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Joe breaks him down. I love

1:01

Joe's notes, great notes

1:03

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feasts. Joe, we will start

1:30

with

1:31

the colts. and the race. Whoa.

1:34

I wanna hear your breaking of

1:36

the Jeff Saturday led

1:39

Kohl's with Park Fraser

1:41

calling the place. Tell me, I know you

1:43

did the research on Parks Fraser

1:46

as a play caller in his background. Give

1:48

it to me, Joe.

1:49

the

1:55

I don't know. Sam Ellinger is

1:57

the quarterback. Nine acts

1:59

last week. The

2:00

Cole's average two yards per play.

2:02

It's a disaster. I I have

2:04

no idea what to say about this, Ross. I really

2:07

don't. with no information on Taylor

2:09

as we record this podcast. Dion Jackson

2:11

got dinged up. Could be a sack

2:14

moss game. I will point

2:16

out one thing about the gulf. One thing.

2:19

The raiders have given up the most

2:21

fantasy points for game above average

2:23

to slot receivers this season. Maybe

2:26

that's a Paris Campbell note. Maybe you

2:28

put put them in a DFS lineup. I'm not playing

2:30

them in season long. Ross, I have

2:32

no idea what

2:35

to expect. And I have one question for you and

2:37

I know you've talked about this on the Ross Tucker

2:40

ball podcast, but I just wanna get it from you straight

2:42

man to man. If

2:45

your head coach was fired mid season, I don't know if

2:47

you were ever on a team that fired a coach mid season.

2:49

Where are you?

2:50

No. But I wish they had. Oh,

2:52

okay. Couple a couple times

2:54

because it's

2:56

like a cloud hanging over the whole

2:58

building. Yeah. It's like if

3:01

if you know it's coming, not

3:03

like on the hot seat, but like you know it's

3:05

coming, you know it's happening. The team's not playing

3:07

one it's like a it's like

3:09

a cloud over everybody, and I think

3:11

it like it

3:12

just lets you almost take a deep breath if it

3:14

happens? because then it's no longer hanging over

3:16

your head. Well,

3:17

how would you have reacted if the

3:21

your coach was fired midway

3:24

through the season. And then, like,

3:26

something out of the building was named

3:28

the head coach. Probably

3:30

where I thought it was a joke.

3:32

That's kinda where I'm leaning. So

3:34

III don't know what else to say. Ellinger

3:36

has completely tanked this offense

3:39

maybe the fresh percent of eyes. Until

3:42

I see it, I'm not

3:44

trusting it. Let's put it that way.

3:48

I

3:48

won't blame you. What about the

3:51

Raiders? They got DeVonta Adams going in

3:53

the first half, and then that's it. But

3:55

he complained, I bet she has a big game this week.

3:58

Yeah. III would

3:59

hope so. Stephan Gilmore will probably

4:02

shadow him. Gilmore has been really good this year.

4:05

My question is, kinda rent throw called a hundred

4:07

passes last year, and I'll I'll wear the l on

4:09

that one. I love Hunter Rent throw this year.

4:13

They're running them on deep routes, like,

4:17

Why does it feel like this is hard?

4:19

We look at teams every week like

4:21

Miami and Minnesota and

4:23

Cincinnati and Philadelphia. These

4:26

teams throw the ball

4:28

to their good players. Why

4:30

has that been so hard for the raiders this

4:32

year. And I don't know if I know the answer. I

4:34

don't think the offensive line has been very

4:36

good. Maybe that's part of the

4:38

problem. Darren Waller's and hurt,

4:40

but you're having these these Every now

4:42

and again, Davonte Adams has these blow up

4:44

games. And then outside of that, they

4:46

don't throw the ball to anybody else. It it gotta

4:49

get Mac Hollins going, I guess. I

4:52

I just don't get it. And rent first droppable.

4:54

I'm I'm just ramming right now. I don't

4:56

understand why it hard for some of these teams to

4:58

throw the ball to their good players, then

5:00

they don't do it. They get it. They get it to Adam.

5:02

Like, that's fine. But Renfro.

5:05

I mean, these

5:06

numbers that Hunter Renfro has had

5:08

are just despicable. He's

5:10

playing a normal Snapchat, he's running plenty

5:12

of routes, He had three

5:14

catches for twenty six yards last week. I

5:16

mean, on four targets. He's caught four or

5:18

fewer passes in five of six

5:20

games this year. He did so

5:22

in just five of seventeen games

5:25

last year. He has no touchdowns in

5:27

twenty twenty two after scoring nine

5:29

in twenty twenty one. there's

5:32

just a disconnect between rent from the system the

5:34

raiders were running. And I thought it was a system that he

5:36

was going to thrive in.

5:39

Yeah,

5:39

it's really disappointing. Really

5:42

disappointing.

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you got on cowboys and packers, Joe?

7:06

Well, the packers, I mean, let's just

7:09

But let's just write the

7:11

obituary now. You know, the one thing

7:13

Aaron Rogers has been good at,

7:15

or I mean, he's been good at lot of things. But one thing

7:17

that he's really been known for is is,

7:19

like, historically great avoidance

7:21

of interceptions. So when you see

7:23

Aaron Rogers, so three interceptions in

7:25

the state game, all of which were in the red zone

7:27

and two of them in the end zone. You

7:29

know he's pressing like crazy. It was

7:31

Roger's first three interception game since

7:33

twenty seventeen. It's more receptions than he

7:35

threw in total in the entire twenty

7:37

eighteen season. The last time he had more than

7:39

seven interceptions was in twenty fifteen.

7:43

That's what he has right now. So

7:45

he's been an NFL star for fifteen seasons,

7:47

and in eight of those seasons, he had fewer

7:49

interceptions than he as now. And he's

7:51

also never had a worse receiving court a receiving

7:53

court that's gotten worse following the

7:55

Romeo Dobbs injury. Fortunately, Alan

7:58

Lazard's back. Sami Watkins looks like

8:00

he's hauling a refrigerator on his back.

8:02

Randall Cobb's not eligible to come back until

8:04

believe next week. Dobbs

8:06

again has the high ankle spring, so he's almost

8:08

certainly not gonna play this week. Oh, and by the

8:10

way, Aaron Jones is hurt. He's got

8:12

an ankle injury. We've got a monitor. his

8:15

status. Adam Schechter said he doesn't

8:17

think it's serious, but he's their best offensive

8:19

player. And I mean, the fact that they

8:21

didn't get right against Detroit what

8:23

gives me reason to think they're gonna get right against

8:25

Dallas's Patch Rush. I don't think it's gonna

8:27

happen. Howard Bauchner: I

8:29

would tend to agree, Joe,

8:32

What about Dallas offensively? Is it

8:34

Zeke time again? Yeah. Well,

8:37

here's the

8:37

thing about the Tony Pollard thing.

8:40

First and foremost, whenever Tony Pollard gets a bunch of

8:42

touches, he does well, but he's only really gotten a

8:44

bunch of touches in, like, two games that Zeke's

8:46

missed in his career. It is very clear

8:48

to me that the cowboys believe

8:51

that Tony Pollard is

8:54

is better in an explosive role

8:56

rotationally. Yeah. I do think

8:58

it's Zeke time, but I think both of these guys

9:00

are RB2s. I think DAC

9:02

is a is a quarterback one. Remember,

9:05

Green Bay lost their best defensive player.

9:07

Rishan Gary's out for the season with the torn

9:09

ACL. That's a massive loss for the Packers.

9:11

He's their best pass runner I

9:13

mean, things are setting up well for

9:15

Dallas in this game. You've gotta say it.

9:17

Maybe Jaira Alexander slows down

9:19

CDLam, but the Dolton

9:22

Schultz with the week off. He's got

9:24

an opportunity to rest that knee. Zeke

9:26

had an opportunity to rest his knee. That

9:28

buy came at a really good time for the

9:30

Dallas Cowboys. Yeah.

9:32

It sure did.

9:34

Let's get to Arizona and

9:36

LA. Yuck and Yuck. I'm

9:38

talking the LA Rams. LA

9:41

averages

9:41

fewer cards per player than any team

9:43

in the league, like

9:45

seriously.

9:47

like, what is going on? I mean,

9:49

Matthew Stafford, this is just fundamentally

9:52

broken. I mean, Matthew Stafford chose for

9:54

one sixty five and one twenty

9:56

seven of them were Cooper Cup. Nobody

9:58

else is doing anything in the passing game. They can't

10:00

run the ball, although Daryl Anderson popped off a

10:03

couple. I mean,

10:05

the rams to me right now. Tyler

10:07

Hickby is a glorified offensive tackle. His

10:09

role has completely evaporated. They

10:11

know that offensive line staying, so they've been keeping

10:13

hitting me in the block. There was the

10:15

Rams of the defending Super Bowl champions

10:17

and there was one player who's even

10:19

like semi

10:21

exciting for Fantasy, and that's Cooper Cup.

10:23

That's it. I mean,

10:25

what else do I have to say? I mean,

10:27

And by the way, Cooper Covet is worst game in the year

10:30

earlier against the against the cardinals

10:32

this

10:32

year. I I

10:35

mean, I I don't know what else to say, Ross,

10:37

it's just a fundamentally broken

10:39

offense. And I think you

10:41

might get a little smirk here. I

10:43

think the reason is the offensive line.

10:45

They haven't been able to make up for the losses on

10:47

the offensive line by

10:49

not drafting them, by not developing them, whatever be

10:51

that being the case. The offensive line

10:53

has broken this offense and there's

10:55

probably more to it as well, but that's the key

10:57

factor in my

10:58

mind. As

11:02

for the Cardinals offensively?

11:05

Oh, god. Yeah. This

11:07

is how it's going for Steve Klein. They

11:09

traded two picks, three

11:11

weeks ago for Robbie Anderson. He has

11:13

fewer receiving yards now than he had at the

11:15

time of the trade. He has negative four

11:17

receiving yards for the cardinals. The

11:20

cardinals right now, Kyler's running, which is

11:22

good, So he's obviously a good

11:24

fantasy quarterback, Zach Kurtz, and

11:26

Deandre Hopkins are catching passes and scoring.

11:29

They're running a lot of bull

11:31

crap, low volume low yardage

11:33

plays, but at least Hopkins and

11:35

Ernst are catching passes. James Connor

11:37

was back last week. but

11:39

they can't run the ball anyway because their offensive line

11:41

has so many injuries and this is a brutal

11:43

matchup against Aaron Donald on the Rams front.

11:45

So I'm not excited about James Connor as

11:47

anything more than a low end RV. too.

11:51

I'm not

11:51

excited about anything about either one of

11:54

those teams right now. That's two of the

11:56

most disappointing teams in the league. Now,

11:58

this next game is

11:59

actually intriguing to me, and

12:02

that's the chargers and the

12:04

niners. Well, this is

12:07

again, I'm not breaking any news to you

12:09

here, Ross, but the Charger Run defense

12:11

has been abominable this

12:13

year. I mean, we saw what

12:15

happened against Atlanta.

12:17

They're letting Cordaro Patterson and Tyler, all

12:19

g, run all over him. What do you think Christian

12:21

McCaffrey is gonna do to him? He's

12:23

not on the main DFS slate. That might be the biggest

12:25

disappointment, but he's right back as the

12:27

RB1. The problem I have with

12:29

San Francisco is I just think

12:31

with McAfee there, at some

12:33

point, you know, Divo, we don't know about Divo

12:35

yet. We record this on

12:37

Wednesday morning, so there's no practice reports on

12:39

Divo with the hamstring. But with McAfee there,

12:41

you got Debo, you got Ayuki, you got

12:43

Kittle. It feels like two of those guys are

12:45

gonna disappoint every

12:46

week. Because

12:48

I think Jimmy G's playing it all right,

12:51

but it feels like two of those guys are

12:53

gonna disappoint every week. And it's a matter of kicking

12:55

out which of those guys is going to

12:57

disappoint every week. And that's really difficult. Now,

12:59

if Vivo doesn't play, I used to slam

13:01

dunk start and so is Kittle. I mean, you've

13:03

gotta start all these guys. kinda like with Philadelphia.

13:05

You gotta start all of them, but you

13:07

understand that two of those guys are gonna disappoint

13:09

every

13:10

week. Anything

13:13

else about this game, Joe? Yeah. The

13:15

charters I mean, we

13:18

don't know about Keene and Allen. I think

13:20

It doesn't look the fact that he had

13:22

a setback, and he's on the wrong side of thirty.

13:24

Believe me, I'm on the wrong side of thirty

13:26

two. But the hamstring does not sound

13:28

good. I thought Gerald Everett was a huge

13:30

disappointment against Atlanta. I thought he was gonna be

13:32

somebody being leaned on. But the key here

13:34

is if if Alan and Mike Williams are

13:36

out again, It does look like Josh

13:38

Palmer who wasn't fully healthy earlier in the

13:40

year. He just had his first one hundred

13:42

yard game. He is fully healthy

13:44

now. and he is somebody that Justin Herbert

13:46

will lean on. Unfortunately, this is

13:48

not a great match up

13:50

for them against obviously San

13:52

Francisco's strong defense So I would downgrade

13:54

this entire offense, but I do wanna

13:56

throw one name out

13:58

there, who's probably not getting the

14:00

props that maybe he deserves in National

14:02

Circle. The chargers

14:04

took a sixth round rookie named

14:07

Jomari sawyer out of Georgia who was kind

14:09

of a tweener like I think

14:11

probably most might have seen him as a

14:13

guard, others might have seen him as

14:15

like a back of tackle. Rechaun

14:18

Slater went out for the year. And

14:20

this sixth round rookie, according to

14:22

PFF, has not given up a sack.

14:25

That's pretty bad ass. You can get

14:27

that level of play from six round

14:29

rookie offense alignment. Give it

14:31

up, Jomari sawyer. He's got a tough matchup against

14:33

Nick Bosa this week, but that

14:36

is not a guy who has crushed their

14:38

offense. good on you. Let's

14:40

throw some let's throw some love at the young

14:42

offensive line.

14:44

Yeah. I I give him a lot of props

14:47

for that. I

14:47

really do. I mean, look, you're helping him and

14:50

all that stuff, but he's a sixth round

14:52

rookie who might not even be a natural

14:54

tackle. Yeah.

14:54

He well, he can play and play everything

14:57

in Georgia, which I love.

14:59

I also love calling games.

15:01

I'll be doing the Air Force game Saturday.

15:03

And then Monday night, I'll be in the booth,

15:05

Joe

15:05

with Kevin Harlan.

15:07

Pretty cool for Kevin love

15:10

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USA, Buffalo,

16:00

New York, Joseph,

16:04

Dolan,

16:05

commanders, eagles. What do

16:07

we

16:07

need to know? First

16:08

and foremost, just like how much of

16:11

joy the eagles offense is to watch? Because I

16:13

don't think it's complicated. But,

16:15

like, they run they

16:17

run these base concepts that they're

16:19

so good at, and they scored two

16:21

touchdowns in the last two games that I think

16:23

are just so illustrate

16:26

how good mixed sided sided machines

16:28

that I can have been this year. First was

16:30

the Zach Pass Scal touched down two

16:32

weeks ago against Pittsburgh. We're

16:34

Pascal, who's out there in the slot.

16:36

He's it it looks like he's going

16:38

to block on one of the Eagles

16:40

staple plays that they're so good at. The tight end

16:42

screen to Dallas Goddard. He

16:44

crashes down the block and then release is on

16:46

a rail route, and his wide open scores

16:48

a long touchdown. Last

16:50

week against the Texans, the

16:52

Eagles Eagles will run

16:55

and love the split zone

16:57

rushing concept, which Ross, as

16:59

you well know, is outside

17:01

zone action to one side by the

17:03

offensive line with the tight end coming

17:05

down to block the backside defensive

17:07

end. They run that concept

17:09

against Houston. They run it so

17:11

well. except Dallas Goddard instead of making the block

17:13

releases into the flat and has a walk

17:15

in touchdown. Oh, it's so fun to

17:17

watch their offense. and got it by the way.

17:19

They just throw the ball to their best players. Yeah.

17:22

Exactly. And that's what I love for Fantasy. It's

17:24

like, I wanted to talk about that because I don't

17:26

know what else to say about them.

17:28

The one guy who you probably have to make a line of precision on

17:30

every week is Davonte Smith because he has these

17:32

blow up games and then he has these smaller games

17:34

like he had against Houston.

17:36

but they're playing Washington this week. He had eight

17:38

catches for a hundred and sixty nine yards and one

17:41

touchdown against them back in week three. He's sitting on this week

17:43

because I'm not Now, the the Sean

17:45

the the the thevant sentiment did say

17:47

on Instagram, and I really

17:49

appreciate this. After he caught you against

17:51

the don't care about your Fantasy team. I don't need

17:53

you to care about my Fantasy team, Davonte.

17:56

I just need you to catch

17:59

the ball when it's thrown to you,

17:59

and I think it will be this week.

18:04

Commanders? I'll let Taylor Heineke, really struggled

18:07

last week. The one thing I will say, if

18:09

there's a weakness on this eagle defense, they don't

18:11

have Jordan Davis right now. It's the run defense

18:13

and the tackling. So I wonder, is that

18:16

gonna be good news for Brian Robinson or

18:18

Antonio Gibson in this

18:20

game? Gibson scored against the Eagles

18:22

last time out, but Robinson didn't

18:24

play. I I was very disappointed in Gibson's

18:26

role in the passing game last week. Jamie McKissick

18:28

has a neck injury. And

18:30

Gibson only caught two passes. One of them

18:32

was on the final play of the game when, you know, the

18:34

commanders were running the the tip drill to try

18:36

to to try to make a miracle play. So

18:38

that's what I'm looking at. The other thing to

18:40

note here, a a number one, Johannes,

18:43

ins injury. Here's the other thing to note.

18:46

Terry McLawrence match

18:48

up. So though In

18:51

week three, Darius

18:54

sleigh aligned over top of McLaren on

18:56

sixty eight percent of his routes, allowing

18:58

just three catches for thirty yards in his

19:00

primary coverage on McLaren. Last

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year, he shadowed McLaren on over

19:04

seventy five percent of his routes in two games

19:06

and allowed just three catches for sixty

19:08

yards in two games. It's not

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a good matchup for Terry McLaren. It never

19:12

is a good matchup for wide receivers against this

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evil secondary. I think,

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old hospital Ball Heineke,

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H. B. Heineke. I call him.

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He might have a

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tough time against this Eagle Pass rush. Don't

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there anything I try to run it?

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I

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19:28

Robinson has an average more than three point seven

19:30

yards per carry in any game this year,

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and he's kind of their lead back,

19:34

but I think that's where they'll go. I

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think they'll run it with with Robinson and

19:38

Gibson and try to keep the pass rush

19:40

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19:42

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