Your “What’s Goin’ On?” Sunday Afternoon Football Open Thread

What’s going on? Almost too much, right? Yesterday the news broke in wave after wave of infos. Patricia has been exiled to a Golden Corral upstate, a female kicker made history with a squibber, the Broncos lost all their qb’s and the Ravens are coviding to the tune of 20 (and still counting?) players. And I may have missed some other things but I haven’t checked the news. Has a nuclear device detonated somewhere? Are these the hallowed End Times or is just another day? Most likely the latter, I guess.

TO THE GAMES!

Raiders/Falcons:

This will most likely be the Brian Hill show because Gurley is out and Las Vegas can’t defend the run for crapola. I’ll say it-Julio is overrated. Yes, he’s gone off a few times (137, 137, 157) but his dud games (24, 32, 54, 39) outnumber them and he’s once again got a paltry (3) amount of TD’s to his name. He’s DeSean Jackson in  a larger frame.

Chargers/Bills:

Young Bucks With Big Arms Meet For First Time reads my title and it sounds like a porno. Moving on… But it should be noted that both these fellas have fantastic numbers while under pressure because of their mobility which buys them time when the pocket shrinks or collapses altogether. No idea who is rb-ing for the Chargers-Ekeler is sorta back but may not get much action, Ballage is banged up, Kelley is in the doghouse so Troymaine Pope?

Giants/Bengals:

Since he’s returned wr Shepard leads the team in targets, catches and red zone looks-it’ll be a long day for covering cb Leshaun Sims. When brand new Cincy qb Brandon Allen (Hippo shakes tiny fist because not Ryan Finley) drops back to pass his first look should go to Tyler Boyd and not Higgins because the former will be covered by badly-struggling rook cb Darnay Holmes. Wows, Giants Wayne Gallman is fantasy’s RB7 over the last five weeks.

Titans/Colts:

Of course you start him but temper your expectations for rb Henry because the Colts shut down the run game better than pretty much anyone else. This looks like a spot where Mike Pittman might go off-his 223 air yards the last 2 weeks lead the team and the last time these two teams played Rivers went for 308. Corey Davis is finally delivering on his high draft spot-fantasy-wise he’s averaging 14 points per game.

Panthers/Vikes:

Teddy B would appear to be a great streaming option today-the Vikes pressure rate is dead last in the league and they’ve given up the most passing TD’s from a clean pocket. Every one of Bridgewater’s 6 spots have come from a clean pocket.

Cards/Pats:

The Hopkins/Gilmore matchup looks like a good one if the latter is available. He’s had a bit of success matching up with this wr in recent ‘entanglements’. Is this the spot where wr Kirk goes nuclear? The Pats are last in average yards per target and 2nd-last in deep pass percentage completed. Kirk leads his team in deep passes targeted with 13.

Fins/Jets:

You can add Denzel Mims to the long, long list of rook wr’s finally getting their feet under them. He’s seen 326 air yards and a 22% target share the last two weeks. The wet blanket in this scenario comes in the form of cb Xavien Howard. This should be a get-well tilt for Tua because the Jets secondary is dead last in overall coverage grades.

Browns/Jags:

The Giraffe is under center in Jacktown so you might want to pump the brakes on Chark. With Luton under center 33% of looks to Chark were on deep passes. The last time Glennon played on a regular basis he threw deep 7% of the time. Cleveland has been the team most likely to run the ball over the last month. Not a surprise given the talent in their backfield. Jarvis Landry is still second on the team behind OBJ in fantasy points for wr’s despite the fact the latter played his last full game back in week 6.

Have at it, savages!