injury, but should be fully healthy coming off the bye week for the Colts. Houston has surrendered the most receptions running backs this season as well. Nine Hines could steal some of that work, but Mac does get third down work, and for what it's worth, he scored a rushing touchdown

in all three meetings with the Texans last year. Who has scored a lot of touchdowns against the Texans in his career is t Y Hilton. He's my number one wide receiver play this week. Yeah, I'm just gonna say his lines in the three games UH from last year. In previous years he'd be putting up like two hundred yards and three touchdowns in some of these games. The last year five for eighty five, nine hundred and fifteen.

Very safe floor, very high ceiling. There have been five players that have seen seven plus targets UH, five wide receivers and he seven plus targets against the Texans this year. They've combined to average eight catches for a hundred and six yards and six total touchdowns. Those five wide receivers. Hilton's gonna see seven plus targets in this game. I brought it out Paris Campbell, Dion Kane, Zach Pascal. One of these guys is going to produce, but I don't

know which, so that's impossible to decode. So they're all on the bench, so is Eric Ebron and Jack Doyle. I would go Doyle if I had to pick one, but this is just a bad matchup. Doyles on the field like three quarters of the play, and you know, for Ebron, you if you don't get the touchdown, you get nothing, and you can't trust him to catch the ball. Houston has surrendered the fourth viewest yards at tight ends

zero touchdowns to the position. They're both easily on the bench, but I did have Jacobe said it's might take a chance to me quarterback. I think t Y Hilton has enough to carry him to two touchdowns probably. I love Hilton, by the way, good trade candidate as well, because that nagging injury really suppressed a lot of his value, and then you sort of forget about a guy. In the bye week, it's a good time to buy on t

Y Hilton. Jacksonville takes on Cincinnati and I've already I've already talked to fair amount about to the Jacksonville see because I love Gardner Minshew. Who's might take a chance of me? Quarterback? By the way on that Yeah, Carl Lawson and Carlos Downe that both likely to miss as well. So who's gonna be rushing Minshew? Nobody? It's it's crazy, you know we talked earlier. Drake Kirkpatrick is out starting cornerback. The other starting quarterback, William Jackson out. They're gonna be

starting Tony McCrae and Tory mctire. D J Chark A grade for d J h R. This feels like a fantastic opportunity for him against that injury plague secondary and obviously he's been very good in every game until last week, so he's he's gotten a grade. Chris Conley was might take a chance of me wide receiver with a C grade, let's go to you know he's on the bench. I found it. I found a Jaguar de bench d D

Westbrook five straight games. Thought a score heavy dud opportunity here, even with with Kirkpatrick and Jackson out, those guys are outside cornerbacks and Westbrook runs from the slot where he gets solid slot cornerback B W. Webb. You know that's just that's the path of most resistance goes through D. D. Westbrook. People always talk about the path of least resistance. Nobody wants to talk about the path of most resistance. That's D D. Westbrook, who's on the bench. Let's go to

Leo Fournette. Bengals allowing the second most yards and the most touchdowns to opposing running backs on the ground. For Nott has got at least four receptions in five or six games, and Cincinnati is allowing the fifth most receptions and the second most yards and touchdowns to opposing receiving backs. It's an awesome, awesome start for Leonard four Net wouldn't be surprised if he finishes the day as the highest scoring fantasy running back. Let's go to the Cincinnati side.

I've only got two starters for you. One of them is Joe Mixon. Now mixing is only really to this point, He's only been capable of generating a decent fantasy game against the worst defenses in the league. Guess what Jacksonville kind of qualifies. They're giving up the fifth most rushing yards, the second most yards per carry five point four yards per carry for Jacksonville. Maybe Derrick Henry broke them the end of last year. Maybe that's maybe that's dead. So

Joe Mixon startable here. I've got a B grade on him. Jack again, Jaguars defense, it's not it's not that your father's knowledge. It's not only you could have a one year old and pointing go him. It's not his. It's not Jags defense that recovered every single fumble. They can

remember that. Uh. The only other starting grade I've got his Tyler Boyd, who has now seen seven or fewer targets and two of his last three games, Jacksonville hasn't allowed a score to an imposing receiver in their last two games, and They're only glaring weakness is cornerback Trey Herndon, who Boyd won't see. Unfortunately, he's gonna see d J. Hayden, who yielded three catches for sixteen scoreless yards over the

last two weeks. I know it's all bad news on Boyd, but I think he's the only quasi startable guy out of all of this. Because I can't start Audent Tate and I'm not starting alex ericson either. In fact, forget it, Tyler Boyd's going on the bench to the whole passing offenses on the bench. Dalton's had three good Fantasy games and three bad Fantasy games. This one leads towards bad even without Jalen Ramsey, and people will be like, oh, thout Jalen Ramsey. We can do whatever we want on

that defense. No you can't. It's still gonna be a tricky matchup, and I don't trust the wobbly offense in Cincinnati. Take advantage. I know a lot of people are enamored with Audent Tate finally uh, finally producing. Yeah, that's right. Tell people about this the I love this bit. The scientific notation for gold is AU and Auden Tate with if we switched the AU to gold would be Golden Tate, Golden Tate tated Tates in the league. I noticed that

this week and I'm like, what, that's unbelievable. A J. Bouye probably hammers him. So that's probably the end of that. Um, we've got one matchup left for this segment, Arizona taking on the Giants. We've got three minutes. I think you can do it. Scott. Okay, let's do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna start with the home team here, taking Jones as my take. M So don't even talk about him. Golden Tate, as we just mentioned to another, is not going to get Patrick Peterson as in the later years.

Patrick Peterson has not moved into this lot quite as much. I think he's going to avoid him, and he might be c startable here against the Arizona Cardinals. That that might be where Jones gets some of his yardage. Uh. The other wide receivers though, no thanks, just Slayton Shepherd, none of them. Don't don't see other Shepherd by the way, not Sterling, yes, Sterling, Darius Shepherd. The rookie Evan Ingram

a grade. As everyone said in the Giant's bad tight end here death taxes and tight ends against Arizona Cardinals. I forgot crushed but didn't do anything but against them. But Evan is much better. Barkley's in a grade hundred thirty seven total yards in each of his first two full games that he played this year. Uh. Joneses mobility should open things up a little more for Barkley here as well. A grade there on the Arizona side given an A to Murray. I'm glad he's finally regressing back

to the met with those touchdowns. He was the first quarterback to have yards passing and two hundred yards rushing in NFL history. The taildowns were coming. He only had four touchdowns his first five games. They were gonna come, and I'm glad they come. Three hundred plus yards allowed by the Giants to four of the six q bs they faced, second most passing yards allowed on the season, and Murray's averaging forty attempts per game in the fastest

paced offense. He's gonna rack up points. So his main man, his his safety blanket. Larry Fitzgerald. I'm giving him a B grade here. I kind of want to give him an A grade here, but he hasn't had like super A grade numbers this season. Uh, he's right on that border. Five catches bench in the rest of the wide receivers,

David Johnson. I do like against the Giants, who have allowed the fourth most total yards to running backs, Chase Edmonds, maybe a sneakers sneaky yeah, eighteen touches and the last two games, if he can get you ten touches. This is a defense he can pop off, you know when a locked times they break David Johnson out as a wide receiver and Chase Edmonds loan back and then they will hand them the ball. They'll throw to Chase Edmonds.

He's finding ways to get involved all the time. Eight targets per game over the last four Yeah, that's unbelievable. Coming up next, we'll answer three tough questions. You can play along, try to go a perfect three and oh. Three tough questions coming up next on Fantasy Football Weekly. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm I'll Chart she In from fanball dot Com. Scott Fish and Brian Johnson comprised my panel of experts for this segment. You are a panel of two. I'm not on the panel. I'm I'm asking

the questions. Three tough questions. Is there a minimum requirement a panel? Is its time compliance? I don't think it is. Actually, I exist at least three Yeah, yeah, it's something like that. Uh, it's time to get into the grinder. Three tough questions. Listeners play along see if you can go three and oh as his tradition. Question one inexplicably DeAndre Hopkins is on a five game scoreless streak, and Houston has proven it doesn't need Hopkins touchdowns to win games for the

rest of the season. Will DeAndre Hopkins production remain as it is currently, will it improve slightly or will it improve dramatically? You'll notice I'm not saying you're even giving you a worse from than here scenario in this or remains steady, improves slightly, or improved dramatically. Brian all Right. DeAndre Hopkins is currently eleventh in air yards and airy yards measures how far football travels to the receiver, whether

he catches it or not. You know, it measures opportunity essentially, so he's eleventh in air yards last he finished third right now, Hopkins is a target share Last year he led the league at thirty two. Of course, those numbers are propped up by Will Fuller going down with injury. Will Fuller is healthy right now, and will Fuller has

more air yards, yards and touchdowns than Hopkins. There's clearly a direct correlation with the downtick in production for Hopkins, who is on pace for a hundred and six yards I'm sorry, hundred and six catches. That's on par for what you'd expect from him, but only one thousand, seventy two yards and five touchdowns right now is what he's on pace four. I do think those totals will improve, but just slightly. Mines. Will Fuller stays healthy, proved slightly, Scott.

I think it's actually gonna improve dramatically. Remember Julio last year, no touchdowns in the first seven games. Not he did in his next twelve games twelve touchdowns. Positive regression is coming in this one. The Houston tight ends are scoring at a probably unsustainable rate right now. I think they have five or six, so those touchdowns, I don't know that I see that happening much longer. And I'm doing a quick check here as I look, but yeah, I

don't think that. Nope, Kiki qt, Will Filler and Kenny Stills have never had a full healthy season combined at all, so has only been in like two years constantly out. Yeah, so will Fuller has been healthy. But does he stay healthy? That that might be the question. I think it improves dramatically though. I think he's He's getting the opportunity. It's just those touchdowns are going to tight ends and stuff.

It's gonna come. It's funny you use the exact same phrasing that I have on the first bullet point of the correct answer. Positive regression coming for Hopkins Since his rookie year, He's only had one five game dry spell like this one, and it took brick Osweiler to do it to him. To say that DeAndre uh to say that, sorry, um, Deshaun Watson is better than brick Oswiler is an understatement, right.

His quarterback is terrific. He's played, Hopkins is playing nine percent of the team snaps, he's a fifth in the NFL, and targets and will Fuller's drops. I wonder if will Fuller's drops won't be sitting in the back of Watson's minds and in mind and then you know he doesn't end up throwing even a couple more over to Hopkins side, I believe the dramatic improvement is coming. Tough question number two.

Thanks apart to his rushing prows, Tom Brady has posted solid fantasy numbers in five of six games for the rest of the season. Will Brady improve, hold steady, or decline in fantasy production? Scott Okay, First, though a crack something last segment, uh Stills did have a healthy season, but five of his other injured, so you did have a healthy one there. Uh me, Okay. Tom Brady is currently QB eight. All five of the games you just

mentioned top bottom ten past defenses, three of them just terrible. Washington, Miami, and the Giants. That's said, he gets possible shootouts with the Chiefs, Ravens, and Texans. I can see those being shootouts. He's got nice matchups against the Bengals and Eagles. He gets the Bills in championship game weeks week sixteen for US at least, um, I'll be playing Week sixteen. Yeah, yeah, for US at least, That's what I'm saying, not but Miami games in week seventeen, which which kind of stinks.

But uh, looking at the schedule, I think he stays pretty steady with with this production. I think he finishes the top twelve quarterback. Brian. I think it's going to improve because I just look at the schedule and it's riddled with cupcake opponents. This is the easiest schedule for eight defending Super Bowl champion, easily in history. I mean, we all you know, they played Washington, Miami, the Giants,

some other JV teams. Looking forward, the Jets this week, the Browns, who are not good still, the Ravens their secondaries and shambles. Then the Eagles, they have the worst secondary in the NFL. Yeah, the Cowboys their entire secondaries pretty much hurt right now, the Texans one of the worst secondaries of the NFL. It never ends. Then the Chiefs probably shoot up. Mahomes will be healthy by then, then the Bengals. But then it ends in week sixteen

where you can't play bread against the Bills. But that doesn't matter. He's going to improve and I hate so we basically said the same thing in different orders. I'm gonna mention, well, other thing that you guys didn't hit on, and you're right, he's going to improve on where he is now. And he's already been good. But again, the rushing, the receivers, all of his receivers can get better. They

all have room to improve. Josh Gordon, Philip Dorset, Julian Edelman, We're gonna talk about Nikkill Harry a little later in the show. They all have room to get better. They've all been just okay fantasy performers. They can all get better. So, yes, Tom Brady will improve in the second half of the season. Tough question number three. Over the past two weeks, Kirk

Cousins has been a top five ish fantasy quarterback. Have the Vikings cracked the code to unlock his fantasy upside or is he more likely to return to the guy we're used to seeing Over his previous games with the Vikings, Brian so Cousins had thirty seven pass attempts to start the season first three weeks. Thirty seven pass attempts three games. Of course, he didn't post any real numbers during that span. Yeah, that must be completing. It's otherwise, it's only that's only

twelve and I think I think he was. That's gotta it's gotta be because it's still he's couldn't attempt attempts per game on average. He needs to attempt to weigh more passes than that. Okay. And in the games coming up, there's some game scripts that get flipped pretty quick with that good Vikings defense and some piss poor opponents, uh, mainly the Redskins. The Chiefs are probably gonna be without

Patrick Mahomes uh. And then the Broncos are coming up outside of this week's matchup with Detroit, and then the bye week. That's enough for me to already say we're gonna see more of the cousins we saw earlier in the season and not in the last two weeks. It's he's very matchup dependent, and uh, I don't see very good matchups on the rise, and they don't come till well later in the season. I don't even want to

contemplate Kirk that late in season. So uh, more likely to return to thee all right, thinks I hate that you don't have a middle option. No, this is a binary one. This is this is up or down. It's very annoying because I think he's gonna land in the middle. He's not going to go back to averaging thirteen Fantasy points per game, and he's not going to be twenty five. He's gonna be like seventeen or eighteen. He's right in the frigging middle. So you got but you gotta pick

one or the other. He is he going to retain Is he going to retain the up? He's not gonna He's not going to retain what he did against the freaking Eagles and the Giants. So you think he's more likely to return to the guy he was he's more likely to even though I have faith that they have figured out that he needs to throw the ball more and feed his receivers more and make it a more balanced, not run every play offense. But if I had to choose one of the two, he's probably going to drop off.

The real question that we're actually asking with this is can the Vikings offensive line continue to give Kirk reasonable pass protection as they've done the last two weeks, because that is why Kirk has has played so well. That's the reason. So I analyzed the remaining schedule and get a load of this for the Vikings amazingly favorable against

pass rushing defenses. Of the nine remaining opponents, six of them ranked twenty third or worse in pass rush by Pro Football folk is none of the remaining Vikings opponents

rank higher than ninth in pass rush. Kirk Cousins is going to continue to get time behind this now, at least through two games improved offensive line, and if that's the case, we're going to get the kinds of numbers from Kirk Cousins that we were getting when he was with Washington, which is the Kirk Cousins the Vikings thought they were getting I think he's back. Let's sneak that's true. Let's let's sneak in one more matchup, Chargers taking on

a Tennessee Brian. It's been a reck at a lot of positions for the Chargers all season long, numerous players disappointing across the board. What do you think is coming up in this one? And a tough matchup with Tennessee? Is there anybody you particularly like? Not really? Now, let's start with the running game, and it is a tough matchup for both running backs. Melvin Gordon snap percentage went up to six last week, up from the week before. He outtouched Austin ekel Even to eight as well. That

delta will probably widen this week. But I'm only giving him a CE here. Over Tennessee's last four games, no starting running back has seen more than fifteen carries or

top seventy yards. Austin Ekeler, I'm still going to give him a C. Only eight carries combined over the last two weeks, and the return of Hunter Henry probably hurts his receiving prospects a little bit, but the Titans are allowing more than six and a half receptions per game to running backs, and there's still some hope that head coach Anthony Lynn realizes that Heckler is the better back on roster right now and gives them more touches because

it's been a disaster since Melvin Gordon and came back, you know, but the offensive line has also been, you know, a disaster to now. Russell Kun could come back this game, I don't know yet, and maybe first almost certainly the next one that will help a ton. Yeah, definitely. I was gonna mention that when I talked. But let's go over to Hunter Henry. Henry ran thirty seven pass routes in his return from injury last How impressive is that

That's the most routes he's runs in September? Makes no sense and he obviously blew up how many benches did he stay on last week? And people, I'm raising my hand right now. No one can see me except you guys. But this is a neutral matchup. At worst. Tennessee is allowing a modest four catches forty six yards per game to tight ends, but they have surrendered the second most scores to the position Hunter Henry and easy A in the tight end Wasteland Keenan Allen. This is not a

good matchup for him, just to see. He's been out targeted seventeen to thirty by Mike Williams by over the last three weeks, and he's yeah, I don't know. He's gonna draw Logan Ryan, who was one of the rare slot stoppers in this league. It's a brutal matchup for Keenan, but you cannot bench him. Uh. He gets to see and so does Mike Williams. He leads the NFL and air yards over the last two weeks with a whopping seven,

so the opportunity for big games has been there. I don't like his prospects for a big game and this one. Tennessee has only allowed one total wide receiver touchdown over their last three games, and they've limited outside receivers like Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, John Brown, and Courtland Sutton to be collective sixteen catches among those four players. So I'm not liking Tends this week. Still gonna give him a see though, but you know what, I'm benching Philip Rivers.

The Titans have generated the sixth most sacks and allowed the sixth sixth fewest passing yards per game while surrendering just eight passing touchdowns. Even though Rivers has a safe floor, I'd take any of our take a chance on me quarterbacks over Rivers against Tennessee this week over to the Titan side. You gonna give Derrick Henry and a Henry has at least one hundred combo yards and doory touchdown

in seventh straight home games. The Chargers do not present much of a threat against the run, as they are ranked twenty seven by Football Outsiders. Uh Dion Lewis, Uh No, I'm not gonna talk about Dean Lewis. Sorry, Finally, you're gonna not talk about Lois? How many times you get burned on that wasting time solid five PPR points? Might take a chance some running back last. Do not wake up the peacock for that one Delaney Walker. He might as well not wake up on Sunday either. I'm gonna

keep him on the bench. He might be out. He did not practice today. You'd be better if he's out. Don't play John Newson. If that's the case. The Charges have only allowed six tight end receptions over the last three games. Uh. Delaney looks like he's cooked too. By the way, it's kind of said after a hot start, he hasn't done anything since the opener. Corey Davis A J. Brown easily on the bench, and there's no easier bench than Ryan Tannehill. There is no easier bench, well except

for Marcus Mariota, who's ben bench. Yeah. Absolutely again it's uh, it's Fantasy Football Weekly. You can play the Crush Charts Championship for free at fanball dot com. When you assemble a better fact salary cap team than mine, you get a shot at this week's prize pool of one thousand dollars. Again it's free, but more importantly, when you do beat my score, you get an entry into the week seventeen Tournament of Champions with the ten thousand dollar grand prize.

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What about the San Francisco passing game. We'll tell you what to do when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We've got a big block o matchups for you, beginning with San Francisco taking on Washington. We start on the San Francisco side. Already told you how much I love Matt Breta. He was gonna take a chance of me running back, which, really, if I'm being honest, he's a little He's way too good to be a take

a chance of me running back. But part of it is I just I love talking about Matt brit Becus. I think you such a good player. Tevin Coleman gets an A grade in this game. He put up a season high one hundred fifty six total yards and two scores at FedEx Field last season when he was with Atlanta, and he was no good last season with Atlanta, and he still put up hundred fifty six against the Redskins. He faces a Redskins defense that has allowed the seventh

most Fantasy points to backs. They have allowed six backs to score in five games, and the forty Niners lead the league in run ratio. So you know Coleman's gonna get fed a lot. And by the way, Brita has zero carries inside the five yard line. Coleman already has four and he's only played for what like five quarters of football or something like that. Now he's probably up to what nine something like that. So yeah, Coleman's in an obvious a let's go do the passing game. Jimmy

Garoppolo gets a B grade here. The problem is he's just not throwing the ball, and his low volume just isn't producing fantasy points. Garoppolo is allowing the Garoppolos throwing the third fewest passes because his defense whenever game scriptics like, the defense shuts everybody down and then they just go run their way to victory, so they don't need him to pass. Now, there is some upside against the Redskins.

Washington has been busy surrendering the ninth most passing yards and the third most passing touchdowns, including four different three touchdown games. So I've still got to be greater a Garoppolo just because Washington's so bad that they he may still find his way to a very good game and they could still run the ball well. So that means I must like George Kittle, who gets an A grade. Washington is an average tight end defense. They held Evan Ingram and zach Ertz to the exact same fifty four

scoreless yards. The Kittle doesn't have a single game with less than fifty four yards, and he's been targeted eight or more times in every game but one. So we love Kittle. Dan. That brings us to the wide receivers, and you can't start any of them, whether it's Goodwin or Samuel or Pettis, They're all languishing with so little volume that just can't be trusted. Get this, between Goodwin, Samuel, and Pettis combined, none of them have a five catch

game in any game combined. They have one game between them with passing yards. That's just that's terrible. So they're out there on the bench. Let's go to Washington, where everybody's on the bench. I will I will say, just for Marquow that's side of the field that he plays on. Washington's allowed ten touchdowns this year, which, by the way, that's Josh. Now, before you bench everyone on Washington, can I at least inform you that Sunday is Chris Thompson's

actual birthday. Does that? Does that move the needle? I will move him to a bench bench. Plus, there are no pluses. I can't and I love Chris Thompson, but I can't do it. This is an elite level defense. Needless to say, the Niners have not allowed running back to score ground or air. No back has carried it more in sixteen times against them. And Bill Kellen can talk all he wants about establishing a new running game and you can do it against Miami like he did

last week. Yeah, it ends here. Do not chase Adrian Peterson's game from last week. He's on the bench. Terry McLaren might be the only gather guy you're tempted with, but you can't go there either. The Forts are allowing the fewest passing yards per game, and in the last two weeks, Baker Mayfield and Jared Goff combined for one hundred seventy nine passing yards. Think about that. To NFL quarterbacks combining for one hundred seventy nine passing yards, that's

like three or four combined. McLaren has got tough matchups all over the field. There's nowhere for him to line up on the field to avoid it. He is on the bench. Let's go to our next matchup New Orleans taking on Chicago. Scott, I think the Saints are fools if they run Camara on a high ankle spring in Chicago the bye week. Loom yep I agree, and I don't think he plays. That's why I'm leaving him on the bench. I just don't think it's gonna happen even

if he's active. I think he's super dangerous. Higael Springs Ranger all the time, yep I, I would not be playing tomorrow this week, especially against this Bears defense. Uh. Latavious Murray, I think it is a little sneaky just because he might get the volume. I am giving him a C grade. He turned his eleven touches into seventy nine yards last week. He's caught some passes recently. Josh Jacobs had a day after Kiem Hicks left after eight snaps,

Josh Jacobs had a hundred twenty six yards against his team. Uh. They've allowed a hundred total yards to the lead running back in three the last four, which is kind of surprising. Another stat in the passing game, this is really surprising as well. As I was doing my research this week, the Chicago Bears have allowed the most completed passes in the NFL this year. What it's all dinking dunk stuff and they've had they've had their by to, which makes

even more incredible. It's a per game basis, but that's no, it's it's unreal to me, which is perfect for Teddy Bridgewaters dick and dark style, but he's still benchable. You shouldn't be starting Teddy Bridgewater. UM lack of yards, lack of touchdowns make Bridgewater a bad start, but it's gonna be good for Michael Thomas. He's just gonna soak up a bunch of short catches and PPR. He's well worth it. He's caught twenty eight of the thirty four Teddy targets

over the last three weeks. Expected Teddy targets like it. I wrote it. When I wrote it, I thought the same thing. It sounds cute. Ted gains on the bench though UM wide receivers not wearing number thirteen for the Saints have not topped thirty six yards in a game yet, which is crazy under Teddy, which is crazy. UM cook a C grade. I guess I don't know. Now I'm gonna bench him the Bears have only allowed one touchdown this year. I thought, maybe in this terrible land escape,

maybe I can get No, I can't do it. I can't do it. Over to the Bear's side, Trabisky looks like he's gonna start, which is a downgrade for the entire Bears offense in my opinion. Um, I'm not joking. Over the last calendar year, Trabinsky has average eighteen yards per game. That's fourteen games. He had a hundred sixty five or fewer in five of them. Chise Daniel in the last couple of years hasn't had a game under two thirty one. I mean, I think it's a downgrade.

I legitimately think it's a downgrade. Latimer started the season bad, but over the last three weeks he's allowing twenty eight yards per game in his coverage and faced some really good in there. Yeah, I'm benching Allen Robinson. I'm benching Anthony Miller, who's who's just too inconsistent. And Mitch Robinsky has had two wide receivers have double digit Fantasy points in the same game twice in his entire career, So never start a second wide receiver for them. Tight ends

are on the bench. Cohen is on the bench with his seven touches per game against a top and a top five run dye against running backs. Montgomery, you're also staying on the bench against the bad defense, against the defense that's going to hold him down. So frustrating with David. What's happened with David Montgomery the going I could just had all the Bears on the bench, really, but I went through it for I wanted to rip on Robisky

for a moment. With p J. Williams, the slot cornerback out this week or expected to not play, I thought that, you know, it's like maybe Anthony Miller. They never throwed Anthony Miller ever, He's so invisible in that offense, and he was such a promising young player too, very very weird. Um, We've got one more matchup, and that is Philadelphia taking on the Dallas Cowboys. When we're matchup in this segment, that's a Sunday night game, Philadelphia coming off a tough

game in Minnesota, now they go to Dallas. What do you think about the passing game, in particular for Carson Wentz in this matchup against the Cowboys. I'm liking Carson Wentz this Sunday night. I'm gonna give him an A. Dallas likely we'll be missing two starting cornerbacks Byron Jones and Anthony Brown. Earlier in the year. It looks like the Cowboys were a tough matchup on paper, but they were primarily facing paper quarterbacks like Eli Manning, case Keenum,

Josh Rose, and Teddy Bridgewater. Dallas was exposed big time by Sam Donald last week. Look for Wins to continue to crush the Cowboys. He totaled five touchdowns and nearly six hundred yards in their two meetings last year. Alishan Jeffrey gets an a as well. Just mentioned the injuries at corner for Dallas, and look with the Jets wide receivers did to the Cowboys last week. They totaled six team catches for two nine yards in a touchdown. So alshon Jeffrey fire him up with an A. De Shawn

Jackson sadly is out. I believe that's official. You can bank on him being out, and I cannot advocate the usage of Nelson Aglar or jj Arthega Whiteside. Uh just too much of a dart throw for me, even in a in a juicy matchup. But I can advocate the usage of zach Ertz. Cowboys are allowing six catches fifty nine yards per game to opposing tight ends. Those are

healthy numbers for the record. Earth's is boomer Bus against Dallas last year had fourteen for one and two touchdowns in one game and then five for thirty eight and the other. So let's let's hope for the former. UH this week. When it comes to the box scores for Earth's Dallas, Goddard wanted to give him a C grade. He has commanded nearly fort of Philly's tight end target share over the last three weeks, but the floor is way too scary catch games in them, even in the

tight end waste land. He did have like a seventy yard touchdown against the Cowboys, called back last year for one of the worst offensive past in appearance calls of all time. I'm sure he remembers that, but still not enough of a motivating factor for me to start him. Jordan Howard over the running backs just to see this week, hasn't seen a target since Week four, so his role is clearly ground and pound. UH. It's a neutral matchup at best. Aaron Jones went off a couple of weeks ago,

a couple of weeks ago against Dallas. We all remember that, but Levan Bell and Alvin Kamara struggled to get things going on the ground against the Cowboys. So just to see for Howard Miles Sanders was my take a chance of me running back? UH Dallas very friendly to running backs through the air over to Dallas and they're running back Zeke just to be in this one. In four career games against Philly, Zeke is averaging a hundred and sixteen yards on the ground and six catches for fifty

yards per game. That's obviously good production, but he'll struggle to meet his rushing average in this one. The Eagles have get to allow more than sixty three yards to running back on the ground of this season, and uh Zeke has been very involved in the passing game and comparable running backs have posted nice catch numbers against the Eagles. Levan Bell had seven catches, Aaron Jones had six, So safe b for Zeke here. Marii Cooper's he's not gonna

go news came out on Friday. He's gonna try and suit up, so if if he does, it's an amazing matchup. The Philly secondary just brutal. Jalen Mills is gonna make his return. That could be addition or subtraction by addition referred to him as toast is his nickname, Jalen Mills. Uh, if Cooper goes, I'll of him an A, but I

fear he'd be a decoy. Uh, You're you're definitely starting Michael Gallant regardless bose are not he gets an a I mentioned and take a chance of the six different wide receivers have topped a hundred yards against the Eagles, who have allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns, the third most red zone targets and second most red zone touches, should not be a surprised as if they're yielding that

to opposing wide receivers as well. That is why Cedric Wilson was might take a chance on me wide receiver. Then Wilson is no longer a take on receiver. And I'm here by tabbing Alan Lazard of Green Bay as might take a chance of me wide receiver. I like that You've got a provisional take a chance of the receiver.

UM a couple more guys really quick for Dallas Randall Cobb probably not gonna play I would still bench Tavon Austin his backup if Cobb sits all the all the production comes from boundary receivers against the Eagles, and Jason Witten gets to see hasn't seen the volume you'd like from a starting tight end, but he has topped fifty yards or scored a touchdown in five of six games this year, and Philly has yield did the second most red zone targets to opposing tight ends. And lastly, Dak

Prescott gotta give him an a here. Four different passers have thrown for at least three twenty yards and multiple touchdowns against the Eagles this year, and as always, he is a threat on the ground as well. Remember when the St. Louis Rams gave Tavon Austin, I think fifty million dollar contract. He's gonna get a hundred catches. Remember, Yeah, right at the time, we're all looking at it, tell going this is the worst contract ever. And he was like a top ten pick in close. Unbelievable that our

final topics are ahead. When we provide you with three guys we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups next week that you'll want to grab this week. Whether you're ready for it or not, Premature speculation is coming at you. Yes, Fantasy Weekly, Bulky Back and Fantasy Football Weekly and I

heart Radio production. Remember all my player rankings are available for free at fanball dot com slash chart and you can play against me again for free for your share of the one thousand dollar prize pool in the Crush Charts Championship. Guys, let's turn our attention to next week. Premature speculation is the name of this bit. We give you three players it's going to turn out to be more like five this week that we believe we're gonna

be hot waiver wire pickups next week. But through our time machine, which sounds exactly like that, you will already have these players on your roster. We begin with Brian who is your premature speculation guy. I said Justice Hill last week, and I'm going with another running back that you can kind of just squad on and he could turn into a league winner as the season goes on, and that's Tony Pollard. Of course, he would need something to happen to Zeke for him to become a league winner.

But I do think Pollard starts to carve out more of a handcuff with benefits role. As a season wears on, people are screaming to get him involved in the passing game more. Uh. Zeke's been taking more of the receiving game for running backs and people have been expected, but he's not doing a whole lot with him. Uh, Pollard will get involved more. He's been compared to Alvin Kamara by people in his own organization, but they're certainly not using him that way. And really the wide receivers for

the Cowboys are the walking wounded right now. And it started in training camp with the Marii Cooper who was gonna be questionable to start the season. Now Cooper has hurt again, Radel Cobs hurt, Michael Gallup has been hurt. Jason Witten is very old and not that good. So Tony Pollard he's gonna start to see five, six, seven targets per game, so he will be viable in PPR. And again if something happens to Zeke, giddy up. Okay,

your your premature speculation, Guy Scott speculation. Going back to the preseason, who's that quarterback that I kept talking about because I like the way he ended the last season? It was Sam Donald who you love this preseason play too. I still I still like him, and after this Pat's game this week, so you're not gonna play him this week. But this is a good option for Mahomes. Owner. You started Mahomes right, you start? Yeah, you started Mahomes on

Thursday night. And now as you're looking ahead to who you might has used a replacement for Homes, here's your guys, Sam Donald. He gets the Jaguars next week. You might be a little worried. Guess what, Joe Flacco and Marcus Mariota both through for over three yards on the Jags. If they can do it. He's got those two. He's got the Jaguars after then he gets the Dolphins, the Giants, the Redskins, the Raiders, the Bengals, and the Dolphins seven in a row. That are easy. All of those teams

bottom to Most of those teams are bottom six. So Sam Donald is going to have A and B grades for many of those games. Only roster and twy seven percent leagues. Yeah, absolutely, I love it. You just right. You gotta sit on him. You gotta sit on him for this week. But big deal. By the way, over the last six games, Sam Donald nine touchdowns, one interception not bad. Well, I'd like to see more touch touchdown.

I see more touchdowns over six games than nine. I've got two guys who went on i R at the beginning of the season and are eligible to come off after week eight, And you know next week is going to be We're heading into week eight, so you're gonna start hearing about these names a lot more in the coming days. If you want to be a week ahead of the curve, go get nikkil Harry, the rookie wide receiver for the Patriots, who could end up you could

end up getting meaningful playing time. Uh, it wouldn't take necessarily a lot to get him onto the field. Gordon's hurt, Dorset's just coming off injury, right, yeah, exactly. And then Darius Guys, the Redskins runner who missed all last year and then had the setback at the beginning of this year. He's eligible to come back to And I don't love any Redskin necessarily, but guys has got to be better than what Adrian Peterson's giving that team, and they do

want to run more. He could walk right in and become the you become the lead running back on an NFL team, So there's a couple of team that's us getting back to normal time. Now we're back. Now, we're back to weeks and I want to what. I want to know what our machine looks like. That's the next thing we gotta get. Yeah, we don't. We have to describe to radio. I mean we have to describe it.

I mean some parts kind of tricky on our time machine. Um, let's take a look at our final two matchups, Baltimore taking on Seattle. We begin on the Baltimore side and Lamar Jackson, who faces really a schizophrenic Seahawks defense that's allowed some alarmingly huge games to some pretty mediocre quarterbacks. How about Andy Dalton putting up four hundred eighteen yards, Jared Goff four hundred yards, Baker Mayfield to fifty and two, and two of the last three quarterbacks they faced rushing

touchdowns against Seattle. I have reason to believe Lamar Jackson can rad Let's go to his his receiving options. Mark Andrews, also an A grade. Andrews has seen at least seven targets in every game. Draws a good matchup with the Seahawks, who struggled against tight ends. Their bottom six and receptions, bottom six in yards, bottom six in touchdowns allowed to the position. Can we just start calling him man Drew because he's a man monk boys out there man Drew's,

man Drews, Andrews man. I don't don't talent. I think it's a little bit. I know you. I love my nicknames. I'm just I'm not loving man Drew's. I'll tell you what if any if we get to know people to hashtag man Drew's at us, then yes, but that's might be. That might be what it takes. Um Mark keats Brown. We is shaping up as a game time decision with an ankle injury. He has scored just once since the opener. He's caught four or fewer passes in four of the

five games he's played in. And I don't love the matchup against cornerback Shaquille Griffin, who's got really good speed. He might be one of the fastest cornerbacks in the league. So you know, an old Brown's whole deal of speeds. So I don't love Brown in this. I've got a bench grade on markis Brown, even if he does try to play through the ankle injury. Let's go to Let's go to the running game, where mark Ingram gets a B grade. He may struggle with efficiency a little bit here.

Seahawks only allowing four point three yards per carry, good for eighth best, but they are allowing the second most touchdowns to opposing ball carriers. Todd Gurley Nick Chubb each found the end zone twice in Seattle's last two contests. So I still like Ingram. I've got to be great out because I don't think he blows up here. And actually,

the biggest threat to mark Ingram is Lamar Jackson. Honestly, if he if he did not have such a prodigious rushing quarterback, I would have an A grade on mark Ingram. Let's go to the Seattle side, shall we beginning with Chris Carson. Last week, Carson rushed for a season high one four yards on the ground to make make it three straight one hundred yard efforts, which is an awfully impressive turnaround from a guy that everybody expected to hit

the bench. He was one fumble away from hitting the bench. He hasn't fumbled since then, and now he's probably earned enough equity that even if he did fumble once, it wouldn't automatically mean the bench for Chris Carson. He has scored twelve times in his last thirteen games. In the last five games, the Ravens have allowed eight touchdowns to running backs and they've given up an uncharacteristic four point

eight yards per carry over the last five games. You'll notice all these Ravens stats were going back five games because they played in Miami in the first week, and of course Miami can't do anything. So this is back in the old days of Fantasy Football Weekly, when there was Glendon quarterback JaMarcus Russell. We were we nickname him JaMarcus Astric because we have to astric all of our stats because it'd be like this team has given a three hundred three hundred passing yards in five of six

games because they faced JaMarcus Russell. Miami is the new Astrix. All right, Let's go to the passing give of the Seahawks. Russell Wilson multiple touchdowns in five of six games, at least two hundred forty passing yards in every game since the opener. Obviously an elite fantasy quarterback regardless of matchup. As for this one with Baltimore, they held down Ryan Fitzpatrick and Mason Rudolph and Adye Dalton, but got smoked by people at Wilson's level like Patrick Mahomes and Baker

Mayfield and even Kyler Murray. Those guys all put up over three hundred forty two yards. So it's an A grade for Russell Wilson here, And if I like Wilson, it means I also like his receivers. Tyler Lockett gets an A grade. The Ravens allowing the fifth most path is excuse me, fifth most yards per game to opposing wide receivers, and they've been particularly bad at the deep ball, allowing the third most passes of forty yards or more. And obviously that's lock It's game is the deep passing.

He's so fast. Scent of Russell Wilson's attempts go for over twenty yards. And get this, he completes seventy two of his passes of over twenty yards. How that's nuts. Most quarterbacks are half that rate. Quarterbacks are lucky to get that completion percentage overall. Yes, that's unbelievable. Even with Marcus Peters now on the Ravens, and even if Jimmy Smith returns, I don't care. Lock It A grade here and dk Metcalf much of the same stuff I just

said about lock it in the deep ball. Dk Metcalf's whole bit is run straight, run fast, so I like him and this one as well. He's already seen eight targets of twenty or more yards, including both of his touchdowns which came outside of twenty yards. I like dk Metcalf with a B grade in this game as well. I would love to tell you about will dis Lee No no point, unfortunately in this one. That is sad our final matchup is the Monday Night game, which is

New England taking on the New York Jets. Scott Um. Can I get two rushing touchdowns out of Tom Brady? Yes? I mean he's He's their goal lineback right easy. Easy. Even if you don't get the touchdowns, I still have an A grade on Brady, who had three hundred yards passing and two touchdowns in Week three. And Brady has two hundred and sixty plus yards and multiple touchdowns in every game except for the staunch Bills defense game. Brady is also averaging thirty eight pass attempts per game. That's

gonna keep him firmly in the top twelve. For this week. For me, his main guy Edelman, Brian Poole has only the cornerback he's gonna face in the slot. Has only allowed ninety yards and no touchdowns from the slot this year, so it is a tough matchup. But I feel like he's going to get the targets and enough volume there to be probably a B start, maybe even better. But I'm definitely giving him be at least. Uh Gordon Myers Dorset all of that. Gordon didn't practice this week the

Dorsets coming back from injury, but was still limited. I'm not messing with the rest of that. Those wide receivers. Uh, Sody Michelle. I'm giving a C star to he's he had seventeen touches, nineteen touches, twenty four touches over the last three weeks. He's not getting the goal line work because that's Tom Brady's job. Apparently it is. Well, James Devlin dead to us. James Devlin and I are the new fullback, is Tom Brady? Yeah? So, Uh, Rex Burke had I don't know if he'll be back. He was

limited in practice this week as well. He might be, but I don't we don't know what to expect from him. He looked good when he was here earlier, but he can't start him. Whiteham's also given him a C grade because he's had nine targets in three three straight. The only resulted in fifty eight per game. But all it's going to take his one big one and and though that turns into something, so a C grade there on the Jet side, Sam Donald, this is not the week. This is the one week I don't want to start.

And the Pats will only allowed one passing touchdown this year and held every QB under one sixty five yards passing since Week one. That's like Mitchell Trabisky level. They've turned every quarterback into Mitchell trabisc is what they've done. Wouldn't mitchells be the best quarterback the Patriots and face to the season. Uh, Anderson is on the bench. I actually rewatched the Jets Patriots Week three game this week.

Stephan Gilmore was on him for every single snap except for one in the slot and it was a bunched up three wide receiver. So Gilmore is gonna shadow him. And the only three past catches he caught were like super short quick passes. I don't trust Anderson for anything with Gilmore all over him. Crowder was my take home to Mary's Thomas. Sorry, it's a bad matchup with mccordy, who's much faster than you, and no matter what past comes to you, he's going to get around. But revenge game, Scott,

it's the quickest turnaround revenge game in history. Maybe did we didn't we have one where a guy like was cut in the next week? Oh yeah that sort of rings a bell. Yeah, probably, I don't remember. Actually, Ryan Grant is a quicker revenge game. Uh and Levyan Bell and rewatching that game they were selling out to get to Luke Fox. Levan Bell had his worst game of the year, thirty or sixty three yards on on seventeen touches or whatever. He's gonna have a lot as many touches.

Probably he's averaging twenty two a game. They're not going to sell out to get to Donald like they did Luke Fox. Bell will not be jamming his face into that a man front in this game. I think he's gonna have a better grade, but I'm only giving him a C grade on volume. It's such a good run defense, it sounds right. It's sad with the return of Donald, we won't be able to give Luke Fox and a moving forward well enunciated, anybody left in that matchup? We

covered everything, No, we covered everything. There sounds good. Um. I want to talk about the Buffalo schedule. You're talking about the easy jet schedule, particularly in the second half of the season. No team has an easier schedule over the next five weeks than Buffalo. Get this, Miami this week, five weeks from now, five games from now, Miami. What's the meat in the Miami sandwich for the schedule for

the Buffalo Bills, Eagles, Redskins, Browns. If you it doesn't get any easier than this, if you would have traded the Browns for maybe the Falcons or something maybe, like right, I mean that's about it. Yeah, that's right. And the Browns have been a competent defense, but that's it, just competent. So given that Josh Allen over those five games, will he be a top five fantasy quarterback? I thought I thought you're gonna say, will he be a QB one like he was last year for like a four or

five game stretch? Well, QB one is, like, you know, that's the top twelve. I think, Well, no, I'm talking number one. I think you can make an argument that over the next five weeks maybe he is the overall to be one. For the next five weeks, he might be for the last five weeks last season, right production exactly, he gets now when he placed Miami last year, the

two games he ran, that's unbelievable. If he could please run for another two thirty Josh Allen and then Devin Singletary as well, it's gonna He's gonna cash in Tingley, aren't you. I'm excited. You are excited. Um. If you're excited by this show, please go to fanball dot com slash chart for more of my player rankings, my free one thousand dollar weekly contest, where your gateway to Guillotine

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