Fantasy Football Today - Start or Sit (AFC): Travis Etienne, Omarion Hampton, Browns and Chargers WRs and More (09/11 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

A number of players have a lot to prove this week including Tyreek Hill, Omarion Hampton and Travis Kelce. We'll talk about their outlooks but first we tell you who we love (4:15) and who to avoid (7:30). Are we really sitting Zay Flowers? Will Jared Goff bounce back? ... News and notes (10:10) and One Question for Each Game (18:45)! What do we expect from the Browns passing game? Is Travis Hunter a good start? Why are we concerned about Keon Coleman? How good could DeVonta Smith be this week? ... Start or Sit for Browns-Ravens (32:25), Patriots-Dolphins (41:10), Jaguars-Bengals (48:45), Bills-Jets (54:15), Eagles-Chiefs (59:10), Chargers-Raiders (1:06:30), Broncos-Colts (1:12:00) and Bucs-Texans (1:15:10) ... Email us at [e-mail] Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop our store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shop.cbssports.com/fantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our FFT team on Twitter:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @FFToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @AdamAizer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @JameyEisenberg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @daverichard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @heathcummingssr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So what a play! Can you believe this? No, I can't. to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races, and he stays on his feet. It's just going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Eight games to talk about today on Fantasy Football Today,

presented by BEDMGM, the sports book Born in Vegas. It is starter sit for the AFC home games. There are a lot of AFC home games today, so some of them will cover tomorrow. But welcome, everybody. A lot of AFC home games this week, I met. Good morning. Heath and Jamie fired up.

Yeah, baby. Yeah. It would be great game tonight. Yeah, I wish we could have started the day off with a little more positive news. As opposed to. Oh, the Brock Purdy news that we just got? Yes. Yeah, Brock Purdy looks like he's going to miss two games.

Two to five is what Ian Rappaport said. I'm going to hope for two. I'm going to hope for two. Yeah. Adam's optimistic Adam. Yeah. New Adam. Week one was horrible for me.

So week two, I could only go up from week one. All right, so listen, it's prove it weak for some players. Not really. It's only week two, but a few that I wanted to highlight here. How about Gentie versus Hampton, right? We get a couple of first round running backs. Genty averaged about two yards per carry. Hampton, about three yards per carry.

They were horrible. The Raiders had the lowest run block win rate in the NFL, according to ESPN in week one. The Chargers were 16. So I'd like to see them get going here. How about Travis Kelsey, guys? This one really stood out to me. In the Patrick Mahomes era, he had his second lowest target per out run rate since Mahomes became the starter, not including Mahomes' rookie year.

But in that wild, the lowest in a regular season game. So I'd like to see something from him. Miami, obviously, they got to prove something this week. You know that they were top 10 in both pass block and run block win rate last week. And I think if you watch the tape, it shows it was not the offensive line's fault. It was just, they sucked. And this, maybe everyone knew this, and I didn't. Do you know the last time Bo Nix lost a fumble before last week?

I don't keep track of Bo Nix fumble. Sorry, no, I don't. Okay, good. It's such an incredible stat. I figured like everyone knew. I'm going to say high school. 2021 at Auburn. He went three years of playing football.

Two at Oregon, one with Denver without losing a fumble before last. week all security baby how about that all right player you love this week jamie does not like being asked about turnovers a baker well all of them um but uh to a tongue of i loa does not like being asked about turnovers oh you got a little feisty yeah prove it weak baby let's go i who do you love this week jamie um from the a fc or just in general no just in general oh jerry golf's start of the week um expecting a big bounce back game for the lions as a whole and Back at home, after disappointing loss in the division, another division opponent taking on his former coordinator.

Bears on a short week coming off a disappointing loss as well. I think the Lions will get right in this game. I don't like the fact that Jalen Johnson is practicing for the Bears, so that's going to help their secondary. But I still think that golf, great history against Chicago, as you probably expect, since he's joined the Lions. And I think we'll see the, maybe not the lions that we're used to seeing, but we'll see the Gough that were a little bit more reminiscent of what he was last year.

He's not facing Michael Parsons in that defense. Yeah, I've got Gough back in my top 12. I think I'm still the low guy on him, but it's still a start for me. I'm really interested because the matchup should be pretty good. I'm really interested, does that former coordinator thing come in to play at all? There are the things Ben Johnson can share with the defense that he knows will bother Jared Gough. That will be kind of interesting this week. Yeah, so the matchup, based on last year, wasn't that good because no one threw against the Bears.

Their run defense was so bad. So, I don't know. Well, one good game, one mediocre game. Yeah, for golf, yeah. Yeah, golf, when he played them down the stretch, golf was just on fire at that point, had a huge game. Okay, someone asked me an email golfer Justin Fields. That was a tough one. Who would you guys go with?

I think there's more upside for Fields. So if you want to go to that route, that's totally understandable. I think there's a safer play here for golf. I have golf ranked, I think, one or two spots ahead. But to me, if I was doing projections, it would be very close. I was sharing some of the lowest team totals for the week, and the Jets were on there. And people were really surprised by that after how many points the bills gave up and how many points the Jets scored last week.

But it's one game, which is a good thing to keep in mind all week this week. I would go fields, but it's close. Okay. Who do you love, Heath? I'll go with another quarterback and is ahead for me of both Fields and golf and it's Dak Prescott. I think it's a get right game for Dak Prescott and especially for C.D. Lamb after all the talk about the drops last week, much better matchup against the Giants, much higher implied total for the Cowboys. I thought Dak played really well last week.

I expect him to play really well this week and actually get the results. Actually, that was the email. It was, can you rank Dak, Prescott, Justin Fields, and Jared golf and how would you rank them i think we have a complete opposite orders that i went that order i went dack field no i went yeah i think i went dack fields golf yeah that's where that's how i have it and i have it golf fields deck but you have dac high jamie as well they're all top ten yeah okay good good good options this week player to avoid jamie who are we sitting this week this is probably going to be a a strange one to say but if you can three receiver leagues are starting without question but two receiver leagues, I would sit, say, flowers.

Coming off is amazing game and very curious to see how he's going to perform and how Lamar Jackson will lean on him. But he does not have a great track record against the Browns, yet to score a touchdown and four career meetings against him. And in the four games, the average is 10 ppr points per game. You're looking at what the Browns just did to the Bengals passing attack and their receiving core of Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. And so history, recency bias,

you want to call it that for what the Brown's defense just did, I would not say that Zayflowers must start. So in the start sit column, for example, he's in the bust alert at wide receiver. Oh, interesting. Okay. Hot take. Zay Flowers. Heath, how about you?

I will go with Aaron Jones. He scored a touchdown last week, so that was awesome. And he's still very good at that in terms of receiving. But he had 11 touches last week to 16 for Jordan Mason. And watching those two guys run, made you wonder, why would they hand the ball? ball off to Aaron Jones because Jordan Mason to me just looked so much better as a

rusher. I'm not sure based on what Atlanta did against the Tampa Bay running backs that this is a very good matchup. So you might have to flex him and I'm okay with that. He's a high end flex for me, but I don't want to start Jordan Mason or Aaron Jones. Do you want to start Jordan Mason? He is, I would start, if I

drafted Jordan Mason as an Aaron Jones handcuff, I would start Jordan Mason over Aaron Jones. Neither one's in my top 24 in full PPR. Okay. Interesting Sunday night game Atlanta at Minnesota. Minnesota getting two primetime games to start the year.

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Place your money line, parlay bets, and more today. Bet MGM make it legendary. I kind of feel like John Hamm looks a little like Heath in that picture. I see it, Heath. This is number 74. I think it's the least. I think you sent me one of Aaron Roll. It said not even close that somebody had sent into the show.

And I think that Aaron Rogers photo was much closer than John Hamm in this photo. I think that's, I think that looks a little bit like Heath. All right. I see. I see a lot of times people say that and I see it. I see zero percent of this one. Just take the compliment. All right, news and notes.

Brock Purdy out. So the report this morning, two to five weeks with turf toe. He also has a shoulder injury, but the toe is the bigger concern. They're at New Orleans this week. Actually, this just came in, so I don't have their full schedule up. But what do you think this means for Ricky Pearsall and Joanne Jennings if he gets back now that Kittle and Purdy are out multiple weeks, Jamie? I don't think it's horrible for them based on how Mack Jones treated Brian Thomas Jr. last year. You know, it's hard to say it's going to carry over completely.

But you don't want to say that this system is just that good that anybody can step in. perform at a high level. But it's kind of like the system is that good that anybody can step in and perform at a decent enough level. So I'm not that worried about Pearsall, especially if Jennings doesn't play. He didn't practice on Wednesday. So we'll see if they take this up to game time with their shoulder injury. And we know that Kittle is out.

And this is exactly what happened to Brian Thomas last year. Everybody was gone, essentially. And it was just feed the number one receiver. So right now the track record for Pearsall, it's small sample size. But four games in his career with at least six targets. It's 14 or more PPR points in all four of those. Wow. So if he gets opportunities so far, he's been successful with them.

And in this matchup against New Orleans, he's still a number two receiver for me. So I dropped them a little bit with this news, but I would still start him, especially if Jennings is not at 100%, and clearly with kid allowed. So there's going to be a big opportunity for him to just soak up targets, at least on on paper based on the situation. Yeah, I think, I think Dan spent like $550 in Fab in the FFT Dynasty League on Mack Jones overnight, so I hope he's good. Out of 1,000.

I think he spent 30-ish on Mac Jones in our regular Superflex League. Does he have Purdy in both of those? He has Purdy, and I'm almost positive he has him in the Superflex. He was a big Purdy guy coming into the year. Yeah. Yeah, so there were two games last year that Brock Purdy missed. In week 12, Brandon Allen threw 29 times for 199 yards and a touchdown and a pick at Green Bay. Josh Dobbs in week 18.

29 to 43, 326 yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions, and a rushing touchdown at Arizona. All right, more news and notes. James Cook was limited with a hamstring injury. I did pick up Ray Davis in a few leagues. Limited on Wednesday is usually not a bad thing. But Ray Davis is, you know,

the funny thing is he played one game last year without James Cook. It was against the Jets, and he had a huge game, Ray Davis. Quintan Judkins could practice today. Still, we don't know about his status for this weekend. Christian McCaffrey missed practice. I don't imagine he's going to practice much on Wednesdays.

He should be fine, I think they said. Put him in bubble wrap and don't touch him until Sunday. Austin Eklers playing tonight. You know what? I did not actually see the offensive line updates for the Packers. Do those guys practice yesterday? They wouldn't have practiced without a walk through. What were they listed as, I guess, is my question.

We can find that out. All right, Ben Johnson says he wants to call more runs. and he wants to get Kyle Menangai more carries, and Roshan Johnson was listed as limited yesterday. They had a walk-through. Wide receiver news. Good news for Drake London. He's expected to play this week at Minnesota Sunday night.

Darnal Mooney is going to be questionable. Xavier Worthy does not need surgery. He could be back in a couple of weeks. And they also have Jalen Royals that we haven't talked about. He missed practice. He's probably not going to play this week. But I wonder if he could be a factor at some point. So if you're in a deep league, take a look at Jalen Royals.

The NFL is investigating the domestic. violence allegations against Tyreek Hill. And Jalen Waddle was limited with a shoulder injury. He should be fine. He came back in the game after the shoulder. Travis Hunter should get more snaps on defense this week. Doesn't mean he won't doesn't mean to lose snaps on offense, but he should

get more snaps on defense this week. As Jamie mentioned, Juan Jennings mispractice. Kishon Booty was limited. Wondale Robinson missed practice, but he's expected to play. Tight end news. Well, we'll start with, I guess, the least important. Mason Taylor missing practice. Isaiah likely missed practice.

was limited, Darren Waller mispractice, and Darren Waller might get cut. They are deciding what to do with that roster spot. And Dallas Goddard is questionable with a knee sprain. And we know what this means for Devante Smith. Devante Smith has played 16 games without Dallas Goddard, but with A.J. Brown over the last three seasons. And in full PPR, he has averaged 17.7 PPR fantasy points per game. That would have been good enough to be wide receiver nine per game last year in

2024, even higher than that in 2023. So we know the deal. And also, we're going to talk about that game. The Chiefs last year and in week one really struggled against slot-wide receivers. And he's their slot-wide receiver. Not like a 60% slot guy, but he's going to lead their team in slot rate, Devante Smith. So if Dallas Goddarts out, it changes things quite a bit for him.

Offensive line, Giants left tackle, Andrew Thomas, didn't practice, but could play this week. He's supposed to practice today. three Rams offensive line than mispractice and two of them are week to week so does that change

your rankings at all for the Rams at Tennessee I don't think anybody's starting staff or aside from Superflex or two quarterback

leagues so no Kyrin is still in that low end number one high end number two range depending on who you like this week

so like James Connor better than him this week just based on their matchups for example so I don't know how you'd be up

to make that decision and then for Puka and Devante, no, does not change anything for me right now. All right. It's tough. I mean, it's a good run defense and then you're missing at least two, maybe three offensive linemen. Tennessee right tackle, J.C. Latham mispractice. Morgan Moses for the Patriots. I think they're a line. Like people thought it was horrible, but like if watch a lot of football, a lot of teams have bad lines. Their line wasn't, I don't know. Maybe it was that bad. To me it wasn't. But Morgan Moses missed practice. They're at Miami.

Miami, Miami right tackle Austin. Jackson is likely out. Minnesota left tackle Christian Darasaw's questionable and center Ryan Kelly mispractice. Saints, two Saints offensive linemen mispractice. And Carolina, good news, Carolina, their left tackle, Ikea Kwanu, was limited. Which offensive lineman you want to know about? Is it Brent and Cock? I'm sorry, not, is it Aaron Banks and Zach Tom? Yes.

Aaron Banks is out. No, I'm sorry. Aaron Banks is questionable, but he did not practice all week. And Zach Tom is... questionable to not practice all week. Yeah, it's a big deal. All right, that's it for the news and no. It's all the defensive stuff.

The defensive stuff, what's the big stuff here? Christian Gonzalez did not practice again, so that's good for the dolphins. And Jalen Johnson did practice for the bears, so that's not great for the lions. Got two defensive backs for the Colts who missed practice. They're facing Denver. You've got two important Vikings, linebackers,

Andrew Van Ginko and Blake Cashman, they miss practice. They got the Falcons Sunday night. Those would be the big ones. We might also, yeah, we might get a change at starting cornerback for Seattle. Rieck Wollin may get benched. And Devin Witherspoon, the other quarterback,

he mispracticed. Julian loved their safety was limited. But, you know, limited on Wednesday usually means they're going to play. All right, we'll take a break. One question for each game when we come back. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets

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This episode is brought to you by Defender. With its 626 horsepower twin-turbo V8 engine, the Defender Octa is taking on the Dakar rally, the ultimate off-road challenge. Learn more at landrover.ca. One question for each game. start with Cincinnati, nope, let's start with Cleveland at Baltimore, my bad. How much do you like the Cleveland wide receivers and tight ends, Heath, at Baltimore?

Well, I guess this is as good a time, isn't it? I should have said Harold Fanon was a player I loved. I'm starting, I have both of the Browns, tight ends in the top 12th. Wow. Just, and it's a couple of things. One, like, I have a hard time with the Harold Fanon usage in week one, but when, when the more that I look at what he did his final year in college including against Texas A&M and Penn State and then what he did in week one I don't want to bet against that guy

and David Najoku like if Joe Flacko's average 42 pass attempts per game and wants to get the ball out of his hand as quick as possible so he doesn't get hit so it might be that both tight ends have eight targets in this game I Jerry Judy's a number three wide receiver Cedric Tillman's a good flex and stat of the game here. Harold Fanon is 37% rostered in CBS leagues. 36% of that is Heath. That's correct.

Well, I might have more. Jamie got him in a couple of leagues. I did add him in the FFT league where I drafted both Brock Bowers and Tray McBride. Nice. So now I have all three of them, probably the top three titans in the league. I almost at two in the morning

made Heath a trade offer where I picked up Fanon and I have somebody that's still a starter because I did pick up Fanon in all my George Kettle leagues but I was almost immediately like nah I don't want to do that to in the morning we do have I've seen this question a lot this week so I'm just going to pull it up so basically dropped Dalton Kincaid for Harold Fanon I would and one of the big reasons that I chose fanon over the Hunter Henry's and that even for me the Juan Johnson's is I think there's always going to be three or four of those guys who are projected to score nine ppr fantasy

points and might score 12 if they score a touchdown. Fanon's the one guy that if that usage from week one validates this week, holy cow. Well, yeah, I don't want to get too off subject here, but I thought the usage for all three of the guys you mentioned, Fanon, Henry, Johnson was all encouraging because as I mentioned, Austin Hooper, very uninvolved in the passing game, didn't run a lot of routes, which was a difference from last year. And Juan Johnson played 99% of the snaps, and they're pretty beat up at tight end right now.

So I could make the case for all of them. I mean, we've seen so much of Johnson and Henry throughout their career that I think you take the chance on Fannin and see where it goes. But also, I think the one thing that bothers me just a little bit is that Cincinnati was the worst team against tight ends last year, by far.

So he did have that kind of a layup of a matchup. But he's so unique, though, that he's not necessarily a tight end. I said he was their slot receiver yesterday, and I overrated that. He had a 30% slot rate. So I'm sorry. That's high for a tight end. You have to almost treat him like hybrid third receiver tight end because, you know, they always run a lot of 12 personnel.

And he's going to be on the field a lot, which is what you want. And so I think just if you're looking at this, you know, so for anybody, it's just listening, it was Judy A targets, Tillmane, targets, Fanon, nine targets, Najoku, six targets. Like, if you just want to just start with a baseline of seven for all of them, I would probably put it at eight, but seven for all of them. Like, there's room for all of these guys to have decent floors. So, like, Judy was the worst at five for 66. If that's what you're getting from your, I guess, I'm sorry, Najoko was worth,

three for 37. But if you're getting five for 66 from one of your tight ends, that is fantastic in PPR. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. So, like, I think Fanon and Najoko can do that. Yeah. We'll see. It's really one of the most intriguing storylines of, of,

of week two, and maybe the whole season. All right, New England at Miami. Are there any must-starts in this game other than Devon A-chan? It's hard to have Tyree kill on your officer and sit him. That's what I was going to say. So, yeah. So you wouldn't sit him for Jerry Judy or Cedric Tillman.

So just to give you a peek into the show that you're not on that you never promote. Thursday afternoons at 1 p.m. We're on CBS Sports Network, and it's basically a hybrid ranking show starts it. And I pose the question to Heath and Dave every week, who's the toughest player to rank? And for me, that's Tyree Kilp.

Because I just, you know the upside. I mean, we've seen it. We've talked about it, you know, at nauseam. But are we back in the same boat that we were a year ago where you're almost starting him by default every week? And then the one week you sit him, he goes crazy. Yeah.

All right, Jacksonville at Cincinnati. Who's the better Travis? Travis Hunter or Travis E.N. E.T.N. E.T.A. Follow-up question. We talked about Travis E.T.N. as a sell high yesterday. Why not put him in the buy high category?

I wouldn't call him a sell high, I don't think. I think it was Dave's call, right? I'm not mistaken. And the same thing with Brise Hall. So anytime you have a certain expectation for a player or a certain situation that you're a little concerned about, and that player goes nuts, right? You're trying to maximize the value of your team. So if ETN was somebody that you drafted as a reserve, probably not the same case with Brise Hall, but like if ETN is someone you drafted as a reserve and you really love your team, you should be trying to get something amazing for him, especially for somebody who's got some craft. happy running back situation.

So I think that's where it comes in sell-high. So yes, buy-high, sell-high, it's, that may be his best performance. And so clearly the situation got better for him coming off that performance, which is something rare to see, barring injury. But is this the best that he's going to do? You know, you talk about what the Browns just did against the bangles. Like, he just did it against the Panthers. So he may do it again against the bangles,

but I think he just got to be a little concern. Like, we may have just seen the best of Chavis-C-TN, so why not maximize it? yeah panthers were the best matchup last year but they did play the entire season without derrick brown so i wanted to see if they're and show any improvement but but they didn't um buffalo is at the jet starter sit keon coleman speaking of the one p.m. show i was really really happy when i opened up the dock and saw i think jamie had keon coleman as a sit because i didn't want to argue against him this week but i agree i'm i'm sitting him for this week and if he's the clear target leader again, then that probably changes.

I think he had the same amount of targets as Josh Palmer, didn't he? I think they both had nine. That was, I had 11. So when I woke up this morning, okay, I'm sorry. When I woke up this morning, goes, I wanted to check Bonix fumbles and Keon Coleman versus Josh Palmer targets.

I forgot to do both. I'm sorry. Nobody does more research than Adamaser. No, you were right. Honestly, for all the crap he gets, that is, he's the most prepared person in the world. Except I was wrong. Keon Coleman had 11 and Shakira and,

Palmer both had nine. You know, Palmer was wide open on a double move. He made a really nice move. He should have had a touchdown. And Josh Allen missed him. And I just wonder if instead of five for 61, he had six for like 75 and a touchdown or whatever, Josh Palmer's 19% rostered. I wonder where he'd be right now.

But, okay, anyway, Keon and Coleman, we're trying to sit Heath. Sorry, my bad. No, I think probably the bigger thing that I didn't say in that whole discussion is they ran, what, 78 offensive plays, and Josh Allen threw 46 passes, and we expect his normal pass total to be about two-thirds of that. So let's see one more week. And Coleman had, I think, three targets in the first three quarters. And potentially soft Gardner.

All right, so Tillman and Judy over Coleman? For me, yes. I think I have Tillman ahead and Coleman right behind. And Judy ahead of both, yeah. I'm sorry, Judy ahead, Tillman right behind Coleman. Oh, okay, okay. Philadelphia, Kansas City. Marquise Brown

Oh, well, this question I asked before I saw the Dallas Goddard news. Marquise Brown or Devante Smith was the question. Entirely determined by Dallas Goddard, I would say. If Dallas Goddard plays, then it's Marquis Brown. And if Dallas Goddard's out, then it's Devonte Smith. Devonte Smith would be where if Goddard's out? He's probably going to be really close to 24.

Okay. Chargers at Raiders. How many wide receivers in this game. Do you rank ahead of O'Mari and Hampton? In full PPR, I think it's two. So definitely Ladd-McConkey and definitely Jacobi Myers in full PPR.

Do you think we're going to get, just real quick because we'll get into it later, kind of a different, what does the Chargers offense look like in this game? You know, I think what we will learn about early on in this game is the Raiders run defense because New England threw a lot more passes than we expected, partially because they were chasing the score, partially because they were averaging like two and a half yards per carry against the Raiders.

If the Chargers have the run success that they had against the Chiefs, then I don't know that we see much of a different approach. If the Chargers build an early lead and have success running the ball, then we may go back to Greg Roman football. Denver's at Indianapolis. So you start in a Broncos running back? No. Dobbins is a flex.

Harvey's a low-end flex. I hope. I hope you see what Harvey did, Sean Payton, and you're like, let's see more of that. Let's get a little bit more of that. Like,

you know, Dobbins is clearly a very solid running back. And probably, you know, for as much as I love him, I didn't over, I undersold him and his potential role

coming into the season because I was just so excited about Harvey. But you saw what he's still capable of doing last week, can get you a tough yard, can obviously grind out of the clock, can make some plays in the passing game. But Harvey's just on a different level right now.

Like, I just don't, I just, I don't understand why these things just frustrate me. Tampa Bay is at Houston. By the way, I don't know if you saw Sean Peyton's quote, but he was talking about how he took the blame for Bo Nix's interceptions and talked about how he's got to call plays differently. It sort of seemed like he was saying we need to run the ball more because they just kept throwing and throwing and throwing, especially early in the game.

So we might see more runs this week. Tampa Bay at Houston. Mike Evans or Emeka Habuka? Evans. Still Evans, but one more game by this. Well, you know what I... We might have Chris Godwin and Mike Evans again. I'm sorry for interrupting.

The reason why I asked was because I think Derek Stingley's going to follow him, because that's what Stingley did in week one. That could... I'm sorry, when you say he's going to follow him, who do you refer to? Evans, for sure. Evince, for sure. Because, you know, these guys, they'll shadow receivers,

they'll rarely go into the slot to shadow receivers. Well, corners love, love, love, big receivers. Well, Stingley's a pretty big corner. So, you know, I do think this could be his struggle for Evans. I think I'm a little bit lower on both. I'm a lot lower on Mayfield. And this is our last game of the day, right? Yeah.

So I'll just, Dave made me do some research this morning. So I'll just share it on this game. One of the things that has me frightened, and we talked about this with a lot of teams last week, most notably the lions who weren't quite this low. Tampa Bay is a two and a half point underdog against the Texans, and it has a low over under a 42 and a half, which means that the Buccaneers have an implied total of 20.

Last week, there were eight teams that had an implied total below 21. Two of them, the Jets and Steelers, were very good. Four of them scored 13 points or less. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, look, the Texans have a pretty legit defense. There's no question. I think in the case of Baker, because I mean, I'm lower on him than I have, but I'm certainly not where Heath is. Do you want to make a ad drop to replace him this week? And so you're going to potentially see J.J. McCarthy out there coming off a big game. You're going to see, obviously, the guys that we highlighted on the waiver wire, Aaron Rogers and Daniel Jones and those guys. and Heath, you may have those guys ranked ahead of Baker, you know,

because of, you know, how your process works. I would not be looking to replace Baker. So, like, I have Baker, I think, in two leagues maybe. One's a Dynasty League. I'm still starting him. The other one's a, you know, redraft league. I'm still starting him. I'm not expecting 28 points, but I think he can get to that 20-point threshold,

but just not very much however that. McCarthy was the one quarterback that I really wanted to pick up this week. I tried it in a couple leagues and was unsuccessful. He's 80% roster. Thomas got him in everywhere. Well, it's been three years in a row now that a Kevin O'Connell quarterback has been top eight per game

in six point per passing touchdown leagues. That's insane. Three years of feeling this year, you're already anointed. No, twice, cousins, once darn it. So four years in a row now, Jamie, thank you. All right, let's get to the games. And by the way, make sure you stick around

for that Tampa Bay Houston preview because I've got a great stat of the game for that. Cleveland at Baltimore. Stad of the game, if you think this is going to be a one-sided Baltimore win, Lamar Jackson in wins by 10 or more points has averaged 24.1 pass attempts per game over the last two years. The last year it was 22 past attempts per game and seven wins by 10 or more points. He only threw 19 times last week and obviously Zayflowers went berserk.

So that's always the question people are going to be asking. We can stick with, you know, what to do with Zayflowers, what to do with Mark Andrews, How many times is Lamar Jackson going to throw? We stick with Baltimore here, start Jackson, start Henry. Jamie said sit, Zay Flowers, if you can. He's outside the top 24. Heath, how did you feel about that? Yeah, he's not.

I'm trying, I was just trying to look, because I think you brought up a good point that I may be a little bit, need to make an adjustment on the Ravens pass rate. I'm not going to get him down to 19. I'm probably not going to get him out of 21 pass attempts. But I had flowers a pretty easy start. I'm mostly bought, like I don't buy the 42% or 47% target share he had last week, but I am kind of starting to buy the transition towards more wide receiver targets,

especially with Isaiah likely out. And so I've got him as a start, but he will be coming down in my rankings a little bit because of your very astute research. Yeah, it's an 11.5 point spread, and it's a home game for Baltimore. I'll probably double check the research first, but yeah. Please do. Look, he doesn't throw that much to begin with, but

Jackson usually averages about 28 pass attempts per game. So that's down 24-ish when they're winning big. So Mark Andrews, Jamie, start or sit? It's start by default, I guess. Better in non-PPR than PPR because you hope that he could find the end zone in the Bengals. Excuse me, the Browns, excuse me, dig about a touchdown to Noah Fant last week, who as we all expect it would be their leading receiver

I think in the case of Andrews you're again hoping for a red zone opportunity or a few and finding the end zone because last week was as ugly as last year was to start the season again so I hope it's not here we go all over again with him and deja vu but similar to Baker Mayfield like

I would want a roster Harold Fanon if I could because of the upside I probably would not be looking to get the other guys of Joanne Johnson and Brett and Strange and Hunter Henry to replace him yet. But if you had room for both,

let's say you had Andrews and you picked them. Then I would certainly try to carry them for two reasons. One, for what eventually could happen when Isaiah likely is back. And two, there probably is more upside for those guys for this week. Yeah, who would you start this week was my question? I would start Joanne Johnson over Andrews this week in PPR.

In non-PPR, I'd stick with Andrews. What about Fanon? I'd start Fanon over Andrews, too. Henry? I would start Andrews. Heath, any big disagreements there? I am, and this was one of the toughest guys for me to rank. If I had Fanonor Johnson, I would start them over Andrews.

I would start Ferguson over Andrews. I would start Andrews over Henry. Any interest in Joe Flacko this week? No. I think there's always going to. to be the same Joe Flacko potential. So he's going to hover around 300 yards. He was a 290 last week.

He's going to probably have a couple of intercept. Like, I think you start 250, 2 and 2 and go from there. Oh, that's, yeah. That was a good analysis for me. Oh, that's you. Yeah. Cleveland running backs. How are we feeling about the running backs, Jamie?

I don't want to start Judkins in his first game off little practice if he plays. I don't want to start Ford really in any scenario, but would have a little bit more interest in him if Judkins is out as a low-in-flex if I'm stuck. And Samson is the one right now that I have the most confidence, and mostly because of what his role will hopefully be in the passing game.

So I think no matter what, you feel the best about Samson, because whoever he's paired with, he's probably going to do similar stuff. He just may not lead a team carries like he did last week, so 12 carries for him. I think it was six for Ford. Judkins may have, you know, more carries. But chasing points, you know, he's going to

be the guy that I think that benefits the most from that. So flex at best. Yeah, Mr. Poppinski, I agree 100%. Dylan Sampson only in PPR. I think he'll probably be a top 24 running back for me if Judkins doesn't play. And I'm getting more and more skeptical that Judkins, like, if he does play, is going to have very many touches. What's he going to have two or three practices with the team? Yeah. Not to mention this is arguably the best run defense in football. Last year and you know was good i know cook and they just averaged two yards per carry against the bingles that too but also like the ravens they were good against james cook at least on the ground but the ravens did give up the third most receiving yards to running backs last year

and uh and that happened again right and yeah cook had a huge game so i'm starting samson over ken walker oh yeah i agree in full pbr only right full pbr only okay all right so then um like or love Judy and Tillman. I think you've got to be a little nervous about Judy at this point because the last five games, last five healthy games for Cedric Tillman, he's outproduced Judy in four of them. And, you know, at what point does this just become not just a thing? It's, you know, reality that Tillman is the preferred option. I think they're both number three receivers.

If I had both, I would still play Judy. I have Judy ranked ahead of Tillman. but it's hard not to get excited about Tillman because again the last five times he's played football he's he's averaging uh you know north of 15 ppr points per game so they're chasing points they're probably going to be throwing a lot joe flacko's going to give him his seven eight targets he's not bad if you're stuck i don't know if everybody's seen this but if you haven't you should go um like search on twitter judy judey raven secondary i don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing But he was at the podium shirtless and asked about the challenge of facing the Ravens secondary, and he answered no challenge.

Oh, let's go. That might be an awful thing. He might get knocked out of the game in the first quarter, or maybe he's must start. All right. So we talked a lot about the tight ends earlier. So let's get to some questions here from the chat, and this will help with the rankings. How would you rank Jerry Judy, George Pickens, Marquise Brown? Brown

Brown Judy Pickens Judy Brown Pickens but that you could throw all three names in a hat and draw one Fanon or Kincaid in non-PPR Still Fanon for me

Still Fanon So just Here's the last five games for these guys This is Tillman In five healthy games 29 catches 354 yards Four touchdowns on 48 targets

Judy in those five games 24 catches 378 yards and one touchdown on 44 targets. So there's really the touchdowns, like they've kind of been almost the same guy. A couple more catches for Pickens, a couple more yards for Judy.

Yes. Judy had, I forget which game it was, but a huge spike game in that. And it might have been the game before Tillman suffered the concussion. Well, and they had same targets and catches last week

and Judy had more yards, right? Yes. Just barely. Yeah. And just, for reference, this was the breakout game for Tillman last year was against Baltimore. He had seven for

99 and two touchdowns on nine targets. Not just barely, I was wrong. Tilman Judy had 14 more yards. Five catches for 66 for Judy. Five for 52 in a touchdown for Tillman. Saints defense or Ravens defense? Saints? No way.

I'm asking, Saints? No, not the Saints. Ravens. Well, I think people are getting excited about the Saints because it's Mac Jones. Yeah. I would, yeah. Don't do that. Pickens Moore, Judy, Hollywood, Brown. Pick one in non-PPR. Hollywood for, oh, non-PPR? Pickens. I have DJ Moore by one spot over Pickens.

Flacco or Trevor Lawrence? Lawrence. Lawrence. Judy or Jordan Mason, full PPR? Judy. Judy. Samson or Charbonnet? If there's no judge. If there is Judkins, it's Samson. If there is Juddkins, it still might be Samson and PPR.

I'll go Samson and full PPR, Charbonnet, and non-PPR. Next game or a commercial break. Next game. Okay. New England's at Miami. It's that of the game number one. The Miami Dolphins had the highest blitz rate in week one. And the third lowest pressure rate.

That is horrible. So it could be good for Drake May. he could sit there unbothered. But we'll see. I mean, Miami's supposed to have a good pass rush. That's the stat of the game number one. Stat of the game number two. I guess don't be so quick to drop Stefan Diggs.

Remember, I said he didn't play that many snaps last week. Here were the New England targets when Diggs was on the field. Diggs led the way with seven. Booty 5, Henry 4, Douglas 3, Henderson 3. So I know Boutty had more targets than Diggs, but when they were both on the field, Diggs out-targeted everyone. Big question is, does he play? a more normal snap share, or does at least move towards more normal,

finding out whether Diggs they view as kind of a part-time player or a full-time player will matter a lot. Yep. Okay, Drake May, 13th for Jamie, 18th for Dave, 16th for Heath. Do you like him better than Tua? I do, yes. I have 201 spot higher. All right, these guys are outside the top 12.

Jamie just barely, though, with May. He's got his 13th. And obviously, this just looks like it could be a very good game for fantasy, which is weird, though, because we said there's only one must start. The overrunner is 43 and a half, but I think Dolphins defense is dreadful. Patriots just gave up 300 plus yards to Gino Smith. So, you know, it's basically like, what's worse, these defenses or these offenses? Yeah, and it's just weird with two defenses that we think might not be good to not have a lot of enthusiasm about the fantasy options, but, you know, some time shares.

I mean, the Dolphins offense was, it's not so much how bad the defense was last week. It's how bad the offense was last week. Yeah. Like, I watched like a pretty in-depth breakdown of just how bad Tua was. Yeah. Missing such easy opportunities. I showed the screenshots on Beyond the Box Score of two plays where Tyree Kill could have had big gates and you just expect the dolphins to make those plays in their sleep. And one of them was an interception and one of them was a throw that went out of bounds.

So I think that's, like for all the questions about Tua throughout his career, like making those throws hasn't generally been one of them. Right. Correct. So was it just one game? It might be. You know, the concern would be is like he's going to face a lot, you know, Patriot's pass rush isn't great, but he's going to face a lot of pressure because of what the right side

looks like, and that's his blind side. And so, like, there are a few plays where. You know, A. Chan struggled in Blitz pickup, and because of his size, like, there was one play where DeForest Buckner just blew him up. You know, he was trying to stand there and God bless him for standing in the way of that, but nearly, you know, got pushed back into Tua in an instant. And I think just missing a competent third option is hurting them too, because I don't think Tua knows where to go when Tyreek and Waddle aren't open. So, but it's also like the play design. Like, you know, Even when you look at the touchdown, it was fourth and 11. Horrible. Fourth and 11, he throws it behind the line of scrimmage. Like, Devon A-chan made that play all by himself. Incredible play.

And it's not only that. It was fourth and 11, and they gave up, I forget who the third receiver was, but they gave up two players in non-touchdown opportunities. So, like, the play design was to A-chan, and whoever it was, was blocking for him. but you immediately put yourself in a situation where you're asking H.N. to be heroic instead of trying to put the ball into the end zone, fourth and 11th.

All right. So back to the rankings here. Travian Henderson, how do you feel about him compared to all of the wide receivers in this game? I would probably still start Tyreek and then Henderson, and then Waddle. I think I have Waddle and Henderson very, very close. it's just the funny thing for me with Henderson is like not a great game right

still got you 11 ppr points and was evolved in the past game which is what you're looking for so like if we're getting that as a floor with room to grow like there could be amazing games coming especially after what Mike Rable said yeah I mean I'm looking at a guy who had five carries for 27 yards in Henderson compared to Stevenson who had seven carries for 15 yards pretty soon we got to start making the transition here you would hope he just got engaged on Tuesday, so congratulations to him. Henderson did? Yeah.

Cool. All right. Things are looking up. Yeah. It's a big week. Hunter Henry did not crack your top 12. Right on the cusp. Okay.

He had four catches for 66 yards on eight targets. He was close to having two more catches for about 30 more yards, but the connection with Drake May, just slightly off there. So let's get to some questions here, and maybe this will help with the rankings. Henderson or is a Corey? Crosky Merritt. Henderson. Henderson.

Waddle or Olave, non-PPR? Alave. Waddle for me. Tyreek Hill, Calvin Ridley, or Travis Hunter, PPR? Tyreek. Tareke. Drake, May, or Bo Nix? Nix.

I'm going Nix. Drake May or Dac Prescott? Deck. Henderson or D'Andre Swift, half PPR. For one more week, it's Swift. I'm going swift. Jacori-Kroski-Marit or Stefan Diggs have PPR? Bill.

I would go with Diggs. Teddaro-McMillan against the Cardinals or Tyreek Hill? Right now I have Tyreek ranked two spots on. Tyreek for me. Drake May or Jordan Love. May. Love for me. All right.

Let's take a break. Would you start a DST in this game? I would start the Patriots as a low-end D-SD. I don't think I have either of them ranked top 12. Break time, five games left. I think we have six games left or something. We've got to get moving here. Jacksonville at Cincinnati when we come back.

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including reigning MVP Josh Allen, taking his show on the road when the bills face Justin Fields and the Jets. Oh, able to hurdle through it all and take it home for the touchdown. It all begins at noon Eastern with J.B. and the guys on the NFL today. You can always count on Sunday with the NFL on CBS and Paramount Plus. all right jacksonville at cincinnati let's keep this simple here start your bangles yes except for noah fan despite his success last week

noah fan did run more routes and play more snaps than mike ozickey but neither of them ran a lot of routes drew sample played more snaps than both of them um but noah fan did tie jemar chase for the team lead in target share what a weird game for them what a weird game okay so what do we do about jacksonville do we like the jacksonville do we like Jaguars this week? I think, well, first off, you're starting Brian Thomas. Don't worry about what happened last week. You're starting Travis E.TN after the game he came off of.

Travis Hunter is worth using in three receiver leagues. I think, as he said last week, just running on repeat. You know, three receiver leagues are starting him in almost every scenario with a flex. He did lead them in catches. So, you know, that's a positive. And then I think Brent Strange belongs in this conversation of, you know, maybe not to the same heights as Fanon and Joanne Johnson, but certainly with what he accomplished comparatively to what Hunter Henry accomplished.

Like, you know, catches were the same. And if you watched the start of that game, like he was their go-to guy in the first quarter against Carolina. So we can't sit here and say, well, Fanon was great, but it was the Bengals. And there comes Brent Strains, and now he gets the Bengals. So, like, I think as we sort of illustrated on Tuesday, if you weren't in the frame of mind to spend a lot of fab on Fanon and then the sliding scale, you could get Brent Strange for basically nothing because he was not somebody that was highly coveted,

but he does have basically the best matchup on the table. So he's in the low-end starting options as well. I would start Strange over Dalton Kincaid, over Hunter Henry, and over Pitts, if Mooney's Peck. Okay. Would you start Trevor Lawrence or Drake May? I like May slightly better. One concern I have with Lawrence is some of the things we saw last week were the same problems that we've seen from him over the last couple of years, missing receivers that are open, not making the right decision on some of his first reads. And then is this offense going to maybe not be as pass happy as we thought because the run game is strong?

and so the hope would be for Trevor Lawrence and fantasy managers is that the Bengals come out and look like the Bengals again and they're chasing points. Trevor Lawrence... I would prefer me. Okay, Trevor Lawrence had one horrible quarter. First, second, fourth quarters were good. He went one for six with 17 yards and an interception in the third quarter

with all four of his off-target throws. I don't know what the hell happened to him at halftime. It's like a demon possessed him. And he was just awful in the third quarter. I love that Azer Stadding is like moving to quarter by quarter now as opposed to just game by game. I was watching the day. It used to be injury.

Now it's demon possession. Excuse. You don't have, I don't know if you've seen K-pop demon hunters, Heath, but it is sweeping the nation. And I'm just saying something was up in that third quarter. All right, Travis E.T.N. Are we putting him ahead of Ken Walker and Zach Charbonnet at this point?

Easily. Brees Hall or Travis E.N? I think I have, just based on the matchups this week, E.TN one spot ahead of fall, but they're both very safe number two running backs. I have Hall ahead of E.D. How about Tyreek Hill or Travis E.TN? E.N. Definitely in half PPR.

I think it's probably safer in full PPR. So we want to start him, right? I mean, that's the bottom line. How about O'Mari and Hampton or Travis E.N. ETHN. Eachian? Okay. Ashton Jente?

No. It's getting close. Okay. Start Thomas. Travis Hunter will be a tough call. Do I have a lot of Travis Hunter questions? I will look for some. Travis Hunter, Calvin Austin, or Kashon Booty?

Hunter. Hunter. Travis Hunter, George Pickens, Tony Pollard, Ricky Pearsall. Who are we sitting in that group? Hunter Pickens, Pollard Pearsall? I would sit Hunter. Man, I think Hunter versus Pickens is maybe one of the toughest decisions to make this week. I would probably sit pickens.

Okay. Would you start Travis Hunter or who I had a good... I'm taking that back. I just saw it was half PPR. Full PPR I would sit pickens. Half PPR I would say Hunter. Hunter or Debo Samuel? Debo.

Debo. All right. That's it for this game. Let's move on. Bills at Jets. Here's a kind of weak stat of the game because we're expecting the bills to win. Oh, please post that comment from GITG.

This one? When I forget to unload the dishwasher, I drop a azers stat convincing my wife it was never actually full. But that doesn't make sense because if you forgot to unload it, it is full. Well, some people might say that some of the Azer's stats don't make sense.

There's a demon. Kind of weak stat of the game for Bills at Jets. Justin Fields, 33 or more pass attempts in only eight games in his career. Six of them were losses. Didn't really matter if they were blowout losses or close losses. Usually when he's throwing 33 or more times because they lost. Obviously, we always want past attempts. That's just good for fantasy.

So the bills, I think, are easy in terms of your start now and your starting cook. We're clearly trying to get away from Dalton Kincaid. He's not an outright sit, but the waiver wire tight ends look appealing compared to him. Rank the Buffalo wide receivers. Coleman, Shakir, Palmer. Yeah, but none in the top 36. Khalil Shakir has scored double-digit PPR fantasy points in 14 of 17. actually now it's 15 of 18 healthy games

since start of 2024. He's basically the most predictable player in fantasy. Wondo. I mean, that projection, 10.6 PBR fantasy points is pretty damn accurate for Cleo Shakir. All right, so Coleman, yeah, we're not super excited. We want to sit them. That might be a little controversial for you guys,

or for the audience, but that's how they feel. Justin Fields is top 10. I think, well, just in the case of Coleman, like, you got to be thrilled with what happened last week, absolutely thrilled, you know, Dave Richard thrilled. And this is what you were hoping to see. Like, come out, lead a team of targets. When they're in a situation like that, he's going to be potential monster. And hopefully it's, you know, sign of things to come.

And if it's the sauce gardener concern, which is my concern, really, for the most part, D.K. Metcab just put out four for 83. Like, if you tell me I get that right now from Keon Coleman, in this type of a situation and he's become that type of player even more thrilled. You know, so tough matchup, he's still not giving you an awful stat line.

But we'll see. Like, he wasn't great in the first three quarters that game last week. No, he was three targets, I'm pretty sure. So Justin Fields is top nine for everybody. He's eighth or ninth. Some players you would start Justin Fields over include who, Heath? Players I would start Justin Fields over,

include Jared Gough, Patrick, Mahomes, Caleb Williams, Drake May, Trevor Lawrence, Baker Mayfield. Jamie, do you like Breece Hall this week? It's hard not to after last week, right? Like, he did everything you were hoping to see. And so I hope that continues. You know, again, the thing that, if he comes out of this game, not only running like that, because that was never really the concern, because you know he's a great runner,

if he comes out of this game with more receptions or more opportunities in the past, doesn't that be reception more opportunities than passing game and some goal line chances then everything I said about him was completely wrong which I hope is the case and Garrett well okay I can do some Breece Hall Breast Hall or Garrett Wilson for the record I'll take Wilson in PPR yeah that sounds right Breece Hall or Hampton Breast Hall Rees Hall or Evans Uh, Bresol. I've got Evans by a tenth or a hundredth of a point.

Oh, flip a coin. Okay. I am not good at flipping coins. I can't really get the rotation. Not surprising. Yeah, I knew it would surprise you. There are some questions in the chat if you want to look at them. Okay.

Well, it's that, yeah, Garrett Wilson's a start. Okay, let's see. Scroll down here. Kincaid or Goddard, if Goddard plays. Or Joanne Johnson. Juan. Either tight-in. Keon Coleman or

I'm sorry, I read that as Khalil Shakir for some reason both non-bills, tight ends over kicking. Okay. Keon Coleman or Jordan Mason, half PPR, point per first down. In this scoring, it's easy, Jordan Mason. Yes.

Coleman, Swift or DJ Moore? Who's your fave? Swift. Fields are May. We like fields. Judy or Coleman, non-PPR. Judy. That is the way to get those two guys of the closest is non-PPR, but I'll still take Judy.

Jamison Williams, Keon Coleman, or Jerry Judy in PPR, pick one. Jamest. Judy for me. Garrett Wilson or Terry McLaurin? This is a good one. Pollard or Breeze Hall? Breastell. I have Pollard higher.

I'm just leaning into the guys who got all the touches last week and were terribly inefficient. hopefully they're a little better. Shakir versus Calvin Austin. Who do you like in PPR? Shakir. Yeah. Starters hit the Bills DST. Low end starter.

Yeah. All right. Eagles are at the Chiefs. Shadow of the day. In the Super Bowl, Trent McDuffie covered A.J. Brown on almost all of his routes that were not run from the slot. Not on A.J. Brown's 12-yard touchdown catch.

A.J. Brown had two catches for 31 yards on two targets against McDuffie. He only had five targets in the game. Three catches, 43 yards, and a touchdown. So that's what they did in the Super Bowl. And I don't know. Does that give you concern with A.J. Brown, who some would say, didn't look healthy in week one, or is he an easy start? He is an easy start in the same vein of Tyree Kill. He is not, for me, ranked where I had him in the start of the season. So, for example, I would start Garrett Welles. over a j brown this week um some other guys as well there's one that stuck to my head but um i think in the case of the chief's defense they struggled mightily last week and so will a j

brown and devante smith bounce back and then when you factor in potentially no dallas goddard and the target upgrade that they could be looking at it's hard not to get somewhat excited about a j brown so yes that last week was disappointing the potential of trent macduffy is going to be concerning, but if I drafted him, I'm not setting him. I always almost just go with what the Vegas lines say. I feel like this should be like a six points for it. Eagles are one and a half point favorites at the Chiefs, and they certainly look better than the Chiefs in week one.

The Chiefs are depleted. They were better than the Chiefs last year. They were significantly better than the Chiefs. They won, what the hell was the score? I don't remember. It was a lot to a little. Whatever it was. Here's a weird stat about the Chiefs.

They've been bottom four in rushing yards per game allowed to quarterbacks four straight seasons. They really stink at that. That's like their vulnerability. So start Hertz is what I'm trying to say. What do you start, Jalen Hertz? Start Barclay. Okay.

We're going to start Brown, as we just mentioned. Now, Devante Smith, I'm actually surprised Heath that you said he would only be around 24th for you if Goddard were out. So I just gave the stats, 16 games out Goddard with A.J. Brown, and he's basically been wide receiver 9. So not, you could I, could I get you to make it higher or no? You could certainly get me to make it higher. I think you could get, like, I guess you'd start him over Tyreek.

Yeah, I think so. Would you, Jamie? So right now I think I have, because I, I guess he didn't see the text message. I said pull Goddard. I think Dave did. So I have Devante Smith like 26. And I think I have Tyreek 23. And after hearing your fantastic stat, I might switch that. I did pull Goddard.

When it's early in the week like this, and it's still kind of uncertain, I don't like to make the full adjustments for everybody else. So Devante Smith will go up a little bit if that's confirmed to the gutter itself. There's always the possibility that the Eagles throw 22 times. You know, it's not like a layup, but it just, it's so strange every time basically. Well, if you're going to use the Super Bowl as the blueprint, the Chiefs did a great job on Barclay. And so can they stop the run again?

And they did a great job against Hampton last week. So the run defense doesn't, I'm like, I'm not sitting Barkley. Oh, I sit Barkley. The run defense is, is still, I would expect solid for Kansas City. and so does that open up more opportunities for the past game and then you remove dallas scotter like there's a lot to like about this situation for both brown and smith so barclay or pacheco start or sitma home is coming off a big game against the chargers he is not in my top 12 why i think he's 13th for me okay why well let's

see um first off he just lost another wide receiver yeah second of all he was miserable against them last year until late in the game when they were not playing their full allotment of starters i think you look at dag prescott threw the ball very well last week against the eagles but he scored seven fantasy points and that was without jalen carter on the field and now jalen carter will be on the field so as much as i like travis kelsey and hollywood brown i don't think that's enough to make Patrick Mahomes, as good as he is, a great fantasy quarterback for a guy that has not been a great fantasy quarterback for the better part of two years. The chiefs are not one of the eight teams with an implied total below 21 this week, but I think they should be. All right. So we're

going to sit Pacheco and Kareem Hunt. What about Marquis Brown or DeVante Smith? I think we answered that earlier, but I forgot. Goddard dependent. Jamie, for you, not Goddardt dependent? No, I would start, Smith. We got some questions here. Devante Smith or Devante Adams? Right now is Devante Smith. I'm going right. Right now is about that.

Yeah. Hollywood Brown or Teteroa McMillan, half PPR. Ted. Ted. Okay. Hollywood Brown or George Pickens full PPR? Hollywood. Yep.

Any interest in Juju Smith-Schuster or Tyquant Thornton or anything like that? Deeper leagues, but. More juju than Taek-1. All right. So Kelsey's in your top five, guys. So I'm still confident in him. I am assuming that, like, last week, they put their whole game plan together for an Xavier worthy game.

And he went out early and they didn't get it adjusted very well. I'm assuming there's some more design plays for Kelsey this week. If there's not, then it's going to be a big drop. If you do look at the game last week, you talked about this, Adam, when we were reviewing it. Like, DAC had opportunities with his tight ends to make several plays and just didn't connect. So I'm going to guess Andy Reid saw that and is going to find ways to get Chavis Kelsey open. This does feel like if Mahomes has a good game, like it's a Noah Gray weird play. I don't know.

I mean, this Chief's secondary or this Eagle secondary is not what it was last year. They don't have Darius Slay. They don't have CJ Gardner Johnson. obviously they didn't have Jalen Carter last week and that's an enormous deal but they also don't have Josh sweat from last year so they lost a ton of players and the Kobe Dean is on IR

so they are not the same defense that they were I still think they're probably a very good defense you know but it's possible that they have some vulnerabilities that the Cowboys showed us last week and I mean Dave has Mahomes ranked 7th so he's not on the show but you know he's at least more optimistic there and you guys are less optimistic on the Chiefs passing offense

I get it but I don't know. I guess I'd like to see the Eagles defense with Carter what they look like. They might not be what they were last year. All right, Chargers are at the Raiders. Stat of the game number one, the Raiders were 32nd in run-block win rate in week one. I told you that at the top of the show. So they could not block anyone.

That was against the Patriots. Stat of the game number two, Jacoby Myers, had a 62% slot rate in week one. It was around 31% in each of the previous two seasons. So he doubled his slot rate in week one. He had a great game. But usually he'd been better when he sort of moved more to the outside. Good job with Jacoby Myers. Justin Herbert, you're definitely starting over Patrick Mahomes.

You start Justin Herbert or Justin Fields. Herbert. I have Herbert. That's in six points for passing touchdowns. Yes. Jacobi Myers, by the way, just the most underrated wide receiver, maybe the last two seasons, three seasons, however more you want to go back. 13.7 PPR points are more, eight of his last 11 games. And what we saw in week one is, again, another thing, if it's the same in week two, Raiders led the NFL and pass rate over-expected, and the first three-quarters, when Bowers was healthy, 55% of their targets went to Brock Bowers or Jacoby Myers.

Like, this is exactly the type of pass offense. What you want is one that throws more and consolidates targets. Okay. Hampton is... Remember Myers' last game against Chargers, by the way? No. Let me remind you. It was week 18, and he went for nine catches, 123 yards,

and the touchdown on 10 targets. Remember how else had a huge game in that game? Quentin Johnston. Quentin Johnstead had a huge game, yes. Quentin J. All right, so let's talk. All right. Who are the easy starts in this game?

Like the Bowers, it looks like Herbert. Gentie Bowers, Myers. Gentie Bowers, Myers. Herbert is top nine for you guys. But that's big for a lot of fantasy managers. He wasn't viewed that way going into the season. And then Hampton is not an automatic start. He's about 20th.

And he had a bad game last week. Hopefully they don't get more Naji Harris, but they probably will. Genties, obviously, he's a must start. So, okay, Chargers, McConkey. I don't know if we said him, but he's obviously. For sure. All right.

How about Johnston and Keenan Allen versus Omari and Hampton? I would still start Hampton over those guys with the potential upside. Like, this could be his breakout game. I don't think what the Patriots run offense is going to look like should resemble what the Chargers run offense is going to look like. And I think you have to give the Chiefs run defense a lot of credit for what happened. You tell me right now Hampton is getting that work this week. And I would say he's a must-start guy. Okay.

Okay. So how about comparing Quentin Johnston and Keenan? First of all, you like Keenan Allen better than Quentin Johnson? Yes. Yes. How about compare them to Judy and Tillman? I have both Browns guys ahead of both those charters, but not by much. I have it, Judy, Allen, Tillman, Johnston. I'm going to try to look at the projections a little bit because I'm still pretty low on Quentin Johnston this week. It's just hard when you've got Ladd McConkey, who you know.

is going to dominate targets, and Keenan Allen did, but he did last week to also have a high projection for Quinn to Johnson. Did you see what Harbaugh said? Yeah. Such a great quote. No, what do you say? He goes, remember when you were a kid and he used to go, in your face? He goes, that's what Quinn Johnson should be doing to all of you guys right now.

He goes, he won't do it, but he goes, I'm going to do it for him. So in your face. He loves his guys. And it's funny, again, I don't think any of us thought that Quinn Johnson was one of his guys, based on the off-season moves, but sure enough, he is. And he might be a guy for Justin Herbert, too. So kudos to you, Adam, because you drafted him in a lot of leagues. Not a lot of leagues, but you drafted him in a lot of our mocks.

I have them, I think, in three or four leagues. Yeah, it paid off for you. And I know against Heath in a couple leagues or at least one. No. I know you's- I won both those weeks. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it helped the total points, but I still lost. Yeah, we'll see, you know, 34 pass attempts for Justin Herbert.

probably hope for a little bit more than that. I don't think we're going to get that necessarily, but to think that there's going to be three viable wide receivers. They don't throw their tight ends, though, so that helps. Okay, last question on this game. If Dallas Goddard is out, Devante Smith would be ahead of how many of the wide receivers? I would not put him ahead of McConkey or Myers right now.

I wouldn't either. But the other guy, Keenan Allen, yes. Everybody else. And he's already ahead of them for me. Right. And what if Goddard plays? He's still ahead of them. Yeah.

Okay. We've got to take one last break and we got two games to go. We'll be right back after this on FFT. All right. Stad of the game for Denver at Indianapolis. In week one, Jonathan Taylor ran 24 of 26 running back routes. It's really good. He really doesn't come off the field.

I mean, he did in the fourth quarter when it was a blowout. But his career high as 40 catches, might be able to break that this year. Who are you starting? on the Colts. Jonathan Taylor and Tyler Warren. Yep. Warren's like a no-brainer, right? Yep.

It's a great defense, but they were not that tough of a matchup for tight ends. They're so good against wide receivers. Saw the fifth most tight-end targets last year. How about that? It makes sense, right? You don't want to challenge the cornerbacks.

So, yeah, Pitman, Pitman or Tillman? Tillman. It should be till, man. Come on, you guys say it a little, when I give you the music, you got to say it with more enthusiasm. All right, try to. Yeah, I don't really want to start either one of them.

Okay. How about No man? Let's go to the Broncos. Start us at Bo Nix. Low end starter. Yep. Nicks or Mahomes? Nix. Nix or May? Nicks.

Nicks or Fields. Fields. Knicks or Celtics? Celtics. Oh, Heath, come on. You know it's the Knicks this year. Well, Knicks this year. Yeah.

Which Broncos running back you have ranked higher? I think you said Dobbins, right, Jamie? Yep. Heath, Dobbins. Dobbins or Hampton. Hampton. Okay. Dobbins or Jalen Waddle.

Waddle and PBR. Waddle. Okay. You should ask Dobbins or Procheco. No, it's obviously Dobbins. They're pretty close for me. Star Cortland Sutton, right? Was it a trade I offered you?

Oh, Pacheco for Piersol. Man, that would have been so good. Remember how mad you were when Jamie drafted Isaiah Pacheco? I turned down Pearsall for Pacheco. No, you didn't accept it. Which side did I? I had Piersall. Okay, good, good, good, good, good. Great job at him. Good, good. I made the right call. Evan Ingram, if he plays, starter said he was limited.

I would set him. And Denver's DST is top three. For Ingram, Hunter, I know you guys are a bunch higher on like Joanne Johnson and Harold Fanon. But what about Hunter Henry? You're not as high on. Henry or Ingram? I would start Henry and Brenton Strange over Ingram this week. I'd start Kyle Pitts with Darnel Mooney over Ingram this week.

Okay. Tampa Bay is at Houston. Stat of the game. Many movies have been filmed in Houston, including such hits as Apollo 13, Armageddon, Robocop 2 and Tin Cup That is from Visit Houston, Texas

Dot. Literally not a stat I don't know I don't know Of course it is Many movies have been filmed there That seems like

Because if you say many It is a stat right Exactly You'd have to give An exact number Anyway If we rank those movies I mean

Dave likes to say I was like a boatload of targets Do you know That I've only seen One of those four movies Apollo 13, Armageddon, Robocop. No, I've seen two. Armageddon, Robocop, 2, Tin Cup, Apollo 13.

Which two do you think I've seen? You've seen Armageddon and Tin Cup? I've seen Armageddon and Robocop 2. Oh, sorry for not letting you guess, Heath. No. You didn't see Tin Cup? I think that's the one you're surprised about. The fact that I'd never seen Apollo 13 is the...

That's the one I would have guessed. Yeah, that's the bad one. I feel like Apollo 13 is a movie you would walk out of. Did you walk out of gravity? I did. Gravity is so boring. All right, Baker Mayfield, Heath, you want to talk again while you're lower on him? Heath, Jamie has him 11th, and you have him 20th, I think.

Yes. And again, this might be changing throughout the week if some, I kind of expected when I saw this line at the start of the week. Texans 2.5 point favorites with only a 42.5 point over under that we'd get some line movement. And so far, nobody's really touched it. They've got a 20 point implied total. We had Stephen O chime in on Twitter all. also when Dave and I were having this discussion. And only about 47% of teams over the last five years, so it's 50-50, have gone over 20.

Last week, half of the teams with an over-under-this low scored 13 or fewer points. The Texans were pretty successful in just running the ball and keeping it away from the offense last week and didn't give up a big number to the Rams. And Baker-Mayfield is very, very, we talked about it all off-season, like him being a starting quarterback is very dependent on a high touchdown rate. It's really hard to project a high touchdown rate for a team that's expected to score 20 points.

They haven't scored fewer than 23 points since week 10. Well, no, they did in the playoff loss. I scored 20. And that was the conversation we had about the Lions, right? Like, they only had two games below 23 in their last 18 games, and they had a

22 and a half point under line, and they scored 10, 12, 14? Yeah. Okay. And Jamie's still got Mayfield 11th. Start, Bucky Irving. Evans and Abuka are both starts, I assume, or now? Yes. Abuka is 26th for me, so not a must start in a two-wide receiver league, but probably start. How about Pearsall without Purdy versus Abuka? Who do you like? Pearsall. Pierce-Sle.

Let's do some more Abukas. I mean... I've got Joe Kobe Myers ahead of Abuka. Evans or Pearsall? Evans right now. Especially in half PPR. Okay. Abuka or Abuka Joe

or Hampton? Abuka, in PPR. In PPR, yeah. Half PPR? Abuka. I have Abuka at 10.7. I have Hampton at 11.7.

So I'll go Hampton. Yeah, I am curious to see if number two receivers are going to be better than number ones against Houston. You can't really go based on last week because they played Puka, who was in the slot all game and killed them. But they took a, they did a good job against Devante Adams with him being shadowed by Stingley. On the other side of the ball, sit C.J. Stroud, sit the Texans running backs, and start,

it's just Nico, right? Yes. Texans are easy. Jaden Reed or Abuka is a question we have here. Abuka. Not close for me. This is the good one. Abuka or David Montgomery, full PPR.

Abuka. Abuka. I don't really like Montgomery this week. Do you know Montgomery has one time in his career with the Lions gone consecutive games without scoring touch him? Oh, interesting. Abuka or Marquise Brown, full PPR. Abuka.

Abuka. Abuka or Tet? Abuka That's close Flip a coin Abuka Don't think he likes being called Tet

Just so everybody knows Was it him Or was it his mom That didn't like it Well I don't care I respect his mom So You also said it though

You could have read it differently I did You're right You're right I Ron Burgundy did that Last one Sorry By the way

Tetaroa Going back to his college town Oh very nice Nico or Sutton PPR Nico, but it's close. Nico. All right, everybody.

Long show. Thank you very much. Oh, someone said, thanks, Adam, with a heart. Look at that. You're very welcome. You should just say that for the mailbags. It's the only questions you read. I love me some flattery.

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