Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Starts of the Week + Week 2 Breakdown, Bounce-Backs - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/11

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

Fantasy Football show for Sep 11, 2025. Week 2 kicks off tonight! Fantasy football matchup previews, injury updates, and more on today’s show. Plus, Starts of the Week picks from Andy, Mike, and Jas...on. Set your lineups for Week 2 fantasy football! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.(00:00) Intro(02:40) NFL News(05:40) Starts of the Week(06:20) QB Starts of the Week(09:20) RB Starts of the Week(12:10) WR Starts of the Week(13:50) TE Starts of the Week(18:20) Fantasy Forecast(18:35) Jaguars at Bengals(25:15) Giants at Cowboys(30:50) Bears at Lions(37:05) Rams at Titans(40:05) Patriots at Dolphins(46:20) 49ers at Saints(51:00) Bills at Jets(55:50) Seahawks at SteelersConnect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Fantasy Footmullers Studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Football time? Was the point for me to do it? Oh, yeah. Isn't it football time? It is. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:36 I thought you were going to jump in. I was confused. Oh. Football time. Let's go. Thursday, September 11th, welcome into the fantasy footballers. We have matchups on today's show, starts of the week. We've got news to talk about San Francisco can't stay healthy.
Starting point is 00:00:58 we almost need a drop specifically for them I yeah I ordered I'm down the stairs since I do all those voiceover work I'm I'm I'm working on a new 49ers injury a bit update yeah update it'll be coming let me hear a little bit of that voice well Mike always does like some yeah I got to do a lot of stuff
Starting point is 00:01:20 to it so make all a lot of software it's almost like I turn it into another person right just feels like that Yeah, there's a lot going on. We have week two ahead of us. And, you know, we'll put to bed some of the week one. I guess I would say, like, our expectations for some of these players, they might change.
Starting point is 00:01:44 And then some of those week one performances, you may get a follow-up that makes you feel very confident about them. And some of them in the, some of the players in the starts of the week today are some players that we think maybe will, you know, a couple of them are guys that had good week. week ones. Yeah, I know my running back start of the week is scary because it was a player that, you know, was not supposed to be great week one, was great week one. And I'm saying start them this week. I will tell you from Jason trying to trade me Keon Coleman multiple times that he doesn't necessarily believe Keon Coleman's going to keep doing what he did in week one. I'm not, I'm trying to acquire my running back start of the week. Okay. All right. Reminder, the weekly rankings, the start
Starting point is 00:02:26 set tool, a bunch of articles every week from an amazing writing staff, all available at the fantasy footballers.com for free. So you can check that out and make sure you prep your lineup up this weekend. Let's jump right into the news. News and notes
Starting point is 00:02:42 from around the league. Presented by progressive insurance. Brock Purdy, a long shot to play this week, according to Kyle Shanahan. He's dealing with a turf toe variant? I did see. It was like it. It was like turf toe. It's just kind of a, it's a, does that mean it's like
Starting point is 00:03:02 evolved? I don't know. That's more like athlete's foot. That evolved. It's a multiverse turf toe. But they are saying that the injury could be two to five weeks, which is quite the range. But this is obviously serious. They said earlier when he had the two different injuries that the toe was more serious and it will keep him out. Chris Godwin expected to return to practice today for the first time. Week 5
Starting point is 00:03:27 remains the target return day for Chris Godwin. Tristan Wharf's as well return to practice. Not going to play yet, but we'd like to see that they're practicing. We have Evan Ingram Limited on Wednesday with the calf injury suffered in week one. Is he irrelevant?
Starting point is 00:03:43 Jason would say, just limited. He also has a calf injury though. Right. Dallas Goddard, knee sprain. Availability for week two for the Eagles up in the air. This one is very special for fantasy football players that this, I don't think anyone had a real inclination that Goddard was hurt. And then waivers ran. And there were two very juicy tight ends on the waiver wire.
Starting point is 00:04:09 And people with Goddard were probably like, ah, I don't know if I need one or not. And then Wednesday they went, shoot, I did. Well, and a lot of people picked up Goddard. They spent, if he was on the waivers, if he went undrafted, they picked him up. It's also important for fantasy because we have a good amount of history with Goddard missing games. And when that happens, the two primary wide receivers, especially Devante Smith. Yes. He usually skyrockets up in games that Dallas Goddard misses.
Starting point is 00:04:36 But it'll be, you know, A.J. Brown after his poor outing in week one. If Goddard doesn't go, hopefully the wide receivers can soak it all up. You don't want to refer to the wide receiver one? What did it? John Dots? Yes. No, no, I don't. Yeah, it was bad for both.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Brown and Devante Smith in week one. So we'd like to see them bounce back. Quinshawn Judkins didn't practice Wednesday, was meeting with the NFL, expected to practice today. And we'll see if he's available and active at all for the Browns. So you're Dylan Samson drum forward. I would imagine that if he is active,
Starting point is 00:05:09 you're still not going to play him this week. Limited in workload. Right. You could, if Judkins plays this week, I don't think it changes really anything, which is no matter what I'm not playing Ford. because he was so bad in week one. And I think you can play Samson in either situation
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Starting point is 00:05:40 Let's jump right in. Starts of the week. Presented by Paramount Plus. All right. I felt good about three of my four last week. Joe Burrow didn't work out. I was trying to get a week one Joe Burrow performance. Nobody can get Joe Burrow to play well in week one. What was great was possible. Was that the world did react to like you, how dare you put him as your start of the week in this one? Because it's too easy. You drafted him too high. Oh, what the? Oh. All right. Well, I mean, it was pretty sad. Yeah, it was sad. I didn't mean to hit that, but it was sad. Week two starts of the week, Jason. Kick us off at quarterback. I'm going to go with a guy that I think I'm bought into maybe you know you don't overreact
Starting point is 00:06:26 from one week. I am overreacting for me. I'm bought into for the rest of the season. I think Justin Herbert will be throwing the ball enough this season to be very important for fantasy. I loved the way that he ran the ball. He had more designed runs and he scrambled quicker. He has athleticism. He had 32
Starting point is 00:06:42 rushing yards, 318 passing yards. That was against a very good Kansas City defense. The charges are three and a half point. Road favorites in a dome against the Raiders where last year he was the quarterback three when they played there his weapons are the best he's had maybe in his entire career i i would say definitely in his entire career i think this version of lad mcconkey keen and allen uh you know huge the two rookies you're gonna include huge absolutely i didn't know if we were there yet yeah well i when he is
Starting point is 00:07:16 the third option when he's literally like the i'm going to to go to Keenan Allen and Ladd-McConkey and you can't stop me all the time and the defense has to guard that. Oh, now I can throw a deep shot to Q. It's, it's perfect for his skill set. All right, Mike, what do you got? I'm going with Kyler Murray. Oh, boy. Yeah, like he's playing Yeah, I'll do it. It's fine. Yeah, yeah. The quarterback seven after week one. Yeah. No, actually, in week one, what was he? Because he was, he's QB7 for us ranking this upcoming week. I think he was higher than that. He had two passing touchdowns. The
Starting point is 00:07:54 at least the promise of or the offseason of like, hey, I think Kyler is actually going to run more. He himself said, I need to do that. And he did. It wasn't necessarily the prettiest of decisions when he chose to scramble and how it was happening, but
Starting point is 00:08:10 we at least saw it. We saw seven rush attempts for 38 yards. They are big home favorites against the Carolina Panthers. I expect the Cardinals running game to get it going, but I also expect that. Like Kyler, you know, the two passing touchdowns with another 40 on the ground is, I think it's in the range of possibilities. We had, well, look, Kyler was almost my start of the week. I had him in there, but the guy I think we'll run more than Kyler
Starting point is 00:08:36 and why I moved him into my start of the week was Justin Fields. He takes on Buffalo. We saw that incredible Buffalo Baltimore game last week. It wasn't just the legs against Pittsburgh that were great. He was also number one in completion percentage over expectation among all quarterbacks. Not something you've been able to look to Justin Fields for in the past, but he had the connection going with all of his receivers
Starting point is 00:09:00 9.9 yards per attempt. It wasn't just dink and dunk stuff and they play Buffalo this week. The Jets do. Buffalo gave up the most yards per play in the NFL in week one. Yes, it was Lamar, but I think Justin Fields follows up a good week one with a great week two, and I'm excited to see what happens.
Starting point is 00:09:19 At running back, I do not believe this will be a complete rest of season, the way that I do think so with Justin Herbert, but it will be a week two success with Travis ETN coming off a great performance against the worst run defense we've seen in our generation. The thing is, is he's the guy now. There's clarity. He had 19 opportunities, 31% of the team's total rush attempts and targets, and then it was like, well, is it going to be him? Is it going to be Tank Biggsby? It's not going to be Tank Biggsby. They traded him.
Starting point is 00:09:48 So, you know, maybe Tooten gets a little bit more involved. But this is E.TN's backfield, especially right now, certainly in week two. And if you look at week one, how good he was, the Jaguar's offensive line ranked fourth in adjusted yards before contact. Now, again, that's the Carolina defense. But he gets the Bengals defense, which is pretty close, you know, if you can call a defense. So I think it's a great matchup for him. I don't think Tutin is going to work his way in enough right off the bat in week two. So yeah, ETN's good play. Fire him out. Make sure he's in your lineup. I'm going with Jordan Mason, Minnesota Vikings running back against the Atlanta Falcons. Aaron Jones
Starting point is 00:10:34 had the highlight touchdown. But if you didn't pay attention, Jordan Mason was incredibly involved he was the early down guy Mason ended up 13-4-69 and Jones was 7 for 21 and the thing that I find interesting about this is they tried at the beginning to have it be
Starting point is 00:10:57 Aaron Jones like they gave Aaron Jones a couple carries that went nowhere and then Jordan Mason gets brought in and he is the power back the Vikings are three and a half point home favorites against the Falcons right now so I love that environment and just for some more context.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Like my dynasty team right now, I have Jordan Mason in my lineup over Kenneth Walker. So like that's the type of play that I'm talking about. All right. I'm going with Breece Hall taking on the bills. Yes, back-to-back jets. It feels so good. We're not done yet.
Starting point is 00:11:30 It feels so good. Look, this is very clear in week one who the lead back was not just by opportunity, but by talent and juice, he looked so fast. He looked great, and the bills just got absolutely gashed. Big play after big play. And if you look at those Henry big runs, they had room. He had room to get to that second level. That's when Henry turns on the Jets.
Starting point is 00:11:56 And so based on what I saw in week one, you know, the success Brees had against the Pittsburgh defense we expected to be a lot better. I think it was a lot about Brees. I think it was about the offensive line getting it done. And so I think Brees follows it up in which. week too. My wide receiver start of the week is D.K. Metcalf in a revenge game,
Starting point is 00:12:15 he will be at home, not in Seattle, but he's playing against the Seahawks. And I think he's got plenty to prove. Aaron Rogers has spoke so glowingly of him. This last week, we saw it, right? 26% of his routes, he was targeted. He had seven targets. He didn't
Starting point is 00:12:30 have a great game, four catches for 83. That's a pretty good game. No touchdown, but he had Sauce Gardner on him for a lot of that. He knows the Seahawks. He's working with Aaron Rogers, who Aaron Rogers hyper-targets his number one. He's always been, whether it was Devante Adams or Jordan E. Nelson or Garrett Wilson, he can make fantasy stars. And I think this is a perfect matchup for him against Seattle. Speaking of Garrett Wilson, three jets in the starts of the week. Oh, gosh, what are we doing?
Starting point is 00:12:58 What could possibly go wrong here? He just, he was the alpha. 36% of the team's targets ends up seven for 95 of one. We mentioned it the, he was a just a fraction away. from a second touchdown and maybe the Buffalo secondary bounces back because that was just Lamar and the Ravens. However, it was the third most fantasy points to the wide receiver position in week one
Starting point is 00:13:20 allowing 17 yards per catch. I think Garrett Wilson can have another big day. All right, I am going to go with Keenan Allen against the Raiders this week that Monday night football game, the tandem with Justin Herbert. He was right back to the target
Starting point is 00:13:36 machine we know him to be, which was cool to see in week one. You know, joining this team, he had a better than expected season with Chicago. 28% of his routes he was targeted. And he has dominated the Raiders historically. I think Keenan is a great play. My tight end start of the week, you just picked him up off of waiver. You had to spend quite a bit to get him.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Good. It's Joanne Johnson against the San Francisco 49ers. You put him right into your lineup. this is probably their second target in their receiving game. Yes. He's their slot-wide receiver. And you don't usually get that from a tight end. That's what we saw in week one.
Starting point is 00:14:19 34 of his 74 snaps were in the slot. They played so fast. I mean, 99% of team snaps is awesome. But the fact that he wasn't there to block, he was out there running routes. It was like 96% route participation, unbelievably great. he was fifth most among all players in week one in those slot snaps and he he had a 24% target share fourth highest among all tight ends now you've got a match up against san francisco where their defense is not the defense it used to be uh the usage is so unbelievable that i'm not really
Starting point is 00:14:54 worried about him falling flat i think his floor is pretty high now will he get a touchdown and have a dominant like oh my gosh joan johnson won me my week i don't i don't expect that with Spencer Rattler, but in a position where you're just not sure if you're going to end up with a point or five, I feel like the baseline here in any kind of half-pPR league is like, you've got a six-point base where if he has a real bad game, it's going to catch enough balls. And if he breaks one tackle, does something special, you can get to double digits pretty easy. The mustache is worth the start of the week anyways. Is he rocking a mustache? Oh, yeah. What? Oh, yeah. Hold on. Hold the phone. He stopped the press.
Starting point is 00:15:34 He looks chiseled. Oh, man, look at this guy with the mustache. I'm moving him up the rankings right now. I told you we, look, some of our analysis is database. Some of it is. Wow. We have very pro mustache. I'm seeing a picture of him next to the character from Severance.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's pretty stellar. The solution for poor quarterback play when we're talking about. fantasy football is just an overabundance of snaps and plays. And that's what the Saints gave us last week. And that is what Kellynne Moore has historically done. My tight end start of the week, it's Kyle Pitts. It is Kyle Pitts.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Eight targets turned into seven for 59. That was the tight end 12 on the week. I mean, finishing is a top 12 tight end where you're not scoring. Like, that's, you'll take that because then you actually have true ups. He lined up in the slot on 49% of his snaps, ran a route on 81% of the Atlanta Falcons dropbacks, which would be, that's fourth in terms of the tight-end position. And I expect that Minnesota is going to create a game script where they will have to throw. So Kyle Pitts, I'd stay with it.
Starting point is 00:16:55 All right, I'm going to go with Brent and Strange against the Bengals. This is a lot. I like this one. It's a little about Strange, who was involved, very involved in week one, but it's a lot about the Bengals who, you know, until they prove otherwise, I'm going to believe that they don't know the opposing team starts tight-ins because they were the worst. I mean, Harold Fanon, everyone, like, we are.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Yeah, and the joke. Yeah, I was saying, like, we're so, the world is so excited for Harold Fanon. I think, justifiably so, but it's like, he was playing against the Bengals. Last year, the Bengals were dead last and fantasy points given up to tight-ins. And in week one, they're 29th, and they give up over 15 points to tight-ins. I'm really chasing that. It's a great matchup, a great situation. The Bengals defense sucks, and Britton Strange seems like he's needed and necessary for the offense.
Starting point is 00:17:41 You know, he had 59 receiving yards in week one. That was a team high. He caught all four of his targets, and he'll probably get another four to five, if not more with the red zone chance. I'm going to go with Britton Strange. If you lost Dallas Goddard, there's a chance that Britain Strange was not picked up as everyone went after Fanon and Joanne Johnson. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:18:00 So that was starts of the week, presented by Paramount Plus. Paramount Plus is the streaming home to the NFL on CBS. Get started at Paramount Plus.com slash NFL. We'll take a break and jump into the forecast. All right, you blink and week two, here we are. Fantasy Forecast, presented by prize picks. We get to talk about that matchup right away. Jacksonville, 1 and 0, traveled to Cincinnati,
Starting point is 00:18:38 who had seven total yards in the second half of their victory, who are also want to know. And Vegas has Cincinnati three and a half point home favorites. The over under is 48.5. Very nice. I believe it's the, it's tied right now for the highest of the week. The Green Bay Washington game is also. Oh, no 50s?
Starting point is 00:18:57 No, not yet. they're usually a little more reined in because we don't know what's going on yet. Both of these teams were they're one and O and yet we were bummed mostly. Correct. By both of them in week one
Starting point is 00:19:12 that we thought we'd see higher scoring affairs. The Bengals offense was incredibly boring. Nothing explosive. They couldn't do anything. Burrow targeted his wide receivers a career low 39% of the time last game. So you had a lot of, you had the
Starting point is 00:19:28 tight ends involved, right? Noah Fant was getting passes in Gisicki and Chase Brown. And then Lawrence, you know, he was okay, but Brian Thomas Jr. It just didn't work out. I think he was like, what did he catch? Two of seven targets or something like that, one of seven targets. Somebody looked that up. I'm looking. Yeah, it was seven targets. Seven targets, one for 11. So not good. And Travis Hunter, he had the most targets on the roster, but nothing. big. So we're supposed to see him play a little bit more defense this week. But let's start at the quarterback position. It should be you're playing Burrow. A bounce back for Burrow and Jason Higgins, right? Yeah, for sure. I mean, Jaguars last year were ranked dead last against
Starting point is 00:20:15 quarterbacks. This is, you know, they might look a little bit more scary if you're looking at your platform. Like, oh, the strength of schedule. It's one week and they played against Bryce Young who looked abysmal. So, yeah, no one is benching Joe Burrow after one bad week. But what about Lawrence? Lawrence is, to me, someone that if you're really, really not confident in your quarterback, he is a waiver wire guy that you could put in there. But he's primarily more of like a two QB.
Starting point is 00:20:45 I think he's a good quarterback two this week. So Trevor Lawrence or Drake May. Drake May. Bo Nix against the Colts. I'm going to stay with Bo Nix another week. Okay, and I'll go one tier down. Let's go J.J. McCarthy. That's interesting.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Yeah, I think I go Lawrence there. J.J. McCarthy had such an incredibly good fourth quarter, but he still showed kind of the early game jitters, the rookie. That was a tough matchup against... And now he's at home. Just saying, I think those two might end up closer than people would think. I mean, they are like back-to-back in my rankings. Oh, perfect.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Is that true? NFL, NFC, offense player of the week. Yeah, he was. He was. I thought it was a little egregious. I mean, he played great for a quarter. And he led the team to a comeback. I get that, but someone else had to have been better.
Starting point is 00:21:42 That's what I was trying to think about in the NFC. It's like I'm kind of struggling to find something. Maybe that's, that must be why. I mean, nobody's jumping out. You're right. So it was pretty bleh. week of football. Chase Brown, while the Bengals did not put up the points.
Starting point is 00:22:00 Oh, yeah, I would have gone Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones is in the AFC, boy. Oh, God, Jason. A couple of idiots. I got you. No, that's Jason's fault. He's just throwing out names. Derek Henry.
Starting point is 00:22:10 Guys. Goodness. Do you know how good he was? Jason and his conferences. Chase Brown, 52% of the team's total Russian temps and targets. Look at the workload, not necessarily at the, you know, Bengals' offense in week one that was slowed down frequently. Chase Brown is a must start.
Starting point is 00:22:28 Travis E.TN's Jason's start of the week. Brian Thomas Jr., I said it, seven targets, just one catch, had a rushing touchdown. He'll be okay. They'll figure out ways to get him the football. Jason Higgins are in your lineup. Travis Hunter, is he a flex play this week? Would you play? I think because-
Starting point is 00:22:43 Would you play him over Judy? Ooh. Travis Hunter, like I said, he led the team in targets. He had eight targets in this game, just nothing, they could not break a big play. He was really close to one big broken play. I'm fine having Brian Thomas Jr. and Travis Hunter both as like just wash away week one and expect what you expect with great talent. That's wild that between them, they caught four of 15 targets. The thing is about Trevor Lawrence, I don't remember if I brought this up on air or if it was when we were watching football on Sunday or whatever, but he reminds me a lot of Kyler Murray in the sense that he is not a bad quarterback, but he will never be a great quarterback.
Starting point is 00:23:24 And they all, they, both of them, they have their games where they just look, you go, wow, okay, he's figuring this out. Last week it was not, Trevor Lawrence was not dialed in. But if Trevor Lawrence comes out and looks dialed in against this Bengals matchup, it's going to be a really, really. I don't, I'm, no. Yeah. No, I feel it. You're not. No, I feel it.
Starting point is 00:23:46 Feel deeper. I feel it. Think more. Andy's almost upset of the week. Two weeks in a row. It's a good sign that I think it's a little absurd. Week 1 it hit, though. It covered.
Starting point is 00:24:03 I mean, it's 1716. You can't be more of an almost upset than the team that absolutely should have won the game. Well, I'm going to go with it. We talked about Britain Strange and then there's too many tight ends in Cincinnati to care about any of them. The Giants are 0 and 1. They take on the 0.1 Dallas Cowboys in a divisional battle. Now, what division is that, Jay? that would be in FC okay how about this a conference yeah that's looking for the division
Starting point is 00:24:28 oh the the east um yeah how about this how about this how about this going back to the the j j j mccarthy or christian mcalfrey oh no it'd be McCarthy for sure yeah what yeah mike yeah that's ridiculous oh i mean accumulating a bunch of like short catches does not win you an offensive player of the week you got it wasn't even close it's hearing the whole offense he he did but the impact of on the road first start coming back of the fourth I would go on the road getting to win like McCaffrey no
Starting point is 00:24:57 no not even close his performance McCaffrey's performance was not special no he does that all the time he should be at every week then I mean he does that every single week if you had a breakaway touchdown run or you did something he has to score twice to get it yeah I mean Jane Daniels deserves it over him last week
Starting point is 00:25:13 for sure okay but you did get the right conference on that one Giants O'N1, Dallas O'N1. Dallas 4.5 point favorites over under is 44.5. Wild fact for you. Dak Prescott has won 13 straight games against the Giants. No way. That is a lot.
Starting point is 00:25:33 13 straight. That's insane. That is the longest win streak. Any quarterback has had against a single opponent since, and we can probably remember this one, Brady against Buffalo. There was a time when Bray. Brady 1-13 in a row against Buffalo. That's blowing my mind right now.
Starting point is 00:25:50 It really is. It's wild. He is, yeah, Brian Dable is 0 and 6 against the Cowboys. Well, that makes sense. Well, but DAC hasn't always been there, but they still managed to lose. Look, on paper right now, you got Russell Wilson starting this game. You know, Tyrone Tracy, if you want to look at week one, this was a game where they played the commanders, Tyrone Tracy dominated.
Starting point is 00:26:17 the touches and the snap. 74% of snaps. 74%. It didn't go anywhere and Scataboo's didn't either on his limited touches but Tracy is the workhorse right here right now.
Starting point is 00:26:31 He is for now. The hard thing for Tracy is with overtime Scatibu I believe will eat into the workload. Maybe Tracy remains the 1A or whatever but are the Giants as the transition of the giants are moving from
Starting point is 00:26:51 Russ to Jackson Dart, which will happen. I'm not sure which week, but it's like by the time that happens, and then we have more hope for the Giants, has Scatibu taken into a 1B? Because if Tracy's still dominating the touches... Well, what about just on this week? Just against the Dallas Cowboys. I would... I don't want to start.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Here's the problem. We don't have a lot of options running back in fantasy right now. people are playing Dobbins out there People are putting Nick Chubb out there Echler tonight or I would play Echler I'd play Echler. What about Bill? No. I would play Bill. I would play
Starting point is 00:27:27 I would play Tracy. I'm starting to think Bill has a better game than Echler tonight. Oh, this was after yesterday's it was like everybody but Bill. Do you want to formal formally Proxie this thing? I I think if
Starting point is 00:27:44 the commanders have a good game against the Packers, it will be because of Bill Krosky. Well, we're going to watch. We're going to see. Javante Williams. Javante Williams had two touchdowns in week one. 33% of the team's total rushing attempts and targets. Anything over 30%
Starting point is 00:28:02 on that number is truly elite. Yeah, if you have, like I'd play Javante over Tracy. Oh, of course. The Javante, you'll be playing him. The thing to watch, honestly, is more, is Jane Blue still at healthy scratch? Jaden Blue is the he is the threat to Javante.
Starting point is 00:28:22 I don't think it's not going to end up being Miles. It's just how long does it take for Jaden Blue to get integrated into this offense? Javante over Jalen Warren? I'm fine with that. Yeah, I'm fine with that. Tony Pollard against the Rams defense. You guys talked up the Rams defense.
Starting point is 00:28:37 I'd probably play Javante. That one's really tough because Pollard looked so good, but the Rams defense is good. I lean Pollard there. I don't want to get fooled by two touchdowns from Giovante week one. And also, the snap percentage was absolutely elite
Starting point is 00:28:51 for Giovante. But remember, they brought in Miles Sanders and then he fumbled the ball and then they basically... If Miles Sanders had one carry, it would be too, too many. But my point is, I wonder if the numbers were just inflated week one, if they benched Miles Sanders for losing the fumble there. They should keep benching him. Well, sure, but
Starting point is 00:29:09 maybe they don't. Yeah. Okay. C.D. Lamb, George Pickens, put them back out there. Ferguson. It was a big dud in week one. Five for 23. The targets are there should have caught a touchdown though. I think you can go right back to him. He always should have caught a touchdown, man. Is that his whole? It is his
Starting point is 00:29:26 superpower. The way that Jalen Waddle gets injured every game and then comes back every game, no one ever has more in zone red zone targets than Jake Ferguson with no touchdowns. Like you can't just for ever. You can't forever say like, oh man, if you look at the behind the scenes metrics, he should have like his expected touchdowns is like 800 more than he has
Starting point is 00:29:47 well are you playing him? Yeah sure no I mean I think you know the targets the offense I presume they are favored yeah they're four and a half point favorites yeah he's a fine low end start but honestly a lot of the guys like
Starting point is 00:30:04 Juan Johnson I would play over him yeah I can agree with that Malik neighbors limited on Wednesday that's probably going to be a thing all season long but he's going to play Wondale Robinson did not practice on he should be able to play but not for your lineup and then theo johnson how disappointed were you in the drops jason i was very i i was uh playing on prize picks and i had a projection of one and a half and he didn't he didn't get more he should have he certainly should have he just had two
Starting point is 00:30:31 super drops i mean like like the guys never caught a ball on his life looking drops those are still probably better than the ones where judy and tilman throw it up in the air those drops are yeah when you drop it let the ball go to the ground it just Just bat it down. That's like a pop. That's a pop. Chicago. We got to watch them on Monday night football.
Starting point is 00:30:50 They go to Detroit to take on the also win list Detroit Lions. The Vegas line, Detroit minus six at home, the over under 48 and a half. Ben Johnson's return. Do we think it'll be a good one for Chicago? Oh, man. This game is fascinating. We did talk about Caleb having good numbers against Chicago fantasy-wise last year. Yeah, I don't think this is.
Starting point is 00:31:14 is going to go well for the Chicago Bears. The Detroit Lions were borderline humiliated by the Packers. They were dominated, at least by the Packers in week one. The coaching staff came out. They were talking about it. Morton was talking about that we've got, you know, our job is to fix problems. We've got to be better. This is a matchup that I think will tell the Lions we need to run the ball a lot more.
Starting point is 00:31:38 I expect the Lions to run. You saw what happened when the Vikings turned to the run. second half as the bear started getting a little bit tired and they Aaron Jones wasn't working so they brought Jordan Mason and he just started gashing them that's the heart of the lions at home I think they're going to run
Starting point is 00:31:56 all over the bears DeAndre Swift received 100% of the teams running back carries in week one play 81% of the snaps the Lions defense normally pretty stout against the running game DeAndre Swift you just start him because the
Starting point is 00:32:13 workload going to be there? Yeah, it's a... And the passing game. It's a floor play, but he'll get you close to 10. In week one, Gibbs saw a lot of work, not a lot of production. Montgomery had 11 attempts for 25 yards, four catches for 18
Starting point is 00:32:28 yards, played on 37% of snaps. If you look back to last year, that's about what he does. I mean, 38% two years ago, 34% last year, 37% in week one. It kind of seems like Detroit Monty is Detroit Monty.
Starting point is 00:32:43 Mm-hmm. Which, which is play him, and if you get a touchdown, you're happy, and this is a game he probably scores. Yes. Is that fair? I think that's very fair. I think that's very fair. I would not move too far off of Monty from a bad performance last week in this matchup at home favored against a run funnel defense. The matchup here, you know, just to zoom out,
Starting point is 00:33:03 I think we're going to get some answers here of if one of these teams, whichever team lays an egg should one of them do it. Yeah, they'll be going to. But the panic. Like if Chicago goes and upsets the Detroit Lions on the road. Oh, yeah. Like that will be panic in the streets. Or if the Bears, with all everything they put into it and they start O-N-2,
Starting point is 00:33:25 then you're just going to be like, what do you do with these fantasy players? Like the wide receivers for Chicago. If they put up a game very similar to week one, it's going to be awful. Well, let's talk about the wide receivers on both sides, starting with Jameson Williams. He played 97% of all snaps. He was out there. Had the four catches. I think it was just 23 yards.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Are you kind of, Jason, with your view on Green Bay, how they performed in week one, at Lambo. Are you just kind of whatever you were going to do in week one with Detroit players? You're doing that in week two with Detroit players? I think you probably are. James and Williams, to me, you might have a better option, right? This is not a good matchup. The Bears passing defense has been really good last year, really good this year. And they should actually be healthier in week two than they're.
Starting point is 00:34:13 they were in week one. What about Debo? Or at least they could be. Debo tonight or Jameson Williams. I would play Debo. Interesting. I think that Jameson is just a little on the cusp and the matchup isn't great here. Obviously, he's got the talent.
Starting point is 00:34:26 You could throw him in your lineup and just have an explosive single play that wins you're weak. But he is a flex option. Abuca. Or Jameson Williams. Yeah, it'd be really hard to sit to touchdown Abuka for week two and play Jameson after a tougher week one. I hope to see the Detroit Lions at home, Goff and Jameson and Amonra get things going,
Starting point is 00:34:47 the running game get things going. On the other side, Adunzee did have nine targets. He was six for 37 and a touchdown. That was the target high for the team. DJ Moore had five, but they gave him three carries. He's been used in weird ways. I still like Adunzee more myself,
Starting point is 00:35:04 but I don't blame anybody for going DJ more. Yeah, I'm not even sure who I like more, but I like neither. I mean, I want to see more from Caleb before I can confidently start receiving options there. You know, you might have Luther Burton more involved. You might have Colson Loveland more involved. If you take away the unbelievably great touchdown design, like that play. That was so good. Those specific situations are what Ben Johnson, like, you know, you're missing those on your fourth and short or whatever.
Starting point is 00:35:36 That play design on the goal line was just brilliant to let. adunes A. B. No, you're on the goal line. Caleb can't miss him. You're on the goal line and no one's within five yards of you in the end zone. I don't know how that's possible. Obviously, he could do it again and again and again, but he only had 37 yards is my point.
Starting point is 00:35:54 He led the team in target, so it's hard for me to trust any receivers there. Colson Loveland is a cut candidate for you? Yeah. I had him in a league where I chose to hold on for one more week, but absolutely he was he was on that bubble of like if i if there was another waiver wire ad out there that was worth it i would have got him we need more snaps and everything before we get into that and pay attention to kela williams rushing totals week one six for 58 and a touchdown
Starting point is 00:36:25 so almost he looked he almost had two touchdowns that turned into the adunes a throw but um he he was he was able to get out of the pocket and take off and you know it seemed to me when watching this game that the prescription for Caleb was like if those big plays aren't there quickly look underneath quickly looked at Swift in the flats quickly looked to the tight end position
Starting point is 00:36:48 try not to hold the ball too long because that was it he was setting records taking sacks last year well you saw it in the beginning of the game he came out and they had a plan they had a script drop back get the ball out looked awesome and then as the game got more competitive and the script went by by
Starting point is 00:37:06 then it looked like rookie year, Caleb. The Rams that want to know traveled to the Tennessee Titans who are 0 and 1. The Vegas line here lost Angeles minus 5 and a half. The over-under is 41 and a half that gives the Titans just 18 points.
Starting point is 00:37:23 You know, Brian Callahan had the very embarrassing press conference, not understanding that an elbow does equal two feet. Sean McVeigh obviously gets it going on offense for Los Angeles. Cam Ward, pretty tentative in week one.
Starting point is 00:37:41 They were 28th in pass rate on first downs. They were doing the boring, boring handed off every single time. Problem with that plan is you get behind and then you look even worse and you just, it kind of was the opposite of what we saw with J.J. McCarthy struggling in the first half. I feel like they just went hyper-conservative with Cam Ward and needed to give him more opportunities. I had a lot of people jump out and, you know, get all over. us for saying, hey, he wasn't inaccurate. There were a lot of drops by his receivers.
Starting point is 00:38:11 It kind of depends on the metrics you look at. Sure. Like catchable target rate, which was very bad. That one was bad, but there were. Yeah, he wasn't good. And I don't blame him in his first game against the Denver Broncos defense, but he wasn't, he only completed one of 12 passes over 10 yards. So that should tell you. 43% passing completion rate. And he threw a lot of short ones.
Starting point is 00:38:34 Yeah, blame who you want. But Cam Ward, it was a debut performance against a tough defense. And we seem to, you know, the Rams are probably a tough defense as well. I was going to say he's got a follow-up performance against a tough defense. Now he's going to be at home, which might be a little bit nicer. But the Rams looked awesome. They completely shut down C.J. Stroud. And I expect them to completely shut down Cam Ward.
Starting point is 00:38:55 They scored 12 points last week. I don't think there's anyone outside of Tony Pollard that I would want to play in this game. Tony Pollard is not a great play. Still know Ridley, then? I don't think so. think you just watch Ridley and you watch Iyo Manor. Yeah, I'm not dropping. I would have signed Iow Manor. I would
Starting point is 00:39:12 certainly keep rostering Ridley. This isn't the matchup form. I'm just going to watch. I mean, we love the 32% target share for Calvin Ridley, but need more catchable. Yeah, and then Iow Manor is at 37% of first read targets. Puka, Devante Adams, play them. Always. Kyrin, play him.
Starting point is 00:39:30 And there you go. That matchup's not very complicated. I love the Rams. I love the Rams. Every week, here's what we say. It doesn't matter the matchup. We just say, go ahead and start Kairn, Puka and Devante. And then, like, let's not worry about anyone else. No, because Stafford, because you want to know why? Because Kyron Williams gets a touchdown on the goal line every week.
Starting point is 00:39:49 No matter what, no matter how inefficient, ineffective. When they get down there, they go, I know what works. Kiron at the goal line. And it works every time. And that means Stafford doesn't go. Oh, my gosh. He did do that in week one, didn't he? 100%.
Starting point is 00:40:00 He just did what he does. For some reason, I forgot it. I was like, except for week one, but no, he did. New England 0 and 1 Miami 0 and 1 the Vegas line Miami minus 1 and 1
Starting point is 00:40:10 1 half they are favorite in this one Oh all right The overrunners 43 and a half that's not a lot Did that change?
Starting point is 00:40:18 Because we had talked about the New England they were favored in so many games Did that flip Or was this already I imagine Miami stayed favored at home
Starting point is 00:40:29 in this one It's close though Okay Kyle's confirming It was already this Okay New England Two has had their number, seven and no against New England in his entire career. Tua had a brutal week one.
Starting point is 00:40:42 I imagine it gets better in week two at home. It couldn't have looked worse in week one. So I think, you know, we've seen enough of Tua. Not every game's been like that. I think it gets a lot better. So that means better things for A. Chan, for Waddle. Yes, for Tyree Kiel. But it's really a matter of where you slot those guys in compared to other options now.
Starting point is 00:41:00 It's not an auto start situation anymore. For either of those guys. I mean, I was more, like Tyree Kale, we've seen the trajectory. Wasn't shocking that it was a tough week. It was much more disappointing to have Jaylon Waddle sitting at 4 for 30 in a game where and go out half hurt again. I mean, it's just, I'm kind of getting done with that song and dance. The Chicago Boys or the Miami Boys?
Starting point is 00:41:25 I, I kind of lean the, I'm on the Miami Boys side. I we've seen No, I'm going to take Chicago We've seen All right Let's think about this Total To be clear
Starting point is 00:41:43 All of this displeases me Total receiving Yeah but these are what has Total receiving fantasy points Dolphins versus Bears Me versus you Wait wide receivers Are you talking including tight ends
Starting point is 00:41:56 Tight ends Just the tandem Okay just the tandem Yeah More under Dunes Okay that's fair You don't feel so good no more. I don't feel great about this. He was trying to sneak. Yeah, I wanted A chance stuff or something there. Oh, my gosh. That's why I said receiving.
Starting point is 00:42:13 But I'll take the two pack. The two pack of Miami. Two v two. two. Oh, man. All right. I want to hear you say go dolphins. Then I'll hit the button. Go fins. Waterbed. All right. A chance definitely a start. Where are we with Trayvion? I, I, I believe that Mike Rable came out and said, look, we need to get him into space. Last week, you saw that as, you know, he had six catches, but it was for 24 yards, didn't have enough space after the catch. No, he really did not. Played 35% of snaps.
Starting point is 00:42:47 The, Henderson. Is he a buy? I don't think you can. But yes, he absolutely is a buy. Go see if you can get him. Ask you if you could buy Caleb Johnson. When we were watching, yeah, you can. Well, you can just buy him off the waivers.
Starting point is 00:43:02 Yeah, if you got like too fab, you can get Caleb Johnson. If you're disappointed in a player, like people drafted Trayvion High. It is possible to leverage a high performing week one player for a low performing week two players. Especially if you did not watch the game. When you look at the underlying metrics and you're like, well, Ramandre was the dude. You know, he was playing so many more snaps, got so much more work, which he did. But when you watch the game, there was, it was like, oh, it's coming. You just watched each handoff and go, yeah, it will not be long until Trevion Henderson is at least 50-50.
Starting point is 00:43:36 And that's, I think, all he needs to be a regular fantasy start. The question, do you start him in this game? I think so. Henderson? You can flex Henderson, yeah. Yeah, if you're in a half or a full PPR. I play him over Remandre, I'll tell you that. Yeah, Ramondre played 65% of the snaps, had 10 opportunities.
Starting point is 00:43:57 Trevion had 11 and it was just, I mean, Ramandre is 7 for 15 on the ground. Henderson's 5 for 27. It's a matter of time. I have a league where I have to play Ramandre. I actually have two leagues that I have to play Ramandre.
Starting point is 00:44:10 If Sleeper let me put in retired players, I would play a retired. Which one would you play? I'd play a retired Ronnie Brown. You wouldn't go to like Arian Foster? I mean, sure. I think he's trying to say how low you would go. Yeah, I would play a retired committee.
Starting point is 00:44:27 back. All right. Right. So, I mean, Joyck Bell, welcome to the lineup. I miss Joyke Bell. Um, yeah. That was like a fun year. Stefan Diggs was not very involved. Kishon Booty continued to be heavily involved. He's probably one of the number one guys I'm keeping my eyes on this week. I picked him up. I paid a lot to pick him up. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm starting him this week. But if he comes out and leads the team and targets the way that he did the second half a year with Drake May and the way he did in week one then from here on forward I will see him as the do I need to speak to a therapist about Ronnie Brown's name coming into my head that quickly is that a problem what did you think when it came into your head why I did say why yeah wildcat Ronnie Brown oh okay your ram just
Starting point is 00:45:16 fired off I found something that's right my ram the what do you guys think so Stefan Diggs ran 33 routes you know he's on the field for for 41% of the snaps. But in that time, he did see seven targets. He caught six of them for 57 yards. So they pay attention. It's, yeah, it, this isn't really look like himself in those
Starting point is 00:45:39 targets to me. He looked more like just kind of an underneath option later career. Of taking, it's going to take Stefan Diggs some time to recover from the knee injury. It just wanted your temperature check.
Starting point is 00:45:55 Yeah, he was six or 57. I mean, that's not bad on 40 some odd percent of snaps. If he works his way to 70, 80 percent of snaps and becomes the number one for this team, that wouldn't be shocking. It would be fine for a PPR league. But I don't think he has the ceiling hopeful upside that someone like Booty might have. All right. Let's take a break.
Starting point is 00:46:12 We'll jump into some more matchups. What's left of the 1-0-49ers take on the New Orleans Saints who are also all-in-one. San Francisco three-point road favorites. Over under is just 40 and a half points. We're going to get Mac Jones. Shanahan finally gets his guy. He's going to throw a little bit of concern into the mix, I think, for expectations for San Francisco's offense.
Starting point is 00:46:43 Saints are at home. Christian McAvery did not practice on Wednesday. They're resting the calf. He should literally sleep from now until 10 minutes before the game kicks off. However long it takes him to stretch and warm, up that's when he should just be in like a chamber yes that's a funny idea because he can't get hurt if he's just in a sleeping pod well i mean don't tell him what he can't do i mean jason can hurt himself sitting i have to imagine the way he was able to handle 31 touches last week was it really
Starting point is 00:47:13 31 yeah i mean he was he was he was a he was christian mcalfrey he was just the entire locomotive of the train here and um he has been clearly siphoning the hell of other players. It, it, the, and he's going to run out of players to take help from. It's, it's draining too fast. So Jennings, Kittle, and Purdy were three, so 31 touches. Yeah. So the three he took from.
Starting point is 00:47:38 Yeah. And so I'm, I'm happy, Piercell's out wide. You know, he's a little further away from the running back position. Oh, you're saying it's a proximity thing. That's right. That's what I'm saying. And he sucks. So it's probably going to be an o-lineman.
Starting point is 00:47:49 It's going to be an O-Lignment issue. How is any O-Lyman injuries right now going on? Soon. Okay. Yeah, I'm a cavalry. He was not great on the ground last week. No. 3.1 of carry on 22 carries.
Starting point is 00:48:02 He was great in the passing game, and you will have Mack Jones behind center. I mean, it doesn't change how you're playing Christian McCaffrey. I think there'll be a couple fewer targets personally because I think Purdy just, he's got that internal clock that goes straight to Christian McCaffrey after a certain amount of time in the pocket. Mac Jones, if he was wise, would do that. I think we've only had one game in the last three years where Purdy wasn't on the field
Starting point is 00:48:31 and McCaffrey was and I think McCaffrey had a couple fewer targets in that one game. It's not a good sample. So that's just my speculative view. This is the guy Shanahan won and Mack Jones over Trey Lance, the speculation that that was originally his target. Now you might get the chance to see how that works out. Ricky Pearsall was going to be my start of the week. I think his metrics have been really great. The last four games dating back to last season, he's number three in the NFL in total yards.
Starting point is 00:49:00 It's scary with Mack Jones there. But Mac Jones did hyper-target Brian Thomas Jr. last year. To me, that says I'm going to go after the most talented guy on my roster and just see what happens. And if that's the case, I don't think that's hyper-targeting Ricky Pearsall, who's good. I think that is actually just constantly checking it down to Christian McCaffrey. We also saw Brian Robinson's acclamation. it was 24% of the snaps and 11 opportunities. You could see that go up a little bit.
Starting point is 00:49:26 I don't know if 31 touches is going to be frankly sustainable for McAfrey. It won't be sustainable, but it'll go north. It'll be like 45 this week. Just everything. I'm surprised he's not playing quarterback. So if you took an over-under on 31 touches,
Starting point is 00:49:42 I'm going to take the under. No, you have to take the under because that's an absurd number, but he will get way too much work. I don't think you're playing anybody else on that team. I think it's Pierceall's CMC. And that's it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:56 Joanne Jennings on the other side. Your start of the week at tight-in. You're not going to throw out Tanges McBaskill. Tungis-McBasketball will not be out there. All right. I just need to get the name in. Alvin Camara. Play him.
Starting point is 00:50:09 Close your eyes. Don't watch. Correct. Yeah, I hope he gets more work in the receiving game. That was the only thing that was concerning. He looked good on the ground. Had a great touchdown run and third. Shockingly, like, his snap percentage
Starting point is 00:50:24 blew me away. I thought this is the year where he's going to be like 50% of snaps, but heavily involved in the receiving game. And it was like, nah, how about you play 80% of the snaps, Camara? Alave, 13 targets. I think Olave I feel like you have to whisper it, but Olave, if you can buy him cheap, I would probably do it. Find some start sits for me with Olave. Well, how about him versus both
Starting point is 00:50:49 the dolphins and the bears guys. I would play. I feel like Olave is a better play than the four of them. I would chase the volume. Okay. Buffalo is one and no. They take on the O'N1 New York Jets, the Jets who have three starts
Starting point is 00:51:03 of the week despite being six and a half point home underdogs. The overhunder is 46 and a half. For the record, I have none of them. You would like it on record? Yeah. Noted. How about your dynasty team? Do you have any of them? I might have Breeze Hall.
Starting point is 00:51:16 Yeah. We've got Fields, Hall, and Wilson. it's a consolidation in New York. Yeah, it really is. And the fact that they can move the football and that Buffalo was willing to let people move the football on them. We did get the news that James Cook was limited with a hamstring injury on Wednesday, so we're monitoring that. Keon Coleman's still limited.
Starting point is 00:51:38 He was dealing with the groin injury. They're going to protect him. I imagine he'll play. He played 94% of the team's routes. He only averaged 69% last year. and so Keon Coleman or Pity City after what you saw in week one from both of them Keon Coleman was
Starting point is 00:51:52 he was really good they're both I think going to be 11 targets weekly important assets that being said Pitman against Denver will have a much more difficult week so I would go Coleman here Jerry Judy against Baltimore or Keon Coleman Mike oh man
Starting point is 00:52:10 I think I'm really chasing Coleman I think I'd go Coleman not chasing him that much let's talk about a trade offer I made to Andy and see how you feel. Okay, fine. Let's air it. Yeah, let's air this out. It's not, so you've always hated Travis E.TN. Say he sucks. Yeah. We went into week one
Starting point is 00:52:26 saying we're going to see who the starter is, but we're not going to overdo the production because it's Carolina. Sure. But then he's the running back three. And he produced a lot. I think we're really hard selling Travis E.N. Yeah, this is him simultaneously saying why. I'm trying to buy
Starting point is 00:52:42 Travis E.T.N. I offered Keon Coleman, the wide receiver two, from last week. Okay. And what else? And Austin Eckler. Austin Eckler and Kiann. For Travis E.T.N. How do you feel about that? That was the trade. That was the whole trade. How loud was his laugh in your face? Really? This
Starting point is 00:52:58 wait, I want, so, so that means Mike, the fantasy him and I told you guys in the Slack. I said I have to be in on ETN and that sucks. Oh, that makes me feel so glad that that's on air. I admit it. I admit when it's wrong. Yeah, but you admitted it in Slack. Now it's
Starting point is 00:53:14 on air. Yes. I would have. I would have. Yeah. I did turn it down. I did turn it down, Mike. Yeah. I just... I've got wide receivers. I needed a running back.
Starting point is 00:53:25 Yeah, that's part of the issue, too. It's not the bad of an offer. I thought you said to me, do I need running backs? You need wide receivers. That's why I, that's what started the whole thing. I have Dobbins and Chubb. If you want them, they're available. So yes, I have quantity.
Starting point is 00:53:40 But I would like the quality of ETN over those two guys. Okay. If that was Chubb Hubbard, then yes. but it is it is a crying shame that it is not chuba hubbard because that name is awesome chuba chuba chuba is still a very great name yes but if you could walk around saying my name chuba chuba hubbard chuba hubbard chuba hubba chuba we'd have some good audio drops for that fields hall wilson play them yep josh allen of course keon yes Kincaid, do you buy in?
Starting point is 00:54:18 Would you play Kincaid or Joanne? I played Joanne. Frequently asked question. I'd play Joanne. I would play Ferguson. I'd play Fanon. Last year, the Jets' defense was real bad against, or I guess that was last week. Last year they were very good against tight ends.
Starting point is 00:54:33 Last week they were bad. But Kincaid, yeah, the targets aren't going to be what Joanns will be. Four targets in a complete shootout. Yeah, no, we got to move on from Kincaid as a guaranteed. You know. Yeah, you can stream him. Yeah, you're playing pits over him, obviously. I would.
Starting point is 00:54:51 If James Cook was somehow out due to the hamstring, is Ray Davis the play? Yeah, if he was out, Ray Davis would be the play. I don't expect him to be out at all. He finished this game. This was a Wednesday. If he's, we'll see if he's limited in practice today. Are you hitting the wire and picking up Ray Davis right now? To be smart.
Starting point is 00:55:09 Personally, I mean, if I've got an extra roster spot, sure. But I'm probably not going to have someone on my roster. I would be willing to drop for him. If, if it, I mean, right now, we'll find out soon before waivers run tomorrow if James Cook, if he's, you know, not practicing on a Thursday, yeah, I'm definitely making it. I'm with you that. I believe that Cook does play. I'm just saying of the, no, just holistically. I guess he'll be limited today again. If your guy has a hamstring injury going into the weekend, would you prefer to put the, because Ray Davis, if, if James Cook doesn't play, Ray Davis would be incredible. sought after. Yeah. One more game here. Seattle. Pittsburgh.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Games in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is one and no. The comeback win. Seattle, oh and one. Pittsburgh is three point favorites, 39 and a half point over under. That is low. Very low. Two good defenses, or at least supposed to be too good defenses. I don't know if the Steelers defense is good anymore, man. They certainly weren't against the Jets last week, but I will say this, they have personnel to be good. They've got coaching to be good.
Starting point is 00:56:15 So I do believe they'll get that figured out. Yeah, it was a really rough week one for the Pittsburgh defense. No question about that. Last year, they were top half in fancy points given up to quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers. D.K. Meckoff was your start of the week, Jason. Jackson Smith and Jigba should be everybody's start of the always. Seems like it.
Starting point is 00:56:37 And when you look at the running back situation, this is when you kind of, you know, Jalen Warren, I think probably is. the running back you'd feel the safest with in a home matchup where you're favored of all of all the running backs on both sides yes but for sure but i mean beyond that you know you're not playing anybody else in pittsburgh kenneth walker i can't imagine anybody feels like there's nobody that feels good about putting him in their lineup this week no it would be uh i'd play charbonnet over him i i would think i would play charbonnet over him but i i'm not looking forward to playing Charbonne. I don't think he's going to... This, this appears to be a 50-50 split. I mean,
Starting point is 00:57:17 Brice Hall had a good time. And I found... A real good time last week. Kenneth Walker is, to me, much more the Breece Hall style of back where it's like you get that little crease and then you go versus the Charbonnet. Charbonnet is more like the Braylin Allen type of back where it's, I'm the big guy that's going to move the pile. So stylistically, Charbonnet is... I don't think he comps to Brise if looking at last week. I'm just looking at the yards given up to running back. Matt Williamson had pointed this out on X that the Steelers have allowed
Starting point is 00:57:49 27.6 points per game since week 13 of last year. Like it's been... Total fantasy or like score? Score. Oh, okay. I'm saying of the like, are the Steelers still a good defense? I know that's not for the, you know, like, well, week, it's not forever, since week 13. But it's like, that's a,
Starting point is 00:58:07 that's a sample at the point where you have to start asking a question. Well, to be fair, if you look at the schedule. Yeah, who is? Philly, Baltimore, Kansas City, Cincinnati. Yeah, that's tough. So those are probably the four best offenses in football last year. But if you are, if you're a great defense, that's not happening. Well, this game, Seattle's only projected for 18.3 points and they're not missing a starting quarterback. You know what I mean? They have
Starting point is 00:58:32 their full allotment of offensive weapons. So we'll see if this game ends up just disappointing for fantasy all the way through. It kind of feels like it might. That's, you know, one week into the season, Seattle, they did a pretty good job on the defense. Top 5 to 20 defense. What about Jono Smith? I'm just watching to see if he's more involved. People wanted us to talk about Calvin Austin's first week performance.
Starting point is 00:58:58 They felt like we missed out on that on the waiver show. He had a good performance. He seems like you're going to need a big play touchdown, you know, a similar stylistically play. or not the body-wise at all, but like Rashad Bateman, where you're going to get a few targets. You're going to get a bomb or two. You could have a big play on a great fantasy day, but I think very low floor,
Starting point is 00:59:21 and this is a low over-under. I'm not going to chase it here. Yeah, he was 15.2 a catch last year. That's on the higher end, 17.5 in week one. That fits the Bateman style that you're talking about. Quick temperature check here on Sharbs. Would you play Sharbs or Dobbins against the Colts? I've got Dobbins one spot ahead
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