Three Terrifying Questions

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now
here's your host, Paul Chargian. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly,
a Halloween edition. Even if you're listening to this after Halloween.

(00:22):
I am Paul Charchy, and my co hosts today are
Batman and I think that's Harry Potter over there, Scott
Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Happy, Hello, how's it going,
How's hello Church?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's me Batman.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I like, I like that. Batman. You have to use
you got to use your alternate voice so nobody can
recognize the real you. I mean, that's is just how
I talk.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's very gravelly, it is very you.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Gotta maybe had a late night last night, Batman. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
It was me, charged with me, it was Matt, Harry.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was you the whole time.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Matt, No way, I never.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Saw that coming. That's amazing, Batman.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean it is weird seeing Matt do a different
voice on this show, Like I just so unexpected.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It never happens never once ever. No, there's there's some
talk that we might have as a very special Halloween
guest later in this show, we'll find out.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm so if.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That materializes later on in this show, we're very excited
for that. Are you guys full size Halloween candy bar
people or are you mini size?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, my my wife keeps really good notes about how
many trigger treaters we've had each year, and we're down
to like fifteen to twenty trigger treaters now in our neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Our neighborhood's kind of aging out of it.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
So I think we're now to the point where full
sized candy bars are just kind of the way to go.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Our neighborhood's the exact opposite of Matt's in that we
get in absolutely ridiculous amount of trigger treaters. So we
have we have a giant pile of like it is
a it is like a knee level pile of candy.
Or if we were to do that with full sized
candy bar is like I would need to, you know,
find a couple of new jobs.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Uh, my situation exactly like Matt's aged out. You know,
we only get the doorbell rings like six times, that's it,
and you know, like two kids per that's all. So
we've been doing full size now what I've never done,
and I really should the full sized lion bar. As
many listeners know, the Lion bar is a FFW favorite

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for Matt Harrison, Scott Fish and myself. It is the
combination of a crunch bar and a KitKat.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
And there's some carmel thrown in there.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, with some caramel in it. Oh yeah, a little TwixT,
yeah twix, A kit cat and a crunch bar all
mixed together.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's the Lion Bart.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Fantastic, fantastic, I love it. Lion bar is one of
the elites that's a going yeah, very nuts and there's
the Lion right there.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Man.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's too bad the Lions aren't the first matchup. That
would have been a great segue.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
That would have been a great segue. We should have
planned this out a little bit better. I've been And
part of the reason I'm doing the full sized candy
bars is because for a couple of years in a row,
I would trick kids by This is when we had
a lot of kids coming to the door periodically, and
especially for older kids, I would trick them by palming

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a rock and I would give them the regular candy
bar and then I'd slip the rock in and they'd
feel the way to the rock hit their bag and
they'd be like, oh, that's awesome, thank you mister. But
I had secretly slipped them a rock, and that's putting
me if you get that's right.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'm really surprised that didn't end up in your window.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, exactly. And that's when I stopped doing it, when
somebody threw it back at the house because I did
it to some teenager who pieced it together fast, and
that was and then I'm like, you know what, I
got to make amends with the full sized candy bar,
so I did.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
After that.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
All right, let's jump into Fantasy Football Weekly proper.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
Here.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
We've got three tough questions later in the show, nine
players upon whom you can take a chance premature speculation.
We begin our matchups Scott with the Falcons taking on
the Patriots. It was an abject nightmare for Bejon Robinson
last week and now he faces one of the best
run defenses in the league.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah absolutely. And by the way, no such thing as
a Falcon bar to my knowledge. No good there except
for to talk about Robins. Bejon. That's a mustard. I mean,
we can stay in the food category. Uh yeah, second
most receptions and sixth most receiving yards, second fewest attempts,
yard scores, and rushing allowed to opposing running backs for

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the Patriots. It's a good spot for Bejeon Robinson. So
I got an a grade on Bjeon Robinson. By the way, sorry,
that's in the receiving on the receiving side. On the
rushing side, the Pats are the first team since nineteen
fifty to not allow a single running back over fifty
rushing yards in a game but one hundred and twenty
two total. Warren had ninety total, Kamar had seventy six.

(05:17):
On the receiving side, excuse me, is way that where
it's a really really good matchup for Bijon Robinson and
he's one of the better backs that they will have faced,
if not the best back they have faced. So I
still have an eight grade on him. Tyler Algier, I'm
throwing on the bench. He only got four touches last
week after being limited most of the week. He did
get you that score which saved my take a chance

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on me all from last week. He did get that score,
but he was limited all week again and once again
they don't allow a lot of rushing yards and the
receiving yards are going to come from Bijon, So I
have Tyler Algier on the bench. The passing game, Michael
Pennix was taking the snaps this week. He has been
limited though where still. I'll not sure at this point

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who's going to be the starter. But the Patriots since
Christian Gonzace came back, are only allowing one hundred and
ninety six yards and one point three scores per game
to opposing quarterbacks. So I'm just gonna throw the quarterback
on the bench. Whichever one it is, probably Panics, but
I'm just gonna throw him on the bench. It's not
a great spot form. Drake Lindon is going to get
a B grade. He was a late scratch last week.

(06:23):
He's looks like he's gonna play this week. He was
a little limited in practice, as was Darnell Mooney and
Kyle Pitts and Tyler Lger and everybody for the Falcons
were limited in practice this week. The game script in
this one, the way to get to the Pats, excuse me,
is through the air. They've allowed twenty eight explosive plays,

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which is fourth most London averages over ten targets per
game to the tune of six for seventy eight per week,
and he's been over double digit PPR points in almost
every single game this year. He will see a lot
of Christian Gonzales who's allowing thirty five scoreless yards in coverage.
But Drake London does move side to side. If it's
not a shadow, he might be able to get around it.

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And a couple of wide receivers did okay yards wise
at least, So I'm giving a Drake London a B.
Kyle Pitts Senior is the only other one I'm going
to talk about, mostly because Darnell Mooney laid a complete
egg even with London out last week. So Kyle Pitts
Senior thirty percent target share over the last two weeks.
Remember London was out last week, but he had that

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the week before as well. Nineteen targets over the last
two weeks, thirteen plus fantasy points in three of his
last four and this is a bottom five matchup for
tight ends fourth easiest to be exact, allowing the fourth
most receptions and sixth most yards to the position. The
Browns duo just destroyed them. So B grade for Kyle Pitts.
On the other side, Drake May is getting a bee.

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Last week, TUA went off on this Falcon's past that
was like ranked top two in a ton of categories
after only giving up seven passing scores all the year.
But if you look at it, Josh Allen had two scores,
Mayfield had three scores. They've given up okay days to
the good quarterbacks. And I consider Drake May one of
the better courterd yes, so he has four games of

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multiple scores. I'm gonna give the B grade to Drake May.
By the way, Drake May league leader in catchable ball
rate at eighty three percent.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Mean when he casses ball, it's very catchable for his receivers.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm giving I'm giving Kayshawan Boody and Stefan Diggs your
Kayshawn Booty. I should say, Paul, You've think you your
Booty uh C grades for both of them.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
And he profiles closer to the wide receivers who have
done well against the Falcons. And Booty's had fifty five
plus yards in three straight uh and he's had six
plus in all three of those. He's giving the volume
and uh, I just trust in Drake May to get
him the ball. To a C grade. Traveon Henderson is
my only other starting grade. Matt Kellens has a bench

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and Hunter Henry. This Atlanta is just a top D
against fantasy tight ends. But Trevion Henderson with Ramandri Stevenson
out last week, he only got fourteen steps. He got
ten touches. He took his two carries that game for
twelve yards and eighteen yards. He has shown that explosiveness
and now he's looking at a fifteen to twenty touch
potential game. Atlanta has been a little more susceptible to

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the pass, but running backs are averaging about one hundred
and fifty seven yards per game and a score against
the Falcons, and leading backs are averaging one hundred and
two yards. As six point favorites for New England, they
might run the ball a bunch more So. I'm given
Trevion Henderson a C grade only because he's been so
inefficient and you need to keep an eye on Carell Jennings,

(09:42):
who's gotten snaps. At the end of the last two games.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know, Darnold Moody back to him for just a second.
You mentioned the Patriots giving up the third or fourth
most explosive plays.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Or fourth most, but I will note of their twenty
eight explosive plays, thirteen came in the first two weeks.
They've only had fifteen since Christian gonzaz got back.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, Okay, just a lot, yeah, I think for
a lot of us that pivoted to Darnel Mooney last
week at the last minute when Drake London got ruled
out and then we got nothing from Mooney. You know
what's going to happen here, Scott, Oh, yeah, he's going
to go berserk this week.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's gonna get the one. But if you want to throw,
I have a bench grade. But if you want to
throw the dart throw, I get.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
It, all right. I think he's in dart throw territory.
I kind of like money in this one. Let's go
over to the Broncos taking on the Texans. There we go,
there's our dark. This matchup features Broncos Texans arguably the
two best pass defenses in the league. They rank first
and fourth in Fantasy points allowed to opposing quarterbacks. They
rank first and third in passing touchdowns allowed. So there's

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not a lot to like here. In the passing game.
Troy Franklin, it's going to be tempting to chase the
last couple of box scores because he was playing terrible
teams and he ended up doing really well. It's the
other end of the spectrum. This week against Houston, were
allowing the third fewest Fantasy points to receivers, and you
might be tempted to think that Marvin and mims concussion
will provide more opportunities for Franklin, but last week it

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was rookie Pap Bryant who got the extra run in
MIM's absence. I can only get you to a C
grade here, and I prefer you don't play Franklin at all.
That brings us to Courtland Sutton. This is probably the
toughest matchup of the year for him. You guys know,
I always like Courtland Sutton, but his usage is dropping
off as Franklin's is expanding, and he's kind of in
this nether zone right now, Houston. We like Sutton for touchdowns.

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Houston's only allowed three all year. Only Jackson Smith and
Jigmann Pukinakua, arguably the two best receivers in the league,
are the two best hottest receivers in the league have
topped fifty six yards against the Texans. Everybody else is
under fifty six. That's not good. Big body, physical receivers
like Courtland Sutton have done almost nothing against Houston. Juan

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Jennings just posted forty five scoreless yards last week. Earlier
in the year, Mike Evans fifty six scoreless yards. So
you can't just bully your way to fantasy points Courtland Sutton.
Just to see grade. I mentioned Marvin mims Is in
the concussion protocol. Let's not start him and Evan Ingram
in the passing game. Texans also great against Titans. George

(12:11):
Kittles scored last week, but prior to the Niners game,
Houston hadn't allowed a touchdown since opening week to a
tight end non Kittle. Starting tight ends are averaging three
catches for eighteen yards against Houston. And I've mentioned this
before and we've touched it on Evan Ingram. He's averaging
three and a half yards per catch. You just can't

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fill a box score that way. Bench grade on Evan Ingram.
That brings us to the bonus.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
He's been so bad you need to sign a forty
one year old veteran tight end.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Well, exactly. That's a bad sign right there for bo Nicks.
It's been easy these past couple of weeks against the
Cowboys and Giants. This is a totally different test, and
I prefer you don't have to start him here, as
I've already illuminated. The Texans are a great pass defense,
and Nicks still isn't running much, which is very frustrating.
He's averaging just three and a half carries per game

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over the last month. Most of those are scrambles, very
few designed runs for bow Nicks, and the Texans are
a lead against rushing quarterbacks, giving up the second fewest
quarterback rushing yards just twelve per game. C Grade on
bow Knicks, and that brings us to the running game. JK. Dobbins.
The way you beat the Texans is on the ground.
They're a solid run defense, but not nearly as good

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as they are in pass defense. In Houston's losses, they're
seeing ten more rushes than wins. So I do believe
that there's gonna be a sustained rushing attack here from Dobbins.
If Denver's gonna win and run the ball, say twenty
four times, that's what that's what teams do that are
averaging that beat that end up beating Houston. Dobbins will

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get most of those twenty four carries. Houston is a
good run defense. As I mentioned, they shut down Christian
McCaffrey last week, but they had allowed rushing touchdowns in
five of the previous six games. CE grade for JK. Dobbins.
Do not chase R. J. Harvey's three touchdowns from last week.
That was super fluky. It was eight by a terrible
Dallas defense, and a lot of it was in garbage time.
Not all of it, but most of it. He is

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on the bench in this one Texan side.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
C J.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Stroud coming out a rare, really good fantasy game, but
his only good games have come against hobbled defenses that
are missing multiple starters. Now, granted, the Broncos are going
to be missing Patri Tartan, which is significance, but Denver
is still an elite pass defense and they've got a
great pass rush and it's an epic mismatch against a
terrible Houston offensive line. The Broncos ranked fifth in time

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to pressure.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
CJ.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Stroud is going to be harried throughout this game, and
I don't see him getting deep passes that create fantasy scores.
Just a se grade for him. Nico Collins cleared the
concussion protocol early in the week and he gets dated
a lot by Patrick Stanapping on the field, so that
will certainly help. But the fascinating matchup is going to
be Nico Collins against Riley Moss. He is the other cornerback.

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He is the most targeted cornerback in the league because
nobody wants to throw at Patrick Surtan, but also Moss.
Despite being the most targeted player in the league, only
forty five percent of passes in Riley Moss's coverage are
getting completed. He's been very good, so it's just a
mixed bag here for Collins. He's an elite player in

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a tricky matchup. Just to be grade for him. All
the other receivers Christian Kirk, Jalen Nowel, Xavier Hutchinson, Jayden Reed,
Braxon Burios on the bench, do not be tempted to
think that you can start them despite Patrick Startan being out.
And lastly, with the last part of the passing game,
Dalton Scheltz has got knee and shoulder injuries and he's
unreliable anyway, So he's out here. We're not going to

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start him either. Bench grade Nick Chubb. The Texans best
best pass to the victory is on the ground, so CJ.
Stroud doesn't get killed in the pocket. But this is
also a tough matchup. Only Jonathan Taylor's top seventy yards
against the Broncos, and increasingly Chubb is giving up time
to Woodie Marx who had the same number of snaps
as Chubb last week. Denver ranks fourth in yards before contact,

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fifth and yards per care. Very very tough matchup. Just
to see grade for and I don't know that reference,
but okay, story, I'm pretty sure. Oh it's Woody Marks.
Nice all right, nicely done, Thank you, Robbie, well done.
Uh he's playable in PPR thanks to his surging number
of routes run for Woody Marks seventeen and thirty two

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routes run in the last two weeks, which is great.
Denver doesn't have many defensive weaknesses, but running back receptions
is one of them. Three different opposing backs of top
fifty receiving yards and three of scard touchdowns C grade
for Woody Marks. When we come back, take a chance
on me We'll give you nine players upon whom you
can take a chance. Many of these guys available on

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the waiver wire. Find out who they are when we
come back to a Halloween edition a Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Welcome back. Take a chance on me nine players you
would not normally start. Many of these guys available on
the waiver wire. We begin at the quarterback position and
Matt Harrison, who you got?

Speaker 4 (17:36):
I got Geno Smith. This week he finally gets all
his weapons back, mainly Brock Bauers returns. He hasn't really
been healthy since Week one. Jacoby Myers is also a
full participant in practice. They even signed his old friend
Tyler Lockett to be a depth wide receiver. The matchup
is also fantastic. The Jags have already given up fifteen
passing scores in seven games, and in the last four games,

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the Jaguars have given up a pretty good game to
every quarterback They've faced five touchdown passes to Matthew Stafford.
In Week seven, Darnold finished with two ninety five and
two mahomes with three eighteen and one and the rare
Brock Purty sighting way back in week four, he had
three h nine and two so Gino Smith, fire him up.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I can't believe you just sold me on Gino Smith,
but you kind of did. That's that's remarkable, Scott Fish.
You take a chance at me quarterback.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
I'm going with Jackson Dart. As I mentioned last week,
with the forty nine ers facing C. J. Stroud, who
showed out last week, the forty nine ers get absolutely
no pressure. They are bottom two in sacks, Hurry's QB,
knockdowns and pressure rate. Stroud went for three hundred and
eighteen and two scores added thirty on the ground. Jackson
Dart only has one game over two hundred and two

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passing yards. That's two hundred and two is as high,
but he scored on the ground in four out to five,
and he has at least one passing score in five
straight without Scatterbo. He might need to lean on the
pass and throw a little bit more. And the forty
nine ers are missing players at every level of the defense.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'm going with Aaron Rodgers. I did not realize this
until this until I looked it up this week. Aaron
Rodgers is third in passing touchdowns this year. Aaron Rodgers
just he's one behind. He's one behind Matthew Stafford and
Patrick Mahomes for the league lead in touchdown passes.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
He was second going into West six game.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, kept crazy. I mean even if you thought Rogers
wasn't cooked going into this year, I don't think anybody
saw elite level fantasy production coming. And he goes up
against the Colts. The one thing that isn't working for
the Colts is their secondary. Two starting cornerbacks are on
ir and because the Colts are always leading, the game
script is constantly tilted against the Colts secondary and as

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a result, over the past five weeks, the Colts rank
dead last and passing yardage allowed at three hundred and
twenty yards per game. Aaron Rodgers sitting out a very
nice game, and if I were to give him a
letter grade, it would be an A let's go to
the running back position, Matt Harrison, who you got?

Speaker 4 (20:03):
You know, I don't want to peacock myself too much,
but I kind of nailed these.

Speaker 7 (20:07):
Take a chance on these last week with black Oi,
Vad David and Froy Franklin, and I'm feeling pretty talking
about Emanuel Wilson this week for the Packers. Josh Jacobs
has been great this year, but if you watch Sunday
night's game, you can tell he's not at one hundred
percent right now. In fact, he was limited this week
with a calf injury. But who did pass the eye test?
It was Emmanuel Wilson. He had fourteen touches. Three of

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those were receptions, by the way, eighty seven combo yards.
Jacobs had sixteen touches in that game, so it was
pretty close. The Packers have aspirations to play in February,
they're gonna need to take some mileage off of Jacobs
along the way. And while Carolina looks like a middle
of the pack run defense on paper, they're allowing four
point nine yards per carry, the eleventh most drusting yards,

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and the twelfth most receptions to opposing backs.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Scott, your take a chance with me running back?

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, it's a shame Halloween weekend that we don't get
to start Cam Scatt Boo a great But we do
get to start Tyrone Tracy Junior. From Week eight on
last week, he topped sixty yards in all but one game,
scored five times, had a couple hundred yard games, and
after the week eleven bye, he caught four passes per game.

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College wide receiver, capable pass catcher, going against the defense
that's allowed the fourth most receptions to backs and our
bottom ten overall against running backs. That's the San Francisco
forty nine ers. They also allowed the sixth most carries
and tenth most yards to backs. So a really good
spot for Tyrone Tracy Tyrone Tracy.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, it is too bad we don't get more Cam
Skataboo because he was on pace to be about as
fun a failure.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Maybe this is a New York Giants win one for
Skataboo weekend.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
I like it. I'm going with Kyle Manungai, the Bear
starter in the Last Man Standing Dean Swift Roshan Johnson
ruled out of this game. He's going up against the Bengals.
They're allowing the most rushing yards to opposing runners one
hundred thirty two per game, and Kyle mnunguy might get
all one hundred and thirty two. That is thirteen more
rushing yards than the second worst team, to give you

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some context on that. Not only that, Cincinnati also allowing
fourth most receiving yards to runners, and Manangay can catch
a little bit. He's also had carries inside the five
yard lining consecutive game, so he gets the goal line
used to It is a smash spot for Kyle mcnungui,
who I believe is an A grade this week against Tennessee.
I'm sorry, Cincinnati. All right, let's go to our receivers,

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beginning with a tight end for Matt Harrison.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, stand with the same team Bears tight end ghost
in Loveland. Ooh spooky nice. Cole Kmet came off the
injury report on Friday, but he's limited all week with
a back injury and that caused him to miss last week,
so he's definitely not one hundred percent. And Week eight
Loveland had every single one of the tight end targets

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for the Bears. The Bengals are the worst tight end
defense in the land buy a lot, second, most receptions,
most yards, and touchdowns allowed ten tight ends scores already
this year, but in the last four games they've given
up eight. That includes one to Mason Taylor last week,
four to the Steelers tight ends the week before, one

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to Tucker Craft the week before that, and both Sam
Laporta and brock Wright scored for the Lions the week
before that. Backup tight ends getting it done. I think
Colston Lovelin's on another touchdown call for me in this game.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
He's getting right.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
When Cole Kmets scores three times, we'll look back at
this one.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
But Colston Lovelin, I's gonna get one, all.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Right, Scott Fish here, take a chance for me, receiver.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, I'm sticking to the tight end position with THEO
Johnson in New York once again, Daniel Bellinger hurt going
to be out. The last two weeks, THEO Johnson's had
a ninety seven percent route protesipant participation. He's averaging five
for twenty seven on the year. But Bellinger had been
soaking up a bunch of yards and catches that he
will not get in this one. Six of the last

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eight starting tight ends against the forty nine ers went
forty plus und or a scorer and fifty plus in
two of the last three, Bellinger, excuse me. Johnson has
scored four touchdowns this year, all four in the last
five and a half games with Jackson Dart.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Wow, you've sold.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I just moved him.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I moved. I just moved him in my rankings. That
is how much I respect your THEO Johnson call. Right there,
My final take a chance with me. Player is Trey Tucker,
Raiders receiver going up against Jacksonville. Matt already built a
fantastic case for Gino Smith failed to mention Trey Tucker.
You may remember Trey Tucker from such games as the

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Week three explosion against the Commanders for three touchdowns one
hundred and forty five yards. Now we don't know what's
going out with Jacoby Myers. That's an X factor, but
doesn't really affect Trey Tucker because he's an outside, starting
wide receiver no matter what Myers does, and he's going
to be able to avoid the only good cornerback that
the Jacksonville Jag Jordan Lewis, because he's a slot guy.
In stead, he'll face Pro football focuses ninety sixth and

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ninetieth ranked cornerbacks on the outside. Greg Newsom something called Montarics.
Brown Jackson was a little the seven most fantasy points
two wide receivers. Let's try Trey Tucker all right. Back
to the matchups. We go over to Matt Harrison Panthers
take on the Packers and Matt at running back. We

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have a new announced starter in Rico Dowdall, and now
back is the full time lead back. I'm pretty intrigued
by this matchup against a good run defense in the
Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
I don't feel the same way because I don't believe
what's happening in Carolina. Dave Canalis said that the Dowdler
has been exceptional, but he also said that he hadn't
really talked to Chewba Hubbard about taking a lesser role,
and clearly Hubbard who's had fifty seven percent of the
snaps last week to Dowdell's third.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I think the.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Good news of this whole thing is you leave both
of them on the bench in this game against a
Packers run defense that's one of the best in the
league against the run, their top five and running back touches,
combo yards and touchdowns allowed to the running back position.
They've only allowed two scores to running backs all year
and ninety four combo yards per game. That even if
Dowdell gets sixty percent of that, we're looking at like

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fifty eight yards for Dowdell. No, I'm not doing it,
so I'm leaving both of them on the bench. On
the passing side, Bryce Young practiced in full and Andy
Dalton didn't practice, so it's pretty safe to say Young
will start again. Young gets a B grade. It's pretty
tough to run on Green Bay, so we'll mostly rest
on Young generating the offense. And five of the last

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six quarterbacks to face the pack have had multiple touchdown passes.
Given Teteroa McMillan a B grade as well. I think
most would say the Packers' biggest defensive weakness is their corners.
They've allowed some pretty decent days to the wide receiver position.
DK met Calf had a nice day last week, Jamar
Chase ten for ninety four and one two weeks ago,
George Pickens eight for one, thirty four and two the

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week before that. These are lead receivers in just the
last four games. So if you see the Packers building
themselves a big lead game, script should be in favor
of McMillan seeing a ton of targets in the second half.
You're not going as far as Xavier Lagett, who missed
practice with an illness, or Jalen Coker though, and the
matchup would be super good for Jatavian Sanders, but they
just don't throw the ball to tight ends at all.

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He's only seen five targets in the last two weeks,
so he's on the bench too. I wish I could
say start him, though. Over on the Packers side, it's
pretty easy. Josh Jacobs, He's an A grade. He's scored
in fifteen of his last sixteen. I'd say James Cook
is pretty stylistically similar to Josh Jacobs in many ways.
He had two hundred and sixteen yards and two touchdowns
against this team last week, and Emmanuel Wilson was might

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take a chance on me. Runner Tucker Kraft he gets
an A grade as well. The path to pass against
the Panthers, which is very hard to say, is max
and tight ends, and Kraft happens to be a tight end.
Carolina has allowed the fifth most receiving yards to the
tight end position this year. Top tier tight ends have
represented well. Trey McBride had seventy eight yards, Jake Ferguson

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scored a touchdown. Waller had seventy eight and a score.
He's not even top tier anymore. Jordan Love gets a
B grade. It's not an A because the Packers might
not need to pass all that much to win. But
of the last five quarterbacks to face the Panthers, four
of them have recorded three touchdowns if you combine rushing
and passing scores. The only one that didn't was the Jets,

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and they went Havezi's at quarterback that game, so it
was pretty bad there. Finally, the wide receivers, that's a mess.
We'll talk about this a little bit later in the show.
Romeo Dobbs is on the field for eighty percent of
the snaps. He's led the team in wide receiver targets
for five straight weeks. There's a lot of other guys.
We're going to talk a lot about it later, but

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if you have to start one, it's Dobbs.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
But I think i'd them all on the bench.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
The Panthers have been very good against the wide receivers
this year, top five in receptions, yards, and touchdowns allowed
to the position.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Panthers outside cornerbacks young talented Jackson and Horn. That is,
they're building a little something there in Carolina, especially on defense.
Let's go over to the Bears Bengals. This one won't
take a lot of time thanks to some injuries DeAndre
Swift and Roshan Johnson ruled out Kyle Manungai. I just
told you was might take a chance on me running
back with an A grade. Let's go over to the

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passing game Roma Dunes. That remains the focal point of
the Bear's passing offense. He has topped a twenty percent
target share in six of seven games. He is wide
receiver eight in air yards there. He is right there,
and we love deep completions because that phills box scores.
That's what we're looking for. Bengals terrible against runners and

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tight ends, but pretty competent against wide receivers. Maybe so
bad at the other stuff. No opposing receiver has topped
one hundred yards against the Bengals, and only I'm on
Rock Saint Brown has top five catches against the Bengals,
which sounds odd. I mean, it feels like the terrible
at everything, this is the one thing they're okay at.
So we're gonna go B grade on Roma Dunes. DJ
Moore has only scored one time all year, and he's

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only managed three or four receptions in every game but one.
And there just isn't any upside with Dj Moore like
we used to get, and non number one receivers against
the Bengals are putting up just lackluster numbers. He does
have a little bit of upside when he faces off
against gambling cornerback Cam Taylor Britt, who's willing to trade

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interceptions for touchdowns, but Moore remains just a C grade
on his usage, which is just middling. Colson Loveland was
Matt Harrison's take a chance with me tight end because
this is we are looking at a borderline historically bad
tight end defense in the Bengals. Cole Kamet also potentially startable.

(30:53):
We'll give us C grades to both of those players
because of the magnitude of the opportunity that Matt outlined earlier.
Olamedia's a chaus one of my favorite sleepers, and I
strongly considered him for taking a chance on me coming
off of a season high seven targets last week because
Luthor Burden had a concussion and this week Luthor Burden
has been ruled out, so once again I expect a

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lot of usage for him, and his particular matchup is
up again slot cornerback Dax Hill. Hill has allowed four
touchdowns in his coverage already that is tied for the
most in the entire league, So a nice matchup here.
And if you're looking for a streamer wide receiver, Olamid
he's a chaus. I was tempted to give him a
B grade, but Matt convinced me that the whole thing

(31:36):
is crazy and I should really consider a bench grade.
But instead I'll split the difference and go see grade.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
It is absolutely nuts.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Charge Caleb Williams needs a bounce back game desperately, and
he'll probably get it here. The Bengals secondary is mediocre.
They've been rocked for the second most passing touchdowns every
opposing quarterback has scored against the Bengals. Missing those two
running backs, there's probably a few extra passes for Caleb
Williams and a B grade in this one Bengal side,
there's Chase Brown has been revitalized since Joe Flacco took over.

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He has posted his two best yardage days in two
of the three games Flacco has started. He scored twice
last week. Bears run defense has gotten a lot better
since Week four. They're only giving up three and a
half yards per carry. Their rank ninth in run defense
EPA over the last month, third in fewest misstackles. Only
one back his top seventeen receiving yards against Chicago, and

(32:32):
Chase Brown's usually good to chip in that way, he
might not hear either, So just to c grade on
Chase Brown, then let's start with the obvious Cincinnati receiver
to talk about, and that's andre Josevash. The Bears give
up the highest percentage of fantasy points to opposing slot receivers,

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and slot cornerback Kyler Gordon is on ir and Gordon's replacement,
Nick McCloud, is allowing an eighty eight percent catch rate
in his coverage and a touchdown every seven completions in
his coverage. Andre Joseavash ce grade Chase, Yes, you like that,

(33:14):
but all right, we're gonna play the slot slot matchups
in this one. You prefer Yoshabash?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Uh, Jamar Chase obvious A grade against the defense missing
potentially all three starting cornerbacks were still checking in on
Tyreek Stevenson. He's been targeted forty two times in the
last two games, which is an NFL record. You guys,
happen to know who the previous NFL record holder was
for four games targets in consecutive games.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
No clue, Cooper Cup.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe good guests with Cooper Cup Brandon Marshall, who had
a twenty eight target game in two thousand and nine,
twenty eight targets in one game. Insane. Remember that, yes,
Jamart Pace obviously grad T Higgins also a great start here.
Bears are going to be missing two, if not three,

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starting cornerbacks and Higgans only had one target last week,
which will happen when Chase gets twenty targets. But obviously
that's gonna even out here at least some and a
B grade for T Higgins against a battered defense. And
then lastly, Joe Flacco, we're gonna have to follow his
shoulder injury and bake into this B grade. You're gonna
get that he may not finish the game. If you

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assured me he would, I would go a grade here.
Flacco has been Fantasy quarterback six and quarterback seven the
last two weeks. He was averaging out with Cleveland as
cornerback twenty eight. That's how much an improvement we have
seen with Joe Flacco. So I like him here. Just
worry that maybe he gets you know, he gets sacked,
he lands on that shoulder, and that might be the

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end of the game for Joe Flacco, assuming he starts
to begin with. We'll monitor that one on Sunday all right.
That wraps up this segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. We'll
be back in moments with more, including forty nine Ers
taking on the Giants. Christian McCaffrey, coming out his worst
game of the year, will track down whether or not
he goes right back ball. He'll go back into starting lineups.

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But what is our outlook for Christian McCaffrey When we
return after this Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi
and Matt Harrison Scott fish with you. It is a

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Halloween addition, and we've got three frighteningly good matchups for you,
beginning with the forty nine ers taking on the Giants. Scott,
it was a rare dud game for Christian McCaffrey. Last week.
Is the is the is the bounce back. As obvious
as it sounds against the Giants.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
It should, last week does make you realize he's not
always automatic, but I still give him an a Last
week I cautioned to temper expectations too, But this week
he's getting a Giants team that has allowed twenty plus
yard rushing plays, the most twenty plus yard rushing plays
and the second most forty plus yard rushing plays. We
just saw Barkley hit a sixty four yard last week.

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The Giants allow over six yards per carry, which is
worse than the league allow the fourth most combo yards
to backs. Great spot for christ McCaffrey. Over to the
passing side, I got a B grade on mac Jones.
He's had three couple three hundred yard games, couple multiple
score games, and this is one of his better matchups.
The Giants allowing the seventh most passing yards to opposing

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passers and multiple scores to three straight. The Giants secondary
will be without Cordell Flott, Pulsonnedebo, and safety Jevon Holland,
so three of their four starters in the back of
that secondary are out. So B grade for mac Jones
Because of that. Kendrick Bourne and Juwan Jennings are both
getting C grades. I know the stats haven't been there

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for them, but the Giants allow the second most receptions
and the most yards to wide receivers. And I just
mentioned all those injuries. I know Bourne disappeared last week.
He should get a little more this week. Juwan Jennings
five broken ribs, shoulder injury, ankle, sprain's CAF strain running
a ton of routes hasn't has only top forty five
yards once this season, but again, such a great matchup.

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George Kittle is gonna get a B grade here. Giants
are middle of the road against tight ends, but some
of the better tight ends like Goddard had two scores
last week, Ingram had five for forty two. Goddard a
few weeks ago had one hundred and ten in a score.
Jake Ferguson had a big day Art scored. Good tight
ends have found their way against this defense. So I'm
giving George Kittle a B grade over to the Giant

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side Jackson, Dart, Tyrone, Tracy and Theo Johnson, where I
take to take a chance on many players, and that
leaves me with just one more starting grade for the Giants.
It's not Darius Slayton, who had a huge score called
back last week. He got targets, but the production just
hasn't been there, and he's getting the toughest matchup against
Diamadar Lenore. It's Wandel Robinson. He plays ninety percent of

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the snaps. Great matchup in the slot against the forty
nine ers d allowing the fourth most receptions and twelfth
most yards to wide receivers. Slayton can be kind of
a dart throat. That's about it, all, right, Let's go.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Over to Colts Steelers. Matt the Colts surging offense gets
to face an absolutely slumping defense in the Steelers. I
think there's gonna be plenty of opportunities here.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
Yeah, there's four A grades. Jonathan Taylor is one. We
don't really need to talk about him. Daniel Jones is two.
Dimess had multiple passing scores and allowing the fifth most
passing yards of this season. Tyler Warren a grade number three.
Tucker Craft just torched the Steelers defense for seven to
one forty three and two last week and war one

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of two or three other tight ends in the league
right now who can do that kind of thing. And
then Michael Pittman's another A grade. Remember when the Darius
sleigh ride was a bad thing. Yeah, it's a rating
of one thirty five in his coverage. So Pittman gets.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
A sleigh ride and it's wee a slay ride.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
I usually don't mess with Alec Pierce or Josh Downs,
but I think you can fire up both of the
C grade Downs practiced in full should be all systems
go and the Steelers have allowed the third most receptions
in the sixth most yards to wide receivers this year.
It's much easier to pass on them than run. Aaron
Rodgers was charged to take a chance on me quarterback,
and DK metcalf is his favorite target. Scored in five

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of the last six games, and charts already highlighted that
the Colts pass defense gives up a ton of points.
They've allowed the most receptions, third most yards, and eighth
most touchdowns to wide receiver positions twelve different wide receivers
if it double digit PPR points. Because of that, I
think you can throw a dart at both Calvin Austin
and Roman Wilson this week. The matchup is great and

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I think one or both can limp to ten PPR points.
The tight ends I gave all three starting grades last
week and they failed me out of nowhere. John Ujanu
had the most snaps, but Big Oh and Pat were
involved about half the snaps. Two great matchup. The Colts
allowed the fourth most receptions and second most yards to
tight ends, but they're splitting everything and it's a guessing game.

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So my Steelers' ranking of tight ends is Friarmouth than
John New than Washington this week, but I prefer to
bench them all and then Jalen Warren. He's definitely the
lead back out touched Kenny Gangwell sixteen to seven last
week and twenty to five the week before. Colts are
top eleven and combo yards and touchdowns allowed to opposing backs,
though mostly because they've been playing with huge leads all season,

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so a SEA.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Grade on Warren.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Just About every top running back is at least limped
to fifteen ish PPR points against the Colts this year,
so that's a C grade for me.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Warren has looked really good to my eyes. He looks
like the best version of Jalen Warren we've seen throughout
his entire career. Vikings take on the Lions. This is
a JJ McCarthy start. The Vikings nine point underdogs might
be trailing throughout the game, which means the Lions are
gonna be able to pin back their ears and come
after JJ McCarthy. The Vikings offensive line just gave up

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twenty four pressures in a single game last week, almost
killed Carson Wentz and Aiden Hutchinson coming now bench great
on JJ McCarthy as you probably expect Justin Jefferson. It's
a tricky matchup here now. Detroit secondary is all kinds
of beat up, But it doesn't matter if McCarthy can't
get the ball out out of his hands. Lightning fast
against this pass rush and quick throws mean short gains

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and that could cap Jefferson's upside. A rare B grade
for Justin Jefferson in this one. Jordan Addison. The Vikings
likely again trailing throughout the game. Hopefully that means some
extra passing and some extra looks for Addison here. The
secondary for the Lions, as I mentioned, all beat up
four starters are either out or questionable. Three or out
ones questionable. Non number one receivers have scored in three

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straight games against the Lions, so we'll continue to start
Addison with the C grade. TJ. Howkinson has finished better
than tight end nineteen only one time all year. That
was his single game with the touchdown and compounding problems,
he's only catching the ball four and a half yards
downfield for Hawkinson. The Lions are a middle of the
pack tight end defense, but the last two opponents Travis
Kelcey Kate Ott in both top sixty five yards, So

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there's your ray of hope. Still, I've got a bench
grade on Hawkinson despite the revenge game narrative. And then
the Vikings running back Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones. They
have fully cannibalized each other. They've played three full games
together and their average finish combined is running back forty.
Mason needs goal line carries. Jones needs a bunch of

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receptions to help your team, and promise to Trice's not
giving up either one. They haven't allowed a rushing touchdown
since week four. No runner is top fifty one rushing yards.
Since week four, no opposing runner has scored through the air,
and opposing runners are only averaging twenty four receiving yards.
So I've got bench grades on Mason and Jones. On
the Lion's side, Jamiir Gibbs completely owns the Vikings. I'll

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remind you of his two game totals against the Vikings
last year. Two games, three hundred and thirty yards and
six touchdowns against Minnesota Thamier. Gibbs is an obvious A grade,
so is I'm on Ross Saint Brown obvious A grade.
David Montgomery gets interesting. He's posted three good games this year,
four bad ones. Fortunately, his good games are pretty predictable.

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The Lions have scored thirty seven, thirty eight, and fifty
two points in the three David Montgomery good games. The
Vikings just gave up thirty two points to the Chargers,
and the lines are better offense. Minnesota's run defense metrics
are average too bad, including ranking twenty sixth in run
defense EPA, twenty sevenths in run defense success rate, and

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PFF grades the Vikings as the eighteenth best run defense
C grade for Monty a little bit of upside to
maybe get you to a B, but we'll call it
a seat. Jamison Williams on Thursday, his offensive coordinator, said
he had failed in but maybe this is his one
a month good game. Because the Vikings have allowed the
highest completion rate on deep passes fifty eight percent. And
that's what Jamison Williams is all about. He comes in

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with C grade. Sam Laporta, Vikings are a puzzling tight
end defense. In recent weeks, they've been bludgeoned by Harold
Fannin and Ronde Gadsden, but then they held Dallas Goddard
in check. Although AJ Brown and Vonte Smith were running
on a post downfield that it might be why C
grade on Sam Laporta and lastly, Jared Goff good quarterbacks
breezing through the Viking defense. Jalen Hurts justin fields Aaron

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Rodgers completing almost eighty percent of their passes averaging two
hundred and fifty one yards and two and a half touchdowns.
Golf fields extremely safe and as massive upside assuming Jamior
Gibbs doesn't need as lunch entirely a great for Jared Goff.
Fantasy Football Weekly returns in moments with three tough questions
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We have a special guest for our Halloween edition of
Three Tough Questions, a guy who lost a fiddle competition
in Georgia. Welcome to the show, Beelzebub's.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
First to sue with the worst.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
It was good, good to see unexpected. Did not expect
to see you at.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
The baby shower.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
That was that was a surprise, Biel's Abub. I appreciate
your help here as we try to navigate three tough questions,
beginning with question number one.

Speaker 6 (45:54):
Tough Question number one.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
Works turpless twist twartz.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
That's well, Bill's above was really made for this. This
is Scott Fish. Which packer receivers are tricks and which
are treats?

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Oh boy, that is that is an interesting phrasing of
that question. I think does Tucker Craft count as a
receiver because I think he's definitely a treat going forward
the season.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yes, yes, I believe Beals above was intending to talk
about wide receivers because I think at this point we
all know Tucker Craft is great.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Yeah, so the Packers have a bottom five schedule going
forward for wide receivers. It's it's a it's a tough run.
Romeo Dobbs saw everything fall with the return of Christian Watson,
who only got four targets, but he caught all four
for eighty five.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Dobbs still got six targets, though Jayden Reed is coming back,
Michael Golden's working in all the rest should be on
the bench, but I think all four of those are
probably roster worthy. But I think only Watson and Dobbs
are gonna be startable in spots going forward.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
All right, let's go over to Matt Harrison. Which Packers
wide receivers are tricks and which are trees?

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yeah, I mean, Scott kind of nailed it. There's Romeo Dobbs,
There's Matthew Golden, who I dropped in a redraft league today.
By the way, Christian Watson's there. Don Davian Wicks is
involved when healthy. Malik Heath got snaps last week.

Speaker 6 (47:37):
They like that.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Save on Williams as a gadget guy.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
And Jaden Reid's coming back in a few weeks, and
they've got a stud tight end and a stud running back.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
It's just depth at wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Like we said at the beginning of the twenty twenty
four season, if you want the Packers passing game, just
skip the receivers and get Jordan Love.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Love just loves to spread it around. They might all
be tricks, bread and the Love.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
The correct answer is they are all tricks now. No
matter what we had hoped going into the season that
Matthew Golden would emerge as the clear cut number one,
the alpha, they have not had in Green Bay, going
all the way back to DeVante Adams. They've been waiting,
they put a first round pick into it. It just
hasn't happened. And as you guys correctly said, Christian Watson back,
Jaden Reid back, you are spinning your wheels weekend and

(48:24):
week out trying to guess which Packer might have a
good game coming up next weekend. Forget it. Just tap
out on this, as matt correctly did, drop all of
your packer receivers and put those put that problem onto
somebody else's proster. Thank you for chiming in Bielle's a bub.

(48:47):
Let's go to tough question to ord.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
Tough question number two.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
This maybe off the packos Wi Sivos have saved the
say to me sure to dig away?

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Should you send Chuba Hubbard to the nether realm to
hang out with Biel's abob Let's begin with Matt Harrison
and I believe what I believe what Beelzebub is getting
to here is should you drop Chewba Hubbard entirely? Is
I think where we're headed on this.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
I thought it was like WHOA, Well, that was pretty
aggressive there a Bel's above, but not yet. In every
game that both Hubbard and Dowdell have played, Hubbard has
had more snaps. In all but one game they've both played,
Hubbard has had more touches. They have the same amount
of touchdowns. And I think that this is kind of
like a high school relationship. For Dave Canalis, Chewba Hubbard
went to the dance with him and is super nice

(49:47):
and has a pool at his house.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
But Rico Dowdell is a little prettier.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
And when Hubbard went on vacation Canalis and Dowdell hung
out a little too much, He's confused.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
He's got to work this out. Don't drop him.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Yet, Scott Fish. Should you send Chewba Hubbard to another realm?
Meaning should you drop Chewba Hubbard?

Speaker 3 (50:08):
A lot of what Matt said. And even in that
game where Dowdell did outtouch him, it was eighteen to sixteen.
It's not like he was a ridiculous amount of out touching. No,
this is not the time of year you drop second
or backup running backs. I routinely say this time of year,
this is when you pick up the second running backs.
I know Downell's now the starter, but he had twelve

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plus touches in every single game. He's one injury away
from being a lead back on a team that gives
its running backs thirty plus opportunities. Look what just happened
this last week with Judkins, Stevenson, Kamara, Barkley, Scataboo, Swift,
and Pacheco all got injured last week. I know many
of them are playing again in their next game, but

(50:51):
some are out. You can't drop a second running back
at this point of the season, Yes you can.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Let me give you some Hubbard futility stats for you.
Amongst starting running backs, he ranks thirty second in yards
after contact, thirty second in broken tackle rate, thirtieth in
yards per carry, and thirtieth in yards over expectation at
negative point seven yards over expectation. This highlights I think

(51:20):
one of the biggest mistakes fantasy managers make. They don't
cut bait on their own players fast enough. You're emotionally
invested in them, You're not willing, You're not willing to
acknowledge the mistake. Now, Hubbard is a backup running back,
and those have some value, But he's a backup running
back on the sixth worst scoring offense, and I there
are others that have way, way, way better upside. If

(51:43):
you're going to roster a backup running back, Brian Robinson,
Emmanuel Wilson, Kenneth Gainwell, Basil Touton, Taji Spears, RJ. Harvey,
Kyle Managai, Dave Montgomery. If there's a bunch of guys
that would rather have his backup running back, Tank Bigsby
first and foremost among them, that is actly right, that
have an opportunity to be far better if they were

(52:04):
to be back. We've already seen Chuba Hubard fail as
a starter. Why do I hold him in case he
becomes the starter again?

Speaker 6 (52:10):
No chance?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
All right, beals ab take us to question number.

Speaker 6 (52:14):
Three, Tough Question number three.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
And Dad kill sha question merit e.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Flantenstein's Oh, this is very interesting, by the way. Well
done on the Frankenstein's monster. His name is not Frankenstein.
That's the doctor, that is not the monster. Well done
by Biel's above. The undead corpse of Jacorey Krossky Merrit
has struggled for three weeks, Scott Fish. I believe what
bilsbub is asking here in our Halloween edition of three

(52:54):
Tough Questions is should you trade for Jacorey Krossky Merrit
at a dip price?

Speaker 3 (53:02):
You know my immediate thought when I heard Bielsabov saying
that is I have Jacory Krossky marin a bunch of leagues.
I didn't pay the skyrocketed price like I got him
in the eighteenth round in s FBI. I was drafting him,
you know, when he wasn't so expensive, and I don't
even like having him right now. But when I looked
into it his road. The last month has been a

(53:24):
lot of tough defenses and he got he's got another
one coming up this week. But he has one of
the easiest remaining schedules, and if you filter starting in
week eleven, he has the easiest remaining strength of schedule
and the number one easiest playoff schedule. Problem is he's
not getting the pass game usage. That's all McDaniels. It's
like a fifty eight to forty two split. But with

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Daniels coming back, I think game scripts might flip and
they might be in the lead where he might get
more of that work back because they won't need to
pass at the end of games. So I think I
am buying the dip.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
All right, We're buying the dip at least through one answer.
Let's go over to Matt Harrison. The undead Corpse of
your Kory Krossky Merritt has struggled for three straight weeks.
Are you trying to acquire Jacorey Krassky.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Mayort if you're in a good playoff spot right now
and you think that you're going to make the playoffs
and you don't need Jacorey Krossky Merrit for the next
couple of weeks because there's a couple of stoppers on
the schedule.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Yeah, you go try to buy bill right now. Fish
alluded to it.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
But the Giants in week fifteen, twenty eighth against the run,
the Eagles in Week sixteen twenty sixth against the run,
and the Cowboys in week seventeen thirty first against the run.
This is the opportunity of a lifetime to buy bill
right now.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
You guys have hit all the salient talking points here
at this is a perfect time to capitalize on the dip.
For Jacorey Krossky Merritt, I'll only mention add in a
couple of things. He's still netting four point nine yards
per carry on the season. I mean that's pretty darn good.
A lot of his bad games were Marcus Miriota starts,
and this whole offense will be better with Jayden Daniels

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and just I test I Jkrey Krofsky Merrit has shown
some NFL caliber traits. This kid's actually pretty darn good.
I like him, so you know this is a we
want to try to buy low on good players. I
think I think to Corey Krosky Merritt is a pretty
good player. We're gonna buy.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
Next week.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Biel's above, I will not be a pickleball. I've got yeah,
got a strained elbow. So that's not that is that
is not happening.

Speaker 6 (55:27):
I'm very sorry, but you.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Do have a wicked serve mention that really wickeds. Thank you,
Biel did not think that even in this Halloween edition
we would hear from actual Satan. But nice for him
to drop into the show. Uh, let's go. Uh, let's
see if we work in one matchup quickly. Here scott
Fish Chargers taking on the Titans. Chargers are coming off

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an act, an absolute butt whipping of the Vikings, and
now they get arguably the worst team in the league.

Speaker 6 (55:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Yeah, so I got a lot of a grades here
I have. It's on Justin Herbert, Kamani Vidal, Lad McConkie
and Rode Rondez Gadsden. Two Titans have allowed multiple scores
and back to back and good qbs have baled out.
Herbert is a good QB. He himself is averaging about
two hundred and seventy yards and two passing scores. He's
tacking on thirty on the ground over the last three games.

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Eight scores out of Justin. Herbert Kamani Vidal might be saying,
on a monster game here over five yards per carry,
top three and yard rushing yards over expectation, and top
three in explosive run rate, averaging nineteen for one hundred
nineteen touches for one hundred combo yards. The Titans allowing
the second most rushing yards and the most rushing scores

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to runners. Every single lead back has scored against the
Tennessee Titans this year, every single one of them. They're
favored by ten and a half, which says a running
game script. Ladd McConkie I mentioned a grade. Over the
last four weeks, lad is back to being the one
number one again with the disappearance of Quentin Johnston, who's

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on a milk carton somewhere. He scored in three of
four and double digit PPR points in all four of
those games, averaging seven for seventy five. The Titans allowing
the fifth most receptions and yards to opposing wide receivers,
which is why I leaned into a Keenan Allen C grade.
He only played twenty five percent of the snaps last week,

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but it might have been more because of the blowout
and they wanted to get Trey Harris some snaps at
the end of that game and let Keenan Allen rest
his old legs there. So still leads the team in targets.
He's just barely behind lad over the last month with
those seven eight targets. His worst game this year is
like eight PPR points, so I'm gonna give him a seat.

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It's a bottom five pass d Ronde Gadson. I mentioned
the A grade, but he's already top five in yards
among tight ends on the season and tight end Titans
are middle against tight ends, but two of the last
three scored against them, and earlier this year Warning McBride
did good, So A grade for Aronde gads and Quentin
Johnston on the bench. Over to the Tennessee side, I

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have some bench grades here though cam Ward's on the bench.
Over the last four he's averaging over two hundred and
fifty yards, but he's still only scoring zero or one
times in every single game. It's been a rough start.
The Chargers, though, ranked top ten against passers and have
allowed the third fewest scores. Also in the passing game,

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elick Io Manner and Chamry Dkay. I think I'm given
C grades on both of them because they're the only
ones that are going to be able to get it
done here. Iomnner's getting a lot of deep shots and
that's that's one of the ways you can beat the Chargers.
And they are ten point dogs, which means they are
gonna have to have to pass quite a bit. I

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think I got a C grade on Iomaner DK with
it that four to three four speed he highlighted last week.
With Ridley out, I will say he's been wide receiver
eleven since the coaching change. It's just two games. It
corresponds with Ridley being out, it's corresponds with Locket being released,
but two of like all three of those things are

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still a thing this week, So DK, I'm giving a segrade.
Jefferson and Addison both did find Pittman and Pierce the
week before. Both did fine segrades. Fine for DK, Chicka
kon Ku and Gunner. Helm Helm scored that touchdown that
we wanted him to score, but it was a complete
total split. And this Chargers team is fifth, top five

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and top seven against tight ends in different categories. So
bench grades on both of them, unfortunately, and for the Runners,
that's where it gets a little tricky, you would think,
But I got a segrade on Taj Spears and on
Benching Tony Pollard this week, this week. Over the last
three weeks, Taj has been the better back two of
the three weeks. The Chargers did shut down the Vikings Runners,

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but before that, running backs in three straight had lit
them up to an average of one hundred and seventy
yards per game. So maybe it was more about the
Vikings line and the Vikings runners than this Chargers defense.
And according to Ian Fish, the Rams allowed the sixth
most rushing touchdowns in the league, which could be great
for Taja Spears, who has four red zone snaps, which

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is three more than Paulard in the last two weeks.
And Taja averages two more red zone snaps than Powered
over the last three games, So a little more opportunity
there for Tajy Spears. With the C grade, I don't
think there's enough room for them both to get going though.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
No, but let's watch Spears because he's looked really good.
I think, you know, quiet, I think he's having his
best season right now.

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
We're going to track the Tennessee running back situation when
we come back Jaguars taking on the Raiders. No Travis
Hunter sad development on Friday as he ends up going
on ir Does Brian Thomas take this opportunity to reverse
a brutal season beginning against the Raiders? Find out when
we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy

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Football Weekly. A big block oh matchups for you, beginning
with Jaguars taking on the Raiders. Travis Etn started the
season red hot and is cooled significantly if only they
had Tank Bigsby still on roster. Matt Harrison, what do
you think about Travis Etn going up against the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
It's been nearly a month of implosive output from Travis
Etn last three games. He's averaging just thirteen touches and
fifty six scoreless yards per game. Hasn't top sixty six
percent of the snaps in any game this season. Why
did the Jags trade Tank bigs Be? That's a head
scratcher for me, Just a C grade for Etn. The

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Raiders have allowed the fourth US Combo yards to running
backs this year. It's closer to a bench grade than
a se grade two. Tough question number four, are we
sure Trevor Lawrence is good at football. His completion percentage
has been on a steady decline since twenty twenty two,
when it was sixty six percent. It's down to fifty
eight percent this year. He's on pace for twenty two

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touchdown passes and twelve picks. That's not very good. He's
only averaging two hundred thirty one yards per game. It's
an average matchup. The Raiders have allowed multiple passing touchdowns
in only three games, and no quarterback has topped two
to eighty seven on them this year. Lawrence's average of
two thirtyish yards and one touchdown is probably what we're
looking at. That's a C grade. Brian Thomas was limited

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in practice on Thursday, so keep an eye. He gets
a B start if he goes top of the depth chart.
Wide receivers have had good days against the Raiders as
of late. Rashi Rice, Michael Pittman, Romo Dounze all really
good days in the past few weeks. That's because they're
matching up with corner Kayu Blue Kelly, who's a real
person and the week spot on the Old Raiders defense

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passer rating of one twenty four. In his coverage, he
stays to the outside, so does Thomas most often, so
let's fire him up. By the way, Travis Hunter was
placed on IR this morning, so you're not starting him.
And I don't think there's any other Jags wide receivers.
I don't think Trevor Lawrence is good, so can't trust
the receivers very much. Brock Bauers is back on the

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other side, though, and by all accounts he's back to
one hundred percent. He gets an A grade. And let's
cherry pick some data here. Bowers got hurt in week one.
He gutted it out for three weeks before they finally
sat him. So let's take week one and look backwards.
In the prior fourteen games, he'd averaged seven catches and
seventy seven yards per game, and he scored five times

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in that span. The Jags tight end defense is struggling
as of recently. Starting in Week four, Jake Tongas and
Travis Kelcey each had fifty eight yards into score. Aj
Barner went for seventy one yards, and the Rams tight
ends come by for eight catches one hundred and one
yards in a score in London. What Trey Tucker was
charges take a chance on me? Wide receiver and Jacoby

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Myers was a full participant in practice this week. He
really wants to trade out of Vegas, though, and as
long as he's not traded between now and Sunday, he'll
play and he'll probably be just fine. For most of
the reasons, we like the matchup for Trey Tucker, specifically
the six wide receiver touchdowns allowed in the last three games.
I think Jacoby Meyer is also startable with a C grade.

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Gino Smith was might take a chance on me quarterback
and Ashton Genty as the toughest test of all the
Raiders here. As the Jags are on, defense has actually
been very solid this year. They're allowing the fifth fewest
rushing yards at only seventy per game, and they've only
given up two rushing scores on the season, and they
were both to Kareem Hunt, of all people. The glimmer
of hope is that the Jags have allowed the ninth

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most receiving yards to backs and Genty can catch a
pass or two. The biggest key to Genty's varying touch
totals have been close games, though in the games that
the Raiders have lost by double digits, they're basically taking
him off the field and taking miles off of him.
And this game spread is only Jags by three and
a half, so in theory it should be close enough.

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I'll give Jenty a B grade here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Maybe with Jacoby Myers they showcase him for the trade
and just held him with targets. I mean, you know
that is a That is a plausible scenario for a
team that's trying to get a little something for Jacoby
Myers in the last year of his deal. You mentioned
Kareem Hunt, So I'm gonna start with the running game
for the Chiefs taking on the Bills. He's going to
be your starter with Isaiah Pacheco out now. Hunt's metrics

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are awful, including a league worst avoided tackle rate of
nine percent, but absolutely startable in a positive matchup, and
he's the goal line back. As reminder, Bills are a
shockingly bad run defense. Only the Titans have a lot
of more rushing touchdown than the Bills. They were ranked
twenty third and run stuff win rate twenty eighth in

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defensive six. That's right, the Bills. So Kareem Hunt B grade.
Go figure. The other running back you care about is
Brichard Smith. He figures to have a much bigger role
with Pacheco out, and Hunt is probably not a workhorse
anymore at this stage of his career. So Brichard Smith
should be on the field a fair hmount here. He's
the better receiving back, and despite all of Buffalo's trouble

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stopping the run, they've been great against receiving backs. Only
b John Robinson his top twenty nine receiving yards. Nobody
has scored through the air against the Bills. So even
though Brichard Smith should catch a few passes here, I've
just got the C grade on him. Go over to
the passing game or the Chiefs. Rashi Rice obvious A grade.
He is a monster finishing as as a top tight

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end wide receiver in both of his post suspension games.
He's going to be in A grade most of the time.
Xavier Worthy. Since Rice's return, he has retained a snap count,
but his target rate has dropped from twenty three percent
to seventeen percent. I mean, there's just not as many
balls to go around with Raci Rice on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Not worthy.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Your roster is worthy of Xavier, who comes in with
the C grade I mentioned. The Bills give up big
games to opposing number one receivers. Number twos don't generally
do as well. So just the C grade on Xavier
Worthy in this game.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Let's talk.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Travis Kelcey went berserk on Monday night, but that is
a total outlier. In the seven games before Monday, he
was averaging just tight end number fourteen. That is not
a mandate to auto start Travis Kelcey on your fantasy roster.
That is muscled memory for starting Travis kelce That's it.
And here's what you need to know. The Bills tight
end defense has been phenomenal. Buffalo has allowed one tight

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end score all year. No tight end is top forty
six yards all year. The average output for a starting
tight end against the Bills an unbelievable two catches for
seventeen yards.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
That is it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
And the Bills faced Kelsey last year two catches f
eight yards.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
So Travis kelce I prefer you bention, but I'll go
C grade hit here in a very contrarian angle. And
Patrick Mahomes is absolutely on fire. He is an obvious
are going over to the Bill side. James could crush
the Chiefs in last year's playoff game with one hundred
and thirty four yards and two scores. But Kansas City
is a very improved run defense. The last three lead
runners to face Kansas City have only averaged thirty seven

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scoreless yards and three and a half yards per carry.
And weirdly, James Cook hasn't caught a pass in three
weeks and he's been targeted only once, which is weird
for a guy who can catch. So I've just got
the B grade on him. We're not talking about Kean
Coleman anymore on this show until he does something. He
is on the bench. Khalil Shakir is the wide receiver

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you care about. Among all receivers. Khalil Shakir second in
yards after the catch, averaging nine and a half yards.
That is awfully impressive. That's basically a free fantasy point
on every reception, just on yak This is a tricky
individual matchup. Kansas City allows the third fewest fantasy points
to slot receivers, but in the slot they usually use

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this hybrid safety guy named Tamari Connor. He's giving up
a ninety three percent catch rate. He gave up a
touchdown last week, and so Khalil Shakir remained startable with
a B grade. Dunk Kin kid has been all over
the map. This is a tough matchup against the fourth
best tight end defense. They shut down Zachertz last week.
Only one tight end has scored against the Chiefs all year,
and he was very quiet last week with this oblique injury.

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So I'd really prefer that you don't have to start Kinkaid.
I've got to see grade on him until we know
he's healthy and more productive. And then, lastly, Josh Allen
for non divisional opponents. These two teams play each other
all the time, and when is this going to be
his fifth matchup against the Bills in three seasons. His
passing has been okay in those but where Josh Allen's

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been awesome. He has trucked the Chiefs on the ground.
He's scored four rushing touchdowns in the past four games
against Kansas City, and mobile quarterbacks have stared well against
the Chiefs this year, Kansas City giving up the third
most quarterback rushing yards, second most quarterback rushing touchdown. I'm
Luke Warman on Allen's passing options, but with all that running,

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he is still an A grade. All right, Let's work
in one last matchup scott Saints taking on the Rams.
I gotta believe there aren't a lot of Saints that
we're going to be starting here in this matchup.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
There probably shouldn't be. I I don't have a starting
grade on Tyler Shack, who might be the spencer rattler
of Jake Haynes. But he did throw the ball thirty
times in just a half in a blowout last week.
Saints are double digit underdogs here. He targeted in that half.
He targeted Chris Alave six times, Juwan Johnson six times,

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in Rashid Shaheed eight times. In fact, Shaheed's eight targets
came all in the last seventeen minutes of that game.
We could see similar high volume from them here. But
I'm a little worried about what the production will baby,
But I'm gonna give all three of those guys C grades.
It might only be two of them, but it's potentially

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a lot of volume in a game script where they're
likely to be behind as double digit underdogs. It's a
middle of the pack matchup for wide receivers. But for
a Lave he has over ten, He's averaging over ten
targets to the tune of seven for sixty three has
double digit PPR points almost every single week this season.
Rashid Jahed has twenty one targets over the last two

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I mentioned how you just got a ton with Tyler
shuck In, and several of those were deep shots with
a lot of volume and a few deep shots. If
he connects on one, might be a C grade there.
And with Juwan Johnson, he's got five plus catches fifty
plus yards and back to back. The only two tight
ends to do really good work against the Rams were
the two that had really big volume, and that was

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Jake Tanjis and I'm blanking on the other Tyler Warren.
Jawan Johnson might be in line for big targets here,
so he might be able to do something with it.
I will say the Rams have terrorized young qbs, so
there's a chance that it just doesn't happen for any
of these three. The one I would be I rank
him a lave Shaheed Johnson, but that's all within the

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realm of possibility. Over to the running backs, I have
bench grades on both Tamara and Devin Neil. Amara is
trending towards plane. He's questionable with an angle an ankle injury,
but if it's a blowout, he might sit late. But
Devin Neil also has an ankle injury. I'm not even
sure who comes in at running back at that point.
Is it Taysom Hill because currently they only have two

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on their depth charts. They have Kendrick Miller on IR
and two running backs who are both third. Kamara's best
rushing day this over the last month is thirty one yards.
His best past receiving game this season, he's twenty one
yards receiving is his best game season. It's a bad matchup,

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he's dinged up. It's likely to be a blowout. No
to that running game. Over the Rams side, I have
a B grade on Matthew Stafford, who's averaging two hundred
and sixty seven passing yard in multiple scores and has
multiple scores in all but one game. The Saints did
hold Baker Mayfield and Caleb Williams down under one hundred

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and seventy five scoreless yards each of the last two games,
but prior to that, every single KB had multiple scores,
and those two teams last two weeks leaned on their
run game. A ton La might do that here, but
Puka Stafford Davante Is how is the heart of their offense.
I think they'll get theirs before they get the game

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out of control. So I have A grades on Puka Nakua,
who when he plays sixty percent of the snaps over
the course of his career, he's an auto A with
an average of nine for over one hundred yards, So
a grade there. B grade on DeVante Adams. With Nikua playing,
he might he might back off a little. He doubled
his touchdown total last week from three to six. His

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yardage has been low for weeks, but he's such a
huge red zone threat in that offense. I still have
him as B B grade worthy. Over to the run game,
Kyron Williams despite running Karen Williams like I got an
A grade on. He's averaging eighteen touches ninety plus yards,
has five scores in seven games. Shouldn't have trouble hitting
those against the middle of the pack defense that allows

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the second most rush attempts, the seventh most rushing yards,
and they're going to be ahead. And because they get ahead.
Blake korm who had a bunch of touches last week,
I think he starts to work in a little bit more,
the second running back against this Saints team has had
double digit touches in four of the last five weeks.
Last week, Tucker scored. The week before Manan Guy scored.

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Korm himself is coming off as season high in snaps
and touches. I think it's a se grade for Korm.
I think he can get something done here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Blake Core's that would be a nice shot if you
can get that one home. And Kyrien Williams, I feel
like is just sort of forgotten about a little bit.
I love him in this matchup. He's my number four ranked.
He's not four ranked running back across the entire board
this week, So I'm very you're very optimistic against Saints.
When we come back premature speculation, we'll go into the

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you can pick up now that other people will be
trying to pick up next week, but they're already on
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Speaker 6 (01:16:20):
For pre sure speculation.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
And well this should we begin with Scott Fish.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Yeah, this is gonna be my last FFW for a
little while here, so I'm gonna cheat a little bit.
I'm gonna cheat. I mentioned, I mentioned how there were
eight running backs, eight starting running backs, and come out
of last week with injuries. I'm using this time to
remind people go pick up any backup running backs apparently
except for Chuba Hubbard out there, Tank Pigsby, go get him. Yes,

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the Eagles are playoff team. Barkley is dinged up. Maybe
maybe they sit him a little more down the street
like Trey Henderson, Devin Neil, Dylan Samson, Kaman on guy
you should have right now for this week. He's Paul's
take a chance on me player. But Tyler al Gil
Blake Korum, Emmanuel Wilson, Matts, take a chance on me player.
If they're a backup, Randy back out there, go get them.

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If Briest Hall gets traded, Isaiah Davis becomes really really
a potential big deal. If Paulard gets traded, Tajy Spears,
Jacoby Jones gets traded, Jack Besh or Trey Tucker. I
know that those are wide receivers.

Speaker 5 (01:17:28):
Are you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
I am Trey Benson and Brandon I you are under
sixty percent rostered. If they're out there, go get them.
They'll be coming back soon. But my true take a
chance on me player. None of those guys is Terrell.
I'm gonna go deep cut for the people Terrell Jennings,
who split carries with Traveon Henderson as the backup to

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Ramandre Stevens in the last two weeks. There's a non
zero chance Traveon Henderson continues to be ineffective, and there's
we're already been a little hinting that reminder Stevenson's injury
might be a little more serious than it should be.
Maybe go stash charl Jennings just in case he's a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
All right, I think that you've just said an all
time record for premature speculation, and fortunately our guys are
not in that mix. Against all odds, Matt, there was
some at least two players that were not mentioned. Who
do you got?

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna take this moment to remind everybody to
pick up every quarterback in the league and make sure
that you have them all on your roster. But I'll
mention one that I like the most. It's JJ McCarthy.
We've seen him play two games, eight quarters. Seven quarters
did not look great. One quarter earned him NFC Player

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of the Week honors, But we also haven't seen him
with a full and complete offensive line. Both of his
tackles and center have been in and out of the lineup.
Carson Wentz is a distant memory. Now it's Jj. The
rest of the way.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
They're gonna win or lose with him, and you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Gotta think that they're gonna get their line back at
some point point, and if they get him back. In
December Week fourteen, Washington third worst pass defense in the league.
Week fifteen, Dallas worst pass defense in the league. Week sixteen,
Giants second worst pass defense in the league. In a

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three week span, he's got the three worst pass defenses
in the league. JJ McCarthy might be worth it for
your playoff run.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
All right, I'm gonna be lazy and just repeat the
guy I used last week because nobody picked him up,
and you should have. Gunner helmed the tight end for
the Titans. We talked about it last week. He's getting
increasing usage on a young team that's trying to rebuild.
Chicka Koon Ku is not very good. Gunner Helms scored
last week. He's almost pulled even on playing time, and
his future looks really bright. He is the future of

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the tight end position for the Titans. You might want
to get in now, particularly in Dynasty and Empire formats. Yep,
we've got two matchups left, Matt. We begin with the Cardinals.
It's ambiguous as of this taping who the quarterback will
be for the Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
Oh, they're being so cagey. Who's who's gonna be? Versette
took team first team reps on Friday. Murray threw at
the backups. Jonathan Gannon said he was preparing for Kyler
to start, and then they got a practice coming on Saturday.
We might get a slight clue after that, but it's
a bonus take a chance on me. B grade for
whoever starts in this one, because it's against Dallas. It's

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the best We've been picking on Dallas all year. They're
terrible at defense, They're terrible at pass defense. It's the
best possible matchup for either quarterback. So B grade for
whoever goes. Marvin Harrison gets an A grade gets to
line up against either kyer Elam, who's given up one
hundred and eighteen passer rating in his coverage, or Trevon
Diggs replacement trick Wheezy Bridges, who is a real person

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and gave up two touchdowns in his coverage just last week.
I believe they were both to Troy Franklin. Ooh yeah,
Cowboys have allowed fifteen wide receiver touchdowns here. If you
have Kyler or and you can't get Briset like in
a super flex spot for Monday Night, I wouldn't mind
starting Michael Wilson if Kyler can't play, But I don't
really have a starting grade on him.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Trey McBride gets an A grade.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
The Cowboys are slightly better against the tight end, but
Dallas Goddard, Tucker Craft, Mason Taylor Zechertz all managed to
hit double digit PPR points, and Trey McBride's as good,
if not better than all those guys. We thought Bam
Knight was the only backround roster when they cut Michael
Carter at the beginning of this week, but then they
might be starting Carter because they picked him up, put
him on the practice squad, and now he's taking first

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team reps in practice. The last time we saw these backs,
Bam had seventeen touches and sixty four Conbo yards. Carter
had nine touches and thirty six. The matchup is fantastic.
The Cowboys are allowing one hundred and fifty nine conboy
yards to runners, second most in the league, and even
if it's a fifty to fifty split, that's like eighty
yards for each of them. But these Cardinals are playing

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at so coy with their third and fourth string runners.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Rates for both.

Speaker 4 (01:22:00):
I guess I like BAM slightly better, and if they
don't activate Carter, BAM goes up to a B grade.
Javonte Williams gets an A grade. It doesn't look like
it on paper, but the Cardinals defense is not great
against opposing backs. Sixteen or more PPR points to every
lead back they've faced in the last six games but one,
and that was when Seattle split evenly Sharbon Anne Walker

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and they each had twelve PPR points. Dak Prescott gets
an A grade at least three touchdown passes in four
straight weeks before getting blanked by the Broncos awesome defense
last week. This defense isn't that the matchup looks tough
on paper, but those numbers are bolstered by the Cardinals
facing Spencer Rattler, Bryce Young, Mac Jones, and Cam Ward

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to start the season. Cede Lamb and George Pickens. They're
both A grades. You'd think pickens numbers would have drastically
dropped after Lamb returned, but he had four for eighty
two and one and seven for seventy eight in the
other and targets in those two games. Since slam got back,
it was eighteen for Lamb and fifteen for Pickens. The
Cardinals haven't faced the duo wide receivers anywhere close to

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this this year. But back in week two, Hunter renfro
scored twice and Teed McMillan had one hundred yards in
the same game.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
So here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
Jake Ferguson also an A grade and my last guy today.
All we need to do is look at the last
two weeks of Cardinals D versus the tight Ends. Tyler
Warren had six for sixty three in a score. Tucker
Craft had five for fifty eight in a score. That's
about the tier that Jake Ferguson is in. So I
think we're looking at like sixty yards and a touchdown

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in this one for Ferguson.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
Ferguson has been phenomenal for most of this season except
for last week. Let's go back to the final matchup,
which is Seattle taking on the Commanders. I'm gonna start
with the ultra frustrating committee of Kenneth Walker and Zach Charboney.
Walker is clearly the better runner, but Sharbony getting a
lot of usage, including the goal line. Charbone has already
got nine carries from inside the five nine times nine time.

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Sharbs is running at just two point eight yards per carry.
That is dead last among all runners. With his seventy
two rushes. Meanwhile, Walker running it twice the productivity in
the exact same offense. Both guys startable. Commanders have allowed
the fifth most Fantasy points to opposing runners. Opponents have
topped one hundred rushing yards in three straight So I've
actually got a B grade on both Kenneth Walker and

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Zach sharbon Ay. It was close to sees for both,
but just know this Sharboney need it's the touchdowns where
he gets you very very little over to the passing game.
Jackson Smith and Jigba is an obvious a that does
not require any elaboration. Cooper Cup very low usage the
past couple of weeks, but an exploitable matchup for Cup

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on Sunday. He runs from the slot a lot, not exclusively,
but a lot, and he'll match up with sophomore cornerback
Mike Sandris. Still, he's just a guy, He's ProFootball focuses
qurnerback one hundred five. The Commanders have allowed the fourth
most yards to wide out on and sixty three per game,
So Cup startable here see grade. The two tight ends A. J.
Barner and Elijah Royo are basically cannibalizing each other. They

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stay on the bench Sam Donald. Great opportunity for Donald
against a flagging Washington pass defense that's allowed multiple touchdowns
to six of the past seven quarterbacks. We know Sam
can get into trouble against a great pass rush, but
Washington's pass rush isn't great, It's just middle of the pack.
They ranked fifteenth by Pro Football Focus, fifteenth in ESPN's
pass rush win rate. Over the past five weeks, the

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Commanders have allowed the second most points to opposing quarterbacks.
A grade for Sam Donald, You'd think you'd think Brian
Johnson run this show. Let's go over to the commander's side.
Jacorey Krosky Merritt. We talked about him a lot in
three tough questions and he's been completely neutralized over the
last three games, and this is his toughest matchup of
the year. The Seahawks have one of the three best

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run defenses in the league. No backs top forty eight
yards since the opener, and since the opener, opposing backs
for running at just two point nine yards per carry.
That is total domination. Only one runner has scored a
rushing touchdown against the Seahawks all year. Bench grade Jeremy
McNichols very quickly. He is now really Austin Eckler, and

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Seattle has struggled with pass catching backs. They've allowed the
most running back reception seven per game. They're giving up
the fourth most running back receiving yards. And McNichols comes
in with a surprise. See grade, What about Deebo Samuel?
You ask he has not been right since his heel
injury three weeks ago. Back to back Hindenburg level games
with twelve yards and fourteen yards. Oh the humanity. Deebo Samuel.

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Samuel runs from the slot a lot, and he's gonna
face one of the better slot defenders, Devon Witherspoon. He
has missed a bunch of games with knee injury, but
he's back for this one. With Terry McLaurin out, Seattle
can put extra coverage on Deebo. I'm putting him on
the bench until we see Deebo do more than fourteen
and twelve yards. Luke McCaffrey and Chris Moore are going

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to get more playing time here, and they're just this
is not the right time to try to do a
deep dive on those guys. Non number one receivers have
done nothing against a good Seahawks secondary, they're on the bench.
Zach Ertz in the games Terry McLaurin has missed. You
would think zach Ertz would get a big spike in usage,
but it really hasn't worked out that way. He has
scored in two of the past three games, which has

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been good, but he's touchdown dependent. He's averaging a pitifull
two catches for eighteen yards in games with out a touchdown,
So will he score. Seattle's only allowed one tight end
score since the opener, so probably not. But four different
tight ends have top fifty yards in the last first
Seattle games. So you get a ray of hope and
a C grade on zach Ertz. And that brings us
to our final player of this episode of Fantasy Football Weekly,

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Jayden Daniels. Washington likely trailing throughout this game, and because
most opponents are a Seattle seeing a league high thirty
nine passes per game against them, that is a ton
of volume, and through sheer volume, Daniels should be sitting
on a pretty good game. Even if I don't love
his receivers individual matchups, I do worry about the rushing
upside because the last week hamstring injury they might not
run him much, but if you give me thirty nine

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dropbacks for Jane Daniels, there's gonna be some opportunities for
passing and some scrambling yardage. And Daniels comes in with
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Week nine, everybody, We look forward to talking to you
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