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Munich game. It's exciting, first ever game in Germany. It's uh, you know, we used to have the European and NFL Europe or whatever. Yeah, you know, the world what they call it, Well, it was NFL Europe. It was the World League before that, I think something something like that. And those uh, those days are gone. Have added that nine times soundbar, but I like it. Robbie and on that. Where was this idea? Pre show? The show? Come on, you're killing us right now. I forget how to say sorry,

but I'm sorry. We'll have to bring in our new German correspondent later in the show. German correspondent foreign exchange student Deeter von Fertson Gott can't wait, very excited Deter from but Deeters actually here in town. Yeah, he's not in Munich. He's an exchange student. I believe he's staying at Scott Fish's basement. That is correct, and I believe fortunately speak some English. We may need some help with that. Over the course of this show, we will give you

nine players upon whom you can take a chance. We'll answer three tough questions, give you premature speculation, we'll hear from Deeter, and we'll break down all of the games, beginning with the Texans taking on the Giants. Brian Brandon Cooks actually gonna play in this game, even sounds like how about that? He's decided he he would like to

make the roughly one million dollars a game he gets paid. Yeah, I wanted to start with your boy, Damian Pierce, but we'll start with Brandon Cooks, who I have on the bench though, even though he is making his return uh from a wrist injury and and hurt feelings from last week. It's a bad matchup for Cooks though, and all the

Texans wide receivers are all on the bench. New York is allowing the fourth fewest catches and yards per game to wide receivers, and for that reason, or not for that reason, but just the whole pass game for the Texans on the bench, including the tight ends, all four of them who saw a target last week. I think O. J. Howard led the way with two targets a Texans side ends. So uh needs to say Davis Mills on the bench

as well. Opposing quarterbacks are averaging just two thirty passing yards against New York, who have allowed zero or one passing touchdown in five of eight games. No quarterback has thrown for more than two scores against them. So Mills is on the bench, but not your boy Damien Pierce. Charge he gets the Giants in his borderline a because he's gonna touch the ball thirty times for them to

have a chance in this game. The Giants allow these seventh most rushing yards per game on the third highest yards per carry allout at five point four, and since Week five, Pierces averaging twenty four and a half touches per game even when they get blowed out, even when they get blown out Pierce. That's second among running backs during that span, behind only Derrick Henry. So so Pierce is a bell cow. You gotta start him with a

b over to the giant side. Not not a whole lot to like here, but you obviously like UHN love sake, Kwan Barkley. He gets an a the Texans kind of a I think God the fantasy fan, Kwan Barkley. The Texans are the worst defense against the Raw and allowing one hundred and fifty four rushing yards at one point five rushing scores per game over their last three games alone. Houston has given up seven rushing touchdowns and five hundred

and sixty seven rushing yards. That is one hundred eighty nine rushing yards per game over their last three So wet Barkley, UH said it and forget it with him, and that should be uh his status the rest of the season really over to the wide receivers Wan Dale Robinson, Darius Slayton, and this guy named Kenny Golladay who might have heard of them all. They're all on the bench. Teams don't throw against the Texans. I don't have to.

They don't have to. The Texans on the third lowest opponent passing play percentage opposing wide receivers as a whole or averaging less than ten catches per game against Houston, who have also only allowed three touchdowns to the position all season. So they're on the bench the wide receivers, so as Tanner Hudson the Giants starting tight end. And it's a shame. I wish Daniel Bellinger was healthy enough to play Texans. The Texans are allowing more than fifty

yards fifty yards per game to tight ends. But I just can't give Tanner Hudson a starting grade. And I was close to giving Daniel Jones a see I still got him on the bench. Though. The average stat line for opposing quarterbacks against the Texans is two hundred and thirty yards and zero point nine touchdowns per game. And Houston has also contained mobile mobile mobile quarterbacks this season. Jalen Hurts, Malik Willis, and Justin Fields combined to average

two scoreless rushing yards per game against Houston. So on borderline, see on Jones. But I got him on the bench, all right, got him. I like it. We'll just call it what it is. Vikings take on the Bills and a ton of moving parts in this game. I'm gonna start on the Viking side with Kirk Cousins. The Bill secondary is dealing with a bunch of injuries and all these moving parts are injury related. But we got we know that both starting safeties for Buffalo, Micah Hyde and

Jordan Poyer are out. There are starting defensive end Greg Rousseau out. We're gonna watch the status of cornerback Dane Jackson, you're elam, and whether or not Tradavious White it's gonna make his two debut in this game. It's a lot of question marks. That's a lot of question marks when healthy, which they're not. This is an elite secondary allowing only one touchdown pass per game. They've also held five of seven opposing passers to under two three yards, which is nothing.

But given the all the state of all the injuries here, you want to watch this up until up until kickoff. And I've got Kirk Cousins with a B grade. But if it turns out Dane Jackson tire, Elam, don't go. I mean, at that point, I think you could probably elevate Kirk Cousins to an A status. Speaking of which

Justin Jefferson a status. Again, if all of these players, you know, enough of these players are out, I think he's a safe A. I would I would consider him a B where everybody healthy, But it just doesn't look like it's shaping up that way for that secondary and staying with the passing game. T J. Hockenson another injury situation to watch. The Bills have got two of the best coverage linebackers in the league, Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmonds. I think Milano is gonna go. I think Edmonds is

not going to go. But they also use their safety Jordan Poyer, who normally draws a lot of US of a tight end coverage. But and he's already been ruled out. So if it turns out all these guys are out, let's move up t J. Hockinson to an A. If not, they're a B. He is a B. Excuse me so, and at full strength, let me mention this. This is an awesome path. There's an awesome if they all end up playing. This is a fantastic tight end defense that

is not allowed to touch down all seasons. So show some caution either way on t J. Hockenson, But a B grade based on what we believe is going to be the injury situation right now. Adam Feeling's got an ankle injury. It looks like he's going to be okay and play for in this game. But I still feel like this, and and by the way, seeing a reasonably healthy six targets per game, UM still again monitor the status here. I've only got the C grade on him. If the second ay is all active, you could drop

him down to bench. If they're all miss you could elevate him to an A. And the last thing I'll mention on on this a nervous A grade for Dalvin Cooks. He's scored in four straight games, which is great, but his box cars are getting salvaged by one or two remarkable plays every game. The Bills run defense had been

awesome to start the season. Prior to Week eight, no running back had reached forty eight yards on the ground, but in the last two weeks, four running backs have topped forty eight yards in the last two games, So maybe there's a chance here that he gets little something done. The Vikings run defense has been pretty uneven, or run blocking has been uneven to my eyes, but Pro Football Focus loves the Vikings is run blockers, So maybe maybe

Cooks a little better than we think. Nervous A grade on him all right, Now, the other half of this complicated matchup on the Bill side I'm gonna do this whole thing as though Josh Allen is playing. If he's not, drop everybody down a full letter grade as we go down to case Keenum. This makes sense. Okay, it's not even or all whole alphabet, or it is the letters, just not all of the letters. Six letters. Case Keenum

is not a non functional backup quarterback. I mean, they're way worse backup quarterbacks out there than katese keenas z minus. There is no he'd have that revenge game angle. So let's start with Josh Allen. His throwing elbow obviously is affected here. His legs aren't, though, and he can still run for a big game even if his passing takes a hit. A year. Normally he's in every week a grade, but I gotta bake in the threat of him not finishing a game he could start, So I've gotta be

grade on Josh Allen, assuming he's the starter. Let's talk about Stefon Diggs, who runs from everywhere on the field, and the only place where he finds a particularly tough matchup is when he lines up on the right side, which is only listen less than actually a third of his snaps all other Vikings cornerbacks are struggling significantly, and it looks like Ricky cornerback at Caleb Evans is going to make his first ever NFL start. That is advantage Stefon Diggs with an A grade. They gotta run the

exact same That's what I've been saying. I would open it if it's case. It's case you can't. I'm totally with you. Stefon Digg's right side of the field lofted up. Then see if a Vikings safety decides to just fall down, just jump jumping the receiver. Smith uh gave Davis. I kind of like Gabe Davis here. The Vikings are handing out big box scores, surrendering mammoth games to DeAndre Hopkins, Rondel Moore, Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle just in the last

three games alone. Gabe Davis is always an all or nothing fantasy guy, right. If he catches those big long bombs, you get, you get big box scores, you get touchdowns. And when he does and he gives you nothing. But again, the Vikings have two corners that are struggling a lot, and I think that's a good opportunity for Gabe Davis will give him a B grade in this one. Also consider starting Isaiah Mackenzie. You gotta pick your spots with

this low volume slot receiver. But Minnesota slot cornerback Chandon Sullivan allows an eighty two percent catch rate a passer rating of a hundred nineteen in his coverage, and he's been crushed for one hundred yards twice in his last three games. So Isaiah Mackenzie see grade in this one as well. Also getting a C grade. Dawson Knox maybe just because it's the buy, but super low volume and

he's completely touchdown dependent. But he's going up against the defense that's given up tight and touchdowns in two of the past three games. So you could try Dawson Knox with a C grade as well if you would like. And that leaves us with Devin Singletary with a C grade.

His touches, his yards per carry, his total yardage output has dropped in three straight games, but he's still getting the vast majority of the snaps, so that might be enough to keep him viable here in a In a tricky bye week, Singletary has a tough matchup against the Vikings team allowing the fifth fewest rushing yards on the third lowest yards per carry to opposing backs and Brian Johnson revenge game for Vikings interior defensive lineman Harrison Phillips's

revenge all around this game he is. There is a revenge alroad. He happens to be Minnesota's best run stuffer. Back to game Davis real quick spike game. The Vikings drafted Justin Jefferson? How dare they? But it doesn't mean he's not upset about it? Well, what about what about the Vikings drafting Justin Jefferson with the pick they got from the Bills. There's something in there right? My head

hurts now, reminds James Cook on the bench. All right, let's see if we can sneak in one last matchup here, Colts taking on the Raiders. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor is the only cult you can start. He's back practicing in full. We'll start this week. The Raiders are allowing a hundred and forty four combo yards in a score per game to opposing backs. I thought about making him might take a chance on me running. I'm giving him a B grade.

With new head coach and a new play caller, I have to think the Jeff Saturday and crew lean heavily on their bread and butter in this game, and then Sam Ellinger and the passing game, they're all on the bench, makes his third career start in three weeks with his third offensive coordinator, which is unreal. I'm gonna summon my is unreal by the way, I'm gonna summon my inner

shark tank here, and for that reason, I'm out. Uh. They could pull a miracle and win one for the new head coach, but I'm not starting any of the players in the passing game that includes Michael Pittman. It's a decent matchup too, but the Colts only have thrown for three four yards and Ellinger's first two starts that's one fifty two per game. That's not enough. On the other side, did anyone fall for the Josh McDaniels was fired by a fake verified Adam schefter on Twitter this week?

Nobody did? Nobody Twitter look at it. It's obviously fake. It would have been fun if we would have had two interim coaches playing each other in their first game. I don't know if that's ever happened in the NFL. Now, what will be funny is if he does get fighted and nobody's gonna believe it. No, but he could just he could just recycle that tweet. We are starting Josh Jacobs,

even after a couple of down weeks. The Colts defense is seeing the most back touches per game that almost thirty, and Jacobs was already averaging twenty per game on the year. Opposing backs we've had at least eighteen touches against the Colts. They're averaging a hundred and one yards per games. So Jacobs gets a solid B Derek cover car. He suffers from low C and UH that can be cured by some supplement that Frank Thomas's peddling. You know, the big hurt.

The Colts defense has not allowed a three yard passer all year, and it's been five weeks since a quarterback through for multiple scores. But in those five weeks they played Mac Jones, Taylor Heineke, Ryan Tannehill, Trevor Lawrence, and Russell Wilson. Not a murderers row of quarterbacks, So still a starting grade for car. Defensively, the Colts defense looks immaculate on paper against wide receivers, but the best one they faced this year, you pick it's either Christian kirk

Er Juju Smith Schuster. That's the best wide receiver they've seen all year. That's it. That's it. Despite being top three in receptions, yards and touch downs allowed to the position, I'm going to give Davante Adams an a grade in this one. They haven't seen a wide receiver of his caliber. And there's no one left to throw too, because Darren Waller and Hunter Renfro both hit I R this week. Last year when Renfro was the only receiver in town, Derek Carr funneled the ball his way all game, and

Adams is already seeing eleven targets per game. That's about to go up sometimes the rest of the receiving games on the bench, that includes Mac Hollins, Foster Morrow at Thin Hollands, just because there's nobody else left to throw too. And I think we're just a bunt of Adams. I think. I think if I'm in a pinch in a bye weekend, I guess if you if you're in a p there's just nobody else to catch a pass. It's true, all right, let's take a break when we come back. Nine players

not normally and you're starting lineup. So many of these guys available on the waiver wire. We will tell you upon whom you can take a chance when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a statement called take a chance on me, where we give you nine players not normally in your starting line up. Many of these guys available on the waiver wire. One of mine is available on if I'm being honest about it. More for you guys, I think Matt who's your take a chance

to me quarterback? Mine probably not available on the waiver wire, but probably on a lot of benches. It's this guy, Tom Brady. I don't know if you've ever heard of him. Come to this with Tom Brady's thrown more than one touchdown in one game this year. Yeah, definitely hasn't put up big fantasy days this year. But now he's single, ready to mingle. His hair was dyed to shade darker this week. Maybe he's got that new lease on life. Speaking of lease's, do you see his ex wife bought

a house across the street. That's weird. I don't think Brady is gonna come back for the kids, though easy for the kids. He's not coming back from Germany. That I won't name the crypto wallet that he endorses, but they've suspended withdrawal so Brady after this. Since Week four, Brady is quietly averaging three eleven passing yards per game. Problem is he hasn't scored for thrown for multiple scores

in five straight. Enter the Seahawks, who have allowed multiple passing touchdowns to Jared Goff, Justin air Bear, and Kyler Murray since Week four, and Tom Brady wants to be the first quarterback to win in four different countries. He's right now tide with three different countries. The other two quarterbacks smoking j Cutler and Stu Beard. Wow, I would never discuss. I'm trying to. So there's England, there's America, Mehico. Al right, the Mexico games. I forgot about those. Okay, Bryan,

you take a chance at me quarterback. I got Jacoby Brissette in a low key revenge game against his former team, the Dolphins. But this is the one we're focusing on this week. The Dolphins have surrendered the third most passing touchdowns this season. Their secondary took a big hit when they lost safety Brandon Jones for the year. They will remain without starting cornerback Byron Jones, who was dealing with an achilles injury, and the loan remaining cornerback Xavian Howard.

Used to be a shutdown guy, but he looks like a shell of his former self. He continued to struggle last week, allowing a touchdown to Darnell Mooney in his coverage. So I like Jacoby Brissette in a game where Cleveland is probably gonna be given up some points and chasing them as well. Russell Wilson has been awful so far

this year, but I think the turnaround starts here. Actually, it was pretty actually, pretty good last week in a game nobody saw because the kickoff was at five thirty a m. On ESPN Plus on Pacific time, so there was nobody saw a better game and probably the best game from Russell Wilson season before thereby he goes up

against the Texas. Sorry the Titans this week. They have a great run defense, so they're seeing the highest opponent passing play percentage and Tennessee is surrendered the third most passing touchdowns and for the last six quarterbacks to face, the Titans have thrown for at least three hundred yards. I don't think Russ is gonna get to three hundred, but he might get into that ballpark. Let's go to the running back position. Who's gonna take a chance on

the runner. I'm gonna stay in that same game and use Titans running back at don Trell Hilliard. I think we've tried Hilliard is a show here like four times. Yeah, I think so. The angle is uh, Ryan tann Hill's back, and it's impossible to pass against the Broncos unless it's coming out of the backfield. Hilliard wasn't targeted targeted very much in the Malik Malik Willis starts, but Tannehill looks

to be back under center this weekend. In the four games prior to Tannehill's injury, Hilliard was averaging three receptions per game, Derek, he doesn't catch a ton and the Broncos allow an average of six catches per game to opposing runners. So this is this is a guy on your waiver wire. That's a complete dart throw here. Oh, don't hit me with that dart. No, No, that was the That was the Dontrell Hillier dart throw right there. Brian, your take a chance at me running back. I've got

Pittsburgh's Jalen Warren at home against the Saints. Now, I planted my flag and Warren on Monday before the steam started, that he could unseat Nagy Harris. There was anti steam later. What is that? What's anti steam? That just condensation? Maybe I don't know whatever it is. I'm on the steam. I'm on the steam side because Warren should be Pittsburgh's leading back. He's averaging five point nine yards per touch.

Harris is averaging three point six yards per touch. So four and had the same amount of touches as Nagy Harris, he'd have a whole lot more yards. I'll do the math for you, like a lot more. And if you take away the Saints shut out against the Raiders a couple of weeks ago, which was kind of flukey, the last four running backs to face New Orleans have average

compyards and one point three touchdowns per game. So if you gotta go, get Jalen Warren, even if you don't plan on Sarry, and he should not be a free agent at this point. If you have enough steam, I was like, I was looking for steam button bar, something on the button bar that could be steam. If you have enough steam, do you have just water. Yeah, I think so that could be our new steam. That could be the steams, the sound of steam. You just want to use that splash button as much as you can,

don't you know? Khalil Herbert speaking of so we need a steam kettle like a tea like a tea kettle, right, isn't that we don't need that? Steam was the name of the band that had NOA, noa, noa, hey, hey, hey goodbye. So maybe we could have that that I believe had no idea. There you go, Khalil ground bear? Where was a ground bear? His run for at least five two yards per carry in three of his last four games, a clip that David Montgomery has had only

once all year. What's more, Herbert fourth in rushing yards over expectation. He faces a Lion's run defense that ranks twenty nine in rushing yards allowed, thirty one in yards per carry, thirty one in rushing touchdowns allowed. Khalil Herbert, Let's go to the receivers. Matt, who you got for our take a chance of me receiver. I've got Broncos tight end Greg Dulcich. He's scored or topped fifty yards

in every game of his NFL career. Granted that's only three games, but the last time we saw Dulcich in Week eight, he had four catches for eighty seven yards. And Yeah, the Titans just gave up a hundred and six yards and ten receptions to one of the Kansas City tight ends last week. Let's that's him. They also gave up forty five yards to Know a great last week though, too. Uh, And they gave up some pretty big days to mo Eli Cox Kylan Granson. Yeah, think

Greg dulcet can do it. Let's go to Brian your take a chance of me receiver. I'm gonna compare Donovan People's Jones with Jacoby Brissette, also at Miami. Uh. He has yet to score this season, but DPG has topped seventy receiving yards and four of his last five games, and secondary wide receivers have scored Indoor topped seventy five yards against Miami in six of their eight games. So I love me some. DPJ really could have been your

premature speculation player could have been Donovan People's Jones. Can you use can you use him for both? This is actually in This is an in show time machine. We just gave you a preview of what's going to happen in the final segment, our last take a chance of me receiver. I told you like Russell Wilson to bounce back earlier this segment. How about I'm coupling my take

my my quarterback receiver the ice cold Courtland Sutton. Yes, he hasn't scored since Week four, and yes the four games since then, he's got eleven catches since Week four. But the breakout is coming, Tennessee said. So you're saying the steam is coming for the ice cold guy. Okay, Tennessee secondary surrendered the sixth most receiver yards per game H per game ten receiver scores. That's tied for fourth most even if Jerry Judy is the preferred wide receiver

target here. And you like Greg Duals also like how does russ and not have a break great game here? We all love everything about this set up for Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos. I think there's a chance Wilson could be the overall QB one this week. I do. I mean there's Mahomes and outside of that, it's a horrible week for quarterbacks. It's horrible. I mean two is up there, but yeah, the matchup is right for for Wilson.

The guys that normally are at the top of my rankings, you know, Tom Brady's at like, I don't know, quarterback eighteen, Aaron Jones, Aaron Rodgers like quarterback. It's bad. All right, let's go to Let's in one final matchup into this segment. Brown's taking on the Dolphins. Bran, Yeah, let's start with Nick Chubb for Cleveland. I'm gonna give him a B. Cleveland should get starting right guard Wyatt Teller back, which bodes well for Chubb, but it is a tough matchup.

The Dolphins are allowing the third fewest rushing yards per game and now they have stud linebacker Bradley Chubb, who came over from Denver in a trade as well. So not not a great it's it's it's gonna be Chubb on Chubb here, and I don't know, but obviously I

thank you be for Nick Chubb. Moving on Kareem Hunt, I'll give him a C in PPR leagues, but uh, a bench in standard just to see in PPR, because the Dolphins are allowing nearly five catches per game to opposing running backs and Nick Chubb just doesn't catch Patchet passes, so U a C for hunts and PPR. But again, Benjamin Standard, do not ben Sjamari Cooper in any format he gets an A. Cooper has five receiving touchdowns in the red zone this season, tied for most among wide receivers.

The Dolphins have allowed thirteen receiving touchdowns in the red zone, third most in the NFL. I talked about Xavian Howard and take a chance on me. He has surrendered the second most touchdowns among cornerbacks and owns at passer rating in his coverage. So love Cooper this week. And I also loved Donovan People's jones as might take a chance on me wide receiver. And I was ready to give David and Joku is sea but he has been ruled out.

But I'm gonna give that sea to Harrison Bryant. Miami is allowing more than six catches and sixty yards per game to tight ends. They just surrendered two scores to Cole Commet last week. So if you're looking for a tight end, Harrison Bryant is your guy. And if you're looking for a quarterback to stream, Jacoby Procid is my guy as well. Might take a chance on the quarterback over to the Miami side, starting with Marie Mosard and Jeff Wilson. And I think I should have mentioned Jeff

Wilson first. Yeah, you really should have. We met. We hit on this a little bit last week and and we talked about the danger that Jeff Wilson was bringing imperiling were most heart with and it happened immediately. Yeah, I'm gonna give both a C. But both saw nine carries last week. But Wilson doubled the yardage output of Mostard, and he was the only one to catch a pass Between the two. He actually caught three, one went for

a touchdown. The Browns are allowing one thirty seven combo yards at one point five total touchdowns per game to opposing running back, So I'd start him both. But if I had to pick one, I think Wilson's the guy. But again, a C for both, not a C for Tyree Hill. Obviously he gets an A. Cornerback Denzil Award should make his return from the concussion for the Browns, but that should not deter you from starting Hill with confidence. He has more than receiving yards already, Hill quite quietly

having an amazing and potentially record setting season. Nobody really

talking about it. Granted it's a seven team game season now, but yeah, he's on pace to shatter the I think he has more receiving yards than like eight or nine teams as a whole now would in surprise not holy yeah, so easy A for Hill almost gave Jalen Waddle and a just to be though the Browns have allowed three wide receiver touchdowns over the last two games, and in the most recent game, Tyler Boyd and t Higgins both scored against Cleveland, so Hill and Waddle could do the same,

love Wattle with a B. I got Mike Gisicky on the bench though the Browns have only allowed one tight end touchdown all year, and only one tight end as topped four catches against them, So you u city Gisicky, and lastly, to Ah Tongo Viola gets an A. Since returning from his concussion, to US average three passing yards and thrown seven touchdowns, was zero interceptions over his last

three games. During that same span, he has completed seventy of his passes and it was a pass rating of one three and Cleveland has surrendered multiple passing touchdowns and two of their last three so to uh. I think three weeks ago one of our tough questions was where is two are gonna finish rest of season? And we said top ten, that was on it's top five. He is you know, outside of your big three rushing quarterbacks, it's the next guy up to uh tongo violo until

he takes one hit. Well baby, but you know you can say that about every quarterback to when we come back, Lions take on the Bears, will tell you what to do with Jamal Williams and a fascinating matchup. Is he startable? Is he very startable? Find out when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. It's the last couple of days to join a Guillotine league at Guillotine leagues dot com. If you've wanted to do it, this is it. It's we got half a season left.

You can still play for the second half of the season. Draft a new team. It's not clear who pick number one would be by the way time is of the essence though, would you take I think it's McCaffrey, McCaffrey or Eckler or Travis Kelsey all passed their bys, all elite players positions. I just think the touch total for McCaffrey is just going to be out of this world the rest of the way. And it could be it's a team that can score a lot of ways though.

Yeah right, he's such a safe place. The whole offense goes through Austin Neckler's and then there's Travis Kells, who's the biggest positional differentiator in fantasy football. I can't fault you for any of them. All right, Guillotine leagues dot Com, if you want to join a league, it's your last moments to do that. What you're saying is you want the third pick in a guillotine. You don't have to be wrong about whichever one you pick. Lions take on

the Bears. Jamal Williams A grade for Jamal Williams. What Deandres? You're still smarting from beat down you took last week on this? Uh? Swift? DeAndre Swift is bill injured. You can't count on him. Craig Wendolds, by the way, went on i R. Only Joe Mixon has handled more touches inside the ten yard line than Jamal Williams uh the trades of Robert Quinn and linebacker Roquan Smith have gutt

at the Chicago defense. They now ranked thirty overall by Pro Football Focus, and the Bears have allowed eight rushing touchdowns in their last five games. Only two teams have allowed more combined scores to running backs than the Bears. Jamal Williams almost a certainty to score here A grade for him. Let's go to the passing game, beginning with I'm on Ross St. Brown, who I'm elevating to an A grade in this matchup. Last week, in the first game without t J. Hockenson, St. Brown saw nine targets

and no other Lions saw more than four. We've recently seen other number one receivers Tyreek Kill, Ceedee Lamb, Justin Jefferson, I'll post huge days against Chicago lately as the focal point of a passing attack, and that is now. I'm on Ross st. Brown in this lot. He will face off against Bears wonnerback Kyler Gordon, who has allowed the most receiving yards of any cornerback. So I love I'm on Ross St. Brown this week A grade. Let's go

to Jared goff C grade here. It's been a month since his last meaningful fantasy game, but the Bears of reeling defense gives him a shot at fantasy relevancy here. Over the past months, Chicago's allowed zero passing touchdowns and then one passing touchdown, and then two passing touchdowns, and last week Chicago allowed three passing touchdowns. This obviously four. Now'll probably not just to see grade on Jared Goff here, but this is a good opportunity and I love I'm

on Ross st. Brown. Maybe Josh Reynolds finally makes his appearance here. He's been questionable for like a month. Uh, DeAndre Swift, he's gotta you gotta keep on the bench. Just ten snaps last week? Is Dan Campbell made good on his promise to pull back on his usage until he gets healthy. Justin Jackson got double swiss playing time last week, and we just at this point, DeAndre so lost the benefit of the doubt. I don't think I don't think you can start him any more and risk

taking a potential zero. All right, let's go to the Chicago side. Justin fields three consecutive top five fantasy finishes, including last week as the number one highest scoring quarterback. In fantasy football. He's been sparked by some phenomenal running over the past month. Fields is averaging rushing yards. The only players in the NFL with more rushing yards per game Derrick Henry and Nick Chubb. That's it, I believe is one was the most by any quarterback ever history

of the history of the late guess. The Lions have allowed the second most rushing yards to opposing quarterbacks twenty nine per game. That bodes well for Fields. Three different quarterbacks of top forty yards and they similarly built. Jalen Hurts ran for ninety yards against the Lions, and the season opener. Fields through for a career high three touchdowns

last week. I don't think that happens again here considering his low volume, but could chip in another couple, one to rushing or passing to equally bad defense is the one he faced last week. That's right, a grade for Justin Fields, first time I think this show has ever delivered in a grade. Justin Fields are probably a little behind the curve on this. What do you think of cold commit coming off the best game of his career.

When you take Commits elevated role, you add in a Lions defense that's bottom six and receptions, yards and touchdowns allowed to tight ends. This is a promising start for coal commit lines have surrendered fifty yards or a touchdown to seven different tight ends this year, and they haven'tn't played anybody good B grade coal committ. Wow, I didn't

think I'd ever say that. It's Tuck Darnell Mooney. He's get He comes into a C grade here Detroit allowing the eighth most receptions fourth post yards to opposing receivers over the last five games. Mooney's posted the second and third highest yardage totals of his career against Detroit last season. Mooney runs from the slot, where he faces anonymous safety turned cornerback Will Harriss, not normally a slack corner but has been pressed into was there, Um, maybe I should

give a beat. I'm moving Darnel Movie up to a B grade. Uh. Then Chase Claypool, this is a trick here one twenty six snaps. Last week, you figured forty. This week for Chase Claypool. It's a full compliment this week they could be Absolutely, He'll run on the outside world face cornerback Jeff Okuda the most often. Uh. Claypool's got three inches and thirty five pounds on Okuda, and Okuba gave up a score and one d twelve yards

last week. We'll start Chase Claypol We'll put out c great on Chase Claypool, and then David Montgomery and Julio Herbert. I already told you was my taking a chance on me runner, and I'll just reiterate lions or twenty nine and rushing yards allowed per game, thirty one and rushing yards per carry and thirty one in rushing touchdowns allowed. David Montgomery still getting about double the snaps is as

groundbear is, so he is startable in this game. Next up Broncos taking on the Titans, and I feel like we've already dice set did most of this matchup and take a chance on me, Matt. We kind of did on the Broncos side, Russell Wilson and Courtland Sutton where you're take a chance on me players. Greg Dulcitch was my take a chance on me receiver for some of the reasons Charge probably already highlighted. Jerry Judy solid be

this week. Titans bottom seven past defense and receptions yards hand touchdowns allowed to wide receivers, and the Broncos running game is an absolute disaster. You would not start any of them in this matchup. Litavius Murray had the most touches in their last game, but Melvin Gordon still had twelve, and Chase Edmonds just came over in a trade. The Titans are only allowing sixty seven rushing yards per game and have given up one rushing score running back this year.

So everybody on the bench that running side, if only Um Williams had stayed healthy, he would be smoking this backfield, and I'd like to believe he finally would have taken over the You would think, you would think, but they can't stop helping themselves. Two more running backs at the buffet. On the Titan side. Derrick Henry has scored every Titans touchdown in the last two weeks. He scored nine times this season, nine times nine. The rest of the Titans

offense has a combined seven touchdowns. Let's go through those other seven touchdowns as we do the match up here. Three of them where Dantrelle Hilliard receiving scores, and I highlighted him as might take a chance on me running back. One of them was a Ryan, Tannehill rushing TD and

Tannehill practiced in full this week. He looks like he's going to start again, but you're leaving him on the bench against the Broncos defense that has only allowed four passing touchdowns all year, and the high water mark for yards was Matt Ryan's two fifty one. Robert Woods has one receiving score, so does Jeff Swam and Chicken zeem a con Quo. They're all on your bench unless you dig three catches for thirty two yards, which I do not. And that's it. Let's go to the Saints and the

Steelers iron. On the Saint side, it's been an up and down year for Alvin Kmara. Do you think a bounce back is coming here? I don't know about Uh. You don't have to bounce back too hard from or to have a bounce back game from last week's game doesn't fire much. But it's gonna be tough for Camara. The Saints are down too offensive lineman Eric McCoy and Andre's Pete uh, and it's not a good matchup for

camarow who I'm just gonna give this C two. Since Week three, no opposing running back has reached eighty yards against the Steelers, who have also allowed just one back to top forty receiving yards, and that was Joe Mixing in Week one. So there's upside for Camara, But I feel uh, a C is a safe grade for him. Here. I'm gonna give Crystal lave Is C two. Over the last five weeks, Pittsburgh has allowed the fourth most receptions, the most yards, and the most touchdowns to opposing wide receivers.

My only fear is they just focus solely on a love way O lave from a wide receiver standpoint, even though Jarvis Landry might make his return, but Landry and all the all the wide receivers are the bench. Just Solive gets the starting grade at wide receiver and Tastom Hill, I'm gonna give him a C. I have no stats to support this. He just randomly goes off in any given game, regardless of matchup. So if you can't know if you're chasing upside, you need upside at your tight

end position, it's it's tasting he. I'll plug him in and and pray of uh, it's just a C for him. U Juwan Johnson, the other tight end I have on the bench. The Steelers have only allowed one tight end touchdown all season. Johnson does have three touchdowns over his last three games, but he hasn't topped forty five yards in a single game, and opposing tight ends are averaging less than forty five yards per game against Pittsburgh, so that math does not add up for me. Johnson is

on the bench, and so is Anny Dalton. Can't trust him here, especially when the Steelers should get defensive lineman t J. Watt and Larry ogunjob back in action. Dalton easy bench candidate here Over to the Steelers side, starting with Naji Harris. I will give him a C, begrudgingly give him a C. Already said Jalen Warren was might take a chance at me running back. It's at least a fifty fifty split if if Warren is not going

to see more touches. I did mention if you take away the Saints shut out against the Raiders, the last four starting running backs you faced New Orleans have average combo yards at one point three touchdowns per game as pretty decent. But I feel like Warren's gonna outperform Harris on this one. So I will give Harris to Sea but I might see you stronger, for Warren might take a chance to me running back, and the seeds are gonna keep on coming, just like my high school. Uh,

all you needed was a seed at to graduate. I can attest to that. Trust me. Johnson has garnered double digit targets in five of eight games, and the trade of Chase Claypool has vacated six targets per games, so Johnson should have a safe floor against the Saints, who should remain without shutdown corner Marshawn Lattimore. That said, his backup rookie Alante Taylor has played well, allowing just fifty one scoreless yards on the last fifteen targets he's faced

in coverage. So that's why Johnson just gets the sea as just as does George Pickens. Pickens is eighth among wide receivers and deep targets in New Orleans is second in deep passing touchdowns allowed. That allowed. That's twenty plus yards. Pickens should see plenty of corner Paulson, a debo who has allowed no he has not. He has allowed ninety nine yards per game and four touchdowns over his last four starts. To be clear, bad cornerbacks give up like

fifty sixty yards per game nine. At least it's not a hundred. He's got that going. And man, you know it's a it's a tight end waste land out there. But I'm still gonna give Pat. I'm only giving Pat fran Muth a sea because of the tight end waste land. It's an awful matchup. The Saints have shutdown tight ends, only allowing one to gain more than thirty one yards

all year. No tight end has been able to top fifty yards against the Saints, who are also bottom five in the receptions and yards per game allowed the position. You've also just surrendered one touchdown to tight end. So if you've got to start Muth you must. But if you have other options like Harris and Bryant I mentioned earlier, I like him better, Craig Delci mentioned and uh and lastly Kenny Pickett. Uh, he's on the bench. I don't

blame you. Uh. Thursday's game, Cordelle Patterson disaster situation here. I'm thinking going into the game, it's gonna be you know, you know, the Falcons are gonna pass a lot because they never do, and it's raining hard. There's some decent wind in the stadium. Everything lines up for what should have been a good Cordale Patterson game, and he got five carries. At least he didn't get the negative seventeen receiving yards of Tyler Algier. There is that Algier Algier

city negative seven. Have to ask that is not good, That is not that's a bad thing. I'm pretty sure a lot of frustration with that. And then Kyle pitts to and eight targets into two catches. In fairness, if you watch the game I watched the first half, all the targets were garbage. Absolutely, Oh they were all bad. Mariota can drop a dime on old Zakis, yes, but he just throws Canadian pennies for whatever reason. All right, give us Desmond ridders. Now, it's funny how it's just

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football weekly. Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson. I am Paul Charge and it is time for a game we like to call three tough questions. Tough Question Number one, do we sabotage drop? Michael Pittman Man, this is not anything I thought we'd be talking about. Matt, what do you think? So with Jeff Saturday coming out of left field as the interim coach, I kind of feel like he's actually going to want to try to keep this job, and it's not just like a temporary thing. Right, didn't want

to keep this job. Well, no, I'm not saying that, but Frank Reich made his decision on Ellinger and that's not Jeff Saturday's decision. To me, it means they're going to try to win games under Jeff Saturday, and to try to win, they need a passing game. And to have a passing game, I think you gotta go to Matt Ryan as soon as you can. And wait, oh, what's this. Matt Ryan was a full participant in practice this week, so the switch could happen as early as

mid game. And unless Jim Ursay dictated that Ellinger is the starter for the rest of the year, I think Matt Ryan comes back. And I'm not gonna drop Pittman on the chance I get him back. And Pittman was good with Matt Ryan under the under the center, so good matchups left in Pitts Pittsburgh week twelve, Minnesota week fifteen, and the Chargers in week sixteen. I won't drop him. So no is the answer, Brian. Are you sabotage dropping Michael Pittman? Uh No? And I don't care if it's

Sam Ellinger or Matt Ryan. The way the front office is working Indie. Maybe they bring back Jeff George. I don't care. I'm not dropping Pittman at six. He is a freak great receiver, the top receiver on this team, and despite only playing eight games, he's eighth among wide receivers and targets. He has some tough matchups on the horizon in Philly and Dallas, but there are some cupcakes in there. But the next six of his games are indoors,

and I like that for a wide receiver. Okay, no wind, God, First, what is sabotage drop mean? Most of you know? This is an advanced fantasy football maneuver. Wait a minute, charge, do you know how to perform the sabotage drop? Yes? I do, Thank you very much. Uh. This is an advanced fantasy football maneuver only for the most skilled and bold of fantasy football players. The sabotage drop is comprised of three elements. Number One, you must drop a brand

name player. You can't. The sabotage drop does not work on Justin Jackson. That is not a sabotage anything. Number Two, the you have it has to be such a compelling name that another owner is going to use. Real waiver equity to get that player. Maybe it's burned a bunch of fab maybe it is use up a high waiver priority slot. If you're using that horrible system, whatever its system, you use, somebody some other owner's gotta go get that player.

And then the third part of the sabotage drop, the new owner needs to damage themselves by at minimum using a roster spot and ideally starting that player, only to ultimately hurt themselves. Pittman checks all of those boxes right now. He has not scored since week one, which, by the way, is a total miscarriage considering his size, ball skills and body control. He is supposed to just fifty three and

twenty two yards with Sam Ellinger at the helm. Will it get better under Jeff Saturday almost certainly not totally unqualified for this job, drinking buddies of of the owner. This thing, this offense is unlikely to get better under him. But you're one glimmer of hope, is what Matt said. Matt Ryan probably at some point gets back to the start, because it wasn't. He was not the one who vowed to start elling her the rest of the way. That's a Frank Reich promise that Jeff Saturday does not have

to keep under Matt Ryan. Pittman was was not scoring, but he was averaging seven catches for eighty yards per game, and that is not half bad. So we are not going to sabotage drop. Wow, Michael Pittman, not yet, not yet. Tough Question Number two. Which Chicago running back scores more Fantasy points going forward? Is it David Montgomery or Khalil Bryan. We begin with you. If we're just talking rushing, can

I say justin fields? I won't say justin fields. I'm gonna go Khalil Herbert on a hundred and four touches and now it touches a carry or a reception, Herbert is averaging six point two yards per touch with five total touchdowns on touches. Montgomery's averaging four point five yards

per touch with two total touchdowns. Chicago seems to want to give Monty more touches right now, but that doesn't really make sense when looking at these numbers, and I think, uh, we're at least gonna get towards a fifty split, and Herbert has been doing more than Monty. Haz So I'm gonna go with Herbert. Matt who's gonna have more Fantasy points going forward, David Montgomery or Herbert. Fantasy industry always wants to move on to the next guy. We always

we always do, But it's still David Montgomery. He's lad in touch totals in four of the last five weeks when both runners were healthy. Plus the reason why they're giving them all these touches, it's a contract here. He's motivated to get the next deal and the Bears are motivated to put all the mileage on him and then kick him to the curb. It's gonna be David Montgomery.

This is just like Zeke and Tony Pollard the same exacting Your backup is clearly more effective and more efficient, and that doesn't necessarily matter if the coach doesn't award more playing time to the backup. Now I'm team Herbert. You heard me talk about him, and take a chance on me. He's outproducing Montgomery in every area and a great dynasty ad right now. Absolutely go get him, absolutely,

Dynasty Empire leagues. It's fantastic. He leads Montgomery in efficiency, yards per carry, yards per touch, rushing over expectation, yards after contact, and Herbert's actually getting more carries inside the five, so he's leading in goal line touches as well. The only area where Montgomery is better than Herbert is pass blocking. That's it. Chicago's new front office and coaching staff are

not beholden to either one, which I find interesting. But at the end of the day, it's all about the touches, and talented gets outweighed by opportunity, and right now the opportunity is with David Montgomery, and I don't think it's going to change. Tough question number three, I'm on Ross st Brown is finally healthy from this point forward. Does he roughly match his preseason a DP of wide receiver twenty four? Does he outperform it? Or does he under

performance so match outperform or underperformed? For I'm on raw st Brown, Matt I highlighted it on last week's show. In the Games where t J. Hockenson was gone. At the tail end of last year, St. Brown had double digit targets in every game, at least eight catches and seventy three yards in every game, scored in five of the six games in the last two weeks since he came back from injury. Ten targets versus Miami nine targets versus Green Bay, and after you get through the next

couple of weeks, the schedule turns really easy. Jacksonville, Minnesota, the Jets, Carolina, and the Bears in the final five weeks. Only the Jets are above average in that group, and he will probably avoid Sauce Gardner from playing from the slot. So the rest of the season, I think he's somewhere in the wide receiver ten to fifteen range, So I think he outperforms it. Okay, Brian, now that I'm on

raw St, Brown is finally healthy. From this point forward, does he live up to his average draft position in the preseason of wide receiver twenty four outperformance or underperformance? I'm with Matt that he's gonna outperform it. Uh for basically all the reasons he said. Hockinson and unavailable for different reasons this year. DeAndre Swift banged up just like he was last year when he missed the last quarter of the season. In Detroit's defense, terrible, They're gonna be

throwing copiously for the remainder of the season. So I think he's uh finishing inside the top ten to twelve wide receivers. Like Matt said, for the sun God and the rare instances in which I'm on Ross st. Brown has been healthy this year. His three full healthy games, He's averaged eighty four yards per game. His target chairs massive, with nine or more targets in every game. And to put a name on what why what does wide receiver

twenty four look like? Right now? You're getting depending your scoring system roughly me Coole Hardman, Chris Olave, Jerry Judy to get wide receiver twenties than those better, I wouldn't I'd trade. I'd rather Brown than all those guys. To me, it's not all that close. He will outperform his draft position going forward. Jaguars take on the Chiefs. Let's talk

this one through. Travis Etienne has been a dynamo the last to two games really since the trade of uh Jonathan James Robinson, excuse me, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jonathan Taylor Thomas not really, surprisingly, very much, very factor in the

Karaguars backfield. Travis Etienne of the snaps with James Robinson out of the picture, averaging twenty two carries, one twenty six rushing yards, and almost a score and a half per game since taking over Kansas City's run defense started the year and amazingly, but is slumping badly of late. Over the last month of games, Kansas City allowing on eighteen rushing yards per game on almost six yards per carry, which would be fourth most and second most applied league

wide across the full season. Travis Etienne et n A grade. Let's go to the passing game. I like Trevor Lawrence here. He should be very active through the air. At Arrowhead, Kansas City gets the third highest opposing passing play percentage because teams are generally battling to come back from behind, which may be the case here despite already having Thereby, the Chiefs have surrendered the most passing touchdowns, and other than Malik Willis, every opposing quarterback to face Kansas City

has thrown from multiple scores. Trevor Lawrence a solid B grade in this game, and if I like Lawrence, that means I gotta like his best receiver, Christian Kirk also would be grade. Kansas City has yielded one hundred yard receiver in three of the previous four games, and they've

allowed the fourth most receivers scores. Kirk will face a pretty good cornerback, Lagaria sneed in the slot and he's surrendered two touchdowns on the season, but he's only allowed more than fifty yards in his coverage three times through eight games. Kirk is averaging six receptions for seventy one yards in his last three games. That's pretty solid. Be great on Christian Kirk. And we've talked about variety from tight ends you can plug in this week? How about

Evan Ingram? C grade here. Kansas City's tight end defenses struggled lately, allowing big games to George Kittle two weeks ago and a two touch two tight end touchdowns in the last three games. Ingram did nothing last week, so there's danger here, but he had four straight solid performances before that. I like Evan Ingram is a nice dark throw for your fantasy team at that position. Couch, what about man Arnold? Tell me, are you calling your shot right now? See on the team still okay? Is he

practice squad or is he like? Uh? Does he get? I believe he leads all tight ends in yards in Gatorade. Drank six of those catches, but if he got more um as for the Joneses of Jacksonville, we're not going to keep keeping up with the Joneses here. They've combined for two scores all year, and they've topped sixty five receiving yards between them once alright line of the Kansas City side. This will not take very long. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey already know to start them A grades.

Juju Smith Schuster comes into a B. He's commanded at least eight targets in six of eight games. He's amid his most productive stretch of the season, averaging one eight yards while scoring twice in the last three games he's run for He runs from all over the field, and Jackson doesn't have a stopper at any of the three cornerback spots, and the Jaguars secondary has been clovered for a the third most receiver score. So Judas Smith Schuster with a solid B in this count in this one,

and nobody else is startable. Let me note that McCole Hardman has been ruled out, which might tempt you to try to pivot to k Darius Tony or MVS or Justin Watson. But Skore Skymore who's coming out the season high snaps last week was Josh Gordon still on the Chiefs. They're all he might be. I think he might be. He might be in practice squad at that. Basically, you don't you don't be nice of them, don't pivot to

any of them. Don't do it. Don't do it now. Also, let's mention this Jerick McKinnon is questionable and may not play in this game. But even so, no of the running backs have done anything to instill any confidence whatsoever, regardless of whether McKinnon plays or not. Clyde Edward Hilaire coming off a seventeen snap dud with six touches two weeks ago and five touches last week, that's it. Isaiah Pacheco's the ostensible starter. He only had six touches last week.

And the Jaguars, by the way, sneaky good run defense. So we're not going with any of those guys. It's funny, how like the two best teams in the a f C, the Bills and the Chiefs, I don't care about the running backs like that. They don't need them. Actually, everybody, it's the correct answer. Well, in those cases, it certainly is. I think maybe if your quarterback is good enough, you're

just like, forget this leather helmet stuff. When we come back Deeter von Fertson got Scott Fish's basement or in exchange student will break down the Seahawks and the Buccaneers. Please stay tuned. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchion, Matt Harrison, and Brian Johnson with you. You can follow us on Twitter. I am at Paul Charchion, Matt is at Explosive Output, and Brian Johnson is at b t x J. Now coming to us live via zoom from

Scott Fish's basement. Foreign exchange student Deeter von Fertsen got to break down Seahawks v. Bucks. Now. Fortunately Deeter knows a little bit of English and can coach us along, but not enough that you can actually do the that Deeter can do the whole thing in English. Welcome to the show, Deeter, Yeah now Goodan, tog hachar Goodan, tog, harry Onnson Snell Schnell. Dieter von Furtzencoatpreka, I'm vainique English. That means my name is Dieter and I speak small English.

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really not that interested in Kyler Murray. No, I would uh, I would take any of our take a chance to me quarterbacks over Kyler Murray even if he plays. If he plays, I will give him a ce. Uh. By the way, these teams met in week three, so we will refer to that game a lot. But Murray did through three plus yards against the Rams in Week three, but that was on fifty eight pass attempts, and if

he did not score and making matters worse. L A's past defense has gotten better, much better since then, allowing just passing yards and zero point eight touchdowns per game since Week four. So just to see if Murray plays, but yeah, if you you should explore other options and have a backup plan in place for sure. Over to the receivers DeAndre Hopkins, just to be for him. There are some reports that Jalen Ramsey won't shadow Hopkins, but I'll believe that when I see I don't know. I

don't know shadow who yeah A J. Green Yeah. So I don't really believe that either way. As a team, l A allows the fewest area yards per game in the lowest average depth of target to wide receivers at five point five. That is not a lot. And Hopkins has also never topped seventy yards against the Rams as a cardinal. So just a B for Hopkins, uh Rondel Moore, Robby Anderson there on the bench, just a brutal matchup

for those guys. The RAMSIP surrendered only two wide receiver touchdowns since Week three, and odds are neither of them will score. I will give zach Ertz a B. Though the Rams have allowed the second fewest targets end receptions to tight ends, with no one eclipsing me more than six receptions or six eight yards per game. That's not good. But Earth's did see ten targets in the week three meeting that resulted in the modest six catches for forty five yards and in the tight end waste land. That's

a B. Yeah. Maybe so, I don't know either way. You're not You're not You're not bench in Zach or it's unless you got Travis Kelsey's like the only get. You're gonna start with Zach Or. It's a tight end. And lastly for Arizona, James Conner will give him a see. He resumed leadback duties last week with twelve touches, so we should see the bulk of the work at running back. But it's a bad matchup for Connor. The Rams have surrender just four total touchdowns and running backs all season.

The only back to have a good game against l A was Christian McCaffrey as a panther and then as a forty niner. Conrad fifty seven scoreless combo yards on sixteen touches in the first meeting. So just to see for him over to the Ram side, which is kind of just as messy. We'll get to Matt Stafford in a minute. We'll start with Darryl Henderson. I'll give him the CEE. It looks like he'll be the starting quarterback running back. Excuse me for the Rams. You know the

Kyra Williams got activated. He did. I think he gets touches and Kyra Williams should be added. Um. I don't know what he's gonna do in this game. Nobody does. I wouldn't start start Kiren Williams, but if if you're in need of running back, I'll roll Henderson out there with the sea. He read the lad the Rams with

twelve carries. Last week, Cam Akers and Malcolm Brown combined for just seven the Cardinals ranked and second level yards surrendered to running backs, and they're also in explosive run weight explosive run rate excuse me, while also allowing the ninth most Fantasy points per game to back x. I

will give Henderson the Sea here. Cooper Cup he gets an A. He had his worst pass catching game of the season, probably the last season and a half against Arizona in Week three, just four catching for forty four scoreless yards. He did take a twenty yard carry to the house which saved his day. So it's not the best matchup, but matchups do not matter. For Cooper Cup, he gets an A. Matchups do matter for Alan Robinson and Van Jefferson though, even when they're they're good, they're

both on the bench. Both saw five targets last week. A rob had three cap three catches. Jefferson had zero. But it's just he can't start either of these guys until one distances themselves from the other. So a Robin Van Jefferson or on the bench, but Tyler Higbee is not. He gets to be. The Cardinals SEPs have rendered the most receptions, yards and touchdowns to tight ends, while allowing eight tight ends to exceed ninety five receiving yards or

score a touchdown this season. He could be had one of the lesser games for an opposing tight end against the Cardinals in Week three with four catches in sixty one yards, but we'll call that a safe Florida. We'll take that right. No catches last week, and he had a dud game before that, and he may be catching balls from John Wolford. This thing is fraught with peril. But as you mentioned, Cardinals are the worst tight end defense.

That's a bold one. And if Wolford makes the start over Matt Stafford, who I guess he suffered a concussion and practice talking about practice, So Stafford is gonna be a game time decision, it looks like. But either way, he's on the bench, and so is John Wolford if he plays. Stafford was held scoreless in the Week three game when these teams met, and he has thrown zero or one touchdown pass in every game since. Unbelievable how some of these older quarterbacks have all aged out at

the same time. Brady Rogers, Stafford, bad offensive lines, an inability to overcome that ages. These guys all looking very much their age at this point seems like a year ago. At this time, we're like, this is the golden age of quarterbacks and they all just went away. They having in a big, big way this year. I'm old enough to remember when this season was supposed to be a lot of fun. You can make this season fun. It can still be fun. If you sign up for a

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with a bet we like to call premature speculation. Matt, I will start with you right hold on, It's very important that we get the time machine sound effected very well. I love how that that ending is so good just explodes into bits smithereens even I got Matt Ryan already kind of highlighted why Jeff Saturday has no allegiance to Frank Reich's decisions. And I just believe Matt Ryan gives the Colts offense the best chance to win games. So I'm picking up Matt Ryan in a lot of spots

right now. Okay, well that was short. Okay, Brian, your premature speculation. We've been saying all year it's a stash these backup running backs, and looks like Isaiah Spiller is the latest one you might want to go grab. He saw seven carries last week for the Chargers. Backup running back for the Chargers I should say Austin Ekeler only at fourteen carries, so Spiller saw half of that. There's only one for our boys, Sony Walkman. So you know

something would happen Ekeler and Isaiah Spiller's skills. That is the most comparable too. He's only a rookie, but if something goes happens to Eckler, the Chargers fall out of playoff contention. We could see a lot of say a spiller. Spillers a little more like Eckler than Sony Michelle, I'm a little little closer to me. What the walkman? The walkman. I've got two premature speculation players, but one of them is really geared for dynasty and Empire leagues and keeper

leagues you're thinking about next year. Tyler Huntley, the backup quarterback for the Ravens. This thing, I'm not convinced that the Ravens are ultimately gonna make the big signing that everybody assumes is going to happen with Lamar Jackson. Jackson's play over the last six weeks or so has not been very good, and he wants to get paid like the highest paying get the highest paid quarterback, or nearly

the highest paying quarterback. But look at the regret that the that, for example, the Cardinals already have in their big decision to get Kyler Murray contract. Look at the regret that the Broncos already have in their big quarterback signing. Meanwhile, Tyler Huntley, I'm not saying he's an amazing player, but here's what Tyler Huntly does. He runs the ball. In the four games in which he got time last year, Tyler Huntley's rushing numbers were forty five yards and that

was a partial game. Seventy three yards, fifty four yards and seventy two yards. That's you know, that's a that's the you know, that's half the key to fantasy quarterbacks is the rushing yards. And Tyler Huntley can run. So I think he is a savvy, no costs dart throw and you may have the Ravens starting quarterback next year. Tyler Huntley. Oh, the other player, Kiriren Williams. We were

just mentioning rams. They've got it. You know, he's if he's available in your league, he's I think he is going to be the starting running back as early as this weekend. Okay, all right, let's go to our final block. Oh matchups. I'm next, Cowboys taking on the Packers. Okay, let's start with the start on the Cowboys side, and I want to begin with the couple of receiving options. I think you do want to play and certainly Ceedee Lamb.

Packers have allowed the second fewest receptions to opposing receivers over the last five weeks. On the season, they allow the six lowest average depth of target in the second fewest are yards in the second fewest yards after the catch.

But number one receivers are doing pretty well against the Packers Stefon Diggs, Terry McLaurin average yards and a touchdown against Green Bay in recent weeks, and one of their starting quarterbacks, Eric Stokes, has been ruled out of this game, and so I think you can safely start Seeding Lamb. I've got a B grade on him and the other receiver you can start as Dalton Sheltz averaging six receptions and sixty two yards in Dak Prescott games. Those are

good numbers for Dalton Schultz. Unfortunately, the Backtors defense has been very good against tight ends, allowing the fewest targets, the fewest receptions, and the fewest yards tight ends. Uh, Sheltz may catch a break here. Looks like Devandre Campbell will not play in this game, and he is Pro Football focuses number three ranked coverage linebacker, so that would be a plus for Dalton Sheeltz and that's why he remains startable with a C grade. Let's go to Dak Prescott.

Since returning from his hand injury, Prescott's played well. It's completed seventy seven percent of his passes against Detroit and Chicago. Now he gets the NFC North trifecta. Here, Green based opposing quarterbacks have thrown exactly two touchdowns in three straight games. I think two touchdowns sounds are right about right for Dak Prescott here and that's why he gets a B grade. And Noah Brown, Michael Gallant, the rest of the passing group are on the bench. There's a tough matchup and

they are irregular producers. Let's talk about Zeke and Tony Pollard. So Zeke's the ostensible starter, but we'll note that Zeke's snap percentage has fallen for three straight games prior to missing last week's game with injury. And he stays startable because he's had twice as many carries as Paul in side the five yard line. Pollard is next Gen stats is most efficient running back in the entire league, and

he's averaging six point two yards per carry. Pollard has been great, and the Packers leaky run defense has given up the second most rushing yards and they've allowed it back to top sixty seven yards in six straight games. The Packers are gonna be short. Defensive tackle ras Shawn Gary and as I mentioned before, Devandre Campbell are big losses here. So both Zeke and Paul had, even in a timeshare, both startable with C grades. Packers side does

not have a lot of startability to it. Who let's start with Aaron Rodgers, who comes into this game ice cold, with a miserable showing against a very dubious Detroit secondary last week. So he threw three interceptions last week, including I think the ugliest one I can ever remember him throwing. His previous three interception game for Aaron Rodgers was twenty seventeen, and before that, the previous three interception game from Aaron

Rodgers two thousand nine, his first year. Unbelievable that Aaron Rodgers has gone what would that be sad fourteen seasons and had been three three interception games. Unbelievable anyway, He's averaging just two yards and one point six touchdowns over the past five weeks, since those are relatively meager numbers, and he's gonna be without Romeo Dubs here, uh Dobbs. And worst of all, he faces the league's most ferocious

pass rush Dallas. They're averaging a staggering twenty two pressures per game and he maybe without two of his starting offensive linemen for this game. Chances Jordan's Love plays in this game, It's non zero. It's yeah, it's it's probably only like a two percent chance, but it's it could happen. You're right, it could happen. At some point. They could get so far behind that they just put in Love.

Maybe I don't know, or something else goes, or Rodgers could get hurt but get killed with no offensive line in that pass rush. Let's continue with the passing game here. I've got Allen Lazard with a C grade. He's quietly been actually very consistent on a team that's not produced very well. He has scored or topped one hundred yards in six of seven games, and scientists have proven that Lazard is nine hundred and seventy five percent better than

any of the other Packer wide receivers. It's it was not nine seventy four, by the way better Dallas's defense allowing one score per game to opposing bite outs over the last five weeks. I think Lazard is likely to get that score, and he's gonna see a lot of cornerback Trayvon Diggs, and you know, the bit on him gets burned a lot, makes Big Blaze a lot as well.

As he keeps getting burned, will keep starting guys against him like Alan Lazard with a C grade, And the only other receiver you might be tempted to go with as Robert Tonyan, but I've got a bench grade on him. He stopped thirty seven yards only once all year, He's scored only once, and the Cowboys are top six in yards and touchdowns allowed to tight ends just one all year, so he is out the The only other starting grade

have got is Aaron Jones. He's completely off the injury report as a Friday, which is amazing considering he's gonna walking boot on Monday. As mentioned earlier, the Dallas run defense very good here. Jones is a good pass catcher, but Dallas's defense is elite against receiving backs top four and receptions and receiving yards allowed to running backs, and they haven't given up a receiving touchdown to a running

back yet. A j Dillon's on the bench startable only if you really want to bank on Jones having some kind of regression on that on that ankle injury, Dylan has yet to top eleven receiving yards or reached the end zone since Week one, and Dallas is a good running back defense that has allowed the third fewest touchdowns to running backs, just three all year. So Dylan on the bench. Final matchup for you, Matt Is Chargers taking on the forty Niners Austin Nickler obviously an elite start

here as he is every week. I'm more interested in what you think about the passing game. Honestly, well, Eckler faces probably his toughest matchup of the year. I'm downgrading him to a B grade. Wow, forty Niners are number one, the number one defense against running backs, with top six rankings in yards per carry, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns receiving touchdowns, and combo yards allowed. The one thing their average at is allowing receptions to opposing backs. They do that about

five per game. I imagine with all the injuries that the Chargers have in San Francisco, they're gonna ramp up Eckler. He's had seven, twelve and ten receptions in his last three games just on backfield volume alone, and probably the toughest matchup out there. He still gets the B. Justin air Bear, he only gets a C grade from me. The Niners are a top ten defense and basically every statistical category against the past, and Herbert hasn't topped a

three yard games since Week four. In Houston. He's thrown for multiple touchdown passes and only two of his last six games. It's not all his fault. The wide receiver position is a mess for the Chargers. Keenan Allen has been ruled out again. Mike Williams is out as well. That leaves Josh Palmer and DeAndre Carter. Notably. Cornerback Jason Verrette tore his achilles and practice this week for the Niners. Uh Diamador Lenois if that's the French, He's the easiest

player to run at in this secondary. In situations with this combo of corners available, Lenois has has stuck to the right side. He's got a passerrating of one oh five in his coverage, and Josh Palmer most likely to see him on the right side, so I'll give Palmer

the C grade here. I wanted to leave Gerald Everett on the bench, but in the game since both Mike Williams and Keenan Allen have been out, Everett is averaging eight targets per game and has five catches in each of those three games, So in PPR, that's good enough for a C grade. And you know he's he's the dude battles for every yard. I like about Gerald Everett is he is a fighter and he earns those eight targets.

He's getting every game absolutely over On the other side, the tight end, George Kittle gets a see the Chargers have locked down just about every tight end they faced this year. Travis Kelsey only managed five catches for fifty one uh some guy named Kyle Pitts two catches for the only tight end touchdown they allowed was to Greg Dulcitch in Week six. Kittle is topped eight yards or scored in three straight So there signs of life for

George Kittle. But something's got to give here. Deebo Samuel and Brandon iu Cadibo back on the practice field this week, should suit up, It's going to be super interesting to see how they deploy him on the field with a fully acclimated Christian McCaffrey. I think that's such a great point because both of them are these versatile, multi talented receiver runner combos right, and McCaffrey is going to catch a lot of passes where traditionally Debo did right Deebos.

Deebos like bubble screens, quick slant stuff around the line, the line of scrimmage, and that's where McCaffrey is gonna catch passes too. Yeah, I got a sneaking feeling that Deebo's role changes just a little bit. Maybe it's it's red grass just a little bit there. Um, I'm still giving both of them B grades in this one. The Chargers have one corner who's playing great this year. It's slot corner Bryce Callahan, and Samuel and Ayuk move around so much that they can just avoid him from the

slot all the time. Jimmy g gets to see. The Chargers are a break but don't bend pass defense. They've allowed the sixth fewest passing yards per game, but have allowed the twelve most passing touchdowns at almost two per game. And then there's this Christian McCaffrey. Gar guy. If an art Vark dressed up like Fonzi, maybe we could do that. Can we make an art vark look in a leather jacket?

And uh CMC had twenty six touches in the game before the by In his second game, the Chargers are allowing six yards per carry and a hundred and sixty three combo yards and a touchdown and a half per game to opposing runners. I don't see scenario where McCaffrey doesn't hit at least those numbers in this game. Is passing touchdown counts? A touch has that? A touch On's a good question. I don't think that. I don't think.

I don't think it did and a half touches. Um. You mentioned the Chargers without mentioning whether or not we should start see dicker the dicker kicker. Yeah, you're gonna go dicker kicker. Well, we don't usually talk about kickers. Charge. I feel like you're this is like I'm baiting you. Yeah, I am. You're baiting me on the dicker. You are the master Bader. I'm so sorry about the Comah sounds good going out on a high note. Master and Commander.

Uh starting with the commander? Okay, all right, I'm bending Brian Robinson and giving Antonio Gibson to see and it's it was basically a fifty fifty split last week. We should see similar distribution moving forward. I failed to mention these teams also played in Week three, so we'll reference that game as well. Gibson actually scored a rushing touchdown against Philly in Week three while Robinson was still recovering from his gunshot wounds. But the commander's back said nothing

on the ground. But J. D. McKissick caught six passes. He's likely to sit in this game. It feels like Gibson's gonna play more of themkissic role, so I like him in this game against the Eagles, were allowing five catches per game to running back, so a see for Gibson. But I got Robinson on the bench and this one, uh as for Terry McLaurin, just to see for him. He did see shot targets and yeah, I shouted, giving you the opportunity there, Matt, go for it real quick. Well, Terry, yeah,

but I don't think your micros on anyway. Just to see for Terry McLaren nine targets in the Week three meeting, caught six for two. But it's a bad matchup on paper. Philly's cornerback due of Darius Slay and James Bradberry, have allowed just five catches and fifty yards per game between the two of them for the last five weeks, so I see from McLaurin. For those reasons, I have Curtis Samuel on the bench as his logan Thomas. Eagles have allowed just three tight end touchdowns all season, only one

loan tight end his top fifty yards against them. Thomas is doing nothing and with nothing. He did nothing in the Week three game two catches for five scoreless yards. So he's on the bench as his Taylor Heinie. No further explanation needed there. Over to the Philly side, Miles Sanders just to see here head just thirty scols comboy yards on thirteen touches in the first meeting, so he's

on the bench. Only Derrick Henry has stopped aiding rushing eighty rushing yards against Washington A. J. Brown, Dallas Goddard, Jalen Hurts all easy a's and I'm you, and Devonte Smith a b here. He's been the third receiving option for the last month. But he did have the best game of the season and probably his career in the Week three matchup. Eight catches, one sixty nine I can't

trust and a touchdown. I feel he's do be for Davante Smith for me is he has burned too many bridges for me to trust to Anti Smith at this point at all. Thank you for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. If you're listening to the podcast version, we're also available over the air, and if you're listening over the air, you can also podcast this in case you missed any part of the show, Look up Fantasy Football Weekly wherever you get your favorite podcasts, and will be back next

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