Quarterback Stuff? Like Passing?

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it one. I know it's pretty good. I know it's
got hit eighty eight, that's all I know. We're beginning
with the Saints taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Brian on
the same side. The storyline here is Alvin Kamara. It
appears he will not play. Um it's you probably won't

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get a definitive ruling until Sunday morning, But you know,
what do you think about this, especially if it's Latavius
Murray available on over half of waiver wires. Yeah, news
got worse throughout the week Thursday this, uh, you know,
the injury popped up that might keep Kamar out. He
did not practice Friday, so it's not looking too good.
Let's assume he's not playing here. I guess I think

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I have to probably assume he's not because and if
he is playing people probably so if he was gonna
play real quick, he was gonna be a bad matchup.
But it's Alvin Kamara. You're playing Alvin Kamara, right. He
was my RB nine and a tough matchup, and when
I thought he was fully healthy because we believe he
injured himself in practice at the beginning of the week. Now,
so Latavius Murray is not Alvin Kamara. I'm not breaking news. Yeah,

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And and really it's a brutal matchup. Jacksonville is not
allowed an opposing running back to top a hundred combo
yards of this season until Christian McCaffrey. And I was
prepared to say Alvin Kamara is almost Christian McAffrey now
before the season that would be preposterous, but now it's reality.
But so brutal matchup this season. Let's go back. We
can go back to Jacksonville has allowed one yard rushing

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game at home since December, which is absolutely is nuts.
And then speaking back to McCaffrey, he was the first
running back to top fifty receiving yards against the Jaguars
in their last eighteen games. Las Murray is going to
catch that much anyway, so he gets he gets the
softest see of them all. If Kamara doesn't go, if

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Camara goes, you got to roll the dice on them.
But it's not looking good. So you're back. You're back
to what Murray always is, which is just the hope
of a goal line touchdown in little more. I mean,
the good part is he knows how to take a
handoff from Teddy Bridgewater specifically. That's maybe the highest level
point in this game. There is history there, that's for sure.
Now let's go to the a land where Michael Thomas

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lives because Jacksonville likely to be without Jalen Ramsey for
a third STRAIGHTE game. I don't know this thing's gone.
I don't know. Well, the owner said he thought he'd play,
and then Ramsey said, I'm still in pain this I
never listened to owners personally, I don't know. He has
not practiced as far as we know, all right, So
if Ramsey plays easy, be okay, because it's Michael Thomas,

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he's matchup proof Ramsey doesn't go, it's an a. Uh.
They won't shadow Thomas with A J. Booyer, who was
a very good corner as well. But Booya didn't even
shadow dj More last week, so I doubt they have
him shadow Michael Thomas. Long story short, you're starting Thomas regardless,
but whether Ramsey goes or not, Ted Ginn Trey Kwan
Smith both dart throws, and I'm not endorsing they're both
on the bench. Jared Cook gets a start. Agree with

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the seat just because this is one of the worst
weeks for tight ends I can remember in the history
of fantasy football. Jacksonville was looking like a decent matchup
for opposing tight ends. Travis Kelsey at eighty eight yards,
Delaney Walker sixty four, Noah Fanse scored a touchdown two
weeks ago. Then Greg Goldson drops a goose egg last
week on only two targets. But uh, I don't know.
I would still start Cook. He's in top twelve territory,

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has been targeted six times in each of the last
two games. Scored last week. He's a warm enough body
at the position Teddy Bridgewater, warm enough to posted big
numbers against Tampa Bay. But the Bucks stop here with Jacksonville,
the jackson Hill three or five opposing quarterbacks who won
or zero touchdown passes. It all depends on Jalen Ramsey

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here too for Bridgewater. For Ramsey doesn't go, he gets
a sea kind of a take chance on me type guy.
If Rancy plays easy Ben for Teddy. Speaking of which,
time to give a posthumous peacock. I don't know where
where's my peacock? Sound bread? Where's my peacocks? Said? Thank you?
There we go? Uh to Christian Peterson last week's show,
nailing Teddy Bridgewater as is take a chance on me quarterback,

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but he found Teddy's second ever game with more than
two touchdowns. Unbelievable call by Christian Peterson. We give him
the posthumous Christian didn't die, but he's not on the show.
Feel free to continue ch That's it for the Saints.

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Over to the Jacksonville side, starting with Leonard Fournett can
give him a b here ground totals for notable opposing
backs against and Rowlands have been alarming so far. Todd
Gurley six for sixty three, he did not score. Chris
Carson fifteen carries for fifty three yards on the ground.
Then Zeke had eighteen carries for only thirty five He
did manage to score. But um, there's no way you
bench Leo, but you temper your expectations. The Saints have

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not allowed a top twelve performance for running back yet
and the front seven is the healthiest it's been all season.
So just to B for four net almost to see
U D J Chark d D. Westbrook can even both
of B because it all depends on who gets Marshawn
Ladder on the outside. These two kind of cycle in
and out because almost never plays a slot in. Westbrook
runs almost entirely out of the slot, so he does that.

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They've both been funneling in and out. But Chark is
the safer play and by the way, wasn't even drafted
and wide receiver three right now he is. You think
he's safer, see, I think he gets a lot more
because Chark's gonna get a lot more. I think way
more because again, Lattimore doesn't go to the slot it'll
be P. J. Williams in the slot. That's D. D. Westbrook.
That's why I think Westbrook's actually safer, even though Chark's

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obviously been dramatically better to this point. They're gonna don't know,
they're gonna move. They're not gonna be a hundred percent
one guy in the slot. That's all I'm saying. They're
gonna go back and forth. So if I had to
pick one, I'm kind of with you where I think
Um Lattimore is on Charking more than Westbrooks, so but
I'm still giving both to be. But Lattimore stifled Mike
Evans and A Mary Cooper over the last two weeks.
He's yeah, big time worry and Gardner minshew. I know.

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We'll talk about more getting to be this week. Currently
quarterback eleven and most formats and apparently an even better
fantasy football player. Have you heard about this? We'll talk
about that more. We'll keep it to the matchup. Saint Sartain,
middle of the pack and passing touchdowns allowed with eight,
but they have recently stifled James Winston and Dak Prescott,
holding both under two hundred twenty five passing yards. That said,

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New Orleans has allowed four rushing touchdowns to quarterbacks, and
Minshew has games of seven carries for forty two yards
and six He's a dual threat, so he's a safe
be It's crazy to say, but Minshew Minshew has been
fantasy startable every week of the season so far. Matt,
let's go to Dallas taking on the Jets. Last week,
Dallas screwed themselves over, I believe, by choosing a pass

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heavy game against the Packers a bad run defense. Now
they get the Jets. Jets are another team you can
run on. I wonder if they don't, you know, correct
back towards a Zeke heavy game plan here. What do
you think? Well, they are a middle of the pack
run defense that's still missing c J. Mosley, and Zeke
has averaged over the running back snaps and touches over

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the last two weeks. I'm still giving him an A.
I know people are a little bit bummed about his
production in the last couple of weeks, but I think
he's gonna be totally forgotten on fanball Where's Dred this week?
I'd probably play him in the fan Ball five dek Prescott.
I'm giving an A grade to seventent of decks passes
they're traveling further than any yards downfield. That's the third
highest rate and deep balls in the league. His passer

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rating on those deep balls one sixteen point seven. Plus.
He gets left tackle Tyrann Smith back from an ankle
injury this year. He's going to clean up against another
bad defense which he normally torches. Amari Cooper and Michael
Gallup both getting as Both of these guys at fourteen
targets last week, and the outside corners are the weak
spot for the Jets. Truemaine Johnson and Darryl Roberts have

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allowed seventy two completion percentage, giving up three four yards
and three scores so far this year. Randall Cobbs on
the bench because slot corner Brian Pool is actually kind
of good. He's only allowed fifty six yards on the season,
and Jason Witten's on the bench. He's not seeing enough
targets and totally touchdown degrade it. On the other side,
there's one one, maybe two is starting grades Levy on Bell.

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I'm giving an a grade two because maybe the Packers
uncovered something last week because Aaron Jones racked up a
hundred eighty two total yards and four scores. No not
saying Bell is gonna get that, but say Kwan total
hundred and thirty nine total yards against Dallas. Kamara had
eighty nine and that weird Sunday nighter that was super
low scoring a couple of weeks ago. Dual threat backs
have had some decent success against Dallas and Levy Ons.

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One of those. Andy gets Sam Donald back in the lineup,
and that only upticks I think his production a little
bit more. Donald's on the bench. Though his spleen is
healed enough to allow him to play, It's too bad
his line could still get him killed. The Jets are
worse than the league in tackles for loss, sacks, and
quarterback hit rate. The Cowboys have not allowed a passing
score since Week two, and only one quarterback is top

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tundred forty yards against them this year. I am giving
Jamison Crowder a tepid C grade and Robbie Anderson's on
the bench. Of course, in Donald's only game this season,
he copiously targeted slot receiver Crowder seven times against Buffaloeen
and the open right yep and then Uh the only
wide receiver to top seventy five yards against the Cowboys
this year was Michael Thomas working mostly from the slot.

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And then, of course we liked Chris Herndon to come
back this week, but then he got a hamster ring
injury working out on his own last Friday. So thanks
Chris Herndon for not coming back. We waited this long
for Herndon, and now you gotta wait at least a
couple more weeks. Eagles take on the Vikings in Minnesota
will start on the Eagle side where Jordan Howard has
been an absolute Viking killer. He's one of two players

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to have topped one yards in Minnesota going all the
way back to the sixteen season. That's Jacksonville like. That
is Jacksonville like. And with Chicago last year, he put
up hundred nine yards and two scores in Minnesota in
the season finale of last season. So he's a guy
that Vikings have always struggled to handle. And here he
comes into this game having scored five times in his
last three games. He's seeing far more snaps and carries

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than Miles Sanders over the last three games, and he
gets a B grade here. Miles Sanders hits the bench
trending the wrong way on both playing time, goal line
usagen fumbles. We're going to keep him on the bench
for this game and a tougher matchup. As for the
passing game, Carson Wentz gets a b Vikings have allowed
almost two touchdowns per game, which is double last year's rate,

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when they only gave a fifteen passing touchdowns on the
entire season. Cornerback Xavier Roads or is he a lot
now legs to be called x Xavier Rhads as of
this season looking noticeably worse than previous seasons against a
better Viking secondary. Last year when these teams met, Carson
Wentz through for three and eleven yards and two scores,
and then again the secondary was playing better then. So
I still like Carson Wentz in this matchup. All Sean

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Jeffrey could have a good game here. He's got ten
days off so he should be at full health. He
sort of hobbled through last week's game. Another sort of
notable Viking killer from these days with the Bears. He
used to go off off of the Vikings, especially here
in Minnesota. He's averaging seven targets per game. He's scored
twice um Minnesota secondary. Again, I think he's gonna get.

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I think he's gonna get Xavier Rhads in this one
and again Roads, just words, usually gets the most physical
guy the opponent gives you, and that's gonna be all
Sean Jeffrey. No'm just not loving what I've seen out
of Roads, so I've got to be great and all
Sean Jeffrey. And this one Nelson Aghilar on the bench.
Vikings have been very good against slot corners for years,
and especially from Mackenzie Alexander Returns. I'm particularly nervous about

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Aglar slav receivers this year, averaging thirty four yards per
game against the Vikings, and that leaves us with zach Ertz,
who gets a solid A grade. The Vikings have allowed
the fourth most tight end receptions the tenth most yards.
I think it's a focal point of this game. Let's
go to the Viking side. Vikings offense revolves around Dalvin

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Cooko gets a B grade here. He's now run for
at least one hundred ten yards in four of his
five starts, and he's averaging over five point three yards
per carry in those four good starts that he's had
Basically everything but the Chicago Bear game. On the flip
side of it. Though the Eagle's rank number two in
yards per carry, they've yet to allow back to the
top forty four rushing yards. Uh. This is a tough matchup,

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but only three point two yards per carry allowed. It's
kind of strength versus strength, Dalvin Cook versus Eagles. I'm
gonna give him a B grade for this one. Then
to go to the passing game with Kirk Cousins, I'm
nervous about the Vikings offensive line holding back an excellent
Eagles pass rush that ranks fourth best by Pro Football Focus.

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All of Kirk's wartz surface when he has to make
quick decisions under pressure, but working in his favor is
a really ratty Eagle secondary riddled with injury to key
players like Donald Ronald Darby, Avante Maddox they're both out,
and Rodney McLeod, who looks like a game time decision.
Those would all be key losses there. Stefan Diggs and

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Adam Feeland both have strong matchups with with those guys out,
and let's talk about them individually. By the way, see
great on Kirk Cousins. A grade on feeling because prior
to facing Luke Falk last week, Eiggle secondary was allowing
the most yards per game to opposing wide receivers, and
because Theelan works the slot, he would go up against
Orlando Scandrick, who was on the streets two weeks ago.

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And I know Scandrick had a flashy game last week
with a couple of sacks, and he's gord a defensive
but he's not a very good cover corner so and
makes you look good. Now, well, there there is that
um Stefon Diggs gets a B grade. Working almost entirely
on the outside. He's going to see competent cornerbacks for

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a Seul Douglass and Sidney Jones. But I think Diggs
is still waiting for that give me the ball game,
and I think that's could be coming here where they
try to play Kate Diggs a little bit. He didn't
get all the passes I'm sure you'd have liked to
have had last week. This might be the one where
they try to feed him a few extra times. A
B grade for him. So we have homecoming games for
players when they go play in their hometown, revenge games

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against old teams, birthday day games. So the Eagles are
returning to the site of where they won the super
Bowl coup. I want to see if there's any historical
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segment we call take a Chance on Me nine players
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free version of take a chance on Me. The sun
like ruins my day, like every time I know it
doesn't it? What did we pay the kids? Did we
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bench mine take it okay minus? Version of take a
Chance on Me? We paid nothing for the song, you
paid nothing for the advice. We begin at the quarterback position.
Brian who day I got Andy Dalton at Baltimore. I
tried that last week. It didn't work out. It works.
Why I can make Marcus Mariot to work a couple
of weeks ago, I can make Andy Dalton work at Baltimore.

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It wasn't that bad. Actually, Dalton's had had a good
season actually, from a fantasy five games he's been fantasy. Well,
they're trailing before the National Anthem even ends, so it's
positive game scripts for the Bengals. But that's why I
like him here. But I also like him because already
without their top two cornerbacks this week Jimmy Smith who's
not gonna play in Tavon Young who was lost in
the preseason. The Ravens just lost starting safety Tony Jefferson Um.

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So that's great news for Dalton, who has nine passing
touchdowns over his last three games against the Ravens, who
were already one of six teams with an opponent passing
percentage north of which is top six in the league.
So fire up, Bandy, Dalton, Fire up the bed rifle. Alright, Firecrots.
Would you want to say, Oh, stop, Matt, that's what's

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your take a chance to e quarterback? Let's come to this,
Baker Mayfield is no longer a guy that you can
auto start, and for good reason. His line has been awful.
He's been inaccurate, but that changes this week. The Seahawks
deploy one of the league's worst pass rushes there twenty
six and saccurate and worst in the NFL and QB
hit rate. They also allowed Andy Dalton to throw four

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yards and two touchdowns. I believe I called that one
and weak ones. Take a chance on me. Backups, Yeah,
thank you. Backups. Mason Rudolph and Teddy Bridgewater didn't put
up huge yards, but each through for two scores, plus
Jared Goff nearly hung four hundred on them last week.
Baker Mayfield gonna have a good day this week, all right.
Just come to this. The Baker Mayfield is to take

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a chance in mean quarterback Kyle Allen takes on. The
Buccaneer is a secondary that is completely collapsed. Over the
past month, four inconsistent passers have dominated the Buccaneers three
hundred seventy five yards yikes average, three seventy five and
two touchdowns per game. North Turner has asked Kyle Allen

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to be very efficient. To this point, he's only thrown
twenty six, thirty four and thirty passes. But that change
is here. Tampa seeing the most passing attempts in the
league forty four per game. So Kyle Allen's gonna get
some volume in there too. He's actually inside my top
ten among quarterbacks this week. Let's go to the running
back position, Brian, Who's gonna take a chance of me? Runner? Oh,

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Dion Lewis at Denver And I know I just kind
of side and discussed there, but I think there's hope
for Dion if there's any sort of PPR format involved
in your league. The Broncos are one of nine teams
to yield at least forty targets to opposing running backs.
Catch totals from opposing back fields over the last four
games are nine, eight, five, and six. Derrick Henry only
has three targets over the last three weeks, so Dean

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Lewis has re established himself as the past catching down
back in that offense. And Denver has also allowed the
second most read zown red zone touches two running backs
this year. So if you are a super desperate and PPR,
Dion Lewis is your guy, all right, I got a
shod Penny because Cleveland's run defense has had some problems
of late. Last week, both Matt Brita and Tevin Coleman

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top nine yards on the ground all and all, they
gave up to forty five on the ground of the
San fran Backs. That's a team that is very committed
to the run, and the Seahawks are similarly committed to
the ground game. Seattle has the fifth most rushing attempts
in the league. Uh the Niners are the third. By
the way, Plus, we're still on fumble watch for Chris
Carson as he could see some major bench time with

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another drop. In week two prior to Penny getting hurt,
the split was fifteen carries for Carson and ten for
Penny as Carson Carson's fumbling issues were coming to light.
Penny is healthier now than last week. I kind of
like him here, all right. It's a it's a speculative
I would say, you know what, isn't a speculative move?
My guy? And oh do I love might take a

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chance of me running back to available by the way.
In scent of leagues Gus Edwards, he faces a Bengals
team giving up three hundred total Sorry, two hundred total
yards makes it better. It would have been even better.
It's believable. Two hundreds total yards per game to running

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backs and almost two touchdowns per game to opposing running backs.
And it's not just the starters. And by the way,
Mark Inger's might number one ranked running back this week,
the backups are getting paid as well. Jeff Wilson, Jalen Samuels,
and Chase Edmonds have already faced the Bengals and average
sixty eight total yards and over a touchdown per game
between them. Gus Edwards might take a chance of me

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running back, Brian give me the you're take a chance
to me receiver? For this week, I'm doubling down on
Huday Nation with Tyler Effort at the ravens Um again.
Starting safety Tony Jefferson done for the year with the
m c l um he will be. He will be
replaced by Chuck Clark, who has seen just thirty targets
over his short career. You made that name up, and
in those thirty targets, Chuck Clark has allowed twenty one

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catches for two nine yards and four touchdowns. Jeez, really,
so that direct that bet against Tyler Iffort that's insane directly, yes,
And before Tony Jefferson even went down, Baltimore had allowed
the second most yards who tight ends over the last
three weeks, and everyone was on effort last week against
the Cardinals. Infest, this is your chance to pounce on

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recency bias on fanball because roster Lifort, no one wants
to be on ifort. He's gonna be super low owned
and a great h a great player to help you
win a tournament this weekend. So Tyler Iffort, let's go.
I've got Keyshan Johnson of the Cardinals. He saw the
field one pent of the snaps last week, which was
boosted a little bit by the Christian Kirk injury. But

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it really doesn't matter if Kirk goes this week, as
Johnson runs most of his routes as a boundary receiver.
Guess who else ran their routes against the Falcons as
an outside receiver last week. Well, it was Will Fuller
who went for fourteen catches to seventeen and three scores.
And you know he came. He got tack at the
one twice. That would have been a five touchdown receiving

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game and would have given him the biggest scoring game
in the history of fantasy football, if he had gotten
those two more yards. Well, and get this, the week before, A. J.
Brown scored twice in top ninety yards, Corey Davis top
ninety yards and score. Prior to that, t Y Hilton
at six and a score, and Nelson Aglar went for
one oh seven and a score. They can't cover the

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outside receivers. The only team that stopped them was the
Vikings in a game where they threw ten passes. Johnson,
the only team they've stopped is the Vikings Keyshawn Johnson.
I like it. In fact, I had planned to use
Keyshaw Johnson for my ticket to night, but you got
him in first. I am in set going with Kiki Cutie.
I like that too though, and Deshaun Watson. His fantasy

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football is highest scoreing quarterbacks, so of course we're interested
in anybody who might catch any of his passes. He's
rounding into form from last year's a c L injury,
and he's seen his snap counts rise dramatically over the
last two weeks, and last week had a really nice
yard gained across the middle of the field, and into
my eyes, he looked a hundred percent healthy, Kiki Cutie,
he is startable in a strong matchup against Kansas City

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slot cornerback Kendall Fuller, who has already allowed to scores
in his coverage to this point of the season. Key
Key Cutie, let's work in one more matchup. Brian, you
already gave us two Bengals that you like, but there's
probably more. I'm guessing Tyler Boyd is a strong play
in this one as well. Yeah, Tyler Boyd helps Andy
Dalton's prospects definitely this week. Enjoying a nice season again

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because of the positive game scripts the Bengals are providing
the passing game. Boyd runs nearly seventy of his routes
from the slot, which sets up nicely against the Ravens,
who have surrendered big box scorers from the seams. Jarvis
Landry eight for one sixty seven, Christian Kirk and Larry
fitz Jerald both top two hundred yards running out the slot,
and then Juju had seven for seventy five and a
touchdown recently, and Boyd has top seventy yards in each

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of his last three games against Baltimore with two total
touchdowns during that span. I'm give him an a. Actually,
I like Tyler Boyd that much. Slot receivers killing Baltimore.
I'm not giving and take a starting grade though A. J.
Green not gonna make his return, by the way, Boundary
receivers have struggled against Baltimore even with the latest injury
to the secondary. I got audented on the bench this
week and Joe Mixing, I want to give him a

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be he feels like he should be a b every week.
But the Bengals just so bad. But I mean, he's
only scored once in four meetings with Baltimore, by the way,
but they really the Ravens aren't well. Yeah, but it's
history of Baltimore just once in four meetings. But the
Ravens aren't that tough on paper. Outside of the opener
against Miami, they've allowed at least one rushing touchdown to

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a running back in every game, and they've also yielded
the fourth most red zone touches to the position. You're starting, Mixing,
but I'm gonna temper my expectations just because that old
line is so brutal and give him a sea here
and that does it for the Baltimore side. Over to uh,
I'm sorry for the since he side now over to
the Baltimore side. Mark Ingram, you said was your number
one running back this week. I couldnot argue that he
gets an easy A. Probably an a the fantasy Fonzie,

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since now Cincinnati allowing more than five yards per carry
and they've rendered the most receiving yards to running backs.
So Ingram in an obvious smashed spot, and so is
Gus Edwards. Probably your take a chance of the runner charge. Uh,
he gets an easy starting grade two in this matchup.
Mark he's Brown was prepared to give him a pretty
solid be but now he is doubtful to play news

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coming out on Friday, so I don't think we can
expect him to go. I guess you could put Miles
Boykin in his spot. It was a boomer Bus scenario
for Brown um since he has allowed the fifth most
past plays of twenty plus yards, but opposing wide receivers
were only averaging fifteen targets. As a whole. The league

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runs to or against funnel to the run, So you
know I'm saying Boykin is on the bench. I would
have given brown is starting grade, and I was close
to give Willie Snead a starting grade. But uh, since
he actually defends the scene pretty well. So basically all
the receivers on the bench if Brown doesn't play, which
looks like he will not. Mark Andrews not on the bench,
though he gets a b has seen a least seven
targets in every game. The Bengals are allowing a modus

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three catches forty three yard three game to opposing tight ends.
But it's such a waste land you're starting Mark Andrews
and you're definitely starting Lamar Jackson this week, no kidding.
So when these teams met last November, l Jacks carried
the ball twenty seven times for a hundred and nineteen yards.
Those days are over. I think of the seven carry
game for him, but probably he did some quarterback stuff too,

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but yeah, some quarterback stuff like passing quarterback stuff. Well,
Tyler Murray ran the ball ten times fore and a
touchdown last week, and yes when it when it comes
to passing the ball, since he's not good at defending that,
they've surrendered multiple touchdown passes and three out of five
games when teams don't even need to throw against them.
So l Jack's probably guess a fantasy funzi too. A.

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when we talked about the London game, we were like,
thankful that it's a regular time start. Well, we're not
so lucky on this one. It is an eight thirty
a m. Central time start. Seven thirty No, that would
be nine thirty Eastern at six thirty am Pacific. That's ridiculous.
I don't know why they do that. Maybe we'll find

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out from our returning London correspondent. Hellou, well, you might
want to. People may remember you from last week. It's
calling mccockney. It's me calling mccockney. Let's have a good
old chin wag. I've got a chuckle block of great
stats for your governor. You're chuffed. I'm yes, yes, I do.

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I want to be chuffed. Christian McCaffrey gets the atrak.
We're held to fifty three total yards and the chuff
in week two meeting. Well, you'll have to excuse me,
my my cockney is a little rough. Hey, it's been
a while since I spent that summer backpacking through Europe
and phil for what's my backstory? And some some cocky

(30:55):
last We didn't call them cockneed lasted last. No, not
she sister cock need last man that they needed. We
didn't call him that, or at least I didn't call
what was her name? I forgot her name the way
you go through him. Yeah, Carol, totally so. But I
believe what Collins said was. Christian McCaffrey was held to

(31:15):
fifty three total yards in the week two meeting. Kamara
did Bob's your uncle one of four yards last week
on twenty two touches, But he did manage one and
four total yards last week on twenty two touches. Yeah, yeah,
Kyle Allen, your have a chance on me. Yes, we
will take a chance on Kyle Allen, D J. Moore

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and Curtis Samuel get the bees knees, bees knees, you say, wait,
I know that one. I think you're giving them to
be great the bleeding Pirates allowed. I didn't even have
to sleep with some cockney last to find out that
was the nah. The Pirates have allowed over three to
four straight teams, that would be the Buccaneers have allowed
over three yards? Is what you say, Colin yards yards,

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Lord Love a Duck. Seven different wide receivers have topped
eighty yards in the last far weeks. Know what I mean,
Gluten Samuel ninety one and week two. I actually do
know what you mean. You ever spend a summer on
a pirate ship? Not with bleeding pirates either, Greg Olson,
blindy hey grade alright, Geza. As far as tight end

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matchups go, this is a good one, sorted mate, Yeah,
as far as I did matchups, this is a good one.
Don Bennett. Olson had six for one ten and the
previous meeting and the Bucks have given up a tight
end scour in a free straight weeks scour would be
a touchdown. So three straight tight end touchdowns over the
last three weeks the Bucks have allowed. You say hi

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or the Pirates. Ronald Jones and Bayton Barber on the bench,
Lord Love a Duck. Jones at the most touches. Last week,
Barbara had the most snaps. Daria had the most routes
around know what I mean? Yeah, I think everyone knows
what you mean there. No, I'm I'm I'm unclear. Jones
had the most touches. Okay, week Barbara had the most snaps,

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had the most past routes. Run. A lot of disparity
between the backs there, just is what Colin is trying
to say here. Yeah, Barbara had two carpet eighty two
and one and the first meeting and was scarred in
the carpet over the last roarf games. So if I
had to pick one, it'd be Barbara or not. What
I mean, rar is a word I think you said.

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Barbara had twenty three carries for eighty two yards and
a touchdown in the first meeting and has scored in
three of the last four games. James, So if he
had to pick one, it would be Barber, he says.
Jameis Winston clock start blindy. Winston is one of only
two quarterbacks to top two hundred yards against the Panthers
this season. Winston one of two to top two hundred

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yards again is the Panthers this season. That's right, Jameis
Winston is one of those guys. Since the beginning of
twenty seventeen, Jamis has had twenty touchdown twenty picks ratio
and facing zone defense. Is enough said? Enough said there,
I think we got it. Mike Evans clock starts zero
catches last week, hasn't scoured touchdown against Carolina in ching straight.

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That meant Mike Evans zero catches last week and hasn't
scored a touchdown against Carolina in five straight, ching five,
and it's top sixty one yards only once during that
same five game stretch. Chris Godwin a lot above the
passer rating. When targeted Chris Godwin has pulled a blinder

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one fifty six point three. The passer raiding of quarterback
Jamis Winston when targeting wide receiver Chris Godwin is an
almost perfect one five six point three at EIGHTE the
last meeting from the slot, that's Carolina week, spot, isn't it?
It is? It is? I think I think I know
what that was. We got that one, all right, Howard Bench,

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we know that one too, all too well. What about
fantasy baseball leagues, Colin mccockney, everybody, nicely done, Colin mccockney.
Thank you very much, your London correspondent chiming in. It's
always it's always good to hear from Colin Houston takes
on Kansas City. This is a This is a tricky
one with a lot of moving parts. You're gonna have

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to work with me on this, particularly on the Kansas
City side where we've got a number of variables here. First,
for Patrick Mahomes, normally in a start, get this no way.
I'm not giving him an A, giving him in a B,
giving him to be Did Colin come in and teach
you how to Jamaican? Heard something? I don't know what
that was. He's got the ankle injury, he's got the

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makeshift offensive line likely missing starting tackle Eric Fisher and
starting guard Andrew Wiley. And we don't know the stat
us of Tyree Hill. We believe Sammy Watkins is not
gonna play. There's a lot of moving parts here, so
I've only got to be great. And Patrick Mahomes is
one of the few times you may be able to
put somebody else in your line up ahead of him.
So let's talk about some of the other elements of

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the passing game, including Tyreek Hill. If he's active. I
guess a. Watkins was listed as doubtful on Friday, right,
so I don't think, um, Tyreek Hill, if he's active,
I assume that means he'll play, and he'll probably play
most of the snaps, I guess um, but maybe not
all of them. So you're gonna have to factor in that.
You know, he probably doesn't play all of the snaps.

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He runs from all over the field, left right slot,
and he if he runs from the slide, he will
match up with Bradley Roby, who used to be good
at Denver. That was a long time ago. He's the
middle of the back cornerback now and it's Tyree Hill,
and you're probably gonna start Hi, but I've gotta be
great on him because of the potentially reduced snap count.
What about the other receivers, you may ask, Well, assuming
Watkins doesn't go, you could probably still start DeMarcus Robinson

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and met Cole Hardman um, but if Tyreek Hill returns,
it probably hurts those guys some too. And Robinson Hardman
will split time against Jonathan Joseph and Lonnie Johnson cornerbacks.
They're both highly burnable. They rank and five at the
cornerback position by Pro Football Focus. I've got a C

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grade on both Robinson and Hardman. If Tyreek Hill doesn't go,
you could probably bump them up to bees just because
they'll get they will get more usage here. But overall,
I don't love either one, and I think the C
grades probably just about right. Then. The running game has
got a fair amount of of of difficulty built into
it as well. Because los Sean mccoyinally got the two

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touches last week, he had that highly reduced role. That's
probably a chunk of why they end up losing that game.
I think they're gonna try to use them a lot
more this time around, and the Texans are giving up
on total yards to opposing running backs, so there's still
enough to go around. I know McCoy burned you last week,
but I think you can get him back in your
lineup this week. I've got a C grade on him.

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See Gray down Damian Williams, who got all the work
last week but didn't do anything with it. You ever
just two point six yards per carry, and his season
average is only one point eight yards per carry for
Damian Williams. Meanwhile, McCoy season averages five yards to carry,
so at this point with Damian Williams are really down
to him being a PPR running back. And fortunately Houston

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has allowed the most running back receptions in the second
most running back yard so Damian Williams remained startable with
a C grade. Last guy's Travis Kelsey. I've only got
a B grade on him as well. Kelsey faces a
Houston defense that's given up just thirty yards to tight
ends per game and hasn't allowed to score. That's it.
So it is a tough matchup for Kelsey. And again

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all the questions on Holmes with the ankle of the
offensive line, maybe Kelsey's gonna have to stay back in
block more. All of that together and I don't I'm
I'm nervous about Kelsey to the point that I've given
him a rare B Houston side of the ball. I
love both of the running backs in this game. Carlos
Hide should be poised for very nice game in a
revenge game. Brian not sunch of revenge game, but it's

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a revenge game. There's no way in the history of
fantasy football anyone who's loved both running backs from the
Houston Texans in the same game but there might have
been a Steve Slayton um Arian Foster game. Maybe I
don't know, a crossover one. Maybe Kansas City is allowing
the fifth most rushing attempts, the most rushing yards, and

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five point three yards per carry. I like Carlos Hyde.
I like Duke Johnson. Johnson last week is coming up
season highs and rushing attempts and rushing yards. And here's
a great stat that we've unearthed. He's out snapped Carlos
Hide by fifty pent in the to Houston losses. If

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you think Houston's gonna lose to the Chiefs, Duke Johnson
maybe the better play. Then we go to the passing game.
Deshaun Watson is an obvious a and the Chiefs have
allowed quarterback rushing touchdown in two of their last three games,
and they've actually become pretty solid against the pass. But
that's most teams just running through them so you don't
have to pass. And unlike the Colts last week, the

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Texans dismal offensive line, I don't know that they can
just man handle the Chiefs, so I think there will
be more throwing than what we got last week. Deshaun
Watson remains an a level start. DeAndre Hopkins is an
A start. He's going to see coverage from Bashad Breland,
who's having a down year. But did you know I'll
mention hold his own against t Why Hilton last week.
So there's that. Kansas City has held every opposing wide
receiver except Kenny Golladay and Check since week week one.

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So there's that. And I know Hopkins is way overdue
for a big game and you've languished with him, but
you still have to start him here. And I've got
an A grade on him and Will Fuller, I gotta
I'm not just chasing last week's box score on a
grade here too. As he goes up primarily against chart
Various Ward in coverage and he's gonna be shadowing Will Fuller.
That's a huge speed advantage for Will Fuller. We saw

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what he can do last week. I don't think you
want to leave him on the bench. And Kiki Cutie
was my take a chance on the wide receiver from
last segment. Final matchup of this segment is Tennis taking
on Denver on the Tennessee side. You already told us
you like Dean Lewis in this game. Do you like
Dan Lewis. I want to believe you're gonna like Derrick Henry. Yeah,

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I like Derrick Henry. I love Derrick Henry and standard leagues,
he gets the A. I mean, just give him a
B in PPR leagues. And that's why like Dean Lewis
so much this week. But back to Henry has at
least seventeen touches in every game, but as I mentioned earlier,
just three total targets over the last three weeks. Of
the passing game work has sort of dried up, but
Denver is giving up the seventh most rushing attempts, eighth
most rushing yards, and third most rushing touchdowns per game

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to opposing running backs. They also lost Bradley Chubb to
a torn a c L recently, so Derrick Henry easy
A and standard B in PPR. As I mentioned, uh,
Dean Lewis has charged mentioned might take a chance on
me running back. I'm not taking a chance on Corey
Davis or A. J. Brown in the receiving game. Chris
Harris likely at a shadow Corey Davis, so that's a

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no brainer bench right there. And A J. Brown has
shown flashes of brilliance, but still not a full time player,
yet he has yet to see seventy percent of the
snaps in a single game. So he's on the bench,
and so is Adam humphreies. We're not gonna even go there.
Delaney Walker is borderline benchable lately. He hasn't played more
than the snaps over the last two weeks, just two
catches for fourteen yards over the last two weeks as well.

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Very gross against the tight ends. The Broncos appeared tough
on paper, but the quality of opponents is even grosser
than that. The only true tight end they faced is
Darren Waller, who had a nice game of seven catches
and seven yards in the opener. And outside of that,
the tight end production has been minimal because the opponents
have been so bad. But here are the target totals.
Four tight ends against Denver, Oakland tight ends ten targets,

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Chicago tight ends nine, Green Bay six, Jacksonville eight, so
they are involved. Delaney gets a C in the tight
end waste Land. Marcus Mariota has is on the bench
though has one or zero touchdown passes and three or
five games. Four of the five quarterbacks to face Denver
finished well out of the top outside of the top
twenty and most formats. Aaron Rodgers Philip Rivers combined for
one touchdown pass this year, easy benching for Mariota over

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to the dead under side. Not a not a good
week for the running backs here, Philip Lindsay, Royce Freeman. Uh,
still in a timeshare. Inexplicably, eye test will tell you
Lindsay is the way better back, but he's still only
seen about six of the work. But again, this is
a brutal matchup. Marlon Mack rushed for fifty one yards
on twenty carries against Tennessee. Leonard four Nette had sixty

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six on fifteen Davante Freeman only twenty eight yards on
twelve carries, none of them scored. Don't expect much from
your Denver backs this week. And Leonard Fournett the Leonard
four net game, as I recalled to get to sixty four,
he had to go for sixty yard run to bring
him back from negative five yards. That is absolutely correct.
Failed to mention that, which is just mind blowing. Really uh.

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Also mind blowing has been Courtland Sutton, a top twelve
PPR wide receiver so far this year, taking a bigger
leap than most expected in his second year, um should
see a lot of Malcolm Brown in coverage who as well,
who basically sucks. Since the start of last season, Malcolm
Brown has left ten touchdowns in his coverage, the second
most in football in that span. Um Court and Sutton

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clearly the number one wide receiver now. Manny Sanders is not.
I'll still give Sanders the sea playing in just over
sixty of the snaps last week a little concerning. But
slot receivers like Jarvis Landry and Mohammed san You have
had good games against the Titans. So a C for Sanders,
a CEE for Noah fans. Titans have allowed tight end
touchdown in four or five games and the one game
they didn't allow a touchdown. Austin Hooper had nine catches

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for one thirty and Joe Flacco, Uh, he's on the bench.
Can't get Wacco with Flacco come up next. Let's answer
three tough questions you can play along try to go
a perfect three and oh on Fantasy Football Weekly and

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Fantasy Football Weekly on Pauliarchy and from fanball dot Com.
My panel of experts for this segment, Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson, Guys,
it is time to get into the grinder with three
tough questions. Actually, you know what. I thought they were
tough questions that I wrote him, but you know, upon retrospect,
I don't know if they're that tough. We'll find out. Listeners,

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you better go three and oh and my panel of
experts especially that much. I like their chances better. Todd
Gurley owners are dealing with injury issues and bizarre usage patterns,
yet his touchdowns have been enough to maintain his fantasy values.
Should Gurly owners unload him, probably at a discount, or

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hold him? Brian Johnson well desplayed having absolutely zero shares
of Todd Gurley in any format. I guess I'm still
allowed to say. I was feeling good about him following
last week's game when he played the Snaps saw eighteen
of the nineteen running back touches. It seems like you
might have been out of the woods for a minute.
And then midweek injury news pops up with a fie

(45:52):
bruise that might keep him out of Sunday's game. I
doubt that happens, but it just reminds you he's now okay,
So I take that. So here we go again with
Todd Gurley. And so we all know the injury concerns
and and really it's been the knee of and now
it's the thigh and who else knows what's coming down
the pike, but what it's coming down the pike for
the Rams, specifically the Rams running backs is the hardest.

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Uh schedule, Uh where is bad and one is good?
Is bad? Or good bad? It's bad. They have a
top ten schedules or top ten ten difficult, hardest every
team defense and hardest defense. Okay, god, I could have
phrased that better. Every team in their division is bottom

(46:37):
eleven in fantasy points per game allowed to running backs,
meaning fewest amount, very bad. And the best team of
all might be San Francisco when it comes to running,
you know, stopping the run game. That's their opponent this
week and in weeks week sixteen, where you might, well
you can't even trust girlies gonna be healthy, but you
might not even play in week sixteen if he is,
because San fran looks so legit in their front seven.

(46:58):
So long story, short, sell the slightest discount slight, slightest
any discount really sell girly, all right, I don't have
much more to add to that, but I don't think
that you can sell him even at a slight discount.
You got to sell him at a deep discount right now,
especially with the injury news that's going on and his
touch total that has been weird and murky at best.

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So I'm probably going to hold because I don't like
to sell at a crazy significant discount, and the touchdowns
have frankly still been there when he's played. Gurley is
getting twelve carries per game. Twelve. That's just not enough
for anybody to have reliable production. Um, and that's a
prominent of itself. But and then get this. On twelve

(47:42):
carries per game, he's already hurt and it's not even
the chronical lye arthritic knee yet. For Todd Gurley, in
all probability, this is just the beginning of the injury issues.
It's uh something in the beginning of the end of
his career. Unfortunately it actually it actually absolutely could now
those five touchdowns are masking a lot of risk with Gurley,

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and the guy you try to trade him to may
look and go, oh, Todd Gurley, he's still top ten
or whatever fifteen in my league scoring system. We're gonna
sell now. It's harder because he's gonna miss this Well,
he's gonna miss this game, and all probability you're gonna
have to You're gonna have to pay a steeper discount
now than if he had a week ago. Try to
put this in the gentlest way possible. Yeah, Okay, maybe

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I'm not target the dumbest owner in your league. You
know who he is. Well, there are owners who out
there who are they are to take the name value
Todd Gurley, the guy who won with Todd Gurley over
the past couple of years, who has an emotional attachment
to Todd Gurley. Those are your targets right there, we

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are selling. Let's try that question number two. Michael Gallup
has played in two full games, averaging seven catches and
one hundred thirty five yards. Does his evolution help or
hurt a Marii Cooper, Matt, you know charged this one
did damage my wernickees area a little bit. God, not

(49:08):
a shot to the wernakees. Yeah. And when that happens,
you start going into long sentences that have no meaning.
You add extra words or create new words. Zizzi Baluba
and your speech sounds are all messed up. So yeah,
in games that Gallup has played so far this year,
Amari Cooper has six one oh six and one four

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forty four and one and eleven two six and one.
That's a score in every game and a two twenty
six yard or in there. In the games he didn't play,
Cooper had a six catch, eighty eight yard and to
score game. That's good. But five for forty eight that's bad.
That's his worst game of the year. What's good for
the offense is good for the offense. Michael Gallops only

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freeing up Amari Cooper to be a better player. I
think it's a great thing. It helps him a lot.
All right, Yeah, I have the same stats for this season.
I went back the last year two at the time,
by the time Dallas acquired Cooper, he had some monster
games when Gallup didn't even do anything at all. Um
But as Matt said, when Gallup posts wide received wide
receiver one numbers this year, Cooper bests them, and he

(50:13):
did that last year. In the two games they played
together with Gallop managed the top at least seventy receiving arts.
In Week thirteen, Gallop at five or seventy six, Cooper
at eight for seventy six Week sixteen, Gallop at three
for fifty three and one. That's the one game where
Marii Cooper logged just four catches for twenty yards. So
in the four or five games were Um Gallop has
posted wide receiver one numbers, Cooper still comes out on top.

(50:35):
So it only helps uh Cooper the evolution of Gallop.
That is, you are correct? How about this? Does it
help Zeke? Does it help or hurt Zeke? To have
both Gallop and Cooper performing at a high level absolutely helps.
It's good for the offense, is good for the offense?
You are correct? Anything anything. We want as much total

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productivity from an offense as we can get without a doubt.
Tough question number three, what's the most common letter grade
will be giving Gardner Minshew for the rest of this season?
By the way, I think he's going to start the
rest of the games this season. Oh yeah, for sure, Brian,
all right right now. As I mentioned earlier in the show,
he's at top twelve quarterback. That basically makes him an

(51:17):
automatic b most weeks. UM he looks legit. DJ Chark
looks legit. Leonard four Nett is legit when he's healthy
and what else is legit is the schedule for Gardner Minshew.
Moving forward, Let's look at week seven through twelve. He
has Cincinnati, the Jets, Houston, Indie, by Tennessee. All of
those teams have allowed eight or more passing touchdowns except

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the Jets, who have had their by and then he's
in the top half of passing touchdowns allowed in the week.
Then in weeks thirteen to six, team when it really matters,
he gets Tampa Bay, the Clippers of l A. Just
kidding into the Chargers, the Raiders, and the Falcons who
have allowed forty one passing touchdowns combined already this season.
That's four straight A in week thirteen, Fourtune fifteen, and

(52:01):
sixteen as of right now. And I'll give him an
A against the Bengals and probably Indieu as allowed ten
passing touchdowns. That's the majority of the games I'm giving
Gorder mitchew and answer the most common can't common grade?
We even get his A? Yes, Okay, all right, Matt,
I had slightly different answers, but it came up as
a's as well. He had a majority of A grades

(52:23):
in this I had four a's, three b's, and two
seas in my in my matchups. So I'm with Brian
and he can run the ball. We've neither of us
mentioned that too. You've proven you can run the ball
as well. So he runs a bit for sure. I
had one to three four. I have five B grades,
three a's, only two seas and so I uh, And
here I thought I was being overly optimistic. I'm like, man,

(52:46):
I mean, shoe mania has hit this half of the table.
It really has. I thought I was the highest guy
on Minshew and that I was getting I was crazy
to be giving him all these a's, And as it
turns out, you guys are even even feed them farther
over the moon from than I am. I love. Here's
the that's thinking about quietly. The best thing about Gardner Minshew.
He's been Fantasy viable in every game this year. That's

(53:07):
something very few quarterbacks can say that they've had no
flop games. Minshew hasn't had any yet. He's got more
Fantasy points than Aaron Rodgers or Philip Rivers or Matthew Stafford.
Might have been counting the buy in there for Staffords
man on a per start basis, He's outscoring those guys
five B grade games. B grade is the most common

(53:30):
grade for Gardner Minshew. Uh, he's a fantastic target right now,
by the way, go get him available and still in
plenty leagues and even the ones he's not, you go
pick him up. And when you factor the quarterbacks who
have fallen by the wayside, like consensus top ten guys
a summer, like Baker Mayfield, Aaron Rodgers, and Drew Brees.
I jokingly mentioned Gardner Minshew just as like a silly

(53:53):
name of a guy on a roster, and suddenly he's
better than Baker Mayfield. It's not close, doesn't matter of fact.
So did you hear? Sorry? Really quick? How he he
dropped everyone in his dynasty league. He burned it down
and started from scratch. And he's like, so he just
relied on the rookie draft and the agent draft. He
just dropped everyone. And he's currently in first place of

(54:13):
cords in his own fantasy. I think that's awesome. He's
probably on his own team, I would imagine, well, I hope. So,
speaking of Baker Mayfield, Seattle takes on Cleveland, Matt. Let's
start on the Seattle side. Um, you made some you
made a passing reference to our Rashad Penny earlier, You
like tell he was my ticket chance. I mean that's
not passing. I wasn't listening really most true? So what

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do you think about Chris Carson? Then? I still gave
Carson a B grade. With Penny returning last week, Carson
still held the touch lead to eight over Penny, and
Cleveland's defense has been poorous against the run. They've allowed
five yards per carry to opposing backs this year, So
Carson still be Russell Wilson gets an A. Is passerrating
when under pressure is a league high one thirteen point eight.

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He is on fire right now. Tyler Lockett gets an
A two. He's scored in three games this season and
the two he didn't one was a stinker, the other
was ten for seventy nine, so he's in A grade
as well. He's Russell's favorite target. His second favorite targets
probably Will dis Lee. In the last four weeks, dis
Lee has four touchdowns in either top eight yards or
scored in every game, and the Browns have allowed four

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touchdowns to tight ends this year. That's the second most
in the NFL. So Wills gets an A grade. I'd
start him over Travis Kelsey this week. That's crazy, but uh,
I mean it happens sometimes. DK Metcalf he's on the bench.
It seems like he's very touchdown dependent, scoring in two
games this year. The problem is he's been held to
four or fewer receptions in every game this year, including

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five total catches over the last three weeks. On the
brown side, I'm giving Nick Chubb a b NO back
has topped sixty nine yards against the Seahawks this year.
Where are you? I can't, I can't really can't do.
I'm sorry. Here's a very belated nice there we go. However,
both Alvin Mara and David Johnson have had over ninety

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receiving yards. Chubb has had at least three receptions in
four of five games this year, and if Mayfield continues
to run for his life from this line, Chubb may
see some bonus passwork. I got BI grades on both
Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry outside that week to catch
for Odell, where he turned a seven yard slant into
an eight yard touchdown. Beckham owners have been super disappointed,

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and I just saw in one of my league's Beckham
plus Carlos Hyde was traded for Allen Robinson alone. It's
come this far. Um Odell is still top ten and
targets and eleventh and air yards, so some positive regression
is due. Go get him now, Go get him now.
And Jarvis Landry, he's third in the league in yards
after catch with a D one somehow hasn't scored. He's

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had at least seen target. The whole problem with Landry
well nobody. Nobody's scoring on the Browns, but between the
two of them they have one touchdown at least seven
targets in four or five. And the noteworthy thing is
Cooper cup burned the Seahawks from the slot last week.
I did. Tyler Boyd and Juju each put up decent
days against Seattle, and Mike's Michael Thomas scored from the slot.

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Back in moments with more matchups, including Washington in Miami.
Two offenses that we normally just sort of gloss over,
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get super superle you could. You could go with the
two quarterbacks I'm going to give you in Washington Miami,
and then just back you could start like their number
one player at every other position. I like it. We
said about that they both got starting grades beginning with
Kate Kate right heaving over here why caves keen Um Now, first,

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give Bill callan credit. He got the right quarterback onto
the field. Case Keenum is the least non functional of
the Washington quarterbacks. That's he actually posted three good fantasy
games in his three full starts and finishes. His teams
have averaged twenty one points. That's not that bad. Miami
is the easiest defense that the Redskins will face all year.

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Terry McLaurin and Tray Quick got positive matchups. Terry mclauren,
that's right, positive matchup case Keenum C grade. Let's go
to the receivers I just mentioned, beginning with Terry McLaurin,
who gets a B grade. Now, last week he only
put up a three catch line, but it was just
the third time in twenty two games that Stephan Gilmore

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a lot more than fifty yards and to a single
player in coverage, which tells it tells you again reinforces
McLaren's pretty darn good. He will see a lot of
Dolphins Cornerback Xavian Howard, who used to be really good,
but he's taking a huge regression back last to this season,
and he has allowed eleven catches and two touched Hounds
in his last two games alone, and could struggle with

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Terry McLaren's speed. McLaren's quite a bit faster, So I
like mclauren here quite a bit. I mentioned Trey Quinn
as a deep sleeper here. Now, I know he's been
very quiet, but in Kingdom's three starts he averaged six targets.
That's not bad. He goes up against Dolphins cornerback Eric
Rowe in the slot. Rose allowed two touchdowns already and
is allowing a passer rating of a hundred and thirty

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four in his coverage. So Trey Quinn startable here. Even
two running backs are startable. I got five, I got
five redskins. You can start Adrian Peterson. Bill says, he's
basically telegraphed the whole game plan. We're gonna run, and
established the run. This is gonna be more than the
combined starters we recommend in every other week, but this

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week for both of these teams. The Dolphins have given
up a rushing score in eight straight games going back
to last year. Obviously, they've allowed the most total yards
to running backs. They've allowed the most touchdowns to running backs. Now,
Adrian hasn't been good. He hasn't topped three and a
half yards also a games actual legitimate NFL teams in
their prior couple of games. Look, I understand, but Peterson's

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gonna get enough work where I think he's absolutely startable.
Ce Grade on Adrian Peterson, C grade And Chris Thompson,
who's got at least four catches and in each of
his five games this year and now oddly, Miami has
allowed the second fewest running back receptions but has allowed
four touchdowns to running backs through the air. So we're
still gonna give Chris Thompson a dart throw here too,

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se Grade. Uh, Paul Richardson is on is on the
bench because I can't quite go that far here. But
you know it wouldn't You wouldn't be the worst thing
in the world. But I can't get myself to put
six Redskins in. Now I've got four starting Miami Dolphins
in this one. Kenyan Drake gets a B grade. Kenyan
Drake is going to outscore a bunch of brand name

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running backs this week. M's just be like a weird
Kalin Blage game nowhere. Blage has been effectively benched. He
was on the field for eight snaps last week, which
is eight too many. By the way, the Red Chkins
give up the third most rushing attempts, the ninth most
rushing yards, the ninth most receptions to running backs, the
ninth most receiving yards to running backs, and Kenyan Drake's

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getting all the work. He has seen his rushing yards
and yards per carry rise in every game this year.
He's also averaging five targets per game. Kenyan Drake is
sitting on a really nice game. What letter grade you
give him? Be as if that made you nauseous, wait
until you hear the C grade I'm giving Josh Rosen,

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who has thrown one touchdown on the season. Hold my beer,
but the Redskins have allowed the most passing touchdowns, including
three touchdowns in every game but one. Rosen's gonna get
to two hit in this game, earning him a C grade.
That means I gotta like somebody's gonna throw the ball
to Preston. How about Preston Williams. He's got a juicy

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matchup Redskins secondary that's allowed nine touchdowns, the receiver's second most.
The Redskins have got exactly one solid cornerback, a guy
named Quentin Dunbar. I am a little bit worried that
Dunbar is gonna be on Williams, which is what I
would do if I ran the Redskins. But they might
be dumb enough to put him on DeVante Parker, who
also gets a C grade. Parker is top fifty six

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yards in three of four games, and he scored before
last week's by. He is a dart throw against a
fading Josh Norman in this matchup? How about that nine
starters between Washington and Miami, two teams that the best
thing they could possibly do, I think is faded at
this point. How many times would you start a player

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in this game? Really? Nine San Francisco takes on the
l A Rams Brian. The San Francisco offense confounding in
many ways. You've got to deal with a bunch of
different running backs, stuff, a bunch of different receivers. What
do you think about a tricky matchup with the Rams?
Minus it keep to leave, by the way, who's been
ruled out of this one? And I think that opens

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things up a little bit for Jimmy Garoppolo that might
be additioned by subtraction. The way to leave has been
playing recently the last couple of weeks. Yeah, so though
he was better early. Okay, we'll start with Jimmy G.
But Friday news came out that George Kittle is questionable
now with a groin injury. So that obviously changes the
prospects for Jimmy garoppolo if Kittle since but let's assume

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Kittle does go, I'll give Jimmy G the See he's
averaging averaging under thirty pass attempts per game. He's been
way more of a game manager, mainly because that forty
Niners defense is looking really good. Um, but San Francisco
is the underdog here, so the forty Niners may need
to pass more than usual. And over the last two
weeks that secondary struggled big time for l A. Both
Jameis Winston and Russell Wilson through for four touchdown passes each.

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So Jimmy G pretty safe. Uh see if Kittle is
able to go. Uh. If Kittle goes A if he
doesn't go obvious bench Uh. The Rams are allowing a
very modest six catches for fifty yards to opposing tight ends.
Kittle's history against l A is way more than modest.
He has gone off in three straight uh nine and
one in his most recent five, and won the game

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before that and four for a hundred the game before that.
So you're starting Kittle. That's a no brainer. The ram.
I'm sorry the running backs for they they're gonna be
out without Joe Staley and another starting tackle in this one.
So Matt Brita Tevin Coleman going to give him both
the sea. I want to give a stat about how
good Breeda is. So since the start of there have

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been forty three running backs with at least two hundred
and fifty carries. Among those forty three running backs, only
seven have averaged more than five yards per carry. Brita
ranks second among all those running backs at five point
to two yards per carry. Number one, your boy, Philip Lindsay,
by the way, also hit the highest speed of any

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player in the NFL last week in that long run.
It was twenty that's crazy, crazy fast. The whole bit
on Brita, I think part of it people just didn't
want to believe because it wasn't a brand name guy
and he wasn't drafting a high position. But just the
eye test tells you he's awesome. He just has to
stay healthy whenever healthy Brita is unbelievable. And just remember

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it rhymes with cheetah for a reason. Do you remember
what Steve Smith called himself when he came into the
league Snida half snake, half cheetah. Don't I'm not kidding.
That is a Steve Smith fact fact. Toyd, right there,
sna well, it's well, it's sneaks outside. That's right. Back

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to back to the running backs, Back to Brita and Coleman.
Unfortunately for Brita, Tevin Coleman is healthy. Coleman saw sixteen
touches of the snaps last week, Brita fourteen touches ont
of the snaps. It's basically a time share there. The
Rams have yielded the ninth most carrious the running backs,
but just over four yards per clip. So just to
see if you're the running backs for San Fran this

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week and all the wide receivers are on the bench,
that you just can't trust those guys. Over to the
l A side, Todd Gurley can't be trusted this week.
It seems late either doubtful to play. Wasn't going to
be in a good spot if healthy. I've mentioned multiple
times how good this forty Niners defenses, especially against running backs.
Posing running backs are averaging under Combo yards per game,

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and not one back has found paydirt against the forty Niners.
So you'll start Malcolm Brown, but temper your expectations in
this one, because it's gonna be a long day for him.
Probably not a long day for Cooper Cup, though he
gets an a looking like Adam Thiland last year. If
he tops a hundred yards, that's five straight games to
start the season for Cooper Cup. Big name slot receivers

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have done well against the forty Niners. Tyler Boyd, Juju
Jarvis Landry, Chris Godwin all had good games, and according
to Sports Info Solutions, twenty eight of Cooper's forty one
catches this year have come in zone coverage, a scheme
San fran demployees more than eighty percent of the time.
So things shaping up nicely for Cooper. Not been a
nice season for Robert Wood's gonna give him a b here,

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sort of reluctantly. At least eight targets in four were
five games, but as fewer than fifty yards, and three
of the last four he's been the quote unquote beneficiary
of Goff's struggles this year, has not scored in three
games against San Francisco either as a member of the
Rams boundary. Receivers like John Ross and Deonte Johnson had
good games, though, so a B for Woods. Brandon Cookes
is in concussion protocol. I think he can plays trending

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towards playing. I'm hoping he doesn't for people that own him,
because on they have to decide to start him or not.
I'm on this waivering towards bending him. Uh. He has
scored in just two of his last ten regular season games,
and his top seventy five yards only once during that
ten game span. Granted, one of those games he scored
uh In came against the forty nine, and weeks seventeen

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scored twice. Actually, but San fran is much better now.
And don't forget Cooper Cup was not playing in that
game either. So I can't fault you for startin Cooks,
but I'm not advocating it. Gerald Everett. Game last we
pick up this week, Gerald Everett, I wouldn't chase that
box score. Forty Niners have allowed a league loow eight
seven total yards to the tight end position this year. Yes,

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they've had their bye, but they defended the position really well.
And I'm not starting Gerald ever ever, go Grab no Evant.
I like him way more. And Jared Goff. This is
a home game. He's way better at home since the
start of last season. Has a twenty five to six
touchdown to intercept interception ratio at home, fourteen to thirteen
on the road, So he gets a be here. Jamis Winston,

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Baker Mayfield, Mason Rudolph all struggled mightily though against the
forty niners, but Andy Dalton had eleven yards and two touchdowns,
So there is a beacon of hope for golf here.
Hopefully our final topics are ahead. When we provide you
with three guys we will believe, we believe will be
hot waiver wire pickups next week that you'll want to

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get this week. So everybody else next week is trying
to get those guys. And that's right, they're already on
your team. Speculation is happening acts on Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly and I Heart Radio Production. Reminder,
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we like to call premature speculation, maybe the most popular
segment on the entire show. Each of our hosts will
provide a player who will be a hot waiver wire
pick up next week that you're going to pick up
this week. We begin with Brian Johnson. Who you got.
I'm gonna go with Justice Hill, running back for the

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rape in and right now, Hill's kind of buried on
the depth chart behind mark Ingram of course and Gus Edwards. Um,
but the moral of the story is right now. Mark
Ingram obviously has a role, and so does Gus Edwards.
But the Ravens run the ball a ton. They are
third in a rushing play percentage as a team, and really,
he'll pass the eye test. He looks like he has
three down potential. He's just getting treated like garbage like

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all the rookie running backs this year, essentially, But all
he needs is an injury to either Ingram or Edwards,
and he becomes fantasy relevant. And again he's a guy.
If something would happen to both of these guys, he
gets the mold of a bell cow back. Um, so
if you have an empty spot, he's he could be
a game changer. You're kind of rooting for injury what
you never want to do. But uh, if something were

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to happen to either those backs, he'd be fantasy relevant
in a second in dynasty or keeper leagues or Empire leagues.
I think Justice Hills really interesting beyond and uh, and
this is you can buy. You can get him for
nothing right now. Uh, Matt, who is your premature speculation guy?
Devin Singletary is only owned in about two thirds of

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ESPN leagues right now. He's missed a couple of weeks
with an injury. He's on a bye this week, which
makes him even easier to pick up right now. A
lot of people dropping him this Frankly, all the bills
that you can pick up right now, I'd pick him
up because coming up out of the by Miami, Philly, Washington, Cleveland,
Miami again, Denver, Dallas, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New England. None of

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that's really tough New England Week six. That's the toughest one.
So you might not be playing Singletary in the in
the championship game, but he's got the ability to be
a bell cow because Frank Gore is more likely to
be playing bingo in November than he is to be
being a bell cow running back on the Bill. So
I like Devin Singletary a lot. I picked him up

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in a league this week. Devin Singletary has only been
able to get because he got knocked out in Week two.
He's only had ten carries. He's averaging seventeen yards of carry.
He's he's really good for Ank or you all know
what Frank Gore is. He's just you know, the three
three yards in the cloud of dust. When the Bills
want to get electrifying, they're going to use Deevin Singletary.

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Nobody's calling Frank Gore electric. No. By the way, Josh
Allen is going to be a top seven quarterback. I agree.
I agree, outside of Lamar Jackson, he could be the
best quarterback coming out of that draft class with Baker
and for fantasy use for sure, because of the running

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that is possible. Go checking the availability of Josh Allen
as well off for the you know the schedule again,
just so easy might take a chance on the quarterback.
My premature speculation quarterback is Cam Newton. Cam Newton, you say,
well you used the other quarterback as you take a
chance on me. Guys, well, that's yeah, Kyle Allen like

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I like Kyle Allen better. And by the way, the
Panthers might too. I think that I I'll discuss this
in a minute. First, know this, they're in they're in
London this week, and then like every London team, they're
on by so then coming out of the bye, at
that point, Cam Newton is probably ready to come back.
So now they're going to have a decision to make

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right and I, by the way, I'm I'm team Kyle
Allen and who I think is best. But given all
of the equity, money, prestige that they've got into Cam Newton,
funny hats, funny hats ascots, they're going to have to
put Cam back on the field and they're gonna have
to give him another try so that Cam can lose

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the job healthy. So when he comes back, he's gonna
play middle of the pack defenses. San Francisco Tennessee Green
Bay maybe an above average defenses. If he survives that,
then the schedule gets really easy, including playoff runs against Atlanta, Seattle, Indie. Um,
you can wait a week and the gift to pick
up Cam Newton this week because he's gonna be on

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by next week. So you could wait a week if
you want. But I think you're gonna have the Panthers
starter sounds that schedule is tough and he's gonna then
lose the job again. Kyle Allen might be very premature speculation.
Teams aren't got Kyle Allen's out of the catch, but
Cam Newton has been dropped in almost all the leagues
right because he was bad and hurt. It's bad combo.

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Let's go to back to a last set of matchups,
including Atlanta taking on Arizona. This is a potential. Matt
Ryan has been actually very good for fantasy owners. We
don't care that the leads the league interceptions. He's been
very good for fantasy owners, and I can't wait here
we have to say about him. And on the other side,
Kyle Murray's forthcoming Kyler Murray's forthcoming breakout game. But let's

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start with the let's start with the Falcons and you
just want to read the whole matchup. I just got
my opinions. I want to get in. It's a start
everyone game across the board. Uh. Let's start with Matt Ryan. Uh.
He gets an A grade facing pressure on thirty eight
percent of his dropbacks this year, but still yards and

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six straight games and the Cardinals have allowed the sixth
most passing yards and the second most passing touchdowns. Julio
Jones gets an A. He was held under fifty yards
last week. Julio bounces back after sub fifty yard games
in his last three bounce back games five, one oh
six and two, nine and one eight, one oh six

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and two. Julio is going to bounce back in a
major way. Calvin Ridley and Mohammedson, you are getting B grades.
The Cards are still missing both starting corners. Secondary receivers
Danny Amondola and out In Tate each scored. Both Panthers
receivers scored against them this year. To Austin Hooper gets
a A and maybe like the he might be the
top rated tight end of this week. Uh, I got

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him three. We've beaten it to death this year. But
the Cards are historically bad against the tight ends. They've
allowed the most yards and touchdowns the position to Uh.
Deavonte Freeman, I'm giving a B grade and Edo Smith
is getting a C grade. Uh. Um, it's got it's
become like a fifty fifty time share. That's the problem.
Freeman's getting a little bit more. It means both are

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startable against the Cardinals team that's allowed an average of
a hundred and twenty four rushing yards and thirty seven
passing yards to opposing backs over the last three weeks.
So Freeman still be On the other side, David Johnson
is dealing with a back injury that popped up kind
of late in the week on the injury report, although
he did play through it. Cliff Kingsbury said that he

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did play through it last week and that's probably why
his snap percentage went down. Uh. He only had sixty
of the snaps last week compared to Chase Edmonds who
had thirty seven. UM. So we sell the uptick in
Edmonds last week and DJ sat out Friday from practice.
If he doesn't go, Edmunds becomes a B grade in

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this game. Right now, I have David as a B
and Edmonds as a C. Does Edmonds maybe become an
A grade because he doesn't have to share that. That's
probably closer to write it. It's it's A B, T
and A, so it might be A. The Falcons have
allowed the eleventh most rushing yards on the season as well.
You mentioned at church. Kyler Murray gets an A grade. Yeah, baby,

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this is the breakout game coming. Well, We've said that
a couple of times in the last few weeks. Unfortunately
this time the first time I've said it and I
mean it. Baby. We haven't seen the ceiling yet for Murray.
But the Falcons have allowed ten touchdown passes in the
last three weeks, so it might be time. They're tied
for last in the league's in sacks with Miami and
they've played one more game than Miami. And even with

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a bad old line that Kyler has, Murray should have
more time than he ever has had before. So Kyler
Murray gets the A grade. Uh. Larry Fitzgerald gets an
A as well. Christian Kirk gets a B if he goes.
He's still limited in practice with an ankle. It's a
great spot though, of Kirk plays. The Falcons gave up
three hundred seventy seven yards to wide receivers just last week,

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which is why Keishawn Johnson was might take a chance
on me wide receiver and it gave him a B
grade as well. Yeah, that's um for Kyler Murray. I
love the fact that Cliff Kingsbury is giving him designed
runs and that that's unlocked a lot of value from
the last couple of weeks. He wasn't letting him run
early on. Now we're getting designed runs and watching back

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last week's game for Kyler Murray, just the poise differential
was gigantic. Um. The accuracy was very good except the
first series where I think that the adrenaline was flowing.
He sailed a couple of passes early, but after that
the passes looked effortless for Murray. Uh, this is this
is the game. I wouldn't be surprised if this is
two rushing touchdowns and one passing touchdown or two passing

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and one rushing and this has got massive upside for
Kyler Murray. Atlanta's the team you want to see as
the opponent for any fantasy player moving forward since they
lost Keyan O'Neil again Torn Achilles, I believe or a
c l that they just keep getting lit up and
because Atlantic can score points, which is favorable to keep
the game competitive in high score we had that defense

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is any It's worth noting that Dan Quinn is their
defensive coordinator and had coach right now, so they basically
can't fire him during the season, right, So that means
we get Atlanta doing this junk for the rest of
the year. It's great. Pittsburgh takes on the Chargers. We
begin with James Conner, who will be the focus of
the Chargers defense because Pittsburgh is unfortunately starting Devil and

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Hodges in a quarterbacks You know, his nickname is Duck Duck.
You know why it's called Duck, Probably because the offensive
lineman would have to yell duck. They've got um. Chargers
are gonna try to stop James Conner and make Duck
Hodges beat them, beat them, which is the obvious game plan.
And that's why I've just got to be great on
Connor here. Now there is a Melvin Ingram is banged

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up and Thomas Davis is banged up, but and they
are giving up four point nine yards per carry, So
the chance that Connor could still have a big game here,
But I do believe they're going to play mostly to
stop Connor. Connor hit the Chargers for two touchdowns last season,
so I think he will be featured in this one,
particularly with Jalen Samuel out. Then we go to the
passing game again with Duck Hodges at the helm. God

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only knows what can end up happening here. I thought
he was okay in relief last week. Get this. He
didn't take a snap in practice prior to getting thrown
to the Wolves. Last week. The most he had done
was worked with a seven man team. He wasn't even
running with the second stringers in practice, and they threw
him into the game and he actually looked okay. I

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don't think they had much of a choice but to
put him in the game. Now, well, they didn't have
any choice. But we gotta believe this is materially gonna
harm the offense dramatically. And I've got just a nervous
C grade on Juju Smith Schuster, here's generous. We have
no idea of Hodges can complete a deep pass, and
and that's really been what's to find Juju's fantasy value.
For the most part, Juju lines up in the slot

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on almost seventy percent of his snaps, or he'll face
Desmond King, who has been awful and got trucked by
Courtland Sutton last week. So maybe it's gonna work out
for Juju this week. And I do have a C
grade on him, but massive amount of variants here, depending
on whether Devlin Hodges can actually play the position. Vance
McDonald also gets to see because a lot of times
you've see inexperienced quarterbacks dump off to their tight end

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when they're in trouble, which is all the time, and
so that could that could help manson McDonald's stat line here.
Two games ago, the Chargers gave up three tight end
touchdowns in one game, and McDonald is the best tight
end that they've seen all year. So Vance McDonald gets
a ce. Dante Johnson is too far down the depth

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chart and he's gonna draw Casey Hayward, so he's dead
to us. Now let's go to the Chargers side. Very importantly,
the Chargers just lost their center, Mike Pouncey. That hurts everybody.
They were already without tackle Russell o'coon key's out. That
means that Dan Freeney and Forest lamp both are going
to play out of position in this game? Lamp? You

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love Lamp? Do you like him playing out of position? Okay,
I've got a B grade on Austin Ekeler and a
C grade on the rest of the Chargers because of
all of the chaos on the offensive line. Let's start
with Austin Neckler. Steelers allowed the sixth most receptions per
game to opposing running backs and two backs of top
fifty receiving yards, although none have scored. Three of the

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four touchdowns and Steelers have allowed were two backup runners.
So I still like Keler here, and I like him
over Gordon. Now let's talk about Gordon, who just gets
the C grade. He saw forty six percent of the
snaps last week. Head coach Anthony Lynn says he's going
to get more workload this week. I think this could
be for Melvin Gordon back. He faces a Steelers team

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that's seen the second most rushing attempts but hasn't allowed
any rusher to top seventy nine yards. Last week, they
held mark Ingram to two yards per carry. So I'm
nervous about Melvin Gordon behind this makeshift offensive line. Then
Philip Rivers after a horrific start to the season. The
Steelers secondary has come together over the last three weeks,
allowing just two hundred three yards per game and two

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total touchdowns. Rivers best receiver, Keenan Allen's got a tricky matchup,
which I'll talk about now and why he's just to
see he's gonna see Mike Hilton, one of the better
slock cornerbacks, allowing just thirty yards per game. That said,
Hilton is allowing his passes in coverage, his coverage to
be completed, so that helps. So maybe get just through
PPR and repetition, you can do something here. Steelers have

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seen a lot of good slot receivers and they have
not allowed to touchdown. So just to see grade on
Keenan Allen and Mike Williams always a shaky volume guy
to begin with. And if the if the Chargers get
a big lead against Duck Hodges, which is possible, that
would limit Mike Williams outlook here because he might not
get much of any volume and that in that event,
So just to see great and Williams and I thought

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about putting him on the bench. Our final matchup is
Detroit taking on Green Bay. Brian talked to us about
the Lions Monday night game. Here, we'll start with carry
On Johnson getting in a green Bay allowing five point
three yards per carry in the seventh most catches to
running backs this year. Carry On saw Lions coming off
the bye, by the way, which is always good to

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his carry On Detroit's offensive snaps in their last game,
so he looks to be trending towards Bell Cow status.
And the last four running backs you face Green Bay
have produced at least nine you On Comboy yards and
at least one touchdown, So hopefully Matt Patricia uses carry
On correctly in this one. Kenny Golladay getting get a
as well. All you need to do is look at
the opposing wide receiver box scores to feel good about

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Baby Tron's prospects. Amari Cooper had eleven for two and one,
Michael Gallup in the same game seven for one, thirteen
and one. Alan Robinson topped a hundred yards. Courtland Sutton
five or eighty seven. Stephan Diggs and Alison Jeffrey both
scored against Green Bay. Easy a for Golladay attempted to
give Marvin Jones be here, even though he's pretty touchdown dependent.

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Although he is on pace for seventy plus catches and
a thousand yards this year, which is pretty impressive, and
he does have four touchdowns across his last three games
against Green Bay. But I'm gonna be uh approaches with
a little trepidation. Is give him a C in this one.
I like Golladay a whole lot. More Over to the
tight end position, t J. Hockenson still in concussion protocol.

(01:25:58):
Help he goes, hope he goes to his floor. Can
hit you hard though, trust me, I know um He's
probably a low end tight end one. If cleared, especially
in this week's tight end waste Land team startgeting targeting
tight ends against the Packers or twenty two of seven
years and green Bay will be without starting free safety
Darnell Savage. Uh. For those reasons about me liking the

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past catchers is why Matt Stafford gets a B. Traubinsky, Cousins,
and Flacco were shut down by Green Bay, but that
is totally understandable. Carson Wentz and dak Prett Scott both
tossed multi multiple touchdowns against the pack over the last
two weeks, and Stafford has thrown two or three touchdowns
and nine straight games that is, I didn't realize such
a pack. They're just always behind these games. They take it,

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but uh might not be the case in this game
over to the green Bay side could be without their
starting center, Corey Leslie. I believe his name is that
all the direct impact on Aaron Jones just gonna give
him a b here. Though. Even though the Blinds run
defense hasn't been as stout as last season post the
Snacks Harrison trade us in, running backs are averaging more
than a touchdown per game on the ground and seventy

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yards through the air. That's were pretty good numbers for
running backs, and despite already having their by Detroit has
yielded the fifth most red zone touches to opposing running backs.
All you have to do is pray that Jamal Williams
stays off the field for Aaron Jones on this one now,
and Williams might come back for this one, which is
a bomber who will now be returning his Davante Adams.
He will not play with the toe injury, won't play

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until it is fully healed, Green Bay is saying, and
that is not this week. Geronimo Allison also questionable with
a hamstring injury. He might not go. Let's assume he does.
I'll give I'm sorry, Mark hasval This scantling is questionable.
With the Hammy Allison is fine, I'll give both the
Sea other than talent rather than talent, I'm not sure

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Darius Slay which shadow either of these guys, and someone
has to pass catch passes of Adams is out, so
let's give both the Sea. The Lions have yielded the
most red zone targets opposing wide receivers, but only three
wide receivers have scored so far off those targets. Jimmy Graham,
hate him, but give him a see. Uh. Detroit hasn't
allowed an opposing tight end to score this season. Travis

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Kelsey and Zeck are both had respectable games, but Graham
is far from comparable to those guys, and Aaron Rodgers
also questionable. He should go. No, Davante Adams Hurt's no
starting center. Patrick Mahomes didn't throw a touchdown pass against
the Lion, so I'll give Rogers to see on name
brand alone. But I would go with almost any of
our take a chance on the quarterback, so no, I

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would too. I definitely start my guy Kyle Allen, I'll
tell you that much. Over the last eleven games, Aaron
Rodgers averaging one touchdown pass per game in single quarterback
twelve team leagues. Rodgers is droppable. I'm seeing him getting
dropped in leaps. Yeah. If you love the show, go
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