Week 10: It's Too Soon For Turkey!

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Football Weekly, Week number ten. I am Paul Georgian by
Coast Today or Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison. Hello, gentlemen,
double digit weeks. Let's go double digit weeks. Yeah, it's
not quite the home stretch, but you know we're getting down.
Is this officially nut cutting time? And who goes around
cutting nuts anyway? I mean, other than like secans or

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something like that. Maybe I don't know, I mean you
cut them. Maybe can't you just eat the whole thing?
I think that maybe to get the shell off you
must cut the shell. And so so I mean it,
it's pecan pie season rights, so that means it's so
it's not cutting time to get ready for your pecan pies.
I'd rather have the pecan pie than the pumpkin pie. Delicious.
The nutcutter sounds like the horror version of the Nutcracker.

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I'd rather go to the Rocky Horror. Over the course
of the show, you will find nine players upon whom
you can take a chance. We'll answer three tough questions,
will premature speculation, and we'll break down every game fantasy style,
beginning with the Eagles taking on the Giants. Brian, we're
finally going to see the Eagles offense. We were promised

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in the preseason. It's only taken ten weeks to get here.
But we've got everybody healthy. Unless you're denying Zach existence,
but yes, So let's start with Miles Sanders, who will
make his return, and more importantly, or is of equal importance.
Right tackle Lane Johnson should also make his return for
the Eagles. But I mean give Sanders a cautious be here,

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but there is a upside uh. These teams, by the way,
played in Week seven, not long ago. We'll we'll reference
that Matt up for sure. Sanders had not playing that
first meeting. The Philly Backs, who were led by Boston Scott,
total six eight rushing yards on sixteen carries and fifty
eight receiving yards on seven catches. That's probably a floor
for Sanders and this one on paper not a great matchup. Tho,

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the Giants have held the posing running backs to less
than three point nine yards per carry this year, so
B for Sanders again, but there is a upside here
based on volume odd to the past game. I'm gonna
start with Dallas Goddard, give him a B. The Giants
have been pretty good against tight ends, allowing allowing these
seventh fewest catches and fifth fewest touchdowns to the position.

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Goddard has yet to score in four career games against
New York so far. But Dick rod Ricord Richard Rogers,
back up to the backup Philly tight end, had six
catches for eighty five yards against these Giants in Week seven,
So I'm giving Goddard to be Now to the receiving game,
which is all of a sudden, very muddied. The waters

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are very muddy, too much talent shock full of wide
resus eivers now when they had none. We'll start with
Travis Fulgum, who has earned the right to be called
Philly's wide receiver one right now. Did pretty well in
the first meeting, five catches for seventy three yards, primarily
draped in James Bradberry throughout that game. The Giants top corner.
But Philly has more weapons now that might take some
of that burden off Fulgham, so gonna get Fulghum a

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safe sea here as well as Jalen Reagor saw six
targets in his first game back. That was in Week eight.
By the way, Philly is coming off thereby scored a
touchdown in that game. The Giants have surrendered a wide
receiver touchdown in four straight games, and that includes the
Eagles game. The touchdown went to Greg Ward, who was
the secondary receiver at the time. That is now Jalen Reagor.

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So safe c for Reagor as well, and Alishan. Jeffrey
is gonna make his season debut. I'm not gonna give
him a grade here, but we might talk about him
a little later in the show. And lastly, for Philly,
Carson Wentz bench grade a bench grade for Jef. I
refused to give Alshan a grade of any kind. That's right,

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especially D. I will not give him. You make you
make guests every care with al Sean. Give a player
at D on this show. But Carson Wentz be the voices.
The masses have spoken. They don't want the D. The
letter grade, the D letter grade. We'll see. I don't
know I want it. Don't you want it? Man? Frankly,
you you brought it that YouTube do not matter. Carson

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Wentz not a B or A. D Wins gets a
B three fifty nine and two passing in week seven,
also added a rushing touchdown this time around. He basically
has all his weapons back outside of zach ERTs, so
a safety for Carson Wentz over to the Giant side.
Not allow to talk about Davante Freeman a k A
DeVante Seamer. You go. He's been placed on I R

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so he will not be playing. So Wayne Gallman and
Alfred Morris left in the Giants backfield. I got him
both on the bench though Philly holding opposing backs under
three point four yards per carry, allowing just a hundred
and eleven combo yards per game to the position. You
can go. Gallman if very desperate, but I don't expect
much from him. Darius Slayton not gonna expect much from
him either. He's on the bench, only two catches for

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twenty three yards in the first meeting. He should see
a ton of Darius slay again, who has returned to
for him. So Slayton is on the bench for me,
but Sterling Shepherd is not. He scored in the first meeting,
also had six catches for yards, his best game of
the year, and in the three games since he has
seen double digit targets twice. Golden Tate also scored, but
he heard his knee scored in the first game, heard

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his knee in practice, and he's in the doghouse because
of his wife, so he's on the bench. Tate is,
but Shepherd gets a B. He will be uh in
the slot where I'll see Nickel Robie Coleman, an old
friend of the show who was allowing a pass the
rating of a hundred and twelve in his coverage. And
the last Giant who gets a starting grade is Evan
Ingram six forty six in the first meeting, basically hit

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his floor there. He's averaging roughly six catches and fifty
nine yards against the Eagles over his career, who are
also allowing the third most receptions and touchdowns to tight
ends this season. So a B for Angram and Daniel
Jones on the bench. This was the stumble game where
he fell on that. Yeah, we tackled himself. We're not
gonna rushing yards like he had in the first meeting.

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He did have two passing touchdowns with just a hundred
and eighty seven yards, but Jones on the bench ye
and pretty much every week. Unfortunately, I was hoping for
better this year. Let's move over to the Jaguars taking
on the Packers. Matt Weather, it could be a serious
issue here this game. If you believe the early forecast,
it appears this game looks a lot like that Viking
game from two weeks ago where neither team could pass. Yeah,

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and I mean there's still some some pretty good offensive
numbers put up in that game by running back by
a few guys. I would like to note randomly, I
went to a Jaguars at Packers game in Lambeau Field
where Byron Leftwich beat the Packers. You're an experts, so
there's nobody better than me to this matchup right here.

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Let's start with James Robinson of the Jaguars. I'm giving
him a solid B grade in this one. The Vikings
showed the recipe for beating the Packers in Lambeau in
this weather run at them all day long, and since
Robinson is a clear bell cow averaging twenty one touches
per game, he's got a shot. The Packers have had
issues against bell cow running backs every runner who has

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had at least sixteen carries against Green Bay has recorded
two touchdowns in a game or more, and Alvin Kamara
did not hit that number with the rushing attempts, but
he scored twice through the air against Green Bay in
a game where he had nineteen touches. So the only
reason he's not an a the game script just might
get away from the Jaguars in this one, Jake Lewton,

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although the game script gets away from the Jaguars in
almost every game, and he's the game script has already
left the Jaguars. They haven't even got to Green Bay yet.
They are improv there's no script. They're like whose line
is it? Anyway of the NFL while their points don't matter.
That's true, uh, Jake Lewton, he's on your bench. Who
had half to be a really deep two quarterback or

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super flex league to start looting? To his credit, he
did beat the Texans for three four yards and a
score last week. But the Packers aren't thrown on a bunch.
They're averaging only thirty one pass attempts per game, which
translates to an average of two or fifty yards against
and just over a passing score. So Luton's on the
bench and the only receiver of his I'm going to
give a starting grade two is dj Chark, who only

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gets a C. He's going to get the solo coverage
from JayR Alexander. Although let's know there's a chance Alexander
doesn't go in this one, and he's shaping up closer
to a game time decision. Well, that would would help
a little bit help, That might bump him up to uh,
something between a CE something like that. Solid be a
liquid be. You'd definitely be a liquid be if the

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Alexander is out. That is solid B movement for DJR.
Let's continue. The game script does favor the Packers getting
up early in this one, and then Chart should see
double digit targets like he did last week with Luton.
He converted those into seven catches a hundred and forty
six yards in a score that included a seventy three
yard touchdown strike. And it was clear if you look

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back at this game, Luton only wanted to throw it
to Chark. It was like, oh, that's my guy. Okay,
he did throw to one other guy though Chris Conley randomly, uh,
And there's no consistency from week to week outside of
Chark on this team, Um, everybody's getting to three targets
except Chris Connley, who had eight targets last And Connley
is gonna start this game with UM with Laviska out,

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so Conny will be on the field again a lot.
And he wouldn't see jaire Alexander. You and if Alexander
goes a little known fact real quick, Chris Connolly, this
is the state of the Jaguars, by the way, is
a captain of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yes, I saw the
patch for myself. What didn't Chris Conley play for Wisconsin.

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It's just I think he did see if that rafted
by the Chiefs, we know that. I'll look into all right,
Davante Adams. Let's go over to the other side. He's easily,
Oh Church, we gotta get the art Vark. Sound so
owned out because Davante Adams is easily the art Vark
this week, whether weather permitting. Hey guess what. He scored
a handful of touchdowns in that game against the Vikings,

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weather permitting. So Chris Connelly went to University of Georgia.
He's also not aren in Wisconsin. He was born in
at in cure Lack Air Base in Turkey, so it's
not at homecoming. Tricky for him to have the hole.
What if he plays on Thanksgiving in the future, Remember
that is like the ultimate, that's the Thanksgiving game. Wow,

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I'm glad. We're glad we got that settled. Uh, Aaron,
we do not have We do not have a turkey
of all the animals that we now have on this thing. No,
we don't have. We do not have a turkey in
the system right now. Brianne is Brianne is feverishly looking
for a feverishly um. Aaron Rodgers is also getting an

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easy A grade. The Jaguars rank dead last in the
league in Football Outsiders passing d v o A. Let's
talk about his other receivers. Alan Lazard might return this week.
He's been practicing, but the Packers don't need to activate
him until next week. And I believe he was Churches
premature speculation last week correct well, and he was Scott
Scott Fishes the week before that. He's not gonna play here,

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so use him one more time this week. We could,
but you probably want to pick him up. He did
make the trip to San Francisco last week and has
been practicing in a limited fashion. But I imagine that
the Packers are going to exercise caution. They don't need
him to beat the Jaguars, you think, And it sounds
like the plan is not to use Alan Lazard here. Yeah,
and if he's not active, I think I'd give Marquees

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Veldez Scantling a C start dart in this one. That's
the Chris Conley key right there. You know what's going
to happen next week. Gonna sit down in front of
all of our sounders here and there a turkey. But
we should just label at Chris Conley, all right. Um.
Robert Touny in he gets a C grade, but he

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was added to the injury report on Friday and was
very limited in practice with an ankle injury, and he
basically pitched a goose egg last week. He's done very
little since Davante Adams return from injury. But I do
like him this week because the Jags are allowing the
third most yards and almost a touchdown per game to
the tight end position. If he doesn't go, I think
I'd throw a dart at Jace Sternberger. Yeah, let's hope

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Let's hope it doesn't come to that. Let's hope not.
When we come back, take a chance on me. Nine
players not normally in your starting lineup. These are all
guys that you'll want to start this weekend. Many of
them are are going to be available in the waiver
wire for you to pick up if you decide you
want to go that route. We'll tell you who those
nine players are when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison with you.
This is take a chance on me. We begin with
three quarterbacks available on the waiver wire in most cases
that you can start. This week. We begin with Brian Johnson.
I put on for my city Drew Lock again. Baby.
I'm going back to the well came through last week.

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It was it was. It looked bad for a long time.
Maybe finishes like QV three on the week, So I'll
take it and I have like his chances again this
week at Las Vegas. Aside from the Raiders Typhoon game
in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, they've allowed at
least passing yards and multiple touchdowns in four straight games.
Lock should stay upright for the most part. Vegas is

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bottom five in sack percentage and quarterback hit rate, and
this game should be a shootout. The over under is
fifty point five, and each of Denver's last three games
went north of eight. Sorry, fifty eight points a lot,
a hell of a lot, Drew luck. All right, Matt,
you'll take a chance at the quarterback. What time is it.
It's two o'clock. It's two o'clock. Ye to A looked

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really good against the Cardinals last week. I thought he
looked good. People, Okay, sorry, I'll take that. I'll take
that really off. Their hyperbole has gone a little too
far onto his game. Well, he led the Fins to
the second win and as many starts as a rookie quarterback,
and they haven't really let him cut loose with the
offense yet. They've played things pretty simple, close to the vest.

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But as he continues to feel comfortable, I think the
Dolphins will feed him more of the playbook. And I
think that's this week when he plays a Chargers defense
that people think is pretty legit. But they've allowed twenty
nine points or more in each of their last five games,
and each of those five quarterbacks has either topped three
yards thrown for multiple scores or both. Plus with both

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of these teams sporting rookie quarterbacks and a severely injured
running game, I think this is one of those air
raid games that to a and air bear go after
each other. That's the one. Oh yeah, baby, Now that's
a real that's a real animal. Listen, turkeys, that's a

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that's the kind of animal. Definitely not a Sad Trombone.
Nick Foles has been so lackluster. If Sad Trombone Ski,
there we go wealthy. We would be talking about Sad
Trombone Ski in this spot. But no, it's Nick Foles instead. Um,
he's folds to struggle badly and other normal circumstances. I
don't recommend him. But the Vikings are expected to be

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missing up to four cornerbacks on Monday night. They always are.
They always even have that many cornerbacks to be missing.
Cornerbacks one, three, four, and five are all expected to
be missing this game. And as great as Mike Jimmer,
Zimmer has done with just scotch taping this set in,
they'rea together sooner or later. You can't keep trotting out

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fifth stringer, six stringer, seventh stringers, against guys as good
as Allen Robinson. So I think here it catches up
with the Vikings to some degree, and they have They
have given up pretty big passing games pretty universally. So
this is an opportunity for Nick Foles. Let's go to
the running back position. Brian, I like that Jimmer for
debt Frudian slip there. Like Mike Jimmer, I got Leonard

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four Nett at Carolina. Now, the timeshare in the Tampa
Bay backfield has been pretty frustrating this season, but over
the last three weeks, four Nett has seen twice as
many snaps as Ronald Jones. He is the proven third
down pass catching back. The Panzo Panthers have allowed the
most receptions in the fifth most receiving yards to running backs.
Carolina also allows nine seven rushing yards and a rushing

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touchdown per game two running backs. And oh yeah, Leonard
Fournette had one hundred plus rushing yards and two rushing
touchdowns when these teams met in Week two. And Ronald
Jones is just bad. We'll talk more about him later
in the show, just about how bad he is. Okay,
sounds good. Your take a chance to me. Running back
Matt If we want to talk about bad, let's talk
about Klin Blage. That is an excellent segue right there. Um.

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Klin Blage now plays for the Chargers, and in his
Chargers debut last week, he was the lead back after
Justin Jackson went down with an injury in the opening
seconds of the game. Blage ended up with seventeen touches
eighty four total yards in a score. Not a soul
in the entire world saw any of those fantasy points.
There's not one person. This week, he faces a Dolphins

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defense that is allowing four point six yards per carry
on the season and was ranked the nine ranked rushing
defense by Football Outsiders d v o A. Also, Kyle
van Noy and Christian Wilkins were placed on the COVID
list and won't play this week. And oh, by the way,
there's beef here. This is really a personal revenge game

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right here. The Dolphins traded Blage to Adam Gaze and
the Jets for a bag of donuts earlier this year.
Then Balash failed the physical was sent back to Miami.
That had to be awkward, yes, and then the Jets
ended up cutting him. Now he gets to face off
against his old team. Oh, and he gets the Adam
Gaze boost. Yes, the I've left Adam Gaze, so everybody

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gets better. I'm going with J. D. Mick kiss Yes.
I at this point, I I think I just gotta
call him. Do would you like to do an apology?
I gotta kiss up to make kiss it would? I
know you're a listener, Okay, I apologize for the inhumane

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treatment you've received. Maybe you gave him the motivation he
needed on a week tweak basis. It's a good point
because he saw a scalding of the snaps last week,
establishing an instant rapport with a new starter, Alex Smith.
Catching nine of fourteen targets last week for sixty five yards.
They were all season highs with Alex Smith. He should

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be able to keep it going against a Lions defense
that has been torched by opposing runners through the air.
They're allowing the fourth most receiving yards, the most receiving
touchdowns per game to the position, with back scoring receiving
touchdowns in three of the last four against Detroit. J D.
Mick kissing, let's go to the receivers, Brian, take a

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chance of me white out Cleveland's Rochard Higgins at home
against the Texans. UH only one catch for Richard on
three targets in Cleveland's first full OH B J less game,
but that was the monsoon game against the Raiders. Is
not going to read too much into that and the
three games prior where Beckham was healthy for two and
a half of them, Higgins either scored a touchdown or

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topped a hundred yards in all three. Houston is allowing
one and seventy plus yards per game to wide receivers.
They've already surrendered thirteen touchdowns to the position, that is
second most. So I like me some Richard Higgins this week. Okay, bat,
how about Mike Gassicki, who's by the way, fifty owned
in ESPN leagues, which I can't why at this point.

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It's a tight end waste land out there, and I
kind of like Gasicki here. Last December, Mike Gasicki was
the tight end darling of the of the league. And
I think we're gearing up for another one of those
because last year Preston Williams got hurt in Week nine
and went on I R just like he did this year.
From Week ten on, Ghisicky became the de facto second

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passing option on that team and averaged over seven targets
per game. This week, he gets a Chargers defense that
has allowed five touchdowns to the tight end position in
just the last five weeks. Mike Gassicky, go pick him up.
Remember last December when Gisicky and Higbee were they blew
up in December. We all roll into, you know, roll
into the next season. Like those guys. You know they're young,

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they're both of them are on the waiver wire. They've
both been awful this year. Josh Reynolds has an uninspired,
tired play, but he's on the field seventy eight percent
of the team snaps. I am interested in any carbon
based life form that is on the field for sent
of a team snaps against the worst past defense in

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NFL history. How bad is Seattle? The Seahawks are on
pace to give up one thousand more passing yards than
the next worst past defense of all time. Seattle allows
two d eighty passing yards to wide receivers, sixty more

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than the next worst team. They're giving up a staggering
twenty two receptions just to the wide out position, worst
in the league, and Josh Reynolds has scored in two
of the last three games, three out of the last four.
Josh Reynolds. Here we go. I think it. I think
it all makes sense. Those some solid Reynolds wrap right there.

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Oh why didn't I think of that? I guess next next,
next week. There's always a chance for somebody to wrap
their Josh Reynolds. I want to hear you drop some bars.
You do the beatbox Brian Ravens take on the Patriots.
Let's begin with Lamar Jackson. This passing offense has not
been good. He hasn't top two touchdown passes in a

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game since the opener. And even though Joe Flacco, of
all people, just roasted the Patriots secondary, don't let recency
bias make you forget that New England had gone three
weeks without allowing a passing touchdown before that. Now, Stephon
Gilmour probably misses this game, and that means to me
Jackson is a pretty safe start. But I'm in a

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note here. The Patriots are allowing just fifteen quarterback rushing
yards per game, so there is the opportunity for a
major flop here for Lamar Jackson, but he usually finds
his way to a decent not explosive game, so we
have just to be grade for Lamar Jackson his receivers.
Marquis Brown gets a C grade. New England said, can

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there is a lot of one yard receiver in three
of the past four games, again mostly with Gilmore out
and has they just surrendered a multi touchdown game to
Brochard Payriman. Brown lines up on the right side most
often where he will face J. C. Jackson in coverage,
who allowed two scores in his coverage last week. So
C grade for Marcus Brown. He's been a touchdown dependent
receiver to this point. What Mark Andrews, speaking of the

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tight end waste land he's contributed, he has had. Out
of the eight games so far, he's had three good
games and five that have been straight up disaster grade games.
He's the guy you're not going to see on many
playoff teams at this rate based on his ADP. He's
completely touchdown dependent well, and he's still the eighth ranked

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tight end in the league right now, which is which
says a lot about the tight end position. Andrews recorded
just two catches for twenty one yards against the Patriots
last season, in a game in which the Ravens scored
thirty seven points. He had twenty one scoreless yards. Andrews
commands a thirty five percent share of the Ravens targets
in the red zone, good good for third most league wide.

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So hopefully you'll pay off in a touchdown. And that's
a C grade for Mark Andrews. Now, everybody else is
on the bench that you might be tempted to start,
including the running backs. Mark Ingram practiced on Friday, and
it looks like we're back to one of the league's
messiest rotations. Over the last four games, the Patriots have
given up per game averages of a hundred thirty six
rushing yards and one and a half scores and five

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yards per carry to running back. So there's something will
probably get done here. But when you split that up
three ways, it's hard to feel confident about any of
the three. J. K. Dobbins in particularly not chipping in
with the receptions like we thought he might, and nobody
else is really getting him either, and he's been held
under thirty four yards in five of the last six games.
I've got them all on the bench, all right, let's

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go to Let's go to the Patriots side, where I've
only got a couple of starters for you, Cam Newton.
His is the rare rushing his quiz the rare rush
touchdown dependent quarter back. He's a running back playing quarterback. Basically, yes, um,
we're not going to chase last week's two rushing touchdowns
because he's not playing the Jets. The Ravens are only

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allowing sixteen quarterback rushing yards per game, although three quarterbacks
have found the end zone against the Ravens. And that's
I guess why he's getting a C grade here for
the hopeful the rushing score. His passing is awful and
the Ravens are a very good past defense. Who his
arms gonna you just get a bonus on whatever his
arms chip in? Uh. If he's gonna throw anything, it'll
go to Jacoby Myers. Myers will face Marcus Peters most often,

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and while Peters has been inconsistent, it's still not a
terribly favorable matchup here. The Ravens have allowed the eighth
fewest yards to wideouts and the third fewest touchdowns. Myers
runs from the slot a little bit, and if Marlon
Humphrey can't go due to the COVID protocol, he's trying
to get through that gives Myers a glimpse of hope,
and that's why I've got a C grade on him.
You know, Myers hasn't done anything at all this year

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on days where it wasn't his birthday. That's really a
very birthday dependent wide receiver Jacoby Myers. And lastly, C
grade on Damien Harris, and it's barely to see he's
dealing with a knee injury. Looks like he's gonna play.
Aside from one long mile Sanders run, Baltimore is held
every back under seventy two rushing yards, Harris doesn't catch

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and his quarterback steals his goal line looks so you know,
it's a C grade for the sixties scoreless guards that
I expect him to get in this game. James White
is on the bench. Baltimore has mostly handled other past
catching specialists niakem Hinz twenty yards last week, Boston Scott
five yards, j D Mkissic forty yards, Kareem Hunt nine

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yards through the air. That's it. They've only given up
one touchdown two running backs through the air this year,
that's all. And that's why you're not gonna start James
White in this game. When we come back Houston takes
on Cleveland. You'll find out about Duke Johnson's chances as
the likely starter for the Texans as he goes up

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against Cleveland. Did he used to play for the Browns? Media?
Could there be a revenge motivation during the break? We'll
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Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Hi am Paul Churchy and
at Paul Churching on Twitter. Brian Johnson is at b
t x J and Matt Harrison is at a Explosive Output. Matt,
what's happening at Shock Fantasy? Oh? I got something to
reveal this week? Really and I do this this thing
that I've I've done the last few years. My Super

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Bowl prop bet game. Yeah, I have one coming out
next week for Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving games, all three
games in all three games in one tidy little sheet
for you and your family to play it Thanksgiving. Even
if you're not able to see your family this year,
print them off it. Do it from Afar. It's something
to keep you guys together. I'm in fantastic um. Anything

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that means that I don't have to talk to my family,
I think is a bonus. Well, and it forces you
to watch more football. If people say, Paul, come through
the dishes, you go, I gotta keep score on this
game over here. Yeah, I have to watch football. Houston
takes on Cleveland, and it looks like David Johnson will
not clear the concussion protocol in time to participate in

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this game. So Duke Johnson, coming off the heaviest workload
of his entire career, goes back to Cleveland where it
all began. Yeah, the heaviest workload was sixteen carries and
that was only the fifth time in his career that
he's seen double digit carries for Duke Johnson, So this
is like uncharted bell cow Territory, remember doing Isaiah Crowle

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was stealing his touches. That's right, I forgot. We changed
the changed changed the cow bell down to one bell
It's like how it's the literal bell. Duke control the
bell a couple more times than that. It's not an
amazing matchup. The Browns are coming off their by so

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the defense will be fresh. They're allowing a combo yards
per game drawnning backs and a touchdown per game. The
compoyards isn't great, but based on volume, Duke a safe b.
Now to the past game, will Fuller gets an A.
Now Will Fuller just playing in sixth straight games in
the past was impressive, but now six straight games with
a touchdown. I don't even know what to say right now.

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I'm at a loss for words. I'm hard. I'll hark
and back as I as I, as I often like
to hearken. You're a big Hearken fan, big hearkener known
from my hearkening um back to the preseason when we
said Will Fuller stays healthy, if you promised me he'll
play sixteen games, he will be a top ten wide receiver.
He's a top ten wide receiver. Yeah, and you could
keep it rolling this week. Denzil Award is a great

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cornerback for Cleveland, but he's basically the last man standing
in that secondary. Cleveland has allowed the fifth most catches
and third most touchdowns to wide receivers who are also
very active in the red zone. Against the Browns, Cleveland
has yielded the most red zone targets and second most
red zone touches to the position. So in A for
Fuller and in A for Brandon Cooks, who was universally
dropped essentially after Week four when he had zero catches

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on three targets against the Vikings. Since then, he's seen
at least nine targets in four straight and has scored
in three of those four games. So in A for
Cooks and I don't give Darren Fells to see the
Browns are allowing six catches per game to opposing tight ends,
who are also averaging two red zone targets per game.
That's the highest clip in the league. Bells has scored
in two of his last three. So a CEE for
Fells in the waste land and DeShawn Watson and easy

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A for me. Cleveland has allowed multiple passing touchdowns in
five of eight games, at least three passing touchdowns in
four of those five games, and in the three games
they did not allow multiple passing scores. One was that
Monsoon game that we keep referencing, and the other two
were Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers, who are not very
comparable to Deshaun Watson at this point in his career.

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So I love Deshaun Watson with an a over to
the Cleveland side. Nick Chubb looking like he's going to
make his return. He is off, I r he will.
I don't know. So we're looking at a fifty fifty
split maybe sixty forty. I think I think he goes
right back to he goes right back to what it was,
but that was not that was like, and I think
it might be more. Maybe maybe Hunt is the sixty

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and Chubb is the forty. This week we can talk
more about Hunt and chubbing a little bit weekend. More importantly,
they both get the return of right tackle Wyatt Teller
this week. Um, it's a great matchup as well. Houston
has surrendered the most rushing yards and running backs, and
the Texans have also yielded the most red zone touches
to opposing running backs and the second touches in gold
to go scenarios to the position. They have only allowed. Uh.

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The texting that Texans that is one score to running
backs through the air, and only one back was able
to catch more than five passes against them. So I
do like Chubb more than Hunting this one, even if
Hunt sees more touches. But I'll give them both a
very safe sea. I suppose with B upside for both
uh stuff to gauge what's gonna happen here with with
Chubb returning, UH, Jarvis Landry gets b saw Levin targets

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in his first game without oh. B J didn't do much,
but coming off the by probably the healthiest he's been
all year, should dominate slot corner Eric Murray, who owns
a one passer rating in his coverage, Orchards Higgins. I
like him as well. Was my take a chance on
me wide receiver and Austin Hooper. Gonna give him a
B if he returns, which he should. The Texans are
allowing the eighth most receptions and seventh most yards to

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opposing tight ends. Houston has also surrendered a tight end
and two of their last four games, and that's notable
because the two teams that didn't score it tight in
touchdown during that span are actually one team. It was
the Jaguars, who they played twice over the last four games,
so B for Hooper and a B for Mayfield. Baker,
Mayfield Houston who. Houston has allowed a three yard passing
game to Jake Lewton last week and prior to that

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they allowed four touchdown passes and back to back games
at least two touchdown passes in five of seven, so
it was safe B for Baker. You don't really touch
on the weather. I mean the weather in Cleveland right
now is dangerously high winds, so there's they're not going
to get the rain from the monsoon game. But they
could very well have a game with wins that just
make it so you can't pass. Like it was a

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few weeks ago, there was like five win games. They
all came through on the over they except the Cleveland lost.
They did think the Vikings game didn't either. I can't believe,
but maybe it did. It did. No, there was another
I mean it was a lot. I mean there were
points scored. Let's put it that way. Just don't fade
these games. The gales of November came early. Now, when
you get to me, when you get wins in the
forty fifty, I don't want anything do with the passing game.

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That's me, let's go to the Chargers taking on the Dolphins.
For the Chargers, it's all about quarterback. Justin Air Bear,
And I'd like to submit since I taught some kindergarteners
earlier this week, justin Air Bear as a children's book,

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I think it's a great idea. Here we go. The
air bear doesn't scare. Oh wait, you're not. You're not
suggesting you're doing here? It comes okay, he doesn't care.
He'll pass with flair. You know what's rare, an average
of three oh seven yards pair and T T D
passes maybe two point fair. The Dolphins d will surely

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dare air Bear, but they should be aware because they're
allowing to seventy five through the air and within their lair.
In Miami Fair, three of fair quarterbacks have gone for
over three yards. So grab a chair and start to
air Bear without a care. Because he's in a grade
I will share. That's it, okay, and now and now

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Mike will Yeah, and now Mike Williams and Jalen Guiton.
As an erotic novel, Uh not really. The Dolphins have
two really good corners in Xavian Howard and Byron Jones.
They stay on the outside. That's where Williams and Guiton
will be. Keep them on your bench. But Keenan Allen
runs almost exclusively from the slot. In the last three games,

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teams have absolutely attacked the slot. Against Miami, Cooper Cup
had twenty one targets. The week before, Jamison Crowder had
thirteen targets and seven catches. Only Davante Adams has more
targets per game on the season than Keenan Allen, who's
averaging eleven per game. This is setting up as a
high volume game for Allen. I'm giving him an a. Also,

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Huntry Hunter. Henry, I'm giving him a be quietly ranks
third among tight ends with six point six targets per game.
The Dolphins have been pretty good against the tight end,
but they did allow two touchdowns to the tight end
position just last week against Arizona, and neither of them
were Dan Arnold. Brian probably feels bad about that one.
No doubt, the running game looks like a combo of

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Joshua Kelly and Klin Blage, as Justin Jackson and Troy
Maine Pope are both if he at best due to
their injuries. I use Klin Blage as might take a
chance on the runner and it made me feel great.
Really air quotes there. Uh, if Jackson specifically is cleared
to play, I'd probably move Blage to the bench grade
and and move that back to Jackson as a C.

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But Joshua Kelly is really also a C grade in
this one because Miami's pretty bad against the run. Flip
over to the Miami side where I talked about TOA
and Mike Gasiki both take a chance on me. Participants
Davante Parker, I'm giving a C grade in this one.
Preston Williams hit I R this week with a foot injury,
and they did trade away Isaiah Ford last week, So
five six Jachim Grant is your wide receiver two in

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this offense? Or is it? Kasicki Parker gets the C
grade because the Chargers are a top eight defense against
both receiving yards and touchdowns allowed to the wide receiver position,
and then the running back situation is gross because Matt
Brito returns this week from a hamstring injury, but Miles
Gaskin does not, so it's likely Burrito working between the twenties,

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Jordan Howard in at the goal line and Patrick Laird
stealing some passing down work. So all of them are
on the bench, and if you need one, it's probably
Howard because he's got the best chance at a touchdown. Yeah,
you know, I want to say Matt Brita would be
startable in a pinch, but I I don't see it
coming together here. I don't either. Washington takes on Detroit.

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Let's start with the passing game. Alex Smith and spot
duty has looked okay, let's call it inconsistent, but there's
a reason for optimism here. For the first time, he
gets a full week of practice with the first team offense,
and he faces a dismal lie in set and Dary.
Detroit ranks twenty six in passing touchdowns allowed. Pro Football
Focus ranks their pass rush, their coverage at Terry mclaurin's

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anticipated excess alone is Harry mccono matchup makes Alex Smith
startable in this one. A C grade on Alex Smith,
So let's go over to Terry McLaren with his A grade.
Over the past three games of McLaren averaging ten targets
ninety three yards, He's scored twice over those three games,
and prior to the Lions break from facing a real

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passing attack. The past two weeks against a washed up
Philip Rivers and a run focused Vikings, Detroit had allowed
a receiver to top ninety yards and four straight games. Uh.
The only other part of the passing game you'd want
to touch Logan Thomas tight end. His score touchdowns and
two of his last three weeks, the Lions have allowed
the fewest yards to tight ends, but they've given up
five touchdowns, including three in the past two weeks, and

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they've played no good tight ends as one other thing,
and Logan Thomas isn't great, but he's on part with
the guy just score touchdowns against Detroit, so we'll give
him a B grade. Lastly, the running game, This is
I believe your last chance to buy low on Antonio Gibson.
He's gonna have a big game here and he's gonna
have more of them coming forward. The Lions are allowing

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the second most rushing yards the fourth most receiving yards
to the position for a league worst one eight seven
total yards and two touchdowns per game allowed to running backs.
It's been even worse lately, where they're giving up two
hundred twenty total yards and almost three touchdowns per game
over the last three weeks. Antonio Gibson saw season lows

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in rushing attempts and rushing yards last week as Washington
got out to an early early double digit deficit. But
they're not getting into a big deficit against the Lions,
so I think Gibson gets plenty of carries and he's
sitting on a big game B grade for Antonio Gibson.
Let's go over to Detroit where Matthew Stafford gets to
see grade. He's thrown exactly one touchdown in three of

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last four games, and the other game was mostly stat
padding in a blowout loss. He has no Kenny Golladay here.
No quarterback has top two touchdowns against Washington all year,
and five opposing teams have failed to even top two
twelve passing yards. So that's why Stafford only gets the
C grade. And I've only got one receiver with a
starting grade. That's his tight end T J. Hockenson. He

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missed some time at practice this week, but appears to
be okay. Hockinson has recorded at least five targets and
receptions in three straight games and has scored in four
the last five. He's got a great opportunity keep it
rolling against the Washington unit that has allowed six touchdowns
to opposing tight ends. We're gonna talk a little bit
more about t J. Hockenson shortly, and then the last

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starter is DeAndre Swift. After getting trounced by the Cleveland
Backs in Week three, Washington has been pretty good at
keeping running backs in check since that game back in
Week three. They've allowed ninety six rushing yards per game,
which is pretty good with no back topping even sixty
eight yards. Swift and have much value through the air,
as Washington has allowed the third fewest receptions and second

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fewest receiving yards to opposing running backs, and that's where
Swift has been helpful. He's chipped in a fair amount
of of receptions. But I don't think it happens here
for Marvin Jones and Danny Amendola. They're out. They need
they need easier starts, and this isn't one of them here.
And Marvin Jones, especially with a bad matchup Adrian Peterson. Also, well,
you thought maybe there'd be a revenge narrative for Adrian

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Peterson last week against the Vikings. That didn't come together,
and so another revenge narrative. Yeah, but if he's going
to get the same light workload he's gotten over the
last month, you can't start him. Did they play Arizona
and New Orleans coming up to Yeah, I think I
actually looked for that. I don't. I don't think he

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is going on the revenge tour unfortunately. UM at this stage,
I've got three minutes left. If you can tuck in
one more matchup, Brian, you can do it. If not,
I've got some I got some things from the Thursday
night game. I'd love to talk to you guys about.
Let's go for it, all right, Tampa Bay at Carolina.
These teams met week two. Will reference that quick, even
though Tampa Bay is an entirely different teams, since they

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uh what the ones were in Week two. Let's start
with the receivers. Overall, Atlanta has held I'm sorry, Carolina
has held Atlanta's wide out scoreless twice this year. That's concerning.
But over the last three weeks they've allowed four wide
receiver touchdowns in a hundred nine yards per game to
the position. That's forty four yards more than on their
season average. So I'm gonna give us see Trantonio Brown

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Mike Evans and Chris Godwin quick hitters on each. Antonio
Brown five targets in his Bucks debut, caught three for
thirty one scoreless yards. In week to Tampa Bay white
at white outs called eleven passes, seven went to Mike Evans,
but of course there was no Chris Godwin in that game.
No Antonio Brown in that game, so Evans gets to see.
He had the seven catches a hundred and four yards
in a touchdown in that first meeting, but again there

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was no Godwin, there is no Brown, so temporary expectations
with Evans, he gets to seeing. Chris Godwin, probably the
safest option of wide receiver for Tampa Bay, missed the
first game, but in his two meetings against the Panthers
last year he had ten catches a hundred and fifty
one yards and then eight catches a hundred and twenty
one yards and a touchdown. He has the best matchup
with slot corner Corn Elder. The dude's name is Corn Corn.

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So I like god when the most of these three,
but we gotta see what happens with all of them healthy.
So all sees for the Tampa Bay wide receivers over
to Gronk could give him a B. The Panthers were
just ripped by Travis Kelsey to the tune of ten
catches and a hundred and fifty nine yards. Travis Kelsey
used to be called baby Gronk. That's adorable right in
his day and age. Uh Gronk certainly lesser than Kelsey

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these days, but he should be able to match the
lines of Darren Waller, Hunter Henry and Hayden Hurst. Those
three combined to average roughly five catches and fifty yards
against the Panthers last year. Tom Brady easy be with
all those weapons. Leonard Fournette might take a chance to
me running back bench. Ronald Jones Mike Davis is the
only Panther you can start with confidence. He gets to be.
He had eight catches for seventy four yards against Tampa

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Bay after Christian McCaffrey got hurt. McCaffrey will miss this game.
B for Evans just to be for Robbie Anderson fifth
and targets third and catch this this year. Then you
got a bench d J Moore, Curtis, Samuel Teddy, Bridgewater.
It is a bad matchup for those guys. DJ more
like five targets per games. There is enough volume. He's
got to turn a couple of targets into a long

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game if he wants to get anything done, and that's
been a problem. Do you people are dropping DJ more outright?
When we come back? Three tough questions? See if you
can play along and go three and oh Fantasy Football
Weekly Returns and Moments. Welcome back, Mannessy Football Weekly, Paul

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Charchi and Matt Harrison. Brian Johnson with you. It is time.
Four Three tough questions. Tough question Number one? Is t J.
Hockenson the best dynasty and or Empire league tight end
to own? Brian? So we're in a startup league next year, right,

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That's what we're going with this question exectively. Yes, you know,
would you trade anybody if you are, if you're a
t J. Hockenson owner in a dynasty or empire league,
would you trade anybody for t J. Hockinson any existing
tight end? Would you tried any tight end? One to one?
So Ta Hawk turns twenty four in July. Gotta love that.
From a dynasty perspective, here are the other guys are

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threatening him as the top empire tight end Dynasty Empire
tight end Travis Kelsey thirty two in October, Darren Waller
twenty nine in September, George Kittle twenty eight in October,
Mark Andrews in September, Noah Fanse former teammates of t J.
Hockinson at IOWA twenty three in November. So I like

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Hockinson from the age perspective, but I still think you
can get through three or four years with Darren Waller,
maybe even Travis Kelsey or George Kittle. And don't forget
the incoming rookie tight end class is absolutely insane, led
by Kyle Pitts, who will all get to know very soon.
So long story short, Hopkinson is not my top target

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at tight end because you can make do with some
of the older guys who are gonna outproduce him in
the near future because Hockinson is not seeing enough targets.
So no, no, he's not your top. So I'm not
sure what making do has to has to do with this,
But okay, I mean you could start your Dynasty team
with someone else and I don't need to rely on
Hopkinson for eight years. I know he's young, but he's different.

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To go out and get him based on his age alone,
is what I'm saying. So he's not the best tight
end to own. Somebody else is the best guy end
to own? Basically all those other guys I talked about,
no a fan everybody else? You'd rather most guys? Yeah, okay,
let's move on. I don't even know what question you
just answered. The other options I had to Hockinson the
best Dynasty or Empire League tight end to own, So

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I thought Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, and Mark Andrews were
the only other ones that I think I'd consider above Hockinson.
Right now, I'm gonna put Hockinson above Andrews barely because
it seems like Lamar Jackson's passing limitations maybe somewhat real,
and I'm a little bit afraid of Mark Andrews being
so touchdown dependent. Uh. You could make a case for

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him above Kittle solely based on the quarterback situation. It's
not the injury, it's the QB. Jimmy g Is he
the answer next year? Are we sure? Probably not? Then?
What then? What's passing to George Kittle next year? But
I can't put him there. I can't put him at
number two, and I can't put him above Travis Kelsey.
He just turned thirty one. He's got the best quarterback

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in the league. He's probably noticed. How do you know
what's how Brian has at his age. He's thirty two
in October. Yeah, it's November, November. I have reason to
believe right now, if you're the next year, then uh,
he might have the best quarterback in the history of
the game. It's still Travis Kelsey as the best tight

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end in dynasty. Uh. It is Travis Kelsey, who's got
two or three more elite years in him and then
probably like another four more really good years after that.
And I want to win this year too. I mean,
you know, I don't. I'm worried about but not a lot.
I'd like to win one. That would be kind of nice.

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And really the clincher here for me is just this.
I can't tell you who t J. Hockenson's quarterback is
going to be next year. If I knew, if he had,
if he had a young, promising quarterback, I think it
would be t J. Hockenson. I think he's got a
sure it's gonna be Matthew Stafford. I don't know. I mean,
I think I get the feeling that any year could

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be Stafford's last, or he just is like, you know what,
I'm done with this because that's what was right. And
he's old, He's taken a million hits. At some point
he's gonna walk away. That worries me. Tough. Question Number two,
Nick Chubb is expected to return to the Browns on Sunday.
Going forward, is Kareem Hunt and RB one, r B

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two flex or bench player Matt We begin with you.
Stats Wise, he's the number eight ranked running back in
most UH systems right now, so that makes him an
RB one right now without Chubb for most of the season.
Chubb's a really good player, will probably be the high
end of the sixty split. But this is a Kevin
Stefanski run heavy, passed to the back scheme without Odell Beckham,

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so I think he's going to stay very involved. Last year,
in the games where both he and Chubb played, Hunt
averaged about fifty eight yards about five receptions per game,
pitched in a touchdown and every other That's good enough
for a flex. But I see him as a slightly
better version of what he was last year this year,
so I'm gonna give him an RB two the rest

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of the RB two. All right, Brian, is Kareem Hunt
going forward now that Nick Chubb is healthy and RB
one r B two flex or punch? Yeah, we saw
this last year when they're both healthy, and it was
a flex floor for Hunt. And it's the third easiest
remaining schedule for running backs that Cleveland has. So I'm
with Matt, I'm going RB two. Uh. When Chubb was

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healthy for the three full games at the beginning of
the year, Kareem Hunt was RB twelve overall in those
three games. He's too good. He's just playing too good
to be completely factored out of the offense. That's it.
You know what's been really weird about Hunt. If they're
not throwing to him. I'm like, this is the obvious
thing to do with him is throw him the ball,
and they just they're not his His receiving numbers have

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been strangely light. Um, it's a mixed schedule going forward
for Kareem Hunt and the rest of the Browns, but
only one stopper game left on the schedule, that's Baltimore
Week fourteen. He'll be an RB two the rest of
the way. Now, before we get to tough question, number three.
To help make sense of it a little bit, I'd
like to preface this with an explanation of the sabotage draw. Brian,

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will you tell listeners what the sabotage drop is. It's
essentially dropping a big name player that will because I'll
ruckus on the free agent waiver wire. But he's garbage.
He's garbage moving forward, he's fool's gold. That's right, and
you got you gotta do it right before a big
waiver period as well or a good matchup. You can't.

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You can't. You can't sabotage dropped like on the weekend
because somebody. You need somebody to pay something to make
to pick up that player. You can't just get rid
of the worst player on your roster. We want you
to have to use a high waiver claim, spend a
bunch of fab on this player. That's the key to
the sabotage drop. And that's your backdrop for this tough question.

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Number three. If Ronald Jones flops this week against the Panthers,
should fantasy managers sabotage drop him? Brian, Yes, and I
would almost do it before the Panthers games. Again, man,
you can't do it. On the weekend because nobody has
to pay anything to make the pickup. It's not a sabotage.
People could the people are using waiver wire priority incorrectly. Anyway,

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I'll say yes after the Carolina game. I don't like
him going into this game. Mentioned earlier, Leonard Fournett over
the last three weeks has out snapped Jones two x.
During that same three week span, Jones has dropped four passes.
That's a lot, especially for running back. He has managed
sixty six yards on twenty three carries. That's two point

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eight seven yards per carry. And he had a costly
fumble against the Giants a couple of weeks ago that
almost costs him the game. And when you go in
Bruce Arians doghouse, you're not coming out anytime soon. Leonard Fournett,
barring injury, will be the lead back for the Bucks.
This is a pass first, team first and foremost. So yes,
sabotage drop Ronald Jones whenever you want, my mind, don't

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not whenever you want to do it. If you're a
waiver wire prioritially do it now. Okay, never mind waivers
already Ran, You're right charge My bat Matt too is
Ronald Jones a sabotage drop if he doesn't perform against
the Panthers. I was gonna say, to Brian's point, getting
out of bruce Arians doghouse is only as long as

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it takes for somebody else to get in, because last
year the Bucks didn't have a running back who led
the team in touches in three consecutive weeks. Running back
only did it two weeks in a row, and then
they switched and he was losing out on touches to
Peyton Barber last year. Also to Brian's point, it doesn't

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need to be a sabotage drop. You can just drop
him because he sucks. And how about this, the sabotage
drop might be Leonard four Net. You don't want anything
to do with this Buck's running game. If you sabotage
drop Leonard four Net after a few weeks or after
a great week against Carolina, that's gonna cause the ruckus

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on your waiver wire right there. If you don't want
anything to do with this Bucks running game, you sabotage
drop Leonard four Nett. So yes, don sabotage away, dude, Okay, alright,
vain He's like, oh my God, I guys can't answer
the question. They're so tough, clearly says after he flops

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against the Panthers, Once you do drop him, Brian now said,
he's clearly gonna flop against If he flops against the Panthers,
he's gonna For four straight weeks, Ronald Jones has seen
as rushing attempts and rushing yards dropped. He's been out
snapped by four NET in every game since four NET

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returned from injury. That's said, And you guys have touched
on this. Bruce arians completely inscrutable with his running backs.
And even if Ronald Jones has a great game here
and he outproduces Leonard Fournette, you couldn't even feel safe
put him in your your line up. The next week,
he's gonna be on your bench wing he does have
the great game too. Every time you start Ronald Jones,

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you are bracing for a two point game. So you're
all that together we are sabotage dropping him. This is
the last chance, far as I'm concerned. And then the
sabotage drop is a very real thing that's headed his way.
Let's work in one more matchup into this segment. I
believe we left off on forty Niners taking on the Saints.
Matt for the forty Niners, we get Nick Mullins at

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the Helm have a presumably Jerick McKinnon led running game.
I think so yeah maybe, Um so Nick Mullins. I'm
gonna start by giving him a bench grade. Last week
against Tom Brady was the first time the Saints did
not allow multiple passing scores in a game. But I
actually thought about him as might take a chance on
the quarterback. Um. They still rank as one of the

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better past defenses in the game. Unless it's garbage time.
I don't think you can trust Mullins for any points here,
although Mullins kind of sounds like a cock word for garbage.
Maybe so maybe it's Mullen's time. Yeah, I still on
the bench. I don't even know again, no idea what
you're talking about. He does get Brandon Ayuk back this week,
and it looks like Kendrick Borne may clear COVID protocol

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before the game. But the Saints matchup I think is
just too tough. Um, with the wide receivers, I'll give
a Yuka. See, I'm gonna leave Kendrick Borne and Richie
James on the bench. Mullins has targeted no player more
than Ayuk this season. He missed last week after a
close contact tested positive on the Niners. Ayuk was never sick,
though Born did test positive. The team thinks it maybe

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false positives though, and he might play this weekend. Okay
either way. The Saints are a strange break but don't
bend defense. They have allowed the seventh fewest receptions to
the position, but a robust a hundred and seventy one
yards per game and the eighth most wide receiver touchdowns.
We're gonna leave Ross Dwelly and Jordan Read on the bench,

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uh and Jerick McKinnon and Jamichael Hasty. Hasty can be
cut now. He's only he only saw fifteen s apps
and six touches compared to forty two snaps in fifteen
touches for McKinnon last week. It doesn't matter now watch
They're gonna flip it. Maybe, wouldn't it be? It would
be so Shannahanigans, It would be so shannahanigans. Just flip
the script and go all hasty now that everybody's forgotten

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about him and given up, McKinnon should be on your bench, though,
as the Saints are allowing only seventy rushing yards per
game to the position and only three point six yards
per carry. Let's go to the Saints side where I'm
giving Drew Brees a kind of a throwback A grade here.
He's got Michael Thomas back and the forty Niners have
been absolutely torched as of recent Aaron Jones or Aaron Jones,

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Aaron Rodgers, and Russell Wilson each throw four touchdown passes
against the Niners in the last two weeks, and two
of the three quarterbacks before them tossed multiple scores as well.
They're so incredibly injured throughout the entire defense that it's
just not the same. Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara, they're
both getting A grades as well. Even though Thomas didn't

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have a huge game last week against the Bucks, he
did co lead the team and targets and receptions with
Alvin Uh. We're not going as far as Latavious Murray
in this one, as the Niners have been pretty stout
against the run. Still, Uh, Kamara is just too versatile
to hold down. A couple more guys. I want to
mention tray Kwan Smith. He gets a C grade. Secondary

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receivers as such as Marquez Valdez, Scandling, David Moore, and
Josh Reynolds have each scored against the Niners in the
last month, and tray Kwan Smith's worth a dart throw
just for that. Jared Cook gets a C grade as well.
He's totally touchdown dependent at this point, and the Niners
have only given up two tight end touchdowns on the season.

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But still Cook is top twelve among tight ends in receptions,
yards and touchdowns per game. And if you have him
on your roster, you're probably starting him. You probably don't
have another tight end option. Yeah, that's a which, but
that's everybody right now. Yeah, you know half two thirds
of the league is bracing for a zero zero point
game out of their tight end. Yeah, you're just looking
for tight end touchdowns. Now, John Who? John Who? Runs

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in a touchdown and you're like, oh, thank god, I
got I got something out of it. Does nothing else? Yes, Well,
they threw him a bunchtimes and he was covered and
none of them, none of them ended up working. Very frustrating.
Let's let's take a break. When we come back, Seattle
takes on the Rams and an epic matchup between dk
Metcalf and Jalen Ramsey in this game. We'll tell you

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about that. And is this the explosive Tyler Locket that
once a month explosive Tyler Lockett game. We'll talk about
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I got one of my leagues. I've had four near
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I was half jumped out of my couch and then no. Anyway,
Seattle takes on the Rams. Let's begin with Russell Wilson,
who gets in a grade here. The Rams are a
good defense. The Rams have held six of eight opposing
quarterbacks to zero or one passing touchdown. But Wilson's just unbenchable.
So you know, no matter what the stats say, no
matter anything else he's on, he's m v P pace

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and I still have an A grade on Russell Wilson.
Let's talk about his matchup with DK metcalf It's fascinating.
So Metcalfe saw a bunch of elite cornerback T Davious
White last week, and when White was on him, White
held him to three catches and thirty yards. But then
White gets knocked out of the game and they feed

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metcalf a bunch and he ends up with a big game,
but it didn't come when term Davious White was on him.
Here comes another shut down cornerback, Jalen Ramsey, who was
allowing twenty seven yards per game in his coverage. That's all,
but on Friday, Ramsey said he's going to cover DK
Metcalf and he's gonna cover everybody else too, So it

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sounds a lie if we believe he's going to cover
multiple receivers at the same time. Play I got all
of it. He's like, Fred Smoot, you know how to
shut down Metcalf. He really shut down DK Metcalf. Just
put three cones right in front of him. Okay, thank you. Wow.
Some people can't get over the combine. Just nothing he
can do. Um, so you it's and Ramsey could just

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be lying, right, I mean, do you do you are
you gonna believe any player is gonna say anything publicly
that actually Friday before a game? Then actually is any
bearing on what's really gonna happen? Probably not. So point
is it's an A grade for DK Metcalf because he's
too good to not give an a grade to anything
could happen. Maybe Ramsey doesn't go for And by the way,
Ramsey doesn't usually go to the slot, and Metcalf does

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run a fair amount from the slot, so it's another
way he can shake Ramsey a grade of Metcalf. So
what about Tyler Lockett? Then he's been held under forty
five scoreless yards in four of the last six games,
so if he doesn't give you the explosive game, Lockett
is killing you. Los Angeles is averaging the fewest allowed
yards to receivers, just one four per game, and have

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only allowed four receivers to find the end zone all
year long. Lock It should mostly avoid Ramsey, instead matching
up with slot cornerback Troy Hill. The boast often, but
Hill's really good. He hasn't allowed to touch down all season.
The only angle here is that Hills a lot slower
than lock It and could be on the wrong end
of a long pass, but that's just a C grade

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for Locket. This feels way more dangerous than it does
positive for Tyler Lockett um staying with the passing no
moving over to the running game, and then you don't
want to start any other secondary tertiary receivers. For Seattle,
let's talk about Chris Carson, presuming he goes here, might
see fewer carries due to the knee injury. Over the
last five games, the Rams haven't allowed to single back

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to top sixty five rushing yards and have only allowed
one touchdown. It was the Miles Gaskin all the way
I'll by the way, that's over the last five games.
It's a long time. Carson's average total yards per game
against the Rams throughout his career, and for the most part,
any game that Carson starts and finishes, he's awfully good.
In a B grade for Carson. If he does not go,

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then DJ Dallas likely gets all the work here and
he's just not good. So he would be a C
grade and a dart throw at best in a tough matchup. Um,
it does not appear that well. I can just say
carlos IDE's not going in this game, so it would
go back to d J Dallas in all probability. All right,
so let's go to the ramp side. I'm worried Sean

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McVeigh is too smart for his own good. All you
have to do to beat Seattle is a band in
the running game and just pass all the time. Last week,
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills rolled the Seattle defense
because they only handed off the ball eleven times in
the entire game. All the rest of it were past plays.

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So will Sean McVeigh je throw the ball or is
he gonna have to be too smart and try something else?
Established the rune on don't do it, don't do it.
Let's hope that's not the case here, And based on that,
I've got Jared Goff with an A grade. I know,
I never thought it would happen. Jared Goff through the

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ball sixty one times last week. I'd like to see
that happen again here. Even if let's go fine, Seahawks
are allowing a league worse three or seventy seven passing
yards per game, a pace that and on paste to
shatter the all time in competency record. Every opposing quarterback
has scored multiple touchdowns against the Seattle Seahawks. Cooper Cup

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gets an A grade, Robert Wood gets Woods gets an
A grade for all of the same reasons that you
already know, and cut by the way, has pounded this
team in the past anyway, So a great opportunity for
both Cup and Woods and Josh Reynolds was might take
a chance on me a wide receiver, and you can
use him in a pinch as well. Let's go to
Darrell Henderson, who gets a C grade. He's coming off

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his lowest usage game since Week one. He got out
snapped by both Malcolm Brown and Cam Akers and the Rams. Really,
if I have my choice, they won't even run the
ball in this game. Aside from being trampled by the
Minnesota Backs, Seattle hasn't allowed to single back over fifty
six rushing yards and they're allowing the third fewest rushing
yards per game to the position. He's not much of
a pass catcher, and the only reason I have a

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segret and Darrell Henderson is I think he finds his
way to about fifties scoreless yards, and that's about all
you get when you get a C grade. Nobody else
left to talk about on the Rams, including their tight ends,
who I do not trust in this game. Unless it
turns out that either Higbie or Everett does not go
in this game, then you could flip to the other one.
But I think both are gonna play. All right, Let's
go to our next matchup, which is the Bengals taking

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on the Steelers. Brian, this is a tricky matchup to
me in that the Steelers are Pro Football focus is
best pass rushing defense and the Bengals offensive line just stinks.
Yeahs with Joe Burrow, then it's gonna give him a C.
He's gonna take some hits in this game, but he's
gonna air it out to No quarterback has topped two

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touchdown passes against the Steelers this year, but every opposing
quarterback has scored at least once, and even Garrett Gilbert
posted Fantasy relevant numbers against the Steelers. Yes, borrow north
of forty past stemps for games, past dempsper games. So
we've got to give him a C here. I'm not
going to give a C to Tyler Boyd, especially on

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his birthday Sunday B for the birthday boy Boyd had
one oh one receiving and a touchdown in his most
recent matchup with Pittsburgh. That was last year. This is
their first meeting, by the way, these two teams. He
has total three touchdowns in his last three games against
the Steelers as well, Boyd averaging nine targets seven catches.

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Basically unbeenchable at this point. If Boyd is a Birthday
B and he's our favorite B grade, we've got what
we we have our favorite A grade his the Fantasy
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still working out the details of their fight to the
death between an art park. Carry on, our favorite it's

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gonna be at us. I'm pretty sure this kind of
thing we do. We need more animals, Beyonce. I'm trying
to find another animal in the show. Continue Brian plus
matchup for birthday boy Tyler Boyd against safety Cameron Sutton,
who man's this lot for Pittsburgh allowed a season high
sixty six yards and his coverage last week. So do

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not bench Tyler Boyd, and don't bench Te Higgins or
A J. Green either, and give them both a sea. Shockingly,
Pittsburgh has surrendered the ninth most fantasy points and the
third most touchdowns to wide receivers this year. Higgins and
Green both in wide receiver three territory. This week, I
will mention this is A J. Green's first game against
Pittsburgh's October. Oh you know, in Italy in October and

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they found a beaver for the first time in six
hundred years. I heard that on some other show. It
certainly wasn't about fantasy football. The lastly, for the Bengals,
Geo Bernard, you gonna give him the c Joe Mixon
not looking like he will play Pittsburgh has Pittsburgh has
only allowed five rushing touchdowns, but in the last two games,
Zeke and Tony Pollard combined for a hundred eight yards

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on the ground. The week before, Gus Edwards and j
K Dobbin Dobbins combined for two hundred rushing yards on
thirty one carries. So Bernard is startable. There's not much
angle from a passing game perspective here. The Steelers have
allowed just one receiving touchdown to running backs this year,
and only see Kwon Barkley, remember him has caught more
than two passes at the running back position against the Steelers,

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and that was in Week one. So just to see
for geo Bernard over to the Steeler side, we'll start
with Ben Roethlisberger and give him a see it might
be for Covid. I don't know. Yeah, well, we'll see
if he works. I think I think he plays in
this game. We're gonna assume he plays in this one.
I did a little I did a little Ben Roethlisberger
recon this past week. He has become a check down quarterback.

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He is. He has the second lowest UH intended air
yards and the second lowest I think third maybe it's
third lowest average distance of pass I mean depth of
four point five yards per completion. He's Teddy Bridgewater bar
for Worthy for sure. Thirty percent of his passes of
twenty plus yards are more are going for completions awful. Yes,

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the explosiveness is gone. It really it is. It's gone.
But basically every quarterback cobbles together two passing touchdowns against
the Bengals, right, But sadly that's Ben's ceiling in this one,
although it is to be expected based on the Bengals
being the Bengals. So a CEE for Roethlisberger, but keep
your on him in case he doesn't play over his receivers.
Juju Smith Schuster gonna give him a B. He has

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UH scored ind or logged a hundred yards and two
of his last three meetings against Cincinnati and should be
in line for similar success against slot corner Lashawn Simms,
who's allowed four scores in his last five games, So
would be for Juju just to see for Deonta Johnson
and Chase Claypool though it's a tough matchup against UH
cornerback William Jackson for the Bengals, but Jackson can't cover

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both of these guys, and opposing boundary receiver duos have
had recent success against the Bengals, uh Corey Davis and A. J.
Brown both scored. Davis went over a hundred yards and
then the week before Richard Higgins topped a hundred yards
and Donovan People's Jones at fifty plus yards and a touchdown.
So I will start both Deonte Johnson and Chase Claypool

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with a C. Will also start Eric Ebron. He gets
a B. The Bengals have allowed the seventh most receptions
and third most yards and touchdowns to opposing tight ends.
At one point they allowed six touchdowns to tight ends
and three games in a three game span. And Eric
Ebron has already scored against the Bengals as a Lion
and a cult and it's coming as a steel oh

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B for Ebron. And lastly, James Conner. James Conner gets
to be. Cincinnati has let running backs rack up a
whopping five point four yards per carry. They have only
allowed two scores to the position over the last seven games.
But you basically have to start James Conner and hope
he sees the bell cal volume, but be warned he
normally doesn't. He has topped sixteen carries just four times

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in his last twenty three games Matt The Bills take
on the Cardinals, Josh Allen coming off an explosive game
after being after having no touchdown passes and two straight
The Cardinals look good on paper, but they have faced
some bad quarterbacking. Yeah, what do you think? UM? Vegas
certainly thinks that they're going to have a high scoring
game implied totals of twenty eight for both teams in

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this one, So Josh Allen's getting an A in this one.
Similarly built Russian quarterbacks like Russell Wilson and Tua have
faced the Cards over the last two weeks. Wilson had
three eight and three with another eighty four run shing yards,
to oh was to forty eight and two with thirty
five rushing yards. And I think tah is a very
safe floor for Alan, but I think he'll have more

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rushing yards than that. Uh, Stefan Diggs gets an A grade,
He'll get Patrick Peterson, but that's not as scary anymore. UM.
What is scary that is that slot receivers have absolutely
torched the Cardinals, which is why Cole Beasley is getting
a very solid B and just the last month, Tyler
Lockett went for two hundred yards and three scores. Jamison

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Crowder had eight for one sixteen in a score, so
Beasley's full. All systems go right here. I like it.
Even John Brown gets a C grade. He had eleven
targets last week against Seattle and came up with eight
catches for ninety nine yards and was taggled at the
one yard line, which really would have gave him, you know,
a touchdown plus the one yard bonus on DraftKings. I

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wonder if that affected anybody's lineups out there. Nobody, nobody
at all. It's also a revenge game for John Brown.
By the way, Hey, there we go back when he
was smoke. Now he's just fire wo Zack Moss and
Devin Singletary single Arry is on the bench until further notice.
He had two carries for one yard last week. He
didn't get three catches for thirty three yards. Well, Zack

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Moss only had eleven touches last week. He did gain
more yardage and score a touchdown. Moss led the snap
count thirty eight to thirty one, so I'll give him
a C grade. The cards are a decent matchup, allowing
a hundred and forty two total yards per game to
the position. I just worry that single Tarry takes that,
so Moss is just a See Kyler Murray gets an

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easy A grade, we don't need to talk about him.
And on pace, I saw this, this a story that
emerged about Kyle Kyler Murray this week. He's on a
a higher scoring pace this year then Lamar Jackson was
last year, and you know that was like, you know
the story of the story of the season last year.
Murray's like I think RB four right now and l

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Jackson was like RB eight nine last year. Well, he's
out out pacing him as crazy. To that point, the
Bills have allowed rushing touchdowns to Russ Cam Tannehill Goff,
and Kyler's averaging one rushing touchdown per game. DeAndre Hopkins
is an a uh. He's literally alternated huge games with
subpar yardage games all season. Over his last four one

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in a score, then seventy three, then one oh one
on a score. Last week he only had thirty. He's
going over a hundred yards this week. He won't get there.
He will be beyond trade as White. But I think
DeAndre Hopkins wins that matchup. Christian Kirk won't get trade
Avious White. He gets a B grade. He's leading the
team in infrared zone target share, garnering garnering thirty six

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percent of the targets inside the ten, and coming up
with four touchdowns from inside the ten this season. Finally
Chase Edmonds. I'm giving him a B grade. It's possible
that Kenyan Drake returns this week. I think it might happen. Unfortunately,
if that happens, that might downgrade Edmunds a little bit.
But um, I like him. I think he's talented. It's
a good matchup. Team gives up four point four yards

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per carrying a hundred and thirty six totally yards. That's good.
My major concern is he doesn't get any touches inside
the ten, only one carry on the season. He's getting
vultured by his own quarterback and Kenyan Drake. That happens unfortunately,
Kyler Murray eighth and rushing yards. Four guys ahead of
him have played one whole more game than him. Yeah,

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it's unbelievable. It's uh. You know, if you if you
punted quarterback, You're like, I'm so smart, I'm gonna wait
on quarterback. You got hammered this year. The strategy this
year mostly was Russell. You know, those mid range quarterbacks
have been the way to go for the most part.
When we come back Premature Speculation. Three players you can
pick up this week that everybody else will be trying

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to get next week when we return. Welcome back Fantasy

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Football Weekly Reminder. If you missed any part of this
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Premature Speculation. These are three players that we believe you

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should pick up now that other people are gonna be
trying to pick up next week, and they're already on
your team. Brian, who is your premature Speculation player? Newcomer
wide receiver from the Eagles. His name is al Shan Jeffrey.
I don't know have you ever heard of him, but
he will make his season debut this week against the Giants.
I don't like his prospects a whole lot for this week,

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but moving forward, he's got two great matchups in Cleveland
and Seattle. Now, Jeffrey only thirty years old, he should
have some gas, and you would think so should be healthy.
So if he gets out of the Cleveland Seattle matchups,
then the next two are Green Bay in New Orleans,
which is bad Alexander Marshawn Lattimore. But Latimore has been bad,

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not against Mike Givans at least, But if he's seeing
shadow coverage from those guys, it's a good thing. Because
he popped off in the two weeks before against Cleveland
and Seattle, and then in weeks fifteen and sixteen Arizona
and Dallas for Philly. So if you're a wide receiver,
stash alshon Jeffrey, see what happens. I'm buying on the
whole Eagles offense. U Matt your premature speculation player. Let's

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pick up another kind of a retread guy, Alex Smith,
the quarterback. He gets Detroit this week. I think he's
gonna do well against Detroit. I gave him a starting grade.
Let's follow that up with matchups against Cincinnati and Dallas.
That problem is really good. His only stopper left on
the schedule is Pittsburgh after that, But then he gets
Seattle in your semi final week of your fantasy playoffs.

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Week fifteen. You want whoever's going against Seattle in your
fantasy playoffs, and Alex Smith has one of those schedules.
That's in a two quarterback league. He's definitely startable in
those weeks. All right, Well, I'm gonna begin by reiterating
the same name we've given three times now, and that's
Alan Lazard. Go get him. But also let's go to

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a different player. Are you interested? Hey, Matt and Brian,
are you interested in a running back averaging almost seven
yards per carry who's getting an increasing workload in three
straight games. I didn't get the script, but I'll say yes, Okay,
good sounds good to me. Let's keep going. He runs

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behind and often injured starter. He plays for a run
heavy offense on a playoff bound team, and we'll have
home games in weeks fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen. I'll take
three of them. I don't blame you. We're talking about
Davante Booker, the Las Vegas Raiders, a team that is

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playoff bound right now. The play iff the playoffs started today,
they'd be in He's arguably one of the most important
handcuffs and fantasy football uh Las Vegas currently one of
just to g two games over five hundred. They run
the ball copiously. The seventh most that playoff schedule home
home home one is the Colts. That is a tough matchup,

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I'll admit that. But then Chargers Miami, you could be
starting him there. And if Josh Jacobs breaks down this
year like he did last year, and he's already had
nagging injuries throughout this season, Davante Booker potentially sitting on
a nice spot later in the season, get him now.
I'm sorry, Matt, because we'll get to the matchup soon.
It's a revenge game for you know what. I think

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it's the old team in the Brown goes correct. The
Monday Night game is the Vikings taking on the Bears
Dalvin Cook's and obvious A. Obviously the Bears are going
to sell out to contain Dalvin Cook, but so did
the last two teams. It didn't matter. You know, you
know what the script is. You know you're gonna get
a heavy dose of Dalvin Cook, and more often than not,
A doesn't make any difference. Now, the Bears did just
contain Derrick Henry last week, and so there is a

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scenario where they contain Dalvin Cook two But he's still
in a grade. Let's go to the passing game, which
has got a lot more interest I think for people.
Kirk Cousins remains an unreliable fantasy play because of his
low volume, something that's likely to happen on Monday Night,
but not an absolute lock to happen. Over cousins last
nineteen games, his line of demarcation is thirty two attempts.

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When he's under thirty two attempts, Kirk cousins average game
is just two hundred eleven yards and one and a
quarter touchdowns. But what happens when he's over thirty two attempts?
He balloons to two eight one yards and almost three
touchdown passes. If he can go over thirty two attempts.
The Bears have given up thirty two attempts six times

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this year. Cousins could get there now. He's only thrown
over thirty two attempts twice this year. But there is
a scenario where it happens here, And if that happens,
then I tend to like him a little bit more,
even against a good past defense. Justin Jefferson and Adam
theland or see grades. Low passing volume is the problem.
That's plaguing them lately as well, and you add into
that a good Chicago past defense. The Bears allow the

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fifth few yards to wide receivers, just one hundred forty
four per game. Jefferson will likely see the better matchup
more often, and that's against rookie cornerback Jalen Johnson. Feeland's
got the tougher matchup. That's Kyle Fuller, who's allowing him
easily thirty yards per game in his coverage. Feeland's historically
struggled against the Bears, failing to top sixty six yards

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or find the end zone in the team's past seven
straight games, including by the way, Feeland put up a
six yard game against the Bears in the first meeting.
Even that that's not right. It's first meeting. That is
not correct. They haven't met this year. I don't believe
that's my memories failing me. Um IRV Smith. He's got
a groin injury, um and you're probably not going to

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know his status before Sunday's kickoff if he gets ruled out.
Kyle Rudolph becomes a fascinating places. The Bears really struggled
against tight ends. But as it stands, right now is
a Monday night game. You're probably not gonna know either way,
so I don't think you can count on IRV Smith
and we really it looks like a game time decision
on the scrowing injury. All right, let's go to the
Bear side. Beginning with the passing game. Nick Foles was

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might take a chance on me quarterback. He has a
C grade in this game. Allan Robinson has an A grade.
Over the past three games, Robinson has inexplicably seen fewer
targets than Darnell Mooney and Anthony Miller. But I think
that change is here. They Chicago's gotta change that. It
gets a Vikings secondary allowing the fifth most yards to receivers,

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and he's likely as playing on the outside. He's gonna
see sixth and seventh stringers at cornerback, Chris Boyd and
Chris Jones. It's gotta be a good game for Allen
Robinson here. I've got to believe Darnell Mooney is coming
up in a loven target game and the Bears seemed
to trust him a lot more now than earlier in
the season, and this is his easiest matchup of a year.

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He'll get whichever of Chris Boyd and and and Chris
Jones that Allen Robinson isn't on and then running out
of the slot. You can even start Anthony Miller. He'll
go up against Vikings rookie Jeff Gladden, who has allowed
four touchdowns in the past three games. A C grade
on Anthony Miller, a B grade on Darnell Mooney, and
a B grade on Jimmy Graham. Vikings have only allowed
three scores to opposing tight ends. However, t J. Hockenson

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found the end zone against them last week. In Minnesota's
allowing the fourth most yards to opposing tight ends, So
Graham potentially sitting on a pretty good game here. So
let's talk about David Montgomery. Um, he's in the concussion protocol.
We think, we don't know. It's just it's too early
for us to know if he's gonna go or not.
But even if he can play, there isn't much to
like about this matchup. Since getting obliterated by Derrick Henry

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in Week three, no back against Minnesota has top seventy
five rushing yards and only one has scored. They've given
up nine receptions per game over the last two so
Montgomery could chip in a little something through the ground.
But I think that's probably the the way in which
he can be helpful. All right, let's go to our
final matchup, and that is the Broncos taking on the Raiders.

(01:25:06):
He already told us you like Drew Lock earlier in
the show, and he has you take a chance, I
mean quarterback. So let's talk about the running game for Denver.
By the way, the first meeting between these two division
rivals of the season, Melvin Gordon and Philip Lindsay get
both get a c Last week. Gordon out snapped Lindsay
six to thirty eight percent, but Lindsay saw more touches. Uh.

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This is one of the worst backfield platoons in all
of football, but a great matchup for both. Opposing backs
are averaging four point seven yards per carry and nearly
one fifty combo yards per game against the Raiders, who
just surrendered touchdowns to lack backs. Those are charges running
backs Klin Blage and Gave Neighbors score touchdown. Gabe Neighbors,
you said, Gabe Neighbors is a football player who scores

(01:25:50):
against He also was on Mr Rogers. Neighbors owns the Raiders.
The Raiders also placed inside linebacker Corey Littleton on the
COVID to Thursday, which would be huge for these backs
catching the ball out of the backfield. One of the
best coverage linebackers in the NFL, so keep your eye
on Corey Littleton. Would also be huge for Noah fense,
we'll talk about in a second. I will note quickly

(01:26:11):
Philip Lindsay, never scored against the Raiders, would be a
grounder air in his career. He's overdue over to Jerry Judy.
You can give him a B. Now this is the
first of many. It's not a revenge game, but it's
a you should have drafted me instead of Henry Ruggs game. Yes,
it is so. Jerry Judy certainly motivated for this one
against the Raiders, who have allowed four different wide receivers

(01:26:34):
to top eighty yards over their last three games. Three
of those wide receivers also scored a touchdown, so that
secondary has been very leaky and for that reason, I
like Tim Patrick as well, returned from injury last week,
played in the snap, saw nine targets. He gets to
be This game should be a shootout. The over under
his fifty point five points I mentioned earlier and each

(01:26:55):
of Denver's last three games went north of fifty eight points.
So I like Hatrick a lot here. I want to
like Noah Fant a lot, but just a little a
C for him. He's a little banged up, Yeah, the
ankle injury. He looked, he was clearly hobbled last week
and now there's no more alack and this is the
last time I'll mention him. I'm gonna try to pronounce
his name Albert Oi kuai bunom and not I are

(01:27:18):
will not be vulturing Noah Fanse in the red zone.
But not a great matchup for fans. The Raiders have
allowed the ninth viewest receptions and yards the tight end position,
and since Week three the only tight ends to score
on Vegas where Kelsey and Gronk. Gronk always scores in Vegas,
by the way, and Fant only had three catches for
thirty three yards again in the two games against the
Raiders last year. So just a C for Noah Fanse,

(01:27:40):
but not for Drew Lock. He's might take a chance
on me quarterback. Would slap a be on him if
I had to over to the Raiders side. Josh Jacobs
b for him, should see a heavier normal workload this
week against the Broncos, who have allowed on one combo
yards and a touchdown per game to running back over
their last three. Jacobs had a hundred plus combo yards

(01:28:03):
and two rushing touchdowns in his loan game against Denver
last year, so a B for him, a A for
Darren Waller that matchup is not great. The Broncos have
allowed just two touchdowns to opposing tight ends this year.
Both of those came in Week one against the Titans,
by the way, but Atlantic tight ends did just combined
for eight catches and seventy four yards, and Waller played

(01:28:24):
well against Denver last year, averaging seven catches and ninety
yards across both matchups. Benching Hunter, Renfro and Nelson Agil
are not gonna get into that too much. And lastly,
Derek Carr gets a B. Not in love with the
receiving options as a whole, but he has the individual
weapons who spread it around. Denver has allowed three passing
touchdowns and back to back games. Derek Carr has been
shockingly competent from a fantasy standpoint. Definitely, yeah, I was.

(01:28:47):
That's you know, it's odd to say, and I don't
think we expected it, but he's uh. He looks like
a guy that might be able to help out in
a pinch. If you miss any part of the show,
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