Fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL writer Nate Tice preview the Thursday Night Football showdown between the Bills and Dolphins, focusing on Miami’s unsettled backfield and key players like Josh Allen and Dalton Kincaid. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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All right, Nate Thursday night football Bills and Dolphins pretty electric match up here for a Thursday night game.
Uh One piece of news going into this one, we are not gonna have Raheem Mozart, he has been ruled out.
So, uh this is gonna be the Devon Aan, Jeff Wilson, maybe Jalen Wright who was a healthy scratch in week one, people just kind of forgot that.
Oh, yeah, Jeff Wilson, like ST players for this Dolphins team.
I don’t really know how to read this.
Miami Backfield here already in week two.
Yeah, I have no idea how to feel about that backfield.
I was fairly impressed by the Bills defense, uh and what they did again against the Cardinals holding up also, the Jags defense showed a very good blueprint to go off of.
So I’m curious on how much the Bills defense uses off of that.
Uh I think Josh Allen is gonna run.
This is a defense that’s gonna, uh uh Dolphins defense that’s gonna kind of go every which way, uh especially from the w of scrimmage blitz looks simulated, looks curious how much they do, but Josh Allen and quarterbacks against those looks it’s good scrambling looks.
Actually, it’s gonna look similar to the game plan where they play in the wind and it gets the Cardinals defense that’s pretty funky too.
And where they pound the rock a lot where they look at Josh Allen’s legs, uh, when they need to and just more of efficient passing, as opposed to maybe something downfield.
There’s not like a receiver to really still target here just yet.
You know, Kon Coleman, I know he had the, the 20 plus percent target chair, he led the team in routes run, you know, uh I Brian Thomas junior had a great game against the secondary.
I do still think there’s quite a bit of a drop off from Brian Thomas to where Kian Coleman is, especially as a separator.
I’m still not all the way there with Kian Coleman, although the opportunity, uh, is great.
I just don’t see, like, I don’t see a ton of kind of, um, a ton to really just go on just just yet.
But, uh, that would be the only thing for me here is I, I, how do we feel about adult and Kincaid kind of bounce back game in this one?
I would say if I were going with Kincade overs or something, it’d be receptions and, and just because again, peppered as opposed to yards, if you’re on bet MGM over 4.5 catches is plus odds right now.
So, yeah, I think that’s probably What’s James Cook’s receptions at receptions is 2.5.
The, uh, the over, but it’s minus 100 and 45.
What’s yards?
James 18.5.
Uh, Russian yards.
I, I like that too.
Yeah, that’s a, that’s a good one.