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of my co host Scott Fish and Christian Peterson. Hello guys, Hello Church, and what happened to I want to mix it up every once in a while. I want to bring in a guy named Chip to give us. That would be something that would only I would be interested in that. I think, as always, we're gonna break down every game Fantasy style, give you a letter grade on every player, and our rationale for every grade, so you can decide for yourself if you think that we are

on the right track. A few minutes from now, we'll give you nine guys upon whom you can take a chance. And um, we'll answer three tough questions later on with the the big topics that are haunting fantasy players before we dive into the matchups. Let's uh, let's cover this scenario that's all too painful for some of our listeners. You played against Lamar Jackson. I don't even need to talk to the Lamar Jackson owners. They're fine. You played

against Lamar Jackson. Now what high ceiling players, all high ceiling got to do? All the high risk khigh reward types, right, I mean here, you're you're starting Giants against Miami. You're hoping guys like Will Fuller on your team. Yeah, that's another Yeah, a guy like a Will Fuller who's notorious for as a boom or bust player, right? Um? And if they even in Joeku against against Arizona, I mean

you need lightning to strike to overcome that performance. And you're really zeroing in, not that you wouldn't do this anyways, but really zeroing in on the matchups. Right, You're you're not giving anybody the benefit of the doubt on your roster, even if they've been in your in your starting lineup all year, if they have a tough matchup this week, you are probably better off going with somebody with a better matchup. Totally agree. That's a that's a great point.

And if you're down, if you're down to Lamar Jackson to a lesser extent, mark Ingram, who ended up with a the best night of any running back against the Jets all year. Um, you know I do. I think you're right. There are no there are no sacred cows on your roster. If you think pat Patrick Mahomes, who's thrown one touchdown in three straight games, has got it, doesn't have enough upside for you, you gotta look at Ryan Tannehill as one example. All right, let's dive into

the matchups. We begin with Houston taking on Tennessee Scott Deshaun Watson. To me, it feels like a great start. Dori Jackson cornerback for Tennessee's out. They put their other starting cornerback An I r a month ago, Malcolm Butler. Boy I I you want a guy with some upside, Deshaun Watson. Absolutely, I have an a grade on Watson. The Titans d seems good when you watch them, but over the last six weeks only Nick Foles failed to throw for three yards or throw multiple touchdowns against them.

The division is going to be on the title most likely here that the winner this is probably is probably gonna win the division. UM with seven rushing touchdowns and over thirty yards rushing per game in in the last eight games, it's it's a pretty nice floor there for Deshaun Watson. So I have an A grade on him. Hopkins just a grade. He's unbenteable, especially with um will Fuller.

If he goes, I'm gonna give a C grade. I think that entire offense and if you're against Lamar Jackson, definitely blame but fool Faller is the kind of guy you start when he's healthy and when he's playing no matter what, because he's got that hundred and fifty yard a couple touchdown upside. Uh. If he doesn't go or even if he does go, I would look to Kenny Stills in this slot logan. Ryan is allowing the most

slot yards in the NFL. Right now, Um, it follows out that matchup becomes even better and QTE might even be interesting in that in that situation. But with both Skills and QT playing, QT is only outplayed Stills fantasy wise once this season and that was last week. So uh, other than that, Duke Johnson and Carlos Hyde, it's it's a really really decent matchup here that I did not expect to see that when I was going into the research here. Uh, Duke Johnson. Seven different running backs have

had a five catch game against the Titans. A lot of pass catching backs like the great pass catcher Leo four Nette and Hug There's a lot of huge games there for pass catching backs. I gave Johnson a ce and hide another possible see because the Titans allowed six rushing touchdowns in the the last five games and he might get some of that. Yeah. I actually I think I like Johnson better than I do I do. I think

it's upside his ceiling is higher for Duck Johnson. On the other side, I gave Ryan Tannehill a so I like the A grades on these quarterbacks here, multiple touchdowns in all seven games he started. He's QB three since he took over in Week seven, and Houston has allowed three hundred plus yards and three or more passing to our three passing touchdowns to both Brady and Lock in just the last two weeks. UH. They've allowed at least three passing touchdowns seven times this season, which is insane.

His main guy is A. J. Brown. He's just looking amazing lately. A hundred thirty five yards and more in two of the last three, averaging twenty three point three yards per catch under Tannehill. Over the last five weeks, the Texans have held down wide receivers to the tune of the UH, to the tune of two fused receptions sorry bottom two in receptions in yards, which is really good. So I'm only given Brown a B otherwise it would

probably be an A here. And the funny thing about A. J. Brown and the Tennessee passing attack is if I said Ryan tanney Hill was going to throw a touchdown to somebody other than A J. Brown, Okay, who is it exactly? It's uh, you know, nobody to kind of passing that offense other than A J. Brown. Did you know he has led the team and targets every single one of Ryan Tannehill's games. Wow, that's a lot. Yeah, it says

a lot. There. I'm benching Davis, I'm bention John And just like you said, Derrick, Henry, he says he's gonna go. Rabel says he's gonna go. He hasn't practiced all week. He's questionable. I believe he's going to go, and I think he's unbenchable when he does go. I don't need to know that. I need to go more into it. But the Texans have a lot, a lot of the most receptions, most even yards to second most receiving touchdowns. So if he doesn't go, Dan Lewis can get a

C grade, but it's all Henry with the A grade. Yeah, I've got some more than I got some worried that Henry he's either on a snap count or that the re injury could happen with that hamstring. And you know, I know they're being conscious with it, but strings. Do you think Lewis is startable either way? Even if he goes, then no, he does not look he I think he

needs to start. Okay, Yeah, all right, let's go to our next matchup, Christian Chicago taking on Green Bay Mitch Truebinsky, and let's let's be honest, awesome games from Mitch Drabinsky in a row. And he rolls in to face Green Bay. Who's the hot the hotter quarterback in this game? And it's not close? Is Mitch Drabinsky. Absolutely let's start there. Yeah,

we'll start. We'll start with Robinsky, who's had three straight Fantasy relevant games, in part because he's running against two rushing touchdowns in the last three games and then of course the three passing touchdowns each of the last two. He still has four interceptions, though he still looks I mean, he's just like right on the edge of disaster at all times. Well he was breaking right for him right now. Yeah, it's it's coming back around. But the Packers have a

good defense. They're top ten passing defense. They've held four of the last quarterbacks, four of the last six quarterbacks they faced to one touch down or less. Back in Week one, Turbinsky managed two hundred scoreless yards against them. So I don't love the matchup. Do I trust Trabisky

Absolutely not. I gave him a sea level starting great, but maybe this is one of those situations where if you're if you're going up against Lamar Jackson, and we've seen the upside that Trubisky brings without only through the air, but also with his legs. So that's the type of start that this could be for Trabinsky. Allen Robinson is he's in for sure. Hundred two yards on thirteen targets

in the Week one matchup against Green Bay. Thirty targets and four touchdowns over the last three weeks, of course, corresponding with Trabisky's little run here, so he I've got him as a an A. Let me put it this way, if you had a whole group of players that we're all ranked as an A, he would be at the very bottom of that group, Yes, all of them, ranked, all of them exactly a's, but near the bottom, near the bottom of that. Anthony Miller is a little interesting here.

Thirty seven targets over the last four games, a hundred forty yards a couple of week ago on Thanksgiving, scored last week gets a matchup with slot corner Tremont Williams. He's really old but has been shocking the good allowed just sixteen receptions and two and fifty yards all year in his coverage per Pro Football Focus. So nothing more than a C on Anthony Miller here, and even then only in PPR leagues. Really nothing else to see in the receiving games, yes, per Horstead and JP Holts, it's

a soft ja. Maybe it's the A P Holts as well. Those. I mean, Green Bay is actually pretty bad against tight ends. But I don't know who's going to get the get the looks between Horstead and Holds. David Montgomery and the running game. He is a B level starter here. The Packers are bottom five run defense. They've allowed the sixth

most yards, second most touchdowns to opposing runners. Montgomery is a bell cow at this point, at least fifteen touches in seventh straight games, So he's a beat, maybe even an A now that I talk through this as the bell cow here Tarik Cohen, he's catching the ball, but he's not making any big plays. No more than thirty nine receiving yards since we Quan, so I've got him on the bench. That's like a two carry per game game. It's all the receiving game. So not enough there on

the Packers side. Aaron Rodgers man, you can make an argument here that you put him on the bench back to his mediocre ways last week with just a hundred nine yards in a touchdown. There's nothing mediocre about Well, yeah, it's less sub mediocre. One or fewer touchdown passes in four of the last five and this is one of the best past defenses in the NFL. Hasn't allowed more than two touchdown passes in a game all year. Screw it. Let's put Aaron Rodgers on the bench. Same maybe with

Davante Adams. I have written down here a C gray but he hasn't top sixty four yards since Week ten, just forty one yards last week against a bad Washington secondary. In Week one, he did nothing against Chicago. Four catches for thirty six yards. Here's another situation where if you're still alive and you just are thinking about automatically plugging Davanta Adams into your lineup, good, don't do it. I've got a C level grade, and that's uh, that's being generous.

I think what what defense are doing and it's working. If you take away Davante Adams by doubling him, for example, bracket coverage, whatever you want to do to take Davante Adams away, then there's nobody. There's nobody else to beat you, you know, Marquez Velda Scantling has done virtually nothing. Geronimo Allison nothing good for one long catchup month. Yeah, it's Jimmy Graham is doing nothing. They can't find a second receiver.

In fact, Aaron Jones I believe led them in receiving last week in addition to rushing, So he is an easy a here lad the lad the Packers in rushing and receiving nearly two hund combo yards last week. The Week one matchup was really bad for him against the Bears, thirteen carries for thirty nine yards. But the Bears have

given up some big outputs to opposing running backs. Josh Jacob went one fokers against them, Latavius Murray two touchdowns, Ezekiel Elliott two touchdowns, So they get they do get a hit back and that's a big change, which makes a big difference. But they're also now missing ro Kuwan Smith and linebacker Danny Vathan. Maybe those, you know, the return of Hicks maybe balances out the lots of those two guys. But I've got an a level starting grade

on on Jones here. All right, let's go to our final matchup of this segment, which is Denver taking on Kansas City and a lot of intrigue for fantasy owners in this one, and some really tough decisions for many people. Let's start on the Denver side. Philip Lindsay Begins has been getting most of the work for the past month. Royce Freeman is solidly on the bench here, but let's

talk about Lindsay, who gets a B grade. The Chiefs have allowed eight different backs to top one hundred rushing or receiving yards, and they've given up the fourth most rushing yards and second most receiving yards to running back. So it's a really nice opportunity for Lindsay. Although all note he did nothing in the earlier matchup, but he seems so much more usage now that I think this is a nice still a nice opportunity for Lindsay with

a B grade. Let's move over to the passing game, where Drew Locke has looked really good through his two NFL starts, but I'm nervous about him here. The much improved Chief secondaries allowed exactly one touchdown pass in three straight games, and that was two far better passers, including

Tom Brady and Philip Rivers. Also as an intangible. The Chiefs have two games of tape to study on Drew Lock, and we often see young quarterbacks will be successful in their first one game or first two games, and then defenses get the tape on and figure out his tendencies and then shut the kid down. That's not uncommon and that could be coming to Drew Lock here just to

see grade for him. Courtland Sutton is a phenomenal receiver and he had an unexpected dud last week despite Lock looking really good, but was effective against the Chiefs in the earlier matchup. He caught six passes eighty seven yards from Joe Flacco first time these teams met. Since then, the chief secondaries found its group. It's surrendering the fourth fewest Fantasy points to opposing receivers over the last five weeks.

Now working in Courtland Sutton's favor, he predominantly lines up on the left side of the field, refaces Brishot Breland easily the worst of Kansas Cities cornerbacks and that's why Courtland Sutton gets a B grade in this game. The only other receiver well, it's tight end that as a starting grade is no a fan whose usage is all over the board. But I like the upside this week. Over the last five games, the Chiefs have allowed an average of seven catches sixty nine yards to tight ends,

including three touchdowns over those five games. If Jeff Hireman were to go down in a freak blimp accident between now and kickoff, I would move fant from a C all the way up to an A. But I think it's unlikely. Let's go over to the Kansas City side. By the way, Tim Patrick, some people are caught Rangerson, Tim Patrick, we'll talk. Let's talk more about Tim Patrick. We're not going to start him here. Let's go to the Kansas City side. I'm gonna begin with the passing game,

because the running game is gross. The passing game, though, Patrick Mahomes with a B grade. Those are not words often heard on this show, and almost unheard of B grade. Mahomes has thrown one touchdown in three straight games. He's nursing hand injury, although he plans to play through it. I don't know if you saw this, but midweek he said when the injury happened, he was seriously worried, like you know, if this could be anything that you know,

the end could be here amputate, he didn't use. That's more my words is on the amputation. It is a little aggressive. The average game against vic fangio secondary is just two d thirty yards and one point one touchdown. So here comes Patrick Mahomes with three straight one touchdown games vic Fangio's defense giving up one touchdown a game. This is this is not it's this is a tricky play for people, just the b grade. Last Sunday, Denver

held to Shawn Watson too one passing touchdown. I'm just down. It's it's just it's not a lock for Mahomes. Here. Let's stow to his starting his best wide receiver, Tyreek Kill. He gashed Denver secondary for seventy four yards in a score in Week seven, snapped to four games scoreless drout against the Broncos. But the Broncos secondary has struggled a bit over the last month. They've given up five scores, the eighth most Fantasy points to opposing receivers over those

last five games. He'll draw Chris Harris. Now, Chris Harris used to be a death sentence when he would shadow you, but not as much lately, the opposing number one outside receiver. The guys that Harris usually shadows have scored or top one yards or both in four straight games against Denver. So there is an opportunity for Hill here, and he does get an a grade as you'd expect for for him.

I've got just a bench grade. And Sammy Watkins. Here's the frustrating part about Watkins, who, by the way, I believe just last week topped the fantasy points that he had scored in Week one through the rest of the season. Yeah, the last frustrating parts, Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah, the previous thirteen weeks of the frustrating part. They're still throwing to him eight times a game. How can Patrick Mahomes throwed you eight times a game and you suck?

How does that happen? I think, by the way, I think he gets dropped. I think they cut him in the off season. I think this is the end for Sammy Watkins. Anyway, then you it's neither here nor there for this one. Um, he's he's only turning eight catches or eight targets into thirty seven yards per game. So he's do us. The last I want to talk about Travis Kelsey was just a minute who also gets an unusual B grade. It's a tough draw here as he

answers his second matchup with the Broncos. They held him to the lowest yardage total of the season in in his season in the first matchup, and once more the Broncos of only three tight end touchdowns all season. No tight end is top seventy four seventy yards all season. So just the B grade on Travis Kelsey. And now we go to the running game. Gross Damian Williams a possible game time decision right now. He's got that the

he's got the rib injury. He had posted back to back one hundred yard games when we last saw him healthy, but he killed fantasy owners in the earlier matchup with Denver, putting up just six yards six yards in the previous matchup. I'm giving him a C grade here only because Denver's run defense has slumped so badly. Uh and I do

think there's an opportunity the Denver defense. I've given up hundred twenty one yards per game over the last three weeks and Lashawn McCoy straight up sucks, so there's nothing left to the tank who could have predicted. Well, everybody, well, that's entirely true. When he just he just screwed everything up in that in that Kansas City backfield. That's the only thing. All he did was muck up the works. That's right. And he's on the bench as well. All right.

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the waiver wire. These are guys even in the fantasy playoffs. They can help you. Don't get complacent. We'll tell you are nine guys when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Take a chance on me. Nine players not normally and you're starting the line up, many of whom are available on the waiver wire. Myself, Scot Fish, Christian Peterson will tell you three quarterbacks you're running back to the receivers. We believe are startable this week, beginning at the quarterback

position in Christian Peterson. Yeah, I've got Kyle Allen this week going up against the Seahawks. Each of the last six quarterbacks to face Seattle have thrown for at least two hundred and fifty six yards on the season. Opposing pass There's average two hundred and eighty three yards per game, and every quarterback they've faced has accounted for at least one touchdown. So your floor here is about to sixty and one for Kyle Allen, who over the last three

weeks has been considerably better than that. He's thrown for at least two hundred and fifty six yards sorry in five straight and has six touchdown passes and two rushing touchdowns in the last three weeks. He is a little bit fleet of foot. He is, He's on fire, and he faces the defense that's not as good as you think. Yeah, I think that's a that's a safe assessment, Kyle Allen. All Right, let's go to Scott Fish. Who's gonna take

a chance on the quarterback. I am going with a guy who leads the second in the NFL and touchdown passes, but leads the NFL in interceptions and has been throwing a tennis ball week instead of a football. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? Uh, there's a risk there, but I think he plays just fine. Tell people the name of the guy, Jamis wins. Thank you, thank you. He he played with it last week. He should be fine this week. He's thrown for over three hundred yards

nine times this year, nine times, nine times. He's had multiple touchdowns and eight of the last ten and the Lions hit up allowed multiple touchdowns and seven to the last nine, including six three hundred yard games. And Bucks games this year average sixty eight point four points per game. There's a lot of scoring in I think the over the Vegas over his hit every single week for the Bucks, so so hammer that if I end start Jamis Winson, is it a coin flips chance? He throws an interception

on the first drive. That's his signature move it is. It's a coin flip for That's right exactly, Mike take a chance to the quarterback is Baker Mayfield going up against the Cardinals. Opposing quarterbacks have finished in the top ten against Arizona. Jarvis Landry has a delicious matchup against horrible slot cornerback Byron Murphy, who has allowed a league worst eight touchdowns in his coverage. Jarvis Landry is a great start here. Mayfield got David and Joe Wu back

last week. He kicked the rust off, as they say, and he faces the league's worst tight end defense. We'll talk more about in Joeku later. Both have great matchups here, and even Odell Beckham's got a solid matchup against Patrick Peterson got positive matchups all over the field for Baker Mayfield. Let's go to the running back position, Christian who is your take a chance of the runner? Let's go with

Boston Scott of the Eagles against the Redskins. All Scott did was kind of single handedly salvage the Philadelphia season last year. Last last week, the second half of that game, when he took over for Miles Sanders and went bonkers a hundred and twenty eight combined rushing and receiving yards in less than a half of work. He looked great. He's basically a Darren Sprawls clone. He's all of I think he's five eight or something like that, five seven,

tiny guy, but he can move. Uh. Sanders is healthy again now, so he's certainly going to play and be the number one guy, But Jordan Howard is going to be out for another game here, so that leaves plenty of change of pace, pace touches here for Boston Scott. If he can get ten to fifteen touches like he did last week against a Washington defense that allows averages of nearly a hundred and sixty combined rushing and receiving

yards two opposing backs, there's some upside here with Boston Scott. Alight, I like the Sprowls thing because Sprawls went from the Saints to the Eagles, and so did Boston's. It's a good point. That's a good point underutilized by both given up on and by the Saints. Both guys too early. All Right, who's gonna take a chance with me? Runners Sunday? Um, it's the Laird's day. Oh, the Laird's day. Don't don't take the Lairds, David Bade. Okay, I'm going to Patrick

lair to. I'll saying the la Yes, there you go. Over the last three weeks, the Giants have allowed nine receptions per game to running backs, and Patrick Laird's basically the only one in town left still standings in that place. He started. The last two games. He caught four balls in each, averaging forty yards receiving in each. His rushing numbers haven't been great, but he is getting sixteen to seventeen touches per game. I think he gets it again

this week. Grade there all right, I've got DeAndre Washington against the Jaguars. Now, I know Josh Jacobs is slated to start, uh and it will probably will start this game with a fractured shoulder. Anything could happen to Josh Jacobs, including him playing the whole game. But even if he does have his normal workload, there's enough to go around here, because the Jaguars are just this bad. They are the worst run defense in the league, and it's not close.

Over the past five games, they're giving up two hundred twenty eight yards and two touchdowns per game, just two running backs and two So let's assume even if Josh Jacobs takes two thirds of the yards and one of the two touchdowns, that puts Josh Jacobs on a very good game. There's still enough for DeAndre Washington have a very solid game. I think there's a there's a nice chance here and and honestly, I think they will they I don't think they will use Josh Jacobs nearly as

much as they would work he healthy. So DeAndre Washington, regardless of whether or not just Jacobs goes, is a starter for you. Let's go to the receivers now and Christian Peterson. Yeah, I've got Cole Beasley here. I'll be honest. He's not your high upside play if you're chasing Lamar. If you have Lamar Jackson and you're just trying to protect your lead, maybe you'll look at Cole Beasley, Who's

had at least seven targets in three straight games. He's either scored top seventy four yards or both seven times in his last eight games. He has six touchdowns in those eight games. He's Josh Allen's go to receiver forget John Brown, and the matchup is pretty tough here. Pittsburgh is pretty solid against the past, but if they have any weakness, it's against slot wide receivers. Tyler Boyd had a hundred one yards and a touchdown a couple of weeks ago. Jarvis Landry twice in the last four weeks

has gotten it done. Six catches and seventy six yards in one of those games for forty three and a touchdown in another. So it's boring, But five or six catches and a chance that a touchdown, I'll take it, all right. I'm going with Deebo Samuel A lot of times? Do you think Manuel Sanders? Sometimes you think kidd Jamie has been awesome? I know, and people aren't noticing. Over the last five weeks yards unty four yards, fifty end, a score, sixty one and a score and a hundred

nine total yards every week. I don't even know if he qualifies for the segment take a chance. Maybe there's like there's really any risk his star position, her star percentage is way too low. Even his ownership percentage is way too low for playing a bottom ten secondary like the Atlanta Falcons. Breshad Perriman is one of your options if you're down, if you are playing against Lamar Jackson and all or nothing bloom er bust, play right here. The one thing that Brashad Perriman can can do in

his monolithic skill set, run fast and run straight. That's it. Long bombs, that's all he's got. Fortunately, it's a great recipe against the Lions. The team that's giving up the third most receptions of twenty or more yards. And even if Darius Slay shadows him, Slay is giving up big games all the time. Now, there's no sligh ride anymore. Or maybe it's a good slate, right, I mean, it's

like he's been playing hurt all then. I'm sure that's a factor, you know, if if he were Darius, if you're listening right now, it's not that we don't respect you, and we understand you're playing hurt and playing gallantly at that. He's been knocked in and out of games still for Shod Perriman. There you go. Let's go to let's work in a matchup, Scott, Tampa Bay takes on the Detroit Lions.

For you already mentioned Jameis Winston. You like him in this matchup, and you mentioned Perriman and I mentioned Perriman. Chris Godwin is my number two ranked wide receiver this week, probably should be one number one if it could be in this slot. The lines are giving up a ton of ton of slot numbers. I had an a grade on Godwin. I don't think I need to go into that. With Mike Evans out, I do like just I'll mention this, Godwin goes up against Justin Coleman slot cornerback for the Lions.

He's given up the second most yards in his coverage of any player in the NFL. Yeah, with with Mike Evans out, I like, I like Justin Watson and Dynas Steve, but if Scotty Miller comes back, and I'm passing on that situation. But I'm going straight to oj Howard, who I think I could have a day here. He has nine catches for a hunting thirty four yards in his last two games. Mike Evans out give him, I guess

a B grade. In the landscape of tight ends Jones and Barber Uh, I hate picking this battle a week to week good luck. Yeah, I think I'm gonna get reiterated that Jones is the starter that doesn't always mean anything. Yeah. That lasted exactly exactly one week the last time they said that. Jones and Barber both given C grades on this. Neither is a good patch sketcher. They're they're splaying touchdowns. I will say in the last two games, barbera has out snapped Jones and has all four of those red

zone running back touches and Jones didn't get them. So if you have to pick, if you have both, you have to pick. It's Barber on the other side. The only guys anybody have both in the semifinals. You're in the semifinals. You're listening right now. You've got both Buck runners. You're probably not play Yeah. Blow and Golliday are the only ones that gave starting grades too. I love Holiday. I never ben In. I call him Nook of the North, even though his nicknames baby On. I call him Nuke

of the North because he's unbenehable. He's got a similar, similar career arc to DeAndre Hopkins. Nook of the North have to do with DeAndre Hopkins? Is Nook Nook? Like yeah, Nook Hopkins Cokins? I heard nook, Yeah, alright, like a pacifier, Like that's what he was nicknamed after. But he calls himself Nuke. Really he was named after the Nook. I didn't know that, but but he calls himself a little bit of trivia. I got a little bit DeAndre Hopkins.

Trivia worked into our Denver right matchup. The Bucks were giving it up left and right to quarterbacks for most of the year, but they've been better decently. That's had similar qbs to David Blow, like Kyle Allen, Matt Shop, Jared Goff, Gardner didn't shoe. I'll put golf in there. I don't care. I have had really good games, so I'm giving Blow a see nobody else though that running game, especially with with Scarborough out as well. No thanks, Yeah, no,

there's no part of it. Bucksndy is really good. Yeah, the Bucks, it's been great also eason. One thing they can that's probably the one thing they can do particularly well. Did you know fanball has daily fantasy auctions. You love auctioning in the preseason. You'll love auctioning for this weekend's games. Go to fanball dot com. Play The auctions are fast paced, are frantic, incredibly fun. You'll bid on four players simultaneously

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Scott Fish and Christian Peterson. You can hear us over the year on many stations around the country that might be right now, and the show is also a podcast available every Friday and all major podcasting platforms, including the number one destination for podcasts, the I Heart Radio app. Back to the matchups, New England taking on Cincinnati, Christian, the running game for the Patriots has been a disaster. Passing game has been middling, but Cincinnati will yield, especially

on the ground. What do you think here, Yeah, they will yield on the On the ground. They've allowed four point seven yards per carry to opposing running backs and ten rushing touchdowns this year. So you would think Sony Michelle would be in line for a great game, But just five carries last week ten or fewer carries, and four of his last five hasn't scored since Week seven. There's no way that you can risk putting Sony Michelle

in your lineup. With that said, this is probably the game where they give it to him thirty times, but you can't risk that. So he's on the bench. James White on the other hand, he is in your lineup over the last couple of games thirteen catches on eight teen targets, thirty three total touches with two touchdowns. So they have turned to James White over Sony Michelle, which was a very wise move. He is in the lineup

there for with a B grade. Against the Cincinnati running defense, Tom Brady, I've got to put him on the bench. The Bengals are not as bad as you probably think against the past. Only only two quarterbacks have thrown more than one touchdown against them since Week four, And of course we know Brady struggles one or zero passing touchdowns and six of his last eight he has nobody but Julian Edelman to throw too, So I can't risk it in the fantasy playoffs. I've got Brady on the bench.

Edelman is an obvious a double digit targets in each of the last eight games, at least ninety three yards and three straight scored in two straight. He's a target hog. He's in your lineup with an A grade. No other receivers are worth note On the Bengals side, almost nothing of note here. You're not starting anybody in the passing game. Andy Dalton, Tyler, Boyd Tyler, Eifford, Alex Erics, and anybody

else you can imagine are all on the bench. Only one quarterback has thrown more than one touchdown pass against the Patriots all year. They've only allowed three wide receiver touchdowns on the year. They're all on the bench. That brings us to Joe Mixon's gotta hurt that Mixon saved his best effort for the year last week a D and forties six yards. He finally goes off in Week fourteen, long after his fantasy owners were probably knocked out. But I've got him just as a C grade here because

of the matchup. The Patriots have allowed just two running back touchdowns all year. That severely caps mixings upside. Even if he's probably gonna get twenty to twenty five touches, it's just gonna be tough for him to do much for with those C grade. And that is it for this crummy matchup. That is a crummy matchup. Let's go to a It's another crummy matchup Eagles Redskins beat with

Jordan Howard shaping us a game time decision. It's an opportunity for him though over the past five games, Washington is allowing the fifth most rushing yards. Aaron Jones just gashed the Redskins for eight yards per carry, and he'd likely get any goal line carries if the opportunity arises. If he does play here, I think he's a B grade, not factoring in the injury and the chance of him having a setback, assuming that we're not going to happen

with the shoulder injury. UM, I would you know, I think it'd be great as a safe one for Jordan Howard if he gets if he's gonna play, then Miles Sanders goes back to being the guy that he was before. And that means all you're really getting is the past catching from him, which is a bummer. Um. In the past two weeks, Washington has allowed exactly fifty eight receiving yards to Aaron Jones and fifty eight receiving yards and Christian McCaffrey. And I think that's the upside for Miles Sanders,

the absolute upside, just a C grade from him. Now, if Jordan Howard doesn't go, that will Miles Sanders up to a B. And Boston Scott, as another running back was Christians take a chance on me run back. So now let's go to the passing game where Carson Wentz is on the bench. Now, I know he pulled off some magic at the end of the Monday Night game, but it's there's a much more difficult matchup than it sounds like against an underrated Redskins past defense, particularly if

Quentin Dunbar, their star cornerback plays. If he does not play, there's a lot of if things in this matchup, and I'm sorry, if Quinn Dunbar does not play, you can upgrade Carson Wentz to a seat and make him startable. If he does play, then I'm benching Carson Wentz in part because look what he's got to do this without all Sean Jeffrey, probably without Nelson Agilars the game time decision,

probably without tackle Lane Johnson as well. Now in fact, Lane Johnson has ruled out, so he's not gonna go. It's it's just not enough weapons for Carson Wentz left here other than Zach Ertz, who gets an obvious A grade, although I will not note that he had a modest five catches for fifty four yards in the first matchup

between these teams. But there's just nobody left to throw too, and that's why you could also use Dallas Goddard as a dart throw because there's just not enough carbon based life forms playing at a receiving eligible position for the Eagles and then on the redskin side. Not a lot to talk about here. I've got C grades on a couple of guys. Adrian Peterson would get almost all the work,

but the matchup is very tough. Philadelphia's top ten in yards and yards per carry allowed to opposing backs, only two backs of top sixty six rushing yards against the Eagles, and Peterson hasn't cracked four yards per carrying three of his last four games, but he has scored him back to back games, and Philly's allowing one rushing touchdown per game over their last four games, so there's a chance for a touchdown for Adrian and that's why I'm giving

him a wobbly C grade. And keeping of speaking of running backs, if you're in a pure PPR league and you need a darthrow, Chris Thompson caught seven passes in the first meeting. He caught seven passes last week. No Darius guys, so maybe he can help you out with with a PPR effort from Chris Thompson. Lastly, receiver Terry McLaren. I kind of like he went bonkers in the season opener between these two teams, catching five passes for five yards and a touchdown when nobody except Scott fish knew

who Terry McLaren was. But that was under case. Keenum was a far more functional quarterback than Dwayne Haskins. The Eagles have been rocked by wide receivers in the past couple of games, giving up mammoth games to another rookie, Darius Slayton and DeVante Parker, fifth year rookies. I like to think of him. Um, so maybe there's a little something you can get done for Terry McLaren and I've got a C grade on him in this matchup. Last

matchup for this segment, Miami taking on the New Yorker Giants. Um, I don't think there's a lot to like in the Miami side. And you are already identified Scott Patrick Laird. Did you answer me? Running back? Yeah, I would like in the passing game, i'd like Kasseki more if he didn't put up that one for six, If Hearns hasn't been battling knee and ankle issues like he's been. He's been okay, like dartthroat, No, not into but Parker out

of protocol practicing. Looks like he's gonna play very helpful, which made me bump. Everybody benched to UH Fitzpatrick getting a see and and Parker getting a very strong beat. UH. The Giants have allowed UH ten wide receiver touchdowns last six games eighteen on the year, which really bad. And UH for Fitzpatrick three hundred or more three three yards and or multiple touchdowns since Week seven when he took over, and the Giants sixth straight have scored a touchdown against

them and averaged in the high two hundred. So a C grade on Fitzpatrick over on the other side, Eli Manning, I gave a C grade because the matchup is amazing. But he's also Eli Manning, so the floor is there. Looked okay, he did? He looks fry I thought I think that was zero word. Looks bry Darius Slayton. I'm given an A grade too. He's just been really, really good and he had good chemistry with Eli on Monday night. Miami has allowed nine wide receiver touchdowns in just the

last four weeks. Including an average of nearly nine catches and over a hundred and thirty four yards per game to the top receiver. UM. All four of those top receivers in those four games they scored. Uh. Slayton also three multi touchdown games this season, which is pretty good. UM giving Shepherd a C grade. Uh, He's seen seven targets every game. He's the yardage isn't there. But with last week with Eli Tate only got one catch Shepherd, Shepherd got the attention. Don't you think Shepherd is a

sneaky upside play this week? Yeah? The Dolphins have allowed two different wide receivers to score in six different games seas right, so I have looking at Darius Slaton and I like Slaton bath than Shepherd two. But Shepherd gets enough work to have the big game that's coming against the Dolphins. He's a good amount of targets. Yeah, I do have Smith, Kitten Smith the tight end on the bench. Even though Evan Ingram is out and I am, I'm still giving Barkley an a I trust in this matchup.

I think this is a bounce back spot for Barkley. I know he hasn't tough to eighty five rushing yards since week too. I know he's only averaging thirty one receiving yards a game, which normally is good for running back, but for Barkley it just seems bad. But every back that is top thirteam touches had at least seventy f five total yards against the Dolphins, and Barkley is going to smash that out of the water. So a grade

on him now, I know that. I think I said that that was gonna be our last match of this segment. I think we have time to sneak in one more Seattle taking on Carolina Christian and with threw shot Penny out here comes Chris Harrison against I think the second worst run defense in the NFL Jaguar is the worst Panthers second worst. Do you love Chris Carson as much

as I do? Oh? Absolutely? I see you have him as your number one running back of the weekend, and I don't disagree that Carolina has allowed twenty one running back rushing scores. That's seven more than the next closest.

In the last nine games alone, they've given up nineteen running back touchdowns, staggering, and they've allowed at least a hundred and fifty two combined rushing and receiving yards to opposing backfields and six six of their last seven you mentioned no Rashod Penny Carson is an easy A here. Let's go to the passing game. Russell Wilson man, he has been struggling over the last month or so, but

the Carolina is bad against the past as well. Six of the last eight, last eight passers they've faced top three hundred yards. Five of those also accounted for at least two touchdowns. So a big bounce back spot here for Russell Wilson, I've got him with an A. Let's give Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf both B grades. Locket is the more interesting one. Of course, he's been struggling over the last month or so. Pete Carroll said claims that Locket is finally full strength. He battled the injury

for a little while and then illness. They finally said he's full strength, So I'm taking his word for it. This is one of those high upside type plays where if you're chasing a Lamar Jackson, I think you throw Tyler Lockett into the lineup here. Um Panthers not very good against opposing wide receivers. They've allowed the most receptions and the third most yards to opposing receivers, so the matchup is right. DK metcalf he is in as well.

He's emerged at will as Wilson's primary wide receiver at least six targets in five straight at least six catches in four or five, so he's an easy start as well. Let's go to the other side of this matchup where I've got a lot of starters here as well. Kyle Allen was mnna take a chance on me quarterback? That of course brings d J. Moore into play. In their last nine games, Seattle has let six different wide receivers go for at least ninety eight yards and they've allowed

six wide receiver touchdowns in the last five games. And one of them might have been Lakwan Treadwell. That's right, and yeah, so d J. Moore, I've got an a grade on here. Curtis Samuel, He's on the bench, he has been for weeks. Nothing that, nothing changes that here, Ian Thomas, you might even think about this is a good matchup. Seattle has a lot of the second most tight end receptions and yards and the seventh most tight end touchdowns behind Arizona. They might be the easiest over

the worst the last month. Yeah, so Ian Thomas. With Greg Olson ruled out again with the concussion, so Ian Thomas picked him up off the waiver wire. If you need a tight end, I've got a B grade here. And of course Christian McCaffrey is an A grade. He hasn't scored in two weeks. Wow, drought drought thirty eight receptions though four games. Yeah, don't need you don't need me to say anything more about Christian McCaffrey. An easy

A grade there. It's becoming impossible to consider anybody else but Lamar Jackson with the first overall pick next year in your drafts, I think, I mean, you know, you can make you can go around and make a case for other guys. I think the only people that will ultimately not consider Lamar Jackson at the first is because they can't consider any reality that isn't a running back with the first overall pick, even though with Lamar Jackson you're getting half a running back. Yeah, he has seven

games over thirty fantasy points. There's only about fifteen quarterbacks that have even done that in NFL history once or seven times. He's already got more there in their careers. He's done it. He's done it so far in his career. Two guys like Cunningham had eight, Marino had nine. He's got seven already. Yeah. The other reason he's gonna go first in his as often as he will. There's eleven owners in your league that are so bummed out that they don't have him. They're not gonna let him get

by them at the first pick. That's why Lamar Jackson will go first. When we come back, we'll answer three tough questions. You can play along. See if you can go three and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly. It's Fantasy com Weekly. I am both Charchi from famble dot com, my co host Scott Fish and Christian Peterson. Hello, Hi, Let's roll up our sleeves with three tough questions. You're gonna have to uh pat your brow from the the sweat that's gonna come from these tough questions. Tough question

number one, can we just drop Sony Walkman appreciate? I say yes. I mean I just talked about it in the in the previous segment in the Patriots matchup. If you were holding him on, holding on to him for anything. It was the Cincinnati matchup this week. They get Buffalo next week, you're definitely not starting him there. And like I mentioned, in that matchup, there's a chance they suddenly turned back to him for carries in this game, but

you can't risk that. Over what's happened in the previous five or six games, ten carries are less than four of the last five, declining from twenty to ten to five touches over the last three weeks. You can't risk him now. You're not playing him against Buffalo next week. Drop him, all right, Scott correct I had basically the same stuff. Do you know how many snaps he played, not touches snaps last week? Well, I know he only had six touches nine snaps. Wait, how many here on

the field nine times? Nine time? You know it's you're right that it's it's Belichick. So anything could happen. But he's trended towards negative, fewer and fewer touches and snaps in three straight weeks. Bill Plichick's finally figured out what we've been telling you all year. Sony Michelle's awful at the running back position. He didn't I don't even think halfway through the season. You're right, I don't think he did have but I don't think he had a registered

miss tackle three of his sidowns in one game. Yeah, it's it's a disaster for a touchdown dependent guy. He hasn't scored in six games. His fantasy ranking in each of the last six weeks he ranked as running back thirty three, running back forty four, running back forty eight, running back twenty one, running back forty three, and running back sixty six. That's terrible. I mean, he has absolutely harpooned your season and you can drop him out right.

That wasn't very tough. Two next year, will Austin Ekeler be a top ten fantasy running back? Scott, Let's say he leads the running backs in your in yards PERI He's proven he's exceptional in the passing game. He was RB two the first four weeks with Gordon out. He's still RB seven since Gordon has been playing. His seventy three receptions for eight hundred thirty yards and eight touchdowns at receiver alone would put him at wide receiver thirteen,

not not coming his running back numbers. That's wide receiver. With his receiving numbers, I say yes, all right, Christian, Yeah, I agree to to pile onto the receiving numbers is eight receiving touchdowns are as many as Mike Evans and a Marii Cooper and more than DeAndre Hopkins and Michael Thomas. So that's the rarefied air he's in. Just with his receiving. We know Gordon is not coming back next year to

San Diego, right that that he'll be. So you look at next year, you're you've got These are the These are the ones I wrote down within the top ten Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Derrick Henry, Aaron Jones, Ezekiel Elliott, Leonard forn At, Alvin Kamara, Josh Jacobs, Nick Chubb. Somewhere in the four net Jones area here at like five or six is where I start to think about Austin Ekeler for next year. So yes, absolutely, I think he's a top ten back next year. He's a top five

back next year, could be. I think there's only four guys that right now I can safely say I believe I will have ahead of Austin Ekeler in my preseason cheat sheet, Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook and The thing about Derrick Henry is he doesn't catch anything. You know, in pure PPR leagues, he might not be in the top five. And then say Kwon Barkley, I'll grant those four ahead

of Austin Ekeler. I think everybody else is up for debate based on what Zeke has done this year, based on I like what Josh Jacobs has done, but I don't know that he's inside there. Chubb modern four net. I think it's Heckler top five. I really not that

top of a question either. I should have written a harder I should have asked if he's the top five, maybe a top seven road questions tough question making it up here two weeks ago I asked it for shot Penny was going to be this year's Ron Dane and out of the blue player who powers teams through the playoffs? Is that player actually where he mostered Christian Ultimately, I'm gonna say no. Here. Uh it sure looks promising for

him over the last couple of games. He he has emerged as the number one back in that backfield, But Tevin Coleman and Matt Brada are still involved. And what I came well and I looked at the next couple of matchups Atlanta this week. They're not quite as bad as you think. Against the run. They allow about four yards per carry, ten running back touchdowns all year, the Rams in Week sixteen, they're pretty similar, so the matchups

are not cupcake matchups. And then I looked back and it felt like through various times throughout this year, we could have said the same thing about Tevin Coleman, like Tevin Coleman has grabbed this backfield, he's you know, after he had a couple of big games, or Matt Brada early in the year had a couple of streaks just like that. But in invitably, Kyle Shanahan just goes with

the hot hand. So I think that the the idea that there's potential that one of these other guys could get the hot hand in one of the next two weeks means most Dirt is the guy that I would bet on, but I don't think he's going to be That makes sense, I know, is the answer? Okay, Scott, I'll make it short and easy for is Raheem mostered this year's Ron Dane. I like that you had to rephrase the question after they've been a while so I

want to refresh people's memory question, I'm gonna go with yes. Uh. Among running backs with at least a hundred touches, he's top three in yards per carry, the yards per reception, and obviously yards per touch. He's hyper efficient, averaging six to seven yards per for each of those. Uh. If the continue to feature him, which I think they will, because he mentioned rising right in the hot hand, no

one's hotter right now for that backfield. Uh, it doesn't matter who the match until the next games can drive on anyone. So I don't even care who the matchup is. I think it's more about usage, and I think he gets it. Um last week, first round of the playoffs, two touchdowns d nine yards for he mostered. So we'll check one of our three weeks right. To be the Ron Dane of the playoffs, you need to be able to to house three games. That one we got one.

One's already in the bank. The past two weeks, he's gotten seventy of the snaps and the snaps that's more than anyone any other running back has had in consecutive weeks. There is a shift happening with Kyle Shanahan where he just can't take Whee Moasted off the field. This week, he's inside my top ten in my rankings at running back. It's a it's he's got an A grade for me. Against Atlanta next week, it's a tougher matchup with the Rams.

But to Scott's point, he's really good and this team still runs the ball the second most of any team in the NFL, so he's going to get his work. He's averaging six yards per carry over the last three games. He's every seven and a half yards per carry. Where he mostard is. In fact, here's Ron Dane, just with a different jersey. That's all it is. And also he's functional. There really isn't. There's only one Ron Dame rolling down

the field. We're gonna work in a matchup maybe two into this segment, beginning with Minnesota taking on the Los Angeles Chargers. I want to start with Dalvin Cook here. He's still scoring touchdowns, which is great, but he hasn't topped four yards per carry in five straight games. He hasn't had a run go longer than nine yards in three weeks. Dalvin Cook, what happened after a shaky start to the season. The Chargers run defense has been great

over the last month. They locked down Leo Fournette, Philip Lindsay, Aaron Jones. There is a chance Alexander Madison does not play in this game. In fact, I think it's a probability that he does not play in this game. So that had an extra five, maybe more touches to Dalvin Cook's total. So I've just gotta be great and Dalvin Cook, I am a little bit nervous about him here now, Adam Theland is expected back, Let's talk about the effect there now. He said he would not return unless he

was on, So I'm gonna presume he's one. If he's playing, he's completely He's off the injury port, right, So I don't should not have to sweat him having a relapse here. I better not sweat rust getting kicked off. I hope not. In the six full game steal And has played this year, he has scored six times. He's got a difficult matchup in the slot against cornerback Desmond King. King is very very fast, but he doesn't have precision footwork. He can just be and he does periodically give up some cushion

which he makes up with his speed. But I think there's an opportunity for Theland here. That said, do they immediately go back to the full workload for Theland in his first game back. I don't know. So I just got the Sea great and Adam Theland. I'm nervous about it. Let's go to Stefan Diggs. He gets a bad matchup with Casey Hayward, one of the best cornerbacks in the league.

That's generally a death sentence for most receivers. In recent weeks, Hayward is neutralized Tyree Hill, Tyrone Williams, Davante Adams, and Allen Robinson. Those are some good receivers. Hayward has allowed forty five yards or less in his coverage in every game but one. Only court in Sutland. Sutton all year long has hit him hard, who had a two touchdown game against him. That's it now the upside for Diggs, though, His two best performances of the year came against very

good cornerbacks Chris Harris and Darius Slay. So yeah, maybe maybe there's something here for Diggs. But I've just got to see grade on him. And if I've got Sea grades on Diggs and Theland, you can imagine I've got to see Grade and Kirk Cousins with this secondary which now has its safeties back there when James and Adrian

Phillips Chargers just playing looked very tough. And the last three quarterbacks to face the Chargers have thrown for one hundred sixty two yards, one hundred thirty four yards and one two yards. That's it. So just the C grade on Kirk Cousins in this game and staying with the past offense. Uh, Kyle Rudolph's on the bench because he

was invisible before Adam Feelan's injury. So assuming Theeeland does in fact come back as expected, I gotta worry that that Kyle Rudolph goes back to being invisible like he was before. So that's uh. That wraps up the Viking side. Let's talk about the Chargers side. Earlier we heard is talking about our my our collective love of Austin Ekeler. He's got an A grade in this one. He was supposed to wither and die once Melvin Gordon came back.

That didn't work out at all. He's been great basically in every game Turkey match up here in this respect, though no back has caught more than four balls against Minnesota, and only one is top thirty four receiving yards against the Vikings. They've been arguably the NFL's best defense against past catching backs. Minnesota's run defense notably worse on the ground. They're giving up one hundred eleven rushing yards in road games. So maybe echo chips in you know some good decent

percentage of help on the ground as well. And I've still got an A grade on Austin Neckliks. He seems to be good every week. Melvin Gordon just the B grade. As mentioned, Vikings are worse on the ground on the road. They're big rushing games the Vikings have allowed have all been on the road. Aaron Jones on the road, Damian Williams on the road, the Seattle Seahawks backs on the road, all with big games against the Vikings and about the

only ones with big games against the Vikings. And Melvin Gordon rock solid lately over his past five games, averaging twenty touches for a hundred five yards and almost a touchdown per game. Let's go to the passing offense. Philip Rivers gets a B grade. He toyed with the Jacksonville Secondary last week, posting his best fantasy game of the year. Now the Vikings should offer another strong game for Rivers. The only the touchdown resistant Redskins have failed to throw

a passing touchdown against Minnesota. And I like his wide receivers matchups, and let's talk about them right now. Keenan Allen, with a B grade, has scored twice in his last three games. He's got a seventy four yard average over those three games, and I think he gets about that against the sagging Vikings secondary over the last five weeks, they've surrendered the fifth most fantasy points to wide receivers.

Allen lines up against Mackenzie Alexander in the slot, who yielded has yielded two scores in his last four games, and the Vikings have given up big games to other slot receivers like Danny Amondola and Tyreek Hill and Randall cop So be great for Keenan Allen and lastly, well actually second second to lastly, uh Mike Williams penultimately, penultimately Mike Williams, who will face cornerback Trey Wayne's in coverage,

whos yielded four scores in his last seven starts. Williams also has four inches and thirty pounds on waynes, which is an advantage. As always, Mike Williams is always a boom or bust guy. So we're back to Lamar Jackson card. You could play him if you're if you're playing against Lamar Jackson and hope that this is one of the boom games for Mike Williams. Hunter Henry's You're gonna start every week anyway, but a B grade here. I'll note the Vikings have given up a lot of receptions and

yards to running backs, but only one touchdown all year. Um, let's let's take a break. When when we come back, I want to talk about the Jacksonville Oakland match up. Leonard four has been a factor, to say, one of the really big game. Stream can we get a rare touchdown? You'll find out. Also, you can play the Crush Charch Championship for free at fanball dot com. When you assemble a better salary cap ross to the mind, you get a shot at this week's prize pool of one thousand dollars,

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play super flex salary cap at fanball dot com? Was that the time machine that one? It's good to have the time machine back. We haven't had it since premature speculation. Way, um, you can play super flex salary cap at fanball dot com. If you love starting two quarterbacks, go to famble dot com. Uh, Jacksonville takes on Oakland Scott and no DJ Chark in this game. What do you think about the other receivers

for the Jaguars? Sure, I'll start with their leading receiver Leo Fournette, who has sixty eight receptions, one more than DJ Chark on the season, unbelievable nine in the NFL and receptions at all positions. Yeah, yeah, it's inside. I never saw that coming. But I also didn't see him playing fourteen straight games. Yeah, I have an a grade on four Nette because he's healthy. We thought being the preseason Bell cow. He if he stays healthy, he's a

three touch a game guy. Now he gets a defense in the Oakland Raiders, who have allowed five running back touchdowns in just the last two weeks. You've teased it before the break. Maybe he gets that elusive touchdown. That would be nice. A grade for Leonard Fournette in the passing game without Shark. I love D D Westbrook this week. I have a B grade on him. He's getting a juicy matchup with Marcus Joyner in the slot. He's averaging nearly seven catches per game over the last three and

DJ Chark's eight targets per game. They're available. Yeah, for sure, D you can get some of those. Uh. What do you think of Chris Connley. You're the Chris Connley expert in the I am the Chris Connley expert. We have correctly predicted all five times you should play Chris Connley. You gotta pick your spots. This is one of them. This is one of them. Now Bradbury will not bother to take Chris Conley. That gives him the easiest matchup on the field. Connley is all about the cheap, deep

speed and that's a possibility here. I like, I like the prospects of of of a decent game here. Uh for Chris Conley, So I'm gonna give him a C grade, starting C grade. Think he's my thirty four ranked wide receiver this week. Very nice, very nice. He's the kind of guy you recommend for someone going up against Lamar Jackson. Perhaps I don't know that he's I don't think he's got like a two touchdown hundre yard game. Conley Connolly's

floor is like underground. His floor is so extremely problem now. Robby Anderson was built a little bit like him. Against Oakland to three games ago, had a very big game. So maybe there's you know, there might be a little something. That's a lot of Chris Conney talk. That's a lot that's too much. Gardner Minshew. Raiders are bottom six against every position in Fantasy this year. So that's good for

four net. That's good for the passing game. Minshew has failed to throw for more than two fifteen yards and five of his nine complete games, but he's got some opportunity here, as Ryan Finley is the only QB to fail to throw a touchdown pass against the Raiders nine of the ten had multiple touchdowns, so I like Minshew with a B. Here. On the other side, Jacobs, I'm giving an if he goes because he's just in a

smash spot. As you mentioned with your take a Chance on me, player Washington can even be really decent in this matchup. Even if Jacobs goes. H the Jags have allowed five backs. Well, you mentioned it in the take up. I don't need to go over it. The passing game, I don't love it, though I'm starting. I'm starting Waller. I'm giving him a B grade because the Jags are giving up tight end touchdowns left and right, including two last week. But the other guys know. The Jags are

allowing the fourth fewest passing the attempts. Car has only thrown more than thirty four passing attempts once this year. Um, I expect a low volume, lots of running games, so the rest of the passing games on the bench. Yeah, i'd watched Moreau's gonna steal a time. Moreau has five touchdowns on the season. Waller has two. I believe the top of my head, guess right, I'm pretty sure that's

I bet that's very close. Cleveland takes on Arizona. Christian already talked about Baker Mayfields might take a chance on the quarterback. I in in that discussion earlier, I mentioned the great matchups, and I think he's got all around the field. This is your chance to elucidate those matchups. Yeah, well, I mean you you mentioned Jarvis Landry in particular against slot receivers against Arizona, it's pretty ridiculous. I mean, any slot receiver you can go back at look at their

game log. They've all erupted against them. Tyler Boy a hundred twenty three yards in a touchdown, Chris Godwin six for seventy four, Cooper Cup sixty five yards and a touchdown. Michael Thomas spends quite a bit of time in the slot, a hundred and twelve yards in a touchdown. I've got an a grade on Jarvis Landry here in this matchup, specifically out of the slot. Odell Beckham Junior is a little bit of a tougher call here. Well or maybe not.

He might just he might just be a bench I gave him a sea level starting grade, but things have not gone well for him. We learned, of course, a week ago that it's he's been battling through an injury, so maybe that explains part of it. He'll drop Patrick Peterson in this matchup, who hasn't been the Patrick Peterson of old. But I don't know how you trust Odell Beckham at this point, even even in a cupcake matchup against a bad secondary. So right just to sea level

starting rate on him. Of course, we all know by this point that whatever tight end you have facing the Cardinals is in the lineup, So that brings David to Joko into focus here. I gave him just a B level grade because he'd been on i R all year until last week, but I was turned and did almost nothing right. But that was not the rustoff game for David and Joko. This is gonna be the rustless game for David. I think you're right. I think you gotta put him. You gotta put him in your line up.

The massive matchup can't possibly get any better. So I gave him a B grade, maybe maybe even an A. Here and the Russian game, Nick Chubb just to be now because he's giving up too much, too much attention to Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt has stolen three touchdowns in the last three weeks. He's taking all the receptions. So Chubb is gonna get fifteen to twenty carries and probably close to a hundred yards, but the receptions are not going to be there. The touchdown may not be there.

So just to b for Chubb Kareem Hunt, I gave a C grade. He's in the ten twelve touch range and he needs so he kind of needs the touchdown in order to be relevant. He's been getting the touchdown he's been getting. Let's call it a B. Let's call it a B and and the matchup is Arizona is not nearly as bad against the run as they are against the past, but they're nothing special. So bs to both members of the of the backfield. There on the

Cardinals side, Kyler Murray has been really struggling. Just a hundred and nine passing yards are less in three straight games. He's stayed afloat with rushing rushing scores and two of the last three. That's a good thing against Cleveland because they've yielded three rushing touchdowns this year. There's their secondary is pretty decent though, so it's it's gonna be another limited day in the passing games, so you're gonna need to count on that rushing touchdown. I have a B

grade on Murray. Christian Kirk is just barely in here with a C grade. Heavily targeted but doing nothing with those. He scored in only one game all year, despite eight eight and a half targets per game over the last month. So he's going to get the attention, just I, just I can't count on him to do much with it. Larry Fitzgerald hasn't top fifty six yards since weeks six and just one touchdown in that span, so he's on the bench. Scott No, alright, Uh, let's move to the

running game. Kenyan Drake has taken over this backfield fourteen touches last week to just five for David Johnson, but he hasn't scored since Week nine. The Browns just gave up a hundred and eighty six combined rushing and receiving yards to Joe Mixon last week, so there is some upside here, but you never know, you know, they could turn back to David Johnson at any time because Drake really hasn't been that good. He's getting the touches and

David Johnson is on your bench. Yeah, receiving touchdown last week, but just eleven touches in the last two games. He's on the bench alright. Final matchup of the segment Rams taking on the Cowboys with twenty touches and back to back games. Look who's turned into a ball cow it's Todd Gurley. Now. They were saving Gurley for the end of the year. Well they're trying to make the playoffs in December. They're not in. They gotta use him now.

And that's exactly what Sean McVeigh is doing. They used him so lightly all seasons so they could use them and they had to have him at the end of the year. They've got to have him now, so I think he continues to have a lot of carries. Tough matchup though, Dallas has allowed just four scores and no one hundred yard games to opposing backs in their last half season of games last eight only four scores and

no one hundred yard games. Now, if Layton vander Esh misses his fourth consecutive game, I like him a lot more, and you know we he's I've got a B grade on him right now. I'll move Todd Gurley to an A grade. If Layton vander Esh is out, let's talk about the passing game. Jared Goff go a B grade here. He's playing the best ball of his season, and I think that's in part because Todd Gurley is getting a

lot of work. They're back to the formula that has proven successful for Jared Goff in the past, which is, frankly, keep being the ball in Todd Gurley's hands as much as possible. Now, Golf looks strong, he looks confident. He's had two touchdowns and back to back games, which for him is very good. He's got some decent matchups out there. Cooper Cup faces off. It's Jordan Lewis who's allowed touchdowns in consecutive games. I like that part, and Cooper Cup

gets a B grade in this game. Now he the worry on Cup has He only played ont of the snaps last week and I have no idea why his snapcount would have been so low. But over the last five games, Cup is averaging four catches forty yards per game. Those aren't great numbers either. It's a favorable matchup against Lewis, who I mentioned. Cole Beasley just put up a good game on him a couple of weeks ago. So it's a B grade. On Cooper Cup B grade and Robert Woods,

who's surging lately. Over the last four games, He's got at least six catches and ninety five yards. He's averaging nearly twelve targets per game. Woods may be able to keep his hot streak intact against the Cowboys secondary that over the last four games has allowed seven receiver scores and Brandon Cooks totally dead. To us. It's a remarkable

fall for Brandon Cooks. The concussions is one topic. But how you can be back for three weeks and get thrown to like once a game after that, I don't understand. So Brandon Cooks, he's not even star to most leagues at this point. Let's go to the Dallas side. Dak Prescott gets a C grade. The best thing going for Dak Prescott and this one is volume, and he's thrown the ball forty six times or more in four of

the past five games. But since the Jalen Ramsey trade, the Rams secondary has been excellent, allowing just two twenty three yards per game, just one point three touchdowns per game. That's it. And if you throw out Lamar Jackson's insane game, the Rams are down to allowing just a zero point

six passing touchdowns in the Ramsey era. Those are very, very daunting numbers for Dak Prescott and that's why he's only a seat and that's why Amari Cooper is just to be He's posted over eight yards and back to back games despite his knee injury, and he's had difficult matchups against Tradavious White and Kyle Fuller. Uh. Now Cooper

Cooper's gotta deal with Jalen Ramsey. Uh. He's averaging less than thirty yards per game in his coverage, hasn't given up a touchdown since the trade to l A. So just to be grade on Cooper, and honestly, I could we could call him a C grade. Really, Michael Gallop

also a B grade. In the flast four games, Gallops actually outproducing Amari Cooper, averaging ninety four yards and nine targets per game, in part because Cooper keeps drawing these great number one cornerbacks in the path of least resistance. Is just playing through Gallop. We could see, we could see it go that way here, and I think Gallop is is potentially the more startable of the two of them, and a B grade on Michael Gallop. That only leaves

us with Ezekiel Elliott B grade. He's almost always finds his way to a good game. Um, he's had just one done all year. But this matchup is incredibly tricky and I do not see explosive output coming for him against the Rams. Only one back is top seventy six yards since way back in Week five against l A. The Rams have allowed one rushing touchdown since Week six. Zeke usually salvages his floor a little bit through his receiving work, but the Rams having allowed of back the

top thirty five receiving yards since the opener. You know, and not only that, but there is some quit to these cowboys. Just as an intangible aside for all of these cowboys, there's some quit to this team. And I have some worried that this thing could be a great a dud and the Rams could roll this team just

like they did last week. I could do We'll take a break, final break of the show on our final set of matchups, and that includes the Monday nighter Indianapolis coming up against New Orleans will tell you what to do with all of your Saints that if you dare start um uh Alvin Kamara. What a disaster season it's been. If you've still hobbled your way into the semifinals, can you start Alvin Kamara here? We'll tell you in our final set of matchups in Fantasy Football Weekly, coming up

next final thing in Fantasy Football Weekly. Got plenty of matchups to get to, including the Sunday Night er and the Monday night here. But first Atlanta taking on San Francisco Scott last week at this time, and take a chance. I mean we told you to start DeVonta Freeman. We called his first rushing touchdown in two years. How about that? We got it right? Pretty impressive? Any chance he makes it two in a row for rushing touchdowns for DeVonta

Freeman here against the Niners. I don't think so. Against the forty Niners. Over the last five weeks, teams are running the ball fewer than fifteen total times per game against uh. They've also only allowed three running back touchdowns all year. I think this is a game where Atlanta falls behind and they let Ryan throw it forty plus times with a feat he's done most of his games. Seven of his ten full games, he's thrown it over forty times. I think this is another one, by the way,

DeVonta Freeman three point six yards per Gary. I think he's done. Yeah, he might be done. Matt Ryan, though, man super crazy consistent year for him. He's played ten full complete games, ten fall games. He has gone for three d plus yards, and nine of them the one he didn't he threw from multiple scores. In fact, he had multiple scores in eight of the ten fall games. Yeah, the most passing yards the point I have allowed at

home is two D thirty two yards um. But in the last ten games, only one QB has hit three hundred and only three have had multiple touchdowns. So that's the bad side on Ryan. That's his floor. Like I said, I think he throws at forty times plus times, which he's been doing a lot this season, so I still give him a buh. Julio Jones, I'm given a b. I think he'll see added coverage, but Ryan will still

keep chucking him the ball. The last three wide receivers to get double digit targets, which I think Julio gets, averaged eight catches and all three had at least seventy yards are scored. I think that's well within the range for Julio here, and we should mention Richard Sherman. There's a good chance he does not play this hamstring injury.

That's a huge loss pass rusher d Ford. We don't know if he's gonna go another cornerback Jan Alexander's run Williams Kwan Williams is yeah, I don't have they actually ruled him out already. It's got that he's trying to work through the concussion protocols. Maybe maybe there's all kinds of moving parts in the San Francisco defense that does give Matt Ryan and Julio Jones an opportunity even with

Calvin Ridley out. Yep, So Rustler Gauge. I'm a fan of Rustler Gauge, but his yards per catchers so low that if he doesn't score, he's nothing. And with Hooper probably back here, I'm giving I'm giving Hooper the grade. Engauge is sitting on my bench. I'm giving Hooper a grade because he was a stud before the injury, and since Week ten, four different tight ends have scored a total of five touchdowns and three top fifty yards against

the forty niners. On the other side, Jimmy Garoppolo, Uh, he's still efficiently has multiple touchdowns in five of his last seven in the in that span, and this is crazy. In that span, he has averaging twun in seventy five yards per It's really weird, but that lines up perfectly when Emmanuel Sanders joined the funny how that goes. Yes, it's just crazy. Before that he was averaging two yards per game and at six touchdowns in six games. Only

one QB since the Falcons Week nine. By his thrown from multiple touchdowns against the Falcons, however, four or six did throw for two, seven or more. They may not lean to need to lean on Garoppolo as much this week, so I'm giving him a B grade instead of an A. You know, I think there's a temptation for most of us to think that a great quarterback should be able to instill greatness in his receivers, and we never think

about it the other way around. Like you can put Emmanuel Sanders on the forty niners and suddenly Jimmy Garoppolo goes from a middling fantasy producer into a very good one and a pretty reliable one, and that's really what's happened. You know, you can only do so much when your receiver stink. Look at Carson Wentz so I think it's still a very good quarterback and just there's just no help with the receiver position. There is a great point. It was a great trade for the Niners. Think about that.

He had six touchdowns in the first six games and eighteen in the last seven since Sanders amazing change. Uh, they may not. Emmanuel Sanders two straight games leading the team and targets back to full health. I gotta B grade on him. I did my take a chance on mean player with Deebo Samuel. I think this offense is going to roll pretty well. Kittle is an obvious A grade. It's not just obvious, but it's a good matchup. Most of it. We've talked about most of a lot here.

He must start. I don't think i'll go through the stats again, except for eleven backs have eleven backs have had fifteen touches against the Falcons. They averaged nine yards, and eleven of the are in eleven scores. All right, we'll take that. That's the yards in a score. He's Churches number one running back each of the next two weeks. Uh. Yeah, so most of it's gonna hit that fifteen touches. I love him in this game, and you can't start any of the other runners all they're all just sort of

makes a little bit. The Sunday night game is Buffalo taking on Pittsburgh Christian. You know, it's in a nice run for Josh Allen. While he was playing a bunch of really easy defenses, this is not one of them. And for all of the talk about Mike Tomlin winning Coach of the Year, which I think it's it's it's correct to have him in that conversation, most of its centers on him making do with a fourth string quarterback. But the real story is the Pittsburgh defense that's been

winning all these games. Yeah, that's right, I mean, and a bummer for the Josh Allen fantasy owners that were riding high with him all year long, only for him to fall flat last week with that hundred and forty six yards in one touchdown. And you mentioned it's not going to get any easier here against Pittsburgh, a top ten past defense that's held eight of the last ten quarterbacks they've faced under two hundred passing yards. They lead

the NFL with forty eight sacks. So I've got a just a barely sea level starting grade on Josh Allen here, and that's really only because of the threat that he poses on the ground. He's always a threat for a rushing touchdown. But you almost certainly have a better option than Josh Allen this week. I've got John Brown on the bench. He hasn't caught more than three passes in the last three games held under forty yards and each

one of those. Only one wide receiver has topped a hundred yards against the Steelers all year, and only three have registered more than six catches. So Brown is on the bench. Cole Beasley, I think is the one way they're gonna be able to move the ball through the air here. He was might take a chance on me wide receiver. Nothing to see at tight end with Dawson Knox. He is not fantasy relevant on the ground. Devin Singletary, he has really emerged here. He's been the running back

sixteen nine and thirteen in the last three weeks. He's playing over seventy of the snaps. He's put Frank Gore in the rear view mirror. Pittsburgh is pretty solid against the run, though they've held opposing running back to three point nine yards per carry. They're having a lot of rushing touchdown since Week five. Scott, you want an interesting stat I'm a boy, Devin singletony. Absolutely, he leads the NFL in a rate of runs over ten yards and

over twenty yards. So the percentage over all, right, I've got to be level starting grade on Singletary, just because it is a tough matchup on the Steelers side. Man, I searched hie and wide for a starter in the passing game, and I couldn't find one duck hot on the bench. He's an easy bench. Juju Smith Schuster is officially out with that knee injury. Still, James Washington, Deonte Johnson, don't chase what he did last week in a very

tough matchup. Only one wide receiver is top two hundred yards against the Bills this year, and only six have scored. The entire passing game is on the bench. That brings us to the running game, where James Conner is expected to return. This is a tricky start for owners right here. It kind of is because you don't know exactly how much run they're gonna give him. You can run on the Bills, however, they allow nearly four point six yards per carry, however, kind of a bend but don't break style.

They've yielded just one running back touchdown in their last six games. Again, you would think Connor is going to be the bell cow here because Benny Snell has been pretty bad over the last couple of games. Jalen Samuel's is injured. But can you make can you really make James Conner a bell cow anymore? Well, I mean by that, I mean he's probably you know, he gets twelve to fifteen Russias and then is highly involved in the receiving game. That's been the formula for him when he's had his

big games this year. It has, but those are the games he gets hurt in. That's the problem. I just don't know that the Steelers can. They've got to know by now that James Conner just isn't a workhorse. He just can't hold up to be. I mean, he's he's all they've got to move the ball. So I'm sure they're attempted to give it to him twenty plus times, but like you mentioned, you just you just can't trust him to stay healthy with that kind of workload. I've

got to be starting grade on here again. Just because I think he's going to be the only show in town. It's the only way they're gonna be able to move the ball. Alright. The Monday night game is Indianapolis taking on New Orleans. There's not a lot to talk about on the Indie side. Frankly, let's start with the running game. Marlon Mack just gets a c um. The good news is over the last three games, the Saints have allowed one forty six total yards and one point three touchdowns

per game. To oppose a unning backs, I would take hundred forty six yards and one point three touchdowns from Marla Max. The problem is Marlon Max and I gonna get all that work. In fact, he probably won't get even a fraction of that work. Last week he was on the field of the snaps. That's it. Jordan Wilkins and nineteen Hines and Jonathan Williams just pick at his usage to the point that I think Mac is just a C grade start here next. Jack Doyle is the

only other starter starting grade here. He bombed last week in an easy matchup. He's a boom er bust option this week because the Saints have conceded the third most red zone touches to tight ends, and they've surrendered three tight end touchdowns over the past five weeks alone, So I like Jack Doyle to bounce back with a B grade in this game. Jacoby Brissette though an early season Cinderella, remember at one point like Week six, for the most

passing touchdowns in the NFL. Then Hilton got hurt and he has been brutal since then, to the point that Colts don't even know that he's going to be their starter next year. This thing is very much up in the air. Uh. Total he was if he was a Cinderella earlier, He's a pumpkin now. Um. No t Y Hilton in this game either, so he's not startable. Zach Pascal was a start last week in a very easy matchup. This isn't one of them. He probably draws Marshall Latimer

game over for Zach Pascal. Let's go to the Saint side first. A quick a quick uh discussion of Alvin Kamara went off the board at position roughly two or three, depending on what part of the season you're looking at in fantasy drafts in August. In how many games has Alvin Kamara scored a touchdown on one game in how many games has he had a one yard receiving game zero? Zero? And how many games has Alvin Kamara had a one

hundred yard rushing game zero? Last week, the Saints put up forty six points four hundred sixty five yards of offense. They generated twenty eight first downs and scored six touchdowns, and Alvin Kamara had twenty five rushing yards and eighteen receiving yards total. Disaster injury related p F did some nice analysis on his elusiveness and acceleration before and after the high ankle sprain. He's not the same guy, you know. That's just what his game was, and the ankle sprain

has sapped that from him. They brought him back too soon, I believe, and he should arrest it longer. So Alvin Camara just gets a c greight here. Indianapolis has allowed the third fewest touchdowns to opposing backs, just four to non Derrick Henry named runners all season. Uh. Camara probably doesn't help through the air either, Colts having allowed to receiving touchdown to a runner since the opener and only two backs of top thirty four receiving yards since that time.

So just to see great and Camaron, And honestly, it's out of respect for his resume more than anything else. I mean, if I took the name off of his stats and box scred probably be somebody. It'd probably a bench grade Patrick Paty, probably Patrick Layard. Yeah, good point. All right, let's go and by the way, let Tavius Murray's on the bench just four to ten touches his touches per game. That's not enough. Let's go to Drew Brees.

Aside from his inexplicable duds against the Falcons, Breeze has been great over the last five games, producing three downright explosive box scores. The cold secondary is a middle of the pack unit that has struggled with good receivers including Chris Godwin and d J. Chark and DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller. The funny thing is, aside from Michael Thomas, how are these explosive games even happening? Who else is

even throwing too? Right? It's just this mismatch of randomly Josh Hill today, and then it's a and that right, then it's a trade Kuan Smith, and you know it's it's so much Michael Thomas. Then there is no real number two receiving threading used to be Alvin Camarat, it's not even him anymore. So Michael Thomas and obvious a and actually Pierre to Sayer's back, and he's been brutal subtraction. By addition, Michael Thomas is gonna have a fine game here.

The only other receiver I can give a starting grade two is Jared Cook, who has now scored or topped five yards in four straight games. If Cook can play, and by the way, he's in the concussion protocol here, but I think he's gonna go. He draws an average match up against the Colts, who have only allowed two tight end touchdown since Week five. But one of those scores did come last week when Tampa's tight ends combined for one hundred yards and a touchdown. So Jared Cook

could get it done here. Dropped a touchdown last week, which would have made a big game even bigger. I believe a couple of topics for you guys at the end. Earlier in the show, we talked about how Lamar Jackson we believe is going to go first overall pick next year. What about this for the second overall pick and if it kills you with the notion that a running back didn't go number one. This will kill you double Michael Thomas.

Why not Michael Thomas second overall? Because he is so much better than every other wide fantasy wide receiver out there. He's gonna break Marvin Harrison's reception record this year. Yes, and most of us playing PPR leagues, and I think more so than anything else, he's he has the rare combination of an incredibly high ceiling and a ridiculously high floor. He he's as safe as a pick as you can possibly make, and you don't but you don't sacrifice any

of the anything. Yeah, you know, the guy that people will take if they don't take him number one, that they will at number two is Christian McCaffrey because his season has just been ridiculous and he's leaps and bounds better than any other running back. But we just talked about Alvin Kamara, and you know Ezekiel Elliott has had a bad year Like those are those are the problems with these with the running backs that you you know, you've been talking about it for decades, Charch. There's so

much risk with those running backs. You take that mostly out of the equation with a guy like Michael Thomas who gets so many targets, so many receptions. Assuming Drew Brees is back again next year, I agree he should be in the mix at second overall, I'd have to check, but I do believe the gap between McCaffrey and the number two running back is wider than Thomas and the number two wide receiver. But it's running back, and I don't know how you feel. It's not even obviously the

number two receiver is next. That's true. I mean, you know, it's that the gap is so big that I can't tell you for sure that it's you know, DeAndre Hopkins's going to be the number two next year. Uh, so you know Chris Godwin, well maybe yeah, we don't know. I don't even know if Jameis Winston is gonna be on the box next Year's totally up in the air. Plenty of questions around those guys as we look ahead

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