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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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John Legeza, Briant Johnson and introducing Matt Lamarca. All right, gentlemen,
what's going on? How's everybody doing?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yo? Yo, yo? What's up boys. I want, speaking for
everyone excited to have Matt Lamarca on board. I've been
working with Matt for a while on CHOP and have
them on FFW is an elite addition to John as well,
who I'm just gonna jump into it real quick. The
Devon Vley call by leg last it was elite. I

(01:28):
was adding him in Dynasty Leagues while we were recording
only I only salvage to scrape some money back in
DFS because of Devon Valley. So uh yeah, great work.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
The sugar, right, got the sugar, then you get the women,
then you get the power baby.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
All right, there you go, right there, Matt. Congratulations sir,
welcome to the program.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Hoping I can come in as a late season waiver
wire edition and make a push here for the for
the fantasy playoffs for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
League winner, baby, league winner.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
All right, let's get ready to hop right into the action.
Like I said, we got a lot on deck this week,
and we start with the matchup between the Los Angeles Rams,
who had that very unfortunate upset last week. They travel
to Arizona Division matchup. The Rams eight and a half
point favorite in this one, total sitting at a good

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Fantasy friendly forty seven and a half. Let's get ready
to break this contest down. And I want to start
with you, Brian. What do you see on the Los
Angeles Rams side?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, like you said, divisional matchup and you think they
would have played at this point in the season by now,
but they have not. This is the first meeting between
the Rams and Cardinals. Starting with the Rams backfield Kien
Williams and Blake Cooram since Week six. Here's the breakdown.
Kien Williams sixty percent rush are, Blake Corum forty percent
rush are both have fifty percent of the rushes inside

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the five yard line. As a literal sixty to forty split,
Blake Korum is paid off more with his given his opportunity,
so really it's more like a fifty to fifty split
in terms of production. Here. Williams is banged up, a
little banged up, questionable, will play. I think he'll be
good to go. The matchup is not bad over the
last Over their last five, the Cardinals have allowed nearly

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one hundred and forty combo yards per game, seven total
touchdowns to opposing running back. So I'm gonna give a
safer two stars to Williams, I guess, but if you're
in need of a running back, an RB two or
even a flex player Blake Korum, he is in case
of emergency break class two star rating for Blake Korum,
not the case for Pukah mccoua and Davante Adams. I

(03:40):
probably should have mentioned or listed Adams first here, who
now has more touchdowns than Jamar Chase, Nico Collins and
Puka Nakua combined. I think he has one more touchdown
than those three combined four stars, though we won't spend
too much time here on both Adams and Nikua on
pay on paper average matchup at best, but who cares

(04:02):
with these two? I will note that Puoka has yet
to score in three career games against Arizona, so he's
due there. So four stars for those two. You're starting them,
no doubt. I'm tempted to give Colby Parkinson the two
star rating are I meaning he's startable. Since Higbee Tyler
Herby went down a couple of weeks ago, Parkinson has
someone to emerges the go to tight end. His target

(04:24):
share is sniffing twenty percent, which is more a lot
more than Terrence Ferguson and Davis Allen, but they are
stealing snaps. So I'm just gonna go one star on
Colby Parkinson. There's some other better streamable tight ends, and
I'm sure we'll unearth throughout the show. So one star
for Parkinson, but four four stars for Stafford, just with

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ties throwing to Puka and Adams. Baker struggled against the
Cardinals somewhat inexplicably last week in Tampa Bay, but before that,
Trevor Lawrence and brought Purty both through for three scores
against the Cardinals. So I like Stafford to rebound now,
but he's back on a Pacific time. I always attribute
those struggles, like you mentioned how the Rams got upset

(05:06):
last week, for those those West Coast teams that they
go to the East Coast one o'clock starts and they're
just too soft, they can't handle it. But they're back.
They're back in the West. That's all I got for
the Rams. Court.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
All right, Matt, you know we are getting ready to
talk about the Arizona Cardinals, and I know you're going
to do fantastic job of breaking it down and introducing
yourself to the audience but check this out right, and
I want to throw this around the room to when
we get a chance. This thing right here. If you
was to look up the words upside in a dictionary,
it'd be a picture of Marvin Harrison Junior, MJH Martin, Roddy,

(05:39):
MAV whatever you want to call him. Hasn't really been
coming through and obviously injury concerns and stuff like that now,
So just want to throw that little nugget out there.
I mean, is it time for this guy to be
on fantasy waiver wirese?

Speaker 5 (05:52):
I don't know if I'm going that far, but I'm
gonna miss another game this week, and you know, certainly
his career can't be called anything but a disappointment so far.
I know that at this point, I'm sure they're regretting
not drafting Malik Neighbors over him. I know I'd rather
have Malik Neighbors at this point. So another guy we
can add to the upside, but not on the field.

(06:15):
Conversation Trey Benson, Right, how long have we been stashing
this guy waiting for him to make his return, and
unfortunately it's not going to be this week, And it's
now getting to the point where it might not be
this season. Right, the Cardinals have already opened up his
twenty one day practice window.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
What's the point, right, he needs to be activated.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
By December tenth, and if he's not, he's just out
for the year.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
So see much point bringing him back, right?

Speaker 5 (06:42):
The fact that they haven't activated him for this week,
it makes me think there's a very good chance that
we just don't see him. So if you want to
talk about somebody who could potentially be returned to the
waiver wire, Benson might be the guy. With him out,
it's going to be another week of Bam Knight Michael
Carter splitting the running back workload. I'm not sure either
one is particularly viable. I will give Night two stars,

(07:07):
but it's a week two stars Michael Carter one star.
At least Knight has had some success. He's had at
least thirteen point two PPR points in three straight games.
But the Rams, it's just a brutal matchup. Number four
in rush defense epa fifth few as PPR points per
game allowed to the position. And then you add in

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the fact they're eight and a half point underdogs. It's
going to be a really poor game script for Knight.
You know, in particular as somebody who doesn't do much
in the passing game and gets most of his work
or value from around the goal line. So it's a
week two stars for night. I could even be talked
into one star, but with how good he's been, well
give them two. Wide receiver is more interesting with Marv out.

(07:50):
I think Michael Wilson probably a four star play for
me this week, as crazy as that sounds for a
guy who had struggled to earn targets for his whole career,
but in his two previous games without Marv a target
share of at least thirty one percent in both contests
twenty one point eight thirty three point five PPR points,

(08:11):
top ten receiver in both of those games. Again, it's
a tough matchup. The Rams are even better against the
past than they are against the run. But Wilson literally
finished as the wide receiver one in one week that
Marv missed this season. Anybody with wide receiver one upside
to me has to be considered a four star play.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Greg Dortz would.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Have been an intriguing flex play, but he unfortunately has
also been ruled out. I'm not even sure who the
number two receiver is gonna be for Arizona with both
of those guys sideline, maybe Xavier Weaver Weaver like Brian
who what do you think?

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Like anybody out there.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm seeing Xavier Weaver as questionable, so you'll want to
be considering there. So of course it's not seem fioko
on ir.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
It must be Andre but schell Ah, Yes, of course
I feel pretty comfortable leaving all those.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Guys on the waiver wire.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
I think I think for me this is going to
be Michael Wilson or pass for the receivers at Cardinal
for yeah, the Cardinals at receiver, and then Trey McBride
of course, slam dunk four star tight end. Doesn't matter
who he's playing. He could be playing the eighty five Bears.
You're not taking him out of your lineup, especially with
Marv out of the lineup. There's just so much volume

(09:28):
going his way. And at quarterback. I think Jacoby Brissett
is still startable. I have him as a three star.
Play seven starts for Brissett this season. He's finished as
a top ten QB five times. The two exceptions he
finished his QB twelve and QB thirteen, so he's just
been giving us a lot of volume and a lot
of fantasy production. Again, tough matchup, but I think he's

(09:51):
a borderline top ten option this week. I'd feel very
comfortable starting him even in one QB league's.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
And Andre Baccellia thinks are pretty rough when you're bringing
in Italian opera singers demand the demand the flank position.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
You know, good stuff right there for about man, John,
All right, let's get over to the next batchup right now,
we are talking Seattle Seahawks at the Atlanta Falcons, and
Seattle's going on the road as a seven points favorite
down there in Atlanta coming into the week. We have
not heard from excuse me one second, we have not

(10:25):
heard from John Legueza yet. John, what do you got
on this one?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, we finally found jsn's kryptonite. It's actually JJ McCarthy, right.
They beat the brakes off those Vikings and JAYSN just
not needed. But you really shouldn't be shaken off from.
So let's start at the top of the running backs.
Ken Walker the third. You know, it's a strong two stars.
You have to start them despite you know, he doesn't

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have a single top eight positional finish though, Since the
week nine by he's had a you know, averaging more
than eighty three scrimmage arge game more than half of
the RB touches. But is he now a dual threat?
Guy's three receptions each of the last three a twenty
three percent target per ute run and more than one
in three quarters yards per out. Those are pretty solid

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underpinning receiving numbers. The red flags always is the goal
to go stuff. However, in that same timeframe, you know,
the carries is only six to five, So maybe in
another plaint of the multiverse, ken Walker is actually really
out piecing counterpart Zach Charboney, who really just gets a
single star touchdown dependent for a deeper league play, you know,

(11:32):
his only redeeming quality is trying to get a handle
on the rock at the goal line. But other than
I think it's wheels up for ken Walker. Like the
matchup Seattle as a touchdown favorite, twenty six point team
totals are all usually stretty pretty strong signs for the
running back. Again, the wide receiver stuff's pretty simple. Jase
and his four stars. Regardless, he was the wide receiver one.
In week twelve, he was the wide receiver seventy one

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in week thirteen. Where's the answer, guys, He's still the
wide receiver one on the season as a four trader.
We have a saying it's bt FD that's by the dip.
You can figure out what the F means. Just get
back on the JSN. He'll be fine. The rest of
the wideouts. I just don't think there's enough bites of
the apple to spread it around. They don't have a
single ten point fantasy game in the last month. Of

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of course, the entire room. That's maybe even including Rashid Shaheid,
who I guess makes a good dark horse pick. If
you think AJ, Terrell and Bates roll their coverage over
to JSN at Landa's defense, that's been the strong side.
I don't know if anyone can get to Smith and
Jigba Shaheed again really just a desperation play, but we
do know with the big A dot and wiggle in

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the second thary he could get free. AJ Barner is
actually probably a pretty strong three star start. He's had
eighty five percent of the snaps in the last three games,
almost seven targets a game. He's the clear second option
on the Seahawks. He's second in you know, catches, yards
end zone targets. The red flag would be the very
minuscule three point four a dot. Though if it's volume

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and full again to the end zone as the name
of the game, he could do that. The quarterback Donald
I just don't think the pass volume is there, and
he doesn't run it all. They don't run en Off
plays fifty eight and a half plays a game, and
they have a league high rush rate. Again, I think
that's where you're going to see them go. Seattle exter run.
Atlanta has bottom five and e paper rush and bottom
five success right, so I think you're going to see

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them force the rock on the ground against the Falcons.
Despite Brian's very good point of a West Coast team
traveling one PM, I do think that's baked into the
seven points. I think Seattle wins this by double digits.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Actually good stuff right there, Brian. Are a couple of
questions for you as you get ready to look at Atlanta.
Is Sam Darnold a guy you can win a fantasy
championship with?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, you know you're asking a guy who's very biased
with that, I think so, I don't know if I'm
gonna be He's not a slam dunk starter, but I
know they have a very his numbers have been hampered
he and JSN overall by at least like three combined games,
you know, sixty minutes one hundred and eighty minutes a

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game time where they didn't have to throw the ball.
I don't think that's gonna be the case. They're going
for the number one seed. I know they got the
Rams ahead and the forty nine ers, so they'll be
competitive games. But he's still more of a bench guy.
I don't know if he's a top twelve option every week.
As much as I hate to say, I love him
in reality though, he is gonna win MVP as the
Seahawks take the number one seed. But over to the

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to the side the Falcons, who will lose to my boys,
darnold Seahawks. I'll starting with Bijon Robinson. Only two stars
for Vijon all year, getting vultured by Tyler Algier. Only
nine goal to go opportunities have been afforded to Bjon
Robinson this season. Just brutal in the money in the
money area, but still he's second in combo yards among

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running backs, among among all running backs, so it remains
the must start This is a brutal matchup though, reason
he only gets the two stars. Seattle allowing just one
hundred and six conboy yards per game to the running
back position, just six total touchdowns surrendered all season, so
the ceiling is captor bijon. That's why it gets the
two stars. Also capped because again of Tyler Algier, who

(15:13):
will continue to steal work startable in some weeks, but
not this one. One star for Algier Drake London. I
was like, am I gonna give him two stars? Well,
I'm not because he has been ruled out. No Drake
London this week, which is brutal, hurts the whole passing game.
Even with London out, I'm not going by way of
Darnel Mooney. His target share has been under fifteen percent.

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Without Drake London in the lineup. Seahawks have held since
Week nine perimeter wide receivers the third fewest PPR points
per target and the fewest receiving yards per game. So
just out on all the wide receivers for Atlanta. But
I am in on Kyle Pitt's gonna give him three stars.
The one path to success through the Seattle defense has

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been through the tight end I mean hell, even TJ.
Hopkinson had double digit PPR points last week catches fifty
nine yards. This a week before that, Tennessee tight ends
combined for nine and ninety one. Recently, McBride and Higgins
chipped in Elijah Higgins with eleven catches one hundred and
thirty plus yards, Dalton Chultz nine catches ninety eight yards.

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So the track record against for tight ends against Seattle
has been good. Pitts has been hot, and Kirk Cousins
will be looking his way often, But just one star
for co Kirko Chains. We're not gonna be looking his
way against the Seahawks are likely any week at least
with Drake London out of the lineup.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
All Right, the kirk O Chains Chains excuse me, era
comes to an end, thankfully. With that being said, program
is up, rocking and rolling. We're not coming to an
end no time soon, as a matter of fact. Coming
up next on this week, Coming up next on Fantasy
Football Weekly, a couple interesting, A couple of cotenders getting

(16:56):
ready for a Monday night showdown right back here on
Fantasy Football Weekly. All right, back up and Adam Segment

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number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Corey Pauls and the Fantasy
executive below with Brian Johnson, John Legaza, and Matt Lamarca.
Thanks to each and every last, single one of you
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for you is we're gonna help you win your Fantasy
football championship. But you need to get Week fourteen right

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because the Fantasy football playoffs all right around the corner.
And let's head down to the AFC South. Interesting matchup
right here. Didn't think it would probably become Week fourteen,
but here we are. Indianapolis coach travel to Jacksonville as
a one and a half point road favorite. Total right
now sitting at forty seven and a half. This one

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right here should have some fantasy fireworks. Let's start with you,
Matt Lamarca. What do you think about this Indianapolis coach
and their fantasy aspects this week?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Well, I wish I had the stones of Brian Johnson
to label bjon Robinson a two star play. I mean,
come on, what are we talking about here, Bijon Robinson?

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, Jonathan Taylor's.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
We'll revisit that one next week. We'll see I know
it was both, but you're playing them, you're playing them
ten for your expectations.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Four stars for Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
For me, I know his stock has fallen a little
bit of late, but he's still a consensus top three
guy at the position. He's a must start, so I'm
not gonna mess around and do anything but four stars
with him.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
The bigger question the passing attack.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Right You've got Daniel Jones who is essentially playing with
a fractured lag at the moment. Probably not ideal, especially
for a quarterback who is, you know, a somewhat of
a dual threat type of player. A stationary Daniel Jones
is a pretty terrifying option, especially when you factor in

(19:22):
last week was against the Texans. This week it's a
little bit friendlier against the Jaguars. But I still don't
want anything really to do with him. I'm trying to
avoid him wherever possible. I think he's a two star
start at best. The bigger question is what does a
limited Daniel Jones mean for the team's pass catchers, And

(19:45):
it's probably not enough of a downgrade where you can't
start them Alec Pierce, even though he is the number
two receiver in terms of Fantasy points on the team,
I think he's my favorite of their pass catchers at
the moment. He doesn't have quite as many targets as
Pierce for the year, but.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
The gap is shrinking by the week.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Right, He's got a twenty two percent target share last week,
He's at twenty two percent since week seven. Michael Pittman
is at twenty four percent over the same timeframe, and
Pierce's targets are just so much higher quality. He's got
a twenty point two a dot that's gotta be amongst
the best in the league, if not leading the league.
Pittman is at eight point five yards Pierce forty six

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percent air yard share, Pittman twenty two.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
So it's just so many.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Even if it's slightly fewer targets, they are just so
much more higher value targets Going in Pierce's direction. I
have him as a three star play in this matchup
against the Jaguars.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Pittman is more of a two star option.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
I think he's startable, but I'm not excited to have
him in my lineup. Josh Downs one star play at
best and then wrapping things up, Tyler Warren another four
star option. He's one of the best tight ends in football,
and now he gets a against the Jaguars who have
will have the second most PPR points per game two
opposing tight ends. You're not taking him out of your lineup.

(21:07):
It's a it's a four star slam dunk.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah. No, Tyler Warren definitely been getting the job done.
If you're able to snatch him way back in August,
definitely paint dividends throughout the course of the season and
hopefully into your fantasy football playoffs. Hi, John my man,
you're up with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Do ball?

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, with two point dogs at home with a twenty
three point team total, So no real signal in the
macros from the bookmakers. I think you have to start
Travis Etn He's catching a lot of flak, but you
really have no choice. It's a strong two star. He's
the team leader in touches, in routes and go the
go carries. I mean, that's all you can ask for
in fantasy circles. Also bred flags and the reason why

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he's not a three star and hasn't really run away
with the job. It's a sub four yards per carry,
forty three percent success rate, and a sub five percent
explosive rush rate. Those are all pretty poor. It's just
one top and finished going all the way back to
week one, So Baseiel Touton looks pretty explosive at times.
He hasn't really earned the lower He is nipping at
the heels. He got that goal to go attempt last week,

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so he's worth keeping an eye on. I wouldn't start him,
but he is one of the real priority stashes, right,
and that's something we have to think about entering the
fantasy playoffs. If he's dangling out there, you definitely want
a guy like Tooton to the wide receivers. Jacobe Myers
is a thing, right. He plays the middle of the
field where Liam Cohen likes to center it. News flash,
Brian Thomas here in footsteps right there. So Myer's three

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star play. He's the Jags wide receiver since he came
on board. He's leading them in routes, targets, receptions, yards,
air yards, almost two and a half yards were out run,
and a nine and a half eight dot, which I
really like that that sweet spot. It's not too deep
to be highly inefficient and it's not right around the
line of scrimmage where it needs to be constructed. Nearly
fifty percent lated opportunity and an end zone target every game.

(22:55):
So myyer's doing this thing. Parker Washington and Brian Thomas.
I think they're really going to eat into each other.
I like Washington without Thomas, I like Thomas without Washington.
Washington did practice in a limited fashion. I really wouldn't
touch it because Parker are getting limited play. Brian Thomas
had eighty five percent of the routes last week. They
just kind of cancel each other out. Breton Strange is
probably the player where the most interested in. I think

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that's the really strong three stars start, especially if you
feel out in the cold with out a tight end
and he's available. He's the overall tight end four since
returning from the ir and Man. He runs a lot
of diverse routes. He's a menace Indies specondary. He's very
hard to take down. He's at two and three quarter
yards per rout run, more than two Fantasy points per target.
He has four explosive plays already. Trevor Lawrence, T law Man,

(23:40):
you get two stars. I think you could start him
because the matchup is good. It's a fast track. No
whether the man he throws too many picks, that completion
raty is not great, but he does run, so he
could start him. Maybe holding your nose. That add is
a bit of a pass funnel, which I think lends
to the start of Lawrence. You got a lot of
man staff five dB plus a lot of Blip, which
I think opens up a spot for Strange again underneath.

(24:03):
So I think you start Lawrence if we have to eat,
and if you got him and Strange if you can.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
You know, you mentioned something very interesting you talked about
getting your roster ready for the playoffs. Is that a
thing that you know, fantasy owners managers should be doing
this time of year, you know, cutting some of that
dead weight, trimming off some of that fat so you
can have exactly what you need when you go into
your postseason.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, just briefly, I only speak for myself. During the season,
the regular season, I generally have my own handcuffs just
looking for the one v one opportunities. Heading into the playoffs,
I'm making that swap where I can for the highest
value handcuffs that guys that could move the needle. I think,
you know, Tooting like I just mentioned, really comes to
mind as a player if he gets that spot. Maybe

(24:49):
Tank Bigsby is another one. I wouldn't generally be rostering
Bigsby without Barkley, but right now Bigsby is a pretty
sexy piece to have.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I good stuff as always. Let's move on to the
next contest. Night football. Philadelphia Eagles traveled out west to
take on the Los Angeles Charges. Ryan, you're lining up
the Philadelphia Eagles for us this week? What you got
on the champs?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
They've been looking more like the Chumps lately, and starting
with Saquon just two stars for Saquon Barkley just absolutely
brutal this season, probably the biggest non injured bust in
Fantasy football. Off the top of my head, maybe you
guys can come up with a better candit.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
I don't think it's even close.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, compared to what he did last year, it's just
such a disappointment.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, speaking of last year, through thirteen games, he had
seventeen hundred sixty six yards. He hasn't hit a thousand yet.
Brandon Aubrey, kicker for the Cowboys, has scored more Fantasy
points than Saquon Barkley, So this isn't exactly the best
spot to rebound against the Chargers, who, over the last
five games of Hell opposing backs to one hundred and

(25:58):
five combo yards and just three total touchdowns. And those
numbers are essentially all propped by the Jags backs who
Surren who combined for one hundred and forty convoy yards
and all three of those touchdowns. So it was one
one good game for an opposing backfield and that was
the Chargers going east to Jacksonville. The West Coast softies
couldn't handle the early start, so uh. Not a soft

(26:21):
place to land for Barkley. Here two stars again for him, uh,
and also two stars for aj Brown and Devonte Smith.
Starting with aj Brown, since he told the Fantasy Football
World to bench him about a month ago, he's been
a top three wide receiver. Tough match up here though,
that the Chargers have allowed these sixth fewest catches, the
third fewest yards, and the second fewest touchdowns to wideouts.

(26:43):
That's why he gets the two stars and DeVante Smith
as well. But one angle here with Smith is that
the Chargers run two high safeties on defense, at least
at one of the highest rates in the league and
against two high Smith as a twenty six percent target
share thirty two percent first read target shareing a very
respectable two point one five yards per route run. But

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it is a good a good secondary in the Chargers.
So just two stars for Brown and Smith, and just
one star for Dallas Goddard, who's pretty much the tight
end one in the first quarter of the season, but
he has fallen off hard. Only the only tight ends
to top forty yards against the Chargers of this year
were Brock Bauers, Tyler Warren, and Travis Kelcey. I cannot

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quite put Goddard in that group anymore. He was sort
of sniffing it early on, but he's out there, out
of it outside looking in. One star for Goddard. I
will give Jalen Hurts though, three stars to wrap up
the Eagles here. Not a great matchup from the passing
perspective as I just went through, but there's always the
rushing upside with Hurts and the tush push and Eagles
fighting for their life here. I think we see Hurts

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scraped together a pretty respectable fantasy start here, So three stars,
but definitely not four it for Hurts.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Definitely a big spot for the Philadelphia Eagles, and when
they do get into these big spots, Dalan Hurt, which
is normally the guy that comes through with them for them.
Excuse me. So I definitely can see where you're coming from, Matt.
What's going on on the other side of the football.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Lots of stuff going on for the Chargers. I guess
we'll start with Justin Herbert, who is dealing with a
fractured non throwing hand. He had surgery to have a
plate and some screws installed, which is I don't know,
probably not good for a quarterback. I get it's his
non throwing hand, but he's going up against an Eagles

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defense that's tough. It's definitely not a spot where I
am excited to play Justin Herbert. He is expected to play,
So I am tentatively approaching the Chargers as though Herbert
is going to be under center. But he's had three
straight finishes outside the top twelve for fantasy purposes to
begin with. Now you add in this injury and this defense,

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it's a two star play on Herbert and I would
be looking to bench him if you have other alternatives
at running back. We're going to get the turn of
Omari and Hampton this week. The big question, of course,
is how much is his workload gonna be. It's his
first time in the lineup since Week five. Ultimately, I
think the Chargers play play it slow with Hampton, kind

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of similar to how we saw with Tampa Bay and
Bucky Irving last week. I think Kimani Vidal has earned
a spot in this rotation, so I'm kind of anticipating
more of a fifty to fifty split. Hampton is gonna
be the guy in the long run, and in the
last full game that he played, he had an eighty
eight percent snap share and one hundred percent carry share.

(29:36):
That's obviously very exciting, but I think for the most part,
we're gonna want to wait and see a week. I
have Hampton as a two star play, but you know,
he's more of like a low end RB two high
end flex play where he could be an RB one
in future weeks. Kimani Vidal I had to dock him
down to one star, even though he has been great

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for fantasy managers since taking over. In the backfield, the
wide receiver room lots of mouths to feed Ladd McConkie
Quinton Johnston, Keenan Allen all have provided value at points
this season. Ladd has started to separate himself a little
bit though of late. He's got a twenty six percent
target share since Week seven. He was at twenty nine

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percent last week, and he has been by far their
most consistent fantasy producer over that time frame. He's got
six finishes inside the top twenty at the position over
the past eight games. He does do a lot of
his damage from the slot sixty three point seven percent
slot rate this year, which means he is going to
be seeing a lot of Cooper Dejean in an intriguing matchup.

(30:40):
Dejeane's a good cornerback. He's number twenty one for PFF,
but I still have mcconkee as a three star play.
Qj and Keenan are more of two star type plays.
Johnson is the clear big play threat for the team
at receiver. Keenan he hasn't had any good games of
late from a production standpoint, but he's still very involved

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in the offense. He's got a twenty four percent target
shair in back to back games. I think both guys
have some upside but also some downside, so they are
two star plays for me against Philly. Same goes for
Aronde Gatston two stars. He looked like he was going
to be a slam dunk tight end one rest of
season about a month ago, but since then his numbers

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have fallen off a cliff. The biggest concern just a
sixty eight percent route participation last week, and he was
at fifty five percent in Week ten. So he has
morphed from being sort of a focal point of the
Chargers passing attack to now he's not even on the
field every snap. The Eagles have been very good at
defending tight ends this season, fourth fewest PPR points per

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game allowed. I don't necessarily view Gatston as a starter
this week I gave him two stars, but again I
think he is right on that you know, ten to
twelve type ranking at the position.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
All right, good stuff right there. Still got plenty of
more stuff coming up on Fantasy Football Weekly. You just
heard Matt breaking it down. Hopefully you ladd mcconky guys.
You know you have a nice little bump and he
continues the good stuff going into your fantasy postseason. But
we got a match up with a pair of Elite
eight quarterback right here. Fantasy Football Weekly. Fantasy Football Weekly

(32:52):
iHeartRadio presentation. Let's get ready to hop back into it.
Buffalo Bills travel to Cincinnati take on the Bengals. On paper,
it looks like, you know, early in the season when
you make the schedule, let it be a big time
AFC showdown. Really hasn't played out that way, but you
still got two of the elite quarterbacks. Buffalo is a
five and a half point favorite on the road in

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this game. Five and a half point road favorite. All
raised an interesting spot. John, what do we got with
the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah, say what you want about the Bill's lack of
consistency on offense. With a thirty point team total, you
gotta roll him out there. It's a touchdown higher than
any other game on the entire slate. Cook ats the
four star start overall RB six four top four finishes
more than twenty one touches a game. You're to date
another throwing in the ball to to kind of complete
the puzzle for the real RB one outcomes that we're
looking for three catches minimum in each of the last

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four and the Cincinnati run d is like historically bad
on the wide receiver side. Khalio Shakir. I know it's
a bit of an oil or none thing. He still
is the clear wide receiver one. He's had at least
six receptions in four of the last six. The other
side of that is only one reception in two of
them last three. The worth pointing out that was all
without Dalton Kincaid, who should be back. The rest of

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that wide receiver room gets a one star if they're lucky.
Maybe Keon Coleman is a dark horse pop very similar
to that Rashid Shahed call before, just if you get
somebody to break loose in the secondary. Later on, then
I mentioned Kinkaid. He's got to be a three star play.
He's the tight end twenty overall and a guy missed
a full month because he's Buffalo's number two pass catching option.

(34:29):
I know I mentioned Brandon Cooks last week he got
the first target of the game, but I think that
was all so then Josh Allen for stars. Of course
he's putting up you know, RB two running back stats
to go with all the good quarterback stuff. Then I
mentioned the Cincinnati des just terrible, the league's worst in
points per game, yards per game, yards will play success rate,
and Eapier for play queue up everybody against the Bengals.

(34:49):
All the Bills got to go this weekend.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
All right, Yeah, I like I like the Bills a
lot more than the Bengal. Well, it's gonna be a
closer game than I would think it would be. But
I'm not liking the backfield chase in particular as much.
With the return of Samaj pe Ryan last week saw
forty percent of the snaps p Rian did, one hundred
percent of the rushes from inside the five. He saw
twice as many long down in distance snaps peer Riin

(35:12):
did than Chase Brown. And prior to last week when
the Pittsburgh Backs stunk it up against Buffalo, the Bills
were getting gashed by opposing backs surrounding one hundred and
one hundred and seventy seven compo yards per game in
five total touchdowns. But that the Bills up bounce back
big time stopping the Pittsburgh Backs last week. So I'm
a little showing a little trepidation, especially towards Chase Brown.

(35:34):
You're not gonna start p Ryan, but because of pe
Ryan's return, I'm only giving Brown the two stars in
this one and only three stars for Jamar Chase. The
Bills have surrendered four touchdowns to wide receivers of the
last four games, but not a not a lot of catches,
not a lot of yards. But you're gonna start Chase regardless,
hopefully doesn't spit on anyone get ejected. But three stars
for Chase T. Higgins. I don't believe as clear to

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concussion protocol. I don't think he will. If he does,
I give him two stars. He might have been ruled
out already. If so, I will give him two stars
if he plays. But only one wide receiver over the
last four games has cleared the sixty yard mark against
the Buffalo Bills. And if one receiver is going to
do that for the Bengals, it's going to be chased.
So really, Higgins and iosav Us are one star players. Again,

(36:20):
if Figgins plays, I'll give him the two. But if
he's if Figgins is out, just the one star fiosis,
I'm not gonna go that far. I'm not going to
start Mike Kasicki either. Only one touchdown surrendered to tight
ends by the Bills all season. That was Jeremy Ruckert
in Week two Long Island Zone. Just like Matt Lamarca
and only one touchdown. Only one tight end his top
fifty yards against Buffalo all season. That was Travis Kelcey.

(36:43):
So Mike Asicki on the bench. But Joe Burrow, I'll
give him two stars because he's healthy. Joe Burrow, He's special.
Brutal matchup though since Week four of the Bills have
allowed multiple passing touchdowns only twice, neither of those occasions.
We're at home as this game is, and Buffalo has
an absolute run funnel this season. But but Cincinnati is
different with the healthy Joe Burrow. But the Bills allowing

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less than two hundred yards per game passing and then
just about a touchdown per So just two stars for
Burrow in this one, all right?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
NFC South matchup, New Orleans Saints go down to Tampa.
Tampa over a touchdown favored in this one, Matt, is
there anything we can look at on the New Orleans side?

Speaker 5 (37:26):
I think there's a surprising amount of stuff to consider
for New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
And maybe it's just me.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
I kind of feel like Oprah compared to Brian at
this point. You know, you get a star, you get
a star. Brian's over here, given Jamar Chase three stars.
I'm giving everybody stars that starts with Devin Neil. He's
a two star play for me. Didn't quite get the
receiving work we hoped for in his first start, but
the opportunities were there. Eighty one percent snap share, seventy

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one percent route participation, he had one hundred percent of
the short yarded snaps and the long yarded snaps. That's
a welcow profile, granted for a very bad team. We
need him to do more as a pass catcher against
the Buccaneers because that's where they struggle against running backs.
They are tough against the run with Vitevea up the middle,

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but fifty six point eight receiving yards per game allowed
to opposing running backs. That's the first the worst mark
in the league by ten full yards. So hopefully Neil
gets a little bit more involved as a pass catcher,
but I have him as a two star play. Chris
Alave for me, is going to be a three star guy.
Solid wide receiver to all season double DIGITPPR points in

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all but one game. The numbers since Tyler Schuck have
taken over at quarterback have been solid. Twenty five percent
target share, forty two percent air yard share, and he's
gone for roughly fifteen PPR points in three straight. He
was back at practice after missing on Wednesday, so he
seems to be wheels up there. And John's guy, Devon Veley,

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I think you could do worse as a flex play
this week. I'm going to give him two stars as well.
Wide receiver seven finished for him last week, twenty six
percent target share. We saw him do some stuff with
the Broncos last year as well. I think there's a
chance that he's an NFL caliber wide receiver. Bucks are
a bit of a pass funnel defense eleventh most PPR

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points for games to receivers, So I think you could
do worse than going with Devon Vele. Juwan Johnson, He's
kind of just what he is at this point. He
is going to be in that tight end ten to
fifteen range most weeks. I have him as a two
star guy. Taysom Hill, there was some thought that maybe
with Kamara out he would become a more prominent part

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of the offense, and that did not happen. One carry,
one target last week. He's a one star guy, so
naturally this will be the week that he goes off
for four touchdowns. Speaking of Schuck, I think he is
a two star quarterback. He's been better than you might
think for fantasy purposes. He's had two finishes inside the
top fifteen in terms of quarterback scoring. In his four starts,

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Bucks have allowed the second most fantasy points per game
to opposing quarterbacks. He's probably a better option as like
a superflex or as a QB two in two quarterback leagues.
But it wouldn't shock me if he gets to you know,
fifteen to eighteen fantasy points in this start, All.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Right, John, right quick? Can you hop in here and
let us know what we can expect from Tampa in
this one?

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Yeah, I think we could bang out the Bucks really quick.
I'll be honest. It's a six point favorite and twenty
eight point team total. I'm not as big a fan
as the market apparently, the bottom three and success rate
year to date, Bucky Irvin is the guy you want.
In his one game back, nearly three quarters of the touches,
most of the targets, all the goal to go stuff
at Buke is struggling. Gotta get him two stars for
the targets, but other than that in the area are
just a little bit disconcerting. Godwin, I've got part time

(40:47):
roots but full time targets. I guess you start him
if you need him, but he really hasn't looked great.
We sort a little bit of a burst, but the
offense is really kind of stuck in the mud. Oughton
one star. I wouldn't start him. He's an after thoat
with all the weapons back and Baker has zero I
finishes year to date. He's banged up. He took twenty
four sacks already, and the Saint stein not bad. Five
of the last six quarterbacks have gone under two hundred

(41:07):
passing yards. Koy McKinstry and Alante Taylor are really good,
kind of one two combo back there. I wouldn't be
surprised that the Saint suppress the Bucks passing offense. So
I love Irving. I think you pushed him to the
front the rest of the Bucks. I'll be honest, I'm
a little bit worried.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
About interesting stuff right there. Do we think Neil can
be somebody who can be a league winner going down
the stretch?

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Well, they're gonna have to start throwing the ball a
little bit more. That was one of his calling cards
in college, and we didn't see that last week. He
squeezed out the three catches, but it really took till
the end of the game, So I think that's a
the center of that.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Corey, my good stuff. We all one hour in the
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Speaker 6 (41:59):
Two right, our number two before reports and the Fantasy

(42:29):
Executive along with Brian Johnson, John Leguaza and Matt excuse me,
Matt Lamarca, getting you ready for Week fourteen, the oh
so important Week fourteen, just about a week away from
the Fantasy football playoffs.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
If you need to get in, you don't need to
touch the dow. If you need to play spoiler, you
don't need to touch the dial. If you're looking for
that first round by you do not need to touch
the dow. Let's get ready to hop right back into it.
Big time robbery Pittsburgh Steelers Baltimore Ravens. Big game for
both teams in the battle for the a FC Brian,

(43:01):
what do we have with the Baltimore I mean with
the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, big game in reality football, but these December matchups
between the Steelers and Ravens don't equal too many fantasy fireworks.
They're not gonna be many on the Pittsburgh side, at
least I will note too, this is the first meeting
between these two shockingly that they will play again in
Week eighteen. But starting with Jalen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell.
Both were set to smash last week against Buffalo. That

(43:28):
was not the case, especially Gainwell, who I was strongly recommending.
Sorry about that one, huh. And this is not a
smash spot by any means against the Ravens. For both
Warren n Gainwell, only one loan back has top seventy
rushing yards against the Ravens since Week four. During that
same span, only one loan back has top forty receiving yards,

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and the Ravens have given up just five total touchdowns
to the position over that span, zero over their last
three games, and those have come against some pretty good
backs quin Shawn Judkins, Breeze Hall, and Jase Brown. So
very soft. Two stars on Jalen Warren. I'm gonna put
one back on Gainwell, who I thought would see more
touches than Warren last week, but that wasn't the case.

(44:09):
His touches actually went down a little bit. So don't
like either back for the Steelers much at all. I
hate Dk Metcalf. Sorry, DK, I won't say that to
your face because you'll do horrible things to me. But
just one star for Metcalf over his last five games,
averaging less than four catches and thirty yards per game,
no touchdowns. Just cannot be trusted in any form of

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lineup right now. Neither can Adam Thielen. I guess is
the number two wide receiver now, but I don't know.
We're not trusting any other wide receiver with Pittsburgh nor
the tight ends who saw target totals of four to
two zero last week. It's that just disgusting split that
won't go away. They are not startable. One star for
all them, and one star for Aaron Rodgers of course, yeah,

(44:55):
I have to start him as a QB two in
one league. I think I got like Schadora Sander, maybe
Trey Lance if he goes. It's ugly, but yeah, Aaron Rodgers.
Don't start him if you don't have to, don't be
like me.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Interesting stuff, But Trey Lance mentioned is not normally a
good look, even in two quarterback leagues. But it is
what it is at this moment.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Let's hop in here on the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
Yeah, Lamar Jackson playing like Trey Lance of late. Don't
know what's going on there. He's right there, man, No,
I know, I know, believe me.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
It hurts to say.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
But seven and a half Fantasy points or fewer in
three straight games, He's finished outside the top twenty five
at the position in three straight games. So in some ways,
I think he's the hardest player to rank on the
entire slate. Based on his track record, he's a four
star play, especially in a good matchup versus the Steelers.
Based on his recent production, he's more of.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
A one star play.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
I'm gonna go closer to three. I think that with
Lamar it's just a matter of time before he turns things.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
At least I'm hoping. The rushing numbers have been weighed down,
but the volume is still there.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
He's still averaging six carries a game over the last
handful of weeks, He's just at three yards of carry
as opposed to six which he's averaged for his career.
So Steelers are a good matchup. He didn't get it
done last week against the Bengals, who are an even
better matchup. But I just can't bench Lamar Jackson if
I'm trying to get into the fantasy playoffs. So three

(46:27):
stars for him, three stars as well for Derek Henray.
He's not a four star guy just because he doesn't
catch a ton of passes, but the offense is running
through him. With Jackson struggling at least seventeen point four
PPR points and three straight.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Keaton Mitchell he got in me.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
He had a strong showing last week, but that was
more game script related than anything else.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
He's a one star.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
Play Jay Flowers I've got as a two star guy
based on the utilization.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
He should be higher, right, He's.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
Got a twenty eight percent target share, but he is
true like the missionary position of alpha receivers. It is
just as boring and vanilla as it gets, no ceiling
but a pretty safe floor. I'm gonna keep him as
a two star play. No other receiver in Baltimore worth
considering and then Mark Andrews at tight end. I'm gonna

(47:17):
give him two stars. He is also like an extremely
touchdown dependent, but he does score touchdowns at a high clip.
His volume has also ticked up a bit of late
twenty percent target share. In three of the past four games,
Steelers have allowed the sixth most fantasy points to opposing
tight ends. Isaiah Likely, he's just a one star guy
for me. He did have a good game against Cincinnati,

(47:38):
but it was just his second game all year with
more than three point seven PPR points, So I would
like to go elsewhere if.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Possible, Isaiah Likely. Thing has never really happened. Let me
ask this before we get into the Bears and the Packers.
Let me ask the group this, can you is the
scenarios where you can consider bitching Lamar Jackson this week
and moving forward?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah, well, if you're in a GUILLETEAE league, for sure,
while you're down to five teams, I would not be
starting Lamar Jackson. But yeah, certainly he's just not a
set it and forget it guy anymore. Just the mobility
is not there. So if you have better options, without
a doubt, just not Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
I'm going down with the ship.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
I still have him as a back end top ten
option this week, so I would have to be pretty
loaded at the position to put him on the bench.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Yeah, Dal for me, if Likely doesn't couff that ball
up on the goal line and Flowers doesn't get caught
on that tiki tacky OPI maybe we're talking about a
different passing game altogether. Yeah, I'm going down with the
Lamar ship for sure. On with you, Maddie.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
All right, let's go. Let's get to the Chicago Bears
and the Green Bay pack Ups. Excuse me, monster matchup
this one right here. John set it off with the
Chicago Bear side. The Chicago Bears, who are the number
one seed in the NFC currently.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Yeah, I can't remember ever seeing a conference leading team
as a six point underdog, Yet here we are. You're
not gonna get any physical weather, but it is gonna
be the frozen tundra in Green Bay. So you want
to be looking at the running backs Swift and Manongay.
I think they each get two stars. You have to
start them both because they're really kind of splitting the

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backfield and the team that's assuming a more run heavy presence.
So the last month, they're almost scoring identically. Swift is
more explosive, you get more basework, more targets. Manunguy better
success rate, so you'll get more of the red zone
and gold to go stuff. It ends up being a washed.
The Chicago rush rate has increased every single month. It's
a tough spot, but no choice. Green Bay d top

(49:47):
five and yards are play explosive, play rate allowed, all
the tackling yards after the Catchbasters are strong. They're a
bit of a pass funnel though. With five dbs. Nickel
Corn and Yvonne Bullard did not practice. That could be
a big boost for mister A Burden. Actually, I guess
I should have started with Roman Dunes is out. That
is a certainty, so you gotta boost Burden. I'm going
three stars. He's been the best pass catcher against his own,

(50:10):
which green Bay likes to run twenty four percent target
pro out, almost two and a half yards per out,
and he's earned at least two slot targets a game
each of the last three. We love that diversity. We
saw it from London and Lamb. Not that he's those
type of players, but when you open up that part
of the playbook, so comes the ceiling. DJ Morriget's the
second star. Now he's earning a lot of deep targets.

(50:30):
Loveland is another guy like Colston Loven at the tight
end position. Really come on strong. Three stars for him.
He's a tight end four overall since Week nine. Four
targets minimum in each of the last seven and more
than two yards per out run against his own He's
gonna see a lot of Caleb gets it. Two stars.
He's kind of stuck in that eighteen point per game
blob with quarterbacks, but you take what you can get

(50:51):
because he does run and I love that when guys
give you that built in fantasy floor.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Well you got Brian on the Green Bay Packers, all right.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Starting with Josh Jacobs. Pretty neutral matchup on paper for Jacobs.
Over the last five games. The Bears are allowing just
under one hundred and thirty combo yards per game to
running backs. That's pretty good for Jacobs, but just two
total touchdowns allowed the position during that same five games
span by Chicago, So ceiling capped a little bit on
a Bears defense that is on the up and up.

(51:21):
We'll get into that a little more in a second,
but that's all that said. For Jacobs, he is by
far the best running backs running back Bears have faced
during that five game span, and yes, that includes Saquon Barkley.
Josh Jacobs by far better than Saquon Barkley at this
point in life. For everyone over to the wide receivers
for Green Bay, just one startable option for me. That's

(51:42):
Christian Watson. Canna give him two stars. You can throw
out the overall numbers you see against wide receivers for
the Bears because for a good chunk of the season
they are without standout corners Jalen Johnson and Kyler Gordon
arguably the best corner duo in the league one of
Week eleven. Even despite that, I'm gonna start Watson. Since

(52:03):
Week eleven, Watson has emerged as Green Bay's clear cut
number one wide receiver. He's been a top twelve Fantasy
wide receiver in terms of points per game over the
last three weeks as well eighty three percent route share,
a twenty eight percent target chair, nearly sixty receiving yards
per game, decent floor on two and a half yards
per route run, with a thirty six percent read target

(52:24):
share over the last three weeks. So Watson is the
guy Jordan Love is looking to. So I'm not looking
the way of Romeo Dubbs, Matthew Golden, not even sure
if he's gonna play. I don't care, Don Davian Wicks.
They're all one star DFS dart throws if you want
to get fantasy. But I can't recommend any with confidence.
I can recommend dropping Luke Musgrave with confidence. Not even

(52:45):
close to a replacement for Tucker Craft. We were hoping
for like half of tucker Craft's production. Essentially got nothing
from Musgrave, one catch in each of his last three games.
He is cuttable for sure, and Jordan Love just two
stars here, and I feel like I'm being a little
generous here that they're gonna want to lean on Jacobs.

(53:06):
The Packers are in this game again. The improved state
of Chicago's secondary over the last few weeks with the
return of Gordon and Johnson hasn't be concerned. So a
soft two stars for Love, I'd be looking elsewhere if possible.
At quarterback?

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Would you what if you have Lamar Jackson and Jordan Love?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Who Oh? I would play Lamar despite Yeah, definitely Lamar
over Love. You know he's not running?

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Yeah? Did know I want the rushing floor Green Bay,
a little bit of a low pass volume. And though
Love looks great when he's slinging it like we saw
last week, that feels more like the anomaly this season.
They're gonna look to run it with Jacobs.

Speaker 5 (53:46):
I think, yeah, it's a clean sweep. Give me, give
me the lamar in that matchup?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Clean sweet Right there? All right, moving right along, Still
got plenty of more action to get involved with the
reigning Rookie of the Year makes his return. Does he
go in your fantasy lineup? We figure it out next
on Fantasy Football Weekly, Week fourteen, Fantasy Football Weekly, or

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should I say the all new Fantasy Football Weekly. Thanks
for everybody hanging out and rocking and rolling with us
throughout the switch, getting you ready to go through the
rest of the fantasy season. Get you a championship, get
you all the glory you need. Let's hop back into
the slate. No time and the waste. Very urgent right
now with the Fantasy football playoffs on the horizon. It's

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also very urgent times for the Kansas City Chiefs right now.
They are three and a half point home favorites versus
the Houston Texans. And you know what this is like,
Woody Marks season. Right now, Matt, you have the honor
of breaking down the Houston Texans for.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
Yeah, Woody.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
Marx has taken over as the clear guy in this
backfield sixty eight percent of the snaps and carries since
week ten. There is a bit of concern with him
from a health standpoint, but he did get back to
a limited practice on Thursday, so that bodes well for
his availability in this matchup. The one big red flag
in his profile is he just hasn't been used as

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a pass catcher really over the past couple of games
since he has taken over as the clear lead back,
just an eight percent target share. And the matchup versus
the Chiefs is a bit of a mixed bag, right.
They are not great statistically in terms of defending the
run twenty second in rush defense EPA, but they've allowed
the sixth fewest PPR points per game to the position.

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So I think Marx is startable, but it is not
a fist pump, slam dunk type of spot.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
I've got two stars on him. Nick Chubb is a
one star guy.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
He would become a viable option if Marx is out
of the picture, but again I think all signs are
pointing towards what he mars being in the lineup. Nico
Collins to me, is clearly the best fantasy option for
the Texans. He is a four star receiver for me,
thirty percent target share for the year. He had a

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twenty one and a half PPR points in Stroud's first
game back. Last week, He's gone for twenty plus PPR
points and three of his last four. Jayden Higgins is
also somebody that I think you can consider as a
flex play. He is not a full time player from
a snap standpoint, but when he's on the field, the
Texans are getting the ball in his hands twenty nine

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percent target per route run. Over his last four games,
He's got double digit PPR points in three of them,
and then nine and a half fantasy points in the
loan exception, So he to me is more of a
two star flex type play. All the other Texans receivers
are one star guys. Bulton Schultz passable at tight end,

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eighty two percent route rate, twenty three percent target share
last week, twelve and a half PPR points. He's been
a top ten option at the position in terms of
Fantasy scoring three of the past four weeks, so I
think he is right in that same tier of you know,
just usable guys that you are not excited about. Starting
at tight end. He's a two star play. And then

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same goes for CJ. Stroud really has not shown any
semblance of a ceiling for the most part. He had
one week where he finished as QB one. Other than that,
he has not finished inside the top ten in fantasy scoring.
I don't think that the Chiefs are a matchup where
Stroud is all of a sudden going to be able
to feast this game despite having you know, some big

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time stars. Just a forty one and a half point total,
so it's a two star play.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
Anything more than that is a little bit too aggressive
for CJ.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Strapp.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Yeah, definitely going outside cole Weather late in the season,
you can see that low total despite some of the
top players in fantasy. All right, excuse me, all right, John,
Here we go Kansas City Chiefs to three and a
half point home favorite, tough spot for the Chiefs. They need,
they need a win. But you know, SOCO fantasy man players.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Yeah, everybody needs to win. I think Math did a
good job laying out a lot of the macros. I'm
expecting a rock fight like everyone else. It starts for
Kareem hunting the Chiefs backfield. I think you have to
start him for the touchdown dependency alone. Two stars for Kareem.
He's eleventh in the league in goal to go attempts,
which is, you know, the high value touches, how you
get there. Though, this is the most Kareem Hunt stat

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of all time of forty two running backs the season
with one hundred touches. He is third in success rate.
He is fortieth or forty two in explosive rush rate,
which is just Kareem Hunt just to the nth degree.
So the Houston d top three by any objective measure.
Shoutout defensive ends Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter just absolutely
doing their thing. I think the big men need some

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more attention in fantasy circles because you know they're the
ones trying to stop us what we're trying to do. Now.
Houston's though very good. You get a lot of five dB.
It's a very zone heavy approach. They like cover three
up back, but they'll also send the heat. So what
that can do schematically is open up some room for
the slot, which is. You know Rushi's rice his cling
to theme, so I think he's still a four star start.

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Since week seven when he came on board. He has
more Fantasy points than Brown, Juju Worthy and Thornton combined
thirty percent target proute two and a half yards. We're
out starting him, you know, even if there's a fire.
The rest of these guys one star at best, I
wouldn't be interested at all. They have zero top thirty
six fishes as a unit in the last month and
a half. Not going to do it. Travis Kelcey found

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the fountain of youth. Maybe Taylor has something to do
with it. Three stars for him. He's a tight end
three overall, six and a half targets per game. He's
also a known zone beater that mind meld with him
and Mahomes. Even if you don't get a ton of work,
you may get the PPR scam going and then Mahomes listen.
My note just says you can't sit the goat when
the chips are down. Like you mentioned, Corey, he's the

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man they need to win. There's not a player I'd
rather have. Again with his back against the wall, he
has six top five finishes in the last nine. Malmes
is running and just doing his things. So I don't
think they're gonna put forty in the board. But Mahomes
is gonna beat the center of all of it. So
I don't want to go down with my best pieces
on my bench.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
And you also mentioned the rushing. This is one of
the games. This is the time of the year where
you'll see Mahomes rushes start to pick up. So yeah,
definitely the Boogeyman.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
And then he'll limp to the line of scrimmage, right,
He'll make an athletic run and then limp. He'll look
like my uncle during the softball game, you know, after
maybe too many cold ones.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
But yeah, shout out to your uncle, still getting out
here in the ball. Paulk of Brooklyn, New York's Washington
at Minnesota Washington Brian anticipating getting back starting quarterback Jadon Daniels.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Yeah, Jada Daniels expected to make his return. Let's talk
about his receivers quick before we get into him, starting
with Terry McLaurin. I'm gonna give him two stars. Came
through in a really tough matchup in his return from
an injury last week fourteen targets for ninety six yards
and a touchdown. Granted there was overtime involved there, but
McLaurin did come through against Patrick Sartan. But another tough

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matchup here against the Vikings, who have surrendered one wide
receiver touchdown since Week nine. That was in Week nine,
and during that same span opposing wideouts as a whole
averaging just eight catches one hundred yards per game. Vikings
also on the lowest opponent passing play percentage at home
forty eight percent. Tough place to play in Minnesota. Their

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defense is good, don't don't get don't get it twisted there,
So just the two stars from McLaurin and also two
stars for Deebo Samuel. Again, Minnesota's defense is good, but
there's a small silver lining in their secondary. For Deebo,
Minnesota utilizes too high at the highest rate in the NFL,
and against too high Samuel has a twenty seven percent
target share and averages over two point five yards per

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route run. So Samuel could come through. And I'm only
showing confidence in both of these guys because Daniels Jade
and Daniels is back, so I'll show some confidence in
zach Ertz two stars for him. Minnesota is top twelve
in fantasy points per game allowed to tight end, so
Ertz startable here and lastly, so sorry to round out
the passing passing game, I will give Jade and Daniels

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three stars. He's not coming off a leg injury, you know,
not knee hamstring, it's the arm. So I think they
will design some runs for him, not a ton. They
don't want to get him hurt, but I think he
will utilize his legs here. So three stars for Daniels,
and I'll slap two stars on Chris Rodriguez at running back.
Over the last three weeks, Rodriguez has been Washington's lead back,

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especially when it counts. Seven of the eleven running back
red zone rushing attempts have gone to c rod who's
averaging fourteen touches over the last three and among all
running backs in the league, he ranks third in yards
after contact per attempt. In a decent matchup against the Vikings.
Over their last five games, Minnesota has allowed the twelfth
most rushing yards per game, the twelfth highest rushing success rate,

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and the third highest yards after contact per attempt.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
YEP, good stuff. As always, my man Brian Johnson. All right, Matt,
what's up with the Minnesota Vikings scoal?

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
Yeah, so I think for Minnesota we got to start
at the quarterback position. It really is what is driven
everything for Minnesota, both fantasy and real life performance. J. J.
McCarthy expected to return this week, and it would be
really easy to just say he's a one star play,
and he probably is a one star play. But that

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being said, I like to I like to keep a
positive outlook in life.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I just think it's a better way to live.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
And okay for fantasy purposes, and Mark, he's been okay.
He he had twenty one point two in his first start,
he had seventeen point nine against the Lions, sixteen point
seven against the Ravens, and now he's going up against
a Commander's defense that is dead last and past defense
EPA and has allowed the eighth most fantasy points per

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game to opposing quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Hey, he's been money when he has two weeks to prepare. Yeah,
he got more than two weeks for the season opener.
Then he had two weeks for yeah, and they always
had two weeks. So that's all he needs is an
extra week.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
Right, he's coming off his fourth by of the season,
so I'm gonna say he's a one star play. I
don't want to start him as my only quarterback, but
if I'm in the Super Flex League, I don't feel
the worst about having JJ McCarthy in that spot this week.
The bigger thing is I'm giving Justin Jefferson three stars.
That's where my real optimistic outlook is coming on this

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fight next offense. He has not been producing like the
Justin Jeffer that we know, but he is still getting
the targets thirty one percent target share for the year.
In his last four games with JJ McCarthy, he's at
thirty four percent, So the quality of those targets have
been poor, and I'm just really hoping that this matchup
against Washington is sort.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Of the tide that lifts all boats.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
Jordan Addison, unfortunately, does not get the same benefit of
the doubt. In my eyes, he just has not produced
in games with McCarthy under center, seventeen percent target share
six point two PPR points per game in his four
addings with McCarthy. I still think he's a good receiver,
and I still think he has some upside here, but
I would just prefer to go elsewhere if possible. TJ

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Hockinson one star tight end he is, He's just not
relevant at this point. He's being asked to do a
lot of blocking and as a result, he's not getting downfield.
Four point nine yard average depth of target even by
tight end standards. That's really bad. And then at running
back it's a straight committee, or at least it seems

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at the moment, Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones
is banged up at the moment, but he has been
limited in practice. He's been limited with a shoulder injury
for weeks. It hasn't been enough to keep him out
of the game, So I think most likely scenario Jones
and Mason split the work.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Two stars for both guys.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
It's just not very appealing either way.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Yep, good stuff as always, Matt, thanks a lot on
that info on the Minnesota Vikings listen, Minnesota and Washington
not really going to be a lot of fantasy firerooks,
but you might be able to find some hitting gyms
right there. Let's continue on and speaking of hidden gyms,
might have to find someone in this game as well.
Miami Dolphins travel up to New York to take on
the Jets. You know, old school AFC East rivals Miami.

(01:06:47):
John is anything that we can look at on the
Dolphins point of view, and John, you didn't get the
Jets this week, so you got to feel pretty good
about that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Yeah, anytime I could not pay attention to my favorite team,
I'll take that as a win. Miami's a three point favorite.
Throw rise. Jets defense getting a little bit of love
because Miami's only projecting for twenty two points. Obviously, A
Chain is one of the league winners this year. Four
stars start, you're starting no matter what. RB five overall,
second in yards you have to contact per tep behind JT.
He's second in running back catches behind CMC, and second

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in slot receiving yards behind Bijon. Pretty good company again,
Jets defense went up q doub They've actually stopped the
run pretty good over the last month, but they use
a lot of man press underneath, and they're not very
good at tackling in the second level, which should open
the door for Wattle to kind of re emerge as
a wide receiver one here. I think he's a three
star start. I did some historicals. This is normally our

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mister Johnson stat the verse opposition stat Wattle last five
verse the Jets. That goes back to twenty twenty three.
He's gone thirty two, four, forty seven and one. That's
nine targets a game for nearly seven catches and ninety
receiving yards. And again it's a very narrow target. Try
in Miami. I have a desperate dark horse play from

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Leak Washington just in case, but for me, it's wattle
and a chain. That's it. You could start Waller if
you really need to. He's like a soft two star,
maybe hard one star. He did run twenty routes. He
has five end zone targets in his five games, and
I think that's what you need. But it's pretty much
touchdown dependent to fourteen picks, twenty five sacks and a
low pass volume means thanks, but no thanks. Funny stat

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the Dolphins. Theyre rush rate by month thirty nine percent,
thirty nine percent, fifty seven percent. They are getting away
from the past. Expect a ton of a chain and
wattle on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Interesting stat. Right, they're breaking that one down, taking it
and taking the ball out of two his hands. I
guess you may have today gave him all that, Brad
a couple of years ago. Interesting I on the New
York Jets side of the football, Brian, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Actually some stuff to like here, Corey. Starting with Breece Hall,
I'm gonna give him three stars fourteen carries for eighty
one yards. These teams did meet in Week four. The
Dolphins won twenty seven to twenty one. In that one.
Hall added five catches for thirty yards in that game.
Didn't score. And speaking of not scoring, not many running
backs have scored against Miami since Week four, just four

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total touchdowns surrendered via ground and aired at running backs.
But Prieste has been balling out man, even on the Jets.
Here are the most fantasy points per game above expectation
above expectation among running backs. Jamier Gibbs plus six point six,
Jonathan Taylor plus six point three, James Cook plus three
point six, b Jon Robinson plus three point five, Devon

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a Chegin plus two point eight, and then Priess Halls
up next plus one point eight on the Jets. Hats
off to him, man, he's balling out, so you got
to start him almost regardless of matchup. They lean on
him heavily. More value in PPR, of course, but three
stars for Breese and two stars for a Donna Mitchell.
We was more like me. We're touting John Metchi last

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week when it should have been a Donna Mitchell, who
over the last three weeks as a Jet for forty
two first free targets. That's fourth among all wide receivers,
sixty two percent air yard share, that leads all wide
receivers of the NFL. Mitchell has zero point twenty seven
targets per route run in his career now, and that's
very good considering as one point eight three yards per

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route run. For context, there's only eight NFL wide receivers
with point twenty seven targets per route run or better
this year. That is Pukinakua, JSN, Drake London, I'm on Ross,
Saint Brown, Jamar Chase, Davante Adams, Cedee Lamb, and Nico Collins.
So pretty good company for a Donna Mitchell. There certainly
not in that tier of a receiver, but in startable tier.

(01:10:36):
At two stars, I'm gonna bench Metchi in this one.
Just one star. Can't recommend two Jets wide receivers. Cannot
recommend Mason Taylor at tight end either. Jeremy Ruckert again
Long Island Zone. A fan of the show or not
a fan. He's a friend of the show, we should say,
or we wish he was been seeing more snaps. So
one star for Taylor, but I will throw two stars

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on Tyrod Taylor. Decent day against Atlanta last week, a
passing touchdown, a rushing touchdown, much softer set up against
the Dolphins here. Over the last four games, Miami has
allowed this twelfth most passing yards per attempt and yards
per game and the second highest passer rating.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
You mentioned John MATCHI is should he be on waive hawaias.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
At this point? I would say yeah, this late in
the season, I think it's a Donna. Mitchell is the guy,
the guy you want.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Good stuff right there? All right? Final segment of the
program coming up at the last two games on the slate,
steel break. Final segment of a program coming up. We
got the last two games on the slate and was
in action. You know it's gonna be some defense. Talked
about what we may find a couple of plays for

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you guys that can help you get your Week fourteen
w right here. Fantasy Football Weekly Sorry, final pgment. Fantasy

(01:12:22):
Football Weekly Week fourteen edition. Want to thank everybody for
joining us rocking along with the all new Fantasy Football Weekend.
I'm Corey Parson and the Fantasy Executive, joined by Brian Johnson,
John Leguaza and introducing Matt Lamarca. Week fourteen, final week
of the Fantasy football regular season. Fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen

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are not guaranteed, but we're guaranteed to help you get there.
Let's hop right back into the slate. Denver Broncos travel
to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders. If you
do not notice, the Raiders at one point played in Oakland,
then they moved to Los Angeles, then they moved to
Las Vegas. Bottom line, one of the matter is this.
They are now in Vegas and they're hosting their division

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rivals this week, the Denver Broncos. Matt, my man, what's
going on with you? Break us down, give us some
information on the Denver Bronco.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
Yeah, we truly saved the best games for the last
segment here. These two teams have already met once this
season and it was a memorable ten to seven rock
fight in Denver, So hopefully heading to Sin City might
loosen things up a little bit, I've got RJ. Harvey
as the clear best player in this contest. He's a
three star guy for me. He has really sort of

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taken over the workload in the Broncos backfield since JK.
Dobbins went down with his injury. Sixty one percent of
the carries in Week eleven, sixty two percent last week,
including all of the short yardage and inside the five
yard line carries. He finished as the number two running
back in terms of PPR points last week. He's still

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not like a Belkow. He's gonna come off the field plenty.
Jalil McLoughlin is going to get in the mix, Tyler
Bady is going to be in there on passing downs.
But Harvey is really the only one that is providing
any sort of fantasy value at the moment. So he's
a three starguar guy for me. All the other backs

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are one star plays. Courtland Sutton nice bounce back week
for him in Week thirteen. He finished with seventeen point
two PPR points, but unfortunately the volume still was not there,
just a fifteen percent target share. It's now his fourth
his fourth straight game at eighteen percent or lower. So

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the split between him and Troy Franklin continues to sort
of become more of an even matchup. I'm gonna give
Sutton the edge here.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
I'm gonna break the rules.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
I'm giving him two and a half stars because I
didn't want to give him the same grade as Troy Franklin.
He's a little bit better, but both guys to are
our low end wide receiver three types. Troy Franklin, for
what it's worth, sixty seven percent route participation last week.
That is concerning. He continues to lose opportunities to Pat Bryant.

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So I don't feel great about Franklin's workload, but with
what we have seen in previous weeks, I've still got
him as a two star play. Pat Bryant's a one
star guy. Evan Ingram, you can add him to the
mix of sort of you know, high end tight end twos.
He's a two star type player. You could start him
if you need to. His contract has been an absolute disaster,

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but he has been more productive of late. He's coming
off a twenty two percent target share. Last week he
had thirteen point nine PPR points, So I don't hate
him in this matchup against the Raiders, and then Finally,
bon Nicks. I'm going to give him a very generous
three stars. Bo Nicks is just a complete wild card

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on a week to week basics. Sometimes he's going to
be a top five options. Sometimes he's going to fail
to crack the top twenty. The Raiders defense can certainly
be had overall. You look at Bonnicks and I think
he's QB twelve in terms of PPR points per game.
But it wouldn't shock me if he is more of
a top five type.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Option this week.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
So I'm gonna give him three stars, but it is
a generous three stars.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
I just want to throw something in. Sorry, sorry, Corey
about Pat Bryant real quick. He did pop up on
the injury report late this week with a hamstring not
he didn't suffer that last week, so he might he
might miss this game, not that we were starting. I'm
gonna Matt gave him the one stars, but maybe maybe
a little bit of a bump for the other receivers

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if Bryant does miss this game, because he has been
getting more involved recently. As Lamarca mentioned, I think like
targets of six and seven over the last two games.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
Definitely seeing a bump up in usage, John, when we
switch over to the other side and look at the
Las Vegas Raiders, everybody comes to Vegas has a good time.
I guess they used to it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Oh, this one's all about the duality of fantasy, Like,
could you be less interested in a team with a
sixteen and a half point team total? Well, you can
in fantasy when you get such a narrow opportunity tree
as you do with Vegas. Now again against the Broncos,
it's hard to get too excited. But you start who's
getting the ball, because you need the ball to score
fantasy points. Let's start at the top. Answering Jenny, I

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just have him as a perma three star player. He
just gets the ball too much to ever sit him.
Now they're throwing in the ball a ton as well,
six receptions minimum in each of the last three, which
you love. His eighty two percent of the team running
back touchload is third behind only John Taylor and Saquon Barkley.
So again, no matter what, you have to start him.

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The on line is missing two pieces. Not any good.
He only scored six fantasy points against his deadver team
week ten, also not any good. But it doesn't matter.
You have to start him out of one, but the
wide receivers there, I don't think I would start any
of them. Trey Tucker probably earns a star just because
he's run more than ninety four percent of the routes
on the year, five and a half targets per game

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the way pretty uninspiring one in a quarter yards per
route run and the entire wide receiver room has zero
top fifteen wide receiver finishes in more than two months.
Brought Bowers another part of that narrow tree trunk. He's
a four star player no matter what. He has two
number one overall positional finishes in the last five. He's
a top five tight end overall, and he missed three
games as a touchdown on the dog. He should be

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getting a clear focus Gino though, way too many picks
and he's really been one of the biggest talent dropoffs,
probably from a game film perspective. Doesn't mean the career
is over, but this year has been really disappointing. I
wouldn't start him one star at best because of the
Denver d They held Vegas again to just a touchdown
in Week ten, but their top three units across the board,

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they lead the entire League in yards allowed for play
and sacks, and when Gino it's been pushed off platform,
it's gotten pretty rough. No, that might not stop him
from completing twenty combined passes to Jenny and Bowers, But
other than that, I wouldn't touch anything in black and silver.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
This Sunday definitely going to be a tough one for
Las Vegas if you got to roll any of those
guys out on your fantasy lineups this week. All right,
let's get ready to head into our final game of
Week fourteen when it comes to breaking it down for
fantasy football purposes right here on Fantasy Football Weekly, and
it is the Tennessee Titans and the Cleveland Browns the

(01:19:33):
Shad Or Sanda Special. It seems like, boy, I feel
like if you're seeing Tennessee and Cleveland play every week,
or maybe just those offenser are so poor, it seems
like it's going down like that. All right, Brian, you
have the Tennessee Titans in this one right here.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
Yeah, what a way to close the show, Han Fellas,
This is a blockbuster of a game here between the
Titans and the Browns, starting with the Titans side. Not
a lot to love here. The song remains the same
in the back, essentially a fifty to fifty split between
Tony Pollard and Taj Spears. At least when it comes
to the snaps, Spears is getting more of the passing work.

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But there's really no good angle for either against the
Cleveland Browns run defense. When you hold Christian McCaffrey too,
and this was last week seventy four combo yards, you're
not liking either back for the Titans. So easy one
star rating for both Pollard, Taj Spears and the one

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star train. It's going to continue sadly with Lek a
Omannor and Shamira DK. I owe listeners and apology. I
was preaching the DK Titans defense stack in DFS. It
kind of DK almost ran one back but did nothing
in the past game, so that was a total disaster.

(01:20:56):
My apologies to you there. I was contemplating running back
that DK Titan stack again against the Bengals, because you
know Shaduda Sanders. That speaks for itself when it comes
to the Titans defense. But when it comes to wide
receivers against the Browns, just like it is against the
running backs, there's nothing good to be had against Cleveland,

(01:21:17):
not one. I'm sorry, just one lone wide receiver has
topped one hundred yards against the Browns all year. It's
going to be be bad weather. Can't trust cam Ward
as far as you could throw him. So one star
for Ao Mannor and Shamira a DK both both intriguing
dynasty stashes. And speaking of dynasty stashes, gunner Helm tight end.

(01:21:41):
He's been pushing chigokon Quo hard for playing time. He's
essentially taking more snaps, running more routes, seeing more targets
than chig who for all intensive purposes, he'll be gone
at the end of this season. So gunner Helm not
startable this week. But a guy you want to stash

(01:22:01):
if you're a Dynasty player out there, if he's available,
if you're in keeper leaks. He's gonna be the guy
moving forward in the future for Tennessee. And he's got
potential and he's flashing it already. But again, not starting Helm,
You're not starting cam Ward. I'm essentially just trying to
fill time here, fellas. When we're talking about the Tennessee Titans.
I might bet, I might bet the no touchdown for

(01:22:24):
for Tennessee in this one. Their best chance might be
might be chimiri DK running one back because there's gonna
be a lot of punting on both sides of the ball.
I won't I won't spoil I think I think Lamarca
has something better to say for on the Brown side, hopefully.

Speaker 5 (01:22:40):
I'm curious, Brian, what what kind of odds would you
need if I gave you Titans points versus Miles Garrett sacks?

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
Yeah? I like that man. I would take the sacks.
I think I could see Garret getting four sacks, three
and a half points. I'm not taking the over for
the Titans in this one.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
I saw with Brian. I'm taking the secks as well.
Go ahead and Matt bring us home.

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
So a little bit more optimistic on the Cleveland side,
and it's solely because of Quinn Shawn Judkins. He's really
the guy to get excited about in this matchup. He's
basically dominated the rushing usage since he signed his contract.
He's got seventy eight percent rushing share from week three on.
Dylan Sampson went down with an injury last week, and

(01:23:27):
Judkins saw a slight uptick as a pass catcher as well,
thirteen percent target share that was tied for his best
mark of the year. The matchup is also very good. Right,
the Browns are home favorites. You'll be shocked to know
that the Browns have only been home favorites in one
other game so far this season, and Judkins had eighty
four yards and three touchdowns against the Dolphins. I'm not

(01:23:49):
saying he's gonna do that to Tennessee, but whatever good
comes from the Cleveland offense in this game is probably
coming from Judkins. So he's a three star play for me.
The only other guy to consider in my opinion is
Harold Fannon. He's a two star guy.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:24:06):
In Shadear Sanders two starts, Fannon has a twenty seven
percent target share nine point nine PPR points per game
in those two outings. The way he's done it has
been kind of gross. Uh, It's a lot of just
really low value targets. He's got a two point seven
a dot in hit the two Shadar Standers starts, but
ten points are ten points. I'm giving him two stars,

(01:24:28):
and as my college degree will tell you, two point
zeros get degrees, So I think you can start him
if you have to. Everyone else in this game is
a one star play unless you are in a league
that awards points for Josina Anderson tweets you can't start
Shadear Sanders. None of the receivers are getting enough action

(01:24:49):
with Shadear under center. So I'm still like somewhat optimistic
about his long term out look. I don't think that
it's a it's going to be a a disaster for Cleveland.
I think he's got some potential, but right now we're
just not seeing it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
You don't think chadur is going to show the Tennessee
Titans why he should have been the number one overall pick.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Hold on, guys to that point, I guess it were
where I come in with these obscure, slash big man
injury reports because I do love the Judkins play. Brown's
gonna be missing White, Tayler and Jack Conkling, two of
the five pieces on the offensive line.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
All right, good stuff right there with all the analysis
getting ready to send you in the week fourteen, I
want to thank everybody for rock and rollers with us
right on Fantasy Football Weekly by iHeartRadio. I'm Corey Parson,
the Fantasy executive, Brian Johnson, John Leguezla, and Matt Lamarca.
Good luck in the week fourteen, and next week we'll
be back the Fantasy Football Playoff.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
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