Thanksgiving Leftovers

doing it right, unless it's ten pounds of pumpkin pie. Because, as I like to mention pretty much annually to our listeners, yeah, you're not eating pumpkin. You're eating squash of canned pumpkin is Dickinson squash. You are eating a cold squash pie. Not only that, not cool Pickinson squash, which that's the worst kind of squash exactly unless you're a big Iron Maiden fan. It is the worst of all possible squashes.

I like it. No, it's squashed. I don't like mountain dew, but you're not drinking fresh dew off of a mountain. I mean, that's a great point. That's that's irrefutable launching right there. Can't top that plenty to get you over the course of the show, we will go through our three tough questions. We'll give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance. Premature speculation coming at the end of the show, and of course we will break down every matchup fantasy style like we always do, and

we begin with the Chicago Bears facing the Jets. Matt, We're not yet sure if Justin Fields is gonna go, but let's assume he does. With the bad shoulder, gotta believe we're gonna get less rushing Justin Fields if he does play. Yeah, I was gonna mention that he was limited in practice all week with a left shoulder injury.

That's his non throwing shoulder. Uh. I imagine the Bears still do suit him up and have him play, but I do think they take away a few rushing attempts and a few hits off of fields due to the injury, still giving him a solid be The Jets did allow Josh Allen to go for eighty six and two scores on the ground just two games ago, and man, if if you're if you're scared to take rushing away from fields, they probably shouldn't play fields at all. Right, Well, I

think from the Bears perspective, you're talking fantasy. No from from the Bears. I think they want him to to continue to develop as a past Okay, so there we go. I think they would like to see what he can do. Trevor Simeon the gross backup. By the way, I hope Fields played in the Spike game. The Jets took Zach Wilson picks before justin Fields spite games science had that one in the holster for I just know him. Alan

Forever had memorized all this spite practically. Um. David Montgomery returned to bell cow status last week with Khalil Herbert on I R twenty touches last week, including all of the RB targets. The Jets are good run defense, but they have allowed a fair amount of success to running backs in the passing game. They ranked ninth most in receptions and receiving yards allowed to the position. So Montgomery gets a B. I think he gets a lot of

work in this game. Darnell Mooney has been better, but only in the fact that he scored in two of the last three weeks. He's top sixty yards only once in the last five games, though, He's just way too inconsistent. The Jets are top four and receptions and yards allowed to the wide receiver position. For that reason, Mooney and Chase Claypool both on the bench and Cole commet he's a complete dart throw. Last week he sunk you with

a three for thirty five against Atlanta. In the prior three weeks he had five touchdowns, though, but he didn't score once in weeks one through seven. So which cole commit is it? It's probably the bad one this week. The Jets have not allowed a tight end touchdown all year, and you're pretty dependent on that stat for commit to be startable. So I'll give him the lowest possible C grade in the tight end waste comme. Yeah, I was just saying, really really low, low sestosterone grade. Alright, Mike

White is your new starter for the Jets. Zack Wilson was dropped below Joe Flacco to third on the depth chart. Will probably be inactive this week. I think he will be inactive the rest of the year. I'm not sure about that. I think they might just want to give him a couple of weeks off to clear his head here, maybe maybe get right. Uh many of you remember Mike White from his four hundred five yard three touchdown outburst in his second career game last year against the Bengals.

His other two and a half games in the league were pretty brutal though. Uh and he offers absolutely zero running ability. He does not run. He has a stand in the pocket and chuck the ball passer. And the Bears are a pretty good past defense. They have like one of the league's worst defense against running quarterbacks, which kind of it's a it's a little bit of a head scratcher here that Zack Wilson, who is a little mobile isn't at least active in this game for that

kind of thing. But oh well, uh so it's because he's bad. Okay, sure he has bad. I keep White on the bench. Twa and Dak are the only quarterbacks to throw for multiple scores on the Bear since Week two, and with that, I'm leaving the rest of the receivers on the bench as well, including Garrett Wilson, a Jets wide receiver, has not scored a touchdown since Week four, which is why Zach Wilson isn't starting anymore. Uh. The last Jet to mention is Michael Carter. He gets a

C grade here. Carter snap percent percentage still hovering around fifty, with James Robinson and Ty Johnson splitting the remainder of the snaps. The Jets are a good matchup for Carter to get something going this week. Their bottom five in rushing yards and touchdowns allowed to opposing backs this year, and they have allowed of rushing score to a running back in six of the last seven games. So Carter gets the c I think Carter had like fifteen catches

and that Mike White game. Ye, Mike White is a dump off pass or big time that could absolutely help him here. Tampa Bay takes like Cleveland Brian for the Tampa Bay offense outside of Leonard for Nett, who is now the backup. Really that this is as healthy as this offense has been all year A most all the receivers, the starting receivers are all healthy. Brady's healthy and Rashad White healthy. So I've got a little optimism here for the Tampa Bay Bucks going up against a Cleveland defense

that's been pretty bad lately. Yeah, Bucks coming off there by too, So a lot of start starting grades here, We'll start running back. I'm giving Rashad White b even if for Net goes for nets kind of if he with this hip injury, he's been practicing in a limited fashion, but it's it's White show at this point. Feels like so I got for net on the bench and Rashad White with a B, whether for Net plays or not.

Over the Browns last three games, opposing backs are averaging rushing yards per game, and on the season, Cleveland has surrendered the most total touchdowns to the position. Brown's also allowing more than five catches per game to running back. So I might be talking to myself into an A here for I think I just did and changing it all right from B to and A. I wish I could have done that on many report cards as a kid,

but I could not. Anyway, over to the wide receiver side, I'm just gonna give a seed to Mike Evans, who hasn't scored a touchdown since Week four. But the Browns have surrendered six wide receiver touchdowns over the last five games, so Evans has a shot to snap his scoreless street here. That said, he should see plenty of coverage from Denzil a Ward, who has looked great over the last two

weeks since returning from injuries. Surrendering just five catches for fifty scoreless yards in his last two games, and those came against Miami and Buffalo elite pass offenses. So just to see for Evans, but a B for Chris Godwin, who plays around his snaps from the slot, which means we'll see a lot of cornerback A J. Green, and I don't mean the wide receiver, but he might be a better court cornerback then A J. Green the cornerback,

but a J. Green the cornerback. Here was first start of the season last week due to the loss of Greg Newsome, who who will be out again this week. Green only played twenty two snaps in coverage, but he was targeted four times and gave up three catches for twenty one yards and a touchdown. So throw it his way and Chris Godwin should be uh in line for a big day. Julio Jones, who looked great in that

Germany game. I got bench here. I'll switch it to a C. It's not the greatest matchup, but I just kind of want to see him do it one more time before I trust him to put in my starting line up. The Browns are allowing less than eleven catches per game to wide receivers as a whole, which is not a lot. I like Godwin and Evans more. But if you're in a pinch, I'll give Julio the Sea, but I will not give a C to k dot

And or Cameron Bred. They're back to splitting time, so they're both on the bench and to be for Tom Brady. The Browns have allowed multiple touchdown passes and two of their last three games. Josh Allen should have had multiple touchdowns. Last week, Stephon Diggs dropped one, and I just think that the trio of Tampa based wide receivers and child White can do enough damage through the air to make Brady a QB one this week, so he gets to

the Sea. Over the Cleveland side. Nick Chubb gets a B. As I mentioned, the Bucks are coming off their by so they'll be well rested and over the Over their last two games, they're allowing turned very good on against the running, allowing just forty three rushing yards per game to imposing backs and no touchdowns. And that includes holding Kenneth Walker to just seventeen rushing yards on ten carries in their last game. So just a B for Chubb.

Uh b inn for Kareem Hunt, barely rosterable at this point, he hasn't topped I agree, I think he's certainly a drop candidate. Hasn't top fifty rushing yards since Week two, he hasn't caught a touchdown since week one, hasn't topped thirty receiving yards all season, and over his last two games he has total just fourteen touches. So easy bench for Hunt. He's really just an insurance policy in case

anything happens at job. He was always like a flex worthy player, but now he's pretty much as a handcuff chubbed books. Fine knock on wood, he'll stay healthy. So yeah, if you gotta drop Hunt, I don't blame you. Definitely don't drop a Marie Cooper. You actually want to start him again with a B. He's played great at home and in Detroit at a neutral site, but this is a home game, and although it isn't the best matchup on paper, the Bucks have surrendered three wide receiver touchdowns

over their last two. So I like Cooper here and I'm gonna continue to like Donovan People's jones. He gets to see finally hit paydirt last week, and uh, dudes just been consistent over the last two months. Uh DPJ has notched at least fifty receiving yards in seven straight games and the top seventy yards and five of those seven games. So keep rolling them out. There is a wide receiver three and I he seems like a pretty safe play, David and Joeku somewhat safe. He gets to see.

The Bucks have allowed at least six catches to opposing tight ends and two of the last three games, and we'll take that production in the tight end waste land. And lastly, Jacoby Brissette and what could be his last start of the season because DeShawn Watson's eligible today. Previously claimed that they were gonna make the switch no matter what as soon as Watson was available, and I guess his contract would suggest that that will be the case. Per Sette played really well last week. I think he's

overall QB one. If not, he was the top three quarterback and he's gonna want to go out in a blaze of glory. I'm giving him a see here. The Bucks have surrendered multiple touchdown PA passes in three of their last four games, and they also on the sixth highest opponent passing play percentage on the road, Superset will have his chance to air it out. You can say he's gonna go on a blaze of glory and then give him a cee. Well starting to go. See that's

that's that's the Jacobe prisets like blaze of glory. Startable, that's it. That's it. Baltimore takes on Jacksonville. Let's go through. Uh, let's really just a handful of lukewarm starters for a Baltimore offense that has struggled a lot. Mark Andrews is not in question, obviously after returning in full strength last week, and the Jaguars prior to last week's by got blown apart by you know, the Kansas City tight Ends, which granted, you know they're really good. Uh, still a grade for

Mark Andrews. But where things get a lot dice here is for Lamar Jackson since week three, and it was a long time ago. It was September, it was warm outside, the trees hadn't changed yet, Tom Brady was still married.

He scored seven touchdowns total rushing and receiving. He's typically Lamar Jackson's typically being outscored by whichever other quarterback you have on your roster still HiT's Jacksonville Giras have allowed the most broken tackles, which could bode well for Jackson on the ground, and it's a bit of a plus matchup for him through the air as well. Posing quarterbacks are averaging two D fifty eight passing yards and one

and a half touchdowns per game against Jacksonville. I would take one and a half touchdowns at this point for Lamar Jackson. You can't start any of his wide receivers since Bateman has gone down. These receivers as a group are averaging sixty eight yards per game among all of them. It's a disaster, and we're not chasing DeMarcus Robinson's random explosion last week. They're all on the bench B grade

for Lamar Jackson. If I didn't give him an actual letter grade, I'm going be here just because of the rushing upside that he's got. Then over to Gus Edwards if he plays and when we don't know for sure if he's going to or not startable as a touchdown option against the team allowing a rushing touchdown per game

since Week four. And reminder, last time Gus Edwards played in his only other full game the immediately game sixteen carries and two and he scored two rushing touchdowns, so they won't hesitate to give him the ball to stripe again here as well, Kenyan Drake comes into the C grade. He's had at least ten touches in each of the last five games while averaging seventy two total yards and

almost a score per game. Um. But the catch here again, if Gus Edwards plays, then he's not getting those touchdowns. Those will probably go to Edwards. The Jaguars allowed the tenth most total yards per game to opposing running backs, and they're particularly vulnerable through the air. But Drake does not catch, so that does not help him, and that's why he has a C grade along with Gus Edwards C grade. All right, let's go to Jacksonville. You got

a handful of starters here. Tricky game for Travis E. T N. In the two games since Baltimore acquired linebacker ro Kwan Smith, they're giving up third scoreless rushing yards per game. That's it. That includes, by the way, in those two games they faced Alvin Kamara and Donta Foreman. Those are two pretty good backs. Both. Well, we'll actually talk more about one of those players in great detail a little bit later in the show. Um, they do

remain vulnerable through the air. They're seeing the sixth most receptions of fifth most receiving yards, and Travis E. T N can catch a bit, but they don't use him that much as much as you think they would. He's averaging three targets per game. He's hauled in three receptions in half of his games this season. So I just I don't see a lot coming here. You need a touchdown really for Travis e t N, which he might get, and that's why I've got a C grade on him

and not a bench grade altogether. In a brutally tough matchup they could work in. They claimed Darryl Henderson to they've they've Alrea will not be a factor this week. I'm happy to say Christian Kirk gets a B grade as my highest graded Jaguar this week. Unlikely. He's been an unlikely top ten wide receiver so far this season, but consistently helpful. Kirk has averaged sixty eight yards. He's reached pay dirt four times in his last five games.

His primary defender in the slot is rookie cornerback de Marian Williams. He has the third lowest Pro Football Focus grade among all cornerbacks. It's a glorious matchup for Christian Kirk, who comes in with a B grade. Here. The rest of the Jacksonville receivers, including the Jacksonville Joneses, our benchable. We are not keeping up with the Joneses. They've They're barely rostered anywhere anyway. It's a brutal matchup which you do not like. And since week for only one receiver

has top seventy six yards against Baltimore. How about we call them Jacksonsville Jacks Jacksons, maybe Jacksons jack I don't know. I think it's a stretch. I'll be honest. Trevor Lawrence is a c gre He's been a viable Fantasy star, but I do not like this matchup. Baltimore has only surrendered multiple touchdowns twice all season. They've been dominant over the last month, allowing just to score since weeks six.

So Trevor Lawrence with a tricky matchup in just the sea grade in this game when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players upon whom you can take a chance. These are guys not normally in your starting lineup. Many of these players are available off the waiver wire. We will tell you who they are when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back. Take your chance at me nine players you would not normally start. Many of these guys available on the waiver wire. Let's

begin at the quarterback position, at Matt Harrison. I'll use Matt Ryan, who has looked all right since re taking over the starting job with new coach Jeff Saturday. We're quick to forget that Ryan has three games of over three fifty passing yards this season, and he's thrown every

single one of the Colts passing scores this year. Uh, the Steelers have allowed the fourth most passing yards and the third most passing scores, and out of the ten quarterbacks they faced, eight of them have had at least two hundred fifty yards or multiple touchdowns. All right, Matt Ryan in the house. Let's go to your quarterback, Brian.

I got Ryan Tannehill at home against the Bengals. Over the last two weeks, the Titans that faced the number one in number five pass defenses and the Broncos and the Packers, and Tannehill has average passing game with four

touchdown passes over those two games, not too shabby. Now draws the Bengals, who just let Kenny Pickett throw for two sixty and a touchdown, which should have been too Yeah, yeah, I really should have to bring that up again because it costs me like two grand and daily if George Pickens holds onto that ball. So I'm gonna turn off my mic and cry now. H Taylor Heineke is no need to cry here. He has been named the full time starter for Washington. He's looked good on paper. What

does not look good? Atlanta UM They look like an improved secondary, but in the last month they have faced the modest passing of p J Walker, Justin Fields, p J. Walker, and Justin Herbert without his whiteouts. Prior to those games, the Falcons are getting destroyed by quarterbacks three or eighteen yards and almost two touchdowns per game. Heineke probably does not bring three eighteen and two to the table. It's

not his kind of upside. In fact, he hasn't scored in back to back games, but a solid game probably coming here running from the outside. Terry McLaurin has got very nice matchups. We'll talk more about him later, or so, just if only for Terry mclaurin's upside, we can start Taylor Heineke this week. Terry, Let's go to the running back position. Raheem most Stirt is a must start this year or this week. Yes, most are to said single digit carries in both games since Jeff Wilson came to town.

But also yes, the Texans are that bad where eight or nine carries for most are it might be enough. They're basically bottom three in every category against running backs, but the most notable one should be they've allowed the most running back combo yards in the league this year at a hundred and eighty four per game. It's insane, and the third most total touchdowns to running backs at fourteen through ten games. So most are it's got a decent chance at eighty and a score here in a

backup role. Here, in a backup role, Brian, you're running back, take a chance on me. Player uh Deonta foreman of the Panthers at home against the Broncos. He falls back into take on range sadly after his gud game last week, but he could bounce back against the Broncos defense has

softened against the run. Over their last four games, opposing backs are averaging rushing yards per game on nearly five yards per carry against Denver, and you know the Panthers will want to lean on the run game with Sam Donald starting at quarterbacks. So I'm going back to the well with foreman all right, might take a chance of me running back him? Probably Littavius Murray, last man standing again the Denver back. Is it the dawning of the

age of Lottavius again again? He could be Mike Boone, by the way, as a reminder, still on the injured reserve. He's a good take a chance. I mean, our pre's been sure speculation. We might talk about him more later. His only competition for touches for Latavius Murray's Marlon Mack, who has already been cut twice this year. Murray could be looking at a lot of volume against the Panther's team allowing the sixth most rushing yards the fifth most

touchdowns per game to opposing running backs. And despite Denver's offensive woes, Murray's been solid. He's scored in three or five games. He's averaged sixty ish total yards in the other two games. He's been a solid contributor anyway. Now he's gonna get the aster majority of the work. Let's go to the wide receiver position. Well, I'm gonna go with the tight end position. I'm going really, really, really deep into the tight end waste land chargers, backup tight ends.

Tray McKitty, you're not going Donald Palm, No, he's not. I rude. Oh that's pretty good. Yeah, I was gonna see if we had a meal. I think I think we have a horse nee. Yeah, I've got anyway, that's that's technically a mongoose, but you know they got four legs. Gerald Everett does look like he'll play this weekend. He's a good start too, but it's a groin injury for Everett. Those tend to recur a little bit. Donald Palm on I r so here, McKitty kitty, Uh, McKitty saw six

targets in Week ten against the forty. Niners dominated the snap count last week and Everett's absence, and this week he gets the Cardinals, who are the worst tight end defense in the league. They have allowed the most receptions, yards and touchdowns to tight ends this year, which is why they are the worst. Let's go to Brian your take a chance of me receiver. I got Mac Hollands

of the Raids at at Seattle. Over Seattle's last two games, opposing wide receivers are averaging fifteen catches and a hundred and fifty plus yards per and they've total three touchdowns. Those are good numbers for the opposition, and you have to expect that Davante Adams will command lots of double coverage from the Seahawks. So I think Mac will find some space in this one. And most importantly, there is

a spike game angle here and draft. The Seahawks selected Amara Darbo exactly twelve picks before mac hollins, and he's gonna rub it in their face on Sunday. When was mccollins drafted like the six early fourth mccollins literally has a most of them three times. Paris Campbell has surged to life with Matt Ryan under center, and Campbell's last four games with Ryan he scored three in time. In those four games, He's averaging seven catches for sixty eight

yards and Matt Ryan's starts impressive. There is no reason to believe the Steelers will slow down Paris Campbell's momentum running from the slot. He's gonna face Arthur Malllett, one of the league's shakiest slock corners. Male I got roasted for eighty one yards in a score last week and he owns up PF ranking as the one hundred six cornerback.

It's an excellent opportunity for Paris Campbell. Just so you guys know, when you're doing scientific spike game research, you have to break the draft into tears and you look at like, I'm not gonna Let's say Matt Collins. You know, Justin Jefferson was draft and it was different drafts. You know what I'm saying. It's a spike game. You'll do anything to find his spike games. Uh, Matt, let's go to Houston taking on Miami. We have already touched. Uh

did we touch on this game? Yeah, well a little bit. But let's start with Houston, who has another new quarterback. It's Kyle Allen, who seems primed to get the start. Davis Mills. He'd be close to take a chance on me player this week because Miami tends to get into

track meets with opposing teams. However, the Dolphins have been pretty decent against backup level quarterbacks in the last six weeks, Zach Wilson, Jacoby Brissette, and Kenny Pickett have all been held under to sixty yards and limited to one or zero touchdowns. Alan has two starts in the last three years, and the best game of those was for the Washington football team, where he threw for two eight and two against the then horrible Giants. Everything else was bad. I'm

keeping him on the bench. Uh. Nico Collins and Brandon Cooks, I'll give them both SEA grades just because it's probably a little bit of a game script situation here. Collins has led Cooks in targets and catch totals in each of the last two games that both have played, and in the last three games, four different wide receivers have topped ten PPR points against the Dolphins, So both startable here. We'll talk more about Nico Collins later in the show. Sure,

Damian Pierce just a B grade here. It was It's closer to a CEE than an A. By the way, the Dolphins have been great against the run. They're allowing the fourth fewest combo yards per game to opposing runners. The bright spot is the Dolphins are allowing just over a tight end or sorry a touchdown per game to opposing runners, and Pierce gets almost all the work, so he should be able to claw his way to like eight yards in a score here also a bit of

a homecoming game. Oh yeah, there we go, right he mostart might take a chance on me runner and for similar points already made. Jeff Wilson gets an A grade in this one. Yes, I love Jeff. I think I have Jeff Wilson number three running back. I mean it's Houston, It's it's okay. Hey, can we consider an art Vark for Jeff Wilson. No, that's silly, he's not that he's there's most starts still there, I got I got art Varks later in the show for so many uh um,

all right back to uh the Dolphins. Despite no one passing on the Texans and it's so easy to run against them, I'll still give Tyrek and a grade and Jalen Waddle a B. Davante Adams A J Brown, Darius Slayton each put up quality Fantasy days against the Texans in the last month, and the talent of Hill and Waddle just should be able to do the same even

with limited touches. Mike Kasiki is totally touchdown dependent, and I wouldn't say that this is a favorable touchdown matchup as the Texans have only allowed four scores the position in ten games. So I'll keep him on the bench. If I like Hill and Waddle, I gotta like Tah enough to give him a B grade. He has three touchdown passes in three straight games. I think he can do enough to cobble together a fourth straight multi touchdown

game here. So TA is good to go alright TOA is good to go TOA is going to end up finishing the season as your yardage leader even with his missed games. That is very possible. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes might have something to say about that. That's that's gonna be the tricky That's gonna be the tricky one. But I'm

team two on this one, in particular. When we come back Denver takes on Carolina, we'll tell you if any we already told you one Denver player we like, we'll tell if there's any others that we like in this really ugly matchup. D J Moore startable yes, no drop herble yes no. Plenty To get to four segment number three of Fantasy Football Weekly coming up in moments. It's

Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Guillotine at Least dot com, Matt Harrison's Shock Fantasy Brian Johnson Guillotine Leagues dot com. You can follow us on Twitter at Paul Charchy and at Explosive Output and at b t x J, respectively. Denver takes on Carolina. This is the crappiest matchup of the weekend. Brian. Yeah, what's the opposite of a barn burner, barn raiser? It's the Amish barn raising and day. That's

the opposite right there. I would probably rather watch the Amish raiser bar in this football game over under in this game is six. Start with Latavius Murray. He was charges take a chance on me running back, basically the only running back active for the Broncos. So yeah, I like that. Start Um Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy. I'll give them both the seed. Judy, keep your eye on him. He might not play, but if he suits up, I'll give him the See here, the Panthers secondary has struggled

without starting corner Dante Jackson. Loss. Yeah, they allowed to wide receiver touchdowns. The Falcons in Week ten. Last week to Marcus Robinson had nine catches for a dy yards against them. So Sutton end or Judy can get something done here. But I only think it'll be one of them. It's because J. C. Horns on the other side, right, and he's awesome. And we'll talk about their quarterback in a minute to uh in not a very nice way. I can't wait for that anyway. Let's talk about the

tight end quick. Greg Dalson she gets to see has a decent matchup this week, as the Panthers are allowing five catches in fifty yards per game to tight ends, and over their last five games, Carolina has yielded nine targets to the position, So I like doll sits here nine times nine times. Lastly, though Russell Wilson, he is on the bench, has thrown for zero or one touchdown in every game but one, so he now needs five touchdown pass I didn't do this reach research. I wish

I could attribute this. I don't know who initially came up with this, but he needs five touchdown passes to equal the number of toilets he has in his house, which is reportedly twelve twelve. He's got twelve toilets. He started the season with twelve, and they're speculating that he has not added anymore toilets to his house nor subtracted anymore any toilets from his house. So they've got that at twelve. But if what if you put in like a yurnal or something, well, I don't think you were

count I don't mean. I think a guy that sits down to pe every time, so I think in his house. I'm sorry, Russell, you're just too easy to pick on anyway. Over to the Panther's side, Uh don'te Foreman was my Are you gonna give Russell a grade? Uh? Bench toilet toy? I'll put him on the throne. He can pick one of his toilet. He can sit on the bench, or he can sit on the toilet on the throne, is what I hear you say. All right, let's ride to the other side. Over to the Panthers. Dante Foreman was

my take a chance on me running back. Denver's d softened as of late, so I like him in this matchup to bounce back. I do not like Tchuba Hubbard. He use on the bench. Since his return in week ten, Cuba has nine carries for fourteen scoreless yards in a very bad fumble. So I don't see him doing much here. I don't see Terrace Marshall or d J. Moore doing much either. They're on the bench with Sam Donald as quarterback, and the Broncos are only allowing eleven catches one yards

per game to wide receivers. They've surrendered just five touchdowns to the position. Granted, four of those five touchdowns have come over the last two weeks. Nick Westbrook, A Keene and Davante Adams both top the hundred yards and scored toys against Denver over the last two weeks. But again, Sam Donald, as you're starting cornerback quarterback, I can't go there with more or Marshall, and I'm certainly not gonna start Tommy Tremble or Sam Donald, of course certainly not.

All right, let's just can we agree just drop d J. Moore. I mean, think about good. It's gonna did a long time ago. I mean, yes, and I missed the one good game he had, right, it is about one good game. You're gonna feel so good. I mean, do they play Atlantic again? At least want to have him for the Atlantic game? No, they played it twice twice three weeks.

It's over. It's over when you hit the drop button and confirm to just unshackle yourself from d J. You're talking redraft only the of course I wouldn't drop him in Dynasty. They have to do that with Kyle Pitts a couple of weeks ago, too, did you I did got ahead of you. You You dropped him in Dynasty. No, Atlanta takes on Washington and we've got exactly one starter

and it's we're back to this. It's Drake London. London is you have to see more than forty receiving yards since week three, but the Commanders have allowed the most wide receiver touchdowns over the past five weeks. In London's got that big frame, well suited friend zone news. His most common individual matchup is against cornerback Ben st Juice, a neutral matchup, and he's given up a lot of touchdowns.

So on the hope that if you think Marcus Mariota is good for one touchdown, one touchdown pass, Drake London's got to be the guy. No, Kyle Pitts, We've already covered that. Moments ago. I can see Pitts just standing on the sideline and Mariotta throw us at him and he's like, oh, now you do, Now you throw He's gonna he's gonna catch three balls on the sideline an out out more fantasy points that he's had in nice. He was having a good game last week before he

got hurt. That's that's all you've got left, don't you. Before his season ending injury, he was doing well. You had a few good games. Let's talk about your bench players, including Marcus Mariotta. You already know the Falcons rarely passed. They thirty one and passing plays per game thirty one and passing percentage. How funny would it be for Kyle Pitts owners if Mariotta throws like fifty passes in this game and all to the tight end. Right, Well, he's

a wide receiver. So with Pitts gone, it removes on of Mariota's few aerial weapons. London is gonna need to single handedly power the passing offense, something he's not proven he's able to do. You're really you're starting Mariota with the hope of rushing. Washington has allowed quarterback rushing touchdowns and back to back games, so you could throw a I guess you could throw a dart market Mariota, but I've got a bench good on him, and I don't

recommend it. All the running backs, Patterson, Algier, Huntley Williams. What a what a mess for fantasy owners. It's a matchup that features the league's ugliest running back by committee with the league's best run defense. So they're all on the bench. Commanders have held their last six opponents under one rushing yards, and on the season, only one runners top seventy six yards against Washington. Only two backs have

scored rushing touchdowns against Washington since the opener. A brutal matchup. So they're all on the bench. Let's go to Washington side of this, or we do have more we have more optimism for their players. Taylor Heineke was might take a chance on me quarterback Terry McLaurin, I mentioned, and when I was tign about Taylor, Heineke was saying, Terry mccluy, nice matchup a grade Terry McLaurin. Sence, Heineke took over McLaren, averaging a robust nine targets and eighty five yards per game.

McLaren can dominate an Atlanta secondary that's allowed the most receptions and the most yards to wide receivers, along with the third most touchdowns. Cornerback A J. Terrell is allowed the most coverage touchdowns of any player in the league and an astoundingly high one D thirty one passer rating on passes thrown into his coverage. Terry McLaurin a grade

Curtis Samuel, though on the bench. He was getting a ton of you so with Carson Wentz, but very little with Heineke, averaging just two catches per game over the last month. We're gonna keep him on the bench. The running backs Robinson and Gibson both gets C grades in this one. For Robinson, over the last three games only Chicago is run the ball at a higher percentage than Washington, which gives Robinson ample opportunity to get basically stuff that

the line of scrimmage because that's what he does. He ranks fifty first out of fifty three running backs in yards before contact. He has not averaged more than three point nine yards per carrying any game this year. Atlanta has however, seen a running back score against them in five consecutive games. And that's the only reason I have a starting grade on Brian Robinson is the expectation that he could get a touchdown in this game on a

short run. Antonio Gibson factors into the C grade. I went back and forth with him on a C grade versus bench if you factor in the receptions, Gibson is getting as many touches as Robinson lately, and he's doing more with them. Both Gibson and Robinson got carries inside the five yard line last weeks, so you've got the hope for a touchdown for Gibson as well. And I mentioned before Atlanta is giving up running back touchdowns. The Falcons aren't giving up a lot of running back reception.

So I don't think Gibson helps you out a lot from a PPR standpoint, but hopefully in totality can cobble together a good game. Let's work in another matchup, Matt New Orleans taking on San Francisco. Alvin Camara has let's just say it, he's been bad. We're gonna talk more about him next segment. What do you think about this matchup with San Francisco. I was gonna call him topsy turvy, but a hundred and fifty eight yards and three scores

against the Raiders now four weeks ago. Since then, he's averaged sixty five total yards and had zero scores in the next three games. Now. He did that facing two top ten run defenses there, and he gets another one this week in San Francisco. The Niners have allowed the fewest rushing yards this season. They've only allowed five total touchdowns to the position all year. He also hasn't practiced

this week due to an illness. I gonna give Kamara a C grade, but he's more of a flex consideration than a solid starter at running back, and I'd rather have him on the bench if I have any better options. This week. Andy Dalton has been Andy Dalton, and uh that's about as good as you can say for the Saints starting quarterback. Solid but not spectacular, multiple touchdowns in

three or five games. Problem is, the Niners have allowed two total touchdown passes in the last three games, and they're starting to get healthy at the right time, so Dalton is probably not start worthy. In a week with thirty two teams playing, Chris O Lave gets the best matchup of the wide receivers against Diamador Lenore, who's allowing a passer rating of one oh one in his coverage.

I'll give him a B O. Lave managed a hundred yards in a score last week, and despite Juwan Johnson scoring five touchdowns in his last five games, he Taysom Hill, Jarvis Landry, and the rest of the Saints passing game is on the bench. It's just not a very favorable match up against the Niners. Over on the San Francis go side, Christian McCaffrey, he gets an A grade. The Saints have allowed the eighth most rushing yards this year, and McCaffrey has scored a touchdown in three straight games

against New Orleans. Now, granted those were all with Carolina, but here we go. Deebo Samuel still nursing a hamstring injury. He's been limited in practice all week. He only played in fifty eight percent of the snaps last week, mostly because the game script didn't really need him in there. Against the Cardinals, he'll probably play, but if the Niners are able to get up early, they might just ease

off Debo in the second half altogether. So just a C grade on Debo, and it's a very contrarian angle. I just think that if they were up by that much hasn't Debo already helped your team a lot, not necessarily because Brandon I Yuke has been great, Christian McCaffrey is awesome. George Kittles had a great couple of games. So I think that there's just other weapons there and Debo just might be the odd man out. They might want to treat him with kid gloves, get him ready

for the playoff run. Brandon I Yuk I am giving an eight grade to five scores in his past five of games. Eighty yards are a score in five straight games. Uh. The Saints have been better against wide receivers lately, but they've played the Ravens without Bateman, the Rams without Cup, and the Steelers wide receiver groups in the last three weeks. The Saints are allowing the ninth most yards in the eleventh most touchdowns per game, so it's a good matchup

for wide receivers. George Kittle gets a C because the Saints are actually the best tight end defense in the league and it's not very close. They've only allowed one tight end score this year, and the best tight end day that anyone has had against the Saints was last week. It was Tyler Higbee who was the only guy on the Rams roster. I'm pretty sure he had four catches for forty five yards. That was the best day. Now Kittle is the best tight end they've faced, and he's

just coming off eighty four yards and two scores. So he's still startable here. But the matchups pretty tough. Jimmy G gets a C grade. It's the middle of the PAC matchup for him. The Saints do not intercept the ball. That's good for Jimmy G. They've only got two on the season, and Garoppolos coming off multiple touchdown game in five of his last six, so I like him with a C grade. Kind of closer to a bee than a bench. Though that sounds like a C grade to me,

it does a lot like a secret. I know. I'm just giving you know, some context and layering to where my C grade stands. All right, understood, I've got a couple of questions for you guys. From the Thursday Thanksgiving games, Ramondre Stevenson looked very good. But now Damien Harris, we don't know the full status of his injury situation. Harris actually started that game. We we we loved Romandi Stevenson when when Damian Harris was out like you know he was.

He was getting a grades most weeks when Harris was out. Then Harris came back. Uh in the last couple of games, he got a bunch of work. In fact, he was, as I mentioned, starter on Thursday. But now it looks like he might be out again for a while. Where is Ramondre Stevenson rest of season? Because I think I think he's an RB one automatic start the rest of

the way, inside the top ten easily. I saw among all running backs he's fourth in target percentage only behind like McCaffrey, Kamara and Ekeler and then they're there's Stevenson and they they're they're more of a run first team. We didn't really see that on Thursday night, but they were throwing to Stevenson a ton, So yeah, I mean ten targets on Thursday. Harris is a fine player, went healthy, but it's getting to the point where it's like you

just gotta play Stevenson. He's like too good. He's just too good. Yeah, I agree with everything you said. I think Stevenson's probably six seven right in there at that range for running backs you'd want the rest of the year, right there talk to me about I'm on Ross St. Brown, who's replicating last year's end of season tear right now with another big game on Thursday night, and it looks like, much like last year, this offense is going to go

through him. He's kind of a beast. Remember when Jared Goff had Cooper Cup and just kept feeding Cooper Cup the ball? I do. I think him on Ross St. Brown his his new Cooper Cup. I think that this ey's the limit for him right here, and he could be And I think that I was saying in the break, I think he's my number one wide receiver as we head into draft season next year. So you're right now, right now, I'm looking at the Monross st. Brown. I think he's my number one wide receiver going into it

for Justin Jefferson. Yeah, I think that he just gets so much target share in Detroit. I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be fun watching him. There's one potential speed bump rest of the season and next year, and it's Jamison Williams. That's true, but that's gonna help the whole offense too, so it might be great. Yeah, I'm not saying it's gonna it's gonna hurt him more than it's gonna help him. But and and they might have a new quarterback in town next year to that

is possible. Dalton Schultz two touchdown game, looks healthy, looks like a totally different player that we saw in the first half of the season. Now with the dearth of tight ends out there, where do you believe he ranks a tight ends off top of the head? I mean he's behind Kelsey of course, with Mark Andrews, and that's about it until Alice Goddard comes back hopefully. Yeah, he's definitely a top five I think rest of the way,

I can't name anybody out of the other than those two. Well, and really the things weren't working out because Doc was out or Dalton was out for those first first few games there. And now that they're both back and healthy, he's he's being targeted in the red zone like just all the time. You can throw Kiddle in that mix too, of course, behind Kelsey obviously, but yeah, he's right up there. What do you do if you're playing against any of the three guys that we just broke down Stevenson amand

Ross st Brown or Um Justin Jefferson. Well, if you're behind, point of if you're behind by a lot heading into this weekend, how does it change your draft? How does it change your lineup strategy for the weekend. I mean, we kind of cover this every time a huge go off game happens on a Thursday night. But you get a little more risky with your with your decisions, not

not necessarily the safety. You go for the guy who can get you a hundred and fifty yards and scores, but also might get you thirty and nothing, righte most in a very juicy matchup as an auto starter, and then try and pair a quarterback with the pass catcher, stack them up, hope hopefully the quarterback goes off to to your guys. That's right. I think that's Those are

the two I think the two most straightforward strategies. If you're already down by thirty and get away from a quarterback if the other team as a receiver for the quarterback redvice first, you can't you can't afford to do that if you're Yeah, because then they both they both go together. Yeah. Absolutely, it makes a ton of sense as well. Our number two of Fantasy Football Weekly coming up momentarily If you want all of the player ratings, you can get them at Guillotine leagues dot com for free.

All the positions broken down and explained at no cost. Guillotine leagues dot Com our number two coming up in moments. It's our number two Fantasy football weekly. This is a segment we like to call three tough questions. We encourage you to play along and see if you can go three and oh. Tough question number one. Should we drop Leonard four Net from our rosters? We begin with Matt Harrison.

I don't think so. He's still getting double digit touches and basically every game, and he's getting run in the red zone, which is most important. Uh. The interesting was the snap count two carries last week for the Bucks. For Net was only on the field for twenty two snaps. That was only of the share, but he touched the ball fifteen times and twenty two snaps. That's a pretty heavy workload for only twenty two snaps. Uh. They have some plays that they want to run with four NET.

That's what that means. They have some things that they're like, this is a for Net play. This isn't a Rashod White play, but good on ra shod White to really take over the backfield and have the past protection lockdown. That's the thing that rookies need to do, and he's really done that. So I don't think it's ready to drop for Net time the right. So you say no on dropping four net, Brian Johnson, Are we dropping Leonard

four net? H screw it? I'll say yes. Basically, he needs something to happen to Chad White to be a well, you need to get healthy first and foremost. He's got this hip issue. Um to Concerner, he's gonna go on I R or anything like that. But he's been losing snaps a week over week to Shad White, who both Bucks backs aren't really doing anything on the ground. But White's been a little better. He's a better pass catcher

and his snap percentage has been going up. So of course there's a lot of stipulations like weeks eye, YadA, YadA, YadA, but blanket statement, yes, drop Leonard for Nett, I originally authored this question to say, sabotage drop Leonard four Nette. But I don't even know if this is the sabotage criteria because I don't know that anybody's gonna be like Leonard four net. I'm not gonna pick him up and put him in my lineup. I don't think anybody's gonna

don't think anybody's that done. Nobody's gonna drop like all their fab on Leonard four net. For no, they're not. He is a backup running back on an offense that ranks twenty seventh in points, dead last in rushing yards, dead last in rushing touchdowns, and dead last in yards per carry. And he's the backup behind that team. Shod White hasn't looked a lot better. Granted a little better, not a lot better. But if you're the Bucks, you know exactly what you've got in Leonard four net and

it's not working. So I think we've got a long runway on Rashad White to see if it turns out he can develop and to provide Tampa with some upside that four net clearly isn't providing. And four net is just he's just a name on the on the back of a jersey that you recognize at this point. But so, the Bucks are the worst offering rushing offense in the NFL. The second worst rushing offense is the Rams. Would you roster the Rams backup running back Kyren Williams right now

in the hopes that he becomes the number one. Look at their playoff run. You want both Cam Akers and Kirraen Williams both stashed deep on your bench for that playoff run because if one figures it out, that's fun. We're gonna drop Leonard four Nett and you go pick up Kiren william There you go. You are so inclined tough. Question number two, what is the appropriate level of concern for Lamar Jackson? Is it none, some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? Brian, I'm not blowed on

l Jack's just yet, but I am somewhat concerned. As you mentioned earlier in the show, Jackson total twelve touchdowns from week one through Week three. Since then, he has total just seven, which is a Yeah, You've been better off benching Jackson in most cases, but I like you this week against Jacksonville. Denver is tough in Week thirteen, or should be tough, but that's a home game at

least for the Ravens. But Jackson will see Pittsburgh twice the rest of the way in weeks fourteen, in weeks and in weeks seventeen and picked Pittsburgh has been the fifth easiest team UH for quarterbacks to face. So I'm somewhat concerned, but I'm not blowed on l Jacks. Matt, What is the appropriate level of concern for Lamar Jackson? Is it none, some, or blowed? I don't think I've ever answered blowed and one of these questions not maybe just I'm just calm, I'm cool. I have no concern

on Lamar Jackson. By the way. He's still doing enough on the ground to keep you and float afloat. And that's why you drafted Lamar for the rushing numbers, and the passing is really gravy for Lamar. He's ran for at least fifty eight yards or a rushing score in eight of his last nine games. That that's six points right off the top. They're just on the running at least. So I don't have concern about Lamar Jackson. This is

who he is. You get the passing scores when Mark Andrews gets going and gets hot, then he gets the spike week games. But he's getting you, you know, fifty points in a standard league every week. The correct answer is some for Lamar Jackson some level of concern. Since Week four, he's quarterback twenty in scoring twenty, averaging one hundred seventy five passing yards and zero point eight passing touchdowns per game. Sure does the rushing help the sixty

yards he's averaging sixty yards per game? Well, okay, that's six fantasy points. But the problem is the passing is giving you not giving you any other points to go with it, or very few other points to go with it. He's only scored one rushing touchdown in the last seven games, and when Gus Edwards returns, Edwards is going to vacuum up all the short rushing scores for Shot Bateman. Done for the year. He's got the worst set of receivers

in the league, and the schedule it's so so. A couple of positive matchups left Pittsburgh in Atlanta, the rest of its neutral are bad. There's not much to like with Lamar Jackson. Appropriate level of concern is some tough question number three? What is the appropriate level of concern for Alvin Kamara? Is it none, some, or a bowel loosening level of existential dread. I definitely have some concern here.

I'll mention some of the stats in the matchup. Well, I did already, but he's just not faring well against good run defenses. Against San Francisco this week in Tampa next week, there are both borderline bench grades for Camara. Then he has a Week fourteen buy, so it's tough to start him for three straight weeks. But after that

the Fantasy playoffs look better. Atlanta in week fifteen and Cleveland in week sixteen are both very positive matchups, and he exploded against a similarly bad defense the Raiders in the recent past. So it's a two pronged answer to this charch um. If you're dependent on Camara to get you into the Fantasy playoffs right now, it's it's full

blowed because he's not going to get you there. Well, it's it's we're still like four weeks out of the Fantasy three weeks for away from the Fantasy playoffs, you've got three weeks left. Most people still need wins. If you if you're solid and you're you're gonna be in, and you know you're gonna be in, then it's just some. But if you need him to get in, was he answered some or is it blow slowed? You're okay? You

can't you care if you can't give two answers. Brian the appropriate level of concern for Alvin Kamara none, Some or blowed based on where he was going in drafts in late summer, which was basically before Nick Chubb and some other big names. I'm I'm blowed on Camara. All of his touchdowns came in one game. I was against the Raiders a few weeks ago, and Matt mentioned the schedule. It's not as good as he thinks it is, at least in my opinion. San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Cleveland,

and Philly. Yes, Atlanta is the good matchup, but that's the only home game during that stretch. The rest is on the road on grass or turf, but not the fast turf. And really the home game against Atlanta, it's Atlanta plays an Adul. That's the one away game you would rather have have based on that schedule. So it's Week sixteen. I don't know, I don't I don't love it. It's not a stopper, but I'll be at blow. He's been he's been bad. I don't even think this was

I don't even think this was close. If you took his name Remember I said earlier that letter for nets just a name, you know, on the back of a jersey. If you took that name off his box score, you wouldn't even consider starting Alvin Kamara. Most weeks he's giving you nothing, and he's getting worse. Over his last four games, averaging three point four yards per carry. He hasn't even topped sixty three rushing yards in any game he has. I think, to my eyes, one and a half good

matchups left. You guys just talked about these, and he's basically unstartable. The next three weeks, Matt touched on this San Francisco Tampa by the Saints. Battered offensive line ranks twenty five, So that doesn't seem to be something where you can go, well, that line is gonna just suddenly start dominating in open holes. Not gonna happen. If you don't already have a massive case of blowed you should now with Alvin Camaron, it's working a matchup Cincinnati takes

on Tennessee. Brian, You've seen the Cincinnati offense look better lately, but no Joe Mixon in this game. Fascinated to think what find out what you think about somaj P Ryan's matchup without Joe Mixon coming off a two touchdown game. I believe it was a three touchdown was the three r three receiving touchdowns susdown game? Multiple touchdown game. Their bases are covered. But yeah, it's you're excited if you got p Ryan on roster, but you want to pump

the brakes this week just a little bit. I'm just giving him a c here, even with Joe Mixon ruled out. As you mentioned charge, the Titans are a tough draw off running backs. They're allowing just a hundred and five combo yards and zero point two touchdowns per game to the position. That means they've given up two total touchdowns to running backs this season. The last running back to rushed for a touchdown against Tennessee was se Kwon Barkley

in Week one. Wow. So it's a brutal matchup, but you obviously have to start p Ryan, who will see the Lion's share of work out of since his backfield. I should I should have said the Bengals share of working There we go. Yeah, Hey, the Titans have given up the most receptions to opposing backs though, and that's kind of p Ryan's bread and butter. That's how he scored all of his touchdowns last week. Fair point, You're certainly gonna start him, but you don't expect three receiving touchdowns.

But if that okay, I don't expect now what. We don't really know what to expect from Jamaar Chase. He's been practicing all week. On Friday, he was seen running red zone routes. You like to hear that, um, but it's his status is still up in the air. It looks like he'll be a game time decision to to return from that hip injury. If he goes, I'll give him a C. The Titans are top five and the most catches and touchdowns surrendered to wide receivers UH this season.

These teams met in the divisual round Divisional round of the playoffs last year. If you recall, Chase had five catches for a hundred nine yards in that game. So if he if he returns, I give him the SEA now over the other two wide receivers. Of course, Chase's

status will affect both of these grades. If he comes back Jamar Chase, I'll give t Higgins a B. If Chase does not return, I'll give Higgins the A with Chase sidelined, Higgins saw target totals of six, eight, and thirteen, so he didn't really see a huge spike and looks with Chase on the sideline. UM. But Chase's return probably helps Higgins more than it hurts. But I just mentioned the Titans are top five in the most of everything

surrender to wide receivers, So Higgins is a strong play. Uh. He had seven catches for for ninety six yards in that playoff game with the Titans last year. Now over to Tyler Boyd. I got him on the bench if if Jamaar Chase comes back. In the games without Chase, Boyd is in the three games without Chase, Boyd is total just ten catches for yards. And now we all thought that we all thought of those extra those extra targets would largely go to Tyler Boyd and it hasn't

worked out that way at all. Yeah, he did score a touchdown during that three game span. Um. Again, it's a great matchup on paper. So if Chase is out, I'll give Boyd the sea. But if Chase comes back, I got Boyd on the bench. And each of the last two games of the titans last two games, though, three different wide receivers totaled at least fifty yards, so that would if you're in a it's a tough one

with Boyd. Uh, definitely a start. If Chase sits, I'm gonna I'm holding with the bench grade if Chase comes back for Boyd. He only had two catches for seventeen yards in that playoff game against the Titans last year, and over to the tight end for the Bengals Hayden Hurst. He doesn't have a single game this season with over fifty receiving yards, and he hasn't found the end zone

since Week five. Also, the Titans have allowed just two receptions to tight ends and each of their past two games, and the aven't allowed a tight end touchdown since Week four. So I got Hurst on the bench even in the tight end wasteland, but it's certainly not benching Joe Burrow.

Regardless of Jamaar Chase returning or not. Tennessee owns the highest opponent passing play percentage in the league, and as a result, they have surrendered these second most passing yards and passing touchdowns to quarterbacks despite already having their by Burrow did not throw a touchdown in that playoff game. I've mentioned a few times, but he did have eight yards. So I've got an A on Joe Burrow over the Titan side, easy A for Derrick Henry. Since Week eight,

Henry has five rushing touchdowns. He's averaged a rushing touchdown per every nineteen carries during that span, which is very good. During that same span, the Bengals have allowed a rushing touchdown per every fourteen carries. So that math is adding up to uh, it's a very good chance Derrick Henry

scores at least one touchdown in this game. He had twenty carries for sixty two yards and a touchdown against the Bengals in that Divisional round game, and he had a metal plate sticking out of his foot for that one. So I like Henry and this one he gets literally sticking out of his foot, probably pretty close. He probably need another surgery. It was fresh steel, very fresh steel. Over to the wide receivers trail on Burks. I'm gonna give him a B. Last week. Yeah, he led the

Titans and targets, receptions and yards. Posting the first game of his career year. It won't be his last. It might not happen this week, as the Bengals will allowed just two receivers to go for a hundred plus yards, but they have surrendered a wide receiver touchdown in five straight games, So if a wide receiver is gonna score a touchdown for the Titans, that's gonna be trail on. Burke's I got Robert Woods on the bench finally had

a decent showing last week. But the Bengals are only allowing ten catches per game to wide receivers, and if we're going to start a Titans receiver, it's Burke's. I will give Austin Hooper a C grade coming off this big game. The Bengals are allowing five catches for fifty yards per game uh two tight ends, and last week they yielded fifteen targets to Pittsburgh's tight end, so Hooper should see some opportunities here. End and Ryan Tannhill I like his matchup this week. US might take a chance

let me quarterback. Yeah, well done, Rams take on Kansas City. We come back find out if for the first time in I don't know, maybe the history of this show, are there no Rams to start find out? When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Yah, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Poltiarchi, Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you Rams take on the Kansas City Chiefs. As I mentioned going into our break, the Rams do not have anybody to start. There's an official is easy. He's on the bench. Game.

Everyone is on the bench. Bryce Perkins is your starting quarterback, backed up by Case Cookus, Coocus, Case Cookers, Tase Cookus maybe very well making an appearance in this game because Bryce Perkins is playing behind an offensive line that is starting their ninth, tenth and eleventh string offensive lineman. He could we could actually we could see Bryce Perkins get beaten into the ground and get Case Cookus into the game. Bryce Bryce Perkins had a sneaky thirty nine rushing yards

last week. That that's that's that's the upside. There so no starters on this Rams team, and I was trying to figure out the last time that maybe we had a matchup in the history of the show which there were no starters. In twenty eleven, the Rams were a to win operation. Steven Jackson was there and he had he put up a yard season, so I gotta believe he was pretty much a starter every week he was okay,

So it's possible. If not, then it's possible. The history, the twenty whatever eight year history of the show, we've never said bench all Rams. Well, it had to be pretty Kurt Warner for sure. That's old old St. Louis Rams. Maybe maybe that's it. I don't know, I don't think. I don't even know if I have to go into

any detail on any of this stuff. But you know we had Allen Robinson was unstartable when he had Matthew Stafford as his quarterback, and Cam Akers is dead last and rushing efficiency and yards, Tyler Higby is the closest Ram to a starting grade, and Perkins through to him three times last week. He's not healthy, and the Chiefs are a good tight end defense. There's nobody to start all the Rams on the bench. I will demand a

peacock from my Allen Robinson take on last week. Though not a good game, I will yield to your demand. Thank you. Let's go to the Kansas City side every week. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey obvious a's and especially coming off the performance from last week, Holy cow, Judus miss Schuster expected to play in this game. Yeah, they took him off the injury report just recently. I like it. The fantasy funds he was at that game too, the fantasy actual,

the real fun. Henry Winkler himself. He seems like he'd be one of the great actors to hang out with. He seems like a cool guy. Absolutely, well, he was literally the coolest guy ever in hindsight. Wasn't he kind of a d bag? Though? No? No, no, everybody says he's the nicest guy in Hollywood. No, I'm talking just about the Fonzie character like he was. I don't know, I don't want. I mean he lived in the Cunningham's garage.

He did not need to live there. In the three games prior to Juju's injury, he was averaging a hundred eight yards per game and reached pay dirt twice. He will face the hollow shell of the cornerback once known as Jalen Ramsey. Ramsey's allowing a career worst one hundred seventeen passer rating in his coverage and he's given up at least seventy one receiving yards in three straight games. When Juju lines up in the slot, he'll face Troy Hill, who's giving up a passer rating of a hundred and three.

So no what, no matter where Juju is, he's got a strong individual matchup B grade. Juju Smith Schuster Ka Darius Tony not expected to play in this game, and we'll keep him on the bench in MVS. I'm a little bitter because he flopped badly last week and I was really excited. That's the fantasy mongoose right there. He eats the peacock. That's what we mongoose, the natural. How about you just eat some crow church, Yeah, maybe it's oh, there we go. Thank you very much. I gave you.

I gave you a C grade and MVS last week and he was terrible. So he's lost all I've lost all faith. He's off. Half of his last six games have been zero or one catch. That is way too much risk for me. Let's go to the running backs. Isaiah Pacheco hundred seven yards last week, the most by a Kansas City running back in how long do you think Kareem Hunt was there? Maybe forty two games? Since some running backs at a hundred seven yards for Kansas City.

Clyde Edwards a layer now on I R. So the ground game is totally his tough matchup against a Rams team allowing the seventh fewest rushing yards and the seventh fewest touchdowns per game. No back has hit one hundred receiving yards. Uh at well rush no back is at one hundred rushing yards against the Rams. The last three leadbacks to face the Rams ran for nineteen yards, sixty eight yards, and forty two yards and three yards per carry.

There's still a great Rams defense, but the Rams evens are gonna be on the field a lot because their offense is gonna be three and out constantly. So Potako gets a C grade here. I can I flirted with a B grade, but I can't quite get myself to go there against the Rams. Jerick McKinnon, if you're in a spot, consider him here. He's gonna get some extra work and could be a contributor via the air. In

weeks nine and ten he caught six passes. Alvin Kamara posted forty seven air yards against the Rams last week. So you know, if we can get forty seven are yards out of Jerick McKinnon and probably equals a C grade. Our next matchup is the Chargers taking on the Arizona Cardinals. Chargers side of this. You already gave us the backup ight end. Yeah, Trey McKinney, you know, line up all of your animal sounds for this one charge because this is like a fantasy zoo. We're plugging in all the chargers.

I like that, plug in the chargers. Austin Ekeler, he's an art vark, just an air bear. He's a bear and also an art charger grades for both of them. Wow, that's like a fight right there. Keenan Allen got in a full practice this week. He's an A after playing two thirds of the snaps Lady's at the zoo. Uh. Mike Williams did not practice yet this week. I don't think he plays. But Josh Palmer is gonna play and he gets an A grade. And Gerald Everett he's even

a solid B grade here. And here's why the Cardinals are a bottom ten defense in the following categories, passing completions and yards allowed, passing touchdowns, rushing yards to opposing quarterbacks, receptions to wide receivers, running backyards per carry, running back receiving, and combo yards allowed, seaving touchdowns to opposing running backs. And they already highlighted that the worst tight end defense in the league, which is why Trey McKitty kitty was

might take a chance on the receiver. All of the above stats work in favor of the Chargers. Start them all on the cardinal side, it's a bit more thorny. Uh. Kyler Murray was a full participant in practice this week, so it looks like he'll return after missing two weeks with a hamstring injury. See, this is the thing that worries me is if if I'm not gonna get rushing out of Kyler Murray, I'm really not that interested in

what his arm is gonna give. So the Chargers have not given up a ton through the air to the posing quarterbacks. It's not a particularly good matchup, and they have allowed multiple passing scores and six of two six of the last ten quarterbacks they've faced. I'll give Kyler a C grade here, but this is about the time of the year every year where Kyler is made up

and Kyler fades into nothingness, he stops running. The hamstring injuced injury certainly plays into that, and I'm a little nervous that with the weirdness on the sideline with him and Cliff Kingsbury. If they don't go right in the first half, he could just get flat out benched for Colt McCoy in this McCoy is healthy enough to go, that is a possibility. There was I forget which which channel did the Cardinals game last week? It was ESPN.

It's rare that your ESPN pregame devotes like a whole segment to how the team is happier with Colt McCoy's for quarterback and how he's galvanized the locker room and the players all love him, and it was all of these back it's handed. Yeah, it's all it was. So don't get a lot of that. I don't think Kyler and Cliff are both in Arizona next year. Arizona is carrying on hard knocks right now. This in season hard knocks the Canras out of here. Keep in mind, nobody's

gonna pick up Kyler's contract. No, nobody wants that deal. By the way, Cliff Kingsbury's house, I feel like you get an STD from ringing the doorbell that wow, this guy things are happening. He gives off five just like so bring some Claros wipes to the ring doorbell. Portrait of like a lion wearing a crown. He just like he's so gone. Um sorry, I understand Marks Brown is possible to play, but media reports say if he does play,

he'll be on a snap count. Yeah, they have him on a pitch count from what for what we see. But Ron Dale Moore doesn't look like he's going to go with a groin injury. Greg Dortch looks like he'll miss this week with a thumb injury. And of course Zach Ertz is on I R. So it's all DeAndre Hopkins. I'm giving him an A grade here. Uh, he's gonna be targeted copiously in this game. How many times is Hopkins catching a ball per game? Right now? Church? Um?

Oh that's correct, Charch, good job. It is nine times per game. And the Charger secondary is allowing almost a passing score per game to opposing wide receivers. So Hopkins gets an A. There's another tray mix tend to say how many? How many Trey gonna have? Trey McBride is not startable, but I like Trey McKitty. I thought he would be startable due to the dearth of other available options. Yeah, I just don't try Tyler that much, but I'm I'm giving James Conner a B grade here. He scored thrice

in the last two weeks. Faces a Chargers defense that has been straight up bad against the run. They have allowed five point seven yards per carry this year, which lends to the averages of one hundred sixty one combo yards and one point three touchdowns per game allowed to opposing backs. I don't think Kyante Ingram steals enough work from Connor to make a dent here, so Connor should get to a hundred yards at least in this one.

Probably a coin flips chance at a score. Alright, let's see if we can sneak in one more matchup, and I'm hoping it doesn't take long, at least not on the Las Vegas side. Brian, Las Vegas is at Seattle for this game. There has been a very inconsistent Las Vegas offense. It has well outside of Josh Jacobs and Davante Adams, so I'm giving a grade to both. Will start with Jacob's real quick Seahawks allowing nearly a hundred fifty compo yards per game to opposing running backs. That's

the fifth most. Jacobs is also top nine and targets and receptions among all running backs. He hasn't been much of a pass catcher in the past, so and a for Jacobs and easy for Davante Adams. Last three games one and two and two, he's on absolute fire. UH wide receivers are averaging fifteen catches and a hundred fifty plus yards per game, and they've totaled three touchdowns against Seattle's against Seattle over their last two. That's why mac hollins might take a chance on a wide receiver. I

like him this week. I also like Foster, not Morow. It doesn't sound like it's spelled. That's his problem, not ours. That's well, it's kind of it is our problem, isn't it. Anyway, he gets to see opposing tight ends are averaging five catches seventy four yards per game against Seattle. Yes, those numbers are a little skewed by t. J. Hockenson's blow up game against them in Week four, you have like

a hundred eighty yards. But still, since then, Seattle has allowed a tight end to top fifty yards or score a touchdown in five of six games. So Morrow is startable in the waste land. UH Dereck by Derek B. Derek c as in Car gets a B. Car in the later Raiders are left for dead after getting blanked by the Saints, But over the last three weeks he's been killing it. Yes, thanks in most part to Davante Adams. But the Seattle is the middle of the road matchup.

But they are allowing two fifty and one and a half passing touchdowns per game. Should be a safe floor for Car here. You're going to give him a B over to the Seattle side, Ken Walker easy A. Over their last four games, the Raiders have surrendered seven touchdowns and to one yard rushing performances to opposing backs. Vegas has also allowed the fourth most catches to the position, which also bodes well for Walker, who has totaled nine

catches over his last two games. DK Metcalf Tyler Lockett can give both of them a B over the last three games, Metcalf has scored in two of three and Lockett has scored in every one. The Raiders are allowing thirteen catches, five yards and nearly a touchdown per game to opposing wide receivers. So I love Metcalfine Lockett. This week, I don't love Noah Fanton will death Slack. They're both on the bench. They continue to split time and neither have scored since week four. And lastly, a B for

Gino Smith. Gino has scored multiple touchdowns and eight of his ten games played, and since Week four, he's also averaged nearly thirty rushing yards per game, which pretty much equates to a bonus touchdown past He's been great. I was, I was trying ye go about that. Yeah, well, the frequency is I don't know the frequency of touchdown, but is a frequency good like good frequency? We assume high octane frequency. I don't know. I don't know if that's a thing. Is it? You know what is a thing?

Premature speculation. We're gonna give you three guys to pick up this week that everybody else is gonna be trying to pick up next week. But those players are already on your tape. Stay tuned Premature speculation and our final sets of matchups coming up in the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. It's a final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you. This is a segment we like to call premature speculation. Blamo Blamo.

Three players that you'll want to pick up this week that everybody else will be trying to pick up next week. We begin with Matt Harrison, who is your premature speculation. I actually don't necessarily think people are going to try to pick him up this week, but I want to put on your radar for your playoff matchups to pick up Tyler Conklin, the tight end for the Jets. Three absolute cake matchups for Conklin and the fantasy playoffs to

try right, Jacksonville and Seattle. And if you go to Week eighteen for some crazy reason in your fantasy playoffs, they get Miami in that week and that's also a good tight end matchup. So top ten matchups for Tyler Conklin in your fantasy playoffs. I do not like, Just to be clear, I do not like playing in Week eighteen for anything. I know you just to be just want to make sure that you've never played in Week eight teen ever, never, Brian, your premature speculation player, you

haven't played in the one year history of the weekend. Yeah, that was was going for that. I know him in Week seven. Yeah, that's that's always been dumb um. I don't like my guy as much as Matt likes his. But I got Bears rookie running back Treston Ebner, and the angle here is he's probably gonna become a warm body that sees double digit touches down the stretch. You think you might rest Montgomery. The Bears are from Montgomery. It's a contract here from Montgomery, so they could run

them into the ground. But what's the point there, three and eight. It's so they're probably gonna resign montgo. I know they're gonna want to see what they have in Edner. I just think they'll give him some extended books. So it's just a running back stash if you're desperate down the stretch. Trust and Ebner is out there and he's free. And we're really running out of guys at this point in the season segment of the show. But so trusting Ebner is my guy. UH one guy that we never

run out of. Because I don't think any show talks about Nico Collins as much as this one does. But roster for Nico Collins emerging is the go to receiver for the Texans UH ten targets and seven targets the last two weeks. Over the last month, He's averaging four catches for fifty five yards. That isn't all all bad. He scored two weeks ago. And the fantasy playoff run for Nico Collins Chiefs, Titans, Jaguars that those are pretty good. Maybe this passing offense gets a boost. Davis Mills, who

I admit I was. I was very optimistic about Mills heading into this season to be better than last year, and you was wrong. I was wrong. He's worse than he was last year. They've benched him. Maybe Allen is the is part of the answer year. I was Nico is one of my preseason sleepers, but I failed to

mention you want just want to wait until November. And if you're Houston, Brandon Cooks is gonna be gone this offseason, right, so you may as well develop your in house next year's number one receiver, Nico Collins in these last handful of games that don't mean anything to you. So, Nico Collins, let's go to our final two sets of matchups. The first one Sunday Night football, green Bay taking on Philadelphia. On the green Bay side, Let's begin with the mere

curial Aaron Rodgers. You think Rogers has been as inconsistent as the team has been because usually as the quarterback goes, the teams goes. But he's actually been a very reliable fantasy asset, scoring in every game this year since the opener, and he has thrown multiple touchdowns in eight of ten games. But the Eagles are an elite past defense and maybe the best. They've shut out three of the past four opposing quarterbacks, and on the season, they're giving up zero

point nine touchdown passes per game. That is not good. And I do not like Rogers receivers matchups, and we'll talk about those right now, beginning with and if I didn't say it, I don't think I did C grade Aaron Rodgers just the C grade and Christian Watson five touchdowns in the last two games, and all five of Aaron rodgers last touchdowns have gone to him. But he runs overwhelmingly from the outside, and there he's running right into the teeth of philly Secondary elite cornerbacks Darius Slay

and James Bradberry. Philadelphia has allowed the fifth fewest receiving yards and the sixth fewest touchdowns to receivers behind the elite play of cornerbacks Darius Slay, and James Bradberry. Neither cornerback is allowed more than one touchdown, neither has allowed more than fifty of the targets, and their coverage should be caught. So I'm given Christian Watson a C grade mostly on the momentum of his past couple of games, but this is a very tough match up here. Randall

Cobb is my favorite of the receiver matchups. In his first game back last week, caught all six of his targets for seventy three yards and he led the team in both categories. And because he runs from the slot, Cobb avoid Slay and Bradberry, and the normal starting slot cornerback of Matos is on I R. So this is a premo spot for Randall Cob with a B grade. I feel like we've seen this movie before and Randall Cobb comes out with one catch on three targets for

twelve yards. Absolutely possible, but on paper anyway, he's got the most favorable matchup by a mile of anybody among the pack of receivers. How old did you guess Randall Cob ist one? I was thinking older, like four. He started young. He's got an eighth of a tank left and eighth of a tank. Might the gaslights on, but you can still get somewhere. Let's go to the running backs. Aaron Jones B grade. The Eagles have have a struggling

run defense and a great past defense. So if you're gonna win against the Eagles, screen Bay has to run the ball. Here. In games where Jones has gotten fifteen or more carries, which I think he's gonna get in this game, he's averaged over one hundred thirty rushing yards in the game. Since Elephantine defensive tackle Jordan Davis went on injured reserved, Philadelphia has given up an average of

a hundred twenty five rushing yards per game. So that puts Aaron Jones really on pace for between a hundred twenty five and a hundred thirty rushing yards. We'll call it a hundred and twenty seven and a half. The addition of Linval Joseph and and Dominican su are not likely to help. Those are aged veterans, and I do not think that's going to change the equation here. A J. Dillon's on the bench. He has not scored since the opener.

He's being dramatically outplayed by Aaron Jones. And he does not catch a j Dillon hasn't topped eleven yards as a receiver in any game since the opener. He and Kareem Hunt has been absolutely worthless. They have they're going to be this big helper. I thought Dylan was gonna be That was another preseason I was not like that was we're with you. I thought he was gonna be just a helper if nothing else, nothing. It was the

nothing part of nothing else. Let's go to Philadelphia. Jalen Hurts obviously great, although let me say this, he doesn't look the same without Dallas Goddard. I mean, it's starting to really think Dallas Goddard is the was the engine that made that passing offense go, because it's been inconsistent since then. After allowing just four passing touchdowns in the first six games of the year, the Packers have really regressed on past defense, allowing eleven touchdowns in the past

five games. Last week, and Brian alluded to this earlier. Conscious passer Ryan Tannehill posted three three yards against Green Bay that was the most they had given up in a year. The two mobile quarterbacks to face the Packers, Josh Allen, Daniel Jones, seven and forty nine rushing yards, and I think we will get at least to that number for Jalen Hurts here, so I still have an A grade on him um, but again that passing offense has not looked the same without Dallas Goddard Among the receivers.

Let's go to A. J. Brown be great on him. Green Bay has allowed the fourth most yards and receptions to receivers since Eric Stokes went down to Week nine, and the funny thing is Stokes wasn't any good, but since he's left their way worse without him, Ground leads the NFL and yards per route run against man coverage. Meanwhile, J R. Alexander's allowing the six most yards per reception while in man coverage. I like that individual matchup the

Packers secondary, though still good. Brown isn't automatic, but it is a more promising situation than it felt a couple of weeks ago against green Bay. B grade on A. J. Brown. DeVonta Smith has been the primary beneficiary of Dallas Goddard going out his He's led the Eagles and receptions, yards and targets since that time since the Stokes injuries. I mentioned Packers cornerback Rasul Douglas tends to stay on the opposing number two receiver and in that span he has

given up on the targets in his coverage. So I gotta be grade on DeVonta Smith as well. And then the only other uh filled off your player you care about is Miles Sanders. I think the bounce back game is coming after a couple of dud games. For eight consecutive games, Green Bay has seen a running back top sixty seven yards on the ground against them. They ranked thirty and rushing yards allowed on the season. Miles Sanders has been held to one scoreless yards over the last

two games. Prior to that, though averaging eighty seven yards and a touchdown in the previous five. I think he gets back to that. I think he's sitting around ninety yards and a touchdown in this one. Weirdly, Miles Sanders, who can catch total non factor in the receiving as one catch in the last month. That is it. Our final matchup of this show is Pittsburgh taking on Indianapolis on Monday night. Naji Harris Matt has been a resurgent over the past couple of weeks. Well, yeah, that's because

Jalen Warren is out with a hamstring and help. I don't think he goes this week, so it's all Harris alone again, probably a bell cow against the Colts defense that is seeing the second most touches allowed to running backs on the year at twenty nine point two per game, So it seems like twenty five touches for nag Harris might be in the cards. He's no worse than a solid B if that's the case. Considering that the Colts are middle of the pack against the run, it's a

bit tougher. In the passing game for the Steelers. Kenny Pickett has looked respectable but not spectacular in any game. His two sixty five last week was his career high, but he hasn't thrown for more than one touchdown pass in any game this year. That's really killing his receivers

more than anything. Deonte Johnson hasn't scored all year. George Pickens has managed to run and catch a touchdown in the past two weeks, but the Colts are top four in receiving yards and touchdowns allowed to wide receivers, so I'm trending toward benching Pickett, Pickens, and Deonta All in this one. Yeah, I don't blame you. You can is one of the biggest busts of the year. Yeah. Absolutely, you can throw a dart at Pat fryar Muth though he gets a C grade here. Uh pick wow? Did

you always get hit by the dark you? Yes, you are. Pick It targeted him twelve times last week and he caught eight of them for seventy nine yards. And the Colts defense will be they're weaker against the tight end than they are against wide receivers. They've allowed the twelveth the most receiving yards and basically a tight end score every other game this year. Deante Johnson is ninth among wide receivers and targets and he has zero touchdowns. It's

not amazing that that's impressive. I'm not gonna lie. On the indie side, I mentioned Matt Ryan was might take a chance on me quarterback, although he will see t J. Watt coming against him this week in his first game back from I R. Paris Campbell, Alec Pierce, and Michael Pittman basically split snaps and targets almost evenly last week against Philly, all of which was on the field for

at least of the snaps. I'll give a nod to Pittman and seized both Pierce and Paris Campbell, who was also take take a chance on me worthy from charge. Pittman has the most yardage potential here, and he is a Steelers defense that that's allowing two two receiving yards per game to opposing wide receivers, second highest mark in the league. They're also allowing touchdowns to white outs at an amazing clip. They've given up fourteen this year. It's

also second most in the league. Don't mess with the Colts tight ends. Mo Ali Cox is getting most of the work, but it's not a good tight end matchup. And finally, Jonathan Taylor, he's an A grade. This is not the run stuffing Steelers from the past. And since Jeff Saturday took over as head coach, they're feeding Taylor like it's Thanksgiving and it's bread and butter right here. Twenty two carries in both games, a couple of receptions in each game. Better yet, he scored in both games

since Saturday took over. So you're gonna start Saturday's favorite Jonathan Taylor on Sun Sunday. Absolutely, We're going to you know where's as as We're talking about the Steelers struggling offense. This is a bad season for them. Everybody talks about Belichick without Brady and how he's effectively a five hundred coach since Brady left. Comlin might be starting to get some of this scrutiny, right since Ben left? What has Tomlin?

You know that it's not yet. Well know, he was working with the shell of Ben Roethlisberger for the last couple of years too, and it hasn't looked as great. But uh yeah, that's you know, that might be a developing story. I never thought Ben was all that great. He had it prime Antonio super Bowls. He had a prime Santonio homes Seahawks super Bowl. He was awful and that was rig Ben. You go back, it was Seahawks fans will agree with me on that. But anyway, yeah,

specifically for you, although Matt you can chime in. I was thinking about there was a kicker Jinks on on Thursday. Can can you jinks your you know, and fantasy players never want to talk about, like say, right now, I'm gonna win the championship, right, Nobody wants to jinx themselves. Can you jinks? A best ball team? Yeah, I think because you can make you can't change anything. I think I've jinx like three hundred of mine. But you need you need is one at the end of the day.

But you can't make any moves, you can't trade, you can't screw up anything anymore. I've played a lot of Best Ball past summer, and I've been gone through every roster, But just to go through one and find a complete roster with no like season ending injuries is like the Holy Grail. I think it's it's been brutal. This has been so you say, yes, you can jinks. I can speak, and I can speak into reality. My team losing, my best ball team losing. Yeah, I try to reverse jinks.

That doesn't work as much. But uh yeah, I think the jink's only really exists in fantasy football. In this fantasy realm sounds like a bunch of high jinks. Here, kicker jinks is what you say. No, I don't know. I've I've got a best ball team that I'm watching very closely that has a chance to do something special. But then I feel like I can't say anything about it. Well, if you know how to reverse the kicker jinks, uh call up Greg Joseph, you needs it to help me.

He does need some help on It's the anti kicker Jinks for sure. Thank you for listening to everybody. If you've missed any part of the show and you're listening over the air, no that. Fantasy Football Weekly is also a podcast that we is available everywhere where you get podcasts, and if you're listening to podcast you may be able to hear this show over the air as well on

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