Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 2 Matchups + The RETURN of Fantasy Faceoff - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/13

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Week 2 game previews on today’s fantasy football podcast! Reactions to Thursday Night Football, injury updates, and more. Plus, the return of “Fantasy Faceoff”, back by popular demand! Get fantasy football lineup advice for your Week 2 matchups! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for September 13th, 2024. 00:00) - Intro (04:10) - TNF Recap (14:55) - NFL News (20:50) - FootClan Friday (18:55) - NFL News (21:50) - Fantasy Forecast (23:30) - Giants at Commanders (28:55) - Chargers at Panthers (32:25) - Browns at Jaguars (38:25) - Raiders at Ravens (45:45) - Rams at Cardinals (52:05) - Steelers at Broncos (55:35) - Bengals at Chiefs (58:55) - Bears at Texans (01:03:00) - Falcons at Eagles Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Check out today's sponsors: News & Notes presented by USAA. Visit https://www.USAA.com/Insurance  Fantasy Forecast presented by DraftKings Sportsbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome in. Friday episode of the show. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, back with you. We had a Thursday night football game. We got a lot of matchups to talk about. We got news. And the return of Fantasy Faceoff. Because the people were vocal.

And they wanted it back. I don't know if it's because they wanted DFS lineups. I don't know if it's because they wanted to see us ridiculed. Probably both. I think it's more of the latter. I think it's more of the latter, but I will say that, you know, look, I missed it. I missed it too. And I really enjoyed putting together a lineup

for today's episode. So the shame begins again next week. We'll make our lineups today and then the shame will be bestowed because the people want to see us look stupid. Can't wait. And normally that means for us

we're very sweaty and uncomfortable. Yeah, can't wait to see what terrible things you guys do to my face this year. Your face is getting bigger every year and so the mask sizing is... Yeah, it's almost impossible, Mike. Well, I would say the... What's the back of your hat? What's the amount of...

Oh, this one? I think we're on two buttons, guys. Are you on two? Oh, this one's a three burger. Have you ever gone, would you go full open? Oh, yeah. You might have to soon. Like if your head gets large enough.

I think if I can convince people that's like a fashion trend. You could do that. Like after dinner with your belt. You know, you just go, I'm living free. I will say. After a big meal, he likes to open his hat. I like to unbutton my pants and take off. It's more like after reading a book because then the head swells up.

Did you see? My son shared with me that there was a guy who every day he went into the library and he rented 10 books. And he'd bring them back the next day and rent 10 more. But each time through makeup, he would make his bald head slightly larger. And so every day when he would return to the library his head would become slightly bigger as he would rent 10 more books from the library this is so much work for a silly joke it was all just how long would it take for the person to notice that he was bringing the books back and his knowledge was rising and rising that's incredible sorry what. What a bit. I was going to say, I think I will go, I'll go snaps open before I ever go one button.

Really? Yeah. I'll just. The one button, the structural integrity, man. That thing like, whatever, the snaps, I don't know. Yeah. They're just, they're wiggling all over the place because it's just the one button. So in other words, you are one step from open right now.

Well, no, he's on three. No, no, I'm on three on this. Oh, you're on three. A lot of hats are two buttons. I was going to say, I got pictures of a hat that's on two from you. I have purchased many a hat where I put it on two, and I'm like, never wearing this hat again. Just too much fantasy football knowledge up in that noggin, Mike.

Yeah. When I get a haircut, that can help it a little bit, but not very much. All right. The community. Head over to jointhefoot.com. Get access to the new Ultimate Dashboard and a ton of extra advanced stats and tools. The Stream Finder, a lot of resources for you

this year. Jointhefoot.com. Check that out. We had a Thursday night football game. Yeah, we did. Let's start with the good stuff. Let's start with the good stuff. You can't transition back. The good stuff was Devon Achan seems healthy.

He played. He started. He played way too long into the game. Did they think he was Derrick Henry? What are they doing out there? He had 29 touches in a game where we weren't sure he was going to play, and then Jeff Wilson went out injured. Yeah, which, you know, on Twitter you're reading, this is what happened.

Jeff Wilson went out with, I think, what was it, an oblique? Yes. Okay, so he went out. That's why A-CN was still playing late into the game, but it's like, why, why don't you put Jalen right out there? Like let the rookie get some touches, but he was also coming. Oh no, he wasn't coming off of an injury. No, he was a healthy scratch and weak one. I mean, not my decision to make. I, that was great for fantasy. It felt highly questionable. It is unbelievable. At the end of this game in PPR, A-Chan outscored James Cook,

who was, in his own right, unbelievably awesome. I can't even imagine how many fantasy points he would have scored if the game had stayed competitive because it felt like the game just started and three touchdowns for Cook. So good for those two. James Cook was the story. HM played a ton. Nothing I said about the game was right.

I was wrong about everything. Yeah, it was a terrible start. We, we gave you the numbers that he's put up against Buffalo. He threw three interceptions, two of them inexplicably to players. Yeah. Two players that had not been on this roster or played or had snaps with Tua that he threw anticipatory throws to that didn't know the play.

I mean, Robbie Chosen was one of them. He didn't go down the sideline. He cut the route off. Tua threw it up the sideline. The other one was to Du Bois. Yeah, Du Bois. Du Bois. Yeah, Du Bois. Du Bois. I mean, they had him.

I don't know what to make of the game overall in terms of like Buffalo. Buffalo looks great. Maybe Arizona's better than we thought if they almost beat Buffalo in Buffalo, but the defense was incredible. They only threw the ball 19 times. Yeah, Tua being so bad when he was healthy during the game led to josh allen having a very subpar fantasy outlook i mean the which is their recipe just to be clear this is what they'd love to do this game script run the football and play defense i think is the way that buffalo wants to win the ball games this year. It was great to see Kincaid get forced into the action.

I mean, it was very early that they – it was like two immediate targets to him, and then he got, unfortunately, kicked in the head, just an inadvertent kick to the head as he was getting up, so he missed some time. And then Keon Coleman with the goose, which is, I think, far more a product of just what happened with the game. I don't think he would have been shut out had the script gone a different way,

but it was... I mean, the pass attempts. Total attempts and the need to throw the football. If you're not playing... If Buffalo is in a plus situation moving forward where they're heavily favored, you're not going to be able to count on wide receivers from Buffalo.

That's just going to be the truth of the matter. I mean, Shakir looks the best of the group, but five for 54, that's fine. His value is never going to be great for fantasy. Even if Shakir ends the season as the number one target in this offense, he's going to be pretty much irrelevant. He's not a deep threat in a touchdown machine. So I would still lean towards Coleman. But this is what we saw at the end of last year.

They want to run the ball nonstop. What was exciting and I think hopefully prescriptive was the fact that when they got down on the two-yard line, it was James Cook. Yeah, that was very exciting. They didn't bring in Ray Davis. They let James Cook have it. And lo and behold, your good running back can still do it in short yardage. I think he could have run that one in backwards, the way they opened up a line for him.

HM was great. Everyone else was a disaster on Miami. Tyreek Hill, terrible. Jalen Waddell, terrible. Waddell was about an inch from a really good game if he crossed the plane on the... But now looking forward, you know, Tua, the headline that we've buried here is that Tua... Well, we were putting it off.

Tua was concussed brutally in this game. And the future of Tua Tungavailoa on this team, I mean, honestly, I think he's probably going to play football again. I think it'll be six weeks or something. You to be it'll be a long period of time i'll be shocked if he walks away not that he shouldn't i think i think you're talking about the person versus the player and the person's more important and we all don't want to see something tragic happen on the field or in his future yeah even the the head coach told him he's the quarterback of his family. And so that's what he's got to think about first.

I don't think anyone out there would blame him for walking away from football. You know, he will almost certainly be medically cleared to return to football. And if that's the case, then he will have the decision to make i'm guessing like andy if i had to it's gonna make my bet i'm guessing he's missing two to four weeks and is back so you know and for this team skyler thompson hadn't played since 2022 i believe ryan tannahill's available out there there's a lot of talk about him but this is huge implications for what this offense wants to do and what Tyreek Hill can do and what, you know, Jalen Waddle can do.

Like if you don't have the, you know, the main crux of throwing the ball deep in these timing routes, like you're going to have major issues. You're going to see screen passes to Tyreek Hill every week, 15 times. And you're going to see, you know, a lot of the running game, which, you know, maybe that's good for A-Tan and Mostert when he gets back. But overall, it was demoralizing. As a fan, it was demoralizing. And shame on every single person that tweeted about Tua's copability. That's not the point right now.

You're on a football field running faster than any of us can run making decisions faster than anybody can make a decision and honestly i'm trying to get a first down as well where it's like you yeah you really can't slide there that's the problem that's what makes me so angry about it is that if he slides there and doesn't get the first down the whole world's going to come out and call him you know whatever you know you're soft you don't know what you know put it out there for the team go hit him hard and then if he does it the whole world's going to come out and call him whatever. You're soft. Put it out there for the team. Go hit them hard. And then if he does it, he's also stupid because he put himself out there

and put the risk. I think we all agree Tua should be sliding. With the history but making split-second decisions at the NFL level, it's hard to do. It's hard to do with everything that happens from a momentum

standpoint in the game and frankly none of that should matter in this story right now and it really I don't let it irritate me very often when I see the idiots because I know that they already exist and they're doing idiot things all over the place but it really bothered me last night yeah I mean it's a this is a a man in his life. This is beyond football. So we'll have to wait and see what his decision is. In the meantime, Jalen Waddell takes the biggest hit.

Because Tyreek Hill will be the number one target. The screens will go to him first, and he is so unbelievable that you can have an inaccurate quarterback throw him the ball downfield, and it's 10 yards away, and he'll just go run to that spot instead and grab it. So I think Tyreek is still someone I'm going to start every week with a backup quarterback. Waddle is someone I'm probably going to bench until I'm shown otherwise or until Tua is back. And A-Chan I'm not worried

about at all. No, I mean, A-Chan outstanding, and he caught a million passes again, and if this team's in negative game scripts, he's going to catch a million more. So for Mike, on a my guy perspective, James Cook, through two games, looks like a league winner, and Jalen Waddell is TBD because of injury. Yeah, yes. And Waddell looked good in week one.

Yeah, he looked good in this game, too, until the Tua injury. I want them to bring a veteran in. Somebody that knows what they're doing. That can execute a downfield offense. If you're Mike McDaniel, you have to bring somebody in that's going to throw the ball downfield to give yourself a shot. You don't have the defense.

I don't know that that person exists. That person is the example. Ryan Tannehill could come in and run a run first offense that takes play action shots down the field, just like he did in Tennessee. That's what the offense was in Tennessee. Hand-off, hand-off, hand-off, play action, deep shot to A.J. Brown, Corey Davis.

That's what I would like to see in Ryan Tannehill coming to this team, whether it's him or not. If we had Jameis Winston coming in, if we had Joe Flacco coming in, those are guys that could execute downfield. Now those are on rosters. I'm just saying of the players available out there, bring somebody in that can utilize your strengths at wide receiver, in my opinion.

If you want a shot to stay competitive in the division. I mean, that'll all come down to Tua's health of what, like, how large of a move does the team want to make? Because if you're going to go after Flacco, which would be, I mean, that would be great. This offense would work with Joe Flacco, but you have to trade for him. You have to trade for Jameis. The backup quarterback situations for a lot of these teams,

it's always a head-scratching situation for me. Because I know you don't want to over-invest in a backup quarterback. Like, give a bunch of money to a guy that you know or that you hope never has to take a snap for you. But then these situations happen.

You're like, well, you gotta go get someone. Shouldn't the next player up be the person who you are confident enough in that this guy can carry the team for six weeks? I don't think there's enough humans on the planet that can allow backups. There's not enough starters that are really actually good. So getting a quality backup is darn near impossible. They kept Skyler.

Mike White was on this team last year. They let him go. I believe White was on this team last year. They let him go. I believe he's on Buffalo's practice squad. He was a name that was, that at least made sense because you would just go get him. There were 66 different quarterbacks that started a football game last year based on what I'm seeing here from Pro Football Network, which means that, to your point, Mike, the investment, like Jason said,

maybe there's not enough of them, but spending money on one is worth it. All right, let's talk about some other big news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. We went from thinking Hollywood Brown would be back maybe soon to Hollywood Brown undergoing surgery to repair his SC joint, which probably means his season is over.

So I don't think we're going to see Hollywood Brown anymore this year, honestly. At the very least, it's going to be months, and then it will be irrelevant. Yeah, I just, you know, this is the Hollywood Brown. It's unfortunate for him, but this is exactly the last three years. He never gets a chance to be on the field healthy and do what he does. Jordan Love didn't practice, trending to not playing. Jake Ferguson did not practice. We'll wait and see on him, tight end for the Cowboys.

CMC was limited again on Thursday. He has been trying to go, but, again, I think that this team is going to – This is just protecting. They're going to make a judgment call on Sunday about what – they got the third best performance of the week at the running back position out of Jordan Mason. Yeah, and they're playing against Sam Darnold, and the following week they are divisional against the Rams.

I really expect to see CMC in week three, not two. And part of my horrible other mistake last night of being scared of A-Chan coming off of injury was the confidence that Mason would get the start by himself. We'll see if that happens. If it does, Mason should be awesome. Yes. I mean, he was the running back three last week. Addison did not practice again on Thursday.

Ken Walker did not practice. Oblique injury, which is what Jeff Wilson went down with last night. We'll have to monitor today. Pay close attention. Obviously, Friday practice is more important. But if you're not practicing on a Thursday, not even a limited participation. It has to be full. Right.

To have any confidence of playing Ken Bone Walker on Sunday, it has to be full like right for to have any confidence of playing Ken Bone Walker on Sunday it has to be a full practice today if it's limited then he could trend to actually play and I'm going to be terrified to start him and against a really tough Patriots defense uh what else do we have injury update wise guys uh T Higgins not practicing uh yesterday not seen practicing today so he is definitely trending to be out. Mike, would you just trade him off your roster so he can play football? You are the reason 100%. 100% you're the problem.

He's like holding out until he's off your roster, and I don't blame him. You know? I wouldn't want to be on your roster either. I want to be on mine. Trade him to me. Dalton Schultz Limited. Hey, come get him. Roma Doonesday Keenan Allen didn't practice.

Uh-oh. Malik Neighbors popped up on the injury report, which was concerning after I made him the start of the week, and then today Brian Dable said he is good. No concern. So, I watched an interesting little interview with Kyle Rudolph. you guys see this I did not

and he was just talking about Daniel Jones and just how because he played in New York right he played against them and he was just saying like this is not the guy that I played with like the confidence is gone like the confidence he has like we know Daniel Jones like one of the reasons I think that in the beginning you know I think Mike you maybe were the most vocal about his potential upside in fantasy when he was playing well and giving you those occasional games it's because the skills there he can run the football he has the physical arm talent but Kyle Rudolph's just like this is not the player that I played with he's like he's like he doesn't understand like they can't protect him right that's been a part of it

he's always shell shocked so he's gunshot yeah and then you know they went out and got him malik neighbors cool you got him a weapon but you took away the weapon in the backfield like saquon barkley was part of what gets you the opportunity to throw the football and keep a defense on its toes there we saw what saquon did in week one so it was interesting to see like Daniel Jones and Bryce Young have no confidence right now and I'm not sure Watson's very far behind confidence plays such a huge factor you saw Tua talk about this when he had Brian Flores as the coach and the change and what what that did for his career you saw Andrew Luck talk about like how how important confidence is everything for the quarterback position, and if you have one leaky part of you that's not confident,

then you need to walk away, which is why he walked away from football. It was about that, and so it's like, yeah, it's unspoken. You can't really analyze it or judge it. Yeah, quantify it. Yeah, quantify it. That's the word I'm really looking for, but you certainly see it with Watson and Daniel Jones. Those two look like –

And Bryce Young, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. His is, I think, more than just confidence. Oh, I think – I don't know. I don't think he has special physical traits. Oh, I think he does. I mean, went number one overall.

I think he goes to another team. He's probably fine. That team is broken. Carolina is – what they do to their players. The amount of times we've had optimism about players. Sam Darnold is playing pretty good right now. Carolina Panther is awful. Baker Mayfield is a star in Tampa.

Carolina, he was awful. Frank Wright got half a season. They are broken fundamentally there. Sure. I don't think Bryce Young has a chance to succeed in Carolina. But you obviously view him as deficient more than that. fundamentally there sure i don't think bryce young has a chance to succeed in carolina so but you you obviously view him as is deficient more than that i think he's a i think he's a tim couch at this point the guy you know you just get drafted to a team that has wrong place wrong place i mean we

talk about quarterbacks we'd like going through offensive coordinator and offense changes how about a rookie with no you know you get you get rid of Christian McCaffrey, you have no weapons, you've got no line, and you've got no coaching. I just don't know how well you can do. And then once your confidence is shot, you're shot. So that was today's News and Notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Putt Clan Friday. We have a winner of a $100 gift card to FantasyChamps.com

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We'll take a break. We're coming back with the forecast. All right. We'll jump in. It's time for Fantasy Forecast, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. There is more football. There's more football than last night. There's more opportunities to come back if you were on the other side of the James Cook explosion. I mean, I faced him in our League of Record.

I feel lucky. Oh, you should. You should, and it wasn't worse. Because it was 29 points. It was 29 points in the blink of an eye. And it was compounded by the fact that I had Dalton Kincaid who got kicked in the head and then James Cook scores the next play. And so I got very little from Kincaid, a lot against me.

But 29 at halftime and ending with 31, I am very content. I had counted 40. At that point in time, I'm like, I've got 40 against me on Thursday night. I have no shot. I don't have against me on Thursday night I have no shot I don't have a great shot but I have a shot when he scores 31 you always have a shot do not give up last last week to start the week Andy I believe you played against Lamar and someone else that just both went nuclear and you felt like your week was over you know after the first game your week is never over after the first game keep fighting fighting. You just need a big performance to counter

James Cook. We covered six matchups yesterday. The Saints, Cowboys, Buccaneers, Lions, Colts, Packers, Jets, Titans, 49ers, Vikings, Seahawks, and Patriots. Nine matchups

and the fantasy faceoff today. Let's start with the New York Giants and Daniel Jones at 0-1, traveling to Washington to take on the Commanders in D.C. DraftKings Sportsbook line, Washington minus two, over under a 43. What do you make of the fact that the Washington Commanders are barely favored at home here? Is this just a product of that defense is as bad as it gets?

I really do think that defense is as bad as it gets. All the confidence or lack of confidence talking Daniel Jones, it's going to be easier against the Washington commanders. They're still, you know, we, we talked about it, you know, starting this week, any given Sunday, any team can be any team in the NFL, no matter how outrageous it seems. And the defense is really, really bad for the, they just don't have the talent. Um, you know, they, they did that on purpose last year. They got rid of their good, you know they they did that on purpose last year they got rid of their good you know defensive line so that they could end the season poorly and draft Jaden Daniels so that the you know it's working but it's it's working it's working but it's it's a process that's going to take years to fix this

defense so you know Malik neighbors even Daniel Jones and Superflex. I'm all about those guys in this matchup. Jaden Daniels has a rushing line right now set at 51.5 yards, which is wild. That seems right. That is the equivalent of 128.75 passing yards for fantasy football. That's why you start players like Jaden Daniels. He scrambled on 25% of dropbacks. He should... Look, you love the scrambles, but you love the

read option at the goal line even more. Two of those, right? Yeah. So Jaden Daniels... Which was... There was no option. No, no, no. Hey, defense. Jaden Daniels, there's no option. There's no read. Yeah, yeah. There's no read. The read is, fooled you again.

He's gonna run it. I told you guys yesterday, my son made the rookie mistake, drafting by himself, of drafting Brian Robinson. Drafting B. Robinson. B. Robinson at four overall in a draft with his friends over the weekend. Brian Robinson outscored Bijon in week one. Brian Robinson in this game Bijon in week one. Brian Robinson in this game is very interesting to me.

I think that. That's fair. With them favored and the involvement that he had, I do think he's going to be a solid RB2 in this game. Yes. Jay Daniels, you can start. Would you start Daniels over Stafford against Arizona? I would.

Yes, I would. What about Baker against Detroit or Goff against Baker or Tampa? I'd still stick with Daniels. I've got Daniels ahead of all of them. So Terry McLaurin, four targets, two for 17. You could definitely chalk up week one as Coach Quinn came out, said he doesn't want Daniels to run as much, wants him to throw the football. No, you shut your mouth. You shut your mouth, coach.

I do believe that if he throws touchdowns to McLaurin, it will also count for him. It will. Sure, but just don't tell him to. He said he wants him to have his reads, and then if it's not there, throw the ball away and go to the next down. What? No, scramble and pick up a first. What are you talking

about, coach? coach yeah that's a little wild mclaren on your bench this week mclaren is no mclaren or i guess this is too easy jameson williams you're gonna go williams i would yeah find me a lower christian kirk or terry mclaren that's where i would go mcl. I'm okay going Terry there. His of the weak ones where we remind people, try not to freak out. Terry McLaurin and his usage and it looking like the same Cliff Kingsbury offense that we saw in Arizona that can be very destructive at times for fantasy football because it's uncreative and players just go to one side. And he's a player who he should have a good game. because it's uncreative and players just go to one side.

He's a player who should have a good game. He should have a good game against the Giants. If there is a poor game from Terry this week, I'm going to be really freaked out. There are a lot of wide receivers out there that are started that I would start Terry McLaurin over. A list of the players that I would start Terry McLaurin over, Jaden Reed with Malik Willis there Deontay Johnson um Calvin Ridley this week Ladd McConkie who I love I would I would start Terry McLaurin in a really plus match up here against the Giants over those guys I'm not going to overreact to one poor week I think Jaden Daniels can get him the ball I think

Terry McLaurin is a good wide receiver. Like you said, Mike, if it goes poorly this week, okay. Maybe the red flag is starting to go a little higher, but no, I think it's okay right now. Devin Singletary last week was, you know, they had a tough week on offense. What do you think this

week for Singletary? Would you play him or Brian Robinson? Brian Robinson. I do think Singletary is a fine play. Fine volume play. Wandale got a bunch of targets last week. Are we just going to ignore that? I'm not, personally. I'm willing to ignore

it because we've been here before, but I get it. I'm going to ignore it because so many came in garbage time, like when the defense was just letting all the little dink and dunks go, and I don't expect this game to get out of hand. I'm not going to ignore it season long, but I don't want them in this matchup. All right.

The Chargers are one to no taking on the own one Carolina Panthers. The DraftKings sports book line is Los Angeles. The Chargers minus five on the road against the Panthers. The over under is just 39 points. It gives the Panther 17. The over-under is just 39 points. It gives the Panthers 17. The Chargers 22. You sure about that Deontay play? No. He said to

sit Deontay. Oh, for Terry. For Terry, and I'm with him on that. Deontay's debut was not good. Not good. I mean, there isn't confidence on the Carolina side. You talk about, like, it's our job to break these matchups down. I don't think we have to look very far on the Carolina side of the ball

to break this matchup down. I don't think you have to look at that side of the ball. Genuinely, I wouldn't start a single player on that team. I wouldn't start Chuba. I wouldn't start Xavier Liggett. I wouldn't start Deontay. I wouldn't start Thielen. I mean...

We're talking 12-team leagues. Yes, 12-team leagues. I wouldn't start Deontay. I wouldn't start Thielen. I mean... No, we're talking 12-team leagues. Yes, yes, 12-team leagues. I wouldn't start any of those guys. The highest drafted players in the Megaloball that were dropped after week one. In the group of the top five, Deontay was one of the top five. Because having Deontay means you do potentially have to watch the Panthers play football. A funny anecdote. I received a trade offer in League of Record for T. Higgins.

It was, well, I guess it's giving away who the manager is. I would like to hear this for the sake of the Foot Clan. But it is very funny because the offer was Deontay Johnson plus a pick swap for next year in my favor, of course, for T. Higgins. And I'm like, oh, dude, I am not looking at all to get Deontay Johnson. Rejected the offer. The offer, the exact same offer came back with the pick swap, but no Deontay. And I'm like, that's actually a better offer.

I don't have to drop someone. I don't have to have Deontay. Wow, that's funny. That's where we're at with Deontay Johnson right now. There you go. Now, Deontay's line is 46 and a half receiving yards, so it still seems like he's expected to be. Deontay or Wandale in an emergency.

Wandale. That's easy Wandale for me. Oh, man, gross. I abstain. I refuse. It's neither. I would probably go Deontay. I probably would, gross. I abstain. I refuse. It's neither. I would probably go Deontay there. I probably would, too.

Herbert, Bryce Young face off this week. J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards are both great starts. I would put them both out there. Gus Buss is my start of the week. Beep, beep. Jason, you talked about McConkie. I love McConkiekie I'm not excited about him in this matchup in week one by the way the Panthers gave up 32.2 points to running backs like fantasy points in week one and just 21 to the quarterback position so Herbert and McConkie are kind of out for you

yes the passing game as a whole is out if you look at what the Panthers did last year, last year you could run all over them, and you could pass all over them too. This is not a scary secondary, but they were number two in fantasy points given up to the quarterback position. Ten fantasy points a game is what they gave up to the quarterback. Elite.

They were number two against wide receiver, number one against tight end. It's not because they were awesome. It's because they were unneeded. The passing game is unneeded against these Panthers. That happened with Houston two years ago. Yes. Houston had a horrible secondary and didn't give up a lot of fantasy points

because you didn't need to. Why throw when you can just run the clock out because I've got a good lead. Let's get to next week, everybody. The Cleveland Browns at 0-1, taking on the 0-1 Jacksonville Jaguars who blew a 17-3 lead against Tua and the Dolphins in Week 1. The DraftKings Sportsbook line, Jacksonville minus 3.

The over-under is 41.5. That's not a lot. It's not the Miami-Jacksonville game of last week. That was a dud compared to the over-under. So, we get to see a couple of former Clemson quarterbacks who have a ton of money wrapped up in their contracts face off against one another I you know I the situation the situation with Cleveland right now is tough

because Amari Cooper was a huge letdown in week one. Now, part of that was his fault. He dropped the touchdown. A bigger part of that was Watson, who looked inept, who looked incapable, who looked like he lost the confidence of his team. Oh, I don't know that he ever had the confidence of his team, but they also played against a really good Cowboys secondary. I'm just saying this right now. I love Amari Cooper this week. I love he's got a 59 and a half

yard receiving line at DK. The Jaguars are by low right now by low on Amari Cooper. You've got a banged up Jerry Judy. You've got no Njoku and Jacksonville just lost two cornerbacks. No Joku. No Joku.

Dang. Nice. That sucks. Yeah. Swish. Yeah, I was really on the border between Swish and busted there. I was hesitant. Was the busted temptation because you missed it?

I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, so they lost important cornerbacks that aren't playing this week. I think Amari Cooper eats. I really do. Now, you do know that's going to have to come on the other side of the arm of Watson. Yes, I do.

So if he eats, is this the redemption game for Watson? Jacksonville, that defense wasn't great in week one. Yeah. I mean, Watson is always someone because of his legs that can be okay for fantasy. I don't expect Watson to have much outside of Amari Cooper. He doesn't have many other talented players. Jerry Judy is going to be out there, but I know he's banged up. And so I, he, in a two quarterback league, I think it's okay to put in Watson as your quarterback too. But Amari Cooper should get the, you know, the lion's share of the passing work here. And Jerome Ford is, he's a RB too. Jerome Ford is a weekly play. Yes, he is.

And he will never feel exciting. Yep, that's fine too. Jerome Ford or Brian Robinson? Oh, okay. On the other side, Brian Robinson. Oh, Brian Robinson, the running back, not Brian Thomas, who I was thinking of. Correct. Robinson.

Okay. But I like Brian Robinson. It's funny because Jerome Ford is always gonna not get the answer whenever we're like this guy or that guy but he's probably the right answer Jerome Ford was really really involved wasn't his touchdown like a oh it's garbage garbage time yeah but but he's 75 percent of the snaps all the all the the touches inside the red zone. Yeah, they'll be his. Yeah, while Jerome Ford himself is not the most exciting player,

the high-value touches, like catching the ball and inside the red zone, that's where we want to work. So he's going to get it all. I've decided that one of my least favorite things that happens in fantasy football is the end zone pass interference that leads to my opponent's running back getting a free touchdown. Oh, yeah. You don't like that, huh? No. What if you're on the other side, though?

Love it. One of my favorite things in fantasy is when the wide receiver gets pass interference in the end zone, and I know I've got the running back. That is so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. All right. On the other side, ETN still had 70% of the snaps. The matchup, it's not an easy one.

And if there's some distribution of work, you're going to be kind of touchdown or bust potentially with these two running backs. I'm still playing Travis ETN. I am stashing Tank Bigsby. I'm not to the point where I feel confident putting Tank in there for will the timeshare of even carries, will that happen again? I want to see it a couple

times before I start investing in actually playing. I agree. Brian Thomas, not Brian Robinson, Brian Thomas. The DK line is just 38 and a half. It's tough. The Browns defense is really, really good. I am so excited and all in on Brian Thomas this season. He's not going to be someone that just dominates every single week. So when I look at this matchup, I would rather have him on my bench

than out there as a starter. But he's got talent. I mean, he beat jalen ramsey last week for a touchdown so maybe he's just that good are you making sure he's in your lineup are you just using him as like well if i've got a safer option i'll go that route he's in the exact boat that jameson williams is in this week where you've drafted them or picked them up much later. And so you're having to make calls like Olave versus these guys. Did we say Brian Thomas versus Terry? Yeah, I mean, that one I'd go Brian Thomas, yeah.

Jay, where are you at with that? Oh, man, that is a very tough. I think I'm going to go Brian Thomas. What about Ridley? Calvin Ridley or Brian Thomas Jr. is one of the biggest searches because Ridley was higher drafted, Thomas later. Thomas had the better week one. I like Tennessee at home this week, so I'm going to lean Ridley.

I'm going to lean Ridley too. Not by full confidence, though. One catch for Evan Ingram last week. We just say don't worry about it. Don't worry about that. Forget about it. The Raiders at 0-1-1 take on the 0-1-1 Baltimore Ravens. DraftKings Sportsbook

line Baltimore minus 8. Over-under is 41, which is low, so that means that the Raiders are projected for fewer points than the Carolina Panthers this week. Just so you know. Wait, what? No. 16.8 versus 17 implied point totals. If I could make a bet on which one of those two teams scores more,

oh, my gosh, I heard you say Ravens. And I was like, what? But you said Raiders. You bet I did. The Baltimore Raiders. I tuned out about halfway through the word. Yeah, no, that'll get you with the Ray part being the commonality. Yeah.

Ravens at 25 implied point total. They are eight-point favorites. That is a lot. Over the last five years, when they're eight-plus-point favorites, they have won 86% of those games. They have covered the spread only 49% of the time. So we were disturbed by the Mark Andrews usage. Mike has stuck his nose at, into your,

at your disbelief. Huh? Where am I putting my nose? Mike has jammed his nose. You stop talking about my nose, good sir. Where are you putting that? I bite my thumb at you.

What is the expression where you like, you thumb your nose? You thumb your nose. Yes. What does that mean? Like, like you push your i think it's i think it's oh you're like this i think it's like an old time good audio it's it's

an old timey obscene gesture i think so you've thought you're thumbing your nose at the doubters that's what i was trying to get at yeah but kind of your nose is this it is wait no no that's like from peter pan this makes sense when you put the When you put the thumb up in the five fingers, and you go, this is thumbing your nose. Is it? Yeah. No, I'm more. And for the listeners. I was more with Andy.

I'm putting the whole high five, and you touch your nose with your thumb, and you're like, you know, like the turkey. That's thumbing your nose? I believe so. We got to get our top men on this. All right. Kyle, get on it. The point is, Mike jammed his nose up

in y'all. Yeah. Mike made Mark Andrews the start of the week. I have been on record believing that Mark Andrews is going to rebound. I hope it's this game as well. Brock Bowers had a great debut. Isaiah Likely was the

fab darling. You have three tight ends in this game that could get played this week and probably will be played this week. Yeah, Brock Bowers looked very, very good. I have no problem putting Brock Bowers right into my starting lineup. You have made the quickest about face on Brock Bowers after one week. It's because – Of any player I think you've ever – Yeah, it's because it was week one utilization.

It was right off the bat. And I never doubted his talent. Like I've never once sat here and said I don't think Brock Bowers is good. It's I don't think he's going to get the ball. I don't think he's going to be on the field as much as you want. And he's got a bad quarterback all that. But I mean should I read the definition of something. once? No. We got to get more information on this one. I don't know. I think Jason was right. Oh, man. It's reading the definition.

You put the thumb on your nose and you wiggle the remaining fingers. Yeah. All right. And it's used by school children. And there's another nickname for it. Okay. Derrick Henry. Has to do with a snook.

Oh, okay. I see that phrase. What is it, Al? It is cocking a snook. What? Yeah, there you go. What? Okay.

What were we doing back then? We're reading Wikipedia. That's what we're doing. I think we should bring that back. Thumbing your nose is not nearly as powerful. But I'm afraid to say it. I did not think for a moment that

asking Al to say it would work. Derrick Henry. Mike, you took I took his alt line of 70 plus because of this is a wager with history of when Derrick Henry is at home

and they win, which the Baltimore Ravens are going to win. And will he be salting the game away? And I think he will. Yeah, sure, but 30 carries, like Harbaugh said, that's not in the game plan for Henry. But the game plan for the Baltimore Ravens when they are up is to run the ball out, and that's what Derrick Henry is in there for. What's a flower's role in your fantasy roster?

Dude, to be infuriating. He's a PPR flex. That's what I think. If you are in full PPR, he should be fine. He's a very highly targeted player, but they are usually short to the line of scrimmage. Now, it's not entirely fair to look at his box score from week one and say that everything was short. He had at least one deep pass down the field that he would have had. He could have dropped it, but it was a hardcore pass interference that drew the flag and moved them down the field.

So you hope they open it up a little bit, but I think he is a talented player, a jitterbug that looks good, and if I'm in a PPR, even a half PPR, I think he's a good flex option. Bauer's participation with a 25% target share led to Devontae Adams having his first under 20% game in a while. He's only done that six times in the last 92 games. So 19% target share was where he was at last week. Do you expect him to get more involved this week?

Yeah, I would expect the wheel to run over. Not even squeaky. This is just full run over Gardner Minshew in the locker room. Especially when he – And say, throw me the ball. He wanted Aiden O'Connell. He liked Aiden O'Connell and wanted him for the reason of his target share with Aiden O'Connell

was ridiculous. Minshew's more conservative. I will say that if Minshew moves to O'Connell, that will scare me a bit for Brock Bowers on the flip. With a 16.8 implied point total for this team, I don't have a lot of confidence in any of the offensive pieces, including the running back.

What are you doing with the RBs here? Nothing. I'm not playing any of them. If you picked up Madison, you're just going to watch and see what happens. Madison, to me, is probably someone you don't have to start. I picked him up in a couple of leagues, and I think he'll be the better back in this backfield

because of PPR. I think he'll probably have four-plus receptions in this game, but against a good Baltimore Ravens defense, I'm not sure that those four targets are going to score a lot of fantasy points. Yeah, I think that touchdown could be distorting our view of his future on this roster too because four for 43, whatever, I don't know how often he's getting into the end zone. It's more of a what do you believe about the time,

the true belief of the timeshare between him and Zemir. I believe they want Zemir to run the ball more. I agree. They want Madison to do less. But that game script may prohibit that at times, but Madison's not very good. He's not a very good player. I think you said it all fantastically. Also, I don't very good. He's not a very good player. I think you said it all fantastically.

Also, I don't think Zemir White is a very good player. Maybe. Maybe true. All right, we're going to take a break, come back with the last five matchups. The Rams take on the Cardinals, both teams sitting at 0-1. Both had tough week one matchups, the DraftKings Sportsbook line. Arizona minus one at home, the over-under is 48. Kyler Murray is fine, by the way. People were a little worried that he popped up on an injury report.

He's okay. He's going to be okay. We have a divisional matchup here. Mike made Stafford his start of the week I am for whatever reason probably wrong based on last night's projection but I just have more hesitancy around Stafford going on the road without Puka than I think you two do the well I there's two parts to this my hesitancy is the offensive line The offensive line for the Rams just got decimated in Detroit. They lost at least three starters, possibly four starters. I mean, it's like that line is just, they're a makeshift now already in week two. So that's scary. However,

my confidence comes from Sean McVay and the fact that he's able to scheme these things and he's had the Cardinals number just, I feel like the Rams own the Arizona Cardinals. Because they do. And so I love, I mean, obviously everyone's starting Cooper Cup, but Cooper Cup is my literal wide receiver one for the week. I think he eats, and there's no one on the Cardinals defense that can stop him.

Stafford was the quarterback seven in Arizona last year. It was the second best fantasy performance of the year. His averages against the Cardinals are exactly in line with what you want from a streaming type of a quarterback. So, Kyron, put him in. Yep. If you are more desperate at quarterback, go with Mike's start of the week in Stafford. We have Cooper Cup.

Yes. On pace for 357 targets that's a funny one after week one yeah it's it's wild he's going to be obviously heavily involved Demarcus Robinson he was already out there 92 percent of the time last week so he's going to be fine the question question will be other weapons. Their offensive coordinator came out and talked about Tyler Johnson and that he's going to be the man. They said he is the man that's going to need to step up. Which, if you had picked

I still prefer Demarcus Robinson I believe because he's a vet. He was already good and he already had a role in this offense. Regardless of if Puka was playing, Demarcus Robinson is one of the full-time wide receivers for this team. Now, after the game, we saw a quote come out of, and I believe it was McVay who said it.

He was like, we have Cooper Cupp, we have Demarcus, and then we have three other guys who are going to have to step up and fill in. That was the immediate reaction. and then we have three other guys who are going to have to step up and fill in. That was the immediate reaction. So to see now this coming out from the coaching staff of saying, no, Tyler's actually the guy, I mean, it's a deep play, but I think that you can have some confidence in playing. And keep your eye on Whittington, a rookie wide receiver who got so much buzz this offseason.

I mean, everyone around L.A. was like, did they find another Puka? Yeah. And he's going to get the opportunity. I don't have him on rosters. I didn't pick him up. He's on waivers. I think that's more of a dynasty play. Yeah, I agree.

But if he hits in this week, I would go hard after him next week. So, Colby Parkinson's my start of the week. Yeah, you've go hard after him next week. So Colby Parkinson's my start of the week. Yeah, you've got to play him. Sorry, this isn't forcing Colby in, but I'm saying people are struggling at tight end, and I think he is one of the top 12. Kyler, on the other side, I have this one

decision, one of our popular searches on the website, the Start, Sit tool. Kyler or Jaden Daniels, I have that decision in a league. I'm going Kyler at home in this matchup. I have so much more trust in Kyler as a passer, and he's going to run the football as well. And then the big question mark in this game,

the biggest storyline in this game, or for the Cardinals, is Marvin Harrison Jr. Yeah, we, in the office. Kyler had 57 rushing yards last week, by the way. So in the office, we all have, we're very tuned into and hopeful of Marvin Harrison Jr. being the player that they drafted at number four overall. But we were like, hey, let's project his line.

And I think I was the highest at four for 64. So the optimism is not fantastic. What's his line? Yeah, that's exactly where I was the highest at four for 64. So the optimism is not fantastic. What's his line? That's exactly where I was going to go, that the DK line's at 58 and a half. And I think I was the only one who was even slightly above it. That's because we're terrified, Mike. Yeah, that is. We're trying to protect ourselves.

As far as lines go, I'm very optimistic to see this one. 13 for 300. You're changing. I like seeing a 58 and a half yard line. go, I'm very optimistic to see this one. 13 for 300. You're changing. I like seeing a 58.5 yard line. That says they expect him to be far more involved in the offense than he was week one, which I think the whole world does. Do you want

to hear something that is to the optimistic side for Marvin Harrison? Yes, please. The Cardinals did not play their starters in the preseason. So you have a rookie. He got one. I think he got one drive in the very first game.

He never got to play again. So you're talking about game speed on an NFL field. The first experience he had going out there and, you know, putting the pads on and doing it with Kyler was in Buffalo in week one, where clearly we would all admit that he had hesitancy in what he was doing on the field. And so I do think that that means the acclimation period is going to be a little bit different.

He just didn't get out there. A couple of names. Marvin Harrison Jr. or Jamison Williams? I will take no further questions at this time. Please respect my privacy. I think you asked me that one yesterday and I hopefully gave the same answer today. I would play Marvin.

Okay. And what about Tank Dell or Marvin? Cool. I feel like I want to be part of the Marvin game, so I guess I'll go there. Okay. I'm the other two guys, but I get it. All right.

James Conner was the running back 10 last week. Yeah, he's in. And the Rams gave up 31 and a half fantasy points last week to the running back position. Trey McBride. Yep. Led the team in targets. It was not fun targets.

They were just little dinks, dunks, and. Yeah. Tight end getting nine targets is great. He's talented. He's in. The Steelers take on the Broncos. DraftKings Sportsbook line here. Yeah, tight end getting nine targets is great. He's talented. He's in. The Steelers take on the Broncos. DraftKings Sportsbook line here.

Pittsburgh minus two and a half. The overrunners. Oh, 36 and a half. It's gross. Barf. It's gross. Can we get the Bo-Nicks, Mike? Bo-Nicks.

Bo-Nicks. Nice. Yeah, I mean, this is not great, man. Pittsburgh's defense looked ridiculous last week. And if you take a great defense like I – is there a better one to play this week? I don't know. Like Pittsburgh against a rookie quarterback who already threw two interceptions.

Between the Jets and the Steelers this week, great defensive plays. I mean, goodness gracious, TJ Watt was unbelievable last week against a veteran Kirk Cousins. You could not stop talking about TJ Watt. He was just unbelievable. Now he gets Bo Nix. So from a starting fantasy standpoint, I don't know how

much there is to talk about in this game. Because a low over under, I mean... Justin Fields, I think, is fine. I would start him over... Stafford. I would start him over. Stafford. I would start Stafford. Trevor Lawrence. I would probably go Fields.

Lawrence against that Browns defense is tough. Fields couldn't run a lot. I talked up Pat Fryermuth. He's my start of the week. I think they're going to need him when you've got Sertan on George Pickens. And last year, at least, the Denver Broncos could not guard the tight end. So I think it's kind of a nice amalgamation of a streaming option. I am currently being forced, due to my League of Record team perishing in week one, I am being forced to play Javante Williams. Ah, week team perishing in week one. I am being forced to play

Javante Williams. Week two perishing. His line is at 40 and a half rushing yards. Do I have any hope? Yeah. You have hope to hit 40 rushing yards with no touchdowns or receptions. He'll get some receptions.

I'll tell you what, right now, if I get 40 yards from Javante Williams, total, that's a win. He did catch one pass for zero yards last week. Yeah, where are those? Sean Payton, where are those? Yeah, I mean, he's just not that good. He'll get some.

I don't care if he's not that good. The offense is throwing the ball to the running back position. Blake Watson's going to work himself into this rotation now in the estimate role of four touches or something like that. And a fumble like jaleel or giovante that is the question that we should answer i i would still go javante but i'm going for jaleel he had five catches if i i can cheap some points with jaleel yeah i mean that's fine i i will say this when we when we look at the

in a ppr scoring format his receptions were worth 5.1 points. That is a good point. It's an argument for point for first down leagues. Highest drafted players dropped after week one. You mentioned this in the Megalobowl. There was Roma Dunes, Ajo Burrow, Caleb Williams, Deontay, and Javante. Javante was the one on that list that I think is, you should never be dropping a starting running back. So you wouldn't drop

Chuba? I don't know that he is the starter. I would hold on to Chuba, but I would certainly not play him. Javante, if you dropped Javante, I would not have, but I totally understand it. This is an emotional rage drop after

seeing what happened last year, hoping for better, getting week one, saying I've had enough of this. Cincinnati's 0-1, taking on the 1-0 Kansas City Chiefs. The DraftKings Sportsbook line is Kansas City minus six. The over-under is 48. What are your expectations in this game? Because there are a lot of fantasy-relevant players and a ton of question marks. I mean, Burrow is one of the top drop players.

On the Bengals' side, I would try not to play Joe Burrow. Andy, you're not into Stafford. Would you play Stafford over Joe Burrow? I think with the history in Arizona, yes, I would. Okay. That's where I am as well. I think the Bengals are actually pretty easy. I don't want to play Burrow. Zach Moss

is a fine enough running back start. I think they will run more. They completely abandoned the run last week. Jamar is in every week. Yeah, Jamar is in every week. I think the Bengals are pretty easy this week. And Chase Brown,

if you drafted Chase Brown, don't drop him just yet. You picked him up to see what happened, and you can't make full conclusions after one week of them divvying up the snaps. Oh, I already dropped him. Just kidding. I didn't draft him anywhere. If you need an emergency wide receiver start, Andre Yoshivas got 100% of snaps and had six targets in the game.

So if we were in a place where we would formally start Tyler Boyd, occasionally you can look there with no T. Higgins at an emergency start in a deep league. I agree, but man, I want to see Burrow be better before. I am pretty much benching Joe Burrow right now as well. If I had Justin Fields in that low over under, I would still play him over Joe Burrow. I think Joe Burrow is going to get it together. I think he's going to be great for, yeah, sure. Maybe it'll be

week four. And as soon as I see him look good out on the field, then I'm going to scoop him up. If he's on waivers, I'm going to, I'll try to trade for him if I, if he's got a good schedule, but I'm not starting him until he looks good. Hollywood Brown's going to IR, which means Xavier worthy. His snap count could go up. His involvement could go up. He only ran 24 routes. He's suddenly looking like a much better rest of season play than he did a week ago.

Yeah, he's... Like, you're confident putting him out there this week against this team for the big play? If we're talking about a double flex situation... Jameson Williams, Xavier Worthy. I'd play Jameson Williams. I about a double flex situation. Jamison Williams. I'd still play Jamison Williams. I would as well. Nine targets in week one.

But I do think Xavier Worthy is a worthy start. I mean, when you get two touchdowns and you've got Patrick Mahomes and you've got an explosive offense against what looked like a really bad defense, you can play him. I would say single flex. Jason, my guy Isaiah Pacheco his line

sitting at 64 and a half rushing yards I'm feeling fantastic about that he's a phenomenal player Mahomes, Pacheco, Rice are locks and then Worthy is two touchdowns last week and I'd be fine playing Worthy

looking for the Shahid, Jameson, Williams big play upside that defines your week. I'd play him over McLaurin personally. Yeah. You've got to get more work, though. Yeah, he had the two touchdowns. It's four opportunities. I mean, it's one week, though.

Of course he's going to get more work, right? Yes. Over the course of the season. I'm just not sure that it is in week two. And what happens if every reception in his entire career is a touchdown? Then he's the greatest fantasy player of all time. All right. See, that's in the – right now.

He's in the range. Right now he's doing that. Chicago's 1-0, taking on the 1-0 Houston Texans on Sunday night football. That's a fun game. Get to see Stroud and Caleb Williams in prime time. DraftKings Sportsbook line, Houston minus 6.5 at home. The over-under is 45.5. We know the Chicago

defense is pretty good, but going on the road in Houston, dealing with a trio of great wide receivers, what we saw from Joe Mixon, I mean, I was watching, is it Slovic, their offensive coordinator? Bobby?

Yeah, Bobby Slovic. They were like, he got 30 carries. What's going to happen now? Like, can he handle that? And he was like, he's one of the only guys in the league that is built to do this. He's like, you know, this is what Joe Mixon does. He can carry a workload that large, and you're going to get games this year where this offense is dragged down on the four-yard line five or six times

in a game, and he's going to score three or four touchdowns. He is the only running back in the entire National Football League in fantasy football who has been an RB1 for the last three seasons. No one else has done that, and they haven't done it because they haven't stayed healthy. Christian McCaffrey or whatever, you've got 16 games, 14 games, 17 games played the last three seasons. So he is built for it.

He is able to take a strong workload. He's going to be such a great asset this season. It's a lot like Saquon in that regard in the fact that they plan on – I mean, the utilization was out of control in week one. His DK line is just under 70 rushing yards. Nice. So, on that side of the ball, it's pretty easy, right? I mean, Dalton Schultz is – he's a DNP.

Yeah, I don't expect him to play. Consolidation of targets to those wide receivers. Get out of there, Dalton. And Joe Mixon. I mean, Stroud, Mixon, Collins, Diggs, and Dell. Yeah. So one of the things I'm most excited to watch for this weekend is this Bears defense because I think they're really, really, really good.

And they looked unbelievable. They won the game in week one, but they were playing Will Levis. Yeah, Will Levis makes a lot of defenses look pretty incredible. So you certainly can't say they're great yet. But if they come here and shut down or really hamper the Texans, I'm going to flip the switch and say the Bears have one of the best defenses and not overreact to whatever disappointments from Dell, Diggs, or Collins might happen.

One of the biggest surprises maybe in week one was just Cole Kometz getting not a lot of time on the field. I mean, that was the preseason. Yeah, I mean, Gerald Everett, 61%, Komet, 48%. This is Waldron. He just loves Gerald. He can't get enough. Yeah, with Keenan and Odunze possibly missing this game,

I thought about Cole Komet as a starter. This is a great matchup for tight ends. And then I was like, ah, it might just be Gerald Everett. I don't know who it is, so I'm out. Neither one. Yeah, DJ Moore is Mike's start of the week. DeAndre Swift. Consolidation of targets. If you drafted DeAndre Swift, Swift should be

better in this game. If Keenan Allen and Adunze both miss, he won't be. I don't think he will either because Houston's defense doesn't give up a lot to running backs. Yeah, I think that he will either because Houston's defense doesn't give up a lot to running backs. Yeah, I think that he will see targets, though. Austin Eckler or DeAndre Swift?

I'd play Swift. I'm sure Eckler had a better week one. Oh, for sure. That's why I was asking. And while I think most people will play Swift, I'll bet Eckler has a better week two. Caleb Williams was one of the biggest drops in week one. If you're in a redraft league where you drafted Caleb Williams and you got that performance in week one with 93 passing yards, the lowest of the week, did you move on?

Like for the season, you don't keep him on the bottom of the bench? I mean, you're losing wide receivers this week. There's no way you can play Caleb Williams. I'm not holding on to him and clogging a roster spot. There will 100% be great games ahead. There will be weeks that we say pick up and stream Caleb Williams, but I'm not just clogging. He's not an every week

starter like what you would have hoped, and so he doesn't need to be on your bench. I'm dropping Joe Burrow. I can drop Caleb Williams. Atlanta is 0-1, taking on the 1-0 Philadelphia Eagles. The DK Sportsbook line, the game's in Philadelphia. Philly is 6.5 point favorites. The over-under is 47.

It was an unimpressive debut for Kirk Cousins, the statue. I watched him in practice. He still looks like he can't move. I saw someone tweet out a picture of him rolling out, doing a big rollout and saying, he looks fine to me.

What are you talking about? You can't move. And I watched that rollout, and I went, he don't look great. It's like, that's a ginger rollout. It's not like you can't be a competent quarterback with limited mobility as he gets back on track. We have had those. Kurt Warner and Joe Flacco last year couldn't move ever but it was

you know he could dice up a defense late philip rivers and matt ryan but like late philip rivers yeah in the later but no i got you like those sounded like they were like he had passed like they were dead but those guys though can still execute play action they didn't run a play action. They didn't run a play action snap. And I would be shocked to hear that was an offensive philosophy as opposed to, that's because Kirk just can't do it. So in week one,

if you want optimistic spin, the utilization of their star players was fixed from the Arthur Smith era. Bijan was out there, touched the ball 46% of Atlanta's plays. It was the highest percentage of any team. They had to face a tough defense. Kyle Pitts was out there 95% of the time.

That was new. You were very disappointed if you had put Drake Lennon into your lineup last week, but you can also look to a new offense, new coordinator, recovering quarterback, and hope that this matchup against Philly, who – I think it's going to take time. Well, does it take too much time to put Jake Lennon back out there this week? Because Philly's defense is not – you know, they should give up some points.

Yeah, they should. But, like, last week, honestly, the Eagles-Packers game, I have mentally thrown almost all of that into the garbage of that field was so unbelievably atrocious. Defenders can't react in the appropriate amount of time. Put those defenders on turf? Like, Jaden Reed, sure, he probably still has a great game. He doesn't do what he did in that week if the defenders are on turf. So for the Atlanta Falcons side, I mean, Pitts is –

you're going to play Pitts just because of how the tight end position rolls. Bijon, I'm going to play with full confidence. Drake London is – it's a really sketchy play to me. I'm going to start Drake London this week. You're not going to have every week be great. You're not going to have every week be great. You're not going to have every week be against TJ Watt. Even last season, I know they give up a lot of points

to the Green Bay Packers in week one, but last season they gave up a ton of points to the secondary. I will start Drake London. I will start Kyle Pitts this week. Drake London or let's say Drake London or Chris Olave. Olave is against Dallas. Drake London or let's say Drake London or Chris Olave.

Olave is against Dallas. Drake London or Chris Godwin against Detroit. Your start of the week. I've got them back to back in my rankings. I think it's a matter of if you need upside or if you need safety. Safety is Chris Godwin, but

Drake London still has more upside than that. I hope that's true. Saquon, Hurts, A.J. Brown, and Devontae Smith all out there. Devontae Smith's line is at 59.5 right now. And all the offseason questions of who's the power slot player for this offense, as of right now, yeah, Jason's firing on finger guns because as of right now, it is Devontae Smith. All right, Dallas Goddard, a spot start over Goddard or Colby Jack?

I would prefer Colby Jack, Colby Jack Parkinson. Yeah, that's a coin flip. I'm going to throw Friar Muth in ahead of him. Well, back by popular demand, we do have a little fun in store for the rest of the year. Fantasy Face-Off, presented by DraftKings. I'm so excited. We thought it was gone this year, and the people have demanded it. And we listen to the people.

The Foot Clan is mighty. They're strong, and they're the reason this face-off is here. So here we go. Quarterback position in week one. Head-to-head-to-head. Loser has to spin the wheel of shame in week one here. I guess it's week two, but our first week of fantasy phase-off. I'm going with Kyler Murray at 6,600 at home for Arizona.

I had Jaden Daniels in there, and I pivoted. I'm going to go Kyler Murray. I have Jaden Daniels in there. I have Jaden Daniels. A few hundred dollars less, $6,200. My running back starters, Brees Hall at $7,400,

Alvin Kamara at $7,000. Brees Hall and Alvin Kamara, those are nice. Go ahead, Jay. Mine are not quite as nice, but still mighty fine. I've got Jameer Gibbs out there at 6,600 and J.K. Dobbins at

5,400. I've got Jameer Gibbs at 6,600 and then my RB2 it's a full sell. We're going Jordan Mason against the Minnesota Vikings at 5,200. I'll throw my flex out there.

Then I have Jordan Mason at 5,200. I'll throw my flex out there. Then I have Jordan Mason at 5200 in my flex. I'll throw my flex out there. I've got Jordan Mason at 5200 in my flex. Stop copying me. Who's your flex, Mike? Is it Christopher or Christian? Christopher Godwin. I believe that's Christopher.

If you go Chris, you're probably fine. I know, but I wanted to be a little bit formal. He is 6K. Jason started the week at Detroit. All right. Rod Christopher Goddard. There we go. My wide receivers, Cooper Cup at 7,600. Cooper Cup at

7,600. Let's just watch that one out, guys. You got him? Yeah. I wasn't taking no chances. My other wide receivers at 4,800 and 4,600, Brian Thomas Jr. Nice. At 4,800 and Greg Dortch. Brian Thomas Jr. at 4,800. And Greg Dortch. Oh, man, the Dortch.

Correlating with Kyler Murray at 4,600. I like that. For a full PPR, which DraftKings is, that's not bad. So after Cooper Cup, I've got the other Cooper. I'm hanging with him. Amari Cooper. Give me that drop. There it is.

There it is. And Malik Neighbors, who at 5,900, I still think has a great game. It's nice to hear that the knee is not an issue. Malik Neighbors at 5,900. My other wide receiver is Rasheed Rice against the Cincinnati Bengals at 6,700. I was between Cooper and Jaden Daniels or Rushie Rice and Justin Fields, so I went this way. To finish it out with tight end in defense, I am going Taysom Hill at 3,900 at the tight end position

and the Broncos defense on the other side of the Pittsburgh matchup at 2,800, looking for the classic Justin Fields mistakes in that one. I like that, and they're home. I've got Pat Fryermuth, my start of the week that I believe in at 4,100 and the Patriots at home against the Seattle Seahawks for 2,800. I got Colby Jack Cheese

at the tight end position so I'm going with the two Rams and my defensive money that was left. Oh brother, it's bad at the bottom boys. The Titans against the Jets, that was about the best I could do. That's not too bad. 2,700.

Yeah. That could work out. The low tier ones are so brutal. So next week, we'll get our first spin of the Wheel of Shame based on this week's results. Fantasy face-off back in business. All right. That was the Fantasy Forecast presented by DraftKings Sportsbook.

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