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you hello? Friends? I am doing well because it is week nine. It is uh, this is this is for many teams. This is sort of make or break. You're like a three win operation right now. You need this game, trouble, you need this game. We're here for you. The playoffs start for a lot of people in some ways. Yeah, I mean, we're getting to that point point of the season. Over the course of today, we're gonna break down every

game fantasy style. We give letter grades for every meaningful player, whole letter grades for every player, and the rationale for each whole letter grade, so you can decide whether or not you agree. Why are you looking at me when you say that no reason we give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance. Later in the show, we'll answer three tough questions. Will jump into our time machine, cep.

If you heard our time machine yet, I have not, Baby, we have upgraded from the Blamo time Machine significantly better than Yeah, that is and it kind of turns into a little bit of like a Chicago Bulls basketball game right at the end, you know, like that part's a little weird. But this is up until then, it was great, way off topic. But if you ever look at the Bulls will go upside down? Yeah, what is it supposed to be? As I heard that? I don't know if I can say it on the radio. Still look at

the Bulls will go upside Down't all right? Well maybe I should have done that a while. I go from the time machine. By the way, like if we can run the time machine, and we're gonna go with the Bulls theme if it if it's a time machine, has to be related to the Bulls. Let's make Michael Jordan a tight end. Let's plant the seed inception style in his mind that he loves football and he should be

a tight end. Michael Jordan could have been if maybe an awesome tight end in the NFL, it would have been a lot more interesting than the whole baseball first when he got when he got banned from the NBA, when he got quote banned from the NBA. That was definitely not gambling related. Yeah that yeah, that band, I remember that. Let's jump into the matchups, beginning with Tennessee taking on Carolina. Christian this feels like a solid game

for Derrick Henry to me, what do you think? Yeah, solid game for the running backs here and really not much else on either side. Let's start with Derrick Henry. This projects is a big game for him. The Panthers allow four point nine yards per carry. They've given up a league leading ten running back rushing scores. Just last week, the forty niners destroyed Carolina for two hundred and six rushing yards five total tds. Derrick Henry gets an easy A grade here. Not so much for the passing game.

Ryan tanny Hill has actually been pretty good touchdown passes in two starts, but Carolina knows how to stop the pass They haven't led a QB throw for more than two touchdown passes all year. They've held five of seven passers two hundred eight yards or less. I think you can find a better player and a better matchup than Tanny Hill, so I've got him on the bench. Same for Corey Davis and A J. Brown. It's tough to

rely on either one of these guys. A couple of weeks ago, it looked like Davis was going to emerge in tanny Hills first start, and then he laid an egg the last start. So one catch last week. Yeah, he's only topped forty four yards and two of his last seven games he's he just has to be on the bench. Same with A J. Brown. His snap braid is still hovering in the sixty to sixty five percent range or fewer yards and five of his last seven games. The Panthers secondary has given up some big games to

two guys. DJ Shark a hundred and sixty four yards and two touchdowns and Chris Godwin twice went for over a hundred and twenty yards and they've shut everybody else down. So there's just nothing here, uh to make me think that Corey Davis or a J. Brown are going to break out. They've got a they've got a nice Panthers. You've got a nice one two punch of cornerback they're developing in Bradbury and uh Um Cockrell as a as

to right. Uh John H. Smith at tight end hopefully will not have to deal with either one of those guys. He led Tennessee and Targets with seven catches six yards seventy eight last week and scored a touchdown, all with Delaney Walker sideline. Walker is still likely out. In fact, officially it's officially out there we go and the Panthers gave up eighty six yards to George Kittle last week, eighty two yards and a touchdown to Tampa's Tampa's tight ends the week before that, So I gave a B

grade to John Smith. Let's go to the Panthers side. Christian McCaffrey an easy a starter here. The Titans are good against the run. They allow you less than four yards per carry, but it doesn't matter. McCaffrey's an a every week. The passing game, I've got Kyle Allen on the bench. Alan just can't be trusted. The matchup isn't horrible. Jamis Winston and Philip Rivers have each top three yards with two touchdowns in the last two weeks against the Titans.

But I can't do it for Kyle Allen. Just a hundred yards per game with three touchdowns since that great debut that he had in Week three. So he's on the bench just enough here for a starting grade on d J Moore. He has at least eight targets in three straight games. With that kind of usage, I think he can start him against the secondary that just got torched for a hundred yards and two touchdowns by Mike Evans last week. They could be missing one of their

starting cornerbacks, Adrey Jackson for the second straight week. So I've got a starting grade on DJ Moore. Not so much on Curtis Samuel, who may or may not play in this game. He's questionable. It sounds like they're saying they think he's gonna play. He hasn't been good enough to justify the risk that he starts this game and doesn't finish it because of that injury. Tight End Greg Olsen, I've got on the bench on He had a big outburst in Week three, but has done literally nothing since then.

Eight catches for seventy yards in the last four games. He is on your bench. All right. Let's take a look at Indianapolis taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. No t Y Hilton this week and probably for a few weeks. What do you think at Jacobi Prissett, who quietly been one of the most reliable Fantasy producers at the quarterback position. But Brian, without t Y Hilton, you're taking the best receiver off the field. Yeah, without a doubt, by a mile. T Y Hilton the best receiver on the team. Let's

talk about the guys behind him. Zach Pascal was the number two receiver when Hilton was healthy. It looked like played as number two. Played played over the snaps last week. Following is a hundred yard outing in Week seven. Then of course there's Paris Campbell, Dion Kane. It's a mess. Though I didn't like the matchup for Hilton, I was gonna bench Pascal of Hilton played, I will give a pascalice c. But no opposing wide receiver has topped eighty

yards against Pittsburgh since Week one. Um only three wide receivers have topped five catches against the Steelers all season. Uh Stephen nell Sin and the somewhat resurrected Iron Hayden of the years past dust Off the nickname have only allowed touched Iron. Fitzpatrick went after him on the Monday night game and had some success throwing at Hayden. He did uh, Albert Wilson did score touchdown on Hayden. I believe, but again I'm just I'm not. I'm worried about all

the receivers for the Coals. I'll give Pascal to Sea, but you gotta see who rises between Dion Kane, Paris Campbell, those guys that are on the bench for me um Eric Ebron and give him a CEE. Pittsburgh has surrendered some nice box scores to opposing tight end units. Seattle tight ends had six catches for sixty three yards and two touchdowns, basically George Kittle at six for fifty seven.

Baltimore tight ends combined for nine catches seventy seven yards, and the Chargers tight ends combined for nine catches a hundred and fifteen yards and two touchdowns. So see you for Ebron. I was gonna bench Jack Doyle, but now that t Y Hilton's out, Hilton has the third most targets inside the ten yard line this year. That brings Doyle into play, doesn't it bring Ebron even more to play? He's always read zone guy. Yeah, but he's just so

bad though. Yeah, he season play, he's in play. But okay, I'll give them Ebron and Jack Doyle both whole hard sees. All right, I like it. That's a definitive answer, thank you. Uh Jacoby Rissette. Canna give him a C. Two. Since acquiring Minca Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh has not allowed more than two passing touchdowns in a game, and three of the five quarterbacks um they faced and acquiring Minca were held under

two under passing yards. So uh se for Brissette, and I was gonna give him a SE even with t Y Hilton playing, so it's not a great match up for him and Marlon Mack. Very quickly, I'll give him a B. Even though Pittsburgh has only allowed one rushing touchdown to running back over the last four games and no loan back has topped sixty two rushing yards during that span. The Steelers are also holding running back to under forty five receiving yards per game, and that's really

more of a concern for Nahem Hines, not Mac. So Mac not a great matchup for him, but the volume will be there. So we get to the b um who's probably not gonna be there for Pittsburgh. Is James Conner now listed as doubt full with the shoulder injury. Let's just assume he does not play. That would put Jalen Samuels in the starting role. He took all the first team reps at practice on Friday. Benny Snell is

not going either, so this could be. It could be a game for Jalen Samuels And if you're not deeper leagues and really hurting for running back, Trey Edmonds would be the the ad. But that's that's very deep. But not a great matchup for Samuel's uh No loan opposing back as top ninety rushing yards against the Colts this year and they've only surrendered one running back touchdown over their last five games, and no loan back has top thirty receiving yards or scored through the air since Week

one against the Colts. So just to see for Samuel's even though he should be the starter in this one, Hona give Juju would be Volume has been a bit of an issue with Mason Rudolph at quarterback, but if Juju can see seven to eight targets, he should be

in line for a very good game. Only five opposing wide receivers have seen seven or more targets against Indie, and those rackenan Allen who had eight for one, three and one, Julio Jones eight one, Tyroll Williams three for thirty six and one, Byron Ringle six one oh three for one, and DeAndre Hopkins for nine, one oh six and one. And they're also been four wide receivers you see six targets. Three of those four hit at least seventy receiving yards, so that's probably your floor for Juju here,

but there is a ceiling um Deante Johnson. Nice call last week by the chart take a chance my wide receiver not playing the Dolphins this week though I got him on the bench in in this matchup, but he should be rostered in in most leagues and vans McDonald. He's been pretty bad since scoring twice in uh Rudolph's debut, just ten targets over his last four games, but it's a good matchup. Though. The Colts have allowed a seventy

completion rate to tight ends. That's the seventh highest mark in the league, and that's led to uh per game average of six catches and six yards. The position, So I'll give McDonald to see if he doesn't get it done here, he's probably droppable, and Mason Rudolph he's on the bench. The Colts have allowed one or zero passing touchdowns and more than half their games, and Rudolph has failed to throw for more than two thirty yards in

any game this year. The least interesting game of the weekend is Washing Been taking on Buffalo, and this won't take long. There's only one Washington redskin you care about. That's Adrian Peterson under Bill Callaghan. His usage has doubled, doubled, and he's actually rewarded Callahan with four point eight yards per carry in the three Bill Callahan games. Those are great numbers for Adrian. But it's Dwayne Hatskins making his first ever start, so you know the game plan will

go through Adrian, for sure. But the defense knows that Buffalo has allowed a back to score in six of their seven games. So I think Adrian finds his way just through volume. I think he finds his way to a decent game here, and I've got a B grade on him. Both Haskins at the helm. The entire passing attack is on the bench, and the only guy you would have atempted to start is Terry McLaurin. We'll talk

about him. His prospects are tremendously bleak. No opposing receivers hit one hundred yards against Buffalo, only two have scored all year, and he likely draws one of the toughest matchups in the NFL against Tradevius White, who has limited opposing passers to completion percentage and the lowest passer rating of any cornerback in the league. Terry McLaren does he does he need a nicknames White? Yeah, he probably does. I like it. I was on White House. I'm like,

that doesn't make any sense. I like the I like the white out white Out. You could get white House. That is pretty good. Get white House man. Well, let's work on that first. Let's work shop that work work shopping it on air. Right now, let's go to the Buffalo side, where Josh Allen gets a be entering the game with exactly two touchdowns in three straight easy games, and here comes another easy matchup, Washington, allowing the fifth

most passing touchdowns. Now, Washington's got one really good cornerback, Quentin Dunbar. Everybody else in the secondary cornerback safeties. They're all awful. Josh Norman is completely cooked. Jimmy Moreland's last name looks like the league's most literal example of what a player allows in his coverage. More Land, So, yes, thank you very much. Yeah, that's right. Josh Allen gets a B, and so does John Brown. He's hauled in at least five passes in six of seven games. He's

averaging seventy six yards per game. Those are very safe, solid, low, high floor numbers. Brown will most often face Redskins cornerback Josh Norman and who has already given up five scores in his coverage this year. Staying with the passing game, Cole Beasley gets a C grade. He rolls into this matchup with touchdowns and back to back games, and again favorable matchup. Here a lineup against slot cornerback Fabian Moreau, who is allowing seven percent of his passes in his

coverage to be completed. He's only been credited with one pass breakup on the season. Fabian Moreau, So we'll start Cole Beasley if you need to, then let's go to the running game. Frank Gore gets a B because the Skins have been obliterated by opposing running backs. They allow the most rushing attempts, the fourth most rushing yards, and Gore still getting the lie and share of the rushing work.

Very safe floor here. The last two teams to face the Redskins ran the ball thirty six and thirty three times. Gore is getting almost all the work he's set for an easy twenty carries and probably more. Then let's talk about Devin Singletary, also startable with a C grade. He's to this point mostly been used as a receiver, including last week when he got targeted six times. Washington allows the second most receptions seventh most receiving yards to running backs.

I think his explosive play here gives him a chance to turn a short pass into a touchdown. And if Buffalo is gonna run the ball thirty plus times like the last two opponents, Frank Court is not running at thirty times, So I think Devin Singletary chips and some carries as well. Everything charge, Hey, that's me. Everything charged

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on Paul Archi in. My co hosts are Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson. You're gonna hear from them momentarily. It is time for our very very royalty free version of take a Chance on Me. When these three sleeper quarterbacks running back to receivers hit paid dirt, you pay us nothing, which is the exact same amount of what we paid for this song, which is definitely positively in a very legally binding way, not abbas classic take a Chance on

Me song. We begin at the quarterback position. Brian Johnson, who is your take a chance in the quarterback? All right, this isn't the boldest of calls. I usually like to try to go pretty deep, but I'm gonna go Matt Stafford at Oakland UM Oakland pretty good run defense. They're essentially funneling all of the plays from the opposition to the past, and for that reason, they are allowing nearly three passing yards per game and three passing touchdowns per game.

Over their last two games, they've allowed eight passing touchdowns, saying and uh nearly of Stafford's pass attempts or twenty plus yards. That is the highest clip in the league. And Oakland has surrendered the second most twenty plus yard completions at thirty five, So that math adds up nicely for me. Matt Stafford say that he's my number three quarterback this week, by the way, I was gonna say, take a chance on him over every other quarterback. He's

my number one, is my number one. Matthew Stafford went undrafted in most fantasy leagues, and I went back and looked at my my preseason rankings. I had him at twenty four, and we all thought they were gonna We believed him. We thought they were gonna run the ball. But it turns out they can't run the ball, so they have to pass. And Stafford has been good working out j though news came out on Friday, very gross not don't get involved. Don't get involved in that. That

is not even a three tough question. That's just don't do it all right, Christian, you take a chance to me quarterback. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Sam Donald this week. Not because I really like Sam Donald's game or his seven interceptions over the last two games, but because of his opponent. This is this is your weekly take a chance on me cheet code at quarterback Dolphins. Every quarterback to face Miami has thrown at least two touchdown passes.

Dolphins allow over two hunter and sixty passing yards per game despite yielding the third fewest passing attempts. So if case Keenum, Josh Allen, and Mason Rudolph can all toss multiple touchdown passes against Miami, soaking Sam Donald, he probably can. It takes a little gutch because of how badly he's played lately, but it's Miami. Derek Carr is throwing multiple touched down by the way, use Derek Carr last week

going back to the well again garbage Town. He's thrown multiple touchdowns and four of the past five games and a juicy matchup against the Detroit Lions team seeing the second most passes per game forty Do you get that kind of volume from Car? He remains very safe and especially if Darius Slay can't go their stark cornerback. Without

Darius Slay, that whole secondary is just garbage. Over the past two weeks without Slay, Kirk Cousins and Daniel Jones have combined for eight touchdowns and six hundred sixty yards. A great opportunity for Derek Carr. Let's go to the running back position, Brian, I've got Phillies Miles Sanders at home against the Bears, who have yielded the fifth most perceptions to running backs in the fourth most red zone targets of the position. Sanders has proven to be a

very good pass catcher. Just look at the fact that he has more catches of yards than Julio Jones, Odell Beckham, Larry Fitzgerald, Adam Theeland, Michael Thomas, Juju Smith, Schuster, and DeAndre Hopkins. Was our first round right there, baby Yeah. And Chicago's run defense has gone south thought. They've allowed six rushing touchdowns running backs over the last three. Of course, Jordan Howard in his revenge game, but Standers will still

get some work on the ground as well. So I got him as my take onm rb Okay, Christian, I am sticking with this Jets Dolphins game. I'm single handedly making it so that people can pay attention to this game. The O and eight Dolphins against the one and is a one and six or one in seven Jets. I'm gonna go with Mark Walton running back for the Dolphins. He played eight percent of the snaps last week, and that was before they traded Kenyan Drake away. It's his

backfield garbage. He's garbage. But the only issue is he's still getting some carries at the stripe, which is super annoying. But Walton has been pretty good. He's averaging over four yards per carry, has been targeted thirteen times in the passing game, and that was with Drake involved, so figures to be even more involved in the passing game here. The Jets allow an average of one rushing touchdown per game. They've let five different backs catch five passes or more

against them. We just talked about how Walton will be involved in the passing games and blotched actively does not want to catch if you have to throw passes at him and he'll just like arms out right. Yeah, And this is this is the rare game where the Dolphins may not be in desperation catchup mode. They might be able to try to establish the run a little bit. Maybe Walton will gets you know, fifteen sixteen touches here, so let's roll with them. I'm a little bit worried

if if Mark Wallen's any good, they'll bench him. Could be so I think a weird spot where if he's doing too well, they'll just set him down. You can't they can't trade you anymore. Now if you're too good, they'll bench you. Would be devastating for them to win. It would be devastating to their chances. Uh there, there there. Their primary goal in Miami this year's to get that first pick. For Alexander Madison has at least forty nine yards rushing in five games this year, including three of

his last four. Your backup to Dalvin Cook and he goes up against the Chiefs their bottom five in rushing yards, receiving yards, fantasy points allowed to running backs and get this opponent's backup run backs have scored four times in the last three Chiefs games. This is a great opportunity. If you gotta go fere bye week, you got to

find a backup. Was on the waiver wire and by the way, Alexander Madison probably at this point as they're starting to look more towards handcuffing season in fantasy football. He's one of the two or three most valuable handcuffs out there. Alexander Madison, you could pick him up and start him this week. Let's go to the receivers. Brian, who you got. I'm going back to the point orgy

in Oakland. I'm taking Detroit's Danny Ammendla, who has become a big part of Detroit's offense since the running game has disappeared. Over the last two weeks, he has nineteen targets for sixteen catches and two hundred yards, and Oakland has allowed a sixty seven pc completion rate on slot targets for six five yards and five touchdowns. Okay, I like it. I'm gonna go with the tight end here instead of a wide receiver. Cameron Braid going up against

the Seahawks this week. O. J. Howard is still nursing a hamstring injury, hasn't practiced this week, is unlikely to play. That brings Bright into the crosshairs. He was targeted six times with Howard out of the lineup last week. He didn't do much with that, but I like the match up here. Seattle has been killed by tight ends this year. They have allowed the fifth most receptions the third most

yards to the position. In the last four games, opposing tight ends have averaged over a hundred yards per game against them. And it's not like it's really good tight ends, it's bad Ones. Gerald ever at a hundred and thirty six yards, c j used almost sixty six yards, Austin Hooper, he's good sixty five and a touchdown, Ricky Seals Jones scored a touchdown. Vince McDonald scored two touchdowns. Cameron Bright

tight end this week just quickly related Hooper. Somebody was asking me Um doing Chicago radio this week, who's the biggest surprise of the year, And I started to think things through. It's a super chalky year, like the you know, the good running backs are the good running backs. Normally every year it's a bunch of just you know, out of the woodwork running backs. Not this year, maybe maybe, but els trailed off so much in the last month that I can't count Deckler. I went Ston Hooper, he

is Hooper is wide receiver nine in PPR. Yeah, he's tight end one. He's wide receiver nine. And he went off the board on average as tight end twelve in the preseason. Well, you have two good games last year, like two really good games here, like he was a consistent performer, but he just like what the bed in every other game. But yeah, not the case. I think it's name feels like he's like the mailman or something. Well from Mr Hooper from Sesame wasn't a Sesame Street

probably was. He's still around. I don't know. Did this is his son? You know Sesame Street has been on so long, there's probably been like five Mr Hooper, five guys who have played Mr Hooper. That's my guests. Uh, final take a chance on me is a guy we've used before and a guy that we are absolutely locked in on, Chris Conley. If we bother to mention his name on this show, you started because we've nailed his three good outings all year and we're calling another one here.

Over the last two weeks, averaging ninety three yards and a score Texas, the Texans secondary is obliterated by injury. They've surrendered a league high thirteen scores one two yards per game to opposing receivers, and Conley's going to end up missing two of the starting three cornerbacks. Bradley Roby is out. Lonnie Johnson is out, which is actually too bad because Lonnie Johnson might have been the worst cornerback in the in the NFL, we're starting cornerback. He's out

in this game as well. Chris Conley sitting in potentially another in a series of good games. Let's work in one final matchup into this segment. It is Houston Chake taking on Jackson, billed the aforementioned Chris Conley's name Convenience. Yeah, do you want to if you want to start there? You can if you want, absolutely why not? And you didn't? You didn't even mention that Houston now has lost J. J. Watt as well. Yeah, great point. Yeah, there's the pass

for us impacted right there. Yeah, so Conley is in for sure, as is DJ Shark. Targeted twelve times last week, he scored for the sixth time in eight games. I don't need to say anymore about this. DJ Shark is an easy, a level starter that brings Gardner Minshew into play. I gave him a B again. Houston just lost J. J. Watt. They weren't good before they lost him, surrendering averages of three and three yards and three point to five touchdowns

per game to the last four quarterbacks they faced. Minshew was off there for a little couple of weeks, didn't play real well, and bounced back last week with that three touchdown performance. Yep, he's back in the lineup here with a B starting grade. That brings us to the running game, Leonard four Net. I gave him an A. It's based on volume here. He still has just one touchdown these two teams met back in Week two. He rushed for forty seven yards added another forty through the air.

Houston is actually much better against the run than they are against the pass, yielding just seventy four rushing yards per game and only two rushing scores. So I don't love four net ceiling here. But because of volume, he's a guy that you're gonna put in there every week. So I gave him an A grade. If if if there was something between an A and a B, it would probably be that. But I'm gonna give him or

a soft day. Yeah, that's a whole I just want to thank you for not speaking in Cockney, by the way, shakingly said in Jacksonville. Jacksonville because it's it's the early London game too, so be sure to note the early start time in that. Yeah. On the other side of this early start game London game is are they are the Texans with Deshaun Watson. Now this is a little weird because again, these two teams played in Week two and and Houston didn't do much of anything. But you

can't possibly even dream of benching Deshaun Watson. He's an a level start here, sixth in passing yards, second in passing touchdowns. They had been rushing yards first and rushing touchdowns among QB's in a level start everywhere Jalen Ramsey at the time. So they did a sizeable loss for the Jacksonville second Yeah, big part of the reason why they held DeAndre Hopkins to just five catches and forty

yards in that previous matchup. Now he's been Hopkins has been targeted at least twelve times in three straight at least nine catches in each of those games. He is also an easy a level start. We are not going to roll with Kenny Stills this week after he disappointed everybody last week just three catches on five targets against this secondary that is still pretty good even without Ramsey. I'm not going to go any deeper than DeAndre Hopkins

except at tight end, where Darren Fells is in the mix. Here, I gave him a B level starting grade. Point the Snaps last week fifty eight yards two touchdowns, and the Jaguars have allowed some big tight end games this year. Travis Kelsey went for eighty eight yards to Laney Walker sixty four and from out of nowhere last week Ryan Griffin sixty six yards and two touchdowns. So Darren Fells I gave a B level starting grade. Finally, the running game,

Carlos Hyde. Yeah, the Jaguars run Carlos hide it does I mean he's gonna get twenty plus touches, He's gonna get seventy five or eighty yards and a coin flips chance at a touchdown, So I gave him a B level starting grade. The yuck that is yuck. Did we get Duke Johnson in there? Duke Johnson I have on the hasn't top ten touches in a game. He has scored twice in the last three games. He did nothing in the week two matchups, so he's just not getting

enough volume from me. Did they have a third rounder the Texans, and then and then they're not using it. It's when your head coaches of the GM. That's what happens. Now you got no kidding and you give away Jadavian Clowney and YadA, YadA YadA. Did you know fan Ball has daily fantasy auctions, Yes, auctions. You love auctioning in the preseason. You will love auctioning for this weekend's games. Fanball auctions. They're fast paced, they're frantic, incredibly fun as

you've been on four players simultaneously against your opponents. And yes, you you can win money with fan ball auctions, but play fanball auctions just because they're so much fun. Coming up next Sun Fantasy Football Weekly, we will break down more matchups, including Detroit taking on the Oakland Raiders. Will tell you what to expect from Josh Jacobs in that matchup when we return. You are listening to Fantasy Football Weekly High Am Paul Giarchie and my co hosts are

Christian Peterson and Brian Johnson from famball dot Com. You can hear us over the air and 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 I Heart Radio app. Guys, let's dive into a few more, few more matchups, including Detroit taking on the Oakland Raiders. Brian we alluded to this earlier Detroit not able to get a running game going.

I've got to believe you don't like any of the running backs, but you love the passing game here. Oh yeah, Let's start with Kenny Holiday, who gets a birth day. His birthday is on Sunday, his real life birthday, baby birthday bonus up against Oakland, allowing the fourth most yards per game. Two wide receivers and opposing number ones have blown up the block box score over the last three weeks. DeAndre, they've blown out the candles are blown up the box.

I wish I want that, all right, Well, just trying to help you did. Yeah, the Raiders are the gift that keeps on giving on your On Kenny Golladay's birthday, Yeah, they gave gifts to DeAndre Hopkins eleven catches for a hundred nine yards, marqueesz Valdez Scandling who was the number one receiver in that game, one thirty three and a touchdown, and then Allen Robinson had seven for nine seven and two over the last three weeks, so easy A for

the birthday boy, Kenny Golladay. Marvin Jones gets a B. The Raiders traded starting cornerback Garyon Connley to Houston recently, which has pushed Trayvon Connley into a starting role. Conley has seen just nine targets so far, but it's allowed six catches in a touchdown, so he's not very good. And uh, he figures would be covering Martin Jones quite a bit. So Jones gets a very safe BE and

Danny Amndla also startable. It might take a chance on me wide receiver and even though he's been pretty frustrating, pretty brutal, t J. Hockinson gonna give him a See this is a great matchup for t J. Oakland has ranked twenty nine and d v o A against tight ends, and the last four tight ends to face the Raiders were Darren Fells who had six for fifty eight and two,

Jimmy Graham four for sixty five and one. Trey Burton wet the bed, but that's understandable, and then Eric Ebron had one for one for forty eight and touchdown and Jack Doyle had eight I'm sorry, four catches for twenty two yards in a touch and then that same game, so a great matchup for t J. And that makes Matt Stafford a very easy take a chance on me quarterback. I'm sorry I went so easy there, but I would

sorry him over anyone. Just put it that way. And for your daily players out there all day, Stafford um and the running backs all on the bench. Here's the snap counts, uh last week without carry on Johnson Ty Johnson twenty five, Trey Carson nineteen, j D McKissick sixteen, Paul Perkins got six carries. Just avoid that whole situation entirely. And j J I uh, we won't even mentioned that.

We talked about huh. We will talk about John Jacobs on the other side, he gets an A. Since Week five, only four players have accounted for a higher percentage of team touches. And Josh Jacobs, who is garnering overt of Oakland's touches right now and he's been doing it plan half hurt too. Yeah, and his his passing work has

ramped up. Catching the ball at the backfield. The posing running backs are averaging more than twenty nine touches per game against Detroit, who have allowed eight total touchdowns to running backs over their last four So smashed spot for Jacobs here. Uh. Probably another smash spot for Darren Waller as well. He gets an A. Detroit is allowing more than six yards per game to tight ends and they've allowed tight end touchdowns and back to back games to

Evan Ingram and Kyle Rudolph Tyler. I'm sorry Tyrrell Williams gets a B because all he does is score touchdowns if he's healthy. He's healthy this week. Uh. We mentioned Darius Slay in an earlier segment pretty questionable with a hamstring injury to play in this one, so Williams would get an A if Slays out, but still would be

even if Slay goes. Detroit has to render five scores to wide receivers over the last three games and um and if Slay is to sit, that would lead another start for Rashaan Melvin, who only allowed a hat trick in his coverage last week. Three touchdowns allowed by Rashaan Melvin. So great spot for Tyrod Williams and a pretty good spot for Hunter. Renfro. I'm gonna give him a see Hunter runs primarily out of the slot in Detroit, has

been vulnerable covering the seams. Larry Fitzgerald at eight for one and a touchdown, Keenan Allen eight, Golden Tate eight for eighty five, Nelson Aglare eight for fifty and two, and even B. C. Johnson for for forty and one against the Lions. And that's why Derek Carr was your take a chance on me quarterbacks, Yes he was. Vikings

taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. Dalvin Cooks sitting out potentially huge game if trends continue here, Kansas City has allowed the opponent's starting running back to amass at least one hundred thirty combo yards, and all four of their home games they've given up the third most rushing yards, the second most receiving yards to running backs, and the fourth most fantasy points to backs. And here comes the Vikings with arguably the most potent rushing attack in the NFL.

So Dalvin Cook a lock a and as I mentioned, and take a chance, I mean Alexander Madison as a deep reach is a plausible sleeper as well. We go to the passing game. Kirk Cousin Cousins comes in with a b here. He enters the game as the NFL's hottest quarterback. Aaron Rodgers just through for three hundred yards and three scores against the Chiefs, but it did take some Hall of Fame level passing from for Uh for

Rogers to get there. And prior to that, the chief secondary was dramatically improved, averaging just two hundred fifty yards and one point one passing touchdowns. That's it now. Part of it was because seems just run on the Chiefs and run successfully. Um, if there is more balance, there is some upside here. Also, it looks like Frank Clark, their star defensive alignment will not go in this one. And when Kirk Cousins has time, he was usually pretty good.

Um adam feeling expected to play. He injured his hamstring two games ago. Um, he is technically questionable. Everybody assumed he'd be like but after limited practice all week, not one percent sure he's gonna go. And you want to watch him up to game time. He had found the paint in three consecutive weeks prior to that seventy five yards and or he touchdown in six of seven games this year and Chief slot. Cornerback Kendall Fuller missed last

week and is questionable for this one as well. And if Fuller can't go, that would set him up against sixth round rookie Rashad Fenton, who got forced into action last week and allowed to touchdown, and theland would get an upgrade if that were the case. Stefan Diggs has over one hundred yards in four of his last five games and a franchise record four hundred fifty two yards over the last three games. Over the last four weeks, the Chiefs are allowing just one hundred twelve yards per

game to opposing receivers. They haven't allowed to receiver to find the end zone. But Shot Bryland is questionable for this game. Is a lot of Chiefs injuries. He's questionable, and he would be with a cornerback who would get a lot of play on Diggs and if he can't go, upgrade Digs to an a here as well. Let's go to the Kansas City side. Travis Kelsey is an obvious A using tight ends, averaging a healthy nine and a

half targets per game against the Vikings. Although the Vikings have not allowed to touch down to a tight end yet, but big games in terms of receptions and yards to Austin Hooper, Darren Waller, Evan Ingram all fared well against Minnesota. Travis Kelsey is obviously an elite play no matter who the quarterback is. And let's go to the quarterback position, where if it's Patrick Mahomes, you'd see it's an a start because it's Patrick Mahomes in the Vikings secondary has

had a variety of problems over the course of this year. Um, Now, if Mahomes doesn't have his mobility, he's playing with a brace on his knee, He's not gonna do these things where he's running at a full speed on one direction and then throws a laser forty yards downfield the other side of the field. I don't think that stuffs in play here, but I still think he would be an A grade player Mahomes would be if he goes that said, I don't think he goes. Let's talk about Matt mooreher

gets a B as the probable starter. The only quarterbacks who have failed to throw multiple touchdowns against Minnesota Daniel Jones and like his second NFL start or third NFL are Chase Daniel in a backup role, and then the combo platter of case Keenum and Dwayne Haskins. Everybody else has thrown multiple touchdowns. All other quarterbacks are averaging two

eighty five yards and two point four touchdowns. We take two eight five and two point four to Matt More that would be a solid day and that's why he gets a B here. Um he does not have the downfield sling and ability that Patrick Mahomes has, but Tyreek Hill still remains an A grade regardless of the quarterback. He plays from all over the field, has strong matchups at every spot. From the slot, Hill has a huge speed and speed advantage over Mike Hughes and or Mackenzie Alexander.

Trey Waynes has got straight line speed to hang with Tyreek, but not the moves. And the Vikings are allowing the third most receptions to wide receivers the third most touchdowns to wide receivers. Continue to start Tyreek Hill. Sammy Watkins gets a C grade, even though he's been completely and totally unreliable this year. But the Viking secondary is just unusually yielding and I think he's startable here and Watkins

had been playing the slow Tyreek Hill out. We think he gets goes outside and that puts him up against slumping cornerback Xavier Rhodes who's allowing of the passes in his coverage to be completed and a passer rating of one five in Xavier roads coverage. I've been to have a new nickname for Xavier Xavior Rogue. Rogue. He's gone rogue because he's just running around the field, not covering anybody. What about roads open, roads are open, It's open for

business on his side of the field. Um, I'm gonna put I'm gonna put McCole, Hardman and Damian Williams on the bench. For Hardman just eight snaps on offense last week with Tyree kill back, So if that's all the usage he's gonna get, I can't count on him. Damian Williams, by the way, So we shift over to the running game, who scored last week, but the usage incredibly low. He has the top nine rushes since the opener, just one

catch per game over the last three weeks. Lea Shawn McCoy though, gets a C grade, vikings near the top, and almost every running back defensive metric they've only allowed a single rushing touchdown this year, and one back is topped one hundred rushing yards, Aaron Jones. Both of those both to touch. I on the hundred yard game. They're

giving up just seventy nine rushing yards per game. I think McCoy probably needs a goal line carry here for fantasy relevance, but I am giving him a c start anyway due to the overall potency of the Kansas City offense. Christian Chicago takes on Philip Delphia. The Chicago offense has been a wreck here and they finally got back to David Montgomery, who we're going to talk a lot more about in a few minutes. But tough matchup for David Montgomery against the good Eagles run defense, Yeah it is.

Although Philadelphia's run defense their top five Rundy, they allowed just sixty nine rushing yards per game. It's partly because teams can just pass all over them. The one team that committed to it was the Cowboys, and Ezekiel Elliott turned twenty eight touches into hundred and forty seven yards and a touchdown. So will they commit to David Montgomery again this week? Let's they sure did last week one

touches play of the snaps. If they do that, I think Montgomery can get get some work done here, but I'm not sure they will. So just a B level starter here the passing game, I've got a bunch of bench grades. You cannot start Mitchell Trobinsky shout out of the end zone and four of his six starts, he's on pace for thirteen touchdowns this whole season. Obviously, he sad trombone Ski is out of your lineup despite the nice matchup here. He's doing just enough to keep Allen

Robinson relevant here. Robinson has reached sixty yards in all but one game. He has three touchdowns in his last three games. The Philadelphia secondary has allowed the fourth most wide receiver yards, the second most wide receiver touchdowns, including six yard games. Allen Robinson getting half of the wide

receiver targets just going to him, That's right. So I've got I've got to be grade on him just because I can't trust Trabisky, but he certainly is in your lineup, and there's not enough here for Taylor Gabriel or Anthony Miller, although I will note that Miller is becoming more involved. Nineteen targets in a hundred and eighty three yards in his last three games, so keep an eye on that if Rabisky can manage to turn things around here in the unlikely event that he can on the eagle side,

kind of much of the same here. I've got the most. I've got the passing game mostly on the bench. The Bears defense remains elite against the past. They've allowed just seven passing touchdowns in seven games. Three of the last four quarterbacks they've faced were scoreless. Carson Wentz has just not done enough to deserve being in your lineup, held under two hundred yards with one touchdown and three of his last four, so don't force him into your lineup.

He's on the bench all Sean Jeffrey just to see here, he hasn't topped seventy six yards all year, just eleven targets in the last two weeks. Chicago has given up some big games over a hundred yards by Stefan Diggs and Michael Thomas in the last couple of weeks, but we just haven't seen that type of upside from Jeffreys just a level. But it's a revenge game. I know you're probably gonna get too that soon. Also, one Tray Burton by the way who you yeah, Riddle, Riddle. Trey

Burton hasn't topped twenty yards this season. I'll take my chances with him on the bench. Nelson Aghilor and Sean Jackson are both on your bench. Jackson may actually return this week for the first time since Week two, but given his questionable injury status, I'm not going to throw him in there in his first game back. I have both Zach Ertz and Alice Goddard on the bench here. Urt's just one touchdown, hasn't topped seventy two yards all year,

season lows and targets. Over the last two weeks he went six targets and then four touchdowns, while Goddard has scored in both of those games. So I don't I don't know if the torches being passed here or what's happening, but Chicago is too good against tight ends. They haven't allowed a tight end touchdown since Week one. No opposing tight end has topped even forty seven yards. So with Arts and Goddard splitting the looks here, I've got them

both on the bench. And now we get to the running game, where we have a revenge game of sorts for Jordan Howard straight up revenge game, and Chicago has been just crushed by running backs recently. They have allowed a hundred and twenty three yards and two touchdowns to Josh Jacobs, then one nineteen and two to Latavious Murray, then two touchdowns to Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler. Howard had a coming off a season high twenty three carries

last week. He figures to be a focal point. I've got a B level starting grade on him and Miles Sanders. We talked about how the Bears are vulnerable against past receiving running backs. Brian's take a chance on me running back. I've got a C grade on Miles Sanders. I have to This is so close to the double bonus for Jordan Howard. Tomorrow is his birthday. We almost want the birthday Saturday, one day from the birthday revenge game. Yeah,

but don't go out drinking. Jordan's apparently not. Um Cam Newton is going to see a foot specialist, which you think is something he would have done a long time ago. But now he's going to see a foot specialist, and it's really cast some doubt on the remainder of his season. Christian, you are the official Cam Newton apologist desk around here. Tell me in thirty seconds or so, the dynasty value that Cam Newton has as we start to look forward

to and maybe by the way the Bears starting quarterbacks. Well, yeah, I guess it could could depend on if he winds up somewhere else. But over the last two years ago, he was the number two fantasy quarterback. Last year, despite battling through injury, on a points per game basis, he was the number seven guy. So I'm not dumping him out right in Dynasty. I'm holding You're holding him. You're gonna You're gonna burn that roster spots. The biggest struggle

running the spot absolutely coming up nuts. Let's answer three tough questions. You can play along, try to go a perfect three and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly. It's Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul arch and famball dot com. My panel of experts today, Christian Peterson, Brian Johnson, Boys, I've gotten especially difficult set of tough questions. They're extra tough listeners. You can play along see if you can go three

and oh. We like to begin with tough question Number one was last week's game The turnaround game for David Montgomery's season. We begin with Brian Johnson. I'm gonna say it was, and you know, it wasn't like someone else was getting the work over David Montgomery all year long. Montgomery total carries, Mike Davis and three co and have combined for forty all season. So it's always been Montgomery

has always been the guy. But Chicago's has never been running the ball their top eight and passing play percentage top five over the last three weeks. But that's clearly not working for them. Uh. They just they have to rely on their defense and the run game. Don't have any chance of making the playoffs this year. Their quarterbacks suck. Their schedule does not suck moving forward though for running backs. According to Fantasy Pros, the Bears at the third easiest

remaining schedule for running backs. You know, Mike Davis and threat and aren't a threat to steal his carries. So I think this is a turnaround from Montgomery, and the bye little window is probably closed. But I'm saying he's turning it around. Yeah, I mean, as you probably heard in the matchup that I did with the Bears, I'm not totally convinced that that the Bears are gonna suddenly

start committing to him the way that they should. I mean, it looked like they were going to do that in Week four when they gave him twenty four touches, and then in the next two games he got fifty and touches combined. So I'm not totally convinced that they're sold that this is the way that they're gonna win games. I agree that I think it is with the running game in the defense. I just don't know if Matt Naggi agrees with that. But Brian, you mentioned that the

schedule is really favorable here. This week is pretty tough against Philadelphia, but he gets Detroit twice by thanksgiving their bottom five against the run, really no stoppers on the schedule, and then in the fantasy playoffs, Green Bay sixth worst against running backs and Kansas City fourth worst against the running backs, so he has a very favorable schedule here. So I say, from a fantasy perspective, yes, this is

the turnaround for David Montgomery. If Eddie Pinneo just made his damn kick, I'd feel a lot better about Matt Nagy learning a valuable lesson here. And you can win. Yeah, that's right. You can go win games with a run with an especially at David Montgomery spearheading your running game. And you know, unfortunately, you know, we don't really know

that for sure. But I still want to believe that they go back and look at the tape and agree that the best, maybe the best thing that's happened to them offensively all year was this game by David Montgomery. You don't, you know, for Mattenegge, God, you don't have to be the smartest guy in the room all the time. You don't have to like overthink every single thing and always be contrarian offensive guy. Sometimes everything is as obvious as it looks. Sad trombon Ski is not the path

to victory. It's all about and Brian has said, well, elite defense and running game. San Francisco forty Niners are undefeated, the Vikings are six and two. That it's not complicated, that's all you need. I want to believe Matt Aggie is not so bullheaded and or dumb that he can't figure that out. We will go with Yes. Last week's game Wilma Park to turn around for David Montgomery. Tough

question Number two. Should fantasy owners add new Seahawks wide receiver Josh Gordon or stay away Christian So if this question was worded slightly differently, I would say to stay away. If if you said, is he going to be a fantasy starter the rest of the year, I think the answer is no, then why roster him? Well, because there is there is upside. We've seen his upside over the years. Right over the last couple of years playing with the Patriots, He's had a couple of big games here and there,

and we know that he's talented. He gets added to a Seahawks roster where he's almost certainly number two in

the pecking order behind Tyler Lockett. But at the same time Tyler Lockett plays in the slot, they do have DK Metcalf who's basically just an end zone presence, and they don't really have a tight end after Will Disley went down, they don't have anybody to throw too there, so they do kind of need a pass catcher, and I just think the upside is certainly enough for me to add him to the end of my roster just to see what happens. Okay, yes, I'm probably gonna stay away.

The only you know wide receiver traded mid season that's done well that I can remember, has been a Mari Cooper, and that's because he had a massive upgrade going from Derek Card to Dak Prescott. Going from Tom Brady to Russell Wilson's pretty much alateral move. It's certainly not a upgrade or down, you know what I'm saying here, But uh, in the schedule pretty tough. You want him against the Bucks this week, but there's no way he's gonna know

the plays. He's playing forty Niners next week. That's a bench Eagles is a good matchup. That might be the one game you want to start them, But then Vikings and other sort of a neutral matchup. But then the Rams, who just required Jalen Ramsey. The Panthers have emerging duo of cornerbacks. I just don't see him wearing the plays well enough for the remainder of the season. So I'm just staying away, saying entirely away. What's legal in Washington State that you can think of, that's a good point.

Throw that in there. It's Leland Boston too. Maybe that's why he got good. The average game for Josh Gordon Well of the last two years, the average game two years of Tom Brady passing three catches fifty seven yards and zero point to five touchdowns. That's it with Tom Brady. You are, so let me give you a comparable from this season. Who else is three catches fifty seven yards

and zero point to five touchdowns? This year it's Curtis Samuel, who's dropped in half of leagues and not a regular starter. Um Curtis Samuel's wide receiver forty three. So to tell you what three catches fifty seven yards and zero point two five touchdowns gets you. It gets you to wide receiver forty three by fantasy points per game. There are still people reliving Josh Gordon's twenty thirteen season. Allow me to give you a very distinct way of understanding how

long ago that was. This is twenty nineteen, seventeen. Six seven years ago was the last time Josh Gordon was particularly good. I don't know that he's better than John Brown. I can't tell you that. No, you're going to stay away from Josh Gordon. I don't. By the way, He's got to go like learn a whole new playbook and learn all that. A scholar of the game Josh Gordon.

I don't think so. Tough question number three. To this point, Melvin Gordon has been so ineffective it would have been better if his fantasy for his fantasy units, if he had just continued to hold out honestly for the season though, going forward, will he be an RB one and r B two, a flex or a bench level player? Melvin Gordon?

We begin with Brian Johnson, all right, the schedule moving forward, starting on Sunday, Green Bay, Oakland, Kansas City, Denver, Jacksonville, Minnesota, Oakland again, and there's a by mixed in there, so that's clearly a zero point week for Gordon and really just two good matchups, one being Green Bay on Sunday, but I'm a full confident Gordon's up to bell Cow status yet and then Kansas City is another favorable matchup. But outside of those, he's a flex player at best.

And the Chargers have just gotten very bad, and so bad they've been forced to pass nearly seventy of the time over their last three games, their third and pass play percentage overall in the season. Austin Ekeler clearly a threat to the passing with Crew Gordon, so I'm just saying flex flex, and that's barely uh great. I want to give him close to bench, but flex. Ok. Yeah, I'm gonna say he's gonna be on the bench. I I just don't see how he ever, bites off enough

of those looks to become fantasy relevant. I mean, he's been horrible two point five five yards per carry since ending us holdout. The Chargers have lost three of his four games. At some point, I think they're going to figure out that they need to stop feeding him the ball and give it back to Eckler a little bit more, who has been the the much more superior runner. So maybe there's a matchup or two here, But I think as the season goes on, the time split is gonna

skew more and more towards Ekler. So I've got Gordon on the bench the rest of the way. That's a great point. It was once something in my notes as well, that it's sooner or later you'd think that they get desperate enough that they just stopped this whole Melvin Gordon experiment and just go to Eckler. They're not bringing them back next year. They're not bringing them back next year. And that was why I think they were running him

into the ground. You know, what do they care if they run him into the ground and he's gonna go be a free agent, But sooner or later, they gotta win games. Now, offensive line should get a little better with Russell o'com returning, but every time he tried to returning gets hurt again. So you know, we need him to get back and get healthy. That would help a ton um. The loss of Ken Wizzen Hunt can only help.

That's addition, by subtraction, his offense ranked twenty eight and rushing yards and twenty eight and rushing touchdowns, that's probably helps this offense, and I think that works in his favor. You guys, I think hit the schedule just about right. A couple of good spots in there, a couple of bad spots in there. It doesn't do a lot for me. From Melvin Gordon, I've got a flex level grade on him. They were going to be in these easy matchups. I still think he's going to be the goal line guy

and will be playable in those easy matchups. And in the rest of him, you're probably gonna bench him, but there's enough there where he's going to get lex. He's gonna get He's gonna be a B grade and a C grade a few times, and a bench grade a few times, and it will net out to a flex level play for Melvin Gordon. Let's work getting one more matchup into the segment, Cleveland taking on the Denver Broncos Brian.

The Cleveland passing attack has just been an utter wreck so far, and now they get a tough matchup against a good secondary in Denver. Yeah, let's start with Odell Beckham, who's on pace for seventy eight catches eleven hundred yards, which is decent but not the numbers you're expecting. But two point three touchdowns is the pace he's on. Emmanuel Sanders had two touchdowns on Thursday night, and he didim Garoppolo didn't even know each other's name before the game started.

I think his name was Babe. But Beckham just been brutal and this is not a spot for him to bounce back. Opposing wide receiver units are averaging just nine catches for a hundred eleven yards. That's all the wide receivers on the team per game, and number ones have been blanked from a touchdown perspective. A Rob Davante Adams, d J Chark, Keenan Allen, t Y Hilton failed to score against Denver and Beckham probably will too, so just to see for him, he'll be shadow by Chris Harris

all game. Harris just you know, eliminates you from um Jarvis Landry. I'll give him a sea as well. Should see plenty of Duke Dawson, who man's the slot if Harris does not. Dawson was a second round pick of the Patriots last year, but went on I R and then was traded in the off season. He's only seen six targets in coverage, so we don't really know what we have there. But I'll give yeah, definitely so l Angel will get to see. That's because Beckham is gonna

be blanked by Harris. The tight ends. I actually wanted to suggest one um. Over the last three weeks, opposing tight ends are averaging six catches for sixty nine yards. UM. Demitrius Harris scored last week for Cleveland, but he played the fewest amount of snaps. Ricky Seals Jones played twenty nine snaps and Farrell Brown played twenty six, so it's a three headed monster. So the tight ends are on

the bench. And to the running backs. Nick Chubb gets a B, worth noting this is his last game before the return of Kareem Hunt, the last solo game before cream Hunt is eligible to play. UM. Not a great matchup for Chubb at all, even though the Broncos have yielded the most rushing attempts to opposing backs. UM. Everyone outside of Leonard four Net has, who had a monster game against Denver is struggled mightily. Take out the four

net game. The Broncos are allowing amasily three yards per carry and no back has topped thirty five yards or I'm sorry, eighty five yards. Read that wrong? And then who were over to the Denver side get my notes in order here. Let's start with the running backs, Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman. Give them both a B. I want this to be a huge game for Lindsay. Yeah, I know it could be Freeman is out snapping him,

but it's it's a pretty good spot for both. Denver is going to want to run the ball with Brandon Allen at quarterback. We'll talk about him in a second. Actually, I'm just gonna say bench when I mentioned him again. But they're gonna want to run the run the rock. Cleveland probably gonna struggle to keep their offense on the field.

The Browns are yielding a healthy twenty five carries per game to running backs four point seven yards per carry, so Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman both very startable with a B. Courton Sutton just gonna give him a C sadly because of the Brandon Allen factor. Um. He has provided a safe floor all season with at least sixty yards and seven of eight games. But again, Brandon Allen first ever start for bench and Allen I don't, I don't love it. I don't, I don't. But something's like

he's a wide receiver. He's the top twelve wide receivers. I was. It's not like Joe Flacco is good either. Liked Williams. Greedy Williams comes back, which puts Cleveland secondary at full strength for the first time all year. I'm still gonna give him a CE, though charge. I can't fault anyone for bet looking else or if you have better options, But if you don't, you can start Sutton. Uh Dave Shawn Hamilton's do not start him. He's on

the bench in his first game without Manny Sanders. Everyone thought, you know, Hamilton's gonna do something. Forty five seventy three snaps, zero catches on one target. He's dead to us. We'll never mention him on this show for the rest of the season, I'm sure. And Noah Fant in his first game without Manny Sanders, he said season high and snaps slot snaps fourteen, targets a team high eight and catches

with five. But the only tight ends to produce against Cleveland were a healthy Delaney Walker in week one and then George Kittle and Mark Andrews. No a fan is even even the same universe as those guys. Yeah, probably never will be so, but I am going to give him a sea in the waste land if you're super desperate. Desperate, but uh, I don't know. More down bench, he's on the bench, and so Brandon Allen, he and Brandon Allen can hang out on the bench. I kind of like

Ben Allen, does that work? Yeah, Brandon brand don't Brandon don't Allen? All right? That? I kind of like that better, Brandon d Allen. Yeah, it doesn't roll off. The tongue is easily, but it punctuates the point. I think we need to hear a little bit better. You know, every week you can play the Crush Charts Championship for free at fan ball dot com. When you assemble a better salary cap team than mine, you get a shot at

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Aaron Jones at this point has become an obvious a um, although the only thing I'm gonna mention him is that his reception pace is just unsustainable the way they've used him here, and with Davante Adams likely return earning, I think it's going to drop off a bit here, but he's still an obviously. And then we go to Aaron Jones,

whos vaulted into the NFL m v P conversation. Any doubts about his greatness have been eliminated over the last two weeks, during which he scored nine touchdowns and throwing zero picks charges past events. Looks good on paper, but man, they face some crappy quarterbacking. The only two quarterbacks they faced who are remotely close to Rogers, Matthew Stafford Deshaun Watson averaged two yards and two and a half touchdowns. I think that feels very comfortable for Aaron Rodgers here,

especially if Davante Adams comes back. By the way, a grade for Aaron Rodgers if I didn't say that explicitly, Davante Adams gets to be assuming he plays, even though, and though we will note there's some small chance of a setback here, but generally Turftoe doesn't have the setback a lot of times. It's a pain management thing. So on Friday there was video of him at practice leapfrogging.

I think, I think he's good. It's a lot of the turf toe is really about cutting and uh and planting, and those are big things of receivers, and you can leap your coach without cutting or planting, So you know, I think he goes here he will draw Casey Hayward, very good corner who shadows opposing top receivers. But the weird thing is, even though Casey Hayward's good and he goes after the top receivers, the top receivers usually end

up with good games. T Y Hilton two touchdowns, Kenny Golladay hundred yards, touchdown, DeAndre Hopkins six sketches, sixty seven yards, Courtland Sutton ninety two yards and a touchdown. They're all able to get it done against Seattle's uh sorry, the charger secondary. So I think Davante Adams finds his way to a good game here. The other receivers, though, Marquez Veldez, scant Laning, Geronimo Allison, Jake Kumero, Alan Lazard, I think

they neutralize each other. Sure one of those guys probably does something, but they're all sharing playing time and none of them are getting consistent targets. They're not getting consistent snaps, so they're all on the bench. The only other receiver to mention here is tight end Jimmy Graham, who's having

a better season than expected. And the Chargers appeared tough on paper against tight ends, but the opposition has been completely uninspiring, especially at the tight end position, so this is maybe one of the better tight ends they've seen. The tennesse See tight ends total ninety yards against Los Angeles recently in the Houston tight ends combined for hundred yards and three touchdowns against them in Week three, So

I think Jimmy Graham's a C level start. Jamal Williams is the only other Packer player that I probably ought to touch on and haven't yet. He scored a short receiving touchdown UM. In three straight games he has scored a receiving touchdown, and four the last five he hasn't scored UM. He hadn't scored receiving touchdown in the twenty previous games, however, so it feels a little bit unsustainable. Williams has been seeing the field on roughly fifty of

the offensive snaps. I think you can give him a start here against a wobbly run defense. I've got a C grade on Jamal Williams. Let's flip over to the Chargers side. I know Melvin Gordon has been a disaster, and we just talked about him a lot not that long ago, but this is a really good opportunity for him. This is one of the handful of games where we talked about him getting B grades. This is one of them.

Two Packers defense that's giving the up the eleventh most rushing attempts, sixth most yards per game, and at four point nine yards per carry, it all trends to a bigger Melvin Gordon game here, unless they've just had it with him, which is a possibility. The Packers have also given up one hundred or more rushing yards and or he touchdown to the lead back in every game since the opener. So I'm Melvin Gordon gets it done here. It's a it's not a homecoming, but Melvin Gordon hailing

from Kenosha, that's a good point. Played as a college ball at Wisconsin. Um As for the backup, Austin Ekeler averaging just four rushes since Gordon's return, which is completely deflating. He's basically James White now Ekeler is so you only get what he gives you through the air. And since the opener, the Packers are allowing opposing running backs to manage just four catches for thirty three yards combined, all of them through the air. That's nothing. Only one has

scored a receiving touchdown against the Packers. So I've got equally with just a C grade here, and I just I should give him a bench grade. I really should. But I love Austin that Clara did the video of him doing one man. Austin Ekeler is so good, So I just I don't on talent alone, I don't have the heart to put him on the bench. Let's go to the let's go to the passing. Is that more difficult to do while reading a book? But I bet,

I think I mean enough items totally relevant? What else could he be doing with that one hand while doing the set ups? Are the pull ups that would make it harder? I don't know. I don't juggling, juggling I'd be harder video games? If he turned the page with the Army was using to do the pull ups really quickly and then grab it again. Then Philip Rivers goes up against the Packers defense that's allowed multiple passing touchdowns

and four of the past five games. And here's Rivers who's somehow managed to cobble together solid fantasy numbers in five different games despite all the injuries, the offensive line in tatters. You know, I worry about rivers protection breaking down against Preston Williams and sorry, Preston and Zadarius Smith, who have combined for fifteen sacks and seventy two pressures between them per Pro Football Focus. Dang, that's a lot

so B grade on Philip Rivers. Here a sorry, A C grade on Rivers, a C grade on Keenan Allen, who is not eclipse sixty one yards in any of his last five games. That is a serious drop off from a guy who is averaging a hundred thirty six yards in his first three games of the season. He goes up against Packers slot cornerback Traymont Williams, who surrendered eleven scoreless yards per game over the last three weeks.

That's it. No slot receiver has scored against the Packers this year, So just to see grade on Keenan Allen as well. Mike Williams is on the bench. He has yet to score, which is tru bling for a touchdown dependent receiver like him, and the Packers secondary has yielded just five scores to receivers. That's the fifth fewest in the league. So Mike Williams also on the bench. The Jets take on the Miami Dolphins. You've already identified Christian.

Many take a chance on meat level sleepers in this game, several. Yeah. One guy that fantasy owners desperately need to get right is leaby On Bell, and this is the best opportunity of his season. You're right, I mean, if he can't get it done here, we might be talking about Levan Bell as a sabotage drop candidate. Well, we're not for the fact that he plays Miami again later, so there's that you might want to hold him for that, but that might be it. He's been so bad. Just eight

carries twenty three yards last week. That may have been the low point of a stunningly disappointing season. But faces a Dolphins run defense that's allowed the most rushing attempts in the NFL. The most rushing yards in the NFL. They've given up five runners ten running back touchdowns. This is it for for leve Onbell owners. This is your a level start again. If he can't get it done here, there's there's not much hope for the rest of the season.

The passing game, I talked about Sam Donald, he was might take a chance on me quarterback against the secondary giving up over two and fifty yards and two touchdowns per game. That brings both Jamison Crowder and Robbie Anderson into play. The Dolphins lead the NFL and wide receiver touchdowns allowed with thirteen, including seven to the slot receiver position. So Jamison Crowder had that huge Week one, that's seventeen target Week one. He's been virtually invisible since then, just

five targets in each of the last two games. So it's a big roll of the dice here, but the matchup sure favorite Crowder. I gave him a sea level start. Same with Robbie Anderson. He's been targeted twenty two times in the three starts since Donald returned to the field, and he's the primary beneficiary of the Dolphins shutting down star corner Zavian Howard due to injury in air quotes. Now he to face backup Ken Webster, who's ranked a

hundred and sevent among cornerbacks by Pro Football Focus. I gotta believe they don't even rank many more than I don't think they do. You know, Anderson is, He's He's a boomer Bus guy, right, He's the deep threat. So you're depending on a touchdown here. So again, just a sea level grade here. Even to Marius Thomas, He's been targeted eighteen times in the last three games, had five catches for sixty three yards last week. So not all

of these guys are going to do anything. I know that, but one of them is, and two of them might. So Thomas could even be a dart throw. We're not quite there yet. On Chris Herndon, it looks like he's unlikely to play this week still with that hamstring injury. He's on the bench. So that brings us to the other side of the matchup. We talked about the running game. I've got Mark Walton and as gonna take a chance on me running back. The passing game Church Stu Beard.

We haven't seen vintage Stu Beard average less than two hundred yards per game toss just five touchdown passes in the four games in which he's seen extensive time. Now, I would argue that that is vintage Sard. That's exactly what we should expect. I know you would have a differentendion. What I love about what I love about Stu Beard Ryan Fitzpatrick is he just throws deep ball after deep fall,

regardless of interceptions, whatever. It just all. It takes one hook up and the Jets are capable of giving it up. So I'm I'm not advocating going on starting Ryan Fitzpatrick, but I wouldn't be surprised if he cobbles together a couple of touchdown passes. And may I mean Gardner Minshew did have three touchdowns against the Jets last week, but before that they had only allowed one opposing quarterback to throw more than one touchdown pass, So they haven't been

horrible against the past. And honestly, Fitzpatrick is always at risk of an in game bench. You know, he might be out by the end of the first quarter. At wide receiver Davante Parker and Preston Williams, these guys are tough to analyze because they're both pretty similar. They're okay, but not great. Neither his top six catches for eighty two yards all season, Parker has scored in three of his last four. He ranks fourteenth in the NFL and

are yards. So if I was going to start one of them, he would be the guy, except that he has a tougher cornerback matchup against Truemayin Johnson. Preston Williams draws Darryl Roberts on the other side, So the cornerback matchup favors Williams at sea level starting grade on both of them, I don't rudg. I don't love it, and Mike just sicky at tight end. He's not doing anything. Jets have allowed the fourth fewest yards to it. He's

not even owned by anybody in my dynasty league. I've been I've had stashed all year Preston Williams, and he's eating up a roster spot and this isn't easy. But I'm looking towards next year when the Dolphins, like it, will have the first or the second overall pick, and they're gonna draft a quarterback, and whoever that young kid is is probably gonna be pretty good, and that guy will be looking at Preston Williams I think his you know,

his long term combo. He's been good enough in in his rookie year that you want to hold him looking forward to next year. I think you're you're in rebuild mode and you don't need the roster spot to compete. Now now I see, I do. Okay, that's it's different. It's been a pain. It's been a little bit painful to Wold Preston Williams, but I think it's important to do it. Our final topics are had. No, wait, we got one more matchup. We've got one more matchup to

work in Dallas taking on the New York Giants. Brian, the Giants have got arguably the worst starting three cornerbacks in the NFL. You've got to love every part of the Dallas passing game here. Yeah, these teams met in week one. Um, let's talk about the receivers for Dallas real quickly. Mary Cooper easy a six for one oh six in one in Week one. Since then, the Giants have probably faced two true comparable receivers to Cooper, and those were Mike Evans and Kenny Golladay, who only combined

for fourteen catches, three yards and five touchdowns. Those two guys. Easy A for Cooper, easy for Gallup, who had seven for one fifty eight in Week one. The Giants have allowed the most completions of twenty plus yards at thirty six. If you bench Gallop you should probably quit playing fantasy football. He gets in a Randall Cobby even gets a starting grade. He's healthy. Uh. He gets to see slot receivers against

New York to kill them. Danny Amndola eight, Edelman nine for one thirteen, Adam Feeling seven for one thirty and two. Cole Beasley had four for eighty three, and oh yeah, Randall copp at four for sixty nine and one in Week one as well. So startin Randall Copp with the Sea. I'm benching Jason Witten, though witness scored in three straight

games against the Giants dating back to seventeen. He did score touchdown in Week one, but that's the last game the Giants surrendered a tight end touchdown, and no wan tight end has top three catches against them all season. So I'm benching Witten this week and Dak Prescott obvious A, and so is zeke Um. The Cowboys will get left tackle Tyron Smith and right tackle Lyle Collins back, which

is huge. Zeke only at thirteen carries for fifty three yards in the opener, but he did score, which means he's topped a hundred rushing yards or hit paydirt and every game he's played against the Giants, but shockingly, he hasn't done both in the same game. A touchdown against

the Giants, but it's probably gonna happen this week. Even though the Giants traded for defensive tackle Leonard Williams, no one really cares about that though they're they're just getting shredded by any running back who doesn't play for Detroit or Washington. Remember when they gave up snack snacks Harrison four free. Basically, I think he had a fifth round pick for one of the best runs stuffing d tackles in the league. One of the many reasons I've abandoned

ship as a Giants fan um kan the Bengals, But whatever. Still, I'm still happier being a Bengals fans. At A lateral moves at an upgrade is that A I had to go to a barren landscape. I can't, you know, just jump on a successful bandwagon. I gotta go along this on fire and sinking at the same time. Anyway over the giant side, se Kwon Barkley, I'm gonna give him an A in PPR, but a B in standard leagues.

Dallas is allowing the fourth most receptions per game to running backs at six point seven, and Barkley is averaging seven targets and five catches in his four full games this year. UH. The Cowboys are very tough on the ground, though only two loan backs have received more than fourteen carries this year, and se Kwon Barkley wasn't one of those running backs in Week one, UM, but he did top a hundred yards on eleven carry, So you're starting

sae Kwon Barkley regardless of sterling. Shepherd will play. He has cleared concussion protocol. Uh. He logged just six for forty two in the opener, ran primarily out of the slot, which just convolutes things because Golden Tate wasn't playing. Then he was suspended. Now he's a slot receiver. It is. It's messy. I'll give them both a seed. Dallas has surrender just three wide receiver touchdowns, and the receivers that

have done well have been Burner boundary receivers. That is not Sterling Shepherd or Golden Tape, but they probably be playing from behind, and I'll give them both a soft sea. Darius Layton, who had two touchdowns last week, is on the bench now now that Sterling Shepherd has returned. Evan Ingram, though easier opposing tight ends, are averaging more than six yards per game against the Cowboys. Anger went off against Dallas in Week one, catching eleven balls for a hundred

and sixteen yards. He's scored in every career game against the Cowboys, But I'm benching Danny Dimes in this one. Even though Eli Manning managed the top three yards and throw a touchdown against Dallas in Week one, Dallas was missing some key members on their defense due to injury

or suspension. That's not the case of this week. Uh. Dallas has allowed one or zero touchdown passes in five of six games, and outside of cake matchups against Tampa Bay Detroit, Danny Dimes is averaging a yards one touchdown in one point seven five interceptions per game five or six games outside of the Giants game. I should have said, yeah, got it, got it. That was a comprehensive breakdown of the Giants right there and otherwise somewhat mundane offense. Our

final topics are had. We provide you with three guys we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups next week, but you're gonna grab them this week because that's in the private Chaine. Yes, it is premature speculation happening next, whether you're ready for it or not. Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next. It is the final segment of Fantasy

Football Weekly. Remember, all my player rankings are available for free at famball dot com slash chart, and you can play against me for free for your share of the thousand dollar prize pool in the crush Charts Championship. Guys, it's time for premature speculation, maybe the most popular segment on Fantasy Football Weekly. Each of our hosts are gonna give you a player we believe will be a hot

waiver wire pick up next week. But Blamo already on your team together of that machine sound effect right there, you will already have him. Brian, who is your premature speculation player this week? Well, the hotness might be dumbed down a little bit since the acquisition of Josh Gordon by the Seahawks, but I have there now starting tight end.

Jacob Hollister is my premature speculation, um starting you actually stream him this week against Tampa Bay, but including uh this week's game against Tampa Bay, four of Seattle's next seven opponents are top six and yards allowed to tight ends, and they've combined to surrender sixteen touchdowns to the position.

So you have Tampa Bay this week, Minnesota and week twelve, the Rams in Week fourteen, and the Peace that Resistance the Cardinals in weeks Baby, everybody wants that Cardinals tight end. And you know, Josh Gordon Muddies of Water is a little bit probably, but more than half of your league is desperate for tight ends on a weekly basis, and Hollister has got some pretty prime matchups about half of his matchups. So Jacobs, that's deep. I like it. That's

a deep call. I'm gonna go with running back Darius Guys here. Of course, we haven't seen him since Week one, when I think it was a meniscus injury in the knee. That's not put him on I R. But he is eligible to come off of I R. And it looks like, or it sounds like he's going to suit up in week eleven after the Redskins week ten, by four of his final six opponents rank in the bottom twelve against

opposing running backs. And more importantly, the Redskins have absolutely nothing to gain by continuing to hand the ball to Adrian Peterson. We've got to see what they have in guys. We're almost two years into this experiment here. They need to know the right and so you're gonna hear a lot about this next week when they're actually on there. By, go grab him now before everybody else realizes it. Uh speaking of a guy who's returning. Kareem Hunt's ownership at

the draft. At coming out of drafts was you know where it is now nine weeks later, it's down to almost because you know you're the rutrition, right, you need that roster spot. By weeks are coming. You're tired of getting a zero out of that roster spot. Half of the people out there have dropped Kareem Hunt outright. He's coming back and he's already practicing with the team. You're going to hear this story next week about him coming back for eligibility next week, but you're already going to

have Kareem Hunt now. He will make his debut against Buffalo. That's coming up next week, Buffalo. You can't pass on him. You gotta run. Now. Some people will tell you that Kareem Hunt is nothing more than a product of a great Andy Reid offense, and he's not He's really not good. Yeah, that's a bunch of ps. Tell that to Damien Williams in his two yards per carrying an Andy Reid offense.

Kareem Hunt is a very good player. Now, Nick Chubb has been a workhorse and he's been great, and I'm not taking anything way from him it but Hunts too good to ride pine. They're gonna work him into this offense, and you know, Chubb can't keep going at this pace. Probably they're going to want to have more of an even split. And Kareem Hunt is an awfully good player. So would you rather have Hunts or guys hunt? Because Hunts, I know, Hunts really good and he's not coming off injury.

He's hitting the too. I know he's in a time. Here's the thing. Sure, he's splitting time with Nick Chubb. I would contend that Geiss is splitting time with Dwayne Haskins in that Haskins is so bad that I think Haskins is going to be a total grade a bust based on what we've seen so far, which is very small. I think that's the case. Let's jump out back into some matchups. We've got just got two left. New England

takes on Baltimore on Sunday night. Let's start with Tom Brady, and despite the Patriots undefeated record, Brady's passing has been pretty pedestrian. His completion percentage is that it's low US point in five years, he's averaging one point six touchdown passes per game. And here comes a raven secondary that's been pretty good. Only Patrick Mahomes has thrown multiple touchdowns

against them. They get cornerback Jimmy Smith back. Brady's only truly reliable receiver is Julian Edelman, and he's got a very tough matchup. In fact, let's go to him. Brady gets a B, so does Edelman with just a B. Here he faces exceptional slack corner Brandon car. Not only has Car surrendered fewer than forty four yards in four straight games, Brandon Carr has given up one touchdown in his coverage in two years. Julian Edelman is tied for

the lead with thirteen red zone targets. We like that part. Brady is connected with him one of those red zone targets. We like that, and he's converted four of those targets into touchdowns. Let's hope for a touchdown here for Edelman, who gets a B grade. Sticking with the receiver's Mohammed sanu is on the bench. He played two thirds of his snaps from the slot last week, his first game as a Patriot, and that puts him behind Julian Edelman

for slot work. I don't think he's on the field enough to matter here, unfortunately, and Philip ur said also on the bench, he runs almost entirely from the outside, where he faces a tough matchup with either Marlon Humphrey on one side or much improved Marcus Peters on the other side. I don't love door set here. I've got a bench grade on him as well. Let's go to the running backs, Sony Walkman, just to see the Baltimore Ravens allow the third fewest rushing attempts the fifth fewest

rushing yards per game to opposing backs. Since being obliterated by Nick Chubbins in Week four, the Ravens have limited far more talented backs than Sony Walkman, James Conner, Joe Mix and Chris car Carson averaging forty three rushing yards per game. That is it. That's at the absolute max for Sony Michelle. I think his ceiling Michelle totally touchdown dependent. He only he only gives what his offensive line gives him. And this is a tough matchup. Speaking of tough matchups,

James White almost gave him a bench grade here. The Ravens allow the fifth fewest receptions and the seventh fewest receiving yards to opposing backs. They've only allowed a single back to have more than three receptions. It's only out of just respect for James White and how much they use him that he maintains a C grade in this game. Let's flip it over and go to the Baltimore side where we start with Lamar Jackson. Now, we all remember

Lamar Jackson's epic Week one against Miami Kindness. Since then, it's been a slow degrade in his passing performances over the course of the year. His completion percentage has dropped in four consecutive games. He's thrown one touchdown in his last three games. Meanwhile, the Patriots have somehow allowed two passing touchdowns on the entire season, a staggering level of success no matter the competition. And you might say to yourself, well, I don't need Lamar Jackson to pass, he will run

me to fantasy victory. Well, New England's giving up ten quarterback rushing yards per game ten. I've got a B grade on Lamar Jackson because anything can happen, But I can't say I like him in this matchup at all. His primary receiver wide receivers Marquis Brown. He gave us Fool's Gold in Week one and has been limited by an injury ever since. He is back to for this game, however, and will play. He's averaged just three catches per game since Week two, and his targets have dropped in every

week since Week two. You know, hopefully he's healthy and ready for a second half of the season resurgence for Marquis Brown. But I don't think it happens this week against a ridiculously good Patriots secondary that's yielded a league low one score to wide receivers on the season. That brings us to Mark Andrews. The only other part of the receiving game that you might play. He's been held under forty five yards and four of the past five games.

He's slumping his well, I told you Jackson is slumping, so is his best receiver, Mark Andrews. There's no positive angles I've got here from Mark Andrews. Although the one other touchdown the Patriots have yielded is to a tight end. So fifty percent of Patriots touchdowns going to tight ends. It's not a silver lining, not a bronze lining. I don't even gotta keep going down the same periodic table

of zinc um lining. Maybe I don't know. For Mark Andrew's a C grade on Andrew's lastly mark Ingram with a B grade. He's been great. But the Patriots the only team to allow a touchdown, only team not to allow a touchdown to a running back, and they're also allowing the second fewest rushing attempts and the third fewest rushing yards per game. Here, here's your end, here's your silver lining. Levyan Bell and Nick Chubb over the past two weeks five and a half yards per carry against

the Patriots. So I think you are going to see a lot of mark Ingram here. I wouldn't be surprised for a decent game, and he gets a B grade. Let's go to our final matchup of today's show, and that's Tampa Bay taking on Seattle Christian. For Jamis Winson, it's been all over the board with highs and lows. What do you think about Jamis Winston and the passing

game against Seattle. I've got a pretty high grade on him here this First of all, this game has the highest over under total of the week at fifty two and a half. There's gonna be some points scored here. Secondly, Seattle just allowed four hundred and sixty yards to Matt Shab last week. They also allowed three yards to Jared Goff earlier in the year and four hundred and eighteen to Andy Dalton. None of those guys are any good either,

So I've got Winston as a B level grade. He has top three yards four times in his last five games. I mean, there's a danger that he throws two interceptions in the first quarter and he ends up on the bench. So but the matchup is great here. That of course brings Mike Evans and Chris god Went into play, both as A level starters. The Seahawks are bottom five against wide receivers. They have allowed the sixth most receptions, the

third most yards and touchdowns to opposing wide outs. So you don't need me to tell you that Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are in your lineup as A level starters. I will mention this about Evans. They've Seattle's got these super physical, big cornerbacks and that's so much of like evans games, just out muscling the slappy cornerbacks around. That might not happen here, and I like Godwin over Evans because of that angle. Okay, all right, we can dig it.

Tight end. Camon Bright was my take a chance on me tight end, so he's in your lineup as well. I gave him a B level start. Both running backs are on the bench. Neither one is doing anything. Neither Ronald Jones nor Peyton Barber has top thirty five rushing yards in three weeks. They are both on the bench. So let's go to the Seahawks side, where we've got all sorts of starters here. Russell Wilson is an easy a. Now,

the Bucks past defense is really bad. They have allowed three yards and an average of three hundred yards and two touchdown passes. Per game, which is even worse when you consider who they've faced Jimmy Garoppolo, Cam Newton, Daniel Jones, Jared Goff, Teddy Bridgewater, Kyle Allen, Ran, Ryan Tanny Hill. These guys aren't any good. Imagine what a good passer will do. Wilson's an A. Tyler Lockett, his top receiver is an A. The Bucks have allowed six wide receiver

touchdowns in their last three games. DK Metcalf, you could start him in desperation. I don't even think it's desperation, well, only because he has got more than four passes in a game all year, hasn't top sixty nine yards since Week one, but he leads the NFL and end zone targets. Just had two touchdowns last week, so he's an all or nothing touchdown guy. Uh. Let's go to the running game here, which is a little tricky. With Chris Carson,

Tampa Bay has easily the league's best run defense. They allowed just fifty six yards per game, held Christian McCaffrey to thirty seven yards and thirty one yards Todd Gurley to sixteen, Alvin Kamar at a sixty two. Seattle just lost their starting center to I r So that doesn't bode well for Chris Carson. But they're probably gonna be up big on the clock. They'll be in clock killing mode. Carson's gonna get his twenty plus touches and we've seen what he can do with that. So B level starting

great on Carson. Yeah, I was tempted to make him more like a Sea guy. I know it is back for the Tampa. It's a really bad match it is. It's a really bad matchup, and I just worry that offense is gonna flow through Russell Wilson in his arm

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