0:00It is a great day to break down my week eight fantasy football quarterback rankings. Going to be going one through 28, giving some fun facts and matchup
0:07data about each and every QB along the way. Also tackling some bigger picture topics, things that we are going to be
0:12looking at in terms of the very best and worst matchups of week eight and also what quarterbacks are your best streaming options to get through these
0:19buys as well as the rest of them because ladies and mostly gentlemen, those are not stopping anytime soon. But with all
0:24that said, appreciate you guys tuning in. And with that, let's get after it with tier one, the Big 10 led by QB1
0:31Josh Allen. Currently averaging, guys, 26.9 fantasy points per game. That's only been topped by 2019 Lamar Jackson NFL history. So, at the peak of his
0:41powers, even with an offense that by and large has barely had DJ Moore out on the field this season. So, the one stat
0:48that's really just blown me away though, the Bills right now, they're number one in the NFL in both explosive pass play
0:53rate, which I believe True Media defines as 16 plus yard passes per drop back.
0:57Also, explosive rushing. Okay, that's 12 plus yards per rush attempt. Not just this year though, these are the highest marks passing since the 2016 Kyle
1:06Shanahan, Matt Ryan, Julio Jones Falcons, and rushing since rookie year Cam Newton when he had Jonathan Stewart and D'Angelo Williams doing their thing
1:13on the ground as well. So, this Bills offense is the class of the league.
1:18Their defense can't stop anyone and they're probably getting DJ Moore back.
1:22Good luck, Baltimore. Good luck, QB2.
1:25This would help out that cause. Give me Lamar Jackson, assuming he is going to be back in the picture against the
1:29Bills. I am hopeful that's a situation where they've been cautious about bringing him back obviously and because of that, we should be expecting
1:37something close to 100% Lamar Jackson if and when he decides to take the field again. And if that's the case, man,
1:44shout out Declan Doro. Every single week, I see a couple more plays where it's like, man, what a thought there.
1:49Like, what actually went ahead and went into that? We had Zay Flowers playing fullback last week and actually running a go like through the B gap. Got tripped
1:56up, so it didn't work out. But you can see the idea there. Rashad Baitman is being motioned to the backfield, sprinting through the line, pulling away
2:03three freaking defenders as they just throw a little screen to Josh Quavas for a chunk gain. Every single week, man, something's going right. And
2:10accordingly, Zay Flowers looks like the most efficient wide receiver in football. And Lamar Jackson, despite having by and large really good passing
2:17numbers than their top Monkin, averaging career-high marks and everything really along the way this year as well. So, Bills, they've only been better in the
2:25Lions than you pay a lot per drop back.
2:27It's Lamar Jackson, second highest game total of the week at 53 and a half. Get your popcorn ready for Bills Ravens at 1
2:33p.m. for some reason. Look, I know we're going fantasy ranks, but really confusing schedule for me this week, guys. They have some of the best games
2:41all littered in the 1pm time slot. We have Cardinals Cowboys, which has a 54 and a half point game total. Obviously,
2:48Ravens Bills is the best match up of the week. Vikings Lions, that's also at 100 p.m. I mean, in the late afternoon
2:56slate, we have Chargers, Rams, Patriots, Dolphins, and Chiefs Broncos, which, you know, I guess is a good game, but not exactly expecting too many points. So be
3:03better schedule makers, please. QB3, I got Joe Burrow going up against the Tennessee Titans. Eight touchdowns against zero interceptions since Joe
3:12Burrow told the world that, you know, it wasn't Armageddon or anything after the Bengals were sitting there at two and two. So look, Titans secondary, I mean,
3:19they just allowed the other starting NFL QB in Ohio to throw for 300 yards for the first time that he was wearing a
3:25Browns uniform. So Joe Burrow when he's right, guys, does big things. And as Mo did most of this year, QB3 in fantasy
3:31points per game to this point. QB4. I got Drake May going up against the Miami Dolphins. The AJ Brown thing, it's been
3:37rough and we'll talk about it more in the wide receiver episode, but for purposes here, it hasn't really impacted Drake May all that much, guys. 23.8 and
3:4527.4 fantasy points even in these two games with AJB leaving a lot of production out there on the field. So, big thing has been just the overall
3:53goodness on the ground for Drake May.
3:54Something that's been a relative, you know, just expectation since the beginning of last season. The only quarterbacks with tripledigit fantasy points from rushing dating back to week
4:02one of last season. Josh Allen, Jackson Dart, Jaylen Herz, and Mr. Drake May.
4:07Dolphins now dead last in EPA allowed per drop back. Yikes. Next up, I got QB5. Trevor Lawrence going up against the Indianapolis Colts. Did not have
4:17Amed Gardner last week. Still managed to actually, I think, perform better than many expected against uh, you know, Ky Murray and company. But, you know, I
4:24think that's a bit more of a Kyler Murray problem. So, here's the thing with Trevor Lawrence. Honestly, he's got plus 900 MVP odds. This is the fourth
4:31highest mark. I think he checks a lot of the boxes in terms of just being a quarterback putting up good numbers in a
4:36good offense for a team that could find itself near the top of the conference by the time the year is done. Trevor
4:43Lawrence is playing the best football of his career from a real life perspective.
4:48The problem is we're down fantasy points compared to last season overall because the rushing just hasn't been there. This dude had nine rushing touchdowns in
4:562025, zero through seven weeks of 2026.
5:00So, I could see him getting back going a little bit. This Colts defense loves to run man coverage. And when we do see
5:05defenders really latched on to their individual assignments that turn their back of the QB, we usually see that correlate with more quarterback rushing
5:12production.
5:13Mostly, I'm betting on Trevor Lawrence getting more production going on the overall counting numbers because he's playing such good football. He's got
5:21playmakers all over the place and it's a Jaguars offense that's been good, not great running the football honestly. A little bit more mid depending on the
5:27stats you're looking at. More volume will be appreciated in a winnable matchup for Tall QB6. I'm going with Dak Prescott against the Arizona Cardinals.
5:35Saw him come to life a little bit there on Monday Night Football. Three touchdowns through the air, but actually also saw the Cowboys run game for once
5:42this year show a bit of a pulse as well.
5:44So Cardinals defense is nothing to write home about. And Dak has been an even bigger world beater at Jerry Ralden on
5:49the road, averaging 20.4 fantasy points per game at home compared to 15.9 elsewhere over the course of the last five seasons. So honestly, if you want
5:56to bump Dak up ahead of Trevor Lawrence, I would still call you Superman and you know, not not just yell you for being
6:03crazy. All right, we can all have opinions in this world. QB7, I got Jordan Love going against the Carolina Panthers. Kind of a fun Thursday night
6:10game if we get the good version of the Panthers offense going again. But look, Jordan Love would be the only quarterback in the league with multiple
6:16touchdowns passing in every single game this season if it wasn't for Matthew Golden's touching Will Fo tribute against the Cowboys a few short weeks
6:23ago. So look, it's a team that's loved to throw the ball downfield. And by love, I mean, oh my god, Jordan Love
6:28will not stop doing this. He has 31 pass attempts, throwing at least 25 yards downfield this season. That's 10 more the next closest quarterback. So yeah,
6:37some of them, you know, borderline arm punts out there. Saw that long interception last week. But look, it's a Panthers team that I don't think on
6:44their pass defense or run defense, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. Jordan Love, Christian Watson, Matthew Gordon, Tucker Craft, even a returning Josh
6:51Jacobs doing good things in the passing game. I trust his Packers offense. And accordingly, I trust Jordan Love in Fantasy Land. QB8, I'm going with Jaden
6:59Daniels against the Eagles here on Sunday Night Football. I don't think the Eagles defense will be that bad moving forward, but man, that was a tough look
7:07against Dak Prescott and company there on Monday night. So with Jaden Daniels, I would just say as much as he has been
7:14bad, all right, for the better part of the last two years, depending on pretty much any passing stat you want to look
7:19at, the fantasy returns have still been fine. This year in four games, he scored 17.7 fantasy points, 14.7 and 1/2 against the Cowboys, 32 and then 21.
7:30Even that 49ers game, he cleared 300 yards. You know, Terry McLaren is out for the bulk of it and that's going to
7:35be the case obviously for the rest of the season as well. So Stefon Diggs, Antonio Williams, Chigosia Mcconquo, you know, Trayon Burks, I don't think we'll
7:42be writing songs about this pass catching group anytime soon. But Jaden Daniels does the one thing that we need in fantasy and that is run the hell out
7:49of the football. So, you know, and if this Eagles defense is going to suck, guys, maybe uh ranking is even a little
7:54bit low. I don't know if you saw Wade Phillips on the Manning cast, but he had a great line. He basically said there
7:59are only two plays that the Eagles can't stop. That's the run and the pass. Well done, Wade. QB9, I'm going Bryce Young
8:05against the Packers. It was really bad against the Buccaneers, but they've been doing this to guys, man. Packers only scored 17 points against this group. The
8:14Cowboys had 16. Steelers got to 26 no T, but then they shut down the Panthers as well. Very impressive performance that
8:22really brought out the worst in Bryce Young. We're talking about 3 freaking five adjusted yards per attempt. That's bad. And the sacks played a big role in
8:30that. We also saw Dak Prescott have a game like that against the Packers. We saw Patrick Mahomes do it last week
8:35against the Seahawks. These things happen. Now I get it. Dak and Mahomes have had a much better track record than Bryce Young. Some guys deserve more
8:46benefit of the doubt than others. Bryce Young and this Panthers offense one of the best stories in the league for the
8:51first six weeks of the year. I'm not going to let one very bad 60 minutes of football completely take away from that
8:57against a Packers defense that while they have been improving, still not expecting to get Michael Parsons back just yet. And I don't think accordingly
9:03they'll be able to fully take advantage of the biggest issue with this Panthers offense, that being their banged up, very, very pricey offensive line. QB10
9:11streamer of the week. We're doing this again, guys. Jacobe Brassette going up against the Dallas Cowboys. If you had to guess, what defense has brought out
9:19the most efficient of Jacob, most efficient version of Jacobe Brassette dating back to week one of last season?
9:2519 starts.
9:27Cowboys easily 8.4 4 yards per attempt, 115 passer rating in that matchup in Jerry World last season. And don't look now, guys. This one kind of surprised
9:35me. Since Jerry World opened in 2009, the Cardinals have the most wins without a loss than any other team in the NFL.
9:44They're 4-0. 4-0 at AT&T Stadium. Kyler Murray still never lost a game there.
9:50That one always blows me away. But look, after Monday night, going back to the beginning of last season, the Cowboys are allowing 22.3 fantasy points per
9:59game to opposing quarterbacks.
10:02There's Josh Allen leading the NFL and there's whoever is playing the Dallas Cowboys as the number two quarterback in fantasy football. That's how bad the
10:10group is. So, I think Joey Porter Jr.'s helped out the secondary. Quinnon Williams is obviously live around the line of scrimmage. They see the Marvy
10:15and Overone go out there and make some plays. They got some dogs out there. All right. But we also saw the Tanner McKe
10:22led Eagles without their RB1, RB2, RB3, RB4, wide receiver one, and wide receiver two, and a bend up offensive line. Still go for 20 points, still
10:31string together these 16, 17 play drives where again, Dallas could do absolutely nothing to stop them. So maybe the Cowboys are going from the the dead
10:40worst defense in the league to something closer to like 28th. Either way, volume should win out. I don't know how much
10:46longer Jody Brassette's going to have this job. It's at least for one more week, though. We've gotten that confirmed from Michael Flor and Carson
10:52Beck. Don't look now. Did miss the last couple practices of last week with a back injury. So, not sure they're going
10:57to be able to turn it over sooner rather than later. I don't think Jacob is going to be the starting QB after this next
11:02stretch from weeks 9 through 11. They face the Seahawks, Rams, and Chiefs. But for one glorious week eight against the Cowboys, I think everything will be fine
11:09for the Garbage Time Merchant. Once again, key question here though, guys.
11:13Obviously, Jacobe is going to be our top streaming option for week eight, but I wanted to go ahead and look ahead as
11:18well and give you guys the quarterbacks who I do believe have the best combin combination of some level of fantasy upside and a very good matchup to get
11:25ahead of your league mates again trying to find that right QB streaming option before it's time to go ahead and battle
11:30everyone else for him. So, week eight again, we got the Texans, Saints, Giants, and Niners on the buy. I do think Jacobe is going to be your best
11:36bet. After him though, among guys available in 6% or more of Yahoo leagues, I would go with Gino Smith against the Raiders and what could be a
11:43sneaky shootout going on there. Week nine, Steelers and Titans, I'm buy. So, I don't think too many people are dying to have, you know, Aaron Rogers or Cam
11:51Ward exactly lead your team in the first place, but Malik Willis against the Lions and then Deshun Watson against the Saints would be my top two streaming
11:57options there. Week 10, if you have the Bears, Broncos, Eagles, or Buccaneers quarterback, I think you should be looking at Malik Willis going up against
12:05the Colts or Gino Smith going up against the Bills as your preferred streaming option. By Meddon this year, guys, is week 11. We got the Falcons, Browns,
12:12Packers, Rams, Patriots, and Seahawks all on by during that week. Again, Malik Willis has a nice matchup against the Bills and also Baker Mayfield against
12:20the Lions. Those would be the two quarterbacks that be prioritizing for them. Week 13, we got the Ravens, the Colts, the Raiders, and Jets on by the
12:27Deshun Watson against the Bengals and Michael Penn against the Lions. Web two picks there. And finally, all the way up there in week 14, guys, Cardinals and
12:34Cowboys on by. Malik Willis against the Bears and Michael Penn against the Browns. So, kudos to Malik Willis playing some good football. We'll talk
12:41about him more in a bit. Tier two, guys, we got good QBs with a question mark.
12:46All right, so QB1, Caleb Williams. He's throwing for 300 plus yards in back-to-back games. I just have so much respect for this Mike McDonald led
12:53Seahawks defense. All right, when you do look at just the best overall performing groups in the league, it's definitely the Vikings, but just underneath them,
13:00we do have the Seattle Seahawks, and there's a bit of another gap between them to the Buccaneers and some of the
13:05other top groups in the league. So, look, great offense can be great defense, and I do think there is a great
13:10offense brewing in Chicago. The only thing that also holds me back though in addition to the matchup, we just haven't seen Caleb completely take the training
13:18wheels off as a rusher since he's returned from injury, just 21 scoreless yards on the ground over these last two weeks. And it has felt a bit intentional
13:26with Caleb getting the ball out quicker and not having really really many if any designed runs being called to this point. So Caleb, I still think he's
13:33playing fantastic football this year.
13:35This just isn't the spot to be expecting a blowup game in. Same sentiment for QB12 Jarro Goff. the number two quarterback in fantasy points per game
13:43this year, Jared Goff. Just a very tough matchup against the Blitz Happy Vikings guys. So, since 2020, which is as far
13:49back as I can get these numbers to go, this Vikings group ranks number one in pressure and number one in overall blitz
13:54rate. Are they that dominant though? The numbers say they are. I just look at the schedule. I know you can do this for
14:03several teams. It's only been seven weeks of the year.
14:07Week one against the Packers, Jordan Love for 350 yards. They made some big plays to Christian Watson, even later down the stretch, Matthew Golden. So,
14:14that was obviously a good performance for the Packers. Vikings won late. They overcame. Obviously, they've won every game this year. I get it. But the
14:20Packers game did show some flaws. All right. Since then, they faced Caleb Williams for three quarters in a very much weather impacted game in week two.
14:29They faced the Buccaneers, then they faced the Dolphins, then they faced the Saints, and they faced the Daniel Jones like Colts last week.
14:37This defense under Brian Flores has been really good more years than not with him there. But it's a very highly volatile
14:45way of playing football. When it's right, man is it right. And they just eat these young quarterbacks or bad quarterbacks alive. That's not Jared
14:53Goff. That said, in this matchup, we've only seen him crack 300 yards once against Brian Flores six tries over the last few years. Hasn't thrown for three
15:01touchdowns in any of those games. A Monro St. Brown deal with an ankle injury. I don't think it's going to keep
15:06him out of the game, but it really doesn't help matters. QB12 for me, Jared Goff, not someone I'm completely shying away from starting, but if you can find
15:15Jacobe Brassette out there, or you happen to have two options, I can see why you're going away from him in this
15:19spot. QB13, I'm going with Kirk Cousins against the Jets. Similar to Jacobe, we did get word already from Clint Kubak that it will be Kirk Chains under center
15:28once again. We'll have to wait at least another week for the again Fernando Mendoza experience to go ahead and get here. But Jets defense not exactly
15:35terrifying. Not a horrible group, but again, not not something we should be overly worried about. When we have the volume that we do with Kirk,
15:41particularly if they continue to fall behind, man, last three games entering the fourth quarter, they've been down 25, 10, and 22 points. It has helped,
15:48you know, Kirk and company go ahead and get that volume late, and it all counts the same in fantasy land. But hey,
15:52buried the lead here. NFL passing touchdown leader Kurt Cousins with 16.
15:57Shout out, man. UN still got it.
15:59obviously, you know, doesn't have the biggest weapons to work at with either outside of Brock Powers, of course, and Trey Tucker playing some good ball. But
16:05yeah, Raiders, Jets guys, sneaky shootout of the week here for sure.
16:10QB14, I'm going with Kylo Murray. It just scares me still because this year, guys, the Vikings have the league's best defense and EPA allowed per play and the
16:20third worst offense. Then we have the Buffalo Bills who have the best offense and the second worst defense. So they face each other in week nine. Wow. Get
16:30ready for that one. Just stoppable force versus movable object on both sides of the football. So unstoppable versus movable. Always messed that one up.
16:38Anyway, I hated what I saw from Kyler in this passing game last week. Played really well in six quarters before their buy
16:46and then you had a buy and you got to go up against a banged up Colts defense that's not all that good in the first
16:51place. Healthy Jetta, healthy Addison, healthy Hawinson. And we still couldn't get anything going. It's the slowest moving offense in football, the
16:58Minnesota offense that is, in terms of plays per minute.
17:02They're just riding the defense to victory. And honestly, who can blame them. Can they do that against the Lions? Remains to be seen. It is the
17:08worst defense in the league in terms of fantasy points being allowed to opposing quarterbacks.
17:14That's what's keeping Kyler up here because I'll tell you what, if it was a tough matchup, he'd be outside the top
17:1820. He scored fewer than 14 fantasy points in three of four starts this year. Just hasn't been great. I'm very skeptical that we get a boom version of
17:27Kyler the rest of the way. If he was going to be able to do it though, this would be a matchup we'd expected in QB
17:3415. I got Gino Smith going against the Raiders last week, arguably his best game of the year. Also performed well against the Lions and the fact that
17:40those were his two easiest matchups. Not exactly lost on me, but you know, also an offense that's getting a lot healthier. Should be welcoming Bree Hall
17:48back. We had the wide receiver trio healthy for the first time since week one. And even with a little bit of a
17:52banged up Kon Sadiq out there, Mason Taylor has proven capable, more than capable of being a damn good tight in his own right. So with Gino Smith,
18:00again, he's facing a Raiders defense that's allowed an NFL high 170 points over the last five weeks. I think it's a
18:06good combination of a quarterback playing fairly good football, at least in a good matchup, which he has with another offense on the other side of the
18:13football that should be able to keep this game moving. Again, love the potential over in this Jets Raiders matchup. Q16. I got Matthew Stafford
18:21guys going up against the Chargers. It's kind of shocking that we can keep Stafford this high with basically just Puka out there, but you know, probably
18:27throw three combined touchdowns to Davis Allen to Kobe Parkinson, maybe even Tyler Higgby, maybe even other tight ends who we don't even know exist at
18:34this point in time. So, we still got Puka out there doing their thing. Rams sitting pretty at seven point faves. I
18:40don't exactly expect Stafford to go for 350 and three touchdowns, but I do think 200 plus and multiple touchdowns enough to keep him in the mid-tier QB2
18:48conversation.
18:49QB 17 Deshun Watson NFL high five game-winning drives which is a silly stat but you know I guess credit where credit is due. It was rough in weeks
18:58five and six and then we got arguably Watson's best performance wearing a Browns uniform in week seven. Yes, it was against the Titans but that's the
19:05first time post Houston we've seen Watson throw for over 300 yards and that was with Casey Conception dropping potentially another you know 50 yard
19:12touchdown on top of things there. So Watson's been running around a lot, scored his first rushing touchdown of the year last week. And it's now a
19:19situation where yes, TJ Watt, the Steelers defense, very good group. You know, it's going to be certainly a tougher test in Tennessee, but only have
19:26to go back what, three weeks to find the last time the Browns hung 27 on the Steelers defense. So Deshawn QB 17 for
19:32me here in week eight. QB18, I'm going Malik Wils against the Patriots, guys.
19:37Now, this is the one spot I'm not thrilled about trying to play Malik in.
19:42And hey, maybe he keeps it going. All right. He's averaged eight rush attempts or I think he's had exactly eight in
19:47each of these last two games. Managed to get some success going through the air.
19:50We got Caleb Douglas back and healthy doing his thing. 18.9 26 fantasy points for Malik Willis over these last two games. So, he's finally giving people
19:58some of that late round QB upside that he was drafted for in the first place.
20:02It's just a little bit of respect for Christian Gonzalez and the Patriots here, guys. But after this week, Lions, Colts, Bills, and Jets, four ducks in a
20:10row here for the Dolphins, guys. 28th, 20th, 29th, and 24th. And you pay a lot for per drop back. Again, if you need a
20:17streaming QB for the next freaking five weeks, you can do a lot worse than Malik Willis. QB19. Patrick Mahomes, man. It
20:25was just one game, but it was a damn bad one. And I know it was a Seahawks, but now it's in Denver likely getting Pastor
20:32Tan back. I would imagine he is there.
20:33And honestly, they've still performed pretty well without him. It's just so tough. I remember sitting here talking to you guys a couple weeks ago and it
20:40was like, "All right, this offense, you lose Rasheed Rice and Taekwon Thoron, is Mahomes in the passing game be able to
20:46keep on keeping on?" And then I kind of caught myself and I was like, "Oh yeah, Rasheed Rice and Taekwon Thornton.
20:52That's why Mahomes is playing better this year." But through two games, at least a question.
21:00Chargers game was fine. We still averaged 9.1 yards per 10. Didn't get the touchdowns, but they're a pretty good pass defense as well. That was a
21:06nice performance.
21:08I just don't know how they can get explosive plays at this point in the passing game. Cyrus Allen looks like their best bet, but they're still
21:14refusing to give him a full-time role.
21:16Maybe they do get Rashi Rice back, but similar to what we saw earlier in the year, like he wasn't moving the way we
21:22were used to seeing previously to start the season, now coming back from a hamstring injury, I can't exactly expect him to be at 100%. We need some trades
21:31and we need them fast. All right. I think low-end QB2 fantasy treatment and a very tough matchup with the passing game all arrows pointing down is
21:39warranted when we have Mahomes averaging a career low 11 rushing yards per game.
21:43QB20 I got Sam Donald going up against the Bears. Horrific end of the first half interception in the end zone aside
21:51his best game of the year pretty easily.
21:53All right. And was a lot of that simply a function of Darnold repeatedly spamming targets to arguably the best player on planet Earth right now,
22:00Jackson Smith and Jigba. Yeah, I think it was. Is that going to be changing anytime soon against the Bears secondary with nobody that can match up with this
22:07dude? Don't think it will be changing.
22:09So, Bears defense has some good numbers.
22:11They're actually causing a lot of havoc this year, even though they have, you know, a bunch of injuries kind of going
22:15on the defensive front. But Jordan Love went for 367 and two touchdowns. Bryce Young 361 and three. Even Drake May last
22:22week 321 and two scorers on his own. So, Sam McDonald for me not going out of my way to play the guy, but set up very
22:27well against the Bears. Speaking of teams are set up well guys, I want to go through the best on paper passing game
22:33matchups this week. In the past, I've mostly focused on pressure, but I thought, hey, it's week eight. Let's step things up and get some more stats
22:38out here. So, blue is going to be good, red is going to be bad. I have ordered every single quarterback matchup by the
22:45fantasy points per game matchup from the defense. Otherwise, we had those combined metrics I like to use with pressure, success rate, explosive pass
22:51plays, and EPA that again are being weighted both by the offensive performance and the defensive performance, just giving us oneway streets instead of always having to go
22:58the offense ranks X and the defense ranks Y. So, with that guys, among the best matchups of the week in terms of
23:04fantasy points per game, they go to the Vikings, the Cowboys, the Eagles, the Ravens, and the Jets facing off against the Lions, Cardinals, Commanders, Bills,
23:11and Raiders, respectively. It's most clean, and also we have the Cardinals against the Cowboys. That's the other one. The most clean matchups here pretty
23:19easily go to Gino Smith and Jacob Brassette amongst the usual suspects, right? Because even though Ky Murray and the Vikings, they had the best matchup
23:28of the week in terms of fantasy points against the Lions, when you also factor in the Vikings offense. You guys can see
23:35it for yourself. It's just all of a sudden not nearly as clean of a situation. That's why I can't get Kyler
23:40into the top 10 say like someone with Jacobe. So that was my big goal here was just trying to add credence to the idea
23:46where we saw it last week. What was the matchup? I think it was the Raiders.
23:52Was that them? It's just the idea of teams like the Raiders, teams like maybe the Browns offensive line. You can say
24:01they have a good matchup, but when they're as bad as they are at that facet of the game, that's where I'm like, is
24:06it really can it ever really be a good matchup? So I think this does a good job of showing how again fantasy points.
24:11Yeah. Okay. A lot of teams have scored against the Lions. Can we expect Kyler and company to do that themselves?
24:16That's where it's a little bit tougher.
24:17So, four main takeaways though from this overall. Jacobe and Gino Smith best streaming options for this week. I mentioned for Kyler Murray, it's just
24:24not as much of a splash spot as you would expect given the overall limitations of the Vikings offense. I think the best bet for the Bears and
24:30Lions who are down here with the worst matchups of the week in terms of those fantasy points. As we can see though,
24:35bright blue marks and explosive pass play rates. So if we are going to see the Bears and also Lions overcome their
24:41respective tough spots would make sense when they do so with big plays and to their credit they've been able to do
24:46that this season. And then last point Buccaneers defense very very good this year. All right not just against the run like in most years with VA but also
24:54against the past. If the Falcons are going to be able to overcome that I think it's going to be by giving Michael
24:59Penn pockets. And to be fair with the combined pressure rates they do have the best expectations for clean pockets of any offense this week. So, I got Pennix
25:07still just a little bit lower. I'm not sure they're going to be facing a sort of trailing game script to coax out a
25:12bunch of pass attempts from him, but he's playing some really good football this year. And if he is given time to
25:16throw, well, man, Drake London, Bejian Robinson, Kyle Pittz, certainly plenty of good places to go with the football.
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25:58All right, guys. Handful more rankings here. We got QB21 Aaron Rogers leading off tier three of the other guys going against the Browns. He's played solid
26:06football this year and still just, you know, the QB 20 and fantasy points per game. I think a big part for that
26:11success is just the Steelers refusing to run the football by the goal line. This offense has had nine plays called inside
26:17the 5yd line. Eight of them have wound up being Aaron Rogers drop back. So look, we'll take that in fantasy land.
26:23It is a Browns defense though that you know, six EPA allow for drop back, 13th against a run. really are playing some
26:29good ball and again getting healthier guys like Mason Graham back in the picture. QB22 mentioned before Michael Penn has backto-back games of three plus
26:37passing touchdowns and maybe Kyle Pittz decides that the Buccaneers defense is going to be getting got just like they were last year in what week 15 when he
26:45dropped three touchdowns on them. Just the problem is this remains a run first offense if they can help it. 31st drop
26:50back rate over expected this season. So again kudos to the Buccaneers. I would say out of respect to that defense.
26:57That's the only reason I have Michael Penn higher this week. But as we talked about earlier, he's someone that also does have some good streaming matchups
27:03coming up. QB23 Baker Mayfield against the Falcons. He only threw 11 passes last week, but I thought the arm talent, accuracy, and everything. It looked
27:13better than I was expecting, guys, given the Frankenstein glove that they had going on. The Tampa Bay Rays helped them get together. There was a play early on
27:20where he was able to kind of get outside the pocket and then rolling to his right just threw a dart to TZ Johnson on the
27:24sideline. That again really answered many most of the questions I had about his ability to physically still play quarterback at a high level. The problem
27:32is he just threw only 11 passes guys and it really wasn't totally due to the game script. I mean that obviously help
27:38matters but again drop back rate over expected fun stuff from fantasylife.com.
27:43It adds game context, you know, down distance, scoreboard, all that sort of things to your drop backs. Minus 20% drop back rate over expected for the
27:52Buccaneers last week. That's the third highest single game mark of the entire season. So Atlanta, they're a defense that can cause a lot of havoc, man. The
28:01line of scrimmage has been a surprising development because of how many key guys they've had outside the front seven, but they've been good more times than not.
28:08And I do think the Buccaneers will probably try to get away with another game of just running the football. I'm keeper Baker Mayfield low in the ranks.
28:14Not as much this week because of the thumb, more so because of the expected volume. QB24, I got Bicks going up
28:21against the Chiefs. If he wants to run for 60 yard touchdowns every single week, awesome. We'll get him up in the
28:25ranks. But I don't know if he's going to have alleged number one wide receiver Jaylen Wald out there with a chest
28:30injury. And now it's just a Chiefs team that has pretty successfully defanged him in recent matchups. 295 and no touchdowns, 182 and one touchdown, and
28:37more recently 131 and just one touchdown against the Spagnola and company. I am good on Bo Knicks, but we'll talk to him
28:44about being maybe higher in week nine against the Panthers. QB25, welcome back. Justin Herbert, 10.4 fantasy points per game from Justin
28:52Herbert this year, guys. That's a full six fewer fantasy points than previous career low mark. QB 34 in fantasy points per game. There's only 32 NFL teams. I
29:04had an honest thought in August and I was like, "Oh, the Super Bowl's in Los Angeles this year. What if the Rams play
29:09the Chargers and then all Los Angeles Super Bowl? That's something I thought could happen two months ago. Sad. QB26.
29:18I got Tanner McKe going up against the Commanders on Sunday Night Football. So, he looked good enough on Monday night.
29:24Low bar, backup quarterback. His whole offense is hurt. It was the Cowboys though, guys. And against the Cowboys, it was actually like a bottom three
29:31performance based on everyone else's performance against the Cowboys going back to week one of last season. So, just not much to do here. here. He's a
29:38pocket passing quarterback without many guys other than Mai Lemon to even throw the football to at this point. QB27. I got Cam Ward guys going against the
29:46Bengals. He has one game with more than 183 passing yards this year. He's actually averaging fewer fantasy points per game than they did last year and he
29:52was really bad at that last season. So, rough, rough, rough. I looked at it.
29:57There's a list of 21 quarterbacks that average under six yards per attempt in their first 24 starts since 2000. It's one bust after another. You got Bryce
30:08Young in there. He's doing some good things. You got Ryan Fitzpatrick in there. You got Cam Warden in there, man.
30:14Not looking good. And finally, we got QB28, Daniel Jones. So, here's the especially annoying part with Daniel Jones this year, guys. All the numbers
30:22are, if not the worst of his career, that 2023 season, maybe a little bit worse. But he's been horrific. Banged up
30:29offense. We all get it. But, you know, he was still bad in earlier years with the Giants, too. But, he was still
30:35pretty good in fantasy. at least decent.
30:39In 2023, he averaged 9.5 fantasy points per game. That was like a weird six game shortened season before he got hurt. His
30:47previous career career low was 12.9.
30:49Last year was at 17.3. This year 9.2.
30:53Man, 100% snap counts in every game.
30:57Daniel Jones in 2026 is the worst version of himself in fantasy land and pretty much real life that we've ever seen. Don't expect that to be getting
31:06better against the Jaguars, who by the way, guys. I know it's a quarterback episode. The Jaguars are coming off the buy. They should be available in a lot
31:15of fantasy leagues. That DST, we obviously love them this week against the Colts. If you can stomach week nine against the Ravens, or maybe that's when
31:22you pick them up, all right, after they after that game. Anyway, from weeks 8 through 12, the Jaguars, who are good
31:30defense, and they get after the quarterback pretty well. Not incredible, but they're they're good. Okay, Colts, Ravens, Titans, Giants, Titans these
31:40next five weeks. You can do a lot worse than having the Jaguars DST for that.
31:44Last question to get you guys out of here. I want to go through what quarterbacks have been the most fun to
31:47watch this season. All right, because isn't football supposed to be a little bit of fun at the end of the day. So,
31:52one way I like to kind of try to quantify this over the years, and I got inspired by Jameus Winston uh back in
31:57the day with this PFFs, two stats, big-time throw rate and turnover worthy play rate. Yes, they are a little bit subjective, but having gone through and
32:04see what these guys do consider big- time throws in terms of worthy plays, I do believe these to be directionally correct. So, with that plotted these
32:10with a minimum of 60 dropbacks on a handy dandy graph in Excel and accordingly guys, we get some very lame quarterbacks who this year, at least in
32:18terms of their throwing stuff. We see Kyler Murray, Jaden Daniels, Tanner McKe, and Tyler Huntley standing out there. in terms of guys who have brought
32:25a lot of bad and also not much good to the table. Case Keenum, Daniel Jones, and sadly Justin Herbert. Lots of good
32:32and lots of bad. That's kind of what we're looking for like entertaining QB play for better or for worse. Guys that
32:38you want to be having on the quad box or, you know, when they cut away when you see, you know, Jameus Winston in a
32:43cut to on Red Zone channel, it gets your attention. Like that's kind of what we're looking for here. Marcus Mariota leading the way, man. Yeah, it's a small
32:50sample size, I guess. So if you wanted to go with, you know, removing him and just looking at the guys who have had
32:55more dropbacks, Drake May, Jordan Love, Michael Pennix, and yes, Jameus Winston, sprinkle Sam Darnold there as well, really standing out as the most
33:03entertaining deuce for better and for worse. However, I can't help but give a little credit to the artist formerly known as Nine up there in the top
33:10lefthand corner, JJ McCarthy. Man, number one big-time throw rate in the NFL right now and honestly doing a pretty good job protecting the football
33:19as well.
33:20I'm sitting here, guys. I sit here every single day pretty much wearing this Ohio State hat. All right. JJ McCarthy freaking annoyed me over the years. And
33:28you know, I'm not going to lie, seeing him not exactly go great in Minnesota wasn't the saddest I've ever been after
33:33this dude broke my heart freaking every Saturday after Thanksgiving for a good three, four years stretch. He played really freaking good last week. the
33:42mixtape of best throws, which I went ahead and threw tears published on Twitter because I do contrary to some belief. Try to be, you know, I'm biased
33:51out here. All right, you guys, you guys fantasy teams matter. Not who I freaking like because of what they did to my Ohio
33:56State Buckeyes three years ago.
33:59McCarthy looks good, man. And is he staring down the first read a little bit? Just letting it rip there. Yeah. Is
34:06that the worst thing in the world when Beyond Neighbors and Isaiah Likely, why even worry about going to progressions?
34:13That's the other argument. And to be fair, man, Malachi Field, some of these throws on the sideline almost hit I think it was Jaylen Hyde on a ridiculous
34:20one where he's freaking falling over trying to get velocity on it, but kind of working.
34:26I don't know if this is going to persist for another 10 weeks and JJ McCarthy is now suddenly a great quarterback, but at
34:32least for five quarters in 2026, man, he's looked far better than I can ever say he has in his career. He did that
34:40against the Texans, who I know have been worse off. All right, but there's still a good defense somewhere there in Houston.
34:49All right, and JJ did really freaking good. And it wasn't just neighbors making one big play after another and bailing them out. really was some
34:55impressive stuff from JJ McCarthy. So very much more optimistic at a minimum about Malik Neighbors and just slightly lesser extent Isaiah likely keeping on
35:02keeping on with 18 under center. But yeah, two claps JJ McCarthy great performance man. Anyway guys, that's going to do it for me. I appreciate you
35:11tuning in. If you like the video, please like the video. Hit that subscribe button always helps as well. I will now
35:15be off to write about running backs and then talk about them again. Week eight, no time to get complacent. Keep those
35:20heads straight. Eye on the prize. Let's go win those fantasy championships. So with that guys, I'm Ian Harris.
