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Football Weekly on the Fan. My co host today Scott
Fish and Matt Harrison. Good morning. It helps you attorney
my radio professional, all right, maybe it helps to speak
into the mic. I don't know. Um, I have an
extra bounce in my step because of the Guillotine League.

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It was it was all speculation until now, but now
it's real. We've had the first week in the Guillotine
League and it was so exciting. So as a very
quick reminder for people who don't maybe don't recall the
premise of the Guillotine League. Every week we have start
with seventeen teams and every week the bottom scoring team

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gets lopped off. They're done, and the roster goes to
free agency. So in my draft, I decided to never
having done one who has, I decided to implement a
strategy that was almost entirely predicated on safe players, and
that means non running backs, so that I wouldn't end
up with a bunch of high risk players and get

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knocked out early. And then I hit the waiver wire
hard for running backs early and just spend my early
on running backs. Leonard Fournette got Leonard Fournett's team got cut.
They were out in Week one. As a celebrity who
hit the hit the skids in our league too, local
celebrity Randy Shaver. I wasn't good out him. I outed
him and his team. His team lost. Stefan Diggs went

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to the waiver wire. Four Nett went to the waiver wire.
Deshaun Foughts shown Watson went to the one of these weeks,
get DeShawn Watson's name right, How are you try? It's
at least he keeps with Texans like DeAndre and and
that is generally true. It was thrilling, and I agonized
about how much to bid on four net because he's
he fits directly into my strategy, So a thousand dollar fab.

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I have a thousand dollar fab to spend all year long.
I put in six hundred twenty of it on four
Net knowing that I might not even get him this week.
I could get bounced out this week because my running
backs aren't that good and I just picked up four
Net and I'm very nervous about starting him this week.
As you'll hear more about later, I could end up losing,

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and for Net could get the waiver wire twice in
two weeks. Maybe for Net's the cursed child. Maybe it's
gonna work that every every team that gets him so
much cut. I just I haven't been this sort of
re energized about fantasy football, and I am I always
love it, but it's just this is just so new
and cool and different. I'm just I love it. And

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all these people tweeting at me about you know, who
got knocked out of there, who got knocked out, what
players got knocked out of their leagues, and how much
their bidding is and everything. Had several people asking, are
you guys gonna write an article on what I should
bid on Todd Gurley, and well, no, because we have
to write an article literally on every player in the
entire NFL. It's exactly exactly. Um. I want to be

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be part of our winners banquet at man He's in January.
Let's dive into the matchups, beginning with the Browns taking
on the Saints. Scott, I've got to believe that the
Saints defense plays a lot closer to the group that
we saw for seventeen games last year than the group
that got obliterated by stew Beard last week. It has
to write that's the complete anomaly. It's like they were

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still in preseason form or something. On the Browns passing
game side, I'm gonna talk about Tyrod Taylor in the
next segments, so I'm just gonna skip over him for
a second here, okay, Uh, Jarvis Landry, I'm giving him
an A grade. He had fifteen targets last week, fifteen,
and we talked about in the preseason how much they
were targeting him. I don't. I think he's pretty matchup proof,

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So I'm I'm just giving an A grade and moving on.
But where those fifteen? Who does that? Who gets impacted
by him getting fifteen? It could be Gordon at four targets.
He only had four targets, but one was an end
zone target, and I think without the winds a sweet
catch by the way you see it was. It was
without the wind in a dome. I like Gordon a

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little bit better, even though he might get some Marsha
on l Adamer treatment for some of the game. I
think he played sixty nine snaps last week after they
wanted to put him on a pitch account, which did
not happen. But I still give Gordon a B grade.
I think he's primed for a big touchdown at some
point during this game, potentially, and I think that could
save his day. Najoku, on the other hand, I'm benching
uh seven targets last week did not do much Brighton

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Howard didn't do much against the Saints last year. Saints
we're top five against tight ends last year, only allowing
two tight ends over fifty yards. I'm just benching a Joku.
I'm benching Duke Johnson again. I correctly called that last week.
I still think he's a bench this week, mostly because
the well, the Saints are middle of the pack against

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against pass catching running backs. But I think the game
script is going to go away from this and the
Hide can catch, and they gave Hide twenty three touches.
I think Duke Johnson's involvement is his snap percentage is
just not where I want to see it. He did
have six targets, but it just wasn't able to do
anything with him Carlos Hyde. That's why I'm giving him

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a C grade. I actually don't like the matchup here.
The Saints were middle of the pack against running backs
in men many categories, but they had a top five
showing against running backs in Week one. Maybe that's Barber,
but the twenty three touches that Hide gets, I don't
know that he gets that this week. But they want
to give him volume. I think he's startable because of
that volume. Hide on the average one two and a

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half yards per carry last week. Right, but he does
get all the red zone carries to he was top
should be built for it. Yeah, exactly, I believe he
only had three touches last week. Uh. And yeah, Hyde
was top five in the NFL in in carry touches
inside the five last year. On the On the same side,
Breeze is an easy a for me here, Uh, look

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at Pittsburgh was Ben Roethlisberger was able to put up
three thirty five and a few touchdowns last week. Uh.
The Browns were sixth worst against fantasy quarterbacks last year.
UM and against bottom seven past defenses. Breeze average three
twenty four yards per game last year. So right like that,
like his guy Michael Thomas who had eight for ninety

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yards in each half last symmetrical perfection there. Uh and
Juju and Brown crushed the Browns last week. A for Thomas,
I'm only given again a ce He's coming in possibly injured.
Uh he should play though. Uh Cleveland mill of the
pack against wide receivers last week last year, but we
saw Juju and Brown do it, so I think is startable.

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Watson is where first off, Camara obvious, A obvious. Yeah,
just move on, Ben Watson, love it. It's I told
you to prespect pick him up for this matchup. Last week,
Browns were bottom four against tight ends last year. They've
allowed twelve different tight ends to score six or to
score or top sixty yards in the last seventeen games.
Jesse James had sixty yards on the Browns last week

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exactly exactly so their bottom three in receptions and touchdowns
allowed to tight ends last year. I actually have Watson
as weirdly an A grade allow A, but I think
I think he finishes the week as a top twelve
tight end. Wow, ye, I don't. Top twelve doesn't necessarily
mean an A. That just me it's a starting grade
that could be a C is still starting great. Ben

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Watson qualifies for take a chance on me? Really and
you're getting and you didn't use him? No, but you'd
I didn't. Yeah, I didn't need to. I think Ben
Watson top sixty yards and I'm I'm fairly certain I
would almost bet on him getting a score to Panthers
take on the Falcons, Matt, I'm nervous about the Panthers
missing three starting offensive lineman one one on I are

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in the preseason mac Little Netherland, when I I are
this week and another player is not gonna go, oh,
what do you think about Carolina? Yeah, Darryl Williams and
Trey Turner are the other guys that are out this week,
as is Greg Olsen, who occasionally stayed into block. He's
out for a long period of time, maybe the season,
maybe a career. However, that kind of bodes well for

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Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey averaged eight point three targets, six receptions,
and forty five receiving yards, along with three receiving touchdowns
in the eight games that Greg Olsen missed last year,
so I'm giving him a B grade. Despite promising that
he'd see twenty to thirty touches from north of Turner
and Ron Rivera, CMC only had ten carries last week,

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which is just his fourth career game in which he
received double digit carries in a game. Both Cam Newton
and Alex Arma Vulture to touch down from him. The
touchdowns are going to be really murky for Christian McCaffrey
this year, especially with C. J. Anderson there and Cam
Newton running still. Atlanta's offense has allowed the most running

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back receptions in each of the last two years. That's
why he's a would be this week uh C J.
Anderson's on the bench. All he's doing is ruining McCaffrey's value.
Uh Cam Newton, he gets a C grade. He's not
topped two hundred passing yards against the Falcons in five
straight games, but he did average eight rushing attempts and
fifty two rushing yards in those five games, along with

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two rushing scores, so he's going to be active in
the run game here. The only other guy on the
Panthers side that's worth a look is Devin Funcius, who
I gave us see uh. Funcius and jerryus right former Viking,
each had five targets last season or last week U
D J. Moore of the rookie didn't see one. And
it's worth noting in the last five games that Olson

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missed last season, Devin Funch just averaged eighty one yards
and scored in four of those five games, So that's
pretty good stuff. I t I think he's better than
a C grade, and especially with Kian O'Neil out in
the in the secondary for the Falcons. Yeah, I like
funchs more than you do. Okay, Julio Jones gets the
obvious A grade. Remember last years Carolina twelve catches, three

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hundred yards and one touchdown in that one game in Atlanta.
The notable thing, though, Matt Ryan has completed only one
of his last twenty targets to Julio Jones in the
end zone. Wow, only man, you know hard it is
to miss Julio Jones nineteen of twenty times in the

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end zone. He's done it, that's not so that's why.
That's why Julio is not getting touchdowns. That's why he
hasn't gotten touchdowns in years. Matt Ryan can't target him
well in the end zone. So is it play calling? Though?
It might be he might be getting sarks And yeah,
I think there's a chance that that's the case. The
rest of the passing game is on the bench. Sanew,

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Calvin Ridley, Austin Hooper six two and four targets respectively.
As a Falcon, Sanu has topped fifty six yards only
once in four tries against Carolina, and Hooper hasn't topped
fifty yards in over a year. Matt Ryan also on
the bench. Point, Yeah, he's on the bench. Matt Ryan.
So let me get to stray super bench. A quarterback
who in his last two years of matchups with Carolina,

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last two years of matchups, so four matchups, his average
game three hundred fifty three yards and two and a
half touchdowns. And I'm putting him on there, putting Matt
Ryan on the bench, the bold call, Cotton. Let's see
how this pays off. Forty eight point eight completion percentage
last week, the worst he's had since two thousand eleven.
Who was playing Eagles again, I'd say, yeah, I keephim

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on the bench too. Plus, I don't know about you, chart,
but I tend to like touchdowns from my quarterbacks, So
I'd take two and a half. Would he averages against
this opponent over the last two years. Do you know
what he's done in the last ten games? Tell me
he's never once in ten games, had two touchdown passes
one zero in ten straight games. And I like Matt

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Ryan's bad. It's possible Matt Ryan's bad. I don't know that.
I don't think he's bad. I don't I don't necessarily
do that. I don't necessarily The last guy I'll mentioned,
Tevin Coleman, he's a b teetering on an a because
DeVante Freeman's out with a knee injury this week and
Thomas Davis is missing from the Panthers linebacking corps. Carolina
allowed four point seven yards per carried to the Dallas

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Backs last week. Coleman had at least fifteen touches in
a game four times last year. He scored in three
of those four games, and the other one he had
a hundred and four total yards. So I like Tevin
Coleman getting fifteen to twenty touches this week and probably
being pretty successful with him. I've got Tevin Coleman way
up at running back number thirteen this week at a

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grade territory for me, and I think he's you absolutely stardom.
When when one of the one or the others out
for the Falcons, the guy who's in usually does very
very well. Absolutely all right, when we come back, take
a chance on me. Nine players upon whom you can
take a chance, find out who they are, and we
come back. Your neighbor hung a green and gold flag
on their porch, which is unacceptable to any Minnesota Vikings fan.

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How you spend your winnings is up to you. Yes,
it pays to be a fan Minnesota wattery. I'm in

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must be eighteen year older to play this. Sound like

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take a chance on me? Number one on the c D. Yeah,
I'm dancing. I never want to see that again. Matt
dancing in the studio. Well, okay, it's weak too, so
that means we should technically be playing track too. Let's
try track two. If this doesn't, If this take a

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chance and mann't target all I need words words words,
stop back on Thursday tweeting about that. There we go this,
just take this. I can at least recognize this. Take
a chance. Nine players not normally in the starting lineup,
many of whom are available on the waber wire. Will

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we get at Quarterback Nation? And Scott I teased it
last segment Tyrod Taylor. Throughout his career. Before this season,
Tyrode had averaged five rushes for just under forty yards
per game. That's a great safe four to go with
his two yards in the touchdowny averages. He had seventy
seven yards rushing last week ninth month. That would have
been ninth among running backs last week. The Saints allowed

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thirty six yards and a touchdown to Stu Beard last
year or last week, and six different quarterbacks to score
or surpass thirty years thirty yards rushing last week or
last year. I love him for his rushing floor this week.
All right, Matt que the peacock because I'm going back
to the well and might take a chance on me
quarterback last week. It's a preamptive. It's a praamptive peacock.

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I gotta see here. Can we do that? Because I'll
just take Kenny Stills every week? Then wow, case Keenum,
he just might take a chance on me quarterback last week.
Through the first half, it wasn't looking good, but then
he ended up with three three yards and three touchdown
passes against this against the Seahawks this week against the
Oakland Raiders, who do not have Khalil Mack on roster anymore,

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and that pass rush really didn't show up. Against the Rams,
the only recorded two hits on Jared on Jared Goff
last week. So it's gonna be a clean pocket for Keenum,
who was one of the best in the league last
year when he had a clean pocket. He should go
relatively unscathed in this game. He's gonna put up another
three hundred and three market down, all right, three three?
I like your like you're making your call here. Nick

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Foles looked bad in the preseason, he looked bad in
Week one. It all comes together against Tampa Bay. Unless
Brent Grimes makes a remarkable return from his groin injury.
The Bucks are gonna be starting re backups at cornerback.
Their number one, number two, and number three cornerbacks are
all out. They're gonna be starting Ryan Smith, M. J. Stewart,

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and Carlton Davis as their starting cornerback. Everybody in our
listening audience knows somebody they break Smith Ryan Smith. I
don't think, but maybe it is a very generic name.
Uh falls started two road games over the last couple
of seasons and excellent both averaging are sorry, totally foundered

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sixty yards and six touchdowns. You know, if you consider
the Super Bowl road game and it was at least
a neutral game, then those numbers get even higher. It's
a great matchup against a terrible buck secondary that let
Drew Brees eviscerate them last week. Nick Foles, let's go
to the running back position. I'm sticking on the same
team with Corey Clement. Darren Spoils is out this week,

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and his touches have to go somewhere, and the Eagles
consistently give their running backs about thirty touches. They don't
seem to want to give a G. I am more
than fifteen. Where those gonna go? I think Corey Clement
has has a decent game. He had five carries inside
the from the five yard line and in after a
G I got there last year, a G I got
the one last week. But I think there might be

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opportunity there as well. All right, I'm sticking with the
same team as my quarterback as well. I'm going with
Philip Lindsay, who burst onto the scene out of nowhere.
So Royce Freeman is the big back. He's six o
two thirty. He didn't record a target in that game.
Philip Lindsay is hatcher. He's five s. He's very sprolesy

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and with heads in. Lindsay had three targets. That's not
a lot, but he got two catches at thirty one
yards and a touchdown in the air. He also was
on the field for thirty five percent of the snaps,
where Royce Freeman only on the field for thirty percent
of the snaps. They both mirrored each other with fifteen
carries for seventy one yards, so he was Denver's top
running back scorer in Week one. He's facing an Oakland

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defense this week who allowed five catches fifty seven yards
and one touchdown. Two rams running backs just through the
air last week. Austin Ekeler is my take a chance.
I mean, there's our music. Thank you, Tony Well, that's
it's not just the CD player that hates you. Austin Ekeler.
Shots fired. Austin Neckler has got an amazing matchup with Buffalo.

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Of course, this is San Diego's backup running back. Uh.
The Bills lost by forty four points in the opener.
They took a bigger drubbing when they faced the Chargers
last year when the Chargers put up fifty four points
on Buffalo. Eckler scored in that game last year, and
this Grant game script looks just like last week's. Last week,

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Baltimore went to Buffalo, ran up a big score, and
then all the backup running backs got all these carries.
Same thing's gonna happen here. They're Chargers. You can score
a bunch of points. And then here you know, Melvin
Gordon's gonna a great game, and then here comes Eckler
and he'll be involved in the passing game throughout as well.
A great opportunity for Austin Ekeler. I got fun fact

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on that he was my take a chance on me
against Buffalo last year. He had a different theory that
two backs get over double digit fantasy points on Buffalo
multiple regular Yeah, and it's gonna happen here too. Yeah. Alright,
let's go to the wide receiver slash tight end position, Scott,
I'm going with Dante Pettis here he was. He was
a nice sneaky pick up. And if you haven't picked

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him it yet, you should. The coaching staff is raving
raved in the preseason about him, is raving about how
he could have huge game with Goodwin potentially out probably
out this week, are definitely out now, I believe uh.
He showed against Minnesota with what he did. He only
had two catches, but he could have had a lot more.
He was overthrown at least on one uh sixty one
yards in a touchdown. I think he's going to be

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in the game a lot and get have a pretty
decent day, all right. I usually go to the tight
end market on this, yeah, because I'm the tight end
whisper self proclaimed. Um. People lost Greg Olsen, people lost
Delaney Walker. I'm gonna pick up Delaney Walker's backup. That's
John new Smith. Houston allowed the sixth most yards and

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receptions to the tight ends last position last season, the
fourth most touchdowns. They also got roasted by Gronk last
week for a hundred and twenty three yards and a touchdown.
Smith comes in as a starter now that they've lost
Delaney Walker in Tennessee. Walker had seven targets last week,
and he averaged seven targets per game last season. And
the wide receivers are kind of banged up well. Corey

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Davis was was the only heavily involved player, but he's
got a hamstring injury this week, so we might be
dumping off to John U. Smith quite a bit this week.
Danny Amadola is owned in two percent of leagues. He
gets the Jets this week and got targeted. Amadola got
targeted six times last week in his very first game
with his new team, the Dolphins. He runs is the

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important part. He runs out of the slot that matches
him up with busted screen. Door. Yeah, buster screen. This
is the same buster Screen that you saw flailing after
Golden Tate as he raced into the end zone last week.
The Lions abuse Screen to the point that they targeted
Golden Tate in the slot fifteen times because they love

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that matchup with buster Screen so much. So here comes
Danny Amendola. I like Amendola, and they will get the same.
I'm not predicting fifteen targets. That might be been excessive,
but we'll take ten for Danny Amendola out of the slot.
Buster Screen came off the field injured for a second
and I thought, does it matter? He went back in.

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I'm like, oh, yeah, it didn't matter. Can it get worse?
Probably not. And they didn't even put a player under
replace them. They just played with ten men, all right.
That is the true definition of addition by subtraction, when
you just take somebody off the field and you don't
even replace him. Vikings take on the Packers. We'll get
we get to the Packers side, we'll talk a little
more about Aaron Rodgers and what might happen there. But

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on the Viking side, I think there's a lot to
like here, and I got a lot of A and
B grades. A grades for Adam Feeling and Stefan Diggs.
Theeling we'll go up against slot cornerback, rookie slot cornerback
j Alexander getting just his set in the NFL start.
That is a massive advantage for Adam Feeling. Um. Really,
Alexander wasn't even tested in the opener. They only threw

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to their slot. Bears only through to their slot receiver
Anthony Miller three times in that game. Uh. Theeeland terrific
matchup Stefan Diggs great chemistry with Cousins in the preseason.
It continued into Week one with a fantastic touchdown. Digs
is a favorable matchup with Kevin kan who really struggled
against the bears tepid receivers, none of which none of
them are nearly as good as des digs is. Kirk

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Cousins gets a B grade. Um. Yeah, While with the Redskins.
He faced the Packers twice, put up seven hundred four
yards and five touchdowns, didn't throw an interception. Great track
record while with the Redskins against these Packers. And this
the Packers rebuilt secondary that look capable against Mitch Trobiski.
But that's not even close to what's coming here with

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Cousins and Diggs and theland b grade for him, and
staying with the passing game, Kyle Rudolph has locked more
receiving yards against the Packers than any team in his career,
but in five Green Bay games, his average games just
twenty nine yards, three receptions and zero point two touchdowns.
I got a step for you too. In games where
Cook digs and theel and pay Rudolph only averages three

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point four targets. Odd man out how about that. Dalvin
Cooked looked and it's still would be grade on him
for for touchdown prospects here at the linebacking group for
for Green Bay is in a certain amount of disarray.
So I still like him here, and but I don't
think you're gonna get a lot of volume. We're hoping
for a touchdown. Dalvin Cook looked awesome when he wasn't

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getting smothered behind the line of scrimmage on runs. In
the passing game in particular, he was amazing with his
elusiveness and how many he forced countless mis tackles, and
I like him here a lot. The Packers allowed the
Bears running back tannam of Howard and Cohen to run
for over five yards per carry. I think there's an
excellent chance that would get Dalvin Cook does the same

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thing here. Also, Howard and Cohen combined for eight catches
in Week one. Cook logged with ten uh ten missed tackles,
which is just amazing. Yeah, broken tackles. He's he's fantastic.
All right, let's go to Green Bay Packers. We're gonna
assume Aaron Rodgers is gonna play. Yeah that they're probably
Aaron Rodgers. Yes, we're gonna assume for our purposes here

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he's going to play, but he will not have his
usual mobility, which really does take a lot off the
table for him. He's as deadly as a court of
a quarterback. There's ever been history of the NFL running
passing on the run. I don't think that's gonna happen
as much here. Instead, you are going to get with
limited mobility, a lot of short passes. The Vikings are
gonna know mostly that that's coming, and I think this

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is gonna be a certain amount of frustration here if um,
if he's confined to the pocket, Vikings defensive line just
pins their ears back and they're they're planning to get
to a spot on the field, which you can't normally
do with Rogers. It could be Uh, it could be
a tough day for him. I don't think there's a
game and tee that I'm not I'm not predicting he
doesn't finish the game, but I think you should be

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aware there's a chance that Aaron Rodgers does not finish
the game. I'm giving him a B grade out of
respect to his ability, and anything could happen. Nobody would
be surprised. It would be just like Aaron Rodgers to
come out of this with four touchdowns. Um, But there's
so many things working against him that you don't normally see.
I think you should show caution. Davante Adams got a

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shoulder injury, but probably plays through that. He's gonna draw
Xavier Rhodes. It's physical, physical receiver versus physical cornerback. They
got to get rid of the ball quickly. That's going
to reduce yards after catch. For Davante Adams, I'm I'm
nervous about him as well. I'm giving him a cautious
B grade here. Randall Cobbs got the most fascinating matchup
of the receivers though, because he will working out of
the slot. Get first round rookie Mike Hughes. I thought

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he was played pretty well last week. Not not great,
but well enough. Still advantage Cobb, who's obviously a season
veteran and had a huge game on Sunday night. Geronimo
Allison has got is there straight line speed guy. He
gets the Vikings straight line speed guy Trey Waynes for
much of this matchup. Um Wayne's is an all a
nothing guy. I think given all the issues that Rogers

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may have holding the ball for more than two seconds,
I don't think the downfield passing comes along. I've got
a bench grade on Geronimo Allison and then rounding out
the passing game, Jimmy Graham just two catches in the opener,
targeted just four times. You're looking for touchdowns here, but
the Vikings don't generally give up a ton of touchdowns.
All that said, George Kettle was on his way to

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a monster game and he's still at ninety yards. Could
have been a hundred fifty yards in a touchdown if
just a couple of things would have clicked. Still, um,
Jimmy Graham feels doesn't feel like a particularly safe play,
and I've got him as a C grade here, and
I think they might want to use them to help block. Lastly,
the running game C grade on Jamal Williams. Vikings held
San Francisco Runners to just three point six yards per carrying.

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That's what they allowed on average last year as well,
just three point six yards per carry. Williams uh started
the Week six team matchup against the Vikings just fifty
eight yards and three point nine yards per carry. So
it's just there's nothing to like here. Vikings only a
lot five runners to score rushing touchdowns last year. If
it comes out late on Sunday that Deshaun Kaiser is starting, yeah,

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all Packers are on the bench, right. I would still
start Davante Adams in most leagues, probably down to a
flex level. That's it. Everybody else to me is on
the bench. Deshan, that's I think it's I think it
comes down to that if it turns out it's a
Deshaun Kaiser game, you know, And it's not that Kaiser
is completely non functional, but he's not Aaron Rodgers, and

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the Vikings defense is awfully good, and I think would
feast on him. So yeah, I think at that point
that's that's the only that's the only play left. Let's
take a break. When we come back, Chargers taking on
the Bills. We already told you about Austin Ekeler. Are
there any Chargers you don't play in this game? Find
out when we come back this afternoon the Minnesota Miami

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the matchups. Pronto Chargers taking on the Bill Scott. I
like every Charger, Yeah Dan in this one. Yeah, well

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obviously Eler was your take coom in the last bit me,
but yeah, I like that. Nice nice oh Man. Natron
means getting in there. Okay. So Melvin Gordon's and obvious A.
He led the team in targets last week, so and
they want to get him in the receiving game. If
that continues, He's gonna be an A all year. Keenan

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Allen's an obvious A. Uh. Rivers also an A grade
for me with with a game like this that's set
for a blowout, you always have to remember how did
they get to that blowout? Like how did they get
all these points that it was a blowout? So I
think Rivers and Gordon on Alan all those guys get
a ton of points early on. Mike Williams starting uh
second wide receiver and targets last week. I have him.

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I have him as a B grade here. Uh, it
could be, and that's mostly because Benjamin is likely out.
If Benjamin plays, I think that takes away from ty
Ty Williams more. But currently I have Ty Williams with
a C grade there. He scored a touchdown last week
because deep sleeper and this one he is, he really is.
But if Benjamin plays, I'm a little worried about both
of those guys. But for now, a C grade and

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I'm benching all bills McCoys play Harry's. I'm just bending
all the bills gros. That's easy, al right, I love it.
Start everybody, start, every viable charge, ready to go to gates.
Yet no snaps two point conversion. That's a last week maybe, yeah, yeah,
that's it. Texans at the Titans Matt On the Texans side,
the offensive line couldn't have looked worse. They lost the

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right tackle for the year. This is um. This is
a Texans offense that I think is going to be
a little more inconsistent than people think. But this matchup
could be promising. What do you think? Yeah, they did
lose uh former Minnesota guy Sean Trelle Henderson. He was
the right tackle for the season. That makes things slightly worse. Um.
According to Evan Silva, Deshaun Watson faced pressure on fifty

(31:48):
percent of his dropbacks last week against the Patriots. The
Patriots pass rush and seen was horrible. He was hit
twelve times and sacked three times. That's not good. Still,
there's so much potential. I give him a bench grade.
He toasted the Titans defense last year for two three
yards and four touchdowns through the air, and oh, by
the way, I added on a rushing score as well.

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So I'm still giving him a B grade in this game.
And but it's high risk, high reward for sure. Uh
DeAndre Hopkins gets the easy A. Not ready to go
for Will Fuller, yet they say he's going to play.
He's on my bench still, though. I want to wait
and see how the hamstring shakes out for an entire
week and see that he's healthy before I put him
in my starting lineup. Lamar Miller the last Texan we

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gotta mention. He hit the twenty kerry mark in Week one.
He only did that twice in and he's had two
positive games against Tennessee last year hundred and thirty one,
hundred and thirty one total yards and two scores in
the first meeting, nine four yards on nineteen touches in
the second, and the Titans allowed four point seven yards
per carry to the Dolphins running backs last week. On
the Titan side, it's gross. Marcus Mariota's on the bench

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because he injured his elbow late in that six hour
game last week. He lost Delaney Walker for the season.
Both his tackle and his left tackle are not going
to play, and Pro Football Talk Record reported that Blame
Gabbert is also going to take snaps in this game.
I think that elbow is worse than their ou let on.
It might be a Blame Gabbett game. Overall. Corey Davis,

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he's getting a C grade. He got thirteen targets last week,
including three in the red zone, but he's limited by
a hamstring injury. He's the only wide receiver that you
can start the outside of Davis. All other wide receivers
on the Titans totaled four targets combined, and Jonah Smith
was might take a chance on the tight end. He
might be the only other guy in the receiving game
and play besides Dion Lewis. I think Lewis ends up

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being the biggest beneficiary of the Walker injury this year.
He had eight targets last week, five catches for thirty
five yards through the air. You add in his sixteen
carries and seventy five yards in a score on the ground.
He looked really good, Derrick Henry. I'm giving him a
C grade. Henry had a rushing stat line of ten
carries for twenty six yards last week. That sucks. Yes,

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that does suck. It does not include a sick st
five yard touchdown run that was called back for a
phantom holding call where Delaney Walker's palms were to the sky.
I saw that, and he's getting face masked by the
Miami defender and they called it back as a holding
call on Delaney Walker. If you add in that run,
he finishes and a touchdown, and so that's okay. It's

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a little bit like se Kwon Barkley's day that got
salvaged by one good run. So, with Mariotta injured in
the possibility to Gabbart, I imagine the Titans are just
going to attempt to keep the ball in the ground
as much as possible. So I think it's both viable
for Henry and Lewis to play, but at low levels.
For both levels. I don't like. I don't like it
an injured quarterback. I don't like not having my starting tackles.
I I what's bad for the offense is bad for

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the offense. They're my number thirty six and thirty nine
running backs. Let's go to the Colts and the Washington
at Redskins. Hey, that's me. I gotta believe the plan
was not to give Andrew Luck fifty three passes in
the opener. You should drop that guy, totally drop that guy. Yeah,
we should drop that guy. Uh yeah. They can't keep

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that pace up. And I gotta believe they're gonna make
every effort to dial it back here, and particularly if
Marlon Mack returns. But he could throw twenty less passes
and he'd still be sitting on a thirty three pass outing,
which wouldn't be all bad. Redskins dominated Sam Bradford last week.
Lux got a better offensive line and he's just playing
better than Sam Bradford. So I think he finds some
success here. But I've only got a C grade on him. Um.

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I still my feeling is the shoulder is still not
close to um. But the fact they let him throw
fifty three times is probably a good sign. Uh t
Y Hilton A grade and maybe an obvious A grade
at that target at eleven times in Week one. That
only happened once all last season with Jacoby Brissette, so
obviously having Luck back helps hint Hilton a lot. He

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will match up a lot with Josh Norman, but Josh
Norman is not a shutdown cornerback anymore. That's just a
neutral matchup right there. And he also plays from all
over the field. That means he will periodically match up
against possibly the starting cornerback in the league, Fabian Moreau.
Don't blame yourself if you don't know Fabian Moreau. He
and Buster screen one A and one B for worst

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starting slock cornerbacks in the NFL. And that brings us
to one of my favorite sneaky plays of the week,
Ryan Grant in a revenge game for Ryan Grant targeted
nine times last week nine times, nine times. He caught
eight of the nine passes. That's going to earn him
some additional confidence from Luck, I I feel certain. And

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he also plays from all over the field, so he
too will periodically get Fabian Moreau or their other pedestrian cornerback,
Quentin Dunbar. So I like Ryan Grant is a sneaky
play here. I'm keeping both Doyle and Ebron on the
bench in part because they split work, and I don't
like that part of it. The Redskins were susceptible to
Titans last year, but they only gave up nineteen tight
end yards last week. And I'm keeping all the Indianapolis

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runners on the bench as well. Marlon mac comes back,
but then how much work does he get. Jordan's Wilkins
will be in the mix to some degree, but how
much work will he get? Nihiim hines will he continue
catching passes when Marlon Mack comes back, as he can
catch passes too. I'm just gonna let this thing shake out.
And of course, Washington dominated David Johnson last week. Who's

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better than all three of those losers combined. Let's go
to the Washington side of this game. Alex Smith was
awesome last week and he could be even better this week's.
He faces an easier secondary and it's his second game
in this new offense. He finished uh sorry, Colts finished
twenty seven and passing yards allowed last year, and then

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Andy Dalton was very good against them last week as well.
Alex Smith's got better receivers with plus matchups all over
the place. I think Alex Smith is an A grade
I wouldn't hesitate to start him here. Hey, I think
he might end up being one of the guys I
whipped on the worst in my preseason rankings. I thought
he would take a step back, leaving Andy Reid and
Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey. And if one week one

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is any indication Alex Smith is gonna be just fine,
let's go to his receivers. James Crowder gets a B
grade here. He was only targeted four times last week,
but that will change. Paul Richardson is dinged up. He
may not play, although I think he will, and Crowder
draws an easy matchup with Indianapolis cornerback Kenny Moore the second.
I think Kenny Moore the first or Kenny Moore the

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third could be better than Kenny Moore a second baby
Kennymore mre Yeah, imagine the age on kennymore the first
play in the NFL exactly. You know he could be
sixty out there? Uh, Jordan Reed was. It was very
good in the opener, and I think he's sitting on
a nice one here as well. The almost an ideal matchup.
Indianapolis allowed a tight end touchdown in half of their

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games last year. He is an A grade at the
tight end position. And then lastly, Paul Richardson, if he
goes with the shoulder, you could try a flyer on
him too. Frankly, I led the team in targets last week,
and Richardson faces one of the worst starting cornerbacks in
the NFL. Pierre de Seer. Lastly, I think you're making
up some of these I know it's these guys think

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and well, every time I keep mentioning a cor back
like well, that guy's terrible, that guy is terrible. That
guy's didn't only bring up the worst than everybody. Maybe
that's it. Well, when you're playing Indianapolis, that's gonna happen.
Let's go to the running backs. Chris Thompson awesome opening game.
We loved him all preseason. He shined in the opener
hud total yards and a touchdown, raised his career rushing

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average to five point four yards per carry. Last week
against the same Indianapolis Colds team, Joe Mixon five catches,
fifty four yards. I think that's the bottom end for
Chris Thompson. Here, Adrian Peterson coming off a very nice game.
Last year, no team faced more rushing plays than Indianapolis defense,
and Adrian's all about volume. Baby. If he gets his

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carries eventually, good things happen. Um he got twenty six
carries last week, he looked sharp, scored a touchdown. I
think that's the same kind of prospect here, b grade
Adrian Peterson. Let's take a break when we come back.
Three hot questions. We're down from five because don't have
any bye weeks. We got a lot of matchups to
work through. It makes it easier for you to go on.

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And didn't help my didn't help my COEs last week,
and neither of them did. But maybe that's how I
remember dropped Andrew luck is that none of them. I
have not been proved I have not been proven wrong yet.
This is Fantasy Football Weekly, presided by Devans on the Man,

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tip of the hat to anybody playing high school fantasy football,
and had players from the Buffalo Elk River game. The
two teams combined for one hundred fifty points wins eighty
to seventy. Buffalo scored seventy points and lost the game.

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Buffalo head coach former Viking quarterback Todd Bowman Todd Boman
is still in town. Hi, Todd, sorry that you lost.
You scored to your team scored seventy points and lost.
That is crazy. Was Todd the quarterback? I mean maybe
that's part of why. Maybe they had a pro caliber quarterback.
Todd Bowman had some good moments for the Vikings back

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in the day. Yeah. Probably. I remember at one point
there was you know, there was there were some people
in town that really wanted Todd to be get an opportunity,
the long term starter. It was St. Cloud State alone. Absolutely,
all right, let's uh, let's fire up our three hot questions.
Hot question number one. Should we just drop Doug Baldwin

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now Scott? Uh No, He's played hurt many many times
in his career. This is his first missed game in
a nine games. It might only be a couple of weeks.
If you believe Pete Sunshine, Uh, two to four weeks.
They say, what that fells? Pet Sunshine? Pete carrolls to
talk very very positive. Okay, got it? So Sunshine alright, Uh,

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he's a potential league winner if someone drops him and
you can just pick him up. I would not do
that at this point. By the way, Pete Sunshine the
combination of two names from remember the Titans. There we go.
Maybe that's part of it. I don't know. To me,
it sounded like a whiskey eighty sunshine. Um. If not,
well make it. Yeah, I kind of like that. Baldwin

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is gonna miss a few weeks. And the reason is
is he was going to play all season on one
injured knee, right, and then he injured the other. So
now he's got maybe a month to sit and get
two knees healthy. So if i have a bench that's
five players deep and I'm not dealing with a significant
amount of levy on Bells or Joe Mixon's where I'm

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gonna have to like hold some bench spots for some
guys who aren't going to play for a while. All Right,
there's a lot of ifs. Okay, I'm gonna keep Dug balling,
and I I don't want to drop Dug Baldin. Yeah,
I think it's it's a little bit too early, but
it's it's it's tempting right now because you're gonna you
drafted him with a reasonably high draft pick and you're
gonna get nothing out of him for quite a while.
But he is by far the best receiver on a
team with an excellent quarterback in a terrible defense, that's

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got to fill the scoring role left behind by Jimmy Graham.
So the opportunities ultimately will be there. But I think
we all we all think it's gonna be a very
difficult season for Doug Baldwin. I don't think there's any
chance that he's gonna be, as Scott has said, a
guy who's gonna lead you to a championship. I think
you might get lucky and a handful of good games,
But I don't think he's gonna be If he's really
gonna play on one bad knee all season long, I

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don't think. I don't think he's going to be a
reliable helper, but we're not quite ready to drop him yet.
Question number two, it looks like Sony Michelle will make
his NFL debut tomorrow. Are you buying low? Are you
just happy to have avoided the Patriots running backs? Matt,
as I usually like to do. I like to get

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a third answer to to make sure you get wrong questions,
to make sure that I get wrong, because I don't
think your option is limited to buy low now. I
think it might be a better time to buy low
around mid season because the Patriots over the last few
years have converted in the fall from a very pass
heavy offense to November December, after Thanksgiving, they become a

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very run oriented offense. That's why Dion Lewis was a
top ten back last season. That's why Tom Brady's numbers
are down at the tail end of each season. So
I think Sony Michelle is the big winner at the
tail end of the season. I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna
buy him in the middle. Don't don't buy him low now,
all right, So you think his viol is actually gonna
go down, I think it's gonna drop, gonna go He's

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gonna be so bad early that you'll actually get him
cheaper later. I think that's murky in the beginning, and
I think you'll get him cheaper later. I'm buying low.
There are there are people who simply refused to have
a half. Your league simply refuses to roster any Patriots
running back because you know, people get burned on Patriots
running backs. But for me, it's all about just paying
the right price for the risk and reward that they offer.

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So to me, I do I do not. I don't
have this like I'm never taking a Patriots running back.
Well of course I will Dean Lewis led me to
a fantasy championship in our championship game are lost, but
I made it to the championship game last year. In
my charg league, Rex Burkhead was an RB two in
the second half of last year. The year before that,
Patriots running back La Garrett Blunt led the league in touchdowns.
There there no team has scored more rushing touchdowns on

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the Patriots over the last five years. There is so
there's so much upside to their running backs. It's all
about how much risk they bring and what you have
to pay to get it. Right now, you have to
pay very little to get Sony Michelle the owner right now.
Sony Michelle contemplated dropping him this week. Trust me, I
know you know they were looking at the waiver wire,
going Philip Lindsay or Sony Michelle. Philip Lindsay or Sony

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Michelle right now you can pay very very little for him.
And I'd like to remind you Michelle is sick. Go
watches Georgia tape. It is bonkers and unlike Nick Chubb
who just ran through these massive gaping holes, Michelle just
just broken tackle after broken tackle after stiff farm after

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just joking dudes out of their cleats, and he is
a special talent that they took in the first round
and he's practically free right now. Yeah, I agree. We
were both the kind of guys that are pants full
off talking about Sonny Michelle in the preseason. I'm buying
low because I've now heard your answer. Oh it's right
to damn it. I think Fish got right. You didn't

(46:26):
get it right. My apologies. I got so excited, I
got so excited to jump in hot question number. I've
done that history of five and three tough questions. I've
never skipped a dude. You're really excited. It's okay, I
was well. David Johnson finished the season as an RB one,
RB two flex level player or bench scott um. This time,

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I'm gonna let you answer. Oh, man, Mat, I think
that's got a better And I don't have a great
take on this one. I think people are overreacting to
one game against the Washington in defense that looked really good.
I think he should probably finish high end r B two,
low end RB one, So this makes it a little
bit of a tough question, but I think I'm gonna
stick with RB one tail end of RB one. It's

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not long until Josh Rosen takes over this team. So
you have a rookie quarterback who's going to be facing
you know, stacked boxes for David Johnson the rest of
the season. And listen to this upcoming schedule they have
at the Rams this week, they have the Bears defense
at home. The following week Seahawks, that's not as tough
at Niners. They looked really good at Vikings. They're pretty good,

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Broncos great against running backs, and then the forty Niners again,
they don't get a really awesome plus matchup until the
Chiefs on on November eleven, So you're waiting until mid
November to feel really, really confident about David Johnson's matchup.
And it's it's terrible that we gotta look at matchups
for David Johnson now. And oh, by the way, in
week sixteen, he gets the Rams again in the Fantasy

(47:59):
Championship week. So if I can do it, I want
to trade David Johnson for the combo of the Pittsburgh Runners,
se Quan Melvin, Gordon, Zeke Elliott, guys who went a
little lower in ADP. I'd like to make that trade
right now for with David Johnson another note aching staff. Yeah,
and that's that new coaching staff. It's it may take
them a while to figure out how to use them
as well as Bruce Arians did. Bruce Arians an offensive coach.

(48:22):
H R B two is the correct answer. And the
only other thing. You did a great job with this one, Matt.
The only thing that I'll add to this the offensive
line woes so real. The offensive line for the Cardinals
generated by far the fewest yards before contact of any
offensive line in the NFL through Week one. Get this
one point two yards before contact. That's it. Terrible offensive line.

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We talked about it in the preseason. That was always
the worry for him, and it all, it all came
to fruition in Week one, and I don't think it's
going to get better on a regular basis. I want
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(49:10):
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(49:33):
who threw eight touchdowns in the game and he lost. Man,
that's one unbelievable. Let's go back to the matchups. Dolphins
taking on the Jets. Scott Ryan Tannehill was shockingly competent
and Kenny Stills looks like an emerging potential superstar candidate

(49:56):
at wide receiver. What do you think as they take
on the Jets's a are I only don't. I don't
have too many startable guys here, but I did give
Tannehill c not only did he look competent, and I
know the Jets made Stafford look look terrible, but I
think I think the Jets are pretty middle of the
road last year in most categories. I think he can

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be okay here. Mostly I like Stills as an A grade. Uh.
Jets were bottom ten against wide receivers last year. Stills
in his last game against them six catches eighty five yards,
two touched, two touchdowns and he did that being targeted
nine times. There it is, and the coaching staff wanted

(50:39):
to wants to get more targets underneath. I think he's
gonna have a lot more than five targets in this one.
Ammendola was your take. Com I just starting grade on
him as well. I'm betting everyone else, especially with Parker
coming back. I don't think jackiem the Dreams sees seven
targets against so uh Kenyan Drake. I actually gave a
B grade two in in his games. He's had seventeen
or more touches in all but one of his starting games.

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He played seventy percent of the snaps. Gore only played
nine percent of snaps. He made them count. He did
six yards to carry, but I don't know that he's
going to do that consistently this year, at this point
in his career. I love the volume for Drake. I'm
giving him a B grade over to the Jets side.
I don't know if I said it Tannehill, I gave
a C grade to over to the Jet side. I'm

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benching almost every I'm benching almost all of the passing game.
Donald only had twenty one attempts and he didn't top
two hundred yards. That'll go that'll go up. I mean
he completed most of right, ye, se, I do have
a bench scoring him. I just want to see it.
I know it'll go up because the six amongst sixteen

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game starters last year, Jacoby Brissette was the lowest, averaging
twenty nine attempts a game. So it will go up. Well,
they didn't have to throw because they were up by Anderson.
I'm benching he only saw one target. I love him
as a deep play touchdown threatened. He led the NFL
in twenty plus yard to John's last week last year.
But one target from Donald that concerns me. I want

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to see him get more targets before. I love I made.
I made a crazy proclamation on a podcast earlier this
week about a noon on but he saw ten of
Donald's twenty one targets out there. I've mentioned this before.
He's six to to twenty five and plays the slot,
which gives him a heat usually a four to five

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inch advantage out there, and Donald could not say he
couldn't stop but like glowing saying nice things about a
noon Well this week, I'm benching. Prior he only played
four percent of snaps despite the forty nine yards over
the running game. I don't like the Crowell and Powell
split so much. Kroll got, Krol got the touchdowns, but

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Henry and Lewis, especially if you give Henry the sixty
two yard donchjown that that that got taken away. They
really torched Miami both through the air to running backs.
And I don't even Dominican Sue Clogg in the middle.
That's a big difference from Miami this year exactly. I
gave both these guys C grades only because because they
monopolize each other. But I think they're both startable, right right,

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all right, Let's go to the Raiders and Broncos. Matt
the almost nothing to like from the Raiders game on
Monday Night. Marie Cooper in particular, very very disappointing, other
than Jared Cook, was the you know, the lone bright spot,
who do you like? This week? As they traveled to
Denver in a good Broncos defense. I hope Tony has
my music cued up. Yeah, there it is. You want
to know what I think about Marshawn Lynch. It's time

(53:31):
for a sabotage. Sabotage, Yes, so do it. Eleven carries
last week, a shoulder and a groin injury. That's about
what I expect out of Marshawn Lynch from now. And
that Raiders defense is absolutely terrible, which means they're going
to be playing behind all season long. That means Jalen

(53:53):
Richard enters the game and leads the running backs and touches.
It's time to think about avotage dropping Marshawn Lynch in
your league. There's no proof that John Gruden knows how
to coach an offense anymore. Worked good, and they just
went away from him the rest of the game. It
made no sense at all. So he's on the bench

(54:15):
and I think he's a sabotage drop against the Broncos,
much to the chagrin of Paul Church. To Derek Carr,
I have a bench and drop grade on Derek Carr
as well uh in Denver. In three tries, Derek Carr
has never topped one and fifty eight yards gross Amari Cooper.
He's on the bench. He's topped fifty eight yards four

(54:37):
times in his last seventeen games, had only three targets
last week and draws Chris Harris this week. Jordy Nelson.
He's got a bench and drop grade as well four targets.
Last week. He used to be a deep threat. Car
can't throw deep anymore. Twenty six of his twenty nine
completions were within nine yards of the line of scrimmage.

(54:57):
That is, which which contracted Raiders regret? Are are they
going to regret more? The one they gave their head coach,
of the one they gave their quarterback, the one they
didn't give to Khalil Mack? He right, the only starter
is Jared Cook, and I'm not trying to chase the
huge stat line he had last week. That was great.

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He now holds the three different NFL franchise records for
most tight end yards in a game, the Rams, the Raiders,
and the Titans. He's the career leader for those franchises.
But he's facing the Broncos this week. The Broncos terrible
tight end matchup. They gave up a huge game to
Walt Disney. I mean Will dis Lee last week. Uh

(55:40):
Will dis Lee, by the way, not might take a
chance on me tight end? Last week? It was Nick Vanette, right, alright,
we were so almost got it right. Had you only
thought about the the converted defensive end to tight end angles.
I think then you would have found will Disley um
over on the Broncos. This will be brief because Philip
Lindsay and case Keeno were might take a chance on

(56:00):
me Guys. I got a B for Royce Freeman. I
talked about how the Raiders defense was poor against the
Runners via the pass, but they also gave up a
hundred and thirteen yards on the ground running backs last week.
So Freeman's a B. Manuel Sanders easy A he might
be for a while. Case Keenum loves that slot receiver
that was on display. The Raiders allowed Cooper Cup to
go for fifty nine yards and a touchdown last week.

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That's their weak spot in the second area is their
slot coverage. So Sanders is an A. Damarius Thomas gets
a B. Courtland Sutton I got on the bench. Though
both Brandon Cooks and Robert Woods had meager outputs in
in Week one against the outside corners, uh Cooks was
better at five eight seven. That's about what I see
for Damarius Thomas in this game. So that's that's about

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a B grade there. And Jake Butts on the bench,
I just wanted to say on air that I do
not plan to touch but this weekend? Nice ye? Or
is it? Is it Jake butt or Jake Butts just
but is just but single? But alright, so we're not touching.
But when we come back, chief since dealers high flying
shootout points everywhere, right they played, they played last year,

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final score nineteen thirteen, We'll tell you what to expect
between these teams when we come back. This is Fantasy
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Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. We number two.
I hope it was a one and oh start for
you and your teams. They all went one and off.
If they didn't, you got a you know, a certain
amount of reflection. Try to figure out was Week one anomaly?
Did I just run into it a hot opponent? What
parts of my roster are going to be better going forward?

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Which aren't? Don't hesitate to take drastic action. I mean there,
you know, we learn a lot in week on. Don't
get so. Don't get so bound to the picks that
you made that meant so much to you in August,
say you can't emotionally disassociate from those picks and look
at the problems that your team has and the players

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who aren't gonna work out and be realistic about it.
ADP doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, great, that's exactly a to
summarize in a word, in a phrase, ADP doesn't matter anymore.
Just you know, you need to have the second year
draftely indifference as you examine your squad. Let's turn through
a few more matchups, including the Chiefs versus the Steelers.

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As I mentioned going into the break, these teams meant
last year shockingly low scoring game thirteen to nineteen. No
chance that happens here last night. Look the Vegas. The
Vegas line on this I think is fifty fifty two
and a half. Fifty two and a half. Thank you.
They're not gonna go Buffalo elk River on it. No, no,
there is there is no aidan bowman at the helm

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of either one of these teams. Let's start on the
Kansas cityside. Tiger Kill obvious A grade could be sitting
on the best wide receiver year year of any wide
receiver potentially this season. We'll see how that goes. B
grades for its quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and this one safe
to say he's not gonna get too shovel past touchdowns
in this game. I think that's not gonna happen. I't

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maybe it's gonna maybe every game. It's gonna be two shows.
God will we take that, um. But it's still a
good matchup the as you guys know, I stuck my
neck out on Mahomes big time. I'm not gonna lie
when those touchdowns happened the long ones, I was jumping
up and down in my living room, vaulted off the couch, pants,

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flew off my body completely naked, totally would my nakedness
was naked. The Steelers secondary already battered. Starting cornerback Joe
Hayden is doubtful, already Burns as questionable. Burns only place
one side of the field, So even if Burns starts, Chiefs,
Chiefs just put Hill on the other side of the field,
where there's apparently a player worse than Joe Hayden right now,

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Cameron Sutton. So a great matchup for Hill here and
frankly a good one for all of the Chiefs. Patrick
Mahomes b great considered an A grade for him here
as well. He is my quarterback number five across the
board this week Also, I'll mention this Steelers pass rush
maybe missing two players as well, defensive tackle Cameron Heyward

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and defensive and Tyson a lulu a lululu. And if
those guys can't go now, they're short in the secondary
and the pass rush, I'm I'm swing Patrick Mahomes is
an A grade. I'm switching right kind of questioning this Tyreek. Sorry,
we wanna mention Travis Kelsey just one catch last week,
and Pittsburgh was stellar against tight ends last year, allowing

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the fewest touchdowns and the fewest receptions to the position.
They also held Cleveland tight ends last week to just
twenty five yards. But in his career against Pittsburgh, Kelsey
has tallied six or more targets in all five games,
so the game script has always worked for him here,
and he's had seventy yards or more in half of them.
So I have a B grade on Kelsey, and I

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think he bounces back, but I don't see an explosive
game coming. Sammy Watkins gets a C grade because of
the injuries. The second area that I outlined earlier. Only
three catches from him last week and he had a
terrible drop, so I'm not sure that Sammy Watkins is
a average NFL receiver at best, and snaps last week

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over hill over. I just think he's just a guy.
But he gets a C grade here Kaream Hunt. In
the meeting last year, Hunt totally shut down on the
ground twenty one rushing yards. That is it. His day
was saved through the air, though he had eighty nine
yards receiving in the matchup last year. That was the
second highest total of his entire career. But get this,

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Kareem Hunt in his last one forty snaps has garnered
twenty receiving yards. That's it. He is. He has heered,
disappeared from the receiving game, and that's how he beat
the Steelers last year. So he looked ordinary against the
Chargers last week as well. The good news is Steelers

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allowed to whopping four point seven yards per carry last year,
but they only gave up two point nine yards per
cary to the Browns last week. There's a lot of
things working against Kareem Hunt here. He is only a
B start. Let's go to the Steelers side. Roethlisberger Brown
obvious A starts. Anytime Ben is at home. Don't think twice,
you just play him automatically. As bad as he looked
on the road last week, he should be great at home.

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We've seen this over and over again. Antonio Brown's and
obvious start. James Conner A grade and my number five
running back this week, very good last week and the
last four times levy On Bell faced the Chiefs. Listen
to the yardage totals. This is just rushing one one,
one hundred forty four, one hundred seventy and one hundred

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seventy nine rushing yards for levy On Bell. If you
think that, James Connors, let's say eight percent end of
Levy On Bell, you're still looking at like a hundred
forty yards hundred sixty yard games, so that'd be great. Connor,
what was a two hundred total yards last week? Bell
touched the ball, by the way in his last two

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meetings with Kansas City sixty four times. So Connor is
getting volume. I mean everything here, screams start James Conner.
Uh Juju Smith Schuster gets a C grade Steelers slot
receiver is the gets the only he matches up against
the only member of the chief secondary who's worth a
damn and that's Kendall Fuller, who came over the Alex
Smith trade. Fuller was terrific last year. He was very

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good in Week one, the Chargers had to throw around
Kendall Fuller, and that means Juju Smith Schuster has got
the worst matchup on the field. He drops all the
way down to a C grade here and here's your
best and one of my favorite deep flyers for this week.
He really should have been. Might take a chance on me.
Receiver Justin Hunter, journeyman, former first rounder who has found

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himself in Pittsburgh. He started opposite Antonio Brown last week
and James Washing and barely even hit the field. Hunter
has a dream matchup against Orlando Scandrick, who's playing out
of position. If you need a dart to throw this week,
if you're looking for that that ultra cheap dfs play,
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to fanball dot com slash Radio. Justin Hunter is the
way to go for the tight ends for Pittsburgh where
they're they're done for the year. Now vance McDonald comes back.
That means that he's going to share time with with
James Jesse James, it's over for both. Moving on, why
are you Sloan Mahomes. I haven't tough four this week.
I haven't got five, five, And you know what, And

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it's only because I I am so deeply, passionately, romantically
in love with Patrick Mahomes about I have to check
my own enthusiasm a little bit. I get that, all right,
thank you. Uh, Eagles take on the Bucks, Scott. We've
already talked about some of our plays that we love here.
The Bucks are short number one, number two, and number
three starting cornerbacks for this game. Yeah, and for that reason,

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Foldsersier take home obviously. For that reason, I have Nelson
Aguilar as an A grade. He had ten targets last week.
Didn't do a lot with him, but that's that's gonna
be rare with When you get ten targets, you're gonna
do a lot more. And thanks to Rich Rebar for
this stat. The Bucks allowed thirteen slot receiver receptions last week.
Plays the slot could be a big days. My number

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eleven wide receiver this week, all of them. They were
the worst in the league against wide receivers last year. Uh.
Mike Wallace, honestly, I want I want to start him,
but he had no catches last week. So I just
can't trust him even in a in a great matchup,
so I'm still benching him. Earth's gets the A grade there. Uh,
he led the Eagles and targets. I know that the
Bucks have only allowed three tight ends over fifty yards

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in the last nineteen games, but they faced Ingram Olson
and then Ebron was the third best tight end in
that stretch, so I think that it's still an A
Clement was my take home. In the running game, a
gi e I'm giving a B grade to Sprawls is out.
A GI is still going to get his fifteen touches.
And my theory on the GI usage last week was

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basically that they were trying to heal up his foot,
which I think is now completely healed. And the Falcons
are terrible against pass catching running backs and that's why
Sprowls played so much last week. This week, a Giant
Clement fifteen ish touches each be grade for a Giant
over to the Buccaneers. I'm benching Fitzpatrick after a QB

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one performance. Get that you're so ballsy that you'll bench
the number one quarterback Fantasy football Fantasy. Get this step
my boy. Ryan McDonald came up with this one, Fitzpatrick
has been a QB one, a top twelve quarterback thirty
five times his average finished the following week QB three.

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He comes back terrible. He comes back to earth in
a way. He does not reload. He cannot keep it
up for the second performance. UH the Eagles. The Eagles
have held six of the last ten kebs they faced
under two hundred yards and only twelve touchdowns to those
ten quarterbacks. I'm benching him and most of the most

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of the passing game because that d Jacks in a
revenge game. He's he's hurt, might not play. Evans is
an obvious A grade, though it doesn't matter with the matchup.
He's an obvious A grade from me here, Godwin, I'm
giving a C grade two. In games where he's played
fourty year more snaps, he's done really well. He's done
well in all of his starts he that he's had
at least sixty eight yards or a touchdown. He played

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seventy of the snaps. Last week. D Jacks played so
um benching Howard benching bread. Uh, tight ends Eagles are
good against tight ends. Can't can't start him. I'm actually
benching Barber as well. It took it took him nineteen
touches to not be that good last week, and the

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Eagles allowed the fewest yards to running backs last year,
and the little restruction for him. Yeah, so I'm benching.
I'm benching Barbara. I don't care if he gets twenty touches.
I'm still benching him. All right, fair enough, I'm gonna
do this next one in one minute chart Patriots Jags, No,
you're a Cardinals Rams. Hearts Rams. David Johnson A grade
nine targets, five receptions. Rams allowed a hundred and forty

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five total yards in a score to the Raiders backs
last week. You're so wrong on this terrible offensive line,
vastly improved run defense within dominicensoo for the Rams he's
gonna get he is. He isn't ruining my minute right now.
Larry Fitzgerald B grade ten targets, seven receptions, seventy six
yards last week, fits in dj told nineteen targets, the
rest of the team at fourteen. Ricky Seals Jones he

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gets a C grade, encouraging that he had six targets
ran routes on seventy of the Cardinals plays last week.
The Rams did just give up the farm to Jared
cook last week too. That might be the way to
gouge this defense the rest of the passing game, including
Sam Bradford on the bench, Todd Gurley easy A Cooper
Cup B Grade lad the team in red zone targets
with three, including two inside the ten. In total targets

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in the two meetings last year, Cup had fifty one
on a score in the first sixty eight yards in
the second. Cooks Woods both Sea Grades eight targets last
week drew very long past interference call for Brandon Cooks.
Those don't count as targets though, so he would have
had ten. Cooks ran eighty five percent of his routes
on the outside, making him the likely match up against

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Patrick Peterson. That's why he gets the Sea. Woods had
nine targets. He gets the C two tied with Cup
with two targets inside the ten. Woods only played the
Cards once last year, with a meager five for fifty
nine coming out of that game. Just a little tap
it on him. Finally, Jared Goff, I like everybody, so
I gotta give Jared Goff a b um. Goff is
thrown from multiple touchdown passes in eight of his last

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nine regular season games. The Cardinals have allowed multiple touchdowns
in six of their last nine games, and the Rams
put up thirty two and thirty three points against Arizona
in their last two meetings with them. That was well done.
It was concise, but it was still way more than
one minute. But that's okay, I blame you. We will
take It's all my fault. Uh. We will take a break.

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slash Radio. Let's uh segment we like called premature speculation.
The idea is we give you a guy to pick
up this week that other people are gonna wish they
already had on their roster, like Philip Dorset last week.
Let's see who were recommending Scott you know in my
league's Jayalen Shard is still available even after the eleven

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targets than catching nine of them this last week. I
don't love the Denver matchup this week, and maybe that's
why he's still available pretty widely terrible matchup, top five
run defense against receiving backs. But after that he gets Miami,
who who gave up six or forty through the air
and a hundred forty one and one total in a
sixty two yard called back fourth most receptions and second

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most receiving touchdowns and running backs last year. And then
after that he it's the Browns who were bottom twelve
against receiving backs last year and just torched by Connor.
So he's got a couple of really good matchups coming
up after this week. All right, Matt, I premature speculation player.
I got the guy that is not Justin Hunter on
the Steelers. That's James Washington. I'm talking last week up

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to first game for a rookie, weird weather, super rainy
and and windy. And this week they play the Chiefs,
who allowed sixteen receptions to wide receivers in Week one
that was the seventh most in the league. So he's
got a good shot to get some play this week.
The Chiefs also allowed the second most yards and the
third most receptions to wide receivers in seventeen. Next week

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they get the Buccaneers, who allowed the most receptions and
yards to wide receivers last year and who allowed a
league high twenty three receptions to wide receivers in Week
one against the Saints. I think it's James Washington. But
if you want to plug in Justin Hunter and right now,
for right now, and I want to do Justin Hunter.
If you ask me in week twelve who's starting, then

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it's Washington. I think he's a long term hold. Uh. Bizarrely,
intent of ESPNS leagues, Aaron Jones, the best running back
by a mile Packers is available. You got a coin
flips chance that Aaron Jones is available in your league.
He's so much better than Williams, who's utterly mundane. Williams

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three point six yards per carry last season and he
to this point, he's three point one yards per carry
this season. Get this, Aaron Jones five and a half
yards per carry last year. He's suspended for these first
two games. Williams did nothing last week, is gonna do
nothing against the Vikings. Jones is gonna come in looking
at like a hero after what Jamal Williams has done.

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I said this in the preseason like four times during
our shows. Yeah, Brian loves Jamal, but Aaron Jones ten
ten carries over ten yards last year, Jamal one. Look,
it's not close. Aaron Jones is the best running back
on the Packers period. End of story. Uh, let's let's
dive back into our matchups, beginning with the Patriots taking

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on the Jaguars yep um. Normally, this is the point
of which I say obvious a for Tom Brady and
Rob Gronkowski, and you know, we just move on. But
it's the Jaguars. This is an elite secondary that ranked
number one in passing yards allowed, number three and passing
touchdowns allowed number two, and fantasy points to quarterbacks allowed
last year. Last week they totally dominated Eli Manning that

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held him to a scoreless two D twenty four yards.
So we look back at the a f C Championship
game when these teams played last January. Tom Brady managed
two D nine yards and two touchdowns in that game.
But to get to two yards and two scores, they
only ran the ball thirteen times. All the rest were passes.

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That was thirty eight passes. So I'm nervous about Tom
Brady here, but a B grade because he's Tom Brady
an he through for two nine two last time they met. Uh,
let's talk about his receivers. Philip Dorsett gets a C
grade here. Um, he fills the spot vacated by Brandon
Cooks who went for one hundred yards in the a
f C Championship game. But he's gonna likely draw Jalen

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Ramsey and it's a brutal matchup, and frankly, I preferre
you don't have to start him. Cordelle Patterson's on the
bench but I'll note that he does work out of
the slot, which gives him the easiest matchup among the
Jaguars cornerbacks. D J. Hayden total dart throw here, but
I couldn't get myself to put a to put his
start in grade in Cordarrell after he only had one
target last week. Chris Hogan on the bench just one
catch last week, had two catches against the Jaguars in

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the playoff game. He has a brutal matchup with a J. Bouyer.
Buy low on Chris Hogan. Do it today because he
had the bad game last week and the Chris Hogan
owner doesn't want to start him this week. You'll never
have a lower price on Tom Brady's number one wide
receiver than Chris Hogan. Right now, go by low and
very secretly check out Chris Hogan's price on fan ball
this week. Rob Gronkowski gets a B grade here. He

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had just one catch in the a f C Championship game,
but he was pretty dinged up for a lot of
last season. He remember he was out with that injury
revenge game. UM Jags were elite against tight ends last year,
and they shut down Evan Ingram last week. Holding him
to eighteen yards, and what else we got running game?

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Let's talk about James White. Well, first know this Rex
burke Head probably plays despiping in the concussion protocol, but
we don't know for sure, and he's heading towards a
potential game time decision. He had only one carry in
the playoff game, and then Sony Michelle might make his debut.
That would muddy the waters further. The Jaguars held se
Kwon Barkley to two yards per carry except for the

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sixty four yard touchdown that Barkley had. And so I've
got Birkehead on the bench, I've got I've got Sony
Michelle in the bench. We're gonna take a watch on
his status. We don't know. I'm sure he's gonna play.
James White gets a C grade here. He scored last week,
but nothing comes easily against the Jaguars. And White was
totally invisible in the playoff game last last January, and

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the Jaguars only gave up three running back scores through
the air last year. Now, if Burkehead and Michelle are
both inactive, which is possible, then James White would elevate
up to a B level start let's go to the
Jaguar side. This thing is super murky and it's all
about Leonard Fournette. So let's talk it through for a minute.

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Very limited practice this week. He had the hamstring injury
that knocks him out of last week. Hamstrings are notorious
for re injury and aggravation. So you're all all that together,
and I think unless you get a very strong message
that he's going to be active and he's going to
start and he's gonna get a lot of snaps, I
think he's a very high risk play here when active.
Um you know, when active, if if he's getting if

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you're getting a full workload, he would probably get a
B grade. As it stands right now, I have a
nervous sea on Leonard four Nett and my preference here
is you don't even have to start him. I think
t J. Yelden is the most will most likely end
up with more more total touches than for Net even
if for Nett is active for this game. So just
a lot of danger and a lot of moving parts,
and I wish you could do something different. The Patriots

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a lot four point nine yards per carry last week,
and that's in line with the crappy four point seven.
They gave up all of last year, so running running
backs can get done here. I'm just nervous about the
rotation and the hamstring and the threat of reinjury. So
I've got sea grades on yelled In and Leonard Fournett
in the passing game. In three games without Leonard four Nette,

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Blake Bortles averaged just three hundred passing yards, and so
he'll be asked to carry more here if Fournett can't go.
He threw for two hundred ninety three yards in the
playoff game, so he's actually a plausible play. I've got
a C grade on him here. But the Patriots totally
shut down to Shaun Watson last week, and I don't
love any of his receiver matchups. Killing Cole gets. He

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barely gets a C grade because he goes up against
their best cornerback, Stephan Gilmore, and really just because he's
the only plausible receiver they've got him not starting Dante Moncrief,
not starting Austin's Ferry and Jenkins. The Patriots are excellent
against Titans last year and last last week, so I
don't like any of them. Let's go to our next
matchup Lions taking on the forty nine Lions could have

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looked more dreadful and Matthew Stafford in particular. Do you
like him any better here, Scott? I do. I think
it was more of an anomaly. I know he's looked
bad in the preseason and bad last week, but I
think he I think he rebounds this week. Uh. Four
nights or bottom third in the league against quarterbacks last
week last year, Cousins had no key out in last week.
Stafford probably should fall behind in this game and and

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try to catch up. I'm not I'm not among the
people that think he's gonna throw three four interceptions again,
right right? Uh. Golden Tate B grade for Stafford, which
might be a little high, but Tate solid A grade.
He had fifteen targets last week and Theland crushed them
San Francisco from the slot last week. Marvin Jones C grade.
He had eight targets last week. I don't know that

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he's gonna get there this week, but as the third
wide receiver on the team, he might be able to
get just enough in garbage time to make that C grade.
Kenny Golladay A grade, of course, because he's the best
wide receive around. I just love Kenny all day. He
played nine of the team's offensive snaps uh fifty two
routes run second in the NFL twelve targets. That's sixteen

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point three yards per carry, yards per reception. That's huge.
He's gonna score this week. Riddick pass catching backs are
good against the forty niners um uh their bottom ten
last week and that so I'm giving Riddick a C
grade over the over to the side Garoppolo B grade.
He's averaging almost exactly three hundred yards per game in

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his six starts, only seven touchdowns and eight interceptions, but
I think those are gonna come eventually. He looks like
a pro, so I'm giving him B grade here. C
grade for Gerson, who led the San Francisco skill players
and snaps last week. Didn't do a lot with it,
but it's coming. Uh. Dante Pennace was my take com
George Kittle. He should have had a hundred fifty yards

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in a touched on last week. He's gotten a grade
for me. He's been lights out, averaging eighteen yards per catch.
Uh lights out With Garoppolo, I give him an A
grade And Morris and Breda in the running game. I
can see them doing what Crowell and Powell did last week.
They they stopped up a hundred and sixty two yards
and two scores. Uh. The Lions Batigans pass catching backs.

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That's good for Breda. Morris is the goal lineback, actually
tied for the league leading NFL with carries inside the five.
That's good for him. I can see a similar things.
See grades for both of them. All right, let's move
on Giants taking on the Cowboys. Matt it's the usual
suspects in this game that you're gonna start and you're
not gonna start anybody else. Ezekiel Elliott the easy A
grade with a twenty touch guaranteed, and the Giants allowed

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a hundred and thirty to running backs last week. Dak
Prescott in the passing game, they're all on the bench.
Dak finished with less than two hundred yards in eight
of his last eleven games. He has no help from
his pass catchers and even Cole Beasley, who did lead
the team in targets and topped fifty yards for these
second time in twenty two games. Yeah, yeah, you're not
playing him either. Over to the Giant side, se Kwan

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Barkley is an easy a. He's the most bankable Giants
player I think for maybe the whole year. Onto the
passing game, Eli Manning. Dave Senekin talked about this in
the last show. He said Eli Manning owns the Cowboys. Well,
that's not true. He's not topped two hundred and twenty
eight yards against the Cowboys in the last six meetings
and only has five touchdowns in that six game span.

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Eli mannings on the bench, But I'm still giving Odell
Beckham an a fifteen targets and eleven receptions last week,
and they moved him around the field to avoid Jalen Ramsey.
He had thirty six percent of his routes from the slot.
That's triple what he did under Ben McAdoo. His last
hundred yard game versus Dallas, though, was November. I think
he's got a shot to break that this time. This

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time though, and Evan A. Graham's the only other starter.
I just gave him a C grade. I'm concerned that
Angram only had five targets while Beckham had fifteen. Remember
that most of Ingram's production last year came as a
result of O'Dell being gone, so Dallas is the middle
of the road opponent. But you you drafted Angram to
be your starting tight end, and you've got to start
him with a Sea Sterling Shepherds on the bench. Though.

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H Seahawks take on the Bears our final matchup, and
for the Seahawks there is only two starters. Really. Chris
Carson ran for seven yards per carry in Week one,
and then he fumbled, and Pete Carroll decided to make
a statement and he put in bulbous rookie Rashad Penny,
who got one yard per carry. So, you know, whatever
message he was trying to make, I think the message

(01:23:20):
I got was that Chris Carson's really good and Rashon
Penny is really bad. We'll continue to start Carson here
with a B grade. Chicago is a good run defense, though,
and this is not an easy matchup, and they could
fall behind. Russell Wilson gets a C grade. The Bears
were the only defense in the NFL to finish in
the top ten of all of these stats, each of
which is salient to Russell Wilson's game last year. Passing

(01:23:41):
yards allowed, passing touchdowns allowed, rushing yards by quarterbacks, quarterback
rushing touchdowns, they were top ten and all of those,
all of that works against Russell Wilson here. I don't
like any of his receiver matchups. And the tight end
position is a void. So Russell Wilson just a C
grade here. Tyler Lockett to play him, maybe, but he's

(01:24:02):
got he's got maybe their best matchup against Bryce Callahan.
You C grade. I'll give him a C grade. That's it.
Let's go to Chicago. Side love Jordan Howard. The Seattle
just let Royce Freeman and Philip Lindsay rack up one
hundred forty two rushing yards and he played seventy percent
of the snaps and the opener. He is an A grade.
And I even I've even given a C grade to

(01:24:25):
three Cohen as well. Seattle great against receiving backs last year,
but there's a totally different defense. And Philip Lindsay was
good in the air against Seattle last week. He had
eight touches last week, Uh Cohen did. And that's the
problem with I guess Cohen is you only get the
eight to issue touches. But a C grade for him
here too. From a passing standpoint, I I actually like
Mr Risky here. I'm giving him a C grade in

(01:24:47):
a bounce back effort, and I'm predicting a two touchdown
game for Sad trombon Ski. I think he bounces back
nicely here because he's got nice matchups all over the field,
including Allen Robinson, uh Seattle's playing on out of position
safety at cornerback named Trey Flowers. His first ever history
of his life game at cornerback happened last week and

(01:25:09):
Denver abused him all over the field. Robinson lines up
all over the field. He'll find him regularly. So will
table Taylor Gabriel, who will actually line up against him
the most. Based on what we saw in Week one.
He's a dart throw as well, and I like Trey Burton.
He finished Week one with just one catch. I know
that he was ignored wide open in the end zone.
I know that as well. The six targets though, we're

(01:25:30):
encouraging and he's got a positive matchup against pedestrian Songs
strong safety Bradley McDougald um. I still think Trey Burton
can lead the Bears in total receptions this year. It's
gonna be a very abbreviated lightning round. It's very patient
for everybody's very grateful for Reddy's patients. One question between

(01:25:51):
two players. Ben's been on hold for two hours. Thank you, Ben,
Love you guys again. Thank you. Quick question. I'll do
it this way. Mike Williams or any of the receiving
cork to the niners. I like it. It's at sneaky.
I still think it's Mike Williams. I love Pettis this week.
I'm still going to Mike William's. Michael You're next. We

(01:26:14):
were in i R spot for a four minute of
Houston Henry of San Diego McGuire. One question between two players,
Mike You're next. Uh yeah, PPR League, Kevin Coleman or
Vin Coleman not close Freeman out for anybody who hasn't

(01:26:37):
heard heard the news on that. Mike you are next,
Mike oh Tom, Hello, hello gentlemen, and thanks to take
my call up the show. Standard scoring. I have Davonte
Adams and QUI. I am going to take Adams assuming

(01:26:59):
that Roger starts in standard scoring. John your final caller
in this very abbreviated version. Alright, thank you. Cooper Cup
or Marvin Jones Jr. Cooper Cup for me, he's such
a red Zone Beast. He's gonna store again. Yeah, I
think so too. We'll answer more lightning around questions on Twitter. Yeah,
and all my player rankings answer all of these, and
they're available for free at fanball dot com. You can

(01:27:20):
get all my player rankings and explanations and that answers
most of your who do I start questions? Thanks everybody
for missed any part of the show. Check out the
podcast CAF and fan on demand, also on iTunes, b vide.
This afternoon at two thirty, the Minnesota Gophers host Pammy
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