Week 9: Brown Out

Later in this show, take a chance on me. Nine players not normally in your starting lineup, many of whom are available on the waiver way. We will take who they are. You can play along with three tough questions that I'll pepper my co host with, and premature speculation where we give you guys to pick up this week that everybody else is going to want to pick up next week, but maybe on your team. Also, all of the matchups broken down fantasy style, and that's the core

of the show. We do it every week, and we begin with Chicago taking on Tennessee Brian Man. The entire Chicago roster is a disaster with injuries, COVID and I'm I'm very worried about points coming, even against a lukewarm Tennessee defense. Yeah, but this Titans team might be the most ragged of them all. But we'll get to Tennessee side in a minute. I'm like in a couple of Bears here, starting with David Montgomery. I'm going full Monty here. Really don't do it. Monty and a tough matchup against

the Saints last week. Ran for eighty nine yards. Not super impressive, but eighty four of those yards are after contact. That's very impressive. He's working hard. He's gonna have to work hard. Missing too linemen in this game. That's maybe three yeah, yeah that missing all those linemen for the Bengals really didn't work out for them last week anyway.

Monty handling of the running back touches for Chicago and unlike last year, the Titans are a cake matchup for running backs, allowing one and thirty four combo yards in the one point for total touchdowns per game to the position. And the Bengals who just played the Titans were missing their entire offensive line and three running backs scored a touchdown in that game. Three running back touchdown. So I'm

giving Montgomery and a as well as Allen. Robinson might be the best all round wide receiver in the NFL, but just has never had a quarterback in his entire career. He's on like the Andre Johnson Larry Fitzgerald trajector even if Herman Moore going way back has not had a quarterback. But who was throwing to Herman Moore back in the old days, Scotty Mitchell, Yeah, you're right, I think it

was Scottie Mitchell. I don't think probably Charlie Batch maybe a little bit there Rodney Pete yet made its way to Detroit. Throw to him a little too late. But back to a rob you can give him a second in targets among all players. Tennessee allows two hundred plus yards per game to wide receivers. That's the third most, and the Titans have also yielded the six the most red zone targets to wide receivers. So I love a

rob with an A, and I like Darnell Mooney. Canna give him a ce here, rookie uh Mooney played sixty five of seventy offensive snaps against the Saints last Sunday. That the snap count. That's a higher percentage than Anthony Miller ever had as a rookie last year. He's definitely usurped Miller on the depth chart. Mooney has caught two or more passes in each of his first eight games in the NFL, the only Bears rookie wide receiver to ever accomplished that since the merger, and his usage has

been ramping up big time. And this is a great matchup. So I like Darnell Mooney and we might talk about him a little later in the show a little more as well. Uh. Lastly, for the Bears, Jimmy Graham gets a c incredibly touchdown dependent only has four red zone targets over his last five games, so that doesn't work for a touchdown dependent player, and may not even play in this game. Might not play, but I think he

will suit up. The Titans have yielded the second most red zone targets at tight ends and have faced and basically I faced, no one good the position. The two guys you've heard of, Noah Fanton Darren Fells both topped eighty yards and scored a touchdown against Tennessee. So I'm gonna give Graham a see if he suits up, if he's out. Of course you're gonna bench him, and Nick Foles almost gave him a cee Am I allowed to give him a D? Are we doing that? Never came together? Sorry?

I might have a couple of DS to thrill. How did it not come together? Nobody had decided it didn't come together, I said. I said to our listeners, listen, if you really really want d's in the show, tell me on Twitter at Paul CHURCHI in. I got like three people said yes, like twenty that said no, and nobody else even bothered him answers. So that's that row? Are you sure you were using your your burner accounters nothing? No response to the d's All right, let's talk about

the Tennessee's players. The Tennessee players, So I didn't work Derrick Henry Start with the king. He gets an A has scored in five straight games. The Bears have given up four point seven yards per carry to ap to opposing lead backs in their four road games this year. Even worse, they've allowed fourteen touchdowns running backs and then the last ten games on the road, going back back to last year. Of course you're going to start Derrick

Henry ben slapping a on him A J. Brown. This is a bad matchup for A. J. Brown and company, But I'm still getting a be because he's such a beast. The Bears only allowing eleven and a half catches and a hundred and forty yards per game to wide receivers and just two total touchdowns on the season to the position. But Brown a tough guy to bench. Corey Davis also a tough guy to bench. One of my sleepers from the preseason, I believe of the last preseason show warm up,

that Hug. But he's on the bench this week. C Davis a bad matchup. I just can't go there, Hob. But but hold onto him. He's healthy and he's looking good. Blue chip prospect coming to fruition. John new Smith lastly, Yeah, we'll have blue chips a little strong. He was the first wide receiver taken in the draft like three years ago. It's like a turquoise chip. You don't get much bluer than that. He has. He has been You know who's been blue? Anybody's drafted Corey Davis before this year. True,

but let's not worry about the past. What about your guy, Johnny? Yeah, John JOHNU what's up with John John? Just to see this week. Charge he's been blocking more than route running as of late. But it's a good spot in a good spot to bounce back. Opposing tight ends are averaging more than five catches and fifty yards per game against the Bears. But really, when all the past catchers have been healthy, he's just kind of reverted back to this

blocking role because he's so good at it. He's a great football player all around, but kind of such a good athlete he is, but it's it's a good match in the tight end waste land. He's more of a high sea you can call him ecto cooler this week, and then Ryan Tannehill got him on the bench. Chicago allows just two forty passing yards per game and the fewest passing touchdowns all around, so I'm benching Tannehill. Wow, that's strong as good as Tannehill. I mean, he's like

fringe fourteen fifteen quarterback. Top quarterback this week, it's a Tennessee did Sorry. The Chicago defense is they're they're really it's at super Bowl level. They could winnie super Bowl with the defense they've got. They can't with the offense they've got. Pittsburgh takes on Dallas, Matt and for Pittsburgh, they just they just had a successful fantasy game overall

against Baltimore. Here comes Dallas. Yeah, it's a start everyone's scenario for Pittsburgh because Dallas has allowed thirty four or more points to five of their last seven teams they faced. Ben Roethlisberger's getting a B grade um in their last seven games. The only quarterback not to throw for multiple scores against the Cowboys was Daniel Jones. The issue is only one quarterback his top two hundred yards in the last five games, and that kind of matches up with

what Ben Roethlisberger is doing. He's not throwing for high yardage totals, but he's thrown for a few scores a game. And it's pretty easy to run on the Cowboys too, which is why I like James Conner with an A grade. The Cowboys are allowing a hundred and thirty nine yards per game, five point oh yards per carrying a rushing score per game, and Connor is one of six backs in the league with thirteen or more carries from inside the ten yard line, which is why he's averaging nearly

a rushing score per game. Now, the wide receivers Deonte Johnson, and I've got Deonte Johnson in so many leagues, and it's just the highs and lows of Dante. Johnson's gonna give me a coronery. You know, we got we got Johnson, we got Chase Claypool, We've got Juju Smith Schuster. I'm giving them all a B grade this week. Cop out. Yeah, I'm I'm just kind of playing the odds here. I'm probably gonna get right, get it right on two of the three, and one of them is gonna see um.

Outside of the slot. Just about any wide receiver has beaten the Cowboys this year. They have allowed fourteen touchdowns to the position in eight games, but weirdly, they're only allowing twelve receptions to the position per games because to

pass on them. Yeah, it's the problem. Um. So, Deonta played seventy seven percent of the snaps last week and he didn't do well, But according to Establish the Run, he's averaging over ten targets per game in the games where he crosses the seventy snap count threshold, which he

might not have last weeks. He was he left last week last week, so he absolutely has a good shot of doing that again this week in ten targets for Deonte means he's an easy B. Claypool leads the team in yards perception, are yards, and scores, and he's he's the high volatile guy, high risk, high reward, so he gets the B and Juju leads the team and targets and receptions per game. Earlier this year, Tyler Lockett beat the Cowboys for three scores from the slot, so I

can't count Juju out either. Eric Ebron is the last guy I want to mention. He gets a C grade scored last week, but I was surprised to learn that Ebron that big red zone threat. Remember he scored all those red zone touchdowns for the Colt last year or the year before. He has one catch or one target I'm sorry, from inside the ten yard line. This one target, he did score on it, and Dallas is only allowing four catches and half a touchdown per game to the

tight ends, so Abron's only a sea. Let's go to the Cowboys side, where this is pretty easy. Ben Denucci, it's more like a bench Denucci. Then that's right, that's right. Gilbert Great might be your starter. Well, his name is Garrett Gilbert or or Cooper Rush. They're still battling in practice for the starting knot into the weekend. Um whatever

quarterback starts is on the bench. Well, Garrett Gilbert did throw for three yards and two scores in his last game for the Orlando Apollos, and that was against the Memphis Express in the A A F. The Steelers are a little bit tougher test than the Memphis Express. Uh. They have not allowed a quarterback to hit the three yard mark or three touchdown mark in a game yet

this year. And with Garrett Gilbert probably leaning like he's the starter at all, the past catchers are on the bench, Cooper Gallop and uh ceedee lamb, it's come to this. We don't know who his favorite target is going to be there on the fourth quarterback. You don't have to explain to anybody who's seen a minute of Cowboys football at since Dak went down why you can't start any of the receivers. The Steelers are only giving up twelve

receptions per game to the wide receiver position. Divide that by three, maybe four catches per game. Ezekiel Elliott looks like he's coming down to a game time decision Jerry Jones says he's optimistic he'll play. He's optimistic. I have him as just a C grade with that hamstring injury. It's a terrible matchup. The Steelers are only allowing seventy nine yards per carry. And there's another running back that I might talk about in the next segment who's starting

to steal touches from Ezekiel Elliott. I don't know who that could be. I don't know either. Dedroy takes and so do our listeners. They know too. Dedry takes on Minnesota in a game in which the Vikings will be missing their number one, number three, number four, and number five cornerbacks. So Matthew Stafford, who we believe is going to be able to play in this game once he clears the crovid protocol, is sitting on an A grade here. Mike Zimmer can only scotch tape this secondary together for

so long. They were aided last week by thirty winds in Green Bay. They will have no such no such help this week inside US Bank Stadium. Over the past month of games, Minnesota secondaries giving up almost three hundred yards and three touchdowns per game, and even without Kenny Golladay, Stafford is sitting on a probably a strong game here

in vact. He was good last week, although in fairness I should mention Stafford struggled against similarly bad secondaries Jacksonville Atlanta, where we teat him up and thought he was gonna have a really good game. So it's not a sure thing. But I'm still giving Stafford the A grade here and an A grade to the guy I think could be his primary receiver, t J. Hockenson. He'll see more balls

with Kenny Golladay out. The Vikings law the fourth most catches per game to opposing tight ends, although the yards are just sort of in the middle and they've only given up two scores to the position. That said, every competent tight end faced has put up decent numbers against the Vikings. Jonna Smith, Hayden Hurst, Robert Union have all put up good numbers against Minnesota, So t J. Hockenson

a grade, Marvin Jones is a B grade. Without Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones becomes a focal point of the passing game, a spot in which he's generally not done very well in, including the first couple of weeks of this year. Minnesota has allowed one yards per game to opposing receivers, which is a lot fourth most, and they've allowed multiple touchdowns to receivers in four straight games. Two receivers are gonna score here. Marvin Jones probably gets one of them. Could

another Marvin get the other one? And what are the odds that two guys named Marvin would be the starting receivers for a team And it's not nineteen fifty four? Marvin Hall will be the other starting receiver in place of Kenny Golladay and the Vikings, as I mentioned secondaries in tatters. Hall could be a dart throw here. I've got a C grade on him. The only Vikings starting cornerback, Jeff glad you will be manning the slot. And we'll talk about Danny Amndolan in a future segment here in

just a few minutes. Uh, let's go to the running game. DeAndre Swift gets a C grade. A really disheartening box score last week. Remember you had the big game two weeks ago. We're like DeAndre Swift, He's finally here, it's all coming together, and then last week he barely touched the ball. This week he gets a Vikings defense that

really has been quite good. He's since being obliterated by Derrick Henry in Week three, the Vikings have allowed only eighty three rushing yards per game and a single touch now since Week three. Swift's a good receiver, and I would like to say it's gonna catch a lot of passes, but Vikings are pretty good there too. No back has

managed even thirty receiving yards against Minnesota. So just the C grade on DeAndre Swift and a bench grade on Adrian Peterson only startable if you are Brian Johnson and you believe the Lions will fulfill a revenge narrative for Adrian Peterson. Hey, I'm the one who said, played DeAndre Swift that blow up game, and now you're giving yeah, you have to take a chance on me Adrian Peterson in that game, and he scored. But among us, among us thrives on the revenge narrative. I appreciate that I

gave you a little shout out. Now you did throw face. All right, let's go to the Vikings side. Dalvin Cookson obviously, and I'm not gonna spend a lot of time and to accept to say he's coming off a thirty carry game. I think he's gonna get rested more in this game. Wouldn't be surprised. We see a lot more Alexander Madison in this one and a lot more passing, but I can't put a starting grade on Madison in this one. A grade for Dalvin Cook. Let's go to the passing game.

We'll start with Kirk Cousins, who gets to see It's almost always about volume for Kirk. With requisite passes, Kirk Cousins as a viable starter. If the team does in fact rest Cook some more, I think he will probably get there. But the lines are bad run defense. They're seeing the fourth most rushes, so I can't guarantee the Cousins gets to an adequate level of volume when he doesn't reach twenty six passes. Cousins average game one ninety

yards and one touchdown. Um Every quarterback other than Gardner Minshew has thrown multiple to touchdowns or top three yards against Detroit, so you know there is some upside for Kirk this week, but I'm only going with the C grade. Adam Feeling gets a B grade. His light usage is a concern, but he's got a very positive matchup that will most often be against rookie Jeff Okuda, who Pro Football focuses ranks as their one hundred fifth rated cornerbacks.

He's uh, he does have history on his side, feeling does, having posted at least eighty yards or a touchdown in his last five straight meetings with the Lions, and Detroit's giving up the ninth most yards to receivers. Then there's Justin Jefferson, the last guy I'll mention in this matchup. Last week, Jefferson drew shadow coverage from Green Bay's best corner That says a lot about Jefferson right that he's drawing best coverage this week. If that were to happen here,

he will get Amani Horatio Amani Ruari. You totally made that name up. There's no chance that's a real person. He is their best cornerback and he's averaging thirty five yards per game. Outside of Amnio Ruariuh. The Lion's secondary has been brutal, and so if that guy is on theinland, that would open up Jefferson that I'm kind of missing the Horatio middle name. There was too many Domani's that name,

no doubt about that. We'll be back more Fantasy Football Weekly coming up in moments Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, a royalty free version of take a chance on me. This is where we give you nine players you would not normally start, many of whom available off the waiver wid Every time we do this show, I forget that this song is gonna come on, and I cringe a little bit every time, a little bit inside every single time we begin at the quarterback position, Brian, you take

a chance at the quarterback is Denver's Drew Lock at Atlanta. Now, the Falcons have only surrendered one passing touchdown across the last two games to Teddy Bridgewater and Matt Stafford combined, but that was on also a combined forty pass attempts. That's a bit of inadbiration. Before that, they were consistently getting carved up through the air. And now this is the analysis you're not gonna get anywhere else. And Drew Lock this week, guys, he's most famous for just nailing

young jeezys put on on the sideline. Okay, yeah, okay, do you know what city was wrapping about Atlanta? Yep, And he's gonna put it on him, Drew Lock at the Falcons in a point orgy. We'll talk about this game, all right. Uh mine doesn't have anything to do with rap. But Kyle Allen, in the last two games that he started and finished, he's thrown exactly two touchdown passes in

each of those games. One of those games was against these same New York Giants just three weeks ago, where football team trusted him enough to have him throw the ball forty two times and he racked up two yards. And the Giants they're bad. They're allowing two d seventy yards and almost two scores per game to the position. So Kyle Allen, fire him up. I've got this pains me, you know it does. Cam Newton. You guys know how

I feel about Cam. Since his hot start in the season's first two games, he has been straight up garbage, averaging one forty seven passing yards per game and a quarter of a passing touchdown. You know how hard it is to do that in today's n FL All but impossible. And then, of course he had the game losing fumble last week. Uh now, no, I'll mention Newton's legs have helped except when they don't, and then you done anyway, if you're never going to get a better opportunity than

this week against the Jets. You have to be playing him as a running back? Really, you really are you? Really? That's all you're doing here. Although the Jets have allowed three hundred passing yards and or multiple touchdowns to seven of eight opposing quarterbacks, that could mean upwards of like two hundred passing yards that's right. And similarly, mobile quarterbacks Kyler Murray and Josh Allen twice both top sixty rushing yards and or a rushing touchdown. There we go running

back getting two passing yards. That's right. If not, now when for Cam Newton and then drop him? Brian, let's go to the running back position. Who has you take a chance on the runner? Per usual, Christmas season has come way too early, but Patrick Laird season has held me even earlier. What I'd rather hear nails on a chocolate because it's not Christmas time. It's not even cool. You're the one who brought it up. I know I was trying to make a joke and now it's failed.

Let's get back to Patrick. Larry failed because of Bell. That's why I failed throughout your comic timing. Sorry, I just say I hate Slay Bills. In November, man, what can I say anyway back to the aforementioned Patrick Laird, one of two healthy running backs or available running backs for the Dolphins in this game. The only other one is Jordan Howard. Will talk about this matchup more later,

but Arizona very tough against the run. They've only allowed three rushing touchdowns and running backs and no loan back as top seventy five yards. So I'm out on Howard entirely. I like it. But there's a receiving angle here for sure, especially with a rookie quarterback in two o'clock so outside of the Jets game, and we just don't count the

Jets when it comes to opposing stats, right. The Cardinals have surrendered running back catch totals of six, ten, and seven in recent weeks, and again with a rookie quarterback in his first road game, checked down to the running back seam in order and very minimum for running backs. Flared baby, your DFS angle, I like it, blared me later on Sunday with is that a tipping situation? Yes? I do need to set up a tip jar. We

do need to bring that back, right man? Oh yeah, probably speaking of tippings, you take a chance of running back I tipped off a little bit. Who that was? It's Tony Pollard. Zeke's dealing with a hamstring injury. The Cowboys are absolutely brutal on the offensive side, especially in the passing game. Right now, with their fourth quarterback starting in six weeks, Pollard is quietly touching the ball more and more. Last week he got the rock nine times

times nine times. The week before he touched the ball nine times, nine time, and the week before twelve times. Uh Paul is especially good at catching balls out of the backfield. With an injured left tackle, right tackle, center, a hampert starting running back on a fourth string quarterback, you'd imagine there'd be a few dump offs in this game. And are the Steelers a good matchup? No, absolutely not. This may be one of the worst calls and take

a chance on me history. But pick him up and throw him on the bench because he's going to see an increase in touches throughout the rest of the year, especially if the Cowboys go we're out, We're gonna rest our bazillion dollar running back and start giving Tony Pollard some more touches. Feel free to just hold that thought

until later in this show. Might take a chance We're running back is lavy On Bell, who has done nothing since joining the Chiefs, but this game could should be the one in which he makes an impact in the box score. Finally, the way that Bell is going to help fantasy owners is receiving and goal line use. Which team has allowed the most receptions to running backs Panthers.

Which teams allowed the most rushing touchdowns Panthers. This is set up perfectly for levy On Bell, for Clyde Edwards, Hilayer. Finally have is a good game. And you know what, he's not half bad start either. But Bell, who has done nothing since joining the Chiefs, I think comes around in this game. All right, you take a chance of me. Receiver Brian Nelson are at lack. That's the Los Angeles Chargers.

Of course. Over the last four games, the Chargers have surrendered fourteen catches wondering savvy eight yards and more than a touchdown per game to opposing wide receivers. Four of the five wide receiver touchdowns surrendered during that span went to boundary receivers. Someone from the Raiders who plays wide receivers going going to have a good game, And I'm going with a yes, he had zero catches on two targets last week, but that was in the monsoon in Cleveland.

I'm not reading too much into that. Prior to that game, he was the only wide receiver getting consistent targets, the only wide receiver getting targeted in the red zone for the Raiders. So I'm going Nelson Aguilar and I hate it, but I'm going there. All these regretful rueful. The regretful ones are the ones that pay off the most. I'm telling you, sounds like you're dating history this one. I

don't think it's very regretful for me. That's Cole Beasley. Uh, top the hundred yards or scored in three of his last five. I used them as to take it on every one of those weeks. Yeah, I think you have. That includes eleven catches just two weeks ago. Uh, he's only fifty owned in ESPN leagues, and you can fire him up against Seattle, who's giving up twenty two catches and two seventy yards per game to the wide receivers and slot guys have had eight receptions or more against

Seattle in three straight games. Hasn't every wide receiver at that many? Pretty much it's unbelievable. The kinds of numbers Seattle is allowing through the air are the kinds of numbers you hear like in week three, and then they sort of settle down and you know they you know, they come back to sort of some kind of normalcy. It's nuts that we're still talking about it at the

midway point. I should note they get Jamal Adams back this week, and they do have Carlos Dunlap coming into the fold as a defensive end, so that might help their pass rush a little bit. So the pass rush has been awful, pretty bad, alright, our final take a chance on the player. Danny Amendola of the Lions up against the Vikings. Vikings are gonna missing four of their top five cornerbacks. The one starter who's left standing is

Jeff Gladney. Now Jeff gladen he has played both outside and he's played the slot, but it doesn't even matter if he plays a slot because he's played the slot the last two weeks and he's given up four touchdowns in his coverage in two games. He's giving up a almost perfect passer rating of a hundred forty six in his coverage. So Danny Amndola they take a chance of the option. For those interested in finding one, Let's work in one more matchup into this segment, and that is

Denver taking on Atlanta. Brian, you already mentioned Drew Lock. You want to reinforce that with some of some of the receiving targets you like. Sure, I'm gonna start with no fans, though, Nona, I'm gonna start with wide receiver. That's his best playmaker. Given phanton a the Falcons have allowed the most touchdowns to opposing tight ends and they've given up the most catches to tight end. So this is pretty something as we call that. But yes, Albert,

I'm gonna butcher this ugg bum. You know, Scotty Fish was really good at pronouncing that one. I just call him Albert. Oh how that's what I was gonna go with. Or Alack is a threat in the red zone. But I'm still giving fan today. Jerry Judy canna give him a b. Atlanta allows the fourth most PPR points per game to wide receivers, and Judy will draw a slot corner. Isaiah Oliver, who usually finds himself in a twist, finds

himself in a twist. He owns on three six passerading his coverage that it's sad deep Oliver twist joke right. I thought I was gonna make it through that, and I feel I don't understand what you couldn't make it because it's so awful but so awfully good. Tim Patrick his hamstring has felt pretty awful, but it appears it will feel good enough to play on Sunday. I will

give him a see if he suit some up. If he doesn't, Dave Shawn Hamilton's and kJ Hamler r d s. Sorry they are start throws as you said Bylock might take a chance, I mean quarterback quickly to the running backs for the Broncos, Melvin Gordon getting give him the b despite Philip Lindsay being the better football player, and it's not close. Lindsey looks awesome, he does, but Gordon

continues to out snap and out touch Lindsay. Uh and he saw twice as many targets as Lindsay last week, which will played nicely against the Falcons, who have given up the second most catches to running backs. A tough matchup on the ground, though the Falcons have only allowed three rushing touchdowns two running backs and no Loane runner has hit the ninety yard mark rushing, so I will give Gordon a B and just to see for lindsay despite you're gonna say so. He is a better running back,

but he's not involved in the passing games. He's not great for PPR usage, but his running is so good. And keep an eye on him. I already had like some jammed toes that he suffered last week, and he might not play like toe Jam told Jam, I don't think that's gonna hold him out number toe Jam and earl, Oh, yeah, you're kidding me, Early co ops, Let's talk about Todd Jam Todd Gurley. You can give him a be over

to the land of side. His usage was a little alarming last Thursday, but be very fresh for this matchup on ten days rest and over the last two weeks, Denver has allowed five point five yards per carry. They are really missing nose tackle Mike Purcell, who they lost two weeks ago and has lost for the season, so that run defense not as good as it was to start the year. Julio Jones gets an A in three

games without Calvin Ridley. Last year, Julio totaled forty eight targets and in two of those three games, he had double digit catches and cleared one hundred and thirty yards. A. J Booyer will probably remain out for Denver. Yeah, Bryce Callahan him out? Has he been ruled out thanks charge? Bryce Callanan has been pretty good, but he's an unlikely shadow candidate even if he did shadow Julio. Julio has six inches and thirty pounds on Bryce Callahan, so it

was all the Tommy Callahan covering him. There you go. I like that. Hey, Russell Gauge with Calvin Calvin Ridley out, I can give him a see. Jamison Crowder, Keenan Allen, Chris Godwin, Tyree, killed Juju Smith, Schuster, Adam Humphries all primarily run from the slot like Gauge. All had good, good to great games against Denver. So a CEE for Gauge. Hayden Hurst can give him a CEE. Not a great matchup.

Safety Justin Simmons is Pro Football Focus is highest graded tight end defender, but Hurst as a safe floor with fifty plus yards into a touchdown in six of his last seven games, and Matt Ryan lastly gets a sea between Julio, Gauge and Hurst. He's got a pretty safe floor in a plus matchup receiving wise for the running back, so safety from Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan zero or one touchdown pass in five of his last six games. I know it's been bad, but I'm not trying to look

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X was out the Xbox. None of that the X games. Oh you were a bad boy. Yeah, you know there's an X and explosive output. There is that explosive output for Matt Harrison. Speaking of Matt Harrison, you've got Seattle taking on Buffalo. This has got sort of matchup of the week written on it. DK Metcalf enters as fantasy Football's probably second hottest wide receiver, but he draws tramp Davious White, he does. I'm still gonna give Metcalf the A despite that that matchup. They're hard to bench a

guy who's just physically dominating any corner he faces. Plus, Metcalf has five inches and thirty pounds on White, So he gets the A. And I'm giving Tyler Lockett something better than an A. He's getting the fantasy art Vark this week. That's the fantasy Oh yeah. The Bills have only allowed six touchdowns on the season to wide receiver. Four of them have gone of the slot. Plus they've allowed to one yard games. You guessed it, both to slot receivers on the year. So plus we usually see

a lock it week than a Metcalf week. We're we're do for the lock it week now, so he's back. He gets an A A art Vark Russell Wilson. Fantasy Fonzie eats fantasy Artwarks for breakfast, though, right, I think we should have them fight they get out. Been here for years in this fantasy Fonzie versus Shark. We already know who would win that because he jumped the shark. Literally if fantasy Fanzi can't jump the art Vark though, no,

we've never seen him. Dorian got mad when I gave a fantasy Fonzi out one time, and that's why the fantasy art Vark existed. So you created this. This is your doing. Fair enough, they'll they'll do it out one of these. Can we find a fantasy Can we get Fonzi on our button? Bar Winkler, ah Um, Russell Wilson. He gets an A Grade two. You don't bench a guy who's averaging three point seven touched on passes per game.

DJ Dallas looks like he's going to get another almost full bell cow role this week, with Carlos Hide and Chris Carson now ruled out, so DJ Dallas he spun his way and that's see what I did there, Brian. Yeah, to eighteen carries and forty one yards. That's last week. That's not good. He did add five catches, and he did score once on the ground and once through the air,

which saved his day. Now that the lead running back to face the Bills has topped on yards, scored or both in each of the last four games, so he's got a chance there. Um, And that's it for the Seattle side. Let's go over to the Buffalo side, where I'll stay at the running back position. Let's talk about Zack Moss and Devin Singletary. Let's start with the matchup, because Seattle doesn't get run on all that much, only twenty attempts per game for seventy four yards. Both are

amongst the league's lowest totals. They are susceptible to being beaten by pass catching backs, though, So who wins that battle between these two? That's kind of incomplete because Singletary averages more targets per game than Moss, but it's four versus two, and that's not significant enough for me to go, Oh, single Tarry is the pass catching back here, so let's go inside the ten Singletarry has seen twenty one percent of the team's rushing attempts inside the ten. I bet

most of those were when when Zack Moss was out. Well, Zack Moss and half as many games as Singletary has thirty three percent of the team's rushing attempts. Now, Josh Allen's got all the rest of them, by the way, So the nod goes to Moss. I'm only going to give him a C this week, though, while Singletary is on the bench. Josh Allen gets an A grade. He's playing Seattle. Stephan Diggs gets an A grade. Uh, he's

playing Seattle too. I have reason to believe Seattle plays zone at the second highest clip amongst defenses and Digs absolutely torches the zone. So he's going to have a great day. Cole Beasley was might take a chance on me wider Stever, I think John Brown is kind of a desperation. No, I like he was almost might take a chance of the receiver. He played John Brown a lot. He played one of the Bill snaps last week, and this is this is where he kind of comes back

in this one. So I think John Brown is definitely playable too. I'll give him a C grade available on waiver wires and most leagues got dropped. And then uh yeah, I remember how good he was at the beginning of the year. I think John Brown goes back to being fantasy viable in many weeks the rest of the way. That's all I have to say about that. Okay, then that means it's time for me to talk about the

Giants taking on Washington. We'll start on the Giant side, where I don't have a lot of good things to say. Vanta Freeman is gonna miss another game with an ankle injury. Vanta who Freeman free? Sorry, Vanta Seamen is not getting a C grade, He's getting a out to grade because he's got an ankle injury. That means it's Wayne Gallman and Alfred Morris and Dion Lewis, the same rotation of

crappy runners we saw on Monday Night. They're bad, and it's a bad matchup against a team that's giving up just three point eight yards per carry on the season. No back is top sixty one yards against Washington since Week three. They're all dead to us. Let's go to the passing game. A couple of lukewarm starts. Sterling Shepherd. In the past two games since returning from injury, he's seen eighteen targets. He's turned him into two solid box scores.

But it's a tough matchup. Washington secondary has allowed the third fewest yards and just three touchdowns to opposing receivers, who most often face Ronald Darby, who brings little to the table other than speed. So a C grade for Sterling Shepherd, a C grade for Evan Ingram, who has yet to score and now faces a Washington team that hasn't allowed to tight end touchdown in three straight games

um including by the way to Evan Ingram three games ago. However, Washington is still a bottom ten defense against tight ends, allowing five catches and sixty yards to the position. So you can start Ingram and a pinchon at tight end who's not in a pinch. Golden Tate has possible disciplinary actions because of him and his wife complaining about his usage in the offense. You don't get that a lot. But I like the wife sticking up. That's very nice. There's one other who is the Dolphins to take wife?

Why can't he was a great corner too. I can't think it is a good corner and and she made Google worthy cakes. Let's put it that way. What is that guy's name Google? Where the yes turned images on? That's all I'm gonna say, And not in front of the kids anyway. Golden Date has scored him back to back games, but he's had just to one and one receptions the last three weeks he's on the bench. Darius Slayton has fallen under fifty six receiving yards and six

of the past seven games, scoring just once. Since his big Opening Day game. Slayton overwhelmingly runs from the left side of the field, where he matches up with Kendall Fuller. And let me tell you a little bit about Kendall Fuller, who should be in the conversation for defensive player of the Year. Get this, He's allowing per game averages of one catch, fourteen yards and zero touchdowns on the season. That's Kendall Fuller's coverage right there. And why Darius Slayton's

on the bench. So if you google Dolphins cornerback cake wife's birthday came, Oh my god, you know what. She's not gonna be on the Great British Baking Show. I can tell you that much. Most he might be. Let's go to the Washington side. We've got a B grade on Terry McLaurin in two full games. Terry, with two full games with quarterback Kyle Allen, he's targeted Terry McLaurin a whopping twenty three times, which no, not yet Rich McLaren.

I don't blame her for being h McLaren is parlayed into an average of seven catches for eighty two yards with one score, but he'll face shadow coverage from James Bradberry is having a very strong year. Just three weeks ago, it took twelve targets for McLaurin to get to seventy

four yards in the first meeting against Bradberry. Um Sticking with the passing game, Kyle Allen gets a C grade in his first two games, as I mentioned, to serviceable fantasy games with multiple touchdowns in each, the first of which was against this opponent, New York, and he posted two yards two scores. I already mentioned McLaurin. Tough matchup, but startable, so we'll give the C grade to Kyle Allen. Also C grade to another of his targets, Logan Thomas,

You're in a pinch at tight end. Like everybody else, the Giants are decent against tight ends, allowing just two scores on the season, but one of them went to Logan Thomas in Week six. The other tight end touchdown went to Gronk last week. I was just last week. So maybe we can get Thomas to get this. Thomas is getting sixty percent six sorry, sixty seven percent of the team's targets from inside the ten yard line. I wonder where you got that stat. I don't know. We'll

go with that. It was for me. Nicely done, Uh, Logan Thomas, you say, let's go to the running game. Antonio Gibson C grade now before your member there by. Last week, before the bye, Gibson had a monster game of almost one hundred thirty yards in one touchdown in a rare lopsided win for Washington. We're gonna get a healthy dose of him in this game too. But the Giants have turned into a pretty good run defense over the last three weeks. They haven't allowed to single back

to go to more than fifty two rushing yards. Gibson might help through the air a little bit. Giants are allowing the fourth most receiving yards per game to the position. But that's really J. D. Mcsucket's calling cards. So I think Gibson chips and just a little bit of work through the air. I see a game that feels more like eighty total yards Frantonio Gibson and probably no scores, and then yes, you can start j D. Mcsuckett. You

gotta find your spots. But as I just mentioned, this is a team that's struggling against running backs through the air, allowing nearly six receptions and fifty yards per game, fourth most to opposing running backs. So we'll we'll give him a C grade as well. Um, let's see, I think we had time for one more segment. Yeah, we're gonna try to fit it in. You're gonna have to be quick about it. Las Vegas taking on the Chargers, Brian, We got about two and a half minutes, all right.

I'll give Josh Jacobs a be even though he's been brutal outside of the opener and last week, he's kind of book ended his season with two good games with a bunch of bad ones in the middle. But the Raiders O line is coming to Fruition, probably the healthiest it's been all year, and the Chargers have also allowed the third most catches to running backs on the season, and I've given up at least a hundred nineteen combo yards or a touchdown to the last five backs they face.

So hopefully Jacobs can keep it rolling. It seems like the Gauntlet part of his schedules in the past, so stick with Josh Jacobs. Darren Waller gets an a Chargers at bottom ten against tight ends. They've allowed five touchdowns to the position position, most of which have come in the red zone. Or Waller is top ten and targets catches and target share in the whole league. So in a for Waller, Nelson Aghil are the only wide receiver I'm starting for the Raiders. He was might take a

chance on me, receiver Derek Carr. I was close to give him to see. I love Waller here, kind of like Aglar, but I don't see a real ceiling for car. This has got to be a Josh Jacobs game where they keep air bear off the field. The air bear. So let's get to the air bear. The air bear is. He's not in the air. He's on the ground right now, alright, he's a bear. Of course, he's not the air well He's the air bear. How silly, aren't you? He's literally the air bear. So stupid to think that the air

bear would be in the air where the ball goes. Anyway, I thought that was like like the air corriole. Whatever you blew that one, not me. Herbert gets in A has tossed at least three touchdowns in four straight games, with at least two two hundred sixty passing yards in each of those. Las Vegas ranks dead last and pass coverage A dead last and pass rush by Pro Football Focus. Keenan Allen Easy a LaMarcus Joiner is a joke of

a corner Mike Williams gets to be. Las Vegas has surrendered four scorers to opposing receivers in their two games prior to the Monsoon game last week, so they are not a great secondary hunter. Henry A. B. The Raiders are around league average against tight ends, but Kelsey and Gronk both shredded him. He is sort of in that

territory still. And lastly, Justin Jackson, with the Sea in Vegas last four games, no going back as top sixty six rushing yard is not a great matchup and something called Troy Mean Pope keep stealing touches from Jackson, but he is startable and Josh kellyanish out not even a factor at when we come back. Three touch Kelly eaten by an air bear. Eaten by an air bear. Three tough questions for a panel of experts play along and

Fantasy Football Weekly resumed. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a game we like to call three tough questions. I will Pepper, my co host, with the aforementioned three tough questions you can play along to if you can go three and oh, tough question number one. Christian McCaffrey was universally selected as the first overall choice in our preseason fantasy drafts. So now that he's healthy, will Christian McCaffrey be the highest scoring runner from this point forward?

So the main competition is obviously Dalvin Cook, Alvin Kamara, and King Henry moving forward from mcmccaffrey and at three. So I'm gonna break this down from a reality football perspective and not so much fantasy. The Panthers are three and five. They're on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoffs. If they can't fight their way into playoff relevancy in the next six weeks. There's no point in running McCaffrey into the ground after paying him

a ton of money in a lost season. So the next six games where the Panthers start at Kansas City Tampa Bay. That's already two losses right there, and also bad matchups, and then Detroit, Minnesota, Denver, maybe they win one, and then at Green Bay a good fantasy matchup. But after six games they're under five hundred. They're out of the playoffs. Mike Davis has proven an able runner, So keep McCaffrey fresh. You paid him a ton of money.

He's not gonna see the touches to warrant being the top fantasies or moving forward from the running back position, So I say no, all right, will Christian McCaffrey be the highest scoring runner from this point forward? And Brian took a lot of my talking points, but I will note that this is the same injury that made se Kwon Barkley look like a mere mortal last year when he came back from this injury, so it's not particularly perfect as far as him being a complete healthy guy

the rest of the year. So I think that he probably finishes in the top ten. But like Brian said, we could be looking at some big time stud running backs getting rested down the stretch this year, and what is a lost season In a season where there's no fans in the stands, there might not be anything for for the owners and the general managers to go. Yeah, I want Christian McCaffrey to play in this last season. So sa Kwon Barkley missed four games with his injury,

his high ankle sprain. Caroline arrested Christian McCaffrey seven weeks weeks, which is the which is the perfect thing to do, because it doesn't make sense to bring somebody back on this injury they're not effective that you have to be back to basically one, which is where we believe. Christian McCaffrey is practiced all week. At the ten game layoff from the last one, we all we all feel like he's in very good shape, totally fresh legs right now

because he's basically hasn't used this year. What holds him in the way from being the highest scoring running back is the schedule. He's got a bye week left that the others don't have. He's got a tough schedule including next week against the league's best run defense Tampa, and then shortly after that a suddenly competent Vikings run defense

and a good Denver run defense after that. So the schedule doesn't work in his favor as well as it does for Cook and Camara and Henry, so he's unlikely to be the highest scoring running back from this point forward. Tough question Number two is Travis Kelsey the most valuable

player in Fantasy football? Matt Um. To be the m v P in fantasy you have to have the biggest delta between you and the next player down in your position group, and according to Fantasy Football Today, the biggest gap between the first and second place player at any position is that between the top wide receiver in football, Richie James and Davante Adams. Yeah, Richie James and his Thursday night blow up on is his only game he's

played this year. On a per game basis, he's the best wide receiver in football, But second most is Travis Kelsey, who leads the league UH leads the now out for the season George Kittle by two points per game and PPR leagues and he's out, so if you go down one more, he leads Darren Waller by four points per game. So I think Travis Kelsey, in a position that we thought was so deep, it's now insanely shallow. Travis Kelsey is the most important and valuable player in fantasy right now.

If I'm like doing a draft starting right now, which you can still do on guy team leagues dotcom, um um, I'm not taking Kelsey first. I'm still taking one of the bigger running backs. Matt made very good points, but the four points between Kelsey and Waller is not enough for me than the twenty plus that you get from Kamara and Cook and Henry and soon to be Christian McCaffrey, who are going to outscore every other running back by at least five points bringing on a per game basis.

So I'm still going with the running backs, maybe even Davante Adams. But Kelsey is not the most valuable player in fantasy football to me. But that's because I'm the

tight end whisper and I can stream anytime. If you showed me, just showed me all the rosters in your league and said pick the team that's gonna win, the first thing I would do is I'd find Travis Kelsey on those rosters, and I would look at Kelsey and the team around Kelsey, because if you can tell me there's a qualified team around Kelsey, that's the team I'm picking. As you mentioned the Delta, it's really all for most valuable player. I did not say highest scoring players. Should

notice I said the most valuable player. Every word counts in. He is very tricky assignment. These are They are tough questions. Um Every week, half to two thirds of your league is bracing for a zero at tight end. Ask anybody who plugged in Robert Tunyan on Thursday night, which many people did. We have thousands of listeners right now who plugged in Robert Tounyan and got one catch for five yards. That's what most of your league is experiencing right now.

There are exactly four quasi reliable tight ends. That's it, and the Delta is gigantic. By ESPN scoring, Kelsey scored a third more Fantasy points than any other tight ends still playing with Kettle out, and in a scoring system in which Kelsey has scored one points this year, the next closest tight end has sixty. Nobody else is close to that ratio except Davante Adams at the wide receiver position. I could find help there. Yes, Travis Kelsey is the

most valuable player in Fantasy. Question number three, Jase Edmonds is expected to start for the Cardinals. Well, he is going to start? Will he finished the year as an RB one, r B two flex or bench Brian, I just want to talk about e p A for a second, and not the Environmental Protection Agency. It's expected points added, which is a football metric. You don't have a whole lot of time to really dive in, but it weighs the value of a player what he brings to your

football team. And you take the e p A when you're on the field and when you're off the field, and then you find the delta and you just see how good you are a football. Chase Edmonds is way better than Kenyan Drake at football. Kenyan Drake's e p A per play point negative point zero six. I'm pretty sure you don't want to be negative. He takes zero six expected points added per play. Chase Edmonds is plus point zero four. And now when you start piling on

the plays, you're piling on the points. The schedule is an ideal for Edmonds, But I don't see him what letting this job go. Drake might factor in a little bit when he's healthy in a few weeks, and for that reason, I'll just say RB two and not RB one for Edmunds. But this is Chase Edmonds backfield moving forward. Quick question on this this e p a thing you talked about the delta for these players, and every player's got this delta. What would would Matt Burke have a delta? Burke? Sorry, wow,

I like that. Sorry, my Mike wasn't on. I gave you an approving thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, So the answer you gave was r B two, r B two, Matt, is Chase Edmonds going to finish the years in RB one, RB two flex or bench. He's super talented. He's got one huge problem for a running back. He does not get the ball near the goal line. So far this season, with Drake being almost completely ineffective and injured off and on, Edmonds has only managed exactly one carry from inside the

ten yard line. Kenyan Drake has thirteen and Kyler Murray as seven. When your own quarterback is vulturing your touchdowns, you have to score from distance and that hurts him a ton. And while he's very talented. I think he's only a flex the rest of the way. Don't you think he's going to take Kenyan Drake's goal line rushes? Not if Cliff Kingsbury just keeps handing Kenyan Drake the rock,

I don't think he's going to keep giving. If they're gonna have Kenyan Drake play the Matt p P, how are how are they going to put him on the field. If Brian says he's he's bad on on like yards per play, well, we're you're gonna keep him out between the twenties. You're gonna put him in at the goal line for somehow you think he's good. You thought he was thirteen to one over Chase Edmunds so far this year, Man,

I don't even know what you're talking about. Any thirteen to one carries inside the tent, carries inside the tent. I'm just saying that's past, that's in. That's in the past. When Drake is no longer the starter, which is going to happen beginning this week and coaches totally changed their mind going to go back running style. Edmunds has been better than Drake at everything full two yards per carry, better better receiver with quadruple the receptions and receiving yards.

His Pro Football Focus ranking is eleventh for Chase Edmunds, forty five for Drake. Easy game against Miami this week, which will boost Chase Edmunds his status, then a favorable game after that against Buffaloes run defense. At that point, he solidifies this thing and he remains the first guy to go to and will be. Now, he's not an elite runner, and this is why it's not an RB one. He's not Dalvin Cook, he is not Jase Edmonds, is not Alvin Kamara. He's not He's not King Henry. He

is a good back, not a great back. Drake will still factor in some He is going to be an RB two, you know for somebody who got the question right? Why are you battling me so I got wrong? Got it wrong? Yeah, I got it right, always like Brian Better. New England takes on the New York Jets Matt and for New England, we've already talked about out some a handful of players here, including Cam Newton, who was might take a chance on the quarterback. Yeah, we did talk

about Cam Newton. Um I don't like him as much. As you do. I will note that I'll give him a C grade here. Still it's the Jets. Yeah, he's got no wide receivers. He's tied for the fewest past attempts inside the ten yard line among quarterbacks who have started at least six games, with only six attempts. That's gross. I think that the Jets are the team that you're going to run against. That's why Damian Harris is the only Patriots starter on my on my match up here,

and I'm giving him a B grade. He's averaging five point seven yards per carry, double digit rushing attempts, and three of the four games he's played this year top one hundred yards, and two of those and scored last week. The Jets are allowing yards per game. I think this is a slow plotting, low scoring game, and they just give Damian Harris the ball over and over again. I like Harris a lot this week as well, although let's note Sony Walkman back and active for this team, but

they can't give him. Damian Harris has been the only good thing the Patriots have had all year. I know, particularly on offense, you would think, but Bill Belichick is inscrutable with his running backs and nothing would surprise us. Did you know the starting wide receivers for the Patriots this week will be Jacoby Myers, who's owned in two point four percent of ESPN leagues, and Demere Bird, who's owned in one and neither have scored a touchdown this year. Yeah,

let's go to the Jet side. Uh. Sam Donald had another m r I this week on his throwing shoulder and he's been limited all week. The Jets have a bye next week, so they could conceivably rest him and play Joe Flacco, or they could play injured Sam Donald, and I think they're gonna play Donald because they don't want to win because they still have Adam Gaze as

their coach. It's a bench grade for either. The Patriots have not allowed a passing touchdown in three weeks and are only allowing two six yards per game in that span. Braxton Arios has more Sam Donald targets than Jamison Crowder, and with Crowder and Breshad Pereman looking both doubtful to play, he's probably the top pass receiver for him this week. It's also a revenge game for Braxted Burrios, who was drafted by the Patriots. If you're going to start a

Jets wide receiver, it's Burrios over Mims. But we need a grade lower than a seed to classify barriers. I'm going to give him a J grade. Yep uh. Michael Perrine and Frank Gore are the running backs here. Parian had more snaps last week, but they still had the exact same number of touches with only ten. Parian looks a lot more spry here, though. I'm going to give him a C grade, as if the Jets will score a touchdown, it will probably be him. The pat saw

split backfield last week with the Bills backs. They each had four team carries and each of them went over eight yards, So Parrian could possibly manage like sixty yards in a score here. So that's why he gets the C grade. And the best play of the game, by the way, Patriots defense. It is, by the way, available in many leagues. A lot of people have cut the Patriots. You remember at this time last year, the Patriots defense was like the I don't like. The tenth highest scoring

fantasy player was the Patriots defense. Yeah, what a difference of year makes. It's not quite like that anymore. If you've missed any of the player rankings you want more information, All of my player ratings are available for free at Guillotine leagues dot Com. Ratings explanations help you solve your bench start conundrums at Guillotine leagues dot Com. More Fantasy Football Weekly coming when we return. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.

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on Kansas City. Christian McCaffrey's back. Uh. They say they're going to give him a full workload, and he's right back to being the same obvious a that he was back in Week one. Kansas City is a far worse run defense than past defense, and Carolina will run for as long as this game is close, and mostly they do keep their games fairly close, so hopefully that will be the case here in an A grade for Christian McCaffrey, who doesn't need more explanation than that. Teddy Bridgewater is

on the bench. You gotta pick your spots with the ultimate game manager, and a difficult matchup against a very good secondary is not one of them. The Chiefs ranked seventh and passing yards allowed third in passing touchdowns allowed, Bridgewaters receivers have very tough individual matchups, uh and and that does include last week's hero Curtis Samuel, who was

also on the bench. He is going to frequently face off against Tyron Mattheo and he's one of the best tacklers in any second area across the league, and he's giving up just thirty yards per game in his coverage. So no Curtis Samuel in this one for my taste.

Robby Anderson is up at a B grade. He's drawn at least eight targets and posted at least seventy four yards, and four of the past five games he has the team's most favorable matchup against cornerback chart Various Ward, who is allowing a passer rating of one eight and he's given up three touchdowns in his coverage. Bad news for d J. Moore. He's got four or fewer catches in five of the last six games, so he's been lightly used anyway, and volume could be an issue again this week.

And the Chiefs are seeing the fifth fewest passes, just thirty two per game, which is weird that you would think the Chiefs always ahead, so teams will be passing on him all the time. But really, because the Chiefs are so dangerous, teams run the ball as long as they can, and they're not very good against run anyway.

Moore's got a tough coverage against self described marijuana enthusiast, but Shot Brilon, who is allowing eleven scoreless yards per game and his coverage this year, that's it seems like the green stuff's working for Apparently it is, uh, Mike Davis dead to us now. He probably drops down to the tenent usage level and that's not enough. And I think other than just holding him as a handcuff, you can drop Mike Davis. All right, let's go to the

Kansas City side. Patrick Mahomes Entyreek Hill get a grades, but beware the faith. That's befallen. Several other good passing receiving tandems against Carolina. They're so easy to run upon that quarterbacks get minimized. Opposing quarterbacks are averaging just two d yards and one point one touchdowns against the Panthers. That's it now. All that said, Clyde Edwards A Laire and Levian Bell have not been end zone magnets or even usage magnets, so maybe it's not gonna go that way.

And I still have a grades on Mahomes and Hill and just I'm just throwing it out. There is something to be aware of. There's been a lot of good matchups against Carolina in the past that have not panned out for the passers. Travis Kelsey is an obvious a and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on him, and we've already broke him down earlier in this show. Let's talk about the running backs, and it's fascinating. Levian Bell was might take a chance on me running

back earlier in the show. But let's talk about Clyde Edwards A Laire for a minute. Carolina has allowed ten running back scores in their seven games. They're giving up almost five yards per carried to the position, and they're giving up the most receptions to running backs. The concern Here's volume Clyde Edwards a layer averaging just nine touches

per game since Levian Bell came to the team. All O the weird part about these last two games with Bell, they've also been blowouts at half and neither back's gotten any work. I think this one stays tighter, and we're gonna see more running in this game. Both guys have been so lightly used, they have such fresh legs. I think we're gonna see enough of Clyde Edwards a layer and laby On Bell for them to both be C grades.

Mikole Hardman and DeMarcus Robinson are dart throws in most games, but this just doesn't seem like an ideal one here for the reasons I mentioned earlier, with the de emphasized passing game and a possible emphasis on the running backs. Let's go to our next matchup, which is Miami taking on Arizona. Brian, you already told us Patrick Laird was your sneaky dolphin take a chance on me runner, which you validated it. I'm kind of buying into that vibe.

What about the passing game to looked, that's the end and that's it. So but yeah, Davante Parker, Preston Williams, Mike Sicky, all guys who would normally get a raid or at least some consideration most weeks. Yeah, absolutely none this week to a Tongung gole Via making his first road start of his career, only his second start. Of course, I didn't have to do much last week, and when he did, he didn't look sharp. So I'm not liking

him on the road. So do you guys stand I'm still rostering Stu Beard in a bunch of leagues because I had him in a bunch of leagues, because you guys know how I feel about it. I'm still holding him just in case. Well, he doesn't have a beard anymore. I know he's got short short stubble. There's a there's there's a baseball player named Drew stubs stubs consider consider that enshrined until he grows that thing back out. All right,

sounds good? Uh? Some of you might be tempted to play Jordan Howard, but in take home I mentioned this, don't do it. Arizona very tough on the ground against running backs, have only allowed three rushing touchdowns to the position and no loan back as top seventy five rushing yards and he the miracle goal line plunge plunge Jordan Howard, that is so Patrick Laird, You're only stortable Dolphin this week.

Over the Arizona side, Jase Edmonds, who we just talked about in great detail, gets an A and this one only two opposing running backs have totaled six at least sixteen touches against Miami, which is kind of nuts. But both of those backs scored twice and combined to average a hundred and fifteen combo yards. Edmunds will get that volume in this game. And but by the way, where the hell is Eno Benjamin? My boy, he can't he can't even see the field. I don't even see the

practice field at this point. Is he still on the team? But I almost prospect him. But I'm very disappointed in you, you know. Anyway, to the passing game for the Cardinals, DeAndre Hopkins gets an A. The Dolphins are allowing the fifth most yards to wide receivers and shut down corner Byron Jones is not doing his job. Both both Stefon Diggs and dk met Metcalf top the century mark against Jones and h Hopkins is certainly on their level, if

not above it. Christian Kirk can give him a B at least fifty five yards and touchdown in five straight games, so he's established a safe floor for himself and against the Dolphins secondary receivers like Robert Woods, Kendrick Born, David Moore, John Brown, they all scored touchdowns and three of those four also cleared eighty yards. Kendrick Borne was the one who did not, so a safe B for Christian Kirk

and a very safe A for Kyler Murray. What the Dolphins have done recently against quarterbacks is irrelevant because we're talking about Joe Flacco, Jared Goff and whatever San Francisco has thrown out there. We're not talking We're not talking about actual quarterbacks. With those guys, Murray is more than an actual quarterback. Has totaled at least two at least

two touchdowns in every game. In fact, he's had more than two total touchdowns in all but two games, at least three touchdowns and all but two games so far this year rushing in passing, So in a for Murray, Murray might be the best fantasy quarterback the rest of the way. Hey church before we move on to the Houston Jacksonville game. Yes, I think that this game might have been the one that was going to be in London originally scheduled. So I invited friend of the show,

Colin mccockney to let me go get him. He's out in the hallway, all right, thank you. So I hate this guy because I have to translate for him. Yeah, because yeah, we never know what he's saying. Na nab some salty rumphs and Rupert's fingers. Make sure you have some posh legs, sleeves on, shut your sauce box, sluice your gobs with your favorite chuckaroo. It's high time for footy. I'm a little rusty. I think he said something about pretzels hot dogs, and I think i'm pants. I'm jamming

something into something pantaloons. Maybe I don't know. Shaun Watson, he's an egg Governor. Watson his top three yards and frown for multiple scores and four straight free of the bleeding last four pass throwers for the Nanny Goat Race the Jaguars of top three undred as well. Shaun Watson gets a Watsons and thrown for multiple scores in four straight. Three of the last four pass throwers to face the Jaguars have topped three yards as well. The master goat race,

he's the master goat race. And do I need to be worried? Governor Brandon Cooks and Will Fuller a like the Battle of Griddington. Last time Cooks faced the Jaguars, he had one sixty one and yield touchdown. Her Majesty sugar b on it. Fuller has topped a center and dashed my wig in six or seven fire sticks blast. The bloody Texans almost traded him last week, so they want to give him some makeup targets. The bleeding Jaguars have allowed six different receivers to top seventy five yards

in the last four games. They let a dying duck in a thunderstorm on the foot road. Gransd how'd you even get in the country back? I thought you. Brandon Cooks and Will Fuller both getting a last time cookspace the Jaguars. He had a hundred sixty one yards in a touchdown. Fullers topped one yards were scored in six of seven games this year. I guess those are fire sticks and sticks. Plus the Texans almost traded fuller last week, so they want to give him some makeup targets in

this one. Or maybe he's playing revenge game against his own team and the Jaguars have all that was my home on there. The Jaguars have also allowed six different receiversh topped seventy five yards in the last four games. Still stuck on the master goat race. David Johnson, he'll be the ninty knocking ear. He gets a BE because those Jags are a bunch of bacon faced blunderbusses. They low about five meters every time on the holidays. Even David Johnson gets a B because the matchup is so good.

The Jaguars have allowed five yards per carry over their last four games. Jake Luton is a muff. He's named after the loup. He got bum fadder two. How's he gonna get a couple of clicks in the cob. He's gonna be a batty fang, That's what he is. Jake Luton is on the bench, especially because, according to Evan Silva, Luton was one of the worst college prospects to come out last year, calling him brutally unathletic. He had a

spark score in the fourth percentile. You know, I'm really very surprised that edvon Silva's name translated is something about putting bacon in your mouth. Batty fang, batty fang. DJ Chalk is a hob merchant, but his dattles maybe an e's gropus his ear. He's on the slab too. Everyone knows what this means, but it means Chark is a good dancer, but he's not going to catch much in this one, so he and the rest of the receivers are on the bench. Jimmy Robinson is tight as a

boiled owl and ready to go off the chump. He gets a bumble. Unless the Texas boys are rum gaggers. They ain't stopping Jimmy Houston allows a Lottie. Isn't toddies to go for one one every day? Now, go fry your face and play with the gravy be He's the only chance that Jaguars have to win with lutenant quarterback. The Texans are allowing one and fifty one yards per game to opposing running backs. And then I think that

I just like Colin out what did I miss? I think a lot saying goodbye something about Bacon and the Master goat race that I'm gonna go rough up Colin and Colin mc I don't think he'll come back again this year. We thought, we thought we're gonna make it through the season without Colin mccotney. But after apparently smuggling himself back in and all the way into our studio, he told us it was a London game, so he's he's gonna wake up at you know time and go

for it absolutely when we come back. Premature speculation. This is where we give you three players you want to pick up the this week that other people are gonna be trying to pick up next week, but they're already on your roster. That's the beauty of the premature speculation and our final set of matchups coming in the final segment. If you haven't already tried a Guillotine league, it is

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Maybe not, but he mentioned Bacon, who's the guy on Twitter that does he does the rundown, tweets it out. Yeah, thank you that don't remember hand. We'll get it at some point, is but we'll get it before that shows over. There's there's a Twitter follower who's nice enough to tell you where you can find at which minute mark you can find each and every one of our matchup. And he was a little sad he didn't have more followers as a result. So let's get him those followers so

he can share his rundown. We'll do a weekend Um, I've retweeted stuff. I can't make people follow him. I'm not saying to feel bad about it. This is how he feel. The premature speculation is a segment that we do every week, and which week his name is James, by the way, thank you James, Mr j C seventy seven, m r j C seven seventh on Twitter. Mr j

C seventy seven, Thank you, James. We appreciate that. Every week Uh, the premature speculation is three players that you want to pick up this week that everybody else be trying to pick up next week, and they're gonna go, oh, how did you know to go get him? It's because this is our time machine. Yes, we begin with Brian. You're premature speculation player. I've talked about him in the first segment and gave him a See. I'm gonna double down on Darnell Mooney, rookie wide receiver for the Bears.

Out of two lane. Uh, Mooney has caught two or more passes in each of his first eight games in the NFL, the only Bears rookie wide receiver to do that. Basically, Ever, his usage has been ramping up big time. Thirteen targets over the last two weeks. Last week, he played the snaps against the Saints a higher percentage. And Anthony Miller ever played as a rookie last year and he just

he passes the eye test. If you've watched Darnell Mooney play and Allen Robinson commands double team's bracket coverage on the regular, Mooney is going to have a nice finish of the season. Uh, only it wears on I like that you said Mooney gets two catches like every game, so it's like like a tuney look at it two or more, all right, but it's been more lately. Moving on, Matt, your text is it's also a two dollar Canadian coin, right, Uh?

Isaiah Ford. The Patriots just brought in Ford at the trade deadline to fill in for Julian Edelman for the remainder of the season. Now he might not play this week, but Ford was quietly kind of good for the Dolphins. Had around, you know, three catches per game for the Fins, including a nine target game in a ten target game

this year. But what I really wanted to talk about was last season in weeks seventeen, Ryan Fitzpatrick knocked the Patriots out of a first round by and it was Isaiah Ford who was one of the big reasons why. Nine targets, seven catches, fifty four yards plus a rush for eleven yards. And you don't think Bill Belichick didn't write that down and went, Hey, that's a guy I'm going to steal from a divisional opponent. He's been stealing divisional slot receivers for years and years and this is

just the latest one. And I think Ford is worth picking up. I am going to start by reiterating the guy Scott Fish mentioned last show, Alan Lazard, and I know because they played Thursday. He's locked in a lot of leagues, but get him primed up for the waiver wire for next week. He's due to come back, and man, do they need a second target in that offense. He

was one of my sleeper picks from the preseason. Blew up in those first couple of games, then probably got hurt, but he has his scheduled to come back for the next game, So go get Alan Lazard. Then my guy that was Scott's last week that I'm reiterating. My guy is Tony Pollard, another player that I mentioned frequently in the preseason when I told you I did not trust Ezekiel Elliott this year. Here all the reasons why, and now here Zeke four straight games with diminishing yards per carry.

He leads the NFL and fumbles. Leads the NFL among all running backs in dropped passes, two of which have turned into interceptions. His past protection is as bad as anybody's in the NFL. It's all come apart for Ezekiel Elliott. Tony Pollard getting an increasing time share. I'm not saying Paul it is going to take the job from Zeke. No, but he's getting enough of the action now that he belongs to be on rosters. And just Zeke's got the

hamstring injury right now. If at some point they decide if this thing gets worse or they shut down Zeke or whatever, I think you're gonna want, Tony Pollard, I think this thing is gonna get worse. Do you want to just say something? I think you just say, Tony, I'm not to do that. You did say that last week, did I back? Well? I think I whispered it, so it doesn't technically if you whisper it as much. Tony

Pollard our final premature speculation player. We've got a couple of matchups to work in, including Baltimore taking on Indianapolis.

Lamar Jackson Man. This Ravens passing game continues to be out of sake and it's awfully tough to get back on track in a game without your blindside blocker Ronnie Stanley, and you're going up against the Colts defense that's very good, only allowing two d eight passing yards and one point for passing touchdowns and Honestly, those numbers have even lower from weren't for a bunch of garbage time stats last

week from Matthew Stafford. You know, the fortunate thing about Lamar Jackson is the rushing numbers usually give you a safe floor. But you know, if there's one game that I were going to predict where he flops in both departments rushing and receiving, this might be it for Lamar Jackson. I've got to be grade on him, but it's a cautious be grade at that. Let's go to his receivers. I've got a C grade on Marquise Brown. He is

a low volume, touchdown dependent receiver. The cold secondary is allowed to score or one yard performance to opposing receivers in six of their past seven games, and if one receiver is gonna do it, I think it's Marquise Brown. Brown has reached paydirt and two of his last three games. Last week's touchdown was his only catch of the game. Again, touchdown dependent receiver, which you don't get a lot of um He's averaging just forty six yards per game in

his last six. Brown runs from the right side of the field over half of the time, so he's gonna face now rock solid cornerback rock Yasin the most. In five games so far that he's played this year, Yah Sin has allowed a score, one score and surrounded forty seven or fewer yards in four of the five games. By the way, chart, I will note that I think that the Colts defense might be just a little bit

of smoke and mirrors. By the way, the first five weeks, the quarterbacks they faced the Gardner Minshew Kirk, Cousins, Sam Donald, Nick Foles, Baker Mayfield, and then the last two quarterbacks have topped three hundred yards in Borrow and Stafford, and it means you tore him up touchdowns but only seventy three yards. That's right. Let's talk about Mark Andrews has become really frustrating and disaster and guillotine leagues because he's

been boom er bust. He needs touchdowns to salvage good games, and they're all low volume games and they thrown him a ton. It just it doesn't seem to connect. Unfortunately. I'd like to give you a better storyline. Here the culture the only team that has not allowed to score to the tight end position, and here he is touchdown dependent but Andrews commands thirty two of the Ravens targets inside the twenty, so there's some hope he can score here,

but not a lot. Just to see grade and mark Andrews, and honestly, if if the tight end position were healthier and stronger, I might not even give him a C grade. Um the running backs around the bench mark Ingram is not expected to play, although hasn't ruled. He's officially doubtful, but we don't expect him to go. Dobbins and Edwards are dart throws in a very difficult matchup. The Colts have not allowed back to top seventy two rushing yards

all year. They're giving up three point two yards per carry. That's all. Only Derrick Henry get this stat. Only Derrick Henry has topped eighty eight yards against the Colts in their last thirty four games. We call that friend. Yeah. I wonder how many times the last couple of years we've said only Derreck Henrry has Yeah, that's right, Derrick Henry.

It reminds Derek Astor Henry. We for years in this show, back in the days of JaMarcus Russell, we have we nicknamed JaMarcus Astric Russell because he broke all of the trends. It would be you know, seven of the last quarterbacks of top two h fifty yards and except JaMarcus Russell positive um. What's more, of the cultural are top ten in running back receptions allowed, receiving allowed, and receiving touchdowns allowed.

So there's there's nowhere to go here. For Gus Edwards and J K. Dobbins, I've got bench grades on them, but I could see in a in a pinch, you may have to use them on the Indianapolis side. I have no starting grades in this game for Philip Rivers, who has been better lately. This isn't a matchup with much hope. This is an inconsistent passing game and Patrick Mahomes aside, the Ravens are giving up just two hundred twenty six passing yards and one passing touchdown per game.

He will be without t Y Hilton in this game. Not that Hilton has made a big difference, but it'll be without t Y Hilton and all of the Colts wide receivers around the bench. The Ravens allowed the fifth fewest fantasy points to wide receivers and have only allowed four wide receiver touchdowns this year, and two of the four were Chiefs. So there's your positive asterisk. Asterisk is the Chiefs big bounce back game for Rodrigo blanket Ship

It could be if they bounce back game for the kicker. Um, let's keep going to guys that you're gonna bench the tight ends. Now, if mo Ali Cox doesn't go then and he's he'll he's shaping up as a game time decision, then I could maybe see Trey Burton is startable here. But if they do go, then those two plus Jack Doyle, they else cannibalize each other. They're splitting snaps, targets and receptions almost evenly at about each of them, about usage

for the Colts. So overall, I think you should just avoid all the tight ends instead of the guessing game as to which one might have a good game. Now, let's go to the frustrating Colts running back situation. Frank Reich's running backs are inscrutable, good luck trying to guess what's gonna happen here, and likely to frustrate you if you try to go with Jonathan Taylor, Jordan Wilkins, or Niah Mines chasing the hot hand from the previous week.

Almost never works with the Colts. Remember Week one when nikeim Hines had the big game, everybody blew a bunch of fab to go get nai Hines and then he probably did nothing for like five weeks. Jordan Wilkins was the hot hand last week. They effectively benched Jonathan Taylor in that game. But can anybody here tell me that you think Jonathan you think Jordan Wilkins gonna come back to have a totally gonna have ninety yards again. I mean, you just you can't know. Jonathan Taylor has top sixteen

carries once in the last five games. You can't even count on him. But if I do think there's a chance that Taylor comes back with a bigger game here in terms of workload, just to keep the rookies confidence up, I think Frank Wright might be worried that he torpedoed the confidence of his rookie and puts him back on the field as the starter. Here's the problem. Baltimore's fifth in yards allowed and their first and rushing touchdowns allowed

with just two on the year. So I don't see anywhere to go, and I've got bench grades on them all. I don't want to play this game. I want off our final matchup. We have saved Antonio Brown and this discussion for the very end, New Orleans is at Tampa Bay. Brian, Well, let's start on the New Orleans side of this game. In a brutal matchup for Alvin Camara. Yeah, and this is a divisional rematch. These teams played in week one in the opener, so will reference that game for sure.

Starting with Camara Uh actually on pace to break Christian McCaffrey's record for receptions by running back set just last year, Like no one's ever gonna break this record hundred nineteen catches fro McAffrey last year. Camara on pace for one five receptions, but of course Michael Thomas making his eternal talk about him in a minute. But in that opening game, UH Camara total just sixty seven combo yards, did have five catches, but he scored twice, once on the ground

and once through the air. Just a brutal matchup though for backs. Tampa Bay ranked third overall against the run by football outsiders. But I'm giving Alvin Kamara because he's an unworldly basically, UH with Tavis Murray actually had fifteen carries in that first game for forty eight yards. Gross, don't do that again in New Orleans. He's definitely on the bench in this one. Now, did Michael Thomas, who should make his return? I feel like we've said that

a few times. He's expected to play. Uh. Five targets, three catches, seventeen scoreless yards. That was Week one for Michael Thomas against the Bucks, but it's two games since the Bucks last year. Eight catches undred fourteen yards and a touchdown, and then eleven catches one hundred and eighty two yards and two touchdowns. Hell of history for Thomas against the Bucks outside a Week one of this year. But Tampa's secondary much improved this season, but they still

have allowed the seventh most catches to wide receivers. So if Thomas is looking like a full go, and it looks like he is, you have to start him. But I'm just give him a very cautious see this week, see what we have with Michael Thomas. Manny Sanders also set to make his return. Emmanuel Sanders, but who cares? He's on the bench for me, Jared Cook. He gets to see a lot of pieces of the past game returning for the Saints, who have already mentioned which should

sap Cook's targets a little bit. It's not like he was getting that many anyways. He was touchdown dependent as well. Yeah, tight end isn't the yea Cook, like you said, pretty touchdown dependent. The Bucks have only surrendered three scores to tight ends, but who cares. Cook had five catches for eight yards. He's not touchdown dependent against the Bucks. That's

when he had in Week one. So Cook gets a C. But that seems like a ceiling here, but he's definitely startable in the tight end waistline and then a gift see for Drew Brees. At this point, I will give Drew Brees a C in this matchup despite just a hundred sixty passing yards in the Week one matchup. He did have two passing touchdowns, but only one quarterback is hit three hundred yards against Tampa Bay this year, and their secondary is giving up a modest one point three

passing touchdowns per game. So see for Breeze. No ceiling here and not a very safe floor. But again I can't say enough just to see for Breeze or the Tampa Bay side. Let's start with the running backs, which are also a nightmare which just when you think you have it figured out between Ronald Jones and Leonard four Nette, the other one has the way bigger game at Leonard fourn it did last week. A bad matchup for both.

The Saints are allowing only one and six combo yards and less than a touchdown per game to opposing running backs, so I'll give them both a sea here for Net looks to be the guy now. That just means Ronald Jones is actually the guy now from Varians is a diabolical schoster. But anyway to the passing game, this is where it gets complicated. Mike Evans Antonio Brown, Now, can I give you? Can I just jump in with my Antonio Brown? Take sure you can tell me if at

least so several several data points in Brown. Bruce Arians says that he's looked great and he Bruce Arians also says that he could play like like half of the plays, but he is a would you call him a diabolical shyster? Yeah? Do you can't. He's a ball face liar. You can't trust anything. Bruce Arian sets now Godwin's shaping up that you're talking about Antonio Brown him too, probably Chris Godwin shaping up a game time decision. If he doesn't go,

that frees up seven targets per games. Some some of that could go to Brown. Now, it's hard not to be swim aid by Brown's one game last year with Tom Brady when he had eight targets and a touchdown. I'm swede by that. I am also swede. And maybe it's dumb by the fact that he was living in his house. And I think that tells me that he's got a little know that Tom Brady's committed to him.

Brady brought all of his dudes back to Tampa, alright, so Brady be basically got a dream team out there, including Rob Gronkowski, who gets an a UH for eleven yards in Week one. But the Saints are the bottom five fantasy defense against tight ends, as allowed nearly six catches and six yards per game to the position, including six total touchdowns. Gronk is on fire right now, with at least four catches forty yards in a score in each of his last three games. Nicely done, and Evans,

we really get to Evans. Let's give him a b. Don't play god when he see me at a pitch count B for Evans, C for Brown. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. Everybody. We'll be back next week for more good luck. In week nine, we'll talk to you a week time. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.