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Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,
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(00:23):
Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Shargy and my co
host today are Scott fish High, Scott Hey, I got
my Mike on, you got your God, Well he's got
five more chances to screw it up. And Matt Harrison
from Shock Fantasy. Hello, good to have you back. Thank
you spent a little bit. It was one week. It
was literally one week. I missed you. You you missed

(00:45):
Colin mccockney really because he wasn't on last week. I
heard he didn't call in. It was we'd not call in. Well,
there was all in for Colin. There was, there was
It was there a London game. No, No, that's why. No.
I figured he's just a fixture on the show. Now,
let's hope that. Let's hope not. Actually, we have lots
to get to over the course of the show, including
breaking down every game Fantasy style with letter grades on

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all the players who matter. Take a chance on me
nine players that you can take a chance upon yes,
and premature speculation where we give you players upon whom
you can take a chance. No, wait that, Patu, It's

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gonna be a long, long show at this rate, don't
tell me to restart this show. I'll turn this car around.
We begin with the Rams taking on the Texans as
we start breaking down fantasy matchups for you. Only only
one game on by this week, so we've got plenty
to get to For Rams Texans, it feels like one

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sided affair. We expected a lot more scoring last week
from the Rams and a similarly easy match up. What
about this week? And I especially want to focus on
Darryl Henderson. Huge letdown against the Lions last week? Do
you like him this week? He gets against the Texans.
That was a smash spot. I don't I don't know
what happened there, but uh yeah, we can start with Henderson.

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Uh he once it gets once again, gets another bottom
of the bottom ten defense against running backs, allowing over
twenty rushing yards per game. Uh. I will say though
Henderson now healthy, he's getting all the work in that backfield.
Michelle is relegated to almost nothing. Just eight snaps last
week for Michelle. So yeah, So he's on your bench.

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But Henderson, I'm given the A to again. Um This
Texans defense has allowed a running back touchdown in all
but all but one game twelve twelve on the year.
That's a lot of touchdowns. Um uh. And Henderson has
eight teen plus touches in four straight, averaging ninety six
yards per game. I like him here, got an A
grade there out of the passing grade passing game. I

(02:58):
think we're still giving staff and Cup obvious a's. I mean,
Stafford's averaging three d in ten yards two point seven
touchdowns per game against the bottom ten defense. You sound
like you're surprise that we're giving them a's against the Texans. No,
I'm just you've explained it too much already. Let's get
over to Woods. Then, I'm giving a B grade to Woods.

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Seventy yards and or a score in four straight. The
Texans aren't allowing a ton to wide receivers because they
allowed a ton to tight ends and running backs. Apparently
wide receivers is the spot that they're they're holding back
a little bit. But I still give Woods a B grade.
He's probably gonna get you know, seven yards and or score.
That's what he's doing. Uh. Van Jefferson I got a
C grade too. He's completely taken over the number three

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role playing of the Snaps. Last week he's forced to
Shawn Jackson out of the team. Grumpy Guss over there
to Sean Jackson wants a trade. Isn't he a squeaky wheel?
Then at what point do you go from squeaky wheel
to grumpy Guss? He's there? Yeah, I don't have to
trade not you know what, you need a squeaky wheel
sounder speaking to squeaky squeaky Wheel. The coaches have said

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they want to get Van Jefferson more involved as well,
so I'm giving him the C grade there. I think
it's a great spot for Tyler Higbee, who I'm given
an A grade to. The Texans have allowed a tight
end touchdown in all but two games. Uh. That's six
on the season, five tight ends over forty yards five
tight ends with four receptions are more um and he
got three three red zone targets in each of the

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last two games. He's getting targeted down there, so I
think he's got a good shot to touch on. I
have an A grade on him this week. Over to
the other side, I kind of want to bench everything
I'm gonna give if you're allowed to do that. The
Rams have only allowed one quarterback over two hundred and
seventy yards and one multiple touchdown games. So Mills is
on the bench. Cooks is the only receiver you'd want.

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And I think I'm going to give him a C
grade just because of the negative game script. And he's
gained seven to ten targets except for that one Patriots game.
He's gained seven to ten targets a game. I'm gonna
give him a C grade just on that. It's gonna
suck if he gets Ramsey though, well, and why wouldn't he?
Yeh Jalen Ramsey shadows often, not always, but often, and
you know against the Texans, why wouldn't This is a

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volume call. But I I would say, if you have
a better option, you know, go go Ben Jim the
run game. Now, with the trade of mark Ingram, I
have Johnson and Lindsay on the bench. The only redeeming
spot for Johnson is he had five or more catches
in to the last three games. He's really involved in
the passing game. But you know it's not by apocalypse anymore.

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You don't you don't need to run back that bad
to be going to Johnson, and we actually truly don't
know what the split will be when Ingram is not
in the In the game, Ingram leaves behind fourteen touches
per week. If if you split those evenly between Johnson
and Lindsay, it puts Johnson at fifteen touches a game,
which is pretty relevant at fifteen touches for running back. Unfortunately,

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mark Ingram was almost getting that and he was barely
r Yes, but the difference is Johnson catches. And that's
why I would give him a secret. You don't have to.
I would give him a c great just on on
total usage here. Yeah, I mean I can, I can
see the path for it, but I can also see
I can also scoring like points and getting away behind. Yeah,

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so that's it. That's it. Okay, Steelers take on the Browns.
Matt on the Steeler side, Juju Smith Schuster is out,
of course, and that means we've got Chase Claypool and
Deontay Johnson with a matchup and no Denzel Award in
this game, and that may be one of the things
that helps leverage those two to better games. Yeah. I
gave Deontay a B and I gave Chase a C.

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And it's been the outside wide receivers that have really
terrorized the Browns. And with Ward out that makes it
even better. Johnson lines up on the outside at the
time with Claypool out there about eight percent at the time.
Deontay had thirteen targets and nine catches exactly in two
of his last three games, and Claypool has scored three
times in three meetings with the Browns and seeing his
target share skyrockets since Juju's injury. But I just don't

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believe in Big Ben enough, so they both get downgraded
a bit, and I have Big Ben on the bench
Ben bench, Yeah, it all works together. Uh. He's only
hit the two touchdown mark once this season and he's
topped two fifty five yards only twice. The Browns have
been good against the past if they're not facing a
marquee quarterback like against mahomes Air bearon Kyler they got roasted,

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but everybody else they were all held to under two
five yards and only one through for multiple scores against
the Browns. So I don't like Ben, and Ben's not
at that at that marque level anymore, not even close. Uh,
Naji Harris is the only other Steeler I think we
really need to talk to. His workload of carries plus
targets is second only to Derrick Henry in the entire league,

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so it's hard to put anything worse than a B
grade on him, even in a tough matchup. The Browns
are top six in yards per carry, rushing yards, rushing scores,
and total yards allowed to running backs. However, Stin Ekeler
was able to just go bananas against this defense three
weeks ago, so with all that workload, I think now
j Harris, he can't be worse than a B in
this one. Let me mention the tight end situation. Eric

(08:09):
Ebron out so I've seen I'm seeing a lot of
people pivoting to Pat Friar muth uh. The catch here is,
though the Browns have been great against tight ends. Yeah,
in Week one, Travis Kelsey terrorized them like he does
everybody's Travis Kels. But since then they're giving up an
average of two catches for twenty four yards and zero

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point two scores to the tight end position. So we
should honestly take it out there, Travis Kelsey out of
all tight end statistics because he's such an outlier. Once,
once Judre came out Friar with targets just shot up
that that's what I love loved him. I I wouldn't
be surprised if he gets five to seven targets here.
I will say, you're right about that. With the Kelsey thing,

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defense tight ends, defense against versus tight ends is so
such a noisy statistic. It's all about who you played.
But when now we're at week eight, so I mean,
the sample size is not trivial here, and the Browns
have been very good against tight ends other than Kelsey.
This reminds me, by the way before you guys this
time on the show, when JaMarcus Russell was a quarterback,

(09:12):
we renamed him on the show JaMarcus asterisk because so
I was on the show back. Yeah, he ruined every
stat you'd have to go. Well, every quarterback except JaMarcus
is averaging this. You know, you're absolutely right. The Browns
have been awesome against Blake Bell, Farrell Brown, Colt, Jimmy Brown, Tyler, Conklin,
Stephen Anderson, Jared cat Friar. Muth is not above that

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company right now. I think he's above all of those. However,
Noah fant there five for thirty nine. Stop by jacking
my matchup. Boys, Come on, I gotta get back to
the Browns. We gotta get to it. Uh. Nick Chubb,
he's been limited with a calf injury all week. If
he can't go, it will be a heavy dose of
d Ernest Johnson again with some Demetric Felton sprinkled in.

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It's worth noting that the Browns have had four for
an instances this season which are running back had twenty
one or more carries this year. Three were Chubb and
then last week it was Dearnis Johnson. So if Chubb
does go, and he will, mean they took him off
the injury part, so he's going. Well, that's good. He'll
probably be close to a bell cow for some reason.
If Chubb doesn't go, I mean, Johnson probably gets the

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grade here. Alex Collins is the only back to get
twenty rushing attempts against the Steelers this year. He ended
up with a hundred and one yards and a score,
but that was the only score of the Steelers have
allowed to the position. So I'm only going to give
Chub a C grade in this one. The receiver's Jarvis Landry.
He's the only one i'd start, but I'm just giving
him a C grade. Odell Benkham Beckham is firmly on

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the bench and by the way, he's dealing with a
shoulder injury, has been limited all week, and if he
doesn't put up decent numbers this week, I remit recommend
a sabotage drop of Odell Beckham done. He hasn't topped
one hundred yards in two years. In fact, since Week
six of en he's topped sixty yards eight times and

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he's been held under sixty yards fourteen times. So Odell
is just not good anymore. He hasn't really been relevant
as a fantasy player since It's It's it's been a while.
Landry appears to be more healthy. He saw eight targets
in his return last week. The eye test looked good
to five. Out of the six slot receivers to face
the Steelers this year have posted very strong outings, and

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Landry is the best of that list. Finally, Baker Mayfield
slated to start despite a fracture in his non throwing
shoulder and a torn laborum. It's a pain tolerance thing,
but there's a chance he gets sacked by t J.
Watton this one and is removed from this game. So
there's no way I'm starting Baker Mayfield and case Keenum.
He filled an admirably last week, so I think that
they could pivot to him pretty easily if Baker is

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not in this one. So Baker is on your bench
and that's it. Hanging up the phone. Take on the Bears. Uh,
the highest scoring wide receiver in fantasy football is Cooper
Cup by a fair margin. You know who's number two?
Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel nicely, nicely nicely, Uh, maybe deduced

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based on the fact that I'm talking about the forty
nine and the Bears and it wasn't gonna be any
Bears a right brand. He's second in receivers and yards
after catch, which is great. He's an elite playmaker, and
he gets a Bears defense that is third worst in
tackling in fifth worst in coverage by Pro Football Focus Chicago,

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allowing the twelve fewest passing yards, but s those yards
have gone to receivers and that is the league's second
highest figure. And with um with George Kittle out, Deebo
Samuels gonna get a ton of ton of looks in
this game. A grade for Deebo Samuel. Let's stick with
the passing game. I've got a se grade on Jimmy
Garoppolo and it's a deep sleeper if needed. The Bear

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secondaries in disarray. No Khalil Mack to provide pressure on
Garoppolo in this game. Chicago has allowed multiple touchdowns in
three of the past four games, and well, he's not
a high upside quarterback. Garoppolo is a safe one here,
so maybe in QB flex and QB two leagues Jimmy
Garoppolo startable here. Brandon Ayou I spent a lot of

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time on whether or not to put a starting grade
on him. In theory, I should do something here because
he's been on the field for seventy of the team's plays.
George Kittle is out. I used the next best receiver
on this team after Deebo Samuel, and they got They
can't throw every past to Samuel right, and the Bear's
thin secondary will be mobilizing to stop Deebo Samuel. So

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I actually have very favorable coverage here. That said, it's
been one and two catch games in every game but
one of them. The breakouts coming at some point for
a or at least the relevancy, and this is a
spot where it could be. So I'm gonna put a
highly speculative C grade on Brandon Ayu because it should

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come together here. You just can't count on it, and
if it doesn't, sue me. Elijah Mitchell gets a B grade.
Got almost all the work last week and dominated the
first half. In particular, the Bears have earned unsightly Profo
Ball Focus grades ranking twenty nine and overall defense against
the run thirty and tackling Khalil mac Out. As I

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mentioned um at home. Chicago has been a better run defense,
but not a lot, And I think this thing could
get ugly against a really a Bears team that's in
disarray right now. I like, I like Elijah Missil Mitchell
a lot and a solid B grade for him. Ross
Dwelly is on the bench against a good Bears tight
end defense. Let's go over to Chicago. The entire passing
games on the bench. Do we even need to elaborate

(14:39):
on that or can we just say that now Allan
Robinson's on the bench, you know the whole day can't pass.
So even what what what could be a positive matchup
against a battered San Francisco secondary. I can't trust any
part of it right now, so we're just gonna put
them on the bench. The only starter you care about
is Khalil Herbert, who's got to see he would be
with his run against Tampa last week and something basically

(15:02):
nobody does. Only the second running back in two years
to top one hundred yards against Tampa, which was very impressive.
And it's the only reason he's actually on my he's
actually got to see grade here. Um, this is a
pretty good forty Niners run defense. Only Jonathan Taylor's top
eighty two yards. San Francisco is giving up just three

(15:22):
point eight yards per carry. But we do like ground
Bear he's looked good and Damian Williams did very very
little last week. I don't blame letting someone else deal
with that. I don't blame you. So yeah, that's uh,
that is that's it for Chicago for not going to
spend time in the fact in the passing game. But

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there are five NFL teams that have over twice the
passing yards. You know, that doesn't seem that fun. That
really isn't a fun fact. That is a frustrating fact
for many many people. When we come back, take a
chance on me. Nine players upon whom you can take
a chance. These are guys that are on the waiver,
wired guys you don't normally start. We'll tell you who
they are when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly. Tell

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me nine players not normally you're starting. Lineup. We begin
at the quarterback position. Scott Fish, who you got? I
am going with Carson Wentz. He played the uh this
same Titans team in Week three, had a d yards
and north scores, but he had two broken or sprained
ankles at the time. Since then, he's had multiple touchdown

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in every game. Sense. The Times are six worst against
quarterbacks and have allowed multiple touchdowns in five of their
last seven. I think it's a good Spotforms. I'm with
you on this one. I like once Matt, your take
a chance on me quarterback. I'm pretty sick to my
stomach right now after recommending Sam Donald here, after doing
so poorly against the Giants that he was benched, and

(17:20):
that was just last week. You know what, It felt
so weird if this might just work. But he gets
the Falcons this week, and the Falcons have given up
some explosive output to several quarterbacks this season. Jalen Hurts
went for two sixty four and three, Brady to seventies
six and five, Heineke to ninety and three, two uh

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and four. Three of those names are kind of suspect
throwers right in the realm of Sam Donald. So yolo, yolo,
Sam Donald. I've got Teddy Bridgewater. I don't think he's
played particularly well the last couple of weeks, but here
comes the worst past defense in the league, Washington, allowing

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the most fantasy points, the most touchdowns, the second most receptions,
and the second most passing yards. His receivers have good matchups.
Jerry Judy, barring something very weird comes back for this one.
Courtland Sutland. Sutton is there as well. Tim Patrick. We're
gonna talk about this a little more. Most probably stays
on the field, moving into the slot. This thing, this
is uh, this is an offensive, a great opportunity, and

(18:21):
Landon Collins might be the worst safety in the league.
Let's go to the running back position. Scott, I am
taking a page out of year playbook from last week
charts where you chose two runners from and I'm going
with Kenneth Gainewell and Boston Scott. After Miles Sanders left.
Last week, Gainwell played twenty two snaps, Scott played twenty.
Gainwell ran a route on seventeen of those. Scott lead

(18:44):
in carries nine to four. It looks like that's the split.
We're gonna get a lot of running game out of
Scott and a lot of passing workout of Gainwell. Thank Scott.
I think they both can be viable. Scott more in
standard and uh gain one more in PPR. Matt, you're
take a chance of me running back. I feel like
Scott's cheata there and he's more likely to get one right.
But that I only get half a peacock. I don't

(19:07):
know how to do half a peacock. I think I
got it. Uh So I guess I'll go with Devin
Singletary and Zack Moss. I mean, actually Singletary is the guy.
The backfield committee is almost as even a split as possible.
It's like when you cut the last cookie and half
for your two kids, and you gotta make it equal

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so they don't freak out. And the five games were
both have played, Mosses leading the carry total by only
five rushing attempts and they're evenly tied in receptions. Singletaries
carries fell off a bit in the last two weeks
against the Chiefs and Titans, but it should revert to
normal and what should be a blow against Miami. The
Dolphins are bottom ten in total yards allowed to back
at a hundred and thirty eight per game, and have

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allowed ten total touchdowns to opposing runners, which is the
third most in the league. There's plenty to go around here.
J P. Ryan takes on the Jets and the Jets
are getting obliterated by opposing running backs, are giving up
thirty six touches for one ninety four total yards to
running backs. Joe Mixon can't get all of that, and
the Jets are so are so bad right now that

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Cincinnati is gonna get weight up by a lot. Joe
Mixon is going to rest and some A JP Ryan's
gonna come in the game and mop up what should
be a solid second half for some A. JP Ryan.
Lets go to the receiver position. Scott I am going
with Jamal agg Knew for the It's getting hard to
ignore that urban Meyer may have found his new space player.

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He wanted that role for e TN that didn't work out.
He then then we talked. I thought maybe channel. I
thought it would be Chal and that didn't work out.
He's founded in egg knew Who's caught eleven of his
thirteen targets in the last two weeks, and if you
watched them, they're all open, short in space with plenty
of room to run. He's a speedy guy who can
make He hasn't made a huge play yet of it.

(20:56):
He had that kickoff return for a touchdown, but or
that miss field goal for a touchdown. But he's a
dynamic playmaker. If he gets five to seven targets, he
can make a play with one of them. I like
him this week. Didn't they pay him stupid money in
the off season? I swear they did. They signed him
to some content. What do you think it was for?
It was for special teams? Yeah, three years, four teen
point to five year. How does that make sense? I

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think they're going to hear, Matt, you take a chance
on me. Receiver Cole Beasley, who will square off against
Miami's Nick need him in the slot, need him needs
more than Ham to stop Beasley. He's allowed seventy four
of the passes thrown in his coverage to be completed.
In fact, the Dolphins have allowed the second most receiving
yards to slot wide receivers this season, only behind Tennessee Plus.

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Beasley is averaging seven targets and five and a half
receptions per game on the season. He's playing for one
of the best offenses in the league and the workload
is there. But he's only rostered in fifty seven percent
of leagues right now, and that needs to be fixed.
Cold Beasley needs to be on rosters. Also, no Dawston
in the middle point great point. Uh. Speaking of ham,

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My wife thinks it's weird to put mustard on ham Like,
that's not everybody put mustard on ham. Put us. I
don't need hams so mustard. So you're not part of
any food conversation we ever have on this sholf. Evan
Ingram is sitting on potentially a nice game. We've got Shepherd, Goliday,

(22:26):
and Tony all hurting, all of them look shaping up
his game time decisions here. Ingram should be a major
part of the New York Giants offense. Ingram comes off
his heaviest game target of the season and now a
delicious matchup against the Chiefs, the team allowing the most
yards too tight ends eighty two per game, and the

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fifth most touchdowns the tight ends. What's more, Kansas City
is allowed tight end touchdowns in four straight games, mark
ingram My sneaky sleeper play of the week, mark ingram
She's evan. This whole show has been this way. Can
we get mark tight eligibility? Well, we did it. Uh

(23:07):
we We managed to change eligibility on Cordell Patterson to
it all right. We at one point years ago Chargers
tight end turn running back. Dang it, I can't remember
his name. I'm gonna have to look it up. It
created no end of frustration for fantasy leagues back in
the day. Natron means Cincinnati takes on the Jets. Uh, Scott,

(23:33):
let's start on the Cincinnati part of this. I already
told you I like SoJ p Ryan, Joe mixons a
slam dunk. I don't even think you need to spend
time here. Really, Yeah, no that you You mentioned all
the stats that the Jets are giving up. So I
have an a grade on Joe Mixon, but yeah, smash
spot for him over the passing game. I think Burrows
starting to near that obvious territory too, but if not,

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he's the only QB to have multiple touchdown passes in
every game that year. The Jets ranked top ten against QB's,
but they haven't really been tested. In the last two games,
they have allowed three hundred plus and multiple scores. I
have an A grade on Burrow. I have an A
grade on Chase because you know, I have eyeballs and
I've watched him play. I have a C grade an
tie Higgins. He's actually out targeted Chase in games they've

(24:18):
both played together. Um much like their top break against qbs,
they also have top break against wide receivers the Jets do,
but once again, they haven't had a lot of really
great tests. No hundred yard receivers, but a bunch of
fifties six yard guys. I think that's where Higgins lands,
and that's why I give the C grade on him.
He's not getting the huge you know, the huge plays,

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but he is averaging over eight targets a game. I
have Boyd on the bench because he's just not now.
It was almost eating a lot of his work in
the middle of the field, and he's been very good late.
What do you think we had that call on his
armor right last week. I think he hits again this week.
I'm the full right there, he gets a Jets D
that has allowed this Jets D. He has allowed two

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five yards and three scores to tight ends in just
the last two weeks. That's a lot of points. I
I only have a B grade on him, but you
could just because this offense um if he doesn't score
a touchdown, it might it might come down, but I
could be an A grade honestly. On the other side,
I only have one starting grade for the Jets, only one.

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The passing game is all on the bench with Mike White,
and even if Flacco comes in, everybody's Davis has heard
probably doesn't play in this game. Yep. I have a
C grade on Michael Carter and it's just volume. Fourteen touches,
thirteen touches, nineteen touches. He's gonna get ten plus they're
gonna be behind and Mike White. If you watch the
game last week after after Mike White came in, dump

(25:41):
off the Carter he had eight catches. It's dump off stick.
Actually top Mike White looked way better than Yeah. I
was like, oh, this is gonna be ugly and he
was actually okay. And for a guy who caught a
running back who caught it passes going up against the
Bengals who have allowed the most receptions to running back
in the league and a negative game script, give me

(26:03):
Carter with the S grade and I could be talked
into higher. Sounds good. I like that. I like where
you're going with that. When we come back, we're gonna
check in on Panthers at Falcons. Matt already told you
a personal guarantee that Sam Donald's going to have a
gigantic game here. Obviously, I felt so good about it.

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So we'll find out what other elements of the Panthers
offense you can trust to be Hubbard, d J. Moore,
Robbie Anderson? Is that even possible? Talk about that when
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and Scott Fish at Matt Harrison. You can follow us
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Scott Fish twenty four and at Explosive Output at Harrison
Shock Fantasy dot Com. Pathers take on the Falcons. Matt
as a as I alluded to going into this break,
you like Sam Donald or half like Sam Donald. I'm

(27:44):
forced into taking it. Take a chance on me quarterback
every week? So Donald was at Donald did so how
do you feel? What? Does he get a C grade?
I hope? So you're not giving a bench grade to
a guy. He's got a C grade. But I do
like his wide receiver d J. Moore. Have you ever
heard of this guy? He's getting an eight grade. He's
seen double digit targets in five of seven games this
season and at least five receptions in every contest. Hasn't

(28:07):
scored in three weeks, though, but the Falcons have allowed
nine touchdowns that's nine times charge nine times, nine times
to the wide receiver position through six games. So I
like his chances of a score here. More has also
beat the Falcons for eighty or more yards and three
of his last four meetings. Robbie Anderson, I'm even giving
a C grade. Two. Yeah, quietly, very quietly, Robbie Anderson

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is averaging nine targets per game over the last five weeks,
nine times. That's but it's in targets amongst all wide
receivers in the NFL. During that somebody told me to
stay and I'm sure I'm not getting it quite right,
but it's close to right that over the last what
was it three games, with five games, it's like twenty

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nine targets for twenty nine yards. Yeah, it's crazy, it's
pretty bad. But he has the same amount of targets
as Jamar Chase and that's been which is crazy. Uh,
but it's been quiet because he hasn't topped forty six
yards and he's only scored once in that whole span.
So Anderson moves all over the field, but he should
match up a fair amount with Fabian Moreau, who's allowed
four touchdowns in his coverage this year. Chuba Hubbard, he

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gets a C grade. He's still the replacement Bell Cow
until CMC returns. Either way, I was trying to figure
out a good name for replacement bell cow and and
don't google replacement cow or artificial cow. It's not good
for your browser history. No, don't do it. He's had
at least sixteen touches in three straight weeks, and he's
topped a hundred yards on the ground once. He's only

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scored once, so it's kind of matchup based here, and
the Falcons aren't great. Miles Gaskin had seventy seven yards
in a score last week. The Jets backs combined for
one oh three and two scores and Hubbard gets everything,
so he's startable. On the other side, the Falcons runners,
Mike Davis is droppable only four touches last week. Cordarrel
Patterson has completely taken over that position with fourteen carries

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and e of the last two weeks. He does add
a little bit in the passing game two, with six
or more targets in five of the past six games.
Now is he really good though, Yeah, he's averaging just
four point zero yards per carry in the last two
weeks when he's really taken over the lead role. And
I'm gonna recommend benching Patterson this week. The Panthers have

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allowed the fewest rushing touchdowns to the position, as well
as the fewest receptions and receiving yards to the position.
Opposing runners are only averaging two catches and twelve yards
per game through the air. I don't like Patterson in
that very contrarian take. I like it though it makes sense.
I don't think I would bench him, but I will
say his receptions don't come as a running back, they

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come as him. Let you know why. I have a
feeling he's going to be like somewhere in the fifty
to sixty yard range as a runner and maybe three
or four catches, and it will be a little kind point.
That's a ten point game, and it's a ten point game.
That's not good enough for me. I got better teams
than you chart. Let's go, uh, Calvin Ridley and Kyle Pitts.

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I'm lumping them together and giving them both B grades.
Ridley is averaging ten targets per game on the season,
Pits is averaging nine. Over the last three weeks. That
means roughly half of the passes thrown by Matt Ryan
go to one of these two players, and over the
last five games, the Panthers revolving door of corners have
allowed the fourth most receptions and the seventh most touchdowns

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to the wide receiver position. And if you want to
call Pits a tight end, they've allowed tight ends to
score in three of the last five games. I think
Pits relates to Gasecki, who last week went seven and
one plays out wide receiver Matt Ryan. He gets a
B as well multiple touchdown passes in every game but

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the opener. Since that game, he's averaging three yards per game.
Panthers have allowed three seventy three and three and a
four touchdown game in the last month. So I like
Matt Ryan here with a B grade. All right, Washington
takes on the Broncos Taylor Heinek I'm I'm I'm down
on him after really two bad weeks, including last week.

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His his grip on the starting job as wobbly, and
a match up with Denver is not a get right spot.
The Broncos are allowing one passing touchdown per game. Nobody
has topped two passing touchdowns against Denver. Heinek hasn't been
able to establish any kind of offensive consistency with any
receiver other than Terry McLaurin. That shutting down McLaurin shuts

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down Heinik. He's on the bench this week. Last week
he was. He was able to run for yards, which
helped salvage his box score. Denver giving up twelve quarterback
rushing yards per game, So Heineck is on the bench.
Let's talk about Terry McLaren. Terry, He's receiving an astounding
fort of Washington's targeted air yards, its crazy second highest

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number in the league. The Broncos allowed the eleventh most
air yards, the third highest average depth of target at
nine point six. McLaren should be able to get some
downfield passing going against Patrick Certain and Ronald Darby, both
of them allow at least ten yards per reception in coverage. Still,
Denvers allowing the fifth fewest receptions per game. They've given
up a ninety yard receiver just three times all year.

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So a B grade on Terry McLaurin the only other
receiver you'd consider starting. And I've just got a C
grade on Ricky Seals Jones. We still don't have a
seal on here r r R. Thank you. Ricky Seals
Jones continues to play as an every down role and
UM and it's really the only other option behind Terry McLarin.
He's averaging six and a half targets per game since

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taking over for Logan Thomas. But this is a tough matchup.
The Broncos allowing the fourth fewest fantasy points per game
to opposing tight ends and they have not given up
a touchdown to the position all year. So just the
C grade on Ricky Seals Jones Now Antonio Gibson. Denver's
been shredded over the past three weeks, hemorrhaging four hundred

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six rushing yards and six total touchdowns allowed to running backs.
What's keeping Gibson from Leeds status is just the middling workload.
He's almost always in that like twelve fourteen, sixteen total
touch range and it's just hard to get the explosive
output you want your guys touching the ball that infrequence did.
He did get two goal one carries last weekend. He's

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off the injury report this week, which is nice and
I do like that part of the prospects for him
in this game. His shin injury is a continuing concern
of mind, although you hope that it doesn't end up
being a factor, and like he suddenly gets knocked out
in some game I think, you know, and if obviously
verything would have happened, never by next week, alright, So

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maybe he gets hopefully gets healthy over the buy, although
there's been talked that that he won't get healthy all
season on that on that leg injury, which is a
possibility unfortunately. Um, Jamie McKissick, if you are in a
deep pinch, you could consider here. Um, it's so far
just been totally hit or miss on him, and you're
really your look for Washington to fall behind by a lot.

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If you see that coming, then mkiss it can make
some sense. And I do like Teddy Bridgewater who I mentioned,
and that will be my segue over to the Broncos side.
He was might take a chance on me. Quarterback Courtland
Sutton and a grade. Washington surrendered the second most scores
to receivers, including ten touchdowns in the last four games.

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Marcus Callaway had a two score game, cor Darrell Patterson
had a three score game. Over the last month against Washington,
Sutton has notched at least five catches and sixty eight
yards and three straight and I love him in this one.
Jerry Judy comes back don't be rattled by the fact
that he did not practice on Friday. Judy is ready
to go for this game. Probably could have played last week.

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We're not a Thursday game. Had he had a full
week of practice, he likely would have played then. So
he comes back and he should be hitting the ground running. Yes, um,
Judy runs from all over the field, or he did
in the half of a work that he got in
week one. By the way, in Week one, in about
a half of work, it's like six catches for seventy yards,

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and it was just it was all about Jerry Jody
early in that one. Oh my god. I hope he
picks up right where he left off. So he's gonna
go up a lot against William Jackson, but he's hurt,
and if he doesn't go, then he goes up against
rookie Benjamin st just making a second ever start and
playing out of position. So I I'm very optimistic for him.
Now you're a Tim Patrick manager and you're thinking to yourself, well,

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now that Judy's back, he's dead. But wait, there's more.
K J. Hamler, their slot receiver out is also dead.
He is dead, And so I think Tim Patrick's gonna
get a lot of slot use in this one, and
he will he will depose Kendall Hinton from that job.
And then to follow me on this, if William Jackson
is out and Benjamin St. Juice goes to his spot,

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that puts replacement slot corner Danny Johnson on Tim Patrick.
And he's had just one star all year last week
and he probably gave up a touchdown and that's why
we have a C grade on Tim Patrick in this one.
Both of the running backs, Melvin Gordon and Javonte Williams
have C grades, although no Javonte Williams is a little
hobbled coming into this game, but expecting to play Washington

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terrible past defense. I like the passing game way more
than I like the running game. They're good run defense, um,
and then they split. They both split exactly thirteen touches
a piece per game, Washington allowing just three and a
half yards per carry that's second lowest in the league,
and no runners top sixty two yards. So I don't
love either one. But I can't quite put bench grades

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on Gordon and Williams because they have been effective for
most of the season. Final matchup of this said, well,
maybe not the final match, but we might fit into
we'll see how this goes, Eagles taking on the Lions. Scott,
you already told us that you like both of the
Eagles running backs in this game. What about the enigma

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that is Jalen Hurts, who were going to talk about
extensively next segment. Enigma in the in fantasy are real
because NFL? Because in fantasy he's he's been a top
twelve fantasy quarterback every week, the only quarterback to have that.
I think, Oh yeah, actually, I do think you're right.
I think Burrow isn't that too, one of the only

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two quarterbacks in that um. He's basically the new Blake
Bortles garbage time king percent of his fantasy points come
in the fourth quarter, and like thirty percent of his
fantasy points come with his legs. But he does get
a good match up here against U A Alliance defense
that's allowing like two yards passing per game. Uh so

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he might be able to get a little extra passing
yard just game. I have a B grade on him.
You could talk me into an A, but he's just
been so bad in the passing game that I just
don't want to do it again. More on that later. Yeah, Uh,
Davonta Smith, I have a C grade. Smith is the
only wide receiver you can consider starting. Really for the Eagles.
The Lions have allowed the top receiver to have a
monster game basically every week. Samuel had a hundred a

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nine out of touch, Adams had a hundred twenty one.
Mooney had a hundred twenty five. Jefferson four, Chase n
couple hundred and fifty six and to the top guy
gets it done against the Lions every week. Um, So,
I have a C grade on Smith, but it could
be more. Um. Watkins and Rigor they're on your bench yet.
Watkins no more than three catches in any game. Riggor

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has top twenty five yards only twice. Like that, There's
nothing there, Uh, Dallas Goddard. In his last three games
without Earth's Goddard went five or seventy seven and one
seven for seventy five and one and three for seventy yards.
He's basically a three to five catch seventy yard guy
without Earth's over the last three games. So um, once again, Uh,

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it's a decent spot. Lions are middle of the pack
thirteenth against tight ends. But Kittle had seventy eight yards
Andrews I had a hundred nine. I put got her
somewhere like just below that range. I think that's seventy
five is fair forgot her in this one. But I'm
gonna give him an a grade just be because, uh,
the Lions are given up a lot of passing and
I think that he could get something done on the

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other side the Lions. I have Jared Goff on the bench.
The Eagles have been so bad against running backs that
passers don't need to throw. Posing quarterbacks are only averaging
averaging two and thirty eight yards per game over the
last five games. Jared Goff is all also only averaging
two eight yards per game. UM, and he's only been

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a coin flip chance at multiple touchdowns this year. UM,
I'm gonna take the side that they're gonna run it
more against this defense. And golf is on the bench.
Calif Rayman and Alman Ross Brown. This annoys me every week. Yeah,
five weeks ago is Alman Ross six catches a yards,
Then sorry, Calif f Rayman six catches a bunch of yards.
Then two weeks of Alman Ross six plus catches a

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bunch of yards. Now we're two weeks in a row
of calif Frayman with six plus catches and a bunch
of yards. This week, Jared Goff came out saying he
loves that he always knows where Raymond is on the
field and likened him to Cooper Cup. So I'm like,
all right, maybe he's got a thing for Cliff Rayman now.
So I'm gonna give Raymond the C grade bench and

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brown um over to Hockinson. I'm giving an A grade.
He's completely off the injury report now, which is good
to see, even though he played through that injury. Since
Week two, tight ends have torched the Eagles Elite one's
average one backups Foster Morow at sixty and a touchdown
last week. They're all torching him. So I got an
A grade for Hockinson. And in the running game, DeAndre

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Swift smash spot A grade. I mean against this Eagles
team third easiest matchups for running backs, allowing nearly a
hundred and sixty Comboy yards per game, which is good
for second worst. Um. They're also allowing the fourth most receptions,
which is amazing for Swift, and they're averaging thirty two
running back touchdowns per game allowed, which means I think

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you can give Williams a C grade. He probably is
gonna get ten plus touches. Alright, I like where you're
going with that. Down Swift has been one of the
great story of this year. His PPR floor, it's unbelievable. Yeah,
and it's all coming in the second half. Fine, don't care,
those those stats all work. Let's let's sneak in one
more matchup. Dolphins taking on the Bills. Matt so Miles

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Gaskin only scores when you bench him, so maybe you
should give him the bench grade here, so we've got
a chance. Sure, I'm benching him. Um. The only Dolphins
starter I have is Mike CASSICKI he gets a B
in this one. He's had seven or more targets and
five or more receptions and four of his last five
in that span top to eighty yards three times and

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scored twice. The Bills are an awesome defense, they really are,
but they've been burned for a couple of big tight
end days by Logan Thomas and Travis Kelsey this year.
But all other Dolphins are on the bench. Davante Parker
still questionable with the shoulder injury. He might not go
Jalen Wattle lines up in the slot against Taryn Johnson,
who is not allowed a touchdown in his coverage and

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is giving up around thirty yards per game. Two faces
of Bill's defense that's allowed five total passing touchdowns in
six games. Gaskin faces a defense that did get torched
by Derrick Henry two weeks ago, but Jason is not
Derrick Henry. And outside of that, no back is topped
forty five rushing yards against the Bills, and in the

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first meeting, Gaskin went for twenty five yards on five carries.
So bench for everybody else Zack Moss and Devin Singletary.
I've mentioned Singletaries might take a chance on me runner.
I'd give Moss a B grade and Singletary the sea though,
because Moss has twenty total red zone touches to single
teries eleven, which is why Moss leads the touchdown total

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four to one. Josh Allen and Steph Diggs, they both
get an Emma Stone grade, which of course refers to
the two thousand ten film Easy A Like It. Uh
Dawson Knox, He's out with the hand injury. Dawson Knox
out with a hand injury, but I'm not flexing to
Tommy Sweeney. Of course, Cole Beasley was might take a

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chance of me wide receiver, and Emmanuel Sanders also started
with a b. Even with the Dolphins getting Xavian Howard
and Byron Jones back last week, the Dolphins gave up
three thirty six and two to the Falcons, not that
that matters. Howard's already given up five touchdowns on the season,
while Jones is allowed of passer rating of one eleven.
Nicely done the two minute matchup. We hit the post

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of Scott's holding up a clock for us Right now
our number two Fantasy Football Weekly coming up in moments,
including three tough questions. Jalen Hurts is he safe for
the rest of the year? Find out when we come back.

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Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, our number two. I'm Paul Giarchion,
my co host today Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Guys,
this is a segment you like to call three tough questions.
We traditionally begin with tough question number one. You're a
Patrick Mahomes manager who can use mahomes is name cash

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a to trade for almost any quarterback you want. But
are you trading him? Are you keeping him? Scott? No?
For me, I think it's really only one bad game
fantasy wise, and I know he's struggled, but I think
that I think that they're gonna turn it around. I
don't think they're doing anything anything fundamentally terrible. He's still
top five in all scoring systems. Um, when I draft

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a player like as my number one quarterback, it's not
because I feel he's gonna be the number one quarterback.
It's because I feel like, very safe he's going to
be a top five guy. And that's what Patrick Mahomes
has been so far. He's only got three top ten
defenses left on the schedule. I know that two of
them are in the fantasy playoffs, and that does suck,
But UM, I'll just stick with Mahomes. All right, Matt,

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you've got Patrick Mahomes on your roster. Are you trading
him away? You're keeping it? Uh So? First off, in
a redraft league, I don't think you can trade him
straight up right now for Josh Allen, Kyler Murray or
Lamar Jackson, seeing as they're just so hot right now.
I believe those players you'd have to add something to
get that done. And I don't want to add something
to get those players. So that leaves the next tier

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of quarterbacks. And I think there's one quarterback that I'd
like to trade Mahomes for, plus I think i'd get
a little extra back, and that's Tom Brady. Brady's basically
averaging the same amount of fantasy points in a standard league.
The schedule is as soft as possible for the Bucks.
They have one defense on the on the schedule that's
of any concerns the Bills in Week fourteen plus Mahomes.
As Scott mentioned, his fantasy playoffs are quite a bit

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more dicey than Brady's. Mahomes gets Pittsburgh since in Denver
three defenses that have been average or better. Brady gets
the Panthers twice and the Jets. So if I had Mahomes,
I'd try to trade him for Brady and get a
slight upgrade at another position like running back or wide receiver.
That's a very specific answer. So yes is what you're saying. Yeah, Okay,
so you're yes, but only one guy, only one, Only

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one guy you trade for. Fundamentally, on this show, we
don't sell low on great players coming off a bad game,
not one bad game. Come on, had a terrible game
the other night, And well, actually that's a different story
because I don't think Kyler Murray should be included with

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all the guys that Matt gave you right, because the
running numbers have dried up significantly for Kyler Murray. That's
a whole other conversation for another time, and maybe even
later in this show if we have time. Um, we
don't sell low on great players coming off a short,
bad stretch. This is not the beginning of the end
for Patrick Mahomes or anything close to it. Would anybody
be surprised if he hit the Giants for four yards

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and four touchdowns? Not at all, not even in the
slightest Nobody bad and I and we'd all be like, well,
weren't we dumb for doubting Patrick Mahomes. So we're not
trading Patrick Mahomes. That are there guys you could trade
and come up even with Yes, I mean Tom Brady
comes to mind. I think Josh Allen would be. That'd
be a fine trade. But we're not. I'm not moving
Patrick Mahomes, and I'm out out there trying to shop him,

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and we're gonna he's gonna be just fine, and Scott
said something very salient. He said, from a fantasy perspective,
Patrick Mahomes has been fine, multiple touchdowns in every game
until last week. He's been a better fantasy producer than
he has been a real life producer. He's one game
removed from a four hundred yard passing game. We should

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talk more about fantasy versus reality quarterbacks in tough question
number two. Tough Question number two, Well Jalen Hurts finish
the year as the Eagles starting quarterback Matt Well. He's
an awesome fantasy producer. We've talked about it a little bit. However,
is he an awesome quarterback? The Eagles have lost five

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of their last six. They will have three picks in
the first round in the top like twelve ish of
the draft next year. And don't tell anyone but Hurts
is a bad passer. Over the last three weeks, he's
been exposed as a bad passer. Each game has seen
him with a completion percentage under six. By the way
Geno Smith completes passes, Hurts Pro Football Focus passing grade

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is twenty one, just above Jacoby Brissette, Andy Dalton, and
Tyrod Taylor. What are those quarterbacks have in common their backups,
plus Gardner Minshew, he probably needs a shot at least
a little bit here. They have to see if he's
going to be the guy they're gonna roll with next year,
or are they going to draft somebody in the first round.
So I think they give Gardner Minshew a shot as well.
Scott Will Jalen Hurts finished the year is the Eagles

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starting quarterback. I had everyone of Matt with the different
Every one of those points led me to think to myself,
they're going to give Jalen Hurts every opportunity for the
rest of the year to become a better pass or
kind of like Lamar Jackson did before they run into
those two are three picks in the top thirteen, so

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I figured they'll they'll let him continue to try to
grow all season. Um And I asked some of my
my Eagles insiders, and they didn't think it was gonna happen,
so I trusted them. He's got Eagles insiders. I don't
have that. I have one insider singular just to make it,
just to make it sound bigger than it was. Um,

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you know, I do Philadelphia Radio every Thursday, so you
have Eagles insiders outsiders. It's got a hundred thousand wants
of radio. They don't think Hurts is going to finish
the season as the starter. Sooner or later. Every quarterback
has to be able to pass. You can only cover
up passing deficiencies for so long. Jalen Hurts has the

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eighth most turnover worthy plays according to PFF. He's absorbed
the most sacks. That's not good to no. Despite having
the third most time in the pocket, he's absorbed twenty
two sacks. That's a lack of awareness that there. Maybe
they just teach slow if they do. His deep passing

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for Hurts is especially bad. He's completing just thirty seven
percent of his deep passes twenty or more yards, and
he's tied for the most interceptions on those deep passes.
This high value dynasty wise for Jalen Hurts. Right now,
this is it. They can't possibly believe that Minshew is
the starter though, like is the long term starter. Though,

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well it's so maybe not here hear me out. So
after this week's game against Detroit, here comes Chargers Broncos Saints.
Hard matchup, hard matchup, hard matchup that hurts me over
the course of those three games that could be yet
more losses they could go and three they could be.
That's something like they're gonna this week. By the way,

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it's not out of the question at that point, you know,
just your hand gets pressed on this and they might
have no choice but to bench him. Then Philadelphia's got
the weird late by the week fourteen by um, could
Sirianni use that as a if? If if they play
okay and there's still quasi relevant and they have to

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have a surge, they gotta like win out December to
make the playoffs and Hurts has been bad, that could
be another opportunity to make to make the move. I
think there's too many scenarios Wherehurts gets benched because he
just can't pass. We're gonna say yes to question number three.
What's the appropriate level of concern for t Higgins? None?

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Some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread Scott
It's just some, uh. I mean he leads the team
in targets and games he's played with Jamar Chase. I
mentioned that earlier during that matchup um so I meaning
excluding the ones he missed. Um leads the team in
red zone targets. Even even if you include those miss games,

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he leads the team in red zone targets. Uh, he
just isn't getting the big plays that he did last year.
Jamar Chase is getting those big plays now. The reason
I say some is because this office, this this offense
is running about as efficiently as it can and he's
not getting the massive numbers. So I don't know that
he's going to get a big jump. Maybe he'll get
a few more a few more big plays, but it

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seems like this might be what he is with jama
Chase on the field. So just some, Okay, Matt, what's
the appropriate level of concern for Tee Higgins? None? Some
or blowed? Scott stole a lot of my points. The
only thing I'll really add on is hit fifteen targets
last week. That's huge. What's good for the offense is

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good for the offense, and Jamaar Chase is good for
the offense and they're going to have to start double
covering him. That's why I have no concern about Tee
Higgins right now. Jamar Chase has already murdered one Fangals.
Wide receiver Tyler Boyd's career over he's being dropped out right,

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and he should be dropped out right. Te Higgins is next. Yeah,
that maybe the case. What's good for the offense is
bad for the offense. I'm not saying that Chase is
so good. Higgins will never be more than the second
receiving option on this team. Now, he is a good
receiver and he's got a good quarterback. That means he's

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going to be on your roster and you're gonna be
able to plug him in from time to time. But
all the big plays, all the juicy box scores, that's
going to Jamaar Chase, I you're and the other thing
that's going to frustrate you on Tee Higgins the dud
game and we've already seen it this year. The four
catches for thirty yard games that's coming, and those things

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end seasons for you, whether you're in a guillotine league
or the playoffs of a regular league. Four and thirty
is those are seven points that are not going to
help you win a fantasy matchup. The correct answer is
some some cowboys take on the vikings. This is a

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conundrum game in many respect X because it is a
Sunday night game and we don't know what the hell
is going on, Dak Prescott, and we may not before
the Sunday games kick off. The earlier games kick off,
So we got to talk about this in two parts.
Of course, Uh, Prescott has got a calf string now.

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During the week, Prescott was saying things like, well, I
don't want to reinjure it. I don't want to lose
the rest of the season because of one game. He
was saying all the things that suggestion it's not up
to me. It's not up to me. Whenever you say that,
you're usually not going to play. I don't think he's
playing now, we don't know that for sure. But even
if he does play, calf injuries do reinjure, not like

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a high ankle sprain does or hamstring does, but it
the the chance of re injury is legitimate with that.
So you've gotta factor that in here as well. So
if you had told me, Zach, if you told me
Dak Prescott is gonna start and finish this game a grade.
And that's where I had him at the beginning of
the week when I started my prep on. But as
the week went on and he continued to not practice,
and I mean away I loaded him to be and

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now he got him down to a C because I
just don't think Dak Prescott's gonna play in this game,
and I worry about him going backwards if he does
end up playing, it's tricky because it's the Sunday nighter.
It's the Sunday Nighter. Now here's your official pivot on
Dak Prescott. Check to see if Daniel Jones on Monday
Night is available. Pick him up. If you're a Dack owner,

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so that if Dad doesn't go, you can insert Monday
Night or Daniel Jones in a very positive matchup your
lineup and we'll talk. Actually, I'm gonna talk about Daniel
Jones later in this in this show. All right. So
there's Dak his receivers. If Dak is gonna go, Ceedee
Lamb and Amari Cooper are obvious a's Again, I don't
think they're gonna go. Cooper Rush has three NFL passes

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in his life and one completion. If that's not a no,
it's not. As a matter of fact, I believe that's
it's not divided by two, then yes, if it was half,
I got it. It's with Cooper Rush Seed Lamb and
Amari Cooper dropped down to Sea grades for me, even
though I like their matchups against a Viking secondary Without

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Patrick Peterson, It's gonna force Cameron Danceler backup cornerback into
a starting role. And the unique thing about this is
Dancelers paid seven hundred fifty seven NFL snaps, Nine of
them are on the side of the field he'll be
playing in this matchup where Patrick Peterson goes, and those
nine all came last week when he had to fill
in for Peterson. You mean only nine times? I missed

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that nine times. That's it. And so I get worried
about all the muscle memory that Cameron Danceler has established
on one side of the field. Can he, in just
his second NFL year, flip that over to the other
side of the field. I don't know the answer to that.
I worry now again a grades on Lamb and Cooper.
If Pratt Scott goes Sea grades with Cooper rush. The

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other receiver receiving option I want to talk about is
Dalton Sheltz. Other than his Week two dug dud, Sheltz
has caught at least five passes, hit at least forty
five yards in every game. But this is a tough
test against the Vikings, who are allowing less than four
receptions per game to opposing tight ends and have not
given up a tight end touchdown at all this year.
So I don't love Sheltz in this one, although I'll

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mention if it's Cooper Rush, a lot of times you
do see the check down, release, safety valve tight end
connection and that could happen here for Dalton Sheltz if
it is Cooper Rush. So I've got a C grade
on shelters regardless of who the starting quarterback is. Now
let's go to Zeke. So now we've finally got a
fairly predictable play. Obviously against the defense missing it's run

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stuffing defensive lineman Michael Pierce. Pierce has been out for
a couple of games Detroit and Carolina, We're not able
to take advantage of that, But Detriit and Carolina are
not Ezekiel Elliott and this Dallas offensive line. The way
Dallas is gonna win this game is they're gonna run
Zeke and Tony Pollard like crazy in this one. And
Dallas gets their impact right tackle l Collins back from suspension.

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That helps a lot, so obviously grade for Zeke, I've
got a C grade and Tony Pollard He's received at
least ten touches for sixty three yards in every game
since Week one, which is great. Minnesota has allowed one
running back to catch a touchdown pass against them in
their last twenty eight games, so he's gonna have to
get it done on the ground. Paula did score in
a forty two yard run against Minnesota last year. See

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grade for him. All right, let's go to the Vikings
and more predictable game Dalvin Cooks and obvious A. Cowboys
are allowing an average of one rushing yards per game
and a full touchdown per game over their last three
So Cooks and obvious A, let's talk about Let's talk
about Cousins, Jefferson and feeling the passing attack for the
Vikings all A grades. It's been a major shift in philosophy.

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Kirk Cousins averaging forty pass attempts per game. The last
two years combined were thirty past attempts a game. That
extra ten passes makes a huge difference. It Cousins ups
side for fantasy use in his four games with at
least thirty eight pass attempts covers as averaging a whopping

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three yards and two and a half passing touchdowns in
the games in which Dallas has seen at least thirty
eight passes. They're giving up three hundred twenty two passing
yards per game. So big game coming here in all
probability for Cousins who should get just near the requisite
kinds of volume that we're talking about, and for all
the talk of Trayvon Diggs and the amazing seven interceptions

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in the opening six weeks, but nobody's talking about except
on this show. Because we have Diggs is allowing the
second most passing yards in his coverage. The guy who's
allowing the most is the other starting cornerback for Dallas,
Anthony Brown. Their number one and number two and passing

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yards allowed. That's a great opportunity for Theland and Jefferson
in this matchup, all of them a grades. How about
kJ Osbourne. Last time we saw kJ Osbourne two weeks ago,
he was scoring the overtime game winner. He lines up
almost entirely in the slot that puts him up against
Jordan Lewis. He has Pro Football Focuses one hundred six

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ranked cornerback, so you're saying the Cowboys have corner issues.
I have corner issues. That's right. And even Tyler Conklin
becomes a plausible desperation play against the defense that's allowed
four different tight ends to top fifty five yards and
four tight end touchdowns. So there you go. Who that
feels like a lot of talking by me in this segment,

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we come back, Titans take on the Colts. Titans without
Julio Jones. What do we think of this passing attack
without one of their key players? Will tell you when
we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome in Fantasy

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Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison
with you. Titans take on the Colts. Scott Derrick Henry's
obviously an A grade. We're gonna start him. I'm a
lot more just than what you have to say about
the passing attacks sans Julio Jones this week. But I
have like five minutes of Derrick Kenny okay, alright on

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the passing side, Ryan Tannehill, I have a B grade four.
He's only averaging eight yards and a score this year,
but the matchup is just right against the cold Steve
we thought he would come back around last week. Um,
the Colts D has allowed sixteen passing touchdowns through seven weeks.
That's over two per game if you can do the
math on that. Yeah, it's also a D that has

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allowed two hundred fifty total yards and three scores. Uh.
That allowed two d fifty yards and three scores to
Daniell in Week three, So that's it's one of his
best games of the year was against his defense. Antonio
Brown reminded us last week. While he's that guy, I
have an eight GRA A grade on him. If Antonio
Brown are sorry, wow wow wow a J. Brown, A J. Brown.

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I have a Brown written on my Yeah, a Brown,
one of those Browns. Uh reminded us that last week,
what a good game. He had last yet yards. Eight
receivers have had over a hundred plus yards and or
a score in seven games. The only game that didn't

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happen was Brandon Cooks when he went in nine for
eighty nine, so almost a hundred yards. The top guy
gets his against the Colts a J. Brown. That A J.
Brown gets an A grade. Um Over to the other side,
I said Carson Wentz was my take at chance on
me player. So in the passing game, I have an

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A grade on Michael Pittman. He's their alpha. He is
the high target games are great. His low target games
he manages to somehow still make something happen. He gets
like sixty yards and his low target games. Titans allowing
the second most receptions and the most receiving yards and
the fifth most receiving touchdowns. I think it's a pretty
much a smash spot for Pittman. I think it's gonna
be a high volume, high output game for him on

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his Zach Pascal actually have him on the bench. I
know it's a great matchup against the team allowing the
most yards to the slot receiver, but he has disappeared
way too many times, including last week. Got me chopped
in that guillotine league, and I are in. He has
two catches for twenty seven scores twice seven yards and
no scores in the last two weeks combined. And I
plus matchups to yeah yeah mo Ali Cox I have

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at the bench. Um Kelsey had seven for sixty five
last week against the Titans, but everyone else has done
almost nothing. I think it's not a great matchup, and
he doesn't have any more. He doesn't have more than
five targets in any game. He's very touchdown dependent. Jonathan Taylor.
It's just he's an A grade. Over the last four games,
he's averaging over eighteen touches over a hundred thirty seven

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compo yards, one point to five touchdowns. I don't care
that the Titans are top ten against running backs because
it's mostly because teams can throw a ton on them.
Only one running back this year has seen the volume
Taylor sees, and that running back went for a hundred
forty in a score. So yeah, yeah, a grade on
Taylor makes sense. Patriots take on the Chargers. Matt for

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the Patriots, Damien Harris is on a heck of a
run right now. Yeah, maybe no one passes against the
Chargers because it's so easy to run against the Chargers,
and I'm giving Damien Harrison a grade in this one.
Posing runners are averaging five point three yards per carry,
so if you hand the ball to your runner every time,
you'll get a first down every two plays. That's a

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good thing. It's not surprising to find out that the
Chargers have allowed these second most rushing yards and the
fourth most rushing touchdowns to opposing runners. And Harris has
been dominating the rushing count for a few weeks in
New England, topping a hundred yards on the ground and
two straight, scoring four times in the last three games.
By the way, it could have been more. Last week.
Something out so far ahead they stopped using him. Yeah,
and they gave two touchdowns to his backup. I forget

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who was off hand, but it wasn't Brandon Bolden. He's
on the bench. By the way, bad matchup for receiving
running backs in this one. Chargers somehow good against receiving
running backs. They're a really weird team. And that's why
I'm giving Hunter Henry and a grade in this one
as well. Uh. I think we used to use the
duck for the revenge duck because Hunter Henry and the

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revenge game. Yeah, John new Smith is questionable with the
shoulder injury too, so touchdown vulture. Kendrick Born, He's also
in the same boat boat questionable with the shoulder. No
one else catches touchdown passes for the Patriots, it's just
Hunter Henry. He's got a touchdown reception in four straight
the revenge game as he returns to l A. To

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top it off, the Chargers are one of the worst
teams in the league against the tight end position. They've
allowed a tight end touchdown in four straight and five
of six games this season. And this was the team
that allowed David and Joku to go for a hundred
and forty nine yards the other week. So Mac Jones,
if the Chargers are that bad against tight ends, they
have to be a passing sieve, right wrong. Only one

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quarterback they've faced his top two sixty yards this season.
Just half the quarterbacks they've faced have achieved two or
more touchdown passes, so Jones gets only a C grade. Uh.
Those who didn't get to the two touchdown pass mark,
Dak Prescott and Lamar Jackson, they're pretty good quarterbacks. They
weren't able to do it either, so barely a starting

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grade for Mac mostly getting the C grade because I
think Hunter Henry is gonna eat in this game. Jacoby
my Fires and the rest of the receivers are on
the bench. The Chargers are allowing the fewest receptions and
yards to wide receivers and the second fewest touchdowns to
the position at only three this season. So it's going
to be just like Jacoby Myers to get his first
ever NFL touchdown in this game when nobody bench grade

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for sure. Now, let's go over to the Charger side
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air Bear averaging two and two point three touchdowns per
game The Pats appear good on paper, but a couple
of good quarterbacks they've faced have had their way with
the SEC. Darry Brady through for two sixty nine, Dac

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went for four forty five and three, and even Davis
Mills went for three twelve and three. So I'm not
fearing air bear in this one. Mike Williams and Keenan Allen,
they're both getting a grades. The Pats present a middle
of the pack challenge for Williams and Allen. None of
the Patriots corners have been overwhelmingly good or bad. It's
all that on the two wide receivers, who are each

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averaging over nine targets per game and close to six
receptions each. Finally, the most difficult thing of this whole
matchup is Austin Ekeler. Don't yeah, he had a hip
injury pop up during the week. This week, He's the
only Charger that didn't practice on Thursday, and he didn't
practice Friday either. If he does not go, it's probably

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a pretty big split between Justin Jackson, Joshua Kelly, and
Larry Rountree, with Dave Neighbors mixed in in the passing game.
It's gross of that group round Tree is probably the
one who gets the most work. He's the only one
who's topped four carries in a game this year, so
he'd probably be the safest rusher. But it would be
a committee of four, and so I think I benched

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them all. If Eckler is cleared, he's getting a B grade.
It's downgraded to a B because of the injury. The
Pats have allowed the fifth most receptions in the fourth
most receiving arts to opposing backs. So if you want
a super sneaky DFS dart throw, Gabe Neighbors is the
catching back. It's super deep. He's gonna be super cheap.

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But if Eckler doesn't go, Gabe Neighbors fire him up.
Good heavens. Oh my gosh, I hope we don't have
to fire up Gabe. Sounds like one of Mr Rogers friends. Um,
we're gonna do the Monday Night or normally we do
the Monday Night. At last, we've still got a couple
of matchups left. Um can they'll come up next segment,
But it's Giants Chiefs and this is super thorny as well.
I would get these weird ones with a lot of

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moving parts here let's let's start and just try to
get this out of the way. Kenny Golladay probably does
not go after missing most all of practice this week.
Sterling Shepherd game time decision hamstring, can Darius Tony game
time decision ankle, So good luck on this Monday night.
Are that's gonna be a real problem. You know, for
Daniel Jones. It largely depends on just how how many

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of these guys are available, and I can't tell you
that for Monday yet. If it's Shepherd, who seems to
be the healthiest of the receivers here, you know, the
hope is that the hamstring doesn't aggravate in game, which
they do a lot, and that could be a big
risk here. If you told me Shepherd was gonna play
the whole game, I'd give him a B grade. I
can't know that that's going to be the case, so

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I'm gonna move him down to a C. Great positive
matchups against her Various Ward and Mike Hughes. These guys
have really struggled in coverage all season long. The Kansasy
is a love the second most touchdowns um uh too
wide receivers, So there's a nice opportunity for Sterling Shepherd.
If he's able to go, I don't think Holiday goes
Kidarius Tony. Maybe he would be in the slot against

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Legarius Sneed. He's Pro Football focuses eighty nine ranked wide
receiver and he's giving up a nearly perfect passer rating
of one forty five in his coverage. So if Tony
can go, he did practice on Friday, he did the
hopeosity can go. He's got the ankle injury, and last
time he tried to start a game with the ankle injury,
he left in the first quarter. So that's your risk

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on on on Tony, and that's why I've got to
see grade on him. Evan Ingram was might take a
chance on me receiver this week, and he's healthy, So
there's your safe play. You could go to Darius Slayton
as a safe option as well as a pivot if
you needed to. So for Daniel Jones, I've only got
to c grade on him with all of these moving parts.
Even though the Chiefs are giving up two point eight

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passing touchdowns per game to opposing quarterbacks and they're getting
beat on the ground two and Daniel Jones can run.
Chiefs are allowing the most quarterback rushing attempts for the
most yards and the most rushing touchdowns. That's a hell
of a trifecta for Daniel Jones on the ground. So
maybe he helps you out with a safe floor of

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thirty fifty sixty rushing yards in this game if they
decided to run him a lot. And there was that
game earlier this year for Daniel Jones, do you remember this?
They basically just random like a running back all game
that a lot of designed runs in the first three
weeks for Day, So maybe that happens here, and especially
with say Kwon Barkley out, DeVante Booker gets a B.
Kansas City ranks thirty one in rushing yards and receiving

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yards allowed to runners. This is a nice matchup. They
give up over one hundred forty combo yards and nearly
a score per game, and almost all that would go
to Booker here. Elijah Penny is not a material factor
in this offense. If Booker were better in this offensive line,
we're better and give him an A. But we're gonna
give Davantae Booker a B grade. And lastly, let's go
over the Kansas City side where this won't take very long.

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Patrick Mahomes, Tyree Hill, Travis Kelsey, there's still a grades.
You know, for all the problems Mahomes has had, as
we discussed earlier in this show, He's still been a
fantasy force. And you know, you would have never considered
benching those guys before last week. You're not going to
bench him here. And Mahomes is one game removed from
a four hundred twenty eight yard passing games, so this
is a still a very good game. New York's allowed

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multiple passing touchdowns in five or seven games. Only Sam
Donald Jameis Winston failed to ring the bell twice. Last
guy I want to mention for Kansas City, Darryl Williams,
should be able to take some of the pressure off
of Mahomes with a decent game here. Giants are allowing
the fifth most rushing yards per game to opposing running
backs on four and a half yards per carry. Williams

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is seeing sixty percent of the snap since taking over
for Clyde Edwards a layer, and that volume could be
lucrative here. Similar high volume backs like Ezekiel Elliott and
Darryl Henderson and Alvin Camara averaged over one hundred yards
and over a score per game. So well, all that
together and I think we're sitting in a pretty good
spot for Darryl Williams and we give him a B grade.

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In this game, the receivers are to the other receivers.
Remember when Josh Gordon, everybody's excited for Josh Gordon. No, no,
I mean, I mean like five years ago in the theaters.
May be right about that. When we come back Premature
spect Reculation, we're going to tell you the guys who
want to pick up this week that everybody else will

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be trying to pick up next week. Find out who
when we come back, final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly.

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We continue to create new leagues at Guillotine leagues dot
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be trying to pick up next week. Should we stop
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We just three of us button button bar that all right? Scott,

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who is your not take a chance and you're Premature
Speculation player I'm gonna go super deep for people here,
so sometimes we need a deep, deep prospect. Tyree Jackson
looked really good at in uh O TAZM preseason. They
really liked what they had in him. He's the tight
end for Philadelphia designated return. They've spoken so glowingly about
him that they it allowed them to trade Earth's um.

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He's an uber athlete six ft seven two fifty pounds
four ft ninety time percent catch radius. He's a really
big tight end for that Philadelphia Eagles team that needs receivers,
and he could be a big catch radius guy for
Jalen Hurts. Alright, I like it. Deeper leagues, deeper leagues.
Uh Matt, you're premature speculation player. I've got Van Jefferson

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and Scott mentioned percent snapshare earlier in the show last week.
Uh DeShawn Jackson has requested a trade from the Rams
and will be inactive this week, so Van Jefferson is
going to be on the field in all three receiver sets.
He's seen six or more targets in three of his
last five games, scoring twice in those contests, and after
a matchup against the Texans this week, which could yield

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some big numbers, and he was startable. I believe in
your matchup, right, Scott uh. He gets Tennessee's terrible secondary
neck this week and then has matchups with green Bay, Jacksonville, Arizona,
and Seattle coming after the buy, all of which are
decent matchups and should yield some positive game scripts for
Van and some more starting grades. I'm gonna give you
one point one premature speculations players. The point one is

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just a total dart throw. With Robert Tonyan's season over,
the Packers are going to make a move. How about
Houston shipping Jordan's Aikins, an athletic tight end that can
be the You know, Marcedes Lewis isn't an athletic pass
catching tight end. Jordan Aikins. Maybe if Houston's going to
continue selling players, you know, if you're in a super

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deep league and you just want to throw a dart,
maybe there. But that's let's go to the full the
full blown guy. Salvat Akhmed Miami's quasi backup running back
with Malcolm Brown and I are. That means there's four seven,
nine more touches every game to go someplace. And Myles
Gaskin has done nothing to suggest that he's automatically gonna
get those. Schedule is favorable going forward, and he's had

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some decent usage the last couple of weeks eight and
nine touches the last two weeks. Salvon Akhmed might end
up turning into this quasi starting running back. Could happen,
Could happen. He was good last year in relief for
when he got the full load. Scott. Let's get into
your final matchup, which is the Jaguars taking on the Seahawks.
Lots of sneaky good plays against this sagging secondary for

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the Seahawks well, and frankly the run. The run defense
isn't good either. Yeah. I was really torn on a
lot of these. I mean, I already talked about Jamal
agg knew who I really like is As I had
a C grade on him me he was gonna take
a chance on me. Blair Uh that passing game, I
almost I'm torn on Trevor Lawrences as giving him a
startable grade. I gave him a bench grade, but I

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could see a sea here. He had two hundred seventy
plus yards and a score in each of his last
two games. Over the last four games, though the Seahawks
have not given up multiple touchdowns. Uh And in five
the last five weeks, only stafford his top two and
twenty nine yards passing. There's a lot more running game
stuff that's getting done there. Um So I have learned
on the bench. But this is interesting. They only have

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four pass receivers doing anything. Fifty five of the sixty
one targets in the least two games have gone to
four people like they have. They're throwing in no one else,
just four people. Uh So, Marvin Jones C grade. Uh.
Jones found his way to a big day in week six.
He had two duds week two duds prior to that.
But the matchup is good. Is good? Yeah? I like
Jones more than you do here. Okay, I considered a

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B grade. It's the two duds before last week that
give me pause. But yeah, against Sydney Jones PFS hundred
and fifteen rank cornerbacks, I have a C grade there.
Jones had a perfect passer rating in his coverage, everything's
getting caught. I do have Leavisco Chanel on the bench, though,
despite seeing ten targets in week six, He's not doing

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a lot with him unless he gets a huge play.
He needs one huge play Lucky for him, he's done
that two out of the last four weeks, and the
Seahawks are capable of giving up the huge play too. Yeah.
Bench grade on Dan Arnold. We have a two game
sample size on the new team, a nice six for
sixty four and a two for two two for twenty
seven yard dud. Uh. Five plus targets in each is nice.

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But since no tight end since Week one, no tight
end has top twenty five yards on the Seahawk Yeah.
So uh and only two touchdowns allowed to the position
on the season. So Arnold's on the bench. Robinson, I
have a smash a spot on here. Uh, nineteen plus
touches in four straight weeks. That hight experiment. He's getting
less and less work um over the last four weeks.

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Robinson scored in each of them, averaging a hundred seventeen
yards in each of them, and Seattle is allowing the
most running back touches, rushing yards and even receiving yards
to running backs. Smash spot there. On the other side,
Gino Smith, I have on the bench because we've watched
him play for the last couple of weeks, and you
know what's going on there. Uh. Tyler Lockett four catches

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for forty seven yards in the two games with Gino.
Because Locket is deep, all dependent and Geno can't pass
the dull, so I got him on the bench. Gerald
Everett only six targets in the last two games with Gino.
You're not doing anything with six targets in two games.
He's on the bench. DK Metcalf he had his day
saved by a giant eighty four yard touchdown last week.

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He's the only guy I can kind of trust. Um,
the top receiving option against the Jags, has had a
hundred plus yards and or score in five of the
last six Jags games. So I'm giving Metcalf a B.
But I don't love it with Gino at the helm
uh onto the running game, I expect Alex cons to play.
I know he didn't practice on Friday, but he did

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this last week and then he played. Yeah, they rested
him and then he played and he got like twenty touches.
So I'm having yet twenty one touches. No back with
fewer than twenty six touches against the Jags has top
seventy five yards. It takes a ton of volume to
get anything on the Jags, and I was surprised by that.
So with a likely seventeen to eighteen touches coming to

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cons he is getting my patent patting patent volume. See,
it's a volume C grade. I don't love the matchup,
but I love the volume he's gonna get all right,
sounds good. Our final matchup of the show is the
Bucks taking on the Saints. Matt, this is uh, this
is a Tom Brady has been basically bulletproof. Yeah, but

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it's a trickier matchup that It is tricky and I'm
only given him a C grade in this one. Brady's
top line and three tries against the Saints as a
member of the Bucks to thirty nine and two scores.
He's actually thrown more picks than touchdowns against the Saints
as a member of the Bucks, and outside of a
weird Daniel Jones game, the Saints have kept quarterbacks in check,
allowing only the ninth fewest passing yards per game the

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second fewest passing touchdowns with only six allowed through six games. Uh.
Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, they're the main wide receivers.
Because Antonio Brown has been ruled out, he won't play
Scotty Miller Justin Watson also on i R. What did
we see last week when these two were the main
guy is ten targets and three touchdowns for Mike Evans,
eleven targets eight for one, eleven for Chris Godwin. He

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scored as well. If you give each of them double
digit targets, the chances of both of them scoring is massive.
But weirdly, the Saints give up all their passing yards
to the wide receiver position, allowing one ninety to the
position on average, and five of the six touchdowns they've
allowed this year went to a wide receiver. However, Marshawn
Lattimore has absolutely terrorized Mike Williams the last few years.

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In the last nineties, six snaps where they've lined up
against each other, Mike Williams or Mike Evans has one catch.
I'm so disappointed you right now, Sunday is Halloween and
you could have You could have gone off on a
complete spiel to Terrorizing is the only word you gave.

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I'm only going to give Mike Evans a C grade here.
I'm gonna give Godwin the B Gronk could return this
week with the broken ribs I'm a bit apprehensive and
would keep him on the bench. And this one. The
Saints have been very good against the tight end as well,
allowing only thirty eight yards per game to the position.
Uh LEO four net. He gets a B grade four nets.
Workload average is eighteen. That's Carrie's plus targets per game.

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That's the twelve best mark in the league, which is
more than Austin Ekeler, Aaron Jones and sa Kwan Barkley
and his healthy games. So the opportunity is there, and
if he can maintain those eighteen touches, there's some gold here.
But Kenny against a great run defense. Three running backs
have hit the eighteen touch mark against the Saints this year.
Two of those three scored twice. The average total yard
mark for those three backs one and twelve yards. So

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if you get the volume and if the volume, if
you get the volume, you get the production. But you
already told me that, well maybe, okay, all right, I'm
kind of listening to that, alright, Hiss averaging eighteen per game.
Let's go Jamis Winston. He gets a revenge duck here.
Charge him. Yeah, although this one is in New Orleans,
so it probably doesn't hit quite as hard. The Bucks

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defense is allowing to seventy and two to opposing quarterbacks,
and even both Mac Jones and Jacoby Brissette hit those
numbers in the last month. But something about Winston just
hasn't passed the eye tests though uh that's translated to
low yardage totals. He's only top two hundred thirty yards
once in six starts. Well, the volume is so low,
which tells you plenty Sean Payton doesn't trust Winston to

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throw very much. He's not going yolo downfield, and that's
why his favorite wide His favorite wide receiver is not
a wide receiver. It's Alvin Camara. He gets a B
grade in this one. Nobody runs against the Bucks, though
they're averaging only forty nine yards against per game. However,
we did see Camara get targeted ten times last week
in Seattle, and the Bucks are allowing the fourth most

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receptions and the tenth most receiving yards to opposing backs.
Despite the tough match up with the Bucks, Camara has
topped a hundred total yards are scored in three straight
against Tampa and then Mark has Callaway and the rest
of the wide receivers there on the bench. You may
look at this and say it's the Bucks secondary. They're terrible,
but not so fast. In the last four weeks, they

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have not allowed to touch down to a wide receiver.
Opposing offenses are only averaging fourteen and a half points
against the Bucks in that time. Now, Callaway has had
seven and eight targets in the last two weeks, and
he's the best option, but he's only actually catching about
half of his targets and that's not good. That's Jamis Winston. Yeah,
plus Trey Kwon Smith returned last week. Kenny Stills and

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Kevin White were involved last week. Deonte Harris was limited
in practice and might play. Yeah, it's just not good
for any of the wide receivers. By the way, Michael
Thomas still not practicing, but some speculated he'd be back
for this game. That won't happen this week, but it
might next week, so keep an eye on that. It
might change the offense just a little bit there. While
we're talking about the Saints, let's talk about Ingram and

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his impact. Mark Ingram's impact on Camaric. Camaric, coming into
the season, had only had one game with twenty or
more rushes and it was the six touchdown blow against
the Vikings One had lost many championships they've now this
season they're all brush games basically, and I got to
believe they have to take some of the wear and

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tear off Alvin Camaron. They made this move to to
siphon off some legitimate carries from Kimara. Yeah, Ingram is
gonna get ten touches. I think you will. I think
he will too. I think we're gonna see Camara go
back to where they traditionally like to use him, which
is more like twelve carries, six targets, seven targets, and

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that's more traditionally where he's been. I don't think they
want to keep this level of workload going on. But
is that bad because Alvin Camara was still a top
five running back even even with the reduced touchload. I
don't think it's a bad thing for maybe he'll just
be more efficient. Is are we going to give starting
grades at any point this season to mark Ingram taking

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injury off the off the table, the number fourteen, which
I don't love his body swimming though. Yeah, so I
have I have trouble ranking a number fourteen running back
like that. But uh, I think we're gonna see we're
you know, games like they're there are teams they're just
so bad against the run that the backup we give

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se grads to. I think he's going to get some
of those, a few of those alright in our final moments.
Kyler Murray's rushing totals and so much of a Kyler
Murray has been an awesome Fantasy producers because he's chipped
in rushing numbers one yards, six yards, ten yards, twenty
one yards. That since he had that little bit of
a shoulder injury scare by the way, and they're they're
trying to take a little bit of those hits off

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of him. I think it's nice that they played Thursday
and he gets a little extra rest this week. You
know what, I think i'd move him. I think you'd
trade Kyler Murray straight up for almost anybody right now.
Probably I would check in on Patrick Mahomes after a
bad game. Problem is is he already played, already play
That's true, It's gonna be tricky. That part's gonna be trickier,
but next week we can make that move. You need
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