What's The Frequency Kenneth?

As turmoil continues for the running back position, the FFW crew looks at Kenneth Walker's prospects for the rest of the season. They unveil a wide variety of sleeper running backs who should be available on the waiver wire.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,
your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and
advice Leagues dot Com. Here's your host, Paul. Welcome to

(00:23):
Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charcy and joining me today.
We've got well, it's a little bit in flux right
at the moment. Brian Johnson is definitely here. Yeah, you know,
Batterson is late but making an appearance. Colin mccogney, all
the way from a British jail. Colin, I'm curious. I'm

(00:47):
a little bit curious about how you could have possibly
gotten out of jail so quickly. Did you go Andy
du frains on on some jail cell and just like
tunnel your way out Cadbury is Flake. A cattle trucked
me a way to Bristol. Yeah, you trucked your way
to Bristol. You're right, yes, Bristol, sure, brown bread and

(01:09):
city slickers here, I am, yeah, here, you are right
here in studio. It's great to have you here, Colin.
I swore at an anti mccockney clause in my contract,
so I'm just Brian. You're a custard bun is a
custard bun. We'll go through all of the matchups fantasy
style as we always do, letter grades on all the players,

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will talk about the injured the healthy. Will also play
three tough questions as always, will release our nine take
a chance of many players and premature speculation Matt. Premature
speculation red hot over the past few weeks, including the
likes of Goss Edwards and Goss Edwards Dot, Joanna, Ducks

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and Geese. It was looking pretty nice until the end
of the game on Thursday night. Hopefully, hopefully Gus is
all right. We hope, We hope for nothing but good
things for God. Are we love Gus Edwards. Let's start
with the New York Giants taking on a Seattle Brian.
You know, for the Giants, this is a surprise team
that has won a lot of games, but hasn't necessarily
put up a lot of reliable points outside of Sa

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Kwan Barkley. Yeah, let's start with Sa Kwan. I'm gonna
bake in the Fantasy Fonzie here and say we'll call
him Say Kwan Barley. After allowing over a hundred rushing
yards running backs for five straight weeks to begin the season.
The Seahawks have only given up a combined seventy five
rushing yards over the last two weeks, but that came

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against the Cardinals without James Conner, and last week the
Chargers running backs total just twelve carries. I think Barkley
sees a lot more than that. Plus over the last
three weeks, Alvin Kamara and Austin Ekel are both top
to ninety receiving yards against Seattle. So I love say
Kwan here. He gains the FONZI uh, not a whole
lot of the other giants to like. I do like
Wan Dale Robinson only saw snapshare in week six when

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we ran ten routes. Last week is snapshare jump to
mccocky knows how that works. That's shocking y nine routes
in that game. So I think we see another big
bump in usage this week. Seattle only allowing a hundred
three two yards per game to wide receivers. But Tarik
Willen is in the conversation for Defensive Rookie of the Years. Honey,

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I mean, I've never missed Matt so much in my
life that will make an appearance in this show. I
don't know, I just I wanted to give Darius Slayton
a starting grade, but I got him on the bench. Um,
there's been some trade rumors that they're gonna the Giants
are gonna trade Darius Slayton too, even though they just
traded Darius Tony and they're very thin and wide receiver.

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So maybe it's a showcase game for for Slayton. But again,
the matchup not great, so he's on the bench. Uh, sadly,
as is well Daniel Bellinger, the tight end for the Giants,
recovering from an orbital in re look brutal on the
Thankfully his eyes is not, so he he's out for
the foreseeable future. But uh, that's a bummer. I mean,

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we're looking at Chris meyer Rick and Tanner Hudson, but
I gotta put them both on the bench. But it's
a shame Seattle is allowing eighty four yards for game
to tight ends, so but I don't know which one
to pick there. So they're on the bench, but Daniel
Jones is not. Daniel Jones gets a sea and Daniel
Jones has more rushing yards than James Robinson, Naji Harris,
A J. Dillon Antonio Gibson and Kareem Hunt. And yes

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they've all played the same number of games. It's not
like those running backs that had to buy. He's in
an effective tie with Justin Fields for the second most
quarterback rushing yards, behind only Lamar Jackson. That's how that
is how Daniel Jones is helping you. It's the forty
eight rushing yards per game, and they're designed place he
was sound like, they're not broken play so that they're
trying to scheme him to run the ball out of
Seattle yielded a hundred rushing yards at Kyler Murray two

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weeks ago, so that bones world for Jones. But outside
allowing that monster game to Jared Goff, the seahawkside is
a few weeks ago. The Seahawks haveps rendered zero or
one passing touchdowns in five of six games. So just
to see for Daniel Jones over at the Seattle side, Uh,
not a C for Kenneth Walker the third he gets
an A we have a sound bite here valid blarnet,

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cheese and kisses. I have a unique skill where I
can name like songs and movies the year were made.
But anyway, you know, if I haven't heard the song
or seen the movie. But anyway, Kenneth Walker easy a
averaging nearly seven yards per carry with four touchdowns in

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the two and a half games played without Rashad Penny.
The Giants are allowing nearly six yards per carry in
our ranked thirty against the run by Pro Football Focus.
So A for Walker, B for Tyler Lockett dealing with
the hamstring issue but should play d K Matt Metcalf
hasn't been ruled out, but he's all but likely to
sit this one out with a knee injury. If there
was one published report on Friday that said that DK

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Metcalf won't play the rest of the year. Now, that
has not been substantiated at this time, but both certainly
want to watch that closely. Well, it's it's hard to
gage his injuries when he gets carried off a few
weeks ago to take a dump and then he gets
carried off with an actual ankle injury, so who knows
where metcalp said hopefully he'll be back after the street.
What was that anyway? Back to lock It, Uh, you

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should see a ton of volume and it's not a
great matchup. Opposing wide receivers are averaging just eleven catches
on thirty three yards per game against the Giants, who
have allowed just one wide receiver touchdown over the last four.
For that reason, I have marquees to the Castle. Goodwin
on the bench, old friend of the show, very old
friend of the show. I forgot to even existed until
last week. And uh the tight ends on the bench

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as well, Noah fanton well death lack gab Mike and
a gypsy's kiss well death lay from Scotton. Uh looked
like Fanton was distancing, distancing himself from this leave. But
last week this Lee out does fans. So we're we're
out on both those guys. We're still in on Geno
Smith though, but just to see again likely no dk Metcalf.

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That stings, especially against the Giants, who have allowed a
completion percentage of just fifty six percent. Best in the
NFL the league averages sixty percent. That secondary has been
playing great even without James Bradberry. As a result, the
posing quarterbacks were averaging only two passing arms in one
passing touchdown per game against New York. All right, now

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we get around the house game in London. Yet somehow
Colin mccockney in studio here in Minnesota. Roast puck chocky
boy on your chest hair hedges. Oh, I love the
sound of smashing choccy boys smashing. Yes, Brian big Boy,
Jamie Dodger, You ready for Tottenham points? So I gotta

(07:53):
I gotta translate for you kiddies and ponies and foggy underwear. Okay, Yes,
Colin said something about the Jaguars and Broncos playing in
London on Sunday morning. Da travy, travy, poof and a bathtub.
He's seeing apples and pass He's seeing a base in
a gravy. Captain Kirk and Spucky Sparko borrow and beg

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bottle and stop. Even the Smalley bums ain't talking about Willis.
I'm a little rusty, but I think you said Trevor
Lawrence in the whole passing game is on a bench
that includes Christian Kirk, all the jones Is, Evan and
grim and even Dan Arnold under dumber than I thought.
The Broncos having allowed of passing score in a month. Uh,

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they just held justin Herbert two eight scoreless yards a
few weeks ago on fifty seven attempts. And it's not
a defense that you want to start the passing game against.
By the way, I'm doing like the work for you.
Are you getting paid? Do I get any sitting here? Yeah?
Come on, I swear I heard something about a bucket
of gravy, but I must not. I always struggle with that.
Not even worthy of that. But carry on. Greece's pieces

(08:58):
and a phone home. He's a bonnet of flowers. Jam
tart me nabbies because the lemon merchant is selling apples,
numbies and crumbies on the opera ladies. Travis think it's
a b James Robinson traded to the Jets this week.
E t A looks ready to carry the load. Double

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digit rushing attempts and four of his last five. Last week,
he took fourteen carries for fourteen yards and a touchdown.
The Broncos defense is allowing four point eight yards per carry,
the seventh worst mark in the NFL. I think you
take some liberties with that Rossi ROSSI, we don't trustee.
He's short of a sheet and might weep and well

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with the rats and mice. Jagua is a Scotch miss too.
He's bleeding bended knees like Johnny snow Well, Russell Wilson
on the bench despite a decent matchup. He missed last
week with a hamstring injury and has been a distraction
all season, but he'll start on Sunday most likely. He's
only hit two D seventy five yards once this year.

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He's only thrown for multiple touchdowns once. The Broncos have
only topped sixteen points once this year. Is this it's
all around bad? Judge Judy in Parliament, Funky Mutton going
pig and roast, getting three and tea time he makes
up an oily rag for Austin Martin. The Queen's not
gonna have any cheese. No cheese, you're Heah Cortlan Sutton

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and Jerry Judy both get a sea. The Jaguars have
allowed seven different wide receivers who topped ninety yards or
score over the last five weeks, and they're also allowing
about a hundred fifty yards per game to wide receivers,
so there should be enough for each of them to
hit sixty yards with the eight or nine targets they
see per game. Greggy no legs, he's no submarine, capping penny,

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come quick nine and backgammon and then a front gammon.
Front gammon that's better than the backgammon. It's a seed
for dol Chitch Dulcich, who saw nine targets last week
from Brett Rippon and a touchdown from Wilson the week before.
Jacksonville has at faced many good tight ends this year,
the most notable one Dallas Goddard my boy, who went

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for five catches and seventy two yards. Malvy on the
shelby and blurry scurry be pony and jugs on a raspberry.
He's off the knacko with a tinkle, isn't he? Isn't
he is? Broncos get a sugar basin and a chalk farm.
This is the last London game of the season. Ord
in with Davis Murdy. Bothdavious Murray both get a see.

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Mike Boonen went to i R this week and the
Broncos signed Marlon Mack, who cares. The Jaguars are allowing
a ton of touches to opposing runners around per game.
That's the sixth most, and they're also allowing about a
hundred and forty combo yards per game to runners, tenth most.
The Broncos like they'll split Gordon in Murray's touches this week.
Murray even caught two passes last week, so again they
both get a C grade. Get your ascot races on

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a jam jar on the half inch call it out.
Thank god. Colin mccockney, I'm more. I think the bobbies
are coming for Colin right now. I think he may
have You know, a lot of people hear this show,
including the constables that are looking for the escaped convict.

(12:14):
Colin mccockney, Oh, call them. You called the called the cops.
I was translating and uh texting the authorities. I think
that's probably a very good idea. Multitasking. Yeah, when we
come back, Arizona is taking on the Minnesota Vikings. We'll
tell you what to do with Eno Benjamin. He's back
as a starter. One good game, one bad game. What

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do you expect from Eno Benjamin is Fantasy Football Weekly continues.

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It's take a chance on me. Nine players not normally
in your starting lineup. Many of these guys are available
on your waiver wire. One of mine definitely is I'm
gonna be starting one of mine with who is this guy? Oh?
Hrch I what did I miss in the first segment
I just got here. Sorry, welcome back. You'll be sad
to learn the reapprehension of Colin mccockney. He's been captured again.

(13:32):
That's right. I feel like I'm in an episode of
Carmen San Diego. It's very similar to that Who's the
bad guy in Carmen Sandy? There was a lot of
different ones, but Carmen San Diego was the main band guy.
That's right. There was some girl like that was always
trying to chase out. Yeah, the chiefs, you know, and
the kids, right right, Uh, let's start the quarterback position.
Matt Harrison now joining who is you take a chance

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on me? Quarterback? I've got General Davis Mills coming off
his best game of the year where he threw for
three two yards and two scores against the Raiders. That
was a favorable matchup. So is Tennessee, who is impossible
to run against but very easy to throw on. In
six games this season, four of the quarterbacks who have
faced the Titans have thrown for over three hundred yards,
and five of the quarterbacks who they played have thrown

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for multiple scores. Yorks, take a chance at me, quarterback,
Brian I got former XFL star p J Walker over
the Carolina Panthers at the Falcons, who just just suck
for multiple reasons. We'll get to that later, but on defense,
specifically allowing nearly three yards and two passing touchdowns per game,

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they are second in pass attempts allowed, first and completions.
Walker also has some wheels when needed. The Falcons have
surrendered a quarterback rushing touchdown in two of their last
four games. I'm liking the Panthers and this one led
by p J. Walker. I'm I'm kind of with you
on this. Get this Panthers win their game, They're in
first place. You rowed my lawn a little bit that

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that that game decides that Carolina Land, whoever wins, will
be in first place. And it's amazing. Andy Dalton goes
up against Las Vegas. He's coming off a rare four
touchdown game, which admittedly is very uncommon for him, but
the Raiders offered the promise of statistical upside for Dalton.
Every opposing quarterback has scored multiple touchdowns against Las Vegas.

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Recent success stories include Davis Mills, the take a chance
on the quarterback that Matt Harrison gave us last week.
Russell Wilson. I mean, those are two guys who do
not normally light up the box score. So we'll take
Andy Dalton this week. Let's go to the running back position.
You take a chance on the runner, Matt. I've got
Kenny Gainwell. Now. Miles Sanders is getting around twenty touches

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per game, and that's fine, But the Steelers defense is
seeing around thirty running back touches per game against them
right now, and this game should not be close. It
should be garbage time midway through the third. In his
last two games, game Wells posted yards per carry averages
over five and he scored in one third of his
games this season. So you could do worse than Kenny Gainwell.
All right, Kenny Gainewell in what's your take a chance

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on me? Who is your take a chance on me?
Running back? Brian I got Miami's Chase Edmonds at Detroit. Yes,
I know Wherehee most is the lead back right now,
but Edmunds could still see ten to twelve opportunities against
the Lions, who are allowing these second most rushing yards
and the most the most touchdowns per game to opposing
running backs. Over their last three games, Detroit has allowed
or mondre Stephenson, Rashad Penny in the Dallas back field

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to combine for an average of a hundred and fifty
one rushing yards and one point three touchdowns. So Chase Edmunds,
come on, you're not dead yet. Niheim Hines returned to
health last week and had a big role for the Colts.
He's back is the number two behind Jonathan Taylor. Hines
is one of the league's best pass catching backs, and
that's why I like him. Here he's gonna face a

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Washington defense allowing the most receiving touchdowns two runners, five
of them this year, and that includes last week's monster
line to Aaron Jones. He had nine receptions fifty three
yards and two touchdowns last week. Sam Ellinger's making his
first start. Ellinger is making his first start. I think
there could be a lot of dump off passes, safety
valve receptions for Nikem Hines from Ellinger The Slinger, Ellinger,

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the Slinger, elve Slingerlinger, el Slinger. I like Stage five Linger. Yeah,
that's good too, don't get it, wedding crashers. It's all right, Okay,
let's go to the wide receiver position and or tight
end I've got a wide receiver this week. It's Quez Watkins.
The Steelers are a disaster, and I don't think anybody

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else would their disaster in the secondary. Right now, they're
allowing the most yards per game to wide receivers in
the entire league, at two nine per game. That's enough
for A. J. Brown and Devanta Smith to get their's
and leave some for Quaz who's on the field for
about six of his snaps. So go get him, all right, Brian,
your take a chance of me receiver? Got Scott Fish's boy,

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Terris Marshall, he does bearing him up with p J.
Walker all right. At Atlanta, of course, was allowed these
second most yards and the most recepts and the most
touchdowns per game to opposing wide receivers. At the end,
I've got Trent Sherfield as my deepest dart throw receiver
of the year. Gary, what's that? Gary Sheffield? Not now?

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Gary Sheffield is still getting paid? I think first let's
just start with this. Who the hell is Trent Sherfield.
He's the slot receiver for the Dolphins. He has dominated
the snap count over Cedric Wilson throughout the month of
October and has now solidified himself as the number three
receiver for Miami. Sheffield has had two decent games this year,
including last week forty four yards. The Lions have benched

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their slot cornerback Mike Hues, and now Sherfield's going to
run against a practice squad call up named A. J. Parker.
Parker has played in a total of two games in
his career in which he has allowed one of the
passes in his coverage to be completed. Trent Sherfield, It's
it's a long shot, but hey, you never know. I

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could end up working out stuff throwing those Let's go
back to the matchups, including Arizona taking on Minnesota. I'm
gonna start with the running game, and you know Benjamin,
he's had two games as the starter. Looked very good
last week, I thought, and then totally ineffective the week before.
Probably safely somewhere in between those things here, which is
a totally lame cop out, but it's true. Minnesota owns

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the third best run defense according to Pro Football Focus.
No runners topped eighties seven yards, and that was way
back in Week three. You know, it can catch a
little bit, typically getting three catches a game. Vikings are
middle of the road and covering runners out of the
backfield have not allowed to touch down that way. James
kind of ruled out of this game. Thought about giving,
you know, Benjamin a B grade, but I can only
get him to see here. But it's it was close,

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but I'm gonna go with a firm C grade, you know, Benjamin.
Let's go to the passing game. Kyler Murray rarely puts
it all together in one game. He hasn't finished any
week higher than QB seven this year, and his average
finishes a disappointing QB thirteen for Kyler Murray. And didn't
the new call of duty just come out too? And
the new call of Duty came out on Friday? So

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how can Kyler Murray be expected to pay any attention
to the game plan? Not gonna happen. Can it all
come together from Minnesota? Don't know, don't think so. We
tortured the Vikings last year. I'll note that four hundred
yards and three touchdowns, and the Vikings just gave up
four hundred yards in their last game. But that's been
an anomaly for a ben But don't break Minnesota defense
that's otherwise allowed l A allowed a more manageable two

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hundred sixty two yards and an eighth one zero point
eight touchdowns per game. So I've just got the B
grade on Kyler Murray here a grin and DeAndre Hopkins.
Though big game in his return last week, I don't
think we need to spend a lot of time on this,
but I'll note that he ran a bunch of plays
from the slot last week and that would put him
into the most favorable coverage against the Vikings against cornerback

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Shandon Sullivan, who is the weakest of the three Vikings corners.
Zach Ertz also gets an A grade. Vikings linebackers have
struggled against coverage, especially against tight ends Eric Kendricks and
Jordan Hicks. Hicks Hicks is allowed the fourth most receiving
yards of any linebacker this season, and Mike Gasecki torched
the Vikings for six receptions and two touchdowns last game.

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And the last guy I want to talk about from
the Cardinals is Ron del Moore. Normally I don't spend
time on him, but he posted a career best one
hundred fourteen yards against Minnesota last year and scored the
only touchdown of his career against the Vikings. He's last
year posted the league's shortest a dot, which was right
around one yard. This year six shortist so it's gonna

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be a lot of short stuff and that's why he's
only a C grade here. But the Vikings give up
a lot of cushion at the line of scrimmage, and
I do see him catching five six balls. All right,
let's go to the Viking side. You know, Justin Jefferson
is an obvious A grade Adam feelings a seat. He's
averaging just two point four yards of separation per route,
that is the twelfth lowest among wide receivers. Still, he's
seen at least seven targets in five straight games, and

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that volume should lead to a decent game here. Theeland
will likely see cornerback Byron Murphy no matter where he
lines up, because Murphy is one of the few cornerbacks
that will go into the slot and play outside. He's
allowed at least four receptions for fifty yards in each
of the last three weeks, and I think fifty yards
feels about right for feeling. I think they should use
him more in the red zone than they do, and
and hopefully that will change a nice opportunity if you

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need a sleeper tight end off the waiver wire, think
about IRV Smith, who may be available in your league.
About fifty rostered Arizona is allowed the most receptions, the
second most yards, and the most receiving touchdowns. Two tight ends.
I've got a B grade on IRV Smith and lastly,
Uh from the passing game, Kirk Cousins. Frustratingly, Cousins has
the league's shortest average throw, just six point four yards.

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It is a disheartening schematic decision that has sapped the
upside from one of the league's best deep ball passers.
It's killing me. Andy Dalton's picked apart the Andy Dalton
picked apart the Cardinal secondary last Thursday and they ran
thirty in coverage. The prior four quarterbacks, though, to face
Arizona have only average two hundred twenty yards and incredibly

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just zero point two five touchdowns, which is weird. I
think I don't know why. It is not a great
Cardinal secondary and teams have thrown on him like crazy,
but the box scores haven't added up. They're good at
diving into the end zone off of pick six? Is
that that was pretty fun? That's pretty good. Cousins of
B grade. Lastly, Dalvin cooks Uh Cook, excuse me, largely
because of a mediocre secondary, Arizona is seeing just eighteen

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rushes per game, so I don't know the volume is
gonna be on cook side here, which worries me a
little bit. Uh. Fortunately, he has top five point two
yards per carry in three of the past four games,
so Cook has been at least running reasonably well lately.
The Cardinals have only allowed Kenneth Walker to reach seventy
yards well. Josh Jacobs, Christian McCaffrey, and Alvin Camara alf

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low seventy yards. Cook is getting more red zone looks lately,
which is also helpful, and we've got some optimism for
an elusive, relatively elusive Dalvin Cook touchdown. Alright, our next
matchup and final matchup of this segment is Las Vegas
taking on New Lens Brian. Yeah, we're gonna start with
Josh Jacobs six in rushing attempts, third in rushing yards,

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second in rushing touchdowns among running backs, and he's only
he's been on He's on one of the team several
teams that have had their bi already, and he still
ranks that high. Among running backs just in an absolute
bell Cow also one of fifteen running backs who catch
at least twenty passes so far. And the Saints run
defense not as stout as it's been in the past
their top ten in the most rushing yards allowed to

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running back, So in a for Josh Jacobs getting that
DeMarco Murray treatment that we predicted, like way back in
the spring, possible we did talk about that they're just
gonna just grinding them up so that they can let
him go in the off season. Let somebody else get
all the wear and tear on. Josh Jacobs definitely worthy
of the peacock there. Davante Adams dealing with a bit
of a flu bug I guess, but you should be

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good to go. Going to give him an a. The
Saints just put cornerback Bradley Roby on I R and
they should remain without corners march On Lattimore stud corner
in that regard and pauls in Nadebo. The Saints have
read surrendered six wide receiver touchdowns over the last three
weeks and have allowed a one yard receiver in each
of their last four. For that reason, I'll give Hunter
renfro with C. I mean, it's two games since returning

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from injury. Renfat Renfa was only seen seven targets, but
he's caught them all and this could be a get
right game for Renfro against the very banged up secondary
of the Saints. Uh. Speaking of banged up, Darren Waller
kind of been banged up the last two seasons, it
seems like. But uh, he's been practicing this week, so
I'm optimistic could be ready to go and overcome his
hamstring injury. But it's a brutal matchup on paper. The
Saints are allowing less than thirty yards per game to

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tight ends and they have yet to surrender a touchdown
to the positions. With just a C for wall Or
if he's able to play. But I'll give Derek Carr
a B. Didn't do much against Houston last week coming
off the by, but he's still throwing multiple scores in
four of six games. And again, the Saints defense just
reeling from injuries, especially in the secondary, So safe B
for car Over the Saint side. I'm gonna give Alvin

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Kamara an A. Since the start of Kamara is averaging
nearly thirty more combo yards per game. When Jay ms
Winston isn't the quarterback, which will be the case again
this week. Las Vegas has only allowed three scores running
backs all season, but they allow seven catches per game
to the position to the position, and that's all I
really need to give Alvin Kamara in a in this matchup.

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Over the wide receivers, Cristal Lava safe be here without
shutdown corner Nate Hobbs, who's now on I R. The
Raiders allowed too wide receiver touchdown so Houston last week,
and a Lobby just looks great, and Andy Dalton loves
to look his way, so safe be. Dalton doesn't have
the armful those deep passes we were seeing to a
Lava earlier in the season, but you know the opposite
part of that is he throws a catchable pass to

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a Lava, So yeah, it's still very valuable. Now over
to the the nightmare wide receiver to situation where Michael
Thomas and Jarvis Landry have been ruled out. Disaster there,
there's no reason to talk about now, there's too many
I mean, Kevin White getting yeah, we're not going there.
To the tight ends kind of interesting here, and give
Taysom Hill and Juwan Johnson to see we all know

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the deal with Hill total wild card. He did catch
a pass last week, his second of the season. I
will say that the Raiders have allowed the second most
red zone touchdowns despite having thereby and that bodes well
for Hill and his wild card bs that they run
with him. But over the more traditional tight end Juwan Johnson,
he gets the C two. As I said, the Raiders
are allowing more than five catches and fifty yards per

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game to tight ends. So I like Jawan Johnson in
the tight end wasteland. Uh. And lastly, Andy Dalton charges
take chanceman quarterback. Yeah. I like Andy Dalton this week
and think he's got a nice opportunity here and the
fact you've got so many letter grades that's terrific. When
we come back, New England takes on the Jets, they're

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going back to mac Jones for reasons that are uncleared too.
Basically everybody will find out the impact that that has.
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Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson
with you. You You can follow us on Twitter at Paul
Charchy in You have to figure out how to spell
it at explosive output and at B t x J respectively.
You don't have to figure out how to spell that one.
I hope not. I mean, I don't know how you
could break that down anymore granularly than bt x b

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E E C E e x g j Y the
letter itself in the When you spell out the letter,
can you include the letter you got this Burner account
actually got the multiple underscores and uh. For reasons that
only Bill Belichick knows, Mac Jones is back under helm
at least to start the game, who knows for how long.

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At least it's not a home game, will will be
booing mac Jones like last week. What do you expect
for Mac Jones against a much improved Jet secondary. Well,
Bill Belichick is so smart, we don't understand the mind
games he's playing with with you, with me, with the
fan base, with with Mac Jones and Bailey's appy whole
different level of understanding of really human engineering. I think

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until we get one of the quarterbacks to start and
finish a whole game, you have to keep everybody on
the bench for for the quarterbacks. They're also starting center
David Andrews will miss this game due to a concussion,
so that makes things worse for the quarterback position. Jacoby
Myers is the starter in the passing game, though he's
been pretty reliable. He gets to see it doesn't matter

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who the quarterback is. He's at double digit PPR points
in every game he's played this year. Myers runs out
of the slot mostly so he'll avoid the coverage of
Sauce Gardner, who will mostly be locked in on DeVante Parker,
which is why he's on the bench. This is a
pre premature speculation, but keep an eye on Tae Kwon Thornton.
The Pats are giving him like five to six touches
per game and he's blazing fast. Romander A Stevenson, he

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gets a B grade. I'm leaving Damien Harris on the bench.
Harris is not on the injury report this week, although
initially when he had this hamstring injury, they said it
was like a four week variety and he came back
after missing one week. And Harris only saw three touches
and last week in Chicago, so Stevenson had nineteen there,
including eight receptions. The Jets are average against every running

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back category, so I think Stevenson probably carries the load
this week. On the other side, the running back position
is sad because Bruce Hall is gone for the year.
The Jaguars traded James Robinson to the Jets, but I
think for the foreseeable future, Michael Carter is the guy
in this backfield. I agree they I think they traded
James Robinson knowing he's kinda watched. Yeah. Probably, I'll give

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Carter a see here based on the fact that I
think he gets of the touches this week. And while
the Packers are sorry, the Patriots are a great run defense.
They have allowed the tenth most receiving yards to opposing backs,
and Carter is really good at that. In fact, in
his last meeting with the Pats, Carter was targeted nine
times and he had eight catches for sixty seven yards.

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Robinson on the bench for me this week. Let's see
how much of the playbook he picked up? And actually
how healthy is Zack Wilson is on your bench? So
is Garrett Wilson and the rest of the passing game.
In the meeting last year where Wilson started and finished
the game against New England, he through for two yards
and four interceptions. He got injured in the other game
against the Pats last season. He also doesn't looked good

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since his return. He's averaging only on passing yards and
has thrown only one touchdown pass in four games. Also,
Corey Davis out with this week with a knee injury.
Elijah Moore might play if his tantrum has subsided, but
I'm not I'm not thrilled about putting him in my lineup. No,
for sure not. Do you know what Wilson will see
a ton of action in that game? The football. It's

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called the Duke. It's called the Duke. Yes, so is
the original Xbox controller. So take o Chicago. I don't
want to take a duke. Chicago takes on Dallas, and
we're gonna start with the running game here. I've got
s grades on both David Montgomery and the ground Bear
Khalil Herbert. This seems closing in on a fifty fifty

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time share with Monty ground Bear. Fortunately, Chicago's game plan
will heavily feature the run. As always, considering Dallas is
incredible pass rush, they will run a lot in this game.
Chicago already runs at the league's highest run rate and
the second highest rushes per game thirty five per game,
and even with justin Field siphoning off some of those carries,
that is enough volume to make both Monty and ground

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Bear plausible starters. Dallas is the middle of the road
run defense, and probably get this, Chicago has Pro Football
focuses top ranked offensive line for run blocking. That's not right.
That's got to be some kind of type over miss print.
Let's go to the rest of the Bears that you
care about. Mark Darnell Moon is the only other player
with the starting grade, and that's a B grade here.
He runs from the slot and Dallas slot cornerback Jordan

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Lewis had season ending Liz Frank surgery. So fifth round
rookie da Ron Bland. He can't remember his name for
some reason. Durn Bland likely defends Mooney here. In his
only full game, Bland has allowed nine receptions on eleven
targets for eight yards. Darnell Mooney b grade here. We're

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not gonna bother with anybody else except justin Fields. So
I'll mention is on the bench attempting to follow up
Fields as impressive Monday Night performance with a start this week.
But here's the problem. Dallas is wreaking havoc on every
opposing core her back. They own the top ranked pass
rush by Pro Football Focus in Chicago's offensive line is
not good despite that number one ranking and run blocking,

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what's gonna happen here? They're gonna pressure Fields. Fields is
gonna try to scramble, and he's gonna scramble himself into turnover,
sacks and other misq's. And I'm not I am not
going to try justin Fields here. Zeke Elliott not expected
to play in this game. Let's talk Tony Pollard with
the highest ranking I've ever given him, he is my
number nine ranked running back right now. If um, if

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it turns out Zeke does decide to play, which I
do not expect, then we'll knock him down to grade.
But right now, a grade for Tony Pollard. Next Gen
stats has got pology is the fourth most efficient running back,
and Zeke has been dominating. The art is really everywhere
but including the short stuff. But Paul, it's gonna get
all that work. And the Bears have seen the third
most rushing attempts and they've allowed a rushing score in
every game. I love Tony Pollard in this start the

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Pollard vark. No, Nope, nope, why not? I can't give
the funds. You've done it payback. That's good. This is
this is not okay. Let's talk about Dak Prescott's grade here.
I thought he looked pretty wobbly in his return last
week against a far inferior past defense Detroit shockingly second

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best past defense, allowing just one yards per game. They've
got some young talent in that secondary. Since Week two,
every opposing quarterback has thrown zero or one touchdown against
Chicago and in recent games, the Giants were held at
eighty two passing yards. Carson wentz to yards and then
last Monday, Bailey's happy through for a D five yards

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against Chicago. This is a legit past defense. I don't
like Dak Presscott much, just the se grade. The one
guy I do like, Ceedee Lamb. I mentioned Chicago's got
this great young defense that they're building, except their slock
cornerback is terrible. That's Kyler Gordon. He's allowed the most
receptions and the most yards of any cornerback in the league,

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and the second most yards after the catch. So Ceedee Lamb,
who has started running from the slot with Michael Gallup's
return sitting on a B grade. In this game, Chicago
is allowing the second fewest receptions the third fewest yards
overall to opposing receivers, which is why all the other
receivers for Dallas, including Michael Gallup, are on the bench.
Last guy I want to mention his Dalton Sheltz. In

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the two game Sheltz is played with Dak Prescott, He's
had fifteen targets in those two games, twelve receptions, hundred
nine yards. That's very promising, but the Bears have given
up the fifth fewest points in just one touchdown to
tight ends all season and is ongoing knee injury. It's
just every week he hobbles into the game, he gets
hurt in the game, then after missing some plays, he

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comes back out and he's limping through the game. But
in the tight end, tight end waste Land. We're gonna
go ahead and give a c great to Dalton l
because you just don't have better options out there. Final
matchup of this segment is my Well, maybe we'll find
out Miami taking on Detroit. Brian I can make this
move pretty quick. We'll start with the Miami side where

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he most gets an A. Uh. The Lions are allowing
the second most rushing yards and the most touchdowns per
game to opposing running backs. That's why Chase Edmonds was
might take a chance on me running back. If the
Dolphins give thirty opportunities to their running backs, which I
think they will, they both should be viable. Tyree Kill
and Jalen Waddle certainly viable, and this one both get
an A. Detroit allows one seventy yards per game to

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wide receivers. They might not both produce a level production,
but there Uh, it's a possibility for sure. And Trent
Shuffield charges take a chance on me? Why yet? And
I'm gonna give Mike Sicky of starting grade two, he
gets to see opposing tight ends or averaging five and
a half ketches and sixty three yards per game against
the Lions. Last week, Dallas tight ends combined for eight catches,

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sixty one yards and a touchdown against Detroit. And when
we're giving starting grades to Trent Shutfield and Mike asiki
uh to a tongue of viola, it's an a of course,
especially when throwing to Tyree killing Jalen Waddle. So Miami
should put up plenty of points in this one. So
batch of bodewell for the Lions. Right, who will get
DeAndre Swift back, most presumably finally shoulder injury. I'm gonna

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give him a B. Miami has allowed five rushing scores
running backs over their last four games and will likely
be without defensive end Emmanuel Ogba and safety Brandon Jones.
Lions running backs as a whole or averaging three point
two yards before contact per carry, that's elite. That's the
third highest clip in the league. So welcome back DeAndre Swift.
And even if Swift comes back, Jamal Williams still gets

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to see should see plenty of work with Swift back
in the lineup, especially near the goal line. He was
the preferred goal line back for Detroit when Swift was healthy,
so was C for Williams. I'm gonna give it monros
st Brown a B for now not officially playing, but
should make his return from a concussion. Now he didn't
actually have the concussion, which is a very important point
for this. He just had symptoms that they were worried about.

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So I think he comes back in place. I do too,
and it's a good matchup Miami allowing nearly one d
seventy yards and a touchdown per game to wide receivers.
Safety Brandon Jones, who I just mentioned it's actually done
for the season. He's on I R, so he's not
likely out. He is out. Uh So Sun God is
in with a B, as is Josh Reynolds. Will give
him a C in what in a game that should
be a shootout, and Reynolds will be started. I don't

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think d J. Shark is gonna make his return or
if he's even in the league anymore, So a C
for Reynolds and a B for t J. Hockenson, even
though if you take away his monster game against Seattle
of eight catches one seventy nine yards and two touchdowns.
He's been pretty mediocre in his other five games. He's
total just fifteen catches on thirty six yards and one
touchdown across those five games. But despite all that, it's

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a great match up against Miami, who has allowed the
fourth most fantasy points to tight ends this season. And
I like Jared Goff again. Uh, or back to liking
Jared Goff. He gets to be. His last two games
have been pretty bad, but they were against tough opponents
on the road, New England and Dallas. He was without
DeAndre Swift a monro St Browns for those two games
for the most part. Uh, you know, Detroit, he's gonna

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give up points to the Dolphins, so they're gonna have
to chase him. So I golf this week with the beat. Alright,
let's see if we can tuck in. How much Robbie,
how much time do we have? Yeah, let's try to
do it. Let's try to work in Pittsburgh taking on Philadelphia.
Matt Sure, I'll start with Naji Harris, who I considered
benching here, but I'll give him the lowest possible grade
we have. That's not a bench. How far how far

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the letters go? Chart to see. Okay, that is the
see where at sea level? All right? Harris has had
sixteen and twenty touches in his last two games, which
is up a bit. Problem is he's having trouble cracking
fifty total yards. He's been held under that mark in
three of seven games this year. And the Eagles are great,
of course against runners, the second fewest total yards allowed
to the position. However, they do give up rushing touchdowns

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at a high rate, about one per game. The volume
plus the shot at a score is why you still
see the rest of the Steelers are on the bench.
Philly is allowing the fewest passing yards in the league
at two eight yards per game. They have the second
most interceptions in the league. They've picked the ball off
nine times and only six games. And Kenny get he's
played the better part of four games. He's thrown two

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touchdown passes in seven interceptions. So the Eagles have a
better chance to catch Kenny Pickett touchdown pass than the
Steelers do. Jalen Hurts is the fantasy art Vark this week.
That's right, you don't, Yeah, so I have to like
his receivers. Pro Football Focus does a wide receiver cornerback
Matchup tool and they give a score of zero to
one hundred. The higher the number, the better the matchup.

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This week they gave A. J. Brown's matchup with Arthur
Mullett a perfect one. I've never even seen that before.
So he gets an A. DeVonta Smith gets a B.
Even Quez Watkins was might take a chance on me
player he gets a SEA and Dallas Goddard gets a
B grade. He'll probably be the highest scoring tight end
this week because we're in the middle of the tight

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end waste land. Finally, Miles Sanders he gets an A grade.
He's getting nearly all the work over the rest of
the backfield, averaging twenty touches per game. And I like
the matchup so much I used Kenny Gainewell as might
take a chance on me runner. There's gonna be garbage
time galore in this one. See a one sided game
coming as well. Well done on that. By the way,
the less than three minute matchup is a rarity one

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that was that was that was excellent, very very impressive.
Our number two coming up and which we will continue
to break down games, including Tennessee taking on Houston Ryan Tannehill.
Not for this game will tell you if there's anybody
other than Derrick Henry to play in that game. And
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was in that conversation, Travis Kelsey's on the by not
obvious who you might take. I'm looking at the guys,
but they're buying the rear of you. Jefferson makes some sense.
Our number two Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next, our

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number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Matt Harrison
and Brian Johnson with you. This is a game we
like to call three tough questions. We encourage you to
play along. They see if you can go three and oh.
Tough question number one, what is the what is the
frequency Kenneth Walker will score touchdowns the rest of the year.

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Is it one touchdown or more per game? One half
to one touchdown per game, or less than half a
touchdown per game? What is the frequency, Kenneth Matt? Oh,
now I get it. Now, you get it. Now, you guys,
you're like, how many times is he going across the stipe? Oh?

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That's good, that's very good. Since offensive coordinator Shane Waldron
joined the team at the beginning of last season, the
Seahawks have played games They're running backs have twenty one
touchdowns on the ground and zero through the air. It's
a very solid just under one average. And well, Ken
Walker did score two last week. I don't think that

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that should be the expectation going forward, especially with DK
Metcalf out for a while. That should focus the defense
more on Walker. So I'll say just under one per game,
the half to one per game area, All right, Brian,
what it? Well? Hang on Walker? Well score touchdowns? Is

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it one or more per game, half to one per
game or less than half. I don't have much to
add to what Matt said U other than according to
Fantasy pros, the Seahawks have the hardest remaining string schedule
for running backs. So I'm not gonna go one or
one plus per game, but I'll stick to the half
to one touchdown per game and that good. I looked

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at football guys for their strength of schedule and it
was straight in the middle. So who knows. Walkers scored
at over one touchdown per game as the starter so far,
the massive workload. I love, the twenty one carries, the
twenty three carries. Pro Football Focus loves Kenneth Walker ranking
is the fifth best runner. You just look at him, dude,

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so explosive. One thing to note the playoffs schedule for
Kenneth Walker. You guys, do you? Did you? When you're
looking at the schedule, you notice this San Francisco, Kansas
City is currently number one and run defense and then
the much improved Jets run defense. Actually three pretty tough
games in the fantasy playoffs. I'll mention that he doesn't catch,

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but that doesn't really affect the touchdowns so much because
most running backs don't catch many touchdown get a lot
of receiving touchdowns. Still, roll this together, and it's maybe
it's just my optimism because I loved Kenneth Walker coming
into the draft one or more touchdown per game. Kenneth Walker.
Tough question number two. Wait a minute, By the way,

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we got that Kenneth Walker thing just about right in
the preseason when we were like, when is he going
to take over the backfield? It was about week six
and we just nailed it. You're you're right about that,
you know, because you knew it. Take a little bit
of time. We were waiting for a shot Penny to
either get hurt or just yielded. Eventually that ended up happening.
Tough question number two. Should fantasy owners just drop outright

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a j Dylan Brian Yeah, I mentioned earlier he has
less rushing yards and Daniel Jones in the same amount
of games. I mean, you're basically just holding on to
Dylan right now in hopes of something happening to Aaron Jones,
and we don't want to hope for injury. I guess
if I, if I roster Aaron Jones, I'll hold on
to Allen as the you know, the the safety handcuff.

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But if not, usually like to take the handcuffs of
other running backs. But I'm not gonna just squat on
Dylon because he's not doing much of anything. He's on
pace for less than a thousand yards and about three
touchdowns if he's lucky. So, yeah, you can drop him
just the one touchdown to this point of the season, Matt, Yeah,
I just go ahead and drop A J. Dillon. Yeah,
I think I think that's right. He hasn't scored since

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Week one, under four point five yards per carry in
five of seven games, and only twenty total carries in
the last three weeks. Yuck. It's time to drop him,
and that it's time to drop more members of that offense.
In standard leagues, Aaron Rodgers should be on the waiver wire.
I'm with you one quarterback league. Aaron Rodgers does not
belong as a starter, he said. Just he's just a

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waiver guy that you can pick up in good matchups.
Right now, he's Andy Dalton. Now, wow, that's bad. Aaron
Jones is playing great football, great football. He's almost six
yards a carry and meanwhile, running behind the same line
in the same scheme, here's A J. Dillon running at
three point nine yards per carry. They've really tapered off
his carries as well. Over the last three games. A J.

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Dillon just four rushes, ten rushes and six Rushes, and
then the receiving has never come together entirely for a J. Dillon.
He's chipping in a little, but not enough there. He's
literally nothing more than an insurance policy behind Aaron Jones
in a very faltering offense. Yeah, you need to drop
a J. Dillon to make room for somebody more promising,

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like perhaps some of the players were going to talk
about in premature speculation later in the show. Go ahead
and do it tough. Question number three, with Jamaar Chase
out until after Thanksgiving? Is t Higgins a top five,
top ten, top fifteen or worse wide receiver from this

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point going forward? Matt in PPR scoring points per game,
Higgins is currently the wide receiver number nineteen. Uh, same thing.
Last season he was wide receiver fourteen. Well, I do
think there's a few more targets to go around. I
also think there's more double coverage coming this way. And
what's bad for the offense is bad for the offense.

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So I'll stick is a top fifteen wide receiver. But
I don't think you can climb into the top ten
anytime soon. Okay, Brian is Tee Higgins with Jamar Chase
out until after Thanksgiving. Is te Higgins a top five,
top ten, top fifteen or worse fantasy receiver? Yeah, I'm
with Matt. I think Tyler Boyd does better than te
Higgins while Jamar chases out And hopefully it is only

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more than it's not more than the four to six weeks.
Hopefully Chase can come back within that time frame. But yeah,
Higgins is gonna see a ton of double coverage. So
I think Boyd outproduces Higgins. Oh yeah, that's bold. I'm
with him. I think Tyler Boyd's coming up on some big,
big games coming here outscoring Tee Higgins. Sure, he's gonna

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be the primary. Te Higgins is a wide receiver one.
When Jamar Chase place that, I mean, they feed off
of each other. Without Chase Higgins, Higgins is gonna struggle
a little. Um it is. You know what Matt said.
I believe in that when anything that hurts the offense
hurts everybody in the offense to some degree most of
the time, and I think that's probably the case here.

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But Chase leaves behind ten targets per game. Now, obviously
all ten are gonna go to Tee Higgins. Obviously there's
gonna be some that go to like Stanley Morgan and
the other Michael Thomas, who will probably by the way,
I'll score the original Michael Thomas. The rest of that
is that like prison Mike. So let's just say Higgins

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gets three of those ten targets per game, which I
think is reasonable. That puts te Higgins at over an
almost eleven targets per game. And when te Higgins gets
ten or more targets his average game seven receptions, nineties
six yards and almost a full touchdown per game, that
puts him on pace to be a top five wide receiver.

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When I gonna dial it back just a little bit
because he will get better coverage. So we're gonna say
top ten outcome for Jamaar Chase the rest of the way.
What about hating Hurst getting a lot of these TETs,
I think I think sitting there, I got aiden Hurst
a bunch of leagues. I'm hanging onto a movie. It's working.
One more matchup Pittsburgh. Oh, we already did that one.

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It's me watch Hey, it's me, Hey, it's you. It's
the Commanders taken on the Indianapolis Colts. Let's talk through
the commander side. We've got a bunch of c grades here.
Let's start with the running backs. You know, the Brian
Robinson story is great. We're all rooting for Brian Robinson
turning back from the gunshot, wounds and everything else. He
saysn't look that good. I hate to say it. For

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three consecutive weeks, the Robinson has increased his touches, his yards,
and his rushing yards per attempts are trending the right way,
but his production tops out at three point seven yards
per carry and his next Gen stats he's the third
least efficient runner in the league. The Colts of a
lot of backfields to run for at least ninety four
yards in four straight games, letting six different backs accumulate

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more than fifty yards in that span. So you can
try Robinson, you can try Gibson, who I just objectively,
Gibson looks better. It's not. I know it's not the
narrative that people want to hear. But if you just
watch Gibson and you watch Brian Robinson, Gibson looks better.
If only he didn't fumble the ball one out of
like eight times he touched it. Um there are injuries

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I should mention to the Colts their run stuff for
Shaquille Leonard and Quitty pay are not expected to play
in this game, and on carries inside the ten yard line,
let me mention this. Robinson's got four and Gibson has
got one. While it's been a split backfield, that four
to one ratio gives Robinson touchdown upside that Gibson does
not have. All right, let's go to the receivers for Washington,

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Matt Yeah, Tetery McLaren. The Colts are allowing the fewest
receptions and yards per game to opposing receivers, which is
a shocking turn around for that secondary. They also allow
the fifth few is to air yards allowed per game.
That really limits mclaurin's ability to get downfield here. That's
teary now, Flora carnback Stephan Gilmore is not the shutdown

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corner he once was, but he's still good. He's allowing
a passer rating of just seventy two and has yet
to allow a touchdown in his coverage. I can only
give a C grade to Terry McLaren coming off a
nice game last week. To Curtis Samuel, you know the
bid on him. He catches a lot of passes but
they're all super short, and then you're just hoping he
runs for something, and it usually doesn't amount to very much. Indianapolis,

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as I mentioned, allowing the fewest receptions and yards per
game to opposing receivers, but they are more vulnerable in
the slot, and that's where Samuel lines up the vast
majority of the time. You'll go up against Kenny Moore.
He opened the season by allowing touchdowns in three straight games,
but it is not allowed one since Curtis Samuel c
grade here. Tyler Heineke had a nice game last week
against a good past defense, and here's another good one.

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I just but I can't get myself to to start him.
Three the last four quarterbacks to face Indie have failed
to top one hundred sixty three passing yards. That is nothing.
So I feel like that's one sixty three sounds about
right for Taylor Heineken. That is a bench grade. And
then Logan Thomas might make his first appearance in a month.
But let's this thing play out and just see how
healthy he is before we actually start him here, alright,

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Colt side Colts offensive line awful. You know, quentn Nelson
was at one point and he's still probably it is
their best lineman by a lot. Everybody else's garbage right now,
they were like consensus top five right right now. They
ranked twenties seven and pass blocking by Pro Football Focus

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and thirty in run blocking. That is the biggest problem
the Colts have on offense, is that offensive line. So
with that, let's go talk. Let's talk about Jonathan Taylor.
Is this finally the breakout game for Taylor? He looks healthy.
He returned last week and ran for almost six yards
per carry against a in Tennessee defense, and he hauled

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in his season high seven receptions, which he loved. Over
the last three games, the Commanders are allowing one hundred
thirty four total yards and almost two touchdowns per game
to opposing running backs, but those totals are coming from
unders who are getting a lot of looks and Taylor's
usages all over the board, including a meager ten inexcusable

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ten carries last week. So I can only give a
B grade to Taylor because I can't assure you that
he's gonna get the volume that he should get from
Frank Reich Nihiem Hines was might take a chance on
me running back and I've got a bunch of C
grades for you from the rest of the passing game.
Let's go. Let's start with the Let's talk about the

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second year guy getting his first NFL start, Sam Ellinger.
For what it's worth, he had a great preseason and
Ellinger is a runner. He scored thirty three rushing touchdowns
in college in at Texas. Yeah. Absolutely, so give good competition.
He's gonna need to run because the Colts offense line
is awful. Matt Ryan was the most hit quarterback in

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the league. So you figure that Ellen's gonna be running
for his life a lot. He'll turn some of little
scrambles into rushing yards. And Justin Fields ran for eighty
eight yards against the Commanders two weeks ago, So I
think Ellinger is gonna end up finishing like the forty
fifty rushing yard area. And if he just throws like
one touchdown two hundred yards, you've got a C grade

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on Sam Ellinger. Speaking as C grades, his three receivers
all get three grades and C grades, including Mike Pittman.
Pittman hasn't scored since the opener and hasn't caught a
single red zone pass, which is incredibly depressing, and hopefully
that will change under Sam Ellinger. The Commander's secondary much
improved since the benching of miserable cornerback William Jackson. Over

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the past four games, only one wide out has scored
none of top eighty four yards. Pittman spends most of
his time on the left side, where he's gonna find
former Gopher Benjamin st. Juice, who has only allowed a
forty percent catch rate. So it is a tough matchup,
but on volume, I'm still giving a C grade to
Michael Pittman. Paris Campbell has seen a surge in usage lately.
That's my guy, but that was with Matt Ryan. It's

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unclear if that's going to be the case with Sam Ellan.
Here we hope. So he got a he's got a
favorable matchup in the slot against mostly untested starter Rashot
wild Goose. I love the name wild Goose, and I'm
looking on here. All we've got this is close. But
we also have the mon goose that's right here now.

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It was if it was Rashot. We got a vulture
on there, we got a peacock, we got several birds,
but no waterfowl all over the place. I hate geese,
like one of my least favorite animals. They're jerks the
worst they are jerks. They're they're basically just poop machines
for honest about it. Alec Pierce has been an effective
Fantasy performer in three of the past four weeks, and

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he's got a promising matchup against Kendall Fuller, who's allowed
three touchdowns in a pinch. You could try Alec Pierce
as well. All right, let's take a break. When we
come back, Carolina taking on Atlanta winner Donta Foreman the
winner's championship game. Donta Foreman looks like he's gonna be

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the starting running back with Cuba hoverard out. I saw
the Panthers win. They dropped sixteen draft spots from where
they currently are right, which is now what they want.
So they need to lose this game. Find out how
you feel and if you can start dot to Foreman.
When we returned Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Paul Churchi and Guillotine at leagues dot Com, Matt Harrison,
Brian Johnson with you, Carolina takes on Atlanta to Foreman
with hey, really nice game last week is Carolina surprised.
Everybody's day blew out. Tampa Bay now losers of two straight.
What do you expect with Chuba Hobbard out? What do
you expect from dot to Foreman? This week? He gets

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an A. It's great grilling season. I mean he's playing
the Falcons who were awful on defense, allowing nearly on
compoyards per game to opposing running backs. Foreman looking at
a bell cow roll here U Tuba started both games
against Atlanta last year. Again he is out. But Tuba
scored in both games against Atlanta last year, so I

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feel like a touchdown is a lock performan. So I
don't give him an a very safe B, but he's
got a potential. I'm rolling with the A and d
J Moore keep the a's coming. He gets one as
well Lanta. J Moore, Yeah, he see his touchdown last week?
That pretty It was pretty impressive and uh it's a
much matchup. Rephrase another way, did you see his only
touchdown of the year. Yeah, Look, it doesn't matter. We're

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just focused on the president and in president. Currently, he's
basing the Falcons, who have allowed the second most yards,
the most receptions and the most touchdowns per game to
opposing wide receivers. So in a for d J. Moore,
And that's why Terris Marshall was might take a chance
on the wide receiver. I I like the Giants who
have to just scrub tight ends. I wanted to give
either Tommy Tremble or Ian Thomas a starting grade Atlanta

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allowing more than seven catches and seven yards per game
to opposing tight ends. But I can't go there. If
I had to pick one, I'd probably go Tremble, but
that I got them both on the bench. But uh not,
p J. Walker might take a chance on my quarterback
just in this this cake matchup. I like PJ. Here.
Over to the Atlanta side. Uh starting with Fish's uh
fantasy league mate, Tyler l Gier, you can get him

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a see no one runs. I kind of like him here. Yeah,
no one runs more than the Falcons, who spent the
eighth overall pick on Drake London this year and the
fourth overall pick on Kyle Pitts last year. Makes total sense.
Arthur Smith. Someone's gonna tell Arthur Smith that Derrick Henry
isn't on his team anymore. You can't just they're running
the ball profusely down against the Bengals. Doesn't matter that

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it matters managed fantasy players, but uh a see for Algier.
The Panthers have allowed four touchdowns are running backs over
their last three games, So you're gonna start Algier in
most cases, especially for Tyler Algier. We'll have to ask
official though, if he's starting himself this week. But uh,
we'll say you started with the Sea. Gonna give Drake
London to see. Uh, even though the Falcons Marcus Mariotta

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just aren't allowed to throw basically, but Carolina has about
the second most catches per game to wide receivers and
nearly one and seventy yards, So I think that philosophy
of not throwing the ball has to shift a little
bit here. So a Sea for Drake London and a
B for Kyle Pitts. Come on now, Carolina, just stop

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tight end waste and it is the tight end waste
end in Brian can't wasted right now. Carolina gave up
six catches for ninety yards to Tampa's tight ends last week.
Tampa Bay, the worst team in the division by the way.
Arthur Smith six in the first place. Pits had five

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catches for sixty one yards and the most recent meeting
with the Panthers last season. I'm calling that a floor
for Pitts in this one. I'm giving him a beat
running back, but I'm benching Marcus Mariota for very obvious reasons.
Well unfortunately, yes, he's got the rushing ability. I think
there's better options p J. Walker, for one, I'd rather
play p J Walker over Marcus Mariota. I believe the

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number is eighteen and a half passes per game for Mariota.
You simply can't cobble together thirteen pass attempts last week
in a game, you get blown out. Talk a little
bit more about that quarterback situation later. Wink wink. Okay,
got it, got it, Okay, let's talk about Tennessee taking
on Houston. Matt Ryan Tannehill has got a bad ankle

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in this one, and the primary thing he does for
fantasy owners is the occasional rushing touchdown. You take that
off the board, and now I'm not interested. But if
that's the primary thing he does, now he's just not
going to be in line seven rushing touchdowns a year. Yeah,
not this year though, So he wasn't a walking boot
at the end of last week. With the ankle injury

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was limited in practice on Thursday. If he can't go,
Molik Willis gets a start. If he starts, I think
i'd actually give him a see just on his rushing
ability alone, but it's likely going to be a very
hobbled Ryan Tannehill. It's so easy to run against the
Texans that no one passes their top twelve and every
statistical category against the pass. So Robert Woods he probably

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would have been the only receiver you'd consider here, but
he's averaging forty yards per game, has just one score
on the year, so he's on the bench. So the
only guy on the Tennessee side that you really want
to start is Derrick Henry. That I'm gonna give out
a second Fantasy art Vark here. I assert my art
Vark dominant once again. The double arms, Yes, the double Ardvark,

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Derrick Henry and thirty carries in his last two games.
That's ridiculous. Houston is allowing five point three yards per carry.
That's the fourth most in the league. So a hundred
and fifty rushing yards is not only within sight, it's
almost expected to hear reasonable outlook all right on on
the other side, there's a running back in Houston that

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we kind of like. Damian Piercy's kind of getting near
Derrick Henry workload twenty and twenty six carries in his
last two weeks. However, he faces the toughest defense he's
seen in his young career in the Titans. Tennessee has
allowed the third fewest rushing yards per game and only
one rushing score on the season. Two opposing backs. They

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held Jonathan Taylor in check twice. They put Josh Jacobs
on his worst game of the season. I'll give Pierce
just to see here, but it's volume Malone. This is
a tough matchup. It is a tough and I you know,
nobody loves Damian Pierce more than I do. Yeah, but
I will acknowledge this is This is probably the toughest
matchup of his season. I won't try to argue who
loves Damian Pierce more? But you did trade me the

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third overall pick in a rookie draft and I took Pierce.
He's on my team, so he who loves them more.
Here's the funny thing. If you remember the reason I
made that trade with you, because I had already taken
Damian Pierce in a rookie draft, and I'm like, I
don't want to necessarily double up on him. Yeah you do,
yet I should have doubled up on him. I love

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Damian Davis. Mills was might take a chance on me quarterback.
He gets a seat. Nico Collins looked like he's gonna
miss some time with a groin injury, leaving Brandon Cooks
leading the other two of Chris Moore and Philip Dorsett.
Cooks gets a solid B grade here. He won't have
we won't have more or Dorset starting. Though the Titans
are allowing two yards per game to the wide receiver position.

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Opposing white Outs have already scored on the Titans nine
times this year, which is the fifth most in the league.
I hope that was my last nine times of the day,
but it's like quite a few. I think you find
ways to work them in. There's just a lot of
nines in the eighth week of the season. I suppose alright,
your turn, all right, thank you, it is literally my turn.

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Green Bays taking on Buffalo. I've never said this before
history of this show twenty eight years. We are benching
the entire Green Bay passing attack. Led by Aaron Rodgers. Now,
there have been other times in Aaron Rodgers missed games
or I've said benjam All, but never with Aaron Rodgers

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in the game. Alan Lazard is going to miss this
game of the shoulder injury. Romeo Dubs Dobbs coming off
a zero catch game, and I think he'll get targeted,
He'll get tired enough here, or maybe you could do something,
but this is a great past defense and the Packers
offense couldn't look more broken right now. Your only hope
for any part of this Packers passing game is garbage time,

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which might end up happening here. But I can't put
a I can't put a starting grade on any of them.
A J. Dillon we talked about earlier in this show.
He's on the bench after a middling season with little production.
Matt Lafleur finally stopped banging his head against the wall
and effectively bench Dylan last week. Season lows and snaps,
carries and targets, and I love it, Dylan. Let's just

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come out and say it. Dylan's been bad. He has
one finish above RB twenty nine this year, all the
weeks together, just one. I think that was Week one,
by the way. That's it. So then let's talk Aaron Jones.
He's the last Green Bay Packers standing to talk about.
He's been held under twenty five rushing yards in back
to back games, and Buffaloes and elite run defense allowing

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the fewest rushing yards just fifty three per game. No
posing back his top forty seven yards and that was
way back in the opener. I guess, fortunately, I guess
he's the team's only good past catcher. I mean, you
know who else they gonna throw too, So they're gonna
throw to Aaron Jones some and I think he gets
another big target target like he had last week. We

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intend targets um just through sheer volume, Jones retains a
B grade in a very tough matchup. Now let's go
over to Buffalo Josh Allen Stefon Diggs obvious as every
week regardless of opponents. You know what, I'll even give
them as well. A fantasy art Vark. That's the fourth
and fourth art park this week game because it's mine

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a minute. Are they multiplying? Yeah? We have first half
like Daddy yard Vark and Mommy ard Vark and then
they got Daddy yard Vark each other. Very they created
art parks everywhere. Are we got a lot of Ardvark
happening around here. A grades Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs.

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Gabe Davis just the B grade here, but let's talk
it through. He scored. He scored the second most touchdown
since Week five, but the Packers second here. He's only
a looted one score in the past three weeks and
green Bay is held serve and okay, they've given up
three touchdowns. Green Bay's done it against Taylor Heideke, Zach
will Sint, Daniel Jones, So you know, not exactly Josh Allen,

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So you know, I don't fear the secondary, but it
is by the way it lost to all those quarterbacks.
It did. Still, the Packers have given up an average
of one d sixty nine receiving yards per game that
is leased in the league. What's more, the only receivers
to break seventy yards against Green Bay were targeted seven
or more times. Gabe Davis has not had a single
game this year with seven targets. So that's why just

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the B grade on Gabe Davis. In this game, We're
gonna bench Isaiah Mackenzie and Khalil Shaquier Packers cornerback Rasul Douglas,
the slot cornerback where they run from is Pro Football
focuses number one ranked slot corner and coverage. Douglas has
stonewalled his opponents, giving up seventeen yards per game. That's it,
and he is not allowed to touchdown this year at all.

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That resigning in the off season looks brilliant. So far,
Green Bay has allowed the sixth fewest fantasy points to
the slot and so far this season. So Mackenzie and
Shakier are on the bench, so is Dawson Knox. Through
six games, tight end Knocks does not have a game
with more than four catches or forty five receiving yards.
And even worse news, it doesn't appear that either of

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those two are gonna happen this week against the Packers,
who have allowed the third fewest receptions and the second
fewest yards to tight ends this season. And that just
leaves us with Devin Singletary. I think this is a
really nice sneaky play, particularly in DFS formats. Green Bay
is allowing the fifth most total yards one fifty per
game to opposing running backs and are far more susceptible

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to the run than the past. Now here's the thing
you got to consider and put this in your own mind.
In close games against Miami Baltimore in Kansas City, Devons
Singletary saw of the snaps in total yards, those are
great numbers. But in the blowouts he rides pine, they
save him up. His snaps dropped by a third and

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his yardage falls in half. So do you think this
is a close game for Buffalo against green Bay or
do you think it's a blowout. If you think green
Bay hangs close, Devons Singletary is worthy of the be great.
I'm giving him And if you don't, if you think
it's a blowout, then lower him to a C grade
on your own. It's eleven and a half point spread
right now. The Packers are in a three game losing
streak against long competition. Yea, this thing could end up

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being a blowout. I think I heard this is the
first time in Aaron Rodgers career undergog unbelievable that you
can play whatever fifteen years and not be a double
digit underdog at any time. Unbelievable When we come back,
premature speculation, Oh we all we got a bunch of
great players for you to pick up, speculative players to

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pick up now that other people will be trying to
pick up next week and they're already on your team.
Premature speculation returns when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Welcome back, final segment Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and
Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with you. This is a
segment we like to call premature speculation. We jump into
our time machine and we tell you the guys people
are gonna be trying to pick up next week. Did
the time machine change again? I don't know. It's pretty

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than this one. First by this one actually faith out
like a real time machine would, because sound just doesn't
stop like that. Yeah, oh I love it. Yeah, I
love this new time machine. Well done, my man, Matt.
Who's your premature speculation player? I've got Desmond Ritter And yes,
we just talked about it. Atlanta three and four, currently

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leading the NFC South. But being realistic, the Falcons have
to know that they are not a Super Bowl contending team,
and with the five or so quarterbacks that are grading
out as first round talents next year, they have to
do their due diligence and see what they have with
Desmond Reridd Marcus Mariota's last four games in passing yards
one nine, one four. He's only running his way out

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of this. And the Falcons played Carolina this week. The
Panthers have a very good defense and not much else
to speak of. If Carolina beats Atlanta, we already talked
about it. Carolina is in first, the quarterback chatter will
start because it's just a horrible division and they're gonna
need to figure something out. Next week it's a softer
landing spot at home against the struggling and injured Chargers defense.

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That's a great place to try him out. Maybe it's
Desmond Ritter week as soon as next week. Alright, Interesting,
that's a nice speculative ad in in QB two and
super Flex League. Absolutely I need more QB two and
super Flex ads for that. Let's go to Brian Johnson. Yeah,
another one. Sam Howell. Sam Howell at the Moon from Washington, UH,

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fifth round draft pick out of North Carolina. Some thought
he could go in the first round before the before
the draft right last spring, but he he fell, But
so did every quarterback in that draft. But uh, it's
this simple. I mean, Washington is three and four, you
wouldn't think they're out of it yet. But when the
rest of your division is a combined let's see seventeen
and three pretty much out of it, Eagles six and oh,

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Giants six and one, Dallas five and two. Strange thing
is the Commanders are still like in a spot for
maybe a wild card run. Maybe can a whole division
make the playoffs? Yeah, it's possible, but it's probably not
gonna happen. It's it's certainly not gonna happen in the
NFC South. But anyway, Uh, Carson Wentz might make a
return from what hand, And I'm I don't want to

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talk about Carson Wentz for ever again. So uh, if
he comes back, great, but he's he's trash. And Taylor
Heineke what ever? At some point, Washington, Taylor Henekey just
beat them, just beat the Packers two touchdown pass. Yeah,
the Packers, who we've been dumping on all chokes. The
Packers are awful. Look, the Commanders are awful to Heineke
is whatever, They're gonna want to take a look at

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Howell at some point. So again, this is a a
deep super flex play if you're if you're hungry for quarterbacks,
go grab Sam Howell now will be hallowing at the moon,
who never ate a vegetable. I think Sam Howell was
the quarterback coming into the draft who would never eat
exactly quarterbacks. You had mentioned Malik Willis a couple of

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weeks ago. It's still interested in Malik Willis. Yeah, except
the Titans are in first place and they have a
veteran quarterback, and I think they'll probably stick with TANNEHILLO
my premature speculation player. One of my favorite guys going
all the way back to the preseason. Snoop Connor, Jacksonville
running back. Now, granted he's been inactive every game this year,

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but why did they trade James Robinson? Because because Snoop
is better, they had the better running back. They get
a free whatever six round draft pick out of James Robinson,
move him over to the Jets. Snoop Connor is a
hor body between the tackles, tough yards runner that Travis
Etn is not, And there's going is not suddenly going

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to turn into a workhorse back that is not who
he is. Somebody else is going to have to get
some carries, and it's gonna be I don't want to
poop on Snoop, but they like Ja. Michael Hasty there too.
Don't be so hasty, charge I'm I'm I'm still on
team Snoop. Connor. Now I'll give you another one. It

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is a bonus. It's like when two time machines love
each other very much. Out of them they create a
fourth premature speculation, d Ernest Johnson. If you believe the
many rumors that the Browns, a fairly desperate organization, are
going to make a move for Kareem Hunt, you want

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the next man up. And we know because every time
Kareem Hunt has missed time, Nick Chubb doesn't suddenly get
forty carries, Right, Nick Chubb's roll does not change. They
just give the next guy up the Kareem Hunt role.
De Ernest Johnson would be next man up that spot.
That's another guy you could consider. All right, let's get
on our final set of matchups. San Francisco takes on

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the Rams. Brian. This is a San Francisco offense that
will be without Deebo Samuel in this game. Yeah, Big
News Debo is gonna miss this one with that hamstring injury.
Um Worth noting definitely worth noting. These teams just played
in Week four and uh, they just rolled the Rams easily.
But they didn't have Christian McCaffrey then the forty Niners,

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but they guess they didn't need him to say, won
that game. But anyway, I'm gonna give him McAffrey a B.
I had to be great on him even when I
was assuming Deebo might play. But again, Debo is out.
But McCaffrey just ten opportunities in his debut with the
forty Niners last week, but that was only two days
after getting traded. There that was still the most opportunities
among San Francisco running backs. You have to believe the

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usage will go up against the Rams. What do you
figure I'm thinking in the like seventeen touch rains for
Cristin McCanny, something like that. And McCaffrey actually faced the
Rams in Week six as a Panther right before he
got traded, and in that game he had a hundred
and fifty eight compoy yards on twenty touches. I don't
see why he can't replicate that on on a much
better team, even though they are missing Deebo Samuel, which

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we've said multiple times, So he's clearly clearly on the bench,
and I think that only hurts Brandon Ayuk, who I
had to see grade on assuming Deebo was gonna play.
But he's not gonna play, So I got I got
you on the bench because he's just gonna see a
ton of Jalen Rams. You looked like a doormat to
start the season, but uh, he's played a lot better.
And IU just four catches for three seven yards in

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the Week four game. He has topped forty yards and
just three or four regular season games against the Rams
in his career, so I would say just look for
other options. He's not an automatic bench grade, but he's
gonna be the focal point of the wide receiver group
for the forty niners. So uh, I'm gonna lean bench
over the sea for Ayuk and h a see for
George Kittle. Just two catches for twenty four yards in

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the Week four meeting, The Rams have allowed the fewest
fantasy points tight ends. Kindle his head big games in
the past against the Rams, but right now on paper
it's a tough matchup. But in the tight end ways, lad,
he can't bench George Kittle. I don't think this week.
So he does a CEE for him. Now I'm gonna
bench Jimmy Geno. I had to see great on him
if Deebo was gonna go. But I like p J. Walker,

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I like I like Linger of the Slinger a lot more.
I like Sam Slinger. So uh, Jimmy g on the bench,
Um over to the Rams side. Not a lot to
love here, Darryl Henderson going to give him a c
I'll tell you, I'm gonna can I can I give
you yet another Kiren william that was my guy left.

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We'll start this game starting doesn't start well, we don't
know they activated him. If I'm gonna predict, how about this,
I'm gonna back of that up he gets, he will
end up with more yards than Darrel Henderson. Kyran Williams
go pick him up to possible. Even if it is Williams,
it's not a great matchup for either Henderson and cam
Acres in that Week four game, UH combined for just

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fifty two scoreless combo yards on eighteen touches. Henderson should
handle most of the backfield toudges. I still think we
know Acres won't uh. San Francisco's defense is far more
dinged up than it was a month ago, so I
think Henderson has startled. But I'm with you on Kyran Williams.
Definitely go grab him immediately if possible. I don't know
how how much we'll play this week, but we'll find out.
That's why they play the games. Uh we do know

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Cooper couple play and he gets an A just gonna
end it right there. He's he's murdered the forty nine
about his career and basically anyone he plays. Uh so
a for cup. Allen Robinson and Van Jefferson should make
his return from I R as well, but I got
both on the bench. Robinson saw six targets in the
Week four game, but it caught just two for seven

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scoreless yards. And now that Van Jefferson makes his return,
we need to see how this all pans out. But
by the way, Allen Robinson one of two wide receivers.
I believe it's justin Jeffers. It's a good wide receiver
to average at least one and a half end zone
targets per game. Allen Robins, don't let's not drought him.
They're just not quality targets because Matt staverags kind of
washed anyway. Stafford, I'll talk about him real quick. He's

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on the bench field to throw a touchdown on the
first meeting. Has thrown zero or one touchdowns in every
game except against Atlanta, who who is awful. We've gone
through that already. But I have to mention Tyler Higby.
He's startable with a B. Ten catches seventy three yards
in the Week four matchup. The forty nine is just
allowed Travis Kelsey to go for nine six catches and
ninety eight yards. Higgyby is no Kelsey, but Higbye startable

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in the tight end. Cincinnati takes on Cleveland Matt Cincinnati
gonna have to learn to live without Jamaar Chase. Yeah,
he's gonna be missing probably a month, maybe more. And
we already talked about te Higgins and five tough questions.
Hi will give Higgins in a grade this week, and
I'll give Tyler Boyd a B grade. Here. The Browns
secondary is almost as much of a mess as Chase's

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hip is. Denzel Ward is in concussion protocol. He didn't
practice Thursday. Uh. Greedy Williams made a season debut last week,
but he missed practice Thursday with an illness and they're
trying to trade him. He's on the He's on the block. Yeah,
and Greg Newsome also limited with an oblique injury. This
game is Monday night, so a lot could change on
the corner side, but I'll take my chances with Higgins
and Boyd going up against either injured starting corners or

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backups in Cleveland. Joe Burrow gets an A grade. I
might as well give him a fantasy ard vark too.
Why not? Through for four one yards last week. He's
averaging three thirty four and two scores in career games
against the Browns. Hayden Hurst is a startable player with
a C grade two. There's vacated targets with Chase out.

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Hurst saw eight last week, and the Browns have been
pretty good against the tight end this year, only allowing
three catches per game on average, but they haven't faced
a ton of great ones. Joe Mixing he gets an
A grade. The Browns are allowing one and forty two
combo yards per game and have already allowed twelve touchdowns
to the running back position. That's the most in the league.

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Mixing has scored twice in two of his last three
meetings with Cleveland, hence the A grade. On the Cleveland side,
it's Nick Chubb and not a lot else. Chubb gets
a B grade here as since he's a pretty good
defense against the run, although there have been cracks in
that wall. In the last few weeks. Alvin Kamara and
Mark Ingram combined for a hundred and forty five rushing yards.

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The Falcons duo of Tyler Algier and Caleb Huntley managed
seventy two yards together. That's about what I expect out
a Chubb this week, seventy plus yards and probably a
score here, So that's why he gets a B. The
passing game is on the bench, which is basically just
Jacoby Brissette and Amari Cooper. No quarterback to face the
Bengals has topped the two hundred yard mark in a month.

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No quarterback all season has multiple touchdown passes. They're allowing
the fourth fewest receptions and the seventh fewest yards to
wide receivers. And oh, by the way, David and Joku
is out for the foreseeable future with a high ankle sprain.
Do you picking up Harris and Briant in a pinch? No? No,
all right, I can understand that a couple of items

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for you. In our final moments of the show, we
just dropped Tom Brady at this point, zero or one
touchdown pass in every game but one this year, Tom Brady,
this team has scored two touchdowns in the last fourteen
quarters of play. Let me answer your question with a question.
In single quarterback leagues, can you not roster a running quarterback?

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Now you have to roster a quarterback who also chips
in on the ground. You certainly want to, but there
aren't enough of them to go around. I mean, I
don't have that luxury. There's kind of a lot now well,
because more and more teare willing to expose their quarterbacks
to these kinds of so called dangers, even though these
guys don't get hurt anymore than anybody else does at quarterback.
This is what's turned around Daniel Jones this season and

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a large part of why the Giants are sitting. It's
at six and months, so we have we have currently
eleven quarterbacks over a hundred rushing yards on the air.
Lamar Jackson, Justin Fields, Daniel Jones, Jalen Hurts, Kyler Murray
Josh Allen, Marcus Mariota, Gino Smith, Jacoby Brissette, Joe Burrow,
Patrick Mahomes. There's a lot of quarterbacks who run. We
just talked about Sam Ellinger, who's coming in this week. Man.

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I think there's a there's a lot of guys who
moved the ball at their feet and can kind of
ground your offense. I think, I say, yeah, remember a
few weeks ago when they had Pittsburgh who was missing
their top three cornerbacks and Minko Fitzpatrick and they didn't
do anything. I know, two weeks ago, Mike Evans dropped
a long bomb, but on Thursday night, Tom Brady missed

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Mike Evans wide opening the end zone from like the
five yard line. I don't know, he's he looks disinterested.
Divorce just became final. I think you can drop him
and you can just stream quarterback and play the matchups, unless,
of course, if you don't have like the Josh Allen's
of the world that you probably don't you have Tom Brady.
Fantasy points per game, Tom Brady is Fantasy quarterback number fourteen,

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right next to Justin Fields. It's that bad for Tom
Brady right now in points per game. It's um, yeah,
it's it is it's probably about that time. And I
don't know the Brady. You know, I'm not saying Brady
has never gonna have another good game. Sure he's gonna
have plenty of good games. Tom Brady is eligible for
take a chance on me quarterback now he is. He
is an eligible take a chance I mean quarterback. Totally

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agree with that, Tom Brady, And maybe that will happen
next week. I don't I don't know what they got
next week. Up top of my head. You can still
join a guillotine league. It's a super fun way to play.
All you have to do is not finished last. Every week,
the low scoring team in that league gets cut, All
the players go to the waiver wire and pandemonium ensues.
As we've been on an entire roster of players. New
leagues forming all the time, even Sunday morning. Guillotine leagues

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dot com. And if you miss a new part of
the show and you want to hear all my player
rankings or get to all my player rankings also Guillotine
leagues dot com. Uh, great job, Thank you very much,
thank you, Matt, Brian Robbie appreciate all the help. Will
be back next week for more fantasy Football Weekly. Fantasy

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