Flacco to Flaccid

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America's longest running fantasy show, Fantasy Football Weekly and I
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from fanball dot Com. My co host today are Scott
Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, gentlemen, going on? What's going on?
HELI talking to you? Yeah, thank you. That's your tribute
to Christian Peterson. It's not here, uh this week. He
was here last week and he did a great He

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did a B plus job last week. No, I thought
he did a solid be job, enough solid job. May
I should rephrase that that you want to go, I'm
gonna change that to see job. I don't know if
you want to say that either an A job. I
can't call it enough job because God only knows what

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that's gonna mean the courts of today. I think if
you couldn't use plus would have this problem? Would I
the course of today, We're gonna break down every game
Fantasy style. We don't tell you which team is gonna win,
where we tell you which players will help your team win.
You'll hear letter grades for every meaningful Fantasy player irrationale

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for why we feel that way, so you can make
your own decisions. We'll answer three tough questions over the
course of the show. We'll give you nine different players
upon whom you can take a chance, and we'll jump
into a time machine to identify the players that you
want to pick up this week that everybody is gonna
be hot to pick up next week. Last week, speaking
of Christian Peterson, he gave us Deonte Johnson and UM

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News coming out with the latter part of this week
that uh, it looks like he's going to be the
starter going forward after practice today. I think that's gonna
be a good It's gonna be a good move for
him and his owners. Let's jump into our matchups, beginning
with Detroit taking on Philadelphia. This is kind of kind
of a hairy one. Now we know Detroit is supposed
to be a run first team, and they said in

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the obviously don't want to run first team, but they
keep getting all these matchups that are tough against the
run and easy against the past. Yeah. Do you like
this as another good Matt Stafford outing? Yeah, it's it's
just like you said. The Eagles have allowed three twenty
yards and three touchdowns to the likes of Case Keenum
and Matt Ryan and back to back weeks, which basically
has landed them fifth worst against fantasy quarterbacks. They're allowing
the second most points against in the NFL. Right now,

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it's it's a good spot for Matthew Stafford. He has
five touchdowns and he's averaging three fifteen yards a game.
I got an A grade on him. I think the
past is gonna be good again. Yeah, you know, back
end of the kyp Ones there. Although I can only
imagine what you think about Kenny Golladay. How many pluses
can I use? None? You can use no pluses? But
feel free to give him an A Okay, well, uh,

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he I guess I'll give him an A plus. How
many How many a's do you want to give him? Yeah?
Given a I think it's so many a's from me. Uh.
It's been two games, three different receivers have topped a
hundred yards and five different wide receiver tight ends have
scored against the Eagles. They're just giving it up all

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over the field in the receiving game, and Golladay is
the guy. Uh I just got an A grade on him,
Like like Julio Jones last week. The size deferential between
him and Ronald Darby. Darby would have to stand on
his own shoulder to reach baby tron Yeah, and uh yeah,
I can't Golladay at six four, They're kind of an
aj green frame to him. I give Marvin Jones a

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B for similar reasons. And the number two wide receivers
like Calvin Ridley, great game, we get great games against them.
Give him a B grade. I'm keeping Himandola on the
bench just because he gave us nothing last week. I
think he's going to be very hit and missed this season.
I would trust Hawkinson a little bit more. I know
that he only had one catcher seven yards, and I
know that the Eagles um the Eagles have been pretty

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good against height ends. They but they did give up
four receptions to Vernon Davis four receptions to Hooper Vernon scored.
I think Hawkinson is gonna improve, but I think last
night last week was a good reminder that he's still
a rookie tight end. I do give him a C
grade here, though I think he's going to get involved
just enough. Uh into the running game here, carry on Johnson.
I'm actually given a B grade too. It's it's a

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really hesitant B grade. But the Lions runners are touching
the ball still thirty times a game. Uh. They just
got rid of C. J. Anderson. Uh, Perkins is probably
not going to play much if anything. Ty Johnson might
get involved here, Um, but I'm going with carry on Johnson.
The Eagles having allowed a runner over thirty two yards
yet this season, but they're giving up seventy yards per

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game in the air to backs and carry on Johnson
is pretty okay there, So UH be grade for carry
on all. Right over to the Eagle side, I'm giving
Carson Wants a B grade. The lines are allowing over
three yards per game to quarterbacks and part of that
is due to pace. Um. They have allowed the most
pass attempts in the NFL and play and they have
the most past attempts against them. Yes, yes, Uh. Despite

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those yards, they've only given up two touchdowns and just
eighteen points per game the lines have so I'm I'm talking,
I'm talking once a little bit there because the Detroit
lines are giving up a lot, but they're not giving
up points. Yeah, so B grade there Alshan Jeffrey. At
this point, they're saying he'll play, but he was He
did not practice on the Friday practice report. Yeah it

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didn't practice all week. Yeah you know, I know the
reports suggesting is going to play. But nine times out
of ten if you don't practice, how many times out
of ten times? If you don't practice all week, you
don't play. So I consider Jeffrey to be a game
time decision for sure. Here's how I'm playing it. I'm

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giving a B grade to the starter if it's Jeffrey,
or I'm giving the big I feel like if he goes,
if Jeffrey is able to go, they're trusting him enough
to is gonna start you the way and I'll probably yeah,
but Sean Jackson's definitely right. But if Jeffrey goes, I
have less faith than Agil. We're talking about a guy
who with double digit touch touches, double digit targets, has

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had like thirty three yard games and sixty yard games, Like, uh,
if he's not going to get major targets, I'm a
little bit out on him. Hollands Artago Whiteside on the
bench for me. Zach Ertz. I'm given an a to
zach Ertz. The thing about we were worried about two
many mouths to feed all those at bunch of those
mouths are sore right now, that's right, Dallas Goddard's mouth.

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Very sorry, so sorry. Not expected to play. Actually he
came up with the same report with Jeffrey that they
think he might know. I'm with you, though I don't.
I don't think he plays. Uh. It's twenty three targets
in the last two games. The Lions have been untested.
So far, They've just played Max Williams and Charles Cray
and Virgil Green. This is the first first one they're
gonna have to face. I think a grade here in

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the running game. You know me and Jordan Howard. I'll
never give him a good grade. I have him on
the bench. I have Miles Sanders with a C kind
of I don't even like that. But the Lions are
middle of the middle of the road against the rushing
game and fourth worst against running backs in the passing game,
so that that could spell a little for Sanders or

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maybe even Sprawls. The Lions are allowing a hundred seventy
one total yards per game to running backs, which is
the fifth most, So I have to at least give
Sanders a little bit of a C grade here. Yeah,
disappointed Darren Sprowles couldn't get anything going last week. Matt,
let's go to Denver taking on green Bay? Yeah, slets.
Joe Flacco hasn't been able to get a lot going
in this offensive than Emmanuel Sanders. What do you think

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happens here against what appears to be an improved green
Bay defense? You know what, my phone auto corrects Flacco too,
and this is true. Flaccid, flaccid. I've run into this
and that's exactly Yes. I don't want any part of him.
And I just really don't even want any part of
Emmanuel Sanders here. He should get the Gyar Alexander shadow coverage.

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He's only allowing thirty seven point five percent completion in
his coverage this year, so I don't like that at all.
And then there's the running game. Royce Freeman and Philip
lindsay it's been like a fifty fifty split. Last week,
Freeman had sixteen touches of the snaps. Lindsay had seventeen
touches the snaps. They've run the equal amount of pass

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routes this season, and the Packers have a weakness. It's
two pass catching running backs right now. They both had
seven targets last week. Right, Yeah, it's but so it's
a complete split. So I can't start either of them.
I got both of these guys on the bench until
one of them gets hurt. Hopefully it clears up the
waters here on the Packers side is just awesome. Anything

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wrong with that? I wish I think, I think, don't
you think that it should have happened by now? What
did last year? On Aaron Jones gets a B grade.
He holds at least two thirds of the touches over
Jamal Williams, who vultured a touchdown last week. The Broncos
are allowing an average of over one five combined running
backyards and have given up three running back touchdowns and
the first two weeks. So Jones gets the beat. Yeah,

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although I'll know Matt Lafleur Kim coming out this week
and saying he wants to try to even the time
between those two Why and we say cram it. La
Fleur exactly. There's no reason for that. Jamal Williams stinks.
Stop it. You know. Aaron Jones a damn good running back.
Stick with him. Uh. Aaron Rodgers UH is averaging two

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six yards per game and has three touchdown passes in
two weeks. He's only getting a C grade for me.
The Broncos are still an above average pass defense, allowing
the second fewest pass yards this season, albeit to Derek
Carr and Sad trombone Ski. So I'm still only given
Rogers the sea though there it is. I am giving
Davante Adams and a If anything's gonna get done through

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the air, it's through Adams. He's had good success against
Fangio's defenses when he was with the Bears. The average
yards per game over his last three matchups with Fangio's team.
He had seven catches for one oh six last week.
I think Adams is in a good spot, but I
am benching Geronimo Allison and m V S. Allison scored
last week, but basically threw up a goose egg in

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the prior week. If Chris Harris stays on the left slide,
which which he often does, he lines up with Marquez
Valdez Scantling more than he lines up with Davante Adams,
So that's not a good matchup for either of those guys. No,
probably not. I don't like this game at all. I
think it's gonna be a very low scoring affair. I
tend to think you're right, and I think vic fan
Joe is gonna get that defense operating even better than

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it has been that you're right that it hasn't been
great against the run. I think it'll be better. This
week Baltimore takes on Kansas City. This is the number
one scoring offense against the number four scoring offense. This
seems like it might be more of an offensive game.
It might be uh And by the way, the number
one team is in Kansas City, that's Baltimore. Let's talk

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about the Baltimore side, beginning with Mark Ingram, who gets
an A grade. Leonard fo Nette and Josh Jacobs ran
for six point six yards per carry as the starters
against Kansas City so far, and the Chiefs, while they
havn't a lot of rushing touchdown, it's only because they've
staked these big leads and other teams haven't really punished.
I think through the ground That's not going to be
the case here, and I'll note that last year when

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these teams met, Gus Edwards and Kenneth Dixon combined for
one hundred forty yards against Kansas City, mark ingram a grade.
Let's go to the passing game, where Lamar Jackson gets
an A grade and is my top rated quarterback for
this week. The Chiefs have one of the slowest sets
of cornerbacks in the league, and here comes Marks Hollywood Brown.

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Oh man, I love that matchup. Plus Mark Andrews has
terrorized both of his opponents this year, and the Chiefs
have allowed the fifth most tight end yards this year,
fourth most tight end yards last year. A great opportunity
for both of them. So Lamar Jackson gets an A.
I just mentioned Marquis Brown with that speed mismatch, and

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he'll face virtually no resistance from the slot, where I'll
square off against Kendall Fuller, one of the lead's worst
slot cornerbacks. Fuller has surrendered scores in each of the
first two games. Marquis Brown a grade in third ever
NFL game. Yes, how much do I like the passing game?
Miles Boykin factoring in with a startable grade A and

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take a chance on me. Wo draws a great matchup
against stone footed cornerback, but shod Brelan, who has already
allowed to touchdown in his coverage Boycin has four four speed.
Brillan is a four six cornerback. There are many four
six cornerbacks in the league. He's one of them. And
Mark Andrews, who I mentioned earlier, tight end A grade.
After two fantastic starts to the year, Let's go to

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the Kansas City side. We'll begin with the passing game.
Patrick Mahomes maintains an A grade, but this is a
trickier matchup than most, certainly more difficult without tackle Eric
Fisher out with a groin injury. Mahomes faced these Ravens
last year, and if you just look at the box score,
you're gonna see the three hundred seventy seven yards and
the two touchdowns and think, you know what, it's gonna

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be another great game for Patrick Mahomes. And it might be.
It's Patrick Mahomes and I do have an A grad
it on him. But here's the thing. To get to
three seventy seven and two. Last year, he had to
throw the ball fifty three times. He's never come close
to a fifty three yard fifty three attempt passing game,
and Baltimore never gives that up. They give up an

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average of thirty six attempts per game. So if we
dial Mahomes back into the thirties, I don't know that
he gets close to the three seventy seven and two
we had last time. But he's Patrick Mahomes and he
still might. And he's my number five rand quarterback for
the week. So you're still in obvious A grade. But
I'm just trying to dial back from expectations here. Travis
Kelsey is an A grade A tight end because he's
the best tight end the league. And then let's talk

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about the wide receivers where things get a little bit thornier.
Beginning with Sammy Watkins. He had the DoD last week,
but did you know he collected thirteen targets last week?
It just didn't materialize into anything. No other Kansas City
receiver garnered more than six, and he's commanded a thirty
percent target share on the year. Well, how many of
those thirteen targets was Mahomes actually looking at him when

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he threw the ball? I mean, as supposed to just
looking away look passes like he missed Travis Kelsey on
the no look pass earlier this year. Um a cornerback
named Anthony Averit will be his most common matchup and
that is a mismatch against Sammy Watkins. Averit has speed,
but has a little more to contend with Watkins evorit's
very raw and young. I like Watkins with a B grade.

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I have DeMarcus Robinson last week's start, also with a
B grade. He garnered four targets of twenty yards down
field last week. No Jimmy Smith in this secondary for
Baltimore again, he'll face a raven secondary that was gashed
on deep balls by Arizona's receivers who hold in four
of five deep targets for a hundred fifty nine yards.
So I like him here. And then Nicole Hardman gets

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a C grade. He is not being eased into this offense.
He's been on the field for fifty or more snaps
in both games. That's amazing for Hardman. He runs most
of his routes from the slot, where he's gonna face
Brandon Carr, who is very good, allowing just twenty six
scoreless yards per game so far this year. So he
gets a C grade here, then let's go to the

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running game where it's really harry for the Chiefs. Lashawn
McCoy's get this ankle injury. He's shaping up as a
game time decision. If he goes, I have a nervous
C grade on him. Limited today, limited on Friday. Yes,
And Baltimore ranks number one in rushing yards allowed, number
one in rushing yards per carry, number one in rushing attempts.

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And if you think maybe the Kansas City Runners are
gonna catch the ball a lot, Baltimore is allowed the
sixth fewest running back receiving yards and the fewest total
yards to running backs. So I mean it's all bad
for the running backs. And if McCoy is gonna be hobbled,
all I can do is maybe get him to a
C start here. Now McCoy doesn't go, You could try

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Darryl Williams, You could try you know, maybe um Darwin Thompson.
But I just think the whole thing just smells to
me like avoid it in a really tough matchup. Agreed, Agreed,
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I assure you, um, let's go to or take a chance.
I mean quarterbacks. These are three three quarterbacks that are
not normally in your starting lineup, each of whom we
believe is worthy of a start. This week. We begin
with Scott Fish. I am gonna go with Jimmy Garoppolo,
who I don't think will be Jimmy Garoppo blows this week?
Whoa I think that? Uh, I think that he's gonna

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have a good game here that There's no wonder why
the Stewers went out and traded for a first for
Cafetes Patrick. They've been allowing three more yards and three
scores to opposing quarterbacks each of the first two weeks. Um.
Although Jimmy G was held down in Week one that
was his first week back from injury, he rebounded the
next week with nearly three yards and three himself. The
four Nineers have scored thirty plus in each game there there,

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I believe the third highest scoring team in the league
at this point. Uh So, Jimmy G is my Matt
You take a chance for me quarterback. I've got Daniel Jones,
who might be a slight upgrade from what is the
squeaking right there? I mean, I don't know it. It
was kind of kind of joking. He's a flat upgrade.

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Oh yeah, for sure that that was tongue in cheese.
Whether or not he's an upgrade in the first ever
NFL start is the only question. Yeah. Well, so I
looked back and he's got a little bit of Josh
Allen in him, meaning that he can run a little bit.
He averaged thirty six rushing yards per start and scored
on the ground seventeen times. And his three years of
duke obviously we saw the great numbers in the pre season.

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He gets Sterling Shepherd back from the concussion protocol this week,
and he faced Tampa Right now, Tampa is the fifth
ranked fantasy defense against the quarterback over the first two weeks. Well,
they faced Jimmy g on his first game back from
an a c L and it injured Cam Newton. Daniel
Jones is probably better than both of those guys, at
least in their first start. Um, I'm not sure it's

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that improved of a defense either. They were the defense
that allowed the third most passing touchdowns in the league
last year. Jones is gonna sling the ball. It's gonna
be fun to watch. Let's let's go, let's play just
for the fun fact. Yeah, uh, I have the aforementioned
Josh Allen as might take a chance and quarterback going
up against Cincinnati's coming off his one maybe the best
game of his career, with real improvement in key areas,

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particularly his pocket poise, his pocket accuracy, and you can
see real report being built with John Brown and Cole Beasley,
who have combined for thirty one targets in two games already,
and another strong game coming against a sagging Cincinnati defense.
The Mangels else gave Jimmy Garoppolo the aforementioned Jimmy Garoppolo
his welcome back game, allowing him to row three yards

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and three scores. The Bengals have a good pass rush
they ranked third in that category by Pro Football Focus,
but their coverage has been equally bad their third from
the bottom and pass coverage. If his offensive line can
give him a few clean pockets, Josh Allen only needs
a couple of deep connections for him to splatch, and
I think he will. Let's go to the running back
position or take a chance on the runner, Scott, I'm

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gonna start with Tony Pollard of the Dallas Cowboys. Zeke
is obviously a smash a start this week. You'll find
out in a few minutes here. But that's just an
amazing matchup there. The Dolphins have allowed the most rushing attempts,
the most rushing yards, the most rushing touchdowns, the most
receiving touchdowns the running backs. Seems like there might be
some garbage time in the second most total touchdowns. They're

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gonna get up and Tony Pollard is probably gonna come
in and get some points for you. And he's he's
readily available in a decent amount of leagues. Now, if
you're playing salary cap at fan Ball, which we hope
is your prefer home for salary captain, Tony Pollard's like
you almost have to take him. He's like a free space, right.
It's a little too cute for me. I'd rather I'd

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rather put some running backs that are going to get
the whole game. I'm embracing the cute. But he could
do in a half what other what other one against
Miami he could do in a half with other backs
would do in a full game. Well, my take a
chance of me running back is about to get the
full workload in a game, So might take a chance
of me quarterback as a rookie in his first game.
Might take a chance to me. Running back is the

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exact opposite. When he came into the league in two
thousand five, Gwen Stefani's Holla Back Girl was tops on
the charts and Grey's Anatomy was in season one. That's
Frank Gore. Devin Singletary has been ruled out and he
took who took the majority of the touches last game
after Singletary went away? It was Frank Gore twenty one touches.

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In week two, mostly after Singletary went down. He did
have a goal line plunge for a score. You already illuminated.
How bad since his defenses, they're awful. They've allowed the
most total yards and the most scores to running back
so far this year. Frank Gore maybe in his last
smash spot of his career. I'm I think I have
Franko ranked thirteenth at the running back position this week,

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something I never thought would ever happen again. But he
just beats the odds. He does. I've got Carlos Hide
going up against the Chargers Chargers have any lead past.
It's just like last year. Elite past defense, elite passage.
If you want to beat the Chargers, you run at them.
They're giving up the fourth most rushing attempts for the
third most rushing yards per game to opposing running backs.

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And here's an insanely resurgent Carlos Hide that. Nobody saw
it coming. He's piled up five point eight yards per carry.
He's getting fifteen carries a game. You had all that together,
Carlos Hide, sitting and get another good opportunity. I can't
do it. Fifth. I don't know, something like his fifth.

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I want to say fifth team in two years, at
least fourth. He went from the forty nine, the Jaguars
and the Browns to the Yeah, something something to that effect. Anyway, Yeah,
um wow, Okay, we'll get to that after. Take a
chance on me. Minute, yes, okay, let's go to the
wide receiver position. Uh, and or tied down. I think

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we've all got wide receivers this week, though. Take a
chance on me. I'm going completely off board here. Uh,
you have no idea where I'm going. I don't know
where you're going. I'm going with a deep, deeper cut
the Arizona Cardinals demure bird. He uh he has seven
targets in each of the last two weeks while playing
of the offensive snaps in Week one week two because

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they play a ton of three and four wide there,
uh he had four. He had four to eight speed
coming out. Had showcased it a couple of times in
Carolina in the preseason and once during the regular season.
I remember um and revenge game against the Panthers deep cut.
I like it. It is a deep cut. Fantastic matt Ah.
This one's fun. I think this harkens back to John

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Tuvey's days on Fantasy Football Weekly. The ultimate take a
Chance to Me wide receiver Marvin Jones. I thought I
thought it was Mohammed sanuw was the biggest best hit
in the history of take a Chance. I take it back,
but I still missed two. Mohammed san New Senior is
my take a chance to me wide receiver. He's fourth
in the NFL and snaps played from the slot at

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eighty four point nine percent. Had a decent thirteen targets there.
He has five inches and fifty pounds on Colts slot
corner Kenny Moore, the second so it's a rare senior
versus junior matchup. Yes, the Colts gave up a big
day to Keenan Allen from the slot in Week one,
and the Colts operate a bend but don't break his

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own past defense that forces high volume throws underneath. I
think that plays really well to Mohammed Sanu. It does.
I'm using Mohamed Sanu Jr. As my take. He's like four, oh, no,
you're right. No, no, no, no, this this has turned
into one of my favorite take it chance on me
in well this year. Certainly Randall Cobb against the Dolphins

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available incent of leagues. It goes out saying, there's a
ton of points that we had for for Dallas in
this game. It's just a matter of finding your spots.
Dolphins have allowed five wide receiver touchdowns already five Michael
Gallop out for the game. Marii Cooper draws. The only
good player on the entire Miami defense Avian Howard. So

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the path of least resistance is Randall Cobb. Randall Cobbs
going up against something called Joe moal Wilts. Joe m
Wilts has allowed passing touchdowns. You don't say names like
that when I'm drinking of my my monster energy drink.
Joemal Wilts has allowed passing touchdowns in both games and

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a perfect passer rating in his coverage. I swear to god,
you're making up these names every week. Cop is second
in the He's gonna be on the field a ton
and he's got a gorgeous matchup. Randall Cobb is a
phenomenal play. Well, every every week you come up with

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a quarterback name and it's just like some some gibberish word.
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should be a one sided affair. Scott and we've already
talked about some of the players that we like in
this matchup that are sleepers. My Randall Cobb is going
to be Oh, I can't wait, Randall, and you are
there any Are there any Dolphins to play in this game?
I don't think so I'm putting them on the bench.
Preston Williams is the only one I would consider. He

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scored their only touchdown on the season. He leads the
team in yards and receptions, and uh, they're going to
be behind. But I just can't do it. I just
can't trust it. Rosen starting by the way, if people
don't know over the Cowboys, I'm giving dac An a grade.
I think it's a smash spot form here. He already
has seven touchdowns on the season, averaging over three yards,
and he added sixty nine yards on the ground blast

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This week, he faces a team allowing the most passing
touchdowns in the league in the fifth most yards a
a spot for him. He's gonna be feeding the ball
to Randall Cobb. Your take home should have a good
game there. I'm only giving Cooper a B. Zavian Howard,
who who's probably at this point after the make of
Hads Patrick Trade, probably looking like John Travolta and pulp
fiction looking around the room for people. But he's still

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one of the best cornerbacks in the league. I do
think Cooper can can find his way to an okay game,
just because this should be a blowout. Here be greed
for Cooper. I'm giving Devin Smith a C. I think
he's really Boomer bust. Yeah, yeah, it's it's all if
he can get that one big play like he did

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at Ohio State for all those years and last week,
yeah and last week, uh C grade for Witten, he's
scoring back to back games. The Dolphins are coming are
just a game removed from having the Baltimore tight ends
light them up. So possible touchdown there for Witten. I
had Witten as my premature speculation last week, and look,

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Zeke obvious A and Pollard is the take comp for
what week said already. Randall Cobb just reiterating the finer
point on that. Randall Cobb, alright, Matta Miami takes on
a new England team that has to make an adjustment
without Antonio Brown. Yeah, as I prepped for this matchup,
Antonio Brown was a member of the Patriots. He's no

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longer a member of the Patriots as they released him.
I'm still going to give Tom Brady, Julian Edelman, and
Josh Gordon a grades. Gordon was at a B, He's
now moved up to an A without Antonio Brown. And
I think Philip Dorsett probably moves into the B category now. Um,
All three of the wide receiver cornerback matchups are green

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on Pro Football Focus. That's a good thing for wide receivers.
They're great outway higher. Edelman's averaging seven and a half
targets per game. Gordon has only seen nine targets in
two games, but he's always a threat to break one.
And in the game where Antonio Brown did not play
for the Patriots, Dorset looked great and had the two
touchdowns in that game, So I like all of those guys.
Uh Sony Michelle is getting before you go into the

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running game. So you're the Jets here, Adam Gaze. You've
got one great cornerback Tremaine Johnson, who you bench after
week one. I guess to like prove a point. And
then they bring into his his backup Harriston. He gets
absolutely lit up in the middle of the game. You
bench your best safety, Jamal Adams, and that only goes
badly as well. Now he's angry. The secondary right now
for the Jets is just a mess. Well, not only

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that they're missing their best linebacker C. J. Mosley, who's
probably going to miss this game. It's just an absolute
disaster for the Jets at the wrong time, especially when
they faced the Patriots. I would be surprised if the
Jets came out after halftime. They might just not show
up on the field after the halftime show up. The
plane will be gassed in the parking lot. Right Sony

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Michelle is getting a b. He carried the ball twenty
one times and a blow up last week. It should
be a blow out again this week. Uh White and
Burke had have both been getting touches, but they probably
won't need a ton of passes to the backs in
this one, and they only got like seven and nine
touches last week, so it's not it's not super intriguing.
On the other side, the only guy you can consider
playing is Levy on Bell. I gave him a B.

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He's tops in the league at avoided tackles according to
Pro Football Focus, and he's going to need it. Uh.
He led the team and targets once Falk entered the
game with ten ten targets out of twenty five Luke
Falk passes, so uh, I think that the volume play here,
especially in a PPR league, is really good for Levy
on Bell. The rest of the passing game, including Luke Falk,

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Robbie Anderson, and Jamison Crowder, they're all on the bench.
Stephon Gilmour will shadow Robbie Anderson. Crowder could be in
line for a ton of dump off slot play, but
still faces a negative matchup against Jonathan Jones, and all
three of those wide receiver cornerback matchups on Pro Football
Focus are in the red, so that's bad for the offense. Alright,
um Cincinnati takes on the Buffalo Bills. This is a

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bad matchup for Cincinnati on many levels, but let's just
talk about their offensive line for a minute. Starting left
tackle Cordy Glenn is in the concussion protocol. His backup
is Andre Smith, who doesn't even belong in the league anymore,
and he's got a groin injury. Guard Michael Jordan is
out with a knee injury, first round rookie Jonah Williams
is on i R, and Clint Bowland retired unexpectedly in
the offseason with the blood clot issue. It's I thought

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you're gonna say, like last week, well it could have been.
It is the it's the worst offensive line in football,
and that's a large part of why Joe Mixon is
currently my running back ranked to him and and this
is just the middle of the pack Buffalo run defense.
But it doesn't matter, and he's got and by the way,
he comes in with an ankle injury of his own right,
So it's all bad for Joe Mixon right now. So

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just to see grade here, really, he needs a goal line.
I think a goal line opportunity to h to score
a touchdown and have an opportunity to salvage a Fantasy Day.
Andy Dalton has been one of the great stories through
two weeks in the NFL season ends here. He's got
all the same offensive line problems. And if you were
to go back over the last sixteen games one full season,
back the week three of last year, the best secondary

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in the NFL statistically is the Bills. The average game
against them one hundred eighty six passing yards and one touchdown.
That's it. That's the average fourteen of the last sixteen
quarterbacks to face the Bills zero or one touchdown. That's it.

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So Andy Dalton just to see grade here, and he
probably ought to get a bench, but I'm giving it
sounds like no, doesn't. John Ross, also with a CEA,
has been a monster as a result of Dalton's increase
in past attempts back to back one hundred yard efforts,
leads the NFL and receiving yards right now. But just
like coming Yeah exactly who didn't? Uh? He gets trade

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Davious White game over for John Ross. It's been a
nice run, but now that's over. Um again, only the
only out of respect for what he's done so far
and the fact that he might not get White on
every play. I've got to see grade on ross, but
really before you don't play him. Tyler Boyd gets a beat.
He's hauled in ten of ten targets for one last week,
a ten of ten targets hundred twenty two yards, highest

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yardage output in his last eight games. He'll avoid as
right because he runs out of the slot, so instead
he's going to see something called saran neil no yea
sail reading corner boggles allowed every pass and his coverage
to be completed. So I believe we will give a
B grade to Tyler Boyd. Let's go to the Buffalo side.

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Josh Allen was might take a chance on me quarterback.
He seems good. He seems good. That means we like
John Brown. The chemistry here is a parent. Brown has
garnered a twenty seven percent target share thus far, He's
averaging se even receptions eight yards per game. Bengal secondary
has been a rex are, undering three scores to opposing
receivers in the first two games. In cornerback Drake Kirkpatrick

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will most often cover John Brown or try Kirkpatrick gave
up seven yards on a score last week and has
given up two scores on the season already. So I
like this match up a lot for John Brown. Be
great here, and I considered an A grade for John Brown.
I mean, in fact, let's just call it an A grade.
Cole Beasley gets a C grade. He's seen thirteen targets

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in two games, A safe but boring option for anybody
in a pinch. Here, Beasley will be draws equally boring
veteran cornerback b J Webb, who has been mostly that
sounds like a real name, b J Webb. That's that's
a real name. None of this surend green stuff. Um,
we can retroactively trade grades. Yeah, that wasn't kind of

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was I did say John Brown was a B and
then I switched him to an debat Preston Williams. All right,
do you want to give him the C after garbage
time scene? No? You can't can get me see all right,
let's let's go to our next matchup, which is Carolina
taking on the Arizona Cardinals. Scott, what have we? What
have you got for the Cam Newton lists Carolina Panthers.

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So Kyle Allen's going to get the start. His one
loan start last year two sixty six yards and three
total touchdowns. He actually, uh, he ran one in last
time as well. Uh. This would have been a get
right game for Newton, but he's not in. Obviously, the
Arizona defense still missing Patrick Peterson and Robert Alford. Uh,

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and that has allowed not just over three passing yards
per game, but over seventy rushing yards per game to quarterbacks.
As I just mentioned, Kyle Allen had a rushing touchdown
and last year when he played, maybe there's something there.
They've allowed five passing touchdowns in two games. Given him
a C grade. I think, you know what. I think
he's sneaky, startable. And I've talked to some people that
are that do that are in salary cap at famble

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dot com. They're playing Kyle Allen. I'm sure he's minimum.
He's a minimum. He is your minimum salary quarterback in
a beautiful matchup. Beautiful his main target in that game
last year and the main target for the Panthers this year.
I'm giving a B that is d J. Moore his
at least seven catches and at least seventy five yards
and back to back games totally in twenty four targets.

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B grade from him out of with Kyle Allen in
there a grade for Samuel. I really like Samuel's deep
speed against against slower defensive backs. This week he's seen
the second most targets um and and I don't think
the Cardinals defense can keep up with him. I think
he gets deep for one. Uh Greg Olson B grade.

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The Cardinals have allowed over a hundred yards and a
score to both t. J. Hockenson and Mark Andrews. You
know hard it is to allow back to back one
hundred yard light end games, almost when you're not facing
Kittle and Kelsey in a row. Yeah, no kidding. If
if Greg Olson were eight years younger, I might I
might go one ten last week. Did that's true? I

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did write that down here, But I am giving him
a B grade. Christian McCaffrey, I'm still giving an A grade.
I know it's an awful performance last week. He's gonna
rebound against the Cardinals. Nobody's gonna have a perfect game
every game, but his upside is always two hundred plus.
He had seven hundred and seventy eight total with Heinekey
last year and Cam Newton was out on the other side. Uh,

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Kyler Murray, I'm giving a B grade to the Cardinals
are going no huddle on fifty percent of their place
that's the most in the NFL. And if you're curious
who number two is, it's the Falcons at eighteen percent.
It's crazy how how up temple they want to keep things. Uh.
That shows for both Carolina and Arizona, as their seconds
per play is twenty two seconds per play, both number

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one and number two in the NFL. This might be
a really fast paced game. If so Murray's going to
pass a lot, he's he's he's throwing so much. He's
averaging over three hundred per game. B grade there. His
main guy, Fits leads the team in basically every category
A grade there. A tip of the hat to people
who who rolled the dice on Fits, who felt at

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the time of the draft felt uber boring and he
was coming off a really lackluster year. From a fantasy standpoint,
Fits has been great and I guess you could have
seen it coming that he's going to be the obvious
Veterans safety valve always in the right spots. I said
this in the preseason that when that line, terrible line

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breaks down, Kyler is going to roll out and try
to find the safety day Uh. Eighteen out of nineteen
passes to the slot where fits plays all the time
have been have been completed hundred nearly a hundred percent
of them. So them Cooper Cup, Chris Godwin great stats
out of this lot. The great thing about this team

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is they run four wide so often. Christian Kirk is
also a slag. He's a slog at most of the time.
I have a B grade on him. Uh. Kyler is
a tempting forty passes per game. He's gonna get eight
to ten of them. Uh, Beauty, when you're the second
slot guy, you're getting the dying, you're getting the dime corner.
Most teams don't have four good corners, right exactly. Uh.

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Jamir Bird was my take home, like that revenge game
there and uh dj Uh David Johnson I'm giving a
B grade to. Hopefully his wrist is fine. He had
a rough game last week, much like Christian McCaffrey. But
Todd Gurley, Malcolm Brown, Peyton Barber all good games against
this defense. They have allowed the fourth feist receptions and
second feist receiving yards to back, so that's a concern
with Johnson. But he's not cutting a lot this year,

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so which is weird, which you gotta get that going.
They do, but be great for DJ that might just
not be a part of his offense. Maybe not. Let's
move on to our final matchup of of this particular segment,
Atlanta taking on Indianapolis. I thought Matt Ryan with that
battered offensive line, was downright gallant in his performance last week. Matt,
and here comes another very good pass rushing unit in

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the Colts. What do you think? Um? Yeah, there's a
lot of There's a lot of start grades here for
the Falcons, especially in the passing game. I got an
a on Julio Jones. I gotta be on Calvin Ridley
and I already said Mohammed Sanu was might take a
chance on me. He gets a sea. The Colts are
likely missing top corner Pierre de Sierra Noal as well
as jabbaal sheared from the pass rush is great, He's

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really good. That's a big loss. No Um, Ridley is
averaging eight targets scored in both games. Julios and auto
start Austin Hooper. He gets the ECTO cooler grade. What
does that mean? It means it's a high sea like
a C plus. Did it? Oh? Yeah, I mentioned the underneath,

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dump off stuff to the Colts zone defense in the
take a chance on the segment. That plays well for Hooper,
who's averaging almost eight targets per game and leads the
Falcons and catches with thirteen. He's a pretty good start
in PPR. With all those starting grades. I gave Matt
Ryan an A. I think it's a high volume passing
game for the Falcons coming up, and I'm giving Davante
Freeman a B. Well, I don't like the amount of

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Edo Smith we've been seeing free and is in a
get right spot here. He faced the Vikings and Eagles
in the first two weeks, each with a great front seven.
The Colts are not that Uh. They've allowed almost five
point seven yards per carry to opposing backs and almost
twelve yards per catch to opposing back so far this year.
So Freeman almost an A start, I would say, but
I'm giving him a solid BE just because I'm a

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little afraid of Edo. On the other side, Marlon Mack
is getting a B. He didn't practice Thursday, did go
on Friday. That's a positive. Uh. Mac is fourth in
the league and yards after contact, and he's run thirty
eight passing routes this year to niheem Heinz nineteen. Of course,
we all know about the fabled Atlanta can't cover pass
catching backs defense. Uh, it's still true if Max suddenly

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doesn't go Jordan Wilkins becomes a B grade in this um.
But but it looks like Mack is trending the right way.
Jacoby Brisett's getting a C. He's nearly a bench play. Uh,
he just hes too low of a volume. He's only
throwing fifty five passing attempts this year. That parts, only
three quarterbacks who have started and finished both games have

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thrown thrown less. So but he is throwing a touchdown
pass on every eleven throws. He kind of like that number.
But the narrative play here. His first game at home
as the Colts starter. The last time we're in Lucas Oil,
Andrew Luck was getting booed off the field. So this
is Jacobe Pricette. Maybe it's a it's a warm homecoming
for him. Uh. T Y Hilton's getting a B. Suddenly

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he's a red zone threat. He's taken over for Eric
Ebron is the man in the end zone. The Falcons
gave up eight one oh seven and a touchdown to
a similar speedy outside guy in Nelson. Agil are the
tight ends. Ebron and Doyle are on the bench. It's
just a neutral tight end matchup, and they've combined for
only seven catches on how about that on only twelve targets.
I didn't think. I didn't think the move from Luck

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to Prisette would automatically dagger the tight ends. Really weird Schematically,
they wouldn't change that much. Something's up, So it's it's
bit is a peculiar change, isn't it? Ye? Coming up next,
let's answer three tough questions. You'll get to play along
and find out whether or not you can safely drop
Antonio Brown at this time. It's three tough questions. I'll

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be one of them. I'll pepper all panel with the questions.
You get to see if you can go three and oh,
don't do no, No, don't no. It's Fantasy Football Weekly.

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I am fault charch in fanball dot Com. My compatriots
today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Boys, It's time
to get into the grinder with three tough questions. Listener,
you can play along see if you can go three
and oh tough question number one, Can fantasy owners and
redraft leagues just drop Cam Newton? And what about dynasty

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and Empire? So I'm looking for two answers redraft leagues.
Can you drop Cam Newton in a re draft league
and then alternately in a dynasty or Empire league? We
begin with Scott Sure in one QB redraft leagues. Uh, yes,
I don't hold onto qbs in that format at all.
I I have no problem streaming, especially when a guy
who's a big part of his fantasy game is predicated

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on running. Yeah, I just don't want him in there.
Uh to keeping super flex, No chance I drop him,
zero chance I dropped him. I'm keeping him in those Uh,
Dynasty and Empire. It's the same deal. It depends on
if it's one QB or two QB I think, and
I'm keeping him in both. Keep keep is your answer?
All right? So keep and keep is where Scott is. Well,

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I'm dropping him in one QB redraft. Okay, wait, so
this is a one QB question. Yeah, okay, one qbs
for if you're in a single quarterback league, which most
of our listeners are all that we love super flex drop, redraft, keep, Dynasty,
got it, matt Um, I'm dropping in single quarterback formats
of all kinds. Um in redraft, I'm dropping him. Uh.

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He's had one year in his career with more than
twenty four touchdown passes. That one year he threw thirty five.
Take that year out. He's averaging twenty one passing scores
over the last other seven years. You know who had
twenty one passing touchdowns last year? Eli Manning, Matthew Stafford,
Andy Dalton. Where'd you find those guys on your on
your rosters last year? They were on the waiver wire.

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So he's he's he's a completely droppable player. If his
ability to run and his ability to score on the
ground is sapped, which we think it might be, he's
just an Eli Manning Matthew Stafford, Andy Dalton for a
couple of years in a row. Here I changed my answer.
He's just drop him, just drop him out. Okay, Um,
the correct answer here is drop and keep. Let's talk

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about why you would want to keep him if you're
in a dynasty or an empire league. Is the last
year of his contract, and by the way, contract very
cheap by today's standards, eighteen million dollars is nothing for
starting quarterback money at this point. Um, the opportunity for
major change for Cam Newton is coming in the next year.
The windless Panthers could take a quarterback in April's draft.

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They might be thinking they might be picking like second
in the draft. I mean, who knows. New owner might
be looking at new and coach. It's a couple of
shows ago, Matt, you said, first coach fire, first coach
fire to be Ron Rivera. You might be right about that.
So there's all that. There's free agency coming at the
end of he could be he could be on a

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different team. He could find himself on this team, but
in a better situation with better coaching. UM. I think
there's a lot of scenarios here where he ends up
either on a different team or in a better situation,
better coaching, better offensive line, better receivers, somewhere or another
down the road where you'd ultimately be glad you had
Cam Newton. I'm not ready to completely write him off

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long term, so we're keeping him here at least to
next year so we can find out how this thing
is going to play out between now and next season.
Tough question number two and some scoring systems Austin Ekeler
has been Fantasy Football's top scoring running back. Are you

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selling high or you're keeping him to yourself? Matt damage
to the Hippo campus from that one. It hurts. I
can't convert temporary memories to permanent ones. I can't analyze
and remember spatial relationships. Certainly I'm running into doors and
all that stuff. Austin, you're Tetris. You're still bad at Tetris,
really bad at Tetris. I can't move furniture. It's awful.

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Just dido horizontal. You never do it horizontal? What are
you doing? How do you even do that? Somebody's making
a Tetris movie? What is it with the great characters
of Tetris? Oh? Yeah, movie, the Tetris movie. Okay, So

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Austin Ekeler hasn't been the most durable back. He was
dinged up when Gordon missed games last year, he wasn't
as successful. Uh And Melvin Gordon will return this season
at some point, most likely Week nine against the Packers
because Week ten is a Thursday night game and he
probably won't be able to play in that one. A
few reports in Week ten, uh and we've cited the
late season, tough schedule for Chargers backs. Week eleven versus

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Kansas City in Mexico, Week twelve as a bye, Week
thirteen at Denver, that's a tough run dye. Week fourteen
at Jacksonville, that's a tough run dye. Week fifteen Minnesota,
that's a tough run dye. If you're starting Chargers running
backs at that point, you're being eliminated from the playoffs.
So it's sell now while he's at the all time peak.
I'm just to ride it out. We've had so many

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running back injuries and running back issues and Joe Mixons
and Leonard four Nets and guys just having terrible games
early in the season. Here he scored four touchdowns in
two weeks. He's getting twins when he touches a game.
I'm gonna ride this out as long until it bucks
me and then try to figure out what I'm gonna do.
I'm not gonna sell him yet, all right. Um, you know,
I think Matt hit on all my salient points, which

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is I'm selling high on Austin Ekeler, and I love
Austin Ekeler. I think he's a good back. There's there's
a chance that Melvin Gordon returns. So I mean that's
happening in weekdown. It's gonna water down this back field
a lot. Matt hit on many of my my salient points.
I'll sell him later. You've got this after Miami next week,
and you're holding him for one more week. You're selling
him on the on the bananza. You're head but hey

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on the Miami game, by the way, and then you
get Denver, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Chicago, brutal matchups. You got the
playoffs schedule also brutal Jacksonville, Minnesota. You know, I just
I don't. I just don't think there's there's so much
reason to think Austin Ekeler can't maintain this. If you
can get elite return value for him, you should. You
trade him in an Empire League to the guy who's

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facing the current champ in week four. That's I like
the way you think, like the way, all right, tough
Question number three? Can we just drop Antonio Brown Scott yep?
I think so? Well wait wait give it to me
in two answers Redraft Dynasty keeper Will Redraft. Yes, I

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don't think he plays another down this season, if at all,
he'll be thirty two. By the time next season starts
at wide receiver age, that's that's really getting out there.
Then you've got to find a team that not only
will take a chance on him, that will also be
a good situation for him. I'm I'm just not trusting
all of those things are gonna come in line. Plus,
we don't know what this investigation the NFL is doing

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is gonna hold. And if he'll be suspended next year
or part of the year, maybe he doesn't come back
to his thirty three. I'm I'm just dropping him in
both drop drop, dropping him drop and bop, drop and drop.
Have I got a question and for you, does this
mean he's no longer staying at Tom and Giselle's house.
I gotta believe it's over. They're like, uh yeah, sorry, Antonio.

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What if he won't leave? What if he just actually
like nothing's changed? And now now, hey, Jasel, how's it going. Yeah?
You know, he's just hanging around the house and they're
you making some wheat germ um. They're looking at their
watches kind of getting late Antonio, and he's oblivious, Oh yeah,
you guys want to watch some Netflix? Yea. With the
three of them. Um. I believe he's very droppable and

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redraft um from from everything that Scott said, But I
will differ and say that he's not quite droppable yet
in dynasty or empire. Uh, if you get to hold
the guy over for years and years, there's still a
shot that he comes back into the league. And let's
face it, from a talent standpoint, he's one of the
most talented wide receivers in the league. If he gets

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another chance to play in this league again, I think
that you have to hold and there is some value
at least sort of tradeable asset that you can get
for Antonio Brown in a dynasty league. None of us
believe Antonio Brown is likely to play this year, but
we can't rule out play this year, right, So he
has to get through this any possible NFL action against
him for the rape allegation that's against him and other allegations.

(53:17):
So he's got to get through that. But if he does, um,
there's a chance at the end of the year, perhaps
a playoff bound team suffers a major injury. You know,
I don't know. The Falcons are going to the playoffs
and Julio Jones goes down whatever The other team he
can end up on is the Chiefs. Wouldn't that be
something um he could play somewhere else this year. But

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I think the most likely scenario is he's going to
hit the repentance tour. He's going to talk about how
he's going to go to anger management, he is going
to go to personality behavior. He may decide to tell
us that he's got a substance abuse issue, which one,
frankly would not surprise me, but I'm not. I'm not
saying he has one, but I wouldn't be surprised if
it turned out that he says he does. Those are

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all things I think is going to happen now is
when you know, when he's got plenty of time by
himself and he's got to just learn to deal with
this thing. That the repentance tour is going to happen.
That's gonna set the stage for Antonio Brown to be
on another team at training camp next year, and maybe
that situation is going to be a very good one.
We don't know for sure. To Scott's point, we don't know.
It could be a bad one if he's if he

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is anywhere, but he might be in Miami. They might
be in Miami. If you're in a you're in a
dynasty or an empire league and you're thinking about next
year and you only have fifteen roster spots, you can't hold.
You can't hold Antonio Brown. Most of those are bigger leagues.
And then I think you hold him and you find
out how this thing plays out for next season, but
you're not the prepensive. There's a nine chance I believe

(54:44):
Antonio Brown will not play this year. Questions like this
and the Camp one are predicated on your roster sides.
If you have twenty four roster spots, well then it's easy.
Well that it's easy, but why not? And that's why
I hate twenty four roster spots. You know, It's just
there's no there's no hard decision making for a commissioner
at that point. By the way, what a roller coaster
of value for Antonio Brown going from Pittsburgh to the Raiders,
which is a downgrade, and then maybe he's not going

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to play for the Raiders, which is dorade. Then he's
cut and we're like, oh my gosh, what's happening. Then
to the Patriots and he's like all time high, right
for two days a week one week, Yes, and and
in a game in which he played snaps and the
throw to may Times last week, Holy cow, unbelievable. Oakland.

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It takes on the Minnesota Vikings, and let's talk through
the fantasy angles of this one. For the Raiders, it's a.
It's a it's pretty messy, and I don't like a
lot of what I see here. For Derek Carr. The
Vikings secondary has been unusually pliable, but I still don't
like Car much here. Viking secondary remains very good. And
this offense uh and his offense for Derek Cars dealing

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with injuries all all around him, which is a big problem.
Tyrod Williams trying to play through a hip injury, offensive
line maybe missing Trent Brown and Gabe Jackson, you're all
that together, and it's only a C grade at best.
For Derek Carr, well, you know what, I'm just gonna
put him on the bench. That's what you would do
against the Vikings on the road. Let's go. Let's go
bench right here. By the way, speaking of on the road,

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Raiders have lost eleven straight road games. That gross. I
did hear a stat that the Vikings have never beat
a John Cruden team really wow, I believe he's four
Oh okay, Um, Tyroll Williams, as I mentioned, hobbled with
a hip injury, lines up from all over the field,
but I think mostly he's gonna see Xavier Roads because
of his size. Rhodes isn't the shutdown corner he used

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to be, but I think he can curtail it Hobbled
Williams here if he even plays, so ce grade on
Tyrolle Williams. Dar Darren Waller is the exciting guy here.
He's played of Oakland snaps from the tight end. He's
the tight end and he's garnered every tight end target
but two so far. Highly involved in this offense. Six
ft six, he runs a four fourty. Minnesota hasn't allowed

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a tight end touchdown in eleven straight games, but um,
they have been dinged by some tight ends, including Austin
Hooper in Week one, so it's been underneath. Yeah, I
think while you're sitting on a high volume game, and
I wouldn't be surprised if they threw ten passes his
direction or maybe even I can't rule that out. You

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can't know be great on Darren Waller. Josh Jacobs is
dealing with a groin injury, and he's also dealing with
an undisclosed illness. I want to believe that that illness
is leprosy. He lines up all over the fight. I'm sorry,
he's dropped ten pounds. It could have just skin weight.

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The Vikings completely shut down DeVonta Freeman at home, limited
him to thirty one yards, but then they got demolished
by Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams on the road. This
is a home game for the Vikings and they've mostly
dominated Runners at home, so roll all that together. Josh
Jacobs gets a nervous c A grade and that is it. Um,
let's go to the Viking side. Kirk Cousins startable in

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this one, in a possible get right spot for him
as he faces a team that's already five passing touchdowns
and three five yards per game. But will Kirk be
allowed to throw the ball requisite enough times to throw
the balls? It has come to that, Um, he's thrown
the fewest passes of any two game starter in the league.
Offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski got burned by Cousins last week

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and maybe hesitant to ask him to go win the
game with his arm. Um but a C grade on
Cousins because the matchup so good, and for Theeling and
Diggs they both get B grades. Raiders are allowing the
second most yards per game to opposing wide receivers. Both
Theeling and Diggs play from all over the field and
they get great matchups no matter where they go. You
get on one side of the field, they get lead
footed cornerback Darryl Worley and his six four speed. On

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the other side they get garyn Connolly, who got smoked
by Chiefs utility receiver to Marcus Robinson last week. And
then in the slot they get to Marcus Joyner, who
is incredibly allowed fourteen of fifteen passes in his coverage
to be completed. It's like he's not even trying. No,
it's not. It's like he's not trying. I mean if
I asked, if I asked Kirk Cousins to throw fifteen

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straight passes to an uncovered feeling and digs in practice,
he might hit fourteen and fifteen. Then there's Dalvin Cook,
who's an obvious A grade that I don't think we
really need to expand upon here. Um he's been great,
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find out next. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul

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Charge and we are breaking down each of Sunday and
Monday's NFL games fantasy style. We put letter grades on
every player, explain who we like, why we like him,
why we don't like him, and you get to make
your own decisions. You agree with us, you get to
hear the rationale for why we like these guys. If
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If you think we're not, don't like it's up to
you set your own line up. Flying short of that,

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Houston takes on the Chargers. Uh Scott as a as
I mentioned going into uh this previous break, this is
a tricky matchup for Deshaun Watson. Yeah. Um, this is
a good Chargers secondary and a team you generally beat
on the ground and not through the air. What do
you think it? What do you make it? Deshaun Watson
for fantasy owners? But is it still good? Right now?

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Derwin James is on I Are, Adrian Phillips this week
joined him on I Are, and so is Trevor Williams.
Now so they're starting defensive is just Casey Hayward from
the start of the year, and he's so he's gonna
be on DeAndre Hopkins. So will Fuller that was that?

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That's that's the sound of will Fuller going deep right there? Yeah, there,
there you go. It's a little bit of a rough
spot for Watson, who just got sacked three times while
we've been talking. That line is is pretty terrible. Uh.
Bright note for bright note for him is that the
defensive backfield should should give him some room to operate.

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He hasn't top two hundred seven yards yet, the Chargers
haven't given up two U fifty yet. I'm just given
a B grade to Watson Hopkins even with Casey Hayward.
I'm given an A grade because because it's DeAndre Hopkins.
When's the last time he had two bad games in
a row? That just doesn't happen to him? So uh uh.
I think he had a bad game against Ramsey this week.
I think he's gonna have a little bit more breathing

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room lining up all over against with Casey Hayward trying
to shadow him Will Fuller. As you said, I'm giving
a B grade to I've got it. I love him
today ahead you can finish. Do you know who's on
him though, Matt, you want an old cornerback name who's
gonna be honest. Brandon Fatty Soon Fast seasons, Brandon Brandon

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Faceason fast season. Um, yeah, that Brandon Fast season as
as we like to talk about here. Don't worry. I
didn't know much about him either, but he's an undrafted
kid who has seen a total of five career passes
into his coverage before getting pressed into duty this season.
His two games this year haven't gone well. He has
allowed ten of twelve passes in his coverage to be

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completed and he's already allowed a touchdown. Hey, can you
go easy on Brandon Brandon fast fast season? Brandon fast season.
And that's why I think Fuller gets off. You remember
Will Fuller with Deshaun Watson. They scored in each of
their first seven games together, and he's only scored in
one of their last six together. I think that I

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think he gets back on that pace of this game.
Carlos Hyde was your take home. I have Duke on
the bench, Duke Johnson, because I mentioned this in the preseason.
Deshaun Watson was through through through to the rainbacks the
lowest percentage in the NFL last year, and I thought
it might have been personnel. Only five completion the running
backs this year, So maybe it's just not what they

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do at all. So Duke is on the bench on
the San Diego, San Diego, Los Angeles Cardon Sandy Digo
char alright, Philip Rivers, I'm giving a B two. He's
which he gets matted matched up against the week secondary,
including an aging vet guy they picked up in free

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agency one week ago and a rookie, so that should
be pretty good for rivers. H. He's averaging over three
yards per game in attempting thirty five passes per game,
giving him a pretty strong be because I really like
Allen this week as well. UH. With Henry out and
Williams ding dupp, that means a ton of targets for Alani.
At fifteen last week, UH is currently fourth in the

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NFL in red zone targets. I think you can lock
in ten plus targets easy A grade there. Uh. Mike Williams.
I thought he was gonna be a decoy last week.
He wasn't. He was in for about six snaps and
he's the one that's gonna get the rookie corner Lonnie Johnson.
I do have a B grade on him. Fantasy's number
one running Fantasy Football stops scoring running back Austin Ekeler

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obviously grade right. He's averaging twenty touches per game, six
of those per game being receptions. Its receptions per game. Uh,
and what did I say about running backs before the
season who average eighteen or more per game the last
two Levin? Who did it last year, all finished top
fifteen on the season. It's so much about the running
back positions. Just opportunity, absolutely, just plane volume. Justin Jackson

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despite his eight point yards per cary, he's only getting
six or seven touches per game. I'm still keeping him
on the bench. Still eight point eight yards per carry.
That's awfully good. Awfully good. All right, not so good?
The Giants taking on Tampa, what I know, it's good.
It's not so bad for sake Kwon Barkley. You already
talked about Daniel Jones, so you take a chance on

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me quarterback. So who are the receivers that you like
for the Giants? Matt Well, yeah, baby, that's it, does
You don't need to expand on that, really. Evan Ingram
gets an a. He's leading the NFL tight ends in
receptions with seventeen through two games. He's on pace for
a hundred and thirty six, which would obliterate Zach ertz

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is a single season tight end record of one sixteen.
George Kittle had two touchdowns back for penalty against Tampa.
Greg Olsen had a hundred and ten yards last week.
This is an easy one for Ingram. Sterling Shepherd gets
the seas out of the concussion protocol, while fellow wide
receiver Cody Lattimer traded places with him and went into
the concussion protocol. Benny Fowler looks doubtful with a hammy,

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and Shepherd caught six of his seven targets in the opener.
He's the top wide receiver target for Danny Dimes as
Scott Fish love of ye, that's not a me original
Jamis Winston on the other side, I'm giving him a
bee and it's a if not now when it really
is right now. The Giants defense is an absolute dumpster fire.

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Opposing quarterbacks in the last four games are averaging three
hundred and fifty passing yards and almost three passing touchdowns
per game. Last year, in this matchup, Winston played half
of a game, had a hundred nine yards and two
touchdowns on sixteen throws. That's great. Yeah, Chris Godwin gets
an A grade. Mike Evans get to be the passerrating

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when targeting Godwin one one point one. That's pretty good.
Godwin lines up in the slot against more than any
wide receiver in Tampa, I should say so. He will
face Grant Haley the most who's one of the worst
slot corners in the league. According to Pro Football Focus,
DeAndre Baker is the other corner that God will get
to pick on. He literally is the worst cover corner

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in the league. Mike Evans gets generous Jenkins for most
of the game. He's their best player in the secondary.
But that's like dominating a kindergarten tea ball game as
a nine year old. Breshad Perriman is even a possibility
of the desperation seeing it was almost might take a
chance from me receiver. Um, I'm gonna give O. J.
Howard to see. He had one target last week. It

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was negated by his own offensive pass interference call. That's
insane because Brad has two negated touchdowns. Vibaldi too. Um.
The Giants have given up two touchdowns to tight ends
this year. The Bucks had ten days to look at
what are we doing wrong with O. J. Howard. I
got a feeling that they're going to try to get
this right well, and Bruce arians called out Howard publicly.

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And I think a lot of times they like to
uh put a little to soothe the wounds a little
bit when they do that. And so we'll see if
I think I put a little fire in the belly.
If you're if you've held on too O J. Howard
through this, for the love of God, start him here.
It's the Giants considering the waste land that is tight
end right now. You you you're probably still playing him.

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Peyton Barber and Ronald Jones. I have both on the bench.
You're oh, you're crazy. I'm not crazy. After Jones looked
like the hot hand in week one with fourteen touches,
he only got four in Week two. Barbera had ten
touches in week one and twenty four last week. This
keeps cycling back and forth, and I don't want anything
to do with the Vampa run game. You can be

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in as much as you want, but I'm I'm out.
I Am not even against the doster fire that is
the Giants. I'm starting everybody I can against the Giants. Fantastic.
I'm gonna beat you this week if you can. I've
got Peyton Barber in a bunch of leagues, and I
think Barber has been good and you love the game. Barber, apologies.
I have been and I'm sticking with it here because

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this is the easiest matchup he's got all year. Carries right, dude.
He had. He had twenty three carries last week, forty
two snaps to Jones's eight snaps. Now, I know the
hot hand thing is legit. I can't tell you that
Barbera's not is going to be the hot hand guy.
That's exactly No. Here's what I can tell you. Who's

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going to be the first running back on the field.
It's gonna be Barber. And all you have to do
to become the hot hand is me the first guy
on the field against the Giants. Whoever gets the first
crack at the Giants is automatically the hot hand. Peyton
Barber is gonna do just fine. I got I got
him on the bench. We'll see how that works out.
Next week, New Orleans takes on Seattle. This will be

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the first game for Teddy Bridgewater is a starter, um,
which you think is worst news Teddy's career average of
one touchdown per start, or the fact that Taysom Hill
is gonna factor heavily into the quarterbacking mix here what yeah,
you can't start Teddy Bridgewater and fact start Hill first.
Sean Pitton's playing super flex. He is playing super flex

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with his own team, which I love. Um, Bridgewaters out
and he hurts. He materially hurts compared to Drew Brees.
He materially hurts the whole offense. But still you're still
starting guys like Michael Thomas Thomas. It's not like Thomas
was like deep these deep bombs to Michael Thomas. The
whole bit on Thomas is they throw to him twelve
times a game and he catches eleven of him. Teddy

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Bridgewater still throws a short, catchable ball and fairly accurate,
reasonably accurate as long as you don't ask him to
throw for more than about sixteen yards downfield. Perfect um.
He is going to see a He's gonna see a
fair amount of Seahawks cornerback Tray Flowers who got burned
for a hundred seventy yards. And he's scoring the opener

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and remains one of these slower, more burnable cornerbacks in
the league. Thomas is the ultimate possession receiver. I still
think you get little something done here. I'm giving Jared
Cook a ce. He's been a disaster so far. I
think two catches in each game. How can you have
him in your lineup without breeze? But the Seahawks have
allowed the second most receptions, the ninth most yards, and
are one of just six teams to allow more than

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one score to opposing tight ends. Okay, tight ends find
themselves ten yards down field. You know, they're running their
tight end routes. That's the Teddy zone. They're a little
tight end. That's all. That's all Teddy can do is
these ten yard routes. So I think I think I'm
giving Jared Cook a starting grade with the sea here. Uh,
those are that's it for the receivers. Were not going

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to the We're not going into the ted gids in
the world that do need those long passes. Let's go
to Alvin Kamara, who gets a B grade. Only one
back is top sixty two yards on the ground against
Seattle over their past six games going back to last
year obviously, but they have allowed five receiving scores to
backs in their last seven games. So maybe build something
through the air there. Um, he's only posted, by the way,

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he's posted fewer than thirty seven receiving yards. We think
of Camara is an elite path kicking back right fewer
than thirty seven receiving yards in ten of his last
thirteen games. Weird I know for Camary, I just I'm
surprised too. He doesn't have a twenty carry game in
his career. He's also not scored a touchdown in four
the past six games. Salvid Camara is not It's a

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B grade on the downgrade with the offense and that
part all that together, but there's concern here about tomorrow overall. Yeah,
tough fish question. If it doesn't go next week, it might,
it might come up next week. Let's let's go to
the Seattle side of this game. Tyler Lockett is where
I want to start here because I love this matchup.
He goes up against slot cornerback p J. Williams, and
the Rams absolutely targeted him last week with Cooper Cup.

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Hundred twenty yards on nine targets for Cooper Cup against
p J Williams, and Cup was a yard away from
staring touchdown. In fact, they called it a touchdown called
it back on review. Williams struggled hang onto the slower
Cup who's only a four six guy, and here comes
Tyler Lockett, who's a four four guy. I think this
is a very nice matchup for Tyler Lockett, who has

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an A grade in this game. And if I lock
it in an A grade. I probably like Russell Wilson,
who's gotta be grade. Wilson doesn't run much anymore, though,
So let's know that topping twenty two rushing yards just
twice in the last ten games. But I should not
know that the Saints have allowed quarterback rushing touchdowns in
both of their games this year. So maybe gets a
little something done on the ground. And if he had
more and better receivers, I'd be more inclined to go

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with him. But there's will distille c grade there. Um.
I know a lot of people scrambled Will Disley last
week because of the two touchdowns, and so you just
picked him up and now you want to dust them
off here. But the problem is Seattle has been great
against tight ends, and none of top twenty one yards
this year, none of top sixty one yards all of
last year against Seattle. So a tough a tough bit

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Will Disilee. And this only people knew how to speculate
prematurely on Will Disley was done in week one. Oh yeah,
let me adjust my tie here. Oh there it is,
hey hold on, dk Metcalf gets a C grade. He
plays almost entirely from the left side of the field.
That puts him on marshed on Lattimore. That used to
be a tough assignment, but Lattimore is trailed off a lot.

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He has a lot of touchdowns in both games this year.
And Metcalf's got forty pounds of weight differential on Lattimore.
He's got forty pounds of weight differential on everybody. Yeah,
that's right, exactly, All right, Let's go to the running
game because this thing gets Harry first. Rashod Penny is
popped up on Friday's injury report with what was its
hamstring injury. So this thing is super dicey, so and

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it's gonna be confusing for fantasy owners. And I don't
even have all the answers right now, but let's note this.
Carson has got three fumbles already, not good. He's one
fumble away from riding Pine for a long time. That
worries me. And he's got to know that and I
and a lot of times when you ask guys to
cover up the ball, suddenly they're not running with the
same style and stuff like that. I'm nervous of about
this now. The Saints run defense has been bad this year.

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They've allowed almost six yards per carry, which is almost
twice last year's league leading three point two yards per carry.
They were an awesome run defense last year, they've been
bad this year. Um Still, the Saints have only allowed
to rushing touchdown since last October. So roll all that together.
I mean, if Penny is playing in this game, I

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heard directly from head coach Pete Carroll. Didn't call me,
but I heard this on an interview. He said, it's
a two headed backfield. If Penny's back there, they're gonna play,
and Chris Carson could lose this thing. It's but if
Penny's not healthy, and then it's all Chris Carson. I
would give a B grade to Carson, but if it's
both of them, they come in with C grades. Our

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final topics are ahead when we provide you with three
guys we believe will be hot waiver wire pickups next week,
so you can grab them this week. Whether you are
ready for it or not. Premature Speculation is coming at
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the most popular segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Each week,
our host provide a player who will be a hot
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then you frustrate the rest of your league when you've
got the players they're trying to pick up machine sound
effect again it goes boing boing. I think we need

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the Wyn and Garth due that works for me. Um.
Let's begin with Scott Fish. Your premature speculation player is
Paul church In. Do you remember that Miami team that
allows the most rush attempts, the most rushing yards, the
most rushing touchdowns, and the most receiving touchdowns. Yes? I do.
Do you also remember that running back I mentioned that's

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averaging eight point eight yards per carry? But I have
him on the bench this week because he's only getting
seven to eight touches a game. Yeah, who's that? That's
Justin Jackson. Give me him, Get him now, get him
before he plays Miami next week, where he should get
a ton more opportunity in a blowout. And guess what,
he's over seventy available in leagues right now. That's amazing.
Don't pay fab for him next week. Go pick him

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up now if he's available. If next week everybody's gonna
realize Miami's coming exactly expensive that he'll cost you one
buck or just pickup move if you're in one of
those leagues. Get him now, right, Matt, I got super
flex himself, Taysom Hill. If the Bridgewater experiment in New
Orleans doesn't go well in Seattle, we might see a
ton more of Taysom Hill, and Frankly, if it does

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go well, we might still see a decent split of
Hill and Bridgewater. Sean Payton is going to try to
keep this team alive with bubble gum and band aids,
which could mean a revamped read option offense that uses
Hill and many snaps. He refused to name Teddy the
clear cut number one quarterback. Wasn't that interesting. It's not good.
And even if Hill is not playing quarterback full time,
he was still on the field for twenty one snaps

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against the Rams last week. He can catch, he can run,
he can block, he can throw. It behooves the Saints
to keep Weapon X on the field. And I think
Taysom Hill is going to be a guy that if
you're in a two quarterback lead, you might be starting
him in some weeks just because he's gonna be PPR
where he'll he'll be a little of every, little of everything.
Maybe my premature speculation player is Ty Johnson. He is

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your new number two running back for Detroit. Now, I've
been advocating for c. J. Anderson during the preseason, but
you if you remember closely, and I'm sure you remember
everything I ever had to say about c J, it
was never that c J. Anderson's this great runner. It
was just the opportunity was going to be so high
from a team that runs the ball thirty times a game, which,
by the way, they've been running the ball thirty times

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a game, and that's Darrell Bevel's history, thirty times a game.
But that opportunity now shifts to Ty Johnson, the sixth
round rookie from Maryland, where opportunity meets talent. Ty Johnson
averaged seven points seven yards per carry in college. He
is incredibly fast. He's got four three speed. He was

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the Maryland's kick returner at his pro day, one scout
tying him at four two six Ty Johnson. Scout's got
a bad stop watch. And when I tell you a
player is that fast, and most of you have no
idea what Ty Johnson looks like. He's not small, he
is a he is a full sized running back. He's
five ft ten two hundred ten pounds. Usually when he's

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he's not unsized, He's not fun sized, and he can catch.
He caught in Matthew Stafford touchdown in the preseason. Ty
Johnson's got some shifting nous to him. I wouldn't call
him elusive. He's mostly a straight ahead runner. Like a
lot of these speed sprinter types. Are the guy the
favorable pro comparison, favorable mind pro comparison for Ty Johnson.
Robert Smith might go actually is also bigger than people think,

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but Robert Smith had the crazy speed. Let's get to
our final set of matchups, including the Pittsburgh Steelers taking
on the San Francisco forty Niners. Scott okay so on
the Pittsburgh side the Pittsburgh passing game. Rudolph actually looked
pretty competent coming off the bench last week, but this
will still be his first start in the league. Uh
Andy Dalton was able to pile up fantasy points in

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garbage time last week against the forty Niners. Maybe the
same happens here for Rudolph. As the Steelers are six
and a half seven point underdogs at this point, which
is crazy, but the the four Niners are high scoring
and the Steelers are really in a little bit they
need to win. They haven't scored thirty points total on
the season, which is crazy. But I'm giving Rudolf just,

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you know, kind of a C grade. Uh Juju, I'm
still giving a B grade two. He drew over of
Rudolph's targets. That doesn't even count the two point conversion
attempt that that was tossed his way, uh fifty seven
yards last week. Um and that was just in a
half fifty seven yards on on five targets and a half,
so it looks good there. I think he'll find his

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his his best receiver, So be grade for Juju Washington.
I was gonna give a grade two until Deonta Johnson
comes up. Is going to be the ex receiver in
this game. He they said after practice on Friday that
he's going to be the starting receiver. So I'm giving
I'm giving Johnson that se grade and I'm putting Washington

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on the bench despite all their history from from college
and whatnot. Deante Johnson preseason Darlin caught a nice touchdown
from from Rudolph in the in the preseason, uh they're
gonna need to catch up. I think Deontay gets some
get some work there, Vance Dance Vance McDonald B grade
your boy boy. He had four targets, catching all of

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them for eighteen yards and two touchdowns in the second
half with Rudolph last week. Uh. San Fran may have
hold held down O. J. Howard and Tyler Eiffort, but
I liked I like his work in the red in
the advance is getting with Threwolf, so the opportunity for
a touchdown, I think I gotta give him a B
grade here, all right? Uh Connor and Samuel Samuel's is
just going to stay on the bench unless until Connor,

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you know, goes out is well, and he almost did
this week. But he will start this He is gonna start. Uh.
So I trust that the Bucks runners did well against
the forty niners. Joe Mixon did not. It's kind of
a mixed bag there, but I'm still giving Connor a
B grade because he's a work horse. On the other side,
Jimmy g was my take. Colm one one note, I
didn't mention about them. They're the only team in the

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NFL without a three and out this year. What not
a single thing that's all right this year. That's from
Skyle Shandy s so good. Yeah. However, Deebo Samuel is
the only one I'm starting, and I'm only giving him
a C grade out of the wide receiver corp. There's
a lot of splitting going on, but I think he's
the best possible option for points out of there. I'm

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worried because his snap count dropped in half last week
as Dante Pettis came back. I argue that was also
because they got really ahead. Maybe Okay. On the other
to the tight ends, Kittle a grade. Uh. Kittle could
go against the super team of the five Bears and
two thousand Ravens could find and I would still give
him an A grade. We'll guys on the field, well,

(01:23:18):
yeah exactly. We'll justly caught two touchdowns against these guys.
I think as long as kit Will also has like
we mentioned, well, kit Will also has two touchdowns negated
by penalty. I hope that doesn't happen again, But I
think he gets in the end zone uh in the
running game. Would it surprise you to that he mostard
has played more red zone snaps, touches, UH, targets and

(01:23:42):
catches gotten all in the red zone then Matt Brada.
Yeah that it surprises me a little bit other than
the touchdowns. It's just that. How about that Matt Breda
has one red zone snap this season. That's that he
plays in between the twenties. I'm still giving them both
SEA grades because the bang the Steelers are allowing eight

(01:24:02):
point five receptions per game to the position and the
third most total yard staff position. I mean those receptions,
that's like eighteen Atlanta Falcons bad. So I think there's
gonna be a lot of work for both of them.
I'm giving them both C grades. Okay, let's let's go
over to the Rams taking on the Cleveland Browns. Yeah,
the Rams returned to Cleveland finally, Todd Gurley and Malcolm Brown.

(01:24:22):
They get a B grade. Malcolm Brown has the highest
elusive rating in the NFL amongst players with fifteen and
more touches. Gurley as the second most rushes for fifteen
plus yards, and the Browns gave up one fifty nine
to Derrick Henry and one twenty nine to Levy on Bell,
Jared Goff only gets to see the road splits are real.
I talked about it in week one on this five
outdoor road games, the average to twenty seven, one touchdown

(01:24:44):
and one point four interceptions. Last year, he had one, six,
one and one in his first outdoor road game in Carolina.
Cleveland made Marcus Marcus Mariota look good in Week one,
but that won't happen here. Cooper Cup does get a
B grade, and Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks are just
getting c's. In their last seven games, the Browns have
allowed exactly one touchdown to the wide receiver position and

(01:25:05):
one yard game. So the highest grade goes the Cooper Cup,
who leads the team and targets and receptions but hasn't
scored yet despite going down in the one yard line
last week. T J. Kerry is the slot corner for
the Browns and offers the best matchup according to Pro
Football Focus. Cooks is probably the higher the sea grades.
He leads the team in air yards. Woods only saw
two targets last week. I have a bad feeling that

(01:25:25):
his late season burst was due to him playing the slot,
and now the Cup is back, he's just a normal player.
On the other side, Odell Beckham gets an A, Jarvis
Landry gets a C, and it's closer to a bench.
Landry is the third in the NFL amongst wide receivers
with four broken tackles after reception, but the passer rating
when throwing at him as an awful thirty three point six.
Beckham faces a Ram secondary that gave up decent days.

(01:25:48):
The other wide receiver ones Michael Thomas had a good,
good game even with Breeze out for much of the game,
and d J. Moore had seven for seventy six. Richard
Higgins also out with an ankle injury, and David and
Joku on injured reserve of with a broken wrist. Yeah,
that's a that's a big loss at a thin position. Yeah,
Baker Mayfield, it's a. It's a notable loss. That's kind
of Baker Mayfield. He gets a bees looks shaky. It

(01:26:10):
best so far, But this is his moment, his first
Sunday Night marquee game in his career, maybe the first
Sunday night game the Browns have had since they came back. Uh.
He's the best quarterback the Rams have faced this year
after an injured Cam and an injured Breeze. Nick Chubb
gets an A two and twenty four touches in the
first couple of weeks. McCaffrey torched this defense in week one.
Kamarrow is held back by the breeze injury. I think Chub,

(01:26:32):
who's third on the team and targets, is ready for
a big spot here. Okay, let's go to the Monday
night or Chicago and Washington. And by the way, who's
scheduling the monthy terrible terrible games? Uh, there's only two
starters in the entire game. David Montgomery is one of them.
He got the lion's share of the snaps and carries
last week, unfortunately, averaging just three and a half ke

(01:26:54):
yards per carry through two games. His blocking hasn't been good,
but he needs to do better. Fortunately, the Redskins have
allowed one of sixteen rushing yards one thirty three rushing
yards in their two games, and they are missing Jonathan Allen,
who may end up missing this one as well. Um,
maybe they'll start throwing. They're not even throwing to him yet,
which they should do. He's got good hands Allen Robinson, though,
I love he's got a great matchup against a Redskins

(01:27:15):
secondary allowing over two hundred yards to opposing wide receivers.
And get this, Robinson lines up all over the field,
So I means he's got a positive matchup at every stop.
Josh Norman is just toast Dominique Rodgers, CARIMARTI just went on.
I r Fabian Moreau is hurt, Quentin Dunbar's hurt. Every quarterback.
It's all bad. No matter where Allen Robinson goes, he's
got a plus matchup on the field. Problem is he's

(01:27:36):
got Sad trombone Ski quarterback well, and that that is
the problem. Kenny overcome Sad trombone Ski, who's frankly just unstartable.
Right now, even with all this deeply favorable matchup, I
can't do it. All the other wide receivers besides Allen Robinson,
none have more than three catches in a game. Even
though Anthony Miller, Taylor Gabriel of positive matchups, I just

(01:27:58):
they just haven't been used, Hawkeye. I can't recommend them.
Then there's three Cohen who from whom you will get
no carries, and then it only matters what he can
get through the air for you. And the Redskins have
been awesome against receiving running backs. No runners top sixteen
receiving yards and what's more, only one runners scored to
receiving touchdown in the Redskins last twenty four games. Not

(01:28:19):
on the Washington side. Start nobody. It's a terrible matchup
against the best defense. And not even Terry mccar and
Harry McLaurin, who gets Prince Amukamara, who's got the speed
to hang with him here? There's there's nothing to like
in this matchup, including Adrian Peterson and Chris Thompson. I'm
afraid it's just all bad news. It's the Bears. It's
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