Fantasy Football Daily - Week 7 Matchup Podcast

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

John Hansen (@Fantasy_Guru) and Greg Cosell (@gregcosell) preview Week 7 action. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fantasy-points-podcast/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm John Hansen. Greg CoSell standing by week seven underway on Thursday night. We'll get underway Thursday night. We record this on Wednesday evening. Greg's been in the film room here for a couple of days and plenty of insight, cold, if you will, from week six. This is just a little bit of a taste of the content over at FantasyPoints.com, specifically from Greg CoSell. And you can subscribe to the website if you're not a subscriber already, by the way. We actually do this. podcast here. This one, a little bit more for promotional purposes, honestly. If you're an actual subscriber, just listen to the live stream that we do on Thursday night with me, Adam, and Greg Cocell. And you get the full picture here. It's a little bit of a taste here. You can use the promo code 21 Hanson 10 to subscribe to the website. The prices have all been reduced now that the season obviously is well underway. Greg, what's up? How are you? Ready to go. I'm sure you are. I am, John. I think so. You know, we'll see what comes out of my mouth as we do this, but I think I'm okay.

Yeah, yeah. We never ever give Greg any questions ahead of time. It literally never has a clue where we're going to go with it on the radio here in the podcast, but that's what we dig about. Greg. He's ready to go with pretty much anything we bring to the table. We'll start in Philadelphia with the Eagle offense. They did kickoff week number six. and, you know, some of the data points on Jalen Hertz are actually not bad, Greg,

but it continues to be, do you classify it as a tough watch? We know they're not running the ball. We know they're putting a lot on his plate. Would you classify watching the Eagle offense as a quote unquote tough watch? I would say so. You know, I think, look, you know, I always struggle to talk about. in offenses that I personally don't think are playing the right way. And I try to think of it through the lens of the coach and the team because it's always easy to rip things. I don't do that,

as you know, and people listening know I don't do that. So my sense is that they're trying to play to Hertz's strength. Hertz has always been a shotgun quarterback. He's always been able to run, both by design and by improvisation. He's never been what you'd call a precision natural thrower, but he can make throws. So my sense is they're trying to play to his strengths. But there's a couple of things that stand out. Number one, there's no run game at all. So there's no physical element to their offense. Number two, Hertz at this point, and maybe it will change over time, but at this point, Hertz does not always see things clearly. Hurts is not a natural throwers so his ball placement can be erratic.

But what they've done is they've built their entire offense around him. So if he does not play at a high level in any given game, John, their offense gets shut down. They're putting the burden on him every week. Now, I saw a little breakdown from Brian Westbrook, who we both know. I work with him closely. Yeah, B. West. Yeah, I love B West. I mean, that dude can break down and run. game like real well. And I saw a little breakdown where, I mean, maybe it was just this past week

where Vita VEVe was just blowing up everything. Like they couldn't stop on me. Is there anything to the notion that one of the reasons they're not running the ball? Is it not blocking it up real well up front? They don't run it enough to know the answer to that, John. And I'm not being sarcastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Run game is not a flash thing. You know, give it to a back on one play and who he's going to run for 25. A run game. is it takes time, it's patience. That's what a run game is. There's a physical element to a run game. You're not going to always gain 9, 10, 15, 20 yards. They don't run it enough to answer the question you asked me with any real conviction one way or the other. Yeah, it's really difficult

in our world and fantasy. Like I thought Devonte Smith would have a pretty good game. And it's almost like a grab bag. Like, you just don't know how they're going to come out and play on a week-to-week basis. It feels to me like that's somewhat coverage-based. Maybe if they get what they're expecting, they're like, good, we're good. But if they don't, it seems like hurts a little loss. Like, what would be the biggest issue that is holding jail and hurts back right now? I mean, my guess would be just processing and seeing the field and knowing what he's looking at. Well, he has a number of things that need to be better for him to play at a higher level. He, that's one of them.

He tends to leave the pocket prematurely. So he disrupts the timing of certain routes. And he leaves throws on the field. That's the term we use. And he's not a consistent, precise ball placement thrower. So there's throws that are there that he does turn loose, but he misses due to poor accuracy. So there's a number of factors at play. When a quarterback is inconsistent week to week, or literally play-to-play quarter to

quarter, there are a number of reasons. There's very rarely just one reason, John. Sure. Just wondering, like, what's the biggest culprit here? Like, what's the biggest issue? It's a combination of things. I get it. Understood.

Any thoughts on the matchup this week against the Raiders? They're, D. I know you've seen them. I don't know how much you've seen them. I don't honestly know what they are. I do think they do. The Raiders D? Raider D. Yeah, I'm not sure.

The Raider's D is about as easy to understand as any D in the league. Well, they do play zone, right, a lot. They play the highest percentage of cover three in the league. They play a bunch of cover one. So they're a single high safety based. They do not play much split safety at all. They're a four-man rush team. They have the lowest splits percentage in the league.

There's no mystery to the Raiders. defense whatsoever. Well, I didn't mean it that way. I just meant like their personnel, like, how are they playing? Are they weak against the run? Well, I would say this, if you want to speak about their personnel. I would say that they're really good up front. Certainly in Gakway and Crosby are playing at a very high level. They've had major injuries on the back end at corner in particular, although Hayward is back now. But opposite Haywood, they're playing with probably their third guy, you know, they've had injuries because Trayvon Mullen, who's their starting boundary corner, is on IR.

Yeah. I would say that the weakness of their defense overall is at the linebacker position. They have the two kinds of safeties that Gus Bradley, their de-coordinator, wants exactly, because many remember Gus Bradley as the coordinator with the Legion of Boom. Yeah. He is Jonathan Abram, who's your classic box safety. Yeah. And they drafted Trayvon Merrigan the second round, and he's your classic post-safety.

So the safety position they feel very good about. Injuries at corner, major concerns at linebacker, and that's where they are. But there's no mystery to what they do. Do you think that Hertz can have success against this defense, this zone-based defense? I think that tactically they can, but that's a tough answer, which is very difficult for you in a projection, because you just don't know. if how he's going to play. You know what I mean? I mean, there could be throws to be made based on route concepts

and how they tactically approach the defense and he misses the throws. You don't, you know, that's what you just don't know. But there will be throws to be made. I'm trying to look back in like other games and what type of coverage is these. And you just don't know. He threw the ball well against Kansas City and the loss. And last week he missed some throws against Tampa that you just went, wow, you just got to make that throw.

Yeah, yeah. moving on here. Let's talk, well, we talked Jalen Hertz. Oh, and by the way, Miles Sanders still looks pretty good to you. His snaps are on the rise. It does feel like he's going to start emerging a little bit. And he continues to look good to me, right? How does he look on tape? Miles Sanders? Yeah. I think he looks okay. I mean, he can carry the ball a whole lot. I mean, some of the runs look really good. I mean, there's no way to evaluate him in the way that I evaluate a back, because I think a back to me, you have to look at him when he runs hard inside. You have to look at those kinds of runs. You don't see much of that. You know, people got all

excited. He had a 20-plus yard run in the fourth quarter last week when Tampa was playing relatively soft and people are getting all excited about the way the Eagles blocked it up. You know, you don't know if they can do that starting with games. You just don't know. Indy Colt offense, you watch that. Now, we're all complaining in the fantasy world because Jonathan Taylor got like, what, two carries in the first half. But reviewing your notes, it appears that they felt obviously really good about coming out, throwing, and attacking their secondary, which seemed to work. When you kind of surmise everything that you've seen from Carson Wentz this year, I mean, is it fair to say that, yeah, he's been better because he's probably in a better

schemed offense that does a pretty good job with scheming things up and game planning for the opponent? Yeah, I mean, I think that Wence has played well this year. And because they, I think people would be talking much differently about their team if they did not lose that game to Baltimore on Monday night. Yeah. Because Wentz has played well, and I think he's getting better with each game, quite frankly. There's a comfort level to him.

Hey, who knows? Maybe the ankle injury has forced him to stay in the pocket because he is not playing with any of the recklessness or lack of discipline that we saw too much of the last number of years in Philadelphia. He's staying in the pocket. He's delivering the ball on time with rhythm. it's coming out of his hand. He's decisive.

He's accurate at all three levels. He's taking his checkdowns now, which very often he did not do in Philadelphia. So right now, again, through six games, you know, I always like to say that because if I say, boy, he's playing great. Then if he has a bad game, people say you don't know what you're talking about. Right now what the tape shows is a quarterback that's playing very much under control from the pocket, knowing where to go with the football, being decisive and throwing it accurately. I think they're going to get Quentin Nelson back this week too. I believe they are, yes.

Yeah, and that will help. This week's matchup here, Niners play a lot of zone, similar to the Texans. So maybe a similar type of game plan this week. But the ball location's been solid, right? Ball location's been very solid. Yeah. And you're right. This is a team, the Niners, that plays higher percentage zone concepts than man coverage. So, again, you know, Frank Reich and his staff will design some route concepts to attack zone.

They play a good amount of split safety. So, you know, you know what you're going to get against split safety. So it'll be, this is an intriguing matchup to me. Man, Moe Wally Cox, are you seeing what I'm seeing? Because, man, we need to get this guy a little bit more involved. here. This is a nice little contributor. Yeah. Well, they're doing a lot of things. Think about Reich when he was in Philly. I mean, Zach Gertz was a big part of what they did. And those were the years Zach Gertz put up big numbers.

And Moe-A-Cox isn't going to catch 116 balls or whatever the number is. But he's clearly more a part of the past game than he was prior to this year. I know you saw the buck offense. I see everyone is giddy about Leonard Fournette, but you actually pop on the tape and maybe he doesn't look as good as the perception out there. Still real chopping. Well, I think they're giddy because of the numbers. They do run the ball and he scores touchdowns. So therefore, he's good for fantasy, John, you know, as you well know. I just wonder if they watch the tape over and over again to see what you're saying.

Maybe in a week or two or three, maybe fumbles a couple times. Like, you know what, let me see the bench over there, buddy. Yeah, I mean, he's, to me, I think that he's still very choppy. You know, to me, he's not the back he was. When he came out of LSU, when I thought he could be a special back. I think he, I think he braces for contact rather than accelerating and exploding through contact, which he did in college. I think his choppy steps reduce his velocity and his power. So he's for a big man who I believe has some natural power, he doesn't run that way.

Now, I wanted to ask you about their receivers because you saw the tape. I just, this is not really your realm, but who, who you think is, the best numbers guy here among A.B. Evans and Godwin. They're so close, and it was a little bit of a conundrum in fantasy draft season. I personally said, I'm going A.B. Because he was the cheapest. But I also thought he would do well as he did last year. But geez, I don't know if I expected him to do this well. Who do you think is, who's most critical? It's probably Evans, right, with his size. But, I mean, who do you think is the best numbers? That's a hard question to answer because I don't think Brady is a, I've got to throw it to this guy kind of quarterback.

Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I know you probably wanted an answer, but from a film standpoint, I don't think there is an answer. And I know that doesn't help you from a fantasy standpoint, but I don't think that they're off. You know, it's not like looking at the Packers and saying, well, Devante Adams, he's going to get a lot of balls. I don't think that's the way they play offense. Well, how about, say, how about this way? said this way. AB tends to, you know, he rotates in there.

Maybe he gets, I don't know, it's for a fact. Maybe at times he seemingly does get better matchups. And he just is so precise and open that Brady goes to him a lot because he's always damn open. Who you're talking about? AB. Yeah, but I mean, the week before, he threw to Evans a lot. You know, when they scored 45 against whoever it was, I forget.

But, you know, so I think it's, you know, I think it depends on the game. Right. Now, A.B. sat out practice today, but he's not really injured, I don't believe. Well, he got hurt in the game. And then he really made some plays after that. Yeah, he finished the game. Yeah, he finished the game. But he was on the sideline getting his shoe slash foot.

What is his injury? Do you know? It's ankle. ankle. Okay. Yeah. But you got to agree on the tape here. I haven't seen it. but man, he looks incredible this year.

I think he looks really good. Now, the Bears, let's get into them because I know you saw Justin Fields in the tape and I don't even know where to go with it, honestly, but this week, they're just going to have to throw it, Greg, and they're going to have to... I don't think they're going to come out that way, John. I really don't.

How about they're going to have to ask Fields to run it more, himself, whether it be designed or talk it and run. I mean, that's, no one runs on the box, and they're going to have to throw it to have even a puncher's chance here. So I'm just fascinated to see how Fields reacts this week. I don't think they're going to come out throwing the ball. I think they're going to see how the game goes. Yeah. I mean, you know, when you say, are they going to have him run by design? They haven't really done much of that at all. Now, I'm not saying they wouldn't do that, that there's no chance, but that really has not been part of their office. offense. I think personally they're going to play the way they've played and feel like in their

mind that their defense can keep it together and they're going to play that kind of game. I don't think they are going to play any differently. Well, that's fair. But we also think that at some point it's going to be hard for a very low-octane offense to hang with the Brady-led box. And you could be right. But I don't think they're going to come out. with the idea that we're just going to throw it all over the yard because, you know, I know it's tough to run against the bucks. That's the obvious thing. You know, that's not profound.

But I just don't think they're going to come out against that pass rush and ask fields to drop back 45 times. Well, that would be true. I don't think they're going to hope their defense can keep it together. Yeah. The other problem, too, is I'm not sure if we'll have Damie Williams and we are down a little bit. We're like already looking at Khalil Herbert. Like the kid looks great, but man, is he ready?

Well, he's, I mean, as you probably saw, I don't know if you got a chance to see, you know, go through all my notes yet, but I made the point with Herbert. I mean, Herbert, you know, to me, he's a different runner than Montgomery. Right. So, I mean, it's, you know, I look, Montgomery may be their guy. I don't know how they'll feel when Montgomery comes back. I can't speak to that. but Herbert has more explosiveness and juice than Montgomery. He's a more natural zone runner.

He can get to the perimeter with burst in speed. Montgomery's not that kind of back. That's what I was just going to use the word perimeter, because they are similar in some regards, but yeah, Montgomery's not outrunning you to the edge, right, to the perimeter. Montgomery's not that guy at all, no. Herbert can do that. Have you seen any improvement from Justin Fields?

Is he processing a little bit better? I mean, he does, you know, when he has a moment, you see, throws a nice ball. Yeah, I mean, at this point, you know, depending on how the game goes, he hasn't been asked to do a lot. Obviously, they fell behind a bit against Green Bay this past week. I would say he needs to get quicker with his elimination and isolation. He tends to stay too long and what's not there.

and that often results in throws left on the field or breaking the pocket when the route concept did produce a throw. So these are things he needs to get better at. You know, but you can see the traits and the ability at certain times. But, you know, I think these are things he needs to work. And by the way, as we've discussed many times, John,

these are these things that he needs to work on. They're not a surprise. Yeah, yeah. Are there, are there, do you watch the tape and think, wow, maybe they could be doing a little bit more to help him out? they're almost doing everything they can. They don't have a lot of personnel.

There's not a lot of... No, I don't think they want him doing more than they're asking him to right now. And let's... Look, if all of a sudden they're down, you know, 24 to 3 in the second quarter against the bucks, everything changes. But I don't think they want to... I don't think they want to ask him right now to do a whole lot more than they're asking him. It'd be nice to, you know, throw some screens and things like that, right?

Like some real high percentage passes that... I'm sure that throwing... Well, they do some... Yeah. They do some quick game stuff, which, you know, are those kinds of throws. So, you know, but that's where they are right now. Yeah. So a work in progress to be kind.

And it doesn't sound like you're expecting a breakout anytime soon here for fields. So is that fair to say? No, I mean, look, could they get behind? And this week, he end up going 29 for 51 for 320 yards and two touch. touchdowns. Could he do that if the game dictates it? Yes. But that's not the way they're going to want to play, is what I'm saying. Well, us in the fantasy world, like, I'm literally making a decision on them myself. And I'm like, do I want to bank on that? And it's tough. But I think I'm going to do it. I really do. Seeing some signs of life from Alan Robinson. And Mooney's been

good. Maybe even a little more cold combat, get him involved. I mean, that would help, you know, middle of the field. A little little. Well, John, the main question here is volume of throws, you know, and I don't think they're going to come out with the idea that they're going to have heavy volume unless the game dictates. Well, yeah, I'll be fascinated to see what does he do if he has to throw it 39 times? Like, how does that go? That'll be fascinating. We've already seen it with Mack Jones. I mean, Mac Jones is a different player, man.

I mean, they could throw it and they have, I believe, 50 times, and it's not a problem. But as... Max Jones knows where to go with the ball. He's very accurate. His yards per attempt is among the lowest in the league because they don't throw the ball down the field. The touchdown he threw to Kendrick Bourne, he shouldn't even have thrown that ball.

It should have been... And as Matt Bowen said to me, a ninth grade free safety would have intercepted that ball. So, you know, he gets credit for a 75-yard touchdown on a ball he never should have thrown. What are they doing or not doing to help them out? Or are they just under one of the small law? Well, no, they're playing to what he is, John.

He's incredibly smart. He's got an innate feel for the pocket. He's really accurate. He's tough because he's not a strider. He can throw with people around him because he doesn't stride. Okay. But that also prevents him from driving the football. So there's things he does exceptionally well, exceptionally well, as we just discussed.

But, you know, they don't really, and again, people will say he doesn't have weapons. That's a fair statement. They don't have weapons. And we'll see what happens as they ideally try to build weapons because he's their quarterback and he will be their quarterback. But right now, the past game is pretty condensed. and, you know, he's, but he gets the ball out. He knows where to go with the ball.

You don't see him get stuck in the pocket. He knows where to go with the ball, and he's really precise with his ball placement. And he hanks tough in that pocket, too. I was just going to say, the other trait he's consistently shown is toughness in the pocket. There's a lot to like about Mac Jones. The fact that he can't drive the ball with velocity is not a newsflash, John. Everybody knew that. You know what would probably help.

How about a nice little slot receiver whose dynamic running after the catch like West Welker was early on? Yeah, that would certainly help. There's no explosiveness to the receivers. None. Like, we love Jacobi Myers, but, I mean, a guy like, even the element would be a huge. No, I mean, that's, that's, you know, that's the issue. Yeah, yeah. Well, this week, it's already a rematch here against the Jets.

I know Damon Harris ran pretty well, continues to get nicked up. Did you notice Ramandre Stevenson? And you probably notice that they shifted his role a little bit. He kind of usurp Brandon Bolden on passing doubts. Yeah, they start to use him a little more. Yeah, I'm curious to see how that plays out, which is obviously, you know, good for fantasy. But I think he'll continue to get snaps. He's a hard runner.

You know, I kind of compared him a little bit to Lagart Blunt, but I think he's a little more juicier. Yeah. So I think he's going to continue to get snaps. Yeah, no doubt. I mean, there's definitely room for two running backs to be impactful with the... And unfortunately, Damien Harris, who I really like, continues to get nicked up.

So I don't think they're not going to see Harris as an 18 to 20 carry a game back. It absolutely feels to me like Romandre Stevenson being the guys in eventuality at some point. I just don't have a lot of comments. I mean, I see Harris limping off almost. every week. Yeah.

You see it this week he limped off. He looked like he was out for the game. Yeah, no, he's been getting nicked every week. Denver defense, let's get to them. They are playing on Thursday to kick off week seven. You saw the radar offense against them. And, you know, they came out and seeming to play pretty inspired. But anything going on with this Raider D because all of a sudden, or this Bronco D,

because all of a sudden Denver getting lit up a little bit is that the outside corners, Sertan and Darby? Any thoughts on where the Bronco D is? Well, when you say lit up, you have to look at the specific plays that they get lit up on. You know, Drake caught a 31-yard touchdown, which was a beautifully designed play. It was a quarter's beater play, and he was able to get the matchup because the Raiders knew this, that he got matched up on the linebacker Anthony Johnson, who's now out for the season. So there are two starting linebackers, by the way, that they started this season with,

Josie Jewel and Anthony Johnson are now both out for the season, John. So that becomes a weakness because they're playing backups. Although one of their backups, I really like number 40. I do not know how to pronounce his last name. It's S-T-R-N-A-D. He's 6-3-2-40. Really looks the part. Don't know how to pronounce his name.

If you don't know, I sure is hell don't know. Yeah. You know, so I think, and keep one thing in mind. They haven't been playing with Bradley Chubb. Don Miller, to me, has not been the same force that he's been. I haven't studied him in detail, so I can't speak to whether he's lost anything. You know, you kind of lose track of the fact that he's getting a little older. Yeah, yeah.

I haven't heard his name a lot. No, no. So, I, you know, I don't think their defense is poor. I mean, they gave up the touchdown to, to rugs that 48-yarder. Well, I guess it wasn't a touch, was it a touchdown? No. No, no, but they, it was 48-yarder in the first quarter. And, you know, Ruggs ran by Ronald Darby.

I mean, and Carl laid it out to him. So, you know, Darby played for the first time this week as the starter, and they benched fuller. Yeah, they did. I can't believe that. I mean, he was so good last year for the Bears. So weird. They're giving up nearly three passing touchdowns of the game here last four weeks to

quarterback, so a pretty good matchup for Carr. Do you notice anything changing in the offense with Darren Waller? A lot of people are complaining that Waller's not getting just completely force-fed the ball this year. Well, that's because they got a lot of weapons. Again, that's a perfect example of, you know, I don't think, I think probably the offense is different in the way it's put together now, as opposed to let's make sure Waller gets 12 targets a week. You know, Ruggs is kind of developing. Edwards is slowly developing. You know, Renfro's a factor on third down. I mean, I think they feel that they have weapons.

Yeah, well, that was my analysis last year. And it was incorrect. So whenever I'm wrong, I'm usually a year too early on that. But that seems to be the case. I just wanted to run it up the flagpole here. Joe Burrow, you watched the tape. How about that Chris Evans, man? He can move pretty well.

He looks like a weapon. And I guess Burrow continues to chuck along. it does feel to me only a matter of time until T. Higgins has a as a breakout performance. But I was a little underwhelmed by Burrow the last couple of weeks. But what's the tape show? You mean underwhelmed in what way? Obviously, he's putting in numbers. Numbers.

Well, the week before, I guess I got my expectation a little too high against Green Bay. I thought that would be a shootout. Yeah, I didn't think Burrow was great this week, to be honest with you. But the one thing that always stands out is he's a comfortable and confident player. But I didn't think this was his best game, although he made a couple of really, really good throws. He made a great throw under duress to Chase late in the second quarter. And it was actually a play after an interception was dropped by the Lions.

But Burrow, you know, he's he is a confident guy. He's tough in the pocket. He will throw the ball. My sense is he'll be one of those guys until he gains a little more experience, John, that might throw a few more interceptions than you would ideally. deal he like because he's so aggressive and he's so confident and over time that will change. But he is willing to turn it loose now. He is not afraid to throw the football.

Yeah, I'm trying to think of a cop. He's got, well, Rogers protects the ball. Brady generally does. I mean, he's not far. He's his own man. No, no. He's not reckless. But I just, yeah.

I mean, to me, some of his interceptions are not, oh, my God. It's just that he's willing to make tough throws and turn it loose when maybe with a little more of experience, he may not. Oh, yeah. It's one of those things where, like, he pulls the trigger and completes it. You're like, oh, brilliant. And then, you know, rewind it and do it again. And he throws a pick. And you're like, what are you doing?

Right, right. You got to be careful about that. Ravens' offense. Have you noticed any interesting shifts as this season has progressed here? Obviously, they're not running the ball. nearly as much. Well, they ran it this week, and this week the game plan, it was fascinating because they featured Patrick.

It was a Patrick Ricard game. Oh, I love the fantasy perspective. But this guy played 55 snaps. So they just went heavy and just ran it. Yeah. I mean, they ran the ball pretty well this week, although no one back had, you know, the big game, but they ran it well. And they played most of the game at a 21 and 22 personnel.

I don't know if that continues, though. Like, seems like everyone just runs all over the chart. this year? That could well be the case. That could well be the case. I mean, that might have been game specific. I really doubt Patrick Ricard is playing 55 snaps every week. Yeah.

Are we crazy in the fantasy business? But we all kind of think Devante Freeman looked decent last week. He did. Yeah. How about Latavius? I mean, I don't think he's going to get 20 carries this week, but I thought he looked okay. How about Latavius? I mean, there's a couple runs where the C's part and he's got space.

You're like, all right, but otherwise, I don't think. he looks very good. Yeah, but I mean, like I said, they didn't have the one back, and I don't think they will. I don't think they're going to have a foundational back. I think this is what their run games going to look like for much of the season. Yep, yep. And then now you've got Burrow coming to town here and mixing coming off a good game. What are your thoughts on this Ravens D where they're at right now and their ability to slow down Burrow, Chase, and others? Well, I'm very curious to see what their pressure rates going to be because last year, of course, Burrow was a rookie, didn't have Jamar Chase.

They really came after the Bengals offense. I'm curious to see if they do that because Barrow is a year and more experience. I think you're going to get the Humphrey Chase matchup. That's what I think you're going to get. Ah, well, it could be a T. Higgins game then. Jimmy Smith still playing. Well, Jimmy Smith only played 13 snaps last week, but he did play most. of them matched against Mike Williams.

But I don't think he will not match up to Jamar Chase, two totally different cats. That's why I think Humphrey will match up to Chase. Oh, that's a great angle for Higgins. I'm telling you, Higgins is due. I really, they're not going to avoid much, but he's definitely

they didn't this past week, no. Yeah, he's definitely going to Higgins though, even two weeks ago. Yeah. All right, there you go. And then we'll leave on thoughts on Tennessee and Casey. And you saw both tapes here.

I did. Your thoughts on Tennessee? I guess it's pretty simple. It's going to be Derek Henry and just slinging it as many times. I don't think that's the reason they won the game. I thought actually they won the game with what they did with the past game on a lot of their

staple in-breaker concepts to Brown in the second half because Brown had seven for 91 in the second half, John. I mean, they couldn't stop it. It's like it was like three or four in a row. Like, here we go. Those are staple concepts for the Titans that we've seen over the last two years with Brown. We've seen him take some of those to the house. Yeah.

You know, Henry, obviously, it sounds crazy to say, but he only had 20 carrots. Wow, that is crazy. Yeah. I mean, you can't even, you just got to throw out the numbers like, oh, they're only giving up 55 yards rushing a game. Yeah, well, they haven't seen Henry. You could say right now that he's the most dominant individual player in the game on a week-to-week base. basis right now. Yeah, that's very fair.

Yeah, very fair. I mean, his, somebody said, you looked at like, which I could easily look up, but yeah, we don't need it for now. Somebody said, like, if you look at his, like, last 13 dames, they're ridiculous, something like that. I mean, especially the wins. Like, when they win, his numbers are, are, I have, I have some stats here, like, kind of blow your mind a little bit in their last, um, well,

Touch total over the last 10 games. It's all upper 20s, basically. Yeah. It's ridiculous. That's why I said this week he only had 20 carries. Oh, no. I mean, poor guy. The Titans, how in the wide, wide world of sports will they be able to, are they, the way

they play defense is that at all set up to slow down KC? It's going to be difficult. They've got a lot of injuries on the back end. they're going to play it. Look, they play literally all zone. I don't think they played more than two or three snaps of cover one this week against the bills. And they really did not slow down the bills. Where they, where they were able to stop was in the red zone on two of the first three bills possessions. And on the second one in the red zone, Josh Allen just totally missed. And he was in his line of vision, so you'd have to ask Josh White and throw it. But he totally

missed a wide open Sanders, which would have changed the game. And probably, would have led to a Buffalo victory, but they didn't really stop the Bill's past game. What they did do, and I'm sure they'll play somewhat similarly this week, maybe not exact, but similarly is they took away the explosive pass plays from the bills. Now, the weapons are different for the Chiefs. Obviously, the bills do not have a Tyree Hill. Sounds similar to what the Eagles did to Casey a couple weeks ago. they might do something similar and make Mahomes, you know, have to be efficient. Right. And Tyreek went off in that game, just FYI.

Yeah, he did. He ended up catching a touchdown late that came against cover zero because the Eagles then had to try to do something. But, you know, we'll see. I mean, I think that that's the only approach they can really take because they can't, they're down to, you know, corners that they don't really want to be playing. So, you know, they're not going to match up. Yep, exactly. So a lot of zone there. Very predictable.

They'll find it. We'll find spots for Tyreek to sit in and, you know, get comfortable and be available and open. That'll wrap it up here. Wednesday night we record there's still, you know, kind of midway through the process of kind of wrapping our heads around all the matchups here. Greg is just part of that process here and he'll continue to grind away on the tape. We'll do the live stream on Thursday. We'll get a little bit more intel from Greg and Adam Kaplan. We'll get the injuries as it relates all our Wes Ubers matchup coverage shells and all that stuff.

It's a process here. We're like I said about midway through. So we'll wrap here and remind you to continue to check out the podcast that we have here for a week on the feed IDP, DFS, waiver wire, and this one right here covering the matchups. So good luck in week seven for Greg Cosell. I'm John Hansen. and we'll catch you next week for the Fantasy Points Matchup Podcast. Thanks for tuning in to this edition of the Fantasy Points Podcast. Remember to subscribe, rate, and review on your favorite platform.

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