Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

I'm your host Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at The Score, and today's episode is presented

by head and shoulders.

Offense for Great Hair, defense against flakes.

Well, I appreciate everybody tuning in to show this week because I know how busy it is

with Thanksgiving, but I promise you will not be disappointed by our guests.

There are a few articles that are absolutely

must reads that I have to go through every single week when I'm doing my research and I will

admit this guy writes one of them. It's Ian Hartett's a roto world. You can find them on Twitter

at I Heartits. Ian, I want to thank you, man, for coming on the show this week. I know how busy everybody is, so I really hope that we're not pulling you away from friends or family or anything like that. It's all good, man. I appreciate you having me on, but yeah, best day of the year tomorrow, man, nothing but football and food, so it's hard not to be excited. Well, like I said, I want to thank you because that wide receiver, cornerback, tight end analysis column that you're doing, it is awesome. Every week when I read it, I'm pulling away at least a few things that are helping me in my work. So I owe at least a portion of my success this year. I definitely owe it to the analysis that you're doing there. So thank you for that. And I'm excited that you're here because you're going to help share that knowledge with everybody this week. I appreciate it. It's about an, I say, eight to 10 hour process from the time I start kind of projecting the matchups to putting down the final word. So I'm happy it's helpful. But, you know, I know it'll be wrong sometimes, but at least

we're trying to, you know, look at every actionable angle and hopefully find some good plays. So I'm

ready to talk some ball. A lot of what we're going to talk about today are going to be these

offense versus defense matchup. So let's start off with a heavyweight bout between the Texans

receivers and the Patriot secondary. Now, New England secondary, they've shut down pretty much every receiver they've gone against this year. I mean, they're allowing the fewest fantasy points to the position. Really, I think Golden Tate is the only guy at the top of my head that I can think of that had a really good game against him. He might be the only guy who scored a touchdown against them, the only receiver anyway, this year. I know last week, Randall Cobb had like 86 yards, but while that was happening,

you had Amari Cooper who was getting absolutely blanked during that game. And that 86 yards that

Cobb put up, I think that's the second highest total than any receivers put up in the Patriots this

year. So nobody's done that well against them.

Now this week in that Amari Cooper role, it's going to be DeAndre Hopkins who gets potentially

that shadow coverage from Gilmore.

I'm thinking back to maybe it was a couple years ago when the Patriots didn't put their

top guy shadowing Hopkins.

They would put a little more coverage to his side and they'd put their top guy on the second receiver, whether it was Fuller or someone else during that time. So I'm not sure you're going to give us a better idea here of what's going to happen this week. How do you envision this matchup going not just for Hopkins, but for Fuller as well against that Patriots secondary? Looking at Gilmore on Hopkins, you know, that does happen sometimes. I remember the Saints

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