Week 5: A Show So Good, It's Illegal In 49 States

Gonna get out of here, Scott Fish. Yes, we're gonna want any of that negativity in this. Spound about this, and I think the only real game that's in doubt right now is Buffalo Tennessee. We talked about it last week. Let's just spend a second reiterating some of the best way to handle the possibility of a last minute game cancelation. We discussed it last weekend with the provisional player. Yeah,

we can do the provisional player. And that was something that Ryan McDowell, I know, suggested on Twitter, where you put on your league's message board. For instance, if you have Derrick Henry, yes, who's by the way, put him in your flex spot, not in your running back spot,

you have maximum flexibility. So let's say that he's in your flex spot and I have how about Justin Jefferson as the wide receiver that I have as my provisional starter in case Derrick Henry's game does not go So if the Tennessee game is canceled, then Justin Jefferson's stats get put in by my league manager. Commission will need

to manually make that adjustment. That's all fine. You posted on the message board, so everybody knows that you've designated that before Justin Jefferson plays his game, and that's something it's not too late to do that for this week in your league. You can definitely make this decision now, Commissioners, this is the way to handle this. It is the most fair way. There's no thing fair about managers having to guess whether or not there will be a game

on Camesday, right game Monday or Tuesday or canceled. You know that's not evaluating the skill of a manager. So that's the way you certainly want to handle it. We'll talk about that game in just a moment. A reminder, the segments that we love to get to will happen over the course of the show, including premature speculation where we give you three players to pick up this week that people will wish they had picked up this week,

but it's actually next week. But you know what I mean, three tough questions you can play along, try to go three and ow and nine players upon whom you can take a chance. But let's get to that Buffalo Tennessee game delayed. We don't we believe and hope that it's going to go off, So you know, let's just cover it like it is, like it will be played, because we still want to give people advice on this. Do you think Hank Williams Jr. Is making a Tuesday night

football song right now? Yeah? So now this game is on Tuesday, it could get canceled. So, um, I think it's probably going to go, but it's not quite. But it's not quite fifty fifty, but it's close. Um So in my mind, there's four players I think you should start, and they're the four players I gave A grades too in this scenario. The other players I think they're just

a little bit too risky with the possible cancelation. But the A players have that elite upside that I think that you should probably still keep them in your lineup, and that starts with Josh Allen. Uh. Titans aren't particularly good against the past, allowing two sixty nine yards per game this season, and they gave up three touchdowns to each of the last two quarterbacks they faced, which were Minshew and Cousins, not necessarily the cream of the crop

at the quarterback position. Uh. Stephan Diggs is the other A grade on the buffalo side. The last team the Titans face was digs old team, the Vikings, and rookie Justin Jefferson had his coming out party against Jonathan Joseph and Malcolm Butler. So I think Diggs is an elite play this week as well. Now, John Brown and Cole Beasley. Uh, that's so, that's a different story. Brown is still dealing

with the calf injury. It looks bad well. He reaggravated it on Wednesday, and he was limited on Friday noticely, noticeably hobbling and some of the video that we've seen. I think he's on the bench for sure. Cole Beasley was on the injury report earlier in this week, but he dropped off the injury report. He's worth a c start if you need it, I guess, but I don't think that there's a scenario where I'm starting Cole Beasley here.

I do like Gabriel Davis fill in. If it turns out that Brown is inactive and you need to make a last minute pivot, that's the guy to pivot do. My say is, if you're if you're playing Brown, you shouldn't be playing Brown at all. You should find somebody

else who's playing on Sunday. Anyway. Devin Singletary and Zack Moss, I'm gonna give them both Sea grades if Moss goes, but single Arry bumps up to a B. If Moss is out again and Zack Moss is still dealing with that toe injury, he's got to be trending more positive after sitting again last week, and this game getting delayed gives him an extra two days to sit, so that's nice. Plus, the Titans are allowing five point nine yards per carry

right now, and that's absolutely unheard of. And they currently have four members of the defense on the I R COVID list, including defensive tackle da Kwon Jones and defensive end Jeffrey Simmons. Let's hope most of those extra couple of days are enough to get Moss to a spot where he can play well. Of course you think that. And by the way, I buried the lead. This is the Zach Moss versus John new Smith bull right, It is right here. It's the Paul Charchian bull right. In

this game, let's talk about John new Smith. Let's go right there. There's nobody else for the for Ryan Tannehill to pass too. In this game, Corey Davis out. Yeah, Corey Davis is on ir COVID and Smith is averaging sixty yards and a score per game. The Bills are allowing eight catches for ninety yards per game to the tight end position. John new Smith solid A grade in this game. I don't like any of the wider eivers.

Though A. J. Brown is still on the bench. I don't know how you could start him still with the he has a couple of days and White in all probabilitious probability hit that. I get that. But if he's on the field, I think I'm playing him in that match. If you have that luxury, have having this game on Tuesday and possibly get by the way, go see if you can trade for Derrick Henry or A J. Brown

right now, Yeah, you should your chance. I will mention that outside of A J. Brown and Corey Davis, who's not playing, Calif Raymond has the most targets of any of the remaining Titans receivers. He did have three catches for a hundred and eighteen yards against the Vikings in the last game they played. And if you're winning one of those weird leagues that mandates that you start a Titans wide receiver, I think Calif Raymond is the safest

play Derrick Henry. He gets an A grade out Outside the quarterbacks in the NFL, no one touches the ball per game more than Derrick Henry, who's combining for thirty rushing attempts plus targets per game. So he's in A grade. And I missed Ryan Tannehill. So let's get to him, only giving him a CE. I was going to give him a B, but as receivers are just not there, and so this is this is like less than a B, but more than a C. I would call it C prime. How about C prime. We're gonna call it. We'll call

a C. That's a straight CE. Tannehill's averaging two and two the Bills are allowing to nine four and two. It should be high scoring if this goes off with an over under a forty nine, So Tannehill is startable. Miami takes on San Francisco. I thought we'd get more production out of the Miami offense last week, Scott, but as it turns out, no, uh, you know, we and Bryan Tannell only got that rushing touchdown. I was nervous

about that. Instead he gets to It's a what seems like could be a tougher matchup, but still with all the defensive injuries for San Francisco, maybe there's a little something to be done here for Miami. Yeah, you might think they're San Francisco is really really banged up. It does concern me that Flora's waited until Tuesday to and now that uh Fitzpatrick was going to be the starter once just the fact that he has to make the announcement. Yeah,

Fitzpatrick is going to be the starter. I think two a time is coming. San Francisco has held all four quarterbacks they faced. Is it almost two o'clock? Yeah? Yeah, I did high to myself. I don't know that I give credit for that. We're not gonna We're not gonna reinforce that kind of behavior on this show. San Fran good defense against the past. They've against everything. Really, They've held the two key the four qbs they faced under two or thirty yards and have only allowed three passing

touchdowns in those four games. They're allowing under six yards per attempt, which is which is really darn good. That fits. Yeah, exactly. I have fits on the bench. I have almost the entire Dolphins team on the bench. Honestly, I have Parker as a c star because he just gets the volume and he's he's he's uh, he's just a Study's clearly established himself as the top dog in that offense with team catches in the last two weeks. Um, it does

sound like Richard Sherman. He hasn't practiced all week. He's going to be a game time decision. They said he could go even without practicing. But I'm a little worried there. If he doesn't either be hobbled against Parker or he Parker won't have to face him. Preston and Ford are on the bench for me. The Preston Preston Williams Man. I love him, but he's his snaps went from down to six. He's just drop here and I think I think he's still recovering or something from the a c

L last year. Uh Ford Ford had nine targets twice in his last three games. It's no okay matchup against mar Taylor, but he's a little tough to trust, especially against his secondary, even even though it's banged up. Gasicky no thanks, I mean one catch each the last two weeks is shockingly inactive the last two weeks. One catch games. Yeah, he did grab a touch on one of them, I think, But the four in areas allowing just twenty six yards per game to the tight end, that's it's not a

good spot for him. And and the San Francisco Runday Rundy only one runner over sixty yards and that took twenty one carries. That Gascon no out. That's a long way to say bench everyone, except for partly, sorry for wasting your time there. Garoppolo named the starter, given him a B grade because Dolphins are bottom ten against fantasy quarterbacks. Byron Jones should return this week. He's been practicing in fall,

so he should return. But it's still been bad even with him, so so the last three quarterbacks they faced averaged three d fifty yards and two touchdowns. So it's a good spot for Jimmy Garoppolo, even though he hands them off a ton. I'll mention we're gonna talk about Garoppolo in more detail later in the show. Alright, A grade for Kittle because he's George freaking Kittle. I do have I do have Samuel on the bench. He's been dealing with an illness. Uh that he's questionable for this game.

The Dolphins are allowing over ten yards per target to wide receivers. I think he's just a little more risky with his first game back. I trust you just a little bit more. I can see. I can see having the preference either way, but I gave you a C grade. He he plays mostly on the left, which means he could face up against Xavian Howard, but they both move around a lot, so maybe they'll try to move aok away from Howard. Maybe Howard will shot who knows uh

most and Jet most that is questionable. Uh, if he does go, I have a B grade on Mostart he's going to take most of the work. If he doesn't go, I have a B grade on Jet. I have Jet on the bench. If Moster goes basically how it goes, you want you want the starter in that in that offense. Although oftentimes this run offense has been able to support two fantasy backs, it has, it has, I just don't

know what the share is gonna be. Uh, the way they were using Mostart early in the year lends me to believe that if most Are can go, he's going to be the man. And uh, Miami gave up huge days to James Robinson and Chris Carson. If most of it is out, I mean, if most Are plays the RBS with thirteen plus touches against Miami, both top two hundred yards and both scored two touchdowns. So there's gonna be a lot of of Raheemostard owners who are gonna

be skittish about putting him back in the lineup. And that's a mistake. Yeah, I'm not. Whichever one starts, get them in your lineup. Agreed. Las Vegas takes on Kansas City. We've got a I've been between an A and a B grade on Josh Jacobs for a while. I think I'm gonna go be grade because there you have to be madly enough to pick one or the other that happened to know that there's something between an A and

a B grade when trading scales. When when you do the A, B, C, D E F G. You ever hear anybody go and and half be and half A and half B B and a half see no, your kids not go to school. Josh Jacobs has struggled since his Week one domination over Carolina, since then, averaging just

eighty seven yards per game total. He has His last three matchups have been against very tough defenses, though, and there is hope for him against the Chiefs, ranked thirty against the run by Football Outsiders, giving a five yards per carry. I think the biggest question and the reason I am giving Josh Jacobs a B grade is the game script is going to turn against him sooner or later. And while he's still a bigger factor in the receiving game, I think at some point the rushes are going to

dry up. Are you saying you would never give anybody a B plus grade? Church? Not on this show? If I, if I, if I were the six options this week, we're going with B plus graded wide receivers today. What this show just Jefferson, was that this show. No, that was not this show. That was an entirely different show in which one can give pluses and minuses. Were I a school teacher, I would give pluses and minuses. Continuing,

thank you, Brian. Darren Waller average seven catches and eighty three yards in the two blowout losses against the Chiefs last season, so maybe he's gonna get some mop up duty here as well. Kansas City prob bably deploys Tyrone Matthew on Waller, who is always a tough matchup. But while he's got nine inches on Honey Badger, So if the Raiders are playing from behind, is expected if figure Waller is gonna get a bunch of dumpops and that makes him valuable for a B grade Hunter Renfrow comes

into a C grade. Normally, I don't like slot receivers against Kansas City because they get Tyron Matthew. But as I just said, Tyron Matthew's gonna be on Waller, so I think Renfro is going to have lesser coverage, and I think he's a plausible spot start here. Uh, Henry Ruggs expected back Bryan Edwards not clear about that yet, and but either way, these rookies have been deprived of so much playing time due to injuries. I don't think you want to start them, nor Derek Carr against a

very good past defense. Let's go to the Kansas City side. Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey, the radar all a grades obviously, and I'll just touch on a couple of items for these guys. The Raiders rank twenty seven in coverage and pass rush by Pro Football Focus. It's a shame this game isn't played in Las Vegas because with Tyreek Hill is going to do it as a hapless slat cornerback. The LaMarcus Joiner is a felony in every state except Nevada. The iron footed Joiner has allowed seventy

percent of his passes in coverage to be completed. With Joiner busy on Hill, Travis Kelsey is gonna see a lot of coverage from linebacker. I think it's Kyle Littleton in his first and he's the worst tight end defender according to Pro Football Focus. Would an iron footed player be a good kicker? Yeah, you know, I think that would help. Maybe iron considerate, Maybe he should nick that's his fruit? Still, uh, Kelsey put up seven catches for hundred seven yards on average at his last four against

the Raiders, and those are great numbers. Let's talk Clyde Edwards Hilaire. After a Night's first week on the ground, the rushing has tapered off a bit, just thirty eight, sixty four and sixty four scoreless rushing yards, but after being held catch less since in week one, he has put up some solid receiving numbers. And Las Vegas ranks dead last against the run by football outsiders, and they've yielded the fourth most targets and fourth most receptions to

opposing running backs. So I figured the Chiefs get ahead early, they're gonna run plenty. There'll still be some dump off stuff to Clyde Edwards a layer and he gets an A grade. Sammy Watkins is the only other guy worth note he is a C grade. He's tied in receptions with Tyreek Hill, so he's getting plenty of use, but he doesn't turn it into much and he does nothing after the catch. If you're looking for five, five catches,

fifty yards, no touchdowns, Sammy Watkins is your guy. He's gonna see Trayvon Mullins and Nevin Lawson on the outside. They've given up one touchdown so far. All right, when we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup. We will tell you who they are that you can pick up. And you know, may need to make a lot of pivots, last minute pivots to make up for those Bills and Titans. These guys will be valuable this week, very very valuable. Take

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welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A segment week call, Take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting line at Many of these guys available on the waiver wire. They've got great matchups. Will tell you who they are, beginning at the quarterback position and Scott Fish right, all right, I'm starting with Teddy Bridgewater. You may remember, right before the season started, I said, maybe we got this guy ranked too low because everything's shaping up for

Teddy Bridgewater to throw it underneath all these weapons. And we had him twenty nine, maybe he'd be in the mid teens. Here we are. She's QB eighteen right now. He's throwing a ton of game two D three hundred yards passing in most games. Now he gets the Falcons with five defensive backs out of the game. Unbelievable. Also, Falcons team that already the worst past defense in the league with five defensive backs at one point they were

playing linebackers as safeties last week. That's unreal. And they've allowed four touchdowns to every quarterback they fit well technically, full Sterbisky combined for four but four touchdowns each week to the quarterback position. Yeah. So that defense allowing three three passing yards per game as well, it's it's just terrible.

Teddy Bridgewater. Get him in Teddy bridge Water. All right, Matt, you take a chance and the quarterback is I don't feel nearly as positive as Scott Fish does about his guy, but I got Daniel Jones, and let's be honest, This has been a disaster for Jones so far this year, He's twenty second and passing yards per game. He's only

thrown two passing touchdowns on the season. If his offensive line has been brutals, top running back out Sterling Shepherd out, but then walk the Cowboys, whose secondary might as well be wearing boots and spurs. The Cowboys have allowed eleven touchdown passes in the last three weeks. They've allowed three of the four quarterbacks they faced to top two seventy yards. Now, the Cowboys are probably looking at Danny Dimes as the get right game, but you know Danny Dimes is looking

at the Cowboys the same way. For Kirk Cousins, the problem for him from a fantasy standpoint is less about ability and more that he just doesn't pass enough. Like He's are dead last and pass attempts averaging per game. But here comes the Seahawks averaging double that number, literally fifty passes per game. They're seeing fifty. That's virtually unheard up. So this could game could be the rare exception for Kirk Cousins where he throws often enough to produce a

very good statistical game. Every quarterback to face Seattle has top three fifteen yards and all of them have scored. Seattle has allowed nine touchdowns to quarterbacks. The emergence of Justin Jefferson gives Cousins a critical second threat beyond Adam Feeling and Seattle be without elite safety Jamal Adams in this game. Take a chance and me continues with the running back position. Scott, you know, I'm going I didn't have a lot of good options in my matchups this week,

but I'm going with it doesn't have to be your matchups. Yeah, you took a guy from my matchup, but that is true. That is true. But I'm going to Damian Harris, who I'm shocked to find out is still just thirty nine percent rostered. I don't know. My theory behind it is people hate New England backs because it's a good theory. That's the only thing I can think of. Hypothesis proven. He only played twenty three snaps last week. However, he carried the rock on seventeen of those twenty three snaps.

Sony Michelle is still out. He's the guy to own there. The Broncos have given up a hundred and twenty plus yard days to Derrick Henry and James Conner before holding down Ronald Jones to seventy three and Frank Gore to thirty six. I guess, but Harry has probably lands between those two pairings. Um so I got him in my take a chance on me. By the way, Damien Harris has never not had a hundred yards in a Monday night football game that he's played in. That's a great point.

That's a great one. That's that streak will may very well continue. It might. I need the research of this. Let's continue. Take a chance on the segment or running back Matt I got Chase Edmunds of the Cardinals last week. Kenyan Drake got a little dinged up towards the end of the game. Edmunds came in on the final drive of the game. Of the final eight plays where the Cards needed to score quickly, four of them ended with

the ball and chase Edmunds hands. That includes a nine yard run, a twelve yard pass, a goal line carry that was stuffed, and then a second and goal line carry that resulted in a touchdown. And I've been saying it for a long time. Are we sure Kenyan Drake is good? Almost all of his fantasy points came in two games last year. This week he gets to go visit the Jets. And the last time Chase Edmunds played a game at MetLife Stadium six yards and three touchdowns.

That's not bad. It was against the Giants, but you know he really likes that stadium. Uh. This Jets team has allowed a hundred and fifty two total yards per game to the running back position. And if the splits or anything like last week where Drake had thirteen touches and Edmunds have nine, or if it starts skewing towards Edmunds a little bit more at seventy eight yards for Edmonds in this game and he catches more passes than Drake. Yeah,

I'm I'm hearing. I'm hearing from a lot of people that are trying to trade four Chase Edmonds right now in advance of what a possible perceived change to the starter status Kenyan Drake. In my mind, you know he failed in last week's juicy matchup, here comes another one. If he fails in this one, time to make the change. By the way, remember in the preseason Cliff Kingsbury said we have two start starter worthy running backs on our roster Chase Edmonds and Eno Benjamin. It might be the Panthers.

I've got Brian Hill, by the way, going up against Carolina Panthers, who are allowing one hundred sixty total yards and two touchdowns per game to running backs. Holy cow, Todd Gurley seeing over half the snaps, but Brian Hill has a better yards per carry by two yards and has twice as many receptions. Two of Brian Hill's best career games have come against Carolina, as he has posted a line of sixty two yards and a touchdown and another one of eight carries a hundred fifteen yards against

his division rival. I like Brian Hill as a depth play this week against the Panthers. Take a chance on me now moves to the wide receiver position, Scott, So I have Tim Patrick. He had a huge day last week, which makes me regret him dropping him before the season in every dynasty league, and I'm pretty sure that's why he did it, and that's to get you back. Yeah, that's the number one stat here is that I dropped him.

So he's gonna go off this week again. Tim Patrick is very revenge minded that way, just to spur me. Spurned me the Paths have allowed the third most touchdowns to wide receivers and they're going to be without stuff on Gilmore this week. Uh, he had quite a connection with Rippion. Even if it does end up being Drew Lock. I think the fact that kJ Hamdler is out and no Fantas trending towards out as well bodes well for him to see a decent amount of volume. Agreed, Okay,

this one's a little deeper. I got Curtis Samuel of the Panthers as a wide receiver. It's hard to trust the guy who's averaging only four and a half targets per game. When you add in that he's getting three rushing attempts per game, he's suddenly quite interesting. That's seven and a half touches per game. That's on par with what Robby Anderson and d J. Moore are doing. Plus last year, and we talked about this a lot in the preseason, Curtis Samuel had an average depth of target

of fifteen point one. Now that's significantly shrunk this season under Teddy Bridgewater. But of Falcons are the worst team in the league against deep balls. They lead the league and allowance of catches over twenty plus yards with twenty one already this year. So Curtis Samuel going down the seam, He's gonna get some long passes in this game. Um, we're doing some quarterback wide receiver hookups, right. You had Bridgewater Scott at Bridgewater, Yeah a Samuel, you had Daniel Jones.

I'll take Golden Tate going up against Dallas and another languishing receiver who we think could have a breakout game. Just thirty four yards per game for Golden Tates so far. The entire Giants offense has just three touchdowns so far. That's awful. This is really just about this matchup. Dallas is allowing one four yards per game to receivers, that's seventh most. They've allowed the most wide receiver scores with nine,

including multiple wide receiver scores in three straight games. And Tate has an extremely favorable one on one matchup in the slot against Jordan Lewis, who has already given up four scores from the slot this year. That's terrible. It's Golden Tate might take a chance of the wide receiver. By the way, the slot wide receiver who win against the Cowboys last week. He threw a touchdown pass, so play right there. That should count right there. I I totally agree that was a hell of a pass by

the lady. By the way, Yeah who knew? Yeah I didn't. Did you see his quote after the game on that He said he felt like he pitched, but it was a laser. I'll give him that. Uh, Matt. Let's go to Arizona taking on the New York Jets. You've already touched on and we have already touched on some of these players. But for Arizona, this offense really starts and stops at the quarterback position. Kyler Murray having a fantastic fantasy season, and we should mention that there was a

presumed positive test on the Jets today. They haven't said that they're going to postpone this, but it's possible that this one could get moved to Monday, but you know, you never know. Let's start with Kyler Murray. He's an A grade. If you took away all of the passing stats, Kyler Murray is the thirteenth best running back in fantasy football. He has more rushing yards and the same amount of rushing touchdowns as Alvin Kamara. How about that azing DeAndre

Hopkins he gets an A grade. Eleven and a half targets per game is third in the league, nine point eight receptions, his first yards per game is sixth. He's easy. Christian Kirk, I'm giving him a C grade. I'm putting Andy Isabella on the bench though only five targets last week for Kirk as he's been hobbled by an injury, but he's not on the injury report this week, and he did catch a touchdown last week when Kirk is in play. Isabella just doesn't get enough playing time here.

And they're in eighteen routes last week. And the Jets defense has been better against the past simply because it's been so much easier to run on them this year. So they haven't seen a ton through the air yet this year. Um, we can talk about Chase Edmonds, who is might take a chance on me, but let's talk about Kenyan Drake. The Jets have allowed the seventh most yards and the fourth most touchdowns to running backs this year. The matchup for Drake was better last week and he

let us all down. And if you want to talk about boom games for Rake, and if you describe a boom game as either a hundred yards and a score or two scores in a game. He's had five booms in his last thirty four games. That means he's making a lot more boom booms on the floor than scoring points and Cliff Kingsbury starting to figure that out. I'll give Drake a B, but it's he's getting closer to the bench. Joe Flacco, he's on the bench on the jet side. He's starting at quarterback this week. I just

wanted to mention that. But and first round tackle McKay Beckton looks like he's gonna miss this week too. With Chandler Jones rushing at Flacco's blindside, Cardinals defense is like my favorite defense this week. I do want to mention that Joe Flacco does like to target the tight end. We've known that about him his entire career. So is Chris Herndon in't play. No, He's averaging three catches for

nineteen yards per game. But this is the Cardinals, right, Yeah, They've been a lot better this year, only allowing forty seven yards to the position per game. Jamison crowd about Jamison Crowder, who seems matchup proof he is. I'm only giving him a C grade. Today um ten targets in his return last week. Yeah, the Cards have been great against wide receivers this year. Uh, They've only allowed two wider sivers to top sixty yards and only two wide

receiver scores in four games. And then finally, the running back position just got messier with Levy on Bell looking like he's coming back from i R this week. You know, Frank Gore and Michael Perrin have carved out such an awesome role in that backfield, They've earned extra time. Honestly, the truth is Gaye hates Bell. He's gonna give him the start. He's gonna give him ten carries, which is not enough to start Bell and not enough to start

anybody else on this offense. So until Adam Gaze has fired, which should probably be soon, Levy on Bell in the Jets running game is out of your lineup. All right? I think I agree. I think I agree with all of that. It's uh, we won't we won't. Bank I have an update on Golden Taide passing for you one for one with a twenty three yard touchdown. All right, maybe that's how Golden Tate's gonna work out my for my ticket, and I probably should have used Tate as

might take a chance on me quarterback. I'm doing it all wrong, that's right. When we come back, we will continue working through matchups, including Cincinnati taking on Baltimore. Joe Mixon uber hot last week? What are we expect in a much tougher matchup with Baltimore. If you want to find all of my player rankings, they're available for free

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and Matt Harrison is at Explosive Output. Cincinnati takes on Baltimore. Joe Mixon enters this game red hot after his breakout performance last week, but a much much tougher assignment this time around, and he's just a B grade here. Baltimore is ranked second against the run by Football Outsiders they're giving up just three point nine yards per carry. That said, opposing backs have had nice receiving days against the Ravens

in recent weeks. Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, Antonio Gibson, j D. Mcsuckett all posted meaningful fantasy games just through the air alone. Mixing is not the second coming of Larry centers. But he is a capable receiver who could come down with four or five passes to augment his day, and that's how he gets to a B grade. Let's talk about Joe Burrow with in with three straight three yard games, He's completing sixty six percent of his passes, which is

great for a rookie. But Scott Fish on passes over twenty yards, he's one for two, one for twenty two. To be at sixty six percent, knowing that he's missed on twenty one of twenty two deep balls, the rest of him must be like all completed everything under that on the But Baltimore is a brutally tough past defense unless they're facing Patrick Mahomes. You already know this, so

I'm not expecting a lot here from Burrow. Burrow's best and favorite target is Tyler Boyd and slow receivers have had some success against the Ravens, So a C grade for Joe Burrow and let's go to Tyler Boyd. He was held to just thirty six scoreless yards in the two meetings against Baltimore last year. That is it. They'll face one of the league's better slock corners, Marlon Humphrey, who has yielded just two scores in his last fourteen games.

But slow receivers as a unit have done okay. Jarvis Landry, Tyreek Hill, Randall Cobb All averaged five catches for sixty five yards. So a C grade on Tyler Boyd. If you're if you're cold, five catches for sixty five scoreless yards, that's how you get a C grade. That's Tyler Boyd. Tee Higgins is also a C grade who he's as sending for sure, And to me it looks like Joe Burrow's number two target. I think a j Green's out at this point, running primarily from the outside. He's gonna

see Anthony Everett and Marcus Peters at cornerback. Those two are better than Higgins, but because he's got such a big size advantage, I could see it possible like box out touchdown for Tee Higgins in this game, so maybe as a as a touchdown dependent dart throw a C grade for te Higgins And as I mentioned, A J. Green's is on the bench because the lack of production, the difficult matchup, and he just doesn't pass the eye test. He looks unengaged, slow and ineffective. A J. Green dead

to us until further notice. Let's go to the other side for Baltimore Lamar Jackson, and obviously against the Bengals and last year's two meetings he ran for two hundred yards, so obviously we're gonna keep starting him. Now. Hed Come does come into this game questionable with a knee, but everybody expects him to play and if even if the knee holds back the rushing. He threw the ball really well last week and has for most of the season,

so we're going to continue to do. Given a grade to Lamar Jackson, his favorite target, of course is Mark Andrews, who clocks in with a B grade. The Bengals have allowed at least five catches and seventy yards to comparable tight ends Hunter Henry and zach Ertz in recent weeks, and the game script could be a concern for Andrews if Baltimore takes an early lead, but by then Andrews

probably has his numbers. Andrews averages only four targets per game when the Ravens lead at halftime, but hardy eight targets when they trail or tied at a half, so game script could work against him here. Still, Andrews looked really good in his his couple of big plays last week. Marcus Brown came about one inch away from scoring a touchdown last week after connecting anent of his targets from to Brown in the first two games. Lamar Jackson's completed

just forty of his argets to Brown the last two weeks. Still, Brown, you know what you're getting here. You're asking for a home run. He runs most often from the right side of the field, where he will face Darius Phillips, who has not yielded a score yet. So I don't know that's gonna be an easy matchup, and I've got just a C grade on him. The Cincinnati secondary pretty near good. McKenzie Alexander's played well. William Jackson is very good. It's

a tricky matchup for Marcus Brown. It's kind of the running backs. Man, what a freaking mess this has turned out to me. Mark Ingram has become a touchdown dependent runner, offering very little else. He's become Jordan Howard. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. He's become Jordan Howard. Touchdowns in two of his three games, which is great, but that's all he's giving you. He did score in

both games against Cincinnati last season. He's handled six of the last seven carries in the red zone, but he has failed to reach double digit carries in three straight games. And it's just you know, a double digit if you're not if you're getting eight carries, if you don't get the touchdown. Mark Ingram's kell has better stats than him on the season, No, for sure. Um so just to

see great on mark Ingram. I do think a touchdown is possible here, but he needs more usage and it's all worse for j K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards will get less usage and don't get goal line carries there on the bench. We've said it now for three straight shows. Gus Edwards looks like the best runner on eye test of the three of them, but really they're not getting enough work. Let's go to our next matchup, which is Carolina taking on Atlanta. Matt He told us she liked

Teddy Bridgewater. Uh, we already talked about Uh, Curtis Sammy Samuel, So that leaves uh, that leaves a couple of key players. Let's stay with the passing game. Tell me what you think about d J. Moore, who is underperformed to this point. Well, I'm giving d J. Moore and Robby Anderson a grades in this one. The Falcons will be missing five of their top six defensive backs and almost six with A. J.

Terrell just coming back. In this game, starters Darky's Denard Deamonte Kazi, Keian O'Neil, Jalen Hawkins, and Ricardo Allen all look like they're going to be out, which leads the Falcons with devastated Kendall Sheffield, Isaiah Oliver, and Fantasy Football Weekly favorite Bleedy Ray Wilson rays backs Uh the game

on baby. His defense was already allowing three three passing yards and three point three touchdowns per game, including two hundred five yards per game to opposing wide receivers, and both More and Anderson rep rank in the top twenty in targets and yards per game among wide receivers in the NFL. They're both easy as by the way, is a quick while We're not just on Robbie Anderson. Were we We were all so wrong on Robby Anderson. And it seems so obvious now that Adam Gaze had painfully

diminished his value. I think it's where else everybody who leaves Adam Gaze becomes significantly. But weird thing about Robbie Anderson. As you watch in for the Jets crossing routes, you can do more that he can do, way more than the Jets. Let us know. But I guess Sam Donald All Pro quarterback in three Just watch whoever the new head coaches. You can't which to watch the Trevor versus Donald et al Right, Ian Thomas Um Normally I wouldn't

mention him. He's only averaging two catches in seven yards per game, but I'm gonna give him a desperation See this week, the Falcons have allowed a touchdown to every top tight end they faced this year. Greg Olsen had one, Jimmy Graham had to, Dalton Schultz, and Bob Tanyan and An Tania And by the way, I had three, so with injuries to the safety's Ian Thomas is going to be open and Mike Davis giving him a B grade

as well. Davis is averaging just under eight targets per games since starting over taking over the starting role, and the Falcons are allowing eight and a half receptions and sixty three yards and just under a touchdown per game through the air alone. Tomposing backs and we can call Atlanta good against the run, but that's just because it's so easy to pass on them. On the other Brian Hill was charches, take a chance on me runner, and I'm giving Todd Gurley in a grade in this game.

Gurley snap snap right, was limited to only thirty eight offensive snaps, but he still saw seventeen touches last week in Green Bay, which means he's getting the ball handed to him on nearly half of the plays where he's on the field. That's a good rate. So give me a guy who's got that, especially against the Panthers run defense who's given up two touchdowns per game to opposing running backs. Calvin Ridley, he's he disappeared from the statuet

last week in a very good matchup. Disappeared from the injury. I was about to say his ankle injury is not on the injury report anymore. He might not be a D percent, but he's good enough to go. I'm giving him a B in this one. I think it's gonna be easy for them to run, and I'm just a

little nervous that he could reaggravate that ankle. But Julio Jones is going to miss this game with that lingering hamstring injury, and Ridley's target total of thirteen in Week three when Julio was out is probably very safe on the even on that bum ankle. I'm gonna give Russell Gauge a see as well. Gauge is actually averaging almost the same amount of receptions as Ridley and Jones on a per game basis five point three for Ridley, five for Jones, four point eight for Gauge. He's right in there.

The Panthers are allowing seventy the passes thrown to the slot to be caught this year, and Oh Lama day, Zakias, you're gonna sing it, Scott, Oh Lama day. There you go. Uh. He could get a desperation start to He's logged sevent of the snaps and situations where Julio is not on the field, Hayden Hurst gets to see if Jones is out. If he does happen to play, I'd probably leave him on the bench. Though the Panthers have done a great

job against the tight end this year. They held Waller to forty five yards, Hunter Henry only managed five for fifty and the Tampa tight ends combined for one catch and eleven yards. Finally, Matt Ryan is a B. He's fourth in the league and passing yards in fourteenth and passing touchdowns. The matchup does favor the run here to the panther Is are way weaker against the run, but dinged up weapons That downgrades Maddie Ice from an A to a B. And if if he and Thomas scores

Kyle Rudolph week six marked down the touchdown maybe. So final matchup of this segment is Denver taking on New England. We've got about three minutes. You'll need to be fairly tidy with this one. Let's try it. Uh Rippion is or Lock is probably on the bench. I can't do it even without Gilmore. It's just too tough of matched up. They're gonna clamb down on him. Patrick was my take a chance on me. Fant is really really doubtful, likely out. Lindsay I can't start in his game back, So now

we're left with Jerry Judy and Melvin Gordon. Jerry Judy I'm giving a C grade to Judy is now top fifty yards and all four games Hamdler is gonna be out, Fans gonna be out. No Gilmore, Uh, Tyreek Kill, Tyler, Lockett, Hunter, Renfrell all top sixty yards and scored from the slot against the Paths. I'm giving a Judy a C grade, but it's a plus matchup for him and an uber

confidence at C grade plus. I think sixty yards is probably his floor, so I would guess sixty plus yards, Like I said, a C grade, definitely a plus getting him into your flexes. Melvin Gordon, I'm giving a B grade if it's a little risky with Lindsay coming back, but Denver leaned on the running game with ripping in. Gordon has eighteen plus touches in three games this year, all three running backs to top fourteen touches. Also topped eighty yards against New England Runde, which is allowing four

point three six yards per carry. They're not as good as they were last year against the run. So I have a B grade on Gordon. On the other side, Stidham. Did you watch the game last week? Start him or Stidham? I got stid him on the bench. I'm gonna go to the running game here and just say I had Harris for my take. Com Uh, take a chance on me running back from my take a chance on me running back White. I am giving the C grade to

He caught seven passes last week. I'm we're that all three were with Hoyer, all seven were with Hoyer, and he saw no targets from Stidham. He can in the fourth quarter. You have to do to throw a White Just throw the ball like five yards. I would like to think you could do that. That's why I'm giving him the C grade he's got. He's the past catching back. He should get some against this Denver defense. I'm giving Sea grades crazily enough to both Edelman and Harry. Harry

saw three red zone targets when Stidham came in. He might he might save you with the touchdown. Um and he's going up against five ft nine, eight eight pound corner slot corner moving outside Bryce Callaghan. That's a five inch thirty seven pound difference. And Edelman he usually just gets enough volume and a J Booye is out, So I'm gonna give him a se grade. That that all makes sense, I think, and Nikkil Harry to boom or bus for him. For sure. It's not the sexiest. It's

not the sexiest matchup, but I like you. I like finding out that he's got a what did you say? He's got a five thirty seven pound advantage over a slot corner movie outside. That's that's pretty compelling. Yeah, it's pretty compelling. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, three tough questions, you get to play along, find out if you can go three and oh with our panel of experts Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. It is Fantasy Football Weekly. Don't don't you don't don't no, no, no, don't.

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leagues dot Com as well. Guys, let's play three tough questions. We begin with wait, wait, tough question number one. We're at the quarter mark of the NFL season and Clyde Edwards, a layer has one touchdown. Will he finish with a six or fewer touchdowns? Be seven to nine touchdowns or see double digit touchdowns. I'll begin with Scott. Oh you always begin with Scott. That's because I like Scott better. I'm going to be seven to nine. I just don't

even feel comfortable about it. Just based historically on what Kansas City running backs have done the last couple of years with the home momes at the helm Um All so, they got some really really plus matchups against Las Vegas and Carolina, Las Vegas twice. In Carolina coming up, Dot offense scores a ton, he's gaining seventy of the running back opportunity share, He's getting over nine of the red zone touches, I think he finds a way to get

six in in the last twelve games. So seven. Okay, Matt Scott kind of hit it, but let me expand on it. He gets the Raiders this week, they're allowing two touchdowns per game. That's two. He gets Caroline and week nine they're allowing two touch touchdowns per games. Two more. He gets the Raiders again. In week eleven, we're up to six, and then he gets Miami and week fourteen they're allowing one and a half. That's seven and a

half right there. So now where he's at eight and a half and half, all he has to do is score twice in the other eight games, and he's a double digit score So he's gonna score double digit touchdowns. So you've got I've cracked the code. Okay. To answer this question, largely, you need to know what's going on inside the five yard line because that's where the easy

touchdowns come from. Who was on the list of Chiefs touchdown scorers from inside the five Well, it's Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins, Anthony Sherman, Tackle, Eric Fisher, and Patrick Mahomess. Running one who's not on that list Clyde Edwards, A laire regression. So will he get carries inside the five or not? He has not had any carries inside the five since week one when he got six. Can he

be effective inside the five? Well, we don't really know because all six of the carries he got inside the five and week one we're all blown up at the line of scrimmage and he was looking at two defenders at the handoff. So I don't really know yet. We haven't seen Andy Reid try to run Clyde Edwards a Laire wide inside the five, which I think would be better for his skill set. Hasn't even done that yet.

Now his Clyde Edwards layers diminutive size I don't think helps him in this scenario, but it doesn't mean that he absolutely can't get those inside the five touchdowns. He's going to break some longer touchdowns. Don't we all think he's going to break long touchdowns? Yes, at least so to this next week, He's going to score on some receptions. He's got room to become a better football player. He's

he's only four games into his NFL career. You roll all that together and he will get more touchdowns, But he's too far behind the eight ball to get to double digit scores, and the correct answer is B seventh to nine touchdowns. Tough question number two. Justin Jefferson has exploded on the scene over the past two weeks. Would you rather have Jefferson or his teammate Adam Feeling on your roster? Matt, Oh, you you went to me even

though Scott got it right. I'm gonna say both, not really. Well, if he only went to you when I get it wrong, then um, I still have feeling higher. Um Feeling had eight or more targets in seventeen of the thirty games that he and Kirk Cousins have played together. Uh, and he's a little bit more trusted in the red zone, scoring nineteen times in cousins tenure. And I just don't know if Justin Jefferson is a red zone threat as of yet. He broke one really long, beautiful touchdown in

week three. The explosiveness is there, but I feel like he might have to break them from deep in order to score. And I think feelings just a little more trusted down by the stripe. Okay, yeah, I'm I'm with you. I I have feeling still just a little bit ahead, but I I love both, especially in this matchup this week. Um uh. Basically, Feeling is second in the NFL and percentage of his team's targets, which nearly thirty three percent.

The last two weeks, it's been a little closer, but Feeling still seems to be the guy Kirk trust the most. But I think they're both great. Feeling, but you're answering, Really, this is a risk reward question, which liking teammate would you rather have? Justin Jefferson or Adam Feeling. Feeling is damn good and we know he's good. He's proven it multiple times, Jefferies, Jefferson has had two really really good games. I am going to swing for the fences. Jefferson is

ProFootball focus, is top rated wide receiver. He leads the league and receptions of twenty or more yards and he's done it all in two weeks. All of his catches of twenty more yards have coming two games. How much further back is Adam Feeland though he might just be he might just be the second coming of Randy Moss in Minnesota. We don't we don't know. It's it's the right now. This is a coin flip question, and Kirk

Cousins is Kirk Cousins is this quarterback Kirk isn't. For whatever defects Kirk has, he is a very good downfield passer. He leads the NFL in yard per completion and it's not close. Unlocking the deep passing game feels better suited for Justin Jefferson. Tough question number three. Antonio Gibson's role in the Washington offense is expanding every week going forward.

Will Gibson be a running back to a flex or a bench player Scott So running back to so top twenty four running back in this injury laden year doesn't seem too hard. Um. He has an absolutely brutal weeks thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, but it's okay. Before that Week sixteen he gets Carolina, which is great. Uh. Basically I see all but two or three games him as a a guy. I'm going to give us startable grade two. Uh. Like you said, his snaps are going up, His past game work is

going up. Ron Rivera Rivera just said this week that Gibson needed a preseason to get used to playing running back and that he's now more confident and wheels are going to come off the preseason phases over I believe is what he said. So now they're going to take the wheels off. He's got Kyle Allen, his quarterback from Carolina who throw to Christian McCaffrey. So basically what I think is Gibson it's gonna get all the work now and he's basically going to be Christian McCaffrey last year now.

So um, really, so you should have said the number one running back overall should have been in there. So I guess, I guess I have to go with RB two given by options, all right, I didn't think anybody would go RB one if I threw it out there. Maybe I should have added that at an option you can't go off the board. It's allowed to it's allowed to do that. I have found a very low success rate going off the board, very low. RB two matt Is Antonio Gibson going forward and RB one a flex

or a bench player. I think you're talking about gibbage time chart some gibbage gibbage time again. Do you think there's gonna be more or less gibbage time with Kyle Allen or maybe Alex Smith as an upgrade it over Dwayne Haskins that offense might be better that there might be less gibbage time. Oh no, it's not that much better. Uh. Gibson has forty four rushing attempts on the year. By the way, thirty four of them have come when Washington

is losing. He's gained a hundred and seventy yards and scored three times in the in the in the rushing attempts where they're losing, they're always losing. Exactly twenty five of his rushing attempts have come when Washington is losing by ten points, over half of his rushing attempts. So much gibbage. There's so much gibbage on this team. I he's at RB two. Okay, that was a very very circuitous route to get the RB two. Uh. Seventeen touches last week for Antonio Gibson his highest yet as a

young player at fairly new to the position. He's got room to grow and ultimately dominate the touches here, and there's just no threat for his carries. The team cut Adrian Peterson because they knew they had their new running back in Gibson. Over the past two weeks, he's had four carries inside the five yard line and he's scored twice. Peyton Barber over the last two weeks, he's had one and he got stuffed. This offense. I think it's a little bit better under Kyle Allen, which you sort of

alluded to, and just more than anything else. But Antonio Gibson, you watch him play, you pass the eye test. That kid's got a little electricity to him. I'm not saying he's Barry Sanders, but he's got a last his prime and that that makes him the best play. We should probably rename that Washington team to the Washington Gibson's right, but I mean, go ahead, seems normal. If it's like the drink, then yes, because that's a team that makes

you want to hit the bottle. That Gibson. Isn't it a Gibson, the with the gin and the that's a gimlet. That's a gimlet, gimlet Gibson. I drink gimlets and watch Gibson play. That's fine. I do that. We'll we'll let that go. And he is an RB two. Guess I think you guys did a very good job, except you've

got most of it wrong. We go back to our matchups, beginning with Philadelphia at Pittsburgh for Philadelphia once again, short receivers they've ruled out to show Jackson, all Sean, Jeffrey, and I feel like every week we're talking about the same thing here. Unfortunately, it's a tough spot for Carson Wentz in his passing game. The the quarterback that ranked thirty inaccuracy this year, Dwayne Haskins was benched. The quarterback who was ranked thirty first and accuracy, Travisky was benched.

The quarterback who ranks thirty second inaccuracy, actually by a good five percentage place. Carson Wentz still the starter, though he's nearly twin Here's actually a shocking stat. Nearly twenty percent of his passes are graded not catchable. Man. That's terrible. And he hasn't thrown a game too. So I'm giving him an A grade here. I got him on the bench, I have, I have Ward and high Tower and all

the wide receivers on the bench. I barely even gave Earth's a C grade against a really good Pittsburgh defense that's been top five against tight ends. He just might get the volume. With Goddard out and all these wide receivers out, it might be there for him. C grade for Earth's and I don't even love that. I'm giving Sanders and Miles Sanders a C grade. He came back, took back all the snappers of the snaps in each of his games this year, so he's gonna get all

the work. I know st Kwon Barkley had a terrible six yard performance against the Steelers, but he got a bunch of air yard. He got a bunch of six for sixty through the air. And Sanders is great there. So I'm giving him a C grade because he'll get passing. It work to get there. So C grades for Earths and Sanders. On the other side, I have some really good grades and and I feel like that they're just going to destroy Philadelphia this week. I have an A

grade on Big Bend. Uh. Eagles will be without Avante Maddox, which their secondary already wasn't good, and now they're down at starting cornerback. Uh. They still have Slay out there. They have Nicole Robie Coleman. They haven't been as great as you'd think this year. Juju will get Nico Coleby, Roan Nickel, Roby comb In Krom but he hasn't been good this year. Is I just mentioned and Juju has pad Ben's eye. He's getting the touchdowns. I think it's

a two headed beast here with Juju and Deonte. Deontay's game, the targets in the yards. I got them both with A grades. I think Ben's just gonna throw it all over. I have Washington on the bench and I'm giving Claypool a C grade here. We wanna talk about him later in the show, but he's gonna go up against work working against converted safety Jalen Mills, who runs a four six one Claypool four four two, And we mentioned this with Nick kill Harry. He has four inches and nearly

fifty pounds on Jalen Mills. His snapshat keeps going up. I think this is the week he finally definitely overtakes James Washington and a big play could be in the cards with that matchup. So ce grade on Claypool Ibron, I gave a B grade two. I know I know he's nursing a groin right now, which sounds really weird as I say it out loud. Uh Kittle destroyed the Eagles last week. Higby had three touchdowns. Even Logan Thomas had like thirty sum yards in a touchdown. Be gray

it on Ibron. He might be a little limited. There's there's a lot of mounts to feed. But I'm still getting a good grade and a B grade on Connor. I'm not even I don't love it that much because just two running backs of that over ninety two yards in the last twenty games. Geez. Against the Philadelphia Eagles, they're they're actually pretty good against the run. So I'm giving a B grade Dame because he'll get passing game work. And that's why I have the wide receiver so uped is.

I think it's a passing game, all right, Rams taking on the Washington football team. We begin with the running game for the Rams, which got more convoluted this week with Cam Acres officially off the injury report. So now what do you do. It's a disaster scenario for all of the running backs here, and the same thing to do really is to sit this out. And I am putting bench grades on all three of the Rams running backs because you can't know who's going to get the ball.

I think the only way you can know is if two of them are out, probably so, and this might be your last best chance to move on from these guys, because I think you're looking at a season long headache trying to guess. Just ask the Henderson owners who rolled into last week thinking they had an amazing matchup only to see Malcolm Brown, who wasn't even having that good at game, dominate the number of carries. His hands were

actually hot, they were warm, barely, they're warm hands. Let's go to the passing game with Jared Goff gets a C grade. It's tough to trust him after last week's inexplicable dud. Goff's two critical receivers, Robert Woods and Cooper Cup, have favorable matchups. We'll talk about them in a second. Golf's got another excellent prospect in Gerald Higbee. We'll talk about him in a second too. So let's get to those guys. Cooper Cup B grade. He's posted eight yards,

a touchdown or both in three straight weeks. He also leads the rams and targets over that span. Washington secondary has only allowed one receiver to top seventy yards and one reception touchdown this year. Uh, he's only Uh, he's got a deep. He's got a favorable matchup against diminutive cornerback. Jimmy Moreland, who ranks eight at the position by Pro Football Fox guess B grade for Cooper Cup. Robert Woods

also gets a B grade. Prior to last week's dud, Robert Woods had either one yards or a touchdown in three consecutive games. Washington has only allowed one receiver top seventy yards as I mentioned earlier, so an explosive game probably not coming here, but he will see dominutive quarterback Ronald Darby, which is a mismatch for Woods. Strength. Then there's Tyler Higbee, who's been had the one great game and three total duds where he's killed his fantasy owners.

This looks like a boom game for Tyler Higbee. Washington has surrendered the eleventh most catches, the eleventh most yards to tight ends, and the second most touchdowns to opposing tight ends with five already. Uh touchdowns are paramount for Higbee as his ceiling is entirely dependent on scoring and so Washington's red zone struggles against position are a very positive sign here, and he's gonna face off against linebacker Kevin Pierre. Lewis was allowing an eight five percent catch

rate in his coverage. Tyler Higbee b grade. Let's go to the Washington side. We already spent a lot of time talking about in Tonio Gibson, why we like him, and we like him in this game. His total yardage output is increased in every game so far, and the way to beat the Rams on the ground. And I don't think Ron River and Scott Turner gonna ask Kyle Allen to go beat the pass rush of Aaron Donald in the coverage of Jalen Ramsey in this game, I

think you're gonna see a lot of Antonio Gibson here. Ezekiel, Elliott, Miles Sanders, Devin Singletary averaged one hundred twenty six total yards and a touchdown against the Rams. Same those are Those are good numbers for Gibson, who gets a B grade. Terry mclard gets a B grade even with tough shadow coverage from Jalen Ramsey because he's always good in almost every scenario, no matter the coverage, and I think this

is a quarterback upgrade for him. Terry mclauren. Now, what people near Washington have been telling me is that the main reason for the benching, in addition to the inaccuracy of Haskins, which is brutal is. They just couldn't even run a full They couldn't run the full playbook that haskins limitations were such that there were a whole swass of the field that they couldn't even throw too. And I believe Kyleen will open up the field little bit that might help Terry McLaurin a bit. He gets the

B grade here. And the only other guy you might be tempted to play is j. D. Mcsuckett, who has been surprisingly active, but the Rams have limited far better receiving backs like Devin Singletary and Ezekiel Elliott and Miles Sanders who combined to average three catches and thirty eight receiving yards. So those are going to gibbage time anyway. Those are gibbage time. That's right. They're going to Antonio Gibson, at least we certainly hope. So anyway, all right, let's

work in one final matchup into this segment. It's Jacksonville taking on Houston. Matt James Hollywood. Robinson given him an A grade in this game, averaging nineteen touches per game in a hundred and eleven total yards, plus the Texans are giving up the farm to Opposing backs Clyde, Connor and Dalvin each top two hundred yards in the ground and scored. The three Ravens backs combined for one hundred

seventy six rushing yards. Gardner minshew, I'm only going to give us C grade two, and and that's against an O and four Texans team. They held Mahomes, Lamar big Ben, and Kirk Cousins all under three yards and Mahomes was the only one to get to the three touchdown pass mark. However, the Texans have allowed the passes against them to be completed and they've yet to intercept the ball this season. I just fear that the Texans defense is due for a big bounce back after firing Bill O'Brien this week

and putting Romeo Cornell in charge. D J. Chark, giving a B grade two, finally had a good week last weekend with eight and two on nine targets. I'm still a bit nervous that the fact that Chark isn't even in the lead for targets in his own group of wide receivers. He did miss a game, but on average Keelan Cole's averaging five point eight per game, Chark is averaging five point three la Visca Channault and Chris Conley are each averaging five targets per game. This is a

strange wide receiver by committee. I hate it. I wish Chark got to nine targets every game. Maybe he will. Uh Chennault and Cole I am leaving on the bench. Um. When you factor in Channault's two and a half rushing attempts per game, that's good. But this matchup just isn't great. The Texans are only allowing a hundred and fifty yards per game to the wide receiver position, and if you split that three to four ways, it's pretty messy. And she Alts also nursing a hamstring injury, but he's got

that juicy matchup against Vernon Hargreaves, who's so bad. It's not that juicy. They're only giving up a hundred and fifty yards to wide receivers. I don't know. I I like n Alt in this, assuming the injury lets him, lets him go in your full strength, and I don't know that. That's watch Houston give up ten points this week. Dr Bill O'Brien's gun watch, I don't think. So let's go to the Houston side. I got David Johnson and I got Duke Johnson. Both Johnson's are on your bench

in this one. Yeah, the Jaguars are a weird, weird run defense. In Week one, they held the Colts backs in check on the ground, but gave up seventeen catches for a hundred and forty two yards through the air. In Week two, they shut out Derrick Henry and they gave up zero running back receptions. In Week three, they made Miles Miles Gaskin look good, but it took him twenty seven touches to get to nine. And then in week four they gave up the farm to Joe Mixon.

So what is this? It all comes back to both of these running backs are averaging less than four yards per carrying under fifty yards per game, so they're both not to be trusted. Deshaun Watson. I'm giving an A grade to every quarterback the Jags have faced has either put up three yards or multiple scores, but not at the same time. I am giving Will Fuller a B. He seems to be the most consistent wide receiver. Plan was an instant replay away from a second touchdown last week.

He's still hovering right around v catches per week and sixty nine yards per game, which is not the normal will Fuller. We're due for a big will Fuller game, um, and the Jags haven't allowed a wide receiver to top ninety yards this season, although they have allowed three touchdowns to the position in the last couple of weeks and leaving Cooks and Stills on the bench because they just

don't get as much play as Fuller. But I am putting Randall Cobb in giving him a c Tyler Boyd had the nine dr game on seven catches from the slot. Adam Humphries and Paris Campbell each did well from the slot as well, and there's some weakness there, so Cobb could be the touchdown score. Inexplicable that they didn't use Randall Cobb against the Vikings in the slot. Yeah, kind of weird. Uh. And finally, Jordan Aikins and Darren Fells. Aikin's We've said it all along. He looks good, he

passes the eye test, he looks like a player. He's got a pass a concussion He's got a pass a concussion test now after a rough hit by Harrison Smith last week. If he does come back. I'm gonna give him a C if he doesn't come back. Darren Fells gets the C grade because the Jags are allowing seventy three yards per game to the tight end position, which is fourth most in the league, and they've already allowed three touchdowns to tight ends in four games this year.

A very comprehensive breakdown. Thank you, Matt. Appreciate that. When we come back, we've got more match ups for you, including Indianapolis taking on Cleveland. Scott will tell you what to make of Jonathan Taylor, who's not seeing the ball nearly as much as we thought he would in a tricky matchup with Cleveland, and I read Hot Offense will tell you what to do with your Browns as well Kareem Hunt and de Ernest Johnson. That'll be a fascinating one.

You'll want to stay tuned to Fantasy Football Weekly for that breakdown, plus premature speculation coming up near the end of the show will tell you three players you can pick up now that other people are going to try to pick up next week. Stay tuned Fantasy Football Weekly, bucking back Fantasy foot Fall Weekly breaking down every game fantasy style for you, including Indianapolis taking on Cleveland Scott. The Indianapolis passing game has been stinky. I think Philip

Rivers looks like he's on his last legs and arms. Yeah, yeah, what do you think of this one? T Y Hilton, one last start man? T Y Hilton is really starting to look like a j Green out there? He is, isn't he awfully feeble? Awfully old? The Browns are allowed in three passing touchdowns per game and have allowed over thirty points in three of their four games. So you think that's big. That'd be great for Rivers, right, I think I think this is the game that slows down

for both offenses. Rivers has not top thirty attempts in the last three games, so that's why he's not getting those yards or touchdowns. He's only had one touchdown the last three games. It's just it's just terrible. I have him on my bench here, um because the games that we're big for the Browns, the high scoring ones were Lamar Jack's and Dak Prescott and Joe Burrow, and I don't think Rivers is anywhere near those guys anymore. So I have him and the entire passing game on the bench.

I want none of them. With even mo Ali Cox he ran seven routes last week, that's a total. He scored a touchdown that saved you. But with Burton's back, yeah, he ran seven team routes. He it's all. It's a mishmash now. I don't want their wide receivers, nothing but Jonathan Taylor. I'm gonna give us c to grade too.

I know that Jordan Wilkins and new Hem Hines each carried the ball nine times last week nine times, and the week before that, Jordan Wilkins carried the ball nine times, and the week before that Jordan will could carry them all nine times. It seems times it feels like that's about when it gets a week. Um, So I don't think they're going anywhere. I think that's just what they're

gonna do. The Browns d has held all runners under fifty five yards, but they've averaged eight catches for sixty six yards through the air to running backs over the last three And Jonathan Taylor is getting a decent amount of pass game work. Um, you would think that helps Hines, but his receptions have gone down a little bit, and and Jonathan Taylor's getting it. I think that he's gonna get four teen plus touches, which gives him the se grade.

And just to know, on Jonathan Taylor, nine of his final twelve games are against bottom ten against the run teams, So don't give up yet. He's got some schedule coming up. Boy.

You know, when Marlon Mack went out in Week one, I really thought that that was going to crystallize a ton of work for Jonathan Taylor, and that Naim Hines would be one of these guys you could flex in most weeks because he was gonna get five six catches a game, and he was gonna run the ball, you know, another four or five times and you can get you to a decent number most weeks. None of that's really materialized at all. Right, So on the other side, Mayfield,

I'm given a C two. The Colts are crushing opposing and fantasy quarterbacks, but when you look at the qbs they've faced, it's it's a mishmash of crap, Like there's a mishmash of crap. The bigger the Mayfield has been lights out and he's far better than the other the other quarterbacks they've faced. So I'm gonna give him a C grade. Here, Oh b J, I'm giving him a B grade. Unlike previous years, Oh b J is the target hog. This year he seems reinvigorated. It's usually been

Landry that's the target hog, but not this year. So far, he has six targets in every game and four plus catches and fifty nine plus yards and three straight. Doesn't sound amazing, but it's mid level consistency and he's got that high upside. So I'm giving him a B grade. I'm giving Landry an uncomfortable C grade. He catches three to five balls again, he gets you forty to fifty yards. I almost wanted to bench him. He's got He's gotten a matchup against Kenny Moore, who has held all three

slot guys he's faced under sixty five yards. That's what you're going to get. Three or four catches, six fifty six yards, that's what you're getting with Landry. Uh. The tight ends. No culture culture great against the tight end. So let's go to the running game. This is fascinating. It's not to me for this game. I think it slows down. The Cults have played thirty six regular season games under Matt Ever flows the DC for the Colts.

They've allowed one yard rusher in those thirty six games. Alright, but Darius Leonard out, Actually all three line all three starting linebackers maybe out for this game. Darius Leonard is out. Bobby Ocherry, Ocher Prairie or whatever his name is. He's got a thumb injury. He's out with the he's had surgery. E J. Speed. Might play, might not play. That's a big difference. And they hold you. They hold you down to the stripe to only five touchdowns from running backs

in the last year and a half. I I I do think it's a Hunt game. I don't know how much we can trust to Ernest Johnson in this one. Hunt is averaging five point five yards per game, and we know he's good in the past game. The concerned as his injury. If his injury gets him off the field into Ernest Johnson needs to play and and they get ahead, that's where Ernest Johnson is going to get his points. I don't feel comfortable starting him, though. I'm giving Hunt the b I'm keeping Arnest on the bench.

So d Ernest is a fascinating story. He went to a school I did not even know existed called South Florida, not to be confused with Florida Southern South Florida USF. The Bulls come on the bulls South Florida. This is South Florida, not Florida Southern so um which most uf ufs must be Florida by the way. Dernis Johnson, former player on my a F team, really yes, he was an a A guy at South Florida. D Ernest Johnson was their lead running back. Now he was so much

better than everybody else. He was also used as a wide receiver often then because he was the most talented guy on the team, they would pitch him the ball as halfback. He threw the ball out of the halfback option all the time, and he's thrown thirty yard lasers all over the field. Then, because that wasn't enough, he was also the kick returner. He did everything, and I thought he looked all right last week. And he's got an iron right foot and can kick really well. It's

not anyway there. Do you do trust Johnson? I do because I would give him a sea grade. Because these linebackers are all off with the Colts. I think there's gonna be running yards to be had here and it'll catch the ball as well. Alright, final matchup of this segments Minnesota taking on Seattle for the Vikings. It's I already used Kirk Cousins as may take a chance on me quarterback. I like him. His receivers Adam Feeland and

Justin Jefferson have a grades. The Seahawks have been unfathomably bad against receivers, allowing three hundred thirties six yards per game to the position. That's by far the most in the NFL. They've also allowed to receive the top one hundred yards every week. They've allowed seven one hundred yard performances in four games, and both Theland and Jefferson are candidates to go over one under fire them both up, fire both up. Jefferson has the most catches of twenty

plus yards in the league with eight. Theland has found the end zone in three of the past four games. Also, they may not. They may be without cornerbacks Shaquille Griffin in this one as well. Uh that is that's the only those are the only members of the passing game that I do wanted to trifle with. Though we're not going to old B. C. Johnson at the tight ends.

Let's go to Dalvin Cook, who gets a B grade. Here, Seahawks are allowing the fewest rushing attempts for the second fewest rushing yards per game, just forty six rushing yards per game allowed. That's it. That includes games against Ezekiel

Elliott and Todd Gurley. Cook has seen his total touches increase in every game, but Seattle sees the most passes in the fourth fewest rushing attempt So I just don't know the volumes here for Dalvin Cook to get to an A grade, but absolutely startable with a B and nothing I would say would stop you from starting him anyway. For Alexander Madison, we need to find Primrose matches, matchups, and this is not one of them. Let's go to the Seattle side where Russell, Wilson, DK, metcalf and I'll

lock It are all obvious. A's Russell's my number one ranked quarterback, metcalfs and my number two ranked wide receiver, and lock It is my number six ranked wide receiver as well. And I don't think those guys really we even have to spend much time talking about why they would be obvious. A choices uh in the but don't give don't forget the guy I mentioned last week, David

Moore shut up with a touchdown last week. I like him here as another easy matchup against a very thin Vikings secondary that may be missing at least one cornerback. Starting cornerback in this game. David Moore. He's an ascending talent who Russell Wilson this week said is due for a breakout. To that chart there the Sunday night game. And if you need a guy on your bench for one of those Monday or Tuesday players, if you want to pivot David Moore, Mike might give you a little

bit of time. I like it. Also in the receiving game, Greg Olsen, somebody I don't normally like. I like him here. He's been more involved in the Seattle passing game the past two weeks, and Minnesota has struggled against f letic tight ends. We'll try Greg Olsen with a C grade as well, and then lastly, Chris Carson a grade. Vikings are allowing the third most rushing attempts the fifth most rushing yards per game to opposing running backs. A lot of that damage is really coming from bell cows like

Aaron Jones and Jonathan Taylor. And Derrick Henry who have averaged nine rushing yards and one and a half touchdowns. That is Chris Carson obvious Bell cow here as well. The Vikings ranked thirty one in run defense by Pro Football Focus. All right, we'll take a break. When we come back, Premature Speculation. We're gonna give you three guys to pick up this week that everybody's gonna be trying

to pick up next week. But they're already on your roster because you use that time machine sound that we just heard their premature speculation coming up in the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. In Moments, final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you at Paul Charchi and at Scott Fish

twenty four and at Explosive Output. Premature Speculation is a fan favorite for this show where we give you three players that other people will be trying to pick up next week that we want you to get in on a week early. Scott, who is your premature speculation player? I am going there with that that guy that had that toe tapping first catch in the NFL on the sidelines in Week one and then a week or two later, you had that big eight r touchdown. They call him

maple Tron on the team because he's from Canada. That's a jujuice in the Schuster calls him. I'm going to Chase Claypool six ft four two thirty eight pounds four four to forty awesome matchup this weekend. People are going to see it. His snap percentage and routes run have increased exponentially week after week. He overtook James Washington in snaps last week. Uh, Deonte Johnson and Jujuice Smith Schuster

aren't always the picture of health. I think Chase Claypool shows up this week and I think he's got a lot of weeks in him this year. Couldn't agree more love Chase Claypool. That kid is going to be a ball or already is Matt Who's your premature speculation player? Justin Jackson is only forty owned in ESPN leagues and you might as well pick him up now. He had six carries for nine yards last week. Nice, Actually not that nice. After Eckler went down. It is a four

to six week injury for Eckler. And while I believe that Josh Kelly is likely the a back. The Clippers like to use two backs and Jackson is the other one. Schedule coming up becomes incredibly favorable. After the Saints get this week, they get the Jets, whose run defense has regressed significantly, then the Dolphins, Jaguars, and Raiders in the next three weeks all bottom ten against the run. Pick

up justin Jackson right, mine is Jimmy Garoppolo. Now, a lot of listeners remember the playoff run and the nationally televised games playoffs who were all watching Jimmy Garoppolo didn't get used against the Vikings and have to, didn't get used against the Packers, didn't have to, and then he had a dud play a dud Super Bowl, and so

like everybody thinks about that version of Jimmy Garoppolo. But let's take a better look at Jimmy Garoppolo through the entire second half of last year, when Deebo Samuel finally started to make an impact in that offense and become a big part of it. Garoppolo finished his quarterback eight from week eight forward quarterback eight, he was a top ten quarterback, averaging two hundred sixty four yards and two point two touchdowns per game. I think he got to

play the Cardinals twice in that span. I don't know, maybe that uh, you know, Debo is back, George Kittle is healthy, Brandon Aok looks like a massive playmaker, and that kid's only going to get better. Jimmy Garoppolo, And Jimmy Garoppolo was a good fantasy quarterback. He's going to be another good fantasy quarterback as this team rounds back into health. Just needs to get healthy. Yeah, but well they're they're basically there's an offense where he moastered back.

That's that offense is back and click, and I want the quarterback two matchups to get to before we wrap up the show, including the Giants taking on the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, Daniel Jones might take a chance on me quarterback, and Golden Tate was charged just take a chance on me wide receiver. I gave Tate a C grade in this game. I gave his running mate Darius Slayton a B. He basically plays the same position that Odell Beckham does. How

did O'Dell do last week? All Right? Metcalf Ridley and Bob Woods all had nice days against this secondary from the outside too. So Slayton's a B. Evan and Graham I'm giving a C grade. Two tight ends are averaging six and a half receptions per game against Dallas and Ingram gets about eight targets per games. That works out, and the Cowboys have allowed three touchdowns to the position this year. Uh the running back Davante Freeman, Wayne Gallman,

Dion Lewis, or how about just none of them. H Freeman has a whopping two point seven yards per carry, so the Giants gave him the ball the most obviously. Well, Wayne Gallman, maybe he's sneaky good. He averaged five point two yards per carry and that's on the season, but he's only getting like five touches per game and Lewis and Land three touches last week. It's a decent matchup to they just all suck and they're splitting time. On the other side, there's a running back that doesn't suck.

His name is Zeke. He's topped a hundred yards are scored in each of his last six games against the New York Giants and has had six catchers are more in each of the last three weeks. And the Giants are bottom ten against pass catching backs. Zeke is an easy A and Uh, it's time for the Fantasy art Vark chart. What a fantasy yard Vark. Let's hear what that sounds like. I had no idea that all sounds like the time of ship. Together. We are on the

children's children's book here, Ardvark. Uh Doc gets the double A grade in the Fantasy Ardvark this week. He's averaging four or twenty two passing yards per game. He's thrown for four four and three touchdown passes in his last three meetings with the Giants. You know, I'll give Amari Cooper and a grade two. He's also on pace for like seven thousand yards. Yeah, it's ridiculous. He's thrown for like ninety seven yards in the last two weeks, an

NFL record. Um Cooper a grade UH is top five and targets receptions and yards and hit eight yards and scored in both meetings last year. Michael Gallup and Ceedee Lamb, I'm giving them both B grades in this one. I especially like Lamb, and I keep playing Lamb on on DraftKings and daily because I'm waiting for the blow up game to happen and I want to be on this when it does, and it's it might come this week. Uh juju Smith, Schuster and Cooper Cup each notched exactly

sixty nine yards and scored from the slot. Uh and I believe Cup scored twice against Dallas. Gallup is a like a low B maybe like be adjacent as a grade. He's averaging six targets per game. Uh, that's not bad, but when you factor in that Dalton Schultz is averaging seven, that's a bit puzzling. Still, he avoids the giants best corner, James Bradberry, who should shadow Cooper, and he did record seven for one fifty two against the Giants in one

game last year. Last guy to mention is that Dalton Schultz. The Giants have yet to allow a tight end touchdown this year and only three point eight receptions for thirty nine yards the position. They held Tyler Higby to twenty yards last week. Dalton Schultz only gets a c Okay, let's go to the Chargers against the Saints, our final matchup for for the show. Justin Herbert can play man.

The only caveat is a lot of time times we've seen rookie quarterbacks are and young quarterbacks they get you get three games of tape on them, and now defensive coordinators know all your tendencies and can start picking away at how you like to play. So I'm just showing a little bit of caution on Herbert. But man, these look good. Yeah, and it'll be better if Vladimer and Jenkins don't play, that will That said, the Saints weren't

playing that great with them on defense anyway. Herbert has two plus yards in each game and the Saints are allowing three touchdowns per game to qbs on their way to being the fifth worst against the position, which is not something you would have expected. I have a B grade on Herbert either way, if Vladimer and Jenkins play or not, I have a B grade on him. I don't have any other wide receiver options except for Keenan Allen in three games with Herbert. Here are Allen's target

totals ten, nineteen, and twelve. That is forty one targets in three games from justin Herbert. Add to the fact that Allen Lazarden Godwin both had great great games playing mostly from the slot. Uh, it's he's the only wide receiver you can trust. I got an A grade on him. I'll just move forward in the running game. August Scott wanted to believe that it was josh Kelly, Joshua Kelly's job. August Scott was all in Kelly. I don't remember August

Scott talking a lot about it. August Scott loved Joshua Kelly. After Week one, Scott loved him even more. But this is he's fumbled in two straight games, which is not good. They did split carries, but he definitely had the the RB A role or whatever for them, even after Ekeler got hurt, which was like three snaps in, so we basically got a full game of watching their usage. Um As for the Saints, only Aaron Jones could get to eighty six yards and one just one touchdown. I mean

that that's holding Aaron Jones down basically. So uh seriously, it takes eighteen plus touches for a back to even have an okay day against the Saints this year. So I I basically have both of him on the bench. If you have to throw a dart at one of them, it's gonna be Kelly because he's gonna get the more usage. But I'm both on the bench. Uh. Hunter Henry A grade from Hunter. Henry Saints are second worst. They've allowed five touchdowns to tight ends they've allowed They allowed over

a hundred yards to Waller. This is a great spot for Henry against his defense. On the other side, we got Breeze given a B grade to him. Chargers are fifth worst against qbs. Guess what the Saints are fifth worst against QB's. Chargers are sixth worst against QB's. Breeze might Floir with an A grade, especially with Melvin Ingram out, so he's gonna have some time to throw. But I'm gonna give him a strong be here. If Thomas plays, he's getting a grade. Get him in because he's he's

gonna be healthy. If he doesn't though, if he does play, Sanders and Smith around the bench. If he doesn't play, Sanders is going to get a C grade. He moves around a lot and Hayward doesn't travel, so uh he could get open track Kwon Smith. I mentioned this when I take on take a chance on me for him a couple of weeks ago. He's now played in fourteen games where he's had three plus targets. He has ten

touchdowns in those fourteen games. He scores when he gets through plus targets and he's and he's going to again C grade. I have Cook on the bench. He just hasn't been putting up that those kind of numbers and he's injured. As far as running backs, I got an A grade on Kamara fort Mike Davis tore up the Chargers rundy seven teen plus touches in every game, scored in every game, had like has like six seven touchdowns in four games. A grade Kamara, C grade on Murray.

If Murray doesn't score, he still gets twelve to fifteen touches for forty five to sixty five yards, but he has a chance to score. So yes, that falls right into the C category. Absolutely, a great job today, Scott Matt. We've learned a lot, haven't we. Everybody, it's been It's been very, very special. You'd Fantasy Football Weekly reminder if you want to check out all of my player rankings, available for free at guilloteen leagues dot com. We're also

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