Week 14: Cam Shafted

Welcome back, Matt, I am back. Matt's back. It is of particular note this week because many of our listeners have been cam shafted because you either started Cam Newton foolishly cam boozled, or you play I like cam Shafted better, or you played against cam Acres, so you could have You could be looking at an uphill battle and get any of two different cam ways. Whoa black Betty him the ram. Yeah. So the course of the show, I

don't know what any of that means. Over the course of the show, we will answer three tough questions, will break down every single matchup Fantasy style with letter grades and all the important players, and we'll give you nine players upon whom you can take a chance. Hopefully you don't need these guys in the playoffs, but you might. I mean there's still things happening. Julio Jones isn't gonna play mean there there are life goes on. Even though

it's the Fantasy playoffs. You may have to reach for somebody. Let's begin with the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Buffalo Bills. Matt for the Pittsburgh running game. It's been a disaster without James Connor, but now he's back. It's kind of been a disaster with James Conner. He was activated off

the COVID list. He's gonna play. Prior to missing last week's game, his touch totals were dwindling, from twenty rushing attempts in week seven down to fifteen and a pair of nines in week ten and then thirteen and eleven. So he scored once in the last five weeks and really only looked halfway decent in the game against the Jaguars. The things he's got going for him, the other running backs look worse. That that is true. Benny Snell did nothing with the opportunity. Oh Man I dropped McFarland and

Snell off a dynasty roster. Even though we don't know who the Pittsburgh runner is going to be next year, but it ain't them. I just let them both go. Uh. And the Bill's defense hasn't been the best against the run. They're allowing a hundred and forty total yards in a score per game to the position. I take the under for Connor on those numbers. I only given him a C. Big Ben gets a B grade. He's fifth in the league and touchdown passes, and while his yardage is down,

the Steelers do throw near the stripe. Eleven of those touchdown passes have come from inside the ten yard line. Buffalo gives up some high yardage totals, but not a ton of scores through the air. So it's kind of a reverse match up here, so something's got to give. Still, the Bills might be one of the few offenses that can hang with the Steelers, so I imagine Roethlisberger throws

more than average in this one. The wide receiver group Deonte Juju and Clay Pool, I'm giving them a bees and I don't think it's a cop out here by giving them all bees. Deontay's averaging almost ten targets per game.

He's fifth in the league in that category, behind only Adams Hopkins, digs and Keenan Allen, Claypool, and Juju are each getting two of the team targets inside the ten yard line, and each have scored four times from the infrared zone this year and trade as white figures to follow Deontay primarily, but that's not as daunting anymore as he's allowed career highs in yards per completion, yards per target, touchdowns,

and passer rating this year. Eric Ebron, he's getting a B too, quietly, fourth among tight ends and targets and receptions this season in PPR leagues. He really should be locked into lineups at this point, and it works out this week because Buffalo has allowed the most tight end receptions on the year. Over on the bill side, Josh Allen's getting a B. It's not a good matchup against Pittsburgh.

They've almost as many interceptions as they do passing touchdowns allowed this year, and no quarterback has thrown for uh three yards and no rushing touchdowns allowed the quarterback position on the season. The bright spot the dual threat rushing quarterbacks have had their best days against Pittsburgh. The highest three fantasy point totals for quarterbacks against Pittsburgh were Lamar, Daniel Jones, and Deshaun Watson, and I should mention, you know,

Joe Hayden's gonna miss this game. That's a pretty significant loss for that second. That's sizable. You know. That does give Josh Allen and Stephen Diggs in particular a slightly easier well, I maybe out slightly, a significantly easier matchup. Yeah, and so let's talk about Diggs. I'm only going to give him a C grade in this one. Uh. He's been super reliable in PPR leagues despite only finding the

end zone four times this season. But I will say three of us four touchdowns came against some of the best secondaries he's seen all year, the Dolphins, Rams, and Chiefs. He steps up in big games. Top flight wide receivers have not fared that well against Pittsburgh this season. Uh, Terry McLaurin. Terry McLaurin, Yes, was shut down last week. Well tell me about it. Knocked me out of two guillotine leagues. Yeah. Really, the only bona fide stud to

torch the Steelers this season was a J. Brown. That's it. Um. It's the second and third receivers that have burned the Steelers, and that's why I'm giving Cole Beasley a C grade and gave Davis. I just want to mention because I gotta give the peacock to Scott fish on that one. He had the peacock trifecta last week. That might be three three peacocks. I would love to give you the peacock, but they moved around all myself. I gotta find all right, So that's Gabriel Davis. Who else did he have? I

forget he had Baker. I know that you have Baker Mayfield and other runner he had running back? Was it Adrian Peterson? I don't uh. The Steelers have been targeted in the slot. Cam Sims at nine targets, five catches, and ninety two last week. Tyler Boyd logged eight targets against them a few weeks ago. So when Beasley gets the targets, he delivers. Anytime he gets targeted nine times in a game this season, times nine, he gets over

a hundred yards. And by the way, charge I was notified that you guys missed a whole bunch of nine times. So be ready on that button time. I'm bringing it back. All right, good, you're working, You're gonna make up stats. We're gonna back. Uh, maybe by nine times. I don't know who knows. Zack Moss and Devin Singletary on the bench. Moss fumbled near zone end zone last week and was sent to the bench without any supper. But little Bunny

Foo Foo will be back again this week's single. Arry took his twenty one touches and managed only eighty three scoreless yards. He's simply an under four yards per carry guy in a time share in Pittsburghs run defense. Just no, thanks, agree, that's not That is not the favorable match If you want to to start either one of those guys, Let's go to Indianapolis, taking a Las Vegas Brian for Indianapolis.

This is a surging offense against a reeling defense. I think there's a lot of players to liken this matchup. Let's start with Jonathan Taylor, who I'm gonna give a B too for now. But if Anthony Costanzo is active on Sunday and thank you, they think he's gonna go, did you give him a B two? Is that like slightly less than a B? That would be would be a rock lobster. That's that's the animal that we need

add to the button bar now. The sound lobster. It goes rock lobster makes well, you eat one and they are good, Matt. You don't like colobster though, do you. That's one of the few allia back to football. Jonathan Taylor. Gonna give him a B as well as well, Uh not even as well, but anyway, the magic number with Jonathan Taylor is forty eight percent of the offensive snaps. He's gotten more than forty percent of STAPs in five games, and he's gotten seventeen carries and he's averaging a hundred

and ten yards. Six games, he's fallen below forty percent of the snaps and he has ten carries and fifty five yards a game. So he does give him half the carries and he's gonna be money in this So is he gonna get the four percent? I believe he will get the four eight percent plus in this one. And we were people were starting Frank Gore last week based on the matchup with the Raiders. So and Ty Johnson came in and had over a hundred yards from

New York. So Taylor gets a B and A if Costanzo is active, and he might, he probably will be like we said, okay, over to the fasting game Michael Pittman and B. He has cooled off considerably, but the is a good matchup. The Raiders have surrendered five wide receiver touchdowns over their last three games, so I will also give t Y Hilton a B. Might take a chance on the wide receiver from last week, but charges walking away, so I won't get the peacock for that.

Hilton has at least eighty yards and a touchdown and back to back games, and let's not forget he's in a contract year two t Y Hilton, so he's pretty motivated right now going into the last part of the season, so he has a upside in this one. Trey Burton has no upside to me. He's back to the bench. Both Mo Ali Cox and Jack Doyle had more receiving yards than Burton last week, and that wasn't too hard

because Burton only had eleven receiving yards last week. So you're benching all of the tight ends, not only Burton. I will give Philip Rivers a s C. He's no stranger to the Raiders, of course, from his days as a Charger, he probably won't come in close contact with

many Raiders. Considering the only third lowest sack percentage in the NFL, and the Raiders have also allowed multiple passing touchdowns and seven of their last nine games, so I know I'm about to bump it up to a B. With the two exceptions out of seven of nine games were the Monsoon game in Cleveland and Drew Lock. So I'm going up to a BI and over the Raiders side. I was about to say Oakland, that would be incorrect. Las Vegas Darren Waller just to B. But I'm very

nervous for Waller and this one. India has only surrendered one tight end touchdown all season and only two opposing tight ends have managed to crack fifty receiving yards against the Colts this year. Waller did face the Colts last year had seven catches for fifty three yards. That's probably a safe floor in this one, I hope, but his ceiling isn't far from it. I'm worried about Waller. Dollar might be the guy that got you to the dance, but doesn't you don't go home. Personally, I might bench

him for Dalton Schultz. Maybe we can talk about that later. Yeah, but I hate the matchup for Waller, but he is a leap but he still gets to be the receivers Nelson aghilor Henry Ruggs. I'm close to giving him a starting grade here. The Texans wideouts went for three hundred and seven yards last week, and that's like Chad Hanson Kiki qt. But before that, the Cults were only allowing one fifty seven yards per game. That's the middle of the road at best. Aglar did have eleven targets last week,

but he only had four catches. I'm benching both of these guys. We know Rugs had a nice game, but that was a fluke that he's had two long catches all year. Unless the rest of his season has been nothing. Unless Greg Williams was hired as the d C for the Colts, then I don't think that's happened. So Williams is not ever going to be I don't think he's gonna be hired to clean out use shoulder pads. I would hope not, I think his NFL career, So why would you need to clean out new shoulder pads? Very

good point. Uh, two more points to make and they're both pointing players to the bench. That's Derek Carr. When you hate Darren Waller's matchup. You're not starting Derek Carr. It's that simple point, and I'm bending benching Davante Booker. Josh Jacobs. Likely he's out. I think he's likely to go, likely to go? Oh? Is he likely to go? Now? It's a tough matchup for both, and I don't think

he'll get a full work workload. No back has top seventy two rushing yards against India unless their name was Darrick Henry, Jalen re Shard and Theo Riddick. We're gonna steal all of the passing work from either Booker or Jacobs, so I got them both on the bench. You can started Josh Jacobs, but I think you can find better options this week. I've got to see right on Josh Jake. If you if you have to start him, you can, but it's a it's a big excite. It's a bad matchup.

Only Derrick Henry is top d eighty eight yards against the Colts. Basically not Henry. Runners never do anything gets the Colts is the long short of it, and Josh Jacobs isn't Derrick Henry. I did say that, but yes, thanks for re enforcing that point. Um for Minnesota and Tampa Bay. Let's let's start with Dalvin Cook, because that really explains the rest of this matchup. It's brutal for Dalvin Cook, and you can't automatically assume you're going to

start him. Here's why. First, he's wearing down in the first nine weeks of the season, Dalvin Cook average six yards per carry right now, since then, he's averaging three point five yards per carry. That's it. So his productivity is dropped in roughly half. Here comes Tampa number one in rushing attempts number one and rush yards per game, number one in yards per carry. Are you advocating to

sabotage drop Dalvin Cook right now? Okay? Good. The last time a runner topped forty four yards, which is an incredibly low threshold, was week two Christian McCaffrey, and he only put a fifty six yards on Tampa. Now, I've got to be grade on Dalvin Cook, but I want to explain why he has bench grade downside. Aaron Jones ran for fifteen yards, Josh Jacobs ran for seventeen yards.

Alvin Camara's two games forty yards and sixteen yards. Now, some of those guys chipped in touchdowns which salvage their day. But what if Cook doesn't get a touchdown, and he hasn't scored in back to back games, and the Vikings offensive line is not so good that it can certainly just exert its will for touchdowns. That's where your bench

grade downside hits on Dalvin Cook. I know most of you listening are of the never bench, your studs Ilk tell that to Josh Jacobs seventeen yards, Aaron Jones fifteen yards, and Alvin Kamara's sixteen yard games. Also, they're very hard to pass against for runners as well, So I can't even open up a window of hope in the passing game. So based on that, then let's go to the Let's go to the Vikings passing game led by Kirk Cousins. Here's where the Vikings offense is going to flow. Kirk

has been red hot. He's in the middle of his best stretch of Fantasy games of his career. First time he's ever had three straight games of three touchdowns and three hundred yards. His his mark that you need to get to his twenty seven passes. When Kirk averages. When Kirk goes over twenty seven passes, he averages just under three hundred yards and two and a half touchdowns. That is a great material. Seven passes is not a high threshold.

It's not a high threshold, especially against Tampa when eleven of twelve Tampa opponents have topped twenty seven passes and the last two opposing quarterbacks to face Tampa forty nine and fifty one passes. Throne Kirk's gonna be over that number, and that's why he's sitting on a big game. So is Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeling. With his pass heavy

game plan, Tampa sees the fourth most passes. The Bucks have allowed the fourth most receptions to wideouts and are allowing two hundred seventy yards per game to the position over the last three games and multiple touchdowns to receivers in three of the past four. And they're gonna be without their best starting cornerback, Jamal Dean, who's been ruled out of the game. They're gonna slide their slot corners Sean Murphy bunting out to the outside to help contain

Jefferson and Feeling. Plus matchups A grades for Jefferson, Feeling and Cousins. I saw a seventy five percent completion rate for the opposition over Tampa Bay's last three games. That sounds right, and that is a high we will take that. Uh, it looks like Kyle Rudolph will not play. It looks like IRV Smith will play. If it plays out like that and they're not one is in and the other ones out, you could start IRV Smith. The Bucks have been rocked by tight ends of late, including three touchdowns

in the past four games. And that's the guys like Josh Hill and Adam Troutman and Colin Thompson. If they can score, if Smith could score, all right, let's go to the Tampa Bay side. I've got I want to start with the passing game here too. I've got Tom

Brady with an A grade. He's thrown multiple touchdowns in six of the past seven games, and it seems that he will likely have similar success against an inconsistent Vikings defense that maybe without its leader Eric Kendricks, who is relevant in this matchup a variety of different ways, and we'll talk about Kendricks more. Outside of Cameron Danzler, the Vikings are very thin at cornerback and here's Brady just deep with weapons that can stretch any secondary, including this one.

So I've got the A grade on Brady. Mike Evans appears that he will play in this game. There was some question about it earlier in the week. We expect him to go. He will most often match up against Cameron Danzler, who is the Vikings best cornerback and he is physical. Um. In fact, he's Pro Football focuses highest graded cornerback over the last month, which is crazy because all the Vikings secondary was among the worst than Pro

Football Focus. That's right, but really Danzler. Danzler's physical and I like that part um, and you have to be physical against him. But it's still Mike Evans against a rookies, So I still have a B grade on Mike Evans. Here. I've got a B grade on Chris Godwin running out of the slot. He's had over ninety yards or a touchdown in four of the past five games. Godwin's got a very winnable matchup with rookie Jeff Gladney, who is allowing a passer rating of one and it's given up

six touchdowns in his coverage. Antonio Brown also getting a B. He draws the most favorable matchup on the board among the Vikings cornerbacks, and that's Chris Boyd, who is allowing of his passes to be completed in his coverage and a passer rating of one one as well. Now, Brown's usage has dropped over the past couple of games, but still and he hasn't scored yet, and he's averaging just forty two scoreless yards. But I love his matchup in this one and to B grade there. Then let's go

to the tight end position. Rob Gronkowski has been very active lately. I mentioned earlier the Vikings are gonna be without their defensive leader, Eric Kendricks in this game. Kendricks is going would have been the assignment for Rob Gronkowski. Without Kendricks, the Vikings are really ill manned to stop Gronkowski, and Gronky gets a B grade in this one as well. And then uh, let's go to the running backs. Ronald Jones.

I think you can, I think you can. I had him originally as a B, but without Kendricks he might be in A grade here. The Vikings have struggled against opposing running backs of late. They've allowed one hundred thirty five total yards and a touchdown per game to the position. Over the last three games, most of Ronald Jones's success has been against bottom half run defenses. And that's the way the Vikings are playing right now, and especially without Kendricks.

I like him there, Leo for that's dead to us. Yeah, except he's gonna have the game now, Well he might, and actually the way he might is again not that it's all about Eric Kendricks, but Kendricks also usually gets the assignment of the running backs out of the backfield. He won't be there for that, So four net could catch a few passes. Yeah, ten catches for Jacksonville tight

ends last week without Kendricks in the lineup. Yes, Jacksonville tight ends O'Shaughnessy James O'Shaughnessy in the corps of Tyler Eifford. Ten catches eighty four yards. You can do it with anybody, you know. I like Will dis Lay from Scotland, and we're gonna talk about him on the Seattle matchup. I guess when we come back, take a chance on me.

Nine players not normally in your starting lineup, and they've all got good matchups will tell you who they are when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul and Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with you. This is take a chance on me. We begin at the quarterback position with three quarterbacks upon whom you can take a chance. Matt Harrison, Uh, Andy Dalton. I think it's time for revenge duck chart because this is I would be. I'd love to give you a

revenge duck. This is maybe the most revenge list of revenge games. Andy Dalton returning to Cincinnati. Dalton had a decent two eighty five and two last week against the Ravens, and Cincinnati seems slightly eas Six of the last nine quarterbacks to face the Bengals have thrown for multiple scores and two a doesn't count in that bunch. But he had two or ninety six yards in a score last week.

I think that's the floor for Andy Dalton in this one. Brian, you take a chance in the quarterback Dalton should die some Bengal stripes in his hair, just to troll them. That would be great in that matchup. I got Mike Glennon like the like the like the helmet, just like that exactly. Yeah, alright, he should have done that his whole career, he might, but he would still be there. I got Mike Glennon at home versus the Titans. It's

quite simple. The Titians are gas by the way. They had forced into that early week four by and they need another bye week pretty bad. They have allowed the most passing touchdowns in the league, and there are plus

matchups for all of Glennon's skill players. The Titans have allowed the second most receiving touchdowns and running backs, the fifth most to wide receivers, and the third most to tight end So Mike Glennon, Mike Glennon, there's your that's your DFS dart right there, double d. I've the player I've got is that's right doing it again to my U. We hit on it last week. Then it's happy Trombone, Come on now, it's still sad. Trombone Ski played well

last week. This matchup even easier. Not counting Houston's monsoon game in Cleveland, the Texans are allowing a whopping three hundred thirteen yards and two touchdowns per game since Week five. We're going to get something done with sad trombonesis well. We'll give him all. We'll send him out on a happy note. There we go. Let's go to the running

back position, Matt Jamal Williams of the Packers. The last time these two teams met, green Bay hung forty two points on the Lions with ease, and Jamal Williams had eight carries for sixty three yards in that game. By the way, the last time the Packers had a huge blowout win a couple of weeks ago against Chicago, where Williams had seventeen carries for seventy three yards in a score.

Williams is averaging twelve touches per game and against Detroit's defense that is allowing on average, thirty running back touches per game, a hundred and sixty two total yards per game, and two full touchdowns to every running back. There's enough to go around here, even after Aaron Jones eats in this one. All right, Brian, it's a deep dive, but I'm going Chase Edmonds at the Giants, who have surrendered the sixth most perceptions and second most receiving yards to

running backs. Chase Edmonds is clearly the leading receiver out of Arizona's backfield, has out targeted and out caught Drake over the last three weeks. And you might remember the last time Chase Edmonds played in New Jersey against the Giants, he had three touchdowns in d and fifty something combo yards. And I hate the matchup for the wide receivers. I think uh Edmonds has a decent chance to lead this team in receiving on Sunday. So he's your brother daily

Dart double D Washington running back J D. Mckissic. Oh, he's back, He's back. Is my take a chance? I mean running back in non blowouts with Alex Smith, close games with Alex Smith, and this is going to be one against the Niners. McKissick averages thirteen targets per game. That's a Jerry Rice like target number. There is no Antonio Gibson in this game. Peyton Barber can't catch, so

he will get all of that work. Fortys have an excellent run defense, but they've been dinged through the air by other change of pace backs, including not that long ago, DJ Dallas and Chase Edmonds. Let's go to the receivers. Matt pairing up Michael Gallup with Andy Dalton against the Bengals. Gallop is actually averaging eight targets per game in the four games that Dalton has started and finished. That's not

too shabby. Levin targets last week against the Ravens, where he ended up with seven eighty six and a score. The Bengals have allowed the fourth most touchdowns to the wide receiver position on the year, and they have allowed the third most completions of twenty yards or more. And Gallop mostly operates as the deep threat in this offense, so he's got some blow up potential here and he's a cheape on the DFS market this week. All right, Briant,

you'll take a chance for me. Receiver Colin Johnson's got two l's in his name, but he's gonna have a w against the Titans, who I just mentioned our gast right now. Especially in the secondary. Tennessee has allowed three eighty two wide receiver yards over the last two games. Geez, and four touchdowns. That's a lot. And uh, Colin Johnson has twice as many targets as Labisa Chenault over the last two weeks. He has more targets, more catch and more yards. And DJ Shark, you might be the leading

wide receiver on that team. And he's six six too. He's a big dude, you gotta like that in the red of Colin Johnson. Uh, It's a perfect storm for Robbie Anderson. This week he goes up against Denver. The Broncos secondary will be without suspended cornerback A J. Boo, a slot cornerback he sang Bassie, who tores a c L last week, and the only good cornerback on roster Bryce Callahan, who got put on injured reserve. On top of that, Caroline is d J. Moore is in the

COVID protocol. I'm not expected to play. This is a fantastic opportunity for Robbie Anderson to post a big game. Teddy Bridgewater with unusual upside in that matchup as well, and I strongly, strongly considered him as might take a chance on me quarterback. All right, let's go to back to the matchups Denver taking on Carolina. This is the game we just reference. We can talk about Teddy Bridgewater right into it. I got him on the bench. Oh

come on, man, no way, you got this raw. I think the ceiling is so low for Bridgewater and this one. He only averages two or fifty yards per game and a little more than a touchdown pass per game and the Broncos give up less than that on both accounts, and even with the absences from the secondary, this defense just put Patrick Mahomes on his low score of the year. And are you starting Teddy Bridgewater in a playoff game and I am in a two quarterbacks league? Absolutely would.

I don't think you are. I think you think you're not reading this. Clearly, you liked Robby Anderson, I did give him a B and d J. Moore, as you mentioned, looks to be out for this game for COVID. Curtis Samuel looks like he's going to come back, though. Uh. They looks like they're going to clear him prior to Sunday's game and give him. Let me let me jump in on Curtis Samuel. Why I think you should be higher than to see I went through the remaining cornerbacks

on the Broncos roster. None of them have played slot. And that's Curtis Samuel's bit. He's the slot cornerback and wide receiver, so they don't have anybody with slot experience, and that is a really different skill set when you have to defend the slot you have, you don't have the sideline as a buffer, so slot cornerbacks. Really it's a different skill set and didn't have anybody's ever done it. She's gotta go two ways instead of one. You really do. Yeah,

it's it's there's a lot of truth of that. So I think I think Curtis Samuel sitting on a nice game. In fact, I think he's like wide receiver thirteen from me right now? Wow, alright, um CMC. Christian McCaffrey doesn't look like he's gonna play again this week. He's been held out with quad and shoulder injuries from practice, which means Mike Davis is in play, but I think he's

barely a C grade this week. People are remembering the good Mike Davis, but he had only fifty seven percent of the snaps and the Panthers last game against Minnesota, a game where Rodney Smith and Trenton Cannon logged eleven combined touches, and Davis a strong suit is the passing game, but Denver is near the best in the league at guarding the pass out of the backfield. Posing backs are only averaging thirty receiving yards per game, and they've only

allowed one touchdown through the air to running backs. This year over to the Broncos side. I'll stay on the running back situation. Melvin Gordon and Philip Lindsay are really splitting snaps. Melvin Gordon's looking a lot better. I'll start with Lindsay, though he's on the bench. He's not utilized at all in the passing game anymore, only two receptions

on the year. It's crazy, don't that Gordon has looks like the much better back, including running up a hundred and thirty one rushing yards last week against the Chiefs. I'll give him a ce since he's getting the sixty and the sixty forty split on touches despite the matchup being good ish against Carolina, you cited that Caroline has been a little bit better against the run, but lately the numbers still dictate that overall they're still They're still on the plus side. Drew lock is on the bench.

He's throwing thirteen interceptions in his last six games. In that time, he's throwing eight touchdowns and one yard game there, so that's not good enough. Tim Patrick I got him as kind of a desperation c D play uh Patrick scored twice last week against Kansas City, but he's had more than four receptions only twice this season. By the way, those totals were five and six. So if you need him, you need him to break a long one for him

to be fantasy viable. And it's really only been the super elite receivers that have toasted the Panthers this year. It's it's not Patrick's not in the realm of Justin Jefferson, Mike Evans, Tyreek Hill, Julio Jones, and Calvin Ridley. Those are the guys who've beaten them. And Noah Fant finally he gets a C grade. He's averaging six targets per game, but frankly, he's due. He hasn't scored since Week two. Fifty seven yards last week was his highest artage total

since Week two. The Panthers have allowed double digit PPR days to six tight ends in their last five games. Wow, six and five is not good. That's not good. So Noah Fant I think he's sitting on a sneaky good start here. Anybody, everybody needs help from the tight end in the fantasy playoffs. Hopefully no a fan ki Let's hope it's a fant playoff. Fante playoffs that makes that does make some sense. Let's try to sneak in a quick matchup between Arizona and the Giants. Brian Kyler Murray

slumping over the past month or so. Yeah, and I'm not convinced he's out of the woods with that shoulder injury just yet. And this is a scary matchup. Surprisingly, we were looking at this matchup like six seven weeks ago for Arizona, like okay, in week fourteen, not so much over. New York's last four games are allowing just two passing yards and point seven five passing touchdowns during that span, and Kyler isn't running either. Over the last

three weeks. He's averaging half as many carries for one third of the yardage that he had accumulated earlier in the season. So I think they're protecting. Yeah, I do too, And so just to see for Kyler Murray. Uh, just to see for DeAndre Hopkins, who will play. He's been deemed good to go, dealing with back and neck issues for most of the week, but he's gonna get James Bradberry waiting for him on the other side to shadow him. Bradberry's ranked tenth and coverage by Pro Football Focus has

proven to be a brutal matchup. So just to see for Hopkins and Christian Kirk, I'm on the fence here. I'm I'm leaving him on the bench. Over his last four games. He has total just ninety eight yards over those four games. No touchdowns. He won't get Bradberry, but no secondary received or has top forty four yards over the last three weeks, and uh New York has only allowed one wide receiver touchdown overall during that span. It's just it's just a bad matchup for the passing game.

I like Dan Arnold more than I'm giving him a see He's heating up. Over the last three weeks. Opposing tight ends are averaging nine targets for six and a half catches and sixty two yards. The Giants have allowed no less than five tight end catches and all three of those games. So I'm giving Arnold the ce and he is certainly someone I'll be looking at in daily. I will not be looking at Kenyan Drake too long.

I will give him a CEE. Though only one back is top the hundred rushing yards against the Giants, that was Benny Snell in Week one. Volume has been an issue for opposing backs. Only three backs have seen more than fifteen carries against New York and the Giants have also yielded the fourth fewest red zone touches to running backs. Uh, they give it up through the air the sixth most, sixth most catches, and second most receiving yards. And that's why Chase Edmonds was my take a chance on me

running back. But I'll still give Drake the sea over to the Giant side. Wayne Gallman and give him a B. His five game touchdown streak was not stopped by the Seahawks, but Alfred Fan Morris double Vulture, that's his middle name, Double vultured Dwayne Gallman last week. That was brutal. He still had a career high one thirty five rushing yards. He looked great. The Cardinals have struggled against the run lately.

Over their last three games, they've allowed one two rushing yards and one point seven total touchdowns per game to opposing running back. So a B for Gallman. Uh. Evan Ingram gets a B as well. Arizona only allowing four catches and forty three yards per game to tight ends. They've only surrendered three touchdowns to the position. It's not a great matchup, but with at least eight targets and five of his last six games, Anchorm has become New York's top pass catcher and it's a must start in

the tight end. Wasteland Sterling Shepherd. I'll give him a sea, averaging nearly eight targets per game over his last six, which makes him the only Giants wide receiver you can sort of trust here. The Cardinals have yielded the third most targets and have allowed the third most catches to opposing wide receivers, so to see for Shepherd Daniel Jones. Lastly, I got him on the bench. He should make his return.

It sounds like he practice, but I gotta see what we have there with the English in the playoffs, even in a two quarterback league, gets a little one quarterback easy bench. Yeah, for sure. When we come back Houston, it takes on Chicago. This is a bad defense against a slumping defense. There's some opportunities for points in this one. And we'll tell you who you can trust and who you can't when Fantasy Football Weekly continues. Welcome back Fantasy

Football Weekly. Paul Church and Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with you Hughon takes on Chicago. This is a shockingly mundane Chicago defense that's got some problems. Right now, Let's start with the passing game. Deshaun Watson faces this slumping secondary that's allowed back to back massive games to Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers. They've given up multiple passing touchdowns in six straight games, and they're starting slot cornerback is

going to be out. We'll talk about that in a minute. And Russia Khalil mac may not play due to a shoulder injury. A grade for Deshaun Watson and even the last week, I was openly skeptical about key Key Qt's ability to really run a passing game through him. Well, he proved me wrong, and he's got a glorious matchup this week. He's coming off a career high one forty one yard performance and normal slot cornerback buster screen the busted screen door is out. Almost nobody else has played

in the slot this year for Chicago. Rookie cornerback Kindle Vildor should have sup what killed k Usually that's when you jump in and say, I'm just flabbergasted by the name. Rookie cornerback Kindle Ville door up there. There you go. Thank you. Sorry, I was trying to set you up. Couldn't for weeks. Vill door wide open, Yes, I like it. Billed door wide open him plus the busted screen door.

He's expected to play in buster screens place. Kindle Vildor has played one defensive snap of football at the NFL. You gotta say, Kindle Vildor, like the Swedish chef, uh, Brandon Cooks gets to be a grade. He's been ultra reliable, hauling in at least five catches in six of his last eight games. He's top sixty yards and seven of the games in that span. Got knocked out briefly last week and there was a bit of a concussion scare,

but he came back and played UM. As I mentioned before, this is a fading defense, but he has the toughest matchups on the outside against Kyle Fuller and Jalen Johnson UM and frankly just kikiqt is going to be a more viable target in this one. Be great on Brandon Cooks. I think you will get your sixty seventy yards out of him and a chance at a score. Staying with the passing game, you could throw a dart at Jordan Aikins. If you need a tight end, he's done nothing, so

this really is a dart throw. But the Bears have been really bad against tight ends. They've given up the second most receptions, the fourth most yards, and the second most touchdowns to tight ends. So there's your case for Jordan Aikins. Now it it looks like David Johnson is not going to play. He missed practice all week with a personal issue, and then on Friday he got slapped with the COVID designation. So I think it's Duke Johnson.

That's a pretty personal issue, though very deeply personal. Yes, in the three games David Johnson missed earlier in the season, Duke Johnson was man. He had a fourteen touch game, a thirteen touch game, and a twelve touch game as the lead back and didn't score in any of those

games and average just fifty five yards. That's it. Chicago's run defense has lapsed of late, like the rest of the defense, allowing the ninth most fantasy points over the last three weeks, including big games to third tier runners Jamal Williams and Adrian Peterson. I've got a B grade on Duke Johnson. Leaning towards Sea, but I'm getting feel I can't you can't feel good about starting Duke Johnson. Let's go to the Chicago side. I already told you that Sad trombone Ski is going to be happy game.

He might take a chance of me quarterback with a C grade. Allen Robinson's got an A grade. His yardage numbers have been in the seventies of the three of the four True Bisky full games, which isn't bad. And I think there's a chance for an outburst in this game because the Texans have allowed a one yard receiver in four of the past six and they're looking increasingly vulnerable with top cornerback Bradley Roby suspended for the rest of the season. And to to brisk to true Bisky

has the happening again. I know has the good sense to throw the ball a lot to Allen Robinson, which is very smart. Also, if you need another tight end dart throw Also in this game, Cole Commet His playing time is spiked over the last three games, each over a snap share, and the Texans can be a vulnerable tight end defense, giving up notable games recently to t J. Hockenson, Ryanzo and Tyler effort, and then lastly, a firm A grade on David Montgomery. I love him in this matchup.

In Troubisky's four full games, Montgomery is averaging one total yards and he touchdown per game. Texans allowing the most rushing attempts and the most rushing yards to opposing running backs. It's it is bad. They're averaging hundred forty yards and almost one and a half touchdowns per game two opposing backs. Holy cow. Dallas takes on Carol Line, Dallas takes on Cincinnati Matt and And for Dallas, you already talked about

Andy Dalton. What other receivers do you like? Well, already talked about Michael Gallup too, Umark Cooper, and Ceedee Lamb, giving b grades to as well. Cooper is topped eighty yards or scored in each of Dalton's five starts, and Lamb is tied for Cooper for the most targets under Dalton this year with forty one. His seven catches for sixty four yards while Dalton was under siege last week made a lot of sense as he was running the short,

quick routes, especially with right tackles. Zach Thomas out There's gonna be a little more pressure on Andy Dalton this week since his past defense middle of the pack against receivers are allowing around a hundred and sixty two yards in a score and a half per game. Dalton Schultz is getting a C grade two depending on the scoring system. The Bengals are anywhere from fifth worst to worst in

tight end defense in the league. Evan Ingram and Mike get Sicky just beat the Bengals in the last two weeks for huge fantasy days, and you're probably a playoff team, which means you might have better options. But Schultz is one of my favorite plug and play streamers this week. He was might take a chance on me receiver for much of the week until I really decided I couldn't pass on Robby Anderson and Ezekiel Elliott. I'm giving a B grade two here. Zeke is averaging twenty two touches

per game on the year. That gave him exactly that many against the Ravens last week, and he's getting eighty four percent of the team's rushing attempts inside the ten yard line. The Bengals are allowing five yards per carrying a hundred and fifty yards per game to opposing backs. It's a good time for for Zeke. On the Bengal side, it's pretty easy. Geo Bernard gets a C grade. Joe Mixon is not gonna play this week, and Joe Mixon may not play the rest of the year. Yeah, that's

what I was gonna say. There's no motivation for the Bengals to put him back in. Uh. Geo will get the heavier end of the time share over some A J. P. Ryan. He's averaging about twelve touches per game. Though the Cowboys defense has been awful against the run, allowing a hundred and thirty seven rush yards per game and five point one yards per carry. Geo should find about seventy eight

yards here and have a shot at a touchdown. Whatever quarterback they chooses on the bench, whether it's Brandon Allen who's injured or Ryan Finley who's bad. Either we'll be playing without left tackle Jonah Williams, who just hit I R. And that's why I'm leaving Tyler Boyd and Tie Higgins on the bench, and Redraft. I think they're kind of droppable right now, both of them. Higgins has had exactly one hundred total yards in the two games since Burrow went down, and Boyd needs a ton of volume to

be viable here. I don't think he breaks another seventy two yard touchdown before getting tossed out of a game. Boyd's averaging five targets and two catches per games since we lost Burrow, so they're both on the bench. Tennessee takes on Jacksonville. Bryan needless to say, Derrick Henry is an A grade, But who else do you like in this matchup? Yeah, these teams played back in Week two. Of course, like you said, Derrick Henry a grade and

not can go into that too much. The last three leadbacks who faced the Jaguars of total three fifty rushing yards on six yards per carry. So you gotta like Henry even though he had carries for eighty four scoreless yards in the first meeting. I'm not too worried about that. He gets an A, so do a. J Brown and Corey Davis, opposing wide receivers, are averaging four teen catches, one eighty seven yards, and one plus touchdowns per game against the Jaguars. Brown did not play in the first meeting.

Corey of us had three catches three thirty six yards in one touchdown. But you love them both in this one they both get an A. So if they're both a's, isn't Ryan Tannehill also a A? He will definitely be in A. But can I talk about John hu Smith first charge? You don't want me to skip over that, do you? No? Never he gets a B. He will play in this one. He is fresh, he is healthy. He had a day when these teams first met, four catches,

eighty four yards and two touchdowns. The Jaguars have surrendered these second most scores to opposing tight ends. So a B for John new Smith and definitely an A for Tannehill, who had four passing touchdowns in the first meeting. With no A J Brown again numbers he could easily replicate. The Jaguars have allowed passing touchdowns to every opponent and multiple passing touchdowns in sixth straight games. So in A if Tannehills we got four different A grades in this matchup,

I'd like to give Tannehill the fantasy yard park. No, I got one. Later you give him the Fonzie. You want to give him the funzie A charge you can give out a Fonzie. But I can't, so I said I would give it on his behalf over to the Jaguar side. I have an A for James Robinson on twenty combo yards and a touchdown in the Week two matchup, and I love to catch totals with Glennon at quarterback

eleven catches over the last two games. The Titans have allowed a running back to score at least at least once in every game but one so far the season. Soon A for Robinson over to the receivers for Jacksonville. I'm gonna give d J. Charka B even though he's been held under sixty yards for three straight games with no touchdowns during that span. But this is a great spot. He had four catches eighty four yards in the first meeting.

That should be a safe floor against the Titans, who I mentioned earlier have allowed three d eighty two yards and four wide receiver touchdowns over the last two games to the position, and that is why Colin Johnson was might take a chance on the wide receiver. I leaned him over Laviska Chenalt, who you could give a C two, but I'm gonna leave him on the bench here. He scored last week, but that was a major fluke at deflection off Chark, and that was his first touchdown since

week one. Chenault also hasn't topped three catches or forty five yards since Week five. He's been one of the few rookie receiver kind of I'm not I'm not calling him a bust, but he's just sort of had a math here, sort of a standard rookie. Colin Johnson has really stepped up and he's taking a lot of targets from him twice as many as quarterback play too though. That's that's that's a fair point, but there will not be math quarterback played from like Glenn AND's game might

take a chance on me quarterback. No, I think you're right about that. There probably will not be, which is good news. We've got about one minute left in this segment. Do you believe cam Acres is now the full time workhorse back for the Rams? I think that Sean McVeigh likes to play games with my heart and no, he's You're gonna see Darrell Henderson come out and know that some touches it was way too one sided and looked McVeigh goes back fire him. I don't know, but he

could because that's what McVeigh does. But he even did it with Todd. But you know what, Well, when Todd Gurley was in his heyday during your Super Bowl year, Gurley got the majority of the work weekend and week out. I think cam Akers is entering that territory here. I want to believe that that is the case. And for those people that actually picked him up back then it's a going to turn into a good opportunity to use

him down the stretch there. When we came back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Three Tough Questions, Well, Pepper, my panelists with three questions. You can try to play along and try to go three and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul charging with you, Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. You can follow us on Twitter. I am at Paul charchy In, Matt is at Explosive Output, and Brian is at b t x g A. Three

Tough Questions. We begin with tough question number one. If you bench Dalvin Cook in a brutally tough matchup and you lose because of it, can you live with yourself? Matt? Can you live with yourself? Yes? Yes, you can live with yourself. You should not go Harry kry on yourself if this happens. Um, yes, this is a bad matchup. The Bucks allow only fifty four rushing yards per game, but they do allow six receptions per game and only thirty eight yards per game to the running back, so

that's tough, but Dalvin gets all of that. They do allow a combined one touchdown per game to the running back position as well. So would you take ninety two total yards, six catches, and a score in a PPR league. That's twenty one point two points, and that's an average back getting all the work. I think Dalvin is better than an average back. He's the best running back in the league right now. So I'm gonna start him. He's

going to perform. It's gonna be fine. Don't worry. You didn't answer the question, so yes, you can see if you you bench him and you lose, you're not gonna be him. That's not the question. Who's gonna bench him? No you can't, Then you do have to. I've got him his running back seventeen. A good chance that you need a samurai sword. You do need a home guillotine. So yeah, so you know you can't live you can't.

You're gonna cry o Brian. Yeah, if you bench Dalvin Cook and you lose because of it, can you live with yourself? No, Start your studs, especially Dalvin Cook. Well, not all your studs, but start Dalvin Cook. That's all I gotta say. I'm gonna sleep like a baby if I if I if I have, If I go into this matchup and I decided I've got two runners that I think are gonna outperform Dalvin Cook, I'm going to go with my best judgment every time. I'm not gonna

second guess myself. I'm going it might not work out, and it doesn't mean I won't be upset that it didn't work out. But I'm gonna sleep like a baby. I'm gonna have no trouble. If you gotta play, you're gonna cry yourself to speak like a baby. I'm because of the tear. I will be disappointed that I'm done, But that's it. It's to me. You just you make the best decisions you can and you move on. I don't even know if I got that right or wrong.

I don't need to question number two. With your fantasy season on the line, can you risk starting Deonte Johnson, considering his league leading nine drops nine times and Mike Tomlin's edict that he'll replace people who can't catch the ball. Brian, Well, I'm I haven't looked, but I'm gonna guess like Chase Claypool and Eric Ebron are second and third and drops, so as soon as they bench Deyonte, the rotation will get them right back in the game. Uh No, I'm not.

I'm a little worried about the drops, but I will I will risk starting Deonte Johnson, who was already a top fifteen wide receiver, and that's after missing one full game, and he left three full games very early. If you would just extrapolate his eight full games just so the twelve games were at right now, he would be first and catches among all wide receivers, eighth in yards, and you have eight receiving touchdowns. He's already, like I said,

a wide receiver fifteen. So I'll take my chances on the talent and hope he holds onto the ball, and yes, I'll start Johnson. Matt, can you risk starting Deonte Johnson considering he drops more balls than a Hernia specialist? And Mike Tomlins got an edict to replace anybody who drops balls. Uh yeah, I'm still starting him. He's He's got almost ten targets per game. In fact, he sees a target

on twenty one percent of his snaps. One out of five snaps on the fields throwing the ball to him, he drops less than one pass the game, zero point seven To be precise, You're basically one of the highest targeted players in the league. On a person nap basis, he has more catches per game than Calvin Ridley, A. J. Brown, Adam Feeling, Justin Jefferson, and Mike Evans. Mike Tomlin is a great motivator, That's what this is. This is a

motivational tactic. So his benching would be a motivational attack. We're not gonna ben in the playoffs, especially. I pay close attention to the risk profile of my entire roster, my starters. Do I have a lot of boom or bust guys? Do or do I have a lot of safe guys with consistent bankable production. How much risk do I have throughout my roster? Then I apply that risk

profile to my likelihood of winning. If I just need my guys to perform as usual and I'm gonna win, I'm I'm then I don't want risk if I if I am the underdog, then I have to go with high risk, high reward guys. So you need to look at the risk profile of your roster. If I can win by a lot, I can't, I can't add risk. So it really depends on the risk profile of your roster. He is a risky player, and if he drops a couple of passes in the first quarter, I don't think

you're gonna see him again. You have to bake that into your decision on whether or not you're going to start him. But it's different for every team. So I'm giving you both a correct answer. It's the holiday spirit. By the way, I think he said the same thing, though, didn't we that we both start them? Did you say? Questions analyze the risk profile? Tough question number three? Should owners who have nothing left to play for be allowed

to make waiver claims in redraft leagues? And that's part one? Part two? Should they be allowed to make waiver claims in dynasty keeper and empire leagues during the Fantasy playoffs? Matt Well, let me talk about part two. First, Dynasty keeper Empire leagues. Absolutely, if people are able to make a pick up. Everybody should be able to make a pickup.

I think that's pretty clean right there. In redraft leagues, I hear this competitive balance thing like, don't try to take take the winds away from the guys who are in the playoffs. But guess what, you should always be playing for something. There should be a toilet bowl in your league that you're going for. And you're playing for something, whether it's for cash, whether it's for pride, whether it's

for punishing. But if the question is framed, if if there's nothing for you to play for, there is no toilet bowl, you're just out. You're just out. I still think that you should be able to because it's if it's a twelve team league, it's a twelve team league worth of players, and everybody should have a team that looks like a twelve team league team. I'm in agreement with the dynasty aspect, and I will add that there shouldn't be a trading deadline in dynasty keeper or Empire

leagues either. In my opinion, you should be allowed to trade until the end of the season. Certainly should be allowed to add and drop players. But in redraft I'm gonna disagree, and I'm usually one that says, if the site allows you to do it, then go for it. But if there's nothing to play for, just stay off the waiver wire. It's there's you're just being an enable, that's the bottom line. So that's my answer. No, do not go to the waiver wire. If you're not in

the playoffs and redrafting, there's no consolation bracket. That's exactly right. You don't get to just get to play spoiler for no reason, just so you can f up somebody else's season. You should have you should have won more games if that's you know, if you wanted to be if you wanted to make waiver transactions in December, go win more games.

If you have nothing to play for, Teams that have nothing to play for should not be allowed allowed to make waiver claims in redraft Now, if you have anything to play for, including the avoiding the toilet Bowl, then yes, you should be able to do whatever you need to do to remain competitive once the playoffs starts. And in Dynasty, of course it's Dynasty game on. If anybody can make transaction, everybody can. Would you agree, no trade deadline? No, I don't.

I don't agree with that because now it's a week like fifteen, I really have nothing to play for, and I could make a really lopsided trade in the Fantasy championship to one team. You can't have that an Empire league pot like in our league, where we have nine thousand dollars at risk, and somebody could upend their roster to make sure the empire the Empire winner doesn't go again. But that's a regular dice. I don't like it. I

don't like it fair enough. Quick bonus question for you, is there a surprise player down the stretch who is not a regular fantasy producer, who you think is going to house leagues this year and guide you to championships like Ron Dane did like seven years ago. I want somebody that you don't normally start, but now this year is going to go on a three game run. I don't know if he falls in the Dane category. I'm

gonna go with Miles Gaskin. Uh. He's gonna be the bell cow for the Dolphins for the remainder of the season. They got a strong defense that they got the Chiefs this week, but that could be a shootout. He could get some more out in the backfield. But then New England we just saw get carved up by cam Achors and then the Raiders in week sixteen. That's a plus matchup. So I'm gonna go gasking. Uh My guy is not a guy that you wouldn't start, but it's a guy

that you might not be thinking about right now. And it's Mark Andrews. Um he's got the best schedule Cleveland this week, the Browns have allowed the third most receptions and are tied for the second most touchdowns to tight ends. Andrews scored twice against the Browns in the first meeting Jacksonville next week. Jaguars are tied with the Browns for the second most touchdowns allowed nine times in twelve games, nine times nine And in your fantasy Championship the Giants.

Uh he The Giants have only allowed two touchdowns of the tight end position, but the very very best tight end they faced was Rob Gronkowski, and he was the best by a long shot. They've faced nobody until Dan Arnold this weekend. Dan, I'm just gonna change at all. Um. The guy I'm I'm thinking about is he only quasi qualifies even David Montgomery who has been a flex starter

most of the year. He's an A grade this week he'll probably be an A or B grade against Minnesota, and then he'll be an A grade against Jacksonville after that, and he gets like one hundred percent of the work. We need the old cow bell back are one our single cow bell, which was a good idea when we wanted literally one bell. It's like a cow clunk. Yeah, it just doesn't work. That was think from a preseason show,

wasn't it. I don't know. It goes way back. I don't remember how long can I miss I missed my old cowbell? Uh? Kansas City takes on the Miami Dolphins led ZIP through this matchup. In this segment, Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, and Travis Kelsey are all A grades, although I'll note that it's a trickier matchup than it sounds because Miami secondary is actually quite good. But they're all still A grades and they're totally unvench table, unvenchable. Mahomes,

Hill and Travis Kelsey. I think I've got them at roughly quarterback five, wide receiver five, and Kelsey is tight end one and the only other guys that you want

to think about for Kansas City. Sammy Watkins is on the bench too, totally forgettable start since his return to injury, and he's got tricky matchups against the Miami cornerback Xavian Howard, Byron Jones and Nick need him and then Clyde Edwards Hilaire always it's it's been a disaster last week was too nearly a bench grade here, but I'm giving him a C grade. Over the last five games, the Chiefs

have thrown one of their offensive plays. Only one running back has scored against Dolphins in their last seven games, running backs going over ninety rushing yards against them in their last fourteen games. I don't like this matchup, but I'm giving him C gregs. I think Clyde Edwards a layer, will cobble together fifty sixty yards and has a twenty five percent chance at a touchdown. C grade sounds about what are the odds of someone with c h on

roster being alive this week? Though what happened last week? Yeah, that costs me a gaining uh Miles Gas going to the Miami side. Miles Gaskin is a B grade here. Savon Akhmed likely misses another game and it doesn't even matter. Gaskin gets the overwhelming majority of the work. Chiefs have allowed their opponents starting back to score or post at least one hundred thirty combo yards in four straight games. The way you beat the Every team does the same

thing when they face the Chiefs. They want to win on the ground, keep them play, keep away from Patrick Mahomes. Gaskin is gonna get plenty of work. And he's a B grade gas can to a Tonguo via Looa is a C grade. He has one all of his full game starts. But he's also been a low yield fantasy producer with shorter, safer passes than Ryan Fitzpatrick's yolo downfield stylings. The Chiefs have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in four straight

games and to scores as possible here. But that's that is the top of his upside in a medium matchup without a lot of good targets for him here, and I've only got to see grade in Davante Parker, who just withers with two under center, averaging just thirty nine yards per game. There is some upside of two. Can it can't unleash some downfield passing Kansas City has has allowed multi score games to outside receivers Tim Patrick and

Mike Evans and back to back games. So maybe two it gets a little something done with Parker, but history suggests not ma and then lastly, Mike Kasecki b Grade. He has scored him back to back games. He's been after basically disappearing for the entire middle of the season. Kansas City has been giving up big numbers to tight

ends of late. Over their last three games, the Chiefs have surrendered too tight end touchdowns and are allowing more than eight catches in one yards per game to the position. So I like Giseki quite a bit in this matchup. We'll take a break when we come back. The New York Jets take on the Seattle Seahawks. Seattle's offense has been more abund for a month, but here comes the get right Jets. Do you start them all? Wasn't it

to get right Giants? Maybe maybe you know, Well, we'll see if they're gonna fare a little bit better about this team from New York when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie, Matt Harrison, and Brian Johnson with you back to a

block of matchups, including the Jets taking on Seattle. Ty Johnson with a big game last week, but Frank or make him back for this one, and we've got a lot of history, and says Tie Johnson is not that good and see it has been a good run defense. Do you like any part of the Jets running game? Nope? Uh, we could probably just leave it at that. That's I'm fine with it if you want to move on. But

we got better things. You really do the Jets wide receivers. Now, Denzel Mims is gonna miss this weekend's game with a family emergency. And then Jamison Crowder suffered a calf injury on Thursday's practice and his status is now in serious doubt, which leaves a couple more targets for Brashad Pairman and

maybe Brexton Barrios if Crowder doesn't go. Now, Crowder did score twice last weekend, and if he does play, I'm giving him a solid B. He hasn't seen double digit targets since week six, though, uh Perriman has had some ups and downs, hit seventy nine yards or scored in three of his last four though, and it's the Seahawks. They don't have much of a stronger weak spot against slot or perimeter wide receivers. Both have absolutely gouged them this year to the tune of nineteen catches and two

five yards per game. Pairman I think is a solid B. If Crowder doesn't go, I think he's a CEE if he does go. And if Crowder doesn't go, Braxton Barrios is in with a C two, I think the Jets are gonna get shut out. It could be uh Sam Donald. I'm giving him a C grade. I can't imagine anyone who's starting Donald this week, but it's the best possible matchups,

so I'll give him a starting grade. It's worth noting the Seahawks have not given up a three hundred yard passer and three straight games, but they did play Kyler Murray, Carson Wentz, and Colt McCoy in those games. But Seattle has allowed a league high forty three passing attempts and three three passing yards per game. On the Seahawks side, we alluded to it right before the break. It's a get right game, maybe a jet right game for Russell Wilson.

Uh the Seahawks were a little embarrassed by the Giants last weekend. They need that Jet right game. Insert the Jets, who are allowing three hundred passing yards and two scores per game to opposing quarterbacks. Russell Wilson's in a saw our DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. The Lockett sides fascinating. Yeah, no questioning the DK. We don't even spend time on that.

But Locket has been the guy where if you can if you can get that one out of every six games where he blows up, you're set, but otherwise you suffer well. Since his Week seven two hundred yard three touchdown game, Lockett hasn't topped sixty seven yards and he's only scored once. However, he's played some really good corners in that time, surprisingly, and he's been targeted exactly nine times in three of his last four games. We used the nine times button nine times today. He has the talent,

the opportunity, and the matchup is good. So don't be mad at him. Start him with confidence this week. And Chris Carson, I'm gonna give him an A grade. Carson is healthy. Hide is just a change of pace. Back when that happens like last week when Carson had sixteen touches and a hundred and ten yards and Hide had five touches for eleven yards. That's the race you I

want to see right there, exactly. Carson is still limited a little bit in practice as his foot injuries not quite fully healed, but he's His limitations don't seem to hold them back on the field during Sundays. The Jets have been good ish against the run. They have been shockingly competent, but they're still allowing on average twenty nine touches tend a hundred and thirty two total yards per game to opposing back because everybody gets ahead on the

Jets and they just run. That's right. Carson is gonna get eighty percent of that, and I'll take that in a fantasy playoff week. Uh, the Jets just lost their super Bowl last week, and their version of a super Bowl is a winnable game. I think they've actually won their Super Bowl last organizationally, they certainly did. I think these players are going to come in dead flat on their cross country flight and the Jets are gonna get eviscerated in this one. Uh. It's not a huge it's

not a huge take. I know Atlanta takes on the Chargers, and for the Falcons, Brian no Julio Jones, and Matt Ryan has languished without Jones, averaging less than one touchdown per game in the games that Jones did not have full participation in. Yeah, seven games with Julio, Ryan has fifteen touchdowns. That's more than two a game in the five games. Or Julio has been limited or absent three touchdowns in those five games from Matt Ryan. So he is on the bench with no Julio. It's that simple.

And of course Julio on the bench as well. He's been ruled out already. Calvin Ridley, though, I will still give him a starting B grade, even though the Chargers have allowed the fewest receptions to wide receivers and have only allowed one wide out to top seventy five yards over their last five games. But Ridley should see a ton of volume in this one, so I will still give him a BE. But you know, Ridley's numbers are worse when Julio's it's gone because defenses can focus. He's

better off with Julio on the field, for sure. And you know who else is is Russell Gauge. You might be thinking maybe I'll give Russell Gauge Ago without Julio. Wrong, definitely do not. In the three games without Julio, he's averaging three less targets per game, just four targets pergaing without Julio seven targets with Julio in the lineup for Gauge, and his catch and yardage totals are cut in half without Julio on the s LUI no JUALI no no way for Russell Gauge, And now I like saying no

to hate in Hurst. It's become pretty easy and usually pays off. But I will give him a CE here With no Julio. Opposing tight ends are only averaging four point three catches and forty three yards per game against the Chargers. That is the middle of the road. But l A has surrendered the second most scores two tight ends with nine, so I will give Hurst a C and uh lastly four Atlanta. Todd Gurley, of course, his

last and certainly least here. His only hope is for a goal line plunge, and without Julio to potentially draw a past interference in the end zone, his chances are very diminished, very unlikely to get that goal line plunge, especially because the Chargers have only surrendered seven rushing touchdowns and running backs on the season, so Gurly is on the bench. Not a lot of players on the bench for the Chargers. Will start with Austin Ekeler. I don't

like the ma matchup for him. I will still get him to be this Falcons are very tough against the run this year. They've only They've allowed just five rushing touchdowns to the position all season, and no running back

has topped ninety rushing yards. And since Week six, opposing backs are averaging just two and a half catches and sixteen receiving yards against Atlanta, with no receiving touchdowns during that span, which is staggering for the Falcons, who we've been picking on the five years, like five great years. Every running back, any running back playing against the Falcons, he's gonna catch a million passes. It would take a chance on me, Crutch for years it was the easiest

go too. But with with no Julio at the time of possession is it's going to be dominated by the Chargers. So I'm gonna give or the b even though at first I was gonna give him a sea because it is a tough matchup. It's it's not a smash spot, that's for sure. It probably is for Keenan Allen, though a wide receiver has topped a hundred yards against the Falcons nine times this season, UH, commanding twelve targets per game. Keenan Allen likely to be the tenth. He gets an A,

and I will give my Williams B as well. Wide receivers as a whole or averaging fifteen catches and two yards per game against the Falcons, So there should be plenty of meat left on the bone for Williams here and Hunter Henry gets a B as well. Uh. The Falcons have yielded the third most red zone touches and surrendered the second most tight end touchdowns the second most touchdowns too tight ends with nine, but only two of those tight ends have come over at Landa's last six games.

So not an A for Henry here, just to B. But I will give air Bear the A justin Herbert whoa. Oh he's definitely not hibernating today. Oh God, no, hello air Bear. When Nick Foles drew lock and Taysom Hill can throw for multiple passing touchdowns against the Falcons, who have allowed a seventy one completion rate over the last three games. You gotta like Herbert air Bear absolutely if this feels like a very strong start for him. Washington takes on San Francisco. Not a lot to talk about

on the Washington side. Will begin with Alex Smith, who's on the bench. His arm strength is just so limiting. He can't press defenses downfield at all. He's only startable in the most favorable of matt hips and this is not one of them. And I'm down on most of the rest of the offense because of it, other than j D mckissic, who's might take a chance on me running back with a B grade, and I expect a

lot from him. Terry mclauren's really tricky. Even with the return of Richard Sherman for er secondary has had some struggles lately. Over the last five games, Niners are allowing almost two d yards per game to opposing receivers, but mclauren was brutal last week. He's gonna face off against Jason Varette, who most of the season has been good

but got worked by Stefan Diggs last week. So some different different mixes A mix of different directions for McLaurin, but I'm gonna stick with the predominant B grade that he's earned over the course of the season. But still I'm a little bit I'm a little bit gun shy after last week. Then Logan Thomas with a C grade San Francisco allowing just three catches and thirty two yards per game to the tight end position, which is bad,

and only three touchdowns all year. But Thomas shined in a very tough matchup last week against the Steelers, putting up nine catches, nine yards and a touchdown. And he's now got touchdowns and back to back games. So I do have a C grade on Logan Thomas here. Peyton Barber is going to get the start. He's terrible. He's averaged just two and a half yards per carry. Your only hope is a goal line carry against sant San Francisco defense that's only given up six rushing touchdowns all year.

Now let's go to the niner side. Let's begin with Raheem Most who gets a C grade. With the running game, he looked I thought a little more spry last week and his second game back from injury, but he still hasn't posted a meaningful Fantasy day. Since pre injury, the Washington football team has been flat out dominant against opposing running backs over their last three games. They're only allowing thirty four scoreless rushing yards per game. That's nothing, and

no back his top thirty two yards. And then also Jeff Wilson mucking up the works last week, especially getting the ball near the stripe. We don't need Jeff Wilson on the field, get him off. So just to see great and Raheem Mostard here, I was hoping most are would power teams through the playoffs. It doesn't look like it's going to be that way, all right. And then the passing game, Nick Mollins. I don't think Nick Mollins is a half bad quarterback, and I love that he's

got all his weapons healthy. But this is a really tricky matchup against a good past defense. Five of the past seven quarterbacks to face Washington have thrown zero or one touchdown. Washington sees the seventh fewest past attempts and Shanahan loves to run the ball. So I just I just don't think there's a volume here either. I've got a C grade on Mullins, a C grade on Brandon a Yuk, who has quietly produced over one hundred yards or a touchdown in five straight games, and he draws

the majority of Nick Mollins targets. Six of the nine touchdowns that Washington has allowed have gone two receivers over the past four games, so they've given up a little more lately. Ayuke's got a difficult one on one matchup against Kendall Fuller, who's been very good and is allowing just thirty or four yards per game in his coverage.

So a C grade on Ayuke. C grade on Deebo Samuel in his two games since returning from the hamstring injuries average a hundred three yards per game, which I love and he looks great, but he's got a brutal matchup in the slot against Jim Moreland, who is not allowed a touchdown all season, and it's giving up just eighteen yards in his coverage. So it's just bad matchups

everywhere unfortunately, including Jordan Read. Washington started the season really badly against tight ends, but they've improved a lot and Read is not seeing any kind of consistent volume unfortunately, so matchup with very few possible starters. When we come back our final block of matchups, including green Bay taking on Detroit, including a very tricky matchup for fantasy owners with DeAndre Swift. What are you gonna do with his

weird situation missing games? He comes off the protocol still not ready illness, He's gonna get enough work. He has a dicey start. We'll tell you if you dare put him in your starting lineup. When we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Final thing in the Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi with you. You can follow me on Twitter at Paul Charchi and paulso Guillotine leagues dot com for all of your player rankings available for free. Explanations on the

guys help you make sure you set your lineup. And it's not just as simple as starting the guys that got you there. There is no worse playoff strategy than saying, well, you're the guys I gotta be here. I guess I'm just gonna blame in the order. You know I've been playing them. You don't have to be loyal. Yeah, the players don't care. They don't care. They don't care. The players do not care, absolutely not. Final block of matchups here,

including green Bay taking on Detroit. Matt Let's start on the Green Bay side, and it's it's an ultra plus matchup for Aaron Rodgers in the passing game. You know I wanna Yeah, Well, it's Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams. They're both getting A grades if you don't count the final game of where the Packers allow Detroit to win thirty one nothing and Rogers played five snaps. Aaron Rodgers has thrown multiple touchdown passes against Detroit. Guess how many

times in a row? Chart nine, You've got it nine times. Adams has played the Lions. Guess how many times charged? That's right, and he scored a lot, but he's only top No, He's only topped one yards once against the Lions. That's kind of strange. It doesn't look like Jeff Okudo will play in this game with a shoulder injury and number two cornered Desmond trufont hit I R so he's gone to uh So Allen Lazard, I'm giving him a C grade too hot. His highest snap total since his

injury last week at sixty. Lazard has scored in every other game this season, and he didn't score last week, so he's due Lazard also scored in both meetings against the Lions last season. Lazard base and everything you just said tsing cornerbacks. Yeah, B grade. I guess you could give a B grade to Robert tons of fun tongue in his stat lines in the last three weeks, five targets, five catches, one touchdown, five targets, five catches, one touchdown,

five targets, four catches, one touchdown. I sent a pattern a little bit. Uh. Cole Comet and Herb Smith each scored against the Lions in the last four weeks. Uh. And then finally Aaron Jones gets the a A RN

Fantasy a A art vark. This year, I covered how bad Detroit's terrible run defense is already, So let's move on to the Detroit side where we can talk about DeAndre Swift, who's very iffy with this one with both a concussion and an illness, and interim coach Darryl Bevil mentioned to the press that if Swift can play, his usage will be severely limited. I don't like hearing that, so I'm going to advise to bench Swift even iff active. And this is a great match up against the Packers too.

That's the killer part of this. Now, if he does not go. Now, if he does not go, this is better because if Swift is active, Adrian Peterson is not in the game. But if Swift is out, he's almost a B grade in this one. Peterson is Yeah. In the last two weeks, Peterson has had fifteen and sixteen carries and scored twice in both games. By the way, Peterson has seventeen career touchdowns against the Packers. That's a lot.

I love that he terrorized the Packers for most of his career and has found a way to see him again. And maybe he could do it one more time, one last time with Darryl Bevil. Come on, the band's all back together. Matthew Stafford, Uh, he's still got the thumb injury, but he's getting a C grade. If you look back at Stafford's last ten games against the Packers, he's thrown multiple scores. How many times? Charge nine times? That's right,

nine out of ten multiple touchdown games for Stafford. But he's been wildly inconsistent this year, only hitting the three yard mark or multiple scores in seven of twelve games. So I'm only giving him the sea. Kenny Golladay not gonna go again, likely with the hip injury. Some are speculating that he's just ready to hit free agency and is not gonna play for Detroit. I think there's a good chance that happens, but I think Stafford's gone to

By the way, it could be. Marvin Jones gets a C grade worth noting that the Lions cut the other Marvin Marvin Hall. Uh Jones should get JayR. Alexander in this game. But he scored in four of his last six games and had double digit targets in three of his last four, so they're gonna keep forcing him the ball. By the way, Jones has scored five touchdowns in his last five games against the Packers. He's a Packer killer is but JR. Alexander's way better than he is. That's

my worry. Yeah, that might be, that might be true. Uh t J. Hockenson, I'm giving him a C grade. Has had seven or more targets in five of his last six games and sixty eight or more yards in three straight. He's only really killed you in one game this year. Fifty yards are a score in eleven or twelve, and in the prior meeting he caught all four of his targets for sixty two. That seems like the floor for Hockinson in this one. To get higher than that.

He's gonna need to score. I don't know if he can. The Packers have you know he might he Yeah, that's some fantasy analysis right there, that Washy T. J. Hawkinson take New Orleans takes on Philadelphia Brian and for the Saints, Taysom Hills under center coming off for the best game he's ever played. Yeah, and Philly has allowed these second most rushing yards two quarterbacks, uh, including games of one yards and ninety two yards and sixty four yards to

a quarterback. And I love the connection with Michael Thomas, who will talk about in a second. So I'm gonna give Tayston hill in a in this game, in a game where I don't see Philly having the ball for more than twenty miss one. We'll get to the eagle side in the second. It's a bench fest over there. But sticking with the Saints, Uh, we'll stick with the past game and which doesn't include Alvin Kamara, by the way,

sticking with the pass games. Sadly, Michael Thomas gonna give him an a has posted over one yards and two of the last three games with Taysom Hill quarterback. The one game he didn't was against the quarterbackless Broncos when they did not need to throw. The Eagles secondary is top ten and yards allowed to receivers in terms of fewest yards, so that's not good for Thomas. But they have allowed over one yards to the oponents top receiver in back to back games. And Darius Slay is very

questionable with a knee injury. Not that I would fade Thomas if if Slay was active for any reason, but if Slay sits, Thomas will primarily see undrafted rookie Michael Jacquette, who has just justife defensive snaps under his belt. But if Jacquette turns out to be good, we got the full medal of Jacquette on our hands. Great nickname, great nickname. Teed up for Jacquette, but he's gonna get flamed by Thomas and this one Emmanuel Sanders not a great matchup.

He's on the bench, especially with Hill at quarterback, and even though Jared Jared Cook scored a touchdown last week, I do not care he is on the bench as well. There's not enough volume there for Cook and lastly, for the Saints, we definitely have to talk about Alvin Kamara, who gets a B. Philly has faltered against the run as of late. Over the last three games, opposing backs are averaging one dred and fifteen rushing yards and a

touchdown per game. Philly is actually very tough against receiving backs. They haven't allowed an air score to the position, but that doesn't matter anymore because Alvin Kamara does not catch passes. With Tayson Miller quarterback, it sucks, but that's the reality. And what speaking of suck to the Eagles side everyone on the bench basically except the tight ends. But I will talk about Miles Sanders. The Saints allowed just ninety

two combo yards per game to running backs. Sanders isn't even averaging sixty combo yards since returning from injury, and he's got a rookie at quarterback we'll talk about in a second. So he's on the bench in the worst matchup possible for a running back right now. It's not a great matchup for Dallas Goddard and Zach ertz By, but I will give both a c Artz made his return last week, played in fort of Philly's snaps he saw forre targets, caught two for thirty one scoreless yards.

You would think his snap share increases this week. Uh, but it's it's not a good matchup against the Saints, who haven't allowed a tight end touchdown in seven straight games, and during that same span, tight ends are averaging less than twenty yards per game. So I'll give them both a ce. But don't look for Adult and Schultz on the waiver watch to see because of the tight end tight end weight and they will be. We've given a

lot of sea grades to tight ends this week. I think you have better options than the Eagles, even though they will be the leading receivers for the Eagles. Most likely that the pair of tight ends because all the wide receivers on the bench also are making a mistake starting starting Hurts here against this matchup. This it's a confidence wrecker, even if it's not not a good idea and Hurts yet on the bench of course, absolutely brutal matchup for him. Alright, final matchup of this show, Baltimore

taking on Cleveland. Let's start with Lamar Jackson, who faces a wobbly Cleveland secondary. But like usual, you have to brace for meager passing no matter the matchup, and you're mostly hoping Lamar Jackson gets all something done on the ground. The Browns have allowed multiple touchdowns through the air in three straight games, including a massive effort by Ryan Tannehill last week. Maybe it all comes together for Lamar Jackson in the passing offense, but it has it all season

and I'm not confident it will here. He did throw three touchdowns against Cleveland and the season as an opener, So maybe I've got a B grade on Lamar Jackson, a B grade at Marquis Brown, and you know the drill on Marquis Brown. He's a low volume, dark throw who needs a long catch and run to produce fantasy points. So you gotta pick your spots carefully. This could be

one of them. It looks like the Browns best cornerback, Denzel Ward, will miss another game, and with Ward out, Cleveland has given up big games to A J. Brown, Corey Dillon, and Colin Johnson. So I kind of like Marquis Brown here if Denzel Ward doesn't go. We already talked a little bit about Mark Andrews, who returns for this game. Off the COVID protocol. The Browns have allowed the most red zone targets too tight ends, and they've

surrendered the second most touchdowns to tight ends. And really, Mark Andrews has become tight ended touchdown dependent. He doesn't get the seven catches for seventy yards this year. Well, he lead tight ends and touchdowns last year too, So yeah, well last year was both. This year you just you need touchdowns from him. Um, his touchdown dependency keeps he keeps him from an A grade, but he's a B

grade here. Let's go to the Ravens Runnings running game and where j K Dobbins averaging eleven touches over the last five games, which is just like the cusp of fantasy relevancy. With those eleven touches, it doesn't count the zero that he missed though right I would hope no it does not. But his upside is capped because he doesn't catch and he rarely gets goal line looks. Browns are good run defense and they have been all year their top ten and fantasy points and rushing yards allowed

to running back. So just to see grade and j K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards and mark ingram around the bench, Edwards needs a goal line carries and Ingram just doesn't get enough works. I think that's C grade is very generous. I think we all end this table really want Dobbins to just be the guy. But man, it's not there yet. And all the eleven touches I think gets him too relevancy. But that is it, okay. And and he is, by the way, he is getting some looks inside the five

as well. I just went through the Browns inside the five numbers to see if I could I could manufacture a reason to put to keep JK. Dobbins is a C grade and that was it. They are giving him some touches inside the five. Well, they just shut down Henry, but the Titans felled behind. Was not going to favorite hand. It wasn't. Let's go to the Cleveland side, beginning with Nick Chubb. In the running game, it's a run heavy game plan coming from the most run heavy team. The

Ravens are a better past defense than run defense. Over the last five games, they've given up a middle of the pack four point four yards per carry. The Ravens have allowed just four rushing touchdowns all year, though mostly posing runners have languished against the Ravens, including Zeke and Benny Snell the last two weeks. Still Chubb is really really good, and the similarly talented, although stylistically different Derrick Henry posted a big game against Baltimore three weeks ago.

Um Chubb is is a very good back. He's one of the Pro Football Focus is highest rated backs and he certainly passes the eye test here and be grade for Nick Chubb, but only a C grade for Kareem Hunt. I almost had him on the bench. He's been getting plenty of snaps, but it just doesn't produce really meaningful box scores of late. Baltimore, of course, is a tricky matchup, both on the ground and through the air, and Hunt hasn't topped three receptions in a game since the opener,

which is super weird. It's super weird, and what a lost opportunity. I mean, what might have question Kevin Stefanski, who's got the team two more wins than any coach in the last fourteen years. But I don't understand why he's not thrown more, especially after they lost Beckham to You would it hasn't worked out that way. Baker Mayfield coming off the best half of his NFL career, but

This matchup is dramatically tougher than Tennessee. Aside from a game against Patrick Mahomes, who's on his own level, the Ravens are allowing only two yards in one touchdown per game. Mayfield's most important receiver, Jarvis Landry, has a brutal matchup against Marlon Humphrey. And that's why I've got a C grade on Baker Mayfield. And here let's talk about Jarvis Landry, who's on the bench. He has scored in two straight games, but faces Marlon Humphrey, who has not allowed to score

all season. Baltimore secondaries tied for the second fewest receiver scores all year with just eight and they've given up just one d receiver in their last eight games. It is a brutal matchup. I think Jarvis Landry comes back to Earth hard in this matchup. All the tight ends are on the bench, none of them are doing nearly enough with the ball. It's like a three way rotation

down quick. Yeah, it really is unfortunate and joking get a lot of getting a lot of action, but not a lot of targets, and then Joku is stealing targets from who what's in Joku doing on the even on the field. Remember earlier this year when Joko asked to be traded, demanded, demanded, That's where his demand got him. I think, um, let's say you're down by a lot. You played against Cam Newton or you went against Cam Acres,

you got the camshaft. What do you do differently with your lineup this week to try to overcome that one thing? I'll say, if you can, you gotta just try and stack players from the same team together and hope it goes off, like uh something on the waiver ward you can find. You grab Mike Glennan and Colin Johnson and Labisca Chenult maybe in redraft and just hope Glennon goes off and you double up you know, if he's connecting with his wide receivers. But that's that's one one strategy

you can try if you're desperate. Now, I would say, look for the high upside and look for defenses that give up a significant amount of touchdowns to the position that you're looking at, and and and really look f today dot com is a great whip place to look. You can look over the last five weeks and I think that that's a really great way to kind of hone in on who's been weak as of recent to those certain position groups. Yeah, I agree with both of

what you're saying. I think you stack passing offenses against bad defenses, and you you need touchdowns, And you're right, Matt, I mean I don't need a sixty yard game. I need I need a two touchdown game from some of my players. You almost treated as a touchdown a little bit, Yeah, a little bit. You have to. I think a stack. Anyone could probably build on the waiver wire and a standard read draft would be Glenn and Colin Johnson, Tyler Eiford off the waiver waiver wire, Off the waiver wire.

There is massive upside there, there is significant downside. Cam Newton has thrown five touchdown passes in fourteen games. He's been benched twice this year. He's not coming back to the Patriots next year. Talking just to Dynasty Keeper and Empire leagues, can you just if you've got Cam Newton, can you just drop him now for somebody who you think is going to be more fantasy relevant next year? I think you can, because can Cam really signed with

the team to be the starter? Considering there's five really good rookies coming out in this draft, and there's a whole bunch of quarterbacks that might be moving teams that have better pedigrees than Ham does. Right now, you're looking at Cam Newton signing to be a backup on a running quarterbacks offense. Maybe he's an Arizona behind Kyler Murray in that kind of situation. I think he's droppable. I think he's droppable too. I'd rather roll the dice on

some other available court Jamis Winston. I mean, you know, I would rather roll the dice Winston's got a better chance of being a starter next year or just another player. Really do super flexibly. Even it's super flex You're not gonna find a quarterback out there, really, but yeah, just take a chance on a rookie running back, wide receiver

that's still out there. Johnson last week, you're talking about a J. Dillon as somebody that you could go pick up that may find his find maybe the starting running back for for Green Bay next You would be as a possibility because Aaron Jones still unsigned. We think Aaron Jones is gonna be Jamaal Williams is in a contract here, Joel Williams also in a contract here, so that's a possibility as well. Are you guys cool with playoff teams

splitting the pots? I would be hypocrite if I said no, because I've done it before and I'll probably do it again. Seems like a totally Bryan In thing to do, by the way, so milk to people do it. There's a lot of money at stake, but it's not even. You still save some for the winner, but just make sure you both get a little in your hand. You know, I do not pay second place in your league's Yeah,

I mean getting something right. I think it just it all depends on what your prospects are, right, It all depends. You know. If I think I'm gonna get blown out, then yeah, I'm a lot more interested in splitting the pot evenly, regardless of who wins. You know, the winner can have hardware and then you split the money. But if I think I'm gonna win, I'm no change. I'm gonna I'm gonna go for it. If it's even or not,

I'm gonna I'm gonna do that absolutely. If you want to get any of the player rankings that we've talked about here, they're all available for free at Guillotine leagues dot com. All of our explanations and rankings as well. You can follow Matt Harrison's work at shocked Fantasy dot com. Correct and if you miss any part of this show, check out the podcast version of Fantasy Football Weekly available

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