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football Festivus is not Week sixteen Christmas week. It's uh, it's week one. Right. You know was celebrating, right? Did you say? Righting me ow? Yes? Good. I don't understand the reference set an old sign field reference. I don't know. Super troopers haven't seen it. Okay. Over the course to today, we're going to break down every game fantasy style. We're in regular season mode. Finally, that means we're not gonna

bother telling you which teams going to win. We're gonna tell you which players are gonna help your fantasy team win. You'll hear letter grades for every meaningful fantasy player and irrationale for why we feel that way. We will also answer three tough questions. We'll give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance, and we'll jump into a time machine to identify the players everybody's going to be looking for on the waiver wire next week, but

you've already picked him up this week. Blam. Oh, we should name it like the time machine, the time machine, uh segment or something. We should come to some time machine thing for this speculation. It's called premature speculator. We can't be better than that name. I forget it, No, I was, I was unclear at what you were thinking here. Okay, good, let's become We get with just some quick reaction to the Thursday night game, and we'll touch on it on

and off a little bit throughout the show. But mostly I want to talk about the disappointment that I have in the usage of David mc humery. I thought was looked, I thought looked really good on all seven of his touches. Super frustrating. Do you guys believe that this is going to be indicative of the way Montgomery is going to be used long term? Well, the offense didn't do a

very good job for Chicago. That's just so uh. They might have to make some changes here, although it was interesting hearing Al Michael's and Chris collins Worth talking about Mike Davis and how he's the best route runner of all the running backs on the team and they got Tariko in there, So what's like, Mike Davis obviously has a role in this offense and that makes me a little nervous. Took like forty snaps in the slot. Yeah

he did. Yeah, that was a lot of Cohen's usage, didn't you know he wasn't on the field in place of Montgomery so much it was all Mike Davis. And even if say Montgomery was on the field the whole game with Mitch truebiscus your quarterback who cares sad and they're not moving the ball and regardless of the running back. Yeah, no, kidding, that's a that's a lost opportunity. For sure. We will touch on some other aspect to that game as they

may come up with the charts. I wanted to mention similar to if there's a Thursday game where a guy goes off and you're chasing points. This is the rare opposite where if you had Davante Adams or if you had Aaron Rodgers, or you had some of those guys that you expected big numbers out of. These guys just didn't deliver. So now you might have to adjust some of your fantasy UH lineups to try to score more points. You might need a few more home run hitters if

you got some zeros, and that's a great point. You might need to go high risk, high reward if if you want to try to make up for that for any Bears losses that you had. And for that matter, the Packers didn't do much either, so you know, Aaron Jones huge disappointment as well. All right, let's jump into the matchups, beginning with the Rams taking on the Carolina Panthers. Matt, this is uh, this is a game with about ten starters in it, most all of the obvious Rams. Why

don't we Why don't we begin there? And the Rams? I do want to start with the Rams because I'm downgrading the entire Rams offense a full letter grade for two reasons. Not one starter played a snap in the preseason. There's going to be rusted there. Yeah, there was last year. Do you remember that first half of Week one of last year? They played the Raiders and and just kind

of scuffled around uh second. The Rams lost guard Roger Saffold and center John Sullivan this offseason noted a lineman Joseph note Boom and Brian Allen are now anchoring the center of that line. They have a combined on career offensive snaps and those two lineman face a pretty tough task this week against Carolina line including Gerald McCoy and Brian Burns as good additions to that front. Seven. So Jared Goff, I'm giving a C grade and I know

you have him ranked really high. So here's the reason people are starting to compare Jared Goff to Drew Brees as Goff has the big contract, he's tied to Sean McVeigh for years, and Goff might be the new Drew Brees because Goff's passer rating goes from one sixteen at home to eighty two point seven on the road, and last year in five outdoor road games, he averaged two d twenty seven passing yards, one touchdown and one point

four interceptions. He was bad on the road. They leaned on Todd Gurley all the time and he didn't play like huge, awesome, awesome defenses either. It was the Raiders the Seahawks and the forty Niners involved in those three and three of those five. So there we go. Brandon Cooks, I'm giving him a B grade. Cooper Cups getting like C plus. I know we don't do pluses, but we don't do Roberts. I'm only giving up grade too as well.

Ron Rivera's Tanther's defense ran zone coverage at the seventh highest rate last year, and according to Evans Silva, Brandon Cooks has the fourth highest yards per target against zone coverage. The Panthers allowed the fifth most passing touchdowns last season, and it was perimeter speed receivers that burned them the most. It was Beckham, al Shan, Golladay, Ridley Godwin. They all

torched that secondary for big fantasy plays. And actually like Cup the most out of these guys on Fanball this week because he's only because the Anthers haven't settled in on a slot corner yet and it's gonna be some combo of Ross, Cockrell and j V and Elliott. Woods. Only has a question, Cup, though, is to me all about snap? Is you gonna run ten plates? Is he gonna run twenty? I bet he goes full full boar. I bet he's in um. Woods had only three scores

in the first ten weeks last season. Then Cooper Cup got injured and they moved him to the slot. He scored four times in the last six games without Cup, saw his targets, receptions, and yards per game all tick up significantly. I'm worried the Cooper Cup back in that offense moves Robert Woods to the outside and he's not as good Todd Gurley. I'm giving a B grade to Malcolm Brown and Darryll Henderson are on the bench. Presumably this is the best shape of the season you're going

to get out if you got him. Sure, Let's consider the twelve games where Gurley was healthy last season. His six Roads starts, he averaged twenty four touches, a D and thirty five yards and two total scores per game, only a few fewer touches and yards per game, but only scored one per game at home. So they lean on him on the road. Uh, let's go to the Panthers side. Christian McCaffrey easy a due it averages almost seven receptions per game and nothing. Nothing about Jordan's scarlet

scares me. Behind him, Cam Newton, I'm giving a C grade. It's not the injury that concerns me. It's a rebuilt offensive line and Aaron Donald. Uh. It seems like a game where North Turner will probably try to scheme to get the ball out of his hands quickly, which should mean a lot of running and short passes. Running with

McCaffrey not running for cam ye hopefully not. Newton was already the thirty second ranked quarterback and average depth of target last year at seven point six and immediate games after injuries over the past three years, Newton has attempted over forty passes, both times short passes all day long. Yeah, I think this counts is coming off injury, and if it was a preseason injury, that probably counts. I think that benefits DJ more more because DJ Moore's average depth

of target was nine point six yard. Curtis Samuel was twelve point two. So More gets the B grade, Sam gets the sea. Uh. If you had the Bears or Packers land eggs, Samuel's probably your home run deep threat for the touchdown because the Rams gave up an NFC high fourteen receptions or forty yards or more last season. Yeah, although it keep to leaving back really changes that second area Ton that does help. He's gonna match up against Curtis Samuel too, and then finally Greg Olsen. He gets

a C grade. He's healthier than the second year tight end Ian Thomas, and he fits into the short passing pretty well. Another guy playing all he's healthy, play him all he's out. You don't have many chances to do that a game that will not feature nearly as many starters. Washington takes on Philadelphia, Brian and on the Washington side outside of Darius, guys, is there anybody to start? Not? Really? Well, we'll talk about guys. Speaking of playing him all he's healthy,

he bawled in that category, So rollout, guys. Uh, he said to see the line share of carries, but he's running behind a very battered O line. The Eagles did allow more than four and a half yards per carrying eighteen, but game script is not going to favor guys in this one, and Chris Thompson is set to soak up all the pass catching work and Adrian Peterson still warm enough body, so just to see for guys in his uh official debut, really um, But then the litany of

bench players case Keenum on the bench. H Thirty six year old Donald penn Is playing left tackle. Hasn't played the position in since. Next to him is Eric Flowers. How do you feel about Eric Flowers, former Giants fan? Uh? Yeah, at least let's not re visit that. So that's like the most revolving doors left side of the of an offensive line in the NFL. For the wide receivers, Paul Richardson and Terry McLaurin are on the bench. So is

Trey Quinn. I was close to giving Fishers boys see here because case Keenum has shown an affinity for his slot receivers Adam Feeling, Manny Sanders. He even made Tavon Austin fantasy relevant in tween with the Rams with over a hundred targets. But he's on the bench. Uh, and so is Jordan Reid suffered another concussion in the preseason. But he might play, but I don't. I don't want him to play. At some point. I think everybody wants him to go. Andrew lock on the bed, all right,

how about the eagle side. Let's talk about guys who matter, all right. Carson Wentz gets an as multiple touchdowns in his last three starts against Washington, um Philly might take their foot off the gas in the second half. That's the only concern with wins. He gets the A, so does Art's Zack ERTs. That is has eighty receiving yards and four of his last five against Washington, and there's basically no chance in hell anyone would bench za Urates.

So I don't know why I'm even talking about it anymore. Alshon Jeffrey gets a be popped up on the injury report with a biceps issue, but should be fine. He won't be shadowed by Josh Norman. Not like that really, ma yep and Wentz will throw multiple touchdowns in this game, and Jeffrey a likely recipient. He did go for five catches fifty nine yards in a touchdown when these teams met lately. In their last meeting late last season, DeShawn Jackson, I'm putting him on the bench, has a broken finger.

Wasn't gonna play, but I was gonna try and play. He's always a high risk, high reward, low volume homecoming and revenge game. That Jackson. Wow, thanks Matt, you took my next bullet. You're so funny over there. But yeah, if he sits, sorry, I don't care. And j j arthega white Side. I'll tell you what, Yeah, white Side, he's he would be a if Deshan Jackson doesn't go in particular, but even if he does, J j Arthega white Side would be a tantalizing dart throw. See I

never I never typed that out or right out. It's always Jaws or j j W had a little brain fart there, But yeah, Jaws would be in line for a significant run if d jack sits and Miles Sanders Jordan Howard, I'm just giving both the sea. Philly did carry the ball twenty nine times and thirty times in both meetings against Washington, but this is gonna be like a fifty fifty split. This might be a revisitation of what we saw in the Bears backfield basically on Thursday night.

So just sees for those guys and that's it. Watch Jordan Howard get twenty touches in this game. Just make everybody upside. He's going to see more worse he'll be see He'll see more carries and Sanders in this game. I wouldn't be surprised a little bit like Montgomery, you know, just coaches just are so risk averse. They just they want to go with their veterans who they know and trust.

And even if they made that draft pick and they're invested in the success of that rookie man, it takes a lot to get those guys onto the playing field in many situations really quick though. If read Sits don't play Vernon Davis either, it's an awful matchup. Philly is like top five and yeah, just don't do it. Falcons take on the Vikings. This one is a little bit tricky because the status of Stepan Diggs true game time decision coming for Stefon Diggs, and if he doesn't go,

it hurts everybody. Everybody basically drops a whole letter grade because the Vikings receivers after him. It really tails off. And in games that Stefon Diggs has missed, Adam Feeling gets twenty fewer yards, he drops down a letter grade. If they can't pass to Theeeling as well, where else they gonna go? Ola BC Johnson, No, Josh Dockson, Come on, Josh Docs, right, I mean, everybody gets hurt. So I'm going to pretend for our purposes that Diggs is playing.

But if he's not, know that everybody else goes down a letter grade here, I've got a I've got a A grade on feeling for now he's gonna see a fair amount, I believe, at least it appears this way of Isaiah Oliver cornerback with a lot of passer rating one one and his coverage last year. Oliver is one of the bigger and slower corners in the league, and Feeling,

of course super slippery. Now they may move some Feeling into the slot some and if they do that, he gets demonte Kazi, who is unusually lead footed for a slot cornerback. So I think Theeeling can succeed either place. I hope he's good, just so we can say demonte Kazi exactly. And if if it turns out the dig doesn't Diggs doesn't go, then just they're gonna throw two bodies on Feeling. So again frustration there for me personally, not only is a Viking fan life long, but also

because I'd like to get this thing straight. We don't know about Diggs. If they both go, both Diggs and Feeling are roughly in a grade um. And if it is Diggs dugment trufun only plays one side of the field. They can just flip Diggs on the other side of the field and just hangle Obis Johnson out to dry on Desmond Trufon. If they want to do that, let's

go to Cousins then. So Falcon safety is healthy this year after missing last year um and so that I don't think it makes any sense to regurgitate last year's terrible numbers for the secondary of for Atlantic, because they're all better now. Vikings offensive line was rebuilt in the off season and looked far better in pass blocking than run blocking. I've got a B grade on Kirk Cousins in this in this one C grade on Kyle Rudolph,

who scored when these teams met in twenties seventeen. But I don't see an obvious reason to expect a big game here. Last year, despite all the injuries, the Falcons were still a very good tight end defense and which should be at least that good this year. And then there's Dalvin Cook. The new look Vikings offensive line really struggled with run blocking in the preseason, but maybe it doesn't matter. Atlanta is all of the most running back

receptions last year. They all the most running back receptions the year before that, the most the year before that, and the most the year before that. Think about it, geez, Dan crowning pay. It's a team that's just letting that happen. The almost scheming to let running backs catch passes. They do have to face Alvin Kamara and Christian McCaffrey, but a little bit. It's four tough games. Dalvin Cook is

a competent pass catcher. I think he's at the level of those guys, but he's good enough and he should have should get quite a few receptions in this one, um and all if you give you know, if you give Dalvin Cook in just a crack, you could get the eighty four yard touched on. Like we saw in the preseason, he is an A grade with digs in a B grade without. Let's go to the Falconside, which has got a little more clarity on less. Julio Jones doesn't play, Yeah, but he's gotta come on. He's playing.

By all accounts that you know their negotiations have gone better. He's gonna go. So let's start with Julio Jones, who has been frustrated by Mike Zimmer and the three matchups against Mike Zimmer's Vikings Leo Jones average line four catches, fifty four yards, zero touchdowns. That's it. That's Xavier Roads right there. That's some Xavier Roads right there. Now, I think there's some question about which version of Xavier Roads

were gonna get. Is it the Pro Bowl guy that was around two and three years ago, or is it guy who disappointed and was inconsistent last year and then look terrible in this one preseason game earlier this year. So you know, I still think there's some room for doubt about Xavier Rhodes on this and so I've got to be grade on Julio Jones. Opposite him is Calvin Ridley. Fascinating matchup there as much as Rhads and Julio Jones

are physical versus physical cornerback receiver matchups. Calvin Ridley is all speed. He's a four three eight speed guy. Trey Waynes for three one speeds fast, seven hundreds of a second faster for Trey Waynes. It's speed on speed. So I think those guys get neutralized pretty well by the Vikings starters. I've got a C grade on Calvin Ridley. Trey Waynes didn't start backwards though. When he was getting clocked running those well that none of the cornerbacks do

usually run. They should probably make corners start backwards. I'd like to see that Austin Hooper is doesn't score a lot anyway. Vikings given three tight end touchdowns in their last twenty seven games. That's it, just to see grade

on Austin Hooper and lastly DeVonta Freeman. In the last two seasons, the only one hundred yard rushing games against Minnesota came on a single untouched like ninety yard Kalin ballage run against Miami and then Jordan Howard on the final game of last year when the Vikings had pretty much packed it in. The Vikings run stuff for Lynval Joseph missed the entire preseason, but rest assured he is going to go in this one. Freeman could catch the ball. Vikings are the middle of the pack um defense in

terms of past catchers. Uh so maybe Freeman gets a little something done that way through the air. So b grade Devanta Freeman. There you go, guys. Um I should note everything charge available at fanball dot com. By going to fanball dot com slash charts, you get instant access to my free weekly rankings are free five thousand dollar week one contest Play against Me our podcast, and it's your portal to guillotine leagues as well again fanball dot Com Slash Charge. Coming up next, It's a segment we

call Take a Chance on Me. Nine players who you wouldn't normally start, but you can. This week. You are listening to Fantasy Football Weekly and I Heart Radio production Fantasy Football Weekly returns courtesy of I Heart Radio. I am Paul Charchy in my Twitter account at Paul Charchy, and I am with Matt Harrison, you are Explosive Output, and Brian Johnson you are on Twitter at b t x j x J. Nine players not normally in your lineups,

many of whom are available on the waiver wire. It is time for our very royalty free version of taking Chance on Me. That's what it is. Matt's face was. I'm sure mine was quite similar. Yeah. When these three sleeper quarterbacks running back to receivers hit pay dirt, you pay us nothing. These are royalty from Take a Chance on Me. That is the same amount we pay for this version of the song right here. Definitely, positively, in a very legally binding way. This song is not ABBA's classic.

Let's take a chance on Are we not getting played to play this on the radio? That's what I'm saying. Let's start at the quarterback position. Brian Johnson, who is you take a chance? I mean quarterback? All right? He was my final sleeper of the preseason because of his favorable start. And it starts this week in Arizona. And

that's Matt Stafford of the Detroit Lions. Of course, Arizona will be without both starting cornerbacks Patrick Peterson and Robert Alford, Bill roll Out, Tremaine Brock who was on his fifth team, uh journeyman and second round rookie Byron Murphy. Marvin Jones has four inches and fifteen pounds at least on both of these scrubs, Baby Tron. Kenny Golladay has like six inches and thirty pounds on these guys, they're just gonna

dominate the red zone. And uh yeah, Matt Stafford, man, I'm listening, all right, Matt, who should take a chance on me? Quarterback? Let's go with Andy Dalton and this is a garbage time special. Seattle is fourteen and o in September home games under Pete Carroll. Yeah, in similar garbage time fashion. Last year in a in a road game in Seattle, Nick Mullins torched the Seahawks defense for four, fourteen and two. And Dalton has actually been really really

good in September road games as well. In his last seven September road games, Andy Dalton is averaging passing yards and over two touchdowns per game. What you found the effect? What the thin little strip of effective Andy Dalton September road games by the way, Bengals too, and oh against the Seahawks in this decade, and I recall that time.

I've heard that stat this week, but one of those games, and I remember, because it's sung stung close to home on a multiple fantasy teams that a dr touchdown to Aja Green was taken back and it should not have been. And I'm still mad about that. If we add in that new coach, Zach Taylor was a coach of the Rams last year and he's very familiar with this defense, that's all you really need to know, all right, Andy Dalton, I'm not exactly listening to that. It's a two quarterback play.

Come on, it is Nick Foles goes up against cancer. I mean, come on, I'd rather start Nick Foles. The Chief's defenses in major flux, with the new defensive coordinator, a bunch of new faces to replace last year's dubious group. Full's best target d D. Westbrook works from the slot, and we'll face competent quarterback Kendall Fuller, but nothing more than that, and actually Fuller took a pretty big regression

last year. On the outside. Marcus Lee and Chris Connelly get to face two of the shakier starting cornerbacks in the league for Shot Breland and something called char Various West. Okay, Nick Foles, you take a chance, I mean quarterback. Let's go to the running back position, Brian, I have Tennessee's Dion Lewis, who was at Cleveland UM, although he's been battling a foot injury all preseason and hasn't played at all. Really, Derek Henry will start this game, but he is going

to flop big time. Check out his splits last year. So Tennessee is five and a half point underdogs. Okay, last year they're underdogs ten times and favorites six times. In the underdog games. Henrietta eleven carries for forty four yards and under half a touchdown per game. In the six games where their favorites, he had seventeen carries for over a hundred yards and over and over eight touchdown

per game. They are big time underdogs in this game, and they are going to lose in Cleveland's over Cleveland's final nine games, opposing running backs average more than five receptions. So this is gonna be a d On Lewis game. He's gonna outperform Derrick Henry. Here, you kind of convinced me on that one. I like it. That's a bold call, saying Dion Lewis over Derrick Henry. Alright, Matt, who is like a chance? I mean running there's a bold call too,

But I hate it. I don't even want to start him, but you can start time Montgomery, I am I'm doing. If you're in like a twenty team PPR league team league, I might have to play him. Montgomery should get snaps Spelling Levy on Bell for the Jets. The Bills gave up the tenth most receptions to running backs last year, and last year is a member of the Packers. Montgomery had two catches for fifty six yards. Okay, uh C J. Anderson.

Going back to this Cardinals game, which we all think the Lions are gonna romp in over over the twelve years of Darryl Bebble's time as an offensive coordinators team's average thirty rushes per game. Carrien Johnson is not going to get thirty rushes. C J. Anderson will be a big part of the game plan against arguably the worst run defense in the league. The Cardinals allowed the most fantasy points to opposing runners last year and gave up at least one rushing touchdown in each of the final

six games of last year. C J. Anderson, I think my number one running back on the week's carry on Johnson, c J Anderson. Some mop up is gonna be good enough to make him a flex player for your team. Let's go to uh Let's look at some of the guys who catch passes. Beginning. We got some wide receivers and tight ends for you. Brian, who you got? Yeah, I got a tight end and I'm doubling down on the garbage time I'm expecting in Cleveland. So I got

another Titan, and it's Delaney Walker. Matt's boy. He looked pretty good in preseason. He looks like he's back fully healthy. He's probably the healthiest he will be all year, and Cleveland has been a great matchup for tight ends for years now. Last year they conceded six catches, sixty yards and nearly half a touchdown per game to the position. So Delane, he's going to clean up in garbage times. Okay,

Matt who is your receiver slash tight end? Sticking with the Jets, Jamison Crowder uh Sam Donald targeted slot wide receivers and tight ends from the slot on sixty percent of his throws last season. Adam Gaze's offense in Miami targeted the slot a ton too. Both Cutler and Tannehill worked the slot at over a fifty percent clip. Remember how good Jarvis Landry was in Miami. With Chris Herndon on suspension, newcomer Jamison Crowder should see a ton of targets.

There were only six instances where a wide receiver had ten or more targets against the Bills last season. Four of those six were slot wide receivers. Adam Feeling went for one oh five, Jeronimo Allison went for eighty, and Julian Edelman did it twice, had nine for one oh four and seventy and a touchdown in the other game, Crowder is gonna get ten targets. He's gonna have good game. All right. I'm going with Richard Higgins. He's the other

starting receiver for the Cleveland Browns. Everybody wants a part of the Brown's offense, but nobody wants one of the starting wide receivers. Why not? And here's Odell Beckham, who acknowledges he's not healthy in this game. And if a Dory Jackson shadows, and he usually is a shadow corner, if he's shadows Odell Beckham, that puts Malcolm Butler on Richard Higgins. Butler was brutal last year, allowed seven touchdowns in his coverage and a quarterback rating of a hundred

hundred three. Richard Higgins is absolutely startable this week. And there you go. You take a chance on me. Glad not to have to hear that song again. Geez, that is it. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup upon whom you can take a chance. So, like you promised, we're not gonna play that again. I can't. I can't make that promise and we're not gonna play it again today. That part I can tell you for listeners to give us some royalty free to take a chance on me.

I asked that, like kind of listener, kind of listener just make their own version of of take a chance on me, their own cover version. No, what if we sing at acapella that I brought that up to. What if While I'm talking, Matt's humming the ABA version of take a chance? I mean, so we're kind of in a box with our royalty free take a chance on me music. We need we need to learn these rules. Yeah, let's work in a couple other matchups. Buffalo takes on

the Jets. Matt, you already talked about a couple of Jets. But let's go to the Buffalo side of this thing. Is there an opportunity for um for any Buffalo Bills? A team that, frankly, most people don't have on their roster. I got two starting grades. Number one is Josh Allen. He gets a C grade. He was a top five quarterback over the final six weeks the last season. However, much of that was based solely on rushing. He only threw for two hundred thirty yards twice last season in

twelve starts, had multiple touchdowns in only two games. Allen only did play the Jets once last year. Had a very forgettable day through the air, but had nine rushes for a hundred and one yards and a score on the ground. That's what you're hoping for with Josh Allen. The Jets defense did allow twelve different quarterbacks to throw from multiple scores last year. Uh John Brown is probably

his best target. In the final six weeks of the season, Allen threw deep balls in almost twenty of his plays, and Brown is the deep threat. Last year, his average depth of target was sixteen point one yards. That was playing with Joe Flacco and noted downfield specialist Lamar Jackson. The Jets allowed the second most yards to wide receivers last season, and eight different wide receivers top to hunder against the Jets last year, so Brown gets to see

as well. Everybody else on the Buffalo side is on the bench. The running backs Frank Gore, Devin Singletary, t J. Yelden. Jets had a middle of the pack run defense last year, but they got an offensive improvement with C. J. Moseley, who anchored the second best run defense in the league last season. We don't know how this split is gonna work out either. It's probably gonna be mostly single. Terry's probably the change of pay with the Elden getting the

third down work. It's it's probably bad a guy. I like Cole Beasley. He's on the bench, but he's a stash on a deep roster. But there's not a ton of situations where you be starting him in week one. All right, let's go to the Jets side. Levy on Bell obvious A. Bills gave up twenty one total scores two running backs last year, the second most in the league. I already told you about time Montgomery's gonna take a chance on me back. There might be enough to go around.

Robby Anderson. I'm giving a C grade to should draw shadow coverage from trade Davious White. He's one of the better cover corners in the league. But Anderson did post seventy six yards in a score against White last year, So there's the silver lining. Sam Donald I got as a bench grade, though I mean I gave Anderson and Crowder and Montgomery some love. He's almost worthy worthy of a C. But no, not this week. I don't think

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Kansas City takes on Jacksonville. These seems met last year and as you guys may recall, only game Patrick Mahomes did not throw a pass touchdown pass in and I ran one in salvaging a day Fantasy day. But this was the only team just to shut him out. And that's uh, that's not trivial. There's uh, there's let's start

with let's start with let's start with that. For all the problems jackson Will had last year, and I think fantasy owners, you know, tend to remember a lass season the five only the five wins, But it wasn't the

defense fault. They ranked number two in passing yards allowed, number two in passing touchdowns allowed, and their defense might be better this year with the addition of defense eve End Josh Allen and selected seventh in the draft, you would think that they would have poured draft picks into their offense, but they didn't do that. In janetal Bille, they improved an already epic defense. So yeah, that's um, that's something we're gonna have to try to figure out

before too long here. And I think Patrick Mahomes is going to be somebody that is only a B grade. This would probably this might be the only B grade that we give to Patrick Mahomes all year. This might be it um staying with the passing game. Newly minted multi millionaire Tyreek Hill, No, he is also just a B grade. No secondary allowed fewer scores to wide receivers than Jacksonville seven last year, and they surrendered him easily one thirty three yards per game to the position. That's

the fourth fewest. Tyrek should expect to see shutdown corner Jalen Ramsey and shadow coverage. She gave up just two catches to Hill last time they met, so I you got to be cautious with Hill now. Granted, nobody would be surprised if Patrick Mahomes through for two yards and two touchdowns and Tyreek Hill with making might be grade sound ironic, but the Jaguars defense is totally legit. Travis Kelsey gets an A grade. Jaguars are a good tight end defense last year, but Kelsey proved too much to

handle it. He posted a one yard game, which was nineteen more yards and any other tight end put up on Jacksonville last year did not score in that game, though Miles Jack posted the third lowest passer rating allowed in his coverage and his speed is gonna be great in shadowing Kelsey and I think that's another tough matchup. So Kelsey, I'm still giving an a grade in part because he's a tight end and he's you know, in with the few tight ends are out there, I think

he's still a grade worthy. Let's go to the running backs, where it's a little bit thornier, well, the whole things thorny city really, Uh, let's start with Damian Williams. I don't think we're gonna see a ton of of Leshawn McCoy in this game. Only one week in Kansas City, right, Um, eight to ten touches for Lashawn McCoy Is that southing about? Right? Yeah, that's that's enough. That a lot, but that is a lot. That's a huge thing in in in what you could

get out of Damian Williams. Unfortunately, the Jaguars allowed the ninth fewest rushing yards last year, the ninth fewest rushing touchdowns, seventh fewest receptions, to running backs and sixth fewest receiving yards per running back. So I mean it's all bad here, real sounds on the bench. I've got a C grade on on Damien Williams. I've got a bench grade on Lashawn McCoy just because I don't think the eight to ten touches is enough to get him where you need

him to go. And we'll talk more about Lashawn McCoy a little later as well. Let's go to the Jacksonville side of note. Left tackle Cam Robinson is not expecting to play in this game, and that is a big loss when we saw how bad that Jaguars line was last year without Cam Robinson. So hopefully this is just a one game thing for him. Leonard Fournette would otherwise be looking at a pretty solid game, and he still

might be. Kansas City gave up the seventh most rushing attempts, the fifth most rushing yards, the sixth most rushing touchdowns per game to running backs, and five yards per carry. That's what Kansas City was giving up. So I still like Leonard Fournette here. He'll get virtually all the work. And last year when Leonard Fournette did not play in the meeting between these two teams. T J. Yeldon went off for a buck twenty two gross. If t J. Yeldon can do it running behind no line, I think

for nett Ken as well. A grade for Leonard four. Nett already talked about Nick Foles might take a chance on the quarterback. He gets a B grade here. Let's go to his number one wide receiver, D D. Westbrook The chief secondary allowed fourteen receptions and one hundred seventy two yards per game to opposing receivers last season, fifth most in both categories, and I don't see any reason to suggest they're going to be better now. Slot cornerback

Kendall Fuller regressed badly and coverage last season. As I alluded to earlier, he gave up a one D ten passer rating in his coverage. That's the guy that's gonna be on D. D. West Westbrooks, so I think he's going to be okay here. Now, I will note this, they brought in Honey Badger, who plays this hybrid safety role where they'll also cover guys in the slot that might that might be a problem for D. D. West So I've got to be grade on him. We're not for honey badger. I'd give him an A on D D.

Westbrook And then here's your dark throw, Chris Connolly. It's a revenge game for Chris Connolly. Yeah, I started Mark Kisley. It's his first game back off a c L missed all of last year. Chris Connelly a terrific matchup against lead footed cornerback Brishot Brelan. Connolly is a four three speed guy. Brian is a four six guys like six three to He's a big Connolly is a crazy for six slowgas slogan. Obviously absolutely yea. So Connolly is your

your official dark throw. Let's go to Tennessee taking on the Cleveland Browns. Brian, you already gave us some members of the Tennessee Titans that you like in this matchup. I don't think I can. I don't think I can go with I don't think I can go with their quarterback though, Marcus Mariota. No, he's on the bench. Uh, he could get benched in real life. So can we have Ryan Tannehill breathing down your neck bad guy in your fantasy lineup? And I don't want Corey Davis or

A J. Brown in my fantasy lineup either. Really, the key is well, Tennessee is gonna be gonna be without their starting left tackle who's suspended, um Taylor Lawan, and then they're starting right tackle is bad and coming off a A C L tear in December, and that Cleveland front seven is carrocious. So Mario is not gonna have time to give the ball downfield. So Corey Davis a J. Brown on the bench to J. Sharp Is actually was

a starter opposite Cory Davis. So Adam Humphreys might be the one wide receiver I would start if I had to, but I'm still not doing that. Um, you know I'm not starting Derrick Henry either. Put him on the bench. I mentioned it earlier in the games where Tennessee is the underdog, he's averaging more than fifty yards less and half a touchdown less per game, and he hasn't played all preseason. He has not gotten acclimated to the new offense. Um, I got him on the bench. Uh, that's that easy.

And that's why Dion Lewis is might take a chance on me running back, and Delaney Walker was might take it ancew me receiver. I think the majority of targets in garbage owner will be funneled to those guys underneath. So I'm with you on that, all right. How about the Cleveland side, A little different story. On this side, Baker Mayfield will give him an A. UM. How much better is Baker Mayfield than Eli Manning? You ask I can? I can answer that last season, even though apparently I

asked it. I can also answer it. Last season, Eli through the fourth most passes of twenty plus yards down field, but registered a lowly eighties six passer rating. Mayfield, who started in week four when he started playing, attempted seventy deep balls, third most, but he had a hundred and seven passer rating. And there's this highlight reel going around like the greatest hits of the incompletions from Eli. Todell

beg him and it is. It's horrifying to watch. So that's gonna change for O. B J who gets an A as well. I heard he's practicing today. He'll be fine. But don't worry about the injuries. Uh, we're hearing about. Tennessee secondary allowed the seventh most touchdowns to wide receivers and as you mentioned, Malcolm Butler is just awful. Allowed seven touchdowns in seven eight yards in his coverage last year, so I'm gonna eat. Although I think that Dorry Jackson's

gonna shadow I'll be j a lot. And again I think for Chard Higgins is the sneaky play there. Well yeah, well I'm gonna I was gonna mention you'd take a chance to me wide receiver. I'm hearing no shadowing for Dory, but we'll see. But Jarvis Landry, I almost want to bench him as well, but give him a ce. But this is a tough matchup. Logan Ryan is legit and um, this is just the game where Baker's targets are gonna be funnel to the outside. So I'll give Landry the sea.

But uh, I would love to give him a minus if I could, but I know I cannot. Let's go to one more pass catcher, David and Joeku, a guy you probably have to start, um, but he's in a bad spot. Tennessee was bottom ten and catches and yards allowed to tight ends and the only surrendered two touchdowns to the position last year. I'd go find the Darren Waller owner right now and offer David and Joku and try to make a trade all this. I think everybody's on Darren Waller now I think that, But I think

you could. I think you'd trade and Joker for him. I don't think you could. I think you could anyway, keep the try and then Nick Chubb finally get and a. Tennessee was the middle of the pack against the run when it comes to d v O A. But they only surrendered seven total touchdowns and running backs. That's not good. But it's just too tempting to pick on that awful secondary of the Titans. Sorry, that doesn't make sense. Scratch that,

Dontrell Hilliard. That bullet was in the wrong place. And I was just gonna mention Dontrell Hilliard is on the bench, but he'll be involved and he should be rostered in deeper leagues. We're gonna talk more about Dontrell Hilliard later in the show. All right, let's go to Indianapolis taking on the Chargers. Matt, it's our first game with Jacobe Brissette. Do you dare start him right out of the gate?

I toyed with using him as might take a chance on me quarterback as the Chargers are missing Derwin James, but they're not missing Joey Bosa or Melvin Ingram right, so Brissettes on the bench. Uh, Brissette held the ball on average of two point nine seven seconds before he threw it. That ranked the fifth most time in the league. That's not a good thing with Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram breathing down. You're not although in fairness, he's got

maybe the best of God protecting him now. I have very high hopes for him this season, just not this game. I'm kind of with you on that. Um t Y Hilton. I gave a C grade two Paris Campbell Devon Funcius on the bench, Hilton matches up with Casey Hayward, one of the better cover corners in the game. The Chargers allowed the second fewest receptions in the fifth fewest yards to wide receivers last year. That's why Hilton only gets the C. H. Tight ends Eric Ebron and Jack Doyle

both getting a C grade. Bursette targeted the tight end copiously in seventeen is Doyle average six receptions per game. Frank Reich runs two tight end sets thirty four percent of the time, which was the third most in the league. I think both of them can eat Doyle is the possession guys to target him more in PPR leagues. Ebron is the rare tight end vulture. I'd use him more in non PPR Big DFS tournaments. There is Eric Ebron chiming in from the three yard line right there. That's him. Uh.

And then Marlon Mack. I'm giving a B grade to Mack is morphed into a bell cow running back, and it really happened over the final month of the season last year. In the last five games, Mac averaged five yards per carrying a touchdown per game on the ground, but also his average passing routes run went from thirteen and a half early in the season to twenty three point three in the final month. This means bye bye Niheim Hines and the Chargers gave up the fourth most

receptions to the running back position last year. So Marlon Max kind of teetering on almost an A there, but he's still getting a B. Philip Rivers on the other side, Uh, he gets a C grade. I'm nervous about the offensive line, who are still missing left tackle Russell o'kung. All five starters now rank as a sixty one or below out of a hundred in PFF's ratings. That's a D minus to a failing grade for every member of their offensive line that's starting this week. And a stat from chart.

In games without Gordon last year, Rivers averaged sixty three fewer yards and one point three fewer touchdowns. It's if it's bad for the offense, it's bad for the offense. Sure is Austin Ekeler. Let's talk about him. He's getting a B grade. I gave Justin Jackson the bench grade, and the three games without Gordon last year, Eckler outtouched Jackson nearly two to one. In the preseason, Eckler out

snapped Jackson nearly two to one. This seems like a two to one split in Neckler's favor, and it's a better split for the pass catching running back, as the Colts surrendered the second most receptions to opposing running backs last year. If Gordon was playing, Eckler would still be startable in this time. Uh Keenan Allen, I'm giving him a B grade. Mike Williams is hitting your bench. Rivers time in the pocket will be short, which means he's

going to target Allen the most. Allen ran out of the slot fifty six percent of the time last year and had had the lowest average depth of target out of all receivers last year at only nine point four. Mike Williams was at fifteen point six. They're not gonna have time to throw to him downfield. Finally, Hunter Henry, I'm giving an a grade two. For as good as the Colts were against wide receivers, they were the opposite against tight ends last year. The Colts allowed the most

receptions and yards to the tight end last season. He's totally back and healthy. He's gonna be a huge part in this offense. I got and Henry all these like I love it. I man, I hope you're right. I hope you're right. You know, for all of us that rolled the dice on Hunter Henry maybe three tight end in the bree season, I'd love to see him come back. I want to touch on a couple of quick hitters with you guys relating to the Packers the Packers offense. They won the game, but the offense only put up

ten points. Aaron Jones in particular looked uh troubling, mostly because it was almost an even split on time share. Jamal Bleep and Williams not interested in that guy. What is your level of concern on Aaron Jones? They were underdogs right Matt Lafleur's offense in Tennessee last year. Brian just told us about it. He doesn't give the ball to his bell cow running back when he's an underdog, so watch out for that. If the Packers are not favored,

Aaron Jones might be on your bench now. I wonderful they'll be favorite against the Vikings next week. This might there might be an opportunity to buy low on Aaron Jones at some point here pretty soon. And uh, it may have that process may have already started. Coming up next, let's answer three tough questions. You get to play along, try to go a perfect three and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly. Don't do if you don't know, you ridiculous. It is Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchy and

coner fanball dot Com. My cohorts are Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison. You can follow us on Twitter at Paul Charchion, at b t x J at Explosive Output. Boys. It's time to get into the grinder with three tough questions. Listeners you can play along see if you can go three and oh tough question number one. Redskins head coach J Gruden says that his offense will go through running

back Darius Guys for this season. Will guys be and RB one and RB two, a flex or a bench player on the whole every week will be a little bit different on the whole. Will he be an RB one, RB two flex or bench player? Brian? Alright, so technically he's not a rookie, but he is a rookie. Um, and all rookie quote unquote workhorse backs hit the wall most do, jumping from twelve games in college to sixteen games in the pro. In the pros now speaking well,

I said most um. Now speaking of games real ones, Uh, guys, hasn't played one since college. In speaking of college, you know we saw moreries once and he actually in the two seasons prior had less combined carries than the two plus seasons. So he is not proven to be durable whatsoever. Throw in the crap line. Adrian Peterson still good enough to you know, steal some work from him, and Chris Thompson gonna take all the receiving work. I'm going bench

is going on, right, I can't trust him. He's gonna have a good game or two, hopefully early on. It's probably not gonna be this week. I gave him a see but once he does, you sell high strike wild iron is hot. That's my story. Be Matt. I'm gonna be negative Matt today. He won't be on any of my teams this year. And that's dude. Of everything. Brian said, left tackle Trent Williams out, Adrian Peterson, case Keenum or

Dwayne Haskins under center. I don't believe coach speak at this time of year either, So whatever Jay Gruden says, I don't believe it. He's on my bench. I don't think he's better than that. There's also you got you hit most of the negatives on Darius guys, but not all of them. Let me give you two more the negative game scripts that are gonna packed him. Actually every week, let's say bad Washington defense and an offense is gonna score no points, and he averaged less than one reception

per game in college. Brian alluded to the fact that Chris Thompson will be the past catching back. I believe that is true. And while Gary Darius Sky doesn't have just stone hands. But he's not Chris Thompson, who's really gifted that way. You're all all that together, um, and the only thing really working for guys is that he's the starter. But he's the starter on probably the NFL's worst or second worst offense, and more often than not, that puts you on the bench. Dumb question Number two.

Chief's head coach Andy Reid says that it's a timeshare with Shawn McCoy and Damian Williams for this season. Will the Shawn McCoy be an RB one, an r B two, a flex or a bench player? Matt didn't. I just mentioned that I don't believe anything coaches say at this time of year. I believe you did. Yeah, and do you read? Has never gone running back by committee. He's not going to go running back by committee. And people seem to forget how bad Lashawn McCoy was last year.

Is the sole lead dog running back on a team that wanted to run the ball and had a rushing quarterback with him. It's not like the upgrade to the better offense doesn't come with a cost. He's splitting time with Damian Williams at very best fifty fifty and Darwin Thompson is still involved. They like Williams too, They signed him to a deal at the end of last season. Recois on your bench, all right, Brian, I'm gonna have

to disagree. I don't care what he did with Buffalo last year or the year before the year before that. He actually had good years of Buffalo. Buffalo blows the city. The team actually have been to the city. I don't remember it well. The beer is strong there that there's that, but it Bills Mafias any indication, yes it is. I missed my twenties, But anyway, where was I going? Shady? I remember right to watch Bill's Ions a couple of weeks ago on Friday night preseason, so depressed about having

to do this right. But Shady, you look good. And everyone remembers Devin Singletary stole the touchdown from distance in that game and he got all the pub the following day. Whatever, but whatever. Andy Reid was watching that game too, and he liked what he saw, and he loves la Shawn McCoy like a son. Essentially season game watcher, Andy Reid, he's been scouting McCoy for years, just waiting for this

and uh, he went out and got him. It's gonna take some time, but he's gonna get more carries than Damian Williams Uh probably a quarter of the way through the season, and then finished as an RB two overall for the Casey Chiefs. The last time McCoy played with Andy Reid was twenty twelve, seven years ago. Seven years ago. That year, he had a two rushing touchdown season, two kikes. That's it for Lashawn McCoy that year, and then he

got shipped off to Buffalo Purgatory Um. Last year, Lashawn McCoy ranked five the fifth at running back by Pro Football Focus last season, fiveth from the bottom. His yards per carry have plummeted over the last two years, down to three point to last year. He's not elusive, he's got anymore. He's got middling speed at this stage of his career, and he doesn't bring any power anymore. In fact,

from the power standpoint, get this. On his third his last thirteen carries from inside the five yard line, he has scored twice. The power is not there. He's not effective at the stripe anymore. You roll all that together, and while I do believe that there will be opportunities for him to do something in an offense, it's gonna score forty points and you know most weeks you'll be in the thirties and forties. That's enough to give him some opportunity. He's just not that good anymore and at

best he is going to be a flex player. Would you rather have Lashawn McCoy or Darius Guiss McCoy because the offense I would I would rather have and that's why he's a Flexidi's guys, was a bet. You don't think he's gonna be rejuvenated at all now that he's healthy and on a good team. He's well, he's thirty one. How do you rejuvenate yourself thirty one? I know that's getting there, But go to one of those European think tanks and European crypto chamber, cryro chamber. That's what he needs. Yeah,

just like just like Antonio Brown. Question number three, speaking of given the chaos surrounding Antonio Brown over the course of the season, will Tyrrell Williams being a wide receiver one wide receiver to flex or bench Brian, Yeah, I think there's about a fifty percent chance that Antonio Brown just totally goes off the reservation right, and then it's it's all said and done. So I'm gonna this is

a tough one. We should be talking about Darren Waller instead. Anyway, you've talked enough about Darrenier if you could ever steer a conversation toward Darren Waller. Yes, but Tyrell flashed for the Chargers in the past, but he always played second and third fiddle to Keenan Allen and Antonio Gates or

Hunter Henry, whoever the tight end was. He did play a major role in when Keenan Allen was hurt for most of the year, saw nineteen targets and turned into sixty nine nice catches for a thousand plus yards and seven scores. And with the Brown situation and the fact that Williams is the number two wide receiver, I think a hundred plus targets or immortal lock and he can put similar numbers to the those numbers he put up in twenty six. Albeit he's on the Raiders now and

not the Chargers. I think he will be a solid flex play this season. Okay, I told you it was negative Matt today, emphatic benching. I don't care that he could be the wide receiver one on an offense with a bad QB and somehow Nathan Peterman looming with a terrible offensive line, a coach who wants to take the game back to the nineties. It's just a bad offense overall. And guess who the wide receiver one on that offense was last year? Jordy Nelson. How did that work out?

He finished forty nine in Fantasy points for what the majority If we're going in each oh my gosh, this is this is going to be a disaster in Oakland all year. You don't want anything to do with Tyrelle Williams. I'll go Darren Waller, but not Tyrelle Williams. Good lord,

you know you too. You're Darren Waller. I get the feeling that, especially you, Brian, you could be you could be in You could be in court and you could they could swear you in and you would steer the conversation from the prosecution because you'd be a defendant towards Darren Waller. Well, I uses my sleeping like the second week and you kind of rolled your eyes at me at the time and that look where're at Darren Waller's ald, So help you Waller cannot prove any I roll I

can't do it. The biggest advantage I think you get with Tyrolle Williams is his own teams and teams ineptitude. The Raiders are gonna be playing behind in almost every game, and they just volume alone is going to be a friend to him. You know, I think Brian, you mentioned a hundred potential hundred targets potentially going his way. That sounds about right. Also working his favor, Antonio Brown's contract

is guaranteed on Monday. That means because will beyond roster on Monday, and all all all vested veterans, if you're on roster on Monday, you are guaranteed your contract. That means the wheels can come off beginning Tuesday. For Antonio Brown. That's all it's got to take. It could happen. That's another fact that works in his favor. You can do whatever, even Brown do whatever he wants after Monday. Williams has a history of being a downfield threat. He's got height

and speed to get under passes. Granted, Derek Carr is also a very bad downfield passer, so I'm not sure how many of those are going to connect, but there are going to be times when you're going to want the garbage and Tyroll Williams is going to deliver. We'll help you find those times as a flex start. There might be carbage time this year, carbage time. There's going to be carbage time. Let's work in another matchup, Baltimore taking on the Miami Dolphins. The Baltimore side of this

is pretty interesting, the Miami side not so much. Where do you want to start with Baltimore? Lamar Jackson of course, yeah, baby, but my number two ranked quarterback for this week. No, he doesn't get in a. He gets an at really because Miami allowed the third most quarterback rushing yards last year, including two d and thirty two josh Allen alone, who also totaled five passing touchdowns in those two games. So Lamar Jackson A and just the quick heads up. L

Jacks squares off with Kyler Murray next week. That will be to the running game or to continue with the running game. I should say mark Ingram too gets an a as well. Miami gave up the second most rushing attempts, third most rushing yards, and fourth most rushing touchdowns per game to opposing running backs last season and after you. I thank fanball writer Parker Leach for this stat um so Ingram average twelve carries per game with the Saints

last year. Yeah, that's perfect because running backs who received at least twelve carries against Miami averaged eighty one rushing yards on five yards per carrying more than half a touchdown per game. Mark Ingram and a Justice Hill, I'm tempted him, go for it. I will, I will see. Although Gus Edward, you want this, give me another rookie thing you wanted. Edwards, I got bench on paper. I'm

speaking to it. So Hill on the bench. Keep your eye on him, though, Adam in your league if he's available, just know that. But Jim Harba said he'd ride the hot hand, and Hills hands look pretty hot and lots of other stuff too. But he's on the bench this week, as are all the wide receivers. Miles Boykin is the one you'd be interested in, but that also means he probably draws Avian Howard, who's the one player in Miami.

But actually it sells excels at what he does. So Boykin on the bench, Mark Andrews, this guy is going to be a pain in everyone's a this year. The guy can play his average of eleven yards per target trails only O. G. Howard among all players with at least fifty targets over the past two seasons all players players. No, really, I'm that correct, alight. I gotta like receivers its side ends. I'm wrong, but sadly Andrews never saw more than fifty of the snaps in a single game last year, and

if that carries over this year, it's trouble. But it's a great matchup. Miami will have nine tight end touchdowns last year or second most, so I'm giving him a c over to Miami. Kenyan Drake gets a see he quote unquote get a lot of touches, but a lot of touches in Miami could be like nine on their scale of a lot of touches nine times times you might touch the ball. This is a tough defense nine times.

Thank you. It's good to have that back. Yeah. Baltimore allowed three and a half yards per carry in a league three point nine yards per target to running back, so they can't get it done on the ground or through the air. Just to see for Drake. No Kalin Blage talk today no, Well, here, I'll give you a talker. Drop him or trade him. Trade him now, trade him now while he's got some level of perceived value. Calin Blage is bad and he's on what is probably going

to be one of the two worst offenses in the NFL. True, what's not bad is Baltimore secondary, especially since they went out and got Earl Thomas the place safety. So Albert Wilson, DeVante Parker, Preston Williams on the bench. I like Wilson and Preston Williams your guy charge though season long, long, long term, not this week, though it this week. Preston Williams gonna be fascinating next seasonally, must add in Dynasty he's available in your leak. And then lastly Stu Beard,

Ryan Patrick. It's gotta be bench to bench, but watch him go off for four hundred. Watch at this time last year heading into Week one, we were telling you to Ben try and Fitzpatrick and then he went into New Orleans and through four touchdowns, so in like four yards yeah right right now, yet way way better receivers then, and a better overall team to work with. But yeah, every week you could play the crush charts Championship for

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my co host Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison. Let's go to the Giants taking on the Dallas Cowboys, and I'll start on the Giant side. Obviously, say kran Barkley gets an obvious A grade. I'm not even gonna spend extra time on that, but do know that he's had a lot of success in his short career against the Giants anyway. Uh, sorry, against the Cowboys anyway. Let's go to the passing gave me.

Eli Manning gets a C grade here. He actually posted two decent games against the Cowboys last year, which shocked me. I was fully prepared to just tell everybody to bench Eli two yards and three hundred yards in the two matchups last year. In those games, he threw the ball forty four and forty one times. And if he's going to play from behind again, which I think is gonna be the case here, he's gonna just just through sheer volume. He could be Fantasy relevant. He might have had a

receiver named O'Dell Beckham last year. That does help. Yeah, said, he doesn't have that, but who does he have? Was healthy in those games, and you're probably gonna say that nobody scored in both of those games. That's right. I expect Eli to force feed Evan Ingram a lot in this game. He also topped four receptions in forty yards in each of the four career games he's had against the Cowboys, so they have schemed him into those games.

Evan Ingram gets a B grade in this one. And then there's the odd case of Sterling Shepherd, the restarting receiver nobody wants. He's not even on the injury report. You know, he went down in the preseason and everybody's like, well, that's that for Sterling Shepherd. He's still a go to receiver on this team. Now, Grant, I've just been shut down in five straight games against the Cowboys. But he's never been the go to receiver either. That's always been

Odell Beckham. He will mostly be playing from the outside. He used to be more of a slot guy. They're gonna move him a lot outside here, and actually that's also bad news because then he goes up against Dallas is two solid outside cornerbacks Byron Jones and hidobe A Woozy. He needs volume to cobble together a decent game, but Sterling Shepherd could get there. And I'm giving him a C grade for this game. Let's flip it over to

the Dallas side. Can you start z Heck? Yeah you can, even if he's only going to get half of the work and Tony Pollard earned by the way through great preseason play. I think Tony Pollard earned half of the work in this game, and I think he gets half. You don't believe the rep even if it's twenty five reps. They could all be snaps, or they probably they probably touches the probably know right, or half of them could be touches. Give me twelve to fifteen touches for Zeke

and I will give you an A grade. And here's why. The Giants defense, oh my, they allowed an opposing runner to either score or post one hundred or more yards rushing and receiving in fifteen of their sixteen games last year, and they lost Landon Collins and Olivier Vernon. This could be the NFL's worst defense the Giants. I think Zeke doesn't need more than about ten twelve fifteen touches to end up with a very meaningful game. And if there are any goal line carries to be had, they ain't

going to Tony Pollard. So you're predicting for Zeke twelve carries about four hundred fifty yards and eight touchdowns. Yeah, that's exactly it. Yes, that is precisely yet, so let's go to Tony Pollard. Then I've still got a starting great on Pollard. I think Pollard could easily end up getting the same kind of twelve fifteen, eighteen sort of touches in this game. And honestly, as I mentioned earlier, look good in the preseason, and the Giants defense is

so bad that he could score from distance here. So see great and Tony Pollard. Let's go to the passing game. I love Dak Prescott in this matchup. Love it. He obliterated the Giants secondary in the regular season finale last year. Three hundred eighties, seven passing yards, four touchdowns for Dak Prescott last time these teams met, and that was in the regular season finale, So it's even recently at that he's playing motivated to this year. He's playing for money.

You want, you can't argue with that no better motivated. Absolutely, Um, you know, with zeke sub status up in the air, I think, you know they without the game planned with Zeke maybe being there maybe not. I think they had a past heavy game plan in mind and they might even just keep to that. So I still like Dac

a lot. A great for dak A Marie Cooper also gets an A. Um, you know, if you're gonna try to have to stop Zeke at the line of scrimmage, that'll free up A Marie Cooper's for some downfield shots. And he runs the majority of routes on the right side of the field, where he has a glorious matchup against rookie cornerback DeAndre Baker making his first ever start. So Amari Cooper should have a very good game here and at like Michael Gallup, who gets a B grade,

he looked terrific in the preseason. Looks like he's ready to make that sophomore leap that a lot of elite receivers make. He'll work against Genora's Jenkins and everybody knows the name Genorris Jakobs. They think he's good. He's not good. He gave up seven touchdowns in his coverage last year and a passer rating of one nine gallops downfield prowess really only needs the one deep connection and I think it's coming. Let's go to our next matchup, Matt Cincinnati

taking on Seattle. You already made a case earlier in this show against all odds to start Andy Dalton, and you liked it, didn't you. Um No, I'm gonna give Tyler Boyd and a grade. Actually, man's the slot in former Rams coach Zack Taylor's new offense. That's the same role the Cooper Cup. Ad Cup went for six for nine and one in the first matchup against the Seahawks defense last year, had five catches in the second matchup and tore his a c L in the middle of

that game. So it was it was. It was looking good. Zach Taylor knows how to scheme the slot and with a j Green out, Tyler Boyd looks to be in a good spot here, especially if they're in catchup mode. Joe Mixon is the only other Bengal that you need to really mention. He gets a C grade. Only three running backs top two hundred yards and scored against the Seahawks last year. That was Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, and

Christian McCaffrey. They're good. They're good. So was Joe Mixon, but seat only gave up eight rushing touchdowns to backs last year. Game script probably favors the Bengals needing to pass on this one, and g O should be in the mix for some targets as well. On the Seahawks side. A grade for Russell Wilson. The Bengals allowed the third most passing yards and the fifth most passing touchdowns last year.

Interestingly enough, they yielded the second most rushing attempts to the quarterback position to Tyler Lockett's getting an A grade. Lockets scored on one of every five point seven targets last year, which is insane. It's completely unsustainable, but he's basically the only healthy starting wide receiver. DK Metcalf and David Moore both might go, but are both dinged up. Lockett looks to run most of his rout side of

the slot this year. Last year, he caught twenty six of twenty nine targets from the slot had five touchdowns from the slot last year. Uh, let's talk about Chris Carson. He gets an A grade as well. Carson ended the season as the second best fantasy runner. From Week thirteen on.

He led the NFL in rushing attempts over the final five weeks and the Seahawks beat Reporters keep talking about how Pete Carroll thinks he's the best pass catcher on the team, About that he barely caught any passes last year, But funny enough, Rashad Penny only caught five passes all last year. The Bengals have allowed the fourth most receiving yards per game to opposing runners. Chris Carson's in for a really good game here. I like him on a fanball a lot too. He's my number three ranked running

back this week, Chris Carson. We're gonna talk about one more receiver. His name's Will dis Lee in a later segment. Okay, we'll come back to that in a moment. Uh Detroit takes on Arizona, Brian. We've already talked about a variety of Detroit players over the course of this show. But carry on. Johnson is my top ranked running back this week. I'll give him an a then thank you to give him a beat. Just why would you do that? Well, you already mentioned we're a little worried about c. J.

Anderson stealing some carries. No, no, no, there's there's plenty to go around. Yeah, I'm giving me carry on. The Arizona allowed twenty rushing touchdowns for running backs last year. Ball I know I did. I said, ay, okay, okay, let's move on. Only two other teams allowed more than fifteen, by the way, um and thanks you, George. We all know Detroit wants to run the ball thirty plus times a game, like Darryl Bevil has been doing throughout his career.

Everything checks out on paper. They're little concerned. C. J. Anderson takes some work, Thy Jansen, Ty Johnson will uh mixing in third down, but carry on gets any moving on. Kenny Galladay Marvin Jones, I'm giving him a B. I love him both, but I just know who's gonna go off. So but they're both very startable in this game. We mentioned both starting corners are out, Pat Pete and Robert Alford Goaldy and Jones are just way bigger than these guys.

Jones is available and probably two thirds of leagues and he's absolutely startable this week, definitely, And uh Danny Amndla maybe he's a viable dart throw in PPR or a punt play in daily on fanball dot com if you choose to go for a minimum price. Wide receiver could factor him. But I got him gonna on the bench for the sake of redraft leagues as I do t J. Hockinson not even gonna start. Jesse James is listened as the starter, So Hockinson owners are gonna have to be patient.

He's on the bench this week. But Matt Stafford might take a chance on the quarterback because that Arizona secondary is just it's not what it should be over the Arizona side. David Johnson, I'm gonna give him a be but that might be generous. Uh, it's a borderline c So these teams have played. This will be the third straight year they've seen each other. And that's much to the chagrin of David Johnson because in seventeen he broke his hand and missed the whole year. He broke in

the opener. Last year, he had fifteen carries for forty nine yards and eight catches for twelve yards. Unbelievable. How do you get eight catches for twelve yards? That's it really is. Well, he and se Kwon Barkley could discuss, you know, but anyway, it's all about Snacks Harrison acquired him last year. They were allowing before they acquired him, they were having six yards per carry. After they allowed less than four. So it's a tough matchup for DJ.

But you gotta startom by the way the Snacks Harrison trade for all, don't don't for all the things that Dave Gentleman has done wrong, and there's plenty. Giving up the best run stuffing defensive lineman for a fifth round pick is the dumbest of his career. God, would they love to have him back. That's saying something. That is saying a lot and made some That's Brian just his his mood went from up here to like under the floor.

Hurt Brian. I'm sorry interrupted continue. Larry Fitzgerald didn't give him a b I want fresh legs fit see in my line up this week? Uh. He only just a slot corner for Detroit. Justin Coleman concedes just four inches

and forty pounds on Larry Fitzgerald and Darius Lay. He has the same size advantage, probably won't travel to the slot anyway, So Fitzgerald gets a B. Probably an A grade almost, but I'll stick with the B. Christian Kirk, though he's on the bench, he will see Darius Slay and his usage in the preseason has been kind of peculiar. He hasn't I've seen a lot of snaps alongside Kyler Murray, so you gotta wait and see what we have with Kirk.

I would not start him this week. And then speaking of Kyler Murray, he just gets to see this week and the Lions. They did allow multiple touchdown passes to ten of sixteen quarterbacks last but only Deshon Kaiser was able to crack twenty rushing yards and that was in

Week seventeen. So you're probably thinking they didn't face any mobile quarterbacks though, right, Mitch Rubiski, Cam Newton, Russell Wilson, Josh Allen, Dak Prescott, They're all those are all mobile quarterback and they all were held under twenty rushing yards Kyler and people were freaking out preseason one Kyler Murray game, if he does that, it's possible. I'm worried. Yeah, it's

it's this might be. At the time, they just wait kicked back and wait on Kyler Murray and then he gets Baltimore next week the Baltimore and then you trade for him because somebody's gonna be very frustrated with Kyler Murray potentially. All right, let's go to San Francisco and Tampa Bay in our final matchup of this particular segment. George kill is an obvious A and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on him. But let's go to the rest of the passing game led by

Jimmy Garoppolo. It's his first regular season game since his eight c L tear. You mix that together with a wildly and consistent preseason, Mix that together with all the turmoil at the wide receiver position for the nine years in the preseason, and I don't sounds like quite a cocktail.

I don't know that you can start Garoppolo here. I've got a C grade on him only because the matchup with Tampa is pretty compelling, and George Kittle alone makes Garoppolo I think startable, But that's only at a C level.

Dante Pettis U is now no longer on the injury reports, so that's good news there, and each of his last six games of last year, Pettis saw no less than five targets, and he scored four times in those six games, and that includes the Week twelve match up with this very opponent, the Bucks, in which he's put up seventy seven yards in a touchdown. Now, inexplicably, Tampa is trotting out last year's triumvirate of cornerbacking incompetence, including Carlton Davis,

who Pettis burned for his score last year. If I felt better about Garoppolo, Dante Pettis would be an A grade, but instead I've got a C grade on him, just because it's Garoppolo's first game. Back then to the running game, Yes, you find a peculiar This game starts at three fifteen Central by the four Eastern a little bit. Yeah, although maybe it's just for the San Francisco fan base who will just be Caroline are playing. I don't have an answer for that writing game. Tevin Coleman has got a

nice opportunity here, and so does Matt Brita. I've got B grades on both guys because Tampa allowed the most running back touchdowns last year and they're without elite run stuffing defensive lineman Gerald McCoy, who they let walk Tampa also allowed a touchdown and or one hundred rushing yards to a back in all seven of their last games

to end last year. Tevin Coleman also has had a lot of personal success well with the Falcons against the Bucks, scoring four times in his last three games against them. So I like Coleman. But here's the catch. Breed is there too, and when healthy, he's just playing better than Coleman at his position. And I'm giving him a B grade because I think for all the same reasons I like Coleman, I'm gonna like Brida, and I think Breed is a better back. So take that. Take it next.

Let's go to the Let's go to the Tampa side, now led by Bruce Arians. I would feel better about all of them if the offensive line wasn't brutal for the Bucks, and it looked terrible in the preseason. I'm nervous about that part of it. Still. Mike evans Is does get an A grade here, and in obvious a grade that does not does not need a lot of uh of explanation. But let's note this. He is battling illness and his listit is questionable as we look at

the rest of the passing game. Let's go to Jamis Winston. I love the upgraded head coach to Bruce arians Um, but the Niners are dramatically improved defensive line in the off season, particularly their acquisition of DeFord. They put a pick into first round pick into Nick Bossa, who I think is going to play in this game at least situationally,

assuming his his ankle is all right. Winston has a positive matchups all over the field, including Mike Evans, who I mentioned earlier, but also Chris Godwin who gets a B grade. De Sean Jackson and Adam Humphreys left one hundred seventy four vacant targets available for Godwin to soak up, and he'll run from the slot where he draws Kwan Williams, who in proved dramatically over the course of last year.

But Godwin has a sizeable size advantage of four inches and twenty five pounds on Williams and might be able to use that to get to some space. Be great and Godwin and O. J. Howard also the B grade. All those vacant targets I mentioned earlier also helped O. J. Howard here um he was terrific before injury ended his season in Week eleven last year and should pick up right where he left off. Bruce Arians doesn't have the history with the tight end at all, but I don't

think it matters. I mean, O. J. Howard's really good and Bruce Arians never really had great tight ends. Well, if you look back to Heath Miller in Pittsburgh, he Miller had a fantasy viable career. So say Evans is actually too sick to play, I think you gotta go add Breshad Perryman and you start him with confidence. Yeah if if well, if you can almost start, think you can ever started with no Well, but let me just mention this as well. Peyton Barber a nice, potentially nice matchup.

He scored in four the last six games last year, and the Niners allowed a rushing score in each of the last six games last year. But the Tampa offensive line guys are just not convinced they can do enough to help Barber here, and I've just got a C grade on him. Our final topics are ahead. When we provide you with three guys we will believe, we believe

will be the hot waiver wire pickups next week. These are the guys you want to pick up This week, Whether you're ready for it or not, Premature Speculation is coming your way. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Premature Speculation might be the most popular segment on the entire show, where we identify three players we think that are available in the waiver wire you should pick up now before everybody else who wants him. Next week,

I begin with Brian Johnson. Who is your pre spec guy this week? Tampa Bay running back Dare Ogun, one of the fantasy gyms that has emerged from the preseason. Ogun bally will open the season, is Tampa Bay's third down back, and as we all know, Tampa Bay is going to be playing from behind a lot um. Favorable game scripts are in the future, and it's very feasibly eats into the carries of the very average Peyton Barber and vastly inferior Ronald Jones. Alright, Matt, who's your guy?

Will dis Lee of the Seattle Seahawks. No one's healthy in Seattle, just Tyler Lockett and Will Disley. After targeting lock at twenty five times, Wilson will have to go to dis Ley at some point. Uh dis Lee took the league by storm last season with three for one oh five and one in Week one. Scored again in Week two, then missed the rest of the season with a knee injury. He's back, He's healthy. It's will dis Lee my premature speculation back is is also a third

down back. Like Brian mentioned don Trelle Hilliard. Everybody wants a part of the Browns offense. Here's your chance to get be get this year's version of guts of not Gus Johnson Edwards, not Gus Edwards, Duke Johnson. Last year's Duke Johnson roll in Cleveland is now Dontrelle Hilliard and if anything were to happen to Nick Chubb, Trell Hilliard my premature speculation player. Let's get back to our matchups, beginning with Pittsburgh taking on the New England Patriots. James

Conner gets an A grade. He's looked like the full time bell cow back in Pittsburgh a camp, taking almost every snap with the first teamers and the Patriots Achilles Heal his past catching running backs, they were bottom ten and receiving yards allowed and receptions to opposing running backs. Connor had five or more receptions and six of thirteen games last year. Big Ben's getting an A. Uh. He's thrown for three d plus and multiple scores in eight

straight games against New England. That's crazy awesome stat from Evan Silva to No. Eight team played more manned defense than Bill Belichick's Patriots. Sports Info solution credit had Ben with thirty five to ten touchdown to interception racy against man versus thirteen to fifteen against zone. So he likes the man defense, So the Pats play a lot of man. That means uh. Pro Football Focus is top rated corner

from eighteen Stephon Gilmore. It's probably playing jujuice, so I only gave him a C. Yeah, if they held him to four catches for forty yards last year on ten targets, uh. Juju saw double digit targets in six of the last seven games in eighteen. Even if if Gilmore doesn't follow him, he gets j C. Jackson or Jason mccordy. Those guys are both really good too, um, and that's why I

have Dante montcrieff and James Washington on the bench. Vance McDonald, I'm giving a B grade too, though McDonald finished as a top twelve tight end while splitting snaps with Jesse James last year finished third in yards after the catch among tight ends, and if Jujus lockdown, Vance is the next best target on the team. He did score in the meeting last year as well. On the Patriots side,

Tom Brady getting a C grade. Brady has been held under three hundred yards in only one passing, scoring each of the last two matchups with Pittsburgh, and center David Andrews is going to be out. The Pittsburgh defense is a bit reborn too. It's not gonna be an easy

matchup here, agreed Julian Edelman. I gotta B grade on Edelman average nine targets, six catches and seventy one yards in games where Josh Gordon also played last year, and he's had at least seven catches in each of his last four meetings with Pittsburgh and topped ninety yards and three of those four. Josh Gordon, I'm only given a CEE though he's more of a dart throw. We don't quite know how he's gonna be. Came into camp a little bit late, didn't see many snaps with the preseason team.

Uh Sony Michelle and James White. They're the running backs on that team. They're both get Now those are the only two. Yeah, they're both getting. They're both getting C grades. It's possible that both of these guys return numbers in a given week. But this matchup sucks. Uh White lad the team in targets last year. He was bottled up in the game against them. He had seven targets but

only five catches for twenty five yards. The Steelers allowed the second fewest reception to opposing backs last year and an average of only thirty two yards per game through the air to opposing backs. Sony Michelle ran the ball for fifty nine scoreless yards in the prior matchup last year, and the Steelers held opposing runners to the seventh fewest rushing yards last year. They're good defense. It's gonna be

tough for them. They added Devin Bush in the middle right, so that's gonna make it all that much more difficult. I believe Brian Houston taking on New Orleans has feels like a lot of potential fantasy starters here. Yeah, we'll start with the running game for Houston. Duke Johnson gets to see New Orleans gave up the second fewest rushing attempts and the fewest rushing yards last season, only three point two yards per carry. That's pretty brutal, but the

defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins is doubtful to play. That's a plus for Duke, and the Saints did allow the second most receiving touchdowns for running back, so he gets to see DeAndre Hopkins gets in a duh, but he is shadowed by Marshall. He will be shadowed by Marshawn Latimer, who suffocated in coverage as a rookie. Struggled at times last year though, so either way, this will be a tough matchup for him. The premier wide receiver cornerback matchup

of the week A good one to watch. I got all the other receivers on the bench, Will Fuller, Kenny Stills, ki Qt. Fuller's coming off the a c L. You really want to see what you got there with those guys. The floor is way too low for with all three, so we're on the bench. Deshaun Watson, I'll give him a B. I'm really nervous about this front seven and that offensive line despite the trade for learning Mee Tunsil. He's just he's pretty new to the team and Uh,

Watson's gonna be running for his life. But he has his legs, he has Hopkins. You're gonna start him. I'll give him a B borderline c though over the New Orleans Side album. Kamara just to be here. Very tough matchup. Houston did not allow more than eighty two rushing yards to any running back last season. They also surrendered the second I'm sorry in Additionally, two opposing running backs cracked forty receiving yards against the Texans all year class season.

So not a great spot for Kamara. But you're definitely gonna bench bench him. And for those reasons, I have Latavius Murray on the bench. He'll be started with in most weeks. He'll be flex. He'll have some flex appeal, but the Saint it not this week. Michael Thomas though, who Yeah, I'm gonna give him the fantasy FANSI to a He'll see a mixture of Bradley Roby and Jonathan

Joseph and coverage. Roby underachieved as a starter with the Broncos last year, allowing a hundred and sixteen quarterback rating in his coverage. Jonathan Joseph is just old. This is the thirteenth year in the league. Thomas is gonna go off big time. He has to be your number one wide receiver. I would imagine this week or you know he is. I think yes, he is number one. And Jared Cook he gets an A as well. Last year, the Texans allowed the second most tight end yards and

the third most tight end touchdowns. Drew Brees has not had a good tight end since Jimmy Graham. Sorry, Kobe Fleaner, remember whenever it was so hot for cold Innermobile oh Man and Drew Brees. The between Jared Cook and Michael Thomas, and of course Album Kamara. He gets an A grade. This is gonna this is a great spot for him, all right. I get the spectacle Denver Oakland, Antonio Brown. This is the game everyone wants to watch now, Yeah, it on Monday Night. Is the second of the two games.

We begin with the passing game. Joe Flacco with a B grade, which says a lot. But here's your Raiders in organizational disarray, their secondaries influx, they get zero pressure on quarterbacks, and they allowed the most passing touchdowns last year. Joe Flacco B grade. Emmanuel Sanders goes along with that for a B grade. He'll work out of the slot, where he'll face LaMarcus Joiner, former free safety with very little game experience at cornerback. I like him. I like

Courtland Sutton. Most often, he'll face returning cornerback Darryl Worley, who surrendered five scores a season ago that was the fourth most of any cornerback. And Sun's got a huge size advantage over Worly, with a delta of four inches and twenty pounds over Worly. I think Sutton can use that to his advantage. So we'll start those two. Let's go to the running game. You guys know I feel

about Philip Lindsay. I love him, and he faces a Denver run defense that gave up one nineteen rushing yard per game last year's second most, including one hundred seven to Philip Lindsay last year and almost eight yards per carry. Look, I know everybody's all hot for Royce Freeman, and they really want Royce Freeman to go win this thing and go dethrown Philip Lindsay. Not me, not even remotely interested. I think it's gonna be Lindsay more like lukewarm for Freeman.

Can't bet there are people that are very hot for for Freeman. I'm giving Freeman a C grade in this one to Lindsay by the way of B grade if I didn't say it out right, I'm giving Freeman a C grade just because there should be plenty of touches to go around against an Oakland team that gave up the second most rushing yards, third most rushing attempts per game, so I think, and by the way, almost five yards

per carry. So I think Freeman could still get something done here even if Lindsay does get most of the work, which he should get most of the work. Let's go to the Oakland side. I'm gonna save the worst for last.

Start with the running game, Josh Jacobs. The Broncos gave up the fourth most rushing attempts and the sixth most rushing yards per game to a posing running backs, and last year these same Broncos love three different raiders backs to score Marshaw Lynch, Jalen Richard and Doug Doug Martin and Martin and over one hundred yards. So I think you can start Josh Jacobs with a certain amount of

confidence here. Don't like the offensive line, don't like the rest of the offense, and all the other things, all the other chaos, but man running the ball would solve a lot of problems for these Raiders, and they're gonna try. I think the Raiders do not score a touchdown in this game. That's it's not even a bold prediction of Waller. What about Darren Waller? Waller probably catch Jacobs, all right, So let's just go right to Darren Waller. So crazy athlete,

enormous size four or five speed. He walks into the cleats of Jared Cook, who posted a career year in Oakland last season. The Broncos gave up the seventh most yards to tight ends last year. But here comes Vic Fangio. I think he's going to shore that up and they'll they won't be as leaky to tight ends. But I still have a B grade to Darren Waller, and I think he's as likely as anybody to lead the team even targets and receptions. How does that feel, Brian? Are

you loving that? Alright? Good? Now, let's go to the wide receivers. Antonio Brown expected to play um, although there's far too many hours between now and Monday, honestly to know for sure if he's gonna make it to Monday as a starter, but as of this moment, we think he's gonna play as a human. I don't expect Brown to have anywhere close to full snap count Oaks. He missed so much time in the preseason and a brand new team has no real chemistry and timing with the

rest of this offense. I think it's limited snaps for Antonio Brown. And when he's on the field, I think he gets shadowed by outstanding cornerback Chris Harris. So I pour all that together and I got barely a C grade on Antonio Brown only out of respect for his past accomplishments. He could just put him on the bench. Tyrolle Williams is the only guy I want to mention with Antonio Brown likely to only have those I think.

I think somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty plays or less, f Antonio own Tyroll Williams becomes the go to wide receiver. But now they get the problem is when he's on the field, maybe Chris Harris, you know, follows him around, and that wouldn't be great either. So I roll out all together. I gotta see grade on Tyroll Williams. Maybe because Oakland just falls behind by so much so early, they throw the ball a lot, and you just get get garbage time out of Tyroll Williams. That's probably your

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